First it was the gas pedal problem, now it’s brake failure. With the gas pedal stuck and the brakes not working, i guess you can say there’s no stopping a Toyota. But wait!…. they now give new buyers a $1,000 Loyalty Rebate. All is well after all. Hurry, before the rebates go away. If you do feel the need to hurry, just get in your Prius, Camry, or Corolla. You’re bound to get there faster, no doubt…
Whether you’re from the north or down south, it’s been cold pretty much everywhere. Makes me wanna visit the carribean islands one more time. But since I don’t have the time and money right now, this beat will do…
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Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind;
Teach us to be patient and always to be kind. – Helen Steiner Rice
Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year. - P.J. O’Rourke
Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it. - Richard Lamm
Christmas is the season when you buy this year’s gifts with next year’s money.
And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled ’till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more. - Dr. Seuss
From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it. - Katharine Whitehorn
He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. - Roy L. Smith
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. - Charles Dickens
If “ifs” and “buts” were candy and nuts, wouldn’t it be a Merry Christmas? - Don Meredith
Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall. - Larry Wilde, The Merry Book of Christmas
Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money. - Author Unknown
The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn’t for any religious reasons. They couldn’t find three wise men and a virgin. - Jay Leno
There has been only one Christmas – the rest are anniversaries. - W.J. Cameron
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? – G.K. Chesterton
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No matter how you say it, this one never gets old - “Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!”
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The holidays brings with it a spirit of giving and family get-togethers. But it’s also one of the most sobering times of the year for those who are down on their luck, or have lost a loved one, or facing a life-threatening situation. It’s been a little of both happy and sad for me. It’s great to be with my family once again being away for most of the year. But the prospect of retiring from the military brings about fears with the current job market, which happens to be very unpromising and unforgiving. For those of you about to look for a job or a second job to make ends meet, you know what i mean. But after struggling with worry and fear for a few days now, i’ve found true comfort in nothing else but the Word of God, specifically Matthew 6:24-34. With the economy lingering in the doldrums, and unemployment rates rising to an all-time high in 26 years, most of the country probably shares my own personal fears and predicament. Interestingly enough, divorce rates are at an all-time low and families are pulling together to make the best of times. In the midst of all the gloom, there is still hope and faith in God and family. Makes you wonder if God is just trying to get our attention after all…
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” Matthew 6:25-34
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NOBODY REMEMBERS OBAMA AT COLUMBIA
10/18/2009 by Alan Peters
Looking for evidence of Obama’s past, Fox News contacted 400 Columbia University students from the period when Obama claims to have been there, but none remembered him.
Wayne Allyn Root was, like Obama, a political science major at Columbia who also graduated in 1983. In 2008, Root says of Obama, “I don’t know a single person at Columbia that knew him, and they all know me.
I don’t have a classmate who ever knew Barack Obama at Columbia. Ever! Nobody recalls him. I’m not exaggerating, I’m not kidding.” Root adds that he was also, like Obama, “Class of ‘83 political science, pre-law” and says, “You don’t get more exact or closer than that. Never met him in my life, don’t know anyone who ever met him.
At the class reunion, our 20th reunion five years ago, who was asked to be the speaker of the class? Me.
No one ever heard of Barack! And five years ago, nobody even knew who he was. The guy who writes the class notes, who’s kind of the, as we say in New York, the macha who knows everybody, has yet to find a person, a human who ever met him. Is that not strange?
It’s very strange.” Obama’s photograph does not appear in the school’s yearbook and Obama consistently declines requests to talk about his years at Columbia, provide school records, or provide the name of any former classmates or friends while at Columbia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Allyn_Root#column-one
NOTE: Root graduated as Valedictorian from his high school, Thornton-Donovan School, then graduated from Columbia University in 1983 as a Political Science major (in the same class as President Barack Obama WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN IN)
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When Chuck Norris does a push-up, he isn’t pushing himself up.
He’s pushing the earth down.
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had to correct the caption for this, it happened in Connecticut instead of California. Thanks to Robert…
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Below is a photograph taken by an Associated Press news reporter. The picture was taken during one of the three-day work weeks in the Connecticut legislature. These are the folks who couldn’t pass a state budget. The reason? One has to see it for one’s self, and every Connecticut taxpayer MUST definitely see it! Nothing else needs to be said. The picture is indeed worth a thousand words!
Standing in the far right and speaking is House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero J r. (R-Norwalk), while his colleagues - Rep. Barbara Lambert, (D-Milford) and Rep. J ack F. Hennessy, (D-Bridgeport) – played solitaire as the House convened to vote on a new budget. The guy sitting in the row in front of Lambert and Hennessy was on Facebook, and the guy behind Hennessy was checking the baseball scores.
They did not have the time to read the bills which they voted on, but they surely had the time to play Solitaire and check the baseball scores while supposedly serving the people and being paid by the people’s taxes. One has to wonder whether the same is happening in other state legislatures and in the U.S. Congress!
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Did we really save and create jobs with the stimulus package passed by our government months ago? Well, tomorrow the White House will be releasing some stats on jobs in America. But while you’re waiting for the results, here’s a short clip on what happened in the month of June alone. Stimulating, isn’t it?
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