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Friday, 30 January 2009

Thursday, 29 January 2009

  • If you love football and even if you don’t, you have to read this story. … It can be confirmed on Snopes.com, the link is at the bottom of the story …

    In a supermarket, Kurtis the stock boy was busily working when a new voice came over the loud speaker asking for a carry out at register 4.  Kurtis was almost finished, and wanted to get some fresh air, and decided to answer the call. As he approached the check-out stand a distant smile caught his eye, the new check-out girl was beautiful. She was an older woman (maybe 26, and he was only 22) and he fell in love.

    Later that day, after his shift was over, he waited by the punch clock to find out her name. She came into the break room, smiled softly at him, took her card and punched out, then left.  He looked at her card, BRENDA.  He walked out only to see her start walking up the road.  Next day, he waited outside as she left the supermarket, and offered her a ride home. He looked harmless enough, and she accepted. When he dropped her off, he asked if maybe he could see her again, outside of work.  She simply said it wasn't possible.

    He pressed and she explained she had two children and she couldn't afford a baby-sitter, so he offered to pay for the baby-sitter.  Reluctantly she accepted his offer for a date for the following Saturday.  That Saturday night he arrived at her door only to have her tell him that she was unable to go with him. The baby-sitter had called and canceled. To which Kurtis simply said, "Well, let's take the kids with us."

    She tried to explain that taking the children was not an option, but again not taking no for an answer, he pressed.  Finally Brenda brought him inside to meet her children.  She had an older daughter who was just as cute as a bug, Kurtis thought, and then Brenda brought out her son, in a wheelchair.  He was born a paraplegic with Down Syndrome.

    Kurtis asked Brenda, "I still don't understand why the kids can't come with us?"  Brenda was amazed. Most men would run away from a woman with two kids, especially if one had disabilities - just like her first husband and father of her children had done.  Kurtis was not ordinary - - - he had a different mindset.

    That evening Kurtis and Brenda loaded up the kids, went to dinner and the movies. When her son needed anything Kurtis would take care of him.  When he needed to use the restroom, he picked him up out of his wheelchair, took him and brought him back.  The kids loved Kurtis.  At the end of the evening, Brenda knew this was the man she was going to marry and spend the rest of her life with.

    A year later, they were married and Kurtis adopted both of her children. Since then they have added two more kids.

    So what happened to Kurtis the stock boy and Brenda the check-out girl?  Well, Mr. & Mrs. Kurt Warner now live in Arizona , where he is currently employed as the quarterback of the National Football League Arizona Cardinals and has led his Cardinals to an appearance in the Super Bowl against the Pittsburg Steelers.      Is this a surprise ending or could you have guessed that he was not an ordinary person?

    It should be noted that he also quarterbacked the Rams in Super Bowl XXXVI.     He has also been the NLF's Most Valuable Player twice and the Super Bowl's Most Valuable Player.

     

    AND THE REST OF THE STORY:

     Today at church our minister mentioned that when Kurt, his wife and 7 children go out to eat he has one of his children pick out a family eating at the restaurant. Kurt then tells the wait staff he is picking up the tab for that family's dinner annonymously. He remembers the days he was working nights in the grocery store and feeding his family on food stamps.

     

    Makes it hard not to root for the Cardinals IN THE SUPER BOWL on February 1st ... doesn't it? ~~~ Here is the link to snopes.com ~

     

    I actually checked it out for myself on Snopes; essentially true, but there are some inaccuracies. But here is the fun thing: the actual story is far more thrilling then this email "fiction": http://www.snopes.com/glurge/warner.asp

     

    Quite an inspiration, this guy ~ I hope you enjoyed the story! ~~~><> Grg

Monday, 19 January 2009

  • UnBias Media!!!???

    I think the liberal news media should be bundled up along with the liberal politicians and run out of business. 

     

    Headlines On This Date 4 Years Ago:

     

    "Republicans spending $42 million on inauguration while troops Die in unarmored Humvees"

    "Bush extravagance exceeds any reason during tough economic times"

    "Fat cats get their $42 million inauguration party, Ordinary Americans get the shaft"

    Headlines Today:

     "Historic Obama Inauguration will cost only $120 million"

     "Obama Spends $120 million on inauguration; America Needs A Big Party"

    "Everyman Obama shows America how to celebrate"

    "Citibank executives contribute $8 million to Obama Inauguration" 

     

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    Nothing like fair & unbiased coverage of the news!!! Alas – I guess it is only the inflation that is too blame. (Yeah Right!)All this fair and unbiased stuff is....  a bit one sided. Don’t you think?

Saturday, 17 January 2009

  • It could be a miracle

    NOTE: to avoid Pet Peeves, that this is not my own. ~ Make sure to read all the end. 

    In a few short days, an African American man will move from his private residence into a much larger and infinitely more expensive one owned not by him but by the taxpayers. A vast lawn, a perimeter fence and many well trained security specialists will insulate him from the rest of us but the mere fact that this man will be residing in this house should make us all stop and count or blessings - because it proves that we live in a nation where anything is possible.

    Many believed this day would never come. Most hoped and prayed that it would, but few of us actually believed we would live to see it. Racism is an ugly thing in all of it's forms and there is little doubt that if this man had moved into this house fifteen years ago, there would have been a great outcry - possibly even rioting in the streets.
    Today, we can all be both grateful and proud that no such mayhem will take place.when this man takes up residency in this house.
     
    This man, moving into this house at this time in our nation's history is much more than a simple change of addresses for him - it is proof of a change in our attitude as a nation. It is an amends of sorts - the righting of a great wrong. It is a symbol of our growth, and of our willingness to "judge a man, not by the color of his skin but by the content of his character".
      
    There can be little doubt now that the vast majority of us truly believe that this man has earned both his place in history and his new address. His time in this house will not be easy - it will be fraught with danger and he will face many challenges. I am sure there will be many times when he asks himself how in the world he ended up here and like all who have gone before him, the experience will age him greatly.
    But I for one will not waste an ounce of worry for his sake - because in every way a man can, he asked for this. His whole life for the past fifteen years appears to have been inexorably leading this man toward this house. It is highly probable that in the past, despite all of his actions, racism would have kept this man out of this house.   Today, I thank the lord above that I am an American and that I live in a nation where wrongs are righted, where justice matters and where truly anything is possible. 

    O

    You thought I was talking about Obama?   Sorry.

Thursday, 15 January 2009

  • DEPARTMENT OF BANKING !???!

    Does anybody out there have any memory of the reason given for the establishment of the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY during the Carter Administration?

    Anybody?  Anything?  No?  Didn't think so!

    Bottom line, we’ve spent several hundred billion dollars in support of an agency the reason for which not one person who reads this can remember.  Ready?   It was very simple, and at the time everybody thought it very appropriate.

    The Department of Energy was instituted August 4, 1977. (Just two years after I started working at the Amoco Texas City Refinery)

     

    TO: LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL.   Hey, Pretty Efficient, Huh?

    AND NOW, NOW IT'S 2008, 31 YEARS LATER, AND THE BUDGET FOR THIS NECESSARY DEPARTMENT IS AT $24.2 BILLION A YEAR, THEY HAVE 16,000 FEDERAL EMPLOYEES, AND APPROXIMATELY 100,000 CONTRACT EMPLOYEES AND LOOK AT THE JOB THEY HAVE DONE!      ( Did you catch that? One hundred Thousand contract employee ~ *This is where you slap your forehead and say 'what was we thinking?'*)

    Ah yes, good ole' bureaucracy. AND NOW, we are going to turn the Banking system over to them? God Help us.

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