Labor Unions Without Elections

After being questioned by a reader, this copied information is a follow-up to an editorial titled Preserve the ‘Secret Ballot’ and dated on March 11, 2009

I trust this copied info, especially the article from "Politico" which often is referred to as the printed news "Voice" of the Democrat Party, will reaffirm my editorial as substantial. I have highlighted the fourth (4th.) paragraph for your reference. Be sure to view and read the additional information.



Card check battle starts tomorrow
By MIKE ALLEN | 3/9/09 11:55 AM EDT

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/19786.html

Supporters take their seats under the summer sun at rally in support of the Employees Free Choice Act, Tuesday, June 19, 2007.

Tomorrow, Democrats in both houses of Congress plan to introduce a union-organizing bill that is labor’s top priority for the year, Democratic officials said.

The result could be a high-decibel, high-stakes brawl between business and labor, which strongly supported President Barack Obama. Unions have been getting impatient for attention to the issue, and the push to introduce legislation is a way to ratchet up pressure on Congress.

President Obama, who has said he recognizes that “the business community … considers this to be the devil incarnate,” said in January that he would like to bring the sides together.

The measure — widely known as card check and formally as the Employee Free Choice Act — would allow a union to form after enough workers in a shop sign cards, or petitions, rather than voting by secret ballot.

“The fact that the bill is being introduced so early in the session is an indication of it being a priority and of confidence in the vote count,” said a Democratic official involved in the negotiations.

But POLITICO's Glenn Thrush sees “surefire signs of stall” over the measure, and quotes leaders of both sides as saying it could be hung up for months, perhaps pushing it into the midterm election year of 2010.

The business community claims the measure would have a crushing effect, putting the White House and congressional Democrats in a tough spot as the economy tanks.

Randel Johnson, vice president for labor policy at the Chamber of Commerce, told The New York Times: “This will be armageddon.”

Obama favors the measure, but the White House has not weighed in on timing or tactics. He said in a pre-inauguration interview with The Washington Post that he “will certainly listen to all parties involved, including from labor and the business community, which I know considers this to be the devil incarnate.”

“I will listen to parties involved and see if there are ways that we can bring those parties together and restore some balance,” Obama said. “You know, now if the business community's argument against the Employee Free Choice Act is simply that it will make it easier for people to join unions and we think that is damaging to the economy then they probably won't get too far with me. If their arguments are we think there are more elegant ways of doing this or here are some modifications or tweaks to the general concept that we would like to see.”

Legendary investor Warren Buffett, an Obama supporter, said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box”: “I think the secret ballot’s pretty important in the country. I’m against card check, to make a perfectly flat statement.”

Obama did not mention the measure in his address to a joint session of Congress. In videotaped remarks to the AFL-CIO Executive Council in Miami last week, he said: “As we confront this crisis and work to provide health care to every American, rebuild our nation’s infrastructure, move toward a clean energy economy, and pass the Employee Free Choice Act, I want you to know that you will always have a seat at the table.”

And Vice President Joe Biden told the group two days later: “[O]ne of the most difficult things will be to reinstitute that basic bargain. And I think the way to do that is the Employee Free Choice Act. “

The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions plans to start hearings this week.



http://action.seiu.org/page/s/millionforfreech

Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA)

A robust middle class. Economic growth and shared prosperity. The American Dream. None are possible unless workers have the free choice to bargain for a better life—in their workplaces and in our nation.

That's why SEIU members need the Employee Free Choice Act—critical legislation that would restore workers' freedom to form unions and bargain for better wages, health care, and working conditions—and have a voice in our economy.

We're going to show the new President and Congress that there are one million people who want to give hardworking families a chance to get ahead. Can you be one of the first?



Barack Obama on the Employee Free Choice Act

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4qF213IceI



Obama supports the Employee Free Choice Act

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMNVIQqatyU



http://www.bakerlaw.com/employee-free-choice-act-efca-10-29-2008/
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10/29/2008

Executive Alert

Union Representation Without An Election? A Reality That Could Be Closer Than You Think

Democrats in Congress have promised to pass the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) and, if elected, Senator Obama has promised to sign it. EFCA will amend the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) to take away employees’ rights to secret ballot elections and allow union recognition by card checks only. EFCA will also require binding arbitration of first contracts after 120 days so that an arbitrator (not the employer) will set wages and benefits for the first two years of the relationship. Finally, EFCA stiffens penalties for employers who misstep during an organizing drive or a first contract negotiation.

Senator Obama and Democrats in Congress have also promised to get this bill passed early in 2009. This is the highest priority organized Labor has in its battle for new members. Whether the employees want to be members or not, peer pressure will get the cards signed.

EFCA - What It Is and Is Not
As currently drafted, EFCA will provide:

certification on the basis of signed authorizations (card check);
first contract mediation and arbitration;
stronger penalties for violations while employees are being solicited and stronger penalties during the process of obtaining a first contract; including mandatory applications for injunctions; treble back pay; and civil penalties up to $20,000 per violation.

EFCA will leave to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) many open questions, including:

How will the employee voting unit will be determined?

Will anyone police union conduct in obtaining the authorization cards needed for certification?

What will the certification process be?

Can employees decertify a union once it has been certified?

Will there be any controls over arbitrators who alone decide the wages and benefits in your first contract?

Who will the arbitrators be?

A wide variety of important issues like these will be left to administrative action by a newly-constituted NLRB which will have three new members when a President Obama fills the existing three vacancies. Confirmation is guaranteed by a Democratic Senate.

The Threat to Employers

EFCA will pose a significant threat to the rights of employees of virtually every private sector employer. However, some industries face greater pressures than others. Some of the specific industries which will be under siege once EFCA is signed into law: 1) Small businesses; 2) Industries that cannot be moved offshore; 3) “Hot industries” such as health care, communications, utilities and transportation which are already targets of organized labor; 4) Employers whose work force is partially organized; and 5) Employers with massed employees such as manufacturing and retail and service.

Card check systems in the United States and other countries are designed to make it easier for unions to organize employees. It will be much easier for unions to win if employees are denied their right to vote. Currently, unions in the U.S. may have 80 percent of cards signed going into a secret ballot election, yet they still lose half of the elections because it is a known fact that employees sign cards and then vote the way they want.

Employers Need to Prepare for EFCA

Baker Hostetler Can Help

With a heritage labor relations practice that is second to none in its depth, flexibility and creativity, Baker Hostetler is in a unique position to assist employers faced with clandestine union organizing, dealing with the Labor Board in the regions and in Washington, D.C. over who should be in the bargaining unit, the abbreviated collective bargaining process, labor arbitration of the first contract, as well as strikes, picketing and other economic actions.

Baker Hostetler’s Labor Relations Team will proactively work with your company to help prevent unfair unionization in a post-EFCA America. There is an immediate need to put in place the required infrastructure so that your employees are not the first easily blindsided targets. Multi-faceted information and training, communication plans, flexibility, detailed knowledge of union tactics, as well as time proven strategies and respectability are why Baker Hostetler will help your company successfully navigate a new EFCA reality.

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I'm Tired"
Robert A. Hall

http://www.tcunation.com/profiles/blogs/im-tired

I'll be 63 soon. Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce, and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but job-hunting every day, I've worked, hard, since I was 18. Despite some health challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven't called in sick in seven or eight years. I make a good salary, but I didn't inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the economy, there's no retirement in sight, and I'm tired. Very tired.

I'm tired of being told that I have to "spread the wealth around" to people who don't have my work ethic. I'm tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy or stupid to earn it.

I'm tired of being told that I have to pay more taxes to "keep people in their homes. Sure, if they lost their jobs or got sick, I'm willing to help. But if they bought McMansions at three times the price of our paid-off, $250,000 condo, on one-third of my salary, then let the leftwing Congresscritters who passed Fannie and Freddie and the Community Reinvestment Act that created the bubble help them-with their own money.

I'm tired of being told how bad America is by leftwing millionaires like Michael Moore, George Soros and Hollywood entertainers who live in luxury because of the opportunities America offers. In thirty years, if they get their way, the United States will have the religious freedom and women's rights of Saudi Arabia, the economy of Zimbabwe, the freedom of the press of China, the crime and violence of Mexico, the tolerance for Gay people of Iran, and the freedom of speech of Venezuela. Won't multiculturalism be beautiful?

I'm tired of being told that Islam is a "Religion of Peace," when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family "honor;" of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because they aren't "believers;" of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for "adultery;" of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur'an and Shari'a law tells them to.

I believe "a man should be judged by the content of his character, not by the color of his skin." I'm tired of being told that "race doesn't matter" in the post-racial world of President Obama, when it's all that matters in affirmative action jobs, lower college admission and graduation standards for minorities (harming them the most), government contract set-asides, tolerance for the ghetto culture of violence and fatherless children that hurts minorities more than anyone, and in the appointment of US Senators from Illinois. I think it's very cool that we have a black president and that a black child is doing her homework at the desk where Lincoln wrote the emancipation proclamation. I just wish the black president was Condi Rice, or someone who believes more in freedom and the individual and less in an all-knowing government.

I'm tired of a news media that thinks Bush's fundraising and inaugural expenses were obscene, but that thinks Obama's, at triple the cost, were wonderful. That thinks Bush exercising daily was a waste of presidential time, but Obama exercising is a great example for the public to control weight and stress, that picked over every line of Bush's military records, but never demanded that Kerry release his, that slammed Palin with two years as governor for being too inexperienced for VP, but touted Obama with three years as senator as potentially the best president ever.

Wonder why people are dropping their subscriptions or switching to Fox News? Get a clue. I didn't vote for Bush in 2000, but the media and Kerry drove me to his camp in 2004.

I'm tired of being told that out of "tolerance for other cultures" we must let Saudi Arabia use our oil money to fund mosques and madrassa Islamic schools to preach hate in America, while no American group is allowed to fund a church, synagogue or religious school in Saudi Arabia to teach love and tolerance.

I'm tired of being told I must lower my living standard to fight global warming, which no one is allowed to debate. My wife and I live in a two-bedroom apartment and carpool together five miles to our jobs. We also own a three-bedroom condo where our daughter and granddaughter live. Our carbon footprint is about 5% of Al Gore's, and if you're greener than Gore, you're green enough.

I'm tired of being told that drug addicts have a disease, and I must help support and treat them, and pay for the damage they do. Did a giant germ rush out of a dark alley, grab them, and stuff white powder up their noses while they tried to fight it off? I don't think Gay people choose to be Gay, but I damn sure think druggies chose to take drugs. And I'm tired of harassment from cool people treating me like a freak when I tell them I never tried marijuana.

I'm tired of illegal aliens being called "undocumented workers," especially the ones who aren't working, but are living on welfare or crime. What's next? Calling drug dealers, "Undocumented Pharmacists"? And, no, I'm not against Hispanics. Most of them are Catholic and it's been a few hundred years since Catholics wanted to kill me for my religion. I'm willing to fast track for citizenship any Hispanic person who can speak English, doesn't have a criminal record and who is self-supporting without family on welfare, or who serves honorably for three years in our military. Those are the citizens we need.

I'm tired of latte liberals and journalists, who would never wear the uniform of the Republic themselves, or let their entitlement-handicapped kids near a recruiting station, trashing our military. They and their kids can sit at home, never having to make split-second decisions under life and death circumstances, and bad mouth better people then themselves. Do bad things happen in war? You bet. Do our troops sometimes misbehave? Sure. Does this compare with the atrocities that were the policy of our enemies for the last fifty years-and still are? Not even close. So here's the deal. I'll let myself be subjected to all the humiliation and abuse that was heaped on terrorists at Abu Ghraib or Gitmo, and the critics can let themselves be subject to captivity by the Muslims who tortured and beheaded Daniel Pearl in Pakistan, or the Muslims who tortured and murdered Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins in Lebanon, or the Muslims who ran the blood-spattered Al Qaeda torture rooms our troops found in Iraq, or the Muslims who cut off the heads of schoolgirls in Indonesia, because the girls were Christian. Then we'll compare notes. British and American soldiers are the only troops in history that civilians came to for help and handouts, instead of hiding from in fear.

I'm tired of people telling me that their party has a corner on virtue and the other party has a corner on corruption. Read the papers-bums are bi-partisan. And I'm tired of people telling me we need bi-partisanship. I live in Illinois, where the "Illinois Combine" of Democrats and Republicans has worked together harmoniously to loot the public for years. And I notice that the tax cheats in Obama's cabinet are bi-partisan as well.

I'm tired of hearing wealthy athletes, entertainers and politicians of both parties talking about innocent mistakes, stupid mistakes or youthful mistakes, when we all know they think their only mistake was getting caught. I'm tired of people with a sense of entitlement, rich or poor.

Speaking of poor, I'm tired of hearing people with air-conditioned homes, color TVs and two cars called poor. The majority of Americans didn't have that in 1970, but we didn't know we were "poor." The poverty pimps have to keep changing the definition of poor to keep the dollars flowing.

I'm real tired of people who don't take responsibility for their lives and actions. I'm tired of hearing them blame the government, or discrimination, or big-whatever for their problems.

Yes, I'm damn tired. But I'm also glad to be 63. Because, mostly, I'm not going to get to see the world these people are making. I'm just sorry for my granddaughter.

Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam veteran who served five terms in the Massachusetts state senate. He blogs at www.tartanmarine.blogspot..com



Obama has only been in office for approximately 70 days. Just 70 days.

But, in just 70 days, President Barack Obama and his liberal majority in Congress have managed to:

Spend over $700 billion of our taxpayer money on a so-called stimulus plan

- a plan that contained $50 million for salt marsh mice in San Francisco and $8 billion, that is BILLION, for a new high speed rail line between Hollywood and Las Vegas

- a stimulus that saddled every single American family with $9,400 in debt

- a plan that will allow liberal groups like ACORN to get millions - even billions - of dollars in taxpayer money

Spend even more in the Fiscal Year 2009 budget by raising spending 8% - $400 billion - while passing close to 9,000 new spending earmarks

Help spend a large amount of the over $565 billion of TARP recovery money... leaving $135 billion to spend, according to Treasury Secretary Geithner on the Sunday news shows, and rumors abound they are likely to ask for more.
Now, Barack Obama is coming back to the American people, through the Congress, this week to ask for more!

WE NEED TO TELL CONGRESS THAT ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. WE MUST DEMAND FISCAL RESTRAINT. PLEASE TELL CONGRESS TO VOTE AGAINST THE OBAMA BUDGET THIS WEEK BY SIGNING THE ACU PETITION HERE, NOW.

This week the Congress is expected to take final votes on President Obama's massive new spending budget plan.

As a WALL STREET JOURNAL editorial noted, "Democrats have passed laws that increase spending by $134 billion in the last six months of this fiscal year alone, and $1.2 trillion over the next 10 years. And that's all before (Obama's) 2010 budget proposals."

CNN's reported in March that in addition to all of the spending that has already happened, "Nancy Pelosi (is) Open to Second Stimulus Package."

As Stephen Moore recently noted in the WEEKLY STANDARD, already in the first few days of Obama's administration, "the federal government has authorized more debt spending than Ronald Reagan did in his eight years in office."

It is enough to make your head spin. But we can't give up without a fight. We simply cannot sit back and stay silent when they are looking to spend trillions more.

WE NEED TO TELL CONGRESS THAT ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. WE MUST DEMAND FISCAL RESTRAINT. PLEASE TELL CONGRESS TO VOTE AGAINST THE OBAMA BUDGET THIS WEEK BY SIGNING THE ACU PETITION HERE, NOW.
After you sign the petition we are also going to ask you to call your House and Senate members. We are going to give you the numbers to do it, because we need to hit them from all angles.
The President's budget increases spending by $1 trillion over 10 years.

The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office reported that this new budget will create huge deficits including $1.85 trillion just this year alone... $100 billion larger than what Obama projected. CBO estimated next year's deficit will reach $1.38 trillion, about $200 billion more than the White House projected.

Worse, the CBO reported that between 2010 and 2019 the government's deficits will total $9.27 trillion, about $2.3 trillion more than the Obama had forecast and told the American people.

As Bloomberg Financial News reported, "as a share of the economy, CBO said, the deficit would total 13 percent this year, 10 percent next year and remain above 4 percent through 2019. The CBO said government debt will eventually double to 82 percent of the nation's gross domestic product by 2019 from 41 percent last year."

Can you image a national debt that is 82 percent of the our national gross domestic product?

The Wall Street Journal called this "Obama Sticker Shock."

WE NEED TO TELL CONGRESS THAT ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. WE MUST DEMAND RESTRAINT. PLEASE TELL CONGRESS TO VOTE AGAINST THE OBAMA BUDGET THIS WEEK BY SIGNING THE ACU PETITION HERE, NOW.

You might have noted that Obama doesn't call all of this money "wasteful spending," he calls it "investing" in our nation's future. But what does Barack Obama want us to "invest" in?

As the WASHINGTON POST reported in their analysis of Obama's proposed budget, it would increase spending at the Department of Environmental Protection (EPA) by a whopping 35% in just that one agency alone. The Post stated it is a "nearly $3 billion boost... the largest in the EPA's nearly 40-year history."

The budget contains spending for ultra liberal positions on climate change and enacts language that says our government will "aim for universality of health coverage" (ie. the government takeover of health care).

The Post also reported on the huge expansion of government and the number of additional federal bureaucrats that will result from the budget saying, "President Obama's budget is so ambitious, with vast new spending ... that experts say he probably will need to hire tens of thousands of new federal government workers to realize his goals."

Huge amounts of increased spending, liberal budget priorities and more federal bureaucrats in Washington, is that what our nation needs at this time?

WE NEED TO TELL CONGRESS THAT ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. WE MUST DEMAND RESTRAINT. PLEASE TELL CONGRESS TO VOTE AGAINST THE OBAMA BUDGET THIS WEEK BY SIGNING THE ACU PETITION HERE, NOW.

Possibly even worse than all of the wasteful spending; however, is a complicated scheme of tax increases in the budget.

Remember over $4.00 a gallon gas? Well President Obama wants to increases taxes on energy companies that could result in higher gas prices and higher electricity prices. As many have noted, there are complicated provisions for a cap-and-trade scheme that will amount to a huge tax likely to increase the cost of natural gas and electricity.

Obama's budget proposal also increases taxes on those making charitable deductions.

At a time when charities are strained trying to help those affected by economic crisis, Obama's budget will actually decrease incentives for charitable giving. Churches, local aid agencies and even education institutions would suffer.

Martin Feldstein, president emeritus of the National Bureau of Economic Research, said in an Op Ed that, "President Obama's proposal to limit the tax deductibility of charitable contributions would effectively transfer more than $7 billion a year from the nation's charitable institutions to the federal government." That's right, Obama's budget will take funds out of charities and in essence transfer them to the federal government.

All told, estimates are that there are more than $1 trillion in TAX INCREASES from Obama's budget bill.
Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH), whom Obama tried to woo into his cabinet, said Obama "is proposing the largest tax increase in history, much of it aimed at taxing small business people who have been, over the years, the best job creators in our economy. And further, he is proposing a massive new national sales tax on your electric bill, so that every time you turn on a light switch in your house, you will be hit with a new tax -- and it averages over $3,000 per household."

WE NEED TO TELL CONGRESS THAT ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. WE MUST DEMAND RESTRAINT. PLEASE TELL CONGRESS TO VOTE AGAINST THE OBAMA BUDGET THIS WEEK BY SIGNING THE ACU PETITION HERE, NOW.

After you sign the petition we are also going to ask you to call your House and Senate members. As we said, we will provide you their numbers because we want to hit them with petitions, with feet on the ground from ACU in the halls of Congress and with phone calls.

The budget simply spends too much, taxes too much and borrows too much.

We need to shine the light on this budget and fight back.

Huge amounts of wasteful spending, huge tax increases and even more debt on top of the stimulus package, the 2009 budget and the bailouts is not what our nation needs at this time.

Please sign the petition here, now, and help ACU on this critical endeavor.

Sincerely,

Dennis Whitfield
Executive Vice President



MARY'S LAMB GOT SUSPENDED

Think carefully about what you will be reading. This is a "new one" for me...

Mary! had a little Lamb,
His fleece was white as snow.
And everywhere that Mary went,
The Lamb was sure to go.

He followed her to school each day,
T'wasn't even in the rule.
It made the children laugh and play,
To have a Lamb at school.

And then the rules all changed one day,
Illegal it became;
To bring the Lamb of God to school,
Or even speak His Name!

Every day got worse and worse,
And days turned into years.
Instead of hearing children laugh,
We heard gun shots and tears.

What must we do to stop the crime,
That's in our schools today?
Let's let the Lamb come back to school,
And teach our kids to pray!



"The e-mail Bag"

THIS ONE PACKS A FIRM PUNCH

Written by a housewife in New Brunswick , to her local newspaper.

'Are we fighting a war on terror or aren't we? Was it or was it not started by Islamic people who brought it to our shores on September 11, 2001 and have continually threatened to do so since?

Were people from all over the world, not brutally murdered that day, in downtown Manhattan , across the Potomac from the nation's capitol and in a field in Pennsylvania ?

Did nearly three thousand men, women and children die a horrible, burning or crushing death that day, or didn't they?

And I'm supposed to care that a few Taliban were claiming to be tortured by a justice system of the nation they come from and are fighting against in a brutal insurgency.

I'll start caring when Osama bin Laden turns himself in and repents for incinerating all those innocent people on 9/11.

I'll care about the Koran when the fanatics in the Middle East start caring about the Holy Bible, the mere belief of which is a crime punishable by beheading in Afghanistan ..

I'll care when these thugs tell the world they are sorry for hacking off Nick Berg's head while Berg screamed through his gurgling slashed throat.

I'll care when the cowardly so-called 'insurgents' in Afghanistan come out and fight like men instead of disrespecting their own religion by hiding in mosques and behind women and children.

I'll care when the mindless zealots who blows themselves up in search of nirvana care about the innocent children within range of their suicide bombs.

I'll care when the Canadian media stops pretending that their freedom of speech on stories is more important than the lives of the soldiers on the ground or their families waiting at home to hear about them when something happens.

In the meantime, when I hear a story about a CANADIAN soldier roughing up an Insurgent terrorist to obtain information, know this:

I don't care.

When I see a wounded terrorist get shot in the head when he is told not to move because he might be booby-trapped, you can take it to the bank:

I don't care.

When I hear that a prisoner, who was issued a Koran and a prayer mat, and 'fed special' food that is paid for by my tax dollars, is complaining that his holy book is being 'mishandled,' you can absolutely believe in your heart of hearts:

I don't care.

And oh, by the way, I've noticed that sometimes it's spelled 'Koran' and other times 'Quran....' Well, Jimmy Crack Corn you guessed it.

I don't care!!

If you agree with this viewpoint, pass this on to all your E-mail friends Sooner or later, it'll get to the people responsible for this ridiculous behavior!

If you don't agree, then by all means hit the delete button. Should you choose the latter, then please don't complain when more atrocities committed by radical Muslims happen here in our great Country!

And may I add:

'Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Soldiers don't have that problem.'

I have another quote that I would like to add, AND.......I hope you forward all this.

One last thought for the day:

Only five defining forces have ever offered to die for you:

1. Jesus Christ
2. The US Soldier.
3. The Canadian Soldier.
4. The British Soldier, and
5. The Australian Soldier
One died for your soul, the other 4 for your freedom.

YOU MIGHT WANT TO PASS THIS ON, AS MANY SEEM TO FORGET ALL OF THEM.

AMEN!

Pepper

Live Free or Die!



In the hospital the relatives gathered in the waiting room ...
Their family member lay gravely ill. Finally, the doctor came in looking tired and somber.

"I'm afraid I'm the bearer of bad news," he said as he surveyed their worried faces. "The only hope left for your loved one at this time is a brain transplant. It's an experimental procedure, very risky, but it is the only hope. You will have to pay for the brain yourselves."

The family members sat silent as they absorbed the news. After a great length of time, someone asked, "Well, how much does a brain cost?"

The doctor quickly responded, "$5,000 for a male brain, and $200 for a female brain.

"The moment turned awkward. Men in the room tried not to smile, avoiding eye contact with the women, but some actually smirked. One man, unable to control his curiosity, blurted out the question everyone wanted to ask, "Why is the male brain so much more?"

The doctor smiled at the childish innocence and explained to the entire group, "It's just standard pricing procedure. We have to mark down the price of the female brains, because they've actually been used."

Just kidding! Just kidding! - oyh

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If you get an e-mail with "Nude Photos of Sarah Palin" in the subject line, do not open it. It might contain a virus.

If you get an e-mail with "Nude Photos of Hillary Clinton," do not open it.

It might contain nude photos of Hillary Clinton.

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In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it. -- Victor Frankl



A Little More Effort … A Lot More Results

Think you have to make huge changes and expend a ton of extra energy to achieve bigger and better results? Think again! And consider this …

At 211 degrees, water is hot. At 212 degrees, it boils. And with boiling water comes steam. And with steam, you can power a train. Applying just one extra degree of temperature to water means the difference between something that is simply very hot and something that generates enough force to power a large machine. The message of this simple yet powerful metaphor should be clear to all:
Seemingly small things can make tremendous differences. The key learning is equally powerful: The application of additional heat (effort) to whatever task or activity you undertake will not only help you achieve the primary objective you seek, but also reap exponential rewards that are possible by applying one extra degree of effort.

Imagine the possibilities …

Add just a few hours each month to your professional development outside of the work and you will have invested the equivalent of a full work

Make just one extra contact each day …a sales call … a customer … a brief discussion with a col- league … an encouraging talk with a member of your team. With contact comes opportunity. At the end of the year you’ll have opened more than 200 additional doors of possibility.

Eliminate one half hour of television watching each day and you’ll gain 182.5 hours each year to use elsewhere (equivalent to four and a half weeks of work).
Imagine YOUR possibilities. Where can you give a little more effort? What small changes can you make that will add up over time? As a leader, what can you do – what will you do – to enjoy the rewards that come from “turning up the heat” one extra degree? Find those opportunities … and seize them!



"Daily Devotions" (NASB and/or NLT)

Who is Like Our God? Who is... like You, pardoning iniquity and passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? (Mic. 7:18). Have you known anyone who delights in mercy?

"Because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions - it is by grace you have been saved." (Ephesians 2:4-5)



"The Patriot Post"

"Here comes the orator! With his flood of words, and his drop of reason." -- Benjamin Franklin

"The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery." -- former British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers." -- American physicist Richard Feynman (1918-1988)

"When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set." -- Chinese writer Lin Yutang (1895-1976)



And from Obama:

Lies and statistics: "[I]n this budget, we have made the tough choices necessary to cut our deficit in half by the end of my first term -- even under the most pessimistic estimates." -- President Barack Obama, who doubled the budget deficit before he could halve it

Says the pot to the kettle: "[O]ne of the things that I'm trying to break is a pattern in Washington where everybody is always looking for somebody else to blame." -- Barack Obama

Pick socialism: "[W]e need not choose between a chaotic and unforgiving capitalism and an oppressive government-run economy. That is a false choice that will not serve our people or any people." -- Barack Obama

Regulatory Commissars: "I think the most important thing that we can do is make sure that we put in a bunch of financial regulatory mechanisms to prevent companies like an AIG holding the rest of us hostage. Because that's â??- that's the real problem." -- Barack Obama



"Simple Truths"

One Solitary Life

http://www.onesolitarylifemovie.com/



"The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step." -- Chinese Proverb

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." -- Will Rogers



"The Web"

The Scripture Tree - Just "click" onto any all flowers. - oyh

http://home.att.net/~sheryl4/ST/Christian-Tree-1.html



Economics In a Free Society

I recently asked my friend's little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she wanted to be President someday. Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there, so I asked her, 'If you were President what would be the first thing you would do?'

She replied, 'I'd give food and houses to all the homeless people.' Her parents beamed.

'Wow...what a worthy goal.' I told her, 'But you don't have to wait until you're President to do that. You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and sweep my yard, and I'll pay you $50. Then I'll take you over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $50 to use toward food and a new house.'

She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight in the eye and asked, 'Why doesn't the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can just pay him the $50?'

I said, 'Welcome to the Republican Party.' Her parents still aren't speaking to me.



USS New York

Here she is, USS New York. It was built with 24 tons of scrap steel from the World Trade Center. It is the fifth in a new class of warship - designed for missions that include special operations against terrorists. It will carry a crew of 360 sailors and 700 combat-ready Marines to be delivered ashore by helicopters and assault craft.

Steel from the World Trade Center was melted down in a foundry in Amite, LA to cast the ship's bow section. When it was poured into the molds on Sept 9, 2003, "those big rough steelworkers treated it with total reverence,' recalled Navy Capt. Kevin Wensing, who was there.

"It was a spiritual moment for everybody there."

Junior Chavers, foundry operations manager, said that when the trade center steel first arrived, he touched it with his hand and the 'hair on my neck stood up.' 'It had a big meaning to it for all of us,' he said. 'They knocked us down. They can't keep us down. We're going to be back.'

The ship's motto? "Never Forget"

Please keep this going so everyone can see what we are made of in this country!



Hezbollah Smuggling Across U.S.-Mexican Border

America’s porous southern border is an entry point for more than Mexican cartels and their illegal drugs — the Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah has been smuggling drugs and people into the U.S. as well.

Hezbollah has long been involved in narcotics and human trafficking in South America, and is now using the same routes into the U.S. that the Mexican cartels use for smuggling, according to an exclusive report in The Washington Times.

The group relies on “the same criminal weapons smugglers, document traffickers, and transportation experts as the drug cartels,” said Michael Braun, who recently retired as assistant administrator and chief of operations at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

“They work together. They rely on the same shadow facilitators. One way or another, they are all connected,” he said.

Hezbollah, which fought a 34-day war with Israel in 2006, funds its operations in part from a large Lebanese Muslim diaspora, and some of that funding comes from criminal enterprises.

Salim Boughader Mucharrafille, a Mexican of Lebanese descent, was arrested in 2002 for smuggling 200 people, including Hezbollah supporters, into the U.S. He was sentenced last year to 60 years in a Mexican prison.

But the cross-border flow of drugs and people has intensified since the U.S. reduced access to the country by air and water following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. And the drug wars between the cartels have claimed the lives of more than 8,000 people since January 2008, destabilizing Mexico along the border and prompting President Barack Obama to send additional agents there.

Adm. James Stavridis, commander of U.S. Southern Command, recently told a House committee that the connection between drug traffickers and “Islamic radical terrorism” is a growing threat to the U.S.

Braun said members of the Quds force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have been operating in South America and “could be commanding and controlling Hezbollah’s criminal enterprises from there.”

And a senior U.S. defense official said that in addition to Hezbollah, al-Qaida could also use the Mexican cartels’ trafficking routes to smuggle operatives into the U.S. “The Mexican cartels have no loyalty to anyone,” another official told the Times. “They will willingly or unknowingly aid other nefarious groups’ [entry] into the U.S. through the routes they control. It has already happened. That’s why the border is such a serious national security issue.”



The Dems’ AIG Bonus Scam
by Fred J. Eckert

The Democratic Congress put on quite a show for us last week (and this week may top last).

In a memorable performance, they feigned surprise and shock that $165 million of taxpayers’ dollars were spent on bonuses for executives of the failed insurance giant AIG.

“If they don’t give the money back, we will put in place a new law that will allow us to tax these bonuses at a very high rate so that it is returned to its rightful owners -- the taxpayers,” New York Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer fumed in a Senate speech. “So, to those of you getting these bonuses, be forewarned: you will not keep them.”

It was a scene reminiscent of the one in the movie Casablanca in which Captain Renault tells Rick he is closing down his saloon down because, “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here” as a casino worker hands Renault a wad of money and says, “Your winnings, sir.”

Schumer knows perfectly well that this $165 million for AIG executive bonuses is something he voted for just a few weeks earlier.

The same is true of each of the other ten Democrats, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who have joined Schumer in signing a letter making the same threat he announced in his floor remarks.

It’s a farce -- a sham.

What’s going on here is that the news media finally got around to mentioning that this $165 million for bonuses is part of the more than $170 billion of taxpayer money that Congress and President Obama insisted must be awarded in haste to the failed insurance giant American International Group, Inc (AIG). The public, understandably, is really angry.

So the Democrats are terrified that the public might actually start figuring out what an incredibly incompetent job President Obama and the Congressional Democrats are doing.

What if average citizens begin asking themselves the sort of questions that the Democrats can depend on the mainstream media to cover for them by not asking? Questions such as,

Why was Congress so reckless in writing the bailout legislation that it didn’t include limitations to preclude waste such as those big bonuses?
Anyone who reads the news knows that the financial markets are truly global. When writing the legislation, Congress had to know that AIG would pass billions of U.S. tax dollars to foreign banks. Why didn’t Congress make that contingent on equal or greater contributions by foreign governments? Why are the French, the Germans and the British having their banks rescued by American taxpayers?
What other questionable expenditures of taxpayers’ dollars are buried in the barrels of billions the Democrats are rush delivering to seemingly anyone who puts his hand out? Weren’t there better alternatives than simply giving away taxpayers’ billions to anyone and everyone who got into severe trouble by taking reckless risks? Why no public hearings on this?
Was the main reason for such a great rush to avoid close scrutiny of where the money was going? How many so-called “stimulus” expenditures are really nothing but gigantic rewards to political allies?
What the Democrats decided is that they needed a stunt to divert attention away from their stunning incompetence.

So, last week, the House voted to “take back” those contractually obligated bonuses, and the Democratic leadership has promised that the Senate will do the same this week.
This is not a comedy the Democrats are performing for us -- it’s a tragedy.

Equally tragic is the blatant disrespect for the Constitution of the United States that is on display throughout these shenanigans. Article 6 of the Constitution requires that the President and Member of Congress swear to support the Constitution. Of course, the Constitution doesn’t require them to understand it or even to read it, but let’s give the driving force behind this sham, Chuck Schumer, the benefit of the doubt and presume he has read it. He is, after all, a graduate of Harvard Law School, a member of the Senate’s Committee on the Judiciary, and was a member of the Judiciary Committee when he served in the House.

Schumer knows better -- and so should every member of Congress and the President. Article I, Section 9, paragraph 3 of the Constitution prohibits what they are doing because it specifies that: "No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed." And what they are doing constitutes a bill of attainder.

As the Heritage Foundation’s Guide to the Constitution says, “In common law, bills of attainder were legislative acts that, without trial, condemned specifically designated persons or groups to death…,” but the Supreme Court -- going back to a case in 1810 -- reads the Constitutional bar to prevent legislative confiscation of property.

As James Madison explained in The Federalist Papers No. 44: “Bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, and laws impairing the obligations of contracts, are contrary to the first principle of the social compact, and to every principle of sound legislation.”

Freedom from bills of attainder and ex post facto laws are the only individual rights which the Framers deemed so important as to insert in the original document protection against both federal and state infringement.

In 1965, in United States vs. Brown, the Supreme Court once again affirmed that the purpose of Article 1, Section 9, Paragraph 3 is to prohibit “legislative punishment, of any form or severity, of specifically designated persons or groups.”

The position of the U.S. Supreme Court over the years has been that this clause of the Constitution is deemed violated if 1) The legislation in question specifies a specific group; 2) It includes some form of punishment; and 3) It does not include a judicial trial.

One, two, three -- guilty on each count. Which means that what’s coming next is that the Supreme Court will give thumbs down to their pathetic pretense. And then they will feign surprise and say they tried. Trying to con the American people into believing they have nothing to do with something the public is incensed about -- that’s what this big charade is really all about.

This sham is an affront to the Constitution of the United States by the Congress of the United States and the President of the United States. They are violating the solemn oath they took to bear “true faith and allegiance” to the Constitution -- and by doing this, they are guilty of neglecting to “well and faithfully discharge” the duties of their offices.

Many of them don’t know what they are doing.

Many of them know but don’t care.

That’s how bad things are in Washington right now.

It’s change, all right -- an appalling change from what the Founders of the American Republic had in mind for governing this great country.

Fred J. Eckert is a former conservative Republican Congressman from New York and twice served as a US Ambassador under President Reagan, who called him “a good friend and valuable advisor.”



"The Price of Free Speech in the Era of "Gay" Power."

An Open letter to Dr. Scott Lively, in response to His article (below)
By: Charles Sproull, Springville IN

In light of homosexual's false accusations of preaching the Bible as "Hate
Speech," I believe it should be pointed out that the gospel of Jesus Christ
is actually love speech, and that light of His love and righteousness is
shining right beside the darkness of this evil world. Just as darkness is
absence of light, evil is the absence of righteousness.

For example, in Rome, God was lovingly shining His light of encouragement
from the gospel and His righteousness in Rom 1:16-17, right beside the
darkness of immorality, homosexuality and lesbianism in Rom 1:18-31. But
instead of walking out of the darkness and into the marvelous light, the
Roman homosexuals do what I call "dancing in the shadows" and dash the other
direction over to Rom 2:1-3. Regardless of how concerned we are for their
emotional healing and deliverance from their vile, erotic lusts, and
regardless of how lovingly we approach them, they have so much hatred in
their hearts and are so afraid of truth ("truth-phobic" and "moral-phobic"
and "normal-phobic") that they falsely accuse us of the hate and fear they
are more guilty of.

The same thing is true about Corinth - the light of new birth and
deliverance in 1 Cor 6:11 is shining right beside the darkness of 1 Cor
6:9-10. And in Ephesus the darkness of lust in Eph 2:2-3 is surrounded by
the light in Eph 2:1 and 2:4-8. However (and this is vitally important in
understanding the Bible in 1st century context) what catholic and protestant
theologians don't seem to understand is how the Ephesians were "saved by
grace through faith." Go to Eph 1:13. Then go to Acts 19:1-7. What did they
hear, believe, trust (have faith in) and receive? Also light in Gal 5:22-24
is shining right beside the darkness in Gal 5:19-21.

Have a wonderful, free American day,

Charles Sproull


The Price of Free Speech in the Era of "Gay" Power
By Pastor Scott Lively, J.D., Th.D.

Last night I learned that one of my upcoming lectures on homosexuality and the "gay" movement may be forced into an alternate venue due to the belief by the original forum's management that I am a "hate group." I'm not sure who's responsible for telling them this, but I suspect it was the Southern Poverty Law Center (the once venerable civil rights champion turned Christian-basher). It might have been the same SPLC staffer who called Mike Spence of the California Republican Assembly yesterday to pressure him to cancel my event, which is being hosted by the CRA's Temecula, CA chapter. Reportedly, Mr. Spence was told that, among other things that qualify me as a hater, I advocate the lifetime imprisonment of homosexuals.

I do not now, nor have I ever advocated imprisonment of homosexuals. Nor do I, as they suggest on their website, endorse or condone the murder of homosexuals.

The SPLC and its co-conspirators intend that I, upon hearing these outrageous accusations, will rush to prove that I am not a hater, and in the process, compromise all or part of my beliefs and values. That's what most others have done when faced with far less vicious lies, which is why you can't find more than a handful of public officials anywhere in the nation willing to affirm the self-evident truth that homosexuality is morally wrong and biologically disordered. They've all fallen back to the least vulnerable position and last line of defense of family: the definition of marriage.

It is my tenacious loyalty to the truth and gift of being able to articulate it compellingly that makes the "gays" and their SPLC attack dog hate me, and tell such lies about me. It started years ago with more run-of-the-mill falsehoods, and eventually graduated to the current whoppers. I refuse to be intimidated.

If you stop and think about it, can you name any single person in America who openly disapproves of homosexuality who is not called a hater? Or what Barney Frank called Justice Antonin Scalia recently -- a "homophobe?" That is indeed the purpose of this nonsense word "homophobia:" to define ALL disagreement with the "gay" agenda as irrational hate. A phobia is an anxiety disorder, a form of mental illness, yet the term as they use it applies to everyone who, for any reason, dares to oppose the social legitimization of homosexuality.

"Homophobia" is not a scientific term, but a deviously crafted instrument of psychological manipulation. And its use by the "gay" activists and their allies reveals just how underhanded they are willing to be in the pursuit of their selfish goals. Note that I'm talking about the activists, not people who genuinely want to be left alone to their privacy -- They don't bother me and I don't bother them.

The "gay" activists, however, lie about everything. "We're born that way?" There's not been one definitive study proving that theory in fifty years of effort, so why do so many people believe it's been scientifically established? Relentless lying. "We have no agenda?" Has there ever been a more politically aggressive and organized special interest group? -- all the while denying that they even have an agenda? "We just want tolerance?" Yet, far past tolerance and even celebration of "gay" culture in many places, the now politically powerful homosexual movement demands the censorship and punishment of their detractors. Is that proof of an honest commitment to "tolerance" as an ideal, or the cynical manipulation of public sympathy to gain political advantage?

So, by definition, to be a pro-family leader in this new era of "tolerance is to be a constant target of misrepresentation and outright falsehoods designed to poison the well against you so that average people will be reluctant to listen to what you have to say. Who are the real victims here?

Case in point. Why do they say I endorse the murder of homosexuals? This lie has now spread all over the Internet. It started when I came to the rescue of the Russian speaking community of Sacramento when it was being smeared with racist propaganda by the Sacramento Bee newspaper. There had been a fight between a group of Russians and a group of Fijians in a public park in Sacramento. According to reports from the trial, one Fijian man had been "dirty dancing" with other men and the Russians asked them in vain not to do this in front of their children. In the fight that ensued, a Russian man punched the Fijian man once. The man fell, hit his head on a rock, and died that night in the hospital of a brain injury. It was certainly a lamentable tragedy, but an obviously unintended death if not just a freak accident.

However, the Bee and the "gay" activists characterized it as deliberate murder. Worse, they blamed the entire local Russian community of creating this "hate crime" by having been politically active in the preceding months by rallying in large numbers when "gay" issues came before the California legislature which is headquartered in that city. Guilt by association when the association is a common ethnicity is racism. And skewing facts to serve the "gay" political agenda, especially by a trusted organ of the media, is lying by misrepresentation.

In defense of the thousands of innocent Russian immigrants of Sacramento, I therefore made public statements accusing the Bee of racism and misrepresentation. The "gays" and the SPLC then mischaracterized my comments as endorsement of murder. And they continue to do so, even after the trial of the only man arrested in the matter (not the puncher, who apparently fled the country). In the trial the jury deadlocked on the question of whether the incident was even a hate crime, let alone a murder, causing the case to end in a mistrial. The "gays" then embellished the tale, stating falsely that the Russian man was a member of a church I was affiliated with in Sacramento. Not only was that not true, but I never met the man, nor ever gave any hint of approving of or condoning what he did. I was in fact very clear that I was personally grieved by what had occurred. They are liars.

The next year, 2007, I was on a lecture tour of the former Soviet Union, speaking in universities, churches and conferences in about fifty cities through eight countries. At a conference in Novosibirsk (New Siberia) I was relating the story of what had occurred in Sacramento when a small group of 10-12 Russian nationalists (a genuine hate group in a crowd of about 1200 Christians -- it was open to the public) cheered when I said the Fijian man died. I stopped my speech, rebuked them, and then spent the remainder of my time explaining why we should "love the sinner, hate the sin." However, there was a "gay" activist in the conference who filmed the event, and the next day posted it on YouTube -- except this person edited it so the clip ended with the boors applauding, deliberately misrepresenting the incident. They "lied" by omission, solely to harm me. Thankfully, the conference organizers later published the entire speech on YouTube.

Why do they claim I advocate the imprisonment of homosexuals? That was the story they invented while I was in Uganda earlier this month for a week of lectures, sermons and media appearances in the capital city of Kampala. While there I also addressed a group of members of the Ugandan Parliament in their assembly hall. My purpose was to call for a liberalization of the Ugandan law against homosexuality by shifting the emphasis away from punishment and toward rehabilitation. I analogized it to the example of my own life, citing my choice of optional therapy for alcoholism after being arrested for drunk driving years ago (during which time of therapy I became a Christian and was completely healed of drug and alcohol addiction). I was accompanied at Parliament by an African-American former homosexual man who addressed the issue of reparative therapy and how it had helped him overcome same-sex attraction.

The first reports from Kampala by the "gays" accused me of calling for forced treatment of homosexuals (not true) and later the story was amended to add that I advocated the imprisonment of homosexuals (another lie).

For the record, I approach the homosexual issue first as a Christian theologian, meaning that I assume the Bible is true and a provably superior guide to human behavior to all competing worldviews if the underlying biblical principles relating to any given issue are correctly construed. Secondly, I approach the issue as an attorney which makes me a respecter of empirical evidence, which I attempt to analyze as logical secular thinkers such as Aristotle might. Both approaches reach similar conclusions about homosexuality: that it is, as Pope John Paul said (and Aristotle would affirm), "objectively disordered." In other words, the male/female duality of the human design is self-evident, and deviation from the design is predictably problematic for both individuals and society. (By the way, I am not a Catholic.)

From this premise, I conclude that public policy should actively discourage all sex outside of marriage, not just homosexuality, but that any such policy should be no more intrusive on personal freedom than is necessary for the preservation of a genuinely family-centered society. Where that might, for various reasons in some cultures, include the criminalization of non-marital sexual relationships (as was true in America prior to Kinsey), it should never involve imprisonment in my opinion. Instead, like laws against littering and excess noise, these policies should serve to deter
anti-social conduct in as light-handed a manner as possible. That is what I believe and what I teach. If you watch carefully you will see the "gay" activists and the pro-homosexual media twist even this. So be it.

There are many other misrepresentations about me circulating on the Internet, and other examples I could relate of dirty tricks done to me over the past twenty years that would outrage any fair-minded person, but space is limited, and I think I've made my point. But generally speaking, I'm a pretty nice guy with my own share of life challenges like anybody else. What makes me different from most people is that I know a lot about the "gay" agenda and why it should be opposed by society, and that knowledge makes me responsible to speak out no matter how much I get lied about for doing so.

Meanwhile, I have genuine sympathy for homosexuals, whom I believe are already imprisoned. Not in physical jails, but in the mutual self-delusion they share and continually reinforce among themselves that their attraction to persons of the same gender is unconquerable. They are imprisoned by the lies they tell themselves. I don't want them to be imprisoned. My prayer is that they will be freed, to enjoy the sublime blessing of sexuality in faithful, life-long marriage, as was intended by the one who made us male and female by design.

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http://www.defendthefamily.com



"The e-mail Bag"

Have you ever watched kids on a merry-go-round? Or listened to the rain slapping on the ground?
Ever follow a butterfly's erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?

You better slow down. Don't dance so fast.
Time is short. The music won't last.

Do you run through each day on the fly?
When you ask: How are you? Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done, do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores running through your head?

You'd better slow down. Don't dance so fast.
Time is short. The music won't last.

Ever told your child, we'll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste, not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch, let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time to call and say, "Hi"?

You'd better slow down, Don't dance so fast.
Time is short, The music won't last.

When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift thrown away.

Life is not a race do take it slower.
Hear the music before the song is over.



The Man Rules

At last a guy has taken the time to write this all down!
Finally, the guys' side of the story. (I must admit, it's pretty good.) We always hear " the Rules " from the female side.
Now here are the rules from the male side.
These are our rules! Please note.. these are all numbered "1 " ON PURPOSE!
1. Men are NOT mind readers.

1. Learn to work the toilet seat. You're a big girl. If it's up, put it down. We need it up, you need it down. You don't hear us complaining about you leaving it down.

1. Sunday sports, it's like the full moon or the changing of the tides. Let it be.

1. Crying is blackmail.

1. Ask for what you want. Let us be clear on this one: Subtle hints do not work! Strong hints do not work! Obvious hints do not work! Just say it!

1. Yes and No are perfectly acceptable answers to almost every question.

1. Come to us with a problem only if you want help solving it. That's what we do. Sympathy is what your girlfriends are for.

1. Anything we said 6 months ago is inadmissible in an argument... In fact, all comments become Null and void after 7 Days.

1. If you think you're fat, you probably are. Don't ask us.

1. If something we said can be interpreted two ways and one of the ways makes you sad or angry, we meant the other one

1. You can either ask us to do something or tell us how you want it done. Not both.
If you already know best how to do it, just do it yourself.

1. Whenever possible, Please say whatever you have to say during commercials..

1. Christopher Columbus did NOT need directions and neither do we.

1. ALL men see in only 16 colors, like Windows default settings. Peach, for example, is a fruit, not a color. Pumpkin is also a fruit. We have no idea what mauve is.

1. If it itches, it will be scratched. We do that.

1. If we ask what is wrong and you say "nothing," We will act like nothing's wrong. We know you are lying, but it is just not worth the hassle.

1. If you ask a question you don't want an answer to, expect an answer you don't want to hear.

1. When we have to go somewhere, absolutely anything you wear is fine... Really .

1. Don't ask us what we're thinking about unless you are prepared to discuss such topics as baseball or golf.

1. You have enough clothes.

1. You have too many shoes.

1. I am in shape. Round IS a shape!

1. Thank you for reading this. Yes, I know, I have to sleep on the couch tonight;

but did you know men really don't mind that? It's like camping.

Pass this to as many men as you can - to give them a laugh...

Pass this to as many women as you can - to give them a bigger laugh.