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Pick your poison... wine, beer, or a before- or after-dinner cocktail. The good news is that, for most people, none of these vices are poison at all. In fact, each type of drink provides a range of health benefits that nearly anyone can take advantage of with very little risk. (There are exceptions, so read this full article to find out whether enjoying a drink or two a few times a week is a good idea or a health trap you should avoid.) Wine is the alcoholic beverage best known for good health. But beer and other drinks can also support a healthy heart. And the benefits don't stop there ... In Vino, Veritas... and Good Health, too! Red wine is renowned for its heart health benefits. Antioxidants and a unique compound called resveratrol make red wine a beneficial indulgence that can help stave off heart disease and general aging in your body. But new research reveals even more benefits from this ancient pleasure. Red wine also helps your digestive system. And, anything that helps your digestive system helps your immune system, energy levels, and overall health. In a study that recently appeared in the Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers found that the polyphenols in red wine promote the growth of beneficial bacteria in the gut. These bacteria are known to help with digestion, and as their numbers climb, things like cholesterol levels, triglyceride levels, and blood pressure fall. Impressive results! Our friends over at the Mayo Clinic also have good things to say about red wine. They, too, cite the polyphenols in red wine as the major benefit. In addition to the benefits I just shared, polyphenols may actually help to protect your arteries from damage. So, if you enjoy a glass of wine with dinner on most nights of the week, you can do it knowing you're doing a good turn for your body! "Beer is proof that God exists, and that he loves us." – Ben Franklin My publisher Lee Bellinger likes to say that when he wants to convince someone on one of his ideas, he simply attributes the thought to Benjamin Franklin. And according to more than Benjamin Franklin, red wine isn't the only libation that you can enjoy while giving your health a boost. Good old-fashioned beer is another. Beer has several unique benefits that wine doesn't. While wine can help to lower your blood pressure, beer is even better at helping keep blood pressure in a healthy range. As you get older, bone loss can become a concern. Compounds in beer can actually help prevent calcium loss from bones, which means enjoying a beer now and again helps to keep your bones stronger as you age. Beer has plenty of beneficial nutrients including B vitamins, calcium, magnesium, and selenium. And, when compared to other alcoholic beverages, it's a good source of fiber. Like other alcoholic beverages, beer is also good for your heart. It improves your cholesterol levels, and reduces your overall risks of heart attack and stroke. When it comes to selecting a beer, go for those that are darker in color. They have more antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals. Microbrews are another good choice. They have a higher concentration of hops, which are a good source of polyphenols that help to fight cancer. Sponsored Message The Benefits of a Stiff Drink Wine and beer aren't alone in delivering health benefits. Any alcoholic beverage can offer some health benefit. That's because alcohol itself helps support balanced cholesterol levels and lowers heart disease and stroke risks. Mind what you're mixing it with, though. High-calorie, sugary mixers don't offer any health benefits at all. Opt for juices instead of sodas... or just go for plain soda water. A whiskey and soda is one of my favorite drinks to unwind with in the evening. Like with anything else good, moderation is essential (another Benjamin Franklin idea, I think!). While some alcohol can be good for you, too much is definitely a bad thing. Overdrinking leads to higher risks of cancer, liver disease, and heart disease. If you drink, drink in moderation. People who enjoy up to one or two drinks a day – one for women, two for men – tend to see the greatest benefits. Habitually drinking more than that can trigger health problems rather than protect you from them. In some cases, drinking is a bad idea. Women at risk of breast cancer or anyone at risk of colon cancer will benefit more from avoiding alcohol than indulging in it. If you have liver disease or rely on medications that interact with alcohol, those are also good reasons to skip having a drink. If you don't drink due to religious reasons, I totally respect that as well. Chances are that clean living and being a person of faith are benefiting your health in other significant ways. For other people, one drink is too many. If that's you, I totally salute your devotion to sobriety; you are way better off not drinking at all. If you're a moderate drinker, consider taking a daily multivitamin that contains folate. Alcohol offers lots of health benefits when you drink responsibly, but it also depletes some vitamins from your body. Taking a multivitamin will help keep your nutrients balanced and allow you to enjoy the full benefits while minimizing the drawbacks. Hopefully it goes without saying that you shouldn't drink and drive. And, if anyone close to you expresses concern with your drinking habits, it's a good idea to hear them out and even talk to your doctor. But for most, if you're in good health, a drink a day can help to keep you that way. So, go ahead and raise a glass to your good health and long life. I'll drink to that! Yours in Good Health, Heather Robson, HealthEdge P.S. – In the age of Obamacare, taking charge of your health has never been more important. We want to help you become more medically self-reliant and save some BIG MONEY in the process. Go here for details.

I'm starting to understand what made Ronald Reagan such a great president . Happiest, like Cincinnatus, on his simple farmstead At the weekend, I fulfilled a long-standing ambition and visited Ronald Reagan’s ranch, now held in trust by the wonderful Young America’s Foundation. It was here that the Gipper would withdraw whenever he could, to ride around the estate with Nancy. “The best thing for the inside of a man is the outside of a horse”, he used to say. In other politicians’ homes, you find constant reminders of status: photographs with popes and monarchs, gifts from visiting statesmen, piles of books by famous contemporaries, cases of trophies and awards. But Reagan’s one-bedroom bolt-hole couldn’t be simpler. He painted and furnished it with his own hands, and enclosed it with a fence which he sawed from old telegraph poles. The casual visitor wouldn’t guess that this had been the home of the leader of the free world, this the table where the greatest tax cut in America’s history was signed into law, this the telephone used to call the families of fallen American soldiers. Other than one or two historical works among the cowboy novels, the only political touch is the shower-head, which is in the shape of the Liberty Bell. Here, plainly, lived a man who was bien dans sa peau; a man who, unlike so many politicians, had nothing to prove. Mikhail Gorbachev, visiting the ranch, was distressed by how basic it was; Margaret Thatcher, by contrast, loved it, intuiting that it reflected the character of its inhabitant. Karl Marx described Abraham Lincoln as “one of the few men to have become great without ceasing to be good”. It was one of the truest things he wrote, and the observation applies as aptly to the fortieth American president as to the sixteenth. To give just one example, Reagan had begun a correspondence in the 1960s with a young woman who had written to a number of Hollywood stars. Reagan happened to be the one who replied, and he continued to write to her regularly until Alzheimer’s overtook him, describing the great moments of his presidency with easy familiarity. He was, for want of a better phrase, an almost unbelievably nice man. Even his fiercest critics generally allowed that he was good-hearted. Indeed, they caricatured him as an amiable dunce, an actor who needed someone else to write his lines, a simpleton. The notion that Reagan was unintelligent was comprehensively refuted when the Hoover Institute published Reagan In His Own Hand, a compilation of the texts for a series of radio broadcasts he had given in the 1970s, complete with his own annotations in pen. Here, plainly, was no simpleton. Reagan did, however, have an unaffected simplicity. He was a straightforward patriot, who refused to get distracted from his two big ideas: tax cuts at home, and the defeat of the USSR abroad. He succeeded on both counts, giving his country its longest period of sustained growth, and liberating hundreds of millions from Communist tyranny. To grasp the magnitude of Reagan’s impact on American politics, look at two things. First, the speech he made in 1964, in support of Barry Goldwater’s presidential campaign. America’s voters were not yet ready for this sort of language, and Goldwater went down to one of the worst defeats in US history.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXBswFfh6AY&feature=player_embedded Now look at the result when Reagan himself stood, twenty years later, on an almost identical platform. The Republicans took every state except Walter Mondale’s Minnesota: the greatest triumph conservative America has ever secured. Like all true patriots, Reagan tried to do the right thing by his allies, putting logistical and intelligence resources at Britain’s disposal when we fought to recover the Falkland Islands from the Galtieri dictatorship. How different, alas, is the attitude of the current US administration. Reagan, more than any modern American leader, approximated the Founders’ ideal: a citizen president, who never allowed the magnitude of his office to turn his head and who, when his work was done, retired gratefully to the countryside, as Cincinnatus to his plough. A Left-wing journalist once interviewed Reagan at his ranch and, surprised to find so Spartan a home, asked what the attraction was. Reagan pointed artlessly to the surrounding heights and quoted Psalm 121: “I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.”

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson went on a camping trip. As they lay down for the night, Holmes said: “Watson, look up into the sky and tell me what you see?” Watson said, “I see millions and millions of stars.” Holmes: “And what does that tell you?” Watson: “Astronomically, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets. Theologically, it tells me that God is great and that we are small and insignificant. Meteorogically, it tells me that we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. What does it tell you?” Holmes: “Somebody stole our tent.”

are10Phoenix officials have until next Friday to apologize for the actions of a code enforcement officer after he stopped Christians from giving out water bottles to city festival participants on a day that reached 112 degrees. A legal team that fights for religious and civil rights is also demanding a commitment that the city will no longer interfere with the Christian group’s acts of charity. According to a letter to the city from the Rutherford Institute, the case developed in July during a “First Friday” festival when Dana Crow-Smith was giving “free bottles of cold water to passersby” on the public sidewalk “as a means of exercising her Christian beliefs.” She “was moved” to offer the refreshment “to people at the festival who were braving the desert’s scorching 112-degree heat,” said the letter to city attorney Gary Verburg. “According to Ms. Crow-Smith, her group was approached by Neighborhood Preservation Inspector Dwayne Grierson, who told them that they were violating the Phoenix City Code by giving away water without a vendor’s permit,” the letter explains. In fact, Grierson insisted that giving water away was “prohibited.” The ban, however, violates several significant precedents, such as the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and Arizona’s Freedom of Religious Exercise Act, Rutherford officials wrote. A woman in the city attorney’s office declined to respond to WND’s questions, and phone calls requesting comment from the city’s public information office were not returned at the time of this report. Rutherford’s president, John W. Whitehead, said in the letter the city’s actions are problematic, as they “not only violated Ms. Crow-Smith’s statutory and First Amendment rights to freely exercise her religion and Fourteenth Amendment due process rights,” they also were “unjustified under the city code itself. “In fact, the Phoenix City Code prohibits only ‘vending’ on city sidewalks without a license. ‘Sidewalk vending’ is defined as ‘peddling, vending, selling, displaying, or offering for sale any item of tangible personal property or other thing of value upon a sidewalk of the city of Phoenix.’ “As these provisions are expressly limited to the sale of goods, they clearly do not apply to Ms. Crow-Smith’s act of giving away water. Thus, Inspector Grierson’s actions constitute a completely unjustified interference with an act of charity by a private citizen and a violation of Ms. Crow-Smith’s right to be free from interference with her fundamental liberty interests absent due process of law under the Fourteenth Amendment.” As her gifts were prompted by her religious faith, the First Amendment and state Freedom of Religious Exercise Acts also are relevant. Whitehead wrote that a resolution would include a written apology to the woman, written assurance that the city no longer will interfere with such acts of charity and training for city officials so they understand the First Amendment. “It is beyond comprehension that local government officials would interfere with citizens performing such a basic act of charity as giving water to the thirty,” Whitehead wrote. He said the alternative would be “legal action,” and a city response would be expected by the end of business Aug. 17.

[/url]A federal court case has been launched after a SWAT team in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area busted into the wrong house, shot the family’s dog, handcuffed the children and forced them to “sit next to the carcass of their dead and bloody pet for more than an hour.” The case has been outlined by Courthouse News, and Mike Riggs at a Reason.com blog wrote, “Shawn Scovill of the taskforce may have raided the wrong house, but he didn’t want to let the opportunity to rifle through someone’s things go to waste. So he and his team ransacked the Franco house for over an hour, and managed to find a .22 caliber pistol in the ‘basement bedroom of Gilbert Castillo,’ which the suit says they attributed to the head of the Franco household, Robert Franco.” According to CN, a claim over the attack on the family has been filed in federal court by a team of lawyers representing the family. The plaintiffs are the nine people in the Franco home on the evening of July 13, 2010, including three children, and the case seeks $30 million for the civil rights violations and other damages. Defendants include the St. Paul police department, a Drug Enforcement Administration agent and members of the Dakota County Drug Task Force. Robert Franco explains in the claim the attack officers raided the wrong house, and Task Force Officer Scovill, who set up the raid, “provided false information to a Minnesota District Court judge in order to obtain a search warrant.” According to CN, Franco alleges, “Defendant Scovill lied when he informed the district court judge who reviewed Scovill’s search warrant application that Scovill had obtained information from the confidential informant that the plaintiff’s home was the properly targeted house and that the address and the identity of the individuals who resided therein were the plaintiffs.” The complaint explains what officers should have known: that a neighbor should have been the intended target. CN reported, “Plaintiff Roberto Franco was not named in the search warrant, nor was any person who lived in the raided house named in the search warrant.” Added the complaint, “Plaintiff, Roberto Franco, had never been discussed or considered a suspect by law enforcement, Scovill or any of the defendants directly involved or indirectly involved in the raid, relative to any alleged involvement by Franco in any distribution of contraband prior to the wrong house raid.” Franco pointed out that the neighbor’s name was actually on the warrant. Instead, the SWAT team “negligently raided the home” and spent the next hour “physically brutalizing all the above-named occupants of said house,” according to the complaint. Added Riggs, “Since the DEA is named in the suit, the Francos’ legal team will likely find itself going head-to-head with Obama administration lawyers, who argued a similar case earlier this year before the Ninth Circuit. Short recap…. The DOJ sought a summary dismissal of a lawsuit filed against seven DEA agents for their rough treatment of a family of four – mother, father, two very young daughters – during a wrong-door raid conducted during the Bush administration. The Ninth Circuit denied the DOJ’s request for a summary dismissal, and drew a bright line between how adults are treated during raids, and how children are treated during raids.” The complaint said in the St. Paul attack, officers handcuffed everyone in the home except a woman, who was forced, “virtually naked, from her bed onto the floor at gunpoint.” “Defendants shot and killed the family dog and forced the handcuffed children to sit next to the carcass of their dead pet and bloody pet for more than an hour while defendants continued to search the plaintiffs’ home,” according to the complaint. A young girl, who is diabetic, “was handcuffed at gunpoint and prevented by officer from obtaining and taking her medication, thus induced a diabetic episode as a result of low-blood sugar levels.” The case accuses officers later of providing perjured testimony in the trial for Roberto Franco, who was convicted regarding the possession of the handgun. Commented Riggs, “If anyone can weigh in on the legal loophole that might allow evidence seized during a wrong-door raid to be used in court, please fill me it. Also, are Minnesota gun laws that strict?”

Is Nancy Pelosi ready for the psych ward? Does she need an exorcist? Or so you think she has really been hearing from the spirits of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Alice Paul at the White House, as she claims? Those are really the choices we have to consider for the woman who told the nation we had to pass the Obamacare bill to find out what was in it. Why she just simply didn’t channel the info about what was in the bill from her extra-worldly sources I don’t know. But, in case you missed it, here’s what Pelosi said about her supernatural experience at the White House a few years ago, when it was occupied by George W. Bush: “He’s (Bush) saying something to the effect of we’re so glad to welcome you here, congratulations and I know you’ll probably have some different things to say about what is going on – which is correct. But, as he was saying this, he was fading and this other thing was happening to me. “My chair was getting crowded in. I swear this happened, never happened before, it never happened since. My chair was getting crowded in and I couldn’t figure out what it was, it was like this. And then I realized Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Alice Paul, Sojourner Truth, you name it, they were all in that chair, they were. More than I named and I could hear them say: ‘At last we have a seat at the table.’ And then they were gone.” If you think I’m making this up, please take the time to watch the video. Furthermore, she didn’t tell this story once. She has told it repeatedly. It was such a landmark, mystical experience for Pelosi, she recounted it June 6 during an event marking her 25 years of what is euphemistically called “public service.” In 2001, Pelosi spoke those words in Indiana at the annual Jefferson Jackson dinner with the Monroe County Democratic Party. She has also told the story at colleges, and her website contains a transcripts of the story as she told it in her 2002 commencement address at San Francisco State University, her 2005 address at Goucher College in Baltimore, her 2005 speech to the American Association of University Women and her 2010 graduation address at Mills College in Oakland, Calif. Just for the record, all of the women cited by Pelosi are icons of the feminist movement – though history shows many of them would have rejected outright the radical notions of modern feminism. For instance, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were strong anti-abortion crusaders. So what do you think of Pelosi’s ghostly encounter? Do you think the spirits of these women actually visited her and whispered in Pelosi’s ear on this occasion? Or do you think some synapses are misfiring in Pelosi’s brain? Or did she miss her meds that day? Or should she seek psychiatric help? It’s considered a very serious thing when people hear voices. It’s often a sign of a very serious mental or emotional breakdown. Has anyone asked Pelosi if she checked herself in for a medical examination as a result of this experience? Or are we to just accept as fact that the disembodied spirits of long-dead women heroes all decided to sit in Pelosi’s chair at the same time when she was visiting the White House? Had Pelosi had anything to drink that day? These are the kinds of questions reporters should be asking her – the former speaker of the House of Representatives and the current House minority leader. It’s quite possible she’s under demonic delusion, given the circumstances she relates. That’s a serious thing. It’s not just a laughing matter. I’ve always believed Pelosi was in serious need of help – I just didn’t realize the kind of help she needed until now.

. “Officer’s Oath: Why My Vow to Defend the Constitution Demanded That I Sacrifice My Career” is Lt. Col. Terry Lakin’s moving first-hand account of faith and patriotism that led to court-martial, imprisonment and the stripping of all military rank and privileges, including his Army pension. Lakin, an Army flight surgeon, was court-martialed because he refused to obey deployment orders, arguing Barack Obama had not documented his eligibility for the presidency under Article 1, Section 2 of the Constitution. “What I do not understand and still don’t,” Lakin writes, “is why Obama did not just come forward with his key documents and be done with it. Instead, he ordered all of his important records to be kept under seal.” Lt. Col. Terry Lakin’s “Officer’s Oath: Why My Vow to Defend the Constitution Demanded That I Sacrifice My Career” is available now at WND’s Superstore Addressing both the short-form and the long-form birth certificates released by the White House, Lakin notes they are digital scans of purportedly official documents, neither of which would be acceptable as evidence in a court proceeding. “So tell me: Who has something to hide?” he asks. “It would seem to be President Obama, and sooner or later the voters of this country are going to make it clear that his stonewalling cannot continue.” Lakin has explained that he was compelled by his officer’s oath to uphold and defend the Constitution when he was ordered to deploy to Afghanistan. Along with questions about the authenticity of the Obama birth documents, some constitutional scholars argue Obama is not a natural born citizen because his father was not an American citizen. Ironically, Lakin’s deployment orders required him to bring five copies of his birth certificate. “I had read the orders several times and had glossed over a detail that had previously seemed routine, but this time I felt like Wile E. Coyote getting smacked by an anvil,” he writes. “I needed a birth certificate to deploy, but the president did not need one to order my deployment. This was nuts.” Lakin’s day of decision was April 12, 2010. That day he packed his car as though he were going to be on Flight 1123 out of Baltimore/Washington International Airport at 8:20 a.m. He expected to check into Fort Campbell, Ky., no later that 3 p.m. that afternoon. Instead, he headed to the Pentagon, where he took a photo of himself with his bags to prove he was still willing to deploy if Obama’s eligibility could be validated. That’s when Lakin’s nightmare began. When he was court-martialed for refusing to obey orders, he found himself looking at the paintings on the wall behind the jury members. He writes: As fate would have it, these were portraits of various Founding Fathers, and I wondered what they would be thinking. I strongly suspected they would be seeking the truth, about Obama’s citizenship status, about his Connecticut Social Security number (there is no reason why Obama would have a Connecticut number), about the multitude of unanswered questions surrounding this man. Here, however, to emphasize the real issues would likely have resulted in a reprimand from the judge and a harsher sentence from the jury. How, I wondered, had our country descended to this level of apathy? Lakin writes an equally emotional passage about his final moments of freedom with his family. What does one say to a wife and children before leaving for prison? I tried to instill in my seven-year-old the conviction that he was now the man of the house and needed to take care of the family. I told my eleven-year-old daughter to be the best help to her mom she could be. All the while I was holding back the tears lest I set off my little one and turn this into an emotional free-for-all. Lakin contends Congress should have demanded Obama show his birth credentials when he declared he was a presidential candidate in Springfield, Ill., on Feb. 10, 2007. The officer’s downfall was his determination to seek the truth about Obama’s eligibility when the establishment media showed no interest in it. Supporters say that by prosecuting Lakin, the United States military abandoned the principles articulated by the Nuremburg Trial at the end of World War II asserting the Nazi military and government officials had a responsibility of conscience to adhere to a higher order of morality than simply follow orders. Lakin proclaimed his loyalty to the higher order of the oath he took as an officer, choosing on moral grounds to disobey the orders he was issued by a commander-in-chief who refused to allow the Hawaii Department of Health to open the vault and show the world Obama’s original 1961 birth records, if any truly exist.

What a Pansy hunger strike ! 24 hour shifts , please . You want to impress me go for the full 100 days !!! Wimpy even in their protest

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President Barack Obama says he is “not the president of black America,” responding to criticism that he has not done enough for African Americans. “My general view has been consistent throughout, which is that I want all businesses to succeed,” Obama told Black Enterprise magazine in an interview in the Oval Office. “I want all Americans to have opportunity. I’m not the president of black America. “I’m the president of the United States of America, but the programs that we have put in place have been directed at those folks who are least able to get financing through conventional means, who have been in the past locked out of opportunities that were available to everybody. “So, I’ll put my track record up against anybody in terms of us putting in place broad-based programs that ultimately had a huge benefit for African-American businesses,” Obama said. Criticism of Obama’s commitment to African Americans has intensified in the past year – most notably by author and Princeton University professor Cornel West, who once described the president as being a “black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a black puppet of corporate plutocrats.” And just last month, the 1,300-member Coalition of African-American Pastors called on blacks to boycott Obama and sign petitions demanding that the administration withdraw its support for *** marriage. “We were once proud of President Obama, but our pride has turned to shame,” said Rev. William Owens, president of the Memphis-based group. .

-- I just had to pass this on JUST REMEMBER WHEN 2012 ROLLS AROUND. Wow, she must have been really good at her job. At the top right hand corner of page 17 of the New York Post, January 24, 2009, was a column entitled, "Replacing Michelle" in the National Review, The Week. Here it is below as it appeared: "Some employees are simply irreplaceable. Take Michelle Obama: The University of Chicago Medical center hired her in 2002 to run 'programs for community relations, neighborhood outreach, volunteer recruitment, staff diversity and minority contracting'. In 2005 the hospital raised her salary from $120,000 to $317,000 - nearly twice what her Husband made as a Senator. Her husband, Barack Obama, had just become a US Senator. He sure had. He requested a $1 million earmark for the UC Medical Center, in fact. Way to network, Michelle! Now that Mrs.... Obama has resigned, the hospital says her position will remain unfilled. How can that be, if the work she did was vital enough to be worth $317,000 ? Let me add that Michelle's position was a part time, 20 hour a week job." My thoughts: How did this bit of quid pro quo corruption escape the sharp reporters that dug through Sarah Palin's garbage and kindergarten files? I hope this is forwarded so many times that the media will HAVE to cover it. For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program. Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose your job. Recovery is when Obama loses his.

Barack Obama met with the Queen of England. He asked her, "Your Majesty, how do you run such an efficient government? Are there any tips you can give to me?" "Well," said the Queen, "the most important thing is to surround yourself with intelligent people." Obama frowned, and then asked, "But how do I know the people around me are really intelligent?" The Queen took a sip of tea. "Oh, that's easy; you just ask them to answer an intelligent riddle." The Queen pushed a button on her intercom. "Please send Tony Blair in here, would you?" Tony Blair walked into the room and said, "Yes, Your Majesty?" The Queen smiled and said, "Answer me this please, Tony, your mother and father have a child. It is not your brother and it is not your sister. Who is it?" Without pausing for a moment, Tony Blair answered, "That would be me." "Yes! Very good," said the Queen. Obama went back home to ask Joe Biden, his vice presidential choice, the same question. "Joe, answer this for me. Your mother and your father have a child. It's not your brother and it's not your sister. Who is it?" "I'm not sure," said Biden. "Let me get back to you on that one...." He went to his advisors and asked every one, but none could give him an answer. Finally, he ran into Sarah Palin out eating one night. Biden asked, " Sarah, can you answer this for me? Your mother and father have a child and it's not your brother or your sister. Who is it?" Sarah Palin answered back, "That's easy, it's me!" Biden smiled, and said, "Thanks!" Then, he went back to speak with Obama. "Say, I did some research and I have the answer to that riddle. It's Sarah Palin!" Obama got up, stomped over to Biden, and angrily yelled into his face, "No! You idiot! It's Tony Blair!" ....AND THAT IS PRECISELY WHAT'S GOING ON WITH OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN WASHINGTON , D.C.

Dear Abby, I am a crack dealer in Beaumont, Texas, who has recently been diagnosed as a carrier of HIV virus. My parents live in Fort Worth. One of my sisters lives in Pflugerville and is married to a transvestite. My father and mother have recently been arrested for growing and selling marijuana. They are financially dependent on my other two sisters, who are prostitutes in Dallas . I have two brothers: one is currently serving a non-parole life sentence at Huntsville for the murder of a teenage boy in 1994. My other brother is currently in jail awaiting charges of sexual misconduct with his three children. I have recently become engaged to marry a former prostitute who lives in Longview . She is now just a part time "working girl." All things considered, my problem is this. I love my fiancé and look forward to bringing her into the family. I certainly want to be totally open and honest with her. Should I tell her about my cousin who is in the Tea Party? Signed, Worried About My Reputation

> > > Would You Marry Again? - Priceless > > > > A husband and wife are sitting quietly in bed reading when the Wife > looks over at him and asks the question.... > > WIFE: "What would you do if I died? Would you get married > Again?" > > HUSBAND: "Definitely not!" > > WIFE: "Why not? Don't you like being married?" > > HUSBAND: "Of course I do.." > > WIFE: "Then why wouldn't you remarry? " > > HUSBAND: "Okay, okay, I'd get married again." > > WIFE: "You would?" (with a hurt look) > > HUSBAND: (makes audible groan) > > WIFE: "Would you live in our house?" > > HUSBAND: "Sure, it's a great house." > > WIFE: "Would you sleep with her in our bed?" > > HUSBAND: "Where else would we sleep?" > > WIFE: "Would you let her drive my car?" > > HUSBAND: "Probably, it is almost new." > > WIFE: "Would you replace my pictures with hers?" > > HUSBAND: "That would seem like the proper thing to do." > > WIFE: "Would you give her my jewelry?" > > HUSBAND: "No, I'm sure she'd want her own." > > WIFE: "Would you take her golfing with you? > > HUSBAND: "Yes, those are always good times." > > WIFE: "Would she use my clubs? > > HUSBAND: "No, she's left-handed." > > WIFE: --silence -- > > HUSBAND: "****." > >

A senior citizen goes in for his yearly physical with his wife tagging along. When the doctor enters the examination room he says, "I will need a urine sample, a stool sample, and a sperm sample." The man, being hard of hearing, turns to his wife and asks, "What did he say?" The wife yells back to him, "GIVE HIM YOUR UNDERWEAR!"

Dear David, When is the last time you clicked on a website, chatted on Facebook, bought something off the Internet, or watched an online video? If you're like most Americans, you take the speed, easy access, and relative privacy and anonymity of the Internet for granted. But, thanks to the menacing schemes of out-of-control government bureaucrats, I'm afraid all that could come to a crashing halt. So won't you please add your name to the list of signers to Campaign for Liberty's Internet FREEDOM MANIFESTO? It's absolutely critical I reach 100,000 signers by the month's end. So I'm counting on you to add your name, forward this email to at least five of your friends, and - if possible - make a generous contribution, as well. The Internet and associated technology have revolutionized communication and created entire industries and millions of new jobs over the past 20 years. The iPhone App alone has created more than half-a-million jobs in the United States just since 2007! But while free Americans are using the technological revolution for good, statists have conjured up more sinister uses. Just imagine government bureaucrats armed with whatever they want to know about you right at their fingertips. What you read. What you watch. What you buy. What you say. Who you talk to. Imagine it all being tied into an intricate network combining your Internet use, your credit card purchases, your tax records, your health records . . . Imagine the Internet -- and with it, the entire technological revolution -- SHUT DOWN with a ball of higher taxes, government snooping, and bureaucratic red tape. And just consider the torrent of massive new regulatory schemes in Congress, including: *** The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), which would gut privacy laws and allow Internet providers and websites to hand over personal data to ANY agency in the federal government; *** Internet Sales Taxes designed to hike the price of goods sold over the Internet; *** The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which would give the government the power to shut down any website simply because someone made the “allegation” there was a copyright violation; *** The Internet “Kill Switch,” which would allow the President to shut down the entire Internet at a moment's notice. Already, the FCC - which is supposed to assign spectrum rights through transparent, market-based auctions – is using its power to shackle new competition by REFUSING to perform its job. Spectrum is the invisible airwaves that mobile devices, broadcast television, and FM radio use to communicate. Private ownership of spectrum is forbidden by government. And since government controls the rights, the FCC gets to pick the winners and the losers – denying marketplace entry on a whim and effectively creating the largest corporate welfare program in history! That's not even the half of it. In just a few months, the United Nations is meeting to come up with even more recommendations for Internet regulations on a GLOBAL scale! David, these are not fights you and I can afford to lose. But without lightning-fast response by you and me to these fights going on RIGHT NOW, I'm afraid our government will whittle away Internet speed, access, and privacy down to virtually nothing. And with it, strike a death blow to our liberty movement. After all, the Internet has been a critical tool in rallying more and more Americans to our cause over these past few years. That's why I'm counting on you to sign Campaign for Liberty's INTERNET FREEDOM MANIFESTO immediately. . By signing on, you'll help show Congress just how many Americans are opposed to these radical schemes. But that's not all. Once you sign the INTERNET FREEDOM MANIFESTO, I'll make sure you're added to a grassroots army of patriots nationwide who receive special Internet-related legislative updates. You see, the statists in Washington, D.C. aren't pushing just one massive bill that you and I can mobilize against, defeat, and then stop worrying about. You and I are going to have to stay on guard until we send the message to every Representative and Senator that if they vote to regulate, tax, or spy on us via the Internet, THEY'LL LOSE THEIR JOBS. As the Manifesto says: “As a Member of Congress, you are being put on notice. “Those who would seek increased taxes and regulations on the Internet and seek to further destroy online privacy and anonymity will pay a severe political price at the polls.” And with fights raging in Congress, the sooner you and I send this message, the better. But as I mentioned, I'm trying to reach 100,000 signatures in the next 30 days. And I'm hopeful that will just be the beginning. There are several fights already going on in Congress. More pop up seemingly by the week. So there's no time to waste. Won't you please sign your INTERNET FREEDOM MANIFESTO and forward this email to at least five of your friends? Even if you think they may have received this email, I believe your urging can make a real difference in getting them to sign up. And if you can, please agree to chip in a contribution, as well. Your financial support will help me contact up to 12 million Americans, urging them to mobilize against assaults on Internet freedom. The more signers I get, the stronger the message you and I can send. So please sign your INTERNET FREEDOM MANIFESTO and forward this email to at least five of your friends IMMEDIATELY! . Matt Hawes Vice President P.S. Fights are raging in Congress right now to tax and regulate the Internet, restrict access, and ramp up government spying efforts. Should they succeed, it could strike a death blow to the liberty movement. That's why I'm counting on you to help me reach 100,000 signers of Campaign for Liberty's INTERNET FREEDOM MANIFESTO in the next 30 days. Once you sign on, I'll make sure you're added to a grassroots army who receive special Internet-related legislative updates. Help me prove to Congress just how many Americans are opposed to their radical schemes. Please sign your INTERNET FREEDOM MANIFESTO, forward this email to at least five of your friends, .

I'll tell you what,that chick could drive!

How did they get the sheep and goats to hold still? . Must be a heck of a market for rubber boots.

A modern day cowboy named John has spent many days crossing the South Dakota prairies without water. His horse had already died of thirst. He's crawling along the dusty ground, certain that he has breathed his last breath, when all of a sudden he sees an object sticking out of the ground several yards ahead of him. He crawls to the object, pulls it out of the ground and discovers what looks to be an old briefcase. He opens it and out pops a genie named Patty. But she is no ordinary genie. She is wearing an IRS ID badge and a dull grey outfit. There's a Calculator in her pocketbook. She has a pencil tucked behind one ear. 'Well, cowboy,' says the genie, 'You know how I work....You have three wishes.' 'I'm not falling for this,' said the cowboy, 'I'm not going to trust an IRS genie.' 'What do you have to lose? You've got no transportation, and it looks like you're a goner anyway!' The cowboy thinks about this for a minute and decides that the genie is 'OK! I wish I were along-side a lush spring with plenty of food and drink.' ***POOF*** The cowboy finds himself beside the most beautiful spring he has ever seen, and he's surrounded with jugs of wine and platters of delicacies. 'OK, cowpoke, what's your second wish..' 'My second wish is that I was rich beyond my wildest dreams.' ** *POOF*** The cowboy finds himself surrounded by treasure chests filled with rare gold coins and precious gems. 'OK, cowpuncher, you have just one more wish. Better make it a good one!' After thinking for a few minutes, the cowboy says, 'I wish that no matter where I go, beautiful women will want and need me.' ***POOF*** He was turned into a tampon. Moral of the story: If the U.S. government offers to help you, there's going to be a string attached.

A lady walks in to see the doctor and says: “Doctor (excuse me), I have this problem (excuse me) with gas. I keep passing (excuse me) gas, it’s not (excuse me) stinky (excuse me) and doesn’t make any noise (excuse me) but I find it very embarrassing.” The doctor writes up a prescription and tells her to take 2 pills a day and return in a week. One week later the lady returns and says, “Doctor, (excuse me) I took those pills and they did nothing (so sorry) to stop the gas. In fact, you still can’t hear me pass gas (forgive me) but now it smells just awful!” The doctor replies, “Good, now that we’ve cleared up your sinuses, we’ll work on your hearing next!”

For the second time this year, the 24-hour news outlets are reporting that a 14-year-old boy used a gun to thwart a violent home invasion. The most recent case took place in Phoenix, Ariz., and the boy not only saved his own life, but also saved two younger siblings. In January, a 14 year-old boy from North Carolina found himself in a similar situation and was also forced to shoot an intruder. . Since the establishment media grossly underreport the number of times gun are used legally in self-defense by adults, it is a pretty good assumption they do the same when children are involved. When an innocent child is killed with a gun, however, the establishment media jump at the chance to sensationalize the event and further the myth that thousands of young children die every year via gun accidents. Luckily for the families in Arizona and North Carolina, their respective legislative bodies didn’t believe the statistics conjured out of this air by the Violence Policy Center, or the latest permutation of Sarah Brady’s anti-gun corral. So, families in North Carolina and Arizona can exercise the constitutionally protected right to bear as they see fit. In contrast, California is often on the tip of the spear when it comes to anti-gun insanity, and over the years lawmakers have embraced one anti-gun fad after another. So, when safe-storage laws became all the rage, California’s elected officials jumped right in – with devastating consequences for at least one family. Aug. 23, 2000, seemed to be another normal day for 14-year-old Jessica Carpenter and the rest of her family, of Merced, Calif. With her father at work and her mother getting the family car fixed, Jessica was left in charge of her siblings, age 13, 11, 9 and 7. As with most gun owners, Jessica’s father always made sure to obey the law – and because of California’s safe-storage requirements, he kept his .357 magnum hidden away and unloaded when he wasn’t home. Just locking the gun wasn’t enough for Jessica’s father; he also sent her to a class at the age of 12 to make sure she understood how to safely handle the gun. When confronted with a naked intruder, Jessica first retreated to her room and tried to call the police, but found the phone line was dead. She then remembered her father’s gun, which she was trained to handle. But, she also knew her father made sure it wasn’t accessible while he was away, so instead she chose to jump out of her bedroom window and run for help. Once he realized Jessica was gone, the intruder, who was now armed with a pitchfork, turned on the rest of the children. He killed 9 year-old Ashley after she tried to stop him from hurting her younger sister, Anna. The youngest child, 7-year-old John was killed while he slept. Anna and Vanessa were able to escape through a window and met up with Jessica who ran to a neighbor’s house and called the police. When the police responded, they were able to use their guns to shoot the intruder 13 times – an option Jessica, and the rest of the Carpenter children were denied because their parents were forced to choose between following the law and the safety of their children – a situation created when laws are based on the lies disseminated by the anti-gun movement. We live at a time when the wounds inflicted by the anti-gun experiment are starting to heal, and when Americans have rejected the notion that only the government should have access to firearms. It isn’t a surprise that such a drastic change in opinion on guns followed the free flow of information created by the Internet, exposing the lies perpetrated by the anti-gun zealots. But, the real damage came from the pop-culture myth that only the paranoid or men trying to compensate for a lack of power are stupid enough to carry a gun. So, today all over America, people are the victims of violent crime because criminals know that most people are unarmed. As concealed-carry laws chip away at the social stigma of carrying a gun, more and more people have begun to take up arms in their own defense. Despite the establishment media’s crazed reaction, America is a better place for it.

"I met a girl in the park the other evening. There was an instant spark between us and she immediately dropped to her knees and laid on the grass at my feet. As we lay making love, I thought, These Taser guns are well worth the money."

. . .... The 1st kind of sex is called .... Smurf Sex. This kind of sex happens when you first meet someone and you both have sex until you are blue in the face. The 2nd kind of sex is called ... Kitchen Sex. This is when you have been with your partner for a short time and you are so needy you will have Sex anywhere, even in the kitchen. The 3rd kind of sex is called ... Bedroom Sex. This is when you have been with your partner for a long time. Your sex has gotten routine and you usually have sex only in your bedroom. The 4th kind of sex is called ... Hallway Sex. This is when you have been with your partner for too long. When you pass each other in the hallway you both say .... 'F**k You.' The 5th kind of sex is called ... Religious Sex. Which means you get Nun in the morning, Nun in the afternoon and Nun at night. (Very Popular) The 6th kind is called ... Courtroom Sex. This is when you cannot stand your wife/husband any more. She/he takes you to court and screws you in front of everyone. And . Last ... But not least ... The 7th kind of sex is called ... Social Security Sex. You get a little each month.. But not enough to enjoy yourself. PLEASE DON'T REPLY TO TELL ME WHAT STAGE YOU ARE IN. I have enough problems of my own !!!

> Splinters in Her Crotch > > A woman from Washington , DC who was a tree hugger, a liberal Democrat, and > an anti-hunter, purchased a piece of timberland near Emporium, PA. There > was a large tree on one of the highest points in the tract. She wanted a > good view of the natural splendor of her land so she started to climb the > big tree. As she neared the top she encountered an eagle that attacked her. > > In her haste to escape, the woman slid down the tree to the ground and got > many splinters in her crotch. In considerable pain, she hurried to Emporium > and visited the local doctor. She told him she was an environmentalist, a > democrat, and an anti-hunter and how she came to get all the splinters. > > The doctor listened to her story with great patience and then told her to go > wait in the examining room and he would see if he could help her. > > She sat and waited three hours before the doctor reappeared. > The angry woman demanded, "What took you so long?" > > He smiled and then told her, "Well, I had to get permits from the > Environmental Protection Agency, the Forest Service, and the Bureau of Land > Management before I could remove old-growth timber from a "recreational > area" so close to a waste treatment facility. I ' m sorry, but due to > Obama-Care they turned you down!" >

I They like to refer to us as senior citizens, old fogies, geezers, and in some cases dinosaurs. Some of us are "Baby Boomers" getting ready to retire. Others have been retired for some time. We walk a little slower these days and our eyes and hearing are not what they once were. We have worked hard, raised our children, worshipped our God and grown old together. Yes, we are the ones some refer to as being over the hill, and that is probably true. But before writing us off completely, there are a few things that need to be taken into consideration. In school we studied English, history, math, and science which enabled us to lead America into the technological age. Most of us remember what outhouses were, many of us with firsthand experience. We remember the days of telephone party-lines, 25 cent gasoline, and milk and ice being delivered to our homes. For those of you who don't know what an icebox is, today they are electric and referred to as refrigerators. A few even remember when cars were started with a crank. Yes, we lived those days. We are probably considered old fashioned and out-dated by many. But there are a few things you need to remember before completely writing us off. We won World War II, fought in Korea and Viet Nam . We can quote The Pledge of Allegiance, and know where to place our hand while doing so. We wore the uniform of our country with pride and lost many friends on the battlefield. We didn't fight for the Socialist States of America , we fought for the "Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave." We wore different uniforms but carried the same flag. We know the words to the Star Spangled Banner, America , and America the Beautiful by heart, and you may even see some tears running down our cheeks as we sing. We have lived what many of you have only read about in history books and we feel no obligation to apologize to anyone for America . Yes, we are old and slow these days but rest assured, we have at least one good fight left in us. We have loved this country, fought for it, and died for it, and now we are going to save it. It is our country and nobody is going to take it away from us. We took oaths to defend America against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and that is an oath we plan to keep. There are those who want to destroy this land we love but, like our founders, there is no way we are going to remain silent. It was the young people of this nation who elected Obama and the Democratic Congress. You fell for the "Hope and Change" which in reality was nothing but "Hype and Lies." You have tasted socialism and seen evil face to face, and have found you don't like it after all. You make a lot of noise, but most are all too interested in their careers or "climbing the social ladder" to be involved in such mundane things as patriotism and voting. Many of those who fell for the "Great Lie" in 2008 are now having buyer's remorse. With all the education we gave you, you didn't have sense enough to see through the lies and instead drank the 'Kool-Aid.' Now you're paying the price and complaining about it. No jobs, lost mortgages, higher taxes, and less freedom. This is what you voted for and this is what you got. We entrusted you with the Torch of Liberty and you traded it for a paycheck and a fancy house. Well, don't worry youngsters, the Grey Haired Brigade is here, and in 2012 we are going to take back our nation. We may drive a little slower than you would like but we get where we're going, and in 2012 we're going to the polls by the millions. This land does not belong to the man in the White House nor to the likes of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. It belongs to "We the People" and "We the People" plan to reclaim our land and our freedom. We hope this time you will do a better job of preserving it and passing it along to our grandchildren. So the next time you have the chance to say the Pledge of Allegiance, stand up, put your hand over your heart, honor our country, and thank God for the old geezers of the "Grey-Haired Brigade." ~Author, Anon. Grey-Haired Brigade Member I am another Gray Haired Geezer signing on. Come on guys. Let’s get this circulating around.