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"]Happy Birthday ! [/size] Let's sing out for BamaGirl .... We wish you a Happy Birthday, We wish you a Happy Birthday, We wish you a ... wait ... that's not the right one! Sorry ... okay, let's try again ... Happy Birthday Hot! Happy Birthday Cold! Happy Birthday in the Pot ... Wait, wait ... that isn't it either ... hmmm ... okay, here we go ... Happy Birthday Falling Down, Falling Down, Falling Down, Happy Birthday Falling Down, My Fair La ... no, no, no, ... this isn't it either ... This is soooo embarassing ... *blush* ... Okay ... one more chance ... I think I got it this time ... Happy Birthday to You ... Happy Birthday to You ... Happy Biiiiiiiirthday ... Dear BamaGirl ... Happy Birthday to You! May you live a hundred years ... May you drink a hundred beers ... Get plastered you bas ... oops ... nope ... not the last verse. Sorry ... Just the first verse ... And BamaGirl ... whatever you are singing inside ... I hope it adds to your Happy Birthday We all love you ... well, most of us seem to love you. I cannot speak for some of the lesser civilized forum visitors :peace:/> smee2

You Go Girl ! I am with you all the way ... Thanks for the post! ;)/> smee2

Someone asked why this is even on the forum? Maybe it doesn't belong here since it is not about the dinar, or about Iraq. It is about a religious group, and their horrendous habits, especially towards women and children, and of course when it is a female child ... nothing is too over the top, eh? Personally, whether it is appropriate for a forum on a foreign currency investment, or not, it IS appropriate in any place where people can be informed about this kind of thing happening ... with what amounts to religious, legal, societal, and it seems, cultural impunity. Yes, it may look like someone is picking on the Saudis, or more correctly, attacking a religion ... Islam ... which posters and readers do here every day in some way. So much for freedom of worship, eh? It is okay for us but not for all the others who are not on the same wavelength as us? Well, I guess, then, that I am as much of a hypocrite as anyone else who is fighting mad that a man, supposedly a man of God who is charged with leading a part of God's flock, could do this in the first place without being scooped up and put in a straight jacket, but more importantly, could do this hideous act, upon his own daughter, and go so overboard as to create the condition of her body, and get what mounts to a slap on the wrist for it. I hate reading this kind of "news" but I also hate more that it happens at all. And I guess the only way to make the kind of waves, preferably tsunami, that will cause an entire religious community to change their perceptions and translation of religious precepts, at least how they physically translate their beliefs on the bodies of their children and women, is to make sure that the rest of the world does know what is happening. Horrific, certainly. Hypocritical about freedom of religious practices ... most likely. Necessary to build a world consciousness that will not allow this to happen? Absolutely! :(/> smee2

Euthanize? They were going to euthanize the fawn? Are they serious? I guess it is just a good thing the law doesn't require those who helped the animal be euthanized too! smee2

Yes cops are people, and yes they make mistakes. Now, don't go thinking I am bashing the police, I am not. My brother, retired now, was for more than two decades an officer (a cop) with the Ontario Provincial Police. Sort of like the American State Trooper or whatever they call their state police. Only, Ontario is a lot larger than one of the States. And the policing is a lot more diversified in most cases. And yes, there are a lot of gun challenges there ... mostly with natives ... some who have recently visited a beer store. Anyway. Police have become afraid of guns, the ones they do not carry themselves. Really. What cops do when they are shouting, threatening, not listening to what the person says, and going over the top in their reaction to a gun ... all that is fear. they have been trained to be afraid. They have had all the civilian shootings, like at schools or shopping malls, as well as the guy who is reported shouting and shooting in his garage or whatever and then taking off like a madman in his Jeep Cherokee like a mad man ... they have had all of that presented as examples of when their guns may be necessary. It is frightening to think that a raving idiot who cannot control his temper could be the one who kills or maims them. I would certainly be afraid of that if I was being taught that so many of their encounters with the un-police could be deadly. Those people responsible for training police officers are trying to train a response, not a reaction. The difference? A response is action taken or words voiced that address an issue in an appropriate manner, seeking some further information, or answer to a question, or solution to some seemingly untoward action. Wordy, ain't I ... hahaha A reaction, on the other hand, is something like when the flash goes off you close your eyes. It is not a reasoned response. It is something that happens almost on its own. You don't even think about it ... it is in play before you can even think about thinking about it. What this officer is doing, is reacting, not responding. Sorry to say, a lot of cops do that, and a significant number of those reactions are caught on tape and touted as being some kind of response to government gun policies. So, when an officer reacts and really makes a fool of himself, ... it is because he truly believes at that moment that he is in danger. He reacts to that danger. And we see the video and get to side with one of the other principals involved. If there was a way to train officers (cops) to respond to these situations, this kind of encounter would be reduced immensely. But a person who carries a gun (the cops) and is trained to use it and understands every time he is practicing on the gun range that each of those bullets, any bullet, just one bullet ... could be the end of his life, or life as a cripple, or a life of pain. When you have someone who carries a gun and understands what it can really do ... they are naturally going to react rather than respond. No matter how we try to train police to respond rationally, that flight or fight reaction comes into play. And they automatically feel the worst case scenario and become raving, gun waving, foul mouthed beasts ... and not well trained cops. Just my thoughts ... :)/> smee2

Now THAT is funny ! :D/> smee2

TOTALLY IRRESPONSIBLE OF YOU TO POST THIS HEADLINE ! DO NOT say it is done, until it is done, as in cash in hand. Not, repeat NOT, it will be done by this or that time. Only an idiot hollers fire in a movie theater. :angry:/> smee2

What killed truth? Laziness! Think about it. Truth was a valued asset, part of personal pride and considered the standard, a lie, or fraudulent practices, or deception, were all considered shameful. Then along came laziness. We used to work hard, and leisure time was spent in a skilled hobby, or reading, or learning something you didn't know. We were productive, and liked it that way. Then along came the light bulb ... perhaps we should blame the loss of truth on the light bulb. It brought us light in the darkness. Suddenly we didn't have to go to bed when it got too dark to do what ever were doing. Candle power was not anywhere near daylight. We got up when the sun did, or before, and went to bed when it got dark. We slept a healthy amount of time, and worked a healthy amount of time, and had time for a healthy amount of leisure ... more in the winter when gardens could not be worked, and less in the summer when planting, growing and harvesting were done, by most of us, if not on a farm then in a kitchen garden in the back yard. No, maybe the loss of truth came with electricity. With that we could light up our homes and businesses and leisure venues during the dark times. We could invent, and use, devices such as toasters we didn't have to hold over the hearth coals in order to toast bread or cheese or whatever. The toaster did it. Put in the bread and open it up when it is done, and then the automatic toaster made it even easier ... put in the bread and it would take itself out, popping up, when it was done. And we were able to develop machinery that gave the farmer more time for other work or leisure ... starting with the light bulb (no more Mrs. O'Leary's cow and barn fires because the only illumination in the barn was a lantern) to the automatic milking machines and mechanical harvesters ... not more sythes ( I know I didn't spell that right) and the entire family out in the field weilding them morning to night during harvest. Automatic bailers and plows and planters for all kinds of produce and picking machines. Chain saws ... and no more felling trees large enough to build your home with an axe, or a two man saw and an awful lot of muscle and sweat and time. Automatic equipment in hen houses, leaving a lot more time for the wives and children who no longer had to feed or collect eggs by hand. What a time saver! Yup, time saving. All the devices we came up with were touted as "time saving devices" and boy did we dance to that tune. Time saving ... wow! But what were we saving the time for? Skilled hobbies? People today would not know a skill based hobby if it bit them. As the trend continued we developed easier ways to do everything from cutting the lawn (no more goats, one for the front yard and one for the back), to cooking dinner (no more chopping wood for the stove or taking the hours that good yeast bread requires (buy it at the bakery already made, and home made became the thing to drool over because it became so scarce!). The luxury of personal use cars and the convenience of delivery trucks took over from horses and carriages and buggies. No more ice man, we all had fridges. Anyway, you get the idea ... the world kept spinning and with every spin things got "better" ... "new and improved". Everything was aimed at being a labor saving device or practice. Labor saving helped to make us lazy. Maybe it was labor-saving automation that caused us to stop telling the truth. Because with all this new stuff, if you build it, they will come ... and they will buy with pockets full of cash, because in those days cash was the rule, no credit cards, and family incomes were earned by the head of the household and mom stayed home doing the mega important job of raising kids ... and teaching them right from wrong, and truth. But with the buying of all this new stuff, and the saving of all this time, we needed more money, and that meant mom going to work too. Oh yeah, put out there a great campagne to teach women that their "rights" were being smothered because they were not allowed to compete in the market place with jobs of their own that earned cash ... that was needed to buy the fridges and stoves and irons and washers and dryers just as a start. (Oh, and in case you haven't realized, I am a woman) So, here we have all this extra time on our hands, which has cost us more than money. It has cost us time, with our families. We had dinner and breakfast at different times and lunch at work. We saw each other in passing as we were going out or coming in. There was no opportunity to teach kids about honesty, and truth, and pride of being known to have high personal standards. And advertising ... maybe that is what destroyed truth. We saw ads for everything from cars to TV dinners to Campbell's Condensed Soup to clothing we no longer made ourselves, produce we no longer grew ourselves, meat we no longer raised or hunted for ourselves ... on and on. Basically we were being bombarded with advertising for everything that could be made and sold for a profit. We were being programmed to stop doing things for ourselves. And when the advertised product was maybe not quite as perfect as it seemed, or didn't last as long as it was supposed to and another had to be purchased down the road ... we took that just to be part of life. We accepted corporate lies. We didn't see them as lies, we saw them as advertising. In the last three or few decades we have emharked on a drive to promote "truth in advertising" ... even advertisers know that truth in advertising is scarce. Yeah, maybe it was advertising that took truth away. But I still feel that a large reason for the lack of truth is laziness. We find it easier to lie, cheat, take what we are not entitled to, stretch a "truth" to the point where it is no longer recognized ... we accept all this in advertising, and by extension, in our own behavior. And why would we do this? Because it is easier to do that than to have to change our ways to be able to tell a good truth. Easier ... we have been brainwashed to think of everything in terms of how to make it easier. It takes more work to say "yes, I did that" than it takes to not do that thing and then say yes, it is done, and it isn't even started. We justify that by telling ourselves we will do it later. And if we got away with that then we feel we can get away with other lies, more important lies, destructive lies. Why? Because we allowed advertisers to lie to us without coming down on them like a hammer. Which transferred to politicians who picked up lying as acceptable, because, well, their own constituents, the people they are asking to vote for them, they lie ... why? See above ... because they have allowed everything from simple advertising, to news paper stories, to picture, movies and television, to come right into our homes, which are, by the way, no longer the center of the family, family has no center any longer, and all these things have been untruthful. We don't want to say they all lie. That is too harsh. They exaggerate. Right. You see where I am going with this I hope. We have stopped being honest, have lost truth, because it is easier to be untruthful when it suits our purposes. First we were taught that life had to be easier. And by the way more costly. Then we were taught that life didn't have to stick to a set of rules, since everyone seemed to be bending the rules and it was okay so we could too. Then we took it a step farther ... we didn't have the time for family and home life and there was no way that kids could learn about honesty and truth. It certainly was never and is not now on any school curriculum. And parents have expected the school system to teach their kids more than the three R's ... they also are expected to teach the kids values. Be careful what you want someone else to do. Our kids have been taught values at school ... from a lot of other kids and some teachers who have less than admirable values. With all the labour saving, and time saving, we have become lazy. We are too lazy to teach our children values, and leave it to schools, and churches, and baby sitters. As the value goes, so goes the truth. Gone. Hardly remembered, except by old farts like me who mourn the loss. So, that is my answer to your question. :mellow:/> smee2

I was a child, about ten or eleven, when my grandfather died. I was confused about why and what next, but I was mostly confused about why God would let such a good man suffer so much before taking him to heaven. My mom was the one try to answer those kinds of questions, and she was raising her children Catholic. As a Catholic we were taught about pergatory, that half-way step between life and heaven, where you go to wait for heaven because you haven't been bad enough to go to hell, but you haven't been good enough to go directly to heaven, do not pass go ... you get the idea. Well, mom told me that God had allowed Grandpa to suffer in his last months here on earth so that he would not have to wait in pergatory. The pain and suffering he went through here would be sufficient penance that he would not have to wait and would go straight to heaven. Well, it made me feel better at the time, as it would any child who was trying to understand death, and suffering, and felt the loss of someone she loved a great deal. So now, what do I have to thank God for? I thank Him for giving me the pain, and suffering, and sometimes the absolute darkest of nights in which to hide with my agony and tears ... because according to my mom, who passed away decades ago, all that suffering, that God allows, would mean a direct trip to heaven. This is NOT meant to be sarcastic or in any way disrespectful. It is absolutely true and that is how I really feel. I have had to feel that way or I would not be able to handle what I have to deal with otherwise. I guess I have to thank God for the wisdom to accept and believe whatever will get me through this life. Thanks for the opportunity to ... share. ;)/> smee2

I suspect that these "idiots" find that the comfort, joy, elation, charge, zing ... whatever they get from getting people stirred up (and makes them feel that WE are the idiots) far outweighs being laughed at. I mean, after all, they seem incapable of recognizing reality to start with so I doubt they even think so many people laugh at them. They might even think that people revere them and their constant incorrect messages. Personally, I am not going to hold my breath for tonight at 11.59 p.m. If I am really lucky I will be sleeping soundly at that time. :rolleyes:/> smee2

Another of the indications that Maliki is just another Sadam ... creating a dictatorship, though he is trying to make it seem like democracy. Sadam at least was more honest about it ... he was a dictator, and behaved like one right out in the open from the get go. Maliki, the circus act, is trying to juggle enough issues, and people, and rumors, and lies, that the world will not notice he is building his own private country ... and it just happens to be sitting on the largest fortune in oil ever to exist. Let us hope the people of Iraq realize what he is in time to are able to stop him ... in time. :angry:/> smee2

Unfortunately the world is full of idiots. Some of them who don't listen or hear a comment completely and will make an assumption ... this being the result of an idot making an assumption. Some of them will be, perhaps unconsciously, seeking their own fifteen minutes of fame by being the one to report something that will get everyone off their butts and running in circles. And some of them will, for the fun of it, take an unimportant little word, or phrase, or complete sentence sometimes, and report it in such a way as to make themselves seem like the hero. What gets to me is that the people coming to scoop up a kid with a nerf gun, swarmed into, around, and most likely over, a school full of kids, while armed to the teeth. Can you say idiotic? I would assume that registered gun owners, and carriers, the ones who want guns to remain a part of what they perceive as their rights as Americans, those people would be damned sure there was a problem worth the wearing, loading, or even pointing the guns forward where someone could be in the line of accidental fire. It is the "official" gun toters who, in this instance and others like it, will, warranted or not, charge in wearing body armour, and carrying loaded rifles aimed where they are going, and want us to think they are solving the problem with the greatest of care. Yeah ... right! Not only the teacher who reported it, but also the principal or other staff to whom he reported it, should have done their own homework, and investigated to see what the boy may have said, and if there was a gun on the premises, or just what was really going on before calling in the troops. Fortunately, in this case, there was no threat, unless you think being hit in the face with a sponge a threat. smee2

"It said his arrest is due to ambiguities in Iraq's 2011 media law that have created unnecessary barriers about obtaining access to information. "The arbitrary jailing of a journalist is a vestige of the Saddam Hussein regime that is completely out of place in Iraq's democracy today," said CPJ spokesman Sherif Mansour." Hear! Hear! ... Thought we had this photographers and journalists thing worked out long ago. Not only is it acknowledged that the 2011 media law is a stumbling mammoth, but it was agreed in the world view, meaning organizations monitoring journalists and photographers around the world, especially in war zones, and in this case after war zones, that a breach such as this is worth no more than stopping the activity, and if Iraq feels it is necessary, having the journalist's country of origin (or whoever they are working for) remove their employee from the country, perhaps never to return. It certainly does not include jailing someone for ... how long did the article say? ... one week, two? Well it isn't in the loose agreement between Iraq and the world press that this photographer by jailed. House arrest perhaps in his hotel, and removal by his employer, but that is it. I sincerely hope this is not the start, or an indication of, future journalist and photographer harasement and Sadam-like policies smee2

Great News! Just what I needed and wanted to hear first thing in the morning ... well in my morning this is first thing. If the Iraqi Dinar is worth less (not to be confused with worthless) will the cost of purchasing it in the rest of the world (i.e. US & Canada) also go down? I rather doubt it but if anyone has an experience relating to that I would love to hear (read) it. Going out to the garden now to eat worms ... oops ... ground frozen ... have to go do something else disgusting to balance this bit of news. smee2

I got this in my inbox this morning and decided it was too good to keep ... and where better to share it but here at the forum. Hope you enjoy !!! A little laughter for your day. A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales. The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was very small. The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale. Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human; it was physically impossible. The little girl said, 'When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah'. The teacher asked, 'What if Jonah went to hell?' The little girl replied, 'Then you ask him'. ----------------------------------------------- A Kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they were drawing. She would occasionally walk around to see each child's work. As she got to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what the drawing was. The girl replied, 'I'm drawing God.' The teacher paused and said, 'But no one knows what God looks like'. Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing, the girl replied, 'They will in a minute'. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A Sunday school teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments with her five and six year olds. After explaining the commandment to 'honor' thy Father and thy Mother, she asked, 'Is there a commandment that teaches us how to treat our brothers and sisters?' Without missing a beat one little boy (the oldest of a family) answered, 'Thou shall not kill.' _______________________________________________________ One day a little girl was sitting and watching her mother do the dishes at the kitchen sink. She suddenly noticed that her mother had several strands of white hair sticking out in contrast on her brunette head. She looked at her mother and inquisitively asked, 'Why are some of your hairs white, Mum?' Her mother replied, 'Well, every time that you do something wrong and make me cry or unhappy, one of my hairs turns white.' The little girl thought about this revelation for a while and then said, 'Mummy, how come ALL of grandma's hairs are white?' ---------------------------------------------------------------- The children had all been photographed, and the teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture. 'Just think how nice it will be to look at it when you are all grown up and say, 'There's Jennifer, she's a lawyer,' or 'That's Michael, He's a doctor.' A small voice at the back of the room rang out, 'And there's the teacher, she's dead.' -----------------------------------------------------------------_ A teacher was giving a lesson on the circulation of the blood. Trying to make the matter clearer, she said, 'Now, class, if I stood on my head, the blood, as you know, would run into it, and I would turn red in the face.' 'Yes,' the class said. 'Then why is it that while I am standing upright in the ordinary position the blood doesn't run into my feet?' A little fellow shouted, 'Cause your feet ain't empty'. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic elementary school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. The nun made a note, and posted on the apple tray: 'Take only ONE. God is watching.' Moving further along the lunch line, at the other end of the table was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies. A child had written a note, 'Take all you want. God is watching the apples'. --------------------------------------------------------------- It doesn't matter how many people you send this to, just remember if it made you smile, your friends will smile too..

If this 7 million is the dinar total, not dollars but 7 million dinar, that would, in Canadian cash, most likely come in below the $10,000 limit. If this was enough dinar to equal 7 million dollars, US or Canadian, they would have to have something one heck of a lot larger than a GMC Yukon to transport it in. It isn't the dinar that is the cause or even a contributing factor in this border stop. It is the guns. Guns and Canada ... a great big no-no. The only way, repeat ONLY WAY, that dinar would have any bearing on how someone coming into the country is viewed or treated, would be if they are some kind of watch list or they have some kind of questionable middle eastern connection and the dinar may be linked to some possible terrorist activity. Which I highly doubt ... even 7 million in usable funds (US or CDN) would not really be much in planning some major terrorist activity. I think this is a gun stop, pure and simple, and someone has taken the fact that they had dinar on them as a reason to get all hyper about dinar. smee2

Someone had to remind me, so I'm reminding you too. Don't laugh.....it is all true. Perks of reaching 50 or being over 60 and heading towards 70! 1. Kidnappers are not very interested in you.. 2. In a hostage situation you are likely to be released first. 3. No one expects you to run--anywhere. 4. People call at 9 pm and ask, did I wake you? 5. People no longer view you as a hypochondriac. 6. There is nothing left to learn the hard way. 7. Things you buy now won't wear out. 8. You can eat supper at 4 pm. 9. You can live without sex but not your glasses. 10. You get into heated arguments about pension plans. 11. You no longer think of speed limits as a challenge. 12. You quit trying to hold your stomach in no matter who walks into the room. 13. You sing along with elevator music. 14. Your eyes won't get much worse. 15 . Your investment in health insurance is finally beginning to pay off.. 16. Your joints are more accurate meteorologists than the national weather service. 17. Your secrets are safe with your friends because they can't remember them either. 18. Your supply of brain cells is finally down to manageable size. 19. You can't remember who sent you this list. And you notice these are all in Big Print for your convenience. Forward this to every one you can remember right now! And Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

Well, if the Revaluation of the Iraqi Dinar is considered high risk ... and it is ... then low probability of success ... which it has ... those who don't cave and sell off their dinar should, if the revaluation does succeed, score a high rate of return. And, of course that is what we are all hoping, wishing, and in most cases praying for, a high return. Because we all believe, of course, that the risk is only high to those who have not been smart enough to buy dinar and join us on the RV roller coaster. But I sometimes wonder if forum members and posters are not just deluding themselves hoping and wishing for a high return, and absolutely sure they will have it, and are not looking at the high risk factor. I know a lot of people seem to believe that this is the exception to the rule. This is the time when there is absolutely no risk. All those people who are laughing at us for being so single minded about the RV are the ones who will be sorry come RV time ... whenever that may be. Personally I expect it to happen for my heirs, not for me. Remember that our single minded belief in the dinar and the RV are based on nothing ... absolutely no proof at all. [/font] But whatever it is that keeps us here [/b]and "knowing" that we are right, I find it interesting how most of us back that up ... through the rumor category ... knowing that rumors are based solely on what someone has said ... with absolutely no proof whatsoever. When there is a rumor that is good, that gives a great rate of revaluation especially, or maybe even sometimes when a rumor gives a date, or small chunk of time within which the RV will absolutely happen, with great reasons why it should happen then ... we seem to grab on to that rumor and go with it ... belief is rebuilt and faith is renewed ... with absolutely no proof at all. But when there is a rumor that is negative, with a low revaluation rate, or maybe a date that is so far away it is just impossible to make any plans for using the money for the kids university costs, or some such thing that depends on or is limited by time ... well, then we tear the rumor apart, ruthlessly, deciding not to believe even one word of it, and justify our response with the reminder that rumors are, after all, based on nothing, absolutely no proof at all. In reality, and this is not a rumor but observation, we, as dinar speculators, are prone to being a little deaf, dumb and blind when it comes to what we truly believe or disbelieve, and why or why not. We are too apt to let emotions, and wishes, and in a lot of cases 'need', factor into the equation. Not smart behavior at all. And, hey, I am not saying this about just other people on the forum, I am one of you. I have those hopes and wishes and I do my share of praying for the RV and making it a prayer about soon rather than how much. Yup, I am one of those who lets the emotions decide which rumors to throw away and which ones might just be on the money. And you guessed it ... with absolutely no proof at all either way. Having such a "negative" rumor come to the forum is a great way to expose some of our dinar prejudices ... pro RV and con RV. smee2

I have, myself, posted a lot of what could be considered pleading in an attempt to get posters to stop this disturbing and useless behavior. I have received a lot of responses that all say, in their own creative and often nasty ways, to just ignore it. That is easier said than done when there is really no indication in the heading that it is a bashing post. Perhaps we should ask posters to put a rating in their post headings, something like B for bashing or NB for Nasty Behavior. Or, maybe we need a new category ... Bashing and Other Ignorant, Time & Space Wasting Rants. Sadly most people would ignore that and put their post wherever they want. But complaining about that gets the response that this is a free service and they can do "whatever the H--- they want" here. If I were Adam Montana, the person who pays for this forum, I would be frying their ... I mean, eliminating their membership and making sure they never got back onto this forum no matter what new screen name they came up with. So, cut to short form answer for your question ... "Can We Stop The Bashing?" ... No! smee2

Anyone who has read even part of my postings here will know that I am not, repeat NOT, a political creature, am disappointed in the amount of hard-core, downright NASTY political posting from and regarding the United States of America ... my good neighbour to the south ... Yup, I am a Canadian and don't, as a rule, make comments about America. For the most part I try to avoid those postings. But ... today, in my email, I found something that is political, is American ... but is not outright nasty. I liked it. I have no idea who is what in the democratic and republican division of things, and don't really want to know. But this caught my attention, and hearty approval for posting, because it addresses the issue of big brother being ignored. THAT I do like and that is why I am posting this. Enjoy! smee2 OKLAHOMA! Oklahoma is the only state that Obama did not win even one county in the last election... While everyone is focusing on Arizona ’s new law, look what Oklahoma has been doing!!!! An update from Oklahoma : Oklahoma law passed, 37 to 9 an amendment to place the Ten Commandments on the front entrance to the state capitol. The feds in D.C., along with the ACLU, said it would be a mistake. Hey this is a conservative state, based on Christian values...! HB 1330 Guess what.......... Oklahoma did it anyway. Oklahoma recently passed a law in the state to incarcerate all illegal immigrants, and ship them back to where they came from unless they want to get a green card and become an American citizen. They all scattered. HB 1804. This was against the advice of the Federal Government, and the ACLU, they said it would be a mistake. Guess what.......... Oklahoma did it anyway. Recently we passed a law to include DNA samples from any and all illegal's to the Oklahoma database, for criminal investigative purposes. Pelosi said it was unconstitutional SB 1102 Guess what......... Oklahoma did it anyway. Several weeks ago, we passed a law, declaring Oklahoma as a Sovereign state, not under the Federal Government directives. Joining Texas , Montana and Utah as the only states to do so. More states are likely to follow: Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, Carolina's, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, West Virginia, Mississippi and Florida. Save your confederate money, it appears the South is about to rise up once again. HJR 1003 The federal Government has made bold steps to take away our guns. Oklahoma, a week ago, passed a law confirming people in this state have the right to bear arms and transport them in their vehicles. I'm sure that was a setback for the criminals The Liberals didn't like it -- But.... Guess what........... Oklahoma did it anyway. Just this month, the state has voted and passed a law that ALL drivers’ license exams will be printed in English, and only English, and no other language. They have been called racist for doing this, but the fact is that ALL of the road signs are in English only. If you want to drive in Oklahoma , you must read and write English. Really simple. By the way, the Liberals don't like any of this either Guess what...who cares... Oklahoma is doing it anyway. If you like it, pass it on, if you don't then delete it...Thanks Guess what : the people I'm sending this to, will send it on. Well, at least the ones who love and believe in freedom will.

HELGA'S DIARY ON A CRUISE SHIP DEAR DIARY - DAY 1 All packed for the cruise ship -- all my nicest dresses, swimsuits, and short sets. Really, really exciting. Our local Red Hat chapter - The Late Bloomers - decided on this "all-girls" trip. It will be my first one - and I can't wait! ---------------------------------------------------- DEAR DIARY - DAY 2 Entire day at sea, beautiful. Saw whales and dolphins. Met the Captain today -- seems like a very nice man. ---------------------------------------------------- DEAR DIARY - DAY 3 At the pool today. Did some shuffleboard, hit golf balls off the deck. Captain invited me to join him at his table for dinner. Felt honored and had a wonderful time. He is very attractive and attentive. --------------------------------------------------- DEAR DIARY - DAY 4 Won $800.00 in the ship's casino. Captain asked me to have dinner with him in his own cabin. Had a scrumptious meal complete with caviar and champagne. He asked me to stay the night, but I declined. Told him I could not be unfaithful to my husband. ---------------------------------------------------- DEAR DIARY - DAY 5 Pool again today. Got sunburned, and I went inside to drink at piano-bar, stayed there for rest of day. Captain saw me, bought me several large drinks. Really is quite charming. Again asked me to visit his cabin for the night. Again I declined. He told me that if I did not let him have his way with me, he would sink the ship... I was shocked. ---------------------------------------------------- DEAR DIARY - DAY 6 Today I saved 2600 lives. Twice.

US to Assist Iraq with Elections Another case of the blind leading the blind? Just wonderin' smee2

Deserved what he got and then some ... thanks for the chuckle ... really needed it today! :) smee2

"How else could a merger help Mexico? What is Mexico’s biggest problem? The easy answer to that question is clearly the presence and new influence of Mexico’s drug cartels. And what does Texas have that Mexico doesn’t?" The Death Penalty. And it should be used on anyone, repeat anyone, caught in the drug trade, from the cartel bigwigs, to the addicts who support their own dependency by selling drugs to kids on the playground during recess. Just sayin' smee2

You are right ... some very interesting facts about Lake Superior ... and so many of them make it superior to all other lakes ... guess it has the right name, eh? (pardon the Canadian influence here ... hahaha) I find the following two the most intriguing for me ... � Lake Superior was formed during the last glacial retreat, making it one of the earth's youngest major features at only about 10,000 years old. � Some of the world's oldest rocks, formed about 2.7 billion years ago, can be found on the Ontario shore of Lake Superior .. One of my interests and a subject that got serious consideration when I was contemplating university courses, is geology ... and specifically those sub-categories dealing with the changing of the earth's crust ... like vulcanism and glaciation. I grew up in, and went to university in, Southern Ontario. Most of Southern Ontario is at a higher elevation than the surrounding land areas, meaning those that are outside the water areas, as defined by the Great Lakes system. Because of this feature the glaciers that covered North America did not have the opportunity to do produce even the most basic and rudimentary topographical and geological altering when they were forming as they came south. But when they retreated, and the leading edge was going north, the higher elevation caused them to drop more than the usual amount, and variety, of telltale features and "erratics" (those rocks and such that are left behind, and don't belong where they are dropped by the glacier). Part of this area was at a high enough elevation that the glaciers did not cover it. This being so the area now known as Southern Ontario has some features that are found in more profusion here than elsewhere. As a kid when I was reading everything I could find about this topic (long before computers and Google) I drove my parents crazy when we be driving from one place to another, usually Woodstock (my home town and no, it is not the famous one) to London (and also this is not the famous one). I would be pointing out the window and showing them drumlins and explaining how they were formed and why they were there ... as well as such things as scree and kettle lakes and various erratics that may have been dropped by the ice and then covered by thousands of years of blown dirt and sand and then uncovered by erosion for us to see now. Yup, they came close to leaving me behind even for family events. I don't blame them! The movement I have described, of the ice retreating and dropping more erratics than normal because of the higher land that it had to climb accounts for the facts in this posting about the lake being a result of the area of youngest glaciation, but some of the oldest rocks on the planet being together on the shoreline of Lake Superior. And the central part of Ontario, which has the highest elevation, was not covered by the glaciers at all. It was too high for them to climb when they came down from the north, and too high for them to back up over when they retreated from the south. I think this is the only area in the northern hemisphere that escaped the action of glaciers, and the ice age. The only other place I know of that never had ice ages (yes, there were more than just one ice age ... Google it :)/>/>, no glaciers at all, is Australia. Not being connected by even the slimmest of land bridges to Asia or Antarctica the ice never got to it. In part that is shown by the variety of animals and fish and birds that can be found only in Australia. They are truly prehistoric ... from the age of the dinosaurs ... for Australia was never covered with ice, and therefore the species on the continent in those prehistoric times were never wiped out as in the rest of the world, where most species came close to extinction. That being the case, the animals, fish, reptiles and birds inhabiting Australia today did not have to be "reintroduced" and didn't have to change and adapt to an ice age, and are today as they have always been. Don't believe it? Google platypus. Yup, smee2 is back, and as long-winded as before ... must be feeling some better ... smee2