Among places with 250,000 or more residents, the affluent Dallas suburb of Plano, Texas, boasts the highest median income: $77,038. San Jose came in second at $73,804 and San Francisco was third with $65,497. (Read More)
Most of my fam spam comes from Plano, TX
Sphere: Related ContentWhich one is real and which one is a spoof? Thanks for the link dad.
(To see more spoof, check out this youtube search. If you want to see more of the real thing, stick a piñata up your ass.)
Sphere: Related ContentNo. I am not even effing kidding with this. It’s real and from a family member. The thing is, the person that sent this is smarter than this. By a lot. Yet he still sends idiotspew like this and would tsk tsk me if I called him on his bullshit.
Subject: FW: True RedneckI’m proud to be a Redneck and you maybe surprised your one too.
Later,
xxxxxxx
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>We have enjoyed the redneck jokes for years. It’s time to take a
>reflective look at the core beliefs of a culture that values home, family,
>country and God. If I had to stand before a dozen terrorists who threaten
>my life, I’d choose a half dozen or so rednecks to back me up. Tire irons,
> squirrel guns and grit — that’s what rednecks are made of. I hope I am
>one of those. If you feel the same, pass this on to your redneck friends.
>Ya’ll know who ya’ are…
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>You might be a redneck if: It never occurred to you to be offended by
>the phrase, “One nation, under God.”
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>You might be a redneck if: You’ve never protested about seeing the 10
>Commandments posted in public places.
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>You might be a redneck if: You still say “Christmas” instead of “Winter
>Festival.”
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>You might be a redneck if: You bow your head when someone prays.
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>You might be a redneck if: You stand and place your hand over your heart
>when they play the National Anthem.
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>You might be a redneck if: You treat Viet Nam vets with great respect,
>and always have.
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>You might be a redneck if: You’ve never burned an American flag.
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>You might be a redneck if: You know what you believe and you aren’t
>afraid to say so, no matter who is listening.
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>You might be a redneck if: You respect your elders and expect your kids
>to do the same
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>You might be a redneck if: You’d give your last dollar to a friend.
>
>If you got this email from me, it is because I believe that you, like me,
>have just enough Red Neck in you to have the same beliefs as those
>talked about in this email.
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>God Bless the USA!
(Note all important GOD BLESS the USA at the end. That’s a badge of truthiness.)
Sphere: Related ContentSphere: Related ContentAs we approach the coming election, these are facts you should know about. I hope you will help get a wide distribution for this information.
1. In the last 2 years, U.S. tax collections have increased by
$521 Billion. Even when adjusted for inflation, this is the largest 2 year tax revenue growth in the history of the country. On September 15, 2006, tax revenue reached a single day record of 81 Billion dollars. This broke the old record of 70 Billion dollars. That’s a huge increase for a single day.
2. The deficit has been reduced at twice the rate predicted
when the Bush Tax cuts went into law. Despite being hit by 9/11 and spending an additional $300 Billion on Homeland Security, and $100 Billion as a result of hurricane Katrina (let along 4 hurricanes in Florida, and Rita in Texas) the deficit is now less than the average annual deficit over the last 40 years.3. Everyone is enjoying the results of the tax cuts. If you
were in the lowest tax bracket, your tax rate went from 15% to 10%, a reduction of 1/3rd. An average family of 4 pays no taxes for income below $35,000. That is the highest level of untaxed income in the history of the country.4. The unemployment rate is 4.6%. Can you remember when it
was lower? I can’t. During recent months, the average increase
in American wages has risen 4%. This is remarkable in an economy that has very very low inflation.5. We are now in the middle of one of the longest uninterrupted economic expansions in the history of the country. There have only been a couple that have been longer. And, it is based on actual production growth, not the air bag Internet boom of the 90’s.
6. The Dow Jones Average is at an all time high. Economic
outlook is for a slowing of the economy, but not an end to the
growth. Economic expansion will continue (unless the Dem’s take away the tax cuts and kill the economy).Nancy Pelosi has already said her first priority is to raise taxes.
You don’t have to be a genious to know this will kill the economic
growth. Every time taxes have been cut (Wilson in the 20’s, Kennedy in the 60’s, Reagan in the 80’s, and Bush in the 2000’s) tax revenues have soared. Government growth does not create jobs, economic growth does. Be sure to vote.The economy is good and getting better.
Pass it on if you will.
Thanks
Sphere: Related ContentWOULDN’T IT BE GREAT TO TURN ON THE TV AND HEAR ANY U.S. PRESIDENT, DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN GIVE THE FOLLOWING SPEECH?
My Fellow Americans: As you all know, the defeat of the Iraq regime has been completed.
Since congress does not want to spend any more money on this war, our mission in Iraq is complete.
This morning I gave the order for a complete removal of all American forces from Iraq and Afghanistan. This action will be complete within 30 days. It is now time to begin the reckoning.
Before me, I have two lists. One list contains the names of countries which have stood by our side during the Iraq conflict. This list is short. The United Kingdom, Spain, Bulgaria, Australia, and Poland are some of the countries listed there.
The other list contains everyone not on the first list. Most of the world’s nations are on that list. My press secretary will be distributing copies of both lists later this evening.
Let me start by saying that effective immediately, foreign aid to those nations on List 2 ceases immediately and indefinitely. The money saved during the first year alone will pretty much pay for the costs of the Iraqi war.
The American people are no longer going to pour money into third world Hellholes and watch those government leaders grow fat on corruption.
Need help with a famine ? Wrestling with an epidemic? Call France.
In the future, together with Congress, I will work to redirect this money toward solving the vexing social problems we still have at home. On that note, a word to terrorist organizations. Screw with us and we will hunt you down and eliminate you and all your friends from the face of the earth.
Thirsting for a gutsy country to terrorize? Try France, or maybe China.
I am ordering the immediate severing of diplomatic relations with France, Germany, and Russia. Thanks for all your help, comrades. We are retiring from NATO as well. Bon chance, mes amis.
I have instructed the Mayor of New York City to begin towing the many UN diplomatic vehicles located in Manhattan with more than two unpaid parking tickets to sites where those vehicles will be stripped, shredded and crushed. I don’t care about whatever treaty pertains to this. You creeps have tens of thousands of unpaid tickets. Pay those tickets tomorrow or watch your precious Benzes, Beamers and limos be turned over to some of the finest chop shops in the world. I love New York.
A special note to our neighbors. Canada is on List 2. Since we are likely to be seeing a lot more of each other, you folks might want to try not pissing us off for a change.
Mexico is also on List 2. President Fox and his entire corrupt government really need an attitude adjustment. I will have a couple extra tank and infantry divisions sitting around. Guess where I am going to put ‘em? Yep, border security.
Oh, by the way, the United States is abrogating the NAFTA treaty - starting now.
We are tired of the one-way highway. Immediately, we’ll be drilling for oil in Alaska - which will take care of this country’s oil needs for decades to come. If you’re an environmentalist who opposes this decision, I refer you to List 2 above: pick a country and move there. They care.
It is time for America to focus on its own welfare and its own citizens. Some will accuse us of isolationism. I answer them by saying, “darn tootin.”
Nearly a century of trying to help folks live a decent life around the world has only earned us the undying enmity of just about everyone on the planet. It is time to eliminate hunger in America. It is time to eliminate homelessness in America. To the nations on List 1, a final thought. Thank you guys. We owe you and we won’t forget.
To the nations on List 2, a final thought: You might want to learn to speak Arabic.
God bless America. Thank you and good night.
If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you are reading it in English, thank a soldier.
(Please forward this to at least ten friends and see what happens! Let’s get this to every USA computer!)
Sphere: Related ContentPass this along to everyone you know!
Subject: WW 111 started in 1979.
Martin (Marty) Gertson
This is very informative. You have to read the catalogue of events in this brief piece. Then, ask yourself how anyone can take the position that all we have to do is bring our troops home from Iraq, sit back, reset the snooze alarm, go back to sleep, and no one will ever bother us again. In case you missed it, World War III began in November 1979… that alarm has been ringing for years
US Navy Captain Ouimette is the Executive Officer at Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida. Here is a copy of the speech he gave last month. It is an accurate account of why we are in so much trouble today and why this action is so necessary.
AMERICA NEEDS TO WAKE UP!
That’s what we think we heard on the 11th of September 2001 (When more than 3,000 Americans were killed -AD) and maybe it was, but I think it should have been “Get Out of Bed!” In fact, I think the alarm clock has been buzzing since 1979 and we have continued to hit the snooze button and roll over for a few more minutes of peaceful sleep since then.
It was a cool fall day in November 1979 in a country going through a religious and political upheaval when a group of Iranian students attacked and seized the American Embassy in Tehran. This seizure was an outright attack on American soil; it was an attack that held the world’s most powerful country hostage and paralyzed a Presidency. The attack on this sovereign U. S
America was still reeling from the aftermath of the Vietnam experience and had a serious threat from the Soviet Union when then, President Carter, had to do something. He chose to conduct a clandestine raid in the desert. The ill-fated mission ended in ruin, but stood as a symbol of America’s inability to deal with terrorism.America’s military had been decimated and down sized/right sized since the end of the Vietnam War. A poorly trained, poorly equipped and poorly organized military was called on to execute a complex mission that was doomed from the start.
Shortly after the Tehran experience, Americans began to be kidnapped and killed throughout the Middle East. America could do little to protect her citizens living and working abroad The attacks against US
In April of 1983 a large vehicle packed with high explosives was driven into the US Embassy compound in Beirut When it explodes, it kills 63 people. The alarm went off again and America hit the Snooze Button once more.
Then just six short months later in 1983 a large truck heavily laden down with over 2500 pounds of TNT smashed through the main gate of the US Marine Corps headquarters in Beirut and 241 US servicemen are killed. America mourns her dead and hit the Snooze Button once more.
Two months later in December 1983, another truck loaded with explosives is driven into the US Embassy in Kuwait , and America continues her slumber.
The following year, in September 1984, another van was driven into the gate of the US Embassy in Beirut and America slept.
Soon the terrorism spreads to Europe. In April 1985 a bomb explodes in a restaurant frequented by US soldiers in Madrid.
Then in August 1985 a Volkswagen loaded with explosives is driven into the main gate of the US Air Force Base at Rhein-Main, 22 are killed and the snooze alarm is buzzing louder and louder as US interests are continually attacked.
Fifty-nine days later in 1985 a cruise ship, the Achille Lauro is hijacked and we watched as an American in a wheelchair is singled out of the passenger list and executed.
The te rrorists then shift their tactics to bombing civilian airliners when they bomb TWA Flight 840 in April of 1986 that killed 4 and the most tragic bombing, Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in1988, killing 259.
Clinton treated these terrorist acts as crimes; in fact we are still trying to bring these people to trial. These are acts of warThe wake up alarm is getting louder and louder.
The terrorists decide to bring the fight to America . In January 1993, two CIA agents are shot and killed as they enter CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
The following month, February 1993 , a group of terrorists are arrested after a rented van packed with explosives is driven into the underground parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York City. Six people are killed and over 1000 are injured. Still this is a crime and not an act of war? The Snooze alarm is depressed again.
Then in November 1995 a car bomb explodes at a US military complex in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia killing seven service men and women.
A few months later in June of 1996, another truck bomb explodes only 35 yards from the US military compound in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. It destroys the Khobar Towers, a US Air Force barracks, killing 19 and injuring over 500. The terrorists are getting braver and smarter as they see that America does not respond decisively.
They move to coordinate their attacks in a simultaneous attack on two US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.. These attacks were planned with precision. They kill 224. America responds with cruise missile attacks and goes back to sleep.
The USS Cole was docked in the port of Aden, Yemen for refueling on 12 October 2000 , when a small craft pulled along side the ship and exploded killing 17 US Navy Sailors. Attacking a US War Ship is an act of war, but we sent the FBI to investigate the crime and went back to sleep.
And of course you know the events of 11 September 2001. Most Americans think this was the first attack against US soil or in America . How wrong they are. America has been under a constant attack since 1979 and we chose to hit the snooze alarm and roll over and go back to sleep.
In the news lately we have seen lots of finger pointing from every high officials in government over what they knew and what they didn’t know. But if you’ve read the papers and paid a little attention I think you can see exactly what they knew. You don’t have to be in the FBI or CIA or on the National Security Council to see the pattern that has been developing since 1979.
I think we have been in a war for the past 25 years and it will continue until we as a people decide enough is enough. America needs to “Get out of Bed” and act decisively now. America has been changed forever.. We have to be ready to pay the price and make the sacrifice to ensure our way of life continues. We cannot afford to keep hitting the snooze button again and again and roll over and go back to sleep.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Admiral Yamamoto said “… it seems all we have done is awakened a sleeping giant.” This is the message we need to disseminate to terrorists around the world.
This is not a political thing to be hashed over in an election year this is an AMERICAN thing. This is about our Freedom and the Freedom of our children in years to come.
If you believe in this please forward it to as many people as you can especially to the young people and all those who dozed off in history class and who seem so quick to protest such a necessary military action.
Today I have a new category: Fam-spam. I have back-tagged some other posts for your enjoyment. I am not even kidding about this. Passed on unedited.
Sphere: Related ContentFood for thought. Subject: Worth Remembering
Here is a truth to think about and also to be thankful for.
Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you,Jesus Christ and the American Military. One died for your soul, the other for your freedom.
YOU MIGHT WANT TO PASS THIS ON, AS MANY SEEM TO FORGET BOTH OF THEM.
My stepmother and I communicate very infrequently these days because every time we do, it’s a clash of completely intractable political and lifestyle opposites. However, these random pieces of e-mail come through now and again, without much explanation.
They are often entitled RE RE RE RE: FWD: RE RE: FWD FW RE: Insert something inflammatory, racist, jingoist here (fw) (fw fw) (re), with the associated quoting. It’s often been helpfully colored, italicized, bolded, and fontasmified for an enhanced experience, so you end up with something like:
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 03:34:39 +0000
From: xxxxxxxx@aol.com
To: undisclosed-recipients: ;
Subject: FW: RE: fwd: re: re: fwd: FWD FWD LOL: FWD: Librals are RILLY stupid how to talk at them (HAHA
LOL FUNNY MUST READ! GOD BLESS!)
———- Forwarded message ———-
>>> LIBRALS ARE RILLY DUMB >>> SO WHEN YOU TALK AT THEM YOU HAVE TO USE ALL CAPS >>> AND TYPE SLOWLY HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>> ANNE COULTER IS RILLY SMART AND EVERYTHING SHE SAYS IS TRUE >>>
BILL OREILLY SAID THE SAME THING AND IT MADE A LOT OF CENTS TO ME?
HAHAHA ME TOO LOLLLOLLOLOLOL!
>>>>>>>> TED KENNEDY IS EVIL AND A DRUNK REMEMBER CHAPAKWIDIK
>>>>>>>> ALSO: HILARY CLINTON IS LESBIONIC!!11!11!1one!!!!!11!
GOD BLESS AMERICA
GOD BLSS GEORGE W. BUSH
:) :) SPIT ON a libril and remember to pASS THIS ON TO 7 OF YOUR FRIENDS HAHAHALOLOLOL! :) :)
yeah. something pretty terrifyingly similar to that.
Anyway, a few days ago I mentioned to my father that I was considering a trip to Europe this spring. A few days after that, I get an e-mail from my stepmother entitled “FW: Europe (fw)”. I have to wonder if the timing of this is due to my mention of Europe to my dad, or if its just one of the talking points sent out to the GOP to try to smoke and mirrors attention away from the fact the Dubya’s latest indefensibly incompetent act of homeland security is to try to farm out security of our ports to the UAE. And is probably thinking really hard on ways to make critical comments against this well thought out plan an act of sedition.
And now, the e-mail:
Sphere: Related ContentIt’s fascinating that this should come out of Europe. Matthias Dapfner, Chief Executive of the huge German publisher Axel Springer AG, has written a blistering attack in DIE WELT, Germany’s largest daily paper, against the timid reaction of Europe in the face of the Islamic threat. This is a must read by all Americans. History will certify its correctness.
EUROPE - THY NAME IS COWARDICE (Commentary by Mathias Dapfner CEO, Axel Springer, AG)
A few days ago Henry Broder wrote in Welt am Sonntag, “Europe - your family name is appeasement.” It’s a phrase you can’t get out of your head because it’s so terribly true.
Appeasement cost millions of Jews and non-Jews their lives as England and France, allies at the time, negotiated and hesitated too long before they noticed that Hitler had to be fought, not bound to toothless agreements.
Appeasement legitimized and stabilized Communism in the Soviet Union, then East Germany, then all the rest of Eastern Europe where for decades, inhuman suppressive, murderous governments were glorified as the ideologically correct alternative to all other possibilities.
Appeasement crippled Europe when genocide ran rampant in Kosovo, and even though we had absolute proof of ongoing mass-murder, we Europeans debated and debated and debated, and were still debating when finally the Americans had to come from halfway around the world, into Europe yet again, and do our work for us.
Rather than protecting democracy in the Middle East, European appeasement, camouflaged behind the fuzzy word “equidistance” now countenances suicide bombings in Israel by fundamentalist Palestinians.
Appeasement generates a mentality that allows Europe to ignore nearly 500,000 victims of Saddam’s torture and murder machinery and, motivated by the self-righteousness of the peace-movement, has the gall to issue bad grades to George Bush… Even as it is uncovered that the loudest critics of the American action in Iraq made illicit billions, no, TENS of billions, in the corrupt U.N. Oil-for-Food program.
And now we are faced with a particularly grotesque form of appeasement. How is Germany reacting to the escalating violence by Islamic fundamentalists in Holland and elsewhere? By suggesting that we really should have a “Muslim Holiday” in Germany?
I wish I were joking, but I am not. A substantial fraction of our (German) Government, and if the polls are to be believed, the German people, actually believe that creating an Official State “Muslim Holiday” will somehow spare us from the wrath of the fanatical Islamists.
One cannot help but recall Britain’s Neville Chamberlain waving the laughable treaty signed by Adolph Hitler, and declaring European “Peace in our time”.
What else has to happen before the European public and its political leadership get it? There is a sort of crusade underway, an especially perfidious crusade consisting of systematic attacks by fanatic Muslims,
focused on civilians, directed against our free, open Western societies, and intent upon Western Civilization’s utter destruction.
It is a conflict that will most likely last longer than any of the great military conflicts of the last century - a conflict conducted by an enemy that cannot be tamed by “tolerance” and “accommodation” but is actually spurred on by such gestures, which have proven to be, and will always be taken by the Islamists for signs of weakness.
Only two recent American Presidents had the courage needed for anti-appeasement: Reagan and Bush.
His American critics may quibble over the details, but we Europeans know the truth. We saw it first hand: Ronald Reagan ended the Cold War, freeing half of the German people from nearly 50 years of terror and virtual slavery. And Bush, supported only by the Social Democrat Blair, acting on moral conviction, recognized the danger in the Islamic War against democracy. His place in history will have to be evaluated after a number of years have passed.
In the meantime, Europe sits back with charismatic self-confidence in the multicultural corner, instead of defending liberal society’s values and being an attractive center of power on the same playing field as the true great powers, America and China.
On the contrary - we Europeans present ourselves, in contrast to those arrogant Americans”, as the World Champions of “tolerance”, which even (Germany’s Interior Minister) Otto Schily justifiably criticizes.
Why? Because we’re so moral? I fear it’s more because we’re so materialistic so devoid of a moral compass.
For his policies, Bush risks the fall of the dollar, huge amounts of additional national debt, and a massive and persistent burden on the American economy - because unlike almost all of Europe, Bush realizes what is at stake - literally everything
While we criticize the “capitalistic robber barons” of America because they seem too sure of their priorities, we timidly defend our Social Welfare systems. Stay out of it! It could get expensive! We’d rather discuss reducing our 35-hour workweek or our dental coverage, or our 4 weeks of paid vacation… Or listen to TV pastors preach about the need to “reach out to terrorists. To understand and forgive”.
These days, Europe reminds me of an old woman who, with shaking hands, frantically hides her last pieces of jewelry when she notices a robber breaking into a neighbor’s house.
Appeasement? Europe, thy name is Cowardice. God Bless America
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