... "FACTS " only

[Terry]

Good judgement comes from experience' & experience comes from bad judgement.
Nothing is so small that it can't be blown out of proportion
Where "U" go hereafter is determined by what you "U" go after here.

[Terry]

TYPICAL Wal-Mart shopper!

[Terry]

The Coming Changes  (not political)

Whether these changes are good or bad depends in part on how we adapt to them. But, ready or not, here they come!

1. The Post Office. Get ready to imagine a world without the post office.  They are so deeply in financial trouble that there is probably no way to sustain it long term. Email, Fed Ex, and UPS have just about wiped out the minimum revenue needed to keep the post office alive. Most of your mail every day is junk mail and bills..
 
2.  The Check. Britain is already laying the groundwork to do away with checks by 2018. It costs the financial system billions of dollars a year to process checks. Plastic cards and online transactions will lead to the eventual demise of the check. This plays right into the death of the post office. If you never paid your bills by mail and never received them by mail, the post office would absolutely go out of business.
 
3. The Newspaper. The younger generation simply doesn't read the newspaper. They certainly don't subscribe to a daily delivered print edition. That may go the way of the milkman and the laundry man. As for reading the paper online, get ready to pay for it. The rise in mobile Internet devices and  e-readers has caused all the newspaper and magazine publishers to form an alliance. They have met with Apple, Amazon, and the major cell phone  companies to develop a model for paid subscription services.
 
4.  The Book. You say you will never give up the physical book that you hold in your hand and turn the literal pages. I said the same thing about downloading music from iTunes. I wanted my hard copy CD. But I quickly changed my mind when I discovered that I could get albums for half the price without ever leaving home to get the latest music. The same thing will happen with books. You can browse a bookstore online and even read a preview chapter before you buy. And the price is less than half that of a real  book. And think of the convenience! Once you start flicking your fingers on the screen instead of the book, you find that you are lost in the story, can't wait to see what happens next, and you forget that you're holding a gadget instead of a book.
 
5.  The Land Line Telephone. Unless you have a large family and make a lot of local calls, you don't need it anymore. Most people keep it simply because they've always had it. But you are paying double charges for that extra service. All the cell phone companies will let you call customers using the same cell provider for no charge against your minutes.
 
6. Music. This is one of the saddest parts of the change story. The music industry is dying a slow death. Not just because of illegal downloading. It's the lack of innovative new music being given a chance to get to the people who would like to hear it. Greed and corruption is the problem.
The record labels and the radio conglomerates are simply self-destructing. Over 40% of the music purchased today is "catalog items," meaning traditional music that the public is familiar with. Older established artists. This is also true on the live concert circuit. To explore this fascinating and disturbing topic further, check out the book, "Appetite for Self-Destruction" by Steve Knopper, and the video documentary, "Before the Music Dies."
 
7.  Television. Revenues to the networks are down dramatically. Not just because of the economy. People are watching TV and movies streamed from their computers. And they're playing games and doing lots of other things that take up the time that used to be spent watching TV.  Prime time shows have degenerated down to lower than the lowest common denominator.
Cable rates are skyrocketing and commercials run about every 4 minutes and 30 seconds. I say good riddance to most of it. It's time for the cable companies to be put out of our misery.. Let the people choose what they want to watch online and through Netflix.
 
8.  The "Things" That You Own. Many of the very possessions that we used to own are still in our lives, but we may not actually own them in the future. They may simply reside in "the cloud." Today your computer has a hard drive and you store your pictures, music, movies, and documents. Your software is on a CD or DVD, and you can always re-install it if need be. But all of that is changing. Apple, Microsoft, and Google are all finishing up their latest "cloud services." That means that when you turn on a computer, the Internet will be built into the operating system. So, Windows, Google, and the Mac OS will be tied straight into the Internet. If you click an icon, it will open something in the Internet cloud. If you save something, it will be saved to the cloud. And you may pay a monthly subscription fee to the cloud provider. 
In this virtual world, you can access your music or your books, or your whatever from any laptop or handheld device. That's the good news. But, will you actually own any of this "stuff" or will it all be able to disappear at any moment in a big "Poof?" Will most of the things in our lives be disposable and whimsical? It makes you want to run to the closet and pull out that photo album, grab a book from the shelf, or open up a CD case and pull out the insert.
 
9.All we will have that can't be changed are Memories.    ::(:  :mad:



 


 
 

[Terry]

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How do you eat an elephant?  One bite at a time. 

How do you take over America ?  One American at a time.     



Tyson chicken anyone??  None for me thanks!!!!

We all need to heed this message!!!!!


  TYSON FOODS ELIMINATES LABOR DAY IN FAVOR OF MUSLIM HOLIDAY



Tyson Food in Shelbyville , Tennessee has eliminated Labor Day as a paid
holiday in favor of the last day of Ramadan because they have 700 Muslim
employees. The fact that they have almost that many non-muslim employees is
beside the point apparently!

I  will no longer purchase any Tyson products.  It's just one more little
chunk of America that's been bitten off.  If you wish to join me, then let
your e-mail friends know this. If we don't stand up for something  we will
fall for anything.

All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.

This was verified http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/outrage.asp

I did not believe even Snopes, so I checked it out myself:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,397645,00.html



The Fix
There recently was an article in the St. Petersburg , Fl. Times. The Business Section asked readers for ideas on: "How Would You Fix the Economy?" I think this guy nailed it!

Dear Mr. President,

Please find below my suggestion for fixing America 's economy. Instead of giving billions of dollars to companies that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan.

You can call it the "Patriotic Retirement Plan":

There are about 40 million people over 50 in the work force. Pay them $1 million apiece severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:


1) They MUST retire. Forty million job openings - Unemployment fixed.

2) They MUST buy a new AMERICAN Car. Forty million cars ordered - Auto Industry fixed.


3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage - Housing Crisis fixed.


It can't get any easier than that!!


P.S. If more money is needed, have all members in Congress pay their taxes..



Mr. President, while you're at it, make Congress retire on Social Security and Medicare. I'll bet both programs would be fixed pronto!



This is one of the nicest e-mails I have seen and is so true and what a   
nice message!                                                             
                                                                           
I dreamt that I went to Heaven and an angel was showing me around. We     
walked side-by-side inside a large workroom filled with angels. My angel 
guide stopped in front of the first section and said, ' This is the       
Receiving Section. Here, all petitions to God said in prayer are received.
'                                                                         
                                                                           
I looked around in this area, and it was terribly busy with so many angels
sorting out petitions written on voluminous paper sheets and scraps from 
people all over the world.                                               
                                                                           
Then we moved on down a long corridor until we reached the second section.
                                                                           
The angel then said to me, "This is the Packaging and Delivery Section.   
Here, the graces and blessings the people asked for are processed and     
delivered to the living persons who asked for them." I noticed again how 
busy it was there. There were many angels working hard at that station,   
since so many blessings had been requested and were being packaged for   
delivery to Earth.                                                       
                                                                           
Finally at the farthest end of the long corridor we stopped at the door of
a very small station. To my great surprise, only one angel was seated     
there, idly doing nothing. "This is the Acknowledgment Section, my angel 
friend quietly admitted to me. He seemed embarrassed."  How is it that   
there is no work going on here? ' I asked.                               
                                                                           
"So sad," the angel sighed.  "After people receive the blessings that they
asked for, very few send back acknowledgments"                           
                                                                           
"How does one acknowledge God's blessings? " I asked..                   
                                                                           
"Simple," the angel answered. Just say, "Thank you, Lord. "               
                                                                           
"What blessings should they acknowledge?"  I asked.                       
                                                                           
"If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof       
overhead and a place to sleep you are richer than 75% of this world. If   
you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish,   
you are among the top 8% of the world ' s wealthy. "                     
                                                                           
"And if you get this on your own computer, you are part of the 1% in the 
world who has that opportunity."                                         
                                                                           
"If you woke up this morning with more health than illness .. You are more
blessed than the many who will not even survive this day. "               
                                                                           
"If you have never experienced the fear in battle, the loneliness of     
imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation ... You are
ahead of 700 million people in the world."                               
                                                                           
"If you can attend a church without the fear of harassment, arrest,       
torture or death you are envied by, and more blessed than, three billion 
people in the world."                                                     
                                                                           
"If your parents are still alive and still married ...you are very rare." 
                                                                           
"If you can hold your head up and smile, you are not the norm, you're     
unique to all those in doubt and despair......."                         
                                                                           
Ok, what now? How can I start?                                           
                                                                           
If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that 
someone was thinking of you as very special and you are more blessed than 
over two billion people in the world who cannot read at all.             
                                                                           
Have a good day, count your blessings, and if you care to, pass this along
to remind everyone else how blessed we all are                           
                                                                           
ATTN: Acknowledge Dept.                                                   
"Thank you Lord, for giving me the ability to share this message and for 
giving me so many wonderful people with whom to share it. "               
                                                                           
If you have read this far, and are thankful for all that you have been   
blessed with, how can you not send it on ??? ? I thank God for everything,
especially all my family and friends!!