MEMORIES: Letter to God concerning Toots

Sunday, February 26, 2012

(Inspired by a child’s FACEBOOK post.)

Dear God,

Will you please take care of my wife?

She died year ago today. And I expect is either with you in heaven or patiently waiting her turn for admission. Little confused about that Purgatory thing, and since she suffered a lot during her life, I figure she paid for any venial sins a long time ago. Based on what I know of her life, I don’t think she had any mortal ones on her permanent record. Don’t forget from her twenties on she never had a good day with her diabetes. Childness was another heavy cross she bore without complaint. And, in the last years, the strange blood disorder that she allow the “medicine men” to experiment on her was the final one. Never heard her complain. Although at the end she was impatient to be released from this vale of tears.

I miss her very much.

I am happy that you let me have her as my wife even though she got sick. She was the best thing that ever happened to me. And, she made me a better person.

I hope you will play with her. She likes to play with balls — especially catch with little boys, bowling before her legs gave out, and her beloved basketball. Of course, if you have a few slot machines, that would keep her entertained for hours. She can show you her “Irish luck”.

I am sending a picture of her so when you see her you will know that she is my wife. By the way, thanks for giving her that fantastic day January 21, 2011. She felt great; not perfect but pretty near the old Ev of her youth.

I really miss her.

Dona Nobis Pacem

With apologies to a young girl named Meredith who gave me this idea.

Fjohn

2011-01-21 Our Girl feeling 'n' looking good

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I’ve always believed that after a year, one has to grant oneself “amnesty” and move on. I’ve tried to do that after seeing my relatives literally drive themselves nuts with regrets. Today marks a year. I hope that tomorrow the healing begins. Although I doubt it.

Love ya, toots!

(To which she’d always reply “Don’t call me toots!”. Wish I could hear that one more time.)

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MEMORIES: The Evlynn Marie Mahoney Reinke story (Version 1.1)

Sunday, February 26, 2012

http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/sharp-elbow-warm-heart/18894209

SEWH COVER

Sharp elbow; warm heart

The journey of a girl born into poverty,
From a tenement walk up
… to … a
quiet passing into heaven
… with frequent stops:
to help people, and
love all the children along the way.

The Evlynn Marie Mahoney Reinke story (Version 1.1)

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(An EPUB version as well as a future update is planed.)

Updates and addition stories welcome.

 

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SERVICE: CARDSCAN bait and switch

Saturday, February 25, 2012

DO I get a refund for the overpriced scanner I bought with the promise of an eternal free webservice?

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CardScan @ Your Service Discontinuance Update

Dear DYMO Customer,

We emailed you a few weeks ago that we were finalizing a solution to replace CardScan At Your ServiceTM. We selected a powerful comprehensive solution provided by ScanBiz Mobile Solutions and consists of two parts: the ScanBizCards Web Sync web-based card management application and the ScanBizCards mobile app.

How Does It Work?

Step 1: Sign up for a Web Sync account at www.scanbizcards.com/dymo.
Step 2: Access your new account at www.scanbizcards.com/websync from the desktop where you are running the CardScan application.
Step 3: Look under the Account tab for an “Upload CardScan File” link. Use this link to upload your latest CardScan Database (.CDB) file.
Step 4: Your CDB will be processed to create all required cards in your Web Sync account. Note: the process will start soon but may take several hours to complete. During that time you may access cards already uploaded.
Step 5: (optional) Download the ScanBizCards mobile app and sign in with your Web Sync account (more info below).

 

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• Full migration of all CardScan contact information including card images (both front and back), categories, notes and all data fields.
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• Sending quick intro emails to new contacts
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POLITICAL: MYOB as a foreign policy

Saturday, February 25, 2012

http://lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan212.html

Who Commissioned Us to Remake the World?
by Patrick J. Buchanan

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We believe in freedom of speech and the press.

Yet, in France, if you deny the Turks committed genocide against the Armenians in 1915, you are guilty of a crime, while in Turkey if you affirm that the Turks committed genocide, you have committed a crime. Should U.S. diplomats battle for repeal of both laws? Or mind our own business?

If America wishes to lead the world, let us do it by example, as we once did, not by hectoring every nation on earth to adopt the American way, which as of now, does not seem to be working all that well for Americans.

McFaul should stick to his diplomatic duties.

Jefferson had it right, “We wish not to meddle with the internal affairs of any country.”

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Seems pretty simple?

As Ron Paul said in the debates that “we” do to others what “we” wouldn’t like done to us.

No humility in our dealings with other countries.

When “we” get all our problems fixed here, “we” should still refrain from commenting on policies in other countries.

If they want to handicap themselves, that’s their business.

Argh!

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INSPIRATIONAL: Veterans Take A Backseat

Friday, February 24, 2012

http://bigpeace.com/kpatton/2012/02/20/devaluing-the-american-hero-veterans-take-backseat-to-sports-entertainment-figures/

Devaluing the American Hero: Veterans Take Backseat to Sports, Entertainment Figures
Posted by Kerry Patton Feb 20th 2012 at 9:42 am in Featured Story
Written by New York times Best Selling Author James M. Pratt and Kerry Patton.

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In 2012, a ticker tape parade in New York City is reserved for a Super Bowl team while those who served in Iraq from 2003 to 2011 get a collective “thanks,” at best. A serviceman from New Jersey who gave all he had dying this year gets his parents or wife a flag from his coffin, while this week a flag at “half staff” is reserved for a famous singer from the same state simply because she gave us great music.  Should the same be done for Jon Bon Jovi or Bruce Springsteen when they pass? Should they be granted the same honors as our brave men and women who gallantly fight for our freedoms?

Basketball, baseball, football players, actors, and singers all receive financial and other rewards beyond most people’s wildest dreams and are all too often mislabeled in terminology  and public adoration as “heroes.”

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Sad that we don’t honor the vets.

Let’s bring them all home now.

Then, let’s work on getting our heads screwed back on correctly.

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RANT: Secondary authentication questions are an invitation to identity theft

Friday, February 24, 2012

FORCED BY A “HUMAN RESOURCE” SYSTEM TO ANSWER:

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What’s your father’s middle name?

What’s your spouse’s middle name?

What’s your first child’s middle name?

What was your grandfather’s occupation?

What was the name of the first car you drove?

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Of course, everyone knows or can find out the answers to these questions.

To save the identity theives time and trouble, the answers are:

bkd7ce5bw9d3

tm7d59c8zyyj

4w2uqfr77vyn

uqfz2rq2tyjv

w84p6ze8u22s

Yes that “w84 p6z e8u 22s” was some little car.

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Anyone see the LIFELOCK commercial where the identity thief steals your money by knowing Mother’s Maiden Name and some other factoid?

Yeah, you can guess how well that works.

When at the bank and they asked that question, I whipped out my sheet of one time passwords and with a straight face told the nice lady “dpdes5 mkkey9”. And, she said: “Seriously?” I quipped: “Yes, she was Armenian.” And, that ended that conversation.

Now when I go to the bank she asks how “dp” is. I say: “Fine”.

Argh!

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RANT: BHO44 is stuck with the “gas price” crisis!

Friday, February 24, 2012

Richard Billies: “Barack Obama Claims It Wasn’t Me that caused higher gas prices, it was the other guys: http://t.co/aeCiCY7X Retweet it if you like it.”

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He did the following:

(1) Drilling in the Gulf? (But we give money to Brazil to do it!)

(2) No or slow oil leases.

(3) ANWAR off-limits.

(4) Keystone pipeline

What he could do today?

(a) Preempt all the “blends of gas” nonsense with a sweeping Federal regulation.

(b) Gas tax relief paid for by tariff.

(c) Tariff on gas exports.

(d) Open ANWAR and the Gulf

(e) Sic the IRS on the Oil Companies

(f) Have every Gooferment department come up with a real 1% cut.

(g) …

Guess that’s enough for the first day.

Argh!

He’s hung with this millstone.

He might want to think about calming the Middle East as opposed to appeasing the crazies.

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FUN:ANWAR = Central Park

Friday, February 24, 2012

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/alaska-lawmakers-ask-fed-to-take-over-central-park-to-point-out-hypocrisy/

Government Alaska Lawmakers Ask Fed to Take Over Central Park to Point Out Hypocrisy
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:49pm by Tiffany Gabbay

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Perturbed with outsiders interfering with the right to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Republican Congressman Kyle Johansen introduced a resolution in Juneau Monday that gives those on the east coast a taste of their own medicine.

Thus, in the interest of preserving one of the few remaining glimmers of urban greenery left, Alaska state legislators are asking the federal government to take over Central Park.

Yes. The Central Park in New York City.

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You have to laugh when the shoe gets put on the other foot.

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FUN: Little Boy and His Dog

Thursday, February 23, 2012

FROM LUDDITE

http://zanylol.com/littleboy.html

Little Boy and His Dog

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Sappy!

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FLASH: 7 Marines Killed in Helicopter Crash in AZ

Thursday, February 23, 2012

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/7-marines-killed-in-midair-helicopter-crash-in-ariz/

US 7 Marines Killed in Midair Helicopter Crash in Ariz.
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 9:25am by Madeleine Morgenstern

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Seven Marines were killed Wednesday night when two military helicopters collided in midair during routine training near Yuma, Ariz., the Associated Press reported.

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Sadly. Accidents happen.

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