Friday, December 2, 2011

This is Cool.


Really kind of neat. Please read it as well as listening. You may not get it otherwise.
 
A palindrome reads the same backwards as forward. This video
reads the exact opposite backwards as forward.  Not only does it
read the opposite, the meaning is the exact opposite.This is only a
1 minute, 44 second video and it is brilliant.  Make sure you read as
well as listen... as it plays forward and backward.

This is a video that was submitted in a contest by a 20-year old.
The contest was  titled "u @ 50" by AARP. This video won second
place.  When they showed it, everyone in the room was awe-struck
and broke into spontaneous applause.  So simple and yet so brilliant.
Take a minute and watch it.





 

Lost Generation

By Jonathan Reed| 1 video
Watch

President of homeowners association accused of embezzlement

Article and Video Courtesy of WINK News
Published November 25, 2011
NORTH FORT MYERS, Fla.- Board members of the Sabal Springs Golf and Raquet Club filed charges Wednesday against the former president of the homeowners association, claiming he embezzled more than a $1 million over the last 3 years.
Kay Joyce has lived in the Sabal Springs community for the last 16 years.

When homeowners were notified the board would pursue legal action against their former leader, Joyce said, "I was really disappointed that something like that could happen to our community."

The report filed with the Lee County Sheriffs Office says an audit conducted by the association's treasurer showed the accused would write a check or transfer money from the reserve account to Sabal Springs Golf, to himself, or to his father.
    
Board members say the accused admitted to taking $665,000.

The incident report also says millions of dollars are funneled through the Sabal Springs Golf and Raquet Club every year, although it only generates about $140,000 in total income.

The Lee County Sheriffs Office economic crimes unit is investigating the claims.

Retired Police Officer Reportedly Told to Remove Flag Honoring Victims of 9/11

Article and Video Courtesy of Fox News
Published November 23, 2011
A retired New York City police officer living in Florida has been ordered to take down his flag commemorating September 11 by his homeowners’ association, WPLG reports.


Richard Wentz, who helped victims out of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, has been told he has just days to take down his flag or face possible legal action.

"That flag means the world to me. Other than my children, that flag means the world to me," said Wentz.

A letter from the Fairways at Heron Bay association said the flag detracts from the
aesthetic harmony of the surrounding properties. Wentz said he was confronted by Patricia Favata, president of the property’s board of directors, according to the station.  

No one was at Favata's home when WPLG Local 10 tried to talk to her. 



Wentz said he ran into Tower 1 and started pulling out people before the building collapsed. He said he lost 43 friends and colleagues that day.

Wentz says he now has cancer, from breathing in all the particles during the cleanup of Ground Zero.

"I will not take that flag down. That flag will remain up. I don't care how many fines they want to give me, how many notices they want to give me, I refuse to take that down," Wentz told the station.

HOA Forecloses on Jacksonville Beach Home For Unpaid Dues

Article and Video Courtesy of  Jacksonville Channel 12
By Ken Amaro
Published November 30, 2011
JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. -- We'd like to show you the inside of this Jacksonville Beach house, but we can't.
"One day I had a gentleman show up to the door and said I own this house," said Neil Samuels.
Samuels owned the house but last week he was evicted after he lost his home to unpaid homeowner assessment fees.
"They never served us, send us anything," he said.
According to court documents, Samuels owed three years of fees, $260 a year.
The documents reveal one of those three years was paid, but a final judgment also shows it was too late.
In October, Samuels home was sold to an investment company. The Mark Stopa Law firm, 
representing the investors, apologized by letter but told Samuels he had to move out.
"My first reaction was are you sure you have the right house," said Samuels.
Jacksonville Attorney Chip Parker is a mortgage foreclosure specialist. He reviewed the court records in Samuels case.
"According to the court records someone at that house was served back in January 2010," said Parker.  
Parker said homeowners need to realize that their Homeowners Association, HOA, may have the ability to foreclose for failure to pay assessment fees.
"The HOA has a superior lien to even the first mortgage company so when the first mortgage company forecloses they have to pay the HOA unpaid assessments," he said.
Parker says the HOA is fulfilling its obligations.
"You have to look at it from the standpoint of the HOA, this is money used to take care of the common areas," said Parker.
Samuels still finds it hard to believe he has lost the home over less than one thousand dollars in fees.
"I can't believe it is happening," said Samuels.
Kingdom Management manages the Riptide Homeowners Association where Samuels lived.
Sherrie Jarnu said this has been an 'open item' for many meetings. She added, "We have given them years to pay" and they didn't.
Bob Tankel, Attorney for the HOA, said, "This is an issue of crisis proportions, primarily due to ignorance by owners."
Tankel added,"On Friday we have 32 sales set around the state, mostly along the I-4 corridor."
"I don't think we had 32 sales in my first 27 years of practice, and the trend seems to be accelerating. It is scary," he added.

Thursday, December 1, 2011


 SENIOR GAMBLING TRIPS

 

 
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CARE TO JOIN ME FOR A DRINK ?

 The dangers of senior gambling trips

A senior citizens' group charters an overnight gambling casino bus trip from The Villages , Florida to Branson , MO.   
As they entered Missouri , an eldery woman comes up to the bus driver and says, "I've just been molested!" 
The driver felt that she had fallen asleep and had a dream.  So he tells her to go back to her seat, and sit down. 
A short time later another old woman comes forward and claims that she was just molested.  The driver thought he had a bus load of old wackos, but who would be molesting those old ladies?
 About 10 minutes later a third old lady comes up and says that she'd been molested too.
 The bus driver decides that he'd had enough and pulls into the first rest area.
When he turns the lights on and stands up he sees an old man on his hands and knees crawling in the aisles.
 "Hey gramps, what are you doing down there?" says the bus driver.
 "I lost my toupee.  I thought I found it three times but every time I try to grab it, it runs away!"

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Admiral Nimitz and Pearl Harbor

 Reflections
 
Tour boats ferry people out to the USS Arizona Memorial in Hawaii every thirty minutes. 
We just missed a ferry and had to wait thirty minutes. 
I went into a small gift shop to kill time. 
In the gift shop, I purchased a small book entitled, "Reflections on Pearl Harbor " by Admiral Chester Nimitz.
Sunday, December 7th, 1941--Admiral Chester Nimitz was attending a concert in Washington D.C
He was paged and told there was a phone call for him.
When he answered the phone, it was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He told Admiral Nimitz that he (Nimitz) would now be the Commander of the Pacific Fleet.
Admiral Nimitz flew to Hawaii to assume command of the Pacific Fleet. 
He landed at Pearl Harbor on Christmas Eve, 1941. 
There was such a spirit of despair, dejection and defeat--you would have thought the Japanese had already won the war. 
On Christmas Day, 1941, Adm. Nimitz was given a boat tour of the destruction wrought on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. 
Big sunken battleships and navy vessels cluttered the waters every where you looked.
As the tour boat returned to dock, the young helmsman of the boat asked, "Well Admiral, what do you think after seeing all this destruction?" 
Admiral Nimitz's reply shocked everyone within the sound of his voice. 
Admiral Nimitz said, "The Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes an attack force could ever make, or God was taking care of America . Which do you think it was?" 
Shocked and surprised, the young helmsman asked, "What do mean by saying the Japanese made the three biggest mistakes an attack force ever made?"
Nimitz explained: 
Mistake number one: the Japanese attacked on Sunday morning. Nine out of every ten crewmen of those ships were ashore on leave. If those same ships had been lured to sea and been sunk--we would have lost 38,000 men instead of 3,800.
Mistake number two: when the Japanese saw all those battleships lined in a row,they got so carried away sinking those battleships, they never once bombed our drydocks opposite those ships.
If they had destroyed our dry docks, we would have had to tow everyone of those ships to America to be repaired. As it is now, the ships are in shallow water and can be raised. One tug can pull them over to the dry docks, and we can have them repaired and at sea by the time we could have towed them to America . 
And I already have crews ashore anxious to man those ships. 
Mistake number three: Every drop of fuel in the Pacific theater of war is on top of the ground in storage tanks five miles away over that hill. 
One attack plane could have strafed those tanks and destroyed our fuel supply. 
That's why I say the Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes an attack force could make, or God was taking care of America .
I've never forgotten what I read in that little book. 
It is still an inspiration as I reflect upon it. 
In jest, I might suggest that because Admiral Nimitz was a Texan, born and raised in Fredricksburg , Texas -- he was a born optimist. 
But anyway you look at it--Admiral Nimitz was able to see a silver lining in a situation and circumstance where everyone else saw only despair and defeatism. 
President Roosevelt had chosen the right man for the right job. 
We desperately needed a leader that could see silver linings in the midst of the clouds of dejection, despair and defeat.
There is a reason that our national motto is, "IN GOD WE TRUST."

,
Today's Trivia Question was submitted by:

Trivia Today Staff


A Griffin is a legendary creature that has the body of what animal?

  Click to Answer 
 

Margo Stevens, HOA Committee

 Last year, I ask Tina Adams if I could have a young Dance team come in at no cost to us and put on a Christmas dance show at our coffee meeting.  She said I would have to talk to Margo because she had a fireside chat after the coffee meeting.  I called her and she refuse to canceled her fireside chat.  She says you can have it after her fireside chat.  Her damn chat with all the wrong answers was more important than having a young dance team come in and entertain us.  This my friends I will never do again.  What a waste of time talking to a bunch of  brainless people.  How in hell does people like this get elected to the CDD?   Please tell me, I just got to know.   lakeashtontalk@yahoo.com

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

WOULDN'T  IT BE GREAT TO TURN ON THE TV AND HEAR  ANY U.S.PRESIDENT,  DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN GIVE THE FOLLOWING  SPEECH? 'My  Fellow Americans:  As you all know, the defeat of the Iraq regime has  been completed.

Since congress does not want to spend any  more money on this war, our mission in Iraq is  complete.

This morning I gave the order for a complete  removal of all American forces from Iraq This action will be  complete within 30 days. It is now time to begin the  reckoning.


Before  me, I have two lists. One list contains the names of countries  which have stood by our side during the Iraq conflict. This list  is short . The United  Kingdom , Spain , Bulgaria , Australia ,  and Poland are some of the countries listed  there.

The other list contains every one not on the first  list. Most of the world's nations are on that list. My press  secretary will be distributing copies of both lists later this  evening.

Let me start by saying that effective  immediately, foreign aid to those nations on List 2 ceases  immediately and indefinitely. The money saved during the first  year alone will pretty much pay for the costs of the Iraqi  war.
THEN  EVERY YEAR THERE AFTER IT'll GO TO OUR SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM SO  IT WONT GO BROKE IN 20 YEARS.
The  American people are no longer going to pour money into  third world Hell holes and watch those government leaders grow  fat on corruption..

Need help with a famine? Wrestling  with an epidemic? Call France .

In the future,  together with Congress, I will work to redirect this money  toward solving the vexing social problems we still have at home  On that note, a word to terrorist organizations. Screw with us  and we will hunt you down and eliminate you and all your friends  from the face of the earth.

Thirsting  for a gutsy country to terrorize? Try France or  maybe China .

I  am ordering the immediate severing of diplomatic relations with   France , Germany. and Russia
. Thanks for  all your help, comrades. We are retiring from NATO as  well. Bonne
chance,  mezamies.
I  have instructed the Mayor of New York City to begin  towing the many UN diplomatic vehicles located  in Manhattan
with more than two unpaid parking  tickets to sites where those vehicles will be stripped,  shredded and crushed. I don't care about whatever treaty  pertains to this. You creeps have tens of thousands of unpaid  tickets. Pay those tickets tomorrow or watch your precious  Benzes, Beamers and limos be turned over to some of the finest  chop shops in the world. I love New  York
A  special note to our neighbors. Canada is on List 2.  Since we are likely to be seeing a lot more of each other, you  folks might want to try not pissing us off for a  change.

Mexico is  also on List 2 its president and his entire corrupt government  really need an attitude adjustment. I will have a couple extra  thousand tanks and infantry divisions sitting around. Guess  where I am going to put 'em? Yep, border  security.

Oh,  by the way, the United States
is  abrogating the NAFTA treaty - starting  now.
We  are tired of the one-way highway. Immediately, we'll be drilling  for oil in Alaska- which will take care of this country's oil  needs for decades to come. If you're an environmentalist who  opposes this decision, I refer you to List 2 above: pick a  country and move there.

It  is time for America to focus on its own welfare and its own  citizens. Some will accuse us of isolationism. I answer them by  saying, 'darn tootin.'

Nearly  a century of trying to help folks live a decent life around the  world has only earned us the undying enmity of just about  everyone on the planet. It is time to eliminate hunger in   America It is time to eliminate homelessness in America . To the  nations on List 1, a final thought. Thank you guys. We owe you  and we won't forget.

To  the nations on List 2, a final thought: You might want to learn  to speak Arabic.

God  bless America .. Thank you and good  night.
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If  you can read this, thank a teacher. If you are reading it in  English, thank a soldier.

(Please  forward this to at least ten friends and see what happens! Let's  get this to every USA computer!

 

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Study: Bay area among saddest US cities

We may live in the sunshine state, but one Tampa Bay city is the considered the saddest placed to live in America.
As a matter of fact, the majority of our cities are the saddest places to live among the United States, according to a Men’s Health study published Monday.
Based on suicide rates, unemployment rates, patients on antidepressants and people who admit to depression, Men’s Health came up with a list of 100 cities ranging from the happiest to the saddest.
Here’s how Florida’s cities ranked.
#100 St. Petersburg
#97 Tampa
#93 Miami
#88 Jacksonville
#82 Orlando
The happiest place in America was Honolulu, HI.

For the complete list, visit here.
JOHN L CHICKNESS SR.
4263 Ashton Club Drive
Lake Wales Fl  33859

Phone  863-318-8853

November 11, 2011

Voice of the People:


On October 3rd, 2011Warren Buffet hosted a fund-raising shindig at the Four Season restaurant in Manhattan for President Obama.  According to the New York Times the  $10,000 a head dinner saw its share of empty seats.

Of the 130 seats arranged by the Democrat Campaign, only 116 showed up.  This suggests the TIMES is a reflection on Osama’s broader struggles in attracting big-name support from those on Wall Street.

The Wall Street elite who did attend paid  ( $10,000 ) a plate, or ( $35,800 ) if they wanted one on one time with Mr. Buffet.   One attendee told the Times there seemed to be more Buffet fans than Obama supporters.

The Obama campaign said they consider the event a success, pointing to the fact that the dinner raised ( $1.5 MILLION ) for the hope to re-elect this President who stands before the world and condemns the filthy rich, but has NO PROBLEM taking their money, when it benefits him.

Here we have a person who on one hand cries….”Level the playing field “ . “ Lets get those fat cat bankers to share their wealth with the less fortunate.”  But only when he makes a speech to garnish votes from the less fortunate he asks to support him again.

Finally I wondered ….How many poor people would  $1.5  Million Dollars Feed.  I did the math.  At $50.00 per person, that fund raiser would have fed…(30,000)  of his supporters  who many  have never ate a  $50.00 Dinner.

When you go to the polls in Nov 2012, keep that in mind when you hear this person cry out how we should be sharing our good fortunes with others.  Only if it were TRUE !

John L Chickness Sr
A long video but worth watching. 
 

 
I had never heard this before. Very impressive and wonderful! It's amazing how disasters bring out the best in many people. Be sure your sound is turned up!
Small Boats to the Rescue on 9/11
Narrated by Tom Hanks
The untold story.
There are no great men, only ordinary men who rise to great occasions. - Admiral Halsey
An amazing video of the 9/11 disaster you may not be fully aware of. It’s the largest boat rescue in history ever, bigger than Dunkirk World War II where 350,000 soldiers were rescued by boat. Watch and be proud.
This is a very moving video about 9/11 and something I'd never heard of before.
Fly those flags!

ASHTONS RESTAURANT

John and Debbie Tennick are now running the restaurant here at Lake Ashton.  They still have the same old chief Miguel Suazio who was the cook for the developer.    The food has not changed.  Lets look at the Thanksgiving Dinner they had last week.  They served turkey loaf, not 100% turkey meat from the turkey.  Not only that, the desert was not included in the price of $19.95.  I had a few complaints from this dinner, AND I GUESS THERE WERE A FEW UNHAPPY EATERS.

> ALL EUROPEAN LIFE DIED IN AUSCHWITZ

>
> The following is a copy of an article written by Spanish writer Sebastian Vilar Rodriguez and published in a Spanish newspaper on Jan. 15, 2008. It doesn't take much imagination to extrapolate the message to the rest of Europe - and possibly to the rest of the world.
>
> REMEMBER AS YOU READ -- IT WAS IN A SPANISH PAPER!
> Date: Tue. 15 January 2008 14:30
>
> ALL EUROPEAN LIFE DIED IN AUSCHWITZ By Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez
>
> I walked down the street in Barcelona , and suddenly discovered a terrible truth - Europe died in Auschwitz . We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, talent. We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world.
>
> The contribution of this people is felt in all areas of life: science, art, International trade, and above all, as the conscience of the world. These are the people we burned.
>
> And under the pretense of tolerance, and because we wanted to prove to ourselves that we were cured of the disease of racism, we opened our gates to 20 million Muslims, who brought us stupidity and ignorance, religious extremism and lack of tolerance, crime and poverty, due to an unwillingness to work and support their families with pride.
>
> They have blown up our trains and turned our beautiful Spanish cities into the third world, drowning in filth and crime.
>
> Shut up in the apartments they receive free from the government, they plan the murder and destruction of their naive hosts.
>
> And thus, in our misery, we have exchanged culture for fanatical hatred, creative skill for destructive skill, intelligence for backwardness and superstition.
>
> We have exchanged the pursuit of peace of the Jews of Europe and their talent for a better future for their children, their determined clinging to life because life is holy, for those who pursue death, for people consumed by the desire for death for themselves and others, for our children and theirs.
>
> What a terrible mistake was made by miserable Europe ...
>
> The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000; that is ONE BILLION TWO HUNDRED MILLION or 20% of the world's population. They have received the following Nobel Prizes:
>
> Literature:
> 1988 - Najib Mahfooz
>
> Peace:
> 1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
> 1990 - Elias James Corey
> 1994 - Yaser Arafat (inventor of modern day terrorism-started killing innocent civilians)
> 1999 - Ahmed Zewai
>
> Economics:
> (zero)
>
> Physics:
> (zero)
>
> Medicine:
> 1960 - Peter Brian Medawar
> 1998 - Ferid Mourad
>
> TOTAL: 7 SEVEN
>
> The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000; that is FOURTEEN MILLION or about 0.02% of the world's population. They have received the following Nobel Prizes:
>
> Literature:
> 1910 - Paul Heyse
> 1927 - Henri Bergson
> 1958 - Boris Pasternak
> 1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon
> 1966 - Nelly Sachs
> 1976 - Saul Bellow
> 1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer
> 1981 - Elias Canetti
> 1987 - Joseph Brodsky
> 1991 - Nadine Gordimer World
>
> Peace:
> 1911 - Alfred Fried
> 1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser
> 1968 - Rene Cassin
> 1973 - Henry Kissinger
> 1978 - Menachem Begin
> 1986 - Elie Wiesel
> 1994 - Shimon Peres
> 1994 - Yitzhak Rabin
>
> Physics:
> 1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer
> 1906 - Henri Moissan
> 1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson
> 1908 - Gabriel Lippmann
> 1910 - Otto Wallach
> 1915 - Richard Willstaetter
> 1918 - Fritz Haber
> 1921 - Albert Einstein
> 1922 - Niels Bohr
> 1925 - James Franck
> 1925 - Gustav Hertz
> 1943 - Gustav Stern
> 1943 - George Charles de Hevesy
> 1944 - Isidor Issac Rabl
> 1952 - Felix Bloch
> 1954 - Max Born
> 1958 - Igor Tamm
> 1959 - Emilio Segre
> 1960 - Donald A. Glaser
> 1961 - Robert Hofstadter
> 1961 - Melvin Calvin
> 1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau
> 1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz
> 1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman
> 1965 - Julian Schwinger
> 1969 - Murray Gell-Mann
> 1971 - Dennis Gabor
> 1972 - William Howard Stein
> 1973 - Brian David Josephson
> 1975 - Benjamin Mottleson
> 1976 - Burton Richter
> 1977 - Ilya Prigogine
> 1978 - Arno Allan Pe nz ias
> 1978 - Peter L Kapitza
> 1979 - Stephen Weinberg
> 1979 - Sheldon Glashow
> 1979 - Herbert Charles Brown
> 1980 - Paul Berg
> 1980 - Walter Gilbert
> 1981 - Roald Hoffmann
> 1982 - Aaron Klug
> 1985 - Albert A. Hauptman
> 1985 - Jerome Karle
> 1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach
> 1988 - Robert Huber
> 1988 - Leon Lederman
> 1988 - Melvin Schwartz
> 1988 - Jack Steinberger
> 1989 - Sidney Altman
> 1990 - Jerome Friedman
> 1992 - Rudolph Marcus
> 1995 - Martin Perl
> 2000 - Alan J. Heeger
>
> Economics:
> 1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson
> 1971 - Simon Kuznets
> 1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow
> 1975 - Leonid Kantorovich
> 1976 - Milton Friedman
> 1978 - Herbert A. Simon
> 1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein
> 1985 - Franco Modigliani
> 1987 - Robert M. Solow
> 1990 - Harry Markowitz
> 1990 - Merton Miller
> 1992 - Gary Becker
> 1993 - Robert Fogel
>
> Medicine:
> 1908 - Elie Metchnikoff
> 1908 - Paul Erlich
> 1914 - Robert Barany
> 1922 - Otto Meyerhof
> 1930 - Karl Landsteiner
> 1931 - Otto Warburg
> 1936 - Otto Loewi
> 1944 - Joseph Erlanger
> 1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser
> 1945 - Ernst Boris Chain
> 1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller
> 1950 - Tadeus Reichstein
> 1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman
> 1953 - Hans Krebs
> 1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann
> 1958 - Joshua Lederberg
> 1959 - Arthur Kornberg
> 1964 - Konrad Bloch
> 1965 - Francois Jacob
> 1965 - Andre Lwoff
> 1967 - George Wald
> 1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg
> 1969 - Salvador Luria
> 1970 - Julius Axelrod
> 1970 - Sir Bernard Katz
> 1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman
> 1975 - Howard Martin Temin
> 1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg
> 1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow
> 1978 - Daniel Nathans
> 1980 - Baruj Benacerraf
> 1984 - Cesar Milstein
> 1985 - Michael Stuart Brown
> 1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein
> 1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]
> 1988 - Gertrude Elion
> 1989 - Harold Varmus
> 1991 - Erwin Neher
> 1991 - Bert Sakmann
> 1993 - Richard J. Robert s
> 1993 - Phillip Sharp
> 1994 - Alfred Gilman
> 1995 - Edward B. Lewis
> 1996- Lu RoseIacovino
>
> TOTAL: 129
>
> The Jews are NOT promoting brain washing children in military training camps, teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths of Jews and other non Muslims. The Jews don't hijack planes, nor kill athletes at the Olympics, or blow themselves up in German restaurants. There is NOT one single Jew who has destroyed a church. There is NOT a single Jew who protests by killing people.
>
> The Jews don't traffic slaves, or have leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the Infidels.
>
> Perhaps the world's Muslims should consider investing more in standard education and less in blaming the Jews for all their problems.
>
> Muslims must ask 'what can they do for humankind' before they demand that humankind respects them.
>
> Regardless of your feelings about the crisis between Israel and the Palestinians and Arab neighbors, even if you believe there is more culpability on Israel 's part, the following two sentences really say it all:
>
> "If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel ." - Benjamin Netanyahu
>
>
> General Eisenhower warned us. It is a matter of history that when the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Dwight Eisenhower, found the victims of the death camps he ordered all possible photographs to be taken, and for the German people from surrounding villages to be ushered through the camps and even made to bury the dead.
>
> He did this because he said in words to this effect:
>
> 'Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened'
>
> Recently, the UK debated whether to remove The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it 'offends' the Muslim population, which claims it never occurred. It is not removed as yet. However, this is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world and how easily each country is giving into it.
>
> It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended. This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the 6 million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians, and 1,900 Catholic priests who were 'murdered, raped, burned, starved, beaten, experimented on and humiliated' while the German people looked the other way.
>
> Now, more than ever, with Iran , among others, claiming the Holocaust to be 'a myth,' it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets.

Monday, November 28, 2011

SUBMARINE-USS NEBRASKA
 
 
I HOPE THAT THIS OPENS FOR YOU--SOME AMAZING PICTURES OF AN "OHIO" CLASS SUBMARINE.  MANY THINGS I'M SURE THAT MOST OF US NEVER KNEW OR DREAMED OF. 
  
 
 
 

 
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Flowers

As I drove out of Lake Ashton just past the guard house, we notice the beautiful flowers on the right hand side and talk on how lovely they were.  The next day they were dug up and new ones were being planted.  What is going on here?  Money is just being throw away.  Sounds like a kickback to me.  Who is in charged? This place is changing fast and everyone is turning a blind eye.  The CDD committee is a circus, no education, no experience,  just big spenders.

Sunday, November 27, 2011

I paid, did you?


KEEP PASSING THIS AROUND UNTIL EVERY ONE HAS READ IT.....
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT
THE ONLY THING WRONG WITH THIS CALCULATION IS THEY FORGOT TO FIGURE IN THE PEOPLE WHO DIED BEFORE THEY COLLECTED THEIR SOCIAL SECURITY!!!! WHERE DID THAT MONEY GO?????????????
This was sent to me, I am forwarding it because it does touch a nerve in me..


Get angry and pass this on!


Remember, not only did you contribute to Social Security but your employer did too. It totaled 15% of your income before taxes. If you averaged only $30K over your working life, that's close to $220,500.


If you calculate the future value of $4,500 per year (yours & your employer's contribution) at a simple 5% (less than what the govt. pays on the money that it borrows), after 49 years of working you'd have $892,919.98.


If you took out only 3% per year, you'd receive $26,787.60 per year and it would last better than 30 years (until you're 95 if you retire at age 65) and that's with no interest paid on that final amount on deposit! If you bought an annuity and it paid 4% per year, you'd have a lifetime income of $2,976.40 per month.


The folks in Washington have pulled off a bigger Ponzi scheme than Bernie Madhoff ever had.


Entitlement my butt, I paid cash for my social security insurance!!!! Just because they borrowed the money, doesn't make my benefits some kind of charity or handout!!


Congressional benefits ---- free healthcare, outrageous retirement packages, 67 paid holidays, three weeks paid vacation, unlimited paid sick days, now that's welfare, and they have the nerve to call my social security retirement entitlements?


We're "broke" and can't help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, Homeless


In the last months we have provided aid to Haiti ,Chile , and Turkey . And now Pakistan ......home of bin Laden. Literally, BILLIONS of DOLLARS!!!


Our retired seniors living on a 'fixed income' receive no aid nor do they get any breaks while our government and religious organizations pour Hundreds of Billions of $$$$$$'s and Tons of Food to Foreign Countries!


They call Social Security and Medicare an entitlement even though most of us have been paying for it all our working lives and now when it’s time for us to collect, the government is running out of money. Why did the government borrow from it in the first place? Imagine if the *GOVERNMENT* gave 'US' the same support they give to other countries.


Sad isn't it?


99% of people won't have the guts to forward this.


I'm one of the 1% -- I Just Did.


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Today's Trivia Question was submitted by:

Mary Gibson
Virginia, USA


Ailurophobia is the fear of what type of animal?

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