Bugs Bleat 2Q 07

Saturday, August 25, 2007

Bug's Bleat - - GCF: Speeding Registration - - Photo

Mike and Barry set op a "Z" rig.

Eddie listens to a discussion on who will be next to "hook up."

Turns out it was him.

Bug's Bleat - - GCF: Speeding Registration

Hal and Mike share a smile during Rescue Team Training

Mammaw and Ethan

Ken signals his condition.

Bug's Bleat - - GCF: Speeding Registration

Bug's Bleat - - GCF: Age by Car Radio - - Photos

Team members struggle with the unending flood of federal paperwork.

AR-1 DMAT Members prepare lunch in the "Cache" Warehouse.

And, along with paperwork, comes security checks and rechecks, including fingerprinting all team members.

Saturday, August 11, 2007

Bug's Bleat - - GCF: Age by Car Radio

Volume 9, Issue 24 Friday, June 15, 2007

Hello All,

Don’t forget to pray for Daryl Stogner, Jackie Cottrell's Wife and Terry Waller.
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Members will attend meetings once a week for about an hour. Each week you have a confidential weigh-in to help you track your success. You learn how to make wise choices, eat healthy and enjoy food and exercise. Every week you get new tips and program materials to help you succeed.
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Oregon Student Finds School's Toilet Water Cleaner Than Fountain's
NORTH BEND, Ore. — Monday, June 11, 2007
Middle School student Kyleray Katherman had a hunch something was amiss with the school's drinking fountain water. And right he was.

For an English assignment, he tested the bacteria content at four water fountains and one toilet to challenge a ban on students from bringing bottled water to class. It seems some were using it to sneak in alcohol.

Guess which was cleaner? It wasn't the water fountains.

He then asked students where they would prefer to get their water. That wasn't the fountains, either.

Classmates, teachers, administrators and board members said they had no idea.

Katherman attends the Oregon Coast Technology School that operates at North Bend Middle School with a focus on infusing technology into all areas of study.

Katherman, 13, used Q-tips and petri dishes, swabbing the spigots of four fountains and sampling one toilet, dunking the cotton in the bowl's center and then dragging it around the rim for a complete sample.

He took the results to the school lab put them under a light to speed up the bacteria's growth.

The petri dishes with fountain water were swarming with bacteria. The sample from the toilet was clean, probably because the toilets are doused with cleansing chemicals daily.

"I wanted to see the looks on their faces," Katherman said.

Either allow water bottles back, Katherman urged, or install "down-pour" systems used in office water coolers.

He took his results to the North Bend School Board with an eye-opening PowerPoint presentation.

Administrators quickly replaced the spigots and casing at three of the water fountains and custodians gave them all a thorough cleaning.

More teachers are providing water in classrooms now, but the ban on water bottles remains.

"It was a great lesson. We don't always see things in and about the school that are in need of repair," said Scott Edmondson, the school's principal, adding, "You'd be surprised how clean the water is in a toilet."

Thanks to Barry Brownlee
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Emailed to me by a friend (Thanks, AJ) -Tom

This originally appeared in a newspaper column by Erma Bombeck.
She was a well-known humorist and author.
She died April 22, 1996 in San Francisco, California.
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(Not really humor, but a nice thought in honor of Father's Day in the United States and to fathers everywhere.)

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GCF: How Fathers Were Created

When the good Lord was creating fathers, He started with a tall frame. A female angel nearby said, "What kind of father is that? If you’re going to make children so close to the ground, why have you put fathers up so high? He won't be able to shoot marbles without kneeling, tuck a child in bed without bending or even kiss a child without a lot of stooping. And God smiled and said, "Yes, but if I make him child-size, who would children have to look up to?"

And when God made a father's hands, they were large and sinewy. The angel shook her head sadly and said, "Large hands are clumsy. They can’t manage diaper pins, small buttons, rubber bands on ponytails or even remove splinters caused by baseball bats." And God smiled and said, "I know, but they're large enough to hold everything a small boy empties from his pockets at the end of a day, yet small enough to cup a child's face."

And then God molded long, slim legs and broad shoulders. The angel nearly had a heart attack. "Boy, this is the end of the week, all right," she clucked. "Do you realize you just made a father without a lap? How is he going to pull a child close to him without the kid falling between his legs?" And God smiled and said, "A mother needs a lap. A father needs strong shoulders to pull a sled, balance a boy on a bicycle or hold a sleepy head on the way home from the circus."

God was in the middle of creating two of the largest feet anyone had ever seen when the angel could contain herself no longer. "That's not fair. Do you honestly think those large boats are going to dig out of bed early in the morning when the baby cries? Or walk through a small birthday party without crushing at least three of the guests?" And God smiled and said, "They'll work. You'll see. They'll support a small child who wants to ride a horse to Banbury Cross or scare off mice at the summer cabin or display shoes that will be a challenge to fill."

God worked throughout the night, giving the father few words but a firm, authoritive voice and eyes that saw everything but remained calm and tolerant. Finally, almost as an afterthought, He added tears. Then He turned to the angel and said, "Now, are you satisfied that he can love as much as a mother?"

The angel shutteth up.

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A few personal thoughts to close this special GCF.

Father's Day in the United States is the third Sunday in June. This year it is June 17. In a nutshell, Father's Day was first observed in Spokane, Washington in 1910. Over the next decade, cities across America began celebrating a day for fathers and in 1924 President Calvin Coolidge supported the idea of a national Father's Day. It wasn’t until 1966 that President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring the 3rd Sunday of June as Father's Day. In 1972, President Richard Nixon established a permanent national observance of Father's Day to be held on the third Sunday of June. This came almost sixty years after Mother's Day had been proclaimed a National day of observance.

My father passed away nearly 7 years ago, but his memory lives on in my heart each and every day. He lived 250 miles away and on the drive back home from visiting family; I realized that I had not gotten to shake his hand in several months. He always believed in a firm handshake and even after his body became frail, the firmness of his handshake remained. I also miss his always cheery greeting of "Hi there, number one son."

GCF was suspended for a week back in August of 2000 and during that time I received hundreds of emails from GCF subscribers. These emails contained many kind words and thoughts conveyed to me and my family, but the words of one person said it all in one concise sentence. I apologize to the person who sent it because I cannot remember your name, but your words said it best:

"You are blessed to have a father who let you know, just by how he addressed you, how much you are loved."

If your father is no longer here, remember his memory with joy. If you are lucky enough to have your father still around, be happy with him and enjoy the day.

Happy Father's Day to all.

-Tom
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Very Respectfully,

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Baghdad
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This is some really useful information...

Cell phone companies are charging us $1.00 to $1.75 or more for 411 information calls when they don't have to. Most of us do not carry a telephone directory in our vehicle, which makes this situation even more of a problem.

When you need to use the 411 information option, simply dial 1 (800) FREE 411, or 1 (800) 373-3411 without incurring any charge at all!

This is the kind of information people don't mind receiving, so pass it on to your family and friends. This works on your home telephone as well

Thanks to Gary Foreman
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Travel Channel Coming to PurpleHull Pea Festival

Emerson’s PurpleHull Pea Festival & World Championship Rotary Tiller Race will be getting some more national television coverage this year.

The program “Taste of America,” a show that airs on the Travel Channel, has informed the festival they will be sending a crew to this year’s event to shoot a story about the festival, concentrating on the festival’s namesake, purple hull peas.

The show airs at 7:00 and 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays, and at other random times.

“It’s been an interesting shift,” said festival spokesman Bill Dailey. “It used to be that the thing that got all the attention was the tiller race. And it still gets lots of attention. But as time goes on, with the explosion of cooking television shows and all these cooking personalities, the purple hull peas are starting to be an attraction, too.”

And with good reason. Besides the flavor, purple hull peas, a member of the southern pea family, are good for you.

“Nutritionally, southern peas are a good source of protein and one of the best sources of dietary fiber available,” according to a news release from the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture, which is heavily involved in developing new varieties of southern peas.

“They are also very high in folate, a form of B vitamin that is important in the prevention of anemia, cancer and birth defects. In fact, orange juice, which is often advertised as a good source of folate, has only about 10 percent of the amount found in a serving of southern peas,” the release added.

There is also a novelty aspect to these peas, according to Dailey.

“Purple hull peas just aren’t well known outside certain pockets of the south,” said Dailey. “Most people in our area find that hard to believe, since we grew up eating so many of them, but you don’t have to go very far to find folks who never heard of them.”

Each year, the festival receives numerous emails from displaced southerners looking for sources of purple hull peas.

“The email usually goes something like this: ‘Help! I now live in some other part of the country, and they don’t know what purple hull peas are. I can’t find them here,’” said Dailey.

Still, the festival’s feature event, the World Championship Rotary Tiller Race, a race of souped-up garden tillers, is hard to ignore.

Earlier this year, when the Boston Globe called to do a piece about the festival and it’s peas for its Sunday travel section, Dailey emailed them about five pictures of purple hull peas.

“Then, on whim, I also emailed them a photo of the tiller race,” said Dailey. “It was the picture of the tiller race that made the paper.”

The PurpleHull Pea Festival will be June 29 and 30. The festival’s feature event, the World Championship Rotary Tiller Race, will be Saturday, June 30.

Thanks to Joe Mullins
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Here are links to items posted on The Pump Handle over the past week:

1) "Penalty Flag Thrown: The NFL's Conflicted Science" by David Michaels Who's funding the scientists on the National Football League's "Concussion Commission"? http://thepumphandle.wordpress.com/2007/06/10/the-nfls-conflicted-science/

2) "Senate to Hold Asbestos Hearing Tomorrow" by Liz Borkowski Senator Patty Murray and eight other witnesses will testify in a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on asbestos. http://thepumphandle.wordpress.com/2007/06/11/senate-to-hold-asbestos-hearing-tomorrow/

3) "OSHA and Refinery Inspections" by Celeste Monforton The Houston Chronicle reports that over the next two years, OSHA will be sending 300 federal inspectors to petroleum refineries to evaluate operators processes for handling hazardous chemicals. http://thepumphandle.wordpress.com/2007/06/12/osha-and-refinery-inspections/

4) "Congress May Force OSHA to Do Its Job (on Diacetyl at least)" by David Michaels Legislation introduced in the House would require OSHA to set a standard for worker exposure to diacetyl. http://thepumphandle.wordpress.com/2007/06/13/osha-diacetyl-legislation/

5) "Flavor Manufacturers Support OSHA Diacetyl Legislation" by David Michaels The Flavor and Extracts Manufacturers' Association supports the new bill directing OSHA to set a standard for diacetyl exposure. http://thepumphandle.wordpress.com/2007/06/13/flavor-manufacturers-support-osha-diacetyl-legislation/

6) "Occupational Health News Roundup" by Liz Borkowski While one diacetyl bill has been introduced the U.S. House, legislation banning diacetyl in California workplaces has passed the state's Assembley. http://thepumphandle.wordpress.com/2007/06/13/occupational-health-news-roundup-19/

7) "ACSH Attacks Animal Science on Carcinogens" by Ruthann Rudel and Dick Clapp It's not unusual for the chemical industry and its surrogates to attack animal studies showing chemicals to be carcinogenic. But scientists realize that animal cancer studies are the only thing standing between us and a lot more exposure to chemicals that might cause cancer in humans. http://thepumphandle.wordpress.com/2007/06/14/acsh-attacks-animal-science-on-carcinogens/

8) "MSHA's Stickler & A Stick (Maybe)" by Celeste Monforton MSHA announced that eight mine operators have been put on notice for potential enforcement under the "pattern of violation" provisions of the Mine Act. http://thepumphandle.wordpress.com/2007/06/15/mshas-stickler-a-stick-maybe/

9) "More Evidence of Brain Injury Among Professional Football Players" by David Michaels The New York Times reports on the terrible and previously hidden effects of football injuries on the brain. http://thepumphandle.wordpress.com/2007/06/15/more-evidence-of-brain-injury-among-professional-football-players/

10) "Friday Blog Roundup" by Liz Borkowski Bloggers are keeping up with the latest developments in prescription drug legislation, e-waste, and bad ideas for AIDS cures.
http://thepumphandle.wordpress.com/2007/06/15/friday-blog-roundup-28/
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MapQuest Gas Prices, Pretty Cool http://gasprices.mapquest.com
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If you’d like to write Dr. Antoon, he’d like to hear from you. This is his current address, the latest of the three federal prisons’ he’s been in.
Patrick Antoon #06669-010
Federal Prison Camp-La Tuna
P. O. Box 8000
Anthony, NM/TX 88021
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The photos on the front of this weeks “Bleat” include shots of Arkansas’s AR-1 DMAT team training, preparing lunch and struggling with government paperwork.
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Don’t forget to check out www.mcc2000.net
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Our photos are posted at http://www.bugsbleatphotos.blogspot.com.
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Feel free to share the "Bleat" with any and all. That's why we publish it.
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Recipe(s) of the week - Bean, Corn and Barley Soup By : Deborah Madison, The Savory Way

4 Points Per Serving

1 cup kidney beans -- soaked overnight
1 cup barley -- soaked overnight
2 ½ quarts water
1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
1 clove garlic -- minced
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups frozen corn kernels
1 clove garlic
½ teaspoon peppercorns
1/4 cup chopped parsley
1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil

Drain beans and barley. Put them in a soup pot with the water and bring them to a boil. Skim off any foam that rises to the surface then add olive oil and garlic. Lower heat and simmer, partially covered, for 30 minutes. Add salt to taste and continue cooking until the beans and barley are tender, about 15 minutes. Add the frozen corn and cook for ten minutes more Make the parsley sauce as follows and stir into soup just before serving. Pound garlic and peppercorns together in a mortar. When they are well broken up, add parsley and oil. Work together into a rough paste.

Serving Size : 6

Per serving: 301 Calories; 6g Fat (17% calories from fat); 13g Protein; 53g Carbohydrate; 0mg Cholesterol; 382mg Sodium

Shared by: Orea de Sa' Hana

http://www.angelfire.com/journal/wwrecipes/
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BreakPoint
With Chuck Colson

Wasteland
By Mark Earley
6/15/2007
An 'Unhooked' Culture

Note: This commentary was delivered by Prison Fellowship President Mark Earley.

In the book Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love, and Lose at Both by Washington Post journalist Laura Sessions Stepp, many stories are told about young women who have plunged headlong into the “hookup culture,” only to end up bruised, broken, scared, and isolated.

Stepp spent time with high school and college girls who were all, to some extent, participating in this ubiquitous “hookup culture.” Their experiences—as disturbing as they are—are something that every parent should know about. But in large part, it’s parents, along with educators and churches, who have fallen down on the job here.

These girls talk about parents who stress the importance of academic and career achievement but never talk to them about how to make relationships work, and often fail to set the example of a good marriage. For “romantic” education, they turn their kids over to the schools, who teach them all about the technical side of sex and little else. Sadly, our kids, who know more information about sex than possibly any previous generation, know almost nothing about how—or even why—to maintain loving relationships.

Thus, a pattern is emerging of young women and men too busy, and too determined on independence, to build real relationships. They engage in brief sexual encounters with partners they hardly know, both parties seeking control and freedom from hurt—and yet, somehow, guess what? They end up hurting anyway. In failing to teach our kids how to love, we’ve unwittingly sentenced them to a sexual landscape that’s nothing more than a barren wasteland.

Even many of Stepp’s subjects recognize how backwards it is that they find it easier to go to bed with a stranger, than to walk across campus holding hands with a young man they like. They recognize it—but they have no idea how to change it. And, according to Stepp, biblical messages on this topic are not getting through to them either.

Does all this mean there’s no hope for our kids to be able to live lives of purity? Not at all. Make sure you read the next two commentaries, because I’m going to be talking about what we as Christian parents can do to keep our kids from ending up scarred, jaded, and wary of love and commitment. In particular, Monday’s commentary, just after Father’s Day weekend, will focus on the difference that dads make—a difference that’s much bigger than you might realize.

As Stepp says in her book, “Fathers and adolescent daughters do less together than fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, and mothers and sons. Would they do more if they knew that their daughters might drink less often, start dating later and begin sex later if they paid more attention? That’s what the research shows.”

For more on what that means for you and your kids, be sure to read Monday’s “BreakPoint.”

Donate to Prison Fellowship and BreakPoint to help us continue strong in the new fiscal year. Donate online or by calling 1-877-322-5527.

For Further Reading and Information

Laura Sessions Stepp, Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love and Lose at Both (Riverhead, 2007).

Miriam Grossman, Unprotected (Sentinel, 2007).

“Unhooked: The New Cultures of Casual Sex,” MSNBC.com, 5 March 2007.

Lauren Green, “Chastity or Not: The Pressures of Sex Influencing The Quest For Love” Fox News Blog, 24 May 2007.

Regis Nicoll, “On Campuses, Purity is a ‘Relic,’” The Point, 26 March 2007.

Breakpoint Commentary No. 070214, “A Chaste Approach to Sex: Princeton’s Anscombe Society.”

Breakpoint Commentary No. 060214, “Providing a Rationale: The Biblical Case for Chastity.”

Breakpoint Commentary No. 050915, “Moral Sexuality in a Morally Neutral World: Smart Sex.”

The BreakPoint Web site and BreakPoint WorldView Magazine feature Colson’s commentaries as well as feature articles by other established and up-and-coming writers to equip readers with a biblical perspective on a variety of issues and topics.
© 2004-2006 Prison Fellowship
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Words of the Week:
sanctum: a place where one is free from intrusion.
leitmotif: a dominant and recurring theme.
quiescent: at rest; still; inactive.
fulminate: to issue or utter verbal attacks or censures.
contravene: to act or be counter to.
proselytize: to convert (someone) to another religion, belief, etc.
clamber: to climb with difficulty, or on all fours.
from Dictionary.Com

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"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies." - Oscar Wilde

"Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on." - Samuel Butler

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference." - Elie Wiesel

"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time." - Edith Wharton

"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind." - Leonardo da Vinci

"How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?" - William Shakespeare

"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive." - Robert Louis Stevenson
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# In "Stunning" Development, Vietnam Gives Unprecedented Permission to Print 100,000 Bibles
# Lombardy President Insists Christians Must be Active in Politics and Public Life; Otherwise, They Betray Their Faith
# First Lady Laura Bush to Visit Christian Ministry in Albania
# Father Relates How God Miraculously Returned Kidnapped Son to Him

# Rebecca St. James' Challenge to Perform at Mainstream Venue Could Open the Door for Other Christian Artists
# First Lady Promotes Little House on the Prairie Books to German Schoolchildren
# Church That Welcomes Bikers, Ex-cons, Drug Dealers and Prostitutes, Opens Medical Clinic for Bikers and Their Families

# British Build Amazing Super Submarine that Can Hear Noises 3,000 Miles Away and Can Circumnavigate the Globe without Surfacing
# In Texas Manslaughter Trial, Jurors Pray for Verdict Decision and Family of Defendant and Victim—Defendant Prays With His Attorneys Before Verdict is Read
# Secretary of State Rice Optimistic About Future of America, Dismisses Media Negativity
# How God Used a Waitress to Answer Prayers for Revival

# Film star and Musician, Jerry Reed, Rededicating His Life to Christ and to helping Veterans
# President Bush Gets Hero's Welcome in Predominately Muslim Albania
# Sliding even further Down that Slippery Slope—Court Tells FCC it's Okay to "Cuss" on TV
# University Coach Gives the Gift of Life to his Colleague's Wife

# Southern Baptist President Calling for a Genuine Holy Ghost Revival
# Federal Hearings have begun to Determine Vaccine-Autism Link
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GCF: Age by Car Radio

Emailed to me by a friend (Thanks, Jane) -Tom

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Student: Every button is programmed to pop, rock, and rap -- except the oldie's station for your parents.

Young Professional: Still programmed to rap, rock, and pop, plus the station that gives the traffic reports. As you approach the 30's, you'll probably also add the talk station that everyone at work talks about.

Established Professional: Will use the "scan" button and hear the first pop tune you learned as a kid on the oldie's station.

Approaching Middle Age: Thank goodness for "adult" pop, rock, and soul; will actually listen to the oldies for a few tunes.

Truly Middle Age: It's not that you're old enough to listen to the oldies, it's just that they keep playing songs you know.

Approaching Retirement: The radio is either on the oldies or off.

Retired: Stopped listening to the radio -- that "oldies" station started playing all of this "new music".
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GCF: How the Government Works

Emailed to me by a friend (Thanks, Howard) -Tom
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Once upon a time the government had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert. Congress said, "Someone may steal from it at night." So they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job.

Then Congress said, "How does the watchman do his job without instruction?" So they created a planning department and hired two people, one person to write the instructions, and one person to do time studies.

Then Congress said, "How will we know the night watchman is doing the tasks correctly?" So they created a Quality Control department and hired two people. One to do the studies and one to write the reports.

Then Congress said, "How are these people going to get paid?" So they created the following positions, a time keeper, and a payroll officer, then hired two people.

Then Congress said, "Who will be accountable for all of these people?"So they created an administrative section and hired three people, an Administrative Officer, Assistant Administrative Officer, and a Legal Secretary.

Then Congress said, "We have had this operating for one year and we are $18,000 over budget. We must cutback overall cost."

So they laid off the night watchman.
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GCF: How Ya Feeling?

mailed to me by a friend (Thanks, Billy) -Tom
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The doctor in a small North Carolina clinic asked the weather-beaten mountaineer how he was feeling.

"Well ... it's like this," drawled the man. "I'm still a-kickin', but I ain't raisin' no dust."
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GCF: Husbands and Wives

Emailed to me by a friend (Thanks, Barbara) -Tom
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After a quarrel, a husband said to his wife, "You know, I was a fool when I married you."
She replied, " Yes, dear, but I was in love, and didn't notice."
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A lady placed an ad in the classifieds : "Husband wanted."
The next day she received a hundred letters.
They all said the same thing: "You can have mine."
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The bride, upon her engagement, went to her mother and said, "I've found a man just like father!"
Her mother replied, "So what do you want from me, sympathy ?"
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When a woman steals your husband, there is no better revenge, than to let her keep him.
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Man is incomplete until he is married. Then he is finished.
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A little boy asked his father, "Daddy, how much does it cost to get married?"
And the father replied, "Don't know son, I'm still paying."
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Young Son: "Is it true, Dad, I heard that in some parts of Africa, a man doesn't know his wife until he marries her?"
Dad: "That happens in every country, son."
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Then there was a man who said, "I never knew what real happiness was, until I got married ... and then it was too late."
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A woman was telling her friend, "I made my husband a millionaire,"
"And what was he before you married him?",asked the friend.
The woman replied, "A billionaire."
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Just think, if it weren't for marriage, men would go through life, thinking they had no faults at all.
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The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday, is to forget it once.
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GCF: A Most Important Question

Emailed to me by a friend (Thanks, David) -Tom
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(Not quite a joke, but worth reading.)

During my second month of nursing school, our professor gave us a pop quiz. I was a conscientious student and had breezed through the questions, until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?"

Surely, this was some kind of joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times. She was tall, dark-haired and in her 50s, but how would I know her name?

I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank.

Before class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our quiz grade.

"Absolutely," said the professor. "In your careers you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello."

I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy.
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Change Gates

At the airport for a business trip, I settled down to wait for the boarding announcement at Gate 35.

Then I heard the voice on the public address system saying, "We apologize for the inconvenience, but Delta Flight 570 will board from Gate 41."

So my family picked up our luggage and carried it over to Gate 41. Not ten minutes later the public address voice told us that Flight 570 would in fact be boarding from Gate 35.

So again we gathered our carry-on luggage and returned to the original gate.

Just as we were settling down, the public address voice spoke again: "Thank you for participating in Delta's physical fitness program."

Received from DOC'S DAILY CHUCKLE.

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Peach Tree Rescue

Unexpected cold snaps had destroyed the buds on my father's young peach tree for two years in a row. This spring, Dad was ready. He replanted the sapling in a large box, mounted it on wheels, and put the tree in the garage whenever the temperature dropped.

One warm April day, Dad was wheeling the tree out into the yard, and he stopped to give our dog a drink from the garden hose. A neighbor watched the scene with amusement. "Frank," he finally commented, "you're the only man I know who walks his tree and waters his dog!"

Received from pkaine.

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Dog for Protection

My sister, a truck driver, had decided to get a dog for protection.

As she inspected a likely candidate, the trainer told her, "He doesn't like men." Perfect, my sister thought, and took the dog.

Then one day, two men in a parking lot approached her, and she watched to see how her canine bodyguard would react.

Soon it became clear that the trainer wasn't kidding. As the men got closer, the dog ran under the nearest car.

Received from Clean Humor Digest.

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Pete & Gladys

Pete and Gladys were looking at a new living room suite in the furniture store.

Pete said to the salesman, "We really like it, but I don't think we can afford it."

The salesman said, "You just make a small down payment, and then you don't make another payment for six months."

Gladys wheeled around with her hands on her hips and said, "Who told you about us?"

Received from pkaine.

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I Always Wondered About That

During a summer break from my studies at an engineering university, I worked in a scrap yard repairing construction equipment. One afternoon, I was taking apart a piling hammer that had some very large bolts holding it together. One of the nuts had corroded onto the bolt, so I started heating the nut with an oxyacetylene torch. As I was doing this, one of the dimmest apprentices I have ever known came along and asked me what I was doing. I patiently explained that if I heated the nut, it would grow larger and release its grip on the bolt so I could then remove it.

"So things get larger when they get hot, do they?" he asked.

Suddenly, an idea flashed into my mind. "Yes," I said, "that's why days are longer in summer and shorter in winter."

There was a long pause, then his face cleared. "You know, I always wondered about that," he said.

Received from Thomas S. Ellsworth.

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Dearest Redneck Son,

I'm writing this slow because I know you can't read fast. We don't live where we did when you left home. Your dad read in the newspaper that most accidents happen within 20 miles of your home, so we moved. I won't be able to send you the address because the last West Virginia family that lived here took the house numbers when they moved so they wouldn't have to change their address.

This place is really nice. It even has a washing machine. I'm not sure about it. I put a load of clothes in and pulled the chain. We haven't seen them since.

The weather isn't bad here. It only rained twice last week; the first time for three days and the second time for four days.

About that coat you wanted me to send; your Uncle Billy Bob said it would be too heavy to send in the mail with the buttons on, so we cut them off and put them in the pockets.

Bubba locked his keys in the car yesterday. We were really worried because it took him two hours to get me and your father out.

Your sister had a baby this morning, but I haven't found out what it is yet so I don't know if you are an aunt or uncle.

Uncle Bobby Ray fell into a whiskey vat last week. Some men tried to pull him out but he fought them off and drowned. We had him cremated, he burned for three days.

Three of your friends went off a bridge in a pickup truck. Butch was driving. He rolled down the window and swam to safety. Your other two friends were in the back. They drowned because they couldn't get the tailgate down!

There isn't much more news at this time. Nothing much out of the normal has happened.

Your Favorite Aunt,

Mom

Thanks to Jeanette Ford
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Democrat and Jesus

A Republican in a wheelchair entered a restaurant one afternoon and asked the waitress for a cup of coffee. The Republican looked across the restaurant and asked, "Is that Jesus sitting over there?" The waitress nodded "yes," so the Republican requested that she give Jesus a cup of coffee, on him.

The next patron to come in was a Libertarian with a hunched back. He shuffled over to a booth, painfully sat down, and asked the waitress for a cup of hot tea. He also glanced across the restaurant and asked, "Is that Jesus over there?" The waitress nodded, so the Libertarian asked her to give Jesus a cup of hot tea, "My treat."

The third patron to come into the restaurant was a Democrat on crutches. He hobbled over to a booth, sat down and hollered, "Hey there, honey! How's about gettin' me a cold glass of Miller Light?" He, too, looked across the restaurant and asked, "Is that God's boy over there?" The waitress once more nodded, so the Democrat directed her to give Jesus a cold glass of beer. "On my bill," he said.

As Jesus got up to leave, he passed by the Republican, touched him and said, "For your kindness, you are healed."

The Republican felt the strength come back into his legs, got up, and danced a jig out the door.

Jesus also passed by the Libertarian, touched him and said, "For your kindness, you are healed." The Libertarian felt his back straightening up, and he raised his hands, praised the Lord and did a series of back flips out the door.

Then Jesus walked towards the Democrat. The Democrat jumped up and yelled, "Don't touch me... I'm collecting disability."

Thanks to Jeanette Ford
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Is That Too Much To Ask?

Sarah's grandson is playing in the water, while she is standing on the beach not wanting to get her feet wet, when all of a sudden a huge wave appears from nowhere and crashes directly over the spot where the boy is in the ocean. The water recedes and the boy is no longer there. He simply vanished.

Sarah holds her hands to the sky and cries, "God, how could you? Have I not been a wonderful mother and grandmother? Have I not given to B’nai Brith and Haddasah? Have I not tried my very best to live a life that you would be proud of?"

Just then, another huge wave appears out of nowhere and crashes on the beach. As the water recedes, the boy is standing there, smiling, splashing around as if nothing had happened.

A loud voice booms from the sky, "I have returned your grandson. Are you satisfied?"

Sarah responds, "Well...he WAS wearing a hat."

Thanks to Jeanette Ford
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IDIOT SIGHTING:
We had to have the garage door repaired. The Sears repairman told us that one of our problems was that we did not have a "large" enough motor on the opener. I thought for a minute, and said that we had the largest one Sears made at that time, a ½ horsepower.
He shook his head and said, "Lady, you need a 1/4 horsepower." I responded that ½ was larger than 1/4. He said, "NO, it's not. Four is larger than two." We haven't used Sears repair since.

IDIOT SIGHTING:
I live in a semi rural area. We recently had a new neighbor call the local township administrative office to request the removal of the DEER CROSSING sign on our road. The reason: "Too many deer are being hit by cars out here! I don't think this is a good place for them to be crossing anymore."
From Kingman, KS

IDIOTS IN FOOD SERVICE:
My daughter went to a local Taco Bell and ordered a taco. She asked the person behind the counter for "minimal lettuce." He said he was sorry, but they only had iceburg lettuce. He was a Chef? Yep...

From Kansas City!

IDIOT SIGHTING
I was at the airport, checking in at the gate when an airport employee asked, "Has anyone put anything in your baggage without your knowledge?" To which I replied, "If it was without my knowledge, how would I know?" He smiled knowingly and nodded, "That's why we ask."
Happened in Birmingham, Ala.

IDIOT SIGHTING:
The stoplight on the corner buzzes when it's safe to cross the street. I was crossing with an intellectually challenged coworker of mine. She asked if I knew what the buzzer was for. I explained that it signals blind people when the light is red. Appalled, she responded, "What on earth are blind people doing driving?!"
She was a probation officer in Wichita, KS.

IDIOT SIGHTING:
At a good-bye luncheon for an old and dear coworker. She was leaving the company due to "downsizing." Our manager commented cheerfully, "This is fun. We should do this more often."Not another word was spoken. We all just looked at each other with that deer-in-the-headlights stare.
This was a lunch at Texas Instruments.

IDIOT SIGHTING:
I work with an individual who plugged her power strip back into itself and for the sake of her life, couldn't understand why her system would not turn on.
A deputy with the Dallas County Sheriff’s office, no less.

IDIOT SIGHTING:
When my husband and I arrived at an automobile dealership to pick up our car, we were told the keys had been locked in it. We went to the service department and found a mechanic working feverishly to unlock the driver’s side door. As I watched from the passenger side, I instinctively tried the door handle and discovered that it was unlocked. "Hey," I announced to the technician, "its open!" His reply, "I know. I already got that side."
This was at the Ford dealership in Canton, Mississippi!

STAY ALERT!
They walk among us... and they VOTE!!!

Thanks To Jeanette Ford
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"Don't strive for recognition, but work for achievement." -- Vanessa Malone
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Madeleine Begun Kane Latest Columns - - http://www.madkane.com/surmountingmarriage.html - - SURMOUNTING MARRIAGE

Before agreeing to marry my husband Mark, I asked him the usual questions:

Do you know what a hamper is and have you ever actually used one?
Do you spend weekends sprawled in front of a sports-spewing screen, devouring couch potato chips?
Are your parents likely to drive me to drink?
Mark told the appropriate fibs, I pretended to believe him, and several months later we wed. But soon after the wedding, I realized I'd forgotten to ask the most important question of all: When you see a mountain, do you get an irresistible urge to do something stupid?

I'm not exactly athletic. I used to hide behind poles in gym class. And when asked to hurl myself over the dreaded horse, I'd come to a terrified halt just as I reached the hurdle. So the only thing I'm equipped to do on a mountain is snap its picture.

And Mark isn't much more athletic than I am. Nonetheless, he thinks he can climb mountains. At least once a year, he finds a mountain he simply must climb. Or, rather, we must climb. After all, a good wife climbs by her man -- if only to try to keep him out of trouble.

So from time to time, we hike up the relatively tame Hudson Highlands. Somehow we survive unscathed. But Mark recently got the bug to mount a he-man-sized mountain. He had been dutifully playing the role of writer's spouse at a column-writers conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, and I was feeling guilty, so I foolishly agreed.

The several zillion foot trek up the mountain was strenuous, but we managed it okay. We huffed and we puffed and we stared in bewilderment at our errant compass; Even so, we made it to the top and were feeling a bit cocky. ("What's the big deal about Utah mountains? Now, New York State has MOUNTAINS!")

But when it was time to descend, Mark decided to be adventurous. I wanted to climb down the same route we'd taken up. But nooooooooooooooooooooo, said Mark. That would be boring. Heaven forbid we see the same piece of a world-class mountain, twice.

"It's easy," he said, pointing at random spots on our map. "We can loop around and go this way." He was in the grip of one of those irresistible mountain urges. There was nothing to do but follow and hope he could tell east from west.

At first, our path appeared to be a trail and the pull of gravity didn't threaten to plunge us downward. Then, suddenly, the mountain appeared, pristine and untouched by human feet.

After fifteen minutes of frantic wandering, I spotted what appeared to be a walkable trail. Mark studied the map, pretended to understand it, and off we went. As we later learned, it was a trail all right -- the trail of a temporarily dry mountain stream. It was more crouchable than walkable.

Frontiersman Mark tried to remain upright at first. But he never managed more than a step or two before losing his balance and falling to his rear. I descended in a safer, seated position -- hands reaching for bush limbs and getting nabbed by thorns, knees pointed skyward, feet inching downward at a speed that would make a snail look like a hero.

Mark poohpoohed my stance (or lack thereof) at first. But after several close calls he saw the benefits of proceeding by the seat of our pants. And I mean that literally -- when we reached the bottom, my cotton slacks were torn seatless.

By then we were late for the airport shuttle. We sprinted through the hotel, ignoring the horrified/bemused glances of employees and patrons. As we ran, Mark tried to provide cover as I grasped the seat of my shredded pants. Then he held the shuttle driver hostage, as I grabbed some clothing and took a bath in the hotel lobby's bathroom sink. How did I manage this? Trust me -- you don't want to know.

Although exhausted and famished, I felt grateful to be alive. Soon I'd be home throwing Mark's scattered clothes into the hamper and coaxing him away from the TV. Assuming, of course, I beat the rap for mooning several Mormons.
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I hired a plumber to help me restore an old farmhouse, and after he had just finished a rough first day on the job: a flat tire made him lose an hour of work, his electric drill quit and his ancient one ton truck refused to start.

While I drove him home, he sat in stony silence. On arriving, he invited me in to meet his family. As we walked toward the front door, he paused briefly at a small tree, touching the tips of the branches with both hands.

When opening the door he underwent an amazing transformation.. His face was wreathed in smiles and he hugged his two small children and gave his wife a kiss.

Afterward he walked me to the car. We passed the tree and my curiosity got the better of me. I asked him about what I had seen him do earlier.

"Oh, that's my trouble tree," he replied "I know I can't help having troubles on the job, but one thing's for sure, those troubles don't belong in the house with my wife and the children... So I just hang them up on the tree every night when I come home and ask God to take care of them. Then in the morning I pick them up again." "Funny thing is," he smiled," when I come out in the morning to pick 'em up, there aren't nearly as many as I remember hanging up the night before."

Thanks to Greg McDaniel
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A lady wrote the best letter in the Editorials in ages!!! It explains things better than all the baloney you hear on TV.

Her point:

Recently large demonstrations have taken place across the country protesting the fact that Congress is finally addressing the issue of illegal immigration.

Certain people are angry that the US might protect its own borders, might make it harder to sneak into this country and, once here, to stay indefinitely.

Let me see if I correctly understand the thinking behind these protests. Let's say I break into your house. Let's say that when you discover me in your house, you insist that I leave.

But I say, "I've made all the beds and washed the dishes and did the laundry and swept the floors. I've done all the things you don't like to do. I'm hard-working and honest (except for when I broke into your house).

According to the protesters:

You are Required to let me stay in your house
You are Required to add me to your family's insurance plan
You are Required to Educate my kids
You are Required to Provide other benefits to me & to my family

(my husband will do all of your yard work because he is also hard-working and honest, except for that breaking in part).

If you try to call the police or force me out, I will call my friends who will picket your house carrying signs that proclaim my RIGHT to be there.

It's only fair, after all, because you have a nicer house than I do, and I'm just trying to better myself. I'm a hard-working and honest, person, except for well, you know, I did break into your house

And what a deal it is for me!!!

I live in your house, contributing only a fraction of the cost of my keep, and there is nothing you can do about it without being accused of cold, uncaring, selfish, prejudiced, and bigoted behavior.

Oh yeah, I DEMAND that you to learn MY LANGUAGE!!! so you can communicate with me.

Thanks to Jeanette Ford
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Hand sanitizer has poisoning potential, doctors warn

Hand Sanitizer Can Poison Your Children
Posted Jun 26th 2007 11:47AM by Jennifer Jordan
Filed under: Health and Safety, Teachers, Preschool, Elementary school, Middle school, Going to school, 6-9 months, 4 years, 5 years, 6-7 years, 8-9 years, Toddler, Preschooler, Pre-teen, Internet, Exploring

I have something to admit to all of you. I am a germophobe. I'm one of those people -- you know, the ones who open doors using a paper towel on the doorknob and who flush toilets with their feet (closed-toe shoes, of course). I get the skeevies just thinking about what kinds of things we drag into our apartment on our feet after traipsing around the streets of New York City all day. Ew. So you'd think I was a big fan of all things anti-bacterial, including hand sanitizers.

Actually, I am not a fan of either. In fact, I would go so far as to say I eschew use of such things unless completely necessary. Case in point -- there is a bottle of hand sanitizer in my diaper bag for times when I need to change a diaper and can't get to soap and water.

Today a concerned reader submitted a point of interest to use regarding hand sanitizer being hazardous to children if ingested. Despite most stories proven false on the Snopes Web site, this story, found here, turned out to be true. Apparently a little girl named Halle Butler ingested enough of the hand sanitizer given to her at school to be come seriously ill. She was taken to the emergency room, and, thank goodness, recovered.

Hand sanitizer is mostly alcohol, so she and another little girl mentioned in another story who ate it after being given a dollop of it by a teacher got alcohol poisoning from ingesting the hand sanitizer.

Although both stories contain incorrect or dubious information such as Halle's blood alcohol level being at 85%, or that someone found "on the Internet" that ingesting three squirts of hand sanitizer can prove fatal to a toddler, the thought is still the same: Kids WILL put anything into their mouths. They will taste it and they will swallow it.

I remember when I was a kid my mom rushed me to the ER because she thought I'd drunk some bleach. I don't know why she thought that and although I do recall hitting the ER and being given a giant glass of milk (???) I don't recall feeling ill.

According to the story, the mother involved wanted hand sanitizer banned from pretty much everywhere. My response to that, if it's even true, is that if we're not going to ban things that we know for sure kill people, like peanuts and other food allergens, then how can we ban something like hand sanitizer?

I will tell you one thing, though. I am going to watch out even more for what my son puts into his mouth. I recently took a CPR and child safety class and you just wouldn't believe the things I was told could happen with everyday household items. The one that got me the most was children "testing" light sockets with their tongues. We all think kids will go poking things into light sockets, but what actually occurs is licking of the socket. Ew.

Children explore the world with their mouths as much as with their hands and eyes. If something smells yummy, as a hand sanitizer just might these days, then I can only imagine how long it is before a child tries to eat it.

I don't know if we need to go so far as to ban hand sanitizer, especially in schools where germs really do find their way around to every kid it seems. Perhaps just a note of caution to the teachers about not giving children too much or watching them rub it into their hands until it evaporates.

1. Bloody. Hand sanitizer is a God-send and should be treated as such, and like jello-shots, not something kids should play with! When there is no water that is potable to wash with, or just no water I want everyone who has to change a diaper or has their kid hand them a cat poop (or as we call them, crunchy kitty litter treats) to use hand sanitizer before they go on to open doors, touch grocery carts or the fruit and vegetables in the store, before they touch playground equipment or me. Used with common sense it is more likely to save lives and prevent illness in ourselves and others by eliminated exposure to germs. Like everything else in the world, it needs to be used judiciously. Even water is a poison if you drink too much!

Posted at 12:06PM on Jun 26th 2007 by Ethel

2. I just have to throw my 2 cents in and say that it's one of my pet peeves that people flush public toilets with their feet (shoes). Using your hand and then washing it is completely sanitary, but the main thing is that the FLOOR of a public bathroom has proven to be, by far, the most germ-y place, over the handle or the toilet seat even. By using your foot, your condemning the next user, who may use their hands to flush, to touch the contents of the floor. (But then that user should be washing their hands also!:) ) OK Rant over.

Posted at 12:41PM on Jun 26th 2007 by Ally

3. Ethel, I'm right there with you. This was going around on another board that I am a member of, and people were panicking and claiming "OMG, I'll never use hand sanitizer again!!!!"

I mean come on. If you didn't know that hand sanitizer contains a high level of alcohol, than you've never used the stuff. It REEKS. Would you pour vodka in your kid's hands and leave them alone? So why would you do it with hand sanitizer?

Also, it should be noted that if used properly (rub your hands together until the stuff evaporates), you could lick your hands until the cows come home. The little girl in the mail ATE THE GEL. A teacher squirted it on her hands, and then walked away. The kid was 3. I would blame the teacher for not properly supervising, rather than the product.

There is a reason why the product has "Keep away from children" on it. Just keep it out of their reach and allow them to use it when supervised, just like anything else.

And yes, Jennifer, the things that toddlers will put in their mouths just astonishes me. I'm told when I was a kid, I ate the deodorizing tablet out of the diaper pail! Also some mothballs.

I notice these things haven't been banned!

Posted at 1:00PM on Jun 26th 2007 by Jenn

4. Another situation where some parental monitoring is necessary. I don't leave hand sanitizer on the sink alongside the hand soap because I was afraid that Cass or one of the kids might use it and rub their eyes (or squirt it in other kids' eyes, you know that stuff happens!). I never considered that one might take a swig, as the OP said, it stinks of alcohol!

Jan from www.unique-baby-gear-ideas.com

Posted at 1:37PM on Jun 26th 2007 by Jan Bay

5. I am a fan of hand sanitizer. I think that if more people used it, then less illness would occur. I however, hope that this does not ever happen to me or someone I know. My hand sanitizer is on the sink, i want them to be able to get to it. But I have seen my three year old lick lotion off of his hand before, so I think I might reconsider. the bathroom is not a place to play, and if you can't be with your kids to make sure they are not playing with things, leave the hand sanitizer at the kitchen sink, and get them when they run by.

Posted at 2:16PM on Jun 26th 2007 by anderson_michelle_lee

6. I think that it's healthier for children to get sick occasionally than to always be "sanitized". Living germ-free not only increases the odds you'll just get sick later, it also increases the risk you'll develop allergies or auto-immune disorders. And all these antibacterial products, they kill beneficial bacteria along with bad ones, and cause the surviving baddies to reproduce more quickly, helping to evolve new superbugs.

Posted at 2:47PM on Jun 26th 2007 by Uly

7. Check out CLEANWELLTODAY.com
Its a new hand sanitizer that is perfectly safe. Its uses Ingenium. Which is something that kills germs, without alcohol...I was part of a focus group when it came out, and I really fell in love with it.
The smell takes a bit to get used to. My husband says is smells like my baked chicken. One of the main ingredients is Thyme Oil. lol I really like the smell now, I think its refreshing.
As of right now that only place you can get it is on their website...(I think)
Check it out.

Posted at 2:57PM on Jun 26th 2007 by Crystal

8. I never use those hand sanitizers. They totally creep me out. What's wrong with washing your hands? Also, I agree with Uly's post.

Posted at 3:43PM on Jun 26th 2007 by Eva

9. I agree with Uly pretty much although hand sanitizers certainly have their place.

Then again, I have to remember I'm three generations removed from current practice.

I read the email my friend sent me 2 or 3 times before I submitted it. I didn't want to appear alarmist over nothing and I know that chances are that anyone who reads a parenting blog uses good sense. On the other hand, if a caution saves even one child from becoming ill, it's worth mentioning.

Posted at 5:30PM on Jun 26th 2007 by Ann Adams

10. I am a big fan of hand sanitizers. I have three children and its nice to know that a little dab of the sanitizer will kill the nasty germs that they pick up. I even use the sanitizer on my two year old son. In fact, he is the one that I feel benefits the most from it. I put it on my hands first and rub it in just enough for it to begin to evaporate and then I rub his hands. By the time I let go of his hands, they are dry and clean. I keep the bottle of sanitizer on top of the refrigerator.

Posted at 6:46AM on Jun 29th 2007 by Stephanie Martin

11. I have taught P-K in public school for 6 years and I have not had any problems with a child eating hand sanitizer, but on the other hand, could we ban buggers?

Posted at 7:19AM on Jun 29th 2007 by Julie

12. Late in the spring when we last bought handsanitizer, there were many fruit scented ones on the shelf. Just for those few instances when I have to use it to clean the small hand of a young one, I think I shall stick with the clear, regular scented and reduce the temptation of pink strawberry scented one. Those can stay on the store shelf.

Posted at 7:39AM on Jun 29th 2007 by Pattie VanTuyl

13. Okay, I use those hand sanitizers all of the time. I have to. I have a compromised immune system from years of cancer and cancer therapy (chemo, radiation) and I am a BIG FAN of all things that protect me and my body from everybody else's germ warfare - especailly kids. OMG they are like little germ ATM'S. So, instead of blasting the product - how about blaming the kid watcher? I know not to let kids alone with any product that might harm them - anything that contains alcohol included. Don't pluck a dollop on their tiny plam and walk away without showing them how to rub their hands together in washing simulation, to the point of absolute evaporation of the cleaner. And as a former foot flusher, I will take your very good suggestions and apologize - I will flush with my hands from now on! I promise!

Posted at 8:11AM on Jun 29th 2007 by Ann

14. I'm an RN and I won't use them. In order for these sanitizers to work, they have to be at least 70% Rubbing alcohol.... not the drinking kind, people! Though your kid may not get drunk or even ill directly from normal use, the extreme drying affect, which ultimately causes more problems than the germs ---- that wash away with soap and water! Why do we keep doing things without thinking of the consequences? Dry cracked hands are then open for really scary things like flesh eating bacteria that can get into your bloodstream from one of those cracks. Wake up, America!

Posted at 8:15AM on Jun 29th 2007 by Faith

15. I agree we should not remove a much-needed product because of such a report. A warning on the label, careful use are what we need. I use purell on my grandbabies' hands but supervise the use. For the very small babes, I rub the product into the hands myself.

Posted at 8:16AM on Jun 29th 2007 by shirley coln

16. I am a teacher and I have to say that I love Germ-X. If one child gets sick this can lead to half the class or more getting sick. Though Germ-X may not prevent all children from getting sick, it certainly helps cut down on absences. They can't learn if they miss too much school and I can't teach if half my class is out. I use hand-sanitizer daily for myself. After all, I don't want to get sick. There are a lot of germs and bacteria at school. I will continue to use hand sanitizer in my class for my students and myself.

Posted at 8:23AM on Jun 29th 2007 by Virginia

17. I agree that supervision is the issue here, not the sanitizer.

Incidentally, I was told that when I was a toddler at a church supper where my mom was helping out, I put an ant trap in my mouth that I'd probably found behind a refrigerator or something. My mother initially thought someone had given me a cookie because I had something brown dripping from the corner of my mouth! Needless to say I was rushed to the ER, and obviously I was fine. Thank God I can't remember that incident! Yuck! (Though that deoderizing tablet or mothballs that Jenn ate couldn't have been much tastier!)

Posted at 8:37AM on Jun 29th 2007 by Pauline

18. I have children and have no problem with their using hand sanitizer. Unfortunately there are new and potentially dangerous/deadly strands of germs out there. As a substitute teacher, sometimes for special needs children, I see A LOT of ways that germs are spread and it is scary. What I have seen and apply my self, is having the sanitizer on a high shelf near the front door. Each of the younger children are given a squirt by me or a teacher as they are standing in line as the prepare to leave for say, lunch. These children rub the sanitizer in to their palms right away as we watch. We also make a point of working with these children with regards to washing up after the most obvious use of the restroom and when they come in from the playground. Yes, children do "test" everything one way or another and none of us can be there every second. But just like we should be doing with anything and everything else out there, it is up to the adults to teach these children about safety and child proofing the home and class rooms. Unfortunately we can't take all the hazards in life away and nor should we. Children need to learn safety guidelines because there will always be hazards in their lives. But it is up to us to take the time to do just that.

Posted at 8:44AM on Jun 29th 2007 by Renee

19. just another thing that people will want banned because they cant watch their kids...

Posted at 8:51AM on Jun 29th 2007 by jb

20. I am an RN also but I use hand sanitizers constantly. In my practice, I have 15 patients all together in the dialysis treatment room. I am continually going from patient to patient, machine to machine, to assess and give medications. I use a large amount and wipe off my stethoscope with it between patients too. I used to clean the stethoscope with an alcohol prep pad between patients but this is alcohol too and I feel it is doing a good job and is quicker. I don't have skin problems and I probably use it between 50 - 100 times a shift.

Posted at 8:54AM on Jun 29th 2007 by Debi
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Last Updated: Thursday, February 1, 2007 | 11:51 AM ET
CBC News
A prison inmate and a man with alcoholism in the U.S. became intoxicated by drinking hand sanitizer, doctors report. The gels contain alcohol but not the type found in drinks.

In Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, the doctors reporting the cases called for the makers of hand gels to change the labels, because people may misinterpret the alcohol content.

"The Maryland Poison Center was called about a 49-year-old, usually calm prison inmate who was described as being 'red-eyed,' 'loony,' 'combative,' and 'intoxicated, lecturing everyone about life,' " Dr. Suzanne Doyon of the Maryland Poison Center and Dr. Christopher Welsh of the University of Maryland School of Medicine wrote in one letter to the journal.

"Other inmates and staff reported seeing this prisoner drinking from a gallon container of Purell hand sanitizer over the course of the evening."

The inmate's blood alcohol level was three times the legal limit.

In a second letter, doctors said they treated a 43-year-old man with alcoholism who had mysterious chest pains.

"Before those results were obtained, the patient was seen in the bathroom drinking the alcohol-based hand wash from its dispenser," Dr. Ashkan Emadi and Dr. LeAnn Coberly of the University of Cincinnati wrote.

"When asked why he ingested the hand cleaner, he pointed to the label, which read, 'Active ingredient 63 percent v/v isopropyl alcohol,' which he said is higher in alcohol than vodka."

Ingesting about 200 millilitres of isopropanol can be deadly because it depresses the central nervous system and the heart, Emadi and Coberly wrote in a second letter.

"Physicians should be aware of the potential for isopropanol intoxication, especially among alcoholics, in the hospital setting. Perhaps changing the description on the container from isopropyl alcohol to isopropanol or propane-2-ol would decrease the attraction of these hand sanitizers for potentially dangerous abuse," they concluded.

Johnson and Johnson, makers of Purell hand sanitizer, said the product is safe and effective when used properly.

Thanks to Jeanette Ford

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/sanitizer.asp
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If you're not willing to stand behind our troops, I'd suggest you try standing in front of them.

JAY LENO... "HITS THE NAIL ON THE HEAD"

The other day I was reading Newsweek magazine and came across some poll data I found rather hard to believe. It must be true given the source, right?

The Newsweek poll alleges that 67 percent of Americans are unhappy with the direction the country is headed and 69 percent of the country is unhappy with the performance of the president. In essence 2/3s of the citizenry just ain't happy and want a change.

So being the knuckle dragger I am, I started thinking, ''What we are so unhappy about?''

Is it that we have electricity and running water 24 hours a day, 7 days a week? Is our unhappiness the result of having air conditioning in the summer and heating in the winter? Could it be that 95.4 percent of these unhappy folks have a job? Maybe it is the ability to walk into a grocery store at any time and see more food in moments than Darfur has seen in the last year?

Maybe it is the ability to drive from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean without having to present identification papers as we move through each state? Or possibly the hundreds of clean and safe motels we would find along the way that can provide temporary shelter? I guess having thousands of restaurants with varying cuisine from around the world is just not good enough. Or could it be that when we wreck our car, emergency workers show up and provide services to help all and even send a helicopter to take you to the hospital.

Perhaps you are one of the 70 percent of Americans who own a home.

You may be upset with knowing that in the unfortunate case of a fire, a group of trained firefighters will appear in moments and use top notch equipment to extinguish the flames thus saving you, your family and your belongings. Or if, while at home watching one of your many flat screen TVs, a burglar or prowler intrudes , an officer equipped with a gun and a bullet-proof vest will come to defend you and your family against attack or loss. This all in the backdrop of a neighborhood free of bombs or militias raping and pillaging the residents. Neighborhoods where 90 percent of teenagers own cell phones and computers.

How about the complete religious, social and political freedoms we enjoy that are the envy of everyone in the world? Maybe that is what has 67 percent of you folks unhappy.

Fact is, we are the largest group of ungrateful, spoiled brats the world has ever seen. No wonder the world loves the U.S. , yet has a great disdain for its citizens. They see us for what we are. The most blessed people in the world who do nothing but complain about what we don't have , and what we hate about the country instead of thanking the good Lord we live here.

I know, I know. What about the president who took us into war and has no plan to get us out? The president who has a measly 31 percent approval rating? Is this the same president who guided the nation in the dark days after 9/11? The president that cut taxes to bring an economy out of recession? Could this be the same guy who has been called every name in the book for succeeding in keeping all the spoiled ungrateful brats safe from terrorist attacks?

The commander in chief of an all-volunteer army that is out there defending you and me? Did you hear how bad the President is on the news or talk show? Did this news affect you so much, make you so unhappy you couldn't take a look around for yourself and see all the good things and be glad?

Think about it......are you upset at the President because he actually caused you personal pain OR is it because the "Media" told you he was failing to kiss your sorry ungrateful behind every day.

Make no mistake about it. The troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have volunteered to serve, and in many cases may have died for your freedom. There is currently no draft in this country. They didn't have to go.

They are able to refuse to go and end up with either a ''general'' discharge, an ''other than honorable'' discharge or, worst case scenario, a ''dishonorable'' discharge after a few days in the brig.

So why then the flat-out discontentment in the minds of 69 percent of Americans? Say what you want but I blame it on the media. If it bleeds it leads and they specialize in bad news. Everybody will watch a car crash with blood and guts. How many will watch kids selling lemonade at the corner? The media knows this and media outlets are for-profit corporations. They offer what sells , and when criticized, try to defend their actions by "justifying" them in one way or another. Just ask why they tried to allow a murderer like O.J. Simpson to write a book about how he didn't kill his wife, but if he did he would have done it this way......Insane!

Stop buying the negativism you are fed everyday by the media. Shut off the TV, burn Newsweek, and use the New York Times for the bottom of your bird cage. Then start being grateful for all we have as a country. There is exponentially more good than bad.

We are among the most blessed people on Earth and should thank God several times a day, or at least be thankful and appreciative.

"With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, "Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?"

Jay Leno

Thanks to Waneta
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YOUR AGE BY EATING OUT

Don't tell me your age; you probably would tell a falsehood anyway-but your waiter may know!

YOUR AGE BY DINER & RESTAURANT MATH

This is pretty neat.

It takes less than a minute . Work this out as you read . Be sure you don't read the bottom until you've worked it out! This is not one of those waste of time things, it's fun.

1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to go out to eat. (more than once but less than 10)
2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold)
3. Add 5
4 Multiply it by 50
5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1757 .... If you haven't, add 1756.
6. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born.

You should have a three digit number

The first digit of this was your original number < /SPAN> (I.e., how! Many times you want to go out to restaurants in a week.)

The next two numbers are

YOUR AGE! (Oh YES, it is!!!!!)

THIS IS THE ONLY YEAR (2007) IT WILL EVER WORK, SO SPREAD IT AROUND WHILE IT LASTS

Thanks to Jeanette Ford
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“Da Bleat” is fair and balanced:
Senator Mark Pryor
Putting American Troops First

My number one priority in the Senate is to protect American troops in the battlefield. This commitment starts with ensuring that our troops in Iraq receive much-needed equipment, training and resources to complete their mission safely, and extends to bringing a responsible conclusion to the Iraq war.

Because President Bush continues his four-year refusal to offer an exit strategy, I have joined with Senators Ken Salazar (D-CO) and Lamar Alexander (R-TN) to make the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group (ISG) official U.S. policy. While leading the study, former Secretary of State James Baker, III and former chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Lee Hamilton consulted with 200 respected officials and experts on how to overcome the military, political and economic challenges in Iraq. Their recommendation and our legislation will get the U.S. out of the combat business in Iraq and into the support, training and equipping business as soon as possible.

It will:

Establish a process to amend their constitution; create a plan for oil revenues; hold free and provincial elections and enact legislation to ensure the rights of women and minorities.

Increase U.S. diplomacy within Iraq and throughout the region to better promote economic, commerce and political support.

Turn security missions over to Iraqi forces, leaving behind some U.S. troops for force protection, training Iraqi forces, and conducting counterterrorism operations.

There is no perfect solution for the current situation in Iraq. But our plan is a bipartisan and workable approach to build progress in Iraq and bring home American troops.

Meanwhile, at home we must prepare for the thousands of American soldiers returning from Iraq who will continue to suffer long after the streets of Baghdad are quiet. I have introduced legislation entitled the Wounded Warriors Act of 2007, which will ensure that the medical needs of wounded servicemen and women are properly met without bureaucracy. My bill establishes a system of patient advocates and increases training for health care professionals so they can better identify and treat Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and Traumatic Brain Injuries. The House of Representatives has already approved identical language, and I expect swift passage in the Senate as well.

Iraq will continue to be a hot-button issue for weeks and years ahead. I am working past the rhetoric in order to bring American troops home without leaving Iraq and the Middle East in its current state of turmoil.
I believe this is the right thing to do for Arkansas and our nation.

Arkansas Office The River Market 500 Clinton Ave, Suite 401 Little Rock, AR 72201 Phone: (501) 324-6336 Fax: (501) 324-5320

Washington, D.C. Office 257 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510 Phone: (202) 224-2353 Fax: (202) 228-0908
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There was a little boy visiting his grandparents on their farm .
He was Given a slingshot to play with out in the woods. He practiced in the woods, but he could never hit the target. Getting a little discouraged, he headed back for dinner. As he was walking back he saw Grandma's pet duck.

Just out of impulse, he let the slingshot fly, hit the duck square in the head, and killed it. He was shocked and grieved.

In a panic, he hid the dead duck in the wood pile, only to see his sister watching! Sally had seen it all, but she said nothing.

After lunch the next day Grandma said, "Sally, let's wash the dishes." But Sally said, "Grandma, Johnny told me he wanted to help in the kitchen. Then she whispered to him, "Remember the duck? So Johnny did the dishes.

Later that day, Grandpa asked if the children wanted to go fishing and Grandma said, "I'm sorry but I need Sally to help make supper." Sally just smiled and said," Well that's all right because Johnny told me he wanted to help." She whispered again, "Remember the duck?" So Sally went fishing and Johnny stayed to help!

After several days of Johnny doing both his chores and Sally's... he finally couldn't stand it any longer.

He came to Grandma and confessed that he had killed the duck.
Grandma knelt down, gave him a hug, and said, "Sweetheart, I know.

You see, I was standing at the window and I saw the whole thing, but because I love you, I forgave you. I was just wondering how long you would let Sally make a slave of you."

Thought for the day and every day thereafter?

Whatever is in your past, whatever you have done... and the devil keeps throwing it up in your face (lying, cheating, debt, fear, bad habits, hatred, anger, bitterness, etc.) ..whatever it is...You need to know that God was standing at the window and He saw the whole thing..... He has seen your whole life; He wants you to know that He loves you and that you are forgiven.

He's just wondering how long you will let the devil make a slave of you. The great thing about God is that when you ask for forgiveness, He not only forgives you, but He forgets..... It is by God's grace and mercy that we are saved.

Thanks to Cecelia Congleton
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Editorial by Stephen R. Covey

A man whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War Two owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism.

"Very few people were true Nazis "he said," but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories."

We are told again and again by "experts" and "talking heads" that Islam is the religion of peace, and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace.

Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the specter of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam. The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history.

It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave.

It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honor kill. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims a nd homosexuals. The hard quantifiable fact is that the "peaceful majority" the "silent majority" is cowed and extraneous. Communist Russia comprised Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant.

China's huge population, it was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.

The average Japanese individual prior to World War 2 was not a warmongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel and bayonet.

And, who can forget Rwanda , which collapsed into butchery. Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were "peace loving "?

History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points: Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence.

Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don't speak up, because like my friend from Germany , they will awake one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun.

Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late.

As for us who watch it all unfold; we must pay attention to the only group that counts; the fanatics who threaten our way of life.

Lastly, at the risk of offending, anyone who doubts th at the issue is serious and just deletes this email without sending it on, can contribute to the passiveness that allows the problems to expand.

Please forward this message. Help the interests and well being of the US and it's citizens.

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey.
We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
-Stephen R. Covey

Thanks to Cecelia Congleton
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If you put a buzzard in a pen that is 6 feet by 8 feet and is entirely open at the top, the bird, in spite of its ability to fly, will be an absolute prisoner. The reason is that a buzzard always begins a flight from the ground with a run of 10 to 12 feet. Without space to run, as is its habit, it will not even attempt to fly, but will remain a prisoner for life in a small jail with no top.

The BAT
The ordinary bat that flies around at night, a remarkably nimble creature in the air, cannot take off from a level place. If it is placed on the floor or flat ground, all it can do is shuffle about helplessly and, no doubt, painfully, until it reaches some slight elevation from which it can throw itself into the air. Then, at once, it takes off like a flash.

The BUMBLEBEE
A bumblebee, if dropped into an open tumbler, will be there until it dies, unless it is taken out. It never sees the means of escape at the top, but persists in trying to find some way out through the sides near the bottom. It will seek a way where none exists, until it completely destroys itself.

PEOPLE
In many ways, we are like the buzzard, the bat, and the bumblebee. We struggle about with all our problems and frustrations, never realizing that all we have to do is look up.

Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, but faith looks up.

Thanks to Cecelia Congleton
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The Gospel of John (20: 7) tells us that the napkin, which was placed over the face of Jesus, was not just thrown aside like the grave clothes. The Bible takes an entire verse to tell us that the napkin was neatly folded, and was placed at the head of that stony coffin. Is that important? You'd better believe it! Is that significant? Absolutely! Is it really significant? Yes!

In order to understand the significance of the folded napkin, you have to understand a little bit about Hebrew tradition of that day. The folded napkin had to do with the Master and Servant, and every Jewish boy knew this tradition. When the servant set the dinner table for the master, he made sure that it was exactly the way the master wanted it. The table was furnished perfectly, and then the servant would wait, just out of sight, until the master had finished eating, and the servant would not dare touch that table, until the master was finished.

Now if the master was done eating, he would rise from the table, wipe his fingers, his mouth, and clean his beard, and would wad up that napkin and toss it onto the table. The servant would then know to clear the table. For in those days, the wadded napkin meant, "I'm done". But if the master got up from the table, and folded his napkin, and laid it beside his plate, the servant would not dare touch the table, because the servant knew that the folded napkin meant, "I'm not finished yet." The folded napkin meant, "I'm coming back!"

He is Coming Back!

Thanks to Jeanette Ford
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One of my sons serves in the military. He is still stateside, here in California. He called me yesterday to let me know how warm and welcoming people were to him, and his troops, everywhere he goes,telling me how people shake their hands, and thank them for being willing to serve, and fight, for not only our own freedoms but so that others may have them also. But he also told me about an incident in the grocery store he stopped at yesterday, on his way home from the base. He said that ahead of several people in front of him stood a woman dressed in a burkha. He said when she got to the cashier she loudly remarked about the U.S. flag lapel pin the cashier wore on her smock. The cashier reached up and touched the pin, and said proudly," Yes, I always wear it and probably always will." The woman in the burkha then asked the cashier when she was going to stop bombing her countrymen, explaining that she was Iraqi. A gentleman standing behind my son stepped forward, putting his arm around my son's shoulders, and nodding towards my son, said in a calm and gentle voice to the Iraqi woman: "Lady, hundreds of thousands of men and women like this young man have fought and died so that YOU could stand here, in MY country and accuse a check-out cashier of bombing YOUR countrymen. It is my belief that had you been this outspoken in YOUR own country, we wouldn't need to be there today. But, hey, if you have now learned how to speak out so loudly and clearly, I'll gladly buy you a ticket and pay your way back to Iraq so you can straighten out the mess in YOUR country that you are obviously here in MY country to avoid."

Everyone within hearing distance cheered!

Thanks to Cecelia Congleton
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God Uses many things to bring people to Him, He even used a Tablecloth to accomplish His purpose. Never give up Hope and Trust, coupled with Faith.

Things happen for a reason!

Beautiful story.... makes you understand that things happen for a reason

The brand new pastor and his wife, newly assigned to their first ministry, to reopen a church in suburban Brooklyn, arrived in early October excited about their opportunities. When they saw their church, it was very run down and needed much work. They set a goal to have everything done in time to have their first service on Christmas Eve.

They worked hard, repairing pews, plastering walls, were ahead of schedule and just about finished.

On December 19 a terrible tempest - a driving rainstorm hit the area and lasted for two days.

On the 21st, the pastor went over to the church. His heart sank when he saw that the roof had leaked, causing a large area of plaster about 20 feet by 8 feet to fall off the front wall of the sanctuary just behind the pulpit, beginning about head high.

The pastor cleaned up the mess on the floor, and not knowing what else to do but postpone the Christmas Eve service, headed home.

On the way he noticed that a local business was having a flea market type sale for charity so he stopped in. One of the items was a beautiful, handmade, ivory colored, crocheted tablecloth with exquisite work, fine colors and a Cross embroidered right in the center. It was just the right size to cover up the hole in the front wall. He bought it and headed back to the church.

By this time it had started to snow. An older woman running from the opposite direction was trying to catch the bus.. She missed it. The pastor invited her to wait in the warm church for the next bus 45 minutes later.

She sat in a pew and paid no attention to the pastor while he got a ladder, hangers, etc., to put up the tablecloth as a wall tapestry. The pastor could hardly believe how beautiful it looked and it covered up the entire problem area.

Then he noticed the woman walking down the center aisle. Her face was like a sheet.. "Pastor," she asked, "where did you get that tablecloth?"

The pastor explained. The woman asked him to check the lower right corner to see if the initials, EBG were crocheted into it there. They were. These were the initials of the woman, and she had made this tablecloth 35 years before, in Austria

The woman could hardly believe it as the pastor told how he had just gotten the Tablecloth. The woman explained that before the war she and her husband were well-to-do people in Austria. When the Nazis came, she was forced to leave. Her husband was going to follow her the next week. He was captured, sent to prison and never saw her husband or her home again.

The pastor wanted to give her the tablecloth; but she made the pastor keep it for the church. The pastor insisted on driving her home, that was the least he could do. She lived on the other side of Staten Island and was only in Brooklyn for the day for a house cleaning job.

What a wonderful service they had on Christmas Eve. The church was almost full. The music and the spirit were great. At the end of the service, the pastor and his wife greeted everyone at the door and many said that they would return.

One older man, whom the pastor recognized from the neighborhood continued to sit in one of the pews and stare, and the pastor wondered why he wasn't leaving. The man asked him where he got the tablecloth on the front wall because it was identical to one that his wife had made years ago when they lived in Austria before the war and how could there be two tablecloths so much alike.

He told the pastor how the Nazis came, how he forced his wife to flee for her safety and he was supposed to follow her, but he was arrested and put in a prison.. He never saw his wife or his home again all the 35 years in between.

The pastor asked him if he would allow him to take him for a little ride. They drove to Staten Island and to the same house where the pastor had taken the woman three days earlier.

He helped the man climb the three flights of stairs to the woman's apartment, knocked on the door and he saw the greatest Christmas reunion he could ever imagine.

True Story - submitted by Pastor Rob Reid

Who says God does not work in mysterious ways. I asked the Lord to bless you as I prayed for you today, to guide you and protect you as you go along your way. His love is always with you, His promises are true, and when we give Him all our cares you know He will see us through.

So when the road you're traveling on seems difficult at best.. Just remember I'm here praying and God will do the rest. Pass this on to those you want God to bless and don't forget to send it back to the one who asked God to bless
you first.

Thanks to Jeanette Ford
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June 12, 2007
Burn Injuries

Today's Message is from James Copeland (a Houston Albemarle employee).

As a Shriner, I support and visit our hospitals caring for children that have suffered burns. Many of these injuries are preventable, with safer practices we could all utilize in our homes.

If you don't take care of your children,,, we may have to.

Burn Injuries
Prepare, Prevent, Respond

Fire kills for than 600 children ages 14 and under each year and injures about 3,400 more; nearly 50 percent of children who are injured are under the age of 5.

Shriners Hospitals for Children and the Shriners of North America offer these tips to Prepare, Prevent, Respond to burn injuries.

Prepare
Install smoke detectors on every level of your home, especially on the ceiling just outside bedroom doors.
Test smoke detectors monthly and change batteries annually.
Maintain a first aid kit in your home.
Develop an escape plan and practice it. Make sure each room in the home has at least two ways out and keep the escape route clutter-free and have alternatives in place.
Know emergency numbers and information such as your name, phone number and address of the home.
Prevent
Provide continuous supervision for your children.
Keep matches and lighters out of reach.
Keep children away from stoves, ovens, grills and appliances.
Take extra care when cooking with fryers. Never leave any cooking appliance unattended.
Set your home's water heater to the safest setting--120-125 degrees
Fahrenheit.
Run cold water into tub first, then add hot water. Keep children away from faucets.
Never keep gasoline in your home. Keep it outside in a well-ventilated area and away from sources of ignition.

Respond

There are several types of burn injuries. In the event of any burn injury, it is imperative that medical attention is sought immediately. The procedures below can be followed until medical help arrives:

Thermal burns are caused by contact with an open flame or other source of high heat, including appliances, steam or hot liquids.
Put out any fire or flame or stop contact with steam, liquid or object.
Remove hot or burned clothing, if possible.
Cool injured area with running water within 30 seconds.
Stop any bleeding.
Cover burned area with sterile pad or clean sheet
Attempt to maintain victims body temperature.
Seek medical help.

Chemical burns are caused by contact with strong acids or bases. Household products such as bleach, concrete mix and pool chlorinators are among the most common sources of chemical burns.
Flush affected skin with cool, running water for 20 minutes or more.
If the chemical is a powder, brush it off the skin before flushing.
Seek medical help. Even if the area is washed, the chemical may have penetrated.
Contact poison control or your local emergency room

Electrical burns occur when strong electrical currents pass through the body. These burns may appear minor, but the damage can extend deep into the tissues beneath the skin.
Look first and do not touch the victim, as the person may still in contact with the electrical source.
Pull the plug or shut off any electrical current.
Check the victims breathing. I breathing has stopped or you suspect the airway is blocked, begin CPR.
Cover affected areas using a sterile gauze bandage or clean cloth.
Do not use a blanket or towel as fluffy fibers can be irritating.
Seek medical help

For any burn:

NEVER apply lotions, ointments or creams to the affected area.
NEVER use adhesive dressings
NEVER break blisters
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June 7, 2007
Snakes
Today's Safety From the Heart message was submitted by Richard Sutherland (a Pasadena Albemarle employee).

Hey Y'all, Around here, this is one more good thing to S.C.A.N. for!!!

Another good safety topic At BASF Port Arthur...

Yesterday in the C4 unit just South of E-5220C/D on a conduit support a Newtron electrician found something interesting. Approximately 10' off the ground as he was pulling string through some new conduit he got a little scare. (A little Snake.) I thought this might be worth mentioning in a safety meeting. We talk about wasp and bees, but who would be watching out for this. It’s that time of year!!!

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Our Church, Magnolia Christian Center, has the following mission statement. Our purpose is to build a great church for the glory of God through the great commission and the great commandment. MCC' Vision - That MCC will be a place hopping with children, energized with teenagers, balanced with diversity and transformed by the power of God! We want to turn uninterested people into interested people and win the lost to make fully devoted followers of Christ. www.mcc2000.net
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Volume 12, Number 38 --- 14 June 2007
Tourbus Home -- http://www.InternetTourbus.com

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TODAY'S TOURBUS TOPICS: Hard Drive Recovery / Ringtones / Facebook

In today's TOURBUS, you'll learn what to do when your hard drive takes a nose dive (it's not always fatal), and how to get free ringtones or even make your own. If you're looking for an alternative to Myspace, read my guide to getting started with Facebook, and if you're having trouble remembering all your passwords, I have some good tips to help you there... Read on!

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A quick note before we blast off... I apologize that we haven't published a TOURBUS newsletter for almost a month. But I have a pretty good excuse, I think. I've been busy getting married, selling my house, and moving both home and office. Between my lovely bride and me, we now have six kids, and four of them in college. Whee!

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Acck, My Hard Drive Died! -- Recovering From Hard Drive Failure
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If it hasn't happened yet, be sure that it will... you're working on an important project and the computer freezes. You reboot, but instead of the familiar startup screen, you see an ugly black screen with one of these ominous messages: DISK BOOT FAILURE... ERROR READING
FIXED DISK... or (horrors!) HARD DRIVE FAILURE.

If you've ever lost an important file because of a hard drive crash, you know the pain. That final project you worked on so hard, the spreadsheet that has be in your boss's inbox in the morning, or those photos of Grandma taken at her 102nd birthday -- all gone in a flash, thanks to an apparent hard drive failure.

But don't panic just yet, those scary looking messages are not always the final word. Before you take a sledge hammer to your hard drive, try these 12 hard drive recovery steps...

http://askbobrankin.com/hard_drive_recovery.html

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Have You Ever Bought a Ringtone?
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The ringtone craze started in Finland about ten years ago, and quickly spread throughout Europe and then into Asia and the United States. In 2004 the international gross receipts for custom ringtone sales was somewhere over $4 billion dollars, and one can only assume that number has risen dramatically since then.

I'm a little puzzled by this, because I've always been annoyed that mobile phones can't just ring. I hear the mariachi and look for a guy with a sombrero, but it's just another 14-year-old girl with a cell phone. Obviously I'm not the target market for ringtone vendors, but I can't deny that there are plenty of people willing to pay $5 or more for a 10-second clip of Gnarls Barkley or the Black Eyed Peas announcing that they've got an incoming call.

There are plenty of places to BUY custom ring tones -- right on your phone, and on the web. But I did find a few sites that offer truly free ringtones, and a few ways to create your own at little or no cost. Here's the scoop on buying, downloading and creating your own ringtones, and some tips on avoiding ringtone scams...

http://askbobrankin.com/downloading_ringtones.html

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Need Help Remembering Passwords?
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Passwords... we have a love/hate relationship with them. We love them because they are the first line of defense against fraud and identity theft. They protect the security of our email online banking and credit card purchases. We hate them because as we use passwords for almost every important activity on the internet, it becomes nearly impossible to remember all those usernames and the passwords that we have created.

If you're in the habit of jotting down your passwords on sticky notes and pasting them to the monitor, you'll be happy to learn that there are tools to help you remember your passwords in a hassle free and secure manner. Here's the scoop on browser-based, third-party and web-based passwords managers...

http://askbobrankin.com/remembering_passwords.html

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Getting Started With Facebook
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Are you fed up with MySpace? Facebook is a great alternative for the student and professional set. A little more serious than MySpace, Facebook is more than just competing to see who can have the most fake friends. Facebook is a place where users can meet and greet others around the planet, but connections must be formed based on existing real-world ties.

Facebook was started in 2005 by a Harvard student who wanted to create an online version of the "face books" that many colleges print to help students connect on campus. It's now open to high school students and is becoming increasingly popular with young professionals. Facebook boasts over 25 million members, and is the number one photo sharing site on the Web. Here's the scoop on getting started with Facebook...

http://askbobrankin.com/facebook_getting_started.html

That's all for now, see you next time! -- Bob Rankin

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Activities and Events of Interest

PurpleHull Pea Festival
& World Championship Rotary Tiller Race!
June 29-30, 2007
Emerson, Arkansas
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The Emancipation Proclamation will be on display at the Clinton Library September 22-25, 2007.
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"September 11 WDYTJWD" W. P. Florence
Justice first, then peace."
"September 11" Never forget.--Tony Moses
"ONE NATION UNDER GOD ...the only way"--Phillip Story
"We have nothing to fear but fear itself." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Keeping my head down but face toward Heaven" - - Jody Eldred, ABC News Cameraman in Kuwait
"Remember Pearl Harbor? Remember 9/11!" --"Bug"
Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity. - - George Carlin
"Stop telling God how big your storm is. Instead, tell the storm how big your God is!" - - Queen E. Watson
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Weekly Toll - - http://weeklytoll.blogspot.com/
Death In The Workplace w/News & Updates
John Donne - ...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
A partial list of workplace fatalities.

Richville man dies in truck accident
MN - Sundberg Apiaries is mourning a long-time employee who died Thursday in an accident near Scott City, Mo., hauling back the last load of bees for the season. Alan Hunter, 37, Richville, was returning from Mississippi, driving a tractor-trailer with 360 colonies of bees, each containing about 25,000 bees. While northbound on Interstate 55 south of Scott City, Hunter’s semi swiped the guardrail of a bridge and went off the road several hundred feet before overturning in a field, The large number of bees at the scene presented a challenge to rescue workers.

Worker dies after blast at metal shop
PA - A worker at a metal-plating plant in Chester County died yesterday from burns suffered in a boiler explosion Saturday night that critically injured two coworkers. The three men were working about 9:45 p.m. in the melt shop at Mittal Steel in South Coatesville when the boiler exploded.

Oxnard man crushed by SUV at used-car lot, Worker pinned as truck was moved
CA - An Oxnard man died instantly Saturday morning after being crushed by a 2-ton Ford Explorer in a grisly accident at an outdoor used-car lot. Richard Guerrero, a salesman at Automobile Exchange on Saviers Road in Oxnard, was directing another salesman who was driving the SUV onto a display ramp in preparation for Memorial Day weekend. Oxnard police said the driver accidentally hit the accelerator instead of the brake. The front part of the car launched over the restraining lip of the ramp and into Guerrero's head and shoulders. The 47-year-old victim, who had been working at the lot for only a couple of months, was crushed against a building.

The driver, Clemente Mendez, 59, of Oxnard, was interviewed by officials and left the Oxnard Police Department late in the afternoon.

Worker Dies In Granbury Gas Explosion
GRANBURY, TX - A gas plant worker died in an explosion Saturday and some Hood County residents said this is not the first time the plant's presence has rocked their community. The explosion happened at a gas processing plant near Granbury in the Peanut Plantation Subdivision.

Worker killed at Tribune printing plant
IL - A contract worker at the Chicago Tribune's printing plant died in a conveyor belt accident Saturday morning. The body of Isaiah Shannon, 44, of the 400 block of Tremont Street in Chicago, was found caught in a conveyor belt about 10:30 and pronounced dead at the scene, "somehow got started and he got caught up in it."

Man killed by wood chipper
DALLAS PLANTATION, TX - A Strong man killed in an industrial accident Wednesday was remembered Thursday as a caring person, a hard worker, and someone who was always willing to help his family and others. Mt. Abram High School graduate James "Jimmy" Lightbody, 32, died after he was hit in the chest with a 30-pound steel safety cover that was ripped from its hinges by a chipping blade, police said.

Construction worker killed in I-40 wreck
SEVIERVILLE, TN - A construction worker died Thursday when a semi-truck struck his vehicle while he was working on Interstate 40. Fifty-year-old Mike Guinn was in a road grader when it was struck by a tractor-trailer at 12:40 a.m. Thursday. The impact ejected Guinn from the grader.

Montauk teen killed as father watched
A college student, just returned home to Montauk for the summer, was killed Friday after he was crushed by the boom of a construction crane while working alongside his father, East Hampton police said.

Driver cited in deadly garbage truck incident
A garbage truck driver was given a traffic citation after his co-worker was run over and killed May 3 while the two were on a collection route in Inverness. Richard “Tripp” Imhoff, 20, was a sanitation worker for F.D.S. Disposal in Lecanto and a former student at Crystal River High School. According to Florida Highway Patrol spokesman Trooper Larry Coggins, Imhoff was riding on the back of a garbage truck that was backing up on East Dove Court in Inverness. As the truck backed up, Imhoff fell and the truck backed over him.

Worker dies of apparent electrical shock
KENDALLVILLE, Ind. — A worker clearing limbs from near power lines in a northeastern Indiana city was killed by an apparent electrical shock, authorities said. Rodney McDowell, 40, of Fort Wayne, was trimming trees Saturday afternoon when his foreman said it appeared McDowell was holding a branch close to the wire that arced,

Backhoe operator killed in job accident
MOBILE, AL - A 27-year-old backhoe operator was killed in a road-repair accident at a construction site in west Mobile, police said. William LaBarron Tricksey was pronounced dead at the accident scene about 1:30 p.m. Friday. Tricksey was out of the cab of the backhoe when the accident occurred and somehow hit a lever that lowered the boom of the machine, pinning him between the boom and the outrigger

Utility worker killed when elevated bucket falls in Othello, WA
OTHELLO, Wash. -- A utility truck's aerial bucket collapsed during a school demonstration Thursday, killing a utility company employee and injuring a grade school teacher as about 600 students watched. The pair had been lifted 20 to 30 feet in the air when the boom separated from its base and fell, Police Chief Steve Dunnagan said in a news release.

Man is crushed by truck at Wise Foods plant
BERWICK, Pa. (AP) - An Indiana County man was crushed by a tractor-trailer full of potatoes at the Wise Foods plant. Rodger Bennett, 63, of Strongstown, was between the rig and the loading dock Thursday afternoon when the truck backed up, crushing him.

Construction worker killed in Gatlinburg accident
GATLINBURG, TN - A construction worker was killed in an accident Friday morning while working at a resort expansion site. Travis Joe Williamson, 28, worked for the construction contractor C. Laney and Sons Construction Company. A press release from the Gatlinburg Police Department says Williamson was apparently pinned under a piece of heavy equipment he was operating.

Woman Identified In Fatal Accident At Dayton International
DAYTON, Ohio -- Authorities said a 21-year-old woman died from injuries that she suffered while working at Dayton International Airport. Catrina Coffman worked for Pinnacle Airlines, and got caught in a small baggage elevator on Wednesday.

Worker dies after being buried alive
AZ - A 25-year-old construction worker died while laying large drainage pipes in a trench near downtown Queen Creek. Marcos Garcia of Mesa was crushed by a wall of dirt as the hole collapsed Thursday morning, authorities said. At about 8:30 a.m., two workers installing 8-foot pipe in a trench about 15 feet below ground level heard "collapsing sounds," said Doug Matteson, a Maricopa County Sheriff Department spokesman.

State looks into working conditions of deceased farmworker
CA - The state is investigating the death of a worker who died of a suspected heat-related illness after picking fruit in an orchard near Kettleman City. Union officials say Hernandez started feeling ill while he was picking apricots on May ninth, but the foreman ignored his complaints.

http://weeklytoll.blogspot.com/2007/04/weekly-toll-death-in-american-workplace.html
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NEVER FORGET! We're listing the names of our soldiers killed weekly. These records can be found at http://www.defenselink. mil/releases/

01. Sgt. 1st Class Greg L. Sutton, 38, of Spring Lake, N.C., died June 6 in Baghdad, Iraq, of wounds sustained from an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 212th Military Transition Team, 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kan.

02. Airman 1st Class Eric M. Barnes, 20, of Lorain, Ohio, died June 10 as result of an improvised explosive device attack on an Air Force convoy about 100 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq. He was assigned to the 90th Logistics Readiness Squadron, F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyo.

03. Sgt. Charles E. Wyckoff Jr., 28, of Chula Vista, Calif., died June 6 in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered from enemy small arms fire. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C.

04. Staff Sgt. Brian M. Long, 32, of Burns, Wyo., died June 10 in Baghdad, Iraq, of wounds suffered from an explosive ordnance. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team), Fort Lewis, Wash.

05. Pvt. Scott A. Miller, 20, of Casper, Wyo., died June 9 in Baqubah, Iraq, of wounds suffered from enemy small arms fire. He was assigned to the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team), Fort Lewis, Wash.

06. Sgt. Cory M. Endlich, 23, of Massillon, Ohio, died June 9 in Taji, Iraq, of wounds suffered from enemy small arms fire. He was assigned to the 2nd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team), Fort Lewis, Wash.

07. Sgt. Dariek E. Dehn, 32, of Spokane, Wash., died June 2 in Sharkat, Iraq, of wounds suffered from an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 6th Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas.

The Department of Defense announced the death of three soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died June 10 in Karbala, Iraq, of wounds suffered from an improvised explosive device. Killed were:
08. Cpl. Llythaniele Fender, 21, of Medical Lake, Wash. He was assigned to the 5th Battalion, 5th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, Fort Lewis, Wash.
09. Cpl. Meresebang Ngiraked, 21, of Koror, Republic of Palau. He was assigned to the 5th Battalion, 5th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, Fort Lewis, Wash.
10. Spc. Adam G. Herold, 23, of Omaha, Neb. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 377th Parachute Field Artillery Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, Fort Richardson, Alaska.

11. Pfc. Cameron K. Payne, 22, of Corona, Calif., died June 11 in Balad, Iraq, of wounds suffered from an improvised explosive device that detonated near his vehicle during combat operations in Baghdad, Iraq. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kan.

12. Pvt. William C. Johnson, 22, of Oxford, N.C., died June 12 in Baghdad, Iraq, of wounds suffered from an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kan.

13. Lance Cpl. Johnny R. Strong, 21, of Waco, Texas., died June 12 while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province, Iraq. He was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, Twentynine Palms, Calif.

14. Spc. Damon G. LeGrand, 27, of Lakeside, Calif., died June 12 in Baqubah, Iraq, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit with anti-tank mines, rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire in Baghdad, Iraq. He was assigned to the 571st Military Police Company, 504th Military Police Battalion, 42nd Military Police Brigade, Fort Lewis, Wash.

15. Lt. Col. Glade L. Felix, 52, of Lake Park, Ga., died June 11 in Southwest Asia. His death is under investigation.

16. Spc. Josiah W. Hollopeter, 27, of San Diego, Calif., died June 14 in Balad, Iraq, of wounds suffered when his unit was attacked by insurgents using small arms fire in Al Muqdadiyah, Iraq. He was assigned to the 6th Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas.

17. Pfc. Casey S. Carriker, 20, of Hoquiam, Wash., died June 13 in Kirkuk, Iraq, from injuries suffered from a non-combat related incident. His death is under investigation.
He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.
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Soldier Missing In Action From WWII Is Identified

The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from World War II, have been identified and returned to his family for burial with full military honors.

He is Pvt. Lawrence P. Burkett, U.S. Army, of Jefferson, N.C. He will be buried Saturday in Jefferson.

Representatives from the Army met with Burkett’s next-of-kin in their hometown to explain the recovery and identification process and to coordinate interment with military honors on behalf of the secretary of the Army.

In early December 1944, Burkett was a member of Company A, 357th Infantry Regiment, 90th Infantry Division. The 90th ID had been assigned the task of breaching the southern portion of the enemy's “West Wall” near the German city of Saarbrücken. The 357th was occupying a bridgehead in the Dillingen Forest near the Saar River when the Germans launched a strong counterattack. The 357th suffered many casualties and on Dec. 11, Burkett was among those listed as missing in action.

In May 2006, U.S. officials were notified that a German citizen had found and dug up the remains of a possible American soldier in a wartime fighting trench in the Dillingen Forest near Saarbrüken. The U.S. officials traveled to the site and collected the remains and associated evidence, including Burkett’s identification tags and his social security card.

In September 2006, a team from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) excavated the burial site in the Dillingen Forest and recovered additional human remains and material evidence.

Among dental records, other forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists from JPAC and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory also used mitochondrial DNA in the identification of the remains.

For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for missing Americans, visit the DPMO Web site at http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo or call (703) 699-1169.

http://icasualties.org/oif/default.aspx
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Please remember to pray for the American soldiers stationed everywhere around the globe and especially in Iraq. Times have been and are very tough and it would be nice if you would all just say a prayer for their safety and for their families.
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Scheduled Activities
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Columbia County Amateur Radio Club meets Every second Thursday @ 7:00 p.m. Union Street Station. And YOU'RE invited. Net is every Sunday at 20:30 on 147.105.
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MCC - "Faith Builders" Small group will start up again after Labor Day. We meet the second and fourth Sundays, 6:30 pm to 7:45 pm.
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MCC - Mom's Day Out - Every Tuesday and Thursday from 9 to 2.$10 for the first child, $5 for the second. Call 234-3225 for reservations.
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MCC - Nursing Home Ministry - Meadowbrook Every Tuesday from 10 to 11 am. Taylor, the last Thursday each month.
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Men's Prayer Breakfast held every Tuesday morning at 6 AM in Miller's Cafeteria. If you aren't a regular participant at the Men's Prayer Breakfast, you're missing some great food, fellowship and inspired teaching of the Word. Hope to see you there.
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Emergency Phone Number 911
(Fire, Police, Ambulance, Sheriff, etc. )
Central Dispatch 234-5655
(Non - Emergency Number)
Direct Numbers
Ambulance - 234-7371 (24 Hour)
Jail - 234-5331 (24 Hour)
Poison Control - 800-222-1222 (24 Hour)
http://www. aapcc. org/
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"There is not enough darkness in the world to put out the light of one candle."
"Laugh whenever you can and cry if you need to." -- "Bug"
"I read the end of the book. We win!" -- "Bug"
"We may not be able to cure the world, but we don't have to make it sicker." -- "Bug"
"There just ain't enough fingers for all the holes in the dike." - - "Bug"
"It's no big deal doing what God tells you to do. A big deal would be NOT doing what God tells you to do. Just ask Jonah." - - Paul Troquille
"A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in ... and how many want out." - - Tony Blair
"The problem is here and now. The time for talk is past. The time for action is now."
Comments on the first Earth Day - James F. McClellan via "Fuzzy" Thurman
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Hope you enjoy the newsletter.
Again, thanks to all our contributors this week.

God bless and GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!
Mat 8:23-26 Mat 7:24-25 Gal 6:14-16 Eccl 12:13-14 Gal 3:6-9 http://www.e-min.org/
God is Good and Faithful CU 73 IC JFM CSP NREMT-I KC5HII

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