5 Sentences

5 Cognitive Sentences

These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read:

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy
out of prosperity.

2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work
for without receiving.

3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does
not first take from somebody else.

4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!

5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work
because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other
half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is
going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any
nation.

A MUST SEE!

For those who know what is going on....this video will just be reassuring. To those who don't, it will be instructional.

Democrats-Listen/Watch and Learn

The video below is both disturbing and disgusting. You get to see the leaders of the Democratic party expose themselves for what they really are. It is said that Democrats are not stupid, it's just that everything they believe in does not work, in fact it harms rather than help, so they appear stupid. Note that at the end of this video you see the Democratic leadership at the time on stage during the National Anthem. All but one has their hands over their heart. The disturbing thing is that the only one standing there without his hand over his heart is the President of the United States, Barack Obama. That image will be etched into my memory forever.

Mirror Image

Hands down, the worse modern day President was Jimmy Carter. Undoubtedly the most clueless President ever. Has the clueless President Obama learn from his incompetence? Of course not. Stupid is what stupid does, unless you are President Clinton who would debate what the word is is.

The Obama Legacy

You wanted change America?

Not four more years of Bush. So you elect four more years of Jimmy Carter. Change? Really?

Obama promised transparency in Government, and gave us back room Chicago politics. Nancy Pelosi pushes through legislation the country did not want and when asked what was in the Health Care bill, she replied, "You'll find out when we pass it."

We as a country have not yet recovered from the Jimmy Carter debacle. When you watch the video below, ask yourself the question Ronald Reagan posed. Are you (we) better off today then you were four years ago?

Liberals-The Far Left

First let us review what the term "upisdown" really means. Simply, it means that just about everything a liberal would say, the exact opposite is true. A Professor once said, "It's not that liberals are stupid, it's just that everything they believe in doesn't work." Liberals, do the same thing over and over again, always expecting a different result, which never ever materialises.

Liberals also believe in the adage: "If you tell a lie over and over, eventually people will think it is true." They are constantly calling conservatives: Far Right Wing, Extremists, Nazis and of course stupid. Of course, the opposite is true.

In the video below, you will see that Liberals/Socialists are the extreme, far-left form of government and the conservatives who believe in a republican representative form of government are not extreme at all. Conservatives are not far-right in the political spectrum, that would be the anarchists. Watch the video. What form of government do you support?

Why do Blacks vote for Democrats?

I don't know if we will ever have the answer to this amazing reality.

UPISDOWN AWARDS 2008

The year 2008 saw the result of our poor education system and also our obsession with "white" guilt which led to the election of Barak Obama as President of the U.S.. Both ignorance and bigotry go hand in hand actually. Never has a candidate been so dishonest and yet not exposed by the media who we can no longer trust to be unbiased.

The UPISDOWN Award goes to Barak Hussein Obama.

• Obama claims to be the first African-American President. The picture above is a picture of his Mother, Grandfather, and Grandmother.
• Obama ran on a campaign noted for "change." He said he will change the world.
• Obama comes from Chicago, Illinois which is one of the most corrupt political cities in the United States. But mystically he contends he wasn't aware of it.
• He attended a church with a Pastor, Jeremiah Wright, who blurted out hate and racist ideas in the form of rants for twenty years. Obama called him his mentor, but was shocked when he learned of his insane tyrades from the pulpit.
• He is introduced to the dirty Chicago political scene by Bill Ayers, a radical terrorist from our shameful 1960's. Obama stated he didn't know of his activities.....he was only 8 at the time. Good answer, Huh?
• He lives in a 1.6 million dollar mansion in an elite Chicago neighborhood on land he received in a sweet-heart deal with a man named Tony Rezko who resides in prison as of this writing for corruption. Obama didn't know that Rezko was dishonest? Of couse not.
• He was the first Black, (see picture), to be Editor of the Harvard Law Review but nothing he ever wrote can be found. That's normal?

Barak Obama, wins this years award. He is an upisdownism in the flesh. A man is judged by the company he keeps, and in Obama's case everyone around him is of low character. You also judge a man by his character and not the color of his skin. How will this man be judged?

ONE, TWO, THROW MY SHOE

On Sunday, December 14, 2008, a disgruntled reporter for an Iraqi TV station threw both his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush during a joint press conference with the Iraqi Prime Minister. This action, and many other actions concerning shoes in the Arab world demonstrate their total disdain for any footwear other than sandals.

The reporter, Muntader al-Zaidi, was arrested and taken away to jail to face the charge of assaulting a foreign Head of State. Shoeless Muntader could receive between 7 to 10 years in jail. He is seen as a hero in the Arab world, a world lacking in basic Human tendencies and hygiene. President Bush, who never misses an opportunity to say something ridiculous commented, "I don't know what that guy's beef is." Well Mr. Bush, maybe it has something to do with the invasion and destruction of his country. That, or he had a terrible case of foot fungus that drove him to his peculiar actions.

This would be a great time to look back on what the invasion and liberation of Iraq has meant to the people of Iraq. Let us play "just suppose." Just suppose......Saddam Hussein was still the leader of Iraq and Mr. al-Zaidi threw his shoes at his press conference. What would be different today?

First, al-Zaidi would have been wrestled down and both arms pulled out of their sockets. Every toe on his stinky feet would be cut off and he would be hung. Every member of his family would be rounded up and never heard from again.

Iraq is a different place today, a better place.

Taps Memorial

Day is done,
gone the sun,
from the lakes,
from the hills,
from the sky,
all is well,
safely rest,
God is nigh.

Fading light,
Dims the sight,
And a star gems the sky,
Gleaming bright,
From afar,
Drawing nigh.
Falls the night,
Thanks and praise.

For our days,
Neath the sun,
Neath the stars,
Neath the sky,
As we go,
This we know,
God is nigh.

The words above are the lyrics of the song we know as Taps. Taps is probably the most recognizable song without words in the world. A song that chokes us up when we hear it. A song that creates an impression almost immediately. Taps is a simple melody, almost always performed by one instrument---a single bugle.

Today is Memorial Day. If you are 60 or older you recall this day as Decoration Day in your youth. Unlike the holiday Veterans Day, where we honor those who served in the Armed forces of the United States, Memorial Day is a time when we pause and remember those who lost their lives in the service and defense of the United States. Few can say they know of no one who gave their lives for the American way of life.

Memorial, memory, remember. This holiday was probably started in the south during the Civil War. The human tragedy played out for 5 years in this country during that war is far too terrible to contemplate. I'm sure one day after a major battle southern soldiers gathered in shock and confusion and contemplated what had just happened. So many friends who just the night before were eating, cajoling, and singing, were now gone. Silent. Many saw their pals die right in front of their eyes. During the Civil War many units, both north and south, were made up of men who lived in the same geographical area. Thus, a large battle loss to a specific unit could see the youths of a whole town disappear. The first Memorial day sprung from such a time of reflection exhibited by those Southern soldiers so many years ago. Their friends were gone but not forgotten. Memorial, memory, remember.

The tragic reality of the Civil War was far more insidious. This war pitted Father against Son, Son against Father. This reality came home to roost one day in 1861. The exact place was Harrison's Landing in Virginia. On this day the song Taps was born. The author of the song is unknown, but we know when the song was first used in a military burial. Here is the story of Taps, the song most recognised with Memorial Day.

Captain Robert Ellicombe, of the Union Army, sat at days end behind a barricade after a vicious battle at Harrison's Landing. He was haunted with the cries, and wails coming from outside the barricade from a wounded and dying soldier. Captain Ellicombe wished the cries would stop. Out of compassion he wished the pain would end for the soldier. The sun quickly vanishing, he made the decision to attempt to go and get that wounded soldier. Crawling on his belly Captain Ellicombe could hear the sound of the shots going over his head. He followed the cries until he reached the soldier. He dragged him back to the barricade, only to find the soldier had died. Then to his amazement he saw that the soldier was wearing a confederate uniform. The flames from the fire illuminated the young man's face. Captain Ellicombe was looking at his Son, his dead Son. His oldest son was attending a School of Music in the south when the war broke out.

Captain Ellicombe went to the General and explained what had just happened and asked for a full military burial for his son, even though he was a confederate. The General denied the request. The Captain then asked the General for the Army Band to play a song that he had found crumpled up in his Son's pocket. The General thought a short time and out of respect for the Captain's service and predicament he declined use of the Army Band, but authorized use of one member of the Band. This one musician was a bugler. The song he played was the song we now know as Taps.

http://www.wtv-zone.com/upisdown/sounds/taps.mid

Memorial, Memory, remember.

Valentine----Love

Happy Valentine's day.

Also known as Saint Valentine's day. There are eleven Saint Valentines in the Roman Church. Because it is celebrated on February 14th, most have whittled it down to two Saint Valentines. Valentine of Rome, and Valentine of Terni. Their participation in the true sense of Valentine's Day is not relevant. We know this day as the day we exchange small cards, flowers, and candies with the people we love. People we care about. This Day is celebrated mainly in Europe and the Americas.

Love. It's about love. The expression of love joins itself with music, paintings, theatre, and above all, personal relationships. Valentine's day is the day we express love.

Words express love most frequently. Some find it easy to form words that conjure love. Others find it unbearable, impossible. I present to you words that express the essence of true love :

Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister, was asked once the question, "If Reincarnation was possible, who would you come back as?" Sir Winston Churchill responded, "Mrs. Churchill's second husband."

Easter

Easter egg hunts.

Floppy eared bunnies.

Soft marshmallow filled candies.

Parades, and other virtues of spring.

That's Easter......Right? El Wrongo!

Easter is the most important day of the calendar. Easter pertains directly to the resurrection of Jesus. Christians today are members of the largest religion in the history of this world. Why would that be?

The answer is: because of the resurrection.

To put it simply, there would be no Christian's if it were not for Easter. Easter is the culmination of events prophesied in the Old Testament. To put it even more simply, Easter is the holiest of all holy days. No other day of the year compares to Easter.

God sent his Son as He said he would. Some people recognized the fact, others were intimidated by a messiah. Jesus, the Son, warned the populous that they were wavering from the covenant they had agreed too. Jesus reached out to all. Jesus' promise of a kingdom "not of this world" was offered to everyone, as it is today. Jesus was crucified, in payment for our transgressions, died, and rose again three days later.

The Easter holiday celebrates the victory over death when Jesus rose again.

Believe it or not. We all have that choice.

Happy Easter to all. And to all a blessed day.

Hiram Rhoades Revels

The month of February is Black History Month in The United States. Truly it is an important month because I know of no other "Special" month of the year, and there are eleven more. Makes you wonder what next month "is." But it only affirms the specialness we bestow on Black History Month. I wish to introduce you to a person of history, and a person of tolerance, and a person with a mission. Hiram Rhoades Revels was his name. Born in Fayetteville, North Carolina in 1822. His father was a free man, probably a member of the Luppee Indians, a certified Tribe which has a mixture of Black/White/Indian. The Luppee's may be the Indians associated with the famous Jamestown "Lost Colony" story. For the longest time the Luppee Indians were bunched in with the Croatan Tribe. His mother was an African slave who soon after Hiram's birth was emancipated. Hiram is the first African-American to serve in the U.S. Senate (1870).

At the age of 16 he went to Lincolnton, North Carolina to apprentice under his brother Elias as a barber. In 1841, his brother died and Hiram took over the barber shop. In 1844 he continued his education by leaving the barber trade and attending Quaker School in Liberty, Indiana. He also attended school at Knox College in Ohio. Revels became a ordained minister in the African Methodist Church and traveled ministering to African American congregations in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, and Kansas. He finally settled in Baltimore where he was a principal for an African American school and pastor at a local church.

In 1861 the civil war began. Maryland, a border state had divided loyalties, but Revels embraced the side of the Union cause. Revels helped in organizing two regiments of African American troops from Maryland. Hiram went to St. Louis to organize a school for African Americans in 1863 and helped form another regiment of African American men in Missouri. He then began his active service as a Union chaplain with a Mississippi regiment of free blacks. He participated in the siege of Vicksburg, and eventually became provost marshal of Vicksburg.

At wars end he settled in Natchez, Mississippi where he joined the African Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1868 he became an alderman from Natchez. Somehow Hiram Revels balanced his political and pastoral duties without racial conflict, winning the respect of both whites and blacks. In 1870 he was elected the first African American member of the U.S. Senate.

More often than not, history creates scenarios that would be hard to fabricate otherwise.

Hiram Rhoades Revels was sworn in February 25, 1870 to fill the seat vacated almost 10 years earlier by Jefferson Davis, the President of the failed Confederacy. The irony is just outstanding.

Hiram Revels spent his charmed life trying to improve the educational and spiritual needs of the African American communities he came in contact with. Attending a church conference in Aberdeen, Mississippi on January 16, 1901, Hiram Revels died. But his courage and conviction lives, if not only in the annals of American history.

Thanksgiving....Pilgrims?

On a recent Thanksgiving, I kept my mouth shut because that was my main objective. I love my family, but they miss much of my logic at times. Today is PRESIDENT'S DAY. A holiday recognized only by Federal entities.

BEING this PRESIDENT'S DAY:

I thought of George Washington. DUH!

Coincidentally, I thought of another holiday, Thanksgiving.

Quick! What was the first Presidential Proclamation? Times up. Here it is: ```Oct. 14, 1789```

"WHEREAS it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favour; and Whereas both Houfes of Congress have, by their joint committee, requefted me "to recommend to the people of the United States a DAY OF PUBLICK THANSGIVING and PRAYER, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to eftablifh a form of government for their safety and happiness:"
NOW THEREFORE, I do recommend and affign THURSDAY, the TWENTY-SIXTH DAY of NOVEMBER next, to be devoted by the people of thefe States to the fervice of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our fincere and humble thanksfor His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the fignal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpofitions of His providence in the courfe and conclufion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have fince enjoyed;-- for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enable to eftablish Conftitutions of government for our fafety and happinefs, and particularly the national one now lately instituted;-- for the civil and religious liberty with which we are bleffed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffufing useful knowledge;-- and, in general, for all the great and various favours which He has been pleafed to confer upon us.
And also, that we may then unite in moft humbly offering our prayers and fupplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and befeech Him to pardon our national and other tranfgreffions;-- to enable us all, whether in publick or private ftations, to perform our feveral and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a bleffing to all the people by conftantly being a Government of wife, juft, and conftitutional laws, difcreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all fovereigns and nations (especially fuch as have shewn kindnefs unto us); and to blefs them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increafe of fcience among them and us; and, generally to grant unto all mankind fuch a degree of temporal profperity as he alone knows to be beft.
GIVEN under my hand, at the city of New-York, the third day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand feven hundred and eighty-nine. "

(signed) G. Washington

(spelling is his, not mine. Though ikt could be mine.)

So the next time you sit down for a Thanksgiving dinner, remember the first Proclamation. Remember George Washington, who said those words which initiated the holiday. A holiday known for uniting, not dividing. Thanksgiving is a holiday of PLENTY and PRAYER.

How many people know that?

Football, Turkey, and Pilgrims were never mentioned.

VETERAN'S DAY

I received this in an E-mail:

It is the VETERAN , not the preacher,
who has given us freedom of religion.

It is the VETERAN , not the reporter,
who has given us freedom of the press.

It is the VETERAN , not the poet,
who has given us freedom of speech.

It is the VETERAN , not the campus organizer,
who has given us freedom to assemble.

It is the VETERAN , not the lawyer,
who has given us the right to a fair trial.

It is the VETERAN , not the politician,
Who has given us the right to vote.



It is the VETERAN ,
who salutes the Flag.

A Botched Joke

Two days ago, the Senator from Massachusetts, a Frenchman, made these comments in California about the Men and Women who serve presently in the Armed Forces of the United States: "You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq. ..."

This from a man who said on the night of the election in 2004, "I can't believe I lost to that idiot." George Bush, the idiot, had a higher grade point average than John Kerry at Yale. George Bush is a two term President of the USA. John Kerry should get use to losing to idiots. I believe the next graduation down the Whacko ladder after Stupid is Moron.

Kerry's moronic retort to the criticism of his statement was, "It was a botched joke, I was talking about the president...." This would be the idiot who John Kerry lost too in his exposing bid for the presidency in 2004.

A botched joke? First of all, President Bush is not in Iraq. Second, if he's referring to George Bush's studying habits at Yale, I don't see the humor because he did better than John Kerry at Yale, and also Bush did better in his life.

I read and re-read his joke. I will accept the fact that moron's are not particularly astute in joke telling, but his joke does raise the query of just what caste is below morons.

FYI, the median IQ of members of the US Armed Forces is higher that the median IQ of the USA. If you are uneducated, and don't do your homework, you will end up in jail, or a recipient of a pathetically hard life. You will also not be accepted in any branch of the Armed Forces. You also will most likely vote Democrat.

Let me conclude with a joke.

"Hey John Kerry! What's with the long face?"

A Loss Of Words

Friday, the 20th of October I lost my dog. Sarah was my pal and a fervent companion.

She was a Cocker Spaniel (American).

I know any massive loss can manufacture deep resentment.

I'm angry.

Here's what angers me the most.

A zillion times a day I would say, "HI Sarah! Hey Sarh-Bear! Sarah stop that!" But now that she has passed, I will never say Sarah again as routinely as I did, if ever.

Now that makes me angry.

I lost a dog, a friend, and the most beautiful word in my volcabulary.

Inconvenient Truth

Albert Gore was Vice President of the United States for 8 years. And the United States survived miraculously.

This man ran for President of the United States of America. This man invented the internet we all love. The endearing novel "Love Story" was written with his wife Tipper and himself in mind. If one man could save the world, Al Gore could. Well, at least in his mind. He conveniently recreates himself at a moments notice. All the things that he would tell you he could do, the man always leaves out the one thing he couldn't do. That was "win" his home state of Tennessee in his presidential bid of 2000.

How could you not win your "Home State!" What do they know in Tennessee that the general public doesn't? Al represented Tennessee for years as did his father. But this has happened before in recent history, to the ultra-liberal, out of the mainstream, Democrats chosen to represent their party. Walter Mondale lost 49 states in his bid for the presidency. The one state that he did win was his home state of Minnesota. Now when you go back in recent history you find two other candidates who failed to carry their own state. McGovern did not win his state (South Dakota), and before that Adalai Stevenson did not carry his home state (Illinois).

But not until the 2000 election did the failure of a candidate to secure his home state's electoral votes cause him to lose the election.

Albert Gore tried every trick to contest the 2000 Florida election results after George W. Bush was declared the winner, putting Bush over the total of electoral votes needed to obtain the election victory. Never, ever, was the fact, or should I say the "inconvenient truth" that Gore lost the election because he could not win the 11 electoral votes of his home state of Tennessee was ever "raised" to public knowledge and debate. Rejected, thus not elected by his home state.

Thank you Tennessee...... America salutes you.

Duh DaVinci Code

Dan Brown is the author of the book The DaVinci Code. In his book, one of fiction, he appropriates theories and tales that go back as far as the 12th Century, and as recent as the 1960's. Mr. Brown weaves these tales into a suspense novel. I feel Mr. Brown is a fine writer. The huge sales of his book reflects that. But my gripe here with him is his conscious portrayal of a Historian, when in reality he is nothing but a gifted writer.....when in reality, nothing but a plagiarist.

There is a movie, "The DaVinci Code," being produced at this very moment, but things are put on hold right now because of a court case. Someone is suing Mr. Brown.

Here are the main tales weaved in Mr. Brown's book:

A) A secret society which was discovered in a library which purports the membership of Leonardo DaVinci, and Isaac Newton to name just a couple. This is a society created by a convicted con-man in the 1960's to which he was the president at one time.

B) The Knights Templar. These were the first international bankers. They began as Crusaders, and then guardians of pilgrims who made the trek to Jerusalem after the success of the first crusade. There is much mystery to this Catholic order. The tales of the Templars have been resonating for hundreds of years.

C) Jesus was married and his blood line has influenced royalty. It is surmised that the "Holy Grail" is not the chalice used at the Last Supper but the holy "blood line" of Jesus. Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had children who were and are still hunted down by the Catholic church and murdered.

It's this last myth that has Mr. Brown in trouble. In the 1980's authors Richard Leigh and Michael Baigent wrote another fictional book named Holy Blood, Holy Grail. The idea that Jesus was married and the elusive Holy Grail, (believed to be in the possession of the Knights Templars), was actually code pertaining to the royal bloodline of the married Jesus. Mr. Leigh and Mr. Baigent are now suing Brown and his publishers for incorporating their myth into Mr. Brown's celebrated myth, The DaVinci Code.

Mr. Brown denies knowingly stealing their controversial theory. An odd assertion when you factor in that one of Mr. Brown's main characters in his fictional story is named Sir Leigh Teabing. Leigh being the last name of one of the Holy Blood, Holy Grail authors, and Teabing being the scrambled result of co-author Mr. Baigent's last name.

Can you believe Brown's denials? Can you believe the premise of his best-selling book ? The answer to both questions is NO.

Re: Bryant Gumbel

In response to the racist and bigoted rhetoric spouted by a bigot concerning the Winter Olympics on HBO. The root of all bigotry stems from immaturity.

I will not watch the NBA (National Basketball Association).

It should be obvious when you take into account the Summer and Winter Olympics that the best athletes in the world are "white," Caucasian if you will. The next group would be Asian.

No, I won't watch the NBA. The NBA is 85% African (Black). I chuckle when I hear people say that THESE are the best basketball players in the world.

The NBA looks like a NAACP convention.

No, I won't be watching the NBA.