Check out Hazel, the mayor of Mississauga, Ontario in the video below. I promise you will wish you lived in Mississauga after watching it!

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House  #1

A 20 room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house, all heated by gas. In one month this residence consumes more energy than the average American household does in a year. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2400 per month.. In natural gas alone, this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. This house is not situated in a Northern or Midwestern ’snow belt’ area. It’s in the South.

House  #2

Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university. This house incorporates every ‘green’ feature current home construction can provide. The house is 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on a high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat-pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground.

The water (usually 67 degrees F) heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas and it consumes one-quarter the electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Surrounding flowers and shrubs native to the area enable the property to blend into the surrounding rural landscape.  The heating/cooling system is so efficient that initial plans to install solar panels were canceled.

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HOUSE #1 is outside of   Nashville ,   Tennessee ;
it is the abode of the ‘Environmentalist’ Al Gore.

HOUSE #2 is on a ranch near   Crawford , Texas ;
it is the residence of the former President of the   United States , George W. Bush.

Yes, it’s “An inconvenient truth..”

An economics professor at Texas Tech said he had never failed a single student before but had once failed an entire class. The class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.

The professor then said okay, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism. All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A. After the first test the grades were averaged and everyone got a B.

The students who studied hard were upset, and the students who studied little were happy. But, as the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones wh o studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too, so they studied little.

The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the third test rolled around, the average was an F.

The scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for anyone else. All failed, to their great surprise.

The professor told them that socialism would ultimately fail too because those who try harder to succeed, reap the greater the reward, but when a government takes all the reward away, no one will try or succeed.

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Since the Pledge of Allegiance

And

The Lord’s Prayer

Are not allowed in most

Public schools anymore

Because the word ‘God’ is mentioned…

A kid in  Arizona  wrote the attached

NEW School prayer :

Now I sit me down in school

Where praying is against the rule

For this great nation under God

Finds mention of Him very odd.

If Scripture now the class recites, It violates the Bill of Rights.

And anytime my head I bow

Becomes a Federal matter now.

Our hair can be purple, orange or green,

That’s no offense; it’s a freedom scene.

The law is specific, the law is precise.

Prayers spoken aloud are a serious vice.

For praying in a public hall

Might offend someone with no faith at all

In silence alone we must meditate,

God’s name is prohibited by the state.

We’re allowed to cuss and dress like freaks,

And pierce our noses, tongues and cheeks..

They’ve outlawed guns, but FIRST the Bible.

To quote the Good Book makes me liable.

We can elect a pregnant Senior Queen,

And the ‘unwed daddy,’ our Senior King.

It’s ‘inappropriate’ to teach right from wrong,

We’re taught that such ‘judgments’ do not belong.

We can get our condoms and birth controls,

Study witchcraft, vampires and totem poles.

But the Ten Commandments are not allowed,

No word of God must reach this crowd.

It’s scary here I must confess,

When chaos reigns the school’s a mess.

So, Lord, this silent plea I make:

Should I be shot; My soul please take!

Amen

BEST IDEA I HAVE HEARD IN A LONG, LONG TIME !!!

Members of Congress should be compelled to wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers, so we could identify their corporate sponsor.

Question 1:

If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids already, three who were deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded, and she had syphilis, would you recommend that she have an abortion?

Read the next question before looking at the response for this one.

Question 2:
It is time to elect a new world leader, and only your vote counts.
Here are the facts about the three candidates. Who would you vote for?

Candidate A. Associates with crooked politicians, and consults with astrologist. He’s had two mistresses. He also chain smokes and drinks 8 to 10 martinis a day.

Candidate B. He was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until noon, used opium in college and drinks a quart of whiskey every evening.

Candidate C: He is a decorated war hero. He’s a vegetarian, doesn’t smoke, drinks an occasional beer and never cheated on his wife.

Which of these candidates would be our choice?

Candidate A
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Candidate B
Winston Churchill

Candidate C
Adolph Hitler

And, by the way, on your answer to the abortion question:

If you said YES, you just killed Beethoven.

Pretty interesting isn’t it? Makes a person think before judging someone.

However…..

Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 500 employees and has the following statistics:

• 29 have been accused of spousal abuse
• 7 have been arrested for fraud
• 19 have been accused of writing bad checks
• 117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
• 3 have done time for assault
• 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
• 14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
• 8 have been arrested for shoplifting
• 21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
• 84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year…

Can you guess which organization this is?

Give up yet?

It’s the 535 members of the United States Congress.

The same group that crank out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us in line.

Accuracy of this forward: While not word-for-word accurate, this is a fair transcription of an actual prayer delivered before the Kansas House of Representatives by Central Christian Church Pastor Joe Wright on January 23, 1996. It has circulated continuously on the Internet ever since.

At least one legislator did walk during the prayer, according to the Kansas City Star. Others made speeches criticizing what the House Minority Leader, a Democrat, called “the extreme, radical views” reflected in the prayer. It was aired nationally on the radio in February 1996 by Paul Harvey. (source: about.urbanlegands.com)

Thought you might enjoy this interesting prayer given in Kansas at the opening session of their Senate. Some people still call a spade a spade. Interesting!!! It seems prayer still upsets some people.

When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual generalities, but this is what they heard:

“Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask Your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, ‘Woe to those who call evil good,’ but that is exactly what we have done.We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values.

We have exploited the poor…and called it the lottery.

We have rewarded laziness…and called it welfare

We have killed our unborn…and called it choice.

We have shot abortionists…and called it justifiable.

We have neglected to discipline our children…and called it building self esteem.

We have abused power…and called it politics.

We have coveted our neighbor’s possessions…and called it ambition.

We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography…and called it freedom of expression.

We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers…and called it enlightenment.

Search us, Oh, God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and set us free.

Amen!”

The response was immediate.

A number of Legislators walked out during the prayer in protest. In 6 short weeks, Central Christian Church, where Rev. Wright is pastor, logged more than 5,000 phone calls with only 47 of those calls responding negatively. The church is now receiving international requests for copies of this prayer from India, Africa and Korea .

Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on his radio program, ‘The Rest of the Story,’ and received a larger response to this program than any other he has ever aired.

With the Lord’s help, may this prayer sweep over our nation and wholeheartedly become our desire so that we again can be called ‘one nation under God.’

If possible, please pass this prayer on to your friends. ‘If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for everything.’

How many people in your address book will not receive this prayer ??? Do you have the guts to pass it on? I did!!!

Sent in by: Nicole from New Orleans, Louisiana

Source: 321gold.com

Who wants to be a millionaire?

James West
Jan 15, 2009

I feel like Harry Truman, the 83-year-old Mount St. Helens resident who refused to leave his mountainside residence, even though he knew a catastrophic event was coming. The explosive incinerating force that finally did roar down all sides of that mountain when it erupted killed everything within 5 mile radius. It was the deadliest and most economically destructive volcanic event in the history of the United States. Fifty-seven people were killed; 250 homes, 47 bridges, 15 miles (24 km) of railways, and 185 miles (298 km) of highway were destroyed. Harry Truman’s body was never found.

While the forces building behind the catastrophic U.S. economic policy of the last administration and the new one may lack the same single day impact, the destruction of livelihood and property that is just over the horizon will dwarf that of the 1980 eruption of Mount. St. Helens.

The slow pace of the system-wide implosion is testimony to the sheer scale upon which this unnatural disaster is unfolding. You can’t see it if you’re in it, but you can see it from space.

Here’s food for thought:

The number of millionaires and billionaires reached all time record highs globally prior to August 2008. The global competition to reach millionaire and billionaire status is the physical manifestation of a broadly human malaise: the valuation of material wealth over personal, familial, ecological and economic health. Greed, I think, is the common name for the disease.

But greed has now reached destructive proportions.

There exists a simple equation, yet to be published or even determined perhaps that goes something like this:

For each million dollars in private wealth, there is a proportional dollar value of resources that must be extracted from the earth and pressed into industrial service to become a part of or in itself a given product. Each of these million dollars in personal wealth then causes the requirement for purchasers and end users of such products. If an insufficient number exist, then technically that representative million dollars in private holdings should be diminished proportional to the reduced market for the correlated product. However, this equations logic fails in the face of credit. And expressing that consumption uniformly is next to impossible, considering the vastly fragmented nature of our economy.

Unfortunately, the correlation between elevated levels of private wealth and the global resource ponzi pyramid are not recognized in modern education and therefore current value systems as dangerous and terminal. On the contrary, private wealth is universally perceived as the reward for hard work and good citizenship. It is our value system that is corrupt, and that is in turn reflected in government, banking, education and family.

Assuming a future that survives this great economic catastrophe, there needs to be a revaluation of human activity.

With the advent of free information flow, education itself becomes somewhat obsolete, since all you can learn in a university can be learned through sources obtained online. That means a population that is increasingly educated, and therefore desirous of the same standard of living, theoretically, as the highest common denominator enjoys, since they come from the lowest, or at least, lower.

The resources and systems of the human race have reached a level of peak capacity, and since the resources of the planet are finite and now shrinking, it is incredibly myopic of us as a species to assume the outcome of this financial crisis will be a resumption of economic growth and development worldwide towards a mutually elevated standard of living.

Rather, the opposite is true. A resumption of the millionaire/billionaire race is sure to result in another version of the current situation.

Economists, as they are called by the post secondary education facilities (universities) they are churned out by, are saddled with the intellectually disfiguring and embarrassing mantra of perpetual growth. However, to criticize capitalism or suggest additional regulation is to be branded a socialist, or worse, a communist. These institutions are designed to churn out replicas and servants of the men who finance them. They no more comprehend the real essence of economics than they do the impossibility of perpetual growth, whose physics counterpart is perpetual motion.

The substitution of empire with economic hegemony in pursuit of that mantra is tyranny, whether practiced by a democratically elected or despotically confiscated government.

To forego this opportunity to evolve our understanding of ourselves and modify our pursuits (and our education institutions) accordingly is to guarantee the continuing disintegration of economy, ecology and ultimately population. For the surest outcome of all on a crowded planet of diminishing resources is warfare.

The opportunity and the lesson before us is to re-tool the whole value system to recognize that competition absent cooperation is self-destructive. If we don’t limit our desire and therefore our pursuit of private wealth, we ensure our limited capacity for growth, evolution, and survival.

For me, personally, the pursuit of millions and billions has been severely impaired by the forced revaluation of my financial arsenal. I had a higher net worth when I was in high school than now.

I’ve learned valuable lessons from this financial catastrophe, foremost among them is that if we all pursue a standard of living representative of millionaires and billionaires, we’re essentially doomed as a race.

Henceforth, my children will be taught that the pursuit of great personal wealth is essentially a criminal pursuit, and mastering the art of living modestly is the noble goal.

Jan 14, 2009
James West
email: midas@telus.net
website: MidasLetter

VERY INTERESTING HOW THIS IS DONE…. A SEAMLESS TRANSITION FROM ONE PIC TO ANOTHER…… Turn up the volume. Forty four presidents, backed by Ravel’s Bolero.

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