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Publisher: Mary Wilkey
Volume 8 — Issue 2 — January 15, 2008
Published every Tuesday
Whew! It's been a long, hard road, but my website is finally up again (thank our good Lord!), and host and list server properly set up. Not being a tekkie, I lost a lot of hair in the last ten days or so (guess how?)!
Anyway, it's good to be back in the swing of things again. So far, 2008 has not started off the way we always hope a new year will. It's been a struggle, both online and off!
But I pray that you all settle back and enjoy this issue . . . :-)
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
—2 Chronicles 7:14
Contents:
Top Sponsor
Weekly Contest
A Healthier You
Feature Article
Test Your Bible Knowledge
Classifieds
Today’s Chuckle
Today's English Lesson
Internet Tips & Hints
Guest Article
Inspiration
Etcetera
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There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure truth.
—Maya Angelou American poet, writer, actress
A Healthier You
This is the 15th installment in our add/subtract lifestyle change, and today we'll be adding.
If you are above your normal weight or have ever taken antibiotics at any time in your life, you need to do a candida cleanse, because it is certain that you have a systemic yeast infection. And as long as you have that infection, it will be practically impossible to lose the extra poundage.
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Candles will last a lot longer if placed in the freezer for at least three hours prior to burning.
Feature Article
The Rambo Granny of Melbourne, Australia
This is enough for any wannabe rapist to repent and to change his life around! Hooray for this ol' gal. Deport her to America . . .
Gun-toting granny Ava Estelle, 81, was so ticked-off when two thugs raped her 18-year-old granddaughter that she tracked the unsuspecting ex-cons down . . . and shot off their testicles.
The old lady spent a week hunting those men down—and when she found them, she took revenge on them in her own special way, said Melbourne police investigator Evan Delp. Then she took a taxi to the nearest police station, laid the gun on the sergeant's desk and told him as calm as could be:
"Those bastards will never rape anybody again, by God." Cops say convicted rapist and robber Davis Furth, 33, lost both his penis and his testicles when outraged Ava opened fire with a 9-mm pistol in the hotel room where he and former prison cellmate Stanley Thomas, 29, were holed up.
The wrinkled avenger also blew Thomas' testicles to kingdom come, but doctors managed to save his mangled penis, police said. "The one guy, Thomas, didn't lose his manhood, but the doctor I talked to said he won't be using it the way he used to," Detective Delp told reporters.
Both men are still in pretty bad shape, but I think they're just happy to be alive after what they've been through.
The Rambo Granny swung into action August 21 after her granddaughter Debbie was carjacked and raped in broad daylight by two knife-wielding creeps in a section of town bordering on skid row.
"When I saw the look on my Debbie's face that night in the hospital, I decided I was going to go out and get those bastards myself 'cause I figured the law would go easy on them," recalled the retired library worker.
"And I wasn't scared of them, either, because I've got me a gun, and I've been shootin' all my life. And I wasn't dumb enough to turn it in when the law changed about owning one."
So, using a police artist's sketch of the suspects and Debbie's description of the sickos, tough-as-nails Ava spent seven days prowling the wino-infested neighborhood where the crime took place until she spotted the ill-fated rapists entering their flophouse hotel.
I knew it was them the minute I saw 'em, but I shot a picture of 'em anyway and took it back to Debbie, and she said sure as hell, it was them, the oldster recalled.
So I went back to that hotel and found their room and knocked on the door, and the minute the big one, Furth, opened the door, I shot him right square between the legs, right where it would really hurt most, you know.
Then I went in and shot the other one as he backed up pleading to me to spare him. Then I went down to the police station and turned myself in.
Now baffled lawmen are trying to figure out exactly how to deal with the vigilante granny. "What she did was wrong, and she broke the law, but it is difficult to throw an 81-year-old woman into prison," Det. Delp said, "especially when three million people in the city want to nominate her for sainthood and a medal.
Forget past mistakes. Forget failures.
Forget everything except what you going to do now and do it.
—William Durant founder of General Motors
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Your biggest opportunity probably lies
under your own feet, in your current job,
industry, education, experience or interests.
—Brian Tracy
Today's Chuckle
I'll Have Nun of That!
A nun, badly needing to use the restroom, walked into a
local Hooters. The place was hopping with music and loud
conversation and every once in a while the lights would
turn off. Each time the lights would go out, the place
would erupt into cheers.
However, when the revelers saw the nun, the room
went dead silent.
She walked up to the bartender and asked, "May I please
use the restroom?" The bartender replied, "Okay, but I
should warn you that there is a statue of a naked man in
there wearing only a fig leaf."
"Well, in that case I'll just look the other way," said the nun.
So, the bartender showed the nun to the back of the
restaurant, and she proceeded to the restroom. After a
few minutes, she came back out, and the whole place
stopped just long enough to give the nun a loud round
of applause.
She went to the bartender and said, "Sir, I don't understand.
Why did they applaud for me just because I went to the
restroom?"
"Well, now they know you're one of us," said the bartender.
"Would you like a drink?"
"But, I still don't understand," said the puzzled nun. "You see,"
laughed the bartender, "every time the fig leaf on the statue
is lifted up, the lights go out. Now, how about that drink?"
"Whenever I despair, I remember that the way of truth and love has always won. There may be tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they may seem invincible, but in the end, they always fail. Think of it: always."
—Gandhi
Today's English Lesson
Seeing the same elementary mistakes over and over again has prompted this publisher to write an English lesson each issue. Look for some of these lessons to be repeated, because the mistakes are!
You would think that I would eventually run out of fodder for this feature, but . . .
Found the latest faux pas in the nationally published magazine of the American Automobile Club, "we 'clamored' aboard . . ."
The writer meant that "we 'clambered' aboard . . ." The misused word indicates a loud noise. "Clamber" means to climb!
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"It does not take a majority to prevail . . . but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men."
—Samuel Adams
Internet Hints & Tips
Top Ten: The Easiest Way to Write a
Content-Rich Article for Your Niche
by Alicia Forest
Whether or not you consider yourself a writer, penning articles that are of value to your target market is one of the most effective ways to get your name out there and become known as an expert in your niche, attract visitors to your website, and gain new subscribers for your ezine or other Pink Spoon (free offering to entice prospects into your Marketing & Product Funnel).
Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on immigrants and being an American in 1907:
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin.
"But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American . . . There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but
something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag . . . We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language . . . and we have room for but one sole loyalty, and that is a loyalty to the American
people."
—Theodore Roosevelt, 1907
Every American citizen needs to read this!
Guest Article
From the Los Angeles Times
40% of all workers in L.A. County (L.A. County has 10.2 million people) are working for cash and not paying taxes. This is because they are predominantly illegal immigrants working without a green card.
95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens!
75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens!
Over 2/3 of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medicare, whose births were paid for by taxpayers.
Nearly 25% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican Nationals here illegally.
Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages.
The F.B.I. reports that half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border.
Nearly 60% of all occupants of H.U.D. properties are illegal.
21 radio stations in L.A. Are Spanish speaking.
In L.A. County 5.1 million people speak English, 3.9 million speak Spanish. There are 10.2 million people in L.A. County.)
(All of the above are from the Los Angeles Times)
Less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops, but 29% are on welfare.
Over 70% of the United States' (and over 90% of California's, Florida's, and New York's) annual population growth
results from immigration.
29% of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens.
We are a bunch of fools for letting this continue.
The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self.
—Albert Einstein (03/14/1879-1955)
Answer to Bible trivia:
1 — wine, oil, bread is correct.
See Psalms 104:15
Inspiration
The Coal Basket Bible
This story is told of an old man who lived on a farm in the
mountains of Kentucky with his young grandson. Each morning, Grandpa was up early sitting at the kitchen table reading from his old worn-out Bible. His grandson, who wanted to be just like him, tried to imitate him in any way he could.
One day the grandson asked, "Papaw, I try to read the Bible just like you but I don't understand it, and what I do understand I forget as soon as I close the book. What good does reading the Bible do?"
The Grandfather quietly turned from putting coal in the stove and said, "Take this coal basket down to the river and bring back a basket of water." The boy did as he was told, even though all the water leaked out before he could get back to the house.
The grandfather laughed and said, "You will have to
move a little faster next time," and sent him back to the river with the basket to try again. This time the boy ran faster, but again the basket was empty before he returned home.
Out of breath, he told his grandfather that it was "impossible to carry water in a basket," and he went to get a bucket instead.
The old man said, "I don't want a bucket of water; I want a basket of water. You can do this. You're just not trying hard enough," and he went out the door to watch the boy try again.
At this point, the boy knew it was impossible, but he wanted to show his grandfather that even if he ran as fast as he could, the water would leak out before he got far at all. The boy scooped the water and ran hard, but when he reached his grandfather the basket was again empty. Out of breath, he said, "See Papaw, it's useless!"
"So you think it is useless?" the old man said. "Look at the basket." The boy looked at the basket and for the first time he realized that the basket looked different. Instead of a dirty old coal basket, it was clean.
"Son, that's what happens when you read the Bible. You might not understand or remember everything, but when you read it, it will change you from the inside out." That is the work of God in our lives—to change us from the inside out and to slowly transform us into the image of His Son.
Take time to read a portion of God's word each day, and remind a friend by sharing this story. Live Simply, Love Generously, Care Deeply, Speak Kindly, Leave the Rest to God."
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