Jacqueline Kennedy Wedding 9-12-53

Jacqueline Kennedy, throwing the bouquet of flowers after her wedding to then-U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy on September 12, 1953, which was held in Newport, Rhode Island with an estimated 700 guests in attendance, followed by the wedding reception at her childhood home, known as Hammersmith Farm. Kennedy's wedding dress and the dresses of her attendants were created by designer Ann Lowe, and the former is now housed in the Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts.
Photo credit: Toni Frissell
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Nine - One - One

The September 11 attacks (often referred to as September 11th or 9/11) were a series of coordinated suicide attacks by Al-Qaeda upon the United States on September 11, 2001. On that morning, 19 Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone on board and many others working in the buildings. Both buildings collapsed within two hours, destroying nearby buildings and damaging others. The hijackers crashed a third airliner into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, just outside of Washington, D.C. The fourth plane crashed into a field near Shanksville in rural Pennsylvania, after some of its passengers and flight crew attempted to retake control of the plane, which the hijackers had redirected toward Washington, D.C. There were no survivors from any of the flights.
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09-09-09

I hope to see 10-10-10

Star Trek premiered September 8, 1966

The American science fiction show Star Trek premiered on the NBC television network, launching a media franchise that has since created a cult phenomenon and has influenced the design of many current technologies.
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Beautiful Desktop

Want a beautiful desktop image?
Left click this image.
Put your courser on the opened image
Right click on the image
Left click on "set as Desktop Background"
If the image does not cover your complete desktop
Right click the image on the desktop and select Properties
Click Desktop from the tab at the top
Left Click "Stretch" from the pull down menu.
Click OK......... your done.
This photo was taken by Bob Strubbe in his resent trip to Alaska.
It is beautiful !

Just The Facts

Miss America 2009

The current Miss America is Miss Indiana, University of Indianapolis Senior Katie Stam, who won the title on January 24, 2009. She will appear at the Pumpkin Show this year. I hope to take a good photo of her for my collection.

Baron Hill "I Set the Rules"

Baron Hill: "This Is My Town Hall Meeting" "I Set the Rules"
I just set my rules Baron, - You lost my vote next time.
I do not want you at Memorial Day services at Cliff Hill
next year in Versailles either.

What comes after a trillion dollars?

Million
Billion
Trillion
Quadrillion (1000 Trillions)
Quintillion (1000 Quadrillions)

Its a classic

One Great Video

Chaffee Kid is in search of values, integrity, fair play,
honest service, and an answer to the question, "how did
things get so out of control"? Featuring Chaffee Kid,
Alexandra Underhill, Jon M..

Alaskan Adventure

Bob, Glenn, and Jay are back from their Alaskan adventure. I was able to put together a very nice DVD presentation for them out of the 300 plus photos that Bob took. I uploaded 100 of the best to Picasa for everyone to look at online. I have embedded a slide show here in my Blog, but to see the full size pictures, go to Picasa. If you want the DVD presentation you will have to see it on their TVs. I did keep a master copy that can be burned to disc at a modest cost. Email me if you want a copy.

Goldfinch

My wife and I set on our patio early in the morning with coffee. We love to just enjoy the sunrise and the birds feeding and nesting. We have several feeders and bluebird houses in our yard. I make a joke saying the bird feed costs more than our food. We have as many as 15 or more Goldfinch feeding at one time. I wanted to know if the Goldfinch would be with us in the Winter or move South as colder weather arrived. I turned to Wikipedia Encyclopedia for the answer. There it was in black & white, isn't the internet great............Jack
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The American Goldfinch (Carduelis tristis), also known as the Eastern Goldfinch and Wild Canary, is a North American bird in the finch family. It is migratory, ranging from southern Canada to North Carolina during the breeding season, and from just south of the Canadian border to Mexico during the winter.

The only finch in its subfamily which undergoes a complete molt, the American Goldfinch displays sexual dimorphism in its coloration; the male is a vibrant yellow in the summer and an olive color during the winter months, while the female is a dull yellow-brown shade which brightens only slightly during the summer. The male displays brightly colored plumage during the breeding season to attract a mate.

The American Goldfinch is a granivore and adapted for the consumption of seedheads, with a conical beak to remove the seeds and agile feet to grip the stems of seedheads while feeding. It is a social bird, and will gather in large flocks while feeding and migrating. It may behave territorially during nest construction, but this aggression is short-lived. Its breeding season is tied to the peak of food supply, beginning in late July, which is relatively late in the year for a finch. This species is generally monogamous, and produces one brood each year.
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HP Compaq notebook

I still have one new in the box never opened, HP Compaq notebook computer left at
$425.00 cash or PayPal.
Call 812-689-5960

Hurricane Katrina - Aug 29th 2005

On the morning of Monday, August 29 in southeast Louisiana. It caused severe destruction along the Gulf coast from central Florida to Texas, much of it due to the storm surge. The most severe loss of life and property damage occurred in New Orleans, Louisiana, which flooded as the levee system catastrophically failed, in many cases hours after the storm had moved inland.
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Net Books

I have an Acer Net Book and I just love this little machine. I keep it next to my easy chair just to read email and do a few quick searches. I also write to my Blog and post to FaceBook over my WIFI (wireless Network). It is light wait and small, nice for me, but you may not like it because it has no CD/DVD drive. So if you do not have a home network it is hard to load programs from CD. If you have another computer with a CD ROM and a wireless connection to that computer you can use the CD ROM from it. But if you don't, plan on buying a external CD/DVD USB drive at a cost of $50 to $75. While your there getting the external CD drive get a thumb drive with as much storage as you can afford. Now think about the cost, 50 - 75 for the drive, 35 for the thumb drive, 250 to 350 for the Net Book, it adds up to a nice low end note book. All your gaining is small and light weight. Think it over as it may not be for you.

Freedom Speech by Sarah

Notice there is no teleprompter. In fact I'm not sure she even has a script. Enjoy the speech. Now if only we could get our supposedly leaders to Step-Up and take responsibility for their actions, Maybe, just Maybe, this young lady's speech can and will have some affect. Even her name is...SARAH!!!!!!
Your gonna love this young lady........
YouTube direct link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHieqM1hKsg
Thanks to A.W. for sharing this with us.

Reply from Congressman Baron Hill

August 26, 2009

Dear Mr. Demaree,

Thank you for contacting me about the current health care reform debate. I appreciate hearing your thoughts on this critical matter.

While discussing health care reform, it is important to remember that there are currently five different health care reform bills pending before Congress (three in the House and two in the Senate), and several more steps for them to go through before a bill reaches the President's desk. Enacting such important legislation rightly entails a lengthy and complex legislative process.

This is not a new debate - the discussion about how to responsibly reform our nation's health care system so that it provides timely, quality and affordable care has been debated for the past 60 years. This problem has become more prevalent over the past decade as health costs have escalated sharply, accounting for more than 60 percent of the nation's bankruptcies. Hoosier families have seen their premiums rise four times faster than wages over the last several years. Health care costs are growing at nearly twice the rate of inflation and this trend is unsustainable for our government and citizens. Doing nothing at this point is not an option. Costs will continue to rise, and more and more Americans will go without coverage and care.

My position on the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce - the House committee with primary jurisdiction over the House's health reform package - has put me on the front lines of this issue. It is a weighty responsibility, and one I take very seriously. We must reform our nation's health care system for my constituents who tell me countless stories about how our system has failed them, for middle-class Hoosier families who can no longer afford their health insurance premiums, for those Southern Indiana residents who are denied coverage because of pre-existing conditions, and for those U.S. citizens who are uninsured.

As introduced, H.R.3200, the America's Affordable Health Choices Act, was not something I could support. It did not adequately address the concerns of Hoosiers, and equally as important, it was moving through the House far too fast.

I helped ensure that this debate was given the attention it merits in the Committee by withholding my vote until we had sufficient time to debate and make significant changes to the bill. Plus, I believe that an issue of this magnitude must be carefully considered and vetted not only by Members of Congress, but by our constituents. Therefore, I am pleased that there will not be a vote on the floor of the House of Representatives on this measure until it is appropriately debated, digested, and further changes are made to the bill.

Some of the changes I was able to help secure are: protecting small businesses by bumping up the requirement for exemption from mandatory coverage to $500,000 annual payroll; making sure rural hospitals are fairly reimbursed under a public option; allowing for the establishment and continuation of state-based co-ops; ensuring that a public option will negotiate rates directly with providers and compete on a level playing field with private insurance plans; strengthening physician opt-out language under the public option; clarifying and reiterating that the public option is entirely voluntary and no American will be forced into it; ensuring that illegal aliens will not receive benefits as a result of this legislation; and committing to produce a final bill that effectively bends the cost curve and has a total cost of less than $1 trillion. As a result of these changes, I felt comfortable allowing the bill to move on to the next step in the process.

The bill moving out of the Energy and Commerce is a single step in a very long process. My next step is returning to Southern Indiana and listening to you about ways in which this legislation can be further improved. In September, I intend to return to Washington and continue to fight for the changes that Hoosiers need in the bill that is ultimately brought before the full House of Representatives.

Thank you again for contacting me about health reform. I appreciate knowing your thoughts on this important bill and I would encourage you to contact me with any additional concerns or comments at 202.225.5315. If you would like to receive periodic email updates on my congressional activities, please visit http://baronhill.house.gov.

one light bulb at a time

Thanks to B.W. for sending this to me..........
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A physics teacher in high school, once told the students that while one grasshopper on the railroad tracks wouldn't slow a train very much, a billion of them would. With that thought in mind, read the following, obviously written by a good American!

Good idea . . . one light bulb at a time . . . .

Check this out. I can verify this because I was in Lowe’s the other day for some reason and just for the heck of it I was looking at the hose attachments. They were all made in China. The next day I was in Ace Hardware and just for the heck of it I checked the hose attachments there. They were made in USA . Start looking.

In our current economic situation, every little thing we buy or do affects someone else - even their job. So, after reading this email, I think this lady is on the right track. Let's get behind her!

My grandson likes Hershey's candy. I noticed, though, that it is marked made in Mexico now. I do not buy it any more. My favorite toothpaste Colgate is made in Mexico now. I have switched to Crest. You have to read the labels on everything.

This past weekend I was at Kroger. (Can be true for any store.) I needed 60W light bulbs and Bounce dryer sheets . I was in the light bulb aisle, and right next to the GE brand I normally buy was an off brand labeled, "Everyday Value. " I picked up both types of bulbs and compared the stats - they were the same except for the price . The GE bulbs were more money than the Everyday Value brand but the thing that surprised me the most was the fact that GE was made in MEXICO and the Everyday Value brand was made in - get ready for this - the USA in a company in Cleveland , Ohio .

So throw out the myth that you cannot find products you use every day that are made right here .

So on to another aisle - Bounce Dryer Sheets . . . yep, you guessed it, Bounce cost more money and is made in Canada . The Everyday Value brand was less money and MADE IN THE USA! I did laundry yesterday and the dryer sheets performed just like the Bounce Free I have been using for years and at almost half the price!

My challenge to you is to start reading the labels when you shop for everyday things and see what you can find that is made in the USA - the job you save may be your own or your neighbors!

If you accept the challenge, pass this on to others in your address book so we can all start buying American, one light bulb at a time! Stop buying from overseas companies!

(We should have awakened a decade ago . . . . . . )

Let's get with the program . . . . Help our fellow Americans keep their jobs and create more jobs here in the U . S . A .



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So let me get this straight

This health care plan will be written by a committee whose head says he
doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn't read it and whose
members will be exempt from it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by
a treasury chief who did not pay his taxes, overseen by a surgeon general
who is obese, and financed by a country that is dead broke.
…what could possibly go wrong?

Thanks J.W. for sending this.