Have we misjudged former and present presidents?

I was sent this and it tells us a lot about their character.

Now this is "a touch of class"!

The doctor had his TV on in his office when the news of the military base shootings at Ft. Hood, TX came on. The husband of one of his employees was stationed there.

He called her into his office and as he told her what had happened, she got a text message from her husband saying, "I am okay." Her cell phone rang right after she read the message. It was an ER nurse," I'm the one who just sent you a text, not your husband. I thought it would be comforting but I was mistaken in doing so. I am sorry to tell you this, but your husband has been shot 4 times and he is in surgery."

The soldier's wife left Southern Clinic in Dothan, AL and drove all night to Ft. Hood. When she arrived, she found out her husband was out of surgery and would be OK.

She rushed to his room and found that he already had visitors there to comfort him.

He was just waking up and found his wife and the visitors by his side. The nurse took this picture.



What? No news crews and cameras? This is how people with class respond and pay respect to those in uniform.

I sent my cousin in Fayetteville , N.C. (Retired from Special Forces) that picture of Geo. W. visiting the wounded at Ft. Hood. I got this reply:

What is even better is the fact George W. Bush heard about Fort Hood, got in his car without any escort, apparently they did not have time to react, and drove to Fort Hood. He was stopped at the gate and the guard could not believe who he had just stopped. Bush only asks for directions to the hospital then drove on. The gate guard called that "The President is on Fort Hood and driving to the hospital."



The base went bananas looking for Obama. When they found it was Bush, they immediately offered escort. Bush simply told them to shut up and let him visit the wounded and the dependents of the dead.

He stayed at Fort Hood for over six hours, and was finally asked to leave by a message from the White House.

Obama flew in days later and held a "photo" session in a gym, and did not even go to the hospital.

All this I picked up from two soldiers here who happened to be at Fort Hood when it happened.

This Bush/Obama/Ft.Hood story is something that should be sent to every voter in the US. Those who wanted "change" certainly got it.

Someone, PLEASE, show me anything that will tell us that Obama has ANY respect for the country he leads! I'm looking for just a little sign of respect!


I don't know if this is the COMPLETE truth, but it fits with everything I have seen of Obama.

Leighton's gambling with our lives

I was talking to a friend who has gone to a couple of Dictator Leighton's 'Town meetings' (BTW Didn't McGroarty do the same thing to try and save his insane dictatorship?) and they told me Leighton is claiming work has been 'on going' on Solomons creek...... WHERE?!!! My family has lived across from that creek for 90 years and we haven't seen anything substantial done to that creek since around the late '80s. And that was mainly for show. So once again, Dictator Leighton "WHERE HAS OUR TAX MONEY GONE? WHAT HAPPENED TO THE $50 MILLION OF TAX MONEY MARKED FOR THE CREEK & BRIDGES?"

I know I haven't posted about the Salerno's fire yet, and I keep getting questions about it. So here goes.
Could we have saved the building with more manpower? In my opinion, No. It was arson and too far gone.
Would having Engine 3 in service have made a difference? On that night, we did have Engine 3 in service.
So Leightons manpower cuts made no difference? Yes they did, Because of the size and intensity of the fire both Engine 1 and Engine 3 were used to pump water. Because of the cuts this happened:
Engine 3 was left unattended so I could (I am Engine 3s engineer for my group) hook
Engine 1 to the closest hydrant (across the street).

Engine 3 ran out of water causing the withdrawal of the attack team that was trying to gain entrance. Meaning? If someone had been inside.......

Several examples of 1 Firefighter manning a hose line that NFPA guidelines require multiple men.

Oct 5 2004 "I would never, never gamble with the safety of residents visitors or guests," (WNEP). Yet this is what he is doing. Is the life of a firefighter, a family or a child worth his gambling?

He raised our taxes but fought to 'forgive' the old river road bakery's taxes, so he could sell it (for 8 cents on the dollar) to his campaign contributor tax free.

In short, We (the taxpayers of W-B) are paying maxed out taxes for top notch safety...... We are NOT getting what we are paying for!!!

A few Quotes from our Dictator:
-April 29 2010 “Firefighter rehabilitation at all emergency incidents is important,” (Times Leader)
Proper manning is much more important for your safety and ours.

May 31, 2008 (Citizens' voice) "I have great respect for the fire department. They do a great job and their safety is my number one concern" By cutting our manning and taking engines out of service?

-"I have delivered Jobs and Public safety to the citizens of the city" His own political add.
How by cutting the FD to unsafe levels? This is a fact, The cities own study says 17 is the minimum.

July 8 (WNEP) "It's very crucial that the fire department have adequate water pressure when they're fighting a fire so, we don't want to see any lives lost because water couldn't get on the fire"
But lives lost due to inadequate manning and cutting engines are OK?

Oct. 25 2007 (The Time Leader) "They (the council candidates) favor better fire protection, some advocated a new fire house in the Heights section. And they all said the city's biggest asset is its people."
Yet you remain silent as the Mayor risks lives and reduces safety.

Will the doors be locked on YOUR neighborhood fire station? Will another excuse be uttered to explain why the mayor closed it?

Dan Emplit WBFD
AKA Don Quixote

Dictatorship

Something I'd like to point out. The mayor of Wilkes-Barre, once elected, holds absolute power in the city. If he does something that you do not like, say risking the lives of your children so he can fiance his pet projects and make his political contributors richer, you have no option but to wait out his term. City Council claims that they have "No power" to stop him (So, what are we paying them for?). So the mayor, in effect, has absolute power. He holds an extraordinary amount of personal power that has little or no restraint. Proof? He has violated CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS. Multiple times!!! And has repressed opponents without abiding the highest laws of our nation (AKA our constitution). Check out the definition below.

A dictator is a ruler who assumes sole and absolute power but without hereditary ascension such as an absolute monarch. When other states call the head of state of a particular state a dictator, that state is called a dictatorship.

In modern usage, the term "dictator" is generally used to describe a leader who holds and/or abuses an extraordinary amount of personal power that has little or no restraint. Dictatorships are often characterized by some of the following traits: suspension of civil liberties; proclamation of a state of emergency; rule by decree; repression of political opponents without abiding by rule of law procedures.

Remember the city commissioned a study to find the fire depts MINIMUM staffing per shift, that number is 17. Mr Leighton decided that number should be 12. He is risking the lives of your children so he can fund his projects and make his campaign contributers richer. This will result in someone losing a loved one. They will then sue the city and win, but the mayor will continue to appeal the verdict until he is out of office (like he has most other of the MULTIPLE lawsuits he has collected) and it will fall on another administration...... and our backs as tax payers.



We are paying for the best services, But not getting them!!!!
Dan Emplit WBFD
AKA Don Quixote

Fiction Day is coming!

It's getting close to the day when City Council will pass (Obviously without reading it) Mr Leighton's FICTIONAL budget. I call it fictional because .... Well look at what he has done in the past, in 2009 the city payed $322,000 in overtime because we didn't have enough fire fighters. He didn't hire any. So for 2010 you can expect to pay around $322,000 in overtime. That's common sense. Obviously he lacks that trait, because he budgeted only $125,000. Then complained the FD had gone through that amount in 3 months. We have no reason to believe that the common sense fairy has visited him in the last few months.
This fiction has allowed him to throw blame at the FD by claiming we 'went over budget'. City Council is just as bad, They have to approve the budget. So either they are;
1 Negligent (because they do not READ the budget)
2 Incompetent (because they do not understand it)
3 Complacent (Because they simply pass what Mr Leighton puts in front of them)
4 All of the above
Remember NOT ONE council person has publicly stood up to Mr Leighton on our safety.
We PAY for top notch safety but we ARE NOT getting it!

Dan Emplit WBFD
AKA Don Quixote

How to be generally annoying

1. Adjust the tint on your tv so that all the people are green, and insist to others that you "like it that way".
2. Drum on every available surface.
3. Change someones E-mail address to alt.sex.fetish.hamster.duct-tape.
4. Sing the Batman theme incessantly.
5. Staple papers in the middle of the page.
6. Ask 800 operators for dates.
7. Produce a rental video consisting entirely of dire FBI copy warnings.
8. Sew anti-theft detector strips into people's backpacks.
9. Hide dairy products in inaccessible places.
10. Write the surprise ending to a novel on its first page.
11. Specify that your drive-through order is "to go".
12. Set alarms for random times.
13. Learn Morse code, and have conversations with friends in public consisting entirely of "Beeeep Bip Bip Beeeep Bip..."
14. Buy large quantities of mint dental floss just to lick the flavor off.
15. Order a side of pork rinds with your filet mignon.
16. Instead of Gallo, serve Night Train next Thanksgiving.
17. Leave your Nine Inch Nails tape in Great Uncle Ed's stereo, with the volume properly adjusted.
18. Publicly investigate just how slowly you can make a "croaking" noise.
19. Honk and wave to strangers.
20. Dress only in clothes colored Hunter's Orange.
21. Change channels five minutes before the end of every show.
22. Tape pieces of "Sweating to the Oldies" over climactic parts of rental movies.
23. Wear your pants backwards.
24. Decline to be seated at a restaurant, and simply eat their complementary mints by the cash register.
25. Begin all your sentences with "ooh la la!"
26. Rouse your roommates from slumber each morning with Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music".
27. Leave someone's printer in compressed-italic-cyrillic-landscape mode.
28. ONLY TYPE IN UPPERCASE.
29. only type in lowercase.
30. dont use any punctuation either
31. Buy a large quantity of orange traffic cones and reroute whole streets.
32. Pay for your dinner with pennies.
33. Tie jingle bells to all your clothes.
34. Repeat everything someone says, as a question.
35. Write "X - BURIED TREASURE" in random spots on all of someone's roadmaps.
36. Inform everyone you meet of your personal Kennedy assassination/UFO/ OJ Simpson conspiracy theories.
37. Repeat the following conversation a dozen times: "Do you hear that?" "What?" "Never mind, it's gone now."
38. Light road flares on a birthday cake.
39. Wander around the restaurant, asking other diners for their parsley.
40. Leave tips in Bolivian currency.
41. Demand that everyone address you as "Conquistador".
42. Push all the flat Lego pieces together tightly.
43. At the Laundromat, use one dryer for each of your socks.
44. When Christmas caroling, sing "Jingle Bells, Batman smells" until physically restrained.
45. Wear a cape that says "Magnificent One".
46. As much as possible, skip rather than walk.
47. Stand over someone's shoulder, mumbling, as they read.
48. Finish the 99 bottles of beer song.
49. Leave your turn signal on for fifty miles.
50. Pretend your mouse is a CB radio, and talk to it.
51. Try playing the William Tell Overture by tapping on the bottom of your chin. When nearly done, announce "no, wait, I messed it up", and repeat.
52. Drive half a block.
53. Name your dog "Dog" or your cat "Cat".
54. Inform others that they exist only in your imagination.
55. Ask people what gender they are.
56. Reply to everything someone says with "that's what YOU think."
57. Lick the filling out of all the Oreos, and place the cookie parts back in the tray.
58. Cultivate a Norwegian accent. If Norwegian, affect a Southern Drawl.
59. Forget the punch line to a long joke, but assure the listener it was a "real hoot".
60. Routinely handcuff yourself to furniture, informing the curious that you don't want to fall off "in case the big one comes".
61. Sculpt your hedges into anatomically suggestive shapes.
62. Follow a few paces behind someone, spraying everything they touch with a can of Lysol.
63. Deliberately hum songs that will remain lodged in co-workers' brains, such as "Feliz Navidad", the Archies' "Sugar" or the Mr Rogers theme song.
64. While making presentations, occasionally bob your head like a parakeet.
65. Lie obviously about trivial things such as the time of day.
66. Make beeping noises when a large person backs up.
67. Leave your Christmas lights up and lit until September, Scream at every one that they don't have the "Christmas spirit", cry about the decline of society.
68. Change your name to John Aaaaasmith for the great glory of being first in the phone book. Claim it's a Hawaiian name, and demand that people pronounce each A.
69. Sit in your front yard pointing a hair dryer at passing cars to see if they slow down.
70. Chew on pens that you've borrowed.
71. Invent nonsense computer jargon in conversations, and see if people play along to avoid the appearance of ignorance.
72. Wear a LOT of cologne.
73. Ask to "interface" with someone.
74. Listen to 33rpm records at 45rpm speed, and claim the faster speed is necessary because of your "superior mental processing".
75. Sing along at the opera.
76. Mow your lawn with scissors.
77. At a golf tournament, chant "swing-batatatatatata-suhWING-batter!"
78. Finish all your sentences with the words "in accordance with prophesy".
79. Ask the waitress for an extra seat for your "imaginary friend".
80. Go to a poetry recital and ask why each poem doesn't rhyme.
81. Ask your co-workers mysterious questions, and scribble their answers in a notebook. Mutter something about "psychological profiles".
82. Tell your boss, "It's not the voices in my head that bother me, its the voices in your head that do."
83. Stare at static on the TV and claim you can see a "magic picture".
84. Select the same song on the jukebox fifty times.
85. Scuff your feet on a dry, shaggy carpet and seek out victims.
86. Do not add any inflection to the end of your sentences, producing awkward silences with the impression that you'll be saying more any moment.
87. Never make eye contact.
88. Never break eye contact.
89. Signal that a conversation is over by clamping your hands over your ears.
90. Construct elaborate "crop circles" in your front lawn.
91. Construct your own pretend "tricorder", and "scan" people with it, announcing the results.
92. Give a play-by-play account of a person's every action in a nasal Howard Cossell voice.
93. Holler random numbers while someone is counting.
94. Make appointments for the 31st of September.
95. Invite lots of people to other people's parties.
96. Never tell anyone what 97 to 100 on this list is.
97.
98.
99.
100.

Crime in W-B

A friend of mine posted this on Facebook

OK, so someone just stopped Kevin and asked him if he wanted to buy some jewelry. The guy opens his hand and there was my wedding band . The guy must have broken into my old house.........didn't even know I had jewelry there (major clean out tomorrow).............HOLY SH!T!

My answer:
But W-B doesn't have a crime problem..... Leighton put in cameras and cleaned up the city...... RIGHT..... can you read my sarcasm.
Glad U R OK

Marriage Jokes

Remember; Marriage is the number one cause of divorce. It's TRUE!

Statistically 100% of all divorces started with marriage!

I married Miss Right. I just didn't know her first name was Always.

I haven't spoken to my wife for 18 months. I don't like to interrupt her.

Marriage is a 3-ring circus: Engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

The last fight was my fault. My wife asked, "What's on the TV?"
I said, "Dust!"

In the beginning, God created earth and rested. Then God created man and rested. Then God created woman. Since then, neither God nor man has rested.

Why do men die before their wives? Cause they want to.

What is the difference between a dog and a fox? About 5 drinks.

A beggar walked up to a well dressed woman shopping on Rodeo Drive and said "I haven't eaten anything in four days." She looked at him and said, "God, I wish I had your willpower."

Do you know the punishment for bigamy? Two mothers-in-law.

Young Son: Is it true, Dad, I heard that in some parts of Africa a man doesn't know his wife until he marries her?
Dad: That happens in every country, son.

A man inserted an 'ad' in the classified: "Wife wanted". Next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: "You can have mine."

The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to
forget it once.

First guy (proudly): "My wife's an angel!"
Second guy: "You're lucky, mine's still alive."

How do most men define marriage? An expensive way to get laundry done for free.

Just think, if it weren't for marriage, men would go through life thinking they had no faults at all.

If you want your wife to listen and pay undivided attention to every word you say, talk in your sleep.

Then there was a man who said, "I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; and then it was too late."

A little boy asked his father, "Daddy, how much does it cost to get married?" And the father replied, "I don't know son, I'm still paying.