Let us pray…

Prayer chain for our Military…. Don’t break it!

Please send this on after a short prayer. Prayer for our soldiers Don’t break it!

Prayer:

‘Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands. Protect them as they protect us,

Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they perform for us in our time of need.

Comfort them and their loved ones as we receive comfort knowing they are there.

Bring them home safely to their homes as our loved ones are able to return to our homes each night.

In your precious name we pray

Amen.’

Prayer Request: When you receive this, please stop for a moment and say a prayer for our troops around the world.

There is nothing attached. Just send this to people in your address book. Do not let it stop with you. Of all the gifts you could give a Marine, Soldier, Sailor, Airman, & others deployed in harm’s way, prayer is the very best one.

GOD BLESS YOU FOR PASSING IT ON!

And thank you for using the Link below to share with all of your friends.

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Why Women Should Vote

Claim: Article relates the plight of suffragists who were arrested for picketing the White House in 1917.

Status: True.

Example: [Collected on the Internet, August 2008]

WHY WOMEN SHOULD VOTE

This is the story of our Grandmothers and Great-grandmothers; they lived only 90 years ago.

Remember, it was not until 1920 that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote.

The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking for the vote.

And by the end of the night, they were barely alive. Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden’s blessing went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of ‘obstructing sidewalk traffic.’

They beat Lucy Burns, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air.

They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cellmate,
Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack. Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women.

Thus unfolded the ‘Night of Terror’ on Nov. 15, 1917, when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson’s White House for the right to vote.

For weeks, the women’s only water came from an open pail. Their food — all of it colorless slop — was infested with worms.

When one of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks until word was smuggled out to the press.

So, refresh my memory. Some women won’t vote this year because — why, exactly? We have carpool duties? We have to get to work? Our vote doesn’t matter? It’s raining?

Last week, I went to a sparsely attended screening of HBO’s new movie ‘Iron Jawed Angels.’ It is a graphic depiction of the battle these women waged so that I could pull the curtain at the polling booth and have my say. I am ashamed to say I needed the reminder.

All these years later, voter registration is still my passion. But the actual act of voting had become less personal for me, more rote. Frankly, voting often felt more like an obligation than a privilege. Sometimes it was inconvenient.

My friend Wendy, who is my age and studied women’s history, saw the HBO movie, too. When she stopped by my desk to talk about it, she looked angry. She was **** with herself. ‘One thought kept coming back to me as I watched that movie,’ she said. ‘What would those women think of the way I use, or don’t use, my right to vote? All of us take it for granted now, not just younger women, but those of us who did seek to learn.’ The right to vote, she said, had become valuable to her ‘all over again.’

HBO released the movie on video and DVD . I wish all history, social studies and government teachers would include the movie in their curriculum I want it shown on Bunco night, too, and anywhere else women gather. I realize this isn’t our usual idea of socializing, but we are not voting in the numbers that we should be, and I think a little shock therapy is in order.

It is jarring to watch Woodrow Wilson and his cronies try to persuade a psychiatrist to declare Alice Paul insane so that she could be permanently institutionalized. And it is inspiring to watch the doctor refuse. Alice Paul was strong, he said, and brave. That didn’t make her crazy.

The doctor admonished the men: ‘Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity.’

Please, if you are so inclined, pass this on to all the women you know.

We need to get out and vote and use this right that was fought so hard for by these very courageous women. Whether you vote democratic, republican or independent party - remember to vote.

History is being made.

Additional information:
Tactics and Techniques of the National Woman’s Party Suffrage Campaign Tactics and Techniques of the National Woman’s Party Suffrage Campaign
(Library of Congress)
Last updated: 6 September 2008

The URL for this page is http://www.snopes.com/politics/ballot/womenvote.asp

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This material may not be reproduced without permission.
snopes and the snopes.com logo are registered service marks of snopes.com.
Sources Sources:

Adams, Katherine H. and Michael L. Keene. Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign.
University of Illinois Press, 2007. ISBN 0-252-07471-8.

Lunardini, Christine A. From Equal Suffrage to Equal Rights: Alice Paul and the National Woman’s Party, 1910-1928.
New York University Press, 1986. ISBN 0-595-00055-X (pp. 104-122).

Stevens, Doris. Jailed for Freedom: American Women Win the Vote.
Troutdale, OR: NewSage Press, 1995. ISBN 0-939-16525-2.

[From snopes.com: Why Women Should Vote]

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Q: Name the four seasons.

A: Salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar!

Q: Explain one of the processes by which water can be made safe to drink.

A: Flirtation makes water safe to drink because it removes large pollutants like grit, sand, dead sheep and canoeists.

Q: How is dew formed?

A: The sun shines down on the leaves and makes them perspire.

Q: How can you delay milk turning sour? (brilliant, love this!)

A: Keep it in the cow.

Q: What causes the tides in the oceans?

A: The tides are a fight between the Earth and the Moon. All water tends to flow towards the moon, because there is no water on the moon, and nature hates a vacuum. I forget where the sun joins in this fight.

Q: What are steroids?

A: Things for keeping carpets still on the stairs.

Q: What happens to your body as you age?

A: When you get old, so do your bowels and you get intercontinental.

Q: What happens to a boy when he reaches puberty?

A: He says good-bye to his boyhood and looks forward to his adultery.

Q: Name a major disease associated with cigarettes.

A: Premature death.

Q : How are the main parts of the body categorized? ( e.g., abdomen)

A: The body is consisted into three parts — the brainium, the borax and the abdominal cavity. The brainium contains the brain; the borax contains the heart and lungs, and the abdominal cavity contains the five bowels A,E,I,O, and U.

Q: What is the fibula?

A: A small lie.

Q: What does ‘varicose’ mean? (I do love this one…)

A: Nearby.

Q: Give the meaning of the term ‘Caesarian Section.’

A: The Caesarian Section is a district in Rome.

Q: What does the word ‘benign’ mean?’

A: Benign is what you will be after you be eight.

Kids Are Quick

TEACHER: Maria, go to the map and find North America

MARIA: Here it is.

TEACHER: Correct. Now class, who discovered America ?

CLASS: Maria.

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TEACHER: John, why are you doing your math multiplication on the floor?

JOHN: You told me to do it without using tables.

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TEACHER: Glenn, how do you spell ‘crocodile?’

GLENN: ‘K-R-O-K-O-D-I-A-L’

TEACHER: No, that’s wrong!

GLENN: Maybe it is wrong, but you asked me how I spell it.

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TEACHER: Donald, what is the chemical formula for water?

DONALD: H I J K L M N O.

TEACHER: What are you talking about?

DONALD: Yesterday you said it’s H to O.

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TEACHER: Winnie, name one important thing we have today that we didn’t have ten years ago.

WINNIE: Me!

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TEACHER: Glen, wh! y do yo u always get so dirty?

GLEN: Well, I’m a lot closer to the ground than you are.

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TEACHER: Millie, give me a sentence starting with ‘I.’

MILLIE: I is..

TEACHER: No, Millie….. Always say, ‘I am’

MILLIE: All right… ‘I’ am the ninth letter of the alphabet.

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one of my favorites

TEACHER: George Washington not only chopped down his father’s cherry tree, but also admitted it. Now, Louie, do you know why his father didn’t punish him?

LOUIS: Because George still had the axe in his hand.

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TEACHER: Now, Simon, tell me frankly, do you say prayers before eating?

SIMON: No sir, I don’t have to. My Mom is a good cook.

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TEACHER: Clyde, your composition on ‘My Dog’ is exactly the same as your brother’s. Did you copy his?

CLYDE: No, sir. It’s the same dog.

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TEACHER: Harold, what do you call a person who keeps on talking when people are no longer interested?

HAROLD: A teacher

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Subject: The Gratitude Sign… for our servicemen and women!

I have often seen these soldier boys and girls in airports and elsewhere and wished I could just say thanks but in the moment mostly just looked at them and smiled. Now we have a sign that is quick and expresses our respect and gratitude to them that they will understand.

DO YOU KNOW ‘The Gratitude Sign’??????

Ever wonder how to say thank you when you see a military person in uniform?

See a simple way to do it from across a room or as you are passing by.

http://www.gratitudecampaign.org/fullmovie.php

(this is very short and to the point–you can watch the long or short version)

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MAN…I’M GETTING SO FAT I CAN HARDLY SCRATCH MY OWN Back!!

THESE MORNING WALKS ARE KILLING ME!!!!

WHAT PART OF QUIET DIDN’T YOU UNDERSTAND?

OK, NOW DONT MOVE FOR ABOUT A WEEK!

SORRY MOM, I’M NEW AT THIS!

I hate it when this happens!

I’M SO CUTE, THEY WONT CARE IF I SHRED THIS!!

I REALLY NEED TO GET GOING, BUT JUST CAN’T SEEM TO GET MOTIVATED………….

Hey… gimme my BALL back!!

I said, Go to sleep!!

Nice doggie…GOOD boy

A little power nap…

Sleeping in again

WHAT PETS DO WHEN WE’RE AT WORK

HAVE YOU SMILED TODAY?????

Help make someone else Smile …. forward to a friend, I DID!

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As you may have heard, the Administration said each of us would get a rebate check to stimulate the economy. According to the rules of this rebate, you must file your 2007 taxes to qualify. Most of us will get a standard tax refund as well.

The question we have left is; How do WE, the people, stimulate the economy with this money?

• If we spend it at large chain stores like Wal*Mart, all the money will go to China,
• If we spend it on gasoline, it will go to the Arabs,
• If we purchase a computer, it will go to India,
• If we purchase fruits and vegetebles, it will go to Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala,
• If we purchase a good car, it will go to Japan,
• If buy useless stuff, it will go to Taiwan,

And none of it will go to helping the American Economy.

We need to keep that money here in America.

The only way to keep that money here (and I swear, whomever thought this up, knows my mom, personally) is to spend it at YARD SALES, since those are the only businesses still in the U.S.A.

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• -Scientists say the higher your I.Q., the more you dream.
• -The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm.
• -You use 200 muscles to take one step.
• -The average woman is 5 inches shorter than the average man.
• -Your big toes have two bones each while the rest have three.
• -A pair of human feet contains 250,000 sweat glands.
• -A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball.
• -The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razor blades.
• -The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia Britannica.
• -It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.
• -The average human dream lasts 2-3 seconds.
• -Men without hair on their chests are more likely to get cirrhosis of the liver than men with hair.
• -At the moment of conception, you spent about half an hour as a single cell.
• -There is about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.
• -Your body gives off enough heat in 30 minutes to bring half a gallon of water to a boil.
• -The enamel in your teeth is the hardest substance in your body.
• -Your teeth start growing 6 months before you are born.
• -When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, and they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate.
• -Your thumb is the same length as your nose.
  • At this very moment I know full well you are putting this last fact to the test…now remove your thumb from your nose and pass this on to the friends you think might be interested in comparing their thumbs to their noses as well…

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