Finance vs. IT… That’s me second from the back.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Our Rules of Engagement
In other words, here's how we play.
We build vital, on-going, expanding relationships.
We exceed expectations for service.
We consistently challenge ourselves to participate in the bigger game.
We operate in a highly productive and efficient way.
We leverage our strengths.
We are respectfully nice.
Silence means we’re OK with what’s going on.
We communicate richly, with open systems, updates, questions, clarifications, and ideas.
We practice what we preach.
We bring joyful engagement to our work and our lives (aka we have fun!)
We support the personal and professional development of each of us.
We support creative conscious risk-taking.
It’s safe for all of us to explore, express, and move on.
We share what we learn.
We support the health and well being of each of us.
We recognize and act as if we are all alone in this together.
We honor and use our intuitive truth, using the highest good of all concerned as our primary reference point.
We call upon our spiritual source in our work.
In our day-to-day interactions our intention is a sincere connection with those whom we serve.
We donate what resources we can to people doing good work.
We generate healthy profitability and reinvest to fund growth.
We keep our principles alive and well, and we honor them in our practices.
We support our positive vitality by inviting, hearing, and integrating feedback about how we're doing, individually and organizationally.
We encourage each of us to manifest our greatness and serve its source.
We focus our energy where it produces the most value.
We build vital, on-going, expanding relationships.
We exceed expectations for service.
We consistently challenge ourselves to participate in the bigger game.
We operate in a highly productive and efficient way.
We leverage our strengths.
We are respectfully nice.
Silence means we’re OK with what’s going on.
We communicate richly, with open systems, updates, questions, clarifications, and ideas.
We practice what we preach.
We bring joyful engagement to our work and our lives (aka we have fun!)
We support the personal and professional development of each of us.
We support creative conscious risk-taking.
It’s safe for all of us to explore, express, and move on.
We share what we learn.
We support the health and well being of each of us.
We recognize and act as if we are all alone in this together.
We honor and use our intuitive truth, using the highest good of all concerned as our primary reference point.
We call upon our spiritual source in our work.
In our day-to-day interactions our intention is a sincere connection with those whom we serve.
We donate what resources we can to people doing good work.
We generate healthy profitability and reinvest to fund growth.
We keep our principles alive and well, and we honor them in our practices.
We support our positive vitality by inviting, hearing, and integrating feedback about how we're doing, individually and organizationally.
We encourage each of us to manifest our greatness and serve its source.
We focus our energy where it produces the most value.
Saturday, May 10, 2008
In just one year. Remember the election in 2006?
A little over one year ago:
1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%.
Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have seen:
1) Consumer confidence plummet;
2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3.50 a gallon;
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);
5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars;
6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosu re.&nb sp;
America voted for change in 2006, and we go t it!&n bsp;
Remember it's Congress that makes law not the President.
He has to work with what's handed to him.
Taxes...Whether Democrat or a Republican you will find these statistics enlightening and amazing.
www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.html
Taxes under Clinton 1999 Taxes unde r Bush 2008
Single making 30K - tax $8,400 Single making 30K - tax $4,500
Single making 50K - tax $14,000 Single making 50K - tax $12,500
Single making 75K - tax $23,250 Single making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 60K - tax $16,800 Married making 60K- tax $9,000
Married making 75K - tax $21,000 Married making 75K - tax $18,750 Married making 125K - tax $38,750 Married making 125K - tax $31,250
Both democratic canidates will return to the higher tax rates. It is amazing how many people that fall into the categories above think Bush is screwing them and Bill Clinton was the greatest President ever. If Obama or Hillary are elected, they both say they will repeal the Bush tax cuts and a good portion of the people that fall into the categories above can't wait for it to happen. This is like the movie The Sting with Paul Newman; you scam somebody out of some money and they don't even know what happened.
You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much?
Boy am I confused. I have been hammered with the propaganda that it
is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us.
I now find that to be RIDICULOUS.
I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again
until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them. I
have included the URL's for verification of all the following facts.
1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens
each year by state governments.
Verify at:http://tinyurl.com/zob77
2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs
such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
Verify at:http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
Verify at:http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school
education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.html
5 $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the
American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
Verify athttp://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
Verify at:http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
Verify at:http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
8 $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare &
social services by the American taxpayers.
Verify at: http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html
9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused
by the illegal aliens.
Verify at:http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate
that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular,
their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US
Verify at:http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html
11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens
that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens
from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin
and mariju ana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border.
Verify at: Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl.com/t9sht
12. The National Policy Institute, 'estimated that the total
cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average
cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.'
Verify at: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf
13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances
back to their countries of origin.
Verify at:http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm
14. 'The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million
Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States.'
Verify at:http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml
The total cost is a whopping $338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.
Are we THAT stupid?
A little over one year ago:
1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%.
Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have seen:
1) Consumer confidence plummet;
2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3.50 a gallon;
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);
5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars;
6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosu re.&nb sp;
America voted for change in 2006, and we go t it!&n bsp;
Remember it's Congress that makes law not the President.
He has to work with what's handed to him.
Taxes...Whether Democrat or a Republican you will find these statistics enlightening and amazing.
www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.html
Taxes under Clinton 1999 Taxes unde r Bush 2008
Single making 30K - tax $8,400 Single making 30K - tax $4,500
Single making 50K - tax $14,000 Single making 50K - tax $12,500
Single making 75K - tax $23,250 Single making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 60K - tax $16,800 Married making 60K- tax $9,000
Married making 75K - tax $21,000 Married making 75K - tax $18,750 Married making 125K - tax $38,750 Married making 125K - tax $31,250
Both democratic canidates will return to the higher tax rates. It is amazing how many people that fall into the categories above think Bush is screwing them and Bill Clinton was the greatest President ever. If Obama or Hillary are elected, they both say they will repeal the Bush tax cuts and a good portion of the people that fall into the categories above can't wait for it to happen. This is like the movie The Sting with Paul Newman; you scam somebody out of some money and they don't even know what happened.
You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much?
Boy am I confused. I have been hammered with the propaganda that it
is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us.
I now find that to be RIDICULOUS.
I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again
until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them. I
have included the URL's for verification of all the following facts.
1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens
each year by state governments.
Verify at:http://tinyurl.com/zob77
2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs
such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
Verify at:http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
Verify at:http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school
education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.html
5 $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the
American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
Verify athttp://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
Verify at:http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
Verify at:http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
8 $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare &
social services by the American taxpayers.
Verify at: http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html
9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused
by the illegal aliens.
Verify at:http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate
that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular,
their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US
Verify at:http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html
11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens
that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens
from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin
and mariju ana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border.
Verify at: Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl.com/t9sht
12. The National Policy Institute, 'estimated that the total
cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average
cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.'
Verify at: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf
13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances
back to their countries of origin.
Verify at:http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm
14. 'The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million
Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States.'
Verify at:http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml
The total cost is a whopping $338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.
Are we THAT stupid?
Friday, April 18, 2008
Monday, March 10, 2008
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Friday, December 28, 2007
Tireless Efforts Fortify Historical Landmark
A new visitors center is breathing life into Nashville landmark Fort Negley.
For as long as Jim Kay can remember, the historic Civil War site of Fort Negley has been in ruins — just a pile of rocks and honeysuckle overgrowth on top of a hill.
“When I was growing up in the 1960s, that's where all the homeless men and railroad bums would stay. That's just where they lived,” Kay said. “It had a padlock on it, and it wasn't open to the public because it was impassable.”
Until now.
Through the 15-year-long efforts by people like Kay, who is the president of the Battle of Nashville Preservation Society; the administrations of former mayors Phil Bredesen and Bill Purcell; historians; Civil War hobbyists and descendants of Civil War soldiers, Fort Negley is now honored and marked by the new Fort Negley Visitors Center.
"To have that fort, which was totally ruined and an eye sore to Nashville all fixed up and opened to the public and for the government to have funded the improvements is just incredible," Kay said. "The visitors center is well done and blends into the hill. It's a first-class place for tourists or a Nashvillian to visit."
Seated atop St. Cloud Hill roughly two miles from downtown, Fort Negley was the largest and most important fortification built by Union troops after their occupation of Nashville in 1862.
The fort, seated at the center of the Union defensive line, was monumental in the Union's ability to hold control of Nashville — an important river and rail supply distribution hub — and ultimately win the war.
But, after the Civil War ended in 1865, Union forces withdrew from Nashville and the fort fell to disrepair.
In the 1930s, new life was breathed into Fort Negley when the Works Progress Administration reconstructed parts of the fort and added a road, stone entrance gates and recreation facilities, but over time these efforts also became neglected.
Thus, for the last half-century, few knew Fort Negley existed or of its significance — even with its location saddled between Greer Stadium and the Adventure Science Center.
The new visitors’ center was designed by David Curry, the executive director of Travellers Rest Plantation and Museum, and features interactive exhibits with photos, audio recordings by descendants and artifacts that explain the design and construction of the fort; the role of conscript laborers, the United States Colored Troops, and ordinary citizens in building the fort; the effects of sudden occupation on Nashville; the importance of the occupation and the activities of the Union Army; the Battle of Nashville; and more.
The $1 million facility has a small multipurpose theater to play the documentary, The Fall of Nashville, which is an introduction to the occupation of Nashville, the need for fortifications and Fort Negley's demise.
The film is narrated by country music star and Civil War buff, Kix Brooks, of Brooks & Dunn fame.
Relatives will be able to search the national Soldier and Sailor Database to look up their Civil War ancestor and find out which army and company they fought for and where.
The Fort Negley Visitors Center not only preserves a historical legacy from natural decay and development, but is key in helping Nashvillians understand their city's past, Curry said.
"It's part of a quality of life issue. [The story of Fort Negley] is a very important past, and I think it's important for Nashvillians to continue to learn about that period of our history and a great place to do that is at the historic places that still remain," Curry said. "Talk is that Nashville is becoming the next Atlanta. Atlanta completely wiped out almost all of its historical landscape — the historical places are gone — so in many ways that historical past is gone. In Nashville, it's not lost, just forgotten, and Fort Negley helps us reclaim that past."
Curry said people might be surprised by what they learn, especially with two little understood facts.
The first is the importance of Nashville to the Union Army and its operations in the Western theater.
"Tens of thousands of Union troops went through this city during the war, and using Nashville as the base of operations allowed them to really control much of the state and eventually led to the end of the war," Curry said. "Without Nashville, it would have been much more difficult for them to win the war."
The second, is that almost all of the fortification city was built by the labor of slaves, black refugees and free blacks.
"I think that people today believe that when the war began and with the Emancipation Proclamation, all slaves were freed, but Tennessee was exempt, so blacks' legal status did not change. When the Union Army occupied Nashville, African Americans moved from one master to another — they went from a Southern master to a Northern master. They were still slaves because the war did not begin to free slaves, it began to preserve the Union, so the Union Army was much less interested in freeing slaves and they used them to build the fortifications around the city," Curry said.
Fort Negley Visitors Center
1100 Fort Negley Blvd. (off Chestnut Street)
Hours: 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday
For as long as Jim Kay can remember, the historic Civil War site of Fort Negley has been in ruins — just a pile of rocks and honeysuckle overgrowth on top of a hill.
“When I was growing up in the 1960s, that's where all the homeless men and railroad bums would stay. That's just where they lived,” Kay said. “It had a padlock on it, and it wasn't open to the public because it was impassable.”
Until now.
Through the 15-year-long efforts by people like Kay, who is the president of the Battle of Nashville Preservation Society; the administrations of former mayors Phil Bredesen and Bill Purcell; historians; Civil War hobbyists and descendants of Civil War soldiers, Fort Negley is now honored and marked by the new Fort Negley Visitors Center.
"To have that fort, which was totally ruined and an eye sore to Nashville all fixed up and opened to the public and for the government to have funded the improvements is just incredible," Kay said. "The visitors center is well done and blends into the hill. It's a first-class place for tourists or a Nashvillian to visit."
Seated atop St. Cloud Hill roughly two miles from downtown, Fort Negley was the largest and most important fortification built by Union troops after their occupation of Nashville in 1862.
The fort, seated at the center of the Union defensive line, was monumental in the Union's ability to hold control of Nashville — an important river and rail supply distribution hub — and ultimately win the war.
But, after the Civil War ended in 1865, Union forces withdrew from Nashville and the fort fell to disrepair.
In the 1930s, new life was breathed into Fort Negley when the Works Progress Administration reconstructed parts of the fort and added a road, stone entrance gates and recreation facilities, but over time these efforts also became neglected.
Thus, for the last half-century, few knew Fort Negley existed or of its significance — even with its location saddled between Greer Stadium and the Adventure Science Center.
The new visitors’ center was designed by David Curry, the executive director of Travellers Rest Plantation and Museum, and features interactive exhibits with photos, audio recordings by descendants and artifacts that explain the design and construction of the fort; the role of conscript laborers, the United States Colored Troops, and ordinary citizens in building the fort; the effects of sudden occupation on Nashville; the importance of the occupation and the activities of the Union Army; the Battle of Nashville; and more.
The $1 million facility has a small multipurpose theater to play the documentary, The Fall of Nashville, which is an introduction to the occupation of Nashville, the need for fortifications and Fort Negley's demise.
The film is narrated by country music star and Civil War buff, Kix Brooks, of Brooks & Dunn fame.
Relatives will be able to search the national Soldier and Sailor Database to look up their Civil War ancestor and find out which army and company they fought for and where.
The Fort Negley Visitors Center not only preserves a historical legacy from natural decay and development, but is key in helping Nashvillians understand their city's past, Curry said.
"It's part of a quality of life issue. [The story of Fort Negley] is a very important past, and I think it's important for Nashvillians to continue to learn about that period of our history and a great place to do that is at the historic places that still remain," Curry said. "Talk is that Nashville is becoming the next Atlanta. Atlanta completely wiped out almost all of its historical landscape — the historical places are gone — so in many ways that historical past is gone. In Nashville, it's not lost, just forgotten, and Fort Negley helps us reclaim that past."
Curry said people might be surprised by what they learn, especially with two little understood facts.
The first is the importance of Nashville to the Union Army and its operations in the Western theater.
"Tens of thousands of Union troops went through this city during the war, and using Nashville as the base of operations allowed them to really control much of the state and eventually led to the end of the war," Curry said. "Without Nashville, it would have been much more difficult for them to win the war."
The second, is that almost all of the fortification city was built by the labor of slaves, black refugees and free blacks.
"I think that people today believe that when the war began and with the Emancipation Proclamation, all slaves were freed, but Tennessee was exempt, so blacks' legal status did not change. When the Union Army occupied Nashville, African Americans moved from one master to another — they went from a Southern master to a Northern master. They were still slaves because the war did not begin to free slaves, it began to preserve the Union, so the Union Army was much less interested in freeing slaves and they used them to build the fortifications around the city," Curry said.
Fort Negley Visitors Center
1100 Fort Negley Blvd. (off Chestnut Street)
Hours: 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Leadership
Leadership is about the transformation of reality, not just the passive acquiescence to it. A leader transmutes anxieties into passion for creating another future or new options. A leader does not just pacify or allay the fears. A leader realizes fear is trapped energy. A leader's job is to marshal that fear and focus it into a more productive set of emotions and actions.
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Sunday, November 04, 2007
The Other Vette... Chevette!
What do you get when 3 worlds collide... the Chevette, the pinewood derby car, and the dukes of hazzard all in one neat little package!
Buy a Chevette
And then there's the ultimate in power... the 76 Vega GT being driven by Paul...
Buy a Chevette
And then there's the ultimate in power... the 76 Vega GT being driven by Paul...
Friday, November 02, 2007
And now take a trip with us down memory lane...
Please take some time to enjoy this review of class, sophistication, and charm as exhibited in our 1977 JC Penney Catalog
Our next dining room set, which is apparently made by adding upholstery to old barrels:
Also, we am totally getting this for my bathroom:
Here's how to get your butt kicked in elementary school:
Just look at that belt. He probably needed help just to lift it into place. The belt loops have to be three inches long. And way to pull them up to your armpits, grandpa.
Here's how to get your butt kicked in high school:
This kid looks like he's pretending to be David Soul, who is pretending to be a cop who is pretending to be a pimp that everyone knows is really an undercover cop. Who is pretending to be 15.
Here's how to get your butt kicked on the golf course:
This "all purpose jumpsuit" is, according to the description, equally appropriate for playing golf or simply relaxing around the house. Personally, I can't see wearing this unless you happen to be relaxing around your cell in D-block.
Here's how to get your butt kicked pretty much anywhere:
Here's how to get your butt kicked at the beach:
He looks like he's reaching for a gun, but you know it's probably just a bottle of suntan lotion in a holster.
How to get your butt kicked in a meeting:
If you wear this suit and don't sell used cars for a living, I believe you can be fined and face serious repercussions, up to and including termination. Or imprisonment, in which case you'd be forced to wear that orange jumpsuit.
How to get your butt kicked on every day up to and including St. Patrick's Day
Dear god in heaven, I don't believe that color exists in nature. There is NO excuse for wearing either of these ensembles unless you're working as a body guard for the Lucky Charms leprechaun.
In this next one, Your Search For VALUE Ends at Penneys.
As does your search for chest hair.
And this -- Seriously. No words.
Also, judging by the sheer amount of matching his/hers outfits, I'm guessing that in 1977 it was considered pretty stylish for couples to dress alike. These couples look happy, don't they?
We am especially fond of this one, which we have entitled "Cowboy Chachi Loves You Best."
And nothing showcases your everlasting love more than the commitment of matching bathing suits.
Then, matching terry cloth jumpsuits:
Man, that's sexy.
Our next dining room set, which is apparently made by adding upholstery to old barrels:
Also, we am totally getting this for my bathroom:
Here's how to get your butt kicked in elementary school:
Just look at that belt. He probably needed help just to lift it into place. The belt loops have to be three inches long. And way to pull them up to your armpits, grandpa.
Here's how to get your butt kicked in high school:
This kid looks like he's pretending to be David Soul, who is pretending to be a cop who is pretending to be a pimp that everyone knows is really an undercover cop. Who is pretending to be 15.
Here's how to get your butt kicked on the golf course:
This "all purpose jumpsuit" is, according to the description, equally appropriate for playing golf or simply relaxing around the house. Personally, I can't see wearing this unless you happen to be relaxing around your cell in D-block.
Here's how to get your butt kicked pretty much anywhere:
Here's how to get your butt kicked at the beach:
He looks like he's reaching for a gun, but you know it's probably just a bottle of suntan lotion in a holster.
How to get your butt kicked in a meeting:
If you wear this suit and don't sell used cars for a living, I believe you can be fined and face serious repercussions, up to and including termination. Or imprisonment, in which case you'd be forced to wear that orange jumpsuit.
How to get your butt kicked on every day up to and including St. Patrick's Day
Dear god in heaven, I don't believe that color exists in nature. There is NO excuse for wearing either of these ensembles unless you're working as a body guard for the Lucky Charms leprechaun.
In this next one, Your Search For VALUE Ends at Penneys.
As does your search for chest hair.
And this -- Seriously. No words.
Also, judging by the sheer amount of matching his/hers outfits, I'm guessing that in 1977 it was considered pretty stylish for couples to dress alike. These couples look happy, don't they?
We am especially fond of this one, which we have entitled "Cowboy Chachi Loves You Best."
And nothing showcases your everlasting love more than the commitment of matching bathing suits.
Then, matching terry cloth jumpsuits:
Man, that's sexy.
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Wisdom for the Day
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
If I Were the Devil
By Paul Harvey
I would gain control of the most powerful nation in the world;
I would delude their minds into thinking that they had come from man's effort, instead of God's blessings;
I would promote an attitude of loving things and using people, instead of the other way around;
I would dupe entire states into relying on gambling for their state revenue;
I would convince people that character is not an issue when it comes to leadership;
I would make it legal to take the life of unborn babies;
I would make it socially acceptable to take one's own life, and invent machines to make it convenient;
I would cheapen human life as much as possible so that life of animals are valued more than human beings;
I would take God out of the schools, where even the mention of His name was grounds for a lawsuit;
I would come up with drugs that sedate the mind and target the young, and I would get sports heroes to advertise them;
I would get control of the media, so that every night I could pollute the minds of every family member for my agenda;
I would attack then family, the backbone of any nation. I would make divorce acceptable and easy, even fashionable. If the family crumbles, so does the nation;
I would compel people to express their most depraved fantasies on canvas and movies screens, and I would call it art;
I would convince the world that people are born homosexuals, and that their lifestyles should be accepted and marveled;
I would convince the people that right and wrong are determined by a few who call themselves authorities and refer to their agendas as politically correct;
I would persuade people that the church is irrelevant and out of date, the Bible is for the naive:
I would dull the minds of Christians, and make them believe that prayer is not important, and that faithfulness and obedience are optional;
I GUESS I WOULD LEAVE THINGS PRETTY MUCH THE WAY THEY ARE!
I would gain control of the most powerful nation in the world;
I would delude their minds into thinking that they had come from man's effort, instead of God's blessings;
I would promote an attitude of loving things and using people, instead of the other way around;
I would dupe entire states into relying on gambling for their state revenue;
I would convince people that character is not an issue when it comes to leadership;
I would make it legal to take the life of unborn babies;
I would make it socially acceptable to take one's own life, and invent machines to make it convenient;
I would cheapen human life as much as possible so that life of animals are valued more than human beings;
I would take God out of the schools, where even the mention of His name was grounds for a lawsuit;
I would come up with drugs that sedate the mind and target the young, and I would get sports heroes to advertise them;
I would get control of the media, so that every night I could pollute the minds of every family member for my agenda;
I would attack then family, the backbone of any nation. I would make divorce acceptable and easy, even fashionable. If the family crumbles, so does the nation;
I would compel people to express their most depraved fantasies on canvas and movies screens, and I would call it art;
I would convince the world that people are born homosexuals, and that their lifestyles should be accepted and marveled;
I would convince the people that right and wrong are determined by a few who call themselves authorities and refer to their agendas as politically correct;
I would persuade people that the church is irrelevant and out of date, the Bible is for the naive:
I would dull the minds of Christians, and make them believe that prayer is not important, and that faithfulness and obedience are optional;
I GUESS I WOULD LEAVE THINGS PRETTY MUCH THE WAY THEY ARE!
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
God's Coffee
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to Visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into Complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee.. The professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of Coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, Some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the profess or said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up,
leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the Coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the Cup, but you consciously went for the best cups...And then you began eyeing each other's cups.
"Now consider this: Life is the coffee: the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life, and
The type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us." God brews the coffee, not the Cups..........
Enjoy your coffee! "The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything."
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest To GOD.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the profess or said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up,
leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the Coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the Cup, but you consciously went for the best cups...And then you began eyeing each other's cups.
"Now consider this: Life is the coffee: the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life, and
The type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us." God brews the coffee, not the Cups..........
Enjoy your coffee! "The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything."
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest To GOD.
The Beatitudes of (our) Marriage
Blessed are the husband and wife who continue to be affectionate, considerate, and loving after the wedding bells have ceased ringing.
Blessed are the husband and wife who are as polite and courteous to one another as they are to their friends.
Blessed are they who love their mates more than any other person in the world, and who joyfully fulfill their marriage vow of a lifetime of fidelity and mutual helpfulness to one another.
Blessed are they who attain parenthood, for children are a heritage of the Lord.
Blessed are they who remember to thank God for their food before they partake of it, and who set apart some time each day for the reading of the Bible and for prayer.
Blessed are those mates who never speak loudly to one another, and who make their home a place "where seldom is heard a discouraging word."
Blessed are the husband and wife who faithfully attend the worship service of the church, and who work together in the church for the advancement of Christ's kingdom.
Blessed are the husband and wife who can work out the problems of adjustment without interference from relatives.
Blessed is the couple which has complete understanding about financial matters, and have worked out a perfect partnership, with all money under the control of both.
Blessed are the husband and wife who humbly dedicate their lives and their homes to Christ, and who practice the teachings of Christ in the home by being unselfish, loyal and loving.
Blessed are the husband and wife who are as polite and courteous to one another as they are to their friends.
Blessed are they who love their mates more than any other person in the world, and who joyfully fulfill their marriage vow of a lifetime of fidelity and mutual helpfulness to one another.
Blessed are they who attain parenthood, for children are a heritage of the Lord.
Blessed are they who remember to thank God for their food before they partake of it, and who set apart some time each day for the reading of the Bible and for prayer.
Blessed are those mates who never speak loudly to one another, and who make their home a place "where seldom is heard a discouraging word."
Blessed are the husband and wife who faithfully attend the worship service of the church, and who work together in the church for the advancement of Christ's kingdom.
Blessed are the husband and wife who can work out the problems of adjustment without interference from relatives.
Blessed is the couple which has complete understanding about financial matters, and have worked out a perfect partnership, with all money under the control of both.
Blessed are the husband and wife who humbly dedicate their lives and their homes to Christ, and who practice the teachings of Christ in the home by being unselfish, loyal and loving.
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