"Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel."
Bobby Bowden / Florida State
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Friday, September 2, 2011
How clean are your windows
A young couple moves into a new neighborhood.
The next morning while they are eating breakfast,
The young woman sees her neighbor hanging the wash outside.
"That laundry is not very clean", she said.
"She doesn't know how to wash correctly.
Perhaps she needs better laundry soap."
Her husband looked on, but remained silent.
Every time her neighbor would hang her wash to dry,
The young woman would make the same comments.
About one month later, the woman was surprised to see a
Nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband:
"Look, she has learned how to wash correctly.
I wonder who taught her this."
The husband said, "I got up early this morning and
Cleaned our windows."
And so it is with life. What we see when watching others
Depends on the purity of the window through which we look
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
our government at work
5000 years ago, Moses said, "Pick up your shovels, mount your asses and camels, and I will lead you to the Promised Land."
When Welfare was introduced, Roosevelt said, "Lay down your shovels, sit on your asses, and light up a Camel, this is the Promised Land."
Today, the government has stolen your shovel, taxed your asses, raised the price of Camels and mortgaged the Promised Land to China.
Ain't that the truth!
Sunday, April 17, 2011
CHARLIE ON TAXAES
http://www.charliedanielssoapbox.com/view_topic.php?id=9508&forum_id=4
President Obama is convinced that the only way the federal government can survive is to raise taxes and we're fixing to get an ear full of the old Democrat mantra decrying "tax cuts for the rich".
Now you may be thinking, "Why do I care if those rich people get their taxes raised? It won't affect me."
Well, I beg to differ with you. When anybody's taxes are raised the money has to come from somewhere, and no it's probably not going to affect the lifestyle of the super rich much at all. They'll still fly private jets to St. Tropez, have their clothing custom made and continue to have their meals at places where the price of a bottle of wine would make a mortgage payment for a lot of folks.
So why should we care if their taxes go up?
I'll tell you why. It's not their lavish lifestyle that causes the problem, it's those billions of dollars of disposable income that would go into the stock market or expand the companies they own or otherwise invest in something besides the black hole in Washington where tax dollars disappear and are never seen again.
And if you work for a company that makes luxury items, planes, boats and cars or a service industry that caters to the rich, and they decide to do without those items or services, it could very well mean the loss of your job, your income and your livelihood.
If Washington really wanted to do something about the economy they would lower the highest corporate tax rate in the world and stop American businesses from moving their headquarters and factories overseas where the business climate is friendlier and the tax rate is lower thus bringing American jobs back.
Our government is spending America out of global competition and sending corporations and jobs overseas at an exponential rate, and for some reason they just can't seem to understand that there's no way we can survive another decade the way things are going.
I know that sounds like hyperbole but it's not. In my humble opinion it's cold hard fact. A nation simply cannot spend trillions of dollars it doesn't have and allow it's industrial base to shrink at the same time. It's called the point of diminishing returns and we've reached it.
What's happening is that America's corporate tax base keeps shrinking while its reckless spending continues to increase, putting our economy on a collision course with bankruptcy.
Let's put this on a little more personal basis.
I really resent it when somebody says that I don't pay enough tax.
I came to Nashville 44 years ago with a wife a two-year-old baby, the clutch out of my car and a twenty-dollar bill.
I took a city bus downtown where I went to a pawnshop and pawned just about everything we had of any value at all which amounted to about 60 dollars.
I drove to Lexington, KY every weekend, worked Friday and Saturday nights in nightclubs and drove back to Nashville so I could feed my family.
I worked in beer joints and honky tonks and took whatever came along to support my wife and son.
I've had cars repossessed, electricity turned off and had to borrow 20 dollars from a friend to buy groceries with.
I had no health insurance and no safety net and the union I belonged to couldn't protect my job if I didn't produce. If I didn't entertain the crowd I was out of a job, period.
I have literally wept because I missed my family so much and missed birthdays, school functions and all manner of my son's growing up.
I don't have anything I haven't earned by sweat, hardwork and the grace of God and resent anybody who thinks an irresponsible bunch of power drunk spendthrifts in DC have more right to what I earn than I do.
Nobody else may care if my taxes are raised but Roger Campbell, my guitar tech for over thirty years would because it would cut into his Christmas Bonus. In fact all of my 25 employees and their families will be affected if Obama gets his way.
And the sad part is that no matter how many tax increases Obama and his sycophants get it will never be enough, it will just enable them to drive the bus off the cliff sooner.
What do you think?
Pray for our troops
God Bless America
Charlie Daniels
President Obama is convinced that the only way the federal government can survive is to raise taxes and we're fixing to get an ear full of the old Democrat mantra decrying "tax cuts for the rich".
Now you may be thinking, "Why do I care if those rich people get their taxes raised? It won't affect me."
Well, I beg to differ with you. When anybody's taxes are raised the money has to come from somewhere, and no it's probably not going to affect the lifestyle of the super rich much at all. They'll still fly private jets to St. Tropez, have their clothing custom made and continue to have their meals at places where the price of a bottle of wine would make a mortgage payment for a lot of folks.
So why should we care if their taxes go up?
I'll tell you why. It's not their lavish lifestyle that causes the problem, it's those billions of dollars of disposable income that would go into the stock market or expand the companies they own or otherwise invest in something besides the black hole in Washington where tax dollars disappear and are never seen again.
And if you work for a company that makes luxury items, planes, boats and cars or a service industry that caters to the rich, and they decide to do without those items or services, it could very well mean the loss of your job, your income and your livelihood.
If Washington really wanted to do something about the economy they would lower the highest corporate tax rate in the world and stop American businesses from moving their headquarters and factories overseas where the business climate is friendlier and the tax rate is lower thus bringing American jobs back.
Our government is spending America out of global competition and sending corporations and jobs overseas at an exponential rate, and for some reason they just can't seem to understand that there's no way we can survive another decade the way things are going.
I know that sounds like hyperbole but it's not. In my humble opinion it's cold hard fact. A nation simply cannot spend trillions of dollars it doesn't have and allow it's industrial base to shrink at the same time. It's called the point of diminishing returns and we've reached it.
What's happening is that America's corporate tax base keeps shrinking while its reckless spending continues to increase, putting our economy on a collision course with bankruptcy.
Let's put this on a little more personal basis.
I really resent it when somebody says that I don't pay enough tax.
I came to Nashville 44 years ago with a wife a two-year-old baby, the clutch out of my car and a twenty-dollar bill.
I took a city bus downtown where I went to a pawnshop and pawned just about everything we had of any value at all which amounted to about 60 dollars.
I drove to Lexington, KY every weekend, worked Friday and Saturday nights in nightclubs and drove back to Nashville so I could feed my family.
I worked in beer joints and honky tonks and took whatever came along to support my wife and son.
I've had cars repossessed, electricity turned off and had to borrow 20 dollars from a friend to buy groceries with.
I had no health insurance and no safety net and the union I belonged to couldn't protect my job if I didn't produce. If I didn't entertain the crowd I was out of a job, period.
I have literally wept because I missed my family so much and missed birthdays, school functions and all manner of my son's growing up.
I don't have anything I haven't earned by sweat, hardwork and the grace of God and resent anybody who thinks an irresponsible bunch of power drunk spendthrifts in DC have more right to what I earn than I do.
Nobody else may care if my taxes are raised but Roger Campbell, my guitar tech for over thirty years would because it would cut into his Christmas Bonus. In fact all of my 25 employees and their families will be affected if Obama gets his way.
And the sad part is that no matter how many tax increases Obama and his sycophants get it will never be enough, it will just enable them to drive the bus off the cliff sooner.
What do you think?
Pray for our troops
God Bless America
Charlie Daniels
Monday, April 11, 2011
right & Left
IRECEIVED THIS FROM A E/MAIL , HAVE NOT CHECKED IT OUT BUT IT MAKES SENSE TO CRABBY
I have often wondered why the conservatives are called the “right” and the liberals are called the “left.”
By chance, I stumbled upon this verse in the Bible: Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV)
“ The heart of the wise inclines to the right,
but the heart of the fool to the left .”
Hmmm, I guess that sums it up pretty well...
YOU CAN'T HAVE A BETTER REFERENCE SOURCE THAN STRAIGHT TEXT FROM THE BIBLE!
I have often wondered why the conservatives are called the “right” and the liberals are called the “left.”
By chance, I stumbled upon this verse in the Bible: Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV)
“ The heart of the wise inclines to the right,
but the heart of the fool to the left .”
Hmmm, I guess that sums it up pretty well...
YOU CAN'T HAVE A BETTER REFERENCE SOURCE THAN STRAIGHT TEXT FROM THE BIBLE!
Sunday, March 20, 2011
finished
Got this in a e-mail & wanted to share
Crabby
Subject: It Is Finished
It Is Finished
While two visitors were visiting Annapolis, they noticed several students on their hands and knees assessing the courtyard with pencils and clipboards in hand. "What are they doing?" one of them asked their tour guide.
"Each year," he replied with a grin, "The upperclassmen ask the freshmen how many bricks it took to finish paving this courtyard."
"So what's the answer?" one of the visitors asked the tour guide when they were out of earshot of the freshmen.
The guide replied, "One."
That brings up an interesting theological question. How many sacrifices did it take to finish paying for our sins?
The Jews would have needed lots of pencils and clipboards to make the calculation. "Let's see, let's take all the sin offerings, all the guilt offerings, the bulls, the goats, the lambs, the turtledoves......"
So what's the answer?
How many sacrifices did it take to finish paying for our sins?
Only one.
"And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God."
(Heb. 10:11-12).
After thousands and thousands of sacrificial animals had been sacrificed, Jesus Christ gave his own life on the cross. Only then could it be said, "It is finished."
Crabby
Subject: It Is Finished
It Is Finished
While two visitors were visiting Annapolis, they noticed several students on their hands and knees assessing the courtyard with pencils and clipboards in hand. "What are they doing?" one of them asked their tour guide.
"Each year," he replied with a grin, "The upperclassmen ask the freshmen how many bricks it took to finish paving this courtyard."
"So what's the answer?" one of the visitors asked the tour guide when they were out of earshot of the freshmen.
The guide replied, "One."
That brings up an interesting theological question. How many sacrifices did it take to finish paying for our sins?
The Jews would have needed lots of pencils and clipboards to make the calculation. "Let's see, let's take all the sin offerings, all the guilt offerings, the bulls, the goats, the lambs, the turtledoves......"
So what's the answer?
How many sacrifices did it take to finish paying for our sins?
Only one.
"And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God."
(Heb. 10:11-12).
After thousands and thousands of sacrificial animals had been sacrificed, Jesus Christ gave his own life on the cross. Only then could it be said, "It is finished."
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Veteran to Veterans
I RECEIVED THIS FROM A DEAR COUSIN (JERRY HOLBERT) A RETIRED ARMY MAN. THIS IS ONE THING I CAN RELATE TO, I HAD A BUNCH OF GOOD TIME WITH MY FELLOW SOLDIERS ALONG WITH SOME SAD ONES. WE HAD EACH OTHERS BACK. I WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER THE ONES I LOST.
CRABBY
Veteran to Veteras n
When a Veteran leaves the 'job' and retires to a better life, many are jealous, some are pleased, and others, who may have already retired, wonder if he knows what he is leaving behind, because we already know.
1. We know, for example, that after a lifetime of camaraderie that few experience, it will remain as a longing for those past times.
2. We know in the Military life there is a fellowship which lasts long after the uniforms are hung up in the back of the closet.
3. We know even if he throws them away, they will be on him with every step and breath that remains in his life. We also know how the very bearing of the man speaks of what he was and in his heart still is.
These are the burdens of the job. You will still look at people suspiciously, still see what others do not see or choose to ignore and always will look at the rest of the Military world with a respect for what they do; only grown in a lifetime of knowing.
Never think for one moment you are escaping from that life. You are only escaping the 'job' and merely being allowed to leave 'active' duty.
So what I wish for you is that whenever you ease into retirement, in your heart you never forget for one moment that you are still a member of the greatest fraternity the world has ever known.
NOW... Civilian Friends vs. Veteran Friends Comparisons:
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Get upset if you're too busy to talk to them for a week.
VETERAN FRIENDS: Are glad to see you after years, and will happily carry on the same conversation you were having the last time you met.
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CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Have never seen you cry.
VETERAN FRIENDS: Have cried with you.
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CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Keep your stuff so long they forget it's yours.
VETERAN FRIENDS: Borrow your stuff for a few days then give it back.
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CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Know a few things about you.
VETERAN FRIENDS: Could write a book with direct quotes from you.
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CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Will leave you behind if that's what the crowd is doing.
VETERAN FRIENDS: Will stand by you no matter what the crowd does.
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CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Are for a while.
VETERAN FRIENDS: Are for life.
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CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Have shared a few experiences...
VETERAN FRIENDS: Have shared a lifetime of experiences no citizen could ever dream of...
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CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Will take your drink away when they think you've had enough.
VETERAN FRIENDS: Will look at you stumbling all over the place and say, 'You better drink the rest of that before you spill it!' Then carry you home safely and put you to bed...
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CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Will ignore this.
VETERAN FRIENDS: Will forward this.
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A veteran - whether active duty, retired, served one hitch, or reserve is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The Government of the United States of America ' for an amount of 'up to and including my life'.
From one Veteran to another, it's an honor to be in your company. Thank you for your service to our country and defending the freedoms we enjoy
CRABBY
Veteran to Veteras n
When a Veteran leaves the 'job' and retires to a better life, many are jealous, some are pleased, and others, who may have already retired, wonder if he knows what he is leaving behind, because we already know.
1. We know, for example, that after a lifetime of camaraderie that few experience, it will remain as a longing for those past times.
2. We know in the Military life there is a fellowship which lasts long after the uniforms are hung up in the back of the closet.
3. We know even if he throws them away, they will be on him with every step and breath that remains in his life. We also know how the very bearing of the man speaks of what he was and in his heart still is.
These are the burdens of the job. You will still look at people suspiciously, still see what others do not see or choose to ignore and always will look at the rest of the Military world with a respect for what they do; only grown in a lifetime of knowing.
Never think for one moment you are escaping from that life. You are only escaping the 'job' and merely being allowed to leave 'active' duty.
So what I wish for you is that whenever you ease into retirement, in your heart you never forget for one moment that you are still a member of the greatest fraternity the world has ever known.
NOW... Civilian Friends vs. Veteran Friends Comparisons:
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Get upset if you're too busy to talk to them for a week.
VETERAN FRIENDS: Are glad to see you after years, and will happily carry on the same conversation you were having the last time you met.
----------------------------------------------------
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Have never seen you cry.
VETERAN FRIENDS: Have cried with you.
---------------------------------------------------
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Keep your stuff so long they forget it's yours.
VETERAN FRIENDS: Borrow your stuff for a few days then give it back.
--------------------------------------------------
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Know a few things about you.
VETERAN FRIENDS: Could write a book with direct quotes from you.
---------------------------------------------------
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Will leave you behind if that's what the crowd is doing.
VETERAN FRIENDS: Will stand by you no matter what the crowd does.
---------------------------------------------------
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Are for a while.
VETERAN FRIENDS: Are for life.
---------------------------------------------------
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Have shared a few experiences...
VETERAN FRIENDS: Have shared a lifetime of experiences no citizen could ever dream of...
---------------------------------------------------
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Will take your drink away when they think you've had enough.
VETERAN FRIENDS: Will look at you stumbling all over the place and say, 'You better drink the rest of that before you spill it!' Then carry you home safely and put you to bed...
-----------------------------------------------------
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Will ignore this.
VETERAN FRIENDS: Will forward this.
----------------------------------------------------
A veteran - whether active duty, retired, served one hitch, or reserve is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The Government of the United States of America ' for an amount of 'up to and including my life'.
From one Veteran to another, it's an honor to be in your company. Thank you for your service to our country and defending the freedoms we enjoy
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