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"Daily Motivations"

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent! -- Norman Augustine



"The Patriot Post"

"No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant." --George Washington

"Americans now know that the 'change we can believe in,' which President Obama promised, means a taxes-optional administration." -- columnist Debra Saunders



And from The White House and Capitol Hill ........

Belly laugh of the week: "The bar that we set is the highest that any administration in the country has ever set." -- White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs

Belly laugh of the week II: "I didn't come here to be partisan, I didn't come here to be bipartisan. I came here ... to be nonpartisan, to work for the American people, to do what is in their interest." -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)

Unbelievable: "Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package, 500 million Americans lose their jobs. I don't think we can go fast enough." -- Nancy Pelosi

More socialism: "If it was left up to me ... I would nationalize the whole [mortgage] industry." -- Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA)



"Simple Truths"

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for 30 years she served us nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. -- Calvin Trillin

My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping. -- Rita Rudner



"The Web"

This is a very good condensed lesson in Government. - A must to see! - oyh

http://www.wimp.com/thegovernment/



McCotter Decrying Stimulus "Fiscal Obscenity" on House Floor - A "must" see and hear. - oyh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o8bwc2AdCo&feature=channel_page



Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World

http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=Rooyt3ptNco&feature=email




Wireless, Over 200 Years Ago?

After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, New York scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion, that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago.

Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, in the weeks that followed, a California archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet, and shortly after, a story in the LA Times read: 'California archaeologists, finding traces of 200 year old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than the New Yorkers.'

One week later, The Daily Oklahoman, a local newspaper in Oklahoma, reported the following: After digging as deep as 300 feet in his pasture near Mustang, Oklahoma , Bubba Mitchell, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing. Bubba has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, Oklahoma had already gone wireless.

Thank God for Bubba. Who said Okies were hicks?



Subj: Quote for the day!

"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it." -- The late Dr. Adrian Rogers , 1931 to 2005



THE TEACHER

After being interviewed by the school administration, the eager teaching prospect said: "Let me see if I've got this right. You want me to go into that room with all those kids, and fill their every waking moment with a love for learning. And I'm supposed to instill a sense of pride in their ethnicity, modify their disruptive behavior, observe them for signs of abuse and even censor their t-shirt messages and dress habits. You want me to wage a war on drugs and sexually transmitted diseases, check their backpacks for weapons of mass destruction, and raise their self esteem.

You want me to teach them patriotism, good citizenship, sportsmanship, fair play, how to register to vote, how to balance a checkbook, and how to apply for a job. I am to check their heads for lice, maintain a safe environment, recognize signs of anti-social behavior, offer advice, write letters of recommendation for student employment and scholarships, encourage respect for the cultural diversity of others, and oh, make sure that I give the girls in my class fifty percent of my attention.

My contract requires me to work on my own time after school, evenings and weekends grading papers. Also, I must spend my summer vacation at my own expense working toward advance certification and a Masters degree.

And on my own time you want me to attend committee and faculty meetings, PTA meetings, and participate in staff development training. I am to be a paragon of virtue, larger than life, such that my very presence will awe my students into being obedient and respectful of authority. And I am to pledge allegiance to family values and this current administration. You want me to incorporate technology into the learning experience, monitor web sites, and relate personally with each student. That includes deciding who might be potentially dangerous and/or liable to commit a crime in school.

I am to make sure all students pass the mandatory state exams, even those who don't come to school regularly or complete any of their assignments. Plus, I am to make sure that all of the students with handicaps get an equal education regardless of the extent of their mental or physical handicap. And I am to communicate regularly with the parents by letter, telephone, newsletter and report card.

All of this I am to do with just a piece of chalk, a computer, a few books, a bulletin board, a big smile AND on a starting salary that qualifies my family for food stamps! You want me to do all of this and yet you expect me:

"NOT TO PRAY?"


UAW rejects GM, Chrysler proposal in loan talks - In lieu of UAW allowing for regressive incomes from their $150,000 annual salaries and benefits, Chapter 11 in the US Bankruptcy Court will allow these required changes. GM and Chrysler then may not only survive, but may thrive.

By Justin Hyde • Free Press Washington Staff

http://www.freep.com/article/20090214/BUSINESS01/90214021/?imw=Y

WASHINGTON -- The UAW is rejecting changes to a retiree health care trust proposed by General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC, saying the companies want to shortchange workers to benefit bondholders.

The union said today that the automakers wanted to reduce their contributions to the trust fund, increase its obligations and stretch out their remaining cash payments over 20 years.

The dispute, four days before the automakers must submit restructuring plans to the Obama administration, suggests the difficulties the companies face to win the concessions called for by the government.

The $17.4 billion rescue loans from the federal government to GM and Chrysler require the automakers to work out agreements with bondholders to swap two-thirds of the company’s debt for new stock.

Meanwhile, the UAW was required to consider accepting half the money due from GM and Chrysler for the retiree health care trust, known as a voluntary employee beneficiary association, in stock rather than cash or debt. The GM payment alone would total $10.2 billion in stock.

"The GM and Chrysler VEBA proposals contradict the terms of the Treasury loan agreements," Alan Reuther, the UAW's legislative director, said today. "These VEBA proposals are a non-starter for the UAW."

Reuther said the companies’ proposals differed in four ways from what the loan agreements called for, namely offering the VEBA stock worth less than half of their obligation under the contract.

He said the companies want to convert half their payments to stock immediately, rather than when the payments are due. The remaining payments would be stretched out over 20 years.

And the automakers want the trust to pick up their retiree health care costs for this year.

GM spokesman Greg Martin said the company “continues to have discussions with all our stakeholders, including the UAW, and we intend to deliver a plan to Treasury by the deadline.”

Bondholders had complained in recent weeks that the union was getting a better deal for its health care obligations than they were being offered for their bonds, even though the two would have the same priority if either automaker filed for bankruptcy.

The UAW made the health care trusts a centerpiece of its 2007 contracts with GM, Chrysler and Ford Motor Co., saying they would relieve the automakers of paying for such costs while ensuring health care for 750,000 retirees and their family members.



RAHM'S 'RENT' IS JUST THE TIP OF ETHICS ICEBERG

By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN

Published in the New York Post on February 17, 2009

News broke last week that Rahm Emanuel, now White House chief of staff, lived rent- free for years in the home of Rep. Rosa De Lauro (D-Conn.) - and failed to disclose the gift, as congressional ethics rules mandate. But this is only the tip of Emanuel's previously undisclosed ethics problems.

One issue is the work Emanuel tossed the way of De Lauro's husband. But the bigger one goes back to Emanuel's days on the board of now-bankrupt mortgage giant Freddie Mac.

Emanuel is a multimillionaire, but lived for the last five years for free in the tony Capitol Hill townhouse owned by De Lauro and her husband, Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg.

During that time, he also served as chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - which gave Greenberg huge polling contracts. It paid Greenberg's firm $239,996 in 2006 and $317,775 in 2008. (Emanuel's own campaign committee has also paid Greenberg more than $50,000 since 2004.)

To be fair, Greenberg had polling contracts with the DCCC before - but each new election cycle brings its own set of consultants. And Emanuel was certainly generous with his roommate.

Emanuel never declared the substantial gift of free rent on any of his financial-disclosure forms. He and De Lauro

claim that it was just allowable "hospitality" between colleagues. Hospitality - for five years?

Some experts suggest that it was also taxable income: Over five years, the free rent could easily add up to more than $100,000.

Nor is this all that seems to have been missed in the Obama team's vetting process. Consider: Emanuel served on the Freddie Mac board of directors during the time that the government-backed lender lied about its earnings, a leading contributor to the current economic meltdown.

The Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight Agency later singled out the Freddie Mac board as contributing to the fraud in 2000 and 2001 for "failing in its duty to follow up on matters brought to its attention." In other words, board members ignored the red flags waving in their faces.

The SEC later fined Freddie $50 million for its deliberate fraud in 2000, 2001 and 2002.

Meanwhile, Emanuel was paid more than $260,000 for his Freddie "service." Plus, after he resigned from the board to run for Congress in 2002, the troubled agency's PAC gave his campaign $25,000 - its largest single gift to a House candidate.

That's what friends are for, isn't it?

Now Rahm Emanuel is in the White House helping President Obama dig out of the mess that Freddie Mac helped start.

The president's chief of staff isn't subject to Senate confirmation, but his ethics still matter. Is this the change that we can depend on?



"The email Bag"

Rivers runs a faith-first play always

Sue Stock - Staff Writer

Philip Rivers is best known to Triangle residents for his achievements on the football field, but on Saturday, the former N.C. State University star headlined an event about faith.

At the seventh annual Ignited by Truth Catholic Conference, Rivers told the crowd of 2,500 that he believes in faith, family and then football -- in that order.

Now the starting quarterback for the San Diego Chargers, Rivers started 51 games in his years at N.C. State -- an NCAA record. He also shattered several other school and conference records while he was there.

Addressing a cavernous room at the new Raleigh Convention Center, Rivers said football and faith intertwine in his life.

He recalled stories of being an altar boy as a child in Alabama, catching cabs to go to Mass before bowl games in college and making sure to attend the team Mass each Sunday once he reached the NFL.

"I always felt like I had an edge on the opponent," he joked.

Rivers also offered more serious advice for young people in the audience, primarily encouraging them to choose their friends wisely and control impulses.

"I always felt the hardest word to say is, 'no,' " he said. "But when you learn to say it, you gain a lot of respect."

And, Rivers offered advice for the fathers in the audience, too, drawing on his experience with his four children.

"The thing our kids hunger and thirst for is our time," he said. "And believe me, I have to fake it real hard that I care about those Barbie dolls."

Finally, Rivers touched on recent history, addressing the Chargers' 2008 football season, when the team started 4-8 but won its final four games to make it into the playoffs before being eliminated by the Pittsburgh Steelers.

"Of course I didn't want to be 4-8," he said. "But it's in times of adversity that you find out the most about how you're going to execute the game plan. It's when you find out about your teammates and yourself."

Jim Shaughnessy, the registration coordinator for the conference, introduced Rivers and called him a "fine Catholic gentleman."

"He's a father image to many teenagers," he said. "We are delighted to have him here."



A Christian

Several years ago, a preacher from out-of-state accepted a call to a church in Houston , Texas . Some weeks after he arrived, he had an occasion to ride the bus from his home to the downtown area. When he sat down, he discovered that the driver had accidentally given him a quarter too much change. As he considered what to do, he thought to himself, 'You'd better give the quarter back. It would be wrong to keep it.' Then he thought, 'Oh, forget it, it's only a quarter. Who would worry about this little amount? Anyway, the bus company gets too much fare; they will never miss it. Accept it as a 'gift from God' and keep quiet.' When his stop came, he paused momentarily at the door, and then he handed the quarter to the driver and said, 'Here, you gave me too much change.'

The driver, with a smile, replied, 'Aren't you the new preacher in town?'

'Yes' he replied.

'Well, I have been thinking a lot lately about going somewhere to worship. I just wanted to see what you would do if I gave you too much change. I'll see you at church on Sunday.'

When the preacher stepped off of the bus, he literally grabbed the nearest light pole, held on, and said, 'Oh God, I almost sold your Son for a quarter.'

Our lives are the only Bible some people will ever read. This is a really scary example of how much people watch us as Christians, and will put us to the test! Always be on guard -- and remember -- You carry the name of Christ on your shoulders when you call yourself 'Christian.'

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

I'm glad a friend forwarded this to me as a reminder. So, I choose to forward it to you - my friend. God bless you; I hope you are having a wonderful day!

If you don't pass this on to anybody, nothing bad will happen; but, if you do, you will have ministered to someone.

The Will of God will never take you to where the Grace of God will not PROTECT you...

Stay FAITHFUL and Be GRATEFUL