Sometimes these ‘heartwarming stories are a bit too sappy for me but this one is truly interesting…

In 1986, Peter Davies was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from Northwestern University . 

On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air. The elephant seemed distressed, so Peter approached it very carefully. 

He got down on one knee and inspected the elephant’s foot and found a large piece of wood deeply embedded in it. As carefully and as gently as he could, Peter worked the wood out with his hunting knife, after which the elephant gingerly put down its foot. The elephant turned to face the man, and with a rather curious look on its face, stared at him for several tense moments. Peter stood frozen, thinking of nothing else but being trampled. Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned, and walked away. Peter never forgot that elephant or the events of that day. 

Twenty years later, Peter was walking through the Chicago Zoo with his teenaged son. As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures turned and walked over to near where Peter and his son Cameron were standing. The large bull elephant stared at Peter, lifted its front foot off the ground, then put it down. The elephant did that several times then trumpeted loudly, all the while staring at the man. 

Remembering the encounter in 1986, Peter couldn’t help wondering if this was the same elephant. Peter summoned up his courage, climbed over the railing and made his way into the enclosure. He walked right up to the elephant and stared back in wonder. The elephant trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one of Peter legs and slammed his stupid ass against the railing, killing him instantly. 

Probably wasn’t the same elephant.

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Prime Minister John Howard - Australia
Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday to get out of Australia , as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks.

Separately, Howard angered some Australian Muslims on Wednesday by saying he supported spy agencies monitoring the nation’s mosques. Quote:

‘IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT.

Take It Or Leave It. I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Bali , we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Australians.’

‘This culture has been developed over two centuries of struggles, trials and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom’

‘We speak mainly ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language.

Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society . Learn the language!’

‘Most Australians believe in God. This is not some Christian, right wing, political push, but a fact, because Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly documented.

It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our culture.’

‘We will accept your beliefs, and will not question why.

All we ask is that you accept ours, and live in harmony and peaceful enjoyment with us.’

‘This is OUR COUNTRY, OUR LAND, and OUR LIFESTYLE, and we will allow you every opportunity to enjoy all this.

But once you are done complaining, whining, and griping about Our Flag, Our Pledge, Our Christian beliefs, or Our Way of Life, I highly encourage you take advantage of one other great Australian freedom,

‘THE RIGHT TO LEAVE’.’

‘If you aren’t happy here then LEAVE. We didn’t force you to come here. You asked to be here. So accept the country YOU accepted.’

Maybe if we circulate this amongst ourselves, American and Canadian citizens will find the backbone to start speaking and voicing the same truths.

 

Proven Real!

This is TRUE as authenticated in Snopes.com

 

http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/australia.asp

Submitted by: Jerry B.

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Let’s say I break into your house


A lady wrote the best letter in the Editorials in ages!!! It explains things better than all the baloney you hear on TV.
Her point:
Recently large demonstrations have taken place
across the country protesting the fact that Congress
is finally addressing the issue of illegal immigration.

Certain people are angry that the US might protect its own
borders, might make it harder to sneak into this country and,
once here, to stay indefinitely.
Let me see if I correctly understand
the thinking behind these protests. Let’s say I break into your house. Let’s say that when you discover me in your house, you insist that I leave.
But I say, “No! I like it here.
It’s better than my house. I’ve made all the beds and washed the dishes and did the laundry and swept the floors. I’ve done all the things you don’t like to do. I’m hard-workingand honest (except for when I broke into your house).

According to the protesters:
You are Required to let me stay in your house
You are Required to feed me
You are Required to add me to your family’s insurance plan
You are Required to Educate my kids
You are Required to Provide other benefits to me & to my family
(my husband will do all of your yard work because
he is also hard-working and honest, except for that
breaking in part).

If you try to call the police or force me out, I will call my friends who will picket your house carrying signs that proclaim my RIGHT to be there.

It’s only fair, after all, because you have a nicer house than I do, and I’m just trying to better myself. I’m a hard-working
and honest, person, except for well, you know, I did break into your house
And what a deal it is for me!!!


I live in your house, contributing only a
fraction of the cost of my keep, and there is nothing you can do about it without being accused of cold, uncaring, selfish, prejudiced, and bigoted behavior.


Oh yeah, I DEMAND that you learn
MY LANGUAGE!!! so you can communicate with me.

Why can’t people see how ridiculous this is?! Only in America! If you agree, pass it on (in English ).
Share it if you see the value of it.

If not blow it off………
along with your future Social Security
funds, and a lot of other things.

Submitted by: Luddy aka Ludwig. Don’t call him that or he’ll flip on you.  Also he said to note that he isn’t the author and received this from his son.

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The story begins at Michigan State University with a mechanical engineering professor named Indrek Wichman.

Wichman sent an e-mail to the Muslim Student’s Association. The e-mail was in response to the students’ protest of the Danish cartoons that portrayed the Prophet Muhammad as a terrorist. The group had complained the cartoons were “hate speech.”

Enter Professor Wichman. In his e-mail he said the following:

Dear Moslem Association,

As a professor of Mechanical Engineering here at MSU I intend to protest your protest.I am offended not by cartoons, but by more mundane things like beheadings of civilians, cowardly attacks on public buildings, suicide murders, murders of Catholic priests (the latest in Turkey), burnings of Christian churches, the continued persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt, the imposition of Sharia law on non-Muslims, the rapes of Scandinavian girls and women (called “whores” in your culture), the murder of film directors in Holland, and the rioting and looting in Paris France.

This is what offends me, a soft-spoken person and academic, and many, many of my colleagues. I counsel you dissatisfied, aggressive, brutal, and uncivilized slave-trading Moslems to be very aware of this as you proceed with your infantile “protests.” If you do not like the values of the West, see the 1st Amendment - you are free to leave. I hope for God’s sake that most of you choose that option. Please return to your ancestral homelands and build them up yourselves instead of troubling Americans.

Cordially,

I. S. Wichman

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

As you can imagine, the Muslim group at the university didn’t like this too well. They’re demanding that Wichman be reprimanded and the university impose mandatory diversity training for faculty and mandate a seminar on hate and discrimination for all freshmen.

Now the local chapter of C.A.I.R. has jumped into the fray. CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, apparently doesn’t believe that the good professor had the right to express his opinion.

For its part, the university is standing its ground in support of Professor Wichman, saying the e-mail was private, and they don’t intend to publicly condemn his remarks. Send this to your friends, and ask them to do the same. Tell them to keep passing it around until the whole country gets it. We are in a war.

This political correctness crap is getting old and killing us. If you agree with this, please send it to all your friends, if not simply go away and forget about what goes on in the world while listening to your ipod.

Snopes.com
Professor Wichman E-mail Claim: A Michigan professor sent an e-mail telling Muslim students to leave the country.

Status: True.

Submitted by My Ex Mother in Law funnily enough.

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…And for the Same Reason!

Is this the Change that we want? What do you pay in Taxes?

After all is said and done in this Democratic nomination process, we will have either Obama or Clinton as the Democratic candidate. MCCain is excited since the public policies of both Clinton and Obama are quite honest with their intent to roll back the Bush tax cuts and add a few more that they seem to like. He believes that when the American people find out how far and regressive both Obama and Clinton’s tax policies are, he will win the Presidency.

Will The Media Hide The Facts?

Before the last election we’ve seen how the media could hide and distort the facts, see sickening examples with links that will make you scratch your head. If this doesn’t scare you a little on how propaganda can be played, I don’t know what will.

Facts and Facts and Their Own Words

Here’s the Beef - please if anyone can question any FACT here please speak up. These are the public policies of both Clinton and Obama. Are you ready for increased taxes? As I see it the tax increases will hit everyone. Even the poorest among us that pay taxes - those making 35K a year will see themselves lose over 4K more in 2009 with President Obama or Clinton. Is this really the change we want? Lets look at some of the details shall we. The devil is always in the details and you will see how the media will do their best to hide what they are saying. Sounds funny but true.

The Real Change

This is the real “Change” Obama and Clinton offer you. I am glad many people are excited about Obama/Clinton because they may get the opportunity to be a real participant in this exciting new “Change” about to occur.

Proposed changes in taxes after 2008 General election:

CAPITAL GAINS TAX

MCCAIN

15% (no change)

OBAMA

28%

CLINTON

24%

How does this affect you? If you sell your home and make a profit, you will pay 28% of your gain on taxes. If you are heading toward retirement and would like to down-size your home or move into a retirement community, 28% of the money you make from your home will go to taxes. This proposal will adversely affect the elderly who are counting on the income from their homes as part of their retirement income.

DIVIDEND TAX

MCCAIN

15% (no change)

OBAMA

39.6%

CLINTON

39.6%

How will this affect you? If you have any money invested in stock market, IRA, mutual funds, college funds, life insurance, retirement accounts, or anything that pays or reinvests dividends, you will now be paying nearly 40% of the money earned on taxes if Obama or Clinton become president. The experts predict that “Higher tax rates on dividends and capital gains would crash the stock market yet do absolutely nothing to cut the deficit.”

INCOME TAX

MCCAIN

(no changes)

Single making 30K - tax $4,500

Single making 50K - tax $12,500

Single making 75K - tax $18,750

Married making 60K- tax $9,000

Married making 75K - tax $18,750

Married making 125K - tax $31,250

OBAMA

(reversion to pre-Bush tax cuts)

Single making 30K - tax $8,400

Single making 50K - tax $14,000

Single making 75K - tax $23,250

Married making 60K - tax $16,800

Married making 75K - tax $21,000

Married making 125K - tax $38,750

CLINTON

(reversion to pre-Bush tax cuts)

Single making 30K - tax $8,400

Single making 50K - tax $14,000

Single making 75K - tax $23,250

Married making 60K - tax $16,800

Married making 75K - tax $21,000

Married making 125K - tax $38,750

How does this affect you? No explanation needed. This is pretty straight forward.

INHERITANCE TAX

MCCAIN

0%

(No change, Bush repealed this tax)

OBAMA

keep the inheritance tax

CLINTON

keep the inheritance tax

How does this affect you? Many families have lost businesses, farms and ranches, and homes that have been in their families for generations because they could not afford the inheritance tax. Those willing their assets to loved ones will not only lose them to these taxes.

NEW TAXES BEING PROPOSED BY BOTH CLINTON AND OBAMA

* New government taxes proposed on homes that are more than 2400 square feet

* New gasoline taxes (as if gas weren’t high enough already)

* New taxes on natural resources consumption (heating gas, water,

electricity)

* New taxes on retirement accounts

and last but not least….

* New taxes to pay for socialized medicine so we can receive the same level of medical care as other third-world countries!!!

Can you afford Clinton or Obama? I can’t!

In case you want more information on Obama’s tax and spend agenda:

If Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) Could Enact All Of His Campaign Proposals, Taxpayers Would Be Faced With Financing $874.35 Billion In New Spending Over One White House Term:

Updated February 14, 2008: Obama’s National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank Will Cost $60 Billion Over Ten Years; Equal To $6 Billion A Year And $24 Billion Over Four Years. Obama: “I’m proposing a National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank that will invest $60 billion over ten years.” (Sen. Barack Obama, Remarks On Economic Policy, Janesville, WI, 2/13/08)

Obama’s Health Care Plan Will Cost Up To $65 Billion A Year; Equal To $260 Billion Over Four Years. “[Obama] campaign officials estimated that the net cost of the plan to the federal government would be $50 billion to $65 billion a year, when fully phased in, and said the revenues from rolling back the tax cuts were enough to cover it..” (Robin Toner and Patrick Healy, “Obama Calls For Wider And Less Costly Health Care Coverage,” The New York Times, 5/30/07)

Obama’s Energy Plan Will Cost $150 Billion Over 10 Years, Equal To $15 Billion Annually And $60 Billion Over Four Years. “Obama will invest $150 billion over 10 years to advance the next generation of biofuels and fuel infrastructure, accelerate the commercialization of plug-in hybrids, promote development of commercial-scale renewable energy, invest in low-emissions coal plants, and begin the transition to a new digital electricity grid.” (Obama For America, “The Blueprint For Change,” www.barackobama.com, http://www.barackobama.com Accessed 1/14/08, p. 25)

Obama’s Tax Plan Will Cost Approximately $85 Billion A Year; Equal To $340 Billion Over Four Years. “[Obama’s] proposed tax cuts and credits, aimed at workers earning $50,000 or less per year, would cost the Treasury an estimated $85 billion annually.” (Margaret Talev, “Obama Proposes Tax Code Overhaul To Help The Poor,” McClatchy Newspapers, 9/19/07)

Obama’s Plan Would Raise Taxes On Capital Gains And Dividends, And On Carried Interest. Obama’s tax plan includes: “[i]ncreasing the highest bracket for capital gains and dividends and closing the carried interest loophole.” (Obama For America, “Barack Obama: Tax Fairness For The Middle Class,” Fact Sheet, www.barackobama.com, http://obama.3cdn.net/b7be3b7cd08e587dca_v852mv8ja.pdf> , Accessed 1/8/08)

Obama’s Economic Stimulus Package Will Cost $75 Billion. “Barack Obama’s economic plan will inject $75 billion of stimulus into the economy by getting money in th form of tax cuts and direct spending directly to the people who need it most.” (Obama For America, “Barack Obama’s Plan To Stimulate The Economy,” Fact Sheet, www.barackobama.com <http://obama.3cdn.net/8335008b3be0e6391e_foi8mve29.pdf>; , 1/13/08)

Obama’s Early Education And K-12 Package Will Cost $18 Billion A Year; Equal To $72 Billion Over Four Years. “Barack Obama’s early education and K-12 plan package costs about $18 billion per year.” (Obama For America, “Barack Obama’s Plan For Lifetime Success Through Education,” Fact Sheet, www.barackobama.com http://obama.3cdn.net/a8dfc36246b3dcc3cb_iem6bxpgh.pdf > , 11/20/07, p. 15)

Obama’s National Service Plan Will Cost $3.5 Billion A Year; Equal To $14 Billion Over Four Years. “Barack Obama’s national service plan will cost about $3.5 billion per year when it is fully implemented.” (Obama For America, “Helping All Americans Serve Their Country: Barack Obama’s Plan For Universal Voluntary Citizen Service,” Fact Sheet, www.barackobama.com <http://obama.3cdn.net/3b3158f85f69a39217_hydpmvzbb.pdf>; , 12/5/07)

Obama Will Increase Our Foreign Assistance Funding By $25 Billion. “Obama will embrace the Millennium Development Goal of cutting extreme poverty around the world in half by 2015, and he will double our foreign assistance to $50 billion to achieve that goal.” (Obama For America, “The Blueprint For Change,” www.barackobama.com

<http://origin.barackobama.com/pdf/ObamaBlueprintForChange.pdf>; , Accessed

1/14/08, p. 53)

Obama Will Provide $2 Billion To Aid Iraqi Refugees. “He will provide at least $2 billion to expand services to Iraqi refugees in neighboring countries, and ensure that Iraqis inside their own country can find a safe-haven.” (Obama For America, “The Blueprint For Change,” www.barackobama.com <http://origin.barackobama.com/pdf/ObamaBlueprintForChange.pdf>; , Accessed

1/14/08, p. 51)

Obama Will Provide $1.5 Billion To Help States Adopt Paid-Leave Systems. “As president, Obama will initiate a strategy to encourage all 50 states to adopt paid-leave systems. Obama will provide a $1.5 billion fund to assist states with start-up costs and to help states offset the costs for employees and employers.” (Obama For America, “The Blueprint For Change,” www.barackobama.com

http://origin.barackobama.com/pdf/ObamaBlueprintForChange.pdf> , Accessed

1/14/08, p. 15)

Obama Will Provide $1 Billion Over 5 Years For Transitional Jobs And Career Pathway Programs, Equal To $200 Million A Year And $800 Million Over Four Years. “Obama will invest $1 billion over five years in transitional jobs and career pathway programs that implement proven methods of helping low-income Americans succeed in the workforce.” (Obama For America, “The Blueprint For Change,” www.barackobama.com

<http://origin.barackobama.com/pdf/ObamaBlueprintForChange.pdf>; , Accessed

1/14/08, p. 42)

Obama Will Provide $50 Million To Jump-Start The Creation Of An IAEA-Controlled Nuclear Fuel Bank. Obama: “We must also stop the spread of nuclear weapons technology and ensure that countries cannot build — or come to the brink of building — a weapons program under the auspices of developing peaceful nuclear power. That is why my administration will immediately provide $50 million to jump-start the creation of an

International Atomic Energy Agency-controlled nuclear fuel bank and work to update the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.” (Sen. Barack Obama, “Renewing American Leadership,” Foreign Affairs, 7-8/07)

Need to Be Changed

Conclusion: That old joke about how do you tell when a politician is lying ( his lips are moving) is as true now as when it was first said. For me it seems to always be a question of who lies the least or who is the lesser of the two evils.

Both Clinton and Obama promise to roll back the Bush tax cuts. With the figures above and using their own public policy positions it would then seem ridiculous to vote for them if you don’t want an increase in your taxes.

So yes, we need to change our politicians often. They seem to always be full of you-know-what. Some more than others, but they all say and do anything to get elected. The least we could do then is to at least listen to their promises and vote on them.

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1984 by George Orwell (1903-1950)

The majority of people in the United States are on the low end ‘displeased’ with the performance of President Bush. Many have come to not even like him personally. I’ve heard people say “He’s too stupid to be President, We don’t need a C President.” I’m sure you’ve heard worse. Are you ready for something that will make you say ‘are you serious?’ and ‘no way!’. Matrix fans, time to take the red pill. This might astound you! I’m sure you’ve heard of that saying that goes

Never Judge a book by its cover

The fact is though we all do, that is judge each other as well as books by just the way it looks. Or in this case just the way we are told to think of President Bush day in and day out every day of the year by the media.

Propaganda at it’s finest.

In a nation as free as the United States, you’d think that the people are told the truth and hear all of the news as well. True - but I will show you with two easy examples and links right now how insidious propaganda is and how the major news media employs it. I’ll show you how it is really INTENT that needs to be looked at with every single news broadcast from this day forward. It is the intent of the news service, ABC, NBC, CNN and so on, that matters most.

Things that YOU were fooled with and even now may not know the truth.

Surprise Surprise, oh how the media plays us all

When it comes to President Bush, I’ll give you an important example of propaganda that made him lose hundreds of thousands of votes in the last election on the low end. I know because I was a volunteer pollster, and had many voters tell me they just can’t vote for a C student to stay in the White House. We needed someone more intelligent like Kerry whom the media painted as a genius compared to President Bush.

Bush was a C student, what a _____!

What if I told you that the entire major media, with the exception of just FOX did their very best to always attack Bush and his grades in college? For some strange reason they only kept saying that the grades were vastly different from the Democratic challenger’s. They never told us what those grades were. Some like me asked - well what were Kerry’s grades?

What Were Kerry’s Grades?

That’s the million dollar question then isn’t it. Every media outlet called Bush a dunce for being a C student. They said we need someone with better than a C average in the White House. This helped Kerry in the form of many hundreds of thousands of votes. at least. Numbers possibly in the millions who called Bush an idiot and too stupid to be President thanks to constant media attacks.

What Were Kerry’s Grades?

Let this be one of the best examples of propaganda pulled over the American public. Pulled off quite well by a media bent on getting rid of President Bush. John Kerry did worse than Bush in college! Fact! Click Here

In 1999, The New Yorker published a transcript indicating that Bush had received a cumulative score of 77 for his first three years at Yale and a roughly similar average under a non-numerical rating system during his senior year.

Kerry, who graduated two years before Bush, got a cumulative 76 for his four years, according to a transcript that Kerry sent to the Navy when he was applying for officer training school. He received four D’s in his freshman year out of 10 courses, but improved his average in later years.

Maki over at DoshDosh has a great article titled The Art of Propaganda: 7 Common Tactics Used to Influence Behavior.
In it he describes how name calling is used as one of the seven common propaganda devices. The stigma of being a C student hurt Bush, but fellow C Student Kerry kept it secret until after the election with the help of the media. Additional names developed like dunce, moron, all coming out of the mainstream media.

Bush and Kerry in college

Let’s recap how you were made to believe the lie

The media convinced most Americans that Bush was stupid based on his college grades. Grades that in reality were actually about even or better than Kerry’s! The media helped hide the fact that Kerry refused to release his grades until AFTER the election. If all of the stupidity skits on Saturday Night Live and Mad TV and in the papers daily didn’t have the false facts to fuel their ridicule, Bush would have done even better than he did. The public perception would have changed drastically. My own Mother had told me that Bush was stupid and that’s why she wanted to vote for Kerry. When I asked her why she thought so , she told me simply “everyone knows, it’s all over the news and everyone is talking about how stupid he is and was almost a drop out. ”

Now it Gets Clear and Sickening

Can 2 + 2 = 5?

Before the election of 2004, the major news media had almost nightly told us how terrible the economy was. Newspapers as well pointed to the unemployment rate, which was a staggering, horrible, terrible 5.6%! That