Kim smokes like like an air traffic controller during 9/11
Sophie is used to smoke and loud music, the only time she covers her ears is when I tune into ESPN the Zone.
Before we ever agreed to take Sophie permanently, I would want to dog sit her at our place for a weekend so I can get a feel of how she interacts with us and or pets.
It concerns me that Sophie barks so much you felt compelled to stay at home with her, Mouse.
I can't have a dog that disturbs our neighbors.
Last edited by mouse; 02-02-2010 at 07:24 PM.
Whatever happened with this?
Mouse, I put a comment on here a while back, and you never responded.
Did you check the website I added? Dave Ramsey helps people like you all the time. It might be worth checking into.
Plus, he promotes a website that helps people who need a hand up every once it a while. It was started by a guy who was going through a hard time, and someone helped him. Once he was in a good position, he started this site, and now he helps people all over the place with rent or whatever. It's a one-time kind of help, but sometimes, that's all you need.
I would really recommend you check out his site and maybe call in on one of his shows.
Hopefully things are better since you started this thread.
Hey thanks for reminding me. The reason I did not pursue it was TimVp had a friend who said I could stay with him, so I contacted him and he said I could stay at his house as long as I fix a few things, fence,roof,patio decks, and after the house sells i would have to leave, but when I got all my stuff packed and gave away all my used laptop parts and boxes of sports cards he sent me an email and said the people are going to sell the house said they rather no one be in there when they start to show it.
So he moved back in with his parents. anyway I didn't think I was going to need anymore favors I was going to fix a house as I live there. But now I will look for that link you posted. The doctors at Bragg found my medical records it shows where i injured my lower back after a tree landing, so they are going to give me 40% disability just enough for me to pay my photo bucket and get Sophie's nails done.
I will PM you with any updates.
Good luck, mouse! Hopefully you'll hear something soon!Hey thanks for reminding me. The reason I did not pursue it was TimVp had a friend who said I could stay with him, so I contacted him and he said I could stay at his house as long as I fix a few things, fence,roof,patio decks, and after the house sells i would have to leave, but when I got all my stuff packed and gave away all my used laptop parts and boxes of sports cards he sent me an email and said the people are going to sell the house said they rather no one be in there when they start to show it.
So he moved back in with his parents. anyway I didn't think I was going to need anymore favors I was going to fix a house as I live there. But now I will look for that link you posted. The doctors at Bragg found my medical records it shows where i injured my lower back after a tree landing, so they are going to give me 40% disability just enough for me to pay my photo bucket and get Sophie's nails done.
I will PM you with any updates.
www.daveramsey.com
Dude I am up and down his website I even used his search bar and searched homeless, rent help, loans , It seems his site is tailored more in helping people with their money issues and how to make peoples paychecks last longer.
Since I have no paycheck and no money to invest I don't think he can do much. are you sure your talking about Dave Ramsey and not John and Patsy Ramsey?
Hang in there mouse and remember to "Aim High!"
http://www.lacrossetribune.com/lifes...cc4c002e0.html
Christian money guru Dave Ramsey gets rich mixing faith, funds
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By JAY REEVES | The Associated Press | Posted: Friday, September 11, 2009 3:00 pm | (4) Comments
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buy this photo Financial guru Dave Ramsey, seen here in his broadcasting studio in Brentwood, Tenn., doesn’t deny mixing religion and business, and he doesn’t apologize for getting rich doing it, either. Locally, he can be heard weekday evenings on WIZM-AM.
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. - With the economy gasping for life last spring, about 1.3 million people gathered in 5,600 churches nationwide to behold the nation's leading prophet of personal finance.
Televised live from a church in Edmond, Okla., Dave Ramsey's infomercial-style "Town Hall for Hope" was a masterful mix of inspiration, humor, advice, marketing and the Bible from a man dressed in jeans, dark jacket and an open-collar shirt.
"Hope is a gift of the Holy Spirit," Ramsey told a nationwide audience that included the Fox Business Network, available in 50 million homes. Later: "The Bible says the diligent prosper."
At its core, the 90-minute show was a millionaire preaching to a struggling flock, and it raised anew the question of whether Ramsey's hugely profitable, tax-paying business - which he describes as a ministry - fits with Jesus' teachings.
It's a question John Hoffman began asking as he immersed himself in Ramsey's financial lessons for months. He listened on the radio, bought books, took Ramsey's financial management course at a church and paid for a $10-a-month subscription to his Web site.
Hoffman came away from it all feeling like Ramsey's intermingling of faith and finances was some sort of unholy alliance.
"It's not a ministry. To me, it's an insult to the word," said Hoffman, who lives near Logan, Kan. "It would be nice if it got out of the churches and got into the mainstream."
Ramsey doesn't deny mixing religion and business, and he doesn't apologize for getting rich doing it, either. Business is a ministry, he says, and good ones prosper by serving people the way God wants them to.
"Worship is work-ship, so I don't separate work from ministry," Ramsey said recently at his headquarters in suburban Nashville, where he does his syndicated radio and cable TV shows. Bible verses, crosses and photos of Ramsey decorate the building.
In the beginning, as now, Ramsey's refrain was similar to the financial teachings of John Wesley, who started the Methodist movement more than 200 years ago: Earn all you can, save all you can, give away all you can.
Ramsey added a modern injunction to Jesus' teachings about not being a slave to money or possessions: ditch your credit cards and pay cash. Callers to his radio show scream "I'm debt free!" after paying off loans, and Ramsey cuts up credit cards on his TV program.
Almost 4.5 million people listen to Ramsey on the radio each week; millions more watch his show on Fox Business or have read his best-selling books. Disciples - and they are legion - know his no-credit mantra and inspiring, riches-to-rags-to even more riches story.
There was a time when few would have paid for financial advice from Ramsey, 48.
A broker with real estate investments worth some $4 million by age 26, Ramsey was forced to file for bankruptcy protection after lenders called his short-term debt. He was soon offering financial counseling at church as a Sunday school lesson with a simple message at its core: Don't spend more than you have.
Using a biblical Greek word for light as the name of his company, Ramsey founded the Lampo Group Inc. in 1991 to offer one-on-one financial counseling. His signature course, Financial Peace University, had reached about 10,000 people by 1999, and the business exploded in 2001 when he created a department inside Lampo Group specifically to arrange courses through churches.
Today, more than 750,000 families have enrolled in Ramsey's DVD-based classes, many of which are still taught in churches and typically cost $99. Ramsey says people often won't complete the course if they don't pay for it.
Erin-Leigh Patterson, 24, took a couple of extra baby-sitting jobs to afford Ramsey's course at a church in Atlanta and said she feels more in control of her finances.
"I don't mind that he's wealthy," said Patterson, who works for a fair-trade coffee company. "If he did it without debt, I want to learn from him."
The Lampo Group has grown to about 300 employees, most working on commissions. Ramsey is the owner, CEO and product.
He is building a huge home on a $1 million lot in a gated community overlooking Tennessee's richest county. Tax records reviewed by The Associated Press show Ramsey and his company own property worth more than $7 million, and Ramsey says that's low by a few million because of recent renovations to his four-story headquarters.
Alexander Hill, author of "Just Business: Christian Ethics for the Marketplace," said churches can inadvertently become a tool for marketers as they try to help members through a tough economy.
"I think it's fine for churches to provide services for the congregants, and that can be profit or nonprofit," said Hill, president of the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, a campus ministry based in Madison. "It's the potential confusion that is a concern."
You're on the right site. He does help people with money issues, but there's a site he promotes on his radio or tv show (can't remember which one) that helps people who are "down on their luck," so to speak.
It most likely isn't listed on his site, but he's promoted it for a long time. That's why I suggested calling in to his show. The number for that should be on his site.
I used to have the site information for that other thing because I wanted to be able to help out, but I think it got deleted when I took it to Best Buy.Otherwise, I'd put that link on here for you.
He does mix the two, but not in an overly preachy way.http://www.lacrossetribune.com/lifes...cc4c002e0.html
Christian money guru Dave Ramsey gets rich mixing faith, funds
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By JAY REEVES | The Associated Press | Posted: Friday, September 11, 2009 3:00 pm | (4) Comments
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buy this photo Financial guru Dave Ramsey, seen here in his broadcasting studio in Brentwood, Tenn., doesn’t deny mixing religion and business, and he doesn’t apologize for getting rich doing it, either. Locally, he can be heard weekday evenings on WIZM-AM.
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. - With the economy gasping for life last spring, about 1.3 million people gathered in 5,600 churches nationwide to behold the nation's leading prophet of personal finance.
Televised live from a church in Edmond, Okla., Dave Ramsey's infomercial-style "Town Hall for Hope" was a masterful mix of inspiration, humor, advice, marketing and the Bible from a man dressed in jeans, dark jacket and an open-collar shirt.
"Hope is a gift of the Holy Spirit," Ramsey told a nationwide audience that included the Fox Business Network, available in 50 million homes. Later: "The Bible says the diligent prosper."
At its core, the 90-minute show was a millionaire preaching to a struggling flock, and it raised anew the question of whether Ramsey's hugely profitable, tax-paying business - which he describes as a ministry - fits with Jesus' teachings.
It's a question John Hoffman began asking as he immersed himself in Ramsey's financial lessons for months. He listened on the radio, bought books, took Ramsey's financial management course at a church and paid for a $10-a-month subscription to his Web site.
Hoffman came away from it all feeling like Ramsey's intermingling of faith and finances was some sort of unholy alliance.
"It's not a ministry. To me, it's an insult to the word," said Hoffman, who lives near Logan, Kan. "It would be nice if it got out of the churches and got into the mainstream."
Ramsey doesn't deny mixing religion and business, and he doesn't apologize for getting rich doing it, either. Business is a ministry, he says, and good ones prosper by serving people the way God wants them to.
"Worship is work-ship, so I don't separate work from ministry," Ramsey said recently at his headquarters in suburban Nashville, where he does his syndicated radio and cable TV shows. Bible verses, crosses and photos of Ramsey decorate the building.
In the beginning, as now, Ramsey's refrain was similar to the financial teachings of John Wesley, who started the Methodist movement more than 200 years ago: Earn all you can, save all you can, give away all you can.
Ramsey added a modern injunction to Jesus' teachings about not being a slave to money or possessions: ditch your credit cards and pay cash. Callers to his radio show scream "I'm debt free!" after paying off loans, and Ramsey cuts up credit cards on his TV program.
Almost 4.5 million people listen to Ramsey on the radio each week; millions more watch his show on Fox Business or have read his best-selling books. Disciples - and they are legion - know his no-credit mantra and inspiring, riches-to-rags-to even more riches story.
There was a time when few would have paid for financial advice from Ramsey, 48.
A broker with real estate investments worth some $4 million by age 26, Ramsey was forced to file for bankruptcy protection after lenders called his short-term debt. He was soon offering financial counseling at church as a Sunday school lesson with a simple message at its core: Don't spend more than you have.
Using a biblical Greek word for light as the name of his company, Ramsey founded the Lampo Group Inc. in 1991 to offer one-on-one financial counseling. His signature course, Financial Peace University, had reached about 10,000 people by 1999, and the business exploded in 2001 when he created a department inside Lampo Group specifically to arrange courses through churches.
Today, more than 750,000 families have enrolled in Ramsey's DVD-based classes, many of which are still taught in churches and typically cost $99. Ramsey says people often won't complete the course if they don't pay for it.
Erin-Leigh Patterson, 24, took a couple of extra baby-sitting jobs to afford Ramsey's course at a church in Atlanta and said she feels more in control of her finances.
"I don't mind that he's wealthy," said Patterson, who works for a fair-trade coffee company. "If he did it without debt, I want to learn from him."
The Lampo Group has grown to about 300 employees, most working on commissions. Ramsey is the owner, CEO and product.
He is building a huge home on a $1 million lot in a gated community overlooking Tennessee's richest county. Tax records reviewed by The Associated Press show Ramsey and his company own property worth more than $7 million, and Ramsey says that's low by a few million because of recent renovations to his four-story headquarters.
Alexander Hill, author of "Just Business: Christian Ethics for the Marketplace," said churches can inadvertently become a tool for marketers as they try to help members through a tough economy.
"I think it's fine for churches to provide services for the congregants, and that can be profit or nonprofit," said Hill, president of the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, a campus ministry based in Madison. "It's the potential confusion that is a concern."
And yes, he's rich...but he wasn't always that way. He had a ton of money and then lost it because of stupid decisions, which we've all most likely made.
He then rebuilt what he lost.
Now, he teaches people how to live debt-free and pay off any old debt. Once a savings is safely in place, and his "baby steps" fulfilled, he strongly promotes giving as much as you can to charities.
He's now done it a couple of times. Everyone in my family has done it, and so on.
It's not a get-rich-quick scheme like some of those overnight talk shows or infomercials.
But all this is all beside the point. My reason for listing his info was to help mouse because, being out-of-state, I can't do more.
First things first, mouse!!!
http://www.aetv.com/intervention/index.jsp
The whole time Kim was with me was an intervention, now that shes gone I can finally start the recovery phase.
To bad no one has a camcorder these next few days would make a great do entary.
Doesn't Bigsnacks have a camcorder? Or did he leave you without so much as a prayer?The whole time Kim was with me was an intervention, now that shes gone I can finally start the recovery phase.
To bad no one has a camcorder these next few days would make a great do entary.
Does she have a My Space page?
Got a call from mouse last night. Looks like he has until the 10th to get out of his place. I may buy a TV from him to help out.
This is neither the time nor the place for joking.
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