Feeling Old?

........I am feeling old (At my age flowers scare me) and tired.......

A is for arthritis,

B is for bad back,

C is for the chest pains. Corned Beef? Cardiac?

D is for dental decay and decline,

E is for eyesight--can't read that top line.

F is for fissures and fluid retention

G is for gas (which I'd rather not mention--

and not to forget other gastrointestinal glitches)

H is high blood pressure

I is for itches and lots of incisions

J is for joints, that now fail to flex

L is for libido--what happened to sex?

Wait! I forgot about K!

K is for my knees that crack all the time

(But forgive me, I get a few lapses in my

Memory from time to time)

N is for nerve (pinched) and neck (stiff) and neurosis

O is for osteo-for all the bones that crack

P is for prescriptions, that cost a small fortune

Q is for queasiness. Fatal or just the flu?

Give me another pill and I'll be good as new!

R is for reflux--one meal turns into two

S is for sleepless nights,

counting fears on how to pay my medical bills!

T is for tinnitus--I hear bells in my ears

and the word 'terminal' also rings too near

U is for urinary and the difficulties that flow (or not)

V is for vertigo, as life spins by

W is worry, for pains yet unfound

X is for X-ray--and what one might find

Y is for year (another one, I'm still alive).

Z is for zest

For surviving the symptoms my body's deployed,

And keeping twenty-six doctors gainfully employed.....

Ss

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Will Rogers’- Words of Wisdom:

 

Will Rogers’- Words of Wisdom:

 

Will Rogers, who died in a 1935 plane crash in Alaska with bush pilot Wiley Post, was one of the greatest political country/cowboy sages this country has ever known.

Some of his sayings -

1.   Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco.  

2.   Never kick a cow chip on a hot day.  

3.   There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither works.  

4.   Never miss a good chance to shut up.  

5.   Always drink upstream from the herd.  

6.   If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.  

7.   The quickest way to double your money is to fold it and put it back into your pocket.  

8.   There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence and find out for themselves.

9.   Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.  

10.   If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there.

11.   Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier'n puttin' it back.  

12.   After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him.

The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.

 

ABOUT GROWING OLDER...  

First ~      Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.

Second ~   The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.

Third ~   Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me; I want people to know 'why' I look this way. I've traveled a long way, and some of the roads weren't paved.  

Fourth ~   When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth, think of Algebra.  

Fifth ~   You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks.  

Sixth ~   I don't know how I got over the hill without getting to the top.  

Seventh ~   One of the many things no one tells you about aging is that it's such a nice change from being young.  

Eighth ~   One must wait until evening to see how splendid the day has been.  

Ninth ~   Being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable and relaxed.  

Tenth ~  Long ago, when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today, it’s called golf.

And, finally ~   If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old

 

 

 

 

 

 

Slow Dance

Slow Dance This is a poem written by a teenager with cancer. She wants to   see how many people get her poem. It is quite the poem Please pass it   on. This poem was written by a terminally ill young girl in a New York Hospital. It was sent by a medical doctor - Make sure to read what is in the closing statement AFTER THE POEM. SLOW DANCE Have you ever watched kids on a merry-go-round? Or listened to the rain slapping on the ground? Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight? Or gazed at the sun into the fading night? You better slow down. Don't dance so fast. Time is short. The music won't last. Do you run through each day on the fly? When you ask, "How are you?" Do you hear the reply? When the day is done, do you lie in your bed, with the next hundred chores running through your head? You'd better slow down Don't dance so fast. Time is short The music won't last. Ever told your child, We'll do it tomorrow? And in your haste, Not see his   sorrow? Ever lost touch, let a good friendship die Cause you never had time To call and say, 'Hi' You'd better slow down. Don't dance so fast. Time is short. The music won't last.. When you run so fast to get somewhere, You miss half the fun of getting there. When you worry and hurry through your day, It is like an unopened gift....Thrown away. Life is not a race. Do take it slower Hear the music Before the song is over. ------------ -------- FORWARDED E-MAILS ARE TRACKED TO OBTAIN THE TOTAL COUNT. Dear All: PLEASE pass this mail on to everyone you know - even to those you don't know! It is the request of a special girl, who will soon leave this world   due to cancer. This young girl has 6 months left to live, and as her dying wish, she wanted to send a letter telling everyone to live their life to the fullest, since she never will. She'll never make it to prom, graduate from high school, or get married and have a family of her own. By your sending this to as many people as possible, you can give her and her family a little hope, because with every name that this is sent to, the American Cancer Society will donate 3 cents per name to her treatment and recovery plan. One guy sent this to 500 people! So I know that we can at least send it to 5 or 6. It's not even your money, just your time! PLEASE PASS ON AS A LAST REQUEST. 1046 5

 

 

 

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Reagan was Prophetic

 Remember This Guy?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Too many people have forgotten, and too many don't even have a clue.  His quotes are right up there with other famous quote makers like Thomas Jefferson, Mark Twain and Will Rogers..

 

 

 

"Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it." -Ronald Reagan   'Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.' - Ronald Reagan  'The most terrifying words In the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.' -Ronald Reagan  'The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.' -Ronald Reagan  'Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the US. was too strong. - Ronald Reagan  'I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress.. -Ronald Reagan  'The taxpayer: That's someone who works For the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination' - Ronald Reagan  'Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other' - Ronald Reagan  'The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program.' - Ronald Reagan  'It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first' - Ronald Reagan  'Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it' - Ronald Reagan  'Politics is not a bad profession If you succeed, there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book.' - Ronald Reagan  'No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.' - Ronald Reagan  'If we ever forget that we're one nation under GOD, then we will be a nation gone under.' -Ronald Reagan

 

 

 

 

 

Prayer for those whove left us

 I feel a warmth around me

like your presence is so near,

And I close my eyes to visualize

your face when you were here,

I endure the times we spent together

and they are locked inside my heart,

For as long as I have those memories

we will never be apart,

Even though we cannot speak anymore

my voice is always there,

Because every night before I sleep

I have you in my prayer.

THAT'S IT, MY FRIENDS........GOOD NIGHT

lockSTEP generation "- a take-off on the STEPford generation?

With Doctor Stephen Marmor, ucla -

Most younger (and many others of the 'love generation mentality' we might add) folks today are largely immature, 'spoiled brats,' lacking resiliency who easily  blame others for their own inefficiencies.

May we add the word 'Dems' here, too- those of the lockstep 'opinions' who will as easily debate a subject as they will cut off their left arms. 

 It's mostly a generational thing with those born after 1965 having much less resiliency (around 1 or 2 on scale of 10) as compared to those born before 1965 who are resilient over 6 or 7, according to m

Marmore. 1965  Is an appropriate year to choose transition year should begin statue when the country  Quickly transitioned from a more conservative post war mentality to the liberal 'love generation' thinking. And it would never return to its 'golden era' postwar principles.  So blame much of this , if you want, on my own baby Boomer parents who may have been born with the pre-1965 values bit 'dropped  out' to the love generation , and in most cases never went back.  Its not to  say it's all the baby boomers doing by any means but 1965 was the line of demarcation after the JFK assassination and when the Johnson legislation opened things up to a  liberalized society and started regarding people by race and colour  rather than color-blind efficiency and, as JFK would say 'what we could do for our country, not what t our country could do for us. We've since turned JFK S WORDS upside down To where we are today with a prospective President  choosing his Cabinet almost soley on  the basis of skin colour or race or gender preference.  Post- 1965 parenting failed to instill a sense of 'Pick-yourself-up-by-the bootstraps' mentality  that we saw in the post-war era. Parents, if they weren't already, became squishy, lenient,  "love generation" parents  Who tried to be more like friends to their kids than parents,  letting them do things that they themselves would do, be it smoking marihuana , engaging in  Multiple sex partners,e t c. 

 Shall we call this new generation of people the "lockSTEP generation "- a take-off on the STEPford generation? And so it goes... perhaps a oversimplified but still accurate explanation of how we came to today.

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Tim Russert Remembered for his True Broadcast Journalism and Relationship with his Father

Tim Russert may be the last left-leaning broadcaster who never let his personal beliefs interfere with his newscasts. In fact, he was once accused of being 'too hard' on Hillary Clinton in her run for President in 2008.

 

Father's Day Memories

Remembering Iconoclast Journalist Tim Russert 10 Years Later

Tim Russert > Quotes       

Perhaps the last of the Great Broadcast JOURNALISTS who was  considerate to both sides of an issue regardless of politics, Tim Russert left us much too young not long after penning a wonderful book about his father 'BIG RUSS and Me' and their relationship. Thanks to GOOD READS, we quote some Russert passages here at the time of another Father's Day

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“The best exercise for the human heart is reaching down to lift someone else up.”
― Tim Russert

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“The best exercise for your heart, is reaching out and helping somebody.”
― Tim Russert

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“Baseball. If there's a more beautiful word in the English language. I have yet to hear it....baseball has served as such a powerful link between Dad and me, and later between me and my son.”
― Tim Russert, Big Russ & Me: Father and Son: Lessons of Life

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“His [Luke]letter went something like this: "Dear Mr President, Thank you for introducing me to the Hall of Famers and for showing me the Oval Office. I think if I work really hard I will have a chance for both."

The next time I saw the president I told him about my son's ambitious plans. His response was beautiful: "Never get between a boy and his dreams”
― Tim Russert

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“We can be for peace without supporting the enemy. We can be against this war without rooting for the other side.”
― Tim Russert, Big Russ and Me, Father and Son: Lessons of Life

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“What you are to be, you are now becoming. —RUSSEL LESTER SNYDER, artist”
― Tim Russert, Wisdom of Our Fathers: Lessons and Letters from Daughters and Sons

TIM RUSSERT  tribute to his father and their relationship

courtesy GOOD READS

Tim Russert
Russert in October 2007
Born	Timothy John Russert May 7, 1950 Buffalo, New York, U.S.
Died	June 13, 2008 (aged 58) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Cause of death	Coronary thrombosis
Education	B.A. John Carroll University J.D. Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
Occupation	Journalist
Years active	1983–2008
Spouse(s)	Maureen Orth (m. 1983–2008)
Children	Luke Russert
Website	MSNBC Biography

Timothy John Russert (May 7, 1950 – June 13, 2008) was an American television journalist and lawyer who appeared for more than 16 years as the longest-serving moderator of NBC's Meet the Press. He was a senior vice president at NBC News, Washington bureau chief and also hosted an eponymous CNBC/MSNBC weekend interview program. He was a frequent correspondent and guest on NBC's The Today Show and Hardball. Russert covered several presidential elections, and he presented the NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey on the NBC Nightly News during the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Time magazine included Russert in its list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2008.^[1] Russert was posthumously revealed as a 30-year source for syndicated columnist Robert Novak.^[2]

Political 

Prior to becoming host of Meet the Press, Russert ran one of U.S. Senator Daniel Moynihan's five major law offices based in Buffalo, New York. He later served as special counsel and as chief of staff to Moynihan, a Democrat from Hell's Kitchen, New York. In 1983, he became a top aide to New York Governor Mario Cuomo, also a Democrat. Yet, in our view, Russert - much like Walter Cronkite - kept his left leaning personal views to himself. 

In 10 years since Russert's passing, the media climate has changed so much, Russert would be an iconoclast today as we believe he would be one of the few media purveyors to CONTINUE to NOT show a political bent in  coverage of the news and politics.

CIA leak scandal 

In the Plame affair, Scooter Libby, convicted chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney, told special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald that Russert told him of the identity of Central Intelligence Agency officer Valerie Plame (who is married to former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson). Russert testified previously, and again in United States v. I. Lewis Libby, that he would neither testify whether he spoke with Libby nor would he describe the conversation.^[17][18] Russert did say, however, that Plame's identity as a CIA operative was not leaked to him. Russert testified again in the trial on February 7, 2007.^[19] According to the Washington Post, Russert testified that "when any senior government official calls him, they are presumptively off the record," saying: "when I talk to senior government officials on the phone, it's my own policy our conversations are confidential. If I want to use anything from that conversation, then I will ask permission."^[20]

At the trial, the prosecution asserted that a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent had called Russert regarding Russert's phone call with Libby, and that Russert had told the agent that the subject of Plame had not come up during his conversation with Libby.^[19]Russert was posthumously revealed as a thirty-year source of columnist Robert Novak, whose original article revealed Plame's affiliation with the CIA. In a Slate.com article, Jack Shafer argued that "the Novak-Russert relationship poses a couple of questions. [...] Russert's long service as an anonymous source to Novak...requires further explanation."^[21] In a posthumous commentary, the L.A. Times wrote that, "Like former New York Times reporter Judith Miller, Russert was one of the high-level Washington journalists who came out of the Libby trial looking worse than shabby." The article's author, Tim Rutten, argued that although Russert and NBC had claimed that these conversations were protected by journalistic privilege, "it emerged under examination [that] Russert already had sung like a choirboy to the FBI concerning his conversation with Libby—and had so voluntarily from the first moment the Feds contacted him. All the litigation was for the sake of image and because the journalistic conventions required it."^{[22][unreliable source?]}

Iraq War 

In the lead up to the Iraq War, Meet the Press featured interviews with top government officials including Vice President Dick Cheney. CBS Evening News correspondent Anthony Mason praised Russert's interview techniques: "In 2003, as the United States prepared to go to war in Iraq, Russert pressed Vice President Dick Cheney about White House assumptions." However, Salon.com reported a statement from Cheney press aide Cathie Martin regarding advice she says she offered when the Bush administration had to respond to charges that it manipulated pre-Iraq War intelligence: "I suggested we put the vice president on Meet the Press, which was a tactic we often used. It's our best format."^[23] David Folkenflik quoted Russert in his May 19, 2004, Baltimore Sun article:

“

I don't think the public was, at that time, particularly receptive to hearing it," Russert says. "Back in October of 2002, when there was a debate in Congress about the war in Iraq—three-fourths of both houses of Congress voted with the president to go. Those in favor were so dominant. We don't make up the facts. We cover the facts as they were.

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Folkenflik went on to write:

“

Russert's remarks would suggest a form of journalism that does not raise the insolent question from outside polite political discourse—so, if an administration's political foes aren't making an opposing case, it's unlikely to get made. In the words of one of my former editors, journalists can read the polls just like anybody else.

”

In the 2007 PBS documentary, Buying the War, Russert commented:

“

My concern was, is that there were concerns expressed by other government officials. And to this day, I wish my phone had rung, or I had access to them.[22]

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2008 presidential debate 

At the February debate, Russert was criticized for what some perceived as disproportionately tough questioning of Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton.^[24] Among the questions, Russert had asked Clinton, but not Obama, to provide the name of the new Russian President (Dmitry Medvedev).^[24] This was later parodied on Saturday Night Live. In October 2007, liberal commentators accused Russert of harassing Clinton over the issue of supporting drivers' licenses for illegal immigrants.^[25]

Enthusiasm for sports[edit]

Russert grew up as a New York Yankees fan, switching his allegiance to the Nationals when they were established in Washington, D.C. Russert held season tickets to both the Washington Nationals and the Washington Wizards^[26] and was elected to the board of directors of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York in 2003.

Awards 

During his career, Russert received 48 honorary doctorates and won several awards for excellence in journalism, including the Paul White Award from the Radio-Television News Directors Association (2009),^[35] the John Peter Zenger Freedom of the Press Award, the American Legion Journalism Award, the Veterans of Foreign Wars News Media Award, the Congressional Medal of Honor Society Journalism Award, the Allen H. Neuharth Award for Excellence in Journalism, the David Brinkley Award for Excellence in Communication and the Catholic Academy for Communication's Gabriel Award. Russert also received an Emmy Award in 2005 for his coverage of the funeral of former President Ronald Reagan.^[36]

Personal life 

Russert met Maureen Orth at the 1980 Democratic National Convention; they married in 1983 at the Basilica de San Miguel in Madrid, Spain. Orth has been a special correspondent for Vanity Fair since 1993.

TIM RUSSERT  tribute to his father and their relationship

Political coverage and debates 

During NBC's coverage of the 2000 presidential election, Russert calculated possible Electoral College outcomes using a whiteboard (now in the Smithsonian Institution) on the air and memorably summed up the outcome as dependent upon "Florida, Florida, Florida."^[11] TV Guide described the scene as "one of the 100 greatest moments in TV history."^[12] Russert again accurately predicted the final battleground of the presidential elections of 2004: "Ohio, Ohio, Ohio." On the MSNBC show Tucker, Russert predicted the battleground states of the 2008 presidential election would be New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona and Nevada, saying, "If Democrats can win three of those four, they can lose Ohio and Florida, and win the presidency."^[13]

Red states and blue states 

According to The Washington Post, the phrases red states and blue states were coined by Tim Russert, although in that same article Russert states that he wasn't the first to use the terminology

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