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Happy New Year to all the lonely souls

2010-12-17T17:27:00.000-08:00

To all the lonely souls out there: happy New Year. I say this knowing the hurt and pain you are going through.
All the people who are going through the first taste of being along this year after you spouses death, the death of a parent or even having some slip away from you. Saying good by and walking out the door.
They are all hurts that take time to get over. Losing a loved one especially a spouse hurts a long time. The sting is forever.
Even though the hurt dissipates a little the hole will always be there.
The mistake that some of use do is looking for some else that is close to our spouse. By doing that we keep our self in a safe place. If we don’t love we can’t get hurt again by losing someone else. I have done that for three years.
I found that the pain didn’t’ get less as the years went on it grow stronger. But looking back I realize I did this because I was afraid of losing Brenda forever. If I didn’t feel the pain I would her lose.
We all live in our shadows of the past. The good and the bad however the bad always over cast the good.
As my mother and others have told me there is always someone else that has it worse. Ours problems are our problems and their problems are theirs. That very true but when you really take a good look at it you maybe luckier than you think.
I have a dear friend who lost her husband suddenly only to lose her son eight months later. I lose my wife that’s hard enough but to think about if I lost my daughter, that brings it into perspective.
If you lost a child or anyone in your family to gun violence. Knowing that the killer is still out there. That would be really tough to handle but these families continue on.
Being one of the many soldiers that are coming home from battle with limbs missing. Having to learn to live with this for the rest of their lives.
Being a quadriplegic, living in a wheel chair depending on others to do everything.
My cousin had a tough life and was finely getting it together he got hurt and became a quadriplegic. He didn’t want to live and he got his wish. I think of him often when I am feeling low. Being a person living within themselves, not knowing what the real world is like.
Whatever pain we live in they are always others worst off. I was told that so many times. I thought to myself who cares that’s their problem it’s not going to bring Brenda back. I lost my best friend, my soul mate, and my true love. They were right again it was a blessing to have her for ten years and enjoy her. If I didn’t have her in my life I would of miss all that she gave to life and those around her.
I know that I will never have someone like her again but I can start a new adventure with someone else.
In the end we all have to look back at the bad and learn from it. Take the good and build on it. Look towards the future and welcome it.
Make the best of ever day. Wake up every morning with a smile, Jump out of bed with great anticipation. It’s a new day with new journeys.
For all those out there that is facing this holiday season alone with the lost of a love one. Be with your friends even though you don’t feel like it. When you get home there will be plenty of time to cry.
Things will get better I hope.
I am still suffering from my loss but I am hopping that I will find someone to ease my pain. Someone who can enjoy life with me again.
We all need that, so get out there and start over as soon as you can.
I want to wish all those lonely souls out there a happy New Years and hopefully this year will be better for you. You will never get over your loss but I hope you get over you pain. Life is two short and we all know that.

If you like this article let me know. If you would like to take about you loss let me know. After three years I still feel talking about it helps.

With sincere wishes, I wish you all a Happy New Year

Herb A. Krantz

Doing with less 2010

2010-08-19T10:55:00.000-07:00

Doing with less 2010

Its another year gown by and we are still asked to do more with less
Everyone is cutting back now a day to afford just to survive. City’s, States and companies are doing the same to stay in business.

People are asked to do with less and take a cut in pay. Working fewer hours no matter how you look at it is a cut in pay. Some of us are asked to except a lesser health plan. We as consumers are spending less which controls the stock market and that controls our retirement (pensions&401K’s).

We who are getting closer to retirement can’t afford it now. We have to get jobs in Wal-Mart to supplement what we receive. Social Security is not nearly enough to live on and Medicaid does not cover all the medicine a lot of the seniors have to take.

We as a country could and should do better for our citizens.
Staring by cutting back on what we give the World Bank and other counties. Let’s keep some of our money right here in the USA where it belongs. Maybe then we could afford healthcare and other service that should have.

Last but not least I haven’t heard the people who run this country talking about cutting their pay or benefits. Lets start with our dear old President. Senators, Congressman all along down the line, lets give all of them the same healthcare they want to give us and have them pay into the Social Security fund so they can get their pensions from there when they retire. Have them play by the same rules we have to play by. Maybe then they well pass laws for the People by the People.

Where is the World-The UN

2010-08-17T21:45:00.000-07:00

Where is the World- The UN?

The people in Turkey are dieing and the world is standing by.
Why is it that the USA always run to help others all by ourselves?
Weather we become love by the Muslim world or not we are doing the right thing. We are our brother’s keeper. But I don’t understand where all the countries that condemn us are. All our so call allies. All the Muslim countries.
These people are going to die a horrific death. The children are going to pay for the world’s inaptness. It’s a time to call to action in this time of need. This flooding is worst then Haiti, which is still suffering. There should be a foundation that will handle all tragedies like this in the world and that’s all they do,(not the red cross). Lets make Clinton the head of it he seems to get things done weather you like him or not.
Today being Tue 8/17/10 three weeks after the flood started help is still being asked for by the UN. It shows how useful they are. We the U.S. are there and getting stronger. Today I heard that England promised but haven’t done much in the way of help but what do you expect from England, France and Germany. Well Germany I did expect more.
Today the say the flood is the size of England. The Arab countries where the hell are you? You got enough money to really help if the wanted.
NO The World Bank is either give ex amount or loan them the money. I not quit sure I didn’t catch that part. Then again the U.S.A. contributes a large amount more than any other country
Almost forgot about China, Japan, Russia, where are they?
The worst thing I have heard to date is that there President went to Europe during this. It almost reminds me of another President that read a book upside down to children while the Twin Towers were being bomb.
What it with theses Presidents?
CHILDREN ARE DIEING! PLAGUES WILL START SOON.
THOUSANDS, MILLI0NS OF PEOPLE WILL DIE.

It’s no longer about politic, it’s about saving lives!
It’s no longer about religion; it’s about saving lives!
It’s no longer about east against west; it’s about saving lives!

Go Arizona

2010-08-15T16:02:00.001-07:00

Obama celebrates Ramadan at the white house

2010-08-15T12:56:00.000-07:00

Obama celebrates Ramadan at the white house, (which I can not find in my reach any President has done,, then endorsing the building of a masque two blocks away from ground zero. Where was he when the theorists bomb our nation?
I know that he is trying to create a better environment between the Muslims and us but this is totally uncalled for unless we can put bugs in the building so we can hear what they are doing.
I am sorry I don’t trust them. They can build their masque somewhere else. New York is a big place, why there? I truly believe that they should be able to pray where and when the want but not there. There should be no political building, religious, shopping centres built there. This is hallow ground and should bee looked upon as where the enemy had landed just like Normandy beach where we landed to fight world war two. This ground is where I feel the place where the last Great War was started. This war will not stop next year or a few years from know. This war will go one for many years whether we like it or not. The theorist will not make peace until we all pry like them. They have said this not me.
Obama is play right into their hands. The Afghani people do not trust us because we are going to pull out again before the job is done. Our so-called allies where are they? Our troops are getting killed on the front lines. Obama get some balls or are you really born Muslim after all. Better yet are you really an American citizen. I really no have droughts. I have droughts about Bloomberg being able to see how his discussions will ripe New York apart.
Our President and other politicians are losing their balls. They think we as the people will not remember.
Let vote out the people that have outlasted their usefulness and no longer think about the people.
WE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITE STATES OF AMERICA must stand up and let them know. Vote the old out and let the new fresh ideas in, Demarcate, Republican, or other. Lets put term limits on how long you can serve in the house and senate.
Vote them out in NOVEMBER

Joe vs. Jose

2010-07-31T17:07:00.000-07:00

I received this in an email. It represents my feeling exactly. It’s time we get ride of the illegal’s that come into this country.
We let the uneducated criminals cross our borders to commit crimes here. If they don’t commit crimes the use up our medical clinics and drain our resources, while our citizens need the help. The come here to have babies so they can bring the rest of there families here.
What we should do is let in more of the people who have an education in areas where we can use them and put them to work. We block or number this kind of people from coming into our country. There is something very wrong with this policy.
Read this letter below and think very hard what it means for America and what it’s saying about America. We need to stop it Know!
God Bless America and the people who legally come here.

Joe vs. Jose
You have two families: "Joe Legal" and "Jose Illegal".
Both families have two parents, two children, and live in California .
Joe Legal works in construction, has a Social Security Number and makes $25.00 per hour with taxes deducted.
Jose Illegal also works in construction, has NO Social Security Number, and gets paid $15.00 cash "under the table".
Ready? Now pay attention.

Joe Legal: $25.00 per hour x 40 hours = $1000.00 per week, or $52,000.00 per year. Now take 30% away for state and federal tax; Joe Legal now has $31,231.00.
Jose Illegal: $15.00 per hour x 40 hours = $600.00 per week, or $31,200.00 per year. Jose Illegal pays no taxes. Jose Illegal now has $31,200.00.

Joe Legal pays medical and dental insurance with limited coverage for his family at $600.00 per month, or $7,200.00 per year. Joe Legal now has $24,031.00.
Jose Illegal has full medical and dental coverage through the state and local clinics at a cost of $0.00 per year. Jose Illegal still has $31,200.00.

Joe Legal makes too much money and is not eligible for food stamps or welfare. Joe Legal pays $500.00 per month for food, or $6,000.00 per year. Joe Legal now has $18,031.00.
Jose Illegal has no documented income and is eligible for food stamps and welfare. Jose Illegal still has $31,200.00.

Joe Legal pays rent of $1,200.00 per month, or $14,400.00 per year. Joe Legal now has $9,631.00.
Jose Illegal receives a $500.00 per month federal rent subsidy. Jose Illegal pays out that $500.00 per month, or $6,000.00 per year. Jose Illegal still has $31,200.00.

Joe Legal pays $200.00 per month, or $2,400.00 for insurance. Joe Legal now has $7,231.00.
Jose Illegal says, "We don't need no stinkin' insurance!" and still has $31,200.00.

Joe Legal has to make his $7,231.00 stretch to pay utilities, gasoline, etc.
Jose Illegal has to make his $31,200.00 stretch to pay utilities, gasoline, and what he sends out of the country every month.

Joe Legal now works overtime on Saturdays or gets a part time job after work.
Jose Illegal has nights and weekends off to enjoy with his family.

Joe Legal's and Jose Illegal's children both attend the same school. Joe Legal pays for his children's lunches while Jose Illegal's children get a government sponsored lunch. Jose Illegal's children have an after school ESL program. Joe Legal's children go home.

Joe Legal and Jose Illegal both enjoy the same police and fire services, but Joe paid for them and Jose did not pay.

Do you get it, now?
If you vote for or support ANY politician that supports illegal aliens, YOU are part of the problem!
It's way PAST time to take a stand for America and Americans!
VOTE 'EM ALL OUT IN 2010!!!!!
What are you waiting for?
Cut and past in an email and Send this on!!!!!!!!!!!!

When Apologies aren't enough

2010-06-19T10:34:00.000-07:00

Why we should not forgive Helen Thomas.
by Rabbi Benjamin Blech

In the aftermath of the Helen Thomas fiasco, the bloggers and the pundits and the second-guessers are having a field day.
Why are we harassing her, they ask, just because she happened to respond to a rabbinic interviewer on the lawn of the White House with the kind of vitriolic anti-Semitic venom worthy of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels in his heyday? Yes, she did say Jews should get the hell out of Palestine and go back to the places they came from like Germany and Poland, (although she would probably concede that 6 million of them would be spared making the trip because they are already interred there as victims of the Holocaust).
But that's not the point, we're beginning to hear from some in the media. She may have said something that's unjustifiable, but come on, she did finally apologize.
When faced with public outcry and the realization that she had gone too far for any kind of reasonable defense, she managed to come up with this remarkable supposed expression of contrition: "I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians. They do not reflect my heart-felt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon."
She is sorry that her speakers bureau dropped her, that she was forced into retirement and that she's losing her front row seat at the White House press conferences.
While they may not reflect her “heartfelt belief” about how peace will come to the Middle East, they certainly made admirably clear her feelings about Jews and her insensitivity to the horrors they experienced in the lands she would wish them to consider their national homelands in place of their biblical heritage -- something to which she seems totally oblivious.
There is absolutely nothing about this apology that smacks of an apology. There is no remorse about having gone beyond the pale of civilized discourse or of realizing upon reflection that her remarks were not only intemperate but illogical, insulting and totally lacking any vestige of the “mutual respect and tolerance” she claims as her guidelines.
It is an apology clearly motivated solely by the price she now realizes she had to pay for truthfully baring her soul. She regrets not so much the content of what she said as the recognition that the public is appalled by the discovery of her innermost feelings. So she is sorry. Sorry that her speakers bureau dropped her. Sorry that she was disinvited from serving as the keynote speaker at a graduation ceremony in Washington. Sorry that she was forced into retirement from the Hearst Corporation, sorry that her 90th birthday party to be attended by President Obama was cancelled, and sorry that she is losing her front row seat at the prestigious White House press conferences.
And yet there are those foolish enough to express outrage at our inability to embrace her once more in spite of her admitted “mistake” because according to their mindset an apology, no matter how exculpatory, incomplete or comprehensible, should trump any offense.
Paul Jay, CEO and Senior Editor, Independent World Television, is incensed that “Her apology was not enough to stop calls for her head from those who have wanted to shut Thomas up for years.” In the mad world of spin, it's just a short hop from villain becoming victim. Poor Helen, go the bloggers, “crucified” -- and the choice of that particular word is not by coincidence -- by a press obviously controlled by Jews, as we so convincingly know from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
“It seems that whatever we do is somehow beyond reproach -- murder, rape, drunk driving -- as long as we go on a TV show and apologize."
Eric Stoltz perceived a profound truth about contemporary American morals when he noted, “It seems that whatever we do is somehow beyond reproach -- murder, rape, drunk driving -- as long as we go on a TV show and apologize."
Forgiving Beyond Reason
The past year has seen an incredibly long list of sinners who sought our forgiveness simply because they said the magic words “I'm sorry” without regard to whether their regret was accompanied by any personal transformation. From politicians caught stealing to celebrities caught philandering to CEOs and Wall Street titans caught misappropriating, mismanaging and misleading to policemen aiding and abetting criminals - a tearful confession was offered as bribe to our sense of compassion.
And amazingly enough in many cases it worked.
Americans are all too often forgiving beyond reason. Sometimes, it's true, that may be a virtue. Forgiveness can help to redeem someone who had a momentary lapse of judgment. Forgiveness has its place if the sinner has truly learnt his lesson and is no longer the same person who sinned.
But undeserved forgiveness for incomplete and unworthy apologies heaps yet another layer of evil on the original wrong, even as it improperly absolves it. It puts the stamp of permissibility on actions that deserve only continued revulsion.
Red Auerbach had it right: "The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology."
That's why it's important to note that not only didn't Helen Thomas offer any real apology for her despicable comments but even if she had truly apologized, not every apology deserves automatic forgiveness, just as not every crime can be ignored without punishment. And if that is a judgment that seems too harsh, please let me make clear that I don't apologize for it.

Beyond Bigotry

2010-06-19T10:26:00.000-07:00

The hatred of Jews hast reached a high again, just as it did when Hitler was alive. The bad part about it is that England and other countries are buying into to the idea that the killing of 6 millions Jews didn't happen. They are going to stop teaching it as history because the Muslims take offense to it.. it's as bad as Texas wanting to change there history books.

Radical anti-Semites of the 21st century have a goal: the extermination of the Middle East’s Jewish state.
Israel is at war, and if Israel were to be defeated, much of the world would not shed wet tears. What would happen after such a defeat? No one can seriously doubt that Hamas has genocidal intentions.

Abdullah Jarbu, Hamas’s deputy minister of religion, recently asserted that Jews A” want to present themselves to the world as if they have rights, but, in fact, they are foreign bacteria -- a microbe unparalleled in the world. A” Jarbu then offered this prayer: A” May He annihilate this filthy people who have neither religion nor conscience. A”

Jarbu is restating what Hamas’s Iranian sponsors have been saying for years. Kayhan, the newspaper that speaks for Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, recently called Israel a A” cancerous tumor” that must be excised from A” the Islamic Middle East. A” The goal, Kayhan added, must be Israeli’s A” total annihilation from the political geography of the region. A”

Let’s stipulate that not all those who support the Gaza A” Freedom Flotilla” would welcome a second Holocaust. But let’s acknowledge, too, that those who do not endorse genocide feel it unnecessary to distance themselves from those who do.

The American journalist Helen Thomas was videotaped last week saying that Israelis should return to “Germany and Poland. ” What was shocking here was not Thomas’s anti-Semitism (long well known) but that she was echoing, with just a tad more subtlety, the message purportedly radioed last week from the flotilla’s Turkish flagship to the Israelis: “Shut up, go back to Auschwitz.”

Despite such evidence, most media have been reporting that those aboard the flotilla were on a Humanitarian mission,” attempting to deliver needed aid. Few have mentioned that Palestinians already are the largest per capita recipients of foreign aid in the world. Israel itself delivers as much as 15,000 tons of aid to Gaza’s every week. More comes from the U.S. and Europe via the United Nations, which has a massive relief operation in Gaza -- to which the Turks have contributed but a pittance, as my colleague Claudia Rosette has pointed out.

A Washington Post reporter in Gaza last week noted that “grocery stores are stocked wall-to-wall with everything from fresh Israeli yogurts and hummus to Cocoa Puffs. Pharmacies look as well-supplied as a typical Rite Aid in the United States.”

The reporter added, however, that Gaza has become a mini-welfare state. That indicates that what is needed is not relief but development -- not shiploads of free food but paying jobs. And that, in turn, requires investment in factories, businesses, and agriculture. Gaza lacks such investment because it is ruled by Hamas, which, again, is at war with Israel. Hamas leaders reject any and all steps that might lead to peace. Abdallah Jarbu has laid out the Hamas position clearly: I condemn whoever believes in normalizing relations with [Israelis], whoever supports sitting down with them, and whoever believes that they are human beings. They are not human beings. They are not people.

One of the flotillaÂ’s organizers, Greta Berlin, a 68-year-old American with a background in theater and communications, was candid enough to acknowledge that the flotillaÂ’s primary purpose was not to deliver aid but to stop Israel from inspecting cargo heading for Gaza. Israel does that in order to reduce the number of missiles, explosives, and other weapons Hamas receives. In other words, Berlin wants to increase HamasÂ’s ability to wage war against Israel -- knowing that more Israelis and more Palestinians will be killed as a result. Â“War is peace,Â” George Orwell wrote in 1984. In 2010, war activists are peace activists. Actually, itÂ’s worse: Even arms smugglers are peace activists -- so long as they are smuggling arms to be used to murder Israelis.

Ah, but the root cause of this conflict is Israeli Â“occupation,Â” isnÂ’t it? Except that the conflict began long before Egypt, Jordan, and IsraelÂ’s other Arab neighbors launched a war intended to wipe Israel off the map in 1967. That led to Israel taking Gaza from Egypt and the West Bank from Jordan. Never in history had these Â“Palestinian territoriesÂ” been ruled by Palestinian Arabs.

Five years ago, Israel withdrew from Gaza -- every soldier and farmer, leaving behind only productive greenhouses, which Gazans soon destroyed. Had they not done so, Gazans could now be exporting food rather than importing missiles.

Note, too, that on the West Bank, where IsraelÂ’s security forces work quietly with those of the Palestinian Authority, the economy is booming. At 7 percent, its annual economic growth rate is among the highest in the world.

Do such facts matter? The fever of anti-Israelism seems to be rising too fast to be reduced by the cold compress of truth. Jew-hatred is increasingly acceptable, even fashionable, not just in the Middle East but also in Europe and in some of America’s finer salons -- and journals and blogs. And now, apparently, interest in a A” final solution” -- to borrow Hitler’s apt phrase -- is emerging as well. Helen Thomas’s sudden retirement is unlikely to significantly slow that trend.

The quaint idea that, having learned the lessons of the Holocaust, civilized people would “never again” tolerate genocide has become a cruel joke -- one repeated in Cambodia, Kurdistan, Rwanda, the Balkans, Darfur, and beyond.

Radical anti-Semites of the 20th century had a goal: the extermination of Europe’s Jews. Radical anti-Semites of the 21st century also have a goal: the extermination of the Middle East’s Jewish state. Opposing the former is so much less demanding than opposing the latter.

This article originally appeared on nationreviewonline.com

Three cheers for Arizona

2010-05-03T16:29:00.000-07:00

Three cheers for Arizona, they have the guts to stand up for America and fight back.
Since the congress and senate have no balls to protect their citizens someone had to take the first step.
My grandparents didn’t sneak into this country. They came in, got their green cards or what ever they called it back then and went to work. They were proud to be in this country and to call themselves Americans. They paid taxes and raise families with their honest wages they received.
They asked for nothing in return except for a decent wage for a decent day’s work. They didn’t sneak around taking jobs from anyone. They did as they told. The amazing thing is they did all this legally and made a great life for them and their families.
Today the bleeding harts want to give away what centuries of immigrants work hard. We have the boarder with Mexico and their citizens thinking that that America is truly the land of free and they can have everything we as citizens work hard for, for free.
Then there is Canada with wide-open boards where terrorists can sneak in without any question being asked.
This is not tolerated in other countries. When is the USA going to learn a listen of not being so open? I thought that 9/11 would do it. How many bombers on our airplanes or planting bombs in New York will it take? I received an interesting e-mail just as I was righting this. I am sharing this with you.

Understand The Situation
Let me see if I have this right.
If you cross the North Korean border illegally, you get 12 years or more hard labor.
If you cross the Iranian border illegally, you are detained indefinitely.
If you cross the Afghan border illegally, you get shot.
If you cross the Saudi Arabian border illegally, you will be jailed.
If you cross the Chinese border illegally, you may never be heard from again.
If you cross the Venezuelan border illegally, you will be branded a spy and your fate will be sealed.
If you cross the Cuban border illegally, you will be thrown into political prison to rot.
If you cross the United States border illegally, you get:
1. A job.
2. A drivers license.
3. A Social Security card.
4. Welfare.
5. Food stamps.
6. Credit cards.
7. Subsidized rent or a loan to buy a house.
8. Free education.
9. Free health care.
10. A lobbyist in Washington.
11. Billions of dollars worth of public documents printed in your language.
12. And the right to carry your country's flag while you protest that you don’t get enough respect.
I just wanted to be sure I fully understand the situation.

The Amercian Dream 2010

2010-01-14T11:45:00.000-08:00

The American Dream 2010

It was early August morning. The sun was shining and the birds singing. The warmth of the sun was already reflecting off the cement.
People were walking around in short paints and short sleeve shirts. Even though it was hot people were still running around boathouse row. As they ran they drank their water and wiped the heads with rags.
I was sitting on a bench watching them run by. As I sat there I couldn’t remember how I got there. I could smell liquor on my clothes. Then I remembered that I was in a bar last night but I couldn’t remember where. I sat there with my clothes-dripping wet. I looked down; there was a red tint to my close. Like some one trough die on it.
I sat back on the bench and looked up into the sky. It seemed so quite and tranquil. I feel deep in thought. The noise around me stopped. Then the feeling of loneliness came over me. I had nothing; I had no one were the thoughts that rushed through my head. My hart started beating. It felt like it was going to explode inside me. The harder it beat the more I went into a daze. My eyes wouldn’t open. Then I saw my life flash before me. I could see a young child around six years old and another child around two. They were running around a large back yard. There was a good size house attached to it. Who weir they and why was I thinking about them. I don’t remember them or the house. I don’t remember a wife, children or anything about my life. I do remember that I was some kind of salesman. I would travel all day talking to people but about what I don’t know.
I feel so empty, so alone. Like I didn’t have a purpose in the world. I could feel tears rolling down my eyes. I just sat there and tried to put all the memories and faces together that was now shooting into my mine. I had to put them in order. There was a blond woman stand with her back towards me. I couldn’t see her face or hear any voices but I knew she was crying. I felt her sadness.
What is going on? Nothing made sense. All these feelings feel real and not like a dream. I tried to wake but I couldn’t
Tears started rolling down my eyes again. Again I tried opening my eyes. This time with success.
It was late afternoon and I was covered with sweat. I got up and started walking. As I walked I could feel myself floating above the rooftops. I feel like I was in a movie.
All the sudden I stop floating and hovered over a street where a several people were gatherd. They were standing in the middle of it.
I was about to find out what was going on. Two children were standing there with the blond woman over a man lying that was not moving. There was another woman that looked frantic and was crying also. I could hear the ambulance coming in the background. As I looked at the man lying on the ground I was shocked to see whom it was. It was me! As I saw myself lying there I knew that I was going to die!
It all came back to me. That was my wife and two children. We were living the typical middle class life when everything came falling down. I lost my job and it got tough to pay all the bills. I was working two jobs and my wife picked up an extra job on the weekends. But it wasn’t enough. Our house was going to be foreclosed on in a month. The bank wouldn’t renegotiate our loan. The only way I saw that my family could keep the home we work for so long for was to take drastic action. I ran into the street on purpose hopping to get hit and die. I know that was the cowardly thing to do but this way my family would collect my insurance. This way they would face being homeless. I gave my life to make sure.
The Government and the banks let us down. I worked two jobs and my wife work a job on the weekends to show the bank that we would do anything to save our home. That wasn’t enough. This program that the government has helps only the banks.
I had to die to keep my house. My family has to do without me so they could live in our home.
I had to die for them to live!!!

This is not a true story that I know of but I bet somewhere some one has thought of it because the banks and our government has failed to keep the American Dream alive for the American people.

Even though no one helps America it is time for us to stand up again and help Haiti, If you like article please go to the link below and donate to the Red Cross

http://www.redcross.org/

http://www.sos-usa.org/About-SOS/focus-areas/Emergency-relief/Children-in-catastrophes/Pages/Haiti-Earthquake-Relief.aspx?et_cid=2&et_lid=1398&et_sub=haiti&gclid=CKnEjI_RpJ8CFag65Qod9xZFrw

A call to action wake up America

2010-01-09T10:36:00.000-08:00

I was sent this email and it only proved what I had suspected. That is we should follow Israel and be ready for anything and be aware that the Terrorist are out to kill us by any means possible.
The world and we are at war; it could be the most important war we have ever had. We have to be strong and do anything that it takes. We need strong leaders. Not leaders that are afraid to do what maybe offensive to some. It means the lives of many for the sacrifice of few. I watch a show on T.V last night and although it’s not biased on true facts, it hit a fact that we better be aware of. The actor was asked when the jihad would be over. He said it would never end until all infidels were killed. That is true in real life. We are in a real war that may never end. The lives we lived before 9/11 will never be again. Our children, children-children and their children will never live in peace.
Read this below, it will put fear in you hart. Fear that should be there. Be aware of what goes on around you.

Advice from an Israeli Agent
AN ABSOLUTE MUST READ !!

Juval Aviv was the Israeli Agent upon whom the movie 'Munich' was based. He was Golda Meir's bodyguard, and she appointed him to track down and bring to justice the Palestinian terrorists who took the Israeli athletes hostage and killed them during the Munich Olympic Games.
In a lecture in New York City he shared information that EVERY American needs to know -- but that our government has not yet shared with us.
He predicted the London subway bombing on the Bill O'Reilly show on Fox News stating publicly that it would happen within a week. At the time, O'Reilly laughed, and mocked him saying that in a week he wanted him back on the show. Unfortunately, within a week the terrorist attack had occurred.

Juval Aviv gave intelligence (via what he had gathered in Israel and the Middle East) to the Bush Administration about 9/11, a month before it occurred. His report specifically said they would use planes as bombs and target high profile buildings and monuments. Congress has since hired him as a security consultant.

Now for his future predictions. He predicts the next terrorist attack on the U.S. will occur within the next few months..

Forget hijacking airplanes, because he says terrorists will NEVER try and hijack a plane again as they know the people onboard will never go down quietly again. Aviv believes our airport security is a joke -- that we have been reactionary rather than proactive in developing strategies that are truly effective.
For example:
1) Our airport technology is outdated. We look for metal, and the new explosives are made of plastic.
2) He talked about how some idiot tried to light his shoe on fire. Because of that, now everyone has to take off their shoes. A group of idiots tried to bring aboard liquid explosives. Now we can't bring liquids on board. He says he's waiting for some suicidal maniac to pour liquid explosive on his underwear; at which point, security will have us all travelling naked!
Every strategy we have is reactionary.
3) We only focus on security when people are heading to the gates.
Aviv says that if a terrorist attack targets airports in the future, they will target busy times on the front end of the airport when/where people are checking in. It would be easy for someone to take two suitcases of explosives, walk up to a busy check-in line, ask a person next to them to watch their bags for a minute while they run to the restroom or get a drink, and then detonate the bags BEFORE security even gets involved. In Israel, security checks bags BEFORE people can even ENTER the airport.

Aviv says the next terrorist attack here in America is imminent and will involve suicide bombers and non-suicide bombers in places where large groups of people congregate. (i.e., Disneyland, Las Vegas casinos, big cities (New York, San Francisco, Chicago, etc.) and that it will also include shopping malls, subways in rush hour, train stations, etc., as well as, rural America this time. The interlands (Wyoming, Montana, etc.).
The attack will be characterized by simultaneous detonations around the country (terrorists like big impact), involving at least 5-8 cities, including rural areas.
Aviv says terrorists won't need to use suicide bombers in many of the larger cities, because at places like the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, they can simply valet park a car loaded with explosives and walk away.

Aviv says all of the above is well known in intelligence circles, but that our U. S. Government does not want to 'alarm American citizens' with the facts. The world is quickly going to become 'a different place', and issues like 'global warming' and political correctness will become totally irrelevant.
On an encouraging note, he says that Americans don't have to be concerned about being nuked. Aviv says the terrorists who want to destroy America will not use sophisticated weapons. They like to use suicide as a front-line approach. It's cheap, it's easy, it's effective; and they have an infinite abundance of young militants more than willing to 'meet their destiny'.

He also says the next level of terrorists, over which America should be most concerned, will not be coming from abroad. But will be, instead, 'homegrown', having attended and been educated in our own schools and universities right here in the U.S. He says to look for 'students' who frequently travel back and forth to the Middle East. These young terrorists will be most dangerous because they will know our language and will fully understand the habits of Americans; but that we Americans won't know/understand a thing about them.
Aviv says that, as a people, Americans are unaware and uneducated about the terrorist threats we will inevitably face. America still has only a handful of Arabic and Farsi speaking people in our intelligence networks, and Aviv says it is critical that we change that fact SOON.

So, what can America do to protect itself? From an intelligence perspective, Aviv says the U.S. needs to stop relying on satellites and technology for intelligence. We need to, instead, follow Israel's, Ireland's and England's hands-on examples of human intelligence, both from an infiltration perspective as well as to pay attention to, and trust 'aware' citizens to help. We need to engage and educate ourselves as citizens; however, our U. S. government continues to treat us, its citizens, 'like babies'. Our government thinks we 'can't handle the truth' and are concerned that we'll panic if we understand the realities of terrorism. Aviv says this is a deadly mistake..
Aviv recently created/executed a security test for our Congress, by placing an empty briefcase in five well-travelled spots in five major cities. The results? Not one person called 911 or sought a policeman to check it out. In fact, in Chicago, someone tried to steal the briefcase!

In comparison, Aviv says that citizens of Israel are so well 'trained' that an unattended bag or package would be reported in seconds by citizen(s) who know to publicly shout, 'Unattended Bag!' The area would be quickly & calmly cleared by the citizens themselves.

Unfortunately, America hasn't been yet 'hurt enough' by terrorism for their government to fully understand the need to educate its citizens or for the government to understand that it's their citizens who are, inevitably, the best first-line of defense against terrorism.

Aviv also was concerned about the high number of children here in America who were in preschool and kindergarten after 9/11, who were 'lost' without parents being able to pick them up, and about our schools that had no plan in place to best care for the students until parents could get there. (In New York City, this was days, in some cases!)

He stresses the importance of having a plan, that's agreed upon within your family, of how to respond in the event of a terrorist emergency. He urges parents to contact their children's schools and demand that the schools too, develop plans of actions, just as they do in Israel.
Does your family know what to do if you can't contact one another by phone? Where would you gather in an emergency? He says we should all have a plan that is easy enough for even our youngest children to remember and follow.
Aviv says that the U. S. government has in force a plan, that in the event of another terrorist
attack, EVERYONE's ability to use cell phones, blackberries, etc., will immediately be cut-off, as this is the preferred communication source used by terrorists and is often the way that their bombs are detonated.
How will you communicate with your loved ones in the event you cannot speak to each other? You need to have a plan.

If you understand, and believe what you have just read, then you must feel compelled to send this to every concerned parent, guardian, grandparents, uncles, aunts, whomever. Don't stop there. In addition to sharing this via e-mail, contact and discuss this information with whomever it makes sense to. Make contingency plans with those you care about. Better that you have plans in place, and never have to use them, then to have no plans in place, and find you needed them.

If you choose not to share this, or not to have a plan in place, and nothing ever occurs -- good for you! However, in the event something does happen, and even more so, if it directly affects your loved ones, then this e-mail will haunt you forever.

Telling yourself after the fact, "I should have sent this to so and so, but deleted it as so much trash, plus I just didn't believe it", will not change anything. You were alerted, had the chance to do something, and instead of erring on the side of caution, you chose to disregard, if nothing else, a sensible, valuable warning.

Wake up Obama and smell the roses.

2010-01-05T12:23:00.000-08:00

I don’t understand how naïve this president and his Cabinet are.
First of all I think that the head of Home Land Security should be booted of office. Just the mere fact that she got on T.V. and said that our strategy on terrorism worked in stopping the bomber shows how stupid she really is. I hope no one bought into that. She and the rest of our national agencies that are supposes to protect us dropped the ball but most of all it's the countries that let these terrorist on board air plains who are to blame.
The biggest blame has to go to our naïve president. Once again Obama proves that he is not Presidential material. He wants to close getmo and realest more terrorists to come back and try to kill us.
That’s not solving the problem it’s creating a bigger one. Obama better wake up and realize that before we have another 9/11.
Obama is coming back early from his vacation. Too bad he should have been back the same day it happened, he’s commander and Chief isn't he? Generals in war don’t get a day off. We are in a war.
It seems like he is no better than Bush who sat there reading to a class of children while the terrorist boomed the twin towers.
Wake up Obama and face the real world. Your not on the streets of Chicago anymore you’re the President of the Greatest country of the world. I afraid of what they will call us when your done your fours years. We had eight years of Bush, which was a disaster for this country and the world. No we have you, freeing terrorist and printing money like it grows on trees. So fare we are still no better off but the banks on Wall Street are. Lets talk about health care. Give us what you have. That will be great. I would even be willing to pay something towards it because if people think that this bill is not going to cost us their fooling themselves. The tax hikes that this will cause from now till 2014 will put us in another rescission.
Wake up Obama and smell the roses.

No happy every after .

2009-12-19T11:39:00.000-08:00

Once upon a time there was a young man who was happy go lucky. He lived life every day to the fullest. Then one day he met his love, dancing down the street. It didn’t take long for them to fall madly in live and get married.
They both worked hard and played hard. He worked from early morning to late at night. They family had everything except their father-husband there with them. He was trying to make a living for them but as usual he didn’t realize that they rather have him. He finally realized what his family wanted. They wanted him around more so he stepped down from his high paying position to a lesser position, a job to spend more time with his family. That position paid less and the family had to do with less. His wife didn’t like that. She was use to not working and having anything she wanted.
After twenty years of marriage it finally caught up to them. The arguments when they were together became command place.
One day his daughter look up at him and asked,” Why do you and mommy argue all the time, he answered, when we stop arguing it will be time to start worrying because then we wont care what happens to our family. As long as there was something to fight for the marriage would stay together he thought.
That day of reckoning came and after twenty years their family broke up. It was a very sad day for the kids but the parents knew it couldn’t go on. That it was better that he left and maybe his wife and the kids would live a calmer life. As most families he became a weekend dad, but he called his kids every night. He wanted to let then know that he loved them very much.
He stay by himself working all day and most of the night in a business he started. He was getting very lonely and prayed to the God above that he would met someone that would totally love for what he was and no for what he can give her. For years he would go out with several different woman and have a meaningless relationships with them. He was never really happy and always was glad to be alone again.
Then one day he met this very charming lady. She had a glare in her eyes a smile in her voice. He knew that she was special when he met her but how special she really was, was a pleasant surprise. She was a unique person, someone who would make everyone who met her feel good to be in her presents. To be around her was to be in front of an angle that was here on earth to spread happiness and joy. Could it be that God had finally answered his prayers? She was way more than he had asked for. He found a meaningful relationship with her that grow into a love that was strong and every lasting. Everyone that met them both could see how very much in love they were. It was a love story that you read in a book or see in the movies. His family and hers fell in love with each other. It was like they were all made for each other. They married and lived very happily but only for a short time.
Once again his hart would be broken. His soul mate died suddenly and he was left along again to morn her death forever. There could be no one to take her place; she was truly one of a kind. Once again God would take away the reason for living. When she was alive he had a purpose. Now there was nothing. What was sense of looking again, to fall in love, for it to be taken away? There will only be loneliness and despair there will be no happy every after for him.

Target Stores Does it Again

2009-11-18T12:55:00.000-08:00

I remember around last thanksgiving and Christmas emails were going around about Target. While Wal-Mart and other big stores would help the Vets and let Salvation Army set up in front of their stores Target wouldn’t.
When I got this email it reminded me why I don’t shop in Target. I rather go to K-Mart or Wal-Mart and spend my US Currency. Lets keep our money helping our economy.

Remark
Herb A

Wasn’t it last Christmas that Target refused to let the Salvation Army ring their bells in front of their stores?

Dick Forrey of the Vietnam Veterans Association wrote.

'Recently we asked the local TARGET store to be a proud
sponsor of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall during our
20 spring recognition event.

We received the following reply
from the local TARGET manag ement:
' Veterans do not meet our
area of giving. We only donate to the arts, social action
groups, gay & lesbian causes, and education.'

So I'm thinking, if the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall and
veterans in general, do not meet their donation criteria,
then something is really wrong at this TARGET store. We were
not asking for thousands of dollars, not even hundreds, just
a small sponsorship for a memorial remembrance.

As a follow-up, I E-mailed the TARGET U.S. Corporate
Headquarters and their response was the same.
That's their
national policy.

Then I looked into the company further.
They will not allow
the Marines to collect for 'Toys for Tots' at any of their
stores.. And during the recent Iraq deployment, they would
not allow families of employees who were called up for
active duty to continue their insurance coverage 20 while
they were on military service.. Then as I dig further,

TARGET
is a French-owned corporation.

Now, I'm thinking again. If TARGET cannot support American
Veterans, then why should my family and I support their
stores by spending our hard earned American dollars!

And,
have their profits sent to France ....

Without the American Vets, where would
France be today?

'They, most likely would be speaking German and trading in Deutsch Marks'

Sincerely,
Dick Forrey
Veterans Helping Veterans

Please send this on to everyone you know
to let Target know we don't need them either !

stop the madness

2009-11-17T13:51:00.000-08:00

Once again I must state that I am not a Republican or Demarcate, I am an American, for the American Party.
My concerns are for America and about America and about the mad man in the White House. He has no foresight of the future of America
What’s next? This president is more dangerous to this country than Carter was. He is now importing terrorist to our shore. Right back to the place where they blow us up eight years ago.
I like to know what happens when their Muslim brothers come in to the court building with guns blasting and these criminal escape into the public.
What guarantee do we have that this won’t happen. These people are cunning and will do anything for their cause. How are we going to prevent it from happing when we couldn’t stop Major Nidal Malik Hasan from shooting our solders? All the sign were there that this man was a terrorist. Hasan even signed his e-mails with "Praise Be to Allah." He tried to covert his fellow soldiers to become Muslims and fight the infidels
Bring them here and there will be mayhem and blood shed. Keep them where they are and have a military trials. Obama has done everything to weaken this country since he has been in office. Send him there too.
When is America going to wake up and see what is happing. We are not respected in the world and there will be no one there to help us when radical Muslims are attacking us. No one was there on 9/11/2001. If you have a young family and want them to have an America like you enjoyed do something. Lets march on DC tell your Representatives in the House and Senate to stop this radical in the White House before it’s to late.
America is not owned by America. China has most of our debt therefore we can’t tell them what to do they tell us.

If we fight together we can stop the madness

Wake up America
Hood remarks
Gathering of Eagles: NY
Fighting the Insurgency at Home
Allen West on Fort Hood Massacre
November 7, 2009 in General, Guest Authors
Tags: Allen West, Attack, Fort Hood, Islam, Terror
The following is a statement released by Retired Lt. Col. Allen West:

This past Thursday 13 American Soldiers were killed and another 30 wounded at a horrific mass shooting at US Army installation, Ft Hood Texas. As I watched in horror and then anger I recalled my two years of final service in the Army as a Battalion Commander at Ft Hood, 2002-2004.
My wife and two daughters were stunned at the incident having lived on the post in family housing.
A military installation, whether it is Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine, or Coast Guard, is supposed to be a safe sanctuary for our Warriors and their families. It is intended to provide a home whereby our “Band of Brothers and Sisters” can find solace and bond beyond just the foxhole but as family units.
A military installation is supposed to be a place where our Warriors train for war, to serve and protect our Nation.
On Thursday, 5 November 2009 Ft Hood became a part of the battlefield in the war against Islamic totalitarianism and state sponsored terrorism.!
There may be those who feel threatened by my words and would even recommend they not be uttered. To those individuals I say step aside because now is not the time for cowardice. Our Country has become so paralyzed by political correctness that we have allowed a vile and determined enemy to breach what should be the safest place in America, an Army post.
We have become so politically correct that our media is more concerned about the stress of the shooter, Major Nidal Malik Hasan. The misplaced benevolence intending to portray him as a victim is despicable. The fact that there are some who have now created an entire new classification called; “pre-virtual vicarious Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)” is unconscionable.
This is not a “man caused disaster”. It is what it is, an Islamic jihadist attack.
We have seen this before in 2003 when a SGT Hasan of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) threw hand grenades and opened fire into his Commanding Officer’s tent in Kuwait. We have seen the foiled attempt of Albanian Muslims who sought to attack Ft Dix, NJ. Recently we saw a young convert to Islam named Carlos Bledsoe travel to Yemen, receive terrorist training, and return to gun down two US Soldiers at a Little Rock, Arkansas Army recruiting station. We thwarted another Islamic terrorist plot in North Carolina which had US Marine Corps Base, Quantico as a target.
What have we done with all these prevalent trends? Nothing.
What we see are recalcitrant leaders who are refusing to confront the issue, Islamic terrorist infiltration into America, and possibly further into our Armed Services. Instead we have a multiculturalism and diversity syndrome on steroids.
Major Hasan should have never been transferred to Ft Hood, matter of fact he should have been Chaptered from the Army. His previous statements, poor evaluation reports, and the fact that the FBI ha! d him under investigation for jihadist website posting should have been proof positive.
However, what we have is a typical liberal approach to find a victim, not the 13 and 30 Soldiers and Civilian, but rather the poor shooter. A shooter who we are told was a great American, who loved the Army and serving his Nation and the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) stating that his actions had nothing to do with religious belief.
We know that Major Hasan deliberately planned this episode; he did give away his possessions. He stood atop a table in the confined space of the Soldier Readiness Center shouting “Allahu Akhbar”, same chant as the 9-11 terrorists and those we fight against overseas in the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters of operation.
No one in leadership seems willing to sound the alarm for the American people; they are therefore complicit in any future attacks. Our Congress should suspend the insidious action to vote on a preposterous and unconstitutional healthcare bill and resolve the issue of “protecting the American people”.
The recent incidents in Dearborn Michigan, Boston Massachusetts, Dallas Texas, and Chicago Illinois should bear witness to the fact that we have an Islamic terrorism issue in America. And don’t have CAIR call me and try to issue a vanilla press statement; they are an illegitimate terrorist associated organization which should be disbanded.
We have Saudi Arabia funding close to 80% of the mosques in the United States, one right here in South Florida, Pompano Beach. Are we building churches and synagogues in Saudi Arabia? Are “Kaffirs” and “Infidels” allowed travel to Mecca?
So much for peaceful coexistence.
Saudi Arabia is sponsoring radical Imams who enter into our prisons and convert young men into a virulent Wahabbist ideology….one resulting in four individuals wanting to destroy synagogues in New York with plastic explosives. Thank God the explosives were dummy. They are sponsoring textbooks which present Islamic centric revisionist history in our schools.
We must recognize that there is an urgent need to separate t! he theo- political radical Islamic ideology out of our American society. We must begin to demand surveillance of suspected Imams and mosques that are spreading hate and preaching the overthrow of our Constitutional Republic……that speech is not protected under First Amendment, it is sedition and if done by an American treason.
There should not be some 30 Islamic terrorist training camps in America that has nothing to do with First Amendment, Freedom of Religion. The Saudis are not our friends and any American political figure who believes such is delusional.
When tolerance becomes a one way street it certainly leads to cultural suicide. We are on that street. Liberals cannot be trusted to defend our Republic, because their sympathies obviously lie with their perceived victim, Major Nidal Malik Hasan.
I make no apologies for these words, and anyone angered by them, please, go to Ft Hood and look into the eyes of the real victims. The trage! dy at Ft Hood Texas did not have to happen. Consider now the feelings of those there and on every military installation in the world. Consider the feelings of the Warriors deployed into combat zones who now are concerned that their loved ones at home are in a combat zone.
Ft Hood suffered an Islamic jihadist attack, stop the denial, and realize a simple point.
The reality of your enemy must become your own.
Steadfast and Loyal,
Lieutenant Colonel Allen B West (US Army, Ret)

Rgds.; Colonel

CHEAP TOMATOES?

2009-11-12T12:21:00.000-08:00

The information below is very disturbing facts about the uninvited illegal aliens who are raping our country. Working in our country then sending the money home while living on use. Taking medical care from a US citizen. We as a country should demand they be held up to they same standers as we are. Pay your fare share in taxes and medical expenses. Demand that they get green cards or be put in jail while waiting for deportation with no legal help since they are not legal citizen.

CHEAP TOMATOES?
Though Snopes says the origin of this is undetermined, it should nonetheless make everyone think, be you Democrat, Republican or Independent

This is purportedly from a California school teacher - - -

"As you listen to the news about the student protests over illegal immigration, there are some things that you should be aware of:

I am in charge of the English-as-a-second-language department at a large southern California high school which is designated a Title 1 school, meaning that its students average lower socioeconomic and income levels.

Most of the schools you are hearing about, South Gate High, Bell Gardens , Huntington Park , etc., where these students are protesting, are also Title 1 schools.

Title 1 schools are on the free breakfast and free lunch program. When I say free breakfast, I'm not talking a glass of milk and roll -- but a full breakfast and cereal bar with fruits and juices that would make a Marriott proud. The waste of this food is monumental, with trays and trays of it being dumped in the trash uneaten.
(OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK )

I estimate that well over 50% of these students are obese or at least moderately overweight. About 75% or more DO have cell phones. The school also provides day care centers for the unwed teenage pregnant girls (some as young as 13) so they can attend class without the inconvenience of having to arrange for babysitters or having family watch their kids. (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)

I was ordered to spend $700,000 on my department or risk losing funding for the upcoming year even though there was little need for anything; my budget was already substantial. I ended up buying new computers for the computer learning center, half of which, one month later, have been carved with graffiti by the appreciative students who obviously feel humbled and grateful to have a free education in America .
(OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)

I have had to intervene several times for young and substitute teachers whose classes consist of many illegal immigrant students here in the country less then 3 months who raised so much hell with the female teachers, calling them "Putas" whores and throwing things that the teachers were in tears..

Free medical, free education, free food, day care etc., etc., etc. Is it any wonder they feel entitled to not only be in this country but to demand rights, privileges and entitlements ?

To those who want to point out how much these illegal immigrants contribute to our society because they LIKE their gardener and housekeeper and they like to pay less for tomatoes: spend some time in the real world of illegal immigration and see the TRUE costs.

Higher insurance, medical facilities closing, higher medical costs, more crime, lower standards of education in our schools, overcrowding, new diseases etc., etc, etc. For me, I'll pay more for tomatoes.

We need to wake up. The guest worker program will be a disaster because we won't have the guts to enforce it . Does anyone in their right mind really think they will voluntarily leave and return?

It does, however, have everything to do with culture: A third-world culture that does not value education, that accepts children getting pregnant and dropping out of school by 15 and that refuses to assimilate , and an American culture that has become so weak and worried about " political Correctness" that we don't have the will to do anything about it.

If this makes your blood boil, as it did mine, forward this to everyone you know.

CHEAP LABOR? Isn't that what the whole immigration issue is about?

Business doesn't want to pay a decent wage.

Consumers don't want expensive produce.

Government will tell you Americans don't want the jobs.

But the bottom line is cheap labor.. The phrase "cheap labor" is a myth , a farce, and a lie. There is no such thing as "cheap labor."
Take, for example, an illegal alien with a wife and five children. He takes a job for $5.00 or 6.00/ hour. At that wage, with six dependents, he pays no income tax, yet at the end of the year, if he files an Income Tax Return, he gets an "earned income credit" of up to $3,200 free.

He qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent.
He qualifies for food stamps.
He qualifies for free (no deductible, no co-pay) health care.
His children get free breakfasts and lunches at school.
He requires bilingual teachers and books.
He qualifies for relief from high energy bills.
If they are, or become, aged, blind or disabled, they qualify for SSI. Once qualified for SSI they can qualify for Medicare . All of this is at (our) taxpayer's expense .

He doesn't worry about car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance.

Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins and printed material.
He and his family receive the equivalent of $20.00 to $30.00 /hour in benefits.
Working Americans are lucky to have $5.00 or $6.00/ hour left after paying their bills and his.
The American taxpayers also pay for increased crime, graffiti and trash clean-up.

Cheap labor? Far From it! Wake up people!

THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS WE SHOULD BE ADDRESSING TO EITHER PARTY. 'AND WHEN THEY LIE TO US AND DON'T DO AS THEY SAY, WE SHOULD REPLACE THEM AT ONCE!'

Health care Reform in the house & Senate

2009-11-07T13:11:00.000-08:00

First let me start off by saying that I am neither a Demarcate nor Republican, I am an American. I see things as good for America not a party or special interest group. There is no love between me and the insurance, lawyers, hospitals or any other group that stands against health care for America. That being said I do not have any love for groups like AARP or other groups that pick out the health reform they think is good. We as the people that elected the people in the Senate and Congress should be able to look at and vote on what is going to be forced on us. We as the people as our forefathers said should have that right. Health care practitioners should put health care together. Lawyers and other special interest groups should be kept out of the decision making process, that means all politicians.
I awoke this morning to a ridiculous show of events. It was the house trying to vote on the health care bill. It was the most unruly and ignorant thing I ever witnessed on TV. I truly was annoyed so I change the channel. Naturally it was the Republicans that were rude, trying for a filibuster.
I personally think that health care will not work unless we all paid,(we are all going to pay any way). I have stated my plan many times before. Below I am stating it again. If you agree let me know.
Obama’s plan
I still can’t see how this health care reform is going to be paid for? In the last part of his plan about if you can’t afford health care he will offer a public plan that will be made available. He spoke about his polling plan, if you could afford that you can join that one. The public plan would cover all illegal aliens and anyone else who are fee loaders here from other countries including the terrorist. I can’t see how we could stop this from happening.
The idea of making a co-op is a great idea. Have all insurance companies compete for the millions of people coverage’s. The more people the cover the lest like that their pay out would cost because of the sear numbers. The control of finding cancer or other disease in their beginning stages will help cut down on treating them later stages which would cost more. It’s like the brokers that represent car insurance, life, homeowners, that take your information and get the best price for their clients.
This brokerage would be free of government control however follow the government guild lines. We could also have this available to everyone including business large and small for a small sum, just as I have spoken about before. The sum of $25.00 per person, (Children would be excluded because they still would be covered under the planes that exist now), in this country would cover everyone with the quality of heath care that our president receives. This amount would be paid half by us and half by company you work for or by Social Security, Unemployment. Or any other social plan that you are on. All insurance companies would be required to participate in the co-op and could not change any coverage that is in place.
The one thing that no one has spoken about is controlling the absurd law suites that lawyers bring against doctor. It was sort of mention in passing last night but not in detail. There is were the big problem lies. We need to get that under control to get down the cost. Believe me I have no real love for doctors. They killed my wife and I can’t do anything about it. If I could I agree to a settlement of my wife times the years of her life according to today’s statistic. That’s the way lawsuits should work. No one should get rich of someone death.
Another control we need is on the pharmaceutical industry. Why do we pay more than Europe and other countries for our medicine? This industry should be place under some kind or control to make sure we are not charged more.

'MEET ME IN THE STAIRWELL'

2009-09-12T13:49:00.000-07:00

This was sent to me in an email. It is so apropos since 9/11 was yesterday. If you have any belief that there is something or someone who is watching over us all, (God or who ever it is for you), Then you will find this very in lighting. There is another part of this email that I find very wearisome, so think long and hard about what you are reading.

'MEET ME IN THE STAIRWELL'

You say you will never forget where you were when
you heard the news On September 11, 2001.
Neither will I.

I was on the 110th floor in a smoke filled room
with a man who called his wife to say 'Good-Bye.' I
held his fingers steady as he dialed. I gave him the
peace to say, 'Honey, I am not going to make it, but it
is OK..I am ready to go.'

I was with his wife when he called as she fed
breakfast to their children. I held her up as she
tried to understand his words and as she realized
he wasn't coming home that night.

I was in the stairwell of the 23rd floor when a
woman cried out to Me for help. 'I have been
knocking on the door of your heart for 50 years!' I said.
'Of course I will show you the way home - only
believe in Me now.'

I was at the base of the building with the Priest
ministering to the injured and devastated souls.
I took him home to tend to his Flock in Heaven. He
heard my voice and answered.

I was on all four of those planes, in every seat,
with every prayer. I was with the crew as they
were overtaken. I was in the very hearts of the
believers there, comforting and assuring them that their
faith has saved them.

I was in Texas , Virginia , California , Michigan , Afghanistan .
I was standing next to you when you heard the terrible news.
Did you sense me?

I want you to know that I saw every face. I knew
every name - though not all know me. Some met Me
for the first time on the 86th floor.

Some sought me with their last breath.
Some couldn’t hear Me calling to them through the
smoke and flames; ‘Come to Me... This way... take
my hand.' Some chose, for the final time, to ignore Me.
But, I was there.

I did not place you in the Tower that day. You
may not know why, but I do.. However, if you were
there in that explosive moment in time, would you have
reached for me?

Sept. 11, 2001, was not the end of the journey
for you. But someday your journey will end. And I
will be there for you as well. Seek me now while I may
be found. Then, at any moment, you know you are
'ready to go.'

I will be in the stairwell of your final moments.

God

THIS NEEDS TO GO AROUND THE USA MANY TIMES SO PLEASE KEEP IT GOING. WHAT'S WRONG WITH IT?

If you look closely at the picture above, you will note that all the Marines pictured are bowing their heads. That's because they're praying. This incident took place at a recent ceremony honoring the birthday of the corps, and it has the ACLU up in arms. 'These are federal employees,' says Lucius Traveler, a spokesman for the ACLU, 'on federal property and on federal time. For them to pray is clearly an establishment of religion, and we must nip this in the bud immediately.' When asked about the ACLU's charges, Colonel Jack Fessender, speaking for the Commandant of the Corps said (cleaned up a bit), 'Screw the ACLU.' GOD Bless Our Warriors, Send the ACLU to France. May God Bless America, One Nation Under GOD! What's wrong with the picture? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
THIS NEEDS TO GO AROUND THE USA MANY TIMES SO, cut and past it and keep it going.

Remarks HK
Let us never forget 9/11 our what this country was founded on. Each individual’s faith in any GOD you choose.
I personally think that this country is in the mess that it is because of the ACLU. They have taken God and control of bad behavior out of the schools. Gave criminals more rights than honorable citizen along with giving rights to people who don’t belong here in our country.

Heath care- Obama-But who’s paying

2009-09-10T13:10:00.000-07:00

Heath care- Obama-But who’s paying

Last night I listen to everything Obama had to say. I agreed with a lot of his ideas. But I have to say he is a dreamer. I still can’t see how this health care reform is going to be paid for? In the last part of his plan about if you can’t afford health care he will offer a public plan that will be made available. He spoke about his polling plan, if you could afford that you can join that one. The public plan would cover all illegal aliens and anyone else who are fee loaders here from other countries including the terrorist. I can’t see how we could stop this from happening.
The idea of making a co-op is a great idea. Have all insurance companies compete for the millions of people coverage’s. The more people the cover the lest like that their pay out would cost because of the sear numbers. The control of finding cancer or other disease in their beginning stages will help cut down on treating them later stages which would cost more. It’s like the brokers that represent car insurance, life, homeowners, that take your information and get the best price for their clients.
This brokerage would be free of government control however follow the government guild lines. We could also have this available to everyone including business large and small for a small sum, just as I have spoken about before. The sum of $25.00 per person, (Children would be excluded because they still would be covered under the planes that exist now), in this country would cover everyone with the quality of heath care that our president receives. This amount would be paid half by us and half by company you work for or by Social Security, Unemployment. Or any other social plan that you are on. All insurance companies would be required to participate in the co-op and could not change any coverage that is in place.
The one thing that no one has spoken about is controlling the absurd law suites that lawyers bring against doctor. It was sort of mention in passing last night but not in detail. There is were the big problem lies. We need to get that under control to get down the cost. Believe me I have no real love for doctors. They killed my wife and I can’t do anything about it. If I could I agree to a settlement of my wife times the years of her life according to today’s statistic. That’s the way lawsuits should work. No one should get rich of someone death.
Another control we need is on the pharmaceutical industry. Why do we pay more than Europe and other countries for our medicine? This industry should be place under some kind or control to make sure we are not charged more.
I wish the president luck with his fight for heath care. I am one who needs him to win but not at any cost. I am neither Republican or Demarcate I am American and I want wants best for all American’s and no one else.

TAKE HOLD OF EVERY MOMENT

2009-09-04T14:37:00.000-07:00

I had to share this email with everyone
Even though I don’t believe in receiving and send emails right away because of bad luck or other wise. This email makes a lot of sense, especially since I kind of lived through it. You never know when your last day will be, so live every day as your last. Pass this on to everyone you love or care about.
Herb

TAKE HOLD OF EVERY MOMENT

A friend of mine opened his wife's underwear drawer and picked up a silk paper wrapped package:

"This, - he said - isn't any ordinary package."
He unwrapped the box and stared at both the silk paper and the box.

"She got this the first time we went to New York, 8 or 9 years ago. She has never put it on. Was saving it for a special occasion.
Well, I guess this is it. He got near the bed and placed the gift box next to the other clothing he was taking to the funeral house, his wife had just died. He turned to me and said:

"Never save something for a special occasion. Every day in your life is a special occasion".
I still think those words changed my life.
Now I read more and clean less.
I sit on the porch without worrying about anything.
I spend more time with my family, and less at work.
I understood that life should be a source of experience to be lived up to, not survived through. I no longer keep anything. I use crystal glasses every day. I'll wear new clothes to go to the supermarket, if I feel like it.
I don't save my special perfume for special occasions; I use it whenever I want to. The words "Someday..." and "One Day..." are fading away from my dictionary. If it's worth seeing, listening or doing, I want to see, listen or do it now. I don't know what my friend's wife would have done if she knew she wouldn't be there the next morning, this nobody can tell. I think she might have called her relatives and closest friends.
She might call old friends to make peace over past quarrels. I'd like to think she would go out for Chinese, her favorite food. It's these small things that I would regret not doing, if I knew my time had come.
I would regret it; because I would no longer see the friends I would meet, letters... letters that I wanted to write "One of this days".
I would regret and feel sad, because I didn't say to my brothers and sons, not times enough at least, how much I love them.
Now, I try not to delay, postpone or keep anything that could bring laughter and joy into our lives.
And, on each morning, I say to myself that this could be a special day.
Each day, each hour, each minute, is special.
If you got this, it's because someone cares for you and because, probably, there's someone you care about.
If you're too busy to send this out to other people and you say to yourself that you will send it "One of these days", remember that "One day" is far away... or might never come...

This Mantra came from India. No matter if you're superstitious or not, spend some time reading it.
It holds useful messages for the soul.
Don't keep this message.
This Mantra must leave your hands within 96 hours.
Send copies and watch what goes on in the next four days.
You'll have a pleasant surprise.

This is true, even if you're not superstitious.
Now, here's the fun of it:
send this message to at least 5 people and you're life improves.

0-4 people: your life improves slightly.
5-9 people: your life improves according to your expectations!
9-14 people: you'll have at least 5 surprises in the next 3 weeks.
15 or more people: your life improves drastically and your dreams start to take shape.
I hope everyone’s life that I sent this to improve drastically just because my thoughts are with you.
Share this with someone just to let them know you care

My thoughts about Obama-CIA-Social Security 8/25/09

2009-08-25T18:04:00.000-07:00

This article below was sent to me in an email. In a way it just supports my thoughts about Obama being a novice at politics. However this article goes even further. What this gentleman talks about down right scares me. Read it with an open mind and think about what is being said. I don’t necessarily support everything he said but it makes sense.

Please take the time to read

Dr. Krauthammer is on Fox News. He is an M.D. and a lawyer and is paralyzed from the neck down. A friend went to hear Charles Krauthammer. He listened with 25 others in a closed room. What he says here, is NOT 2nd-hand but 1st. The ramifications are staggering for us, our children and their children.

Last Monday was a profound evening, hearing Dr. Charles Krauthammer speak to the Center for the American Experiment. He is brilliant intellectual, seasoned & articulate. He is forthright and careful in his analysis, and never resorts to emotions or personal insults. He is NOT a fear monger nor an extremist in his comments and views. He is a fiscal conservative, and has received a Pulitzer Prize for writing. He is a frequent contributor to Fox News and writes weekly for the Washington Post. The entire room was held spellbound during his talk. I have summarized his comments, as we are living in uncharted waters economically and internationally. Even 2 Dems at my table agreed with everything he said! If you feel like forwarding this to those who are open minded and have not drunk the Kool-A id, feel free.

Summary of his comments:

1 Mr. Obama is a very intellectual, charming individual. He is not to be underestimated. He is a cool customer who doesn't show his emotions. It's very hard to know what's behind the mask. The taking down of the Clinton dynasty by a political neophyte was an amazing accomplishment. The Clintons still do not understand what hit them. Obama was in the perfect place at the perfect time.

2 Obama has political skills comparable to Reagan and Clinton. He has a way of making you think he's on your side, agreeing with your position, while doing the opposite. Pay no attention to what he SAYS; rather, watch what he DOES!

3 Obama has a ruthless quest for power. He did not come to Washington to make something out of himself, but rather to change everything, including dismantling capitalism. He cant be straightforward on his ambitions, as the public would not go along. He has a heavy hand, and wants to level the playing field with income redistribution and punishment to the achievers of society. He would like to model the USA to Great Britain or Canada .

4 His three main goals are to control ENERGY, PUBLIC EDUCATION, and NATIONAL HEALTHCARE by the Federal government. He doesn't care about the auto or financial services industries, but got them as an early bonus. The cap and trade will add costs to everything and stifle growth. Paying for FREE college education is his goal. Most scary is his healthcare program, because if you make it FREE and add 46,000,000 people to a Medicare-type single-payer system, the costs will go through the roof. The only way to control costs is with massive RATIONING of services, like in Canada . God forbid!

5 He has surrounded himself with mostly far-left academic types. No one around him has ever even run a candy store. But they are going to try and run the auto, financial, banking and other industries. This obviously cant work in the long run. Obama is not a socialist; rather he's a far-left secular progressive bent on nothing short of revolution. He ran as a moderate, but will govern from the hard left. Again, watch what he does, not what he says.

6 Obama doesnt really see himself as President of the United States , but more as a ruler over the world. He sees himself above it all, trying to orchestrate & coordinate various countries and their agendas. He sees moral equivalency in all cultures. His apology tour in Germany and England was a prime example of how he sees America , as an imperialist nation that has been arrogant, rather than a great noble nation that has at times made errors. This is the first President ever who has chastised our allies and appeased our enemies!

7 He is now handing out goodies. He hopes that the bill (and pain) will not come due until after he is reelected in 2012. He would like to blame all problems on Bush from the past, and hopefully his successor in the future. He has a huge ego, and Dr. Krauthammer believes he is a narcissist.

8 Republicans are in the wilderness for a while, but will emerge strong. Republicans are pining for another Reagan, but there will never be another like him. Krauthammer believes Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty & Bobby Jindahl (except for his terrible speech in February) are the future of the party. Newt Gingrich is brilliant, but has baggage. Sarah Palin is sincere and intelligent, but needs to really be seriously boning up on facts and info if she is to be a serious candidate in the future. We need to return to the party of lower taxes, smaller government, personal responsibility, strong national defense, and states rights.

9 The current level of spending is irresponsible and outrageous. We are spending trillions that we dont have. This could lead to hyperinflation, depression or worse. No country has ever spent themselves into prosperity. The media is giving Obama, Reid and Pelosi a pass because they love their agenda. But eventually the bill will come due and people will realize the huge bailouts didn’t work, nor will the stimulus package. These were trillion-dollar payoffs to Omaha’s allies, unions and the Congress to placate the left, so he can get support for #4 above.

10. The election was over in mid-September when Lehman brothers failed, fear and panic swept in, we had an unpopular President, and the war was grinding on indefinitely without a clear outcome. The people are in pain, and the mantra of change caused people to act emotionally Any Dem would have won this election; it was surprising it was as close as it was.

11. In 2012, if the unemployment rate is over 10%, Republicans will be swept back into power. If it's under 8%, the Dems continue to roll. If it's between 8-10%, it will be a dogfight. It will all be about the economy. I hope this gets you really thinking about what's happening in Washington and Congress. There is a left-wing revolution going on, according to Krauthammer, and he encourages us to keep the faith and join the loyal resistance. The work will be hard, but were right on most issues and can reclaim our country, before it's far too late.

Do yourself a long term favor, send this to all who will listen to an intelligent assessment of the big picture. All our futures and children's futures depend on our good understanding of what is really going on in DC, and our action pursuant to that understanding!! It really IS up to each of us to take individual action!! Start with educating your friends and neighbors!!!

W. Nelson Gravatt
nelsongravatt@yahoo.com
Cell--662-231-3222
Fax--662-840-9757

End of Forwarded Message

HK
In closing think of all the spending programs like this. You make fifty thousand dollars a year but spend ninety five thousand dollars a years for ten years. You just put yourself into seven hundred thousand dollars debt (If my addition is correct). Who’s going to pay for it?

Thought 11

The CIA

I don’t want anyone who reads this statement below to think that I am a Bush or Chaney lover. The create this mess we are in and Obama has to get us out of it. I personal think this will be a hundred year war or longer. None of us will see the end.

We are dismantling our first defense against the terrorist. The CIA is our only true covert agency to fight back. They have kept us free for years.
I am not into torturing our friends or enemy however we are fighting an enemy we can’t see. The terrorist will think of nothing in taking innocent lives. We saw that on 9/11 and the beheading of a new person. Have we forgotten that so soon? We are in a new age, a new time, a war like not others. This is the time to fight like our lives are at stake, because it is. We can’t afford to loose and we can’t afford to use conventional methods. This enemy with fight to the last person. Who ever thinks that we can talk to these people and come to an understanding is either a fool or blind to what is going on around the world. The dieing will not stop until the good guys win(That’s Western Nations).

Thought 111

No raise for social security

We are giving away money to purchase cars, appliances, build airports in small towns that don’t need it. Wasting all this money to create false serge in the economy. The people who really need it will see no increase their check this year. They will have more money taken out of their check for Medicare. What I don’t understand is, if the cost of living didn’t go up then why are they paying for medical coverage? That’s a contradiction of terms. These are the people that need the money the most. The people who will spend more of their income for doctors and medicine. They have paid into the government all their lives and know they are treated like second class. If inflation is zero then why does it cost more to live now?

Michael Vick the murder of dogs

2009-08-17T12:29:00.000-07:00

Michael Vick the murder of dogs is released from jail and playing football again, while the best sports player in any sport is still suspended from baseball and the hall of fame. What’s wrong with this picture?

Is it a stronger offence to gamble then to kill a living animal?
If it’s true that people deserve a second chance then let’s give Pet Rose that chance. He is more of athlete and passionate person than Vick. He has done more for others and stands for the best in sports, where Vick stands for the worst.

Pet Rose has accomplished more for the game of baseball and sports than any player playing today and he did it without drugs.

Michael Vick spent two years while Pete Rose has spent twenty years suspended from the game he loves and the hall of fame where he belongs.

There is something very wrong in this country when killing doesn’t carry a stronger sentence then gambling.

Let me know your feelings on this

Below is a link about Michael Vick on CBS News

http://www.comcast.net/video/Michael-Vick/1216583597/cCBSNews/newest/

The health care debacle

2009-08-16T11:44:00.000-07:00

The health care debacle is very easy to fix, I think. Then again I am only an individual that has been caught up in the mass of healthcare. At one time in my life I did without healthcare, I couldn’t afford it.

The Politicians first have to stop tripping over their feet and look right in front of their eyes. The solution to the problem is right is in front of their faces, it already existed.

What I am talking about it Medicare and Medicaid for everyone which is not free. We cannot afford to just give away healthcare I am sorry to say. We don’t have the money! Want most people don’t realize is the people who have Medicare and Medicaid have to pay monthly for that coverage and some people pay close to a hundred dollars a month out of their check.
If the government would charges every one of 25-50 dollars a month per person for health care we should be able to get the same coverage as our politician. If you add all the money up it would be more than enough to cover every citizens of this country. Children up to 18 are already are being paid for. The only people in my plan that would be covered would be illegal aliens.
Money for this program would be taken out automatically out of your pay,( If you chose this program), Social security, unemployment or welfare .

It would not cover anyone making over $150,000 combined household income, after deductions for children, or $65.000 for single. To get join this program you must provide proof that you are on a program mentioned above, work and file taxes, American citizen or an alien who has applied for green card. No illegal aliens would be covered.

Another part of this plan would control the pharmaceutical industry. Put controls on them that they could not charge us any more then they charge other countries for their drugs. A cap on profits. With the power of having the USA a client we should get a good wholesale rate.

Last but not least, to get the cost of medical care down, we must control the lawyers. We must put caps on frivolous lawsuits against doctors and hospitals. Trust me I do not have any love for doctors or hospitals. It was a hospital, nurses and doctors neglect that killed my wife in 2007 and I gone to three lawyers to see if they could help me But I still feel that the should be a law to control them.

With all I have laid out above it could very well bring down the cost of health care and cover everyone.

That's how simple it is to solve this problem but politics and politicians always get in the way, because they do not have our interest at hart but how to win the next election and gain control.
Let us all rise up and let them know that we have a common sense plan. Write and call your reprehensive, let them know that you will not just stand by while they screw up healthcare. Tell them to write a bill that we can read and vote on, not them!!!!

Let me know if you agree or do you have a better plan.

Herb

2009-07-08T16:06:00.000-07:00

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The year has come and gown (2007)

2009-01-11T09:34:00.000-08:00

The year has come and gown and the pain is still as strong.
As I look back I see a lonely soul running away from the hartach it faced. Running to a black whole where no light shined through. The tunnel seems endlessly long and dark.
Now a year has passed and the tunnel is still the same. Where there be any light and will the tunnel ever end? Only the future will let me know.
Will I face the future alone or will there be someone there for me? My true love will never be again but there could be someone else to share another life with me.
I have mixed emotion about moving on. As 2009 has started I have decided to take a stab at life again. I will become a part of the living as many have told me. I will attempt to go out again with other woman. I will let my friends fix me up with their friends but I am still not looking for a committed relationship. My feelings for Brenda are still to strong.
As I look at the pass I really cannot see what the future will bring. I hope the happiness that I am longing to know again.
One thing I know for sure I will never have the person that I had prayed for so. She was one of a kind and I was lucky to know her.
Thank you Brenda for being a part of my life even though it was just a short while. You will always be my one and only true love, my soul mate.