July 12, 2012

July 6, 2012

  • DNS Changer Malware

    Friends,

    You may or may not be aware that the FBI identified Malware loaded on about 64000 computers nationally from foreign sources.  The malware is called DNS Changer Malware.

    The FBI has provided an easy detection and solution for everyone.   Please visit: http://www.dcwg.org/detect/ to learn more about the Malware.  It literally only takes seconds to check for it.  Click the following link:

    http://www.dns-ok.us/ and if you get the following on your screen your computer is fine:

     

     

    DNS Changer Check-Up

     

    DNS Resolution = GREEN

    Your computer appears to be looking up IP addresses correctly!

    Had your computer been infected with DNS changer malware you would have seen a red background. Please note, however, that if your ISP is redirecting DNS traffic for its customers you would have reached this site even though you are infected. For additional information regarding the DNS changer malware, please visit the FBI's website at:
    http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2011/november/malware_110911

    NOTE:  Malware is NOT a virus, you still need a virus checker to prevent/protect against computer viruses.

June 24, 2012

  • Thought for My Friends!!!!

     Fate decides who comes into your life.  You alone determine those who are allowed to stay, who to let move on, and who you refuse to let leave.

  • PONDERISMS

     1. I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes.

    2. There are two kinds of pedestrians: the quick and the dead.

    3. Life is sexually transmitted.

    4. Healthy is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

    5. The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.

    6. Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

    7. Have you noticed since everyone has a camcorder these days no one talks about seeing UFOs like they used to?

    8. Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.

    9. All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.

    10. In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it Normal .

    11. How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?

    12. Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, 'I think I'll squeeze these dangly things and drink whatever Comes out'?

    13. If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a song about him?

    14. Why does the OB-GYN leave the room when you get undressed if they are going to look up there anyway?

    15. If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests?

    16. If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, then what is baby oil made from?

    17. Do illiterate people get the full effect of Alphabet Soup?

    18. Does pushing the elevator button more than once make it arrive faster?

    19. Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?

    20. Do you ever wonder why you gave me your email address?

June 5, 2012

  • Words for thought.....

    from the music video “Crash and Burn” by Savage Garden


    TeleVision is a OneWay CoNversation


    Vanity is a Call for AtTention


    in CyberSpace ConT@ct is AnoNymous


    We ScreaM to avoid suffering in Silence


    Stay ConnecteD


    RelationShips are a Series of Complex Games


    Agree to meet in the Middle


    We find Strength in Numbers


    Synchoiz9d fla5hing is considered Dash1ng


    CommuN1cate AnyWay AnyHow



    "Crash and Burn"


    When you feel all alone

    And the world has turned its back on you

    Give me a moment please to tame your wild wild heart

    I know you feel like the walls are closing in on you

    It's hard to find relief and people can be so cold

    When darkness is upon your door and you feel like you can't take anymore

    Let me be the one you call

    If you jump I'll break your fall

    Lift you up and fly away with you into the night

    If you need to fall apart

    I can mend a broken heart

    If you need to crash then crash and burn

    You're not alone

    When you feel all alone

    And a loyal friend is hard to find

    You're caught in a one way street

    With the monsters in your head

    When hopes and dreams are far away and

    You feel like you can't face the day

    Let me be the one you call

    If you jump I'll break your fall

    Lift you up and fly away with you into the night

    If you need to fall apart

    I can mend a broken heart

    If you need to crash then crash and burn

    You're not alone

    'Cause there has always been heartache and pain

    And when it's over you'll breathe again

    You'll breath again

    When you feel all alone

    And the world has turned its back on you

    Give me a moment please

    To tame your wild wild heart

    Let me be the one you call

    If you jump I'll break your fall

    Lift you up and fly away with you into the night

    If you need to fall apart

    I can mend a broken heart

    If you need to crash then crash and burn

    You're not alone

May 31, 2012

  • Rented this from Netflix....

     

    “The War That Made America”

     

    It is 2 discs and well worth the time it takes to watch. It’s a PBS program from 2006. Actor Graham Greene --an Oneida Indian whose ancestors fought in the nine-year French and Indian War between France and Britain -- narrates this gripping four part documentary series exploring the conflict’s effect on fanning the flames of colonial dissent, which ultimately led to the American Revolution. The lavish production stages key episodes from the war in dramatic retelling of a pivotal conflict in U.S. history.

May 30, 2012

  • Hello Book!

     

    Hello book!

     

    Wha t are you up to?

     

    keeping yourself to yourself,

     

    shut in between your covers,

     

    a prisoner high on a shelf.

     

    Come on book!

     

    What is your story?

     

    haven’t you ever been read?

     

    Did you think

     

    I would just pass by you,

     

    and pick me a comic instead?

     

    No way book!

     

    I’m your reader.

     

    I open you up. Set you free.

     

    Listen, i know a secret!

     

    Will you share

     

    your secrets with me?

     

    1978 N.M. Bodecker

     

May 20, 2012

  • American Hunters

     

    Regardless of the hunting aspect, this really is about national security.  The  
    second amendment was established specifically to allow for the minuteman and to  
    prevent the government (foreign and domestic) from putting the people under its  
    heels.   
    Remember the oath of the US military is to protect the CONSTITUTION (not the  
    government) from all enemies foreign AND DOMESTIC.   Without the second  
    amendment this is impossible. 
     
     
     
    Interesting slant on things: 
     
    AMERICA'S HUNTERS --- Pretty Amazing! 
     
        The world's largest army... America 's hunters! 
        I had never thought about this... 
        A blogger added up the deer license sales in just a handful of states and  
    arrived at a striking conclusion: 
     
        There were over 600,000 hunters this season in the state of Wisconsin . 
     
        Over the last several months, Wisconsin's hunters became the eighth largest  
    army in the world. 
        More men under arms than in Iran.  More than France and Germany combined. 
     
        These men deployed to the woods of a single American state,  Wisconsin, to  
    hunt with firearms, and no one was killed. 
     
        That number pales in comparison to the 750,000 who hunted the woods of  
    Pennsylvania and Michigan's 
    700,000 hunters, all of whom have now returned home safely. 
     
        Toss in a quarter million hunters in West Virginia and it literally  
    establishes the fact that the hunters of those four states alone would comprise  
    the largest army in the world. 
     
      And then add in the total number of hunters in the other 46 states. 
      It's millions more. 
     
      The point? 
     
      America will forever be safe from foreign invasion 
      with that kind of home-grown firepower. 
     
      Hunting...it's not just a way to fill the freezer. 
     
      It's a matter of national security. 
     
      *************************************** 
      That's why all enemies, foreign and domestic, want to see us disarmed. 
      Food for thought, when next we consider gun control. 
     
      Have A Great Day! 
      ------------------------------------- 
      Overall it's true, so if we disregard some assumptions that hunters don't  
    possess the same skills as soldiers, 
      the question would still remain...what army of 2 million would want to face 30  
    or 40 million armed citizens. 
      For the sake of our freedom, don't ever allow gun control or confiscation of  
    guns. 
     
      ***************************

May 15, 2012

  • dented bucket great story!

     What a great story.

    THE OLD DENTED BUCKET
    Our house was directly across the street from the clinic entrance of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore . We lived downstairs and rented the upstairs rooms to out-patients at the clinic.
    One summer evening as I was fixing supper, there was a knock at the door. I opened it to see a truly awful looking man. "Why, he's hardly taller than my 8-year-old," I thought as I stared at the stooped, shriveled body. But the appalling thing was his face, lopsided from swelling, red and raw.
    Yet his voice was pleasant as he said, "Good evening. I've come to see if you've a room for just one night. I came for a treatment this morning from the eastern shore, and there's no bus 'til morning." He told me he'd been hunting for a room since noon but with no success, no one seemed to have a room. "I guess it's my face .... I know it looks terrible, but my doctor says with a few more treatments .." For a moment I hesitated, but his next words convinced me: "I could sleep in this rocking chair on the porch. My bus leaves early in the morning."

    I told him we would find him a bed, but to rest on the porch.. I went inside and finished getting supper. When we were ready, I asked the old man if he would join us. "No, thank you. I have plenty." And he held up a brown paper bag. When I had finished the dishes, I went out on the porch to talk with him a few minutes. It didn't take a long time to see that this old man had an oversized heart crowded into that tiny body. He told me he fished for a living to support his daughter, her 5 children, and her husband, who was hopelessly crippled from a back injury.
    He didn't tell it by way of complaint; in fact, every other sentence was preface with a thanks to God for a blessing. He was grateful that no pain accompanied his disease, which was apparently a form of skin cancer. He thanked God for giving him the strength to keep going...
    At bedtime, we put a camp cot in the children's room for him.
    When I got up in the morning, the bed linens were neatly folded and the little man was out on the porch. He refused breakfast, but just before he left for his bus, haltingly, as if asking a great favor, he said, "Could I please come back and stay the next time I have a treatment? I won't put you out a bit. I can sleep fine in a chair." He paused a moment and then added, "Your children made me feel at home. Grownups are bothered by my face, but children don't seem to mind."
    I told him he was welcome to come again.
    And, on his next trip, he arrived a little after 7 in the morning. As a gift, he brought a big fish and a quart of the largest oysters I had ever seen! He said he had shucked them that morning before he left so that they'd be nice and fresh. I knew his bus left at 4:00 a.m. And I wondered what time he had to get up in order to do this for us.

    In the years he came to stay overnight with us, there was never a time that he did not bring us fish or oysters or vegetables from his garden. Other times we received packages in the mail, always by special delivery; fish and oysters packed in a box of fresh young spinach or kale, every leaf carefully washed. Knowing that he must walk 3 miles to mail these, and knowing how little money he had made the gifts doubly precious.
    When I received these little remembrances, I often thought of a comment our next-door neighbor made after he left that first morning. "Did you keep that awful looking man last night? I turned him away! You can lose roomers by putting up such people!" Maybe we did lose roomers once or twice. But, oh!, if only they could have known him, perhaps their illnesses would have been easier to bear.

    I know our family always will be grateful to have known him; from him we learned what it was to accept the bad without complaint and the good with gratitude to God.

    Recently I was visiting a friend, who has a greenhouse, as she showed me her flowers, we came to the most beautiful one of all, a golden chrysanthemum, bursting with blooms. But to my great surprise, it was growing in an old dented, rusty bucket. I thought to myself, "If this were my plant, I'd put it in the loveliest container I had!"

    My friend changed my mind. "I ran short of pots," she explained, "and knowing how beautiful this one would be, I thought it wouldn't mind starting out in this old pail. It's just for a little while, till I can put it out in the garden."

    She must have wondered why I laughed so delightedly, but I was imagining just such a scene in heaven. "Here's an especially beautiful one," God might have said when he came to the soul of the sweet old fisherman. "He won't mind starting in this small body."
    All this happened long ago - and now, in God's garden, how tall this lovely soul must stand.
    The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart." (1 Samuel 16:7b)
    Friends are very special. They make you smile and encourage you to succeed. They lend an ear and they share a word of praise. Show your friends how much you care. Pass this on, and brighten someone's day.
    Nothing will happen if you do not decide to pass it along. The only thing that will happen if you DO pass it on is that someone might smile (because of you)

May 10, 2012

  • Native American Legends

    The Origin Of Medicine

    Cherokee

    At one time, animals and people lived together peaceably and talked with each other. But when mankind began to multiply rapidly, the animals were crowded into forests and deserts.
    Man began to destroy animals wholesale for their skins and furs, not just for needed food. Animals became angry at such treatment by their former friends, resolving they must punish mankind.
    The bear tribe met in council, presided over by Old White Bear, their Chief. After several bears had spoken against mankind for their blood-thirsty ways, war was unanimously agreed upon. But what kinds of weapons should the bears use?
    Chief Old White Bear suggested that man’s weapon, the bow and arrow, should be turned against him. All of the council agreed. While the bears worked and made bows and arrows, they wondered what to do about bowstrings. One bear sacrificed himself to provide the strings, while the others searched for good arrow-wood.
    When the first bow was completed and tried, the bear’s claws could not release the strings to shoot the arrow. One bear offered to cut his claws, but Chief Old White Bear would not allow him to do that, because without claws he could not climb trees for food and safety. He might starve.
    The deer tribe called together its council led by Chief Little Deer. They decided that any Indian hunters, who killed deer without asking pardon in a suitable manner, should be afflicted with painful rheumatism in their joints.
    After this decision, Chief Little Deer sent a messenger to their nearest neighbors, The Cherokee Indians.
    “From now on, your hunters must first offer a prayer to the deer before killing him,” said the messenger. “You must ask his pardon, stating you are forced only by the hunger needs of your tribe to kill the deer. Otherwise, a terrible disease will come to the hunter.”
    When a deer is slain by an Indian hunter, Chief Little Deer will run to the spot and ask the slain deer’s spirit, “Did you hear the hunter’s prayer for pardon?”
    If the reply is yes, then all is well and Chief Little Deer returns to his cave. But if the answer is no, then the Chief tracks the hunter to his lodge and strikes him with the terrible disease of rheumatism, making him a helpless cripple unable to hunt again.
    All the fishes and reptiles then held a council and decided they would haunt those Cherokee Indians, who tormented them, by telling them hideous dreams of serpents twining around them and eating them alive. These snake and fish dreams occurred often among the Cherokee. To get relief, the Cherokee pleaded with their Shaman to banish their frightening dreams if they no longer tormented the snakes and fish.
    Now when the friendly plants heard what the animals had decided against mankind, they planned a countermove of their own. Each tree, shrub, herb, grass, and moss agreed to furnish a cure for one of the diseases named by the animals and insects.
    Thereafter, when the Cherokee Indians visited their Shaman about their ailments and if the medicine man was in doubt, he communed with the spirits of the plants. They always suggested a proper remedy for mankind’s diseases.
    This was the beginning of plant medicine from nature among the Cherokee Indian tribe a long, long time ago.

    “Voices Of The Winds” by
    Margot Edmonds & Ella E. Clark