[align=center]"Thankful to be `free to be, anyone you want to `be"[/align][align=center]If you own, and drive a Chevrolet Monte Carlo,[/align][align=center]you are Blessed 4-Sure [/align][align=center]____________________[/align][align=center]__________[/align][align=center]_[/align][align=center][/align][align=center]
Hi Everyone,[/align][align=center]We hope that you recieved the gifts of life[/align][align=center]that you need, want and desire.

[/align][align=center][/align][align=center]4-Sure

I awoke this morning, and ran to my decorated palm tree to see if Santa stopped by and brought me a Monte Carlo.
There were no presents, but a small hand written note:
Dear `Space,
Go to the below link [/align][align=center]`Santa[/align][align=center][:-]
Count Your Blessings
To Everyone - Peace, Harmony, and Happy Holidays![/align][align=center][:-]Click below link[:-][/align][align=center]EnJoy[/align][align=center][/align][align=center]
Click here to view presentation #2

[/align][align=center][:-][/align][align=center]-Source-[/align][align=center]http://www.munic.state.ct.us/burlington/count_your_blessings/[/align][align=center][/align][align=center][/align][align=center]I share, cause I care[/align][align=center]"It is not about having more, it is about giving more of yourself"[/align][align=center][/align][align=center]Peace/Love/Health/Happiness to `all,[/align][align=center]from `Space & the BeachRiverBums
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[align=center][/align][align=center][/align][align=center]I never get bored, but I get lonely for my `friends, & those I love[/align][align=center]when they are away.[/align][align=center][/align][align=center]If you know a lonely person, give them a call, or better[/align][align=center]yet visit them `if you can.[/align][align=center]You have the power to make someone `happy 4-Sure.[/align][align=center][/align][align=center][/align][align=center]This is for all the lonely people
Thinking that life has passed them by
Dont give up until you drink from the silver cup[/align][align=center][:-][/align][align=center]
And ride that highway in the sky[/align][align=center](In a Monte Carlo: )

This is for all the single people
Thinking that love has left them dry
Dont give up until you drink from the silver cup
You never know until you try

Well, Im on my way
Yes, Im back to stay
Well, Im on my way back home

This is for all the lonely people
Thinking that life has passed them by
Dont give up until you drink from the silver cup
And never take you down or never give you up
You never know until you try [/align][align=center][/align][align=center][/align][align=center][:-]Click below 2 listen 2 tune [:-][/align][align=center]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmcN7y7lRFM[/align][align=center][/align]

 

[align=center][/align][align=center]Many members clicked, but no one posted.[/align][align=center]Sorry to see that no one has any blessing to count [X(][/align][align=center]Sure hope 2009 is better 4 U [8D][/align][align=center][/align][align=center][/align][align=center]I did not get anything ?[/align][align=center]I thought I was good, but Santa did not think so[/align][align=center]I can still see, hear, feel, taste, walk, talk,etc., & post on the[/align][align=center]MCF I am blessed : )[/align][align=center]"if you have your health - U R blessed - U R Rich"[/align][align=center]`Amen[/align]

 

Great stuff, Space.
God Bless you and all the fine Monte Carlo Forum membership.

Although the circumstances aren't what you'd expect ... I hope and pray everybody has:

A Happy New Year!

Sincerely,
Mr. & Mrs. Richard E Massey
Billerica, Massachusetts

 

God has blessed you in SO many ways, Space! He has given you many friends and a Grandfather that obviously thinks the WORLD of you! AND you are a centerpiece of the MCF Family, being our TOP poster, and ALWAYS full in information and wonderful thoughts to share with us all here, as the above post. I don't EVER remember seeing you post anything really negative about anybody here. God has given you a brain smarter than the average scarecrow, being able to get a degree and taking up a well paying job overseas, AND being able to take your friends with you! No, you might not have gotten your dream Monte Carlo under your Christmas palm tree, but God has given you everything you NEED, and some of the stuff you get as gifts is just that, STUFF! Clutter, things you will rarely use, and just take up valuable room. You got friends, family and a whole life ahead of you! GOOD STUFF, SPACE, as a wise man once said! Good stuff!

Just 2 short weeks, and you're outa here! Hope you stay in touch with us from Kuwait land! May God protect you and bless you in your journeys afar.

Just remember the REAL meaning behind Christmas, and all the packages and Santa just doesn't matter so much.
God Bless you Space!
Wayne Root

 

[align=center]Thank You,[/align][align=center]Mr. & Mrs. Richard E Massey[/align][align=center]for your words/wishes/post.[/align][align=center]Also thanks for being a active contributing member to the MCF[/align][align=center][/align][align=center]I think we are really fortunate to live where we each live,[/align][align=center]and have this machine before us to communicate to people[/align][align=center]from all over planet `earth.[/align][align=center]One just has to watch the National/World News to realize[/align][align=center]how many haveit so much worse then us: ([/align][align=center][/align][align=center]I feel blessed to just `be, and also grow up around good people,[/align][align=center]and my favorite playground.(below)[/align][align=center]Wish you, yours, and members a[/align][align=center]Safe/Healthy/Happy New Years 2009,[/align][align=center]Space & the Bums[/align][align=center][/align][align=center][:-]Lots of Tourist Invading the Pier [:-][/align][align=center]There`s plenty of fish 4 everyone.[/align][align=center]It`s about dinner time, and the sea provides lots of food : )[/align][align=center][:-][/align][align=center][/align]

 

 

I`m thankful for everything I have been blessed with. My health, my family, my friends, and everything else I have been blessed with.

I`m also grateful for being blessed to live in a country where I can celebrate Christmas without fear of persecution and/or death.

 

[align=center] [/align][align=center][/align][align=center]Thank you Moderator `Taz & Members for your words/post.[/align][align=center]We are so fortunate/blessed compared to so many in our World.[/align][align=center][/align][align=center]The below article makes me `sad [X(]I hope that we don`t become one of them,[/align][align=center]but I ask myself: "What can I do to make it better ?" Do you know how ?[/align][align=center]If you are not inclulded in the below article, you are Blessed[/align][align=center]4-Sure[/align][align=center][:-][/align][align=center][/align][align=center][X(]Next Added 100 Million Americans: Poverty in America [X(]
December 2008[/align][align=center][/align][align=center]Chapter Eleven…[/align][align=center][/align][align=center]“Can you think of any problem in any area of human endeavor on any scale, from the microscopic to global, whose long-term solution is in any demonstrable way aided, assisted, or advanced by further increases in population, locally, nationally, or globally?” Dr. Albert Bartlett [/align][align=center]While attending a conference in Denver, Colorado, I noticed dozens of beggars on the streets. They stood at intersections carrying cardboard signs that read, “Homeless, anything will help, God bless.” [/align][align=center]As I walked out of the Colorado Convention Center, one man, wrapped in rags, curled himself around a steam vent on the sidewalk. A cardboard box served as a pillow. Cement served as his mattress. I sickened at the thought of his night in 15 degree freezing cold. Along Colfax Avenue, hundreds of homeless begged for food or money. They slept in huddled misery under the loading docks and in doorways. [/align][align=center]The poor will always be with us; just more of them! [/align][align=center]The National Coalition for the Homeless, www.nationalhomeless.org reported 3.5 million homeless people struggled for survival in the streets of America in 2006. Of that number, 1.35 million consist of homeless children. Reports show 13 million American children suffer daily from malnutrition and hunger in America.[X(] A shocking 37 million Americans live below the poverty line, which is 12.7 percent of our population. [/align][align=center]Educational experts estimate over 30 million people in American suffer functional illiteracy. They can’t read, write or perform simple math. They offer no skills other than the labor of their hands. [X(][/align][align=center]Twenty million illegal aliens residing in America make up the largest high school drop out population in the history of the nation. [/align][align=center]Over half of all black and Hispanic babies originate from unmarried mothers that lack high school diplomas. Fifty to 70 percent of blacks and Hispanics do not graduate from high school. Thirty percent of whites do not graduate from high school. [/align][align=center]In the last century, Mexico grew from 50 to 104 million people. Current demographic figures show Mexico growing to 300 million in the 21st century. Since 85 percent of all immigration into the United States originates from Mexico, we face a striking dilemma. [/align][align=center]Can we deal with a massive and growing illiterate population? How will we contend with the next added 100 million Americans featuring scant educational skills? How will we deal with millions of babies from their ranks? If we can’t educate half of our own minorities, how will we educate this massive overload of humanity? [/align][align=center][/align][align=center]If Mexico can’t maintain a successful society with 104 million people, how do you think they will sustain their country with triple their population? [/align][align=center]To give you a harsh view of our future, I’ve traveled throughout Mexico. On the outskirts of Mexico City with 22 million people, in excess of two million people live in cardboard shacks. They squat for their morning constitutional with their chickens. They live in abject misery, filth, disease and hopelessness. [/align][align=center]Guess what? They’re moving to America. Millions of them! [/align][align=center]Third world slums began appearing along our borders from Brownsville, Texas to San Diego, California in the 80s. They’re called “Colonias,” which in Spanish means “new neighborhoods.” They feature shacks, no sewers, no streets, no running water, no electricity, toilet facilities or waste pickup. [/align][align=center]The New York Times, March 3, 1988, “Along the US Border, a Third World is Reborn,” reported, “Colonias are rusted trailers and shacks nailed together from tar paper and packing pallets without indoor toilets…with mounds of uncollected trash that attract rats…the lack of sanitation has polluted the ground water to the point where many residents drink their own waste…the colonias feature Third World levels of hepatitis, dysentery, diarrhea, skin rashes, cholera and tuberculosis…they are contaminated, explosive, fecal, filthy, illegal, miserable, polluted, powder kegs, putrid, shocking, sick, stench filled, suffering and wrenching.” [/align][align=center]Since their appearance in the early 80s, according to the Times, the 1988 population totaled 185,000; the 1995 population exceeded 500,000; the 2005 population exceeded 1.5 million. At the current rate of growth, these human misery settlements shall reach 20 million by 2021. [/align][align=center]I spent two weeks filming colonias in Texas. I haven’t been as sickened to my stomach since my travels in Asia. It’s worse than any description the New York Times or I could give you. Colonias represent human misery at its disturbing worst levels. [/align][align=center]These slums represent a health hazard of unprecedented dimensions. Given enough time, large areas of southern California will resemble the outskirts of Mexico City. Two decades of denial continues the expansion of American “colonias.” [/align][align=center]We cannot import millions of desperately poor, illiterate and hard working people from Third World countries and think they will become functioning, positive aspects in a First World country. Holland, France and Great Britain’s immigration policies fail on every level. Ours does, too! [/align][align=center]What about our working poor? What about degraded educational opportunities for our children? [/align][align=center]As we choke on millions of people from other countries, they displace our working poor as immigrants depress wages. What are we creating? A permanent poor class! In reality, a growing and dangerous slave class! [/align][align=center]As it stands today, millions of Americans can’t pay for heating and electricity bills. They rely on donations by other Americans to cover those bills. At some point, as this new poor class expands into millions upon millions—something will fail. What is that? Our ability to deal with it or solve it! [/align][align=center]Anyone with an ounce of common sense or economic intelligence knows that prices in the coming years will rise as oil becomes more expensive. This translates into diesel that drives trains that bring coal to the electrical plants. Thus energy at every level will become more expensive. The caveat enters the picture as these millions of poor cannot and will not be able to command higher wages. [/align][align=center]The American Dream degrades into the American Nightmare [X(][/align][align=center]On the world stage, 57 million people died in 2005. According to Time Magazine, eight million starved to death.[X(] Of the total number of deaths, 10.5 million children under the age of five years old died from starvation and diseases. [X(][X(][X(][/align][align=center]To bring it into sharper focus, current world population at 6.7 billion will hit between 9.2 and 9.8 billion at mid century. That’s 77 million people added annually. They multiply so fast, they cannot be educated. However, they’re flooding into First World countries. [/align][align=center]No one, I repeat, no world leader addresses this “human dilemma.” The Catholic Church won’t allow or talk about birth control—though it correlates to accelerating poverty. Church leaders of all the major religions deny any problem. It’s almost as if, in the 21st century, they prefer remaining in the 1st century. But, via their actions, millions of adults and children starve to death annually. [/align][align=center]We better deal with it: today! We must work for a sustainable society. To continue on our current path proves as stupid as the captain of the Titanic.[/align][align=center][/align][align=center][/align][align=center]Source link below[/align][align=center][:-][/align][align=center]http://novakeo.com/?p=2513[/align][align=center][/align][align=center][/align][align=center][/align][align=center]"Ask not what your country/World can do for you, but ask[/align][align=center]what you can do for your self/family/country/world"[/align][align=center]revision of JFK by Space `amen[/align][align=center][/align][align=center]
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