Hello. I joined Fropper to meet the beautiful people of India and learn more about the wonderous and lovely country of India. I have made many wonderful and amazing friends thus far.

Recently I was invited to read a blog posted on Girish K Sawhney's zone. I was much dismayed to read it was a supportive blog of the terriost attack of 9/11. I was also dismayed to read some of the comments in agreement with the blog. Much hate has spewed through both the blog and the comments. This really hurt me as Girish "portrays" himself to be one of my friends.

I now realize that there will always be hate from some people. They are just born haters.

I still love India. I still love the Indian people. I realize that the comments made are from a small percentage of the Indian population and do not represent India as a whole. I want to thank those Indian individuals who had the courage to disagree with the blog.

Below is part of the USAID/India program. It has not been edited. Our countries make a wonderful partnership and may it continue forever!!!!!

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The United States and India, the two largest democracies in the world, share many values and strategic interests. The nations are dramatically and positively transforming their relationship. India is intensifying its economic and social policy reforms to decrease poverty and increase social equity. It is committed to halving poverty rates by the year 2020. India is both a key U.S. partner in the war on terrorism and an anchor for security and economic growth in strategically important South Asia.

This is from USAID/India program

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This is a beautiful poem. It was not written by me. I am posting it as a blog because Earmarked For Trouble asked me to!

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Life is a journey through many terrains
from Gardens of pleasure to deserts of rain
from an ocean of love to a jungle of hate,
from mountains of glory to canyons of fate.

There's a highway of joy & a highway of sorrow
A road for today & a road for tomorrow
So chose your path wisely & walk it with care
If you follow your heart, you'll find your way there.

Ive been to the garden & planted seeds there
Ive been to the desert & felt the despair,
Ive swum in the ocean & drunk of its wine
Ive ran through the jungle & hung from the vine .

I climbed up the mountain to touch the sky
I went to the canyon & started to cry
Ive travelled both highways both today & tomorrow
Ive basked in the joy & wallowed in sorrow.

My path has been chosen & Ive walked it with care
Ive followed my heart & Im on my way there
So Ill just keep walking till I find what Im after
To mountains & oceans & gardens of laughter...

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Three women were sitting around talking about their husbands'performance as a lover.

The first woman says "My Husband works as a marriage counsellor. He always buys me flowers and candy before we make love. I like that."

The second woman says, "My husband is a motorcycle mechanic. He likes to play rough and slaps me around sometimes. I kinda like that."

The third woman just shakes her head and says, "My husband works for Microsoft. He just sits on the edge of the bed and tells me how great it's going to be when I get it."

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Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are beautiful
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Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want, then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.

At the cocktail party, one woman said to another, "Aren't you wearing your wedding ring on the wrong finger?" The other replied, "Yes, I am, I married the wrong man."


After a quarrel, a husband said to his wife, "You know, I was a fool when I married you." She replied, "Yes, dear, but I was in love and didn't notice."


A lady inserted an 'ad' in the classifieds: "Husband wanted". Next day she received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: "You can have mine."


The bride, upon her engagement, went to her mother and said, "I've found a man just like father!" Her mother replied, "So what do you want from me, sympathy?"


When a woman steals your husband, there is no better revenge than to let her keep him.


Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.


Man is incomplete until he is married. Then he is finished.


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."
















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Southern Grandma


Lawyers should never ask a Southern grandma a question if they aren't
prepared for the answer.

In a trial, a Southern small-town prosecuting attorney called his
first
witness, a grandmotherly, elderly woman to the stand.

He approached her and asked, "Mrs. Jones, do you know me?"

She responded, "Why, yes, I do know you, Mr. Williams I've known you
since you were a young boy, and frankly, you've been a big
disappointment
to me. You lie, you cheat on your wife, you manipulate people and
talk
about them behind their backs. You think you're a big shot when you
haven't the brains to realize you never will amount to anything more
than a two-bit paper pusher. Yes, I know you."

The lawyer was stunned! Not knowing what else to do, he pointed
across
the room and asked, "Mrs. Jones, do you know the defense attorney?"

She again replied, "Why, yes, I do. I've known Mr. Bradley since he
was a
youngster, too. He's lazy, bigoted, and he has a drinking problem.
He can't build a normal relationship with anyone and his law practice
is
one of the worst in the entire state. Not to mention he cheated on
his
wife
with three different women, one of them was your wife. Yes, I know
him."

The defense attorney almost died. The judge asked both counselors to
approach the bench, and in a very quiet voice, said, "If either of
you
bastards asks her if she knows me, I'll throw your sorry asses in
jail
for contempt."
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Out of the mouth of babies


A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales. The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was very small.

The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale. Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a
human; it was physically impossible. The little girl said, "When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah."

The teacher asked, " What if Jonah went to hell?"
The little girl replied, "Then you ask him".

A Kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they were drawing. She would occasionally walk around to see each child's work. As she got to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what the drawing was. The girl replied, "I'm drawing God."
The teacher paused and said, "But no one knows what God looks like."
Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing, the girl replied, "They will in a minute."

The children had all been photographed, and the teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture. "Just think how nice it will be to look at it when you are all grown up and say, 'There's Jennifer, she's a lawyer,' or 'That's Michael, He's a doctor.'
A small voice at the back of the room rang out, "And there's the teacher, She's dead. "



The children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic elementary school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. The nun made a note, and posted on the apple tray: "Take only ONE. God is watching."
Moving further along the lunch line, at the other end of the table was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies. A child had written a note, "Take all you want God is watching the apples.

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WOMAN'S PERFECT BREAKFAST


She's sitting at the table with her gourmet coffee.
Her son is on the cover of the Wheaties box.
Her daughter is on the cover of Business Week.
Her boyfriend is on the cover of Playgirl.
And her husband is on the back of the milk carton.



WOMEN'S REVENGE


"Cash, check or charge?" I asked, after folding items the woman wished
to purchase.
As she fumbled for her wal let I noticed a remote control for a
television set in her purse.
"So, do you always carry your TV remote?" I asked.
"No," she replied, " but my husband refused to come shopping with me,
and I figured this was the most evil thing I could do to him legally."



UNDERSTANDING WOMEN

(A MAN'S PERSPECTIVE)
I know I'm not going to understand women.
I'll never understand how you can take boiling hot wax, pour it onto
your upper thigh, rip the hair out by the root, and still be afraid of a
spider.



MARRIAGE SEMINAR

While attending a Marriage Seminar dealing with communication, Tom and
his wife Grace listened to the instructor, "It is essential that
husbands and wives know each other's likes and dislikes."
He addressed the man,
"Can you name your wife's favorite flower?"
Tom leaned over, touched his wife's arm gently and whispered, "It's
Pillsbury, isn't it?




CIGARETTES AND TAMPONS

A man walks into a pharmacy and wanders up and down the aisles.
The sales girl notices him and asks him if she can help him.
He answers that he is looking for a box of tampons for his wife.
She directs him down the correct aisle.
A few minutes later, he deposits a huge bag of cotton balls and a ball
of string on the counter.
She says, confused, "Sir, I thought you were looking for some tampons
for your wife?
He answers, " You see, it's like this,
yesterday, I sent my wife to the store to get me a carton of cigarettes,
and she came back with a tin of tobacco and some rolling papers; cause
it's sooo-ooo--oo-ooo much cheaper.
So, I figure if I have to roll my own ......... so does she.
( I figure this guy is the one on the milk carton! )




WIFE VS. HUSBAND
A couple drove down a country road for several miles, not saying a word.

An earlier discussion had led to an argument and neither of them wanted
to concede their position.
As they passed a barnyard of mules, goats, and pigs, the husband asked
sarcastically, "Relatives of yours?"
"Yep," the wife replied, "in-laws."




W O R D S

A husband read an article to his wife about how many words women use a
day...
30,000 to a man's 15,000.
The wife replied, "The reason has to be because we have to repeat
everything to men...
The husband then turned to his wife and asked, "What?"




CREATION

A man said to his wife one day, "I don't know how you can be so stupid
and so beautiful all at the same time.
" The wife responded, "Allow me to explain.
God made me beautiful so you would be attracted to me; God made me
stupid so I would be attracted to you!




WHO DOES WHAT

A man and his wife were having an argument about who should brew the
coffee each morning.
The wife said, "You should do it, becaus e you get up first, and then we
don't have to wait as long to get our coffee."
The husband said, " You are in charge of cooking around here and you
should do it, because that is your job, and I can just wait for my
coffee."
Wife replies, "No, you should do it, and besides, it is in the Bible
that the man should do the coffee."
Husband replies, "I can't believe that, show me."
So she fetched the Bible, and opened the New Testament and showed him at
the top of several pages, that it indeed says.........."HEBREWS"



The Silent Treatment

A man and his wife were having some problems at home and were giving
each other the silent treatment. Suddenly, the man realized that the
next day, he would need his wife to wake him at 5:00 AM for an early
morning business flight.
Not wanting to be the first to break the silence (and LOSE), he wrote on
a piece of paper, "Please wake me at 5:00 AM." He left it where he knew <
BR>she would find it.
The next morning, the man woke up, only to discover it was 9:00 AM and
he had missed hi s flight. Furious, he was about to go and see! why his
wife hadn't wakened him, when he noticed a piece of paper by the bed.
The paper said, "It is 5:00 AM. Wake up."
Men are not equipped for these kinds of contests.




God may have created man before woman,
but there is always a rough draft before the masterpiece.

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Let me see where do I begin this. It is not my favorite subject. It is about me getting older. I must be getting old because my children remind me of this fact quite often. When we are in the car listening to the radio and a great 80's song comes on my daughters will tell me....."oh yea that is a song from way back when you was young..."that is stuff they listened to in the old days"...... Now  when did my "younger years" become the "old days"? Oh and my precious darlings are quick to inform me every time they see a gray hair in my head. Thank god for beauty salons! Every hair style I have had for the past 10 years...they have selected for me.  And oh my gosh if they see a wrinkle....it is national headline news "mom has wrinkles"!!!! Since when is this a BIG deal? Oh, I can't forget to mention....I hear this great line....DAILY..... Mom ...YOU ARE NOT GOING TO WEAR THAT ARE YOU??? At which point they will select my outfit and jewelry for me.  And the last classic one I will mention is...."if you was my age you would understand!" Well, I have news for them......many many years ago way back when.......well you get the idea.....I WAS THEIR AGE!! Yep, that's right.....hard to believe isn't it! While my kids think that I am over the hill I like to think of getting older this way........I am like fine wine.....I get better and wiser with age!

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Recently my niece got married. Oh it was an exciting time. My sister was very nervous about the upcoming event and wanted to be a beautiful Mother of the Bride! First off she decides she needs to lose weight. So over to my house she came. She was going to use my treadmill and walk/run that flab right off. She had never been on a treadmill before so I gave her a quick tutorial on proper use of a treadmill. She is my older sis, so she thinks she knows much more than me lol. She gets on the treadmill and i turn it on for her. I start her out on 1, the slowest speed, and tell her to find her "legs". Then I instruct her to slowly increase her speed....but no no not her, she reaches up and cranks the speed up to at least an 8 or 9. Oh my God, the treadmill was running full blast, she was running her feet as fast as possible to keep from falling. I was screaming, "turn it down, turn it down." She without warning jumps off the treadmill sideways and twists her ankle.

Poor woman is about 50 pounds overweight. She was gasping and huffing trying to breathe. She finally made it to my living room and sat down on the couch. I watched her, wondering if I needed to call for an ambulance. She was not able to speak for 15 minutes. When she finally could speak.....she stood up and said, I love you but I'm going home now.

Her daughter got married but she never mentioned excercising to me again lol...........

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