If you pick up playing the guitar again better be prepared to play on a regular basis, or you lose it. Wished I could play as I love to sing so.........
Just got the send by someone who is usually on the ball. I did not think to check with snopes. Sorry about that good people. With articles like this we/I should check it out first. Thanks Shelley.
Two old guys, one 80 and one 87, were sitting on their usual park bench one morning. The 87 year old had just finished his morning jog and wasn't even short of breath.
The 80 year old was amazed at his friends stamina and asked him what he did to have so much energy.
The 87 year old said "well I eat rye bread every day, it keeps your energy level high and you'll have great stamina with the ladies."
So on the way home, the 80 year old stops at the bakery.
As he was looking around, the lady asked him if he needed any help.
He said "Do you have any rye bread?"
She said "yes there's a whole shelf of it, would you like some?
He said, I want 5 loaves.
She said, My goodness, 5 loaves...by the time you get to the 5th loaf, it'll be hard.
He replied, I cant believe it, everybody in the world knows about this but me!!!
I make up some threads just for the fun. "I have decided to do networking lol that was a good/fun one" I am an "jakke dee jack" I know, but I can also clam up.
Investigators found that Fannie Mae had hidden a substantial amount of Johnsons 1998 compensation from the public, reporting that it was between $6 million and $7 million when it fact it was $21 million. Johnson is currently under investigation for taking illegal loans from Countrywide while serving as CEO of Fannie Mae. Johnsons Golden Parachute was estimated at $28 Million.
WHERE ARE THEY NOW? FRANKLIN RAINES? Raines works for the Obama Campaign as Chief Economic Advisor TIM HOWARD? Howard is also a Chief Economic Advisor to Obama JIM JOHNSON? Johnson hired as a Senior Obama Finance Advisor and was selected to run Obamas Vice Presidential Search Committee
IF OBAMA PLANS ON CLEANING UP THE MESS- HIS ADVISORS HAVE THE EXPERTISE - THEY MADE THE MESS IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Would you trust the men who tore Wall Street down to build the New Wall Street ?
THIS IS WORTH READING TO LEARN WHO IS ALMOST REALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FINANCIAL DEBACLE THIS COUNTRY IS IN RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!! ESPECIALLY THE BOTTOM!
Here is a quick look into 3 former Fannie Mae executives who have brought down Wall Street. Franklin Raines was a Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Fannie Mae. Raines was forced to retire from his position with Fannie Mae when auditing discovered severe irregulaties in Fannie Mae's accounting activities. At the time of his departure The Wall Street Journal noted, Raines, who long defended the company's accounting despite mounting evidence that it wasn't proper, issued a statement late Tuesday conceding that mistakes were made and saying he would assume responsibility as he had earlier promised.
News reports indicate the company was under growing pressure from regulators to shake up its management in the wake of findings that the company's books ran afoul of generally accepted accounting principles for four years. Raines left with a golden parachute valued at $240 Million in benefits.
The Government filed suit against Raines when the depth of the accounting scandal became clear.
Government noted, The 101 charges reveal how the individuals improperly manipulated earnings to maximize their bonuses, while knowingly neglecting accounting systems and internal controls, misapplying over twenty accounting principles and misleading the regulator and the public.
The Notice explains how they submitted six years of misleading and inaccurate accounting statements and inaccurate capital reports that enabled them to grow Fannie Mae in an unsafe and unsound manner. These charges were made in 2006. The Court ordered Raines to return $50 Million Dollars he received in bonuses based on the miss-stated Fannie Mae profits.
Tim Howard - Was the Chief Financial Officer of Fannie Mae. Howard was a strong internal proponent of using accounting strategies that would ensure a stable pattern of earnings at Fannie. In everyday English - he was cooking the books. The Government Investigation determined that,Chief Financial Officer,
Tim Howard, failed to provide adequate oversight to key control and reporting functions within Fannie Mae.
On June 16, 2006, Rep. Richard Baker, R-La.,asked the Justice Department to investigate his allegations that two former Fannie Mae executives lied to Congress in October 2004 when they denied manipulating the mortgage-finance giants income statement to achieve management pay bonuses. Investigations by federal regulators and the company's board of directors since concluded that management did manipulate 1998 earnings to trigger bonuses. Raines and Howard resigned under pressure in late 2004. Howards Golden Parachute was estimated at $20 Million!
Jim Johnson - A former executive at Lehman Brothers and who was later forced from his position as Fannie Mae CEO. A look at the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversights May 2006 report on mismanagement and corruption inside Fannie Mae, and you'll see some interesting things about Johnson.
A woman's husband dies leaving her $20,000. After everything is done at the funeral home and cemetery, she tells her closest friend that there is no money left.
The friend says, "How can that be? You told me he had $20,000 a few days before he died. How could you be broke?"
The widow says, "Well, the funeral cost me $6,000? And of course, I had to make the obligatory donation to the church, so that was another $2,000. The rest went for the memorial stone."
The friend says, "$12,000 for the memorial stone? My God, how big was it?
The widow says, "Three carats."
A TV reporter did a story on gender roles in Iraq several years before the Gulf War. She noted that women customarily walked a few feet behind their husbands. In a follow-up story, she returned to Iraq recently and observed that men now walked several yards behind their wives. The reporter approached one of the Iraqi women and said, "This is marvelous! Can you tell the free world just what it was that enabled women here to achieve this total reversal of roles?"
"Land mines," replied the woman.
Larry wakes up at home with a huge hangover... He forces himself to open his eyes, and the first thing he sees is a couple of aspirins and a glass of water on the side table. He sits up and sees his clothing in front of him, all clean and pressed. Larry looks around the room and sees that it is in perfect order, spotless, clean. So's the rest of the house. He takes the aspirins and notices a note on the table: "Honey, breakfast is on the stove, I left early to go shopping. Love you." So he goes to the kitchen, and sure enough there is a hot breakfast and the morning newspaper. His son is also at the table, eating. Larry asks, "Son, what happened last night?" His son says, "Well, you came home after 3 A.M., drunk and delirious, broke some furniture, puked in the hallway, and gave yourself a black eye when you stumbled into the door." Confused, Larry asks, "So, why is everything in order and so clean, and breakfast is on the table waiting for me?" His son replies, "Oh, that! Mom dragged you to the bedroom, and when she tried to take your pants off, you said, "Lady, leave me alone, I'm married'!
Grandpa's Words of Wisdom Whether a man winds up with the nest egg or a goose egg depends a lot on the kind of chick he marries. Trouble in marriage often starts when a man gets so busy earnin' his salt that he forgets his sugar.
Too many couples marry for better or for worse, but not for good. When a man marries a woman, they become one, but the trouble starts when they try to decide which one. If a man has enough "horse sense" to treat his wife like a thoroughbred, she will never be an old nag. Judgin' from the specimens they pick for husbands, it's no wonder that brides often blush. On anniversaries the wise husband always forgets the past...but never the present.
A foolish husband remarks to his wife: "Honey, you stick to the washin', ironin', cookin', and scrubbin'. No wife of mine is gonna work." The bonds of matrimony are a good investment only when the interest is kept up.
Many girls like to marry a military man - he can cook, sew, make bed, and is in good health...and he's already used to taking orders. Grandpappy and his wife were discussin' their 50th wedding anniversary when she said, "Shall I kill a chicken tonight?" "Naw," said Grandpappy, "Why blame a bird for something' that happened 50 years ago?"
A collection of men's thoughts on their wives... "My wife has an uncanny way of standing between me and the television screen. Bases loaded, two strikes, three balls. The crowd goes wild, the pitch flies, and all I can see is her butt." --Howard, Dodge City, Kan. "My wife was furious when I got up early once and made her breakfast. Called me controlling. How dare I decide that My Wife would eat breakfast, let alone what she'd have?" --Ted, Wexford, Pa. "What's mine is hers. I buy her negligees; My Wife sleeps in my T- shirts. When My Wife's cold My Wife wears my wool socks to bed, never her own. My Wife steals my half-used razors; new ones are too sharp. My Wife even wears my boxers. I'm tempted to switch to briefs just to see what she'd do." --Dave, Martha's Vineyard, Mass. "You can hear her eat soup from the next room." --Bruce, Bridgewater, N.J. "My wife thinks everyone should be a vegetarian. During meals, My Wife asks people how they can eat dead cows, or if they know that their pork chops used to be smarter than their dogs." --Miles, Shreveport, La. "Every so often boom! My wife’s a brunette. Or I come home to a redhead. Actually, I have no idea what her natural color is." --Cary, Seattle "My wife will brush her teeth but she won't go to the dentist. She says she's not afraid of the pain; she just doesn't want to put herself in the hands of any fellow who'd choose to be a dentist. " --Terence, Gary, Ind. "My wife’s stopped shaving her legs. My Wife says that now people will know she's a natural blonde." --Ned, Tucson, Ariz. "My wife takes her half of the bed out of the middle." -Robin, Gladwyne, Pa. "Have you ever seen a woman with green crust and slime smeared over her face, dark holes for her nostrils? Do you think you'd be able to sleep at night, knowing that creature is next to you?" --Arthur, Cedar City, Utah "My wife’s allergic to everything. Her nose is chronically stuffed. If I kissed her on the mouth, she'd suffocate." --Bryan, Toledo, Ohio "My wife wears these false eyelashes. She left 'em lying around and I slammed 'em with my newspaper, tried to kill the damn things. Scared me half to death." --Gordon, Oklahoma City, Okla. "My Wife takes those soaps too seriously. I'll come home and find her in tears because some character died. Or upset that some nonexistent guy's having a fictional affair." --Archie, St. Louis "My Wife will not shop at discount stores or sales. My Wife thinks they're crowded and plebeian. My Wife doesn't even look at the reduced rack, other than, perhaps, for gifts for my mother." --Conrad, Wilmington, Del. "It annoys her that our children look like me." --James, New Orleans "With five kids, I don't have time to complain about . don't have time to notice her." --Bob, Charleston, W.Va.
Wow girl you sure are carying a full load and need to find a way to sleep. There are in many places volunteers who will come over and take care of your mom for you even, a few hours and also for some days. You need to get help! Ask you doctor for references or look in the phone book where you get help with assistance. Don't try to do this thing solo anylonger, no one could keep this up. Your not good to your mom, if you collapse and you seem close to it.
I totally agree with you Ginger.I had no choice. All that was left for me to do was too pray and I know others prayed for me too. I was and still am, very surprised to realize I never felt sleepy the whole trip. I felt alert the whole time. No, would never chance this again. I hope that by telling my own foolish story, to prevent someone else to do the same thing.
I talked to him last night but we have both smartened up and kept it reasonable short. Got to do my little stint in the Thrift store today and from there. go to my now 80 moula appointment. Yep you miss an appointment with this lady and she makes you pay. I can't blame her. Romeo said that after we have met, I may tell who he is.
Yes it could be embarrasing telling before. I still should have kept my mouth shut until then, but you know where the heart is full off, the mouth runneth over.
I went to bed after my appointment on Tuesday amd woke up 25 hours later, on Wednesday. Unless that ever happened to you, it is unreal. Missed my Wednesday appointment and have to take it today. I had no clue I had slept that long but the receptionist called to tell me and with the news it would cost me $40.. It feels weird to have missed a day, like waking up in the twilight zone. Missed talking to Romeo all together of course. He got over it. Ha ha
You guys are such great friends and supporters. Yes you did tell this Steve. Had connected with him guy some time ago allready, but just lightly. He was in Australia for several month and was thinking to Go to South America but something told him to come home instead. He does not know this, but it was God as prayers had been send out. This guy never had a change ha ha
That is personally my way; communication is the Key. But some men/women can be become soo angry they won't be wanting to talk.
Yes try to talk it out if you can, but it is clear that in the above these women and men same way, had already lost the will to communicate so bringing in other amunition. Sarcasme in the case.
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Men's thought on their wives......................
Lot's more where they came from.Need my daily "fix" myself