I GUESS IT'S A MATTER OF TASTE

THIS MEMORIAL DAY, LET US REMEMBER

To show our respect to the President of the United States

DOCTORS AND GUNS

(A) The number of physicians in the U.S. is 700,000.

(B) Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year are 120,000.

(C) Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171

(Statistics courtesy of U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services.)

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(A) The number of gun owners in the U.S. is 80,000,000.  (Yes, that's 80 million)

(B) The number of accidental gun deaths per year, all age groups, is 1,500.

(C) The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is .0000188

(Statistics courtesy of FBI)

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Therefore, statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.

Remember, 'Guns don't kill people, doctors do.'

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FACT: Not everyone has a gun,

BUT

Almost everyone has at least one doctor.

This means you are over 9,000 times more likely to be killed by a doctor than by a gun owner!!!

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Please alert your friends to this alarming threat. We must ban doctors before this gets completely out of hand!!!!!


Out of concern for the public at large, we withheld the statistics on lawyers for fear the shock would cause people to panic and seek medical attention!

WHY U.S. HEALTH CARE IS SO BAD IT NEEDS TO BE REPLACED BY OBAMACARE

A recent "Investor's Business Daily" article provided very interesting statistics from a survey by the United Nations International Health Organization.

Percentage of men and women who survived a cancer five years after diagnosis:
U.S.              75%
England       46%
Canada         42%

Percentage of patients diagnosed with diabetes who received treatment within six months:
U.S.              93%
England       15%
Canada         41%

Percentage of seniors needing hip replacement who received it within six months:
U.S.              90%
England       15%
Canada         40%

Percentage referred to a medical specialist who see one within one month:
U.S.              79%
England       40%
Canada         41%

Number of MRI scanners (a prime diagnostic tool) per million people:
U.S.              79
England       14
Canada         17

Percentage of seniors (65+), with low income, who say they are in "excellent health":
U.S.              14%
England         2%

Canada          6%

'TIS THE SEASON TO REASON

Barbara Walters, of 20/20, did a story on gender roles in Kabul, Afghanistan, several years before the Afghan conflict.

She noted that women customarily walked five paces behind their husbands.

She recently returned to Kabul and observed that women still walk behind their husbands. Despite the overthrow of the oppressive Taliban regime, the women now seem happy to maintain the old custom.

Ms Walters approached one of the Afghani women and asked, 'Why do you now
seem happy with an old custom that you once tried so desperately to change?'

The woman looked Ms Walters straight in the eyes, and without hesitation said, “Land mines.”

HE MIGHT RUN ANYWAY...

HAVE YOU KISSED A BIKER TODAY?

A tough looking group of bikers were riding when they saw a girl about to jump off a bridge so they stop. The leader, a big burly retired Navy Master Chief, gets off his bike and says, "What are you doing?" "I'm going to commit suicide," she says. While he did not want to appear insensitive, he didn't want to miss an opportunity, so he asked, "Well, before you jump, why don't you give me a Kiss?" So, she does and it was a long, deep lingering kiss. After she's finished, the biker says, "Wow! That was the best Kiss I have ever had.

That's a real talent you are wasting. You could be famous. Why are you committing suicide?"  

 

"My parents don't like me dressing up like a girl........"

BAD MISTAKE

The train was quite crowded, and a U. S. marine walked the entire length looking for a seat, but the only seat left was taken by a well dressed, middle-aged, French woman's poodle. The war-weary Marine asked, 'Ma'am, may I have that seat?' The French woman just sniffed and said to no one in particular 'Americans are so rude. My little Fifi is using that seat.' The Marine walked the entire train again, but the only seat left was under that dog. 'Please, ma'am. May I sit down? I'm very tired..' She snorted, 'Not only are you Americans rude, you are also arrogant!' This time the Marine didn't say a word; he just picked up the little dog, tossed it out the train window and sat down. The woman shrieked, 'Someone must defend my honour! This American should be put in his place!' An English gentleman sitting nearby spoke up, 'Sir, you Americans seem to have a penchant for doing the wrong thing. You hold the fork in the wrong hand. You drive your cars on the wrong side of the road. And now, sir, you seem to have thrown the wrong bitch out the window.

PRESIDENT'S DAY

Joe was eating lunch today with his 10 year old grandson when his
mom asked him "What is tomorrow?"  He said "It's President's Day"

She asked "What does that mean?" Joe was waiting for something
profound...

He said "President's Day is when Obama steps out of the White House
and if he sees his shadow, we have 2 more years of unemployment."

BAD SANCTIONS COMING

Sanctions against Canada & USA  

This morning, from a cave somewhere in Pakistan, Taliban Minister of Migration, Mohammed Mumu Omar, warned the United States and Canada that in response to the killing of Bin Laden, Taliban and Pakistani authorities will cut off America's and Canada's supply of convenience store managers.

If this action does not yield sufficient results, cab drivers will be next, followed by Visa, Dell and Rogers customer service reps and Toronto airport officials.  

It's getting ugly folks.

KICKIN' ASS

Rules for Kickin' Ass for the Non-Military

Make� sure you read #13

Dear� Civilians:

We know that the current state of affairs in our great nation has many
civilians up in arms and excited to join the military. For those of you who
can't join, you can still lend a hand. Here are a few of the areas where we would like your assistance:

1.� The next time you see any adults talking (or wearing a hat) during the
playing of the National Anthem -- kick their ass.

2.� When you witness, firsthand, someone burning the American Flag in
protest -- kick their ass.

3.� Regardless of the rank they held while they served, pay the highest
amount of respect to all veterans. If you see anyone doing otherwise,
quietly pull them aside and explain how these veterans fought for the very freedom they bask in every� second. Enlighten them on the many sacrifices these veterans made to make this Nation great. Then hold them down while a disabled veteran kicks their ass.

4.� If you were never in the military, DO NOT pretend that you were.
Wearing� battle dress uniforms (BDUs) or Jungle� Fatigues, or telling
Others that you used to be 'Special Forces.' Collecting GI Joe memorabilia
might have been okay when you were seven years old, now it will only make you look stupid and get your ass kicked.

5.� Next time you come across an *Air Force* member, do not ask them, "Do you fly a� jet?" Not everyone in the Air Force is a pilot. Such ignorance deserves an ass-kicking (children are exempt).

6.� If you witness someone calling the Coast Guard 'non-military,' inform
them of their mistake -- and kick their ass.

7.� Next time Old Glory (the� US� flag) marches by during a parade, get on
your damn feet and pay homage to her by placing your hand over your heart. Quietly thank the� military member or veteran lucky enough to be carrying her.� Of course, failure to do either of those could earn you a severe ass-kicking..

9.� "Your mama wears combat boots" never made sense to me -- stop� saying it! If she did, she would most likely be a vet and therefore would kick your ass!

10.� "Flyboy" (*Air Force*), "Jarhead" (*Marines*), "Grunt" (*Army*),
"Squid" (*Navy*), "Puddle Jumpers" (*Coast Guard*), etc., are terms of
endearment we use describing each other. Unless you are a service member or vet, you have not earned the right to use them. Using them could get your ass kicked.

11.� Last, but not least, whether or not you become a member of the
military, support our troops and their families. Every Thanksgiving and
religious holiday that you enjoy with family and friends, please remember that there are literally thousands of soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen far from home wishing they could be with their families. Thank God for our military and the sacrifices they make every day. Without them, our Country would get it's ass kicked.

12.� It's the Veteran, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of
the press.

It's the Veteran, not the poet, who has given us the freedom of speech.

It's the Veteran who gives us the freedom to demonstrate.

It's the Military who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and
whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the
flag.

AND ONE MORE:

13.� If you ever see anyone singing the national anthem in Spanish -- KICK THEIR� ASS.

ONE� LAST THING:
If you got this email and didn't pass it on -- guess what? You deserve to
get your ass kicked!

I sent this to you, not because I didn't want to get my ass kicked, BUT BECAUSE YOU ARE VERY, VERY SPECIAL TO ME, I KNOW YOU WILL NOT BE OFFENDED AND ARE PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN, AND WILL FORWARD THIS ALSO.

ENTITLEMENTS

Entitlement my ass , I paid cash for my social security insurance!!!! Just because they borrowed the money , doesn't make my benefits some kind of charity or handout !! Congressional benefits , aka. free healthcare , outrageous retirement packages , 67 paid holidays , three weeks paid vacation , unlimited paid sick days , now that's welfare , and they have the nerve to call my retirement entitlements !!!!!!.....scroll down...............

What the HELL's wrong???WAKE UP AMERICA !!!!

Tuesday's Daily Bulletin paper, ran two articles on the front page side by side :

1- Calif 's 20 Billion Dollar Budget Deficit 
2- The Calif Supreme Court ruling that ILLEGAL'S can attend college and get benefits. 

Why don't they just deport them when they arrive to register?

3- Last year they ran an article on the yearly costs to Calif Taxpayers from Illegal's using Hospital Emergency Rooms for their general health care -
At just one hospital the cost to tax payers totaled over 25  million a year  

Someone please tell me what the HELL's wrong with all the people that run this country!!!!!!

We're "broke" & can't help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, Homeless etc.,???????????

In the last months we have provided aid to Haiti , Chile , and Turkey . And now Pakistan .....home of bin Laden.  Literally, BILLIONS of DOLLARS!!!

Our retired seniors living on a 'fixed income' receive no aid nor do they get any breaks while our government and religious organizations pour Hundreds of Billions of $$$$$$'s and Tons of Food to Foreign Countries!
They call Social Security and Medicare an entitlement even though most of us have been paying for it all our working lives and now when its time for us to collect, the government is running out of money. Why did the government borrow from it in the first place?

We have hundreds of adoptable children who are shoved aside to make room for the adoption of foreign orphans. 
 
AMERICA: a country where we have homeless without shelter,  children going to bed hungry, elderly going without 'needed' meds, and mentally ill without treatment -etc,etc. 

YET.....................
They have a 'Benefit'  for the people of Haiti on 12 TV stations, ships and planes lining up with food, water, tents clothes, bedding, doctors and medical supplies. 
Imagine if the *GOVERNMENT* gave 'US' the same support they give to other countries. 
Sad isn't it?

99% of people won't have the guts to forward this. 
I'm one of the 1% -- I Just Did

ADVICE FOR THE LOVELORN

UNDERSTANDING WOMEN

This Exciting New Book

Explains It All!

GHOST SEX

A professor  at the Auburn University was giving a lecture on Paranormal Studies.To get a feel  for his audience, he asked, "How many people here believe  in ghosts?"

About 90  students raised their hands.

"Well,  that's a good start. Out of those who believe  in  ghosts, do any of you think you have seen  a ghost?"

About 40 students raised  their hands..

"That's really  good. I'm  really glad you take this seriously. Has  anyone here ever talked to  a ghost?"

About 15 students raised their hands.

"Has anyone here ever touched a  ghost?"

Three students raised their hands.

"That's fantastic. Now let me ask you  one question  further...Have any of you ever made  love to a ghost?"

Way in the  back, Ahmed raised his hand.

The professor  took off his glasses and said "Son, all the years  I've been  giving this lecture, no one has ever  claimed to have made love to a ghost. You've got to  come up here and tell us about your  experience.'

The Middle Eastern Muslim  student replied with a nod and a grin, and began to make  his way up to the podium. When he reached  the front of the room, the professor asked, 'So,  Ahmed, tell us what it's like to have sex with  a ghost?'

Ahmed was stunned.  "Shit, from  way back there  I thought you said Goats."

DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN DOGS SLEEP DIFFERENTLY

Can You Figure Out Which Is Which? 

THE ORIGIN OF THE WORD "BOOB"

FANTASTIC NEW DRINK

It's called the "Bourbon Bin Laden."

Two shots and a splash.  

FINALLY! SPRING IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER!

OBAMA AND THE CIA

This is long,but very informative.... CIA book review For the historical record... As President George W. Bush's top speechwriter, Marc Thiessen was provided unique access to the CIA program used in interrogating top Al Qaeda terrorists, including the mastermind of the 9/11 attack, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad (KSM). Now, his riveting new book, "Courting Disaster", How the CIA Kept America Safe (Regnery), has  been published. Here is an excerpt from "Courting Disaster": Just before dawn on March 1, 2003, two dozen heavily armed Pakistani tactical assault forces move in and surround a safe house in Rawalpindi.  A few hours earlier they had received a text message from an informant inside the house. It read:  "I am with KSM." Bursting in, they find the disheveled mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, in his bedroom. He is taken into custody.  In the safe house, they find a treasure trove of computers, documents, cell phones and other valuable "pocket litter."  Once in custody, KSM is defiant.  He refuses to answer questions, informing his captors that he will tell them everything when he gets to America and sees his lawyer. But KSM is not taken to America to see a lawyer Instead he is taken to a secret CIA "black site" in an undisclosed location. Upon arrival, KSM finds himself in the complete control of Americans.  He does not know where he is, how long he will be there,  or what his fate will be. Despite his circumstances, KSM still refuses to talk.  He spews contempt at his interrogators, telling them Americans are weak, lack resilience, and are unable to do what is necessary to prevent the terrorists from succeeding in their goals.  He has trained to resist interrogation.  When he is asked for information about future attacks, he tells his questioners scornfully: "Soon, you will know."   It becomes clear he will not reveal the information using traditional interrogation techniques. So he undergoes a series of "enhanced interrogation techniques" approved for use only on the most high-value detainees. The techniques include waterboarding. His resistance is described by one senior American official as "superhuman." Eventually, however,  the techniques work, and KSM becomes cooperative-for reasons that will be described later in this book. He begins telling his CIA de-briefers about active al Qaeda plots to launch attacks against the United States and other Western targets.  He holds classes for CIA officials, using a chalkboard to draw a picture of al Qaeda's operating structure, financing, communications, and logistics.  He identifies al Qaeda travel routes and safe havens, and helps intelligence officers make sense of documents and computer records seized in terrorist raids.  He identifies voices in intercepted telephone calls, and helps officials understand the meaning of coded terrorist communications.  He provides information that helps our intelligence community capture other high-ranking terrorists, KSM's questioning, and that of other captured terrorists, produces more than 6,000 intelligence reports, which are shared across the intelligence community, as well as with our allies across the world. In one of these reports, KSM describes in detail the revisions he made to his failed 1994-1995 plan known as the "Bojinka plot" to blow up a dozen airplanes carrying some 4,000 passengers over the Pacific Ocean.  Years later, an observant CIA officer notices the activities of a cell being followed by British authorities appear to match KSM's description of his  plans for a Bojinka-style attack. In an operation that involves unprecedented intelligence cooperation between our countries, British officials proceed to unravel the plot.   On the night of Aug. 9, 2006 they launch a series of raids in a northeast London suburb that lead to the arrest of two dozen al Qaeda terrorist suspects.  They find a USB thumb-drive in the pocket of one of the men with security details for Heathrow airport, and information on seven trans-Atlantic flights that were scheduled to take off within hours of each other: *    United Airlines Flight 931 to San Francisco departing at 2:15 p.m.; *    Air Canada Flight 849 to Toronto departing at 3:00 p.m.; *    Air Canada Flight 865 to Montreal departing at 3:15 p.m.; *    United Airlines Flight 959 to Chicago departing at 3:40 p.m.; *   United Airlines Flight 925 to Washington departing at 4:20 p.m.; *   American Airlines Flight 131 to New York departing at 4:35 p.m.; *   American Airlines Flight 91 to Chicago departing at 4:50 p.m. They seize bomb-making equipment and hydrogen peroxide to make liquid explosives.  And they find the chilling martyrdom videos the suicide bombers had prepared. Today, if you asked an average person on the street what they know about the 2006 airlines plot, most would not be able to tell you much. Few Americans are aware of the fact al Qaeda had planned to mark the fifth anniversary of 9/11 with an attack of similar scope and magnitude. And still fewer realize the terrorists' true intentions in this plot were uncovered thanks to critical information obtained through the interrogation of the man who conceived it: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. This is only one of the many attacks stopped with the help of the CIA interrogation program established by the Bush Administration in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Editor's Note: For other foiled terrorist plots, see page 9 of "Courting Disaster." In addition to helping break up these specific terrorist cells and plots, CIA questioning provided our intelligence community with an unparalleled body of information about al Qaeda. Until the program was temporarily suspended in 2006, intelligence officials say, well over half of the information our government had about al Qaeda - how it operates, how it moves money, how it communicates, how it recruits operatives, how it picks targets, how it plans and carries out attacks - came from the interrogation of terrorists in CIA custody. Former CIA Director George Tenet has declared: "I know this program has saved lives.  I know we've disrupted plots.  I know this program alone is worth more than what the FBI, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency put together have been able to tell us." Former CIA Director Mike Hayden has said:  "The facts of the case are that the use of these techniques against these terrorists made us safer.  It really did work." Even Barack Obama's Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair, has acknowledged:  "High-value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qaeda organization that was attacking this country." Leon Panetta, Obama's CIA Director, has said:  "Important information was gathered from these detainees.  It provided information that was acted upon." And John Brennan, Obama's Homeland Security Advisor, when asked in an interview if enhanced-interrogation  techniques were necessary to keep America safe, replied: "Would the U.S. be handicapped if the CIA was not, in fact, able to carry out these types of detention and debriefing  activities?  I would say yes." On Jan. 22, 2009, President Obama issued Executive Order 13491, closing the CIA program and directing that, henceforth, all interrogations by U.S. personnel must follow the techniques contained in the Army Field Manual. The morning of the announcement, Mike Hayden was still in his post as CIA Director, He called White House Counsel Greg Craig and told him bluntly: "You didn't ask, but this is the CIA officially nonconcurring".  The president went ahead anyway, over ruling the objections of the agency. A few months later, on April 16, 2009, President Obama ordered the release of four Justice Department memos that described in detail the techniques used to interrogate KSM and other high-value terrorists.   This time, not just Hayden (who was now retired) but five CIA directors - including Obama's own director, Leon Panetta - objected.  George Tenet called to urge against the memos' release.  So did Porter Goss.  So did John Deutch.  Hayden  says:  "You had CIA directors in a continuous unbroken stream to 1995 calling saying, 'Don't do this.'" In addition to objections from the men who led the agency for a collective 14 years, the President also heard objections from the agency's covert field operatives.  A few weeks earlier, Panetta had arranged for the eight top officials of the Clandestine Service to meet with the President. It was highly unusual for these clandestine officers to visit the Oval Office, and they used the opportunity to warn the President that releasing the memos would put agency operatives at risk.  The President reportedly listened respectfully-and then ignored their advice.  With these actions, Barack Obama arguably did more damage to America's national security in his first 100 days of office than any President in American history.   (But how many people know this???) William R. Mann Lt. Colonel, US Army, Retired Aut Pax Aut Bellum! "noli nothis permittere te terere"  "The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority." - Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 22, December 14, 1787