Yesterday was our birthday, my dear sweet Computer Guy and me. Yes, we have the same birthday. I believe it’s because when we were dating and he discovered that we had the same birthday he thought to himself, “If I marry this girl then I will never forget her birthday and never end up in the dog house. Bonus.” Or it could just be that our moms both gave birth on November 2nd. It was our birthday yesterday. We started... Read more

‘We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.’ -Winston Churchill Read more

There are things in this world which are inevitable, most famously death and taxes. Our next President is not among them, and yet you wouldn’t know that by watching television. MSNBC was reporting today on the plans for Obama’s victory party for election night and the musicians invited to play at the inauguration. Isn’t this a bit premature? We don’t even vote until Tuesday and yet the parade is already planned. I read a story today about inevitability. It is... Read more

“We cannot expect the Americans to jump from capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving Americans small doses of socialism until they suddenly awake to find they have Communism.” – Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev, 1959 h/t to Thorn in the Pew It also says in Marx’s Communist Manifesto that the first step towards building a communist society is to begin by building a socialist one. Yes, I’ve read Marx. I majored in Poli-Sci in college.... Read more

A tip of the hat to the Cavemen Read more

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Jennifer over at Conversion Diary gave us a tour of her purse and invited everyone else to play along. It’s interesting the stuff that people keep in there. For years I was a die-hard no-purse-carrier, then my husband mentioned that he thought it made me look more feminine and that he loved it when I was carrying. Then he bought me the only kind of purse I would consent to carry, a King Ranch one, and I’ve been packin’ ever... Read more

The population of this country is 300 million. 160 million are retired. That leaves 140 million to do the work. There are 85 million in school. Which leaves 55 million to do the work. Of this there are 35 million employed by the federal government. Leaving 15 million to do the work. 2..8 million are in the armed forces preoccupied with killing Osama Bin-Laden. Which leaves 12.2 million to do the work. Take from that total the 10.8 million people... Read more

Momentary diversion. I figured we all could use one. h/t to the Swiss Miss How smart is Your Right Foot?Just try this. It is from an orthopedic surgeon. This willboggle your mind and you will keep trying over and over again to seeif you can outsmart your foot, but you can’t. It’s preprogrammed inyour brain! 1. While sitting where you are at your desk in front of your computer,lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles. 2.... Read more

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