From: dennis grabow
Date: 1/8/2014 4:54:47 PM
To: Mark Sztanyo
Subject: Fwd: America & Americans...
Written by an Australian
Dentist
To Kill an American
You probably missed this in the rush of news, but there was actually a report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper, an offer of a reward to anyone who killed an American; any American.
So an Australian dentist wrote an editorial the following day to let everyone know what an American is. So they would know when they found one. (Good one, mate!!!!)
'An American is English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish , Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may also be Canadian, Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or Pakistani or Afghan.
An American may also be a Comanche, Cherokee, Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache, Seminole or one of the many other tribes known as native Americans.
An American is Christian, or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim. In fact, there are more Muslims in America than in Afghanistan . The only difference is that in America they are free to worship as each of them chooses.
An American is also free to believe in no religion...... For that he will answer only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak for the government and for God.
An American lives in the most prosperous land in the history of the world.
The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of Independence , which recognizes the God-given right of each person to the pursuit of happiness.
An American is generous. Americans have helped out just about every other nation in the world in their time of need, never asking a thing in return.........
When Afghanistan was over-run by the Soviet army 20 years ago, Americans came with arms and supplies to enable the people to win back their country!
As of the morning of September 11, Americans had given more than any other nation to the poor in Afghanistan ..
The national symbol of America , The Statue of Liberty , welcomes your tired and your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the homeless, tempest tossed. These, in fact, are the people who built America .
Some of them were working in the Twin Towers the morning of September 11 , 2001 earning a better life for their families. It's been told that the World Trade Center victims were from at least 30 different countries, cultures, and first languages, including those that aided and abetted the terrorists.
So you can try to kill an American if you must.. Hitler did. So did General Tojo , and Stalin , and Mao Tse-Tung, and other blood-thirsty tyrants in the world. But, in doing so you would just be killing yourself . Because Americans are not a particular people from a particular place. They are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an American.
To Kill an American
You probably missed this in the rush of news, but there was actually a report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper, an offer of a reward to anyone who killed an American; any American.
So an Australian dentist wrote an editorial the following day to let everyone know what an American is. So they would know when they found one. (Good one, mate!!!!)
'An American is English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish , Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may also be Canadian, Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or Pakistani or Afghan.
An American may also be a Comanche, Cherokee, Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache, Seminole or one of the many other tribes known as native Americans.
An American is Christian, or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim. In fact, there are more Muslims in America than in Afghanistan . The only difference is that in America they are free to worship as each of them chooses.
An American is also free to believe in no religion...... For that he will answer only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak for the government and for God.
An American lives in the most prosperous land in the history of the world.
The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of Independence , which recognizes the God-given right of each person to the pursuit of happiness.
An American is generous. Americans have helped out just about every other nation in the world in their time of need, never asking a thing in return.........
When Afghanistan was over-run by the Soviet army 20 years ago, Americans came with arms and supplies to enable the people to win back their country!
As of the morning of September 11, Americans had given more than any other nation to the poor in Afghanistan ..
The national symbol of America , The Statue of Liberty , welcomes your tired and your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the homeless, tempest tossed. These, in fact, are the people who built America .
Some of them were working in the Twin Towers the morning of September 11 , 2001 earning a better life for their families. It's been told that the World Trade Center victims were from at least 30 different countries, cultures, and first languages, including those that aided and abetted the terrorists.
So you can try to kill an American if you must.. Hitler did. So did General Tojo , and Stalin , and Mao Tse-Tung, and other blood-thirsty tyrants in the world. But, in doing so you would just be killing yourself . Because Americans are not a particular people from a particular place. They are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an American.
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From: Moser
Date: 11/27/2013 11:03:27 AM
To:
Subject: Excellent Police Report
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From: robert moser
Date: 1/2/2014 12:02:58 PM
Bcc: marksztanyo
Subject: Fwd: A Retirement Story ~ sent by Fred Arnett
class of 63 at Oakdale High!
One day a man
decided to retire...
He booked himself
on a Caribbean cruise and proceeded to have the time of his life, that
is, until the ship sank. He soon found himself on an island
with no other people, no supplies, nothing, only bananas and coconuts.
After about four
months, he was lying on the beach one day when the most gorgeous woman he
has ever seen rowed up to the shore.
In disbelief, he
asks, "Where did you come from? How did you get here?"
She replies,
"I rowed over from the other side of the island where I landed when
my fishing boat sank."
"Amazing,"
he notes. "You were really lucky to have a row boat wash up with
you."
"Oh, this
thing?" explains the woman. " I made the boat out of some raw
material I found on the island. The oars were whittled from gum tree
branches. I wove the bottom from palm tree branches, and the sides and
stern came from a Eucalyptus tree."
"But, where
did you get the tools?"
"Oh, that was
no problem," replied the woman. " On the south side of the island,
a very unusual stratum of alluvial rock is exposed. I found that if I
fired it to a certain temperature in a volcanic vent I found just down
island, it melted into ductile iron and I used that to make tools and
used the tools to make the hardware."
The guy is
stunned.
"Let's row
over to my place," she says "and I'll give you a tour." So,
after a short time of rowing, she soon docks the boat at a small
hand built wharf. As the man looks to shore, he nearly falls off the
boat. Before him is a long stone walk leading to a cabin and a tree
house.
While the woman
ties up the rowboat with an expertly woven hemp rope, the man can only
stare ahead, dumb struck. As they walk into the house, she says
casually, "It's not much, but I call it home. Please sit down. Would
you like a drink?"
"No! No thank
you," the man blurts out, still dazed. "I can't take another drop
of coconut juice."
"Oh, it's not
coconut juice," winks the woman. "I have a still. How would you like
a Jack Daniels neat?"
Trying to hide his
continued amazement, the man accepts, and they sit down on her couch to
talk. After they exchange their individual survival stories, the woman
announces, "I'm going to slip into something more comfortable. Would you
like to take a shower and shave? There's a razor in the bathroom
cabinet upstairs."
No longer
questioning anything, the man goes upstairs into the bathroom. There, in
the cabinet is a razor made from a piece of tortoise bone. Two shells, honed
to a hollow ground edge, are fastened on to its end inside a swivel
mechanism.
"This woman
is amazing," he muses. "What's next?"
When he returns,
she greets him wearing nothing but a bandana around her blonde locks and
some small flowers on tiny vines, each strategically positioned, she
smelled faintly of coconut oil. She then beckons for him to sit down next
to her.
"Tell
me," she begins suggestively, slithering closer to him, "We've both
been out here for many months. You must have been lonely. When was
the last time you had a really good ride?" She stares into his eyes.
He can't believe
what he's hearing. "You mean..." he swallows excitedly as
tears start to form in his eyes,
"You've built
a Harley?"
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