****Award****

I want to acknowledge receipt and my grattitude for this wonderful award from Gerry.
Along with it there are rules and I am working on them...
I truly am...
But I didn't want to seem ungrateful and not acknowledge  receipt of this honor.
I will post all that goes along with the honor ASAP...







Thank you so very very much
She not only awarded this to WW but to all my blogs...that is a first for me and I am so honored.
 I so adore Gerry and Doc,of course,also!!

****Twas The Month Before Christmas****......

Animation By Connie

The following I recieved in an e-mail-just had to share

Twas the month before Christmas*



*When all through our land,*


*Not a Christian was praying*


*Nor taking a stand.*


*See the PC Police had taken away,*


*The reason for Christmas - no one could say.*


*The children were told by their schools not to sing,*


*About Shepherds and Wise Men and Angels and things.*


*It might hurt people's feelings, the teachers would say*


* December 25th is just a ' Holiday '.*


*Yet the shoppers were ready with cash, checks and credit*


*Pushing folks down to the floor just to get it!*


*CDs from Madonna, an X BOX, an I-pod*


*Something was changing, something quite odd! *


*Retailers promoted Ramadan and Kwanzaa*


*In hopes to sell books by Franken & Fonda.*


*As Targets were hanging their trees upside down*


* At Lowe's the word Christmas - was no where to be found.*


*At K-Mart and Staples and Penny's and Sears*


*You won't hear the word Christmas; it won't touch your ears.*


*Inclusive, sensitive, Di-ver-si-ty*


*Are words that were used to intimidate me.*


*Now Daschle, Now Darden, Now Sharpton, Wolf Blitzen*


*On Boxer, on Rather, on Kerry, on Clinton !*


*At the top of the Senate, there arose such a clatter*


*To eliminate Jesus, in all public matter.*


*And we spoke not a word, as they took away our faith*


* Forbidden to speak of salvation and grace*


*The true Gift of Christmas was exchanged and discarded*


*The reason for the season, stopped before it started.*


*So as you celebrate 'Winter Break' under your 'Dream Tree'*


*Sipping your Starbucks, listen to me.*


*Choose your words carefully, choose what you say*


*Shout MERRY CHRISTMAS ,not Happy Holiday !*


Please, all Christians join together and


wish everyone you meet during the


holidays a


"MERRY CHRISTMAS"


Christ is The Reason for the Christ-mas Season!


If you agree please pass this on, if not, simply ignore


and let the rest of your life be deceided by others..

I don't care who said it...........

I just heard on the radio that these were from Abraham Lincoln.
I loved it so I ran to look them up on the internet so I could
post them.It says it was not quotes from Lincoln...
But whoever said it ...I don't care..

So what do you think????


The Ten "You Cannots" Abraham Lincoln Did Not SayStatement
There is a list of ten statements beginning with "You cannot .. ."
that are popularly attributed to Abraham Lincoln, (1809 - 1865)
Sixteenth President of the United States.
They sound so wise and so much like things he would have said
that they are frequently quoted and attributed to him in print.
They are:








You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.


You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong


You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.


You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.


You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's

 initiative and independence.


You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.


You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.


You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.


You cannot establish security on borrowed money.


You cannot help men permanently by doing for them

 what they will not do for themselves.

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But alas! Lincoln did not say these things.
 They were written in 1916 by the Rev. William J. H. Boetcker,
a Presbyterian clergyman and pamphlet writer. In 1942, a group
called the Committee for Constitutional Government gave out a
great many leaflets entitled "Lincoln on Limitations" that contained
on one side a real Lincoln quote and on the other side the 10
Boetcker statements. Boetcker was credited with his statements
on the leaflet, but their proximity in print to one real quote by
Lincoln, plus the title of the leaflet, led people to think that
 Lincoln had said the ten listed statements.
 They were repeated in many printed sources, and are still
regarded by many as authentic Lincoln quotes.
 Carl Sandburg, Lincoln's most famous biographer, dismissed
 them as spurious.






SourcesBoller, Paul F., Jr., and John George.
 They Never Said It: A Book Of Fake Quotes,
 Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions
 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), pp. 82-84, 145.


Kominsky, Morris. The Hoaxers (Boston: Branden Press, 1970), pp. 18 - 27.
 

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VETERANS DAY

TODAY IS A DAY TO REFLECT AND THANK
OUR SOLDIERS AND VETERANS AND OUR
FALLEN HEROS FOR PROTECTING US WITH
THIER LIVES.


THANK YOU-ONE AND ALL!!!


THIS MAY NOT SEEM APPROPRIATE BUT I WANT
TO INVITE YOU TO THIS YEARS CHRISTMAS STORY.
AFTER YOU READ IT YOU WILL UNDERSTAND
 WHY I CHOSE TODAY TO OPEN IT....

CLICK ON THIS GRAPHIC..............

**NORK**

MY FAVORITE EPISODE OF C.B.S. AT THE END OF THIS VID
STARTING AT 2:03

???

I am confused about the links on others blogs.
I went to visit Lori  on 'Dusty Pages' and went to leave a
comment and I saw links to her post and saw
 Windswept Whispers 'Next Blog' , my last entry as a link.
I did not leave it there, so how does it get there?
It said create a link under it but neither did I, nor would I know how.
Just wondering. I am a little backward....