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Where Flesh Meets Flesh ...

Thomas S. Mann

BRILLIANCE IN THREE PARTS.

~BRILLIANCE IN THREE PARTS... ~BRILLIANCE IN THREE PARTS...       Part I:       A. Back off and let those men who want to marry men, marry men.       B. Allow those women who want to marry women, marry women.       C. Allow those folks who want to abort their babies, abort their babies.       D. In three generations, there will be no more Democrats.       I love it when a plan comes together; don’t you?       Part II:       10 Poorest Cities in America  (How did it happen?)         City, State, % 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%       What do these top ten cities (over 250,000 pop.) with the highest poverty rate all have in common?       Detroit, MI - (1st on poverty rate list) hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1961       Buffalo, NY - (2nd) hasn't elected one since 1954       Cincinnati, OH - (3rd) not since 1984       Cleveland, OH - (4th) not since 1989       Miami, FL - (5th) has never had a Republican mayor       St. Louis, MO - (6th) not since 1949       El Paso, TX - (7th) has never had a Republican mayor       Milwaukee, WI - (8th) not since 1908       Philadelphia, PA - (9th) not since 1952       Newark, NJ - (10th) not since 1907       Einstein once said, 'The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.'       It is the poor who habitually elect Democrats... yet they are still POOR.       Part III:       "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       "Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him had better take a much closer look at the American Indian."                                                     ~Henry Ford         Six trivia questions to see how much history you really know.  Be honest; it's kind of fun and revealing.       If you don't know the answer, make your best guess.       Answer all of the questions (no cheating) before looking at the answers.         1) "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."       A. Karl Marx                    B. Adolph Hitler                  C. Joseph Stalin       D. Barack Obama            E. None of the above       2) "It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, and for the few...       and to replace it with shared responsibility, for shared prosperity."       A. Lenin                          B. Mussolini                        C. Idi Amin       D. Barack Obama            E. None of the above       3) "(We).... can't just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people."       A. Nikita Khrushchev        B.  Joseph Goebbels            C. Boris Yeltsin       D. Barack Obama            E. None of the above       4) "We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own ... in order to create this common ground."       A. Mao Tse Tung            B. Hugo Chavez                    C. Kim Jong II       D. Barack Obama            E. None of the above       5) "I certainly think the free-market has failed."       A.  Karl Marx                  B. Lenin                                C. Molotov       D. Barack Obama            E. None of the above       6) "I think it's time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector in (the) entire economy that they are being watched."       A. Pinochet                      B. Milosevic                          C. Saddam Hussein       D. Barack Obama            E. None of the above       No peeking!       Scroll down for answers...       (1)  E. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/29/2004       (2)  E. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 5/29/2007       (3)  E. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007       (4)  E. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007       (5)  E. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007       (6)  E. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 9/2/2005 cuzzin ricky FWIW, I scored 100 on Part 3.

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The Heist

“ Today's Lesson A few years ago in a small town, robbers entered a bank and one of them shouted: "Don't move! The money belongs to the bank. Your lives belong to you.  Immediately all the people in the bank laid on the floor quietly and without panic. This is an example of how the correct wording of a sentence can make everyone change their world view.   One woman lay on the floor in a provocative manner. The robber approached her saying, " Ma'am, this is a robbery not a rape. Please behave accordingly." This is an example of how to behave professionally, and focus on the goal. While running from the bank the young robber (who had a college degree) said to the older robber (who barely finished elementary school): "Hey, maybe we should count how much we stole." The older man replied: "Don't be stupid. It's a lot of money so let's wait for the news to be told how much money was taken from the bank." This is an example of how life experience is more important than a degree.   After the robbery, the manager of the bank said to his accountant: "Let's call the cops." The accountant said: "Wait, before we do that let's add the $800,000 to the robbery of that we took to ourselves a few months ago and just say that it was stolen." This is an example of taking advantage of an opportunity. The following day it was reported in the news that the bank was robbed of $ 3 million. The robbers counted the money, but they found only $1 million so they started to grumble. "We risked our lives for $1 million, while the bank's management robbed two million dollars without blinking? Maybe its better to learn how to work the system, instead of being a simple robber." This is an example of how knowledge can be more useful than power.    Moral :Give a person a gun, and he can rob a bank . Give a person a bank, and he can rob everyone. via R.W. Forsythe ”

Being Honest

Today's Lesson

Barn Army News

A Letter from Coleslaw Don Barn Army Scout  Coleslaw Don  shares an object lesson with us.  He wrote that now he's retired,  he decided to touch-up some on his spread in Idaho.  "Things was going pretty good,  so I decided to throw a little party.  That was 5 moths ago, and, ... well, things kind of regressed."  The lesson is—obvious.  "You don't need to go constructing stuff in order to have a party. Save the lumber money for more beer and a few heifers." Don M's Spread

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Admirable v. Deplorable Behavior

Today's Lesson The thin line between admirable and deplorable behavior

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Defending the Undefendable

Barn Army Book Club Defending the Undefendable

“ THE FAT CAPITALIST-PIG EMPLOYER If not for the minimum wage law and other progressive  legislation, the employers, the fat-capitalist-pig exploiting employers, to be precise, would lower wages to whatever level they wanted. At best, we would be pushed back to the days of the sweatshop; at worst, to the days of the industrial revolution and before, when mankind waged an often losing battle with starvation. “ So goes the conventional wisdom on the merits of minimum wage legislation. It will be shown, however, that this conventional wisdom is wrong, tragically wrong. It assumes a villain where none exists. What does the law actually accomplish and what are its consequences? The minimum wage law is, on the face of it, not an employment law but an unemployment law. It does not force an employer to hire an employee at the minimum wage level ... .  [Defending the Undefendable, p. 223] Economist  Walter Block's book "Defending the Undefendable"  is in many ways a validation of what many of us suspect  is true, but find ourselves running instead with the herd.  Books that challenge your beliefs are a good thing.  It's my real and true experience that Democrats I know never explore themselves, at least outside of the bathroom. For instance I know for a fact that not one Liberal read  Arthur Herman's book about Joe McCarthy, but it did not stop them from paroxysmic attacks on Herman for deigning to write it.  So they continue to look and act silly. John Stossel introduced Block's book to me, and he cites David Boaz of the Cato Institute and Nick Gillespie of Reason. in support of Block's chapter on  THE EMPLOYER OF CHILD LABOR (p. 243). “ "If we say that the United States should abolish child labor in very poor countries," Boaz said, "then what will happen to these children? ... They're not suddenly going to go to the country day school. ... They may be out selling their bodies on the street. That is not an improvement over working in a t-shirt factory." ” Since this is about the joy and benefits of free markets, you'll be interested to know that you can buy Block's  book from Amazon for $15, or read it for free - HERE You're welcome.

Helping your uncle

Today's fine lesson

In the world of hi-tech gadgetry, I've noticed that more and more people who send text messages and emails have long forgotten the "art" of capitalization.  Those of you who fall into this world, please take note of the statement below.  I cannot stress enough how grammar is very important to it. "Capitalization is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off his horse and helping your uncle jack off his horse." Is everybody clear on this? Merrily

What? Don't know your ass from an elbow?

Lesson 5 Framing and Composition Don't let bad photo composition ruin the family portrait

What? Don't know your ass from an elbow? What? Don't know ass from elbow? Rollover Dom M

Photograpy Lesson

Lesson 5 Framing and Composition Don't let bad photo composition ruin the family portrait

Photograpy Lesson

Lesson 5 Framing and Composition Don't let bad composition ruin the family portrait

Careless view finding = a ruined family reunion photo