Worth passing on

PAUL HARVEY'S ON- AIR PRAYER
'Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, 'Woe to those who call evil good,' but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare. We have killed our unborn and called it choice. We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable. We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem. We have abused power and called it politics. We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. Search us, Oh God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and Set us free. Amen!'

Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on his radio program, 'The Rest of the Story,' and received a larger response to this program than any other he has ever aired. With the Lord's help, may this prayer sweep over our nation and wholeheartedly become our desire so that we again can be called 'One nation under God.'

Gas prices got ya down ?

Boy, they have me in a mental slump. I used the internet the other day to find the cheapest gas in town, ... went to fill my truck and it took $70.00! How long has it been since you last saw a grown man cry? Boy that hurt!

Well, I had the idea that since most of my running around was in town, ... maybe I could do it on a motor scooter and save some gas. well, about the time I was thing this, one of the local cycle dealers advertised a scooter that gets 123 MPG. I thought "WOW", .... 123 MPG. That will save gas for certain. So, .... off I went to check out this fantastic modicum of super MPG. This could be the ‘saving grace’ of gasoline powered, local, transportation.

The first thing I noticed is it seemed a bit small, … that is for me (at 260 lbs and 6”4”). But, in an adventurous spirit I donned a helmet and took off on a test drive.

“WOW” was right! With its small tires and short wheelbase this little booger was ‘sho nuff’ squirrelly. It managed about 35 MPH with my bulk on it’s back, which I suppose is respectable for a machine with it’s diminutive dimensions.

To make a long story somewhat shorter, … I’m still looking for a money saving solution to local transportation that doesn’t require weekly loans from the bank to fund the fuel budget. Besides, …. I like to eat, and these gas station visits are eating into my groceries.





Next venture, ….. I’ve seen a small, 2 place, car being sold in Florida that has a top speed of 50 MPH and gets about 65 – 70 MPG. It has doors, a top, windshield (complete with wiper) and is quite cute, … if a car can be called ‘cute’. (that term may be restricted to babies, puppies and kittens, … I don’t know)

Anyway, may the supreme being watch and protect us (from ourselves and the Arabs) while we each seek our own resolution to this ever mounting problem.

Electric cars anyone?

Maxine on Minorities

We need to show more sympathy for these people.
* They travel miles in the heat.
* They risk their lives crossing a border.
* They don't get paid enough wages.
* They do jobs that others won't do or are afraid to do.
* They live in crowded conditions among a people who speak a different language.
* They rarely see their families, and they face adversity all day ~ every day.

I'm not talking about illegal Mexicans ~ I'm talking about our troops! Doesn't it seem strange that many Democrats and Republicans are willing to lavish all kinds of social benefits on illegals, but don't support our troops, and are even threatening to defund them?

Ice Age, ... or Global Warming

Walter E. Williams

Now that another Earth Day has come and gone, let’s look at some environmentalist predictions that they would prefer we forget.

At the first Earth Day celebration, in 1969, environmentalist Nigel Calder warned, “The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.” C.C. Wallen of the World Meteorological Organization said, “The cooling since 1940 has been large enough and consistent enough that it will not soon be reversed.” In 1968, Professor Paul Ehrlich, Vice President Gore’s hero and mentor, predicted there would be a major food shortage in the U.S. and “in the 1970s ... hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death.” Ehrlich forecasted that 65 million Americans would die of starvation between 1980 and 1989, and by 1999 the U.S. population would have declined to 22.6 million. Ehrlich’s predictions about England were gloomier: “If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.”

In 1972, a report was written for the Club of Rome warning the world would run out of gold by 1981, mercury and silver by 1985, tin by 1987 and petroleum, copper, lead and natural gas by 1992. Gordon Taylor, in his 1970 book “The Doomsday Book,” said Americans were using 50 percent of the world’s resources and “by 2000 they [Americans] will, if permitted, be using all of them.” In 1975, the Environmental Fund took out full-page ads warning, “The World as we know it will likely be ruined by the year 2000.”

Harvard University biologist George Wald in 1970 warned, “... civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.” That was the same year that Sen. Gaylord Nelson warned, in Look Magazine, that by 1995 “... somewhere between 75 and 85 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”

It’s not just latter-day doomsayers who have been wrong; doomsayers have always been wrong. In 1885, the U.S. Geological Survey announced there was “little or no chance” of oil being discovered in California, and a few years later they said the same about Kansas and Texas. In 1939, the U.S. Department of the Interior said American oil supplies would last only another 13 years. In 1949, the Secretary of the Interior said the end of U.S. oil supplies was in sight. Having learned nothing from its earlier erroneous claims, in 1974 the U.S. Geological Survey advised us that the U.S. had only a 10-year supply of natural gas. The fact of the matter, according to the American Gas Association, there’s a 1,000 to 2,500 year supply.

Here are my questions: In 1970, when environmentalists were making predictions of manmade global cooling and the threat of an ice age and millions of Americans starving to death, what kind of government policy should we have undertaken to prevent such a calamity? When Ehrlich predicted that England would not exist in the year 2000, what steps should the British Parliament have taken in 1970 to prevent such a dire outcome? In 1939, when the U.S. Department of the Interior warned that we only had oil supplies for another 13 years, what actions should President Roosevelt have taken? Finally, what makes us think that environmental alarmism is any more correct now that they have switched their tune to manmade global warming?

Here are a few facts:
* Over 95 percent of the greenhouse effect is the result of water vapor in Earth’s atmosphere. Without the greenhouse effect, Earth’s average temperature would be zero degrees Fahrenheit.
* Most climate change is a result of the orbital eccentricities of Earth and variations in the sun’s output.
* On top of that, natural wetlands produce more greenhouse gas contributions annually than all human sources combined.

Problems

God Bless America!

. . Everyone concentrates on the problems we're having in this country lately; illegal immigration, hurricane recovery, alligators attacking people in Florida

Not me. I concentrate on solutions for the problems. It's a win-win situation.

+ Dig a moat the length of the Mexican border.

+ Send the dirt to New Orleans to raise the level of the levies.

+ Put the Florida alligators in the moat along the Mexican border.

Any other problems you would like for me to solve today?

Bye Bye Casita

Well, I did it. I put my lovely little Casita Travel Trailer up for sale. It's listed in the classifieds on a couple of bulletin boards I frequent. I've been getting calls and messages on the boards (no one has written a check yet) and I don't think this will take too long.

I do this with mixed feelings. I like the Casitas better than any other trailer I have ever had with the exception of the size. How ironic. The very thing that was the biggest attraction of the trailer is also the very thing that I dislike about it.

It' small, light, easy to tow, easy to maintain, doesn't break the bank in the fuel use department, ..... and did I say, ...."it's Small"? I'm 6' 4" tall, .. 260 lbs.
This beautiful trailer is too small for me.

Then there's the grandkids. Seven of them. Now they are starting to get the "Travel with Mamaw & Papaw" thing going. NOT IN A CASITA !

So we purchased a 24 ft. unit of another make that has a walk-around queen bed in the front, and a dinette that converts into a bed that will sleep grandkids, one or two at a time.

I really hate to see the Casita go, ..... someone please come get it and get me out of my misery!
(I think I'll survive, once I don't have to look at it every day)

Good people are hard to find - Here's one

Here is the guy that should be the first black president of the USA

Americans should have a nationwide push to write him in for their next president.



"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.'




WAY TO GO, BILL !!

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

The Future ?

Want to be frightened? Well, if you aren't frightened already, you should be.

As they say .... "Be afraid, ..... be 'very' afraid"

Click the Start button on the film below:

If I were a Terrorist, .............