Saturday, August 23, 2008
10% INFLATION!!!!!
10% inflation was reported earlier this week. 10%!!!!!!! I can beleive it. Like I was saying in one of my previous entries...we are screwed!
Thursday, August 7, 2008
I HATE fake/forwarded emails!!
I received this stupid email from my Dad who gets them from his brother. They ALWAYS forward emails, even if they are completely false! SO....I sent an email to everyone on the email. It was this....
From the desk of Brent Kelsey:
Per the above subject to the below forwarded email...I HAVE decided and here is the reasoning behind MY decision...
Maybe it is the part of me that likes to stir things up, but common people if we believed every email that popped into our inbox we would all be millionaires or we would have saved a million lives simply by hitting the "forward" button. I am speaking about the email from Bill Gates about "Email Tracking" that I am sure we all received at one point. It read, "We are experimenting with Beta Email Tracking and need your help. Forward this to everyone you know and if it reaches 1000 people everyone on the list you will receive $1000 and a copy of Windows at my expense."Or another example might be the little "Penny Brown - PLEASE LOOK AT PICTURE THEN FORWARD" email. Common folks, you have to admit this got some of you as I KNOW I received this one as well.
The only emails that I trust, and I feel that all of us should believe are ones that come DIRECTLY (written BY and not forwarded) from our friends and family. Lets put it this way...if I was really good friends with Bill Gates or Penny's family from the above examples I probably would have forwarded those emails.
Heck, for all any of us really know is that the person writing these emails is some 60 year old psychopath who lives in his parents basement and gets his jolly's off poking fun of, or falsely accusing politicians, trying to bankrupt executives, or falsely helping "fake," missing people all simply by grabbing hold of, and strangling millions of peoples emotions via one simple email.
OH...yeah....and I did find this this Obama email is ALSO a hoax (http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/barackobama/a/afghanistan.htm). To be 100% honest I would never have forwarded this even if it was true, but for the sake of this email I had to look it up. Everyone who enjoys forwarding these "please do this," "consider this," "don't do this," "do this," or "look at my picture before you delete this" emails you may want to add this website to your favorites list for future reference - "http://urbanlegends.about.com/." It provides an excellent resource for searching for emails that are a waste of time before forwarding them.
Just wanted to tell it how it is and to share this wonderful resource ;-)
Have a great day!
Brent
P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail
--------------FORWARDED EMAIL-------------
From: wig1209@gmail.com [mailto:wig1209@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Bill GaitherSent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 6:54 PMTo: Al KenolSubject: email from Afghanistan - forwarded
Hello everyone, As you know I am not a very political person. I just wanted to pass along that Senator Obama came to Bagram, Afghanistan for about an hour during his visit to 'The War Zone'. I wanted to share with you what happened. He got off the plane and got into a bullet proof vehicle, got to the area to meet with the Major General who is the commander here at Bagram. Soldiers where lined up to shake his hand but he blew them off and didn't say a word as he went into the conference room to meet the general. After he finished, vehicles took him and his entourage to the ClamShell (pretty much a big top tent where military personnel can play basketball or work out with weights) so he could take his publicity pictures playing basketball. He again shunned the opportunity to talk to soldiers and thank them for their service. So really he was just here to make a showing for Americans back home. I think that if you are going to make an effort to come all the way over here you would thank those that are providing the freedom you enjoy. I swear we got more thanks from NBA Basketball Players and the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders than from one of the Senators who wants to be the President of the United States. I just don't understand how anyone would want him to be our Commander-and-Chief. It was almost like he was scared to be around those who secure freedom for him and our great country. If this is blunt and to the point I am sorry, but I wanted you all to know what kind of caliber of person he really is. What you see in the news is all fake. In service, Captain Jeffrey S. Porter Battle Captain TF Wasatch
From the desk of Brent Kelsey:
Per the above subject to the below forwarded email...I HAVE decided and here is the reasoning behind MY decision...
Maybe it is the part of me that likes to stir things up, but common people if we believed every email that popped into our inbox we would all be millionaires or we would have saved a million lives simply by hitting the "forward" button. I am speaking about the email from Bill Gates about "Email Tracking" that I am sure we all received at one point. It read, "We are experimenting with Beta Email Tracking and need your help. Forward this to everyone you know and if it reaches 1000 people everyone on the list you will receive $1000 and a copy of Windows at my expense."Or another example might be the little "Penny Brown - PLEASE LOOK AT PICTURE THEN FORWARD" email. Common folks, you have to admit this got some of you as I KNOW I received this one as well.
The only emails that I trust, and I feel that all of us should believe are ones that come DIRECTLY (written BY and not forwarded) from our friends and family. Lets put it this way...if I was really good friends with Bill Gates or Penny's family from the above examples I probably would have forwarded those emails.
Heck, for all any of us really know is that the person writing these emails is some 60 year old psychopath who lives in his parents basement and gets his jolly's off poking fun of, or falsely accusing politicians, trying to bankrupt executives, or falsely helping "fake," missing people all simply by grabbing hold of, and strangling millions of peoples emotions via one simple email.
OH...yeah....and I did find this this Obama email is ALSO a hoax (http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/barackobama/a/afghanistan.htm). To be 100% honest I would never have forwarded this even if it was true, but for the sake of this email I had to look it up. Everyone who enjoys forwarding these "please do this," "consider this," "don't do this," "do this," or "look at my picture before you delete this" emails you may want to add this website to your favorites list for future reference - "http://urbanlegends.about.com/." It provides an excellent resource for searching for emails that are a waste of time before forwarding them.
Just wanted to tell it how it is and to share this wonderful resource ;-)
Have a great day!
Brent
P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail
--------------FORWARDED EMAIL-------------
From: wig1209@gmail.com [mailto:wig1209@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Bill GaitherSent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 6:54 PMTo: Al KenolSubject: email from Afghanistan - forwarded
Hello everyone, As you know I am not a very political person. I just wanted to pass along that Senator Obama came to Bagram, Afghanistan for about an hour during his visit to 'The War Zone'. I wanted to share with you what happened. He got off the plane and got into a bullet proof vehicle, got to the area to meet with the Major General who is the commander here at Bagram. Soldiers where lined up to shake his hand but he blew them off and didn't say a word as he went into the conference room to meet the general. After he finished, vehicles took him and his entourage to the ClamShell (pretty much a big top tent where military personnel can play basketball or work out with weights) so he could take his publicity pictures playing basketball. He again shunned the opportunity to talk to soldiers and thank them for their service. So really he was just here to make a showing for Americans back home. I think that if you are going to make an effort to come all the way over here you would thank those that are providing the freedom you enjoy. I swear we got more thanks from NBA Basketball Players and the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders than from one of the Senators who wants to be the President of the United States. I just don't understand how anyone would want him to be our Commander-and-Chief. It was almost like he was scared to be around those who secure freedom for him and our great country. If this is blunt and to the point I am sorry, but I wanted you all to know what kind of caliber of person he really is. What you see in the news is all fake. In service, Captain Jeffrey S. Porter Battle Captain TF Wasatch
Family Vacation at Breezy Point
I KNOW I am bad at updating this. This is actually from last week when I was on vacation. I wrote it and save it in MS Word since there was not interenet access.
I am on vacation with the family today. I actually started out the week in St. Cloud for work. We had an appraisal training session that lasted a couple of days and OMG was it boring!! I cannot believe how bored I was. Maybe I should have been paying a little more attention though, because today when I took the exam I felt retarded. I hope I did ok, but whatever.
Upon completion of the exam we were free to go home. Everyone else went home, but I drove another hour and a half north to Breezy Point Resort. I am not a good critic, but this place is great! Very nice, right on your own beach, a lot of things to do. We have cabins that are actually houses, and we have two. Each one is split into two separate cabins. Every year we [whole extended family] go on a little vacation and this was the choice this year. Grandma usually pays for it as she likes to get everyone together over her birthday. When I say everyone I mean everyone. It is the four families, the in-laws, all the cousins, the second cousins, the fiancé’s of my sisters….I mean everyone, but it is fun! I wish I had someone to bring, but again, whatever. ;-).
Today was a very leisurely day and I expect the next couple to be the same. During the day we all sat on the beach and went boating/tubing/skiing and then tonight we sat around the camp fire – and I might add that over the years our ring of people around the fire has gotten a lot larger – and we talked about everything from Karma to UFO’s. In fact I think we had five polls to everyone seated around the fire. 1) Do you believe in UFO’s or extra terrestrial life? 2) Do you believe in Ghost’s? 3) …Karma, 4) … destiny, 5) the best of all…Miller or Bud? But I guess what I am saying is, that it has been a great time so far and I am looking forward to the rest of the week.
I am on vacation with the family today. I actually started out the week in St. Cloud for work. We had an appraisal training session that lasted a couple of days and OMG was it boring!! I cannot believe how bored I was. Maybe I should have been paying a little more attention though, because today when I took the exam I felt retarded. I hope I did ok, but whatever.
Upon completion of the exam we were free to go home. Everyone else went home, but I drove another hour and a half north to Breezy Point Resort. I am not a good critic, but this place is great! Very nice, right on your own beach, a lot of things to do. We have cabins that are actually houses, and we have two. Each one is split into two separate cabins. Every year we [whole extended family] go on a little vacation and this was the choice this year. Grandma usually pays for it as she likes to get everyone together over her birthday. When I say everyone I mean everyone. It is the four families, the in-laws, all the cousins, the second cousins, the fiancé’s of my sisters….I mean everyone, but it is fun! I wish I had someone to bring, but again, whatever. ;-).
Today was a very leisurely day and I expect the next couple to be the same. During the day we all sat on the beach and went boating/tubing/skiing and then tonight we sat around the camp fire – and I might add that over the years our ring of people around the fire has gotten a lot larger – and we talked about everything from Karma to UFO’s. In fact I think we had five polls to everyone seated around the fire. 1) Do you believe in UFO’s or extra terrestrial life? 2) Do you believe in Ghost’s? 3) …Karma, 4) … destiny, 5) the best of all…Miller or Bud? But I guess what I am saying is, that it has been a great time so far and I am looking forward to the rest of the week.
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