I got this in an e-mail this morning and found it to be very worth to share. Feel free to re-post it if you like Have a great day
The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.
My confession:
I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are: Christmas trees.
It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, "Merry Christmas" to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu. If people want a creche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.
I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.
Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship Nick and Jessica and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where Nick and Jessica came from and where the America we knew went to.
In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking.
Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her "How could God let something like this happen?" (regarding Katrina) Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response.
She said, "I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?"
In light of recent events...terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found recently) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK.
Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.
Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said OK.
Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with "WE REAP WHAT WE SOW."
Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.
Are you laughing?
Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it.
Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.
Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not then just discard it... no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in. My Best Regards.
Honestly and respectfully,
Ben Stein
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Friday, June 8, 2007
You Are Like A Pencil
Yes you heard me right.... be a pencil! I saw this on my good friend Sylvia's blog page on another site and she gave me permission to repost. But she couldn't tell me where she found it.
You're Like A Pencil
1. Like a pencil, you can correct your mistakes. You can't change the past, but you can rectify it. And though you can't erase history, you can erase Guilt and anger with forgiveness.
2. Like a pencil, painful sharpening can serve to Make you better. Your difficult times can actually Sharpen your skills or shape you into the person You were meant to be.
3. Like a pencil, you can do great things when you Allow yourself to be held in Someone's hand.
4. Like a pencil, you can leave your mark whenever Possible. That is what you're here for -- to leave your Mark. It may be in small ways, it may be in the lives Of people you have touched or nurtured, but you must Leave something good behind whenever you can.
5. Like a pencil, it is what is on the inside that matters. Whether it is understanding or intolerance, love or Bitterness, peace or unrest, kindness or self- Centeredness, hope or despair, courage or fear, What is on the inside matters most.
Next time you use a pencil, pause and think about That little writing tool. It teaches some great lessons About living.
You're Like A Pencil
1. Like a pencil, you can correct your mistakes. You can't change the past, but you can rectify it. And though you can't erase history, you can erase Guilt and anger with forgiveness.
2. Like a pencil, painful sharpening can serve to Make you better. Your difficult times can actually Sharpen your skills or shape you into the person You were meant to be.
3. Like a pencil, you can do great things when you Allow yourself to be held in Someone's hand.
4. Like a pencil, you can leave your mark whenever Possible. That is what you're here for -- to leave your Mark. It may be in small ways, it may be in the lives Of people you have touched or nurtured, but you must Leave something good behind whenever you can.
5. Like a pencil, it is what is on the inside that matters. Whether it is understanding or intolerance, love or Bitterness, peace or unrest, kindness or self- Centeredness, hope or despair, courage or fear, What is on the inside matters most.
Next time you use a pencil, pause and think about That little writing tool. It teaches some great lessons About living.
Friday, March 23, 2007
Saying Goodbye to Adulthood
I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult. I have decided I would like to accept the responsibilities of an 8 year-old again.
I want to go to McDonald's and think that it's a four star restaurant. I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and make a sidewalk with rocks.
I want to think M&Ms are better than money because you can eat them. I want to lie under a big oak tree and run a lemonade stand with my friends on a hot summer's day.
I want to return to a time when life was simple, when all you knew were colors, multiplication tables, and nursery rhymes, but that didn't bother you, because you didn't know what you didn't know and you didn't care. All you knew was to be happy because you were blissfully unaware of all the things that should make you worried or upset.
And if you want to discuss this further, you'll have to catch me first, because . . .
I want to think the world is fair. That everyone is honest and good. I want to believe that anything is possible. I want to be oblivious to the complexities of life and be overly excited by the little things again.
I want to live simple again.
I don't want my day to consist of computer crashes, mountains of paperwork, depressing news, how to survive more days in the month than there is money in the bank, doctor bills, gossip, illness, and loss of loved ones.
I want to believe in the power of smiles, hugs, a kind word, truth, justice, peace, dreams, the imagination, mankind, and making angels in the snow.
So . . . here's my checkbook and my car keys, my credit card bills and my 401K statements. I am officially resigning from adulthood.
***Thanks Sylvia for sending me this e-mail today!!!
I want to go to McDonald's and think that it's a four star restaurant. I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and make a sidewalk with rocks.
I want to think M&Ms are better than money because you can eat them. I want to lie under a big oak tree and run a lemonade stand with my friends on a hot summer's day.
I want to return to a time when life was simple, when all you knew were colors, multiplication tables, and nursery rhymes, but that didn't bother you, because you didn't know what you didn't know and you didn't care. All you knew was to be happy because you were blissfully unaware of all the things that should make you worried or upset.
And if you want to discuss this further, you'll have to catch me first, because . . .
I want to think the world is fair. That everyone is honest and good. I want to believe that anything is possible. I want to be oblivious to the complexities of life and be overly excited by the little things again.
I want to live simple again.
I don't want my day to consist of computer crashes, mountains of paperwork, depressing news, how to survive more days in the month than there is money in the bank, doctor bills, gossip, illness, and loss of loved ones.
I want to believe in the power of smiles, hugs, a kind word, truth, justice, peace, dreams, the imagination, mankind, and making angels in the snow.
So . . . here's my checkbook and my car keys, my credit card bills and my 401K statements. I am officially resigning from adulthood.
***Thanks Sylvia for sending me this e-mail today!!!
Monday, March 19, 2007
Great Sex Here!!
MADE YOU LOOK!!!
No seriously - this is the long awaited Better Sex Diet blog that I've been dancing around, avoiding and putting off.
We're going to be using some big people words tonight so if you're easily offended... wellll.. you've got two choices. You can stop reading now or you can just practice these two very important words with me.
PENIS!! Yes - I said penis. And I'm gonna say it a bunch more times too so get used to it. The other grown up word??? VAGINA Yeah I know. It's tough but I think we can get through it!!
If you look at commercials today and walk the aisles of your local drug store you might think that the best way to combat a libido problem is to pop a pill. For men there are all types of pills and potions. In 2005 Amricans spent just over $1.4 billion to treat sexual dysfunction disorders alone. And that's just on the men. And this article is going to be geared - mostly to you guys.
I'm sorry - this is nothing personal - it's just where all the research is and it's also the blog dare that I received from my friend Sylvia.
So back to the pills and potions. These cures are great for correcting a dysfunction but they dont do a whole lot for arousing passion. Yes - passion. Passion is a key ingredient for fireworks in the bedroom. And you thought it was beer and a football game!
We've all heard about the food items that are supposed to increase your sex drive. Raw Oysters - which I personally love - but I've never noticed the desire to drag my signficant other from a seafood restaurant and have my way with him in the car. They're just good!
Dark chocolate is another food thats supposed to increase sex drive. I don't know about before sex - but chocolate during sex... welll... never mind . Figs are another one. I dont know about you but the only way I really like figs is in Fig Newtons!
Then there's the straight up porn. Nothing sets the romantic fires burning faster than a porn flick. Right? Wrong. They might help you get aroused but they certainly arent going to help you perform.
So peeps - I'm here to offer an alternative to porn, oysters, dark chocolate, figs and any other myth that has come down the pike. How about diet. I know... it's a dirty word. But diet is key.
Ladies - try some soy in your diet. It assists in natural lubrication. There's a little science there about estrogen receptors but I'll spare you the science lecture ... lol but yes indeedy I'm talking about vaginal lubrication. Now before you get that weird look ... you drink the soy. As in milk. You do not put soy in your nightstand drawer. However - I've heard of stranger things being used and who am I to question your particular "thing"
From an erection standpoint - if the food is good for the blood vessells running to the heart - it's just as good for the ones running to your penis. A diet low in saturdated fat keeps blood running from head to toe. And if I remember biology right - you guys kinda need the blood running to all parts. Reduced blood flow could certainly result in your soldier's inability to stand at attention. If you catch my drift! LOL Alright...alright I'll say it. If you eat a bunch of crap high in saturated fats - your ability to get a quality erection is minimized. And trust me. If we ladies are doing our part and drinking our soy and maintaining lubricaction - you damn well better be getting a quality erection!
Ok - so now you want to know what kinds of foods should you eat? It's important to remember that this isnt going to work if you serve it up just before you want to get your groove on. You need to do it on a regular basis!
Well here they are:
Mushrooms, spinach, fish, veggies - the bright colored ones as well as the dark greens. So think stuff like red bell peppers.... yellow peppers.... tomatoes..broccoli...Then there's fruit. Berries. Berries are fantastic antioxidants and we can all use them in our diets
I know - it all sounds healthy. And I hate to do that to you - but it truly does make a difference. Add these items to your daily diet. It really won't kill you to pass up What A Burger or Pizza Hut and have a nice piece of grilled salmon
So there you go. You know how to start eating... so line up the little blue pills on the night stand..light a few candles...whip out the sexy lingerie, fur lined handcuffs and whatever else it is you do... and enjoy some great passionate sex!
No seriously - this is the long awaited Better Sex Diet blog that I've been dancing around, avoiding and putting off.
We're going to be using some big people words tonight so if you're easily offended... wellll.. you've got two choices. You can stop reading now or you can just practice these two very important words with me.
PENIS!! Yes - I said penis. And I'm gonna say it a bunch more times too so get used to it. The other grown up word??? VAGINA Yeah I know. It's tough but I think we can get through it!!
If you look at commercials today and walk the aisles of your local drug store you might think that the best way to combat a libido problem is to pop a pill. For men there are all types of pills and potions. In 2005 Amricans spent just over $1.4 billion to treat sexual dysfunction disorders alone. And that's just on the men. And this article is going to be geared - mostly to you guys.
I'm sorry - this is nothing personal - it's just where all the research is and it's also the blog dare that I received from my friend Sylvia.
So back to the pills and potions. These cures are great for correcting a dysfunction but they dont do a whole lot for arousing passion. Yes - passion. Passion is a key ingredient for fireworks in the bedroom. And you thought it was beer and a football game!
We've all heard about the food items that are supposed to increase your sex drive. Raw Oysters - which I personally love - but I've never noticed the desire to drag my signficant other from a seafood restaurant and have my way with him in the car. They're just good!
Dark chocolate is another food thats supposed to increase sex drive. I don't know about before sex - but chocolate during sex... welll... never mind . Figs are another one. I dont know about you but the only way I really like figs is in Fig Newtons!
Then there's the straight up porn. Nothing sets the romantic fires burning faster than a porn flick. Right? Wrong. They might help you get aroused but they certainly arent going to help you perform.
So peeps - I'm here to offer an alternative to porn, oysters, dark chocolate, figs and any other myth that has come down the pike. How about diet. I know... it's a dirty word. But diet is key.
Ladies - try some soy in your diet. It assists in natural lubrication. There's a little science there about estrogen receptors but I'll spare you the science lecture ... lol but yes indeedy I'm talking about vaginal lubrication. Now before you get that weird look ... you drink the soy. As in milk. You do not put soy in your nightstand drawer. However - I've heard of stranger things being used and who am I to question your particular "thing"
From an erection standpoint - if the food is good for the blood vessells running to the heart - it's just as good for the ones running to your penis. A diet low in saturdated fat keeps blood running from head to toe. And if I remember biology right - you guys kinda need the blood running to all parts. Reduced blood flow could certainly result in your soldier's inability to stand at attention. If you catch my drift! LOL Alright...alright I'll say it. If you eat a bunch of crap high in saturated fats - your ability to get a quality erection is minimized. And trust me. If we ladies are doing our part and drinking our soy and maintaining lubricaction - you damn well better be getting a quality erection!
Ok - so now you want to know what kinds of foods should you eat? It's important to remember that this isnt going to work if you serve it up just before you want to get your groove on. You need to do it on a regular basis!
Well here they are:
Mushrooms, spinach, fish, veggies - the bright colored ones as well as the dark greens. So think stuff like red bell peppers.... yellow peppers.... tomatoes..broccoli...Then there's fruit. Berries. Berries are fantastic antioxidants and we can all use them in our diets
I know - it all sounds healthy. And I hate to do that to you - but it truly does make a difference. Add these items to your daily diet. It really won't kill you to pass up What A Burger or Pizza Hut and have a nice piece of grilled salmon
So there you go. You know how to start eating... so line up the little blue pills on the night stand..light a few candles...whip out the sexy lingerie, fur lined handcuffs and whatever else it is you do... and enjoy some great passionate sex!
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