TV GUIDE REPORTS TOP EARNERS
TV Guide reports, “House”’s Hugh Laurie earns over $400,000 per episode. The other top earners in television dramas Per Episode are:
• $395,000 - Mariska Hargitay, “Law and Order: SVU”
• $395,000 - Christopher Melon, “Law and Order: SVU”
• $375,000 - Mark Harmon, “NCIS”
• $375,000 - David Causon, “CSI: Miami”
• $375,000 - Marg Helgenberg, “CSI”
• $350,000 - Laurence Fishburne, “CSI”
• $350,000 - Kyra Sedgwick, “The Closer”
• $350,000 - Denis Leary, “Rescue Me”
• $275,000 - Gary Sinise, “CSI: NY”
• $250,000 - Patrick Dempsey, “Grey’s Anatomy”
• $200,000 - David Boreanaz, “Bones”
• $200,000 - Jeffrey Donovan, “Burn Notice”
• $175,000 - Julianna Margulies, “The Good Wife”
• $150,000 - Dana Delany, “Body of Proof”
• $150,000 - Lauren Graham, “Parenthood”
• $150,000 - Jada Pinkett Smith, “HawthoRNe”
• $150,000 - Jimmy Smits, “Outlaw”
• $125,000 - LL Cool J, “NCIS:Los Angeles”
• $125,000 - Chris O’Donnell, “NCIS:Los Angeles”
• $125,000 - Mark Feuerstein, “Royal Pains”
• $125,000 - Jason Lee, “Memphis Beat”
• $125,000 - Joe Mantegna, “Criminal Minds”
• $125,000 - Tom Selleck, “Blue Bloods”
• $125,000 - Michael Weatherly, “NCIS”
• $100,000 - Matt Bomer, “White Collar”
• $100,000 - Nathan Fillion, “Castle”
• $100,000 - Thomas Gibson, “Criminal Minds”
• $100,000 - Jon Hamm, “Mad Men”
• $100,000 - Cole Hauser, “Chase”
• $100,000 - Alex O’Loughin, “Hawaii Five-O”
• $100,000 - Timothy Olyphant, “Justified”
• $ 80,000 - Scott Caan, “Hawaii Five-O”
• $ 75,000 - Angie Harmon, “Rizzoli and Isles”
• $ 75,000 - Anna Paquin, “True Blood”
• $ 75,000 - Blair Underwood, “The Event”
• $ 60,000 - Zachary Levi, “Chuck”
• $ 40,000 - Ian Somerhalder, “The Vampire Diaries”
• $ 40,000 - Shailene Woodley, “The Secret Life of the American Teenager”
• $ 30,000 - Ashley Tisdale, “Hellcats”
Here’s the top earners in Comedy television per episode are:
• $550,000 - Jon Cryer, “Two and a Half Men”
• $400,000 - Marcia Cross, “Desperate Housewives”
• $400,000 - Teri Hatcher, “Desperate Housewives”
• $400,000 - Felicity Huffman, “Desperate Housewives”
• $400,000 - Eva Longoria Parker, “Desperate Housewives”
• $400,000 - Dan Castellaneta, “The Simpsons”
• $400,000 - Julie Kavner, “The Simpsons”
• $350,000 - Tina Fey, “30 Rock”
• $350,000 - Jeremy Piven, “Entourage”
• $297,000 - Steve Carell, “The Office”
• $250,000 - Angus T. Jones, “Two and a Half Men”
• $200,000 - David Duchovny, “Californication”
• $200,000 - Kevin Dillion, “Entourage”
• $200,000 - Adrian Grenier, “Entourage”
• $180,000 - Miranda Cosgrove, “iCarly”
• $175,000 - Edie Falco, “Nurse Jackie”
• $150,000 - William Shatner, “$#*! My Dad Says”
• $150,000 - David Spade, “Rules of Engagement”
• $100,000 - Ed O’Neill, “Modern Family”
• $ 85,000 - Patrick Warburton, “Rules of Engagement”
• $ 75,000 - Betty White, “Hot in Cleveland”
• $ 60,000 - Kaley Cuoco, “The Big Bang Theory”
• $ 60,000 - Johnny Galecki, “The Big Bang Theory”
• $ 50,000 - Ty Burrell, “Modern Family”
• $ 50,000 - Jane Lynch, “Glee”
• $ 40,000 - Jim Parsons, “The Big Bang Theory”
• $ 30,000 - Matthew Morrison, “Glee”
• $ 30,000 - Selena Gomez, “Wizards of Waverly Place”
• $ 20,000 - Cole Sprouse, “The Suite Life of Zack and Cody”
• $ 20,000 - Dylan Sprouse, “The Suite Life of Zack and Cody”
• $ 15,000 - Rico Rodriguez, “Modern Family”
Oprah Winfrey pulls in $315 million a year. Here’s the other top earners in the Late Night and Talk Syndication per year:
• $45 million - Judge Judy Sheindlin, “Judge Judy”
• $28 million - David Latterman, “The Late Show”
• $25 million - Jay Leno, “The Tonight Show”
• $10 million - Conan O’Brien, “The Conan O’Brien Show”
• $ 8 million - Ellen DeGeneres, “The Ellen DeGeneres Show”
• $ 6 million - Jimmy Kimmel, “Jimmy Kimmel Show”
• $3.5 million - Chelsea Handler, “Chelsea Lately”
• $3.5 million - George Lopez, “Lopez Tonight”
“American Idol”’s Ryan Seacrest makes $15 million a year. Other top earners in Reality TV are:
• $2 million - Joel McHall, “The Soup”
• $2 million - Piers Morgan, “America’s Got Talent”
• $250,000 per episode - Kate Gosselin, “Kate Plus 8″
• $ 30,000 per episode - Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, “Jersey Shore”
“Today”’s Matt Lauer makes more than $16 million a year. Other top earners in News are:
• $15 million - Katie Couric, “CBS”
• $12.5 million - Brian Williams, “NBC”
• $12 million - Diane Sawyer, “ABC”
• $11 million - Meredith Vieira, “Today”
• $10 million - Bill O’Reilly, “Fox News”
• $ 8 million - George Stephanopoulos, “ABC”
• $ 7 million - Keith Olbermann, “MSNBC”
• $ 7 million - Shepard Smith, “Fox News”
• $ 3 million - Wolf Blitzer, “CNN”
• $ 2 million - Christiane Amanpour, “ABC”
• $ 2 million - Lawrence O’Donnell, “MSNBC”
• $500,000 - Eliot Spitzer, “CNN”
For a while I lived in Johnstown, PA. During that 13 years nearly half a dozen young female drivers were killed attempting to miss deer and running off the road crashing into trees, mountains and other non moving objects. The Bambi story has really confused a couple generations into thinking that animals actually are human. On star has a commercial on tv where someone is driving on a curvy road and you see headlights shine on a deer and off the driver goes into a field and hits a tree, and on comes the on star person, noting that your airbag has just been deployed, do you need assistance? One of the car companies shows a deer wandering across the road in front of a car that has just wrecked into a mountain to avoid it, and the guy opens the hatch and pulls out a new car. All these stories point to the fact that we are either stupid, or have been indoctrinated into thinking our life and the lives of our passengers are less important than a deer or a squirrel. Oh yeah the squirrel commercial, has them causing crashes by playing in the road and then high 5 ing each other when the car wrecks rather than run over them. I was driving north on I-81 about 3 years ago and a car in the passing lane swerved dramatically and then spun out of control and into the ditch along the highway. I pulled over and found a young oriental girl behind the wheel, shaken up but able to get out and talk. I asked if she had fallen asleep and she said no, she was attempting to miss a squirrel on the road. If you are teaching someone to drive or have the idea in your head that missing a deer and in-turn hitting a tree is a good idea, please re-think it and teach your student to use the brakes for sure, but don’t give your life or the lives of your passengers for errant wildlife on the roadway.
Proofreading is a dying art, wouldn’t you say?
Man Kills Self Before Shooting Wife and Daughter
This one I caught in the SGV Tribune the other day and called the Editorial Room and asked who wrote this. It took two or three readings before the editor realized that what he was reading was impossible!!! They put in a correction the next day.
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I just couldn’t help but send this along. Too funny..
Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Expert Says
No crap, really? Ya think?
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Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers
Now that’s taking things a bit far!
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Panda Mating Fails; Veterinarian Takes Over
What a guy!
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Miners Refuse to Work after Death
No-good-for-nothing’ lazy so-and-so’s!
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Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant
See if that works any better than a fair trial!
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War Dims Hope for Peace
I can see where it might have that effect!
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If Strike Isn’t Settled Quickly, It May Last Awhile
Ya think?!
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Cold Wave Linked to Temperatures
Who would have thought!
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Enfield ( London ) Couple Slain; Police Suspect Homicide
They may be on to something!
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Red Tape Holds Up New Bridges
You mean there’s something stronger than duct tape?
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Man Struck By Lightning: Faces Battery Charge
He probably IS the battery charge!
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Astronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Spacecraft
That’s what he gets for eating those beans!
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Kids Make Nutritious Snacks
Do they taste like chicken?
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Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half
Chainsaw Massacre all over again!
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Hospitals are Sued by 7 Foot Doctors
Boy, are they tall!
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And the winner is….
Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead
18 months ago it was promised that the Bush Tax cuts would expire and those awful rich people would not continue to get the terrible advantage they have been enjoying, well, look someone in the media is spelling out what it will cost you beginning in January…
Higher Tax Rates for All
You may have been led to believe that only individuals in the top two brackets will face higher federal income taxes when the Bush cuts go bye-bye. Not true! Unless Congress takes action and President Obama goes along, rates will go up for everyone — not just a sliver of the wealthiest Americans. The current six rate brackets of 10%, 15%, 25%, 28%, 33% and 35% will be replaced by five new brackets with the higher rates of 15%, 28%, 31%, 36% and 39.6%. Just a few months ago, it seemed like a safe bet that Congress would make a fix to keep the existing 10%, 15%, 25% and 28% rate brackets to help out lower and middle-income folks. That bet is now looking iffy.
Higher Capital Gains and Dividends Taxes for All
Right now, the maximum federal rate on long-term capital gains and dividends is only 15%. Starting next year, the maximum rate on long-term gains will increase to 20%. The maximum rate on dividends will skyrocket to 39.6% unless action is taken to limit the rate to 20%, as the president has repeatedly promised. Plan on 39.6%, and hope I’m wrong.
Right now, an unbeatable 0% rate applies to long-term gains and dividends collected by folks in lowest two rate brackets of 10% and 15%. Starting next year, those folks will pay 10% on long-term gains and 15% and 28% on dividends (compared with 0% now) unless a change is made. Otherwise, taxes on long-term gains and dividends will go up for everyone.
Return of the Marriage Penalty
Right now, the standard deduction for married joint-filing couples is double the amount for singles. For this, we can thank the Bush tax cuts, which included several provisions to ease the so-called marriage penalty. The penalty can force a married couple to pay more in taxes than when they were single. Starting next year, the joint-filer standard deduction will fall back to about 167% of the amount for singles unless Congress takes action and the president approves. We don’t know if that will happen. If not, lots of lower and middle-income couples will face higher tax bills.
Now, the bottom two tax brackets for married joint-filing couples are exactly twice as wide as those for singles. That ratio helps keep the marriage penalty from biting lower- and middle-income couples. Starting next year, the joint-filer tax brackets will contract, causing higher tax bills, unless a change is made.
Return of Phase-Out Rule for Itemized Deductions
Before the Bush tax cuts, a nasty phase-out rule could eliminate up to 80% of a higher-income individual’s itemized deductions for mortgage interest, state and local taxes, and charitable donations. The rule was gradually eased and finally eliminated this year. Next year, it will be back in full force unless Congress takes action — which is unlikely. So if you itemize and have adjusted gross income above about $170,000 ($85,000 if you use married filing separate status), be ready for this phase-out rule to take a toll.
Return of Phase-Out Rule for Personal Exemptions
Before the Bush tax cuts, another nasty phase-out rule could eliminate some or all of a higher-income individual’s personal exemption deductions. The rule was gradually cut back and finally eliminated this year. But it will be back with a vengeance next year unless Congress blocks it. So be ready for another tax hike if your adjusted gross income exceeds about $252,000 if you file jointly; about $168,000 if you’re single; about $210,000 if you’re a head of household; or about $126,000 if you use married filing separate status. (For 2010, personal exemption deductions are $3,650 each, and they will be about the same next year.)
The Bottom Line
The Bush tax cuts don’t just offer tax relief to the wealthiest Americans. They offer it to just about anyone who pays federal income taxes. Their scheduled demise next year will raise the tax bill of nearly every taxpayer, unless Congress makes changes and the president jumps on board.
If she were president, the oil spill would have been cleaned up with the help of the 33 other countries that volunteered to help the first week. Don’t believe our president really cares, or knows what to do, very scary. Read on about Sarah.
It gets interesting at the bottom
I think it is interesting throughout — and before this I thought I didn’t like Sarah Palin
READ TO THE VERY END! VERY ENLIGHTENING!!!
AND VERY DISTURBING!!!
By Dewie Whetsell, Alaskan Fisherman.
As posted in comments on Greta’s article referencing the MOVEON ad about Sarah Palin.
The last 45 of my 66 years I’ve spent in a commercial fishing town in Alaska . I understand Alaska politics but never understood national politics well until this last year. Here’s the breaking point: Neither side of the Palin controversy gets it. It’s not about persona, style, rhetoric, it’s about doing things. Even Palin supporters never mention the things that I’m about to mention here….
1. Democrats forget when Palin was the Darling of the Democrats, because as soon as Palin took the Governor’s office away from a fellow Republican and tough SOB, Frank Murkowski, she tore into the Republican’s “Corrupt Bastards Club” (CBC) and sent them packing. Many of them are now residing in State housing and wearing orange jump suits The Democrats reacted by skipping around the yard, throwing confetti and singing, “la la la la” (well, you know how they are). Name another governor in this country that has ever done anything similar.
2. Now with the CBC gone, there were fewer Alaskan politicians to protect the huge, giant oil companies here. So she constructed and enacted a new system of splitting the oil profits called “ACES.” Exxon (the biggest corporation in the world) protested and Sarah told them, “don’t let the door hit you in the stern on your way out.” They stayed, and Alaska residents went from being merely wealthy to being filthy rich. Of course, the other huge international oil companies meekly fell in line. Again, give me the name of any other governor in the country that has done anything similar.
3. The other thing she did when she walked into the governor’s office is she got the list of State requests for federal funding for projects, known as “pork.” She went through the list, took 85% of them and placed them in the “when-hell-freezes-over” stack. She let locals know that if we need something built, we’ll pay for it ourselves. Maybe she figured she could use the money she got from selling the previous governor’s jet because it was extravagant.
Maybe she could use the money she saved by dismissing the governor’s cook (remarking that she could cook for her own family), giving back the State vehicle issued to her, maintaining that she already had a car, and dismissing her State provided security force (never mentioning - I imagine - that she’s packing heat herself). I’m still waiting to hear the names of those other governors.
4. Now, even with her much-ridiculed “gosh and golly” mannerism, she also managed to put together a totally new approach to getting a natural gas pipeline built which will be the biggest private construction project in the history of North America. No one else could do it although they tried. If that doesn’t impress you, then you’re trying too hard to be unimpressed while watching her do things like this while baking up a batch of brownies with her other hand.
5. For 30 years, Exxon held a lease to do exploratory drilling at a place called Point Thompson. They made excuses the entire time why they couldn’t start drilling. In truth they were holding it like an investment. No governor for 30 years could make them get started. Then, she told them she was revoking their lease and kicking them out. They protested and threatened court action. She shrugged and reminded them that she knew the way to the court house.. Alaska won again.
6. President Obama wants the nation to be on 25% renewable resources for electricity by 2025. Sarah went to the legislature and submitted her plan for Alaska to be at 50% renewables by 2025. We are already at 25%. I can give you more specifics about things done, as opposed to style and persona. Everybody wants to be cool, sound cool, look cool. But that’s just a cover-up. I’m still waiting to hear from liberals the names of other governors who can match what mine has done in two and a half years. I won’t be holding my breath.
By the way, she was content to return to AK after the national election and go to work, but the haters wouldn’t let her. Now these adolescent screechers are obviously not scuba divers. And no one ever told them what happens when you continually jab and pester a barracuda.. Without warning, it will spin around and tear your face off. Shoulda known better.
You have just read the truth about Sarah Palin that sends the media, along with the democrat party, into a wild uncontrolled frenzy to discredit her. I guess they are only interested in skirt chasers, dishonesty, immoral people, liars, womanizers, murderers, and bitter ex-presidents’ wives.
So “You go, Girl.” I only wish the men in Washington had your guts, determination, honesty, and morals.
I rest my case. Only FOOLS listen to the biased media.
If you’ve read this far …………………………………………..
First Lady Michelle Obama’s Servant List and Pay Scale
First Lady Requires More Than Twenty Attendants
1. $172,2000 - Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)
2. $140,000 - Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Policy And Projects For The First Lady)
3. $113,000 - Rogers, Desiree G. (Special Assistant to the President and White House Social Secretary)
4. $102,000 - Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the First Lady)
5. $100,000 - Winter, Melissa E. (Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
6. $90,000 - Medina , David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
7. $84,000 - Lelyveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)
8. $75,000 - Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)
9. $70,000 - Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Projects for the First Lady)
10. $65,000 - Burnough, Erinn J. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
11. $64,000 - Reinstein, Joseph B. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
12. $62,000 - Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and Events Coordinator For The First Lady)
13. $60,000 - Fitts, Alan O. (Deputy Dir ector of Advance and Trip Director for the First Lady)
14. $57,500 - Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)
15. $52,500 - Mustaphi, Semonti M. (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary to The First Lady)
16. $50,000 - Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special=2 0Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide to The First Lady)
17. $45,000 - Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence For The First Lady)
18. $43,000 - Tubman, Samantha (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)
19. $40,000 - Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
20. $36,000 - Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)
21. $35,000 - Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)
22. $35,000 - Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of Correspondence for the First Lady)
(This is community organizing at it’s finest.)
There has NEVER been anyone in the White House at any time who has created such an army of staffers whose sole duties are the facilitation of the First Lady’s social life. One wonders why she needs so much help, at taxpayer expense, when even Hillary, only had three; Jackie Kennedy one; Laura Bush one; and prior to Mamie Eisenhower social help came from the President’s own pocket.
Note: This does not include makeup artist Ingrid Grimes-Miles, 49, and “First Hairstylist” Johnny Wright, 31, both of whom traveled aboard Air Force One to Europe .
FRIENDS…..THESE SALARIES ADD UP TO SIX MILLION, THREE HUNDRED SIXTY FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS ($6,364,000) FOR THE 4 YEARS OF OFFICE????? AND WE ARE IN A RECESSION????? WELL….MOST OF US ARE. I GUESS IT’S OK TO SPEND WILDLY WHEN IT’S NOT YOUR OWN MONEY?????
One day an old German Shepherd starts chasing rabbits and before long, discovers that he’s lost. Wandering about, he notices a panther heading rapidly in his direction with the intention of having lunch.
> The old German Shepherd thinks, ‘Oh, oh! I’m in deep doo-doo now!’ Noticing some bones on the ground close by, he immediately settles down to chew on the bones with his back to the approaching cat. Just as the panther is about to leap, the old German Shepherd exclaims loudly, ‘Boy, that was one delicious panther! I wonder, if there are any more around here?’
> Hearing this, the young panther halts his attack in mid-strike, a look of terror comes over him and he slinks away into the trees. ‘Whew!’ says the panther, ‘That was close! That old German Shepherd nearly had me!’
> Meanwhile, a squirrel who had been watching the whole scene from a nearby tree, figures he can put this knowledge to good use and trade it for protection from the panther. So off he goes.
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> The squirrel soon catches up with the panther, spills the beans and strikes a deal for himself with the panther.
> The young panther is furious at being made a fool of and says, ‘Here, squirrel, hop on my back and see what’s going to happen to that conniving canine!’
> Now, the old German Shepherd sees the panther coming with the squirrel on his back and thinks, ‘What am I going to do now?’, but instead of running, the dog sits down with his back to his attackers, pretending he hasn’t seen them yet, and just when they get close enough to hear, the old German Shepherd says, ‘Where’s that squirrel? I sent him off an hour ago to bring me another panther!’
> Moral of this story…
> Don’t mess with the old dogs. Age and treachery will always overcome youth and ambition! BS and brilliance only come with age and experience.
HOW TO CALL THE POLICE WHEN YOU’RE OLD AND DON’T MOVE FAST ANYMORE.
George Phillips, an elderly man, from Meridian, Mississippi,was going up to bed, when his wife told him that he’d left the light on in the garden shed, which she could see from the bedroom window. George opened the back door to go turn off the light, but saw that there were people in the shed stealing things.
He phoned the police, who asked “Is someone in your house?”
He said “No,” but some people are breaking into my garden shed and stealing from me.
Then the police dispatcher said “All patrols are busy. You should lock your doors and an officer will be along when one is available.”
George said, “Okay.”
He hung up the phone and counted to 30. Then he phoned the police again.
“Hello, I just called you a few seconds ago because there were people stealing things from my shed. Well, you don’t have to worry about them now because I just shot and killed them both, the dogs are eating them right now.” and he hung up.
Within five minutes, six Police Cars, a SWAT Team, a Helicopter, two Fire Trucks, a Paramedic, and an Ambulance showed up at the Phillips’ residence, and caught the burglars red-handed.
One of the Policemen said to George “I thought you said that you’d shot them!”
George said, “I thought you said there was nobody available!”
(True Story) I LOVE IT!
Don’t mess with old people.
NEVER SAY NEVER
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There is no such thing as no chance.
Don’t think about the things you can’t do.
Think about the things you can do.
No matter what the level of your ability is,
you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime.
You have powers you never dreamed of.
You can do things you never thought you could do.
There are no limitations to what you can do
except the limitations of your own mind.
Your range of available choices right now is limitless.
Look at things as they can be.
This is little-known story from the Pentagon on 09/11/2001:
During a visit with a fellow chaplain, who happened to be assigned to the Pentagon, I had a chance to hear a first-hand account of an incident that happened right after Flight 77 hit the Pentagon. The chaplain told me what happened at a daycare center near where the impact occurred. This daycare had many children, including infants who were in heavy cribs. The daycare supervisor, looking at all the children they needed to evacuate, was in a panic over what they could do. There were many children, mostly toddlers, as well as the infants that would need to be taken out with the cribs.
There was no time to try to bundle them into carriers and strollers. Just then a young Marine came running into the center and asked what they needed. After hearing what the center director was trying to do, he ran back out into the hallway and disappeared. The director thought, ‘well, there we are-on our own.’
About 2 minutes later, that Marine returned with 40 other Marines in tow. Each of them grabbed a crib with a child, and the rest started gathering up toddlers. The director and her staff then helped them take all the children out of the center and down toward the park near the Potomac and the Pentagon. Once they got about 3/4 of a mile outside the building, the Marines stopped in the park, and then did a fabulous thing - they formed a circle with the cribs, which were quite sturdy and heavy, like the covered wagons in the Old West. Inside this circle of cribs, they put the toddlers, to keep them from wandering off. Outside this circle were the 40 Marines, forming a perimeter around the children and waiting for instructions. There they remained until the parents could be notified and come get their children..
The chaplain then said, “I don’t think any of us saw nor heard of this on any of the news stories of the day. It was an incredible story of our men there. There wasn’t a dry eye in the room. The thought of those Marines and what they did and how fast they reacted; could we expect any less from them? It was one of the most touching stories from the Pentagon.
Remember Ronald Reagan’s great compliment: “Most of us wonder if our lives made any difference. Marines don’t have that problem.”
