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Thursday Night Internet Hoax Hall-Of-Shame

The following E-Mail was recently circulated all over my workplace. It is a chain-letter with numerous fallacies including exaggerated, incorrect, and bogus information. Variants of this chain-letter have been in existence on the Internet since 1999. The bottom-line is that this is a classic example of a ‘denial-of-service’ chain-letter in which the main intent of it is to bog down E-Mail servers and Inboxes and decrease available Internet bandwidth worldwide. Any E-Mail that encourages you to forward it on to all of your friends is known as a ‘denial-of-service’ E-Mail. Virtually all of these types of E-Mails are Internet hoaxes. They should be deleted upon receipt of them. Do not forward them on, or you will merely add to this ongoing problem on the Internet.

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Subject: Dropping Gas Prices

THIS IS NOT THE ‘DON’T BUY GAS FOR ONE DAY’, BUT IT WILL SHOW YOU HOW WE CAN GET GAS BACK DOWN TO $1.30 PER GALLON.

This was sent by a retired Coca Cola executive. It came from one of his engineer buddies who retired from Halliburton. If you are tired of the gas prices going up AND they will continue to rise this summer, take time to read this please.

Phillip Hollsworth offered this good idea. This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the “don’t buy gas on a certain day” campaign that was going around last April or May! It’s worth your consideration. Join the resistance!!!!

I hear we are going to hit close to $4.00 a gallon by next summer, and it might go higher!! Want gasoline prices to come down?

We need to take some intelligent, united action. The oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn’t continue to “hurt” ourselves by refusing to buy gas.

It was more of an inconvenience to us than it was a problem for them. BUT, whoever thought of this idea has come up with a plan that can really work. Please read on and join with us!

By now you’re probably thinking gasoline priced at about $2.00 is super cheap. Me too! It is currently $3.19 for regular unleaded in my town.

Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the cost of a gallon of gas is CHEAP at $1.50 – $1.75, we need to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the marketplace..not sellers.

With the price of gasoline going up more each day, we consumers need to take action.

The only way we are going to see the price of gas come down is if we hit someone in the pocketbook by not purchasing their gas! And, we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves.

How? Since we all rely on our cars, we can’t just stop buying gas.

But we CAN have an impact on gas prices if we all act together to force a price war.

Here’s the idea: For the rest of this year, DON’T purchase ANY gasoline from the two biggest companies (which now are one), EXXON and MOBIL.

If they are not selling any gas, they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit.

But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of Exxon and Mobil gas buyers. It’s really simple to do! Now, don’t wimp out on me at this point…keep reading and I’ll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!!

I am sending this note to 30 people. If each of us send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300) … and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000)…and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth group of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers. If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted!

If it goes one level further, you guessed it….. THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!

Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. That’s all!

(If you don’t understand how we can reach 300 million and all you have to do is send this to 10 people…. Well, let’s face it, you just aren’t a mathematician. But I am, so trust me on this one.)

How long would all that take? If each of us sends this e-mail out to ten more people within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next 8 days!!!

I’ll bet you didn’t think you and I had that much potential, did you! Acting together we can make a difference.

If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on. I suggest that we not buy from EXXON/MOBIL UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $2.00 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK.

Keep it going!!!

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Bedtime Stories

It’s after 10:15 PM EDT as I begin this first and final blog entry for this 3RD Wednesday of March, and I’m so late in posting tonight because I just got home from Life Group at J.T.’s and Anne’s home. I was the first to arrive, but I was not the last to depart.

It was another fun 3 hours at their home, and this Wednesday night’s Life Group was a very special one. It was my one-year anniversary. Exactly 52 weeks ago tonight I stepped in to J.T.’s and Anne’s home for the very first time after several weeks of pleading and prodding by Anne to join her Life Group. That night I took a giant leap on this fantastic journey by meeting for faith and fellowship with a small portion of my Sunday morning church family during the middle of the week. That night I also met J.T. for the first time ever. I had briefly heard of him, but I didn’t know what he looked like. I must say that he intimidated me at first over the telephone when I called to get directions to their home, but once I finally met him in person all was forgiven. 🙂

And so Year 2 with my Life Group begins next Wednesday night. I’m looking forward to it. I love spending quality time every week with everyone in our constantly evolving small church family. The faces continue to change, but the love is always there. We are certainly loving each other and most definitely God with reckless abandon !

And that’s my ‘Bedtime Story’ for tonight. Be sure to catch the blog tomorrow afternoon for the ‘Thursday Night Internet Hoax Hall-Of-Shame’. I’ll show you a way that all of us can get together and sock it to the man and get gas prices down from $3.30 per gallon to $1.30 per gallon. At least that’s what a recent chain-letter that was circulating all over Homestead Air Reserve Base was suggesting !

Until then remember this:

You’ll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent.

Good Night Everyone !  Good Night Gracie !

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Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts

It’s Tuesday night, and here’s what’s on my mind:

1.  My alarm clock woke me up at 5:10 AM this morning, but I decided that the best thing to do was to turn it off and then go back to sleep. God then woke me up 12 minutes later at 5:22 AM and reminded me of how much I love to go to work. I concurred, and I ended up arriving at work just about 15 minutes late. I more than made up for it with a ‘working and eating Lunch’ right at my desk.

2.  I attended 3 meetings in a row this morning at work from 9 AM until nearly 10:30 AM. They were all extremely productive and rather entertaining (lots of laughs). I never thought that I would adore attending meetings until I started working at my current workplace nearly 8 months ago.

3.  The Wendy’s drive-thru on Biscayne Drive just down the road from the base specializes in ‘speed ordering’. If you pull up to their drive-thru speaker then you better know right then and there what you want immediately. They pretty much demand your order as soon as you reach the menu board. There is no hesitation allowed !

4.  I don’t like windy days like today. My extra fine mop up top gets all tossed around like that of a circus clown. At one point I looked like Albert Einstein.

Albert Einstein

5.  I’m allergic to most colognes and perfumes. Someone in my building apparently doused himself with cologne today because I let out a few monster sneezes during the course of the work day today that could have shattered normal non-hurricane-proof / non-bullet-proof windows.

6.  Someone out there in cyberspace wanted to know what they eat in Costa Rica for Easter, and a search engine decided to send that person to my blog today. That made me laugh.

7.  If you speed through my neighbourhood then you are disrepecting my neighbours. The closer I get to my parking space in front of my home the slower I drive – out of respect to my neighbours.

8.  Homestead is starting to look and feel like a busy big city. I present to you the undeniable evidence – choking traffic jams everywhere I go. This city is alive and kicking !  This is not your parents’ Homestead.

9.  I recently had a request to add a second weekly edition of the ‘Grab Bag O’ Thoughts’ on another night of the week. I must disapprove of that request because you can get too much of a good thing. My goal is to leave you wanting more – not overdose you with goodness.

10.  Aside from Life Pointe Church on Sunday mornings there’s another place where you can literally rock out to the jams, and that place is none other than Publix !  This afternoon I was dancing in the aisles like it was 1971 to Three Dog Night‘s “Joy To The World”. I wasn’t the only one !