If you're on Facebook, then you probably have already heard about this important day.
If not, I hope you will participate.
Red Envelope Day is March 31, 2009, and involves as many people as will, a chance to show our new President that we are against abortion, but in a quiet, peaceable but powerful way.
Purchase or make a red envelope and put the President's address on the front:
President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington , D.C. 20500
On the back, write this message:
This envelope represents one child who died because of an abortion.
It is empty because the life that was taken is now unable to be a part of our world.
We will all mail our envelopes on March 31, 2009.
I hope you will participate in this cause for unborn babies.
For more information, please click on the link above.
Friday, February 27, 2009
Red Envelope Day
Sunday, February 22, 2009
How It Works in Illinois and NOW in Washington - aka BIG GOVERNMENT
Three contractors are bidding to fix a broken fence at the White House in D.C.;
One from Illinois, one from Tennessee, and a third from Kentucky.
They all go with a White House official to examine the fence.
The Tennessee contractor takes out a tape measure and does some measuring,
Then works some figures with a pencil.
"Well," he says, "I figure the job will run about $900: $400 for materials, $400 for my crew and $100 profit for me."
The Kentucky contractor also does some measuring and figuring, then says,
"I can do this job for $700: $300 for materials, $300 for my crew and $100
profit for me."
The Illinois contractor doesn't measure or figure, but leans over to the White House official and whispers,
"$2,700."
The official, incredulous, whispers back, "You didn't even measure like the other guys!
How did you come up with such a high figure?"
The Illinois contractor whispers back, "$1000 for me, $1000 for you, and we hire that guy from Kentucky to fix the fence."
"Done!" replies the government official.
And that my friends, is how it all works in Illinois and in Washington~
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Techno-Culture - Why Facebook Is For Old Fogies
(Debbie's personal note: I did not write this article, but think it is hilariously true.)
by Lev Grossman - printed on Time.com
Facebook is five. Maybe you didn't get it in your news feed, but it was in February 2004 that Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg, along with some classmates, launched the social network that ate the world. Did he realize back then in his dorm that he was witnessing merely the larval stage of his creation? For what began with college students has found its fullest, richest expression with us, the middle-aged. Here are 10 reasons Facebook is for old fogies:
1. Facebook is about finding people you've lost track of. And, son, we've lost track of more people than you've ever met. Remember who you went to prom with junior year? See, we don't. We've gone through multiple schools, jobs and marriages. Each one of those came with a complete cast of characters, most of whom we have forgotten existed. But Facebook never forgets.
2. We're no longer bitter about high school. You're probably still hung up on any number of petty slights, but when that person who used to call us that thing we're not going to mention here, because it really stuck, asks us to be friends on Facebook, we happily friend that person. Because we're all grown up now. We're bigger than that. Or some of us are, anyway. We're in therapy, and it's going really well. These are just broad generalizations. Next reason.
3. We never get drunk at parties and get photographed holding beer bottles in suggestive positions. We wish we still did that. But we don't.
4. Facebook isn't just a social network; it's a business network. And unlike, say, college students, we actually have jobs. What's the point of networking with people who can't hire you? Not that we'd want to work with anyone your age anyway. Given the recession--and the amount of time we spend on Facebook--a bunch of hungry, motivated young guns is the last thing we need around here.
5. We're lazy. We have jobs and children and houses and substance-abuse problems to deal with. At our age, we don't want to do anything. What we want is to hear about other people doing things and then judge them for it. Which is what news feeds are for.
6. We're old enough that pictures from grade school or summer camp look nothing like us. These days, the only way to identify us is with Facebook tags.
7. We have children. There is very little that old people enjoy more than forcing others to pay attention to pictures of their children. Facebook is the most efficient engine ever devised for this.
8. We're too old to remember e-mail addresses. You have to understand: we have spent decades drinking diet soda out of aluminum cans. That stuff catches up with you. We can't remember friends' e-mail addresses. We can barely remember their names.
9. We don't understand Twitter. Literally. It makes no sense to us.
10. We're not cool, and we don't care. There was a time when it was cool to be on Facebook. That time has passed. Facebook now has 150 million members, and its fastest-growing demographic is 30 and up. At this point, it's way cooler not to be on Facebook. We've ruined it for good, just like we ruined Twilight and skateboarding. So git! And while you're at it, you damn kids better get off our lawn too.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Interesting Poll
A recent poll of more than 350,000 Americans on the importance of religion revealed that the nation is separated into enclaves of widely divergent viewpoints on faith, with some states and regions clearly religious and others significantly secular.
Gallup conducted a telephone poll of 355,334 U.S. adults, asking the question, "Is religion an important part of your daily life?"
As one might suspect, states from the "Bible Belt" scored the highest, with 85 percent of Mississippians and 79 percent of Tennesseeans, for example, answering yes.
The poll also revealed, however, that in addition to the Bible Belt, the U.S. also has a pair of "secular strips."
The New England states of Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Maine scored the lowest in the nation, with only 42 percent of Vermont residents – or less than half the percentage of those in Mississippi – answering yes.
The other "secular strip" can be found in the West, where Alaska, Washington, Oregon and Nevada all scored in the bottom 10 states for affirming religion's importance in daily life.
Across the country's entirety, 65 percent of the respondents affirmed that religion is an important part of their lives.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Thursday, February 12, 2009
In Search of the "Perfect" Phone
My hubby has a birthday coming up really soon. He's one of those people that, to me, is hard to shop for. He pretty much likes hunting stuff and fishing stuff; and he buys what he needs in that department. I've given him shirts, ties, sweaters, etc...
So my idea, this year, was to get him a new cell phone. Not just any cell phone, but one that he can really use and enjoy.
He's an investment broker and many of his cohorts at Edward Jones have purchased Smartphones. This is to enable them to not only make calls and schedule appointments but also to be able to download client portfolio information, transfer from his office computer to his phone any information at the touch of a button and stay up with the stock market, etc...
I really think it would be a useful tool for him.
The next question: what kind of phone to get? The only parameters I have from his workplace are a) they don't interface with Blackberry or Palm and b) it has to have at least Windows Mobile 5 or 6.
So, to those of you, my extreme "tech-y" friends, I would welcome feedback. I also don't want to spend an arm and a leg either. Because after you buy the phone you gotta pay for all that extra stuff too! Oh, one other important note - it's gotta be Verizon. Why? Well, when he goes duck-hunting in the fall in Arkansas, Verizon is the only carrier that connects out in the "boonies". So, Verizon is a must!
Comments welcome - thanks!
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Sad But True
