Wednesday, November 18, 2009

New Alert...Please Read...How to lock your car...and why!

I am sending this again because it is very true and is
happening close to home... Becky Shisler was in St. Joseph
on Thursday and went into Kohl's. She locked her SUV as
she was walking away and when she came out someone
had gotten into her vehicle and stolen most of her
purchases. She reported it to the police and they told her
the same thing as this article. We must all be very careful.
Please send it to everyone in you mail box... This is TRUE...
--Bonnie

Please read and pass on...help save the next potential victim...

How to Lock Your Car and Why Not a Joke!

I locked my car. As I walked away I heard my car door
unlock. I went back and locked my car again three times.
Each time, as soon as I started to walk away, I would
hear it unlock again!

Naturally alarmed, I looked around and there were two
guys sitting in a car in the fire lane next to the store.
They were obviously watching me intently and there
was no doubt they were somehow involved in this very
weird situation. I quickly chucked the errand I was on,
jumped in my car and sped away. I went straight to the
police station, told them what had happened, and found
out I was part of a new, and very successful, scheme
being used to gain entry into cars.

Two weeks later, my friend's son had a similar happening...
While traveling, my friend's son stopped at a roadside rest
to use the bathroom. When he came out to his car less than
4-5 minutes later, someone had gotten into his car and
stolen his cell phone, laptop computer, GPS navigator,
briefcase...you name it. He called the police and since there
were no signs of his car being broken into, the police told
him he had been a victim of the latest robbery tactic -
there is a device that robbers are using now to clone your
security code when you lock your doors on your car using
your key-chain locking device. They sit a distance away
and watch for their next victim. They know you are going
inside of the store, restaurant, or bathroom and that they
now have a few minutes to steal and run. The police officer
said to manually lock your car door - by hitting the lock
button inside the car - that way if there is someone sitting
in a parking lot watching for their next victim, it will not be
you. When you hit the lock button on your car upon exiting,
it does not send the security code, but if you walk away
and use the door lock on your key chain, it sends the code
through the airwaves where it can be instantly stolen.

This is very real. Be wisely aware of what you just read
and please pass this note on. Look how many times we
all lock our doors with our remote just to be sure we
remembered to lock them - and bingo, someone has our
code...and whatever was in our car.

Snopes Approved --Please share with everyone you know.

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*contributed by a forwarded email from my dear friend
Shirley with Teaching Hands.

Smells Like Rain (This is Awesome)

The smell of rain

At the end of this story, it gives you two options. I think you
will figure out what option I chose.

A cold March wind danced around the dead of night in Dallas
as the doctor walked into the small hospital room of Diana
Blessing. She was still groggy from surgery.

Her husband, David, held her
hand as they braced themselves
for the latest news. That
afternoon of March 10, 1991,
complications had forced Diana,
only 24-weeks pregnant, to
undergo an emergency Cesarean
to deliver couple's new daughter, Dana Lu Blessing.
























At 12 inches long and weighing only one pound nine
ounces, they already knew she was perilously
premature...

















Still, the doctor's soft words dropped like bombs.

'I don't think she's going to make it,' he said, as
kindly as he could.








"There's only a 10%
chance she will live
through the night,
and even then, if by
some slim chance
she does make it,
her future could be
a very cruel one'

Numb with disbelief, David and Diana listened
as the doctor described the devastating
problems Dana would likely face if she survived.


























She would never walk, she would never talk, she
would probably be blind, and she would certainly be
prone to other catastrophic conditions from cerebral
palsy to complete mental retardation, and on and on.



















'No! No!' was all
Diana could say.

She and David ,
with their 5-
year-old son
Dustin, had long
dreamed of the
day they would
have a daughter
to become a
family of four.

Now, within a matter of hours, that dream was
slipping away


















But as those first days passed, a new agony set in for
David and Diana. Because Dana 's underdeveloped
nervous system was essentially 'raw', the lightest
kiss or caress only intensified her discomfort, so they
couldn't even cradle their tiny baby girl against their
chests to offer the strength of their love.

All they could do, as Dana struggled alone
beneath the ultraviolet light in the tangle of
tubes and wires, was to pray that God would
stay close to their precious little girl.

There was never a moment when Dana
suddenly grew stronger.








But as the weeks went by, she did slowly gain an ounce
of weight here and an ounce of strength there.

At last, when Dana
turned two months
old, her parents
were able to hold
her in their arms
for the very first
time.








And two months later, though doctors continued to
gently but grimly warn that her chances of surviving,
much less living any kind of normal life, were next to
zero, Dana went home from the hospital, just as her
mother had predicted.


Five years later, when Dana was a petite but
feisty young girl with glittering gray eyes and
an unquenchable zest for life.
She showed no signs
whatsoever of any
mental or physical
impairment. Simply,
she was everything
a little girl can be
and more. But that
happy ending is far
from the end of her
story.

One blistering afternoon in the summer of 1996 near her
home in Irving, Texas, Dana was sitting in her mother's
lap in the bleachers of a local ball park where her brother
Dustin's baseball team was practicing.

As always, Dana was chattering nonstop with her
mother and several other adults sitting nearby,
when she suddenly fell silent .

Hugging her arms across her chest, little
Dana asked, 'Do you smell that?'
Smelling the air and detecting
the approach of a thunderstorm,
Diana replied, 'Yes, it smells like
rain.'
Dana closed her eyes and
again asked, 'Do you smell that?'

Once again, her mother replied, 'Yes, I think we're
about to get wet. It smells like rain.'
Still caught in the moment, Dana shook her head,
patted her thin shoulders with her small hands
and loudly announced, 'No, it smells like Him.
It smells like God when you lay your head on His chest.'

Tears blurred Diana's eyes as Dana happily
hopped down to play with the other children.
Before the rains came,
her daughter's words
confirmed what Diana
and all the members
of the extended
Blessing family had
known, at least in
their hearts, all along.
During those long
days and nights
of her first two
months of her life,
when her nerves
were too sensitive
for them to touch
her, God was
holding Dana on
His chest and it
is His loving scent
that she remembers
so well.

You now have 1 of 2 choices.
You can either pass this on and let other people catch
the chills like you did or you can delete this and act
like it didn't touch your heart like it did mine.
It's your call!
'I can do all things in Him who strengthens me.'
This morning when the Lord opened a window
to Heaven, He saw me, and He asked:
'My child, what is your greatest wish for today?'
I responded: 'Lord please, take care of the
person who is reading this message, their
family and their special friends. They
deserve it and I love them very much'
The love of God is like the ocean, you
can see its beginning, but not its end..
______________________
This message works on
the day you receive it.
Let us see if it is true.
______________________
Angels Exist but some times,
since they don't all have wings,
we call them Friends.
______________________
Please pass this on to your true
friends. Something good will
happen to you at 11:00 in the
morning; something that you
have been waiting to hear.

This is not a joke; someone will
call you by phone or will speak
to you about something that
you were waiting to hear.

Please do not break this prayer;
send it to a minimum of 5 people.
______________________________
* contributed by an email sent to me from
my amazing aunt Rivereyes

Monday, November 16, 2009

Mary Had a Little Lamb




Think carefully about what you will be reading...
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
The 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!
If you agree, Please pass this on.
It is said that 86% of the world's people Believe in God.
Why don't we just tell the other 14% to be quiet and sit
down? If you agree, please pass this on, If not, delete.
God Bless you

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--
Building World-Wide Communities -- Together!

Sunday, November 15, 2009

A Letter That Needs To Circulate Now, Not Later

This has to be the email forward of the year! Please take a few
minutes to read and absorb just what this woman had to say,
and then hopefully everyone will pass it to their entire mailing
list, and theirs to theirs until it circles the nation! Time is short
and arrogance, stupidity and ignorance abound..............

The following letter read on Glenn Beck's show, is rapidly
circulating around the country. Americans everywhere
identify with this 53-year-old woman. She has given us a
voice. Once you read this, you will want to forward it to
all of your friends...

GLENN BECK: I got a letter from a woman in Arizona. She writes
an open letter to our nation's leadership:

"I am a home grown American citizen, 53, registered Democrat
all my life. Before the last presidential election I registered as a
Republican because I no longer felt the Democratic Party
represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me.
Now I no longer feel the Republican Party represents my views
or works to pursue issues important to me. The fact is I no longer
feel any political party or representative in Washington
represents my views or works to pursue the issues important to
me. Instead, we are burdened with Congressional Dukes and
Duchesses who think they know better than the citizens they
are supposed to represent.

There must be someone. Please tell me who you are. Please stand
up and tell me that you are there and that you're willing to fight
for our Constitution as it was written. Please stand up now. You
might ask yourself what my views and issues are that I would
feel so horribly disenfranchised by both major political parties.
What kind of nut-job am I? Well, these briefly are the views and
issues for which I seek representation:

One, illegal immigration. I want you to stop coddling illegal
immigrants and secure our borders. Close the underground
tunnels. Stop the violence and the trafficking in drugs and people.
No amnesty, not again. Been there, done that, no resolution. P.S.,
I'm not a racist. This is not to be confused with legal immigration.

Two, the STIMULUS bill. I want it repealed and I want no
further funding supplied to it. We told you No, but you did it
anyway. I want the remaining unfunded 95% repealed. Freeze,
repeal.

Three, Czars. I want the circumvention of our constitutional
checks and balances stopped immediately. Fire the czars. No
more czars. Government officials answer to the process, not to
the president. Stop trampling on our Constitution, and honor it.

Four, cap and trade. The debate on global warming is not
over. There are many conflicting opinions and it is too soon
for this radical legislation. Quit throwing our nation into
politically-correct quicksand.

Five, universal healthcare. I will not be rushed into another
expensive decision that will burden me, my children, and
grandchildren. Don't you dare try to pass this in the middle of
the night without even reading it. Slow down! Fix only what is
broken -- we have the best health care system in the world --
and test any new program in one or two states first.

Six, growing government control. I want states rights and
sovereignty fully restored. I want less government in my life,
not more. More is not better! Shrink it down. Mind your own
business. You have enough to take care of with your real
[Constitutional] obligations. Why don't you start there.

Seven, ACORN. I do not want ACORN and its affiliates in charge
of our 2010 census. I want them investigated. I also do not want
mandatory escrow fees contributed to them every time on every
real estate deal that closes -- how did they pull that one off? Stop
the funding to ACORN and its affiliates pending impartial audits
and investigations. I do not trust them with taking the census
with our taxpayer money. I don't trust them with any of our
taxpayer money. Face up to the allegations against them and
get it resolved before taxpayers get any more involved with
them. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, hello. Stop
protecting your political buddies. You work for us, the people.
Investigate.

Eight, redistribution of wealth. No, no, no. I work for my
money. It is mine. I have always worked for people with more
money than I have because they gave me jobs -- and that is
the only redistribution of wealth that I will support. I never
got a job from a poor person! Why do you want me to hate my
employers? And what do you have against shareholders
making a profit?

Nine, charitable contributions. Although I never got a
job from a poor person, I have helped many in need. Charity
belongs in our local communities, where we know our needs
best and can use our local talent and our local resources.
Butt out, please. We want to do it ourselves.

Ten, corporate bailouts. Knock it off. Every company must
sink or swim like the rest of us. If there are hard times ahead,
we'll be better off just getting into it and letting the strong
survive. Quick and painful. (Have you ever ripped off a Band-
Aid?) We will pull together. Great things happen in America
under great hardship. Give us the chance to innovate. We
cannot disappoint you more than you have disappointed us.

Eleven, transparency and accountability. How about it?
No, really, how about it? Let's have it. Let's say we give the
buzzwords a rest and have some straight honest talk. Please
stop trying to manipulate and appease me with clever wording.
I am not the idiot you obviously take me for. Stop sneaking
around and meeting in back rooms making deals with your
friends. It will only be a prelude to your criminal investigation.
Stop hiding things from me.

Twelve, unprecedented quick spending. Stop it now. Take a
breath. Listen to the people. Slow down and get some input from
null- and experts on the subject. Stop making everything an
emergency. Stop speed-reading our bills into law. I am not an
activist. I am not a community organizer. Nor am I a terrorist,
a militant or a violent person. I am a parent and a grandparent.
I work. I'm busy. I am busy, and I am tired. I thought we elected
competent people to take care of the business of government so
that we could work, raise our families, pay our bills, have a little
recreation, complain about taxes, endure our hardships, pursue
our personal goals, cut our lawn, wash our cars on the weekends
and be responsible contributing members of society and teach
our children to be the same all while living in the home of the
free and land of the brave.

I entrusted you with upholding the Constitution. I
believed in the checks and balances to keep from
getting far off course. What happened? You are very far off
course. Do you really think I find humor in the hiring of a speed
reader to unintelligently ramble all through a bill that you
signed into law without knowing what it contained? I do not. It is
a mockery of the responsibility I have entrusted to you. It is a
slap in the face. I am not laughing at your arrogance. Why is it
that I feel as if you would not trust me to make a single decision
about my own life and how I would live it but you should expect
that I should trust you with the debt that you have laid on all of
us and our children. We did not want the TARP bill. We said no.
We would repeal it if we could. I am sure that we still cannot.
There is needless urgency and recklessness in all of your recent
spending of our tax dollars.

From my perspective, it seems that all of you have gone insane.
I also know that I am far from alone in these feelings. Do you
honestly feel that your current pursuits have merit to patriotic
Americans? We want it to stop. We want to put the brakes on
everything that is being rushed by us and forced upon us. We
want our voice back. You have forced us to put our lives on hold
to straighten out the mess that you are making. We will have
to give up our vacations, our time spent with our children, any
relaxation time we may have had and money we cannot afford
to spend on bringing our concerns to Washington. Our president
often knows all the right buzzwords like unsustainable. Well, no
kidding. How many tens of thousands of dollars did the focus
group cost to come up with that word? We don't want your
overpriced words. Stop treating us like we're morons.

We want all of you to stop focusing on your re-election and
do the job we want done, not the job you want done or the
job your party wants done. You work for us and at this rate
I guarantee you not for long because we are coming. We
will be heard and we will be represented. You think we're
so busy with our lives that we will never come for you? We
are the formerly silent majority, all of us who quietly work,
pay taxes, obey the law, vote, save money, keep our noses to
the grindstone.... and we are now looking at you.

You have awakened us, the patriotic freedom spirit so
strong and so powerful that it had been sleeping too long.
You have pushed us too far. Our numbers are great. They
may surprise you. For every one of us who will be there,
there will be hundreds more that could not come. Unlike
you, we have their trust. We will represent them
honestly, rest assured. They will be at the polls on voting
day to usher you out of office.

We have canceled vacations. We will use our last few dollars
saved. We will find the representation among us and a grass-
roots campaign will flourish. We didn't ask for this fight. But
the gloves are coming off. We do not come in violence, but we
are angry. You will represent us or you will be replaced with
someone who will. There are candidates among us who will
rise like a Phoenix from the ashes that you have made of our
constitution.

Democrat, Republican, independent, libertarian. Understand this. We don't care.
Political parties are meaningless to us Patriotic Americans are willing to do
right by us and our Constitution, and that is all that matters to us now. We are
going to fire all of you who abuse power and seek more. It is not your power. It is
ours and we want it back. We entrusted you with it and you abused it. You
are dishonorable. You are dishonest. As Americans we are ashamed of you. You
have brought shame to us. If you are not representing the wants and needs of
your constituency loudly and consistently, in spite of the objections of your
party, you will be fired. Did you hear? We no longer care about your political
parties. You need to be loyal to us, not to them.. Because we will get you fired
and they will not save you.

If you do or can represent me, my issues, my views, please stand
up. Make your identity known. You need to make some noise
about it. Speak up. I need to know who you are. If you do not
speak up, you will be herded out with the rest of the sheep and
we will replace the whole damn congress if need be one by one.
We are coming. Are we coming for you? Who do you represent?
What do you represent? Listen. Because we are coming. We the
people are coming!

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*Contributed by an email sent to me from my amazing
aunt RiverEyes