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  1. OMG ... he's back. I was soooo glad when he disappeared off the radar. Great example of short lived happiness. smee2
  2. And this posting of an offer, request to become a moderator himself after three posts in a row (good use of the system there Bud ... totally not representative of the real number of responses when you break yours up into three) ... where was I ? ... Oh, yes, this posting after posting three in a row that begin with "What would be the purpose of picking mods?" I have seen hypocritical but I think this may just be the best out-and-out example of hypocrisy I have ever seen. Precious! smee2
  3. I would like to suggest that those who are looking mainly for information on our investment ask the site owner to create other forums, besides music, that people can use, and hopefully will use, so that other postings can be eliminated also. I really think it would create a better "dinar investment" site, and make checking out the latest postings on the subject of dinar, if some of the more heavily non-dinar, non-investment were given their own forum. Personally I sometimes come to look at the most recent dinar and Iraq developments, and find that having to search through pages of stuff totally not about dinar or Iraq, puts me off even looking. For many people who don 't want to go through that search of all the chaff to find the wheat it may be a matter of time ... they don't have much and don't want to feel they are having to waste it on some on-site groups' postings that should be in their own forum. Some may say it doesn't take long, but when you are living with deadlines and sometimes not enough time to do everything, it can seem like a very long time. For me, it is a matter of the time causing a physical problem. Since I broke my back last summer I cannot sit upright, or stand upright, for very long without starting to bend forward in pain, and not be able to get upright again for some time. So, if the move to put more of the postings that are popular with a specific group of members into their own forum were to come to a vote (I know, this isn't a democracy but sometimes the masses can influence change) I would vote for separate forums, and fairly strict adherence to them. I would suggest topics such as: military based postings, including military personnel, military hardware, guns military and non-military, maybe even hunting and related postings; humor, which might include jokes, humorous photos or cartoons, funny YouTube offerings, or humorous personal happenings; American political postings, to include sentiments about people in politics (such as the opinions about the U.S. president), as well as other people running for office, laws and changes to American life through political initiatives; and also a very popular topic that could easily create a large content for a Faith based forum, which could include prayers, and requests for prayer, faith based opinions about the dinar which, to be fair, could be posted in the main forum with a minimal posting advising those who are interested that there is something of interest to them in the Faith based forum, it could include personal testimonials, uplifting and encouraging words for those in need of them, updates on how your prayers have helped those who asked for them, and updates on the health, trials and tribulations of those who feel that the workings of faith are a large part of their lives. For those people a Faith based forum could also be a large part of their lives, their forum lives. There are likely more topics that could be separated off into their own forums for the people who come here hoping to find a specific topic. The break up of the topics into forums now is good as far as it goes. But it is mostly dinar and investment related information that has been assigned its own forum. (imagine that!) The makeup of forum membership, and the subjects of current postings, have made it a good time, now, to make some other forum choices. It is obvious from the variety of postings we see in the "off topic" and even the main forum, that we could all benefit from a forum base that is just a tad larger. Any thoughts on this? Keep it polite, please. smee2 Thanks for the information. Can you describe how one can post an e-mail here? One with pictures? I have tried and it is beyond me. Getting too old to play with this toy I guess ... or perhaps the toy has outgrown me. hahaha smee2
  4. HAHAHAHAHA I love the guesses so far. Keep them coming ... I'll be back for more chuckles. Oh, and I will keep this in mind and maybe I will actually come up with something it could be. My father used to make things like this, the most famous in our family was something that looked like a Christmas tree, or stacked rounds decreasing in size from the bottom to the top, like one of those baby's toys. Each round was studded with inch-long pieces of pointed dowel, and the whole thing was held together by a long "nail" (about 10 inches high) that you could use to pick up the thing. The "rounds" were speared on this long nail thing in such a way that they could be turned, independently. It took my grandmother looking at it to figure out what it was, and the rest of us had been looking at it for weeks. She was in her eighties and knew almost immediately. It was a holder for spools of sewing thread. And when it had spools on the pointed dowel segments they looked like the ornaments on a Christmas tree. They were displayed so the sewer could just grab what they wanted, and they were kept neat, all in one place, no more looking for the right color thread to quickly stitch up a torn hem, or re-attach a button. Anyway, I will think about this one. But I do enjoy the responses so far. Hope you keep refreshing it so it will be here a while. And if you could rotate the picture to be upright rather than on its side, that might help too. Sorry to be so "wordy" ... but it has become a habit and I cannot seem to break it. Even when I try. smee2
  5. I have often wondered, on this gun-toting, dinar holding, hate mongering, supposedly Christian site, which group would emerge the most vociferous if it ever came down to it. So far the posts in this thread certainly make it abundantly clear that it is the very unChristianlike members who hate, and keep hating, and spread the word to hate, who are the most vocal in their reaction ... which is totally unChristian. So many of our "Christian" site members hate so much, and hate so many people, and hate so actively ... all I can really say is ... How DARE you call yourselves "Christian". I do not presume to tell anyone what God might "think" or "do" as response to something like this ... but if there is a God, and if He has feelings for His "children", He cannot be proud of those of you who use His name in describing yourself, and then live a life so full of hate. smee2
  6. Most of my life I could state, with a certain amount of surety, that I was spiritual, but now religious. But ... Having lost my soul mate a little over three years ago, having seen my own life change in a very negative and life shortening way, and having passed a landmark birthday just yesterday, I have had death on my mind a lot. Mostly in terms of the spirit, the soul, what, if anything, is there after this ... I thought I knew what was next. But I realize now that I do not. I am reduced to tears when I think of Neil and wonder about my former belief that we would, as spirit if nothing else, be "reunited". I no longer believe that. Which brings up the reality, for me anyway, that I will not ever again know the "spirit" that was Neil. And that hurts ... so much. It makes his not being here so much more final, more painful. And, having passed the aforementioned landmark birthday, I am having my own up close and personal relationship with the concept of death ... not someone else's death, but my own. What do I want the next step to be? I know it is the same for every spirit. when released from the physical what will it become? if anything. Just wanting it to all be a certain way will not make it so. And I cannot find a belief that is comfortable enough for me to just accept. The closer the reality of death comes in my own life, the more confused I am. Do I feel that religion will be the downfall of man? Well I believe it certainly will not be man's "salvation." I no longer believe that man requires "salvation". I cannot believe that mankind, brought down to the most basic part, the spiritm if it even exists, is in need of salvation, of being scolded and corrected and brought to purity by some other spirit ... and certainly no longer believe that spirit can claim a status ... the lord over all, the spirit of the father ... the highest of a hierarchy of spiritual "beings" ... ? That seems to be just a continuation of the "rules" and scheme of "punishment and reward" that man has created here in this plane. Why on earth would such a thing "exist" on some other plane? Nope, when I think about it now, with a much more immediate and final view of death, and the reality or non-reality of "spirit" ... I cannot believe that religion, or even spirituality, is anything more than a man made societal system that has been given the sanction of "God" by the priests who needed a way to keep the populace in line. It may have avoided absolute mayhem from the times of cave paintings and sun worship to modern times. Face it ... no matter what "religion" is predominant in any political segment (country), it has been regulated and taught to be the answer. When times are bad, pray more. When times are good, be more thankful in your prayers. When something cannot be explained ... it is one of the mysteries of the spirit. Now that I have alienated most of those people here who may have had a somewhat different belief about me ... well, let me just say that it is one thing to think and feel a certain way about certain things that may be out there in the future. But when all of a sudden they are right up close and snuggling tight against you ... well, you get to rethink things in a whole new way. Brings to mind that saying ... "Never say never." smee2
  7. I looked for this here, but could not find it. If it should happen to be a repost, listen to it again. I don't think anyone, especially American citizens, American politicians, and their Allies can hear this too often. The most honest three and a half minutes of television, EVER Brutally honest response to “America is the Greatest Country on Earth”: http://www.safeshare.tv/w/UAGOcLSuLX Note: I feel, that as one of those Allies, the closest geographical neighbour, and part of an alliance that works across the longest unarmed border in the world, I have the duty, as a good friend, to send this along and hope it might do some good ... for America, and Americans. It is not your neighbours who can make you a great country again ... it is you ... the American citizen.
  8. What he said. I had the same issue but since you posed the question, I didn't have to. Thanks to the inquisitor and the informer. I know, I know ... not quite the right use of those words, but when will I ever get the chance again to use them?) ; ) smee2
  9. Too often when we hear that someone has no home, we automatically think they must also be without the invisible stuff like moral fiber and ethical standards. But it is not always so. And it is so good to see the world given an example that we all, especially those of us who measure those things with dollar signs, can understand, and perhaps use to help build our own moral and ethical values. Thanks for the post! ... and the reminder that those people who are reduced to begging are just a step away from you, and where you are now, and where you could be tomorrow. smee2
  10. Believe it or not ... I first heard this joke in 1963 !!!! Yup, it is over fifty years old. Absolute best example of that old saying ... "What goes around comes around." And it just keeps going around, and around, and around, and around ... Thanks for posting for those "youngsters" on the forum who maybe haven't heard it before ... or read it. This joke comes from a time before texting, before email, before personal computers ... in fact, to put it into another perspective ... when I first heard this joke we were just becoming aware of a great office work breakthrough called the "Electric Typewriter" (for those among us who don't know what a typewriter is, try Google ... another thing that didn't exist then) and we did not yet have "white out" ... Gosh ... there is one that goes all the way around and right back to the beginning again. "White Out" ... (not the winter weather condition most high speed multi-car pileups on the freeway are blamed on) we invented it, used it, and then got rid of typewriters, typewriter ribbons and carbon paper (more for you youngsters to look up) and used White Out right past it's effective and usable era. It may still sit in some office desk drawers (if an office has a desk with a drawer any longer) ... yup, before the office desk held a screen, printer and keyboard, it was an actual "desk" with a middle drawer that secretaries (another term to "search") would use to keep the things she might use a couple of dozen times a day ... like White Out. I do so love these little trips down memory lane ... and I do mean "trips". smee2
  11. After years of dry mouth, so severe that the acids normally present to help digestion were chewing away at my teeth, and I recently had to have all the top ones ... almost a full mouth of teeth! ...yanked out ... I was also tested for your nightmare condition. Fortunately I did not have the syndrome, just really severe dry mouth ... which has been made worse by some of the medications I have to take for things completely unrelated to the mouth or saliva or any of that area. So, I guess I have been there and done that and sort of know what you are going through waiting. You are getting some good advice here ... I got lots from people who knew I was waiting for the same diagnosis results. It is something you can handle ... it is not deadly and of all the things that dry mouth could signify, this is really one of the ones I personally would rather have if I had to have any at all. My thoughts and positive vibes will be with you. Let us know how things work out. smee2
  12. When reminded of the great, all seeing, all reaching, all encompassing love that we have been given ... I wonder if we should have the arrogance to be asking for something more. Using prayer to seek financial gain seems to me sometimes like the most blatant insult we can give the Father who gives us that which no earthly quest will find, no level of work can build, what no amount of money can buy ... unqualified love. Thanks for posting the beautiful reminder of the TRUE meaning of Easter. Bunnies indeed! smee2
  13. Well, whatever he actually was or was doing, he was really good at it, whether he got paid or not. If he did get paid, his "employers" certainly got their money's worth. smee2
  14. Things will change for the better? Really? I have found over the last few years that it is when you hit bottom that you think you have nowhere to go but up, and then it all seems to be getting better ... whoopee!!!! ... But it is usually just the bottom of the bounce ... and at least I have found that it is just one in a series of bounces ... from the worst to a little better, and then back to the worst again, and a little better again, and the worst ... well, you get the idea. In a relatively short space of time my own life went from bad, to really bad, to much worse, and then, thanks to a former member on this forum, who may be skulking about under another name, I hit the worst it can be. I thought I was helping someone out and ended up just proving that not only am I old, and alone, and disabled ... now I am also almost broke and have proved I have a heart where my brain should be. Word of caution ... don't ... repeat do not ... give anyone money even if they promise to pay it back. Trying to help someone else is where I went wrong I guess. I should have been looking after me first. It is just that I don't think that way. Sorry, sometimes I just have to let go and release some of the tension. For those who believe the good times are on their way ... I hope with all my heart that you are right! smee2
  15. I guess it is the teacher in me that appreciates this one ... it fits into what teachers often refer to, and even discuss, as the learning moment ... or sometimes the teaching moment ... that moment when you see your student actually "get it" ... maybe this is a little harsh, but this teacher sure knows how to get his point across ... ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ THE DEAD COW LECTURE First-year students at the Ohio State Vet School were attending their first anatomy class with a real dead cow. They all gathered around the surgery table with the body covered with a white sheet. The professor started the class by telling them, "In Veterinary medicine it is necessary to have two important qualities as a doctor. The first is that you not be disgusted by anything involving the animal's body." For an example, the professor pulled back the sheet, stuck his finger in the butt of the cow, withdrew it, and stuck his finger in his mouth. "Go ahead and do the same thing," he told his students. The students freaked out, hesitated for several minutes, but eventually took turns sticking a finger in the butt of the dead cow and sucking on it. When everyone finished, the Professor looked at them and said, The second most important quality is observation. I stuck in my middle finger and sucked on my index finger. Now learn to pay attention. Life's tough but it's even tougher if you're stupid."
  16. Hmmm ... Isn't that a list of the things that cannot be included in a Muslim diet? Oh, was that your point? Maybe I am just dense. smee2
  17. Great stuff but not the first by a long shot. Many years ago I had a friend send me an email with this kind of "resort" thing, though I don't remember now if it had the accommodations such as this one has. but it had the most wonderful sandy beaches and swimming in water deeper than the people ... as in you couldn't stand up in it. It was in Japan ... and handled millions of visitors a year. Surprisingly, it was not something that was marketed to the usual tourist who came to Japan from North America, or Europe, or Scandinavia, or any place outside Japan. It was marketed solely to the Japanese, and started out as a "reward" given by companies to their best "workers" and their families. Within a year or so it was a destination vacation place for all Japanese. I would guess that since it showed up on the YouTube site there are visitors there now from all over the world. Unfortunatey neither one of them is wheelchair friendly ... and it seems now that the next vacation I take (come on RV!) will have to be something that works with a wheel chair. I have a friend who says we should take a cruise, that the ships are all fitted out to handle wheel chairs and other disabilities. Hey, I don't mind having all my future "vacations" happen on a gorgeous ship the size of a small city, with fourteen restaurants, seven pools, three dozen retails shops, four beauty salons, appointments available with the masseuse ... yup, I think I could handle that. Thanks for the post ... it is great to see that some people will dream big, and then follow through! smee2
  18. Being Green Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my earlier days." The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations." She was right -- our generation didn't have the 'green thing' in its day. Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day. Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags. But too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back then. We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day. Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day. Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana . In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right; we didn't have the "green thing" back then. We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the "green thing" back then. Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house did before the "green thing." We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint. But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the "green thing" back then? Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smartass young person... We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off...especially from a tattooed, multiple pierced smartass who can't make change without the cash register telling them how much. smee2
  19. Now THAT was funny! Thanks for posting. smee2
  20. Very powerful story. I only hope that people will learn from it. We tend to think that words are just ... well, words. But Words can have a devastating effect on people. So, be careful about what you say, and how you say it, and to whom you say it. Don't find yourself regretting what your words may do. smee2
  21. Here in Canada the idea of Reuse or Recycle changed the bagging procedures more than fifteen years ago. At that time the grocery stores that were almost box stores but not quite, and charged the least for everyday items, which attracted a lot of people ... well, they were offering plastic bags, with their own advertising on them and in a bright color that is associated with their store name, for a nickel, and then a dime each. It took many years for the strongest of the grocery chains to get into the recycle business, but not by charging for bags. The bags were free. But at every juncture ... when entering the store, when checking out, and on almost every grocery aisle ... somewhere there would be a reminder that by purchasing the canvas/cloth bags they sold (again with their own advertising on them, like we become a part of their advertising campaign that they don't have to pay for) would keep us from adding to the dump sites a plastic material that takes decades to rot "back to the earth" and thereby stop us from creating more garbage that is not recycled or reused. Then they went a step farther and offered a place to put your old grocery bags (plastic) and again made you feel guilty if you were not using their cloth recycling bags. Well, they pressed the guilt button enough that I finally started buying the bags. I now have recycle bags from two grocery stores, three pharmacies, two large chain "department" stores, my insurance company (I only ever carry an envelope out of there but hey, it is free advertising for them} Canada post, and my favorite ... when my husband died he was cremated. His ashes (now called cremains) were put in a box. The box was all securely taped up. Then, the funeral home, put the box in a dark blue cotton bag that had their logo on the outside, and did not crack a boo in giving it to me. I almost laughed. I am sure my husband would have laughed at the fact that he was being presented to me in a recycling cloth bag with the funeral home's logo on it. Oh well; ... such is life. Now, all of these darned cloth bags are folded up and stored in two of the largest of the cloth bags. And every time I go into my local grocery store I am faced with a reminder sign ... "Did you remember to bring your bags?" And of course I feel this deep sense of guilt because all of them are still sitting in a corner in my home, being ignored. But, I still have the funeral home bag, still with my husband inside, still in the van I drive. (My plans for his ashes do not include him coming into the house. When I die my executor will simply mix my ashes with those of my husband, and let us go in a perpetually sunny spot.) Anyway, the point of my long dissertation here, is to say that the business of paying for the bag is the first step in trying to get people to stop using plastic bags, and not an attempt to stop us from using paper. In fact, in most stores that charge for a plastic bag, you can ask for paper, and if they still have any, they will give you one with no charge. But that only works if you are in a store that has them at the check stand. If not, then you are paying for plastic or on your own ... make sure you have big pockets! smee2
  22. In my father's words ... The inmates are running the asylum!" This "suspect" ... when, and why, did we become so afraid of hurting the feelings of criminals? Suspect? this guy is not suspected pof being a thief, he is a thief! Caught in the act. Fortunately this time, caught with a bullet. Definitely not a "suspect".Anyone who can't see that, and come to the appropriate conclusion regarding a homeowner protecting himself from someone climbing in to his home through a window ... I mean ... he wasn't there to sell girl guide cookies ... he was climbing through the man's window of crying out loud! That is NOT how a friend, or an innocent reformed thief (he was a repeat offender) would come calling He should have received a warning ... yeah, right. I say the warning should be a sign on the front door that says thieves will be dealt with in an appropriate manner, and this property is protected by sufficient fire power to do so. You think that would keep the thieves from trying to crawl through the window? I don't think so. Thieves don't come to the front door to read a warning. A lot of them can't read in any event. A warning shot? Hollering that his attempt to break into the house has been detected? And the next sound you hear is the bullet the thief fires that kills you. This "repeat" offender got what he deserved, and should have got it sooner ... like maybe the first time, so he would not be a repeat offender. What? We have to give a thief some consideration because he did this before, and got away with it to do it again? Give me a break! The one who should be stood up against a wall and shot right beside any captured repeat offender is the judge who let him go the first time. Hey, that kind of threat might just cause the judges to be a little more judgmental. I am, as you can tell, upset by this item. I just find it incredible that so many people have allowed the minority to put all of us at risk by being too soft to deal with the criminal element ... and I do not mean with a warning, or a slap on the wrist. Maybe we should bring back the threat of hanging for everything from proven murder, down to proven pickpocketing. I'd say yea on that one! smee2
  23. Now, THAT is one that I find funny. Maybe I just have a crooked funny bone. Thanks for the post smee2
  24. I tried what you are suggesting. But that only gives access to a "photo" that I have to upload. I don't have one. Believe it or not, the last photo that was taken of me was almost twenty years ago. And I don't have a copy. Anyway, there used to be a page here where you could go and pick a pre-made picture. It wasn't a photo really, not of us. It was a place filled with graphics, pictures like the kitten I chose, cartoon characters ... and I don't remember all of them. But there were a lot to choose from. And now, nothing. Unless there is a way to find it that I have not found yet? As I said, what you are suggestion, is a place to upload a photo from some other place, and I don't have a photo. And I am really averse to having the ghostly image in the corner of all my posts. There has to be some alternative. If not ... well, I consider that a major, and I do mean major, problem with this software. Surely with all the neat things that have been changed, and introduced, the wizards handling this can come up with something better than the ghost image. I hope. Thanks for trying smee2
  25. I don't know if this is a "new" problem. I have never had it come up for me before. I was trying to "paste" something interesting I got on my email, on to the "Off Topics" forum. It wasn't anything nasty or rude ... and no graphics that were unacceptable ... but my attempt was not accepted. At the top of the non'accepted post was, in the coloured bar, this message ... You are not allowed to use that image extension on this community. Any suggestions? Thanks for your time smee2
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