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One of the things that we have learned about funerals, and burying a friend, is the rule concerning clothes. The body of the person being buried has to be covered with a regular set of clothes. I don’t know if babies would be required to have baby clothes or not, but it is something to think about.

Here where we live, men are required to wear pants, shirt, socks, and underwear. I can understand being concerned for the dignity of the person being buried. Woman being buried would be required to have pantyhose, bra, and underwear along with other apparel. It makes the job of funeral director more difficult. Considering that not everyone would ordinarily wear such things is not taken into account. I do not know who sets up these rules, but they are there. I hope that others do not have to learn the hard way about these things. It makes a bad time more difficult. Regular life does not prepare you for these things.

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Have you ever wanted to be part of a group and tried to get accepted? Everybody has of course.

When you find yourself rejected it hurts. When no explanation is given it hurts even worse, because you are treated as if your feelings have no importance. People are sociable critters and like to gather into groups. Usually someone becomes a hermit because of difficult circumstances. Acceptance into a group is sometimes felt as if it means success in one part of life or another.

When people practice elitism, they are saying that the others around them are not worthy of their regard. That does not mean that it is fact, it is just a point of view from only one group. If you have been hurt through elitism, do not give up, maybe that group wasn’t worth YOUR regard. Try another. Remember that people usually gather into groups. There will be a group some where that will consider you to be worth of their regard. Do not let the opinions of one group hurt you and make your life more difficult.

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Come November, there will be an election for the office of President of the United States of America.

Both parties have their candidates lined up. Both seem to have their point ready to make for someone to choose them over their opponent.

I am a registered voter, I do vote. My question is….are you registered to vote? will you vote?

The last presidential election showed how important every vote is. Please do not just let things ride, then gripe when you do not like what happens. If you have a point of view, or a want for your country’s representative, VOTE. if you do not care to vote or to register……do not complain later, please.

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Does any one remember a story by George Orwell called 1984?

IT IS HERE. The RFID chip is Big Brother of the nightmare.

Have no doubt. In the book, the government has the thought police to make sure that the citizens get no freedom at all. For the ‘thought police’ think of the ‘politically correct police’ and what they have done to our supposed freedoms. Christmas scenes are not allowed on public property. Kids are not allowed to pray. Freedom of speech is not so free any more.

Now the government wants the RFID chip to follow everything and everyone. If I want to go to the bathroom and pass gas, I do not want someone knowing this and knowing my every move. If I want to hang out with friends, I do not want them to be harassed and followed with their every move, too.

So far, tracking information is used to ‘prevent’ shop lifting in stores. Except when I see a family go into a store and the ‘alarm’ sounds off because some chip in the kids’ shoes was not de-activated. There are things in DVD’s, there are things in types of medical devices. Why are people being ‘bugged’ , why are we allowing others to stick their noses into our private business?

The link I included with this post has 5 pages. Please check it out.

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Well, for critters stuck on a ball of rock scientists are always looking at the sky. They have found more stuff up there. At least this time is isn’t stuff that we left behind that might fall out of orbit like Skylab did.

Way out there by Neptune is another contact that is apparently made of ice and rock. Isn’t amazing what can be found? We have sent satellites out past Pluto, never landed there. We look around and find really strange things.

I saw some pictures of Jupiter where the size of Earth was compared to Jupiter side by side. It looked as if the Earth could be dropped into the ‘Red spot’ on the side of Jupiter. The planet is so big compared to our home. The patterns on the surface of Jupiter almost make it look like it was made of different types of fluids that are on the move and constantly swirling and mixing around. The view of the Earth showed the Middle East. I could recognize the Arabian peninsula and part of Africa. Our little planet is one piece out of a rather large cosmos.

I wish that we could be united with each other in peace rather than have to draw imaginary lines on our little planet. To each person it looks big by itself, but it’s not. Compared to other planets, it’s tiny. You should compare it to just the other planets in our own solar system. It makes you think, at least it did with me.

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Simple title for something that is not so simple, ain’t it?

What can I say, but that our favorite TV station - KWTX News 10 - gave an upbeat news program that was good news. They interviewed a veteran of the Iraqi war who had gone back to Iraq to see what changes, if any, there were to be seen. The man talked to the soldiers who were stationed there and mostly he was told that they were bored. The Iraqi people are doing most of the work and the American soldiers were bored.

You do not hear that on the national news.

I wonder why that is? Don’t you think that the American people would be glad to hear that the troop surge has worked? The more that things get better over there, the quicker that our soldiers can come home without the chance of things going bad after they are gone.

Well, any way, if you want to see this news article for yourself, go to the KWTX web site, and click on the ‘find it’ button. Look for - Vets For Freedom 08.15.08.

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Voting here in the USA is supposed to be a responsibility and privilege of legally registered US citizens.

How have any who are not citizens been allowed to register AND VOTE? IT HAS HAPPENED. The sad part in addition to all this is the fact that many regular, law abiding US citizens no longer care to take part in this country. It is bad enough that many forms that we fill out each day have Spanish on them as well as English, but to allow lawbreakers to try to take over our country, too?

Why doesn’t anybody care? Where is the media in this? They are surprisingly silent. We should not be silent, too.

After all if someone is an illegal alien, they are a lawbreaker. They show no respect for the laws of the land they are in illegally. Why should they be allowed to influence our lives?

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I watched the Olympic games tonight. At least most of them. When the Swimmers were to take the podium for the awarding of the medals and the American swimmer had stepped up to receive the gold, it felt good.

The part that got to me was when the American National Anthem was played. The melody by itself is beautiful. The words spoke of a fight that was being waged. The feelings expressed were concern for whether or not the fight was being won by the new American people.

Thinking on what was being expressed made me cry. Our country has been a wonderful place to live. We have freedoms that are not always found in other areas. It made me wonder if our country will be able to continue to be free. I do not want our country to fail. I do not want our people to fail. So many other places have lost so much and people have suffered. Please pray for our country. Please pray for our people. Please pray for our leaders.

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Just watched our local CBS affiliate TV station - KWTX . It was announced that Jack Kevorkian a.k.a.’Doctor Death’ was saying that he wanted to run for office. This was announced on the 10pm evening news today.

We have enough trouble with our politicians right now without having a murderer in office. He has blatantly mentioned how he has killed people. He has called it ‘mercy killings’, in my book that makes him a murderer. Why isn’t he in prison where so many other murderers are? Why is he running loose where he can hurt other people? To proudly announce that he wants to run for office on top of it all is a gigantic slap in the face of everyone who obeys the laws of the land by NOT killing their fellow citizens.

To say that I don’t understand is rather understated. It makes me angry.

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All of the time we hear about smugglers of people and drugs. What we never hear about are the times that Mexican troops cross the border and harass our own people.

What gives with this? What are they doing invading our country? Why is this not exploited by the media like ‘Brangelina” and all of the other crud which they love to announce? I get the feeling that their priorities are not in keeping us informed so much as pulling the wool over our eyes, so we do not have any idea what is going on. I thought that Mexico was supposed to be an ally with us, not an adversary.

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