Happy New Year

My wishes for you in year 2010





Great start for Jan,



Love for Feb,



Peace for march,



No worries for April



Fun for May,



Joy for June to Nov,



Happiness for Dec,



Have a lucky and wonderful 2010.

Message From Santa

If it were in my powers,

I would bring peace and love,

To this world of ours,

But I don't have magic enough,

I can cross the sky,

and pass by the stars,

But I can't seem to stop,

Any of hatred's wars,

I see children on the street,

With no hope left,

in the eyes.

So many homeless people

with no where to sleep.

And my heart cries.

I can't give the things they need,

Oh But God I would try.

I'm only a fantasy,

that once took wings to fly,

Some are deceived,

by the gifts that money can buy,

But those who truly believe,

see the gift with the heart,

not with the eye,

I sometime stop and go to my knees,

and pause,

and I too always pray,

That we will find a end to wars,

and live in peace one day.

For all those who believe in me,

I will continue my cause,

Across the stars,

over the wars,

On Christmas Eve,

For the hearts that still believe,

In Santa Claus

Received This Email and...

.Thought I Would Share It...........

We all know or knew someone like this!!


One day, when I was a freshman in high schoo

I saw a kid from my class was walking home from school.


His name was Kyle.

It looked like he was carrying all of his books.


I thought to myself, 'Why would anyone bring home all his books on a Friday?


He must really be a nerd.'


I had quite a weekend planned (parties and a football game with my friends tomorrow afternoon), so I shrugged my shoulders and went on.

As I was walking, I saw a bunch of kids running toward him.


They ran at him, knocking all his books out of his arms and tripping him so he landed in the dirt.

His glasses went flying, and I saw them land in the grass about ten feet from him..


He looked up and I saw this terrible sadness in his eyes


My heart went out to him. So, I jogged over to him as he crawled around looking for his glasses, and I saw a tear in his eye.

As I handed him his glasses, I said, 'Those guys are jerks.'

They really should get lives.


' He looked at me and said, 'Hey thanks!'


There was a big smile on his face.


It was one of those smiles that showed real gratitude.


I helped him pick up his books, and asked him where he lived.


As it turned out, he lived near me, so I asked him why I had never seen him before.


He said he had gone to private school before now.


I would have never hung out with a private school kid before.


We talked all the way home, and I carried some of his books.


He turned out to be a pretty cool kid.


I asked him if he wanted to play a little football


with my friends


He said yes.


We hung out all weekend and the more I got to know Kyle, the more I liked him, and my friends thought the same of him.




Monday morning came, and there was Kyle with the huge stack of books again.


I stopped him and said, 'Boy, you are gonna really build some serious muscles with this pile of books everyday!


' He just laughed and handed me half the books.


Over the next four years, Kyle and I became best friends.


When we were seniors we began to think about college.


Kyle decided on Georgetown and I was going to Duke.


I knew that we would always be friends, that the miles would never be a problem.


He was going to be a doctor and I was going for business on a football scholarship.

Kyle was valedictorian of our class.


I teased him all the time about being a nerd.


He had to prepare a speech for graduation.

I was so glad it wasn't me having to get up there and speak .


Graduation day, I saw Kyle.

He looked great.


He was one of those guys that really found himself during high school.

He filled out and actually looked good in glasses.




He had more dates than I had and all the girls loved him.


Boy, sometimes I was jealous!


Today was one of those days.




I could see that he was nervous about his speech.

So, I smacked him on the back and said, 'Hey, big guy, you'll be great!'


He looked at me with one of those looks (the really grateful one) and smiled.


 Thanks,' he said.


As he started his speech, he cleared his throat, and began

'Graduation is a time to thank those who helped you make it through those tough years.




Your parents, your teachers, your siblings, maybe a coach...but mostly your friends....




I am here to tell all of you that being a friend to someone is the best gift you can give them.




I am going to tell you a story.'


I just looked at my friend with disbelief as he told the first day we met.


He had planned to kill himself over the weekend.


He talked of how he had cleaned out his locker so his Mom wouldn't have to do it later and was carrying his stuff home.


He looked hard at me and gave me a little smile.


'Thankfully, I was saved.

My friend saved me from doing the unspeakable.'

I heard the gasp go through the crowd as this handsome, popular boy told us all about his weakest moment.


I saw his Mom and dad looking at me and smiling that same grateful smile.




Not until that moment did I realize it's depth.


Never underestimate the power of your actions.




With one small gesture you can change a person's life.




For better or for worse.

God puts us all in each others lives to impact one another in some way.

Look for God in others.


You now have two choices, you can :


1) Pass this on to your friends or


2) Delete it and act like it didn't touch your heart.

Arizona's Next Governor..Sheriff Joe Arpaio

GOT MY VOTE

You probably know him as “America’s Toughest Sheriff,” a name given to him years ago by the media. It’s a name he certainly has earned as head of the nation’s third largest Sheriff’s Office which employs over 3000 people. But even before he became Sheriff in 1993, Joe Arpaio was one tough lawman. After serving in the U.S. Army from 1950 to 1953, and as a Washington, D.C., and Las Vegas, NV, police officer for almost five years, Arpaio went on to build a federal law enforcement career and a reputation for fighting crime and drug trafficking around the world.




He began his career as a federal narcotics agent, establishing a stellar record in infiltrating drug organizations from Turkey to the Middle East to Mexico, Central, and South America to cities around the U.S. His expertise and success led him to top management positions around the world with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). He concluded his remarkable 32-year federal career as head of the DEA for Arizona.



In 1992 Arpaio successfully campaigned to become the Sheriff of Maricopa County. Since then he has been reelected to an unprecedented five 4-year terms. During his tenure as Sheriff of Maricopa County, Arpaio has consistently earned extraordinarily high public approval ratings.



With over four decades experience in law enforcement, Arpaio knows what the public wants, “The public is my boss,” he says, “so I serve the public.” He has served them well by establishing several unique programs.



Arpaio has over 10,000 inmates in his jail system. In August, 1993, he started the nation’s largest Tent City for convicted inmates. Two thousand convicted men and women serve their sentences in a canvas incarceration compound. It is a remarkable success story that has attracted the attention of government officials, presidential candidates, and media worldwide.



Of equal success and notoriety are his chain gangs, which contribute thousands of dollars of free labor to the community. The male chain gang, and the world’s first-ever female and juvenile chain gangs, clean streets, paint over graffiti, and bury the indigent in the county cemetery.



Also impressive are the Sheriff’s get tough policies. For example, he banned smoking, coffee, movies, pornographic magazines, and unrestricted TV in all jails. He has the cheapest meals in the U.S. too. The average meal costs about 15 cents, and inmates are fed only twice daily, to cut the labor costs of meal delivery. He even stopped serving them salt and pepper to save tax payers $20,000 a year.



Another program Arpaio is very wellknown for is the pink under shorts he makes all inmates wear. Years ago, when the Sheriff learned that inmates were stealing jailhouse white boxers, Arpaio had all inmate underwear dyed pink for better inventory control. The same is true for the Sheriff’s handcuffs. When they started disappearing, he ordered pink handcuffs as a replacement. And later, when the Sheriff learned the calming, psychological effects of the color pink—sheets, towels, socks— everything inmates wear, except for the old-fashioned black and white striped uniform, were dyed pink.



Arpaio has started another controversial program, the website WWW.MCSO.org, so that all those arrested (about 300 per day) are recorded on the Sheriff’s website as they are booked and processed into jail. Just under a million hits daily come into the website, making it one of the most visible law enforcement sites on the World Wide Web.



In addition to these tough measures, the Sheriff has launched rehabilitative programs like “Hard Knocks High,” the only accredited high school under a Sheriff in an American jail, and ALPHA, an anti-substance-abuse program that has greatly reduced recidivism.



As chief law enforcement officer for the county, Arpaio continues to reduce crime with hard-hitting enforcement methods. His deputies and detectives have solved several high-profile murder cases, including nine child murders. The posse, whose ranks have increased to 3,000 members under Arpaio, is the nation’s largest volunteer posse. Posse men and women help in search and rescue and other traditional police work as well as in special operations like rounding up deadbeat parents, fighting prostitution, patrolling malls during holidays, and investigating animal cruelty complaints. The posse’s contributions are invaluable and essentially free to taxpayers.



No wonder Sheriff Arpaio has been profiled in over 2,000 U.S. and foreign newspapers, magazines, and TV news programs. His leadership and the excellent work of his staff have catapulted the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office into the ranks of elite law enforcement agencies.



On a personal note, Sheriff Arpaio and his wife Ava have been married for over 51 years and have two children, both residing in the Phoenix area. The Arpaios have four grandchildren.

Feeling Old Today ??

Just in case you weren't feeling too old today.........

The people who are starting college this fall were born in 1992.

They are too young to remember the space shuttle blowing up.

Their lifetime has always included AIDS.

The CD was introduced two years before they were born.

They have always had an answering machine.

They have always had cable..

Jay Leno has always been on the Tonight Show.

Popcorn has always been microwaved .

They never took a swim and thought about Jaws.

They don't know who Mork was or where he was from.

They never heard: 'Where's the Beef?',
'I'd walk a mile for a Camel ' or
'de plane Boss, de plane'.

McDonald's never came in Styrofoam containers.

They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter.

Pass this on to the other old fogies on your list.

Notice the larger type?

That's for those of us who have trouble reading.

P.S. Save the earth. It's the only planet with chocolate.




OK~ YA'LL FEELING OLD NOW?? I AM...........sniff` sniff

Who Is Michael Sansone

Mr.Michael J Sansone is a seasoned marketing business leader with direct, traditional and Internet marketing experience as well as proven management skills and strong 9+ year track record. Extensive experience in business management,Heavy Sales Exp and product management, marketing strategy, sales promotion, branding and communications for both business-to-business and business-to-consumer products.




In addition to his marketing experience Mr. Sansone has over 9 years experience in producing Internet/Intranet and Web based technologies, developing comprehensive website business plans and strategy, management of design, content creation and technical development, to pre and post launch site marketing and web analytics expertise. Strong management and analytical skills, experienced in constructing business cases, defining business requirements, managing creative and technical resources, Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Marketing .Michael is the owner of  Blogs for Dollars.Com An innovative Blogsite Design Company.  Also the owner of Worldtimeshare.net, Which is in its 6th year of operation.

Cousin Eddie

Sometimes You Just Need A Good Laugh

Elvin Bishop What A Jam

Just One Of Those Old Jams...Take a Listen

I Owe My Mother

I Owe My Mother

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1.. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE .

"If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning."


2. My mother taught me RELIGION.

"You better pray that will come out of the carpet."



3. My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL..

"If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!"



4. My mother taught me LOGIC.

"Because I said so, that's why." ;



5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC .

"If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going to the store with me."



6. My mother taught me FORESIGHT.

"Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident.."



7. My mother taught me IRONY.

"Keep crying, and I'll give you something to cry about."



8. My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS .

"Shut your mouth and eat your supper."



9. My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISTS.

"Will you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!"



10. My mother taught me about STAMINA .

"You'll sit there until all that spinach is gone."



11. My mother taught me about WEATHER.

"This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it."



12. My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY.

"If I told you once, I've told you a million times. Don't exaggerate!"



13. My mother taught me the CIRCLE OF LIFE.

"I brought you into this world, and I can take you out."



14. My mother taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION .

"Stop acting like your father!"



15. My mother taught me about ENVY.

"There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don't have wonderful parents like you do."



16.. My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION.

"Just wait until we get home.."



17. My mother taught me about RECEIVING .

"You are going to get it when you get home!"



18. My mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE...

"If you don't stop crossing your eyes, they are going to get stuck that way."



19. My mother taught me ESP.

"Put your sweater on; don't you think I know when you are cold?"



20. My mother taught me HUMOR.

"When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don't come running to me.."



21. My mother taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT .

"If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up."



22. My mother taught me GENETICS.

"You're just like your father.."



23. My mother taught me about my ROOTS.

"Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?"



24. My mother taught me WISDOM.

"When you get to be my age, you'll understand.."



And my favorite:

25. My mother taught me about JUSTICE ...

"One day you'll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you!!

They Walk Among Us (Part 2)

NEW YORK - resident Kathy Evans brought humiliation to her friends and family

when she set a new standard for stupidity with her appearance

on the popular TV show, 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.'


Evans, a 32-year-old wife and mother of two, got stuck on the first question and proceeded to make what fans of the show are dubbing 'the absolute worst use of lifelines ever.' After being introduced to the show's host Meredith Vieira, Evans was posed with a typically easy initial $100 question.


The question was: 'Which of the following is the largest?'

A) A Peanut

B) An Elephant

C) The Moon

D) Hey, who you calling large?


Immediately Mrs. Evans was struck with an all consuming panic as she did not readily know the answer. 'Hmm, oh boy, that's a toughie,' said Evans, as Vieira did her level best to hide her disbelief..

'I mean, I'm sure I've heard of some of these things before, but I have no idea how large they would be.'


Evans made the decision to use the first of her three lifelines, the 50/50. Answers A and D were removed, leaving her to decide which was bigger, an elephant or the moon. However, faced with an incredibly

easy question, Evans still remained unsure.



'Oh! It removed the two I was leaning towards!' exclaimed Evans.

'Darn.. I think I better phone a friend.'

Mrs. Evans asked to be connected with her friend Betsy, who is an office assistant.



'Hi Betsy! How are you? This is Kathy! I'm on TV!' said Evans,

wasting the first seven seconds of her call.

'Ok, I got an important question. Which of the following is the largest? B, an elephant, or C, the moon. 15 seconds hun.'

Betsy quickly replied that the ans wer was C, the moon.

Evans proceeded to argue with her friend for the remaining ten seconds.

'Betsy, are you sure?' said Evans. 'How sure are you? Duh, that can't be it.'



To everyone's astonishment, the moronic Evans declined to take her friend's advice. 'I just don't know if I can trust Betsy. She's not all that bright. So I think I'd like to ask the audience,' said Evans.



Asked to vote on the correct answer, the audience returned 98% in favor of answer C, 'The Moon.' Having used up all her lifelines, Evans then made the dumbest choice of her life.



'Wow, seems like everybody is against what I'm thinking,' said the too-stupid-to-live Evans. 'But you know, sometimes you just got to go with your gut. So, let's see... I'm going to have to go with B, an elephant... Final answer.'



Evans sat before the dumbfounded audience, the only one waiting with bated breath -

and was told that she was wrong, and that the answer was in fact, C, 'The Moon.'

Caution...they walk among us!


This one is equally unbelievable. (No comments needed!)

They Walk Among Us!

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Some guy bought a new fridge for his house.

To get rid of his old fridge, he put it in his front yard and hung a sign on it saying:





'Free to good home. You want it, you take it.



'For three days the fridge sat there without anyone looking twice. He eventually decided that people were too mistrustful of this deal. So he changed the sign to read:


'Fridge for sale $50.'



The next day someone stole it!



They walk amongst us!



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*One day I was walking down the beach with some friends when someone shouted.... 'Look at that dead bird!'

Someone looked up at the sky and said....'where?'



They walk among us!



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While looking at a house, my brother asked the estate agent which direction was north because he didn't want the sun waking him up every morning.

She asked, 'Does the sun rise in the north?' My brother explained that the sun rises in the east and has for sometime. She shook her head and said,

'Oh, I don't keep up with all that stuff....'



They Walk Among Us!

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My colleague and I were eating our lunch in our cafeteria, when we overheard an admin girl talking about the sunburn she got on her weekend drive to the beach. She drove down in a convertible, but said she 'didn't think she'd get sunburned because the car was moving'.

They Walk Among Us!

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My sister has a lifesaving tool in her car which is designed to cut through a seat belt if she gets trapped. She keeps it in the car's trunk.


They Walk Among Us!



I was hanging out with a friend when we saw a woman with a nose ring attached to an earring by a chain. My friend said, 'Ouch! The chain must rip

out every time she turns her head! "

I had to explain that a person's nose and ear remain the same distance part no matter which way the head is turned...



They Walk Among Us !



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I couldn't find my luggage at the airport baggage area and went to the lost luggage office and reported the loss. The woman there smiled and told me not to worry because she was a trained professional and said I was in good hands. 'Now,' she asked me, 'Has your plane arrived yet?'...(hers obviously hasn't) LOL (I work with professionals like this.)



They Walk Among Us!


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While working at a pizza parlor I observed a man ordering a small pizza to go. He appeared to be alone and the cook asked him if he would like it cut

into 4 pieces or 6. He thought about it for some time then said 'Just cut it into 4 pieces; I don't think I'm hungry enough to eat 6 pieces.


They Walk Among Us!

Abigail Rike...Amazing Woman..Amazing Story

'Biggest Loser' Contestant's Tragic Past, I  am also a parent who has lost a child, my heart flows with this remarkable woman, Not a child but both her children and husband ....Hats off Abigail..

'The Biggest Loser' contestant Abigail Rike reveals she faced more challenges than just losing 82 pounds during season eight. After her husband and two children were killed in a horrific car crash in 2006, Rike turned to food to ease the pain. Now three years later, Rike admits focusing on her weight loss has helped her regain purpose in her life. "Losing weight is kind of like shedding the sadness and hurt and emerging stronger. My life will matter again," Rike said.




Before the accident, Rike was a devoted wife and mother. "I wouldn't have traded lives with any human on the planet because my life was the best." But that dramatically changed when a speeding driver crashed head-on into the family's Nissan minivan, killing her husband Richard Rike, 33, Macy, 5, and Caleb, just 2½ weeks. Abby wasn't in the vehicle.



"After the wreck, all my roles were gone. I wasn't a wife anymore. I wasn't a mother anymore. I was broken and falling apart inside.There were pieces of shrapnel where my heart used to be -- it was shattered."



To deal with the pain, she started emotionally eating and struggled with depression -- watching the weight pile on. "You can't bury your two children and the love of your life and think, 'Oh, I'm just going to be okay,'" she said.



Her life turned around when she decided to audition for 'The Biggest Loser.' As the pounds started to come off, she realized the process helped her "heal from the inside out" as she channeled her pain into her workouts. Starting at 247 pounds, she lost an average of 4 pounds a week and now, after being eliminated, the 5-foot-4 contestant is down to an impressive 165 pounds. "You can't help what happens to you, but you can choose how you respond to it."

Sometimes We just Need To Laugh At Ourselfs.........Relaxxxx

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Why Our Country is in Trouble!

This is both Dem & and; Republican people…we’re in trouble!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Why Our Country is in Trouble!


These are really funny and really sad at the same time!


A DC airport ticket agent offers some examples of 'why' our country is


in trouble!



1. I had a New Hampshire Congresswoman (Carol Shea-Porter) ask for an

aisle seat so that her hair wouldn't get messed up by being near the

window. (On an airplane!)



2. I got a call from a Kansas Congressman's (Moore) staffer (Howard

Bauleke), who wanted to go to Capetown. I started to explain the length

of the flight and the passport information, and then he interrupted me

with, ''I'm not trying to make you look stupid, but Capetown is in

Massachusetts .''



Without trying to make him look stupid, I calmly explained, ''Cape Cod

is in Massachusetts , Capetown is in Africa ''



his response -- click.



3. A senior Vermont Congressman (Bernie Sanders) called, furious about

a Florida package we did. I asked what was wrong with the vacation in

Orlando . He said he was expecting an ocean-view room. I tried to

explain that's not possible, since Orlando is in the middle of the

state.



He replied, 'don't lie to me, I looked on the map and Florida is a very

thin state!'' (OMG)



4. I got a call from a lawmaker's wife (Landra Reid) who asked, ''Is it

possible to see England from Canada ?''



I said, ''No.''



She said, ''But they look so close on the map.'' (OMG, again!)



5. An aide for a cabinet member (Janet Napolitano) once called and

asked if he could rent a car in Dallas . I pulled up the reservation and

noticed he had only a 1-hour layover in Dallas . When I asked him why he

wanted to rent a car, he said, ''I heard Dallas was a big airport, and

we will need a car to drive between gates to save time.'' (Aghhhh)



6. An Illinois Congresswoman (Jan Schakowsky) called last week. She

needed to know how it was possible that her flight from Detroit left at

8:30 a.m, and got to Chicago at 8:33 a.m.



I explained that Michigan was an hour ahead of Illinois , but she

couldn't understand the concept of time zones. Finally, I told her the

plane went fast, and she bought that.



7. A New York lawmaker, (Jerrold Nadler) called and asked, ''Do

airlines put your physical description on your bag so they know whose

luggage belongs to whom?'' I said, 'No, why do you ask?'



he replied, ''Well, when I checked in with the airline, they put a tag

on my luggage that said (FAT), and I'm overweight. I think that's very

rude!'



After putting him on hold for a minute, while I looked into it. (I was

dying laughing). I came back and explained the city code for Fresno ,

Ca. is FAT (FAT = Fresno Air Terminal), and the airline was just

putting a destination tag on his luggage..



8. A Senator John Kerry aide (Lindsay Ross) called to inquire about a

trip package to Hawaii . After going over all the cost info, she asked,

''Would it be cheaper to fly to California and then take the train to

Hawaii ?''





9. I just got off the phone with a freshman Congressman, Bobby Bright

(D) from Ala who asked, ''How do I know which plane to get on?''



I asked him what exactly he meant, to which he replied, ''I was told my

flight number is 823, but none of these planes have numbers on them.''



10. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D) called and said, ''I need to fly to

Pepsi-Cola , Florida . Do I have to get on one of those little computer

planes?''



I asked if she meant fly to Pensacola , FL on a commuter plane.



She said, ''Yeah, whatever, smarty!''



11. Mary Landrieu (D) La. Senator called and had a question about the

documents she needed in order to fly to China . After a lengthy

discussion about passports, I reminded her that she needed a visa. 'Oh,

no I don't. I've been to China many times and never had to have one of

those.''



I double checked and sure enough, her stay required a visa. When I told

her this she said, ''Look, I've been to China four times and every time

they have accepted my American Express!''



12. A New Jersey Congressman (John Adler) called to make reservations,

''I want to go from Chicago to Rhino, New York .''



I was at a loss for words. Finally, I said, ''Are you sure that's the

name of the town?''



'Yes, what flights do you have?'' replied the man.



After some searching, I came back with, ''I'm sorry, sir, I've looked up

every airport code in the country and can't find a rhino anywhere."



''The man retorted, ''Oh, don't be silly! Everyone knows where it is.

Check your map!''



So I scoured a map of the state of New York and finally offered, ''You

don't mean Buffalo , do you?''



The reply? ''Whatever! I knew it was a big animal.''



Now you know why the Government is in the shape that it's in!



Could anyone be this DUMB?



YES, THEY WALK AMONG US, ARE IN POLITICS, AND THEY CONTINUE TO BREED.


I don't write it, I just offer it for your consideration. Like manure,


you just gotta spread it around

The Thirsty Whale ...Many Memories

It was more than 20 years ago that I last set foot inside the Thirsty Whale. The band was Holland, on the eve of their Atlantic Records release, Little Monsters. Former B’zz singer Tommy Holland had assembled a new outfit, and I was excited to see what they were like on the crowded stage.Having been a freind of Tommy for some time at this point and many nites of the parties at the Mansion house as we called it..  courtesy of good ole Danny Davis..Now back to the whale stage, Joey Cetner’s bass and Brad Rohrssen’s drums pummeled the low-ceilinged, brick-walled space under Michael Angelo Batio’s flashy guitar riffs, as Tommy’s rough and tumble voice rasped, “Wake up the neighborhood.”This was also our local hangout and The great days of The BOYZZ FROM ILLINOIZZ, PEZBAND, CHEAP TRICK, I remeber soooo well that they ...IN THE DAY ... would have to close at 6am , but they found a loophole where they served breakfast so the party would continue right in to Sunday   WOW what a place it was




Thirsty Whale weekend begins October 23rd at Shark City in Glendale Heights.


That’s what the Thirsty Whale was all about, loud rock music for the party people. Owner Jimmy DeCanio took his experience running the old Rusty Nail and the High Society disco on Belmont in Chicago and put it to good use at the corner of Grand and River Road in River Grove. What used to be the Red Steer, complete with oversized bull head outside, became the Thirsty Whale, home to live rock music from the era of Jerico, Pezband, and Sherwin Spector And Sparkle, to Cheap Trick, Survivor, and Off Broadway, and on to Holland, Paradoxx, Hammeron, Cuttlass, O’Dette, and Diamond Rexx, and then to the harder rock of the ’90s like Zoetrope and Trouble. Following a weekend of Enuff Z’Nuff, the last show at the Whale featured Radakka and Stonehenge on Sunday, June 2nd, 1996.



DeCanio’s gone now, retired to Las Vegas, and so is the Thirsty Whale, replaced by an Amoco BP gas station and McDonald’s restaurant, but the echoes of national bands like Ratt, Lita Ford, Dream Theater, Foghat, King’s X, Savatage, Alice In Chains, Deicide, Nuclear Assault, and so many more still rebound off the new Golden Arches.



The bands had their fans, but the Whale had its fans, too, and thanks to Illinois Entertainer Promotions Director Tony Labarbera, the Thirsty Whale reunion show will be held on October 24th at Shark City in Glendale Heights, preceded by Whalepalooza the night before. “It was the one thing I still wanted to do, and do right,” says Labarbera, talent buyer and entertainment manager during the Whale’s last decade. “At the Thirsty Whale, you joined the club.” Some 40 of the bands that made the Whale infamous will be performing on two stages into the wee hours of the morning, and how could it be otherwise? There’s even the Thirstywhale.com Web site, something that didn’t even exist back in the day, and it has all the details about tickets, bands, and Whalers, as the club’s fans are known.



DeCanio wanted to wish everybody well. “I want the reunion to go dynamite for Tony. Tony worked his tail off for the club and a lot of bands gave Tony a hard time, but Tony tried to work with so many of the locals, to try to help them, that these guys never ever would have been anywhere without Tony.



“You know what?” he continues. “The Whale was a fun place. My wife, and she worked for me for awhile, too, she said, ‘You had long-haired guys, short-haired guys. You had girls that wore spiked hair, and then you had the little preppy girls.’ The Whale was just a combination of everybody that enjoyed music. That’s all it was.”



But the Whale was much more than that, as Shadows Of Knight founder and singer Jimy Sohns points out: “The Whale consistently gave local heavier bands in the Chicago area a chance to play and gain a fanbase more than any other club that there was going.”



In 1987, Labarbera started doing all-ages shows at the Whale featuring bands like Holland, who drew 1,000 for the first one, and they proved to be a boon for the club, and for the bands like 7th Heaven and Smash Alley that got their start there. Labarbera’s experience promoting these kinds of shows at his little local church circuit, Holy Cross High School, and later at Snob’s on Grand Avenue, paid off for the Whale by creating future club regulars.



Not only did the Thirsty Whale provide local acts with a place to play, it gave them inspiration when they came and sat in the audience. As Shady Daze/Hounds guitarist Glen Rupp puts it, “Anything could happen. I remember at the Whale, Jonathan Cain would come and sit in. Jonathan Cain later joined Journey and co-wrote a lot of big hits. And Kevin Cronin came and sat in, and he used to play acoustic guitar by himself before he was in REO Speedwagon. I thought that was inspirational for guys that are young musicians, thinking that you play a place like the Whale, which is just a neighborhood spot, but a lot of the big stars would come and sit in.”



Survivor/Ides Of March founder Jim Peterik also has a place in his heart for the Whale: “It just seemed like our homebase, ground zero for Chicago bands and for the Jim Peterik Band. That’s when I started playing the Whale, back in about ‘75, ‘76. Always had a good crowd. Management was always very accommodating. Sound system was good. And then, gradually, as I got together Survivor, that was kind of our homebase, too, from ‘78 to about ‘81. We built and built and built, just like the club kept building the stage out, Survivor kept building their fanbase out of the Thirsty Whale.”



Things changed over the years, as Tommy Curran gaveway to DeCanio in 1981 after the legal drinking age was raised from 19 to 21, and the music changed, from glitter rock to more melodic fare, and then onto the heavy metal of its final decade. Billy Corgan, Sr., father of the Smashing Pumpkins’ frontman, played the Whale during the glitter years. “Those are pretty hazy days. We always packed the place, I mean, all the way down the block around the corner kind of thing. We had a good local following, mostly with Crystal.”



Corgan found a way to make the Whale a regular gig: “Because bands were all wanting so much money, and the more popular we got the more we would ask for, and we said, ‘Give us a week a month and we’ll keep this price through this block period.’ Wednesday through Saturday, five sets during the week, six on Saturday. We’d start at 9:30.”



“Jade 50’s in those days was the only band allowed to take the money at the door. We charged five bucks a head, which was two dollars more than anybody else charged to get in. This was the late ’70s early ’80s,” says Jade’s Joe Cantafio, now working for military veterans with his band the 101st Rock Division. “We played four New Year’s Eves in a row at the Thirsty Whale. That’s how you knew you were their top draw.”



Whisper/Trillion drummer Bill Wilkins concurs with most of the regulars: “The Thirsty Whale, that was a fixture, and I remember Mickey Scully having his trailer out on the side. He would always have that mobile home for the bands to party in right next to the clubs, so I always enjoyed that, because you had all the women and all the other bandmates, and everybody would just hang out there, and it was like our own little living room next to the living room. It was fun.”



Tommy Holland, whose House Of Holland headlines the reunion, was even more of a regular. “The Whale, that was my living room. That was my home, apart from just playing there so often. All the people, from Jimmy DeCanio and Billy Caputo, all the guys there. It was a family thing. It was the place you had to be,” he remembers.



Dirty Dan Buck, of the Boyzz From Illinoizz, gives it a more detailed perspective. “That room carried a certain attitude, different from the other rooms, different from the Haymakers, the Monopoly’s, the B. Ginnings. Those kind of had a different thing going on, a level of sophistication or whatever. I don’t know what it would be called. But when it came to the Thirsty Whale, man, everything was just down and dirty. I mean, it was just great. And everything about it exuded that, you know? The attitude of the people when you walked in, just the way you were taken care of up in the dressing room, it was just different. And the audience carried that in, too, with them.”



No matter whom we called, the memories flowed. Mark O’Dette, of Vengeance and O’Dette, says, “The Whale was the club to play in Chicago”; Paradoxx guitarist Jon Dobbs thinks of it as a father, “The Whale played a huge part of my early years, not only as a struggling musician, but as a person”; and Prism/Europe vocalist Dave Matthews remembers it like the center of the universe: “All paths crossed at the Thirsty Whale.”

Johns Hopkins Update - Good article

AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY ('TRY', BEING THE KEY WORD) TO ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY...

Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins :

1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.

2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.

3 When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors..

4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.

5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.

6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.

7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.

8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.

9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.

10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy.. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.

11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply..

*CANCER CELLS FEED ON:

a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses, but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in color. Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.

b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk cancer cells are being starved.

c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork.. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.

d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day... Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).

e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer fighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

12.. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines becomes putrefied and leads to more toxic buildup.

13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.

14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the bodies own killer cells to destroy cancer cells.. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.

15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, un-forgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.

16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.

1. No plastic containers in micro.

2. No water bottles in freezer..

3. No plastic wrap in microwave.

Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters. This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as well. Dioxin chemicals cause cancer, especially breast cancer.. Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don't freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic. Recently, Dr. Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Cast le Hospital, was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us.. He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers. This especially applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body. Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food You get the same results, only without the dioxin. So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else. Paper isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper. It's just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper.. The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.

Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food. Cover food with a paper towel instead.



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It is the job of grandparents to spoil their grandchildren. We feel that this is what we are here for. We buy things for them. Things like toys and now and then something for their rooms. Kids bedding is always a welcomed gift. We teach our grandchildren about their family heritage. Children want to know where they come from. This is a great time to teach them about their culture. We try to make sure they are being nourished in the things that we feel are important. Grandparents can play a role in a child's life building character and teaching values that will guide their futures. As grandparents it is our job to make sure our grand children know that they are loved. Depending how close you live to your grandchildren, there are things that you can share with them.

Having meals with the grandchildren is an excellent time to instill values like offering thanks to God for our food. It is also a great time for family conversation. It is important to have meal time be a sharing time. This is a time when we can all enjoy having conversations with each other. It is a time of interacting with family members. There are few things that are more important. This is when we can really get to know each other. Manners are an important part of meal time. Manners show respect, and respect is important. If we don't respect our own families, how do we respect anyone else? This is a great time to teach the importance of saying "please" and "thank you", or "may I be excused please"? What better time to teach this then when we want to ask someone to "pass the bread" please? It is important to start when children are young. That way it becomes part of the family tradition, in other words it is a natural occurrence in your family. When your grandchildren grow up and have families of their own they will remember and teach their children the same things. Our country seems to have lost a lot of family traditions. However it does not have to be that way. We can change things one at a time. It is called quality time. It really is important and we should start today.

Do your grandchildren know you love them? This is a question that all grandparents should ask themselves. The best way to let your grandchildren know you love them is to tell them so. You should tell them often. It does not cost anything, and has the reward of keeping communication with them. This is a great way to show that we respect them and support them. We should brag about our grandchildren. Let them know that we are proud of them when they do something good or right.

Grandparents can be great cheerleaders. It is great to go to their sporting activities and cheer for them. Also we can go to recitals, plays and such things. This is a great time to let them know that grandpa and grandma are proud and care enough to show it. Remember, the greatest investment we can make while we are alive is in our children. Think about it, nothing else really matters in the long run. There are many ways to spoil a child. We can lavish them with things and there is nothing wrong with that. The problem with things is they are just that, things. Things tend to disappear. In a few days, weeks, or years we hardly remember them. Another way to spoil our kids is to give them values. Values tend to last a lifetime! And often times the one that taught the values is remembered too.

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Hank Williams Jr. Bio....
The fact that the career of HANK WILLIAMS JR. has endured to become legendary is not surprising. What is surprising—no, make that amazing—is that the man himself has survived the ride.

With 2002, comes the resurgence of the man and his music, and never has there been a time Hank Jr. and his national anthem of ‘country boys can survive’ seemed more relevant to world headlines and musical tastes. A renewed Americanism and a pride in self sufficiency as a national art form can only spell out his name in bold relief—be it carved in a tree in rural Alabama or spray painted on a dilapidated ghetto sidewall in Brooklyn. Hank Williams Jr., like America, has and will survive.

The release of Hank’s much anticipated new music project, “The Almeria Club,” delivers on the promise of not only new musical innovation and new sounds, but a fascinating lifting of the veil to glimpse yet another original slice of family folklore.

Just grazing past the half century mark in his own life, Hank Williams Jr. is at an important juncture. Emerged fully from his father’s imposing shadow, he’s looking back at the roots of his raising with a new appreciation from whence he came. He’s mellowed a shade or two, but lost none of the raw power and cutting edge that has steam powered the engine that succeeded in propelling his own musical imprint into the history books.

On “Almeria Club,” Hank is re-visiting the family tradition from the exact site where Williams family history was originally penned. Hank Sr. did it “his way” there prior to the birth of Randall Hank Williams, his heir to the musical throne.

With his career crowding seventy albums, Hank has a fascinating career to look back upon for a legend still in his prime. His discography chronicles a bold profile of growth from adored offspring of a legendary father, to titan of the modern country rock movement in his own right. Is it any wonder that during the whole last decade, America came to its collective fight each Monday night when this larger than life superman of a musician looked into the camera and unleashed the national anthem for viewers of ABC’s “Monday Night Football”—“Are you ready for some FOOTBALL?” Those simple words won Hank not only a whole new generation of fans but gave him the distinction of being the first country performer to ever win an Emmy—a feat he repeated in ’90 through ’93.
Randall Hank was born May 26, 1949, one month before his father made a landmark first appearance on “The Grand Ole Opry” stage in Nashville. His daddy affectionately nicknamed his baby boy “Bocephus,” after the ventriloquist dummy of the same name who shared the stage with country comic Rod Brasfield. An ironic moniker in the fact that in years to come, Hank Jr.’s uncanny genius for blending his own musical style to cross all the conceivable boundaries between rock and country, would find him, least of all, possessed of none of the qualities of his wooden namesake.

He was three when Hank Sr. died in 1952 and only five years older, at eight, when his mother, Audrey, coaxed him onstage to sing his daddy’s songs.

He made his own debut on the hallowed Opry stage at 11, and at 14 was in the studio for his first record. His rendition of Sr.’s “Long Gone Lonesome Blues” became a hit and transferred the family mantle of stardom and all its blessings and curses to his young shoulders.

In the midst of his teen years, the gulf between Hank Jr. and “normal” grew.

He was already a star, adored by fans, pursued by women twice his age, and coming to terms with life in the fast, tempestuous business of making music. The darkness that had clouded his father’s life seemed destined on his horizon.

Record breaking crowds, chart breaking stats, heartbreaking personal problems—Hank had his share of them all when he was hardly old enough yet to vote. With his career popularity, he was growing restless, tired of the expectations to be the “young Hank Sr.,” hemmed in by the lack of space for the unique qualities of musical expression that were as unique to Hank as his own fingerprints.

Hank was climbing out and climbing into his own shadow when he fell off the mountain. His innovative, raw edged “Hank Williams Jr. & Friends” was freshly in the can, steeping with the talents of young musicians such as Dickie Betts, Toy Caldwell, and Charlie Daniels, who came along side to support Hank’s new musical epiphany as a young country rocker.

It was the ‘70s,--a time for taking risks-- and Jr. was never one to bypass a new mountain to climb—either literally or musically. While mountain climbing in Montana, he took a fall that by every law of nature should have added the adjective “late” in front of his name on all future press releases.

But Hank, as we all know, was never one to follow the ‘law.’ With his head split open, his brain in his hand, and his face shattered, Hank Williams Jr. had only begun to fight. From within the wellsprings of courage and fight so much a part of his persona, Hank summoned up the ‘by God’ determination only a southern boy too young to die can summon.

Survive he did, to come from the ashes, re-born as his own man. It’s been a road he was never to look back from personally or musically.

His current project, “The Almeria Club” circa 2002, is the latest stop on the odyssey that is Hank’s continuing journey set to music.

A time tested staple situated just south of Troy, Alabama, as the crow flies, ‘The Almeria Club,’ where much of the project was recorded, was built in 1907 and served for a time as both a school house and in its later reincarnation, as the town’s community center.

It was here, as an old gentlemen recounted to Jr., that a fight broke out during a performance by Hank Sr. in 1947—two years before Jr. was to see the first light of day. Legend recalls an irate lover broke up the concert that Hank Sr. was performing that night, welding a gun and drawing a dead-eye bead on his sweetie and someone she shouldn’t have been with. In the midst of the ensuing fray, Hank Sr. dropped his guitar, grabbed his adored Miss Audrey, Jr.’s mother, around the waist and literally headed for the hills. Country music’s most famous couple of the day jumped out a backstage window in the old “Almeria Club” and hightailed it through the Alabama woods to escape the gunfire. Yep…Hank done it that way.

Hank Jr. celebrates the reincarnation of this important landmark as he does all things: his way. His personal tradition of pushing his own envelope to new musical levels holds true, as it always has, as rowdy friends imported for the session included a full “who’s who” of top musicians imported from Los Angeles, Austin, and Nashville. The vibe is great country and blues, laced with a high-end acoustic feel, twined with fiddle, banjo, upright piano, and slide guitar. Guest appearances by Nickel Creek and Kid Rock add just the right seasoning for the master himself to fry up a newly caught batch of multi-platinum.

The public Hank, whose concerts are parties thrown for thousands of “guests of honor” who clamor before his stages, waving beer bottles and Confederate flags and are legendary, is as relevant to music today as he was the first day music buyers by the millions took his music to heart. He’s a legend…so are his hits. In his private life, Hank loves to hunt and fish, loves his wife and kids, loves his country, and still loves to raise hell whenever possible. His every appearance reminds us that America—like Hank—“can survive.” And will.

The pages of his bio can’t hope to contain the essence of his larger than life persona and his legend.

Sufficient is it to say in this, the current chapter of greatness, Hank Williams Jr. is a satisfied man.

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Well Have just returned from my trip to Chicago fro my daughters wedding,Great wedding, good family, Great Chicago food and nice weather all in one, What more can one ask for..Here are a few pics ........Watch for my new post this week

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