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Unhappy Muslims - I have to admit, this is brilliant... never heard it put this way... so succinct and to the point .... plain and simple!!! THE MUSLIMS ARE NOT HAPPY! They're not happy in Gaza .. They're not happy in Egypt .. They're not happy in Libya .. They're not happy in Morocco... They're not happy in Iran .. They're not happy in Iraq .. They're not happy in Yemen .. They're not happy in Afghanistan .. They're not happy in Pakistan .. They're not happy in Syria .. They're not happy in Lebanon .. SO, WHERE ARE THEY HAPPY? They're happy in Australia .. They're happy in Canada .. They're happy in England .. They're happy in France .. They're happy in Italy .. They're happy in Germany .. They're happy in Sweden .. They're happy in the USA .. They're happy in Norway . They're happy in Holland . They're happy in Denmark . Basically, they're happy in every country that is NO not Muslim and unhappy in every country that is! AND WHO DO THEY BLAME? Not Islam. Not their leadership. Not themselves. THEY BLAME THE COUNTRIES THEY ARE HAPPY IN! AND THEN; They want to change those countries to be like.... THE COUNTRY THEY CAME FROM WHERE THEY WERE UNHAPPY!

Now, THAT is real humor! Thanks for the chuckle. I will be passing it on to others who could use it. hahaha smee2

It just boggles the mind how Americans can be so intolerant and so ignorant. It is no wonder the rest of the world, like my part of the world, views America, and Americans with a jaundiced eye. For too long Americans have been allowed to believe that they can do anything they want, and it will be okay because they have right on their side, and God on their side, and their interpretation of the constitution on their side ... and I wonder why on earth they need to have sides. And anyone in your country trying to be inclusive and welcome immigrants, welcome visitors who spend money, welcome other points of view so they can engage in reasonable debate ... not just pointing to sides and stocking up on survivalist supplies, including guns and ammo ... those Americans who don't want to be excusive, anddon't want to welcome other people, other ideas, other means to an end ... those people are ruining the reputation of all Americans. Foreigners, even your closest next door neighbours, are getting pretty tired of finding that those who think they are the backbone of America, and they might well be, are the ones who would take the step this businessman has taken, and be proud of it. He has his rights, yes. And if he wants to risk anything it is his business to risk. And as a former news paper owner and publisher, I wonder just what kind of flack the newspaper that published this advertisement will have to face from members of whatever association they belong to. But basically, I find all of this repugnant. It goes against all the things I grew up believing about America. Too sad. :)/>/> smee2

Just a thought .., perhaps some people find the computer screaming (all caps) and the horrible spelling and grammar, to be a little bit more than they wish to take. I don't say everyone has to be letter perfect, but someone who desires to inform people of something he considers important and hopes they will consider important, a little work on the spelling and cut the screaming, at least, would give your posts a more desireable read. It isn't so much, perhaps, what you are trying to say, but the way in which you are trying to say it. Personally I find it insulting to have such a long missive yelled at me. If I want to read it I will ... but your continued yelling really puts me off, as I am sure others feel also. smee2

Considering the newly launched service to email us when the RV happens, or I think it also mentioned relevant news about the RV, I would like to know if Adam is expecting the wait to last a long time. I certainly got that impression while reading his plans for the site which is composed of several sites. The kind of time and energy that those plans would take indicate they would be a long standing thing rather than short time, and yet in his question period ... at least the ones I have read, he seems to lean in the "any day now" direction. Does not compute. Please advise.

This sort of falls in line with the mayor of New York City who has made it illegal to feed the homeless. Reason? ... No control over how much salt and how many calories are in the food. Scratching my head on that one. Are there so many homeless people in New York City ending up in hospital needing bypass surgery for clogged arteries? Or so many of them becoming morbidly obese? I have an idea ... lets get the city of Los Angeles to donate the meat they would have eaten on Mondays to the homeless in New York City. Then the homeless would be assured of at least one meal a week? Silly notions competing with stupid viewpoints. If both cities have their way it could end up with meat producers basically giving meat away, any day but Monday of course, and then when they are homeless themselves they will have to find a city in which the homeless are allowed to accept donated food from restaurants, agencies and individuals who want to help. Rather than worry about meat or no meat, and donated food being too salty or heavy on the calories, they should be focussing on keeping the meet producers in business and the homeless fed ... the homeless can make their own minds up about whether or not they wish to eat food that is considered too salty by the food police. Just stupid ... the entire subject. smee2

Keep it moving, please, It is the VETERAN , not the preacher, Who has given us freedom of religion. It is the VETERAN , not the reporter, Who has given us freedom of the press. It is the VETERAN , not the poet, Who has given us freedom of speech. It is the VETERAN , not the campus organizer, Who has given us freedom to assemble It is the VETERAN , not the lawyer, Who has given us the right to a fair trial. It is the VETERAN, not the politician Who has given us the right to vote. It is the VETERAN Who salutes the Flag, It is the veteran , Who serves under the Flag, ETERNAL REST GRANT THEM O LORD, AND LET PERPETUAL LIGHT SHINE UPON THEM.

"God forgive those who have put this man back into office." ... huh???? People exercised their right to vote whichever way they wanted. The popular vote was very close. A close race is a good thing ... it assures the people, if they care to look at it without all the nastiness, yes, it assures the people that there will be very active controversy in Congress. Bills you may not like will not just be assumed passed because the President is on the side who is presenting the bill. There will be active debate and more consideration for what these elected members of congress will or will not try to get passed. This is a real race ... and that is a very good thing ... but do you stop to think of that? No ... you think that those people who voted for Obama need God's forgiveness. So, in your eyes, if Obama is a terrible man, for whatever reasons, and all those people, citizens just like you, who share the right to vote their conscience just like you ... those people, those voters, that half of the population of America ... they are all wrong, So wrong that you think they need to seek forgiveness from God. That is the most ridiculous thing I have read about your election so far. Who are you that you can assign some kind of guilt, actually sin, to those who excersized their right to vote for the candidate of their choice, who did not vote as you did? And I think God has more important things to do for his children than be prayed to and asked for him to forgive a group of people who voted for the winner, when you obviously wanted the loser to sit in the Oval Office. Your candidate didn't win, and you are upset about it. I get that. But you are assigning sin to those who voted the other way, so much so that you feel they need God's forgiveness. It blows me away that you would even think that. It would appear that not enough people prayed to God to keep Obama from winning another term in the first place. Personally, I am glad he got the job for another term. Does that mean that God should be forgiving me too? I don't think so!!! smee2

Anyone who has any questions about the validity of a bill, of any year or for that matter of any country ... should be consulting someone in the business of identifying and cataloguing banknotes (a numismatist, the study of currency being numismatics). I do NOT mean a bank. They know zip. I mean someone who is in business selling currency, in all it's forms, to collectors, primarily. Any advice you get here, is, sorry to say it, almost like the blind leading the blind. We can all go and get script examples for letters and numbers for Arabic with a Google search. And if someone is going by a banknote they have at hand, who is to say it is legitimate? If you are that concerned, take the time to call, or visit a numismatist, on line or in person or by phone. Again, Google will find you someone who can speak with you and help you, usually on their toll free line, and you don't have to leave your chair for that advice. smee2,

XMAS ????? Really? I thought we had gotten past this annoying example of disrespect and laziness, and established that the "Christ" belongs in "Christmas. Yes, I am fully aware that in the earliest days of Christianity there were groups who used the "X" as a symbol for "Christ" in an effort not to have their families targetted for persecution, including death, by the Romans. But we are not in the earliest day of Christianity. Christians are recognized the world over, and they are proud of their faith. So, lets take the X out of Xmas and give this holiday a chance at being known more for the birth of Christ than a visit by Santa. Sorry to rant, but ... hey, no ... I am not sorry to rant. It is the height of disrespect, and laziness. Spell it out ... for Christ's sake!!!!! smee2

In the olden days ... the very olden days ... a country could expand their land, population, and thus political power by sending their army out to confront the army of the other country, and if they won they got to call that defeated country theirs. In the middle east some of the countries/areas the winners, such as Turkey, were then called caliphates or states and a leader was selected who would administer all the "government" necessary. Today the same thing seems to be possible by simply taking over another countries finances. smee2

This is one of the reasons that many Muslim countries, like Saudi Arabia and Iran and Kuwait, hire foreign nationals, on a contract basis, to work in their countries. A lot of the local "workers" are not trained to handle things like diagnostic and imaging medical equipment, highly evolved communication systems and staffing of production facilities (factories). Excessive holidays and prayer times as well as insufficient training, and the habit of hiring overseas and contracting out everything from medical specialists to production formen, has, unfortunately, given these countries a reputation for being populated by people who are just plain lazy. And to a fairly large extent, that is the case. The people have not had to work since they left the roll of goat herding desert dwellers who had to work to survive, and they built cities where they are given money from the oil they had been rodomg their camels over. And in reality, as long as the oil flows, and the holidays and prayer times stand as they are, Muslim people of some of the middle eastern countries are not going to have to work, and won't. If they can afford to hire outsiders, they will. smee2

Canadian here ... and still in Canada ... and no announcement was made. So what do I have to look forward to now? Not even hockey this year, it seems!!!!! smee2

That mention of a coin is certainly strange ... I agree that they are speaking of a bank note, considering they mention in the story the existence of presses counterfeiting the dinar and the US dollar. On first reading of the headline, one thought occurred, and I have no reason after reading the story to think anything else, actually. If the country of Iraq wanted to refuse accepting currency ... of any denomination ... they could simply circulate "news" that many of their denominations had been counterfeited, and therefore, all notes were suspect, and they could hold them indefinitely, or simply refuse to certify them as genuine. If they wanted to use the counterfeit ploy to keep from having to acknowledge dinar notes, especially those that would come from out of country, where, they could hint, even more counterfeiting is going on, what better way to see how that kind of "news" and results of it would take in the dinar holding community, than to start off with a single note they declare has been broadly counterfeited. Seems to me it would be a good place to start. Then again, they could, if they chose, refuse to acknowledge as genuine any notes even if they passed the ... test ... forgot the name of the machine, but you know what I mean. Anyway, hope this isn't the tip of the iceburg when it comes to fake bank notes and Iraq claiming even more of them. smee2

Fantastic ... and the judges are right in that one of the most fantastic things about him is that he doesn't realize how good he is. A talent like that comes along so rarely ... I was just blown away as the saying goes. It will be interesting to see if he wins the competition, and the money, and gets his houseboat and piano. He certainly deserves it !!! smee2

Personally, I believe that church and state do not belong together; they are separate entities with sometimes, get that ... sometimes ... similar goals, but always differing, even diverging, methods of trying to achieve them. Trying to put them together, and make them interact, is like the oil and water equation ... does not compute, and does not work ... period. So, all the Christians who believe that any amount of prayer will influence politics, whether it be in Iraq or your own country ... sorry but I think you are kneeling in the wrong pew. smee2

Yeah, well, there is a vast difference between what Iraq should do (in our opinion, right?) and what they do. As a people they are contrary and argumentative and not emotionally rigged to do anything concrete about what they "need" to do, like put more people to work, feed the people, give them electric power ... silly that a country that produces just about the largest source of energy in the world, cannot even give their people enough energy to cook dinner at dinner time and make them cook dinner at noon and eat it cold later. NEED? What they need is to realise they have to start cooperating ... oh, forgot, that word, even that concept, is not in their vocabulary, or their behaviour. smee2

Of course ... poster asked that we don't go religious on this point and what do the first people do? They get into their religious beliefs. If you have no other beliefs ... just stand back and ignore the posting! I think so far Desimo has about the closest to what I think I believe ... I do believe that there is a sense of life continuing after death. I believe the curtain is alot thinner than we give it credit. i do know that the body produces it's own energy and is basically an electro magnetic energy source. In theory energy never ceases to exist it simply changes in form. Personally I used to have a very solid idea of what is next ... a belief I shared with my husband, Neil. But, since he died I find that my beliefs are being tested on a daily basis. I too believe we are energy ... call it spirit or essence or whatever ... it is energy. When the body dies, and it is just the shell, the energy does not just stop. Whether it dissipates to become part of the energy of the cosmos, or remains sufficiently intact to experience another individual existence ... I no longer have a firm opinion. I do believe, however, that it is the reality of the death of someone so close to me, so alive, so attached, so part of me and my life and my world ... that loss has been the pivot point around which I am now spinning, instead of being, as I was before, steadfast in a particular belief. Thanks for the topic ... and maybe people will stop putting the religious element first and actually pay attention to what you are asking for. We can always hope. smee2

Okie admitting he has no intel, nothing to share, waiting like the rest of us lowly dinarians ... Holy Smokey Okie ... what are they feeding you out there in the oil fields? That is as close to "truth" as I have ever heard from you. It may take a while to absorb this startling revelation ... Okie with nothing to share ... totally rad man! smee2

Electronic banking for me too. I have no intention of travelling around with gobs of cash on me. It will be difficult enough to get my dinar to the bank that will take them and put a "digital" deposit in my account. I have enough to fill two smallish canvas recycleable bags and they are heavy. It will be rather obvious that it is something out of the ordinary. I can only hope when I turn them in it will be in a city that has the bank I'll need, as we don't have every one represented where I live. If I carted these things around where I live I'd have all sorts of hassels later. So, yup, electronic for me. I can change any of that to cash I want, say fistful of hundred dollar bills just so I will feel rich. hahaha smee2

Making a change in my home communication system with a "bundle" which included a new email service, I was in the process of moving some things from the old storage to the new storage ... some things I just cannot bring myself to "delete" \ As most here know I lost my husband almost three years ago. In my save files I had a folder named for him. I moved it over and while doing that I stopped to read some of what he had sent me. It stopped my project for a while ... how could I do something so mundane as working with old email files when my heart was still breaking? I had not forgotten about him, but had, as I had to learn, put those memories in a safe place. But today I opened that door and it still hurts. I read one of the last emails he sent me and decided that it had to be shared ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ How To Dance In The Rain .. It was a busy morning, about 8:30, when an elderly gentleman in his 80's, arrived to have stitches removed from his thumb. He said he was in a hurry as he had an appointment at 9:00 am. I took his vital signs and had him take a seat, knowing it would be over an hour before someone would to able to see him. I saw him looking at his watch and I decided, since I was not busy with another patient, I would evaluate his wound. On exam, it was well healed, so I talked to one of the doctors, got the needed supplies to remove his sutures and redress his wound. While taking care of his wound, I asked him if he had another doctor's appointment this morning, as he was in such a hurry. The gentleman told me no, that he needed to go to the nursing home to eat breakfast with his wife. I inquired as to her health. He told me that she had been there for a while and that she was a victim of Alzheimer's Disease. As we talked, I asked if she would be upset if he was a bit late. He replied that she no longer knew who he was, that she had not recognized him in five years now. I was surprised, and asked him, "And you still go every morning, even though she doesn't know who you are?" He smiled as he patted my hand and said ......... ******** "She doesn't know me, but I still know who she is." ******** I had to hold back tears as he left, I had goose bumps on my arm, and thought, "That is the kind of love I want in my life." True love is neither physical, nor romantic. True love is an acceptance of all that is, has been, will be, and will not be. With all the jokes and fun that are in e-mails, sometimes there is one that comes along that has an important message. This one I thought I could share with you. The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the best of everything they have. I hope you share this with someone you care about. I just did. "Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain."

I did not know this. Did you know “listen” and “silent” use the same letters? Do you know that the words “race car” spelled backwards still spells “race car”? And that “eat” is the only word that if you take the first letter and move it to the last, it spells its past tense “ate”? And have you noticed that if you rearrange the letters in “illegal immigrants,” and add just a few more letters, it spells: “Go home you free-loading, benefit-grabbing, resource-sucking, baby-making, non-English-speaking jackasses and take those other hairy-faced, sandal-wearing, bomb-making, camel-riding, goat-loving, raggedy-ass bastards with you.” How weird is that? hahaha ... Sorry if that offends anyone, but I found it funny. It was one of the hundred or so email jokes I got while I was in hospital and unable to replay ... people wondered if I had died or just gone away when they didn't get a response. Actually I am recovering from a fall which, on landing, produced for me a broken shoulder (upper humerus) and broken back (compression fracture between L1 and L2) On the mend ... still sore ... thanks for the prayers I know those of you were aware of my situation sent on my behalf. I am sure they helped.

You think this is bad? It is just the beginning! smee2

You have to understand that these men, the ones making the laws, and the ones marrying off their daughters, do not consider their daughters as children, or people even. They are chattel. All women are chattel in their culture. Just as they feel they can "trade" their goat or camel to their best advantage, they can, by their laws, also "trade" the female members of their tribe through marriage and again, to their best advantage. It is not a matter of a young woman, or actually a child, agreeing to marry a man she may love; arranged marriages have absolutely nothing to do with love. It is all about what a female is worth, and the only time a female is worth anything is when her father or brother can marry her to someone who can, in some way, pay for the privilege. Shameful, disgusting, in most countries illegal, this is, sadly, a reality. smee2

Actually watched this as it happened on the Tonight Show ... totally broke everyone up. At the time the station I was watching was having some sort of promotion going on where they were counting down to a sale time for one of their ad clients and so they replaced taped commercials every commercial break with a real live announcer who gave the time to the sale as of that very moment. At the next commercial break after this happened, the announcer had an awful time getting through his script. What should have been a ten of fifteen second break took closer to 30 seconds. Thanks for posting for those who have not heard it before. There are always some first time readers who will almost wet their own pants reading it ... smee2