Hello everyone. Another successful semester! I received all "A"s again, thank God. I am still waiting for the grade on one presentation but other than that have a solid A in the course so I think it will be an A. This is my 4th term and so far... "A"s in all of them. This term I took senior level classes. I struggled but persevered. I do not have the money to go to premium right now but stay here because I will go premium again when I have the $$$. I still love this site and everyone on it, just struggling to stay about water financially. Hopefully when I am finished with this degree I will have more luck finding work than I had with my art degree. I love you all, and to all a Very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Faye

Hello to all my dearest fab40 friends. I am so sorry it has been this long. I get into school and art projects and lose track of time.  

My dearest friend Melissabelle asked me to share my school news so here it is. If anyone is wondering if they are too old to return the answer is no. Go for it!! One is never too old to learn. It can get hectic at times but what a reward! I am still doing great. Boy I did not realize how much writing was involved in Psychology courses. This term I took all upper level courses but prevailed, with the grace of God. I am still carrying a 4.0 and am so looking forward to the break. STAR TREK and PLANET of the APES TIME!!! That is how I reward myself.  

Melissabelle is working diligently to help our four legged friends, give her a kudos, Faye

Ponderisms
?       I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes.    

?       There are two kinds of pedestrians: the quick and the dead.    

?        Life is sexually transmitted.  

?        Healthy is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.    

?      The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.  

?         Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.  

?       Have you noticed since everyone has a camcorder these days no one talks about seeing UFOs like they used to?    

?        Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.  

?        All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.  

?       In the 60’s, people took acid to make the world weird.  Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal..    

?        How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?  

?       Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, ‘I think I’ll squeeze these dangly things and drink whatever comes out?’  

?       If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a song about him?    

?       Why does your OB-GYN leave the room when you get undressed if they are going to look up there anyway?  

?        If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests?

?        If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, then what is baby oil made from?  

?       Do illiterate people get the full effect of Alphabet Soup?  

?       Does pushing the elevator button more than once make it arrive faster?    

?         Why doesn’t glue stick to the inside of the bottle?    

?        Do you ever wonder why you gave me your email address?

It was about 1:00 p.m. in the afternoon, and  Lauren was driving to visit a friend. An UNMARKED police car pulled up  behind her and put his lights on.  

Lauren’s parents have always told her never to pull over for an unmarked car on the side of the road, but rather to wait until they get to a gas station, etc.

Lauren had actually listened to her  parents advice, and promptly called *77 on her cell phone to tell the police dispatcher that she would not pull over right away. She
proceeded to tell the dispatcher that there was an unmarked police car with a flashing red light on his rooftop behind her. The dispatcher checked to see if there were police  cars where she was and there weren’t, and he told her to keep driving,  remain calm and that he had back up already on the way.

Ten minutes later 4 cop cars surrounded her and the unmarked car behind her. One policeman went to her side and the others surrounded the car behind.  

They pulled the guy from the car and tackled him to the ground. The man was a convicted rapist and wanted for other crimes.

I never knew about the *77  Cell Phone Feature, but especially for a woman alone in a car,  you should not pull over for an unmarked car. Apparently police have to respect your right to keep going to a safe place.

Speaking to a service representative at * Bell ** Mobility  confirmed that *77 was  a direct link to State trooper info. So, now  it's your turn to let your friends know about *77.

Send this to every woman (and person) you know; it  may save a life.
This applies to ALL 50 states

Boxer Muhammad Ali’s advice to his daughter

The following incident took place when Muhammad Ali’s daughter arrived at
his home wearing clothes that were not modest. Here is the story as told
by
one of his daughters:

When we finally arrived, the chauffeur escorted my younger sister, Laila,
and me up to my father’s suite. As usual, he was hiding behind the door
waiting to scare us. We exchanged many hugs and kisses as we could
possibly
give in one day.

My father took a good look at us. Then he sat me down on his lap and said
something that I will never forget. He looked me straight in the eyes and
said, “Hana, everything that God made valuable in the world is covered and
hard to get to. Where do you find diamonds? Deep down in the ground,
covered
and protected. Where do you find pearls? Deep down at the bottom of the
ocean, covered up and protected in a beautiful shell. Where do you find
gold? Way down in the mine, covered over with layers and layers of rock.
You’ve got to work har d to get to them.”

He looked at me with serious eyes. “Your body is sacred. You‘re far more
precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too.”

Source: Taken from the book: More Than A Hero: Muhammad Ali’s Life Lessons
Through His Daughter’s Eyes.

HATS OFF TO CHARLIE DANIELS....AT LEAST HE HAS THE COURAGE TO SPEAK HIS MIND!!!  

I don’t know how everybody else feels about it, but to me I
think Hispanic people in this country, legally or illegally,
made a huge public relations mistake with their recent demonstrations.  

I don’t blame anybody in the world for wanting to come to the
United States of America , as it is a truly wonderful place.    

But when the first thing you do when you set foot on American soil is illegal it is flat out wrong and I don’t care how many lala land left heads come out of the woodwork and start trying
to give me sensitivity lessons.  

I don’t need sensitivity lessons, in fact I don’t have any-thing against Mexicans!  I just have something against criminals and anybody who comes into this country illegally is a criminal
and if you don’t believe it try coming into America from a foreign country without a passport and see how far you get. What disturbs me about the demonstrations is that it’s tanta-mount to saying, “I am going to come into your country even if it means breaking your laws and there’s nothing you can do about it.”  

It’s an “in your face” action and speaking just for me, I don’t like it one little bit and if there were a half dozen pairs of gonads in Washington bigger than English peas it wouldn’t be happening.  

Where are you, you bunch of lily livered, pantywaist, forked tongued, sorry excuses for defenders of The Constitution? Have you been drinking the water out of the  Potomac again?
And even if you pass a bill on immigration it will probably be so pork laden and watered down that it won’t mean anything anyway Besides, what good is another law going to do when you
won’t enforce the ones on the books now?  

And what ever happened to the polls, guys?  I thought you folks were the quintessential finger wetters.  Well you sure ain’t paying any attention to the polls this time because somewhere around eighty percent of Americans want some thing done about this mess, and mess it is and getting bigger everyday.  

This is no longer a problem, it is a dilemma and headed for being a tragedy.  Do you honestly think that what happened in  France with the Muslims can’t happen here when the businesses who hire these people finally run out of jobs and a few million disillusioned Hispanics take to the streets?  

If you, Mr. President, Congressmen and Senators, knuckle under on this and refuse to do something meaningful it means that you care nothing for the kind of country your children and grand-children will inherit.  But I guess that doesn’t matter as long as you get re-elected.
Shame on you.
One of the big problems in America today is that if you have the nerve to say anything derogatory about any group of people (except Christians) you are going to be screamed at by the media and called a racist, a bigot and anything else they can think of to call you  

Well I’ve been pounded by the media before and I’m still rockin’ and rollin’ and when it comes to speaking the truth I fear not.
And the truth is that the gutless, gonadless, milksop politicians are just about to sell out the United States of America because they don’t have the intestinal fortitude to stand up to face reality.  

And reality is that we would never allow any other group of people to have 12 million illegal in this country and turn around and say, “Oh it’s ok, ya’ll can stay here if you’ll just allow us to slap your wrist.”  

And I know that some of you who read this column are saying “Well what’s wrong with that?”
I’ll tell you what’s wrong with it.  These people could be from Mars as far as we know.  We don’t know who they are, where they are or what they‘re up to and the way the Congress is going we‘re not going to.  

Does this make sense?  Labor force you say?  We already subsidize corporate agriculture as it is, must we subsidize their labor as well?
If these people were from Haiti would we be so fast to turn a blind eye to them or if they were from Somalia or Afghanistan ?
I think not.  

All the media shows us are pictures of hard working Hispanics who have crossed the border just to try to better their life.
They don’t show you pictures of the Feds rounding up members of MS 13, the violent gang who came across the same way the decent folks did.  They don’t tell you about the living conditions of the Mexican illegal some fat cat hired to pick his crop.  

I want to make two predictions.  

No. 1: This situation is going to grow and fester until it erupts in violence on our streets while the wimps in  Washington drag their toes in the dirt and try to figure how many tons of political hay they can make to the acre.  

No 2: Somebody is going to cross that border with some kind of weapon of mass destruction and set it off in a major American city after which there will be a backlash such as this country has never experienced and the Capitol building in Washington will probably tilt as Congressmen and Senators rush to the other side of the issue.    

I don’t know about you but I would love to see just one major politician stand up and say, “I don’t care who I make mad  and I don’t care how many votes I lose, this is a desperate situation and I’m going to lead the fight to get it straightened out.”
I don’t blame anybody for wanting to come to America , but if you don’t respect our immigration laws why should you respect any others?
And by the way, this is  America and our flag has stars and stripes  Please get that other one out of my face.  

God Bless  America  

Charlie Daniels  

 MY COUNTRY  

  IF IT IS YOUR COUNTRY,
SPEAK UP!
I am not against immigration -
just come through like everyone else
Get a sponsor;
have a place to lay your head;
have a job;
pay your taxes;
live by the rules;  

  and
LEARN THE LANGUAGE
as all other immigrants have in the past
and
GOD BLESS AMERICA!  

PART OF THE PROBLEM  

Think about this:
If you don’t want to forward this
for fear of offending someone,
YOU‘RE PART OF THE PROBLEM!  

Will we still be the Country of choice
and still be America if we continue
to make the changes forced on us by
people from other countries who came  

  to live in  America because it is the
Country of Choice?  

Think about it!  

All we have to say is, when will
Someone do something about
MY RIGHTS?
We’ve gone so far the other way,
bent over backwards to not
offend anyone, that I am now  

  being offended.
But it seems no one has a problem
with that.  

“In God We Trust”
is our national motto. This is not
some Christian, right wing, political slogan.
We adopted this motto because Christian men  

  and women - on Christian principles - founded  

  this nation, and this is clearly documented. It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls  

 of our schools.
It is Time for America to Speak up
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