With our newly elected President Elect Barack Obama, I'm hoping that we can all communicate and get along to unite this country towards a common good! That we don't become tax burdened by giving handouts to those too lazy to work. That small businesses can continue to thrive and give jobs to the hard working. That our investment world become active and profutable and that the credit squeeze will loosen. Read Full Story

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were large parts of many of our IRA's and 401k's! What does Congress care about our losses in our personal accounts? What if we only have a few years left to our retirement? What if we have lost a good percentage of our accounts do to these takeovers? Does the wealthy Congress care about our Retirements? I very much doubt it because they are receiving millions from Lobbyists of every flavor! Try the Investors Business Daily and their formula for success syst... Read Full Story

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were large parts of many of our IRA's and 401k's! What does Congress care about our losses in our personal accounts? What if we only have a few years left to our retirement? What if we have lost a good percentage of our accounts do to these takeovers? Does the wealthy Congress care about our Retirements? I very much doubt it because they are receiving millions from Lobbyists of every flavor! Try the Investors Business Daily and their formula for success syst... Read Full Story

familiesstaysafe: Lose Money in the Latest Govt Takeovers?#links Read Full Story

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were large parts of many of our IRA's and 401k's! What does Congress care about our losses in our personal accounts? What if we only have a few years left to our retirement? What if we have lost a good percentage of our accounts do to these takeovers? Does the wealthy Congress care about our Retirements? I very much doubt it because they are receiving millions from Lobbyists of every flavor! Try the Investors Business Daily and their formula for success sys... Read Full Story

Remember watching on TV when neighbors especially in rural areas used to have "Barn Raisings"? Its more common nowadays to not even know who your neighbors are or even talk to them. Maybe we wave when we pass by but little else. Everyone wants their privacy and to exist on their own. Well, nature sometimes comes along and knocks us for a loop and all of our nice preparations and supplies dont do us any good. If a tree hits our house their isnt much preparation that can be done to he... Read Full Story

It may have been a good idea to search for an Emergency Generator before the storm and be prepared but most of us are not that good at thinking ahead or just dont have the extra cash for a short outage. I know that my family went without electricity for about 3 weeks in the Richmond area in 2003 about this time. If you knew that you would be without electric power for an extended period of time like 3-4 weeks then even putting a generator on your credit card might be better than suffering for... Read Full Story

Make sure that you make a thorough search of the area that the missing person went missing from! When I was working with Suffolk PD we had a 9 yr old girl that was missing in a shopping center from her parents expanded van. After making an initial search of the van and then the whole area and stores fro over an hour the little girl was found hiding under the back seat of the van and said she had heard her parents calling but was scared she would be punished if she came out from hiding. What a... Read Full Story

I was in a patrol car on 9-11-01 and one woman in particular was so terrified that she pulled up to our car in the median and started crying because she thought a terrorist was following her and was going to do her harm. It turned out of course that this was not the case but everyone’s emotions were raw on the days and weeks that followed and we became closer to strangers and neighbors and many spent more time praying in church. At the age of 52 I went to Iraq as a Contractor for the DIA beca... Read Full Story

In your time of emergency we give your our heartfelt thoughts and support for remaining in your homes or evacuating as your situation called for. There is very little that we can do against the forces of nature when a wall of water and wind blowing over 100 mph hits a home. We offer our prayers and wish for your quick recovery and restoring of electricity to your hometowns.  Bless you and your families and friends and neighbors in this time of emergency. Only Americans can... Read Full Story