Stormy

Well? Did they give him another chance or not?

Yes, she looks very happy

Among Other Thoughts on Our Wedding Anniversary By: Judith Viorst Over the years, When the sink overflowed Or the car ran out of gas Or the lady who comes every Tuesday to clean didn't come Or I felt pudgy Or misunderstood Or inferior to Marily Kaufman who is not only a pediatric surgeon but also a very fine person as well as beautiful Or I fell in the creek and got soaked on our first family camping trip Or mosquitoes ate me alive on our first family camping trip Or I bruised my entire left side on our first camping trip Or I walked through a patch of what later turned out to be plenty of poison ivy on what later turned out to be our last family camping trip Or my sweater shrank in the wash Or I stepped on my glasses Or the keys that I swear on my children's head I put on the top of the dresser weren't there Or I felt depressed Or unfulfilled Or inferior to Ellen Jane Garver who not only teaches constitutional law but is also a wit plus sexually insatiable Or they lost our luggage Or our reservations Or two of the engines Or the rinse that was going to give my hair some subtle copper highlights turned it purple Or my mother-in-law got insulted at something I said Or my stomach got upset at something I ate Or I backed into a truck that I swear when I looked in my rear-view mirror wasn't parked there Or I suffered from some other blow of fate, It's always been so nice to have my husband by my side so I could Blame him.

Nice pics, Dodge, last two are really nice.

Post a link to your pics here Zimri

The difference in the before and after is amazing engines, good job.

Yeah, see the cat on the back?

LOL, I see jail time in that boy's future if he thiks it's that easy.

Elusive_Butterfly sent me and email with a bunch of really old photos in it and one was this shot of Ford's Theater in 1865

Thanks for sharing the video Nan and thanks for the correct link Livonne. And Happy Australia Day to all my friends in the Land of Oz.

Wow, that is close

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2013/01/congress-less-popular-than-cockroaches-traffic-jams.html The fact about the popularity of the US Congress: Raleigh, N.C. –Facing low approval ratings after a historically unproductive 112thsession and a series of last-minute showdowns over fiscal matters, Congress is now less popular than root canals, NFL replacement referees, head lice, the rock band Nickelback, colonoscopies, carnies, traffic jams, cockroaches, Donald Trump, France, Genghis Khan, used-car salesmen and Brussel sprouts. More unpopular than NFL replcement refs? That's a pretty low blow.

LOL

As they should be Koach, they've done nothing worthwhile for as long as I can remember. But don't forget, most of these "deficit reduction plans" totally exempt members of Congress. They receive zero pay reductions, zero tax increases, and still get the same retirement as always, as little as 2 years on the job and they get FULL pay for the rest of their lives.

Sounds more than fair.

Charley Reese's final column for the Orlando Sentinel... He has been a journalist for 49 years. He is retiring and this is HIS LAST COLUMN. This is about as clear and easy to understand as it can be. The article below is completely neutral, neither anti-republican or democrat. Charlie Reese, a retired reporter for the Orlando Sentinel, has hit the nail directly on the head, defining clearly who it is that in the final analysis must assume responsibility for the judgments made that impact each one of us every day. It's a short but good read. Worth the time. Worth remembering! 545 vs. 300,000,000 People -By Charlie Reese Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them. Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits? Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes? You and I don't propose a federal budget. The President does. You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does. You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does. You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does. You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does. One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country. I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank. I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a President to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes. Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party. What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits.. ( The President can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.) The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House?( John Boehner. He is the leader of the majority party. He and fellow House members, not the President, can approve any budget they want. ) If the President vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to. [The House has passed a budget but the Senate has not approved a budget in over three years. The President's proposed budgets have gotten almost unanimous rejections in the Senate in that time. ] It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist. If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair. If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red. If the Army & Marines are in Iraq and Afghanistan it's because they want them in Iraq and Afghanistan .. If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way. There are no insoluble government problems. Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do. Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible. They, and they alone, have the power. They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses. Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees... We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess! Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper. What you do with this article now that you have read it... is up to you. This might be funny if it weren't so true.

I think I'll always have trouble thinking of wrestling without thinking of Spike. Spike was a very rare person, a true gentleman and one who enjoyed helping others with any problem they might have. He will be seriously missed here.

The teacher gave her fifth grade class an assignment: Get their parents to tell them a story with a moral at the end of it. The next day the kids came back and one by one began to tell their stories "Johnny, do you have a story to share?" "Yes, ma'am, my daddy told a story about my Aunt Carol. Aunt Carol was a pilot in Desert Storm and her plane got hit. She had to bail out over enemy territory and all she had was a small flask of whiskey, a pistol and a survival knife. She drank the whiskey on the way down so it wouldn't fall into enemy hands and then her parachute landed right in the middle of twenty enemy troops. She shot fifteen of them with the gun until she ran out of bullets, killed four more with the knife, 'till the blade broke and then she killed the last one with her bare hands." "Good heavens," said the horrified teacher, "What kind of moral did your daddy teach you from that horrible story?" "Stay the hell away from Aunt Carol when she's been drinking."

GRRRRRRROOAANNn

Happy Birthday, Alicia

Happy Birthday Sky

Apparently Joe is a smart man.

R.I.P Cuddly

LOL

Merry Christmas all