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“I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer.” –Jim Carrey With a net worth in the vicinity of 150 million dollars, the funny man actor finds that fame and fortune is not the answer to life’s ills. A believer would agree…

Drivers in Maryland created a big traffic jam after the doors on an armored truck flew open spilling money along the highway. Police say a lock on the doors apparently malfunctioned and a number of drivers stopped to grab the lost cash. Officers who helped the driver recover the remaining money only…

While Miley Cyrus is no longer a role model for young girls, there is one subject on which we ought to pay attention to her. She is only 22 years old but has already made a fortune. She complains that people from contractors to fellow celebrities are continually trying to get her to buy things she neither…

“Five years after the name Bernie Madoff became synonymous with extravagant fraud, the only thing that makes him unique is the size of his swindle,” according to Al Lewis of Marketwatch.com, Ponzi schemes are discovered all the time. The scam is classic: “Lure investors with promises of solid returns…

Two men struck gold in the wilderness during the great Klondike Gold Rush. Each day they could hardly wait to get out of their bunks to continue their search for gold. They found more and more each day. They were so busy they didn’t noticed that summer had passed and that fall was upon them. They didn’t…

Just a few weeks ago this scene flickered onto our laptops and flat screens. The people who witnessed it said it felt like an earthquake. It left this smoldering building in ruins. You remember what happened: Joseph Stack, in some kind of dispute with the IRS over his taxes took matters into his own…

Misery of Getting Better The world would be better off if people tried to become better. And people would become better if they stopped trying to become better off. For when everybody tries to become better off, nobody becomes better off. But when everybody tries to become better, everybody is better…

Anyone know who this is? Probably not from this picture. He was born in Wisconsin in 1941. In 1963 he began working for the CIA as in a lower level job simply to put himself through college. The agency fascinated him, however, and, when he graduated from college he stayed. In fact, he remained there…

Billionaire's Ex-Wife Wants More Money LOS ANGELES CAP) - The ex-wife of billionaire Kirk Kerkorian is asking a court for the biggest child support award ever in California, $320,000 a month to care for their 3-year-old daughter. In court documents, Lisa Bonder Kerkorian lists monthly expenses for daughter…

A couple was celebrating a very special occasion, not only were they both celebrating their 60th birthday but they were also celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary. As they were spending a quiet night together, a fairy came to visit them. The fairy said, “Since you have been such good and loving…

Randy Alcorn in his book The Treasure Principle cites the PBS program Affluenza which addresses what it calls the "modern-day plague of materialism." The show stated the following statistics: The average American shops six hours a week while spending forty minutes playing with his children. By age twenty,…

Greed is the logical result of the belief that there is no life after death. We grab what we can while we can however we can and then hold on to it hard.—Sir Fred Catherwood, British politician Famous Russian author Leo Tolstoy once wrote a story about a successful peasant farmer who was not satisfied…

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A woman being driven around in a rented limousine pulled up at a coat store and announced she'd won the lottery and would pay for everyone's purchases, police said, but she ended up causing a riot when customers realized it was a hoax. Angry customers threw merchandise around and looted,…

Did you hear about the guy who needed money. He was a big thinker. If he was going to risk counterfeiting money, he was going to make it worth his while. If his scheme worked, he’d give the cashier a big bill and get real money in exchange for fake money. So he decided to pass off not a counterfeit $100…

CONSIDERING OTHERS When the Henrico County School system decided to sell 1,000 used notebook computers to the public in Richmond Virginia, they never imagined the scene the sale would generate. The morning of the sale, people began lining up at 1:30am. By 7 o'clock, the crowd was estimated to be 5,500…

Whatever Money Could Buy Liberace lived garishly, spending more than $2 million a year on clothes for his Las Vegas acts. He would drive on stage in a mirrored Rolls-Royce, or pop out of a giant pink egg, or soar across the stage in a swirl of purple feathers. Offstage, he dressed conservatively, but…

CNN recently carried a story of a sixty-two-year-old man who was rushed to Cholet General Hospital in France, suffering stomach pain. His family told doctors the man had a history of mental illness and a penchant for swallowing coins, but nothing could have prepared the doctors for X-rays of the man's…

Monkey Greed Be warned! A trapper in the African Congo devised a clever monkey trap using a hollow gourd into which peanuts were poured through a small hole. The monkey would reach in and grab the peanuts, but the hole was too small to remove his closed hand. Unwilling to release his treasure, the monkey…

He’s so stingy, he checks under his bed every morning to see if he lost any sleep.

Marketing theory says that people are driven by fear, by the promise of exclusivity, by guilt and by greed – with the need for approval being the up-and-coming motivation of the nineties. Advertising technology, armed with market research and sophisticated psychology, aims to throw us off balance emotionally-and…

A woman was asked by a co-worker, 'What is it like to be a Christian?' The co-worker replied, 'It is like being a pumpkin.' God picks you from the patch, brings you in, and washes all the dirt off of you. Then He cuts off the top and scoops out all the yucky stuff. He removes the seeds of doubt, hate,…

Simon and Chana Taub seem to agree on only on thing: The house is mine. The couple wants a divorce, but both of them refuse to move out of their New York home. To solve the matter, the court ordered a sand-colored wall built through the middle of their living room. Simon can only get to his dining room…

Oscar Myer Weiner Oh I wish I were an Os-car Mayer Wie – ner That is what I'd tru-ly like to be 'cause if I were an Os-car May-er Wie - ner everyone would be in love with me

The Rich Man’s Reward There is an old story about a very wealthy man who died and went to heaven. An angel guided him on a tour of the celestial city. He came to a magnificent home. "Who lives there?" asked the wealthy man. "Oh," the angel answered, "on earth he was your gardener." The rich man got excited.…

Here is today's PearlyGates item - ”Dentist Extras” The Millers were shown into the dentist's office, where Mr. Miller made it clear he was in a big hurry. "No expensive extras, Doctor," he ordered. "No gas or needles or any of that fancy stuff. Just pull the tooth and get it over with." "I wish more…