i have been taking Mona Vie for about a month now. i wanted to let everyone know my personal benefits from it. i have Primary Ciliary Dyskenesia, which is a genetic lung disease. Basically, the cilia hair in my body do not work. this is the cause for my infertility as well as headaches, body aches, constant smokers cough, runny nose, inflamation from my lungs struggle to stay clean, etc. if you can imagine that your body has to do something to make up for the cilia hair not working...those with PCD create mucus to clean sinuses, lungs, and even ear canals. as i have gotten older i have also developed Chronic Inflammatory Disease. for several years now i have had the feeling almost daily that i am getting ready to get the flu or really bad cold with the aches and pains that are associated with it. i dont really get the flu...just the pain. i have been taking aspirins, tylenols, TheraFlu's, Nyquils, Dayquils, you name it, everyday for several years to aleviate the aches but it usually just took the edge of and then i had a belly ache from taking so much over the counter medication.

My neighbor started selling Mona Vie a couple of months ago and gave her dad a bottle for his arthritis and high cholesterol. he has been taking it ever since for his arthritis and will be going to have his lipid count checked for the cholesterol and i will let you know how that goes. i decided to go ahead and try it because i have been taking about a dozen pills a day and not getting anywhere with that. in the first three days i was feeling like a new woman. over the last five weeks i have taken over the counter (aspirins) on four different occasions and only two pills per time) this is an amazing difference!! i will continue to take Mona Vie for me and i am giving my mother-in-law a bottle for fybromayalsia this week, when i get another shipment in, as it is supposed to help with it as well.  

i know so many others that have benefited from it so, i am all about spreading the word. if you want more information...i can mail it to you just go to the link below and provide an address.

lalllen4monavie@yahoo.com

 

hello!! i have been going to school adn working part-time at a nursing home here close to home. i am a certified STNA or PCT depending on what area you live in. A nurses aide...i love the work but it is work! long and very busy!!!! another under paid position in the United States.

i am taking human service classes at school. i changed my mind on the nursing program partly because of the condition of my lungs and partly because i do not want the resonsibility of life in my hands...too much stress!! i still want to work with/for people but not with that kind of stress involved! i may be a social worker or...work with juvenile delinquents....or with unemployment...who knows yet! i have nine classes left for a degree and i will be done with those next year....my internships will give me a better idea where i want to go. i plan on getting a bachelor's degree but that is way to far away right now!! one thing at a time!!

peyton is doing good! ready for Halloween ofcourse!! just like the little ones in your lives. my hubby is doing well and doing fantastic in his profession. he is a robotics engineer and very good at it! he is a smart cookie!! a techno-whiz!!!

we are bombarded with pets right now!! i started out with two cats...sasha and nikita and then we added our dog, sadie. along came another cat, Kane....from my dad. when we thought that we were done and had more than enough animals...a stray kitten landed at our feet a few weeks ago and broke our hearts!!! we have a full house!!! needless to say, i have to clean EVERY day!!!! i love them all though and wouldn't change a thing so it works for us!!

well...i am pooped!! talk at you all more later!!

-lori

(Fortune Magazine) -- As the years tick by, Sumner Redstone just gets more optimistic. Earlier this year the 84-year-old said he planned to live another 50 years; two years ago he was predicting another 20.

His age has been in the spotlight lately because of the recent public spat with his daughter over his succession plans, but the controller of Viacom (Charts) and CBS (Charts, Fortune 500) has lately been getting a bit of help in the form of a little-known superjuice called MonaVie. "It's a miracle drug," he told Fortune. "I feel great."

A dark-purple elixir with a cult-like following, MonaVie is an antioxidant-rich concoction whose main ingredient is the Brazilian açai berry (pronounced ah-sigh-ee), long touted among health nuts for its anti-aging ingredients.

Vitamin-water it's not: MonaVie costs $40 a bottle, and you can't get it in stores; it's marketed only through the company's network of thousands of individuals who sell it out of their homes (think Avon or Tupperware).

Redstone first heard of the juice from Viacom exec Bill Roedy on a trip to Germany in January. After learning that his butler's sister-in-law was a devotee too, Redstone ordered some up and started drinking four ounces a day. "Since I've been on MonaVie I haven't taken a sleeping pill," he says.

New crack in the house of Redstone

He even considered investing in Utah-based MonaVie after its CEO, Dallin Larsen, came to visit him at his Beverly Hills mansion. Redstone decided against it - because it would present a conflict of interest to recommend it to friends - but Larsen, a veteran nutritional-products salesman who founded the company in 2005, has no better ambassador.

At a recent party, Redstone gave bottles to Bill Clinton and celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck. "Just about every friend I have is on it," Redstone says - a group he says includes Viacom and CBS board members as well as cancer survivor and former junk-bond king Michael Milken. (It can also be found in the clubhouse of the Boston Red Sox; pitcher Jonathan Papelbon is a fan.)

So is it a fad, or is there something to it? Nothing proves that MonaVie cures any ailment, but in one of the first academic studies of açai's benefits, University of Florida researcher Stephen Talcott found that the berry's antioxidants destroyed leukemia cells in a laboratory. But Talcott has since distanced himself from MonaVie and its junkies.

Larsen is careful not to cross the line. "It's not a drug," he says. He touts the juice as a way to "increase energy in a natural way" and to alleviate "the everyday aches and pains from inflammation."

Redstone says he's never felt better. "I know I look a lot younger than I am," he says. "I feel like I'm 40 years old.

 

 

HOWDY HO!!! IT HAS BEEN QUITE SOME TIME SINCE I HAVE BEEN ON HERE BUT I AM BACK!! I AM STILL GOING TO SCHOOL BUT I HAVE CHANGED MY DEGREE FROM NURSING TO HUMAN SERVICES.

PEYTON IS IN THE SECOND GRADE NOW AND DOING FINE. SHE IS CUTE AS EVER!! DADDY IS DOING GOOD TOO!!

I AM EXCITED TO HEAR FROM EVERYONE!! AND WOW, THE NEW WEB DESIGN!! IT LOOKS SO HIGH TECH NOW!!! I HOPE THAT ALL IS WELL WITH EVERYONE AND I WILL BE LOOKING FOR YOU ALL!!! I WILL SIGN YOUR BLOGS AS I FIND THEM!! IT HAS BEEN A WHILE!!!

HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT MONA VIE YET??

A FRIEND OF MINE STARTED DRINKING IT ABOUT A MONTH AGO BECAUSE HER FRIENDS AND FAMILY HAD TRIED IT AND IT IS AMAZING!!!! THE RESULTS THAT YOU GET FROM IT OUR ASTOUNDING!!!

1. HELPS BUILD A STRONG BODY BY PROVIDING PROTEIN

2. CLEANSES AND DETOXIFIES THE BODY

3. ENHANCES MUSCLE CONTRACTIONS AND MUSCLE REGENERATION

4. INCREASES ENERGY AND STAMINA

5. STRESS RELIEVER

6. IMPROVES SEXUAL HEALTH

7. AIDS BODY SYNERGY

8. A POTENT ANTI-AGING FOOD

9. MAY HELP PREVENT PROSTATE ENLARGEMENT

10. HELPS PREVENT OSTEOPEROSIS

11. ALLEVIATES MENTRUAL PAIN

12. MAY HELP PREVENT HEART DISEASE

13. REDUCES THE BAD CHOLESTEROL

14. STEROLS MAY LOWER BLOOD PRESSURE

15. PROTEC TS BLOOD VESSELS

16. HELPS THWART RETINOPATHY

17. IMPROVES GLUCOSE AND LIPID LEVELS

18. WEIGHT CONTROL

19. CAN IMPROVE DISEASE RESISTANCE

20. IMPROVES FUNCTION OF IMMUNE CELLS

21. PREVENTS FREE RADICAL DAMAGE TO THE IMMUNE SYSTEM

22. CAN THWART VIRUSES, BACTERIAL INFECTIONS, AND FUNGUSES

23. ACTS AS ANTIMUTAGENIC

24. IMPROVES DIGESTION

25. OVERCOMES ACID-REFLUX DISEASE

26. HEALS ULCERS

27. HELPS RELIEVE SYMPTOMS OF CROHN'S DISEASE

28. IMPROVES SKIN TONE

29. DEFENDS AGAINST PREMATURE WRINKLES

30. ACTS AS AN ASTRINGENT

31. MAY THWART CANCERS (BREAST, LUNG, SKIN, AND STOMACH)

32. REDUCES ARTHRITIS PAIN

33. REDUCES FIBRO MYALGIA PAIN

34. MAY REDUCE THE RISK OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE

35. AIDS VISION (INCLUDING REDUCING MACULAR DEGENERATION IN DIABETICS)

36. HELPS MAINTAIN TEETH AND GUMS

37. IMPROVES MENTAL CLARITY

38. BETTER SLEEP

39. RELIEVES SYMPTOMS OF ASTHMA

40. MAY CLEAR PLANTER'S WARTS (THERE ARE TESTIMONIALS ONLINE)

IF THERE IS ANY NUMBER OF ITEMS ON THE LIST THAT AFFECT YOUR FAMILY AND YOU WANT TO TRY THIS PRODUCT...PLEASE EMAIL ME.

SERIOUS REQUESTS ONLY PLEASE. MONA VIE IS $40/BOTTLE BUT WELL WORTH THE COST!!! IF YOU KNOW OF OTHERS THAT WILL USE THE PRODUCT YOU CAN GET YOURS FREE!! I KNOW SEVERAL PEOPLE THAT ARE REDUCING OR NO LONGER TAKING MEDS TO LOWER THEIR CHOLESTEROL OR MAINTAIN THEIR DIABETES. I ALSO KNOW OF ONE WOMAN WITH FIBRO MYALGIA THAT IS GETTING RELIEF FROM HER PAIN THAT SHE HAS NEVER FOUND BEFORE DRINKING MONA VIE.

MY EMAIL IS LUVBUG34@EARTHLINK.NET

WWW.MONAVIE.COM

LOOK UP MONA VIE ON YOUTUBE AND WATCH THE TESTIMONIALS! IT IS AMAZING!!

LORI

 

 

 

 

I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes.

Gardening Rule: When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.

The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement.

Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.

There are two kinds of pedestrians: the quick and the dead.

Life is sexually transmitted.

Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

Have you noticed since everyone has a camcorder these days no one talks about seeing UFOs like they used to?

Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.

All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.

In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird.  Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.

How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?

Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, "I think I'll   squeeze these dangly things here, and drink whatever comes out?"

Who was the first person to say, "See that chicken there? I'm gonna eat the next thing that comes outta its butt."

Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer?

If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a song about him?

If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests? Testical?

Do illiterate people get the full effect of Alphabet Soup?

Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him on a car ride, he sticks his head out the window?

Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?

Once upon a time

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in a land far away,

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a beautiful, independent,
self-assured princess

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happened upon a frog as she sat
contemplating ecological issues
on the shores of an unpolluted pond
in a verdant meadow near her castle.

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The frog hopped into the princess' lap
and said: " Elegant Lady,
I was once a handsome prince,
until an evil witch cast a spell upon me.

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One kiss from you, however,
and I will turn back
into the dapper, young prince that I am

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and then, my sweet, we can marry

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and set up housekeeping in your castle

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with my mother,

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where you can prepare my meals,

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clean my clothes, bear my children,

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and forever feel

grateful and happy doing so. "
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That night,
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as the princess dined sumptuously
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on lightly sauteed frog legs
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seasoned in a white wine
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and onion cream sauce,
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she chuckled and thought to herself:
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I don't freakin think so.

 

does any one know how to do the X and Y intercepts, finding the slopes, rise, run, etc?? i am having a booger of a time figuring all of the formulas out and what to use when. if you know any tips on this yucky stuff, i could sure use it!

thank you! lori

42 THINGS  TO  KNOW
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>1.    Budweiser beer conditions the hair
>2.    Pam cooking spray will dry finger nail polish
>3.    Cool whip will condition your hair in 15 minutes
>4.    Mayonnaise will KILL LICE, it will also condition your hair
>5.    Elmer's Glue - paint on your face, allow it to dry, peel off and see
        the dead skin and blackheads if any
>6.    Shiny Hair - use brewed Lipton Tea
>7.    Sunburn - empty a large jar of Nestea into your bath water
>8.    Minor burn - Colgate or Crest toothpaste
>9.    Burn your tongue? Put sugar on it!
>10.  Arthritis?  WD-40 Spray and rub in, ki ll insect stings too
>11   Bee stings - meat tenderizer
>12.  Chigger bite - Preparation H
>13.  Puffy eyes - Preparation H
>14.  Paper cut - crazy glue or chap stick (glue is used instead of sutures
        at most hospitals)
>15.  Stinky feet - Jello!
>16.  Athletes feet - corn starch
>17.  Fungus on toenails or fingernails - Vicks vapor rub
>18.  Kool aid to clean dishwasher pipes. Just put in the detergent section
        and run a cycle, it will also clean a toilet. (Wow, and we drink this
        stuff)
>19.  Kool Aid can be used as a dye in paint also Kool Aid in Dannon plain
        yogurt as a finger paint, your kids will love it and it won't hurt them if
        they eat it!>20.  Peanut butter - will get scratches out of CD's!  Wipe off with a
        coffee filter paper
>21.  Sticking bicycle chain - Pam no-stick cooking spray
>22.  Pam will also remove paint, and grease from your hands!  Keep a can
        in your garage for your hubby
>23.  Peanut butter will remove ink from the face of dolls
>24.  When the doll clothes are hard to put on, sprinkle with corn starch
        and watch them slide on
>25.  Heavy dandruff - pour on the vinegar!
>26.  Body paint - Crisco mixed with food coloring.  Heat the Crisco in the
        microwave, pour in to an empty film container and mix with the food color
        of your choice!
>27  Tie Dye T-shirt - mix a sol ution of Kool Aid in a container, tie a
        rubber band around a section of the T-shirt and soak
>28.  Preserving a newspaper clipping - large bottle of club soda and cup
        of milk of magnesia, soak for 20 min. and let dry, will last for many
        years!
>29.  A Slinky will hold toast and CD's!
>30.  To keep goggles and glasses from fogging, coat with Colgate
        toothpaste
>31.  Wine stains, pour on the Morton salt and watch it absorb into the
        salt.
>32.  To remove wax - Take a paper towel and iron it over the wax stain, it
        will absorb into the towel.
>33.  Remove labels off glassware etc. rub with Peanut butter!
>34.  Baked on food - fill co ntainer with water, get a Bounce paper
        softener  and the static from the Bounce towel will cause the baked on
        food to adhere to it.  Soak overnight.  Also; you can use 2 Efferdent
        tablets, soak overnight!
>35.  Crayon on the wall - Colgate toothpaste and brush it!
>36.  Dirty grout - Listerine
>37.  Stains on clothes - Colgate
>38.  Grass stains - Karo Syrup
>39.  Grease Stains - Coca Cola, it will also remove grease stains from the
        driveway overnight.  We know it will take corrosion from car batteries!
>40.  Fleas in your carpet?  20 Mule Team Borax- sprinkle and let stand for
         24   hours.  Maybe this will work if you get them back again.< BR>>41.  To keep FRESH FLOWERS longer Add a little Clorox, or 2 Bayer aspirin,
        or just use 7-up instead of water.
>42.  When you go to buy bread in the grocery store, have you ever wondered
        which is the freshest, so you "squeeze" for freshness or softness?  Did
        you know that bread is delivered fresh to the stores five days a week?
        Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.  Each day has a different
        color twist tie.  They ! are: Monday = Blue,  Tuesday = Gr een, Thursday =
        Red Friday = White and Saturday = Yellow.  So if today was Thursday, you
        would want red twist tie; not white which is Fridays (almost a week old)!
        The colors go alphabetically by color Blue- Green - Red - White - Yellow,
        Monday through Saturday.  Very easy to remember. I thought this was
        interesting.  I looked in the grocery store and the bread wrappers DO have
        different twist ties, and even the ones with the plastic clips have
        different colors.  You learn something new everyday!  Enjoy fresh bread
        when you buy bread with the right color on the day you are shopping.

CAIRNS, Australia - Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and conservationist known as the "Crocodile Hunter," was killed Monday by a stingray while filming off the Great Barrier Reef. He was 44.

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Irwin was at Batt Reef, off the remote coast of northeastern Queensland state, shooting a segment for a series called "Ocean's Deadliest" when he swam too close to one of the animals, which have a poisonous bard on their tails, his friend and colleague John Stainton said.

"He came on top of the stingray and the stingray's barb went up and into his chest and put a hole into his heart," said Stainton, who was on board Irwin's boat at the time.

Crew members aboard the boat, Croc One, called emergency services in the nearest city, Cairns, and administered CPR as they rushed the boat to nearby Low Isle to meet a rescue helicopter. Medical staff pronounced Irwin dead when they arrived a short time later, Stainton said.

Irwin was famous for his enthusiasm for wildlife and his catchword "Crikey!" in his television program "Crocodile Hunter." First broadcast in Australia in 1992, the program was picked up by the Discovery network, catapulting Irwin to international celebrity.

He rode his image into a feature film, 2002's "The Crocodile Hunters: Collision Course" and developed the wildlife park that his parents opened, Australia Zoo, into a major tourist attraction.

"The world has lost a great wildlife icon, a passionate conservationist and one of the proudest dads on the planet," Stainton told reporters in Cairns. "He died doing what he loved best and left this world in a happy and peaceful state of mind. He would have said, 'Crocs Rule!'"

Prime Minister John Howard, who hand-picked Irwin to attend a gala barbecue to honor President Bush when he visited in 2003, said he was "shocked and distressed at Steve Irwin's sudden, untimely and freakish death."

"It's a huge loss to Australia," Howard told reporters. "He was a wonderful character. He was a passionate environmentalist. He brought joy and entertainment and excitement to millions of people."

Irwin, who made a trademark of hovering dangerously close to untethered crocodiles and leaping on their backs, spoke in rapid-fire bursts with a thick Australian accent and was almost never seen without his uniform of khaki shorts and shirt and heavy boots.

His ebullience was infectious and Australian officials sought him out for photo opportunities and to promote Australia internationally.

Irwin's public image was dented, however, in 2004 when he caused an uproar by holding his infant son in one arm while feeding large crocodiles inside a zoo pen. Irwin claimed at the time there was no danger to the child, and authorities declined to charge Irwin with violating safety regulations.

Later that year, he was accused of getting too close to penguins, a seal and humpback whales in Antarctica while making a documentary. Irwin denied any wrongdoing, and an Australian Environment Department investigation recommended no action be taken against him.

Stingrays have a serrated, toxin-loaded barb, or spine, on the top of their tail. The barb, which can be up to 10 inches long, flexes if a ray is frightened. Stings usually occur to people when they step on or swim too close to a ray and can be excruciatingly painful but are rarely fatal, said University of Queensland marine neuroscientist Shaun Collin.

Collin said he suspected Irwin died because the barb pierced under his ribcage and directly into his heart.

"It was extraordinarily bad luck. It's not easy to get spined by a stingray and to be killed by one is very rare," Collin said.

News of Irwin's death spread quickly, and tributes flowed from all quarters of society.

At Australia Zoo at Beerwah, south Queensland, floral tributes were dropped at the entrance, where a huge fake crocodile gapes. Drivers honked their horns as they passed.

"Steve, from all God's creatures, thank you. Rest in peace," was written on a card with a bouquet of native flowers.

"We're all very shocked. I don't know what the zoo will do without him. He's done so much for us, the environment and it's a big loss," said Paula Kelly, a local resident and volunteer at the zoo, after dropping off a wreath at the gate.

Stainton said Irwin's American-born wife Terri, from Eugene, Ore., had been informed of his death, and had told their daughter Bindi Sue, 8, and son Bob, who will turn 3 in December.

The couple met when she went on vacation in Australia in 1991 and visited Irwin's Australia Zoo; they were married six months later. Sometimes referred to as the "Crocodile Huntress," she costarred on her husband's television show and in his 2002 movie.

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i need pictures for a powerpoint presentation that i am doing on Egypt and i don't have time to look for them! the presentation is on Egypt government and economy but the pictures can just be anything related to Egypt. i want some that sparkle or glitter or move or have some time of animation to make it visually interesting, if you have some already or have a few mins to look in your fave picture sites, i would appreciate it so much! happy hunting!!

 

hello hello! how are you all doing? i am writing tonight to relieve pressure off my brain, lol! i feel like my head is going to implode at any moment. i started school again this week and today i am wondering why! i am so stressed! i feel like a dummy when it comes to my homework. i know that i have been out of school for 17 years but damn! does it have to be this hard to remember stuff! i swear that i can feel my brain swelling and burning!!!!

i am taking Algebra I and Sociology for the summer term. they are 16 week courses but accelerated in the summer so it is covered in 8 weeks time. maybe it is the first week jitters and maybe i should have started with  one accelerated class for my first step back but i don't want to drag it out forever so i thought two would be a good idea. i think most of the stress is the fact that both instructor's slammed us with a lot of homework in our first week and none of us were expecting such an amount in either class. i am not alone, everyone is overwhelmed. just as an example...the sociology prof. wants us to read and summarize SIX chapters per week. SIX!!?? does this guy have a life or what? evidentally he thinks that none of us do!!

anyone got any good study habits or learning tricks, send them my way, lol! i could use all the help! sorry that i have not been on much, i am a bad grabber, lol!  i used to be on so much and now i am lucky to get on a couple times a week. i hope that you are all well and having a good summer. we have been having storms here in ohio. we just had a loud thunder that shook the foundation! we had peyton's birthday party last weekend, it went well, the weather was not perfect but we all had a great time anyway! well, i am gonna get off here, going to bed soon and i will wake up to pre-algebra and lunch on some algebra I. AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

The Lone Ranger and Tonto went camping in the desert. After they got  their tent all set up, both men fell sound asleep.  Some hours later, Tonto wakes the Lone Ranger and says, "Kemo Sabe, look  towards sky, what you see?"

 The Lone Ranger replies, "I see millions of stars."

 "What that tell you?" asked Tonto.

The Lone Ranger ponders for a minute then says, "Astronomically  speaking, it tells me there are millions of galaxies and potentially  billions of planets. Astrologically, it tells me that Saturn is in Leo. Time wise, it appears to be approximately a quarter past three in  the
 morning. Theologically, the Lord is all-powerful and we are small  and insignificant. Meteorologically, it seems we will have a beautiful  day  tomorrow. What's it tell you Tonto?"

"You dumber than buffalo sh*t. Someone stole the tent."