I have an idea....

BARACK OBAMA: The chicken crossed the road because it was time for a change! The chicken wanted change! JOHN MC CAIN: My friends, that chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the chickens on the other side of the road. HILLARY CLINTON: When I was First Lady, I personally helped that little chicken to cross the road. This experience makes me uniquely qualified to ensure - right from Day One! - that every chicken in this country gets the chance it deserves to cross the road. But then, this really isn't about me. GEORGE W. BUSH: We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here. DICK CHENEY: Where's my gun? COLIN POWELL: Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road. BILL CLINTON: I did not...

I was tickled when I saw that we shop at the same store! Those of you waiting for Christmas packages from us had better be prepared.

There is no "gifting," only GIVING. One cannot "re-gift" an item. Once an item is given, the receiver may do anything he or she wishes, including giving it away.

http://www.99only.com/ Back east we've had 99cent stores for at least 24 years. My parents would take our oldest children on shopping trips and give them each $1 to buy anything they wanted in the whole store. They loved it. Over Thanksgiving I was back in SC and my mother sent me to the brand-spanking new 99cent store about a mile away. It was in the new shopping center with the new gargantuan, still clean Walmart. So many dollars to spend, but no way to schlep them 3000 miles away in two carry on bags. I came home determined to find a store of my own. I knew that 8 years ago I had gone into a dollar store on 6th street across from the hospital, but I'd never gone back because it was filthy, sold only junk, and the carts had tall metal poles attached to prevent the customer from taking them out of the store. I drove by there today and the parking lot was full. Joy and I went inside, but I didn't take a buggy because I didn't expect it to equal the one back home. With...

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ARTICLE http://www.crosswalk.com/ books/11616901/page0/ je's COMMENT I've read the whole series, and enjoyed them, and I think the fascination is simple: Edward is a vampire who does not kill humans, who loves a simple teenaged human girl. His attraction to her (for her blood) is strong because she has an enticing "fragrance," but his love for her is stronger. He's dangerous, but he controls himself. As a literary character, he fulfills innocent girls' wishes for a strong, brave, platonic hero, all romance without embarrassment, pain or messiness--prince charming--who sweeps the heroine off her feet, carries her to safety, cradles her, fights for her. He fights to save her life from those who want to kill her. He sweeps her behind him and stands bravely to defend. He can't bear to be separated from her and literally carries her to mountain heights and tops of towering trees. When she begs him to change her from human to vampire, he refuses because he love...

Today at Bible study I heard three different women say something similar to " I don't need to know the details; I just know (1) God loves me, (2) Jesus loves me, (3) whether I like that church or not. I don't care about the details because they aren't important. AAAAAGGHH!

http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=IAckfn8yiAQ (I don't know why this won't click. Just cut and paste.)

Would you believe this? Before I could post the previous post, I received this in an email: MERRY CHRISTMAS *Twas the month before Christmas* *When all through our land,* *Not a Christian was praying* *Nor taking a stand.* *See the PC Police had taken away,* *The reason for Christmas - no one could say.* *The children were told by their schools not to sing,* *About Shepherds and Wise Men and Angels and things.* *It might hurt people's feelings, the teachers would say* * December 25th is just a ' Holiday '.* *Yet the shoppers were ready with cash, checks and credit* *Pushing folks down to the floor just to get it!* *CDs from Madonna, an X BOX, an I-pod* *Something was changing, something quite odd! * *Retailers promoted Ramadan and Kwanzaa* *In hopes to sell books by Franken ...

I had an idea yesterday waiting at a red light with absolutely no traffic coming from any direction. Let's go back to four way stops. When I first moved to Corona, I couldn't believe that there were double lane 4 ways, but traffic moved quickly and smoothly. Installing the red lights has created traffic snarls, wasted time and gasoline and ups my ire every time I have to wait for no good reason.

On Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009, Leonard Pitts' editorial column told the story of Joe and his wife who'd collapsed on a cruise ship. Their children traumatized; Joe was denied access to said wife as she lay dying in a hospital emergency department. Then he explained that the couple he was describing was not Joe and Lisa, but Janice and Lisa, a homosexual couple in Florida. His column quoted Janice's account of a conversation she had with the social worker: "I need you to understand that you are in an anti-gay city and state and you won't get to know about Lisa's condition or see her." The hospital disputes this account. Without questioning the validity of that statement, Pitts goes on to recite the party line: increasingly anti-gay nation (his italics) mean-spirited amendments legislation that made scapegoats and boogeymen of gay people. Leonard Pitts is ignoring one huge elephant in the room. HIPAA Laws. The Healthcare Information Portability and Protection A...