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KURTIS THE STOCK BOY
AND
BRENDA THE CHECKOUT GIRL


In a supermarket, Kurtis the stock boy, was busily working when a new voice
came over the loud speaker asking for a carry out at register 4.  Kurtis was
almost finished, and wanted to get some fresh air, and decided to answer the
call. As he approached the check-out stand a distant smile caught his eye, the
new check-out girl was beautiful.  She was an older woman (maybe 26, and he was
only 22) and he fell in love.

Later that day, after his shift was over, he waited by the punch clock to find
out her name. She came into the break room, smiled  softly at him, took her card
and punched out, then left.  He looked at her card, BRENDA.  He walked out only
to see her start walking up the road.  Next day, he waited outside as she left
the supermarket, and offered her a ride home. He looked harmless enough, and she
accepted.  When he dropped her off, he asked if maybe he could see her again,
outside of work.  She simply said it wasn't possible.

He pressed and she explained she had two children and she couldn't afford a
baby-sitter, so he offered to pay for the baby-sitter.  Reluctantly she accepted
his offer for a date for the following Saturday.  That Saturday night he arrived
at her door only to have her tell him that she was unable to go with him. The
baby-sitter had called and canceled. To which Kurtis simply said, "Well,
let's take the kids with us."

She tried to explain that taking the children was not an option, but again not
taking no for an answer, he pressed..  Finally Brenda, brought him inside to meet
her children.  She had an older daughter who was just as cute as a bug, Kurtis
thought, then Brenda brought out her son, in a wheelchair.  He was born a
paraplegic with Down Syndrome.

Kurtis asked Brenda, "I still don't understand why the kids can't
come with us?"  Brenda was amazed. Most men would run away from a woman
with two kids, especially if one had disabilities - just like her first husband
and father of her children had done.  Kurtis was not ordinary - - - he had a
different mindset.

That evening Kurtis and Brenda loaded up the kids, went to dinner and the
movies. When her son needed anything Kurtis would take care of him.  When he
needed to use the restroom, he picked him up out of his wheelchair, took him and
brought him back.  The kids loved Kurtis.  At the end of the evening, Brenda
knew this was the man she was going to marry and spend the rest of her life
with.

A year later, they were married and Kurtis adopted both of her children.  
Since then they have added two more kids.

So what happened to Kurtis the stock boy and Brenda the check-out girl?  Well,
Mr. & Mrs. Kurt Warner now live in Arizona , where he is currently employed
as the quarterback of the National Football League Arizona Cardinals and has his
Cardinals in the hunt for a possible appearance in the Super Bowl.  Is this a
surprise ending or could you have guessed that he was not an ordinary person.

It should be noted that he also quarterbacked the Rams in Super Bowl XXXVI.  He has also been the NLF's Most Valuable Player twice and the Super Bowl's Most Valuable Player.

(I have not confirmed this email.)

It is more than apparent that the current economic climate is a direct result of the housing boom and then bust. During the housing boom, consumers were consuming homes, furniture, electronics, etc. at an incredibly high rate pushing the prices up and creating jobs in a lot of sectors. Most stores offered interest free financing for a year and banks offered interest only loans so that people could better afford their products. Unfortunately, all of the notes came due at the same time and those people who never should have bought the things they did found out that they over-extended themselves and could not afford all of the things they bought (too bad they didn't pay attn in math class in high school). Therefore, these people were unable to pay their interest free loans and stores began to fail. Also, these people couldn't afford their home loans and banks began to fail. As stores and banks began to fail, people were let go of their jobs and less and less people had the money to consume.

Now, the govt and the banks are trying to figure out a way to keep people in thier homes so that we don't go into a deep depression. Those people who over consumed will be offered new terms on thier loans. As great an idea as this sounds, it's wrong. These are the types of people who don't have reliable jobs and they are being rewarded for their misdeeds while people like my hubby and I are choosing to save our money since we will not find the reward we deserve for our prudence.

My hubby and I need to buy a bigger home since I run my business out of my home and we are running out of room. Unfortunately, we cannot sell our home in the current market for what we believe it is worth and need to hold onto it a bit longer. We aren't over extended, but we will be if we buy a second home since the banks have no intention of allowing us to adjust the terms of our loan. This makes no sense. If the bank adjusted our terms to favor us a bit more with the understanding that we would buy a foreclosed home from them, we would do it and everybody would win. We would have our second home, the bank would not be sitting on a foreclosed property and they would get a second loan from us. It's a win-win-win.

What do you all think? Good solution?

Who uses more of our tax dollars, the boss or the employee? Let's break it down.

The employee uses the roads in order to drive or take the bus to work. The boss needs the roads to be there so that the employees can get to work to make the company money. Therefore, each employee splits the need for good roads equally with the boss (50/50). Since the boss employees 50 people, the boss needs those roads 50 times more than each individual employee.

If a boss pays the employee too low a wage for them to pay for health insurance and/or doesn't cover a significant amount of the coverage, the employee must use ACHCSS to pay for doctor's bills. Since the employer needs a healthy employee to be at work making it money, once again the employee and the boss split this need equally. Since the boss employs 50 people, the boss needs the health care provided by the govt. 50 times more than each individual employee.

If a boss pays the employee such a low wage that they cannot afford to eat, the employee must go on food stamps. The boss needs the employee fed so that the employee can make money. Since the boss employs 50 people, the boss needs food stamps provided by the govt. 50 times more than each individual employee.

If a boss pays the employees enough for everything listed above, but not enough so that the employees aren't living pay check to pay check and can save up for retirement and health insurance when they are old, the employees will need everything listed above when they are both in between jobs and retired as well as Medicare and social security. Since the boss employs 50 people, the boss needs Medicare (etc.) provided by the govt. 50 times more than each individual employee.

Because the boss makes as much money as possible while paying the employees the lowest wage possible (supply and demand allows a citizen to undercut another citizen to get the job), most families of the employees need both the mother and father to work outside the home. However, the spouse of the boss most likely has the luxury of being a stay at home parent which means the spouse has time to enjoy the parks, museums, libraries, etc. 2-100 times more often than the families of the employees. And don't forget, not only is the spouse enjoying these priviledges, but so are the 2.5 kids and dog.

Obviously, the boss uses our tax dollars at 2-10 (10 is actually an infinite number depending on the size of the business which varies directly with the amount of money the company and the boss make)  times more than the employees do, yet the boss does not pay 2-10 (infinite) more in tax dollars than their employees especially since the boss employs yet another employee to exploit tax loop holes since the boss is obviously a business savvy person.

And there you have it. Sometimes people on this site who are obviously not that intelligent make me wonder why it is that people like me fight for them when they are too dumb to realize that the intelligent, rich, UNSCRUPULOUS people trick them into shooting themselves in the foot.

Last week, some people, including Rick, became very upset that I proposed that Phoenix get a section for blogs about faith. While I am confused as to why Rick and Damoze are so against this, I still feel it is a valid question.

If one chooses to check out the multitude of 'MyFox' websites, one will find that EVERY state in the Bible Belt is afforded this luxury and this section is quite popular. Having noticed the many blogs written by Mayflower and even Rick regarding this subject as well as the many responses, it is more than apparent that the demand for a section dedicated to religious thought is there. In fact, there is an option for one to post in this section, so 'they' acknowledge that this may be necessary in the future; yet 'they' have not set this section up.

Website managers, I'd like to know if you feel this need exists. If you feel the demand is there, when can we count on the addition of this section? For those of you who are against this idea, I imagine you won't feel the need to post your opinion on this blog, however, I encourage you to do so as I'd like to know your opinion.

Looks like Christian Conservatives are on the attack (again) as hate crimes against gays and Latinos are steadily rising. In NY, a group of Christian Conservatives have taken a bat to a LEGAL immigrant (it's hard to tell them apart) and have beaten him to death while shouting anti-gay slurs. It's a real shame that Christians have fostered such disgust and hate towards a group of people who choose thier own path in life rather than allow Christians to tell them how to live (perhaps he shoudl have married one of their daughters and then broke her heart when he wasn't interested in her...parts).

Fortunately, however, LIBERALS have had enough of the hatred spewed by the Christians and have taken to the street in protest asking for an end to all of the hate that Christians cling to (especially Ken). If only Christian zealots like the pope, the mormon leaders and Joel, the leader of the Protestant 'army' would speak out against this type of violence and speak out in favor of harsh penalties for those who commit heinous crimes rather than side with the violent, these crimes may start to decline. Unfortunately, it does not appear that that is going to happen any time soon.

Let's make sense of this for a moment. If you drive drunk, you lose your license for some time making it 'more difficult' to drive a car. Is driving the car really the problem? When we keep people from driving their car, we keep them from working which leads to a lot of free time to ... drink and some may lose their job making it possible for them to collect benefits provided by the govt. In other words, we punish the driver in order to 'reward' them later.

My solution...take their license and ID and issue them another one that does not permit them to buy alcohol. Make it difficult for the drunk to get a hold of alcohol; which is the problem we should be focusing on. Treat DUI offenders like teenagers. If anyone is caught buying for or selling alcohol to a covicted drunk driver during their probationary period should suffer HUGE fines.

Does this make sense to everyone else?

Once again, the pro-lifers prove that they are in fact, not pro-life. It's time they change their name to pro-fetus b.c once you are born, they are alright with you being killed.

Pro-fetus people would like the govt. to allow 5 year olds to die. Pro-fetus people are against welfare programs and universal health care and they are the ones who would like to see the 8 year old charged as an adult so that the death penalty is an acceptable punishment. Isn't it more than obvious that they are not pro-life at all?

Quit lying about your views. Quit lying about who you are. Quit pretending that you are so much better than Obama who you accuse of being a fetus killer while you are a baby/child/adult killer.

The REAL pro-lifers need to take back the title from the liars.

Up until now, I have thought it may be possible to come out of the Bush administration without too many scars, apparently, I was wrong. He has managed to DESTROY all the work Clinton did.

Unemployment soared .4% in just one month!!! The unemployment rate is at 6.5% which is a 14 year high. Guess what was going on 14 years ago? Clinton was fixing the unemployment mess Bush's dad made and the rate was on its way down. If unemployment increases by just 1.3%, Bush would have put us exactly where we were when his daddy left office. As I learned in the past 24 hours of 800 jobs being eliminated in AZ alone, I think Bush will have an easy time making that happen. Why aren't Republicans pissed off about this!?!?!?!!?!

To those of you who are not 'volunteering' to participate in the recession, it appears more and more that you may just be drafted. Let's hope that Obama can do what Clinton did and save us from economic disaster. Here's to hope.

I would like the following explained (hopefully in your own blog so that it can be put up for everyone to read on the community pages):

1. Why are you guys are so against giving all citizens access to health care when they lose their job (especially if you claim pro-life)? 

2. Why is it ok that insurance companies are making huge profits while they short change doctors and patients?

3. Why employers making millions should not be responsible to keep their employees healthy instead of just firing them if they ever get sick?

Thanks,

Jen Deranger lol

If you insist that a person considered black is a 'worse race' so that you can insult him.

If you compare someone of a mixed race to the type of dog most likely to be killed in an animal shelter.

If you compare someone of any race to a dog.

If you think that someone is going to 'black up' or 'Arab up' the White House even though the President is an American before anything else.

If you find it incredibly important to state the 'true' race of people to make a point.

If you have no problem making fun of females for being female and gays for being gay (because it isn't out of character).

If you think all illegal immigrants (Mexicans) are drunks, rapists and murderers.

If you tell jokes that make fun of a group of people using an 'accepted' stereotype.

If you think someone is less of you due to their gender, sex, and sexual orientation (none of those are choices).

If you think you aren't a racist, yet you participate in any of the above, I hate to break it to you, but you are a racist. Fortunately, being a racist is a choice. Therefore, you can choose to mend your ways and quit making racist comments and behaving in this deplorable way. It's never to late to improve yourself. Get started now. There is no time to waste.

Let's say I decide to start a business. Whatever I choose to sell, I must price it strategically. If I price it too high, no one will buy my product. If I price it too low, I won't maximize my profit and will end up doing more work than I need to. Therefore, I decide on a price that makes sense and see what happens. After some time, I may adjust my prices to best maximize my profit and minimize the work.

After running my business for a while, I want to increase my profit. If I simply raise my prices, my customer base will shrink. If I have less customers paying more, I maintain my profit, I don't increase it. My other strategy would be to hire someone to help me sell more products thereby increasing my profit. However, if I just hire someone without an increase in demand, I will end up decreasing my profits by paying them a decent wage.

Now, let's add taxes into the equation. If the govt gives me an extra $10,000-60,000 per year, what is my motivation to hire more people? The govt. has given me the increase in profit that I wanted without me needing to do anything to get it. B.c the govt. gave a huge amount to one person and not a small amount to a lot of people, they have not increased my customer base. Without an increase in customer base, I don't have an increase in demand. WIthout an increase in demand, why should I invest my money in an employee?

On the other hand, I could lower my prices b.c the govt. gave me a raise. However, if I lower my prices, I am now maximizing my work load. What is my motivation to work longer hours and decrease my hourly average?

Now, let's say I have to pay an extra amount in taxes which I benefit from the most in that my employees are using the streets to come to work for me, my kids' schools are better equipped, etc., the only way I am going to increase my profit is to sell more products. And the only way I can do that is an increase in demand. I need an increase in customers. I may need to lower my prices myself ,without govt. investment, to gain more customers which will lead to me hiring another employee. The govt. is still charging me an appropriate amount to have the streets, schools, parks, etc. that I use to make all my money. And, my employees have a better life making them better workers and more able (obviously universal health care plays a big role in this as well. Health workers = healthy profit).

That is the beleif system of the liberals and why we don't agree with REaganomic/Trickle down economics. It isn't socialism, it's business.

The only reason this matters is it exemplifies the liar that is Sarah Palin.

1. SHe doesn't look pregnant in any pictures except for 2. And in those, only her stomach looks pregnant, her face doesn't.

2. None of her co-workers thought she was preggos when she announced that she was 7 months along.

3. She removed Bristol from school and sent her to live with her aunt much like she sent her drug addict son to rehab in Michigan.

4. Bristol did not attend school from Jan-May, the months it would have been more than apparent that she was preggos.

5. There were rumors at Bristol's high school about her being preggos (believe the rumors, kids know what's going on. ALl their rumors are based on something).

6. Sarah Palin has always worn tight fitting clothes as a VP candidate, 4 months after she gave birth, yet she looks so skinny. Celebrities are rich and have access to nutritionists and physical trainers (and they train for marathons) to get skinny within 6 months. SOmehow, Sarah managed to lose all her weight without those aids.

7. Bristol missed school for 5 months due to an illness that lasts only 2-4 weeks according to WebMD and other sites.

8. Bristol got pregnant during the time she had this serious illness. If she was so seriously ill, why did her aunt let her boyfriend come over and have sex with her? Perhaps they went out to dinner, etc and it happened. Well, if she was so sick, why was she partying it up with her bf?

9. The whole birth story is crazy. Because she is 44, this preg. would have been considered high risk. B.c Trig is a Down's baby, this preg. would have been considered high risk. And...she was having the baby a 6 weeks early if you believe that she was 7 months preg. in March.

10. Deperate Housewives, a very popular show, had a story line last year in which Bree's daughter got pregnant and Bree chose to pretend she was pregnant to save face in front of her friends so that no one would know what a slut her daughter is. It worked on the show, why not give it a try. It would save the Gov. embarrassment and her daughter would have been hardpressed to be a teenage mom of a baby with special needs.

So, what do you guys think. Who's the baby mama?

Not only does Alaska have the highest rate of reported rapes, but they also have the highest rates of dropouts and the lowest number of college graduates. The Palins are the portrait of an Alaskan family.

Track, who went to the military, is a high school drop out. I imagine he joined at 19 because they relaxed their standards for enlistment.

Bristol didn't go to school for 5 months last school year. She was out from January to May for mono which usually lasts only a couple of weeks. Either she had one heckuva case that required hospitalization or her parents don't value her education or she was having a baby. And now, Bristol is barely attending school and she will miss many months again because she will give birth soon. My bet is she will drop out. if she does earn her diploma, it will only be because of who her mom is and nothing more.

Baby daddy, Levi, is yet another drop out in the pseudo Palin clan. WIth a drop out daddy and a mommy who will probably do the same, this kid is very unlikely to graduate.

It's a sad state of affairs when the person chosen to represent us is the mommy of a bunch of losers who can't finish high school. What a great reflection on the US that is.

Over the past two months, I have watched FOXNEWS so that I could hear what the Republicans think about the issues and the candidates. FOXNEWS earned a reputation of being the mouth piece for GWB and a mouth piece for the REpublican party, but for some unknown reason, I still thought that it would be a little bit impartial. I couldn't have been more wrong.

Is it just me, or are 90% of the 'anchors' on FOXNEWS Republican? Other than Colmes, it doesn't seem that anyone agrees with any of the platform of the Democratic party. Better yet, it seems that every last person on that channel wears their party affiliation on thier sleave It should come as no surprise, then, that all the stories and programming on FOXNEWS slams Democrats while ignoring anything negative about Republicans.

The other night, I watched "Obama: Ties that Bind" because I really wanted to know if the Republicans had some big bombshell that showed Obama was a terrorist supporter. They tried incredibly hard throughout this hour to make that happen, failed miserably, yet still hammered away at their disproven thesis. My Republican boyfriend laughed at the story and asked how these people call themselves journalists. Afterwards, we searched Foxnews' site to find a documentary about the Keating 5 and McCain. Or one about the past ties to an extremist religion that is in favor of spiritual mapping and warfare reminiscent of those groups that took over Iran. Nor could we find a documentary about the Alaskan Independence Party and the many anti-American sentiments voiced by past and current party members. THere was nothing, anywhere, that examined the lives of the leaders of their party.

Everyday, I surf FOXNEWS.com to see what stories the Republicans find imprtant. Everyday, there is either a pro-McCain or anti-Obama headline on the front page. They never deviate from this pattern. I can't count how many ACORN stories have been on the front page, linking Obama and the DNC to this 'rogue' group. Yet, for some reason, FOXNEWS didn't find a similar story about voter fraud committed by a group HIRED BY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY as important. I don't get it.

THerefore, I have to ask if this is everyone else's experience. Can anyone name any shows on this channel that is either impartial or left leaning? Does anyone else think that the media is ignoring the very real stories behind McCain and Palin? After all, the major player in these stories are the candidates themselves while the stories about Obama hardly involve Obama at all as he is not the lead character in any of them nor is he related by blood or marriage to ACORN nor Ayers. Please, explain why this channel seems so one-sided.

While watching 60 minutes this evening, something very surprising came to mind. I remember last year that most on this blog foretold the end of Bank of America because they were lending and giving credit cards to illegal immigrants. Many worried that the taxpayers would have to foot the bill after the illegals ran up huge bills and didn't pay them. Isn't it surprising, then, that Bank of America is the bank that is not only one of the few left standing, but is growing in this hard economic time.

Turns out, Bank of America didn't get into the sub-prime lending business because they thought it was a bad business practice. Instead, they chose to increase their customer base with illegals with good credit. Nobody else followed suit as they had enough new customers in the sub-prime market.

What does this mean? It means that illegals weren't the customers we had to worry about; it was the legal, Americans that ended up costing us an arm and a leg.