January 2008

Monday, January 28, 2008
A Hopeless Romantic Love Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egCeIwjIuZM

A NEW Love Song - Romantic?
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Saturday, January 26, 2008
Old Ed a true story
Old Eddie >
> It happens every Friday evening, almost without fail, when the sun
resembles a giant orange and is starting to dip into the blue ocean.


Old Ed comes strolling along the beach to his favorite pier. Clutched in his bony hand is a bucket of shrimp. Ed walks out to the end of the pier, where it seems he almost has the world to himself. The glow of the sun is a golden bronze now. Everybody's gone, except for a few joggers on the beach. Standing out on the end of the pier, Ed is alone with his thoughts....and his bucket of> shrimp. Before long, however, he is no longer alone. Up in the sky a thousand white dots come screeching and squawking, winging their way toward that lanky frame standing there on the end of the pier. Before long, dozens of seagulls have enveloped him, their wings fluttering > > and flapping wildly. Ed stands there tossing shrimp to the hungry birds. As he does, if you listen closely, you can hear him say with a smile, "Thank you. Thank you."

> In a few short minutes the bucket is empty. But Ed doesn't leave. He stands there lost in thought, as though transported to another time and place. Invariably, one of the gulls lands on his sea-bleached, weather-beaten hat - an old military hat he's been wearing for years. When he finally turns around and begins to walk back toward the beach, a few of the birds hop along the pier with him until he gets to the stairs, and then they, too, fly away. And old Ed quietly makes his way > > down to the end of the beach and on home.

If you were sitting there on the pier with your fishing line in the water, Ed might seem like "a funny old duck," as my dad used to say. Or, "a guy that's a sandwich shy of a picnic," as my kids might say. To onlookers, he's just another old codger, lost in his own weird world, feeding the seagulls with a bucket full of shrimp. To the onlooker, rituals can look either very strange or very empty. They can seem altogether unimportant ....maybe even a lot of nonsense. Old folks often do strange things, at least in the eyes of Boomers and Busters. Most of them would probably write Old Ed off, down there in Florida .

That's too bad. They'd do well to know him better.

His full name: Eddie Rickenbacker. He was a famous hero back in World War II. On one of his flying missions across the Pacific, he and his seven-member crew went down. Miraculously, all of the men survived, crawled out of their plane, and climbed into a life raft. Captain Rickenbacker and his crew floated for days on the rough waters of the Pacific. They fought the sun. They fought sharks. Most of all, they fought hunger. By the eighth day their rations ran out. No food. No> water. They were hundreds of miles from land and no one knew where they were. They needed a miracle. That afternoon they had a simple devotional service and prayed for a miracle. They tried to nap. Eddie leaned back and pulled his military cap over his nose. Time dragged. All he could hear was the slap of the waves against the raft. > > Suddenly, Eddie felt something land on the top of his cap. It was a seagull!
Old Ed would later describe how he sat perfectly still, planning his next move. With a flash of his hand and a squawk from the gull, he managed to grab it and wring its neck. He tore the feathers off, and he and his starving crew made a meal - a very slight meal for eight men - of it. Then they used the intestines for bait. With it, they caught fish, which gave them food and more bait......and the cycle > > continued. With that simple survival technique, they were able to endure the rigors of the sea until they were found and rescued. (after 24 days at sea...)

Eddie Rickenbacker lived many years beyond that ordeal, but he never forgot the sacrifice of that first lifesaving seagull. And he never stopped saying, "Thank you." That's why almost every Friday night he would walk to the end of the pier with a bucket full of shrimp and a heart full of gratitude.
(Max Lucado, In The Eye of the Storm, pp.221, 225-226)
Posted by Michael at Saturday, January 26, 2008 0 comments
Friday, January 25, 2008
Camp Rainey Mountain - NE GA Council BSA

Demoest Campsite 1964
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Thursday, January 24, 2008
IMMIGRATION GUMBALLS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7WJeqxuOfQ

PLEASE See this, Grasp the concept and DO SOMETHING about it!

Michael
Posted by Michael at Thursday, January 24, 2008 0 comments
Friday, January 18, 2008
Notes from Bill Gates


To anyone with kids of any age, here's some advice.Bill Gates gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.

Rule 1 : Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2 : The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.

Rule 6 : If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7 : Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try cleaning up your own room.

Rule 8 : Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9 : Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10 : Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11 : Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one. If you agree, pass it on.

If you can read this -

Thank a teacher! If you are reading it in English -Thank a soldier.

Posted by Michael at Friday, January 18, 2008 0 comments
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Inspirational - REVEILLE
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2487638612433437293

reveille -
Posted by Michael at Thursday, January 17, 2008 0 comments
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
The answer - Difference between Male / Female BRAIN
The difference between men's brains and women's brains is all made clear ... http://marriageresourcecenter.org/videogallery/4/med/VideoWidget8.htm
Posted by Michael at Tuesday, January 15, 2008 0 comments
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Geography Quiz
http://www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq
Posted by Michael at Thursday, January 10, 2008 0 comments
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
An Irish Blessing
http://www.e-water.net/viewflash.php?flash=irishblessing_en
Posted by Michael at Wednesday, January 09, 2008 0 comments
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Uncle Jay - A Lesson
Posted by Michael at Tuesday, January 08, 2008 0 comments
The REAL Hill - Billy

Posted by Michael at Tuesday, January 08, 2008 0 comments
Sunday, January 06, 2008
Kal and Me
Kalalau Kal
My Brittany Spaniel
Puppy Trial
Jackson GA

Posted by Michael at Sunday, January 06, 2008 0 comments
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