AOL must be making too much money!

How many of you receive the plastic cases with CD's to try AOL via the mail service? I am figuring quite a few of you! I guarantee I receive one at home and one at my work about every 3 months.....and this has been going on a long time...years! What a waste of paper, plastic, and money! I understand advertising is important in this competative world but come on. I mean if this is going on within Henry County and Madison County, Indiana, I am sure it is happening all over the world. I file mine straight into the trash can! Too bad AOL doesn't participate in a recycle...hey maybe I should mark return to sender. Do you think they would have someone there re-label and redistribute, or do you think they would just throw it away? My guess is that it would just get tossed. Just goes to show they obviously have money to burn.

National Write your Congress

I have been a member since 2003. I would like to invite all who are interested in what is going on in our Federal and State legislature, (not CNN's version or FOX or any other media) and would like to express your opinions to our law makers on a regular basis, to join or at least check out the website from time to time. I receive a weekly fax updating me on what votes occurred and where all of the laws, amendments, etc, stand. I also receive a monthly packet with a voting ballot already adressed to the appropriate senator or state rep. It gives you an opportunity to state your opinion directly to who is voting. With all of this information you can stay on top of what is being done, or not done. It also allows you to check the voting patterns of every official from every state. Pretty interesting. If we are Quiet, How can we be heard? Check it out.

Retro Weekend Trackback Party

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Allegiance Pledge Debate

The House resolved by a vote of 383-31 to express the sense of Congress that the US Supreme Court should speedily find the use of the Pledge of Allegiance in schools to be constitutional. This was all brought on by some dude in California who renewed a legal challenge because he didn't think his daughter should be subjected to reciting the words "under God" in the class room (read about this at www.nwyc.com)

I suppose they do not spend money...doesn't it all have our glorious God's name on it?

What would he rather have her saying? Oh lucifer thanks for your destruction, drug addictions, hunger, and hatred.

I just cannot fathem where these people come from. To me it is a no brainer. How is Satan and what he represents worthy of anyone following him? EVIL

I guess that's assuming that this california guy does...cause if you are not with God or for him...your against him...right ? or does he just think we evolved?

I knew I didn't like that idea

I remember grumbling over the debit card thing when I heard about it....check out our tax dollars at work

I think my comment was "how can they possibly maintain that? Why can't our government learn from the abuse the welfare cards get? Surely there is a way they can mark the card to be used appropriately...like food, clothes, diapers, etc. Who wasn't thinking on this one?

Violent crime and politics

I usually try to not get on a roll with regards to politics but....

This a.m. on the way to work I heard some statistics on the radio that made me laugh. They are no way funny, but the way it was stated was.
"it is reported that every 23 seconds a violent crime is committed in the US"......this just in violent crime is now down 1. something percent....that means that every 22.5 seconds a violent crime is committed in the US. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?

This is a real political pet peave for me. I want to know when is our government, judicial sytem, cops, the people going to do something about crime? It's a no brainer to me. The criminals in the prisons are treated as if they still have rights...what happened to if you break the law...you loose your civil rights. How is reduction in funding of schools and building more prisons the answer?

I cannot afford to send my daughter to college, and I have worked since I was 18 and am better off than a lot of people, but there are criminals getting free education and they call it reabilitation. PLEASE.

I don't have all of the answers but I marvel at the things I read and hear and I have zero tolerance for repeat offenders of anything....a dog bites someone and it's ordered to be killed. At one time the punishment for poaching was harsher than a punishment for rape and molestation.

I applaud the guy who is tenting his prisoners! If prison wasn't an alright place to be, we wouldn't have so many people taking the risks of committing a crime and ending up there!

God’s beauty surrounding the famous “Sin City”

Las Vegas a.k.a. the “city of lost wages and lost souls”
My boyfriend and I took our vacation to Nevada to see what all the hoopla was about. Thank goodness we had several other things in mind other than the Strip. We had originally planned to be on the strip longer but the first day was enough. In all honesty I was literally in tears at lunch time in the restroom of a restaurant the second day on the strip. Not understanding why I was so emotional nor did my boyfriend, looking back I know it was my soul weeping.

Everyone builds it up so much with all the lights and the things to do and the spectacular hotels……I must say that the fountain show at the Bellagio was outstanding and moving, the pirate show outside the Treasure Island was top notch, but going from hotel to hotel and watching the people of all kinds and all financial statuses, seeing the exploitation, dealing with the harassing people trying to give you free stuff (only if you trade your souls) and the people on the corners trying to give you the naked girly pictures and circulating the nudie bar advertisements; well it just took a toll on me and my soul. I wept for about 10 minutes and then came out and told my boyfriend I was ready to return to the hotel and it was time to find something else to do.

We had spent the first two days at the Valley of fire. This has left an imprint on both of us that will never fade. God’s miraculous nature! We had fun exploring the different hikes, finding little caverns within trails that most people just look past. I held onto this and we decided that the rest of our trip would become a Quest! A quest to fuel that warm fuzzy feeling that comes from deep inside one’s spirit when it recognizes God’s miraculous nature.

We explored Lake Mead and the Hoover Dam; we spent two days in the Red Rock Canyon area and stumbled upon a little place called Bonnie Springs.

Bonnie herself which I am guessing is in her late 80’s was there with all her animals making her rounds talking to the people. She and her husband had purchased this land with the idea of having a stables and a petting zoo for the people to realize what the old west was all about. They built a small little western town, with the people dressing the part and constructed a hotel for people to stay and enjoy. She must have been in her early 20’s when this all started and now some 60 years later still residing on the property still tending to her wild animals (some in which she has raised since they were born) living her dream! Trying to salvage the good of Nevada and sharing it with whomever she could. We ran into her on several occasions and she had lots of stories to tell.

We went on a 2 hour trail ride horseback on our last day there. Absolutely breath taking views and being a horse person anyway I must say outside of my boyfriend proposing to me some 100’s of feet up onto the rocks we had climbed, this part of the trip took the cake!

Oh yea, my boyfriend is now my Fiancé, Everyone thought we were going to come back married, but I can’t imagine doing that anywhere else but home…with my family and friends. So, if you are one who has never been to Nevada, I highly recommend you spend your time at the Valley of Fire, Lake Mead, Red Rock Canyon, & Bonnie Springs. You might want to cruise the strip at night to see all the lights and the people but the real sights are God’s beauty surrounding the Strip.

What day is it?

Venting day...Just came back from Nevada(read about that at dawns_edge.com)
trying desparatly to keep all my balls in the air..yes I'm a juggler too! and not on prozac, I am sure there are some days that I should be..but I lean on a higher power...ALOT!

You know when your phone at work is ringing off the wall and all your customers want miracles, like walking on water, well that's the story right now. I am also trying to tie up all the loose ends for my daughter's wedding Saturday! I still don't know what I am wearing. My dining room looks like a wedding warehouse because I have done all of the flowers myself. I have to brag here that not only being thrifty and finding so many wedding things at places like Big Lots, Deals, and the Dollar tree, I have saved a lot by doing this stuff myself. Mind you I might have to spend that money I saved on house cleaning services....ya know something just has to give sometimes....seems like it is always the house work!

I am really at my best when I can be creative. I like going with the flow and throwing stuff together by gut instinct and most of the time I am pretty pleased.

God has blessed me with many talents that I never knew I had. I am sure that is the truth with all of us if we just go deep enough and ask for God's guidance, even on things like: making veils, centerpieces, and bouquets. I found this book on the clearance at Meijers for $4.00. It has great how to pictures and lots of ideas. Another God find!

Ya know I started out thinking I just needed to vent or I was going to Blow but this has turned into a praise testimony and I feel much better than what I thought I would when I was finished.

Morale of the story.....when things get tough....ask God to get this one, and the next, and the next,etc!