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Ole and Lena are driving home from a party one night when Ole gets pulled over for speeding. The officer comes to the window and asks Ole, “Sir, did you realize that you were speeding?”

“No sir,” replies Ole, “I had no idea I was speeding.”

Suddenly, Lena blurts out, “Yeah you did Ole! You were speeding and you knew it the whole time!”

“Would you be quiet Lena, this isn’t the time or the place!”

“Well, you were speeding and now you’re trying to lie about it,” says Lena.

Ole replies, “Will you just shut up for once, I’m sick of you bossing me around!”

The officer, still standing at the window of the car is surprised at the way Ole is talking to his wife. He asks, “Ma’am, does your husband always talk to you like this?”

“No,” she replies, “only when he’s been drinking.”

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Check that out, it is really funny

Christian Universalism teaches that all the Bible is given by
inspiration of God. (2 Tim. 3:16) That Jesus Christ is the savior of
all mankind through His suffering, death, and resurrection, which was
the greatest show of selfless love that ever was, that is now, and
ever will be.

Many Christian theologians believe that you can only be saved (Go to
heaven) if you accept Christ in this life. All people born from
Adam(until Christ comes) that haven’t accepted Him, will be cast into
the lake of Fire. They will burn in torment forever with the Devil and
His Angels.

The New Testament didn’t start until Christ died and was
resurrected.(Heb. 9:16,17) He was born under the law, (Gal. 4:4) and
preached the Gospel to the Jews. (Mt. 15:24) The Jews have rejected
the Lord and His words to this day.

These are some of the complaints that the Lord had against them
through 33 books of the Old Testament: They worshiped Bal, Asterof,
Golden Calves, and Moses’s Serpent. They were stiff– necked,
swearing, killing, stealing, adulators, whoring, rebellious, wicked,
abominable, defiling His sanctuaries, lewd, fornicators, bestiality,
profaned the Lord’s name, defiled themselves, despised the Lord’s Holy
Things, profaned His Sabbaths, extortionists, incestuous, filthiness,
robbed the poor, despised the Lord’s judgments, polluted the Lord’s
Sabbaths and His name, blasphemed the Lord, passed their sons through
the fire, corrupted, covetous, backsliders, neighing after their
neighbor’s wife,violated His laws, impudent, hard hearted, full of
violence, divination, soothsaying, unfaithful, degenerate, haughty,
killed the prophets. In Ezekiel alone their abominations are mentioned
40 times.

Preachers say that rejection of Christ is a ticket to Hell. The Lord’s
chosen people have rejected Him to this day, yet all Israel will be
saved. (Rom. 11:26) (Heb. 8:8,13) The Lord has concluded all Israel in
unbelief, that He might have mercy on all. (Rom. 11:32)

Their unbelief does not make the faith of the Lord with out effect.
(Rom3:3,4) There is no difference between Jews and Gentiles. (Rom.
l0:12) ( Job. 22:5-9)

The Lord only taught the Jews with parables, (Mk 13:34) (Mk
15:24)which are fictitious stories with a moral. (Strong’s
Concordance) The stories about separating the sheep from the goats,
(Mt 25:35) and Lazarus and the richman. (Lk 16:20-31) The only sin the
people in these parables committed was knowing to do good, and not
doing it. (Jas 4:17) Christ was making a point that all sin, no matter
what, is worthy of everlasting fire, even neglecting the poor, as they
did. Then there is the parable of entering the strait gate, and not
the wide one that leads to destruction. (Mt 7:13,14)

Of course the sins of drugs, alcoholism, sexual immorality, and
criminal activity will lead to an early death in this life. Christ
told the Jews that their blasphemy against The Holy Spirit would never
be forgiven, and in danger, or subject to eternal damnation (Mk 3:29)
First of all, in danger, or subject to, didn’t happen, it was a
threat. Secondly Christ hadn’t died for all sins yet. Having forgiven
us all trespasses, wiping out the handwriting of requirements that was
against us, and contrary to us. He took it out of the way, being
nailed to the cross. (Col 2:14) If all the parables that Christ taught
are still in effect today, then do as Christ commanded, cut off your
hand, your foot, and, pluck out your eye if you lust in your mind.

(Mt. 5:28,29,30)

The Bible says sin is breaking the commandments. (1 Jn 3:4) If you
break one point of the law, you are guilty of all ten. (Jas 2:10) Sin
is wickedness and evil, you can’t have one without the other. Whoever
says he has no sin is a liar.

(1 Jn 5:19)

The Lord saw that the wickedness, and evil thoughts of mankind were
continuous.(Gen 6:5)

All through the Bible we are told that we are sinners, evil, and
wicked. So are we solely and completely responsiblefor our sinful,
evil, wicked thoughts, and actions?

Whoever sins is of the devil. (1 Jn 3:8) he oppresses people, (Acts
10:38) the devil is seeking whom he may devour,

(1 Pt 5:8) he deceives us, (Rev 20:10) he snares us, (1 Tim 3:7) he
takes uscaptive at his will, (2 Tim 2:26) he beguiles us, (Gen 3:13)
he tempts us, (1Cor 7:5) he takes advantage of us,(2 Cor. 2:11) he
transforms himself into an angel of light, (2 Cor 11:14) hehinders us,
(1 Th 2:18) he has all power and signs, and lying wonders, (2
Thes.2:9) he is the god of this world, (2 Cor 2:4) he is the prince of
the power of the air,

(Eph 2:2) he blinds the eyes of unbelievers.

(Cor 4:4) For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against
principalities, against powers,against the rulers of darkness of this
world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. (Eph 6:12) With
the power and deception the devil has over us, we are not on our own
when it comes to sin. He is the instigator, deceiver,and author of
lies; but the Lord remembers that we are but dust. (Psm 103:13)

Paul the chief apostle said these statements for everyone, from Adam
to the present. “What I want to do, (Good) that I don’t. What I don’t
want to, (Bad) I do, but it’s not me but the sin, wickedness, and evil
that dwells in me.

When will I be delivered from this body of death?” (Rom 7: 15,24) The
flesh, and it’s appetites lusts against our spirit, and our spirit
against the flesh. These are contrary to one another so that you don’t
do the things that you wish. (Gal 5:17) The spirit is willing but the
flesh is weak. (Mk 26:41)

Our spirit that resides in our body is really us, and our sinful flesh
is only a temporary vehicle, (Ps 144:4) while we wait for the
resurrection. Our spirit is holy, and we will be like the Angels. (Mk
12:25)

Everyone is responsible for their own sins, but Satan has his part in
them by deceiving us with the thoughts, and ideas, and we act on them
whether in ignorance or rebelliousness.

The Lord chastens us for our sins in this life and forgives us through
His suffering death, and resurrection for the next life. Satan pays
for his part in the lake of fire.

In Revelation, satan. the beast, the false prophet, those not in the
book of life, and those with the mark of the beast, will be cast into
the lake of fire. The armies of Gog and Magog will be killed I
destroyed, and they will confess Jesus Christ is Lord in the resurrection.

The cowardly, whoremongers, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars will
be cast into the lake of fire. This last group committed much less sin
than Israel, but all Israel will be saved. Just who are these people?

Going back to the Gospels, when Christ’s boat landed at Gadarenes, and
a man that was possessed with demons met Him. (Mk 5:1-5) Christ cast
out the demons without the man repenting, or accepting Him. This same
thing happened with other possessed people Christ healed. This man’s
spirit wasn’t evil, but evil dwelled in him through the demons.

He was in his right mind after Christ cast them out. (Mk 5:15) As the
apostle Paul said “It’s not me but the evil within me.” (Rom 7:17) The
analogy to this event would be, if the possessed man took the mark of
beast and worshiped it. Who would be guilty, he, or the demons?

The same is for all demon possessed sinners who will be released from
this body of death, and saved through the sacrifice of our Lord Jesus
Christ. All the afore mentioned people will die as their demons are
cast into the lake of fire, and their spirit will return to God who
gave it, (Ecc 12:7)

He who has died is freed from sin. (Rom. 6:7) The people in the last
days, are no worse sinners that died in the flood, or Israel / Judah
with all their abominations, as the Lord said “Every knee shall bow,
and every tongue confess to God”

The Lord was showing the severity of sin, and Satan’s end for causing
it. The Lord will not always strive with mankind, for we are flesh.
(Gen 6:3) The end time scenario shows that Satan, with all his powers,
has no control over mankind after death, and Satan loses.

Let the reader contemplate on the Lord’s motives in these following
scriptures.

(1 Tim 2:4) The Lord will desire all mankind to be saved, and come to
the knowledge of the truth.

(Job 23:13) Whatever the Lord desires, that He does.

(1 Tim 4:10) The Lord is the savior of all Mankind, especially those
who believe.

(1 Jn 2:2) The Lord is not only the propitiation for our sins but for
the whole world.

(Mt 18:11) The Son of Man has come to save that which was lost.

(1 Jn 4:14) Our Heavenly Father sent Christ to be the savior of the world.

(Psl 15:3) Our God is in heaven, and He does whatever He pleases.

(Jn 1:29) Christ takes away the sins of the world.

(Heb 10:10) We are sanctified through the body of Christ, once for all.

(Col 1:20) Christ made peace through the blood of His cross, and
reconciled all things in heaven, and earth.

(Gal 1:4) Christ gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us
from this present evil age, according to the will of our God, and Father.

(Mt 6:10) Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

(Ps 135:6) Whatever the Lord pleases, He does in heaven, and on earth.

(Jn 1:29) Christ the lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.

(1 Tim 1:15) This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptance,
that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.

(Lk 19:10) The Son Of Man came to seek, and to save that which was lost.

(Job 42:2) The Lord can do everything, and no purpose can beheld from Him.

(Jer 32:27) There is nothing too hard for the Lord:

(Mt 19:25) The disciples asked, “Who can be saved?”

(Mt 19:26) Christ answered, “With God all things are possible.”

Most of the following scriptures will be accomplished at the white
throne judgement. Note that the Bible never says that you are forced
to bow the knee, and judgement doesn’t mean lake of fire.

(Rom. 14:11) The Lord said “Every knee shall bow to me,and every
tongue shall confess to God.

(Phil 2:10,11) At the name of Jesus every knee shall bow of heaven
,and earth, and under the earth, and every tongue shall confess that
Jesus Christ is Lord.

(Rom 10:9) If you confess to Christ, and believe God raised Him
fromthe dead, you will be saved.

(I Jn 4:15) Whosoever confesses Jesus is the son of God, God dwells in
him, and he in God.

(Rom 10:13) Whoever calls upon the name of the Lord, will besaved.

Note.. .The word ever denotes time. It means eternal, without
ending.(Strongs)

(Rev 7:1) The Lord comes on clouds, and every eye shall see Him.

(Jn 6:40) Everyone that sees the Son of God, and believes in Him,
shall have everlasting life, and He will raise him up on the last day.

(Ps 52:10) All the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

(Lk 3:6) All flesh shall see the salvation of our God..

(Isa 40:5) The glory ofthe lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall
see it together.

(Jn 12:32) Christ will draw all mankind to Himself.

(Ps 86:9) All nations shall worship the Lord.

(Dan 7:14 ) All peoples, nations, and languages will serve the Lord.

(Isa 26:9) The inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

(Isa 61:11) The Lord will cause righteousness and praise to spring
forth before all nations.

(1 Thess 3:13 ) The Lord will establish our hearts, blameless at His
coming.

(Ps 66:3,4) The Lord’s enemies will submit to Him, and ALL THE EARTH
shall worship Him.

(Ps 65:2,3 ) All flesh will come to the Lord. He has provided
atonement for them.

(2 Cor 6:2) Today is the day of salvation. Note…Every day is today.
It’s not yesterday, and it’s not tomorrow. At the white throne
judgement it will be today.

The reader may have their favorite scriptures that seems to nullify
some of the preceding ones, and put their spin on a few. Some might
say they were taken out of context, and maybe some were.

The preponderance of scriptures is overwhelming, to prove that the
Lord wants all His offspring to be in His Kingdom, and that His love
never fails. God is love. (1 Jn 4:8) He formed and fashioned us in our
mothers whom. (Job 31:15) He created mankind in His own image after
His likeness. (Gen 1:26) He numbers the hairs of our head. (Lk 12:7)
We are His offspring. (Acts 17:28) The Lord has great love for us.
(Eph 2:4) Nothing can separate us from the love of God. (Rom. 8:3)
Here in is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent
His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. (1 Jn 4:10)

The main reason this document was written is to defend our Heavenly
Father’s and our Lord Jesus Christ’s love and mercy that never fails.

It seems that theologians, by their teaching, believe there is a great
contest between the Lord and the devil. The one who gets the most
people in the end, wins. If Christ doesn’t save all the sinners He
died for, He has lost the contest, and Satan wins. NO WAY! The Lord
can do everything, and no purpose of His can be withheld From Him.
(Job 42:2)

Why do we witness to people, and send out missionaries, if all will be
saved anyway? Because the Lord said “Go and preach the Kingdom of
God.”(Lk9:60) The Lord wanted laborers for Christ. (Mt 9:37,38) Many
are called, but few are chosen.

( Mt 20:6) Some are predestined, as the apostles, Abraham, Moses, and
the prophets were for the Lord’s government in the Kingdom. (Eph1:11)

Some will say “If all mankind will be saved, as the Bible says (1 Tim
3:4) ; then I can have my fun, with drugs, immoral sex, and what ever
pleases me. The Lord came down hard on Israel, with plagues and wars
against them.

Tens of thousands were killed by the Angel of the Lord for their sins.
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God (
Heb10:31) in this life.

All through the Bible there are scriptures that seem to be
prerequisites for getting into heaven. Such as keep the commandments,
be righteous, repent, be blameless, overcome, endure to the end, be
perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect,( Mt 5:48) be holy, and
without blame,

(Eph 1:4) Christ will establish our hearts blamelessin holiness before
our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His
saints (1 Thess 3:13 ) This last scripture says it all. When Christ
comes back all these things will be established in our resurrected
spirit bodies. This can’t be accomplished in our sinful state.

People believe that once an edict is given by God it can’t be
changed.”I am the Lord, I change not” (Mal 3:6) The Lord’s love never
fails His mercy endures for ever. God doesn’t change, but He makes
changes. The two greatest reversals for the Lords edict for mankind,
was” I will destroy Mankind whom

I have created from the face of the earth, both man, and beast,
creeping things, and birds of the air, because of the wickedness of
man, and I am sorry that I have made them.” (Gen 6:7) Noah found grace
in the eyes of the Lord, and the Lord spared a remnant. If He hadn’t
you would not be here.

The Lord said to Moses “Let me alone, that I may destroy Israel
/Judah, and blot out their name from under heaven, and make a mightier
and greater nation than they.”(Deut 9:14) Moses begged the Lord not
to, and by the grace of God, He relented, and Israel is still a nation
today.

Is it such a stretch of the imagination, that God who made such an
awesome reversal from destroying all life, and the Nation of Israel
from the face of the earth would want to save all His offspring that
He loves?

Especially when Christ from the cross said. “Forgive them Father, for
they know not what they do.” Is there anything worse in the history of
mankind, than torturing and killing our Heavenly Father’s Son; the
co-creator of the universe? For this He forgave all mankind, for they
know not what they do.

(Lk 23:34) The Lord remembers that we are dust.(Ps 103:14)

Dear reader if you still believe that your unsaved loved ones will go
into the lake of fire to be tormented forever, because you think
Christ can’t possibly fulfill His mission to save all mankind,
believing that, you should spend night and day in prayer and fasting
for them, (Lk 2:37)(Acts 20:3 1) and with tears, and supplications! (2
Ch 6:39)

Many preachers embellish the scriptures, and tell little stories as
analogies, so may this writer take licence on a seemingly logical
explanation of why mankind was given this lengthy time period on earth
to be deceived, and harassed by the devil, and his angels?

If the Lord had cast the devil, and his angels into a prepared lake of
fire at the time he rebelled and left Adam, and Eve sinless as they
were in the garden of Eden to propagate the world ; then some time in
the future as mankind advanced in knowledge and power without Satan
hindering us, we probably would have rebelled against God, being
ignorant of sin, and it’s consequences.

Like Lucifer we would not have had Christ as a savior, and our sins
would have been on our own heads. The Lord had to have an example for
mankind so awesome, and terrible, that we would remember through all
eternity. Mankind has been immersed in satanic sin and chaos without
end, and has had our nose rubbed in it to show us once and for all
what sin and it’s consequences are.

The redeeming factor is, while we take part in the horrendous sin that
Satan deceives us with, we have a Savior Jesus Christ. This example
for all eternity is to show us what did happen when as a spirit being,
there is, no second chance in the kingdom, as the devil and his angels
have found out.

If you have read this complete document, and still believe the Lord
would cast even one of His offspring that He loves into hell, then you
don’t believe the God of the Bible; for He is Love and His love never
fails.

The Bottom Line. Every knee shall bow to the Lord, and every tongue
shall confess to God. (Rom 14:11) For God so loved the world, that He
gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not
perish. but have everlasting life. (Jn 3:16) If you confess to God,
you believe in Him.

(Some scriptures are paraphrased, it’s recommended you look each one up)

* If you grow up in Hawaii , raised by your grandparents, you’re “exotic, different.”
* Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, a quintessential American story.
* If your name is Barack you’re a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
* Name your kids Willow , Trig and Track, you’re a maverick.
* Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
* Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you’re well grounded.
* If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate’s Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran’s Affairs committees, you don’t have any real leadership experience.
* If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people and attempted to sell a plane on ebay at a loss as a political stunt then you’re qualified to become the country’s second highest ranking executive.
* If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you’re not a real Christian.
* If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you’re a Christian.
* If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
* If , while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state’s school system while– you only rushed and eloped with your husband because you got pregnant and your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant just like you did, you’re very responsible.
* If your wife is a Harvard graduate laywer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to20raise a family, your family’s values don’t represent America ‘s.
* If you’re husband is nicknamed “First Dude”, with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn’t register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.
BIG shout to #175!

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Everyone – cut , paste and post. Cut, Paste and Post LOL!!!
Bonkers – it doesn;t matter what Mccain says – he is one vote. Public opinion is quite another thing. None of the points made say anything about what has been verbalize by McCain – is what is implied that matters more. To me anyway.

Has Bush helped collectively lower the IQ of EVERYONE in this nation?? Please SAY IT AIN’T SO!

Put in your two cents!

Hi .. I am 36 and single going to be 37 on june 17 th ( having bit of birthday blues ) …..i never married because i never found the right woman and now i am bit set in my ways to contemplate marriage … i am in a reasonably dead end job ….. in the accepted meaning of the term i am a failure . … but i have kicked alcoholism 8 years back after a 6 year affair with the bottle .. i have overcome dire poverty to have an existence and have changed from being a wimp to having a rather pleasant personality ….. am i being too harsh on myself just because i do not have a wife and mandatory two and half kids and a dog … and have not yet been able to accumulate assets like house , or started saving for retirement …….
does anyone know a good motivation , self help website ?
i believe like Rocky … ” it is not how hard you get hit and stand up which matters .. but how hard you can get hit and keep moving ….. ” is that a good mantra to have ?
uh forgot to mention that i am from india … but i am very cosmopolitan so your answers are welcome where ever you are in the world ..

My wife of 5 years and I have 1 child together. Our son is 3 years old. Shortly after his birth my wife began to drink often. About a year ago she became what I considered an alcoholic. She drank most every day and drank a lot. She was always drunk but when at work. She works evenings so she got drunk before work but not wasted and wasted when she got home.

After some big problems eg. driving drunk with our son and passing out when she was supposed to be watching him, I was at the end of my rope. I had a professional intervention done and put her into rehab for her health and for how she was behaving with our son and how she was treating me.

She was in rehab for 30 days and got out 2 weeks ago. The day before she got out of rehab she told me she had had sex in the parking lot with 2 different coworkers on 3 separate occasions over a 3 week period in March. One she had sex with once and the other twice right after she got off work for the night. My wife that I knew prior to alcohol would have never done such a thing. She told me this before getting out of rehab because she said the alcohol made her a monster and she wanted me to know so I could move on or forgive her and start anew life with her sober. She swears she will never drink again as it makes her a monster. She says if it was not for being an alcoholic that she would not have been in the state of mind of wanting to do anything to make herself feel better about herself. She says she would not like a person or think very highly of them if they behaved as she had…she swears she is not that person. In the last two weeks she has signed a post nuptial agreement in which she gets nothing if we get divorced…I get everything we acquire in the future including the house, cars and savings that we have now. She is trying to prove to me that she will never do such a thing again. She knows I am loyal and would never hurt her as she has done to me so she trusts me not to leave her and use the post nup unless she does something in the future to deserve it. She has returned to being a sweet caring wife but this could be because of guilt. Can alcohol really make a person a monster like this even when not drunk?

They fall in love and one night the alcoholic wife drives and has a car crash. They are both killed and the children end up visitng the mistress.

* If you grow up in Hawaii , raised by your grandparents, you’re ‘exotic, different.’

* Grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, yours is a quintessential American story.

* If your name is Barack you’re a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.

* Name your kids Willow , Trig and Track, you’re a maverick.

* Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.

* Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you’re well grounded.

* If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate’s Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs,
Environment and Public Works and Veteran’s Affairs committees, you don’t have any real leadership experience.

* If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you’re qualified to become the country’s second highest ranking executive and next in line behind a man in his eighth decade.

* If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you’re not a real Christian.

* If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and then left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you’re a true Christian.

* If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.

* If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state’s school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you’re very responsible.

* If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family’s values don’t represent America ‘s.

* If you’re husband is nicknamed “First Dude”, with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn’t register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.

Is that how Republicans think?

It’s the first essay that i have to write and it’s for University of texas at austin, and it’s about someone who has impacted your life…

He arrived in the United States to pursue higher education with little money, no background of the English language, and no understanding of U.S. culture. Kevin is a close family friend and a person I’ve known all my life. He has had an incredible impact on me, and I’ve learned a lot from him.
When Kevin first arrived he had a lack of money that left him working any job he could find and even had him sleeping in his car for a short period. Kevin’s hard work paid off and he found a wife and started a family. His mother and father immigrated to the U.S. shortly after and he had to provide for them as well.
Kevin soon found success and had a beautiful family. He became self employed and a successful business man, but even with his newfound success he never forgot his humble beginnings. In fact as long as I’ve known him, I’ve never once thought Kevin to be pretentious. Everything seemed to be going fairly well for him, but this would all soon come crashing down on him.
Kevin always makes sure that his family and friends are okay before anything else, and he proved that to me when his mother became ill and diagnosed with brain cancer. Kevin completely stopped working to take care of his mother when he could of easily hired someone else to take care of her, but he wanted to because he believed it was the right thing to do. He bathed, fed, and cleaned up after her, I can only imagine the patience that he had to have and how stressful that must have been for him. Kevin already had his pate full with his mother and at the worst possible timing his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. After his mother passed away he didn’t have any time to grief over the loss, he was busy taking care of his wife.
Since our families are good friends I had a chance to witness and experience how he took care how he took care of his wife, one time even shaving his own head because his wife was going bald as a result of the medication. He did everything he could to take care of his wife but she lost the inevitable battle with cancer and passed away. Her untimely death must have been inconceivably difficult for Kevin to deal with but he tried his hardest to handle the death of his wife well and be strong for his friends and family. Now he had to deal with the arduous challenge of working and being a single father of his three children.
After a long period of grief and depression, Kevin got his life back on track after about seven long agonizing years of taking care of his mother and wife. He had a steady girl friend for a little over two years and everything was going well. Kevin has never had an easy life and has had to struggle for everything, and after two years of peace, there was no exception. His girl friend died tragically in a car accident, and Kevin was devastated at the seemingly consecutive loss of three incredibly important people in his life. He had a downward spiral into depression and alcoholism that left him helpless. Luckily Kevin had enough friends and my family was there to help him out of the hole he was digging himself into. It was a hard time for him but he never stopped being there for his friends and family. Soon after he overcame his alcoholism life settled down for Kevin and he is now living a much more calm life. He still faces his share of challenges, but over all his life has improved over the recent years.
Kevin has had a tremendous impact on my life and has defiantly helped shape the person that I am today. One thing that I experienced first hand from watching Kevin go through all his hardships is that life is never easy, especially more so for some of us then others. Most importantly though what I learned from Kevin is that no matter what cards life deals you, you have to carry on and still try your best to help others, do the right thing, and never back down or give up. Kevin is also completely selfless and would do anything for anyone who needed it, and that has taught me to be more generous and benevolent. I’m also impressed by his humbleness and this has taught me humility. Also Kevin’s success has inspired me to work hard and try my best to get a great education so that I can have a successful career. All in all Kevin’s character is impeccable and I don’t know anyone who is as genuine as him. I will be lucky to grow up one day and be half the person that Kevin is.
Life has never been easy for Kevin, striving for everything that he has. I do not think if I went to a completely foreign country with nothing I would not experience the success that Kevin has experienced, nor would I have the same qualities that he has. Even though I mentioned earlier that he is a family friend, he isn’t he is a family member. I chose not to say that until now because I admire Kevin for the man that he is, not because he is my father.
some one please read this, I really need some input and it would really really really help me

Let me see if I have this straight…..

* If you grow up in Hawaii , raised by your grandparents, you’re ‘exotic, different.’

* Grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, yours is a quintessential American story.

* If your name is Barack you’re a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.

* Name your kids Willow , Trig and Track, you’re a maverick.

* Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.

* Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you’re well grounded.

* If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that Registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate’s Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs,
Environment and Public Works and Veteran’s Affairs committees, you don’t have any real leadership experience.

* If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you’re qualified to become the country’s second highest ranking executive and next in line behind a man in his eighth decade.

* If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you’re not a real Christian.

* If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and then left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you’re a true Christian.

* If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.

* If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state’s school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you’re very responsible.

* If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious Law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family’s values don’t represent America ‘s.

* If you’re husband is nicknamed “First Dude”, with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn’t register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.

Just something for everyone to think about.

1. Betty Ford (Wife of former US president Gerald Ford, founded “The Betty Ford Center” for the treatment of alcoholism)

2. Joe Garagiola (Former catcher for the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team, “Today Show” host, TV game show host, commentator)

3. Rex Reed (Film critic)

4. Bob Dole (Longtime US senator from Kansas, presidential candidate in 1996)
I tried Rex Reed for the radio trivia…..it was the incorrect answer…he’s still alive. Joe G was the answer for the radio trivia……even though he is still alive.
I checked the site www.deadoralive.com and it says that all of them are alive….so I guess this was an invalid question on the radio stations.

Have attempted Homicide, One player killed a mans wife and daughter drunk driving, Pacman Jones waving guns around drunk at strip clubs trying to fight people.

These guys are still in the NFL, but since it wasn’t a Dogs life that was threatend or taken it’s ok?

Well I am 22 years old in college, and in the past 3 years or so my mother has developed into a really bad alcoholic. It has progressed from regular drinking, to every night, then every afternoon to night, and eventually to all day, every night for about half of a week. She lives alone with my dad, who works all day then comes home to her being wasted out of her mind every day. Obviously I feel horrible for my father, and I would like to know how people deal with this stuff. My dad is a very non-confrontational person and pushed her a little bit to stop, but she got absolutely furious when he asked her to stop. So after that he layed off of her because of things he had read, and he is basically just standing by hoping she will check into rehab sometime soon. She has been toying with the idea for the last 3 months or so, but always backs out. It seems to me, there is no way she is going to commit with the idea of rehab. I know everyone says you aren’t supposed to push alcoholics into quitting, but my father is just so non-confrontational I am really wondering if that is best. My dad obviously has to love her, because she has just been terrible to him. He goes to work, pays all the bills and goes shopping for food…all the while she is just sitting at home drinking. She has tried to quit on her own and made it about half a day until she got very sick. So what to do? Push her into rehab? Or just let the alcoholism take it’s course and hope she goes into rehab soon?
She thinks she is dying, and she might be right. She has bruises all over, the few hours of the week she is half sober, I can tell her liver is causing excruiciating pain. She has really hit rock bottom in my opinion, and I don’t think she will live 5 more years if she doesn’t quit soon.

I understand the view of defiling the temple. This basically means drinking alcohol or smoking tobacco.

Alcoholism is sinful to a very high extent. Being a full time smoking is unheathful as well.

What about have a glass of wine and a cigar? Is this not moderation?
In the Bible it says to do the right things in moderation.

I walked into a Baptists church and saw many overweight people. Is someone telling them to be overweight? These people are not doing what they could for their bodies. So, why are they not considered defiling the temple and get thrown out of the church.

I knew one Baptist church that had a youth leader that went out of his wife. He wasn’t kicked out because he didn’t commit the “crime” of smoking or drinking.

In the Bible, it says to be faithful with the wife. Where is the Bible does it say you can’t smoke?? The actual word “smoke”. You won’t be able to prove it.
Don’t take me wrong. I have nothing against overweight people. God says to look on the heart.

Also, Jesus turned water into wine. He didn’t drink welches grape juice.

But with some Baptists. I feel they are telling me that white cake is much better than chocolate cake. Healthful wise.

Im a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight…..

If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you’re exotic, different.’
Grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, a quintessential American story.

If your name is Barack you’re a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you’re a maverick.

Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you’re well grounded.

If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate’s Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran’s Affairs committees, you don’t have any real leadership experience.

If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you’re qualified to become the country’s second highest ranking executive.

If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you’re not a real Christian.

If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you’re a Christian.

If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.

If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state’s school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you’re very responsible.

If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family’s values don’t represent America’s.

If you’re husband is nicknamed ‘First Dude’, with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn’t register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.