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This was just emailed to me.  I would like to pass it along just for fun and a few chuckles.  but I would like to dedicate it to my dear friend:integrityforus

 

TWENTY NINE LINES TO MAKE YOU SMILE

> >1.. My husband and I divorced over religious differences. He thought he was >God and I didn't. >2.. I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it. >3.. Some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them. >4.. I used to have a handle on life , but it broke. >5.. Don't take life too seriously; No one gets out alive. > >6.. You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me >7.. Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder. >8.. Earth is the insane asylum for the universe. >9.. I'm not a complete idiot -- Some parts are just missing. >10... Out of my mind. Back in five minutes. >11.. NyQuil, the stuffy, sneezy, why-the-heck-is-the-room-spinning >medicine. >12... God must love stupid people; He made so many. >13.. The gene pool could use a little chlorine. >14.. Consciousness: That annoying time between naps. >15.. Ever stop to think, and forget to start again? >16.. Being 'over the hill' is much better than being under it! >17.. Wrinkled Was Not One of the Things I Wanted to Be When I Grew up. >18. Procrastinate Now! > >19.. I Have a Degree in Liberal Arts; Do You Want Fries With That? >20.. A hangover is the wrath of grapes. >21.. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance. >22.. Stupidity is not a handicap. Park elsewhere! >23..They call it PMS because Mad Cow Disease was already taken. >24.. He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless DEAD. >25.. A picture is worth a thousand words, but it uses up three >thousand times the memory. > >26.. Ham and eggs...A day's work for a chicken, a lifetime commitment for a >pig. >27.. The trouble with life is there's no background music.. >28.. The original point and click interface was a Smith & Wesson. >29.. I smile because I don't know what the hell is going on. > >Appreciate every single thing you have, especially your friends! >Life is too short and friends are too few! >

This is also from my sister:

 

No matter how many times you have seen this or anything like it, it's always worth reading again!
        

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE
FLAG,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AND TO THE REPUBLIC, FOR
WHICH IT STANDS,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ONE
NATION UNDER GOD,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

INDIVISIBLE, WITH
LIBERTY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!

KEEP
IT LIT!! KEEP
IT LIT!

For All of our other military personnel, where ever they may Be
 Please
Support all of the troops defending our Country.

 




And God
Bless our Military who are protecting our Country for our
Freedom.
  Thanks
To them, and their sacrifices we can celebrate the 4th of July
 

PLEASE
KEEP IT GOING TO YOUR FRIENDS, DON'T LET THE FLAME DIE
OUT!
PLEASE
KEEP THIS GOING  

 
 


We must never forget who
Gets the credit for the freedoms we have, of which we should be
Eternally grateful.


I watched the flag
Pass by one day,
It fluttered in the breeze.




A young Marine
Saluted it,
And then he stood at ease..

I looked at
Him in uniform
So young, so tall, so proud,
With hair cut square
And eyes alert
He'd stand out in any crowd.



I thought how many men
Like him
Had fallen through the years.
How many died on foreign
Soil
How many mothers' tears?


How many pilots' planes
Shot down?
How many died at sea
How many foxholes were soldiers'
Graves?
No, freedom isn't free.

I heard the sound of Taps
One night,
When everything was still,
I listened to the bugler Play
And felt a sudden chill. I wondered just how many times

That Taps had meant 'Amen,'

When a flag had draped a
Coffin.
Of a brother or a friend.




I thought of all the
Children,
Of the mothers and the wives,
Of fathers, sons and
Husbands
With interrupted lives.

I
Thought about a graveyard
At the bottom of the sea



Of unmarked graves in
Arlington.
No, freedom isn't free.



Enjoy Your Freedom
&God Bless Our Troops
Show Your Support Send
This Page Along Today

 

This was sent to me.  Verify with link posted.

 

Very uplifting information about IRAQ.  Wonder why the media didn't tell us about all of this??

 

 

 

Did you know? 

I didn't know!

How could we?

Did you know that 47 countries' have

reestablished their embassies in  Iraq ?

  

Did you know that the Iraqi government

currently employs 1.2 million Iraqi people?

  
Did you know

 that 3100 schools have been renovated,

 364 schools are under rehabilitation,

 263 new schools are now under construction;

 and 38 new schools have been completed in  Iraq ?

 Did you know

that Iraq 's higher educational structure consists

of 20 Universities, 46 Institutes or colleges and 4 research centers,

 all currently operating?

Did you know

that 25 Iraq students departed for the United States in 
January 2005 for the re-established Fulbright program?

Did you know

that the Iraqi Navy is operational?

 They have 5 - 100-foot patrol craft,

34 smaller vessels and a naval infantry regiment.

 Did you know

that Iraq ' s Air Force consists of three operational squadrons,

 Which includes 9 reconnaissance and 3 US C-130 transport aircraft

 (under Iraqi operational control) which operate day and night,

and will soon add 16 UH-1 helicopters and 4 Bell Jet Rangers?

 Did you know

that Iraq has a counter-terrorist unit and a Commando Battalion?

 Did you know

that the Iraqi Police Service has over 55,000

 fully trained and equipped police officers?

 Did you know

that there are 5 Police Academies in Iraq

 that produce over 3500 new officers every 8 weeks?

 Did you know

there are more than 1100 building projects going on in Iraq ?

 They include 364 schools, 67 public clinics, 15 hospitals,

83 railroad stations, 22 oil facilities, 93 water facilities

and 69 electrical facilities.

 Did you know

that 96% of Iraqi children under the age of 5

 have received the first 2 series of polio vaccinations?

 Did you know

that 4.3 million Iraqi children were enrolled in primary school by mid October?

Did you know

that there are 1,192,000 cell phone subscribers in Iraq

 and phone use has gone up 158%?

Did you know

that Iraq has an independent media that consists of

75 radio stations, 180 newspapers and 10 television stations?

 Did you know

that the Baghdad Stock Exchange opened in June of 2004?

 Did you know

that 2 candidates in the Iraqi presidential election had a 
televised debate recently?

  

OF COURSE WE DIDN'T KNOW!

 WHY DIDN'T WE KNOW?

 BECAUSE OUR MEDIA WON'T TELL US!

Instead of reflecting our love for our country,

 we get photos of flag burning incidents at Abu Ghraib

 and people throwing snowballs at the presidential motorcades.

 Tragically, the lack of accentuating the positive

 in Iraq  serves two purposes:

 It is intended to undermine the world's perception

of the United States thus minimizing consequent support;

 and it is intended to discourage American citizens.

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Above facts are verifiable on the Department of Defense web site. 

http://www.defenselink.mil/

Did you know? 

Why I didn't know

But I know now.....

.......Pass it on! Give it a Wide Dissemination!

With all the bad news and dispair, here is one from my sister. Have a safe and blessed Fourth.

A mom was concerned about her kindergarten
son walking to school each day .
He didn't want his mother to walk with him.
She wanted to give him the feeling that he had
some independence but yet know that he was safe.

So she had an idea of how to handle it.
She asked a neighbor if she would please follow him to school in the mornings,
staying at a distance , so he probably wouldn't notice her .

She said that since she was up early with her toddler anyway ,
it would be a good way for them to get some exercise as well , so she
agreed.

The next school day , the neighbor and her little girl set out
following behind Timmy as he walked to school with another neighbor girl he knew.
She did this for the whole week.

As the two walked and chatted , kicking stones and twigs,
Timmy's little friend noticed the same lady was following them as she seemed
to do every day all week.

Finally she said to Timmy , - 'Have you
noticed that lady following us to school all week ?

Do you know her ?
Timmy nonchalantly replied , ' Yeah , I know who she is .'
The little girl said, ' Well, who is she ? '

'That's just Mrs. Shirley Goodnest,' Timmy replied, 'and her
daughter Marcy.'

'Shirley Goodnest ? Why is she following us ? '

'Well,' Timmy explained, ' every night my Mom makes me say
the 23rd Psalm with my prayers , 'cuz she worries about me so much.
And in the Psalm , it says, 'Shirley Goodnest and Marcy shall follow me
all the days of my life', so I guess I'll just have to get used to it !'

The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make His face to
shine upon you, and be gracious unto you ; the Lord lift His countenance upon
you, and give you peace.

May Shirley Goodnest and Marcy be with you today and always.

here is another one my sister sent.  I would share it just as readily if it were about us Baptists, laughing all the way.   The last one has a personal slant.  My sister and my father was a Lay Minister when we all were Methodists.  A Mrs. Peters did the same when she was announcing the events of the Harvest Festival when Dad was preaching at one of the country churches......

 

**This is abit disrespectful but it had me about to rol in the floor laughing.

 

 

 

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A new priest at his first mass was so nervous he could hardly speak.

After mass he asked the monsignor how he had done.

The monsignor replied, 'When I am worried about getting nervous on the pulpit, I put a glass of vodka next to the water glass. If I start to get nervous, I take a sip.'

So next Sunday he took the monsignor's advice.

At the beginning of the sermon, he got nervous and took a drink.
He proceeded to talk up a storm.

Upon his return to his office after the mass, he found the following note on the door:

1) Sip the vodka, don't gulp.

2) There are 10 commandments, not 12.

3) There are 12 disciples, not 10.

4) Jesus was consecrated, not constipated.

5) Jacob wagered his donkey, he did not bet his ass.

6) We do not refer to Jesus Christ as the late J.C.

7) The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are not referred to as Daddy, Junior and the spook.

8) David slew Goliath; he did not kick the BLEEP out of him.

9) When David was hit by a rock and was knocked off his donkey, don't say he was stoned off his ass.

10)We do not refer to the cross as the 'Big T.'

11)When Jesus broke the bread at the last supper he said, 'Take this and eat it for it is my body.' He did not say 'Eat me'.

12)The Virgin Mary is not called 'Mary with the Cherry'.

13)The recommended grace before a meal is not: Rub-A-Dub-Dub thanks for the grub, Yeah God.

14)Next Sunday there will be a taffy pulling contest at St. Peter's not a peter pulling contest at St. Taffy's.

 

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Some time ago on one of these blogs, one of the posters called me country as a bag of beans.  Well, it got rather silly about beans after that and we all had a great time laughing about toots and such.  My sister, bless her sweet heart, was emailed this tidbit of a--well rather explicit bit of tomfoolery about explosions of toots.  I hope the most of you get as many laughs from this as I did.  Sometimes laughter is good medicine.

 

I went grocery shopping recently while not being altogether sure that
course of action was a wise one. You see, the previous evening I had
prepared and consumed a massive quantity of my patented "You're definitely
going to $h!t yourself" chili. Tasty stuff, albeit hot to the point of being painful,
which comes with a written guarantee from me that if you eat the next day
both of your ***** cheeks WILL fall off.

 

Here's the thing. I had awakened that morning, and even after two cups of
coffee (and all of you know what I mean) nothing happened. No "Watson's
Movement 2". Despite habanera peppers swimming their way through my
Intestinal tract, I appeared to be unable to create the usual morning
symphony referred to by my next door neighbors as thunder and lightning.

Knowing that a time of reckoning had to come, yet not sure of just when, I
bravely set off for the market; a local Wal-Mart grocery store that I often
haunt in search of tasty tidbits.

Upon entering the store at first all seemed normal. I selected a cart and
began pushing it about dropping items in for purchase. It wasn't until I was
at the opposite end of the store from the restrooms that the pain hit me.
Oh, don't look at me like you don't know what I'm talking about. I'm
referring to that "Uh oh, gotta go" pain that always seems to hit us at the
wrong time. The thing is, this pain was different.

The habaneras in the chili from the night before were staging a revolt. In a
mad rush for freedom they bullied their way through the small intestines,
forcing their way into the large intestines, and before I could take one
step in the direction of the restrooms which would bring sweet relief, it
happened. The peppers fired a warning shot.

There I stood, alone in the spice and baking aisle, suddenly enveloped in a
noxious cloud the likes of which has never before been recorded. I was
afraid to move for fear that more of this vile odor might escape me. Slowly,
oh so slowly, the pressure seemed to leave the lower part of my body, and I
began to move up the aisle and out of it, just as an elderly woman turned
into it.

I don't know what made me do it, but I stopped to see what her reaction
would be to the malodorous effluvium that refused to dissipate, as she
walked into it unsuspecting. Have you ever been torn in two different
directions emotionally? Here's what I mean, and I'm sure some of you at
least will be able to relate.

I could've warned that poor woman but didn't. I simply watched as she walked
into an invisible, and apparently indestructible, wall of odor so terrible
that all she could do before gathering her senses and running, was to stand
there blinking and waving her arms about her head as though trying to ward
off angry bees. This, of course, made me feel terrible, but then made me
laugh. Mistake.

Here's the thing. When you laugh, it's hard to keep things "clamped down",
if you know what I mean. With each new guffaw an explosive issue burst forth
from my nether region. Some were so loud and echoing that I was later told a
few folks in other aisles had ducked, fearing that someone was robbing the
store and firing off a shotgun.

Suddenly things were no longer funny. IT was coming, and I raced off through
the store towards the restrooms, laying down a cloud the whole way, praying
that I'd make it before the grand mal a*splosion took place.

Luck was on my side. Just in the nick of time I got to the john, began the
inevitable "Oh my **d", floating above the toilet seat because my *** is
burning SO BAD, purging. One poor fellow walked in while I was in the middle
of what is the true meaning of "Shock and Awe". He made a gagging sound, and
disgustedly said, "Sonofabitch!", then quickly left.

Once finished I left the restroom, reacquired my partially filled cart
intending to carry on with my shopping when a store employee approached me
and said, "Sir, you might want to step outside for a few minutes. It appears
some prankster set off a stink bomb in the store. The manager is going to
run the vent fans on high for a minute or two which ought to take care of
the problem."

That of course set me off again, causing residual gases to escape me. The
employee took one sniff, jumped back pulling his shirt up to cover his nose
and, pointing at me in an accusing manner shouted, "IT'S YOU!", then ran off
returning moments later with the manager. I was unceremoniously escorted
from the premises and asked none too kindly not to return.

Home again without having shopped, I realized that there was nothing to eat
but leftover chili, so I consumed two more bowls. The next day I went to
shop at Albertson's. I can't say anymore about that because we are in court
over the whole matter. Bastards claim they're going to have to repaint the
store..

 

I found this from the Boston paper:

 

 

Jessica’s Law dad blasts Mass. rep By Dave Wedge
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - Updated 1d 20h ago
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The father of a slain Florida girl pushing for mandatory prison time for child rapists in the Bay State is blasting a Taunton lawmaker who said he’d torment young victims on the witness stand to defend his perv clients.

“Why doesn’t he figure out a way to defend that child and put these kind of people away instead of trying to figure ways for defense attorneys to get around Jessica’s Law?” Mark Lunsford fumed, slamming recent remarks by Rep. James Fagan. “These are very serious crimes that nobody wants to take serious. What about the rights of these children?”

Lunsford, whose daughter Jessica was raped and murdered in Florida by a repeat sex offender, will be in Massachusetts tomorrow to push lawmakers to pass Jessica’s Law, which would require a 20-year sentence for rape of a child under 12. The House passed a watered-down version of the bill last week but Lunsford and other victims’ rights activists will be pushing the Senate to include mandatory prison time in the final law.

“If this bill is not going to put these people away, don’t disrespect me by putting my daughter’s name on it,” Lunsford told the Herald last night. “You have to put these guys in prison and admit these people are uncurable.”

Fagan, a defense attorney, infuriated victims’ rights advocates during a recent House debate when he said he would “rip apart” 6-year-old victims on the witness stand and “make sure the rest of their life is ruined.”

In a fiery soliloquy on the House floor, Fagan said he’d grill victims so that, “when they’re 8 years old they throw up; when they’re 12 years old, they won’t sleep; when they’re 19 years old, they’ll have nightmares and they’ll never have a relationship with anybody.”

Fagan did not return calls seeking comment.

Rep. Karyn Polito, a Republican from Shrewsbury who supports Jessica’s Law, said of Fagan’s comments: “The words speak for themselves. I think there’s a large part of the (House) membership that doesn’t agree with that.”

Fagan also called Jessica’s Law “knee-jerk” legislation and said “every time the Legislature has named a law after somebody, it has been a failure.”

That comment angered Ron Bersani, grandfather of Melanie Powell, whose death at the hands of a drunken driver inspired Melanie’s Law, which hiked OUI penalties.

“Absolutely ridiculous,” Bersani said. “I would beg to differ with Rep. Fagan.”

Bersani also took issue with Fagan’s characterization of such laws as “knee-jerk.”

“I find that description despicable,” Bersani said. “It’s a lot easier to call it knee-jerk when it’s not your daughter or granddaughter.”

dwedge@bostonherald.com Wouldn't you like to get a hold of that Fagan?  I know I would.  There is no good thing to say about a person who would desire to put a child through more trauma.  The man is evil.

NEWS OUTRAGE!
Police arrest lesbians for 'torturing' boy, 5
Forced him to put his hands on hot stove, burned his body, genitals with cigarettes

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Posted: June 15, 2008
6:07 pm Eastern

© 2008 WorldNetDaily

 

Starkeisha Brown and Krystal Matthews accused of torturing boy, 5

A 5-year-old Los Angeles boy is fighting for his life after police say he was severely tortured with burns and food deprivation by his lesbian mother and her live-in girlfriend.

Officials say the child has countless cigarette burns all over his body, including his genitals, and can't open his hands because he was forced to put them flat on a hot stove.

The boy was also repeatedly beaten and forced to sit in his own urine, police said.

"In my time in policing in 27 years, I have never seen anybody with these kinds of injuries that has lived," Los Angeles Police Department First Assistant Chief James McDonnell said. "And this kid must have a tremendous will to live to be able to still hang on despite what he's been through."

The abuse was "akin to a level of torture we hope our military personnel would never encounter," said Lt. Vincent Neglia of the LAPD's Abused Child Unit.

Other abuse the boy suffered included being denied food and water, as well as being beaten while suspended from a door with his hands above his head.

He also had a broken tooth with a nerve exposed.

(Story continues below)

The boy's mother, 24-year-old Starkeisha Brown, is being held without bail on charges of torture, after turning herself in late Friday night. Police had made a public plea for help in locating the women and released their photographs.

The other woman, Krystal Matthews, 21, is being held on $100,000 bail on charges of willful harm or injury to a child. She was taken into custody yesterday when she showed up for her appointment at the county Department of Children and Family Services. Police say both women have a history of violence.

The boy, now in guarded condition, was rescued Monday by a stranger who found him abandoned and contacted authorities.

Both women actually had an appointment the same day with DCF and had brought the healthy child of a mutual friend in an attempt to pass him off as Brown's son.

"I never knew a parent could do something like this. It was just a shock," neighbor Mary Williams told the Los Angeles Times.

Williams' 9-year-old grandson saw the boy often, and occasionally the two played together.

"How could you just do this and run off and leave him?" she told the paper. "I hurt for that baby."

Another neighbor said, "If I [had known] anything, they would've been caught a long time ago."

This was posted on another site.  It has brought much dialogue pro and con.  I did not include the eubonics that was posted as it really didn't add to the gist of the message and would only inflame.  My problem with it is that a congresswoman who is paid by the taxpayer is wasting taxpayer money on this drivel.  The very idea of the serious needs of the country and she whines in racial UNFAIRNESS (caps, mine).

 

Well, it appears our African-American friends have found yet something else to be pissed about. A black congresswoman (this would be Sheila Jackson Lee, of Houston ), reportedly complained that the names of hurricanes are all Caucasian sounding names.

She would prefer some names that reflect African-American culture such as Chamiqua, Tanisha, Woeisha, Shaqueal, and Jam al. I am NOT making this up!

She would also like the weather reports to be broadcast in 'language' that street people can understand because one of the problems that happened in New Orleans was, that black people couldn't understand the seriousness of the situation, due to the racially biased language of the weather report.

I guess if the weather person says that the winds are going to blow at 140+ MPH, thats too hard to understand

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If she thinks the people of NOLA can not understand English, then perhaps the school system needs a close examination.  Any person should be able to understand the weather forcaster say that a hurricane is on it's way and evacuation would be a good idea.

This came from another site.  It must have been written before Obama got the nomination.

I had not heard about this.  From it's content, the national media will never print this.  It puts John McCain in too favorable light.

 

John McCain's Sons

Talk about putting your most valuable where your mouth is! Apparently this was not "newsworthy"enough for the media to comment about. Can either of the other presidential candidates truthfully come close to this? ... Just a question for each of us to seek an answer, and not a statement.

You see...character is what's shown when the public is not looking. There were no cameras or press invited to what you are about to read about, and the story comes from one person in New Hampshire .

One evening last July, Senator John McCain of Arizona arrived at the New Hampshire home of Erin Flanagan for sandwiches, chocolate-chip cookies and a heartfelt talk about Iraq . They had met at a presidential debate, when she asked the candidates what they would do to bring home American soldiers - - soldiers like her brother, who had been killed in action a few months earlier.

Mr. McCain did not bring cameras or press. Instead, he brought his youngest son, James McCain, 19, then a private first class in the Marine Corps about to leave for Iraq . Father and son sat down to hear more about Ms. Flanagan's brother Michael Cleary, a 24-year-old Army First Lieutenant killed by an ambush ... a roadside bomb.

No one mentioned the obvious: In just days, Jimmy McCain could face similar perils. 'I can't imagine what it must have been like for them as they were coming to meet with a family that ......' Ms. Flanagan recalled, choking up. 'We lost a dear one,' she finished.

Mr. McCain, now the presumptive Republican nominee, has staked his candidacy on the promise that American troops can bring stability to Iraq . What he almost never says is that one of them is his own son, who spent seven months patrolling Anbar Province and learned of his father's New Hampshire victory in January while he was digging a stuck military vehicle out of the mud.

Two of Jimmy's three older brothers went into the military. Doug McCain, 48, was a Navy pilot. Jack McCain, 21, is to graduate from the Naval Academy next year, raising the chances that his father, if elected, could become the first president since Dwight D. Eisenhower with a son at war.

We hear so much inflated trash out there. How about a simple act of kindness ... and dedication to others placed above oneself?

Pastors to monitor CAIR demands in district
Decision comes following mandatory Islamic presentation to students

Posted: June 11, 2008
9:30 pm Eastern
© 2008 WorldNetDaily

Officials with a Houston pastors organization have decided to monitor attempts by the Council on American Islamic Relations to preach Islam to captive public school student audiences.

Pastor Dave Welch, a spokesman for the Houston Area Pastor Council, an inter-denominational organization, told WND today that open records requests will be submitted at every school in the area to determine "how many have been contacted by CAIR."

The decision follows a dispute that erupted over a presentation by leaders for CAIR's Houston base to students at Friendswood Junior High School.

Friendswood Junior High
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The principal, Robin Lowe, has been moved to another administrative post dealing with curriculum, officials have confirmed. She arranged the mandatory presentation in which CAIR instructed students that Adam, Noah and Jesus are prophets; announced "there is one god, his name is Allah"; taught the five pillars of Islam; told students how to pray five times a day; and gave instruction on Islamic religious requirements for dress.

Students at Friendswood had been diverted from a scheduled physical education class and taken to an assembly set up by Lowe.

In the 40-minute session officials from CAIR, an organization critics link to terrorist groups, presented the religious beliefs and requirements of Islam.

The assembly had not been authorized by the district, officials confirmed.

Trish Hanks, the Friendswood superintendent, said she had been asked about having such a presentation because of allegations made by a Muslim who claimed to have been victimized in an altercation.

Hanks told parents in a memo she had authorized the presentation for staff members only, not students.

Welch noted hundreds of parents flooded this week's school board meeting, at which the issue was debated. Some parents demanded the principal's return; others questioned the school district's leadership qualifications. CAIR officials also were on hand to defend their program of teaching students about Islam.

Welch said school officials announced the principal set up the assembly after CAIR asked for time to talk to all students about Islam. They said CAIR was upset by an altercation between two students CAIR perceived as attacking Islam, even though school officials found no evidence of that.

A report on the meeting in the Houston Chronicle noted schools in Seminole County, Fla., now have banned an Islamic group, the Academy for Learning Islam, from classrooms after officials crossed the line between telling students about Muslim culture and advocating for Islam.

Texas Education Agency officials confirm that state law allows parents to remove their children from activities or classes that violate their religious or moral beliefs.

A spokesman for CAIR's Houston office, Tarek Hussein, told the Houston paper he contacted Lowe asking to do an "educational presentation." And Asma Siddiqi, one of the Islamic presenters, said the Muslim culture and beliefs were taught to students.

CAIR, as WND has reported, is a spinoff of the defunct Islamic Association for Palestine, launched by Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook and former university professor Sami al-Arian, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to provide services to Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

A number of CAIR employees have been convicted on terrorism-related charges. Among them are former communications specialist Randall Todd "Ismail" Royer, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison on charges he trained in Virginia for holy war against the U.S. and sent several members to Pakistan to join a Kashmiri terrorist group with reported ties to al-Qaida; and Bassem Khafagi, who was arrested in January 2003 while serving as CAIR's director of community relations and convicted on fraud and terrorism charges in connection with a probe of the Islamic Assembly of North America, an organization suspected of aiding Saudi sheiks tied to Osama bin Laden. Also, in October 2006, Ghassan Elashi, a member of the founding board of directors of the Texas branch of CAIR, was sentenced to nearly seven years in prison for financial ties to a high-ranking terrorist.

WND previously reported public school textbooks across the nation have begun promoting Islam, teaching even the religious doctrines.

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I wish I could lay claim to this, alas, but I can't:

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The Irish are such clear thinkers:

'We, in Ireland , can't figure out why you are even bothering to hold an election in the United States .

On one side, you have a witch who is a lawyer, married to a disbarred lawyer, running against a lawyer who is married to a witch who is a lawyer.

On the other side, you have a war hero married to a good looking rich woman who owns a beer distributorship. What are you lads thinking over there?'

2 HELD IN TOT DEATH CHARGED WITH TORTURE By DAVID RIEDEL, DOUGLAS MONTERO and JOHN DOYLE

 

June 8, 2008 -- A Brooklyn couple was charged yesterday in the torture of a 3-year-old boy who died from his injuries, officials said.

Nymeen Cheatham, 30, the boy's guardian, and her boyfriend, Lemar Martin, 25, were hauled in to the 81st Precinct station house for questioning after Kyle Smith, badly beaten and burned with cigarettes, was rushed from his Patchen Avenue home Friday night and died of his injuries.

The couple, who'd had several run-ins with cops over the toddler, was charged with assault and endangering the welfare of a minor, police said.

 

The medical examiner ruled the tot's death a homicide yesterday and the pair may face additional charges.

Kyle suffered from "multiple blunt impact injuries. . all over his body," according to a spokeswoman.

Cops had previously responded to at least three incidents involving Kyle and Cheatham before the child's death.

But the run-ins involved custody disputes over care of the boy, and no arrests were made, police said.

Cheatham said she called 911 after the Kyle wouldn't wake up Friday morning. But investigators said statements she and Martin gave "were hazy."

Neighbors said they were told by cops that the child had cigarette burns on his body and a broken pelvis. Police were looking into evidence the child had been sodomized, sources said.

 

Cheatham, who is friendly with Kyle's biological mother, had custody of the toddler for about a year, neighbors said.

Kyle's birth mother had a drug problem, and the courts removed the boy from her care after he showed signs of neglect, Cheatham told friends.

Administration for Children's Services spokeswoman Sheila Stainback said the Kyle was never in foster care but the agency was investigating the case.

She wouldn't comment on what involvement the ACS had in the transfer of Kyle from his mother to Cheatham.

His father lived out of state, but visited the boy on weekends and was trying to take custody, said Cheatham's building superintendent, Gail McNally.

 

Additional reporting by Patrick Gallahue

douglas.montero@nypost.com

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Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
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at any rate, it is good read and good advice.  It should be posted in all junior and senior high schools in Tennessee

Our real roots... A history lesson that needs to be told....   OUR REAL ROOTS This is one e-mail that needs to be shared.  But then, we may already be too late.  God help us.   Did you know that 52 of the 55 signers of The Declaration of Independence were orthodox, deeply committed Christians? The other three all believed in the Bible as the divine truth, the God of scripture, and His personal intervention.   It is the same congress that formed the American Bible Society. Immediately after creating the Declaration of Independence, the Continental Congress voted to purchase and import 20,000 copies of scripture for the people of this nation.     Patrick Henry, who is called the firebrand of the American Revolution, is still remembered for his words, 'Give me liberty or give me death.' But in current textbooks the context of these words is deleted. Here is what he said: 'An appeal to arms and the God of hosts is all that is left us. But we shall not fight our battle alone. There is a just God that presides over the destinies of nations. The battle sir, is not of the strong alone. Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.'   These sentences have been erased from our textbooks.   Was Patrick Henry a Christian? The following year, 1776, he wrote this 'It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religion, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For that reason alone, people of other faiths have been afforded freedom of worship here.'     Consider these words that Thomas Jefferson wrote on the front of his well- worn Bible: 'I am a Christian, that is to say a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus. I have little doubt that our whole country will soon be rallied to the unity of our Creator and, I hope, to the pure doctrine of Jesus also.'   Consider these words from George Washington, the Father of our Nation, in his farewell speech on September 19, 1796:     'It is impossible to govern the world without God and the Bible. Of all the dispositions and habits that lead to political prosperity, our religion and morality are the indispensable supporters. Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that our national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.'     Was George Washington a Christian? Consider these words from his personal prayer book: 'Oh, eternal and everlasting God, direct my thoughts, words and work. Wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the lamb and purge my heart by the Holy Spirit. Daily, frame me more and more in the likeness of thy son, Jesus Christ, that living in thy fear, and dying in thy favor, I may in thy appointed time obtain the resurrection of the justified unto eternal life. Bless, O Lord, the whole race of mankind and let the world be filled with the knowledge of thy son, Jesus Christ.'     Consider these words by John Adams, our second president, who also served as chairman of the American Bible Society.     In an address to military leaders he said, 'We have no government armed with the power capable of contending with human passions, unbridled by morality and true religion. Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.'   How about our first Court Justice, John Jay?   He stated that when we select our national leaders, if we are to preserve our Nation, we must select Christians. ' Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers and it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian Nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.'   John Quincy Adams, son of John Adams, was the sixth U.S. President.

 

    He was also the chairman of the American Bible Society, which he considered his highest and most important role. On July 4, 1821, President Adams said, 'The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.'     Calvin Coolidge, our 30th President of the United States reaffirmed this truth when he wrote, 'The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.'     In 1782, the United States Congress voted this resolution: 'The congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.'     William Holmes McGuffey is the author of the McGuffey Reader, which was used for over 100 years in our public schools with over 125 million copies sold until it was stopped in 1963. President Lincoln called him the 'Schoolmaster of the Nation.'     Listen to these words of Mr. McGuffey: 'The Christian religion is the religion of our country. From it are derived our notions on character of God, on the great moral Governor of the universe. On its doctrines are founded the peculiarities of our free institutions. From no source has the author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. From all these extracts from the Bible I make no apology.'     Of the first 108 universities founded in America , 106 were distinctly Christian, including the first.   Harvard University, chartered in 1636. In the original Harvard Student Handbook rule number 1 was that students seeking entrance must know Latin and Greek so that they could study the scriptures:     'Let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well, the main end of his life and studies is, to know God and Jesus Christ, which is eternal life, John 17:3; and therefore to lay Jesus Christ as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and learning. And seeing the Lord only giveth wisdom, let everyone seriously set himself by prayer in secret to seek it of him (Proverbs 2:3).'   For over 100 years, more than 50% of all Harvard graduates were pastors!     It is clear from history that the Bible and the Christian faith, were foundational in our educational and judicial system. However in 1947, there was a radical change of direction in the Supreme Court.     Here is the prayer that was banished:   'Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence on Thee. We beg Thy blessings upon us and our parents and our teachers and our country. Amen.'   In 1963, the Supreme Court ruled that Bible reading was outlawed as unconstitutional in the public school system. The court offered this justification: 'If portions of the New Testament were read without explanation, they could and have been psychologically harmful to children.'     Bible reading was now unconstitutional , though the Bible was quoted 94 percent of the time by those who wrote our constitution and shaped our Nation and its system of education and justice and government.     In 1965, the Courts denied as unconstitutional the rights of a student in the public school cafeteria to bow his head and pray audibly for his food.   In 1980, Stone vs. Graham outlawed the Ten Commandments in our public schools.     The Supreme Court said this: 'If the posted copies of the Ten Commandments were to have any effect at all, it would be to induce school children to read them. And if they read them, meditated upon them, and perhaps venerated and observed them, this is not a permissible objective.'   Is it not a permissible objective to allow our children to follow the moral principles of the Ten Commandments?     James Madison, the primary author of the Constitution of the United States , said this: 'We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments.'   Today we are asking God to bless America . But how can He bless a Nation that has departed so far from Him?     Most of what you read in this article has been erased from our textbooks. Revisionists have rewritten history to remove the truth about our country's Christian roots. I , Mary Jones, the designer of this web page, encourage all who read and agree with the words herein, to share it with others, so that the truth of our nation's history may be told.