My Athletic Bucket List

100 mile bike ride -COMPLETED
150 mile bike ride -COMPLETED
Half-Marathon -COMPLETED
Duathlon
Marathon -COMPLETED
Mini-Triathlon
Marine Corp Marathon
300 mile/3 day bike ride
New York Marathon
9. Boston Marathon
Coast to Coast Bike Ride
Ironman Triathlon
24 Hour bike ride
24 hour run
Run the Great Wall of China
Run the original Marathon course from Marathon to Athens
Tour de France Course

Kevin F Whaley: WHO GAVE THEM THE RIGHT TO CHANGE THE WORDS OF HISTORY?

Kevin F Whaley: WHO GAVE THEM THE RIGHT TO CHANGE THE WORDS OF HISTORY?

WHO GAVE THEM THE RIGHT TO CHANGE THE WORDS OF HISTORY?

SHALL WE  HIRE A MONUMENT ENGRAVER TO GO TO ARLINGTON   NATIONAL CEMETERY AND ADD THE MISSING  WORDS? THIS IS A MESSAGE FROM AN  APPALLED OBSERVER: Today I went to  visit the new  World War  II Memorial in    Washington , DC . I got an  unexpected history lesson. Because I'm a baby  boomer, I was one of the youngest in the crowd.   Most were the age of my parents, Veterans  of 'the greatest war,' with their families. It  was a beautiful day, and people were smiling and  happy to be there. Hundreds of us milled around  the memorial, reading the inspiring words of  Eisenhower and Truman that are engraved  there. On the Pacific side of the  memorial, a group of us gathered to read the  words President Roosevelt used to announce the  attack on Pearl  Harbor: 'Yesterday, December  7, 1941--a date which will live in infamy--the  United States of America was suddenly and  deliberately attacked.' One elderly woman read  the words aloud: 'With confidence in  our armed forces, with the abounding  determination of our people, we will gain the  inevitable triumph.' But as she read, she  was suddenly turned angry. 'Wait a minute,' she  said, 'they left out the end of the quote. They  left out the most important part.   Roosevelt  ended the message  with 'so help us God.' Her husband  said, 'You are probably right. We're not  supposed to say things like that  now.' 'I know I'm right,' she  insisted. 'I remember the speech.' The two  looked dismayed, shook their heads sadly and  walked away. Listening to their  conversation, I thought to myself, 'Well, it has  been over 50 years; she's probably  forgotten.' But she had not  forgotten. She was right.. I went home  and pulled out the book my book club is reading  --- 'Flags of Our Fathers' by James Bradley.  It's all about the battle at   Iwo  Jima ... I  haven't gotten too far in the book. It's tough  to read because it's a graphic description of  the WWII battles in the  Pacific. But right there it was on  page 58. Roosevelt 's speech to the  nation ends in 'so help us God.' The  people who edited out that part of the speech  when they engraved it on the memorial could have  fooled me. I was born after the war! But they  couldn't fool the people who were  there.  Roosevelt 's words are  engraved on their hearts. Now I  ask: 'WHO GAVE THEM THE RIGHT TO CHANGE THE WORDS OF  HISTORY?????????' Send  this around to your friends. People need to know  before everyone  forgets. People today  are trying to change the history of America by  leaving God out of it, but the truth is, God has  been a part of this nation, since the beginning.  He still wants to be...and He always will be! If you  agree, pass this on and God Bless YOU!

illegals going back to their homeland

MEXICO IS ANGRY!Three cheers for Arizona

The shoe is on the other foot and the Mexicans from the State of Sonora, Mexico do not like it. Can you believe the nerve of these people?  It's almost funny.
The State of Sonora is angry at the influx of Mexicans into Mexico. Nine state legislators from the Mexican State of Sonora traveled to Tucson to complain about Arizona's new employer crackdown on illegals from Mexico. It seems that many Mexican illegals are returning to their hometowns and the officials in the Sonora state government are ticked off.
A delegation of nine state legislators from Sonora was in Tucson on Tuesday to state that Arizona's new Employer Sanctions Law will have a devastating effect on the Mexican state. At a news conference, the legislators said that Sonora, - Arizona's southern neighbor - made up of mostly small towns - cannot handle the demand for housing, jobs and schools that it will face as Mexican workers return to their hometowns from the USA without jobs or money.
The Arizona law, which took effect Jan. 1,  punishes Arizona employers who knowingly hire individuals without valid legal documents to work in the United States. Penalties include suspension of, or loss of, their business license.
The Mexican legislators are angry because their own citizens are returning to their hometowns, placing a burden on THEIR state government. 'How can Arizona pass a law like this?' asked Mexican Rep Leticia Amparano-Gamez, who represents Nogales. 'There is not one person living in Sonora who does not have a friend or relative working in Arizona ,' she said, speaking in Spanish. 'Mexico is not prepared for this, for the tremendous problems it will face as more and more Mexicans working in Arizona and who were sending money to their families return to their home-towns in Sonora without jobs,' she said. 'We are one family, socially and economically,' she said of the people of Sonora and Arizona.

Wrong! The United States is a sovereign nation, not a subsidiary of Mexico , and its taxpayers are not responsible for the welfare of Mexico's citizens. It's time for the Mexican government, and its citizens, to stop feeding parasitically off the United States and to start taking care of its/their own needs.
Too bad that other states within the USA don't pass a law just like that passed by Arizona. Maybe that's the answer, since our own Congress will do nothing!
New Immigration Laws: Read to the bottom or you will miss the message...
1. There will be no special bilingual programs in the schools.
2. All ballots will be in this nation's language.
3. All government business will be conducted in our language.
4. Non-residents will NOT have the right to vote no matter how long they are here.
5. Non-citizens will NEVER be able to hold political office.
6. Foreigners will not be a burden to the taxpayers. No welfare, no food stamps, no health care, or other government assistance programs. Any burden will be deported.
7. Foreigners can invest in this country, but it must be an amount at least equal to 40,000 times the daily minimum wage.
8. If foreigners come here and buy land... options will be restricted. Certain parcels including waterfront property are reserved for citizens naturally born into this country.
9. Foreigners may have no protests; no demonstrations, no waving of a foreign flag, no political organizing, no bad-mouthing our president or his policies. These will lead to deportation.
10. If you do come to this country illegally, you will be actively hunted &, when caught, sent to jail until your deportation can be arranged. All assets will be taken from you.

Too strict ?
The above laws are current immigration laws of MEXICO !
  This  will take less than thirty seconds to read.  If you agree, please pass it  on.

       An idea whose time  has come

       For too long we have  been too complacent about the workings of Congress.  Many citizens had no  idea that members of Congress could retire with the same pay after only one  term, that they didn't pay into Social Security, that they specifically  exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed (such as being exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment) while ordinary  citizens must live under those laws.  The latest is to exempt themselves  from the Healthcare Reform...in all of its forms.   
    Somehow, that doesn't seem logical.  We do not have an elite that  is above the law. The self-serving must stop.  This is a  good way to do that.  It is an idea whose time has  come.

       Have each person contact  a minimum of Twenty people on their Address list, in turn ask each of  those to do likewise.

       In three days, most  people in The United States of America will have the message.  This is  one proposal that really should be passed around.

              Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution

       "Congress shall make no  law that applies to the citizens
of the United States that does not apply  equally to the Senators
and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no  law that applies
to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply  equally to
the citizens of the United States ."