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tyronebutler8332
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Access A Ride rip off
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John, you should be honored for pointing out abuses in this otherwise worthy Access a Ride program. Those who sent you messages condemning you are too stupid to realize that scammers like Sgt. Lawin are taking money out of their pockets. Unless they are so wealthy that they don't care. I guess even auxiliary police have a blue wall of silence when one of their own may be a perp.
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DIVORCE AGREEMENT
- From: Zcats
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American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists et al:
We have stuck together since the late 1950's, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce.... I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has run its course.
Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right so let's just end it on friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way.Here is a model separation agreement:
Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by landmass each taking a portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy! Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides have such distinct and disparate tastes.
We don't like redistributive taxes so you can keep them. You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU. Since you hate guns and war, we'll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA and the military.
You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell (You are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all three of them).We'll keep the capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies,Wal-Mart, and Wall Street. You can have your beloved homeless, homeboys, hippies and illegal aliens. We'll keep the hot
Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEO's and rednecks. We'll keep the Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood ..You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we'll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us.. You can have the peaceniks and war protesters. When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we'll help provide them security.
We'll keep our Judeo-Christian values.. You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism and Shirley McClain. You can also have the U.N... but we will no longer be paying the bill.
We'll keep the SUVs, pickup trucks and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Subaru station wagon you can find.
You can give everyone healthcare if you can find any practicing doctors. We'll continue to believe healthcare is a luxury and not a
right. We'll keep The Battle Hymn of the Republic and the National Anthem. I'm sure you'll be happy to substitute Imagine, I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing, Kum Ba Ya or We Are the World.We'll practice trickle down economics and you can give trickle up poverty your best shot. Since it often so offends you, we'll keep our history, our name, our flag, and "In God We Trust".
Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along to other like minded liberal and conservative patriots and if you do not agree, just hit delete. In the spirit of friendly parting, I'll bet you which one of us will need whose help in 15 years.
Sincerely,
John J. Wall
Law Student and an AmericanP.S. Also, please take Ted Turner, Sean Penn, Martin Sheen, Barbara Streisand, &
Jane Fonda with you. - Blog post
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Transit Authority double stand
- From: NOBULLONE
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To Mr Q. First off I will say that if it wasn't for Mike Quill and the Union, Transit managers would not be making the salary that they enjoy. Top level managers admitted this at the re-naming of the Westside depot for Mike Quill. You say that the 20 min lunch is an old problem...yes old but still an issue. Let's tell the truth Mr Q., the transit uses the carrot and stick approach for lunch. Drive faster than you are suppose to and get your whole lunch hour. Drive like they tell you in the school room or even at a normal pace and on a lot of runs you lose your lunch and they punish you with a 20 min lunch. Big deal they pay you a little more...this is not healthy for the driver or the public. You say I " dog it" typical road mgr talk. Why dont you go down to the B-74 and see the 3 min recovery time and the insane schedules. See how dispatchers pull buses off the B-64 just to quell a riot when the crowd builds at Stillwell. You are clueless. You say taking extra list drivers and putting them on the shuttles saves money. Well time and time again they have done this and caught themselves short at the depot...someone calls in sick and guess what.....no extra list drivers around and the "soap' sign goes up. The arbiter ruled for Queens ATU dispatchers that shuttle work is overtime, past practice....you change things at the table. By the way I was a wall street worker...and if a mgr like Kingsley Douglass who ran a bus into a wall and then tried to cover up the accident did that in pvt industry he would be fired...but no the TA gave him a promotion.Mr Q have you seen the schedules lately....how about a 14 hour spread for 8 or 9 hours pay...But we have hope a tough new union president on Jan 1st...watch out!!!!
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The Pelosi Bill Was Rammed Thr
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The Pelosi Bill Was Rammed Through on Saturday, But Sunday’s Coming
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We’ve got to hold on to hope, and we’ve got to fight hard because Congressional action tonight just put America on a path toward an unrecognizable country.The same government leaders that got us into the mortgage business and the car business are now getting us into the health care business.
Despite Americans’ decisive message last Tuesday that they reject the troubling path this country has been taking, Speaker Pelosi has broken her own promises of transparency to ram a health “care” bill through the House of Representatives just before midnight. Why did she push the 2,000 page bill this weekend? Was she perhaps afraid to give her peers and the constituents for whom she works the chance to actually read this monstrous bill carefully, if at all? Was she concerned that Americans might really digest the details of a bill that the Wall Street Journal has called “the worst piece of post-New Deal legislation ever introduced”?
This out-of-control bureaucratic mess will be disastrous for our economy, our small businesses, and our personal liberty. It will slam businesses at a time when we are at double-digit unemployment rates – the highest we’ve seen in a quarter of a century. This massive new bureaucracy will cost us and our children money we don’t have. It will rob Americans of more of our freedom and further hamper the free market.
Make no mistake: we’re on course to have government commandeer one-sixth of our economy. The people who gave us Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac now want to run our health care. Think about that.
All of us who value the sanctity of life are grateful for the success of the pro-life majority in the House this evening in its battle against federal funding of abortion in this bill, but it’s ironic because we were promised that abortion wasn’t covered in the bill to begin with. Our healthy distrust of these government leaders made us look deeper into the bill because unfortunately we knew better than to trust what they were saying. The victory tonight to amend the bill and eliminate that federal funding for abortion was great – because abortion is not health care. Now we can only hope that Rep. Stupak’s amendment will hold in the final bill, though the Democratic leadership has already refused to promise that it won’t be scrapped later.
We had been told there were no “death panels” in the bill either. But look closely at the provision mandating bureaucratic panels that will be calling the shots regarding who will receive government health care.
Look closely at provisions addressing illegal aliens’ health care coverage too.
Those of us who love freedom and believe in open and transparent government can only be dismayed by midnight action on a Saturday. Speaker Pelosi’s promise that Americans would have 72 hours to read the final bill before the vote was just another one of the D.C. establishment’s too-common political ploys. It’s broken promises like this that turn people off to politics and leave them disillusioned about the future of their country.
But despite this late-night maneuvering, many of us were paying close attention tonight. We’ll keep paying close attention. We need to let our legislators in Washington know that they still represent us, and that the majority of Americans are not in favor of the “reform” they are pushing. After all, this is still a country “of the people, by the people, and for the people.” We will make our voices heard. It’s on to the Senate now. Our legislators can listen now, or they can hear us in 2010. It’s their choice.
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New Controversial Jeremiah Wri
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Controversial New Video of Obama’s Pastor
AIM Column | By Cliff Kincaid | November 1, 2009
A new video of Jeremiah Wright has surfaced, showing Barack Obama's pastor of 20 years praising Marxism and discussing his ties to communists in El Salvador and Nicaragua and the Libyan government. Equally important, Wright is being introduced in the video by Robert W. McChesney, co-founder of Free Press, an organization which has come under scrutiny for its links to the Obama Administration and dedication to the transformation and control of the private media in the U.S.
In an article in the socialist Monthly Review, "Journalism, Democracy, and Class Struggle," McChesney declared, "Our job is to make media reform part of our broader struggle for democracy, social justice, and, dare we say it, socialism."
In the video, which captures Wright's appearance at a September 17, 2009, anniversary celebration of Monthly Review, Wright said that while the "corporate media" provide a "binary lens" of the world, in such terms as "communist versus Christian," Monthly Review offers what it calls "no-nonsense Marxism."
He added: "You dispel all the negative images we have been programmed to conjure up with just the mention of that word socialism or Marxism."
He called America "land of the greed and home of the slave."
During the 2008 presidential campaign, as Obama was trying to distance himself from figures such as Wright and Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers, Wright gave a speech at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. and repeated a discredited Soviet propaganda claim that the U.S. Government had manufactured the AIDS virus to kill black people.
The McChesney introduction of Wright provides more insight into the political network, based largely in Chicago, that launched Obama's political career and still influences him.
A professor at the University of Illinois, where Bill Ayers is also employed, McChesney was an editor of Monthly Review but now serves as a contributor to the publication and a director of the Monthly Review Foundation.
Fox News' Glenn Beck, who has focused critical public attention on McChesney's influence in the "media reform" movement and on the Obama Administration, has noted that McChesney co-authored another piece for Monthly Review, "A New New Deal Under Obama?," in which he said, "In the end, there is no real answer but to remove brick by brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles."
Ironically, McChesney's Free Press organization has received at least $1 million from the Open Society Institute of billionaire George Soros, a mega-capitalist who seems to have dedicated his life to overturning the system that made him wealthy.
At the 2007 Free Press "National Conference for Media Reform," Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) launched a vicious attack on conservative talk radio, saying that the survival of America was itself at stake because of "neo-fascist" and "neo-con" talk-show hosts led by Rush Limbaugh.
Accuracy in Media's coverage of various Free Press conferences led us to publish the book The Death of Talk Radio?, recognizing the dangers to a truly free press that were being assembled by forces on the political left. But rather than pursue the destruction of conservative media through such measures as the Fairness Doctrine, it appears that "diversity" in media, "localism," and "Internet neutrality" are becoming the main methods for media manipulation and control.
Dropping any pretense of objectivity and non-partisanship, the 2008 "National Conference for Media Reform" turned into a Barack Obama-for-President rally, as left-wing media figure Arianna Huffington denounced John McCain as a "Trojan horse for the right" who had "sold his soul" to become president. Several speakers, including Federal Communications Commissioner Michael Copps, used the Obama campaign slogan, "Yes, we can," as they urged the thousands of "progressives" in the audience to bring "change" to Washington, D.C.
The change can now be seen in the main agency, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), with jurisdiction over the media as well as the Internet. A major figure in Free Press conferences, Mark Lloyd, is now the Associate General Counsel and Chief Diversity Officer at the FCC. But he has gotten critical attention from Glenn Beck and others for praising the Marxist revolution in Venezuela, where the regime has attempted to control or even eliminate private media sources. Lloyd also has defended Paul Robeson, the famous singer and actor who tried to conceal his involvement in Communist Party activities from congressional investigators.
A former Free Press official, Jen Howard, is now the press secretary for the Federal Communications Commission.
As for Wright, he received some unwanted attention for saying earlier this year that he blamed "them Jews" for keeping him away from President Obama.
At the Monthly Review celebration, however, he went into more detail about his own personal and political philosophy. He said that "My work with liberation theology, with Latin American theologians, with the Black Theology Project and with the Cuban Council of Churches taught me 30 years ago the importance of Marx and the Marxist analysis of the social realities of the vulnerable and the oppressed who were trying desperately to break free of the political economics undergirded by this country that were choking them and cutting off any hope of a possible future where all of the people would benefit."
He said that his "exposure to the FMLN in El Salvador, the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, and my presence at the 15th Jamahiriya in Libya taught me what I have read in the pages of the Monthly Review which is, as Joshua Stanton says, though we need not always agree with one another we must do the work necessary to at least understand one another."
The FMLN was the armed wing of the communist movement in El Salvador, while the Sandinistas are the communist movement in Nicaragua. The Cuban Council of Churches is controlled by the Castro regime.
Interestingly, Wright used his appearance at the Monthly Review event to quote Frantz Fanon, the revolutionary also cited in Obama's book, Dreams from My Father.
However, his only reference to Obama in the speech came when he complained about Obama going to "beg the big fat cats" on Wall Street to stop irresponsible financial practices.
In a recap of the celebration, the Monthly Review editors declared, "We would like to thank all those who participated in this extraordinary event. Dr. Wright captured the tone of the evening, declaring that: 'Militarism, capitalism and racism, domestic oppression, foreign military aggression, victims of neo-colonialism, victims of community and national racism, and the Cold War days in its infancy to the needless war in Vietnam in its [MR's] second decade, through wars of greed in Afghanistan and Iraq in [its] sixth decade' were all incisively covered by the magazine. He spoke of Monthly Review's indefatigable insistence on the need to put 'people before profits,' and its unflinching criticisms of inequality, injustice, and the realities of capitalism."
It is not clear what kind of personal relationship that McChesney, a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has with Obama. But his influence on the Obama Administration, as reflected in the FCC appointments, seems to be significant.
When he recently staged an on-air fundraising drive for his "Media Matters" radio show, McChesney included John Nichols, a co-founder of Free Press; Ben Scott of Free Press; Norman Solomon of the Institute for Public Accuracy; and Noam Chomsky of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, a Communist Party spin-off group. Nichols was a speaker at a 2002 CCDS conference in San Francisco.
Ben Scott was a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign when he co-authored a piece with McChesney for the Monthly Review on the problems of "capitalist journalism." He and McChesney also co-authored Our Unfree Press: 100 Years of Radical Media Criticism.
Scott would go on to serve as a legislative fellow for then-Representative and open socialist Bernie Sanders and then become the policy director for Free Press.
The contributors to Monthly Review include former Weather Underground terrorist Bernardine Dohrn; Marilyn Buck, another former Weather Underground member; convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal; Bill Fletcher, Jr., a founder of Progressives for Obama; and Chomsky.
In a piece titled, "Homeland Imperialism: Fear and Resistance," Dohrn wrote of the "robust and unified resistance to imperialism" after the terrorist attacks of 9/11.
Fletcher, a former assistant to the President of the AFL-CIO, wondered, "Can U.S. Workers Embrace Anti-Imperialism?"
That particular cause had been led and managed by Van Jones, the "Green Jobs Czar" in the Obama Administration who was ousted after his history of deep involvement in communist and extremist causes threatened to implicate White House official Valerie Jarrett and Obama himself in his recruitment to his White House job.
An Accuracy in Media investigation determined that, like Free Press, Van Jones' career was carefully assisted by a lot of George Soros cash.
New Jeremiah Wright video surfaces!
http://womenstate.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-controversial-wright-video-surfaces.html - Blog post
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People in Jersey wake up!
- From: bella2607
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I am a registered Democrat and I believe it is more important to vote for someone who represents your interest and Corzine has proved that he only represents the intereset of Wall Street.If you want higher txes and high unemployment than Corzine is your guy if not then vote for Christie.Do not vote for Party first vote for who will defend your interests.
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bad for our kids
- From: whisper1
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OBAMA'S NEXT SCHOOL KIDS AGENDA IS THAT ALL WILL BE IN UNIFORMS AS THE ANOINTED
ONE WILL PROVIDE AT TAX PAYERS EXPENSE !!
BOYS WILL HAVE TO WEAR "BROWN SHIRTS"
"BLACK SHORTS OR SLACKS"
GIRLS WILL HAVE TO WEAR "BROWN TOPS"
"BLACK SKIRTS OR SHORTS"
ONE OF HIS CZARS IS WORKING ON THE FASHION DESIGN,IT WILL NOT BE FOUND IN WALL MART OR MACEY'S.
I KID YOU NOT WAIT TILL GLENN BECK GETS ON THIS !!!
I BELIEVE "HITLER "DID THIS FOR THE YOUTH CORPS !!!
BY THE WAY WE NEED TO THANK FOX NEWS & STAFF FOR EXPOSING "VAN JONES"
ALSO LET US NOT FORGET THE PUBLIC SERVICE ON TALK RADIO ,LIMBAUGH, BORTZ,COULTER,
INGRAHM . SPECIAL THANKS TO GLEn - Blog post
- 2 months ago
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A Voice from the Grave
- From: KevinT
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Lets not all get stupid over sentimental BS
Tear er up and get er done right!
I got a message for America and it is a very important one. We all know one of Senator Ted Kennedy’s passions was universal Health care and that is a great and noble passion and dream. But I fear that some in congress will use the senator’s death as an excuse and rallying call to pass this health care bill. This is one of the biggest mistakes we can make if we allow this to happen. We must stay the course and fight against this bill. We must remember that this bill in its current form if passed will do more damage than good. We must understand that this bill in its current form does not reform the health care in a healthy way, it does not fix and solve the root issues and causes of why our health care system is broken. We must also remember and understand how universal or socialized health care has affected the state of Massachusetts, it is a flawed system and Massachusetts must not be used as a model but rather it must be used as an example of why it is bad for the United States. For example Massachusetts has the highest health insurance premiums in the whole country. Massachusetts also is on the verge of bankruptcy much of which is a result of socialized health care, Massachusetts also have the highest percentage of health care fraud and abuse of it’s health care system.
We must not let some silly sentimental feeling of emotionalism over come our intellect and intelligence by passing this health care bill as it stands in its current form as some backward off the wall way of Honoring Senator Ted Kennedy and make no mistake about it. There are those who will use the Senators passing and play on people’s emotions and sense of patriotism to pass this bill. We must not let this happen; What we must do and the best way we can honor Senator Kennedy’s dream and passion of universal health care is to throw the current bill out; Tear it up; feed it to the shredder, and write a bill that will repair and fix our health care system from the inside out, tort reform, stricter severer penalties for abuse and fraud. Practical implementation; of rules, laws and ways that will prevent abuse and fraud. Regulation of insurance costs; and what health care professionals and drug companies can charge for services and drugs. Stricter more severe penalties for ambulance chasing attorneys that feed on bogus law suits and the like.
Lets tear this bill up and get to work on the real problems of the health care. Let’s stop this insanity, stupidity, greed, and sleazy politics that is running amuck with in our government and with in the minds of those who were elected to represent us Americans. Let’s Get to work and take back our Country. Lets let these clowns in office trying push this ambush and death blow on our children and our country know we are the people and we will honor Kennedy’s memory and reform health care the right way and in a fiscally smart and responsible way. That is how we can honor Our senator and his dream and fix our health care system.
Break out the tools America (our Brains) and lets get to work and fix this mess for Ted!
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THE BIG BOSS'S OFFICE!
- From: BIGBADBOB
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A man died and went to heaven. As he stood in front of St. Peter at the
Pearly Gates, he saw a huge wall of clocks behind him.
He asked, "What are those clocks?"
St. Peter answered, "Those are Lie Clocks. Everyone on Earth has a Lie
Clock. Every time you tell a lie, the hands on your clock will move."
"Oh," said the man, "whose clock is that?"
"That's Mother Teresa's. The hands have never moved, indicating that she
Never told a lie."
"Incredible," said the man, "and whose clock is that?"
St. Peter responded, "That's Abraham Lincoln's clock. The hands have
Moved twice, telling us that Abe told only two lies in his life."
"Where's BBB's clock?" asked the man.
"BBB's clock is in the Boss's office. He's using it as a ceiling fan." - Blog post
- 3 months ago
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Baking Biscotti
- From: DanielleDiVecchio
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Starting a biscotti business was not something I seriously thought would be a part of my life's path. But looking back, I don't see how it could have been any different. I've always loved to bake and had my own cheesecake business right after college. Later, I worked for a local gourmet food store in Connecticut where I baked the morning scones, muffins, croissants and cookies soon after.
My paternal grandmother first showed me how to make biscotti one summer when I was about 14 and visiting her in Chicago – it was hot and her kitchen had no air conditioning. But she was going to show me how to make her beloved biscotti and I would have stood in the rain to learn how she did it. She wasn't one to measure or repeat herself, so I kept my questions limited as I watched dutifully and carefully. She was a good teacher and I immediately wrote down the recipe after we put the first batch in the oven so that I wouldn't forget. I've always found baking rewarding, and, like acting, you either get immediate gratification or instant disapproval when presenting your creation to that hungry audience.
Since then, I have baked several variations on her theme over the years, and biscotti quickly became my go-to gift for friends, family and my colleagues in the entertainment business.
One year, I booked an acting job only to be told a week later that it wasn't going to happen; I was in a bit of a quandary as to how to pay the rent. I'd always worked in corporate America between jobs, but really wanted to stay focused on the acting thing and maintain a certain level of creativity – something I just couldn't find at one of Manhattan's many Wall Street firms. So, I typed up an order form, offering far too many varieties of biscotti (read Malcom Gladwell's The Tipping Point for some marketing pointers!), I had a good friend proof it, signed up for a free fax number and Voila! I emailed it to all 300 people in my address book and went out for a walk. When I got back, over 20 people had placed orders and I had several messages on my answering machine. I was in business!
It was thrilling and quite exhilarating to receive the orders and even more so to receive the money to fulfill them – but then came the hard part. Mind you, I was doing this all by myself. From taking the orders, baking the biscotti, packaging them, designing the labels, shipping and (in those first couple of holiday seasons) making deliveries! Oh, and have I mentioned that this was all done out of my three room walk-up in bustling Hell's Kitchen?
But it was and has been sooo worth it. (But the journey has been so worthwhile?) I have learned so much in the process, and I am still learning. The enthusiasm and interest in the product has kept me going. I LOVE baking biscotti and enjoy creating different varieties and having "tastings" for friends. Over the years my friends and family have encouraged me to take the business to the "next level" although I still don't know what that means (except that I now have a lawyer, accountant and product liability insurance). The product is amazing and I love what I'm doing so this "next level" has been exciting and challenging.
My friends in the entertainment community have been tremendously supportive and the many contributions from talented friends who help me with all of this – from public relations to graphic artists to food consultants – have been awe inspiring. Through friends and friends of friends, I've been able to create a fabulous website with gorgeous pictures taken by my neighbor and friend, the photo journalist Ron Haviv; I've had new label designs created by a top graphic artist who was thrilled to work on a new project that excited him; I've gleaned priceless food business back story and invaluable advice from a successful business woman who had her own rugelach company for over 17 years… well, it goes on and on.
That first year, a director friend of mine came to pick up his "biscuits" (as he calls them) – I was exhausted, covered in cocoa powder and operating on less than three hours of sleep per night for about a week. He was thrilled with the biscotti and said, "These are your ticket, sweetheart! They really are!" giving me what he thought was an encouraging and wonderful show of support. I broke down and cried, saying, between sobs, "But I want acting to be my ticket!" Well, many years later, he is still ordering my biscotti with the same enthusiasm he had that first year and I have figured out that acting and baking biscotti can both be my ticket.
And I couldn't be happier and more grateful that I've figured that out.
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You can post questions for me about my biscotti or about starting your own business. I will try to respond to as many as possible. - Blog post
- 4 months ago
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SOME FRIEND1....JEEZ!!!
- From: BIGBADBOB
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THIS WAS SENT TO ME BY MY FRIEND KAREN. Think she's tryin' to tell me something? "SOME FRIEND!!"
Thought ya might enjoy this....I got a chuckle outta it
Drafting guys over 60----this is funny & obviously written by a Former Soldier..but what a novel idea!
New Direction for any war: Send Service Vets over 60!
I am over 60 and the Armed Forces think I'm too old to track down terrorists. You can't be older than 42 to join the military. They've got the whole thing ass-backwards. Instead of sending 18-year olds off to fight, they ought to take us old guys. You shouldn't be able to join a military unit until you're at least 35.
For starters: Researchers say 18-year-olds think about sex every 10 seconds. Old guys only think about sex a couple of times a day, leaving us more than 28,000 additional seconds per day to concentrate on the enemy.
Young guys haven't lived long enough to be cranky, and a cranky soldier is a dangerous soldier. 'My back hurts! I can't sleep, I'm tired and hungry.' We are impatient and maybe letting us kill some asshole that desperately deserves it will make us feel better and shut us up for a while.
An 18-year-old doesn't even like to get up before 10 a.m. Old guys always get up early to pee so what the hell. Besides, like I said, 'I'm tired and can't sleep and since I'm already up, I may as well be up killing some fanatical s-of-a-b....
If captured we couldn't spill the beans because we'd forget where we put them. In fact, name, rank, and serial number would be a real brain-teaser.
Boot camp would be easier for old guys. We're used to getting screamed and yelled at and we're used to soft food. We've also developed an appreciation for guns. We've been using them for years as an excuse to get out of the house, away from the screaming and yelling.
They could lighten up on the obstacle course however. I've been in combat and didn't see a single 20-foot wall with rope hanging over the side, nor did I ever do any pushups after completing basic training.
Actually, the running part is kind of a waste of energy, too. I've never seen anyone outrun a bullet..
An 18-year-old has the whole world ahead of him. He's still learning to shave, to start up a conversation with a pretty girl. He still hasn't figured out that a baseball cap has a brim to shade his eyes, not the back of his head.
These are all great reasons to keep our kids at home to learn a little more about life before sending them off into harm's way.
Let us old guys track down those dirty rotten coward terrorists. The last thing an enemy would want to see is a couple of million pissed off old farts with attitudes and automatic weapons who know that their best years are already behind them.
***How about recruiting Women over 50 ...with PMS !!! You think Men have attitudes !!! Ohhhhhhhhhhhh my God!!!
Share this with your senior friends. It's purposely in big type so they can read it. - Blog post
- 4 months ago
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9-12 PROJECT &
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9-12 PROJECT & "WE SOROUND THEM" By Glenn Beck
Don't forget to check out Glenn's 'WE SURROUND THEM" Link at the bottom...If you need to hang out and gather an meet positive conservatives and independent thinkers an who care about this country and want to take action to stop the road we are heading down to create a NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST PARTY & Country....
Glenn Beck: Twelve Values
February 12, 2009 - 12:35 ET
12 Values
- Honesty
- Reverence
- Hope
- Thrift
- Humility
- Charity
- Sincerity
- Moderation
- Hard Work
- Courage
- Personal Responsibility
- Friendship
See our complete 9 Principles We Surround Them page...
GLENN: But there's more because the secret is really truly in We the People.
Nobody is really talking about solutions. They are talking about Band-Aids. Let me just share with you just an analogy here with the Titanic. The Titanic is going down. Who cares about the ship. It's the people on board because the people can go and build another ship and it can be better and stronger and take the things that we learned from this ship, which we did, and build another better one. It's the people on board, not the ship. And the captain is woken up from a dead sleep and they say, "Captain, captain, we hit an iceberg." Now, somebody went down to look at the hole. They knew what it was and they came back up. And the captain said, "Can we seal it off." "No, captain, this is really bad." So what should the captain do? The captain immediately should say, "Head for the lifeboats."
The second thing you should do is basically what he has done. "Would you guys just play some music here so people don't freak out?" But he shouldn't say that until he said, "Can we patch the hole." "No, captain, we can't." "Is there anything we can do to slow the sinking down?" "Well, we could try this and this and this." "Good, try it. Slow it down." "But captain, you know it's going to sink anyway?" "Yes, I do. Slow it down." Why would the captain want to do that? Because he wants more people in the lifeboat because he knows it's not the ship. It's the people. Slow the sinking down.
I contend, and I have this from good authority that that is exactly what the idea was back in November. The ship is sinking. Slow it down. Get more people into the lifeboats. But people are in denial. This ship, they are the people that are still sitting in the bar at the Titanic. It's a Titanic! It's unsinkable! It will never sink. Those are the people -- don't be one of those people. Too many Americans are still sitting in that bar. Too many Americans are saying, "Oh, it's the Titanic, I'm not getting out -- it's cold outside. It's not going to sink. Until it's too late and then they're trapped. The problem is the captain, nobody believes the captain. They believe the captain has ulterior motives because the captain has been untrustworthy. And it's not Obama. It's Obama and it's been Bush and it's been the Treasury, the last one, this one, the Fed, the congress. Nobody told us the truth. So we don't trust any of the crew members. So you've got to look for somebody in your life that you do trust and everybody's looking for somebody they trust. Be that person. The ship is sinking. Get people into a lifeboat. The nine principles are the first step, but in the next few minutes I'm going to lay out the second step and the third. Here's the second step. The nine principles can't stand by their own. Now, I have done -- somebody called me and asked me, "Glenn, where did you get the nine principles." They really came from me of just digesting the founding fathers. I went to religious text, I went to different faiths to look at what their theology taught, I read the words of the founding fathers, the 5,000 Year Leap, the Boy Scout handbook. I took all of this stuff and then I just sat with it for a while and I came up with the nine principles. But I also came up with values. Because if the point is We the People, if that's how this whole system was designed and if the ship is going down and it's not the ship, it's the people, if you really, truly believe in the people, well, then power to the people works both ways. The people also are responsible for the downfall. The people, not just the Fed, not just those greedy Wall Streeters, not just the heads of banks, not just the people in congress but each of us, to varying degrees each of us. Believe me, I don't know if you've been a long-term listener of this program but hopefully you've heard a change in my voice in the last six months and the last year and the last two years and anybody who's been listening since I started doing talk radio in 2000. There's a difference in my voice. Hopefully a little bit more responsible. I still am a stupid, you know, self-educated guy from time to time. I still say stupid things that I regret. I still say things in comedy that people take out of context, but I am not the guy who says the donkeys are bad and the elephants are good. I will say, "Here's a good donkey, here's a good elephant, here's a bad elephant, here's a bad donkey."
More importantly, it's not about the individuals, it's about the direction that they're taking us and the direction that we set for ourselves, and we can correct all of these problems if we have the nine principles and then the twelve values.
So here are the twelve values, and we'll go over these a little bit at a time, but the twelve values are honesty. The problem is we don't have any trust for one another anymore. Bernie Madoff, the banks, the politics, there's no honesty. We must mean what we say and say what we mean. As individuals, never let anyone -- make a vow today. You will never let anyone doubt your word. Believe me, it is going to take you a very long time to change that. I have been trying since 1996 and people still doubt my word from time to time if they don't know me. That's okay. I understand that. Mean what you say and say what you mean.
Reverence. Reverence. Why reverence? The lack of reverence causes a brashness, a coarseness, a noise in our society. Reverence has -- a lack of reverence has us watching the cakes and the circuses. Quick! Reverence to me means quiet, reflective, be still, listen, ponder. In our society we have not given any time to something that's extraordinarily important. Reverence. Silence. Ponder.
Hope. A lot of people say that I don't have a lot of hope. I do. The opposite of hope is death, destruction, despair, but hope is just a belief in the potential, just a belief in America's promise. But you have to know what that promise is. You have to know what America is. That goes back to the nine values -- the nine principles. Get the nine principles. You know who you are, you know what America. That's where your hope comes from. There will be a brighter tomorrow. It's what helps a single mom get up every day: Hope.
Thrift. We've become a disposable society, everything. How many times do your kids just have a toy and drop it? How many times have your kids said this to you? My kids have: Oh, well, I broke it; we'll get another one. I started saying about a year ago, "No, we won't. We'll fix it and if it can't be fixed, then we don't have another one." "What?" If we just understood thrift and life isn't disposable, how would we change our policies on life? How would we change our policies on the Earth? These are things that we could all agree on. Nobody wants the Earth to die. Nobody wants the Earth to be 1,000 degrees. Nobody wants that. Just thrift. Just understand that nothing is disposable, from people to things to the planet to the individual.
Humility. Opposite is an empire building, empire builder: "We're the empire! We're America!" Humility. It's the opposite of what we've learned from Wall Street. It's the opposite of what we have from Paris Hilton and the Prada purses, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd. A humble society doesn't have a Prada purse with a little dog. They never say, "Well, we know better." If we're humble, we can find the real true us, flaws and all. We're willing to look at the "Us."
Charity, I think the opposite of charity is socialism. It's greed. But we've tried to force charity down. Charity is not socialism and socialism is not charity. Charity is about us as individuals. We care. We want to change our heart. Government's not charity. Charity's not patriotic. Pure charity is to be god-like. We lose our focus on yourself and worry about others.
Sincerity. Just live what you believe. Obama wants us to be more charitable. Joe Biden wants us to be more charitable. Joe Biden's never paid more than .8% of his income to charity. Obama just started to do it when he was running for president, and he's giving, what, 7% of his salary? Good for him. Now when nobody's watching Barack Obama, when you're long past the time that you were president, will you still be giving? I'm going to -- I'll say yes. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt that, yes, you'll still be giving. But that's what sincerity really truly is all about. Be sincere. Live what you believe.
The next one is moderation. Moderation. Moderation in everything is good. By the way, a lot of these came from George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. These are the things they looked at. This list like this they looked at every single day. Moderation. Benjamin Franklin said I'm not going to eat too much and I'm not going to drink too much. But really it's bigger than that. It's moderating our passions. You know, just moderate your passions. That's okay to do a little of everything. I'm an alcoholic. I can't do a little of things. So I don't do any of them. But moderate your passions. It's good to prepare for things. It would be bad for you to be living in a fallout shelter right now. But prepare. You do little things. You just stay aware. Moderation.
Hard work. I think we are being led right into a place, you know where the work ethic in America really changed was with the New Deal. Historians will tell you now that that was a pivot point in America. People worked hard. Well, you know what? If you're dependent -- the opposite of hard work is dependence. If you are dependent, you'll eventually be a slave. You lower your self-esteem. You limit your growth. But if you have hard work, you are growing, you're independent, you have self-worth. You know your own capabilities. You're honest about yourself on your limitations. You have long-term thinking. When you're working hard, you're working toward something. That gives you hope.
Courage. You don't have courage if you don't stand up, you'll look the hand that feeds you, said Patrick Henry. The opposite is cowering, panic, fear. It eventually leads to slavery. If you don't stand up, you'll lick the hand that feeds you. But where does courage come from? I think it's from living the principles and the values, honesty, hope, humility, belief in God, knowing who you are, knowing what you believe, knowing how it ends, knowing how it began. I know that people will think that I'm crazy and that's fine, but I think we're living in difficult times, and I have pondered, how does this end. I have only truly prayed for guidance and courage to do the things that he would want me to do, to say the things that he would want me to say and in the end to have the courage not to falter, to have the courage to know what the truth is because I can face anything, you can face anything if you know who you are and what's important.
Personal responsibility. Everybody wants to put the responsibility on the Democrats or the Republicans or as I did yesterday, the Fed. But you know what? Personal responsibility, did I take out too much, did I do too much, should I have done that. Own up to your own things because that's the only way you'll change things. It's okay if you make mistakes. Everybody makes mistakes. It humbles us, and if we're honest with each other and honest with ourselves, we become stronger.
And the last one is friendship. We all know what friendship is, but how many real friends do we have? We're researching out now in virtual friendships and everything else. We need to expand our circle of friendship. We need to start trusting one another again. We need to start seeing our neighbors again. We need to -- have you considered that if things melted down who your neighbors are? Do you trust them? Do they trust you? Can you count on each other? Our grandparents counted on each other. They counted on the neighbor. They would bring each other pies and they would share what they had. They would help each other. A lot of people would look at that, "Oh, my gosh, he was talking about, oh, it's going to break down so bad that it's going to be..." that's a good thing. As much as I hated that little street that I wrote about in my book The Christmas Sweater that my grandparents lived on, as much as I hated that when I was a kid, I'd give my right arm to live on that street again where everybody knew each other, everybody worked together. It was like a big family on that little street. While I don't have to move there, why aren't all of our streets like that now? In time I believe they're going to become those streets again and many will say that's a bad thing. Many will avoid it and they will stand in the bar there in the Titanic and you will just quietly be there to say, "Come on, into the boat. It's going to be okay." And then we will all go to shore, put our lives back in order and build a better boat.
Please share these with your friends. You'll find them both now up on the website glennbeck.com. Share them with your friends. If you believe in these values and you believe in these principles and you want to take a stand for these, you promise that you will live your life by these and then you will view all of the events for the day and you look for the solution of the events of the day through these values and these nine principles, then I want you to take a picture of yourself right now and send it to me at wesurroundthem@gmail.com, wesurroundthem@gmail.com. The first step is saying I'm responsible, I'm going to take a stand, I want my voice to be heard but I have something worth hearing because I know who we are. More importantly, I know who I am, and I will apply the values and the principles that I expect others to live by to my own life. Put that in a photograph to me and send it to wesurroundthem@gmail.com. Then send this e-mail that you'll find on the website to all of your friends, all of your neighbors, all those who might be saying, "It's not really -- really? What did we do?" Create your own lifeboat. I'll tell you what we're driving to, next.Most Popular Stories:
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Improved Televisions
Let us start with the television. It has been a steady feature in the homes of many people and yet it is one thing that has probably changed the most throughout the years. Last year, the flat panel televisions that were only four inches deep were the big thing. As the thinnest televisions on market, people flocked to the electronics store so that they could have the very best.
But this year, there are televisions that are making their panels only one inch, and in some cases even less, which means there is a new version of the flat televisions on the market. Many of the big name companies such as JVC, LG, Sharp, Sony, Mitsubishi, Samsung, and Hitachi are all jumping on the bandwagon and creating a television that will truly make history with how deep it is, or rather how deep it isn't.
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Blu-Ray Enters More Homes
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The least expensive models on the market come from Sony with a price tag of anywhere between two thousand to two thousand five hundred dollars. These systems are the basics. But what about the homes that about more then two televisions? For that, Sony has developed a system as well. The HomeShare HD system can send HD video to up to four televisions. The cost is about one to two thousand per room.
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When it comes to wanting the best of the best, 2009 has something great to offer those who love laptops. The Eee PC 1000HE is certainly the largest of the Eee series to date but there are more benefits to it which over shadows the size with no problem. The high-speed wireless capabilities are incredible and the battery life will last a person all day. This truly means that someone can work all day out in the sun or in the local coffee shop without having to worry about plugging in.
The ten-inch display makes seeing what is on the screen incredibly easy and the keys on the keyboard are ninety two percent of the size that would commonly be found on a laptop. This means that the spacing between each key is similar to what would be found on the common desktop keyboard. All in all, this is the netbook that is the best buy. While it may not be as pretty as another laptop or as compact, the features on it far exceed anything else out there for 2009.
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Can It Get Better Then This?
With all of the various things that have already hit the shelves throughout the world in 2009, one would wonder if it could still possibly get any better then it already is. As far as designers and engineers are concerned, there is always room for improvement. There can always be something a little better, a little faster, and a little smaller. 2009 is truly a year that has brought many surprises and will probably bring even more before it is all said and done.
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Clearly, people in New Jersey are angry.
The question is, what do you do with that anger?
Who do you direct it toward? Who do you blame for our economic situation?
If you've lost your job, you've got to be able to vent and tell the politicians you've "had enough."
And if you are having a hard time finding work, it's pretty convenient to hold up a sign and chant "no tax money for illegal aliens."
I understand the frustration. I understand the anger.
I am angry and frustrated when I see grotesque federal government bailouts of AIG and other bad corporate players who have done the wrong thing and now are begging the federal government to come in and rescue them.
The feds are rescuing the auto industry, which continues to pay the price for years of negotiating overly generous deals with the labor unions.
Countless banks are bordering on closing their doors unless the government keeps propping them up and keeping them on life support.
Many angry folks in New Jersey and across the country are saying that government has screwed things up so badly that it is time for some sort of revolt.
That's why signs like "Clean House in 2010" resonated on such a visceral level.
I also noticed that at some of the New Jersey TEA rallies, Republican candidates for governor like Chris Christie and Steve Lonegan were there to throw out some choice red meat to the throngs.
Lonegan said, "How about we cut the size of government and take back America?" Christie railed against high taxes.
Countless other speakers got up to microphones at dozens of locations across the state to say, "enough is enough."
But while I understand the anger and frustration, here is the catch.
Railing and complaining about government spending is one thing; but actually doing something about it is quite another.
I noticed, and I am wondering if it is just a coincidence, why is it that no one that spoke at all these TEA rallies railed against the ridiculously expensive and administratively cumbersome property tax rebate program in New Jersey?
Clearly, the state can't afford it.
Isn't it "pork" to send checks to tax payers with the names of politicians on them trying to score a few cheap points at election time? Obviously, it is.
But, while speaker after speaker at these TEA rallies dumped on the so-called "pork" in the Obama Stimulus Package, none of them criticized the pork that they were getting in these property tax rebate checks.
So, I guess what one man sees as pork, another man perceives to be his reward from the government.
When the government came in to bail out certain financial giants on Wall Street, I didn't love it, but it stopped the Stock Market from totally tanking and kept us from losing even more in our 401Ks.
When people have a flood in their community, they want FEMA to come in and bail them out.
When people want to send their kid to college, they are looking for government sponsored loans, or better yet, grants, to make it more affordable.
And what about municipal aid?
When Corzine proposed cutting municipal aid (you might just call that pork going from one level of government to another) people went nuts.
They were smart enough to know that.
These same TEA party protesters are smart enough to understand that if state government cuts back on municipal and school aid, this will mean higher property taxes for them.
Well, why is that pork okay?
Is it because the people at the TEA party benefit from it?
So, let me get this straight. Pork is bad unless the people at the TEA party are eating the pork that they're going to wash down later with all that extra tea.
Well, like I said, I get the anger, and the rhetoric is easy.
But it is a hell of a lot harder when the rubber actually meets the road and you start asking people to look in the mirror to figure out how fat they've become by eating so much pork that comes from, yes, government.
I hate to say it, but is Social Security pork?
I don't know; ask somebody who is living on it just to stay alive.
Is Medicare pork? You tell me. When the government builds a road to prop up the local economy in your town, is that pork or do you call it "economic development?"
I get the anger; but screaming, yelling and pandering is a piece of cake.
Balancing a budget and getting things done is not quite so easy.
I'm sure that argument will go over real well with the revelers at this week's TEA party.
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