GOD BLESS AMERICA,

AMERICA, BLESS GOD!

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY AMERICA- WE FOUGHT A DAMN GOOD FIGHT ON THIS DATE IN 1776! HEY, ELIZABETH- MAKE ROOM- IF OBAMA WINS, I'M MOVING OVER!!!!

J

OIL for GRAIN FAIR TRADE PROPOSAL

Conflict:

OPEC sells oil for $136.00 a barrel.

OPEC nations buy U.S. grain at $7.00 a bushel.

Other Data:

A standard crude oil barrel = 42 gallons ( U.S. )

One bushel is approximately equivalent to 9.31 gallons

Therefore, one barrel = 4.51 bushels

Solution:

Sell grain for $30.00 a bushel (about $136 a barrel)

Can't afford it? Tough! Eat your oil! Ought to go well with a nice grilled filet of camel hump!

This is a little long, but worth the time!



This email comes in three parts:
Part 1
In just one year . Remember the election in 2006?
Thought you might like to read the following:
A little over one year ago:

1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%.

Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have seen:

1) Consumer confidence plummet;
2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3.50 a gallon;
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);
5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars;
6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.

America voted for change in 2006, and we got it!

Remember it's Congress that makes law not the President. He has to work with what's handed to him.
Quote of the Day........"My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it." -- Barack Obama
Part 2:
Taxes...Whether Democrat or a Republican you will find these statistics enlightening and amazing.
www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.html
Taxes under Clinton 1999 Taxes under Bush 2008
Single making 30K - tax $8,400 Single making 30K - tax $4,500
Single making 50K - tax $14,000 Single making 50K - tax $12,50 0
Single making 75K - tax $23,250 Single making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 60K - tax $16,800 Married making 60K- tax $9,000
Married making 75K - tax $21,000 Married making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 125K - tax $38,750 Married making 125K - tax $31,250
Both democratic candidates will return to the higher tax rates
It is amazing how many people that fall into the categories above think Bush is screwing them and Bill Clinton was the greatest President ever. If Obama or Hillary are elected, they both say they will repeal the Bush tax cuts and a good portion of the people that fall into the categories above can't wait for it to happen. This is like the movie The Sting with Paul Newman; you scam somebody out of some money and they don't even know what happened.



PART 3:
You think the war in Iraq is costing us to much?
Read this:
Boy am I confused. I have been hammered with the propaganda that it
is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us.
I now find that to be RIDICULOUS.
I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again
until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them. I
have included the URL's for verification of all the following facts.
1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens
each year by state governments. Verify at: http://tinyurl.com/zob77
2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs
such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school
education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIP.../01/ldt.0.html
5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the
American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.<>Verify at http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIP...01/ldt.01.html
6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIP...01/ldt.01.html
7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIP...01/ldt.01.html
8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare &
social services by the American taxpayers. Verify at:
http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html
9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused
by the illegal aliens. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIP...01/ldt.01.html
10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate
that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular,
their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US
Verify at: http://transcr ipts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIP...12/ldt.01.html
11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens
that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens
from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin
and mariju ana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border.
Verify at: Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl.com/t9sht
12. The National Policy Institute, "estimated that the total
cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average
cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period."
Verify at: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.o...eportation.pdf
13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances
back to their countries of origin.
Verify at: http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm
14. "The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million
Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States."
Verify at: http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml
The total cost is a whopping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.
Are we THAT stupid?
If this doesn't bother you then just delete the message. If, on the other
hand, if it does raise the hair on the back of your neck, I hope you
forward it to every legal resident in the country including every representative in
Washington, D.C. - five times a week for as long as it takes to restore
some semblance of intelligence in our policies and enforcement thereof.

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IS THERE ANY DIFFERENCE??? COMMENTS?

HOW COME THERE IS SUCH A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE FLOODING

OF IOWA AND THAT OF NEW ORLEANS ????

When New Orleans flooded, it was a claimed to be a racist plan to wipe out the black people.

Now that predominately white mid-western people are getting flooded out, we need to investigate, Who?

I heard a dimwit on TV yesterday say that this reminded him of New Orleans---- IN WHAT WAY?

Outside of being flooded, there is no looting, no people wandering the streets looking for meanness,
no grocery carts being shoved through the water carrying stolen big screen TVs, no people sitting

on the tops of their houses waiting on the government to come and get them, no police abandoning

their posts, no Iowans bitching how the government is to blame!

There is not one damn thing other than water that is similar to New Orleans .

The streets in Des Moines were empty. People left when they were told to evacuate. They didn't whine, bitch and blame the government for the broken levees. They did what responsible people

do in a crisis.

The actions of the people in the flooded areas of Iowa and other parts of the mid-west make the actions of the people of New Orleans look even worse.

HOORAY- NEW SCHEDULE IS AWESOME!!

A BEE

SOME BLUE

A RAGGEDY OLD SHOE

AND A "SON"-RISE JUST FOR YOU!

I'M OFF THE ORDERING AND WEEKEND SHIFTS! Praise the Lord. My new schedule is the best I've had in all the years I've been there. Every other week I get a 4 day weekend, I never work more than two 12's in a row, and it is going to be awesome!. Thank you Lord!

This is just the best news ever. But I'm not excited, nope not in the least. I'm cool calm and collected.

Whooooooooo Hooooooooo!

Yes! Hope to have some neat stuff coming up in blogdom so keep on checking in. I actually was averaging about 40 a day and then it really dropped off, so Thanks to all of you who swing by. I really appreciate each and every one of you!

Hey guys I hit 10K. I think it was Seaspray, or someone from her site! What a 1/4 milestone! I can die in peace now. I really don't know what the stat counters show you, as I just have a terrific time laughing, sharing and cutting up with you guys. This was just going to be my on-line journal, but some of it, well- it's not so much too private- it just wouldn't make any sense to anyone but me-- with the jots and titties--(sorry) tittles that I would write down. I will however take the time to go back and reread every devotional for the past year (or at least 6 months), and see what was happening 3-5, even 10 years ago to the day, and add that to where I am now. It really is an awesome road map. I have that much written in notebooks and my Oswald Chambers Devotional, and it got so messy, I thought I would do it on-line. I probably should just have a private personal one for just my notes.

If you have never kept a journal, (and it doesn't have to be spiritual), it's pretty neat to look back and see where you've been, come from and hopefully, where you are heading! It'll be kinda neat reading it in the Nursing Home,with drool proof pages. Like a big ass Dr. Suess book.

John used to journal
john used to rant,
john loved a great cartoon,
john just shit his pants.
Horton heard it plop,
no- no, more like a flop,
a man in white is pissed,
he's runing with a mop.
he's running in the sunshine,
now he's in the shade,
look, there's ol' Hammer,
pulling pins on ass grenades!

THE GARDEN OF LIFE---DIG IT!

Come to the garden alone,
While the dew is still on the roses....

FOR THE GARDEN OF YOUR DAILY LIVING,

PLANT THREE ROWS OF PEAS:

1. Peace of mind
2. Peace of heart
3. Peace of soul


PLANT FOUR ROWS OF SQUASH:

1. Squash gossip
2. Squash indifference
3. Squash grumbling
4. Squash selfishness


PLANT FIVE ROWS OF LETTUCE:

1. Lettuce be faithful
2. Lettuce be kind
3. Lettuce be patient
4. Lettuce really love one another
5. Lettuce PRAY!


NO GARDEN IS WITHOUT TURNIPS:

1. Turnip for meetings
2. Turnip for service
3. Turnip to help one another


TO CONCLUDE OUR GARDEN WE MUST HAVE THYME:

1. Thyme for each other
2. Thyme for family
3. Thyme for friends
4. Thyme for GOD!


WATER FREELY WITH PATIENCE AND CULTIVATE WITH LOVE. THERE IS MUCH FRUIT IN YOUR GARDEN BECAUSE YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW."TILL"- THE END OF TIME ON EARTH!

BACK ON TRACK

CAT BURGLER


I'm finding that the more I think I know and understand about the very basics of listening to and obeying God, the LESS I KNOW! I have gone back and forth with school, clinical's, starting a new position at work, etc. I roll with the punches and say yes to all schedule changes, even to the detriment of my wife's and mines social life-HA! No more. I want , asked for and GOT my old 3 -12's back. I'm not sure what days yet, but this new thing we tried about killed me. Literally! I started having slight chest pain again and a lot of stress, and no sleep- about 2-3 hours a night! So after only 3 weeks and I said enough!!! I'm still going from clinical to management-just not this particular route this fast!

The latest is I was cut from 12 hr shifts to 3 -8 hour shifts and being able to work the other 12 in any time I wanted to help me physically. Thinking this would alleviate some of the 12-14 hour shifts the 12's turn into. A dream schedule right? NOT. Ordering the supplies and putting them up for the entire Urgent Scare about killed me. There was no structure at all and I need that, especially at work! I was working harder and longer with the new and improved schedule. It was two full pallets of boxes every week to be brought around and put up, not to mention the linen carts, which initially was my poor man's stress test that sent me for my bypass.

I just can't physically do it, and then work another 8 to 10 hours after that doing patient care. My first love and my passion is suffering- that's not my first love and passion- LOL- Patient care is-=- duh?. So I talked to my boss about it and was very worried about letting him down. I needn't have been been. He was so gracious and so nice and said no problem, we said we would give it a try and if it didn't work we could change back. So I'm going to be going back to my 3 twelves as a Tech and this will take a lot of the burden off of me while I'm doing the online classes. I still have 2 A's so far again this block! Yeah!

I know I've said that I believe nothing happens by chance and everything is by divine design and I still believe that. There is a path between His perfect will and His permissive will, and the permissive path due due to our choices as free will agents is very wide and general. I've been trying to paint Him into my box- something I try so very hard not to do! But that is usually your Achilles heel and where Satan strikes first, to try to get you discouraged. Well it won't work. Even with a 5 year old fridge starting to not cool- I'm not going to get down. We've cleaned the back and all the dust, it just seems like there's not enough air blowing in the refrigerator part and it's about 50 degrees in there.

I'll trouble shoot a little more and then call someone. Boy I hate mechanical breakdowns on cars and TV's and appliances. I can fix almost anything else. Now I know what God means when he says "Don't say tomorrow I'm going to do this or that, or next year I will be doing this or that. Just sit back and allow each day to come and wash over you one by one and do absolutely the best you can with the circumstances and people He puts in front of you that day. We are responsible for only the very minute we live in!

I'm going to take some pressure off of myself and get back to blogging a little more, doing my schoolwork and going to work and coming home tired. I think that will make me feel successful in my own eyes, and I know that's all my beautiful wife wants out of me. Just to be happy with what we have.

Well I guess I'll turn in now and see what tomorrow brings. We had some kick butt lightening and 1" of rain here today but we are still 9 inches in deficit!

See you all soon,

PS: All my wife and I want out of life is a little Pontoon boat and a place to tie it up and launch it so we won't have to trailer it. We will sleep on air mattresses and camp on the Islands in Lake Murray and Striper Fish. Put a little Hibachi grill on the front with a nice top and side flaps for rainy nights, the stars and the water lapping against the side of the boat with a slight breeze blowing, and a cool Gin and Tonic for me and a Margarita for her......mmmmm....mmmmmm. We don't want a big mortgage nor a big house payment. We have very basic simple needs. So if anyone wants to send us a Pontoon boat, I'll take it. Or the cash for a new one we can keep up, and a little slip to keep er tied up at so we don't have to trailer it.

J

I'll keep dreaming..it's a wonderful, beautiful dream..something to reach for and set your sights on! And oh, so sweet when you achieve it.!

OUR FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT

Here is the Man that should be our first black president****
We should have a nationwide push to write him in for our next president *****

ACCORDING TO BILL

'They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English. I can't even talk the way these people talk:
Why you ain't,
Where you is,
What he drive,
Where he stay,
Where he work,
Who you be...

And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk.

And then I heard the father talk.

Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth.

In fact you will never get any kind of job making a decent living. People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education, and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around.

The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal.

These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids. $500 sneakers for what??

And they won't spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics. I am talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit.
Where were you when he was 2??
Where were you when he was 12??
Where were you when he was 18 and how come you didn't know that he had a pistol??
And where is the father?? Or who is his father?

People putting their clothes on backward: Isn't that a sign of something gone wrong?
People with their hats on backward, pants down around the crack, isn't that a sign of something?

Or are you waiting for Jesus to pull his pants up?

Isn't it a sign of something when she has her dress all the way up and got all type of needles [piercing] going through her body? What part of Africa did this come from??

We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans; they don't know a thing about Africa .

With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap, and all of them are in jail.

Brown or black versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem. We have got to take the neighborhood back.

People used to be ashamed. Today a woman has eight children with eight different 'husbands' -- or men or whatever you call them now.
We have millionaire football players who cannot read.

We have million-dollar basketball players who can't write two paragraphs. We, as black folks have to do a better job. Someone working at Wal-Mart with seven kids, you are hurting us.

We have to start holding each other to a higher standard.

We cannot blame the white people any longer.'


Dr.. William Henry 'Bill' Cosby, Jr., Ed.D.



WAY TO GO, BILL !!

It's NOT about color..
It's about behavior!!!


PASS THIS ON AMERICA !!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lets get this out to as many Americans as we can we are in trouble if we don't....



Faith does not get you around trouble, it gets you through it"


"A friend is someone who reaches for your hand, and touches your heart."

"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear & the blind can
read."...Mark Twain

Encourage one another daily...so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness. Hebrews 3:13

"A TROJAN A DAY..."

WATERING A HUMMINGBIRD FEEDER.....DON'T ASK!

THINKING YOU ARE WATERING THE YARD WHEN YOU ARE ACTUALLY SPRAYING "ROUND-UP"...DON'T ASK."

THE RESULTS- "ROUND-UP" IS A PHENOMINAL PRODCT. (DIDN'T REALLY HAPPEN, BUT A FUNNY THOUGHT).

The Road not Taken

Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
and sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
and looked down one as far as I could
to where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
and having perhaps the better claim
because it was grassy and wanted wear;
though as for that, the passing there
had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
in leaves no feet had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less travelled by,
and that has made all the difference

MY ALL TIME FAVORITE POEM. IF FACED WITH A DECISION TODAY OF THIS SORT---

TAKE THE ONE LESS TRAVELED BY..AND SEE WHERE IT LEADS!

AND FINALLY TO THE "TROJAN" AS PROMISED.......


Miss Beatrice, the church organist, was in her eighties and
had never been married.
She was admired for her sweetness and kindness to all.
One afternoon the pastor came to call on her and she showed
him into her quaint sitting room.
She invited him to have a seat while she prepared tea.
As he sat facing her old Hammond organ, the young minister
noticed a
CUT -glass bowl sitting on top of it.
The bowl was filled with water, and in the water floated, of
all things, a condom!

When she returned with tea and scones, they began to chat.

The pastor tried to stifle his curiosity about the bowl of
water and its strange floater, but soon it got the better of him and he
could no longer resist.
"Miss Beatrice", he said, "I wonder if you would tell me about
this?" pointing to the bowl.
"Oh, yes," she replied, "Isn't it wonderful? I was walking
through the Park a few months ago and I found this little package on the
ground.
The directions said to place it on the organ, keep it wet and
that it would prevent the spread of disease.

Do you know I haven't had the flu all winter."

DAMN I AM TIRED AND MY BACK HURTS!

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HA HA!! GOTCHA! OHHHHH I WISH I COULD HAVE SEEN YOUR FACE. "THIS" IS VICTORIA'S' SECRET!!!!!!!! AHHHH, I CRACK MYSELF UP.

4:15 am. Early, or late depending. We saw 136 patients at Urgent Scare today. 5 Transfers out to main Hospitals, one Pulmonary emboli, 1 MI, and 3 Chest pain admits. And those were just a few of the sick ones. My butt is whipped. Mentally and physically. I made some good decisions, I made some people who were feeling terrible laugh out loud. They felt better, if only for a minute. Healing is awesome.

My upper back is burning so badly I can't believe I'm still at this keyboard typing. I'm just so wound up. This means I'll have wasted most of tomorrow which is my day off. I'll get to sleep around 5:30 or 6:00, just as the sun comes up ,and sleep until 1 or 2 o'clock. I'll wake up with intense pain in my right shoulder from an old football injury, pain in my right knee form standing 4 hours in one spot taking BP's, Temps, and listening to stories of wrecks, spills, falls, total Bullshit, and more. Damn, Pink Floyd and Bob Seegar sound good! I have a mix play list blasting and the music is really helping. What great medicine.

Please understand I'm not complaining about all of this. This is life and life is good. These are just the aches and pains of a life well lived, and one well worth living. I'm making progress in school. I make a difference in people's lives. Mostly for the positive. I have a wife who loves me, and I love her back. I Love her front too! God is good.

Wonder where we will all end up? I hope there is a big Bloggers' meeting in one corner of heaven, so we can all meet in Spirit, with perfect non-hurting Glorified bodies. Unfettered by time and space, free to travel anywhere at the blink of an eye. Sorry- old POT flashback! Ok, I'm back now. Back is still hurting, it quit for a minute while I was writing, but now it is pushing it's way back to front and center again. So, I guess I'll say goodnight, get my bony Butt up, and go take an 800 mgm Motrin, eat some Oreo's and Milk; did I ever mention I had Bypass surgery-LOL and go to bed, or not!

It will feel so good when it stops hurting. Then I'll wake up and stretch, creak, pop, snap, ( sound like a bowl of cereal don't I?), and after about 30 minutes I'll feel FANTASTIC! I really will. For all the little aches and pains, after a life of Football, Sports, jumping off roofs, etc, my body is doing remarkably well at 54. I know it doesn't sound like it, but it really is. I'm working 3, 14-16 hr shifts and putting in 2 hours every night in my online classes, so I think that's OK for an old fart!

I have a lot to be thankful for- and if you are reading this- You are part of it.

So, I'd just like to say - THANKS! Thanks for caring enough to stop by this little corner of the universe when you could be anywhere else you choose! Really, Thanks!

Love to all,

John
ps: 100.00 BUCKS SAYS HAMMER SCROLLED BACK UP TO THE PIC!!!! LOL!
ANOTHER 100.00 SAYS SCARLET IS SKETCHING IT! DANG, I DO CRACK MYSELF UP.
I NEED SOME OREO'S!

LAUGH, LAUGH & LAUGH SOME MORE!!!!!

TIME TO CHANGE THE WINDOW?




Just before the funeral services, the undertaker came up to the very elderly widow and asked,
"How old was your husband?" "98," she replied.
"Two years older than me"
"So you're 96," the undertaker commented.
She responded, "Hardly worth going home, is it?

Reporters interviewing a 104-year-old woman:
"And what do you think is the best thing
About being 104?" the reporter asked.
She simply replied, "No peer pressure."

The nice thing about being senile is
You can hide your own Easter eggs.

I've sure gotten old!
I've had two bypass surgeries, a hip replacement,
New knees, fought prostate cancer and diabetes
I'm half blind,
Can't hear anything quieter than a jet engine,
Take 40 different medications that
Make me dizzy, winded, and subject to blackouts.
Have bouts with dementia.
Have poor circulation;
Hardly feel my hands and feet anymore.
Can't remember if I'm 85 or 92.
Have lost all my friends. But, thank God,
I still have my driver's license.

I feel like my body has gotten totally out of shape,
So I got my doctor's permission to
Join a fitness club and start exercising.
I decided to take an aerobics class for seniors.
I bent, twisted, gyrated, jumped up and down, and perspired for an hour. But,
By the time I got my leotards on,
The class was over.

An elderly woman decided to prepare her will and
Told her preacher she had two final requests.
First, she wanted to be cremated, and second,
She wanted her ashes scattered over Wal-Mart.
"Wal-Mart?" the preacher exclaimed.
"Why Wal-Mart?"
"Then I'll be sure my daughters visit me twice a week"

My memory's not as sharp as it used to be.
Also, my memory's not as sharp as it used to be.

Know how to prevent sagging?
Just eat till the wrinkles fill out.

It's scary when you start making the same noises
As your coffee maker.

These days about half the stuff
In my shopping cart says,
"For fast relief."

THE SENILITY PRAYER :
Grant me the senility to forget the people
I never liked anyway,
The good fortune to run into the ones I do, and
The eyesight to tell the difference.

Now, I think you're supposed to share this with 5 or 6, maybe 10 others. Oh heck, give it to a bunch of your friends if you can remember who they are!

Always Remember This:
You don't stop laughing because you grow old,
You grow old because you stop laughing.