DIVORCE AGREEMENT

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, Ted Turner, Sean Penn, Barbra Streisand, & Jane Fonda. We'll keep the capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart and Wall Street. You can have your beloved homeboys, hippies and illegal aliens. We'll keep the Alaskan hockey moms, 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.
Sincerely,
John J. Wall
Law Student and an American

Kids say the darnest things!

HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHO TO MARRY? (written by kids)

(1) You got to find somebody who likes the same stuff. Like, if you
like sports, she should like it that you like sports, and she should
keep the chips and dip coming. - Alan, 10

(2) No person really decides before they grow up who they're going to
marry. God decides it all way before, and you get to find out later
who you're stuck with. - Kristen, 10

WHAT IS THE RIGHT AGE TO GET MARRIED?

(1) Twenty-three is the best age because you know the person FOREVER by then. - Camille, 10

(2) No age is good to get married at. You got to be a fool to get
married. - Freddie, 6

HOW CAN A STRANGER TELL IF TWO PEOPLE ARE MARRIED?

(1) You might have to guess, based on whether they seem to be yelling at the same kids. - Derrick, 8

WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR MOM AND DAD HAVE IN COMMON?

(1) Both don't want any more kids. - Lori, 8

WHAT DO MOST PEOPLE DO ON A DATE?

(1) Dates are for having fun, and people should use them to get to
know each other. Even boys have something to say if you listen long
enough. - Lynnette, 8

(2) On the first date, they just tell each other lies and that
usually gets them interested enough to go for a second date. - Martin, 10

WHAT WOULD YOU DO ON A FIRST DATE THAT WAS TURNING SOUR?

(1) I'd run home and play dead. The next day I would call all the
newspapers and make sure they wrote about me in all the dead columns. -Craig, 9

WHEN IS IT OKAY TO KISS SOMEONE?

(1) When they're rich. - Pam, 7
(2) The law says you have to be eighteen, so I wouldn't want to mess with that. - Curt, 7
(3 ) The rule goes like this: If you kiss someone, then you should
marry them and have kids with them. It's the right thing to do. - Howard, 8

IS IT BETTER TO BE SINGLE OR MARRIED?

It's better for girls to be single but not for boys. Boys need
someone to clean up after them. - Anita, 9

HOW WOULD THE WORLD BE DIFFERENT IF
PEOPLE DIDN'T GET MARRIED?

(1 ) There sure would be lot of kids to explain, wouldn't there? - Kelvin, 8

HOW WOULD YOU MAKE A MARRIAGE WORK?

(1 ) Tell your wife that she looks pretty, even if she looks like a
truck. - Ricky, 10

Refresher Course in Gun Control

Most of the U.S. Congress doesn't understand or comprehend liberty.
Children are not learning history like this in school.

Refresher course on firearms!
1. "Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." Thomas Jefferson
2."Those who trade liberty for security have neither." John A dams
3. Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.
4. An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.
5. Only a government that is afraid of its citizens tries to control them.
6. Gun control is not about guns; it's about control.
7. You only have the rights you are willing to fight for.
8. Know guns, know peace, know safety. No guns, no peace, no safety.
9. You don't shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.
10. Assault is a behavior, not a device.
11. 65 million citzens (and counting) own firearms and killed no one yesterday or any other day, nor are they even considering killing anyone.
12. The United States Constitution (c) 1791. All Rights Reserved.
13. The Second Amendment is in place in case the politicians ignore the others.
14. What part of 'shall not be infringed' do people NOT understand?
15. Guns have only two enemies; rust and politicians.
16. When you remove the people's right to bear arms, you create slaves.
17. The American Revolution would never have happened with gun control.

Illusion of man on the wall moving

I have seen this illusion many years ago but lost it. I've remembered it often and wished I could understand how it works. It is always inspirational to me.

Welfare just aint's what it used to be!

Sharon Jasper has spent 57 of her 58 years dedicated to one cause and one cause only, and now feels she has nothing to show for her dedicated servitude. She has lived in Section 8 housing all but 1 of her 58 years. It was a legacy passed down from her parents who moved into Section 8 housing in 1949 when she was six months old. She has passed the legacy down to her children, but fears they may have to get jobs to pay for the utilities and deposits.

She laments about her one year hiatus from the comfort of her Section 8 nirvana, ' I tried it for a year -- you know, working and all. It's not anything I would want to go through again, or wish on anyone in my family, but I am damn proud of that year.' Sharon was moved out of her St. Bernard housing project after hurricane Katrina and into a new, yet albeit, substandard quarterage. As can be noted from the above photo of her new Section 8 home, it is repugnant and not suitable for someone of Sharon Jasper's seniority status in the system. 'Don't be fooled by them hardwood floors,' says Sharon. 'They told me they were putting in scraped wood floors cause it was more expensive and elegant, but I am not a fool -- that was just a way to make me take scratched up wood because I am black. The 60 inch HD TV? It may look nice but it is not plasma. It's not a plasma because I'm black. Now they want me to pay a deposit and utilities on this dump.’ 'Do you know why?'

She has held her tongue in silence through the years of abuse by the system, but it came to a head at the New Orleans ' city council meeting where discussions were under way about the tearing down of the St.. Bernard projects. When a near riotous exchange between groups opposing the tearing down of St. Bernard and groups wanting the dilapidated buildings torn down and newer ones built, Sharon unleashed verbal hell with her once silenced tongue. The object of her oratory prowess was an acquiescent poor white boy in attendance. The context of her scathing rebuke was, 'Just because you pay for my house, my car, my big screen and my food, I will not be treated like a slave!' and 'Back up and Shut up!
Shut up, white boy! Shut up, white boy!'

Recapping from the mental log of the city council minutes in her head, Sharon repines, 'Our families have been displaced all over the United States. They are being forced to commit crimes in cities they are unfamiliar with… It is a very uncomfortable situation for them… Bring them back, then let's talk about redevelopment. '

Sharon directs the reporter's attention across the street to Duncan Plaza where homeless people are living in tents and states that, 'I might do better out there with one of these tents.' She further lamented her sentiments about her situation, 'I might be poor, but I don't have to live poor.'

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Any wonder why this country is in the shape it is? Maybe we should all just chip in and get her the plasma TV she so richly deserves! Remember to pay your taxes - Sharon needs your help. Spread the wealth?

Tiger Woods . . A great man someday?

First of all, let me say quite clearly that I am NOT a fan of Tiger Woods. I never have been, and never will be. I recognize that he can hit a golf ball quite well, for what that's worth. Lance Armstrong can ride a bike. Barry Bonds can hit a baseball. LeBron James can dunk a basketball. That doesn't make any of them heroes. Matter of fact, they're all about as far from being heroes as you can get.

Tiger Woods is a man whose life is built around greed and a ruthless, monomaniacal obsession with winning. No wonder he's obsessed with acquiring mistresses. The man has always had everything he ever wanted. Who is going to tell him no? When I read about Woods, all I see is stories about when he's going to return to the PGA Tour, how he's going to rehab his image (as though it's all about image and nothing else) why he's likely to come back better than ever. No one mentions that this was one twisted, greedy human being from the get-go. Tiger Woods is what happens when you turn your child into a machine.

Pity his father, Earl Woods, is no longer around to see the destruction he has wrought. The infant who was on television putting against Bob Hope when he was 2 years old, the 3-year-old who shot 48 for nine holes, the teenager who stepped into a multi-million-dollar Nike contract before he won his first pro tournament, has finally broken out of the carefully constructed shell. Predictably.

What Tiger Woods, his father, his handlers and his sponsors failed to understand was the simplest of all truths: we are human. We are not robots. The human Woods kept trying to break through the robot. We caught glimpses and they weren't pleasant: The petulant child hurling his clubs and swearing when a shot goes awry. The swearing. The dirty, leering jokes. The arrogant brat who does his famous drive-by every time he passes the autograph hounds waiting after round, refusing to do a Phil Mickelson and spend 15 minutes signing autographs for the adoring gallery.

The greedy walking corporation who made it eminently clear from the beginning that he didn't care about the Asian sweatshop workers who were turning him into the wealthiest athlete on the planet. The American of mixed racial heritage who couldn't care less about politics at home, where people of colour have suffered and bled for 300 years.

The most outrageous thing I have heard said of Woods came from his father. Earl Woods predicted that Tiger would turn out to be one of the great men on the planet, like Gandhi or Nelson Mandela. Woods is a great golfer, whatever that is worth. He is not a great man, by any stretch of the imagination. Woods doesn't begin to measure up to the athletes who were also great humans: Jackie Robinson, Jim Thorpe, Bill Russell, Babe Didrickson, Jesse Owens, Rocket Richard. They had to fight real hatred and prejudice. They suffered real hurt.

Woods is a shill, nothing more or less. He works for anyone who will pay him. He'll peddle watches, golf balls, automobiles, consulting companies. And Woods will not trouble himself for one instant if he learns that a good part of his fortune is because of the labours of Asian workers making a few dollars a day. That's not his problem, as long as he can afford to cruise off into the sunset on a $20-million yacht named Privacy - a middle finger flipped at all the suckers who pay the bills.

The nearest parallel we have to Woods is Michael Jordan. Jordan was the first athlete to go global as a brand rather than as an iconic sports hero. He was the first anti-Muhammad Ali, the athlete who didn't give a damn about anything but himself. Jordan refused to take a stand against people like the racist South Carolina senator Jesse Helms because racists buy Nikes, too. Now Woods has picked up where Jordan left off - and therein lies a cautionary tale. What was left of Jordan after his career was over was seen in his disgraceful speech when he was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame. Jordan is now a bitter, angry, vengeful, vindictive man who used his Hall of Fame speech to slander all of his rivals and most of his one-time friends and teammates.

Someone wrote to me yesterday to say that "we" have torn down the icon that is Tiger Woods. Nothing could be more wrong. "We" might have built Tiger Woods into the monster of ego and greed he has become, but "we" had nothing to do with tearing him down. Woods did that himself, with his insatiable greed, his roving, relentless sexual appetite, his cynical use of his beautiful family as props to distract attention from what he was really doing.

In two or three years (if not sooner) most of this will be forgotten. Woods will be divorced, he'll have as many mistresses as he wants, he'll go back to winning majors, raking in millions and endorsing half the products on the planet. Why will he get away with it? Because sports fans want someone to worship, and the bottom line is that they don't care if the man inside is worse than Tony Soprano.

If you want to help your children find heroes in the world of sport, stick to figures like Tony Dungy, Marc Trestman, Anthony Calvillo, Ben Cahoon, Jean Béliveau, Otis Grant, Clara Hughes. Remind your children that when Hughes won her gold medal in Turin in 2006, she immediately donated $10,000 to Right to Play, the charity that attempts to help African children through sport. If Tiger Woods was to donate a comparable portion of his personal fortune, it would come to $200 million or more. But he won't do it. That is one reason he's not a hero. Never has been, never will be.

Because for openers, if you're not a hero to your own family, you're nothing.
Unknown.

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Jane Fonda - 100 Greatest Traitors

I have not forgotten this woman's deeds. And in 40 years, she has never once said she was sorry for her actions of treason and treachery. I will not forget.

A TRAITOR IS ABOUT TO BE HONORED

This is for all the kids born in the 70's and later who do not remember, and didn't have to bear the burden that America's fathers, mothers and older brothers and sisters had to bear. Jane Fonda is being honored as one of the '100 Women of the Century.' by Barbara Walters.

Unfortunately, many have forgotten and still countless others have never known how Ms.Fonda betrayed not only the idea of our country, but specific men who served and sacrificed during Vietnam.

In 1968, the former Commandant of the USAF Survival School was a POW in Ho Lo Prison the ' Hanoi Hilton.' An F-4E pilot by the name of Jerry Driscoll was dragged from a stinking cesspit of a cell, cleaned, fed, and dressed in clean PJ's. He was ordered to describe for a visiting American 'Peace Activist' the 'lenient and humane treatment' he'd received. He spat at Ms. Fonda, was clubbed, and was dragged away. During the subsequent beating, he fell forward on to the camp Commandant 's feet, which sent that officer berserk. In 1978, the Air Force Colonel still suffered from double vision (which permanently ended his flying career) from the Commandant's frenzied application of a wooden baton.

From 1963-65, Col. Larry Carrigan was in the47 FW/DO (F-4E's). He spent 6 years in the 'Hanoi Hilton', the first three of which his family only knew he was 'missing in action'. His wife lived on faith that he was still alive. His group, too, got the cleaned-up, fed and clothed routine in preparation for a 'peace delegation' visit. They, however, had time and devised a plan to get word to the world that they were alive and still survived. Each man secreted a tiny piece of paper, with his Social Security Number on it , in the palm of his hand. When paraded before Ms. Fonda and a cameraman, she walked the line, shaking each man's hand and asking little encouraging snippets like: 'Aren't you sorry you bombed babies?' and 'Are you grateful for the humane treatment from your benevolent captors?' Believing this HAD to be an act, they each palmed her their sliver of paper. She took them all without missing a beat. At the end of the line and once the camera stopped rolling, to the shocked disbelief of the POWs, she turned to the officer in charge and handed him all the little pieces of paper. Three men died from the subsequent beatings. Colonel Carrigan was almost number four but he survived, which is the only reason we know of her actions that day.

RONALD D. SAMPSON, CMSgt, USAF 716 Maintenance Squadron, Chief of Maintenance DSN: 875-6431 COMM: 883-6343 was a civilian economic development advisor in Vietnam , and was captured by the North Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam in 1968, and held prisoner for over 5 years. He spent 27 months in solitary confinement; one year in a cage in Cambodia; and one year in a 'black box' in Hanoi. His North Vietnamese captors deliberately poisoned and murdered a female missionary in front of him, a nurse in a leprosarium in Ban me Thuot, South Vietnam. He buried her in the jungle near the Cambodian border. At one time, he weighed only about 90 lbs. (his normal weight is 170 lbs). He was one of Hanoi Jane's "war criminals. He was asked if he would meet with her and he said yes. He said he wanted to tell her about the real treatment the POWs received. He wanted her to know it was different from the treatment purported bythe North Vietnamese, and parroted by her as 'humane and lenient.' Because of this, he later spent three days on a rocky floor on his knees, with his arms outstretched with a large steel weights placed on his hands, and beaten with a bamboo cane. After the war ended he had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda. He asked her if she would be willing to debate me on TV. She never did answer.

Nor has she ever repented for her actions, words, or deeds during that time in history. She has never asked forgiveness of the men she caused to endure more pain and torture. Nor the families of the men that died as a result of her betrayal.

These first-hand experiences do not exemplify someone who should be honored as part of '100 Years of Great Women. 'Lest we forget.'

100 Years of Great Women' should never include a traitor whose hands are covered with the blood of so many patriots. Hanoi Jane's participation in blatant treason, is one of them. Feel free to forward to as many people as you possibly can. Perhaps it will eventually end up on her computer and she needs to know that we will never forget.

To Endeavor

Far better it is to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs,
even though checkered by failure
than to take rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,
because they live in the gray twilight
that knows not victory nor defeat.

Teddy Roosevelt

10 Steps to Mental and Spiritual Health for 2010

I am going to read this over and over this read to try and make these steps and thoughts and creeds a part of my everyday Life. I believe the life I lead will be richer for it. And certainly more peacefully and harmonious.