Please Don't Quote Me Finally, in 1903 they had a song, "Navajo," accepted by a stage show, "Nancy Brown" and it became a hit. That breakthrough opened some doors to the future and they sold more. At the time "cowboy" songs were the fashion and their "Cheyenne" became a hit also despite the competition. It was the beginning of a popular songwriting team who together wrote over three hundred tunes.
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Letter To The EditorDear Editor: Last year the Red Cross reviewed and distributed more than 600,000 cards to wounded service members at hospitals around the country and overseas. This year, the Red Cross and Pitney Bowes are expanding the program to include all men and women in uniform, as well as their families, wounded service members and veterans. The goal is one million holiday cards for American service members, veterans and their families in the United States and around the world. Cards should be mailed as follows: Holiday Mail for Heroes, P.O. Box 5456, Capitol Heights, MD 20791-5456. All cards must be postmarked no later than Wednesday, December 10, 2008. Cards Postmarked after that date may be returned to the sender. Every card will be screened for hazardous materials by Pitney Bowes and then reviewed by Red Cross volunteers working in one of 16 sorting stations around the country. By observing the following guidelines we can ensure a quick reviewing process: + Sign your card + Use generic salutations like "Dear Service Member." Cards to specific individuals cannot be delivered through this program. + Send cards, not long letters + Do not include email or home addresses on the cards. The program is not meant for foster pen-pal relationships. + No inserts are allowed, and will be removed during the reviewing process. Participants are encouraged to limit the number of cards they submit to 25 from any one person or 50 from any one class or group. If you are mailing a larger quantity, please bundle the cards and place them in large mailing envelopes. Each card does not need its own envelope. Where to Send Phone Cards, Gift Cards and Care Packages + Phone cards or gift cards will not be accepted with the holiday cards. Those wishing to send calling cards or gift cards/certificates should go to www.aafes.com, scroll down to "AAFES Community Connection" and click on "Help Our Troops Call Home" or "Gift Cards/Certificates for Our Troops" in order to send such items. + No "Care Packages" will be accepted at this address. Those wishing to send care packages should go to www.AmericaSupportsYou.com and click under "Hometown Groups" to find out how to send care packages. For more information, visit www.nwilredcross.org Thank you! Diana Roemer Executive Director American Red Cross Northwest Illinois Chapter 224 W. Galena Ave. Freeport, IL 61032 Letter To The EditorDear Editor, I would like to share an experience that happened to me a few months ago that I will never forget. It was early September and I was walking my bright-eyed kindergarten daughter to school one morning. As she crossed the crosswalk and proceeded to school, I waited across the road for her to go in the front doors. A few minutes after she had crossed, a senior football player had also crossed. Of course with his long legs he caught up to her in no time and passed her. But what happened next will stay in my mind forever. He made it to the doors a good 5-10 seconds ahead of her and do you know what he did? He waited and held the door open for her to go into the school first and then proceeded behind her. As a mother of 2 young kids, and often critical of today's youth, I will never forget that moment. The amount of respect and class that was shown to my kindergarten daughter that day by a senior football player is almost unbelievable. That person was a member of this year's Milledgeville football team. And that player, along with the entire team showed the same respect and class all season long, right down to their heartbreaking loss in the semifinals. They went out every week and did their job, without the showboating you often see from today's athletes. Our community is extremely proud of the success this team had this year, but more importantly, we are proud of how they handled their success, with respect and class. Thanks for a memorable season and thanks also for giving this parent a reason to be less critical of today's youth. Julie Ebersole Milledgeville Thanks for DonationWe are so grateful that Kathy Williams of FreeLife.com chose our charity to receive the proceeds from the www.NWILbusiness.com monthly business card exchange gathering in October. We look forward to using these funds to assist others in meeting their nutritional needs during economic hardship. In return, I'd like to say to those businesses in our 5-county area that choose to be involved with www.NWILbusiness.com, good luck to your businesses! It is nice to see your organization donating to charities each month. Thank you. Pear City Food Pantry Pearl City, IL Just For LaughsExplaining the world economy:SOCIALISM You have 2 cows. You are forced to give one to your neighbor. COMMUNISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both and rations your milk. FASCISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both and sells you some milk. NAZISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both and shoots you. BUREAUCRATISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both because they might damage a turtle habitat. They take one away to study it's environmental impact, pay seven people to milk the other (six lean on overpriced shovels while one does the work), and then throw the milk away. TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies, you hire people to milk the cows, the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income. AN AMERICAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You outsource the labor of milking them to Korea, and hire Mexican truckers to transport the milk. ENRON VENTURE CAPITALISM You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island Company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. You sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States, leaving you with nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the release. The public then buys your bull. A FRENCH CORPORATION You have two cows. You go on strike, organise a riot, and block the roads, because you want three cows. A JAPANESE CORPORATION You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create a clever cow cartoon image called 'Cowkimon' and market it worldwide. A GERMAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk themselves. AN ITALIAN CORPORATION You have two cows, but you don't know where they are. You decide to have lunch. A RUSSIAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn you have 2 cows. You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka. A SWISS CORPORATION You have 5000 cows. None of them belong to you. You charge the owners for storing them. A CHINESE CORPORATION You have two cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim that you have full employment, and high bovine productivity. You arrest the newsman who reported the real situation. AN INDIAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You worship them. A BRITISH CORPORATION You have two cows. Both are mad. AN IRAQI CORPORATION Everyone thinks you have lots of cows. You tell them that you have none. No-one believes you, so they bomb you and invade your country. You still have no cows, but at least now you are part of a Democracy. A DEMOCRACY You have two cows, you vote for government benefits to help you take care of the cows. Your taxes continue to go up to pay for the benefits. (largely because of the Bureaucracy example above) Your country goes broke and you lose all your cows. A REPUBLIC You have two cows. You recognize that the above mentioned capitalism is the best policy, and you protect the rights of the individual against the threat of all these other philosophies. November 9th, 2008 Submitted by James Hazelbower, Jr.
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