Category: To Make You Think

Remember kindergarten? School added to the rules that you had learned at home. Don't touch another student, no bad name calling, raise your hand if you have a question, don't run in the hallway, stay in line. It took some time but you learned the rules. As you got older you learned more rules. Sports and driving rules. 50 miles an hour speed limit. Buses, this lane only, don't drive drunk, make a siginal to change lanes. You learned more rules when you went to work. Rules are usually for your...
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Do you have a job? So you receive a paycheck? Where it says withholdings, does it say Social Security? That means that everytime you get paid, our government takes money out of your salary to help you when you are a senior. I have asked several (and I mean a lot) of people if they know where that money goes. They all said they believed there was a vault or holdings where their Social Security earings went. That it would be there for you when you retire. Most of us didn't know that as soon...
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HAPPY NEW YEAR ONE AND ALL I'm sorry to start the new year off with a negative comment but I finally realized what I hated about 2009. (Besides the fact that Obama is president and Pelosi is still around) It's the rewarding of bad behavior. I am no saint but no one every gave me a trophy for doing bad things. Remember when we saw pictures of Kate Moss using cocaine and then her modeling career took a big leap? (I realize that was more than a year ago but bear with me) Then there is Alex Rodri...
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I met a man years ago who was very handsome but also rather scary. He had been a prize fighter, a Long Shoreman and a body guard for the mob. Just being in the same room with him gave me the shivers. He and I attended the same church. I didn't see him for several months, not because either of us stopped going to church but because our paths just didn't cross for a while. When I did see him again, I no longer felt leery being around him and though he was still just as handsome, he looked differe...
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This week will see another new year. It use to be that only older people made the comment that time just goes by too fast. Now I hear it from nearly everyone. Yesterday a clerk, about 19, said that it seemed like she just celebrated 2008 and here it was almost 2009. So it isn't just me who thinks that time flies. What will the New Year hold for the world? America will have a new president, and hopefully a clean-up of the financial mess that we are in. As I type this, hamas and Israel are fighti...
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This is awesome. The acting realistic, the beautiful singing of a favorite old song. This is the true meaning of Christmas to me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_ypUnnqr8Y Merry Christmas to you and yours. Christ is born....
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Quotes from Thomas Jefferson. An Great American The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest rea...
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I received this in an email today. I have never researched Kwanza so I found this most interesting. Written by Marcia Seqelstein-OneNewsNow Columnist-12/16/2008 Maybe your child's "holiday" concert at school includes Kwanza songs these days. Our elementary school did. One grade each year was assigned that holiday, with a young student offering a brief explanation of what Kwanza is about, dressing in appropriate Kwanza accessories, and singing Kwanza songs. Maybe you child's preschool teacher i...
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Are you having trouble making ends meet? Do you think we are in a depression? Look at the photos. They are a history lesson of the Great Depression.   http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/depression/photoessay.htm...
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I received this as an email and thought I would post it here. Absolutely The Funniest Joke Ever...ON US Does anybody out there have any memory of the reason given for the establishment of the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY during the Carter Administration? Anybody? Anyone? No? Didn't think so. Bottom line...we've spent several hundred billion dollars in support of an agency the reason for which not one person who reads this can remember. Ready? It was very simple, and at the time everybody though...
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I received a warning in the mail yesterday. It came from my Sheriff's Dept. A sex offender has moved into my neighborhood. There is a picture of him and a detailed description. Six foot three and weighing 237 pounds and his picture looks like the EVIL BEAST that he is. This man has been convicted two times of child rape so why isn't he in prison? A Liberal judge most likely gave him a light sentence. THIS IS NOT ABOUT POLITICS BUT ABOUT PROTECTING CHILDREN. The number one doctor in my state, ...
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I might be the only person on this earth who feels sorry for Paris Hilton. She is wealthy, famous, young, attractive and seems to be completely empty. I don't mean that in a cruel way but in a genuinely sorry way.I don't know how old Miss. Hilton is but I don't believe she will ever really mature emotionally because her life depends on the artificial and the common. Attention for a sex tape, no acting ability, no singing talent, fashion, fashion, fashion, stupid reality television shows, dancing...
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I remember seeing a black and white photo of a small boy sitting on a donkey and wondering who he was. Years later, from the way everyone talked, I suspected that he had done something heroic. He was born in Argentina in 1928 and his name was Ernesto "Che" Guerivera. He studied to become a doctor and thousands of lives would have been spared if he had followed that path with a desire to help people. Instead he presided over the Cuban Revolution's first firing squad. The term "judge, jury and exc...
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I love reading Thomas Sowell's writings. Common sense seems like something out of the past but almost everything he touches on makes sense to me.Born in South Carolina in 1930, Sowell dropped out of high school, moved away from a troubled home at seventeen and later joined the U.S. Marine Corp.He later passed his GED and went on to finish his education. He is now a senior fellow at Hoover Institution. He is one of the most respected econmists in America. He has written several books, on various ...
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I love to read bumper stickers...always safely of course. Some are funny, and some are downright thought provocating. Examples:"Age brings wisdom or age shows up alone...you never know!""Why are Peace protesters so violent?""Only a Liberal can turn a terriorist into a victim!""Even if the voices aren't real they have some good ideas""Stupid should hurt"Saw one today that asked a question that I can answer."What exactly is it that Conservatives want to conserve?"How about the sanctity of every hu...
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I was created in the image of God. The Creator of the Universe created me in His image. I do not understand what this means but I believe it and it is glorious.When I look in the mirror I see a woman who was on fire for God, seeking the lost and telling them that Christ would change their hearts and their lives. I have been patient and loving to those who had no use for me. I have been forgiving. I cried over the sin in the world.At other times I saw a women who turned to the world for fullfillm...
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I have been thinking this morning about my family and friends, not just in terms of what they mean to me, but what gifts they have given me. The ones who have done good continue to inspire and the ones who have hurt me have also taught me. My Father taught me what it is to truly love your child and to look after your Mother.My Mother taught me to be kind and that often it is best not to speak.Tony has taught me to always wear the white hat in everything you do.Margie taught me to love the lost....
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Remember that proverb..."Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime?" This is an important concept, especially during this political season. Here are some more wise words.You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling the wage payer down.You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting...
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The following true story is a commentary on our world today.A 98 year old lady named Irena Sendler died recently.During WW11, Irena, got permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto, as a plumbing/sewer specialist.She had an ulterior motive....She knew what the Nazi's plans were for the Jews. Irena was German.Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of her tool box she carried, and she carried in the back of her truck a burlap sack, for larger kids.She also had a dog in the back, that she trained to ...
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On July 1st 2008 two boys were given detention for refusing to kneel on a mat and pray to Allah. It happened at Alsager High School in England. The religious education teacher told students, which also includes 11 and 12 year olds, to wear Muslim headgear and instructed them to pray as the Muslims pray. One girl was told off because she wasn't doing it right. The were supposed to pray in Arabic.The grandfather of one of the boys who refused to participate said "But if Muslims were asked to go to...
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I try to keep up with the news of the day but somehow missed this one. Michelle Obama wrote a letter using partial birth abortion to help raise money for her husband's campaign. Am I the only one who finds this more than a little sick? Partial birth abortion consists of pushing scissors into the neck or skull of a fetus (4 months and older) and draining out the brain. Barbaric and satanic describe this so called medical procedure. Millions of the unborn have been destroyed in this country. If ab...
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I watched a documentary today about female teachers sexually exploiting their students. Two male high school students, who had not been abused, discussed why they thought it would be fantastic to have sex with a teacher and how they would look back on it and say it was a highlight of their youth. That of course was the "cool" "macho" response of a young man but the truth is much different. A young person's body developes faster than their emotional well being. The teachers who abuse, befriend an...
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