Non Gun Stuff...

[MikeBjerum]

ADULT WARNING - Read this one alone please ...

I'm riding through a college town the other day, and as is typical you pass, get passed or end up waiting behind the same car several times.  I see this basic college student "bomb" a few times with a couple of co-eds cruising through town.  At one signal I'm behind them reading the bumper stickers ... several of them of verying interest and humor ... I come to one, and this is the quandry, that says "Friends Swallow"  ... Would this be the proper time to ride up along side and introduce myself 

[Ping]

Would this be the proper time to ride up along side and introduce myself 

Yes sir, indeed it is and throw on the charm. 

[tt11758]

ADULT WARNING - Read this one alone please ...

I'm riding through a college town the other day, and as is typical you pass, get passed or end up waiting behind the same car several times.  I see this basic college student "bomb" a few times with a couple of co-eds cruising through town.  At one signal I'm behind them reading the bumper stickers ... several of them of verying interest and humor ... I come to one, and this is the quandry, that says "Friends Swallow"  ... Would this be the proper time to ride up along side and introduce myself 

Depends upon whether or not the spousal unit was with you.   


If not, take a saying from Bill Clinton:  "Eatin' Ain't Cheatin'!"




















What's that, Teresa?  The corner?  Yes ma'am. 

[ellis4538]

Is thinking what you said as bad as saying it!?

Richard

[True_Texan]

Obama's Army??


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkt1vAX0MRM

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[MikeBjerum]

Ok ... Not totally non-gun, but think "tractor pull" ...

[tombogan03884]

            Subject:  America 's Top 10 Poverty Cities

         

     

    City, State and % of People Below the Poverty Level !

     

     

    1. Detroit , MI            32.5%

     

    2. Buffalo , NY            29.9%

     

    3. Cincinnati , OH        27.8%

     

    4. Cleveland , OH        27.0%

     

    5. Miami , FL              26.9%

     

    5. St. Louis , MO         26.8%

     

    7. El Paso , TX            26.4%

     

    8. Milwaukee , WI        26.2%

     

    9. Philadelphia , PA       25.1%

     

    10. Newark , NJ           24.2%

     

     

    SOURCE:

    U.S. Census Bureau, 2006 American Community Survey, August 2007

    What do the top ten cities (over 250,000) with the highest poverty

    rate all have in common?

     

     

    Detroit , MI (1st on the poverty rate list)  has not elected a Republican

                                                            mayor since 1962;

     

    Buffalo, NY (2nd) hasn't elected one since 1962;

     

    Cincinnati , OH (3rd)...since 1980;

     

    Cleveland , OH (4th)...since 1980;

     

    Miami , FL (5th) has never had a Republican mayor;

     

    St. Louis , MO (6th)....since 1949;

     

    El Paso , TX (7th) has never had a Republican mayor;

     

    Milwaukee , WI (8th)...since 1908;

     

    Philadelphia , PA (9th)...since 1952;

     

    Newark , NJ (10th)...since 1907.

     

     

     

    APPROPRIATE QUOTE:

    Albert Einstein once said, 'The definition of insanity is doing the

    same thing over and over again and expecting different results.'

     

     

    UNDENIABLE TRUTH:

    "You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

     You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

     You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.

     You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.

     You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.

     You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's

         initiative and independence.

     You cannot help people permanently by doing for them

         what they could and should do for themselves."

    --Abraham Lincoln

     

                                   .....and Mr. Obama, you are no Abe Lincoln.

     

     

    CONCLUSION:

    It is the poor who habitually elect re-elect Democrats --- yet they

    are still POOR !!! 

     

    PS:

    To date, more than 5.5 million good-paying manufacturing jobs have left

    the shores of America forever due to NAFTA and GATT... both promoted

    & signed into law by President Bill Clinton (D).   Unions were the biggest

    loosers, yet they still vote for Democrats!   (Repeat Einstein's quote above.)

[Teresa Heilevang]

In the faint light of the attic, an old man, tall and stooped, bent his great frame and made his way to a stack of boxes that sat near one of the little half-windows. Brushing aside a wisp of cobwebs, he tilted the top box toward the light and began to carefully lift out one old photograph album after another. Eyes once bright but now dim searched longingly for the source that had drawn him here.

It began with the fond recollection of the love of his life, long gone, and somewhere in these albums was a photo of her he hoped to rediscover. Silent as a mouse, he patiently opened the long buried treasures and soon was lost in a sea of memories. Although his world had not stopped spinning when his wife left it, the past was more alive in his heart than his present aloneness.

Setting aside one of the dusty albums, he pulled from the box what appeared to be a journal from his grown son's childhood. He could not recall ever having seen it before, or that his son had ever kept a journal. Why did Elizabeth always save the children's old junk? he wondered, shaking his white head.

Opening the yellowed pages, he glanced over a short reading, and his lips curved in an unconscious smile. Even his eyes brightened as he read the words that spoke clear and sweet to his soul. It was the voice of the little boy who had grown up far too fast in this very house, and whose voice had grown fainter and fainter over the years. In the utter silence of the attic, the words of a guileless six-year-old worked their magic and carried the old man back to a time almost totally forgotten.

Entry after entry stirred a sentimental hunger in his heart like the longing a gardener feels in the winter for the fragrance of spring flowers. But it was accompanied by the painful memory that his son's simple recollections of those days were far different from his own. But how different?

Reminded that he had kept a daily journal of his business activities over the years, he closed his son's journal and turned to leave, having forgotten the cherished photo that originally triggered his search. Hunched over to keep from bumping his head on the rafters, the old man stepped to the wooden stairway and made his descent, then headed down a carpeted stairway that led to the den.

Opening a glass cabinet door, he reached in and pulled out an old business journal. Turning, he sat down at his desk and placed the two journals beside each other. His was leather-bound and engraved neatly with his name in gold, while his son's was tattered and the name Jimmy had been nearly scuffed from its surface. He ran a long skinny finger over the letters, as though he could restore what had been worn away with time and use.

As he opened his journal, the old man's eyes fell upon an inscription that stood out because it was so brief in comparison to other days. In his own neat handwriting were these words:

Wasted the whole day fishing with Jimmy. Didn't catch a thing.

With a deep sigh and a shaking hand, he took Jimmy's journal and found the boy's entry for the same day, June 4. Large scrawling letters, pressed deeply into the paper, read:

Went fishing with my Dad. Best day of my life.

[PegLeg45]

Thanks, M'ette.

[True_Texan]

Europe trip shows girlfriend to be a bit off kilter:

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1918771