How To Maintain A Healthy Level Of Insanity Sunday, May 23, 2010 at 6:15 AM

1.. At Lunch Time, Sit In Your Parked Car With Sunglasses on and point a Hair Dryer At Passing Cars. See If They Slow Down.
2. Page Yourself Over The Intercom. Don't Disguise Your Voice!
3. Every Time Someone Asks You To Do Something, ask If They Want Fries with that.
4. Put Decaf In The Coffee Maker For 3 Weeks . Once Everyone has Gotten Over Their Caffeine Addictions, Switch to Espresso.
5. In the Memo Field Of All Your Checks, Write 'For Marijuana.'
6. Skip down the hall Rather Than Walk and see how many looks you get..
7. Order a Diet Water whenever you go out to eat, with a serious face.
8. Specify That Your Drive-through Order Is 'To Go'.
9. Sing Along At The Opera.
10. Five Days In Advance, Tell Your Friends You Can't Attend Their Party Because You have a headache.
11. When The Money Comes Out The ATM, Scream 'I Won! I Won!'
12. When Leaving the Zoo, Start Running towards the Parking lot, Yelling 'Run For Your Lives! They're Loose!'
13. Tell Your Children Over Dinner, 'Due To The Economy, We Are Going To Have To Let One Of You Go.'

Julie & Julia, My Opinion Friday, May 21, 2010 at 6:31 AM

Julie & Julia
The movie
My husband and I bought and watched the movie, "Julie & Julia". We love Julia Child, she was a blast to watch and we hoped the movie would highlight more of her intersting life than it did.

Julie Powell's Blog
I went to her blog, "The Julie/Julia Project", this morning to leave a praise comment but she had deleted all of her post with the exception of Julia's death and how she felt about it. I Googled her and found her new blog here at blogger and read just a little bit to find she's foul mouthed and futher Googled to find she's an athiest. I was very disappointed. I can see why Julia Child was a bit offset with Julie Powell's blog.

Julie Powell's engaging, here and now writing style is fun and easy to attach to but her foul-filthy mouth turns my stomach.

Blond Cop

So a blond was speeding down the highway. All of a sudden she gets pulled over (obviously because she was speeding.)

The cop who pulled her over was also a blond (uh-oh)... The cop says "Ma'am i need to see your drivers license ID."

The driver was confused, being blond and all.

So, the cop decides to remind her what an ID is. "Ma'am its a rectangular thing with your picture on it"

The blond still has no idea, but looks for it anyways. So funny them blonds. She pulls out a rectangular mirror and hands it to the cop.

The blonde cop says to the blond driver, "Oh, sorry ma'am if I had known YOU were a cop too, I wouldn't have pulled you over."

Is Sarah Palin turning Facebook and Twitter into her own weapons of mayhem and destruction?

ZDNet Government
David Gewirtz

Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen the American masses whipped into a frenzy of political disagreement and anger.

Some of what we’ve seen is pure hyperbole. That’s how America does politics, in our own twisted, nutty, and glorious way.

But some of what we’ve seen goes beyond good, old-fashioned political disagreement.

Some of what we’ve seen, like the coffin placed in front of the home of Missouri Democratic Representative Russ Carnahan, the cut gas lines at the home of Virginia Democratic Representative Tom Perriello’s brother, the death threats received by Michigan Representative Bart Stupak, and the message New York Representative Louise Slaughter got that snipers were going to kill her children are nothing short of terrifying — especially to the elected officials and their families on the receiving end of the threats. Continue...

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It's hard to believe a person like this is given a platform to air her insanity, here in America! Our country has lost it's ever loving mind!

Right Wingers and the Militia Monday, April 05, 2010 at 6:16 AM

These people are unbelievable!! You've got to read this!!
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For Hutaree, Web rumor stoked anger at Obama

Tina Stone (U.S. Marshals Service)
"A member of the Hutaree militia charged with federal crimes was upset because she thought that President Barack Obama had signed into law this month a bill that would spend $20 billion to help the terrorist group Hamas settle in the U.S.

There was never any such legislation, but Tina Stone believed it was the truth, according to her Facebook account. "H.B. 1388 Passed.... It's bad news for us all," Tina Kelley, her maiden name, said on her Facebook page on March 19.

She then said in an update:

"I'm peeved,,, when people in this country is getting kicked out of there homes everyday and our government passes a bill to spend more then 20 billion dollars to bring Hamas here and supplies them with food and homes that just wrong."

On March 26, the day before the federal raid of Hutaree, she wrote at 12:21 p.m., “I'm so stressed I could KILL someone!!!!!!!”

Stone, part of a Christian militia busted by federal agents this week, apparently got the false idea from fake e-mails and Internet chatter that claimed Obama and Congress had passed H.B. 1388 to help Hamas.

According to the site factcheck.org — which tries to debunk lies on the Internet — the false rumors were generated in part from one e-mail that stated:

"Something happened... H.R. 1388 was passed yesterday, behind our backs. You may want to read about it. It wasn't mentioned on the news...Obama funds $20M in tax payer dollars to immigrate Hamas Refugees to the USA. This is the news that didn't make the headlines."

Stone was charged with being part of a plot to murder multiple police officers that would create a revolt against the U.S. government. Hutaree is a Christian militia that she was a part of."

Experts and the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights group, said the weak economy coupled with an African-American president has led to a dramatic increase in militia activity over the past year. The number of extremist anti-government groups and militias grew from 149 in 2008 to 512 in 2009, the center said.

Alaska Has Largest Debt Burden in US Sunday, April 04, 2010 at 6:32 AM

Post-Palin Alaska has largest debt burden in US

"Sarah Palin has long sold herself as a fiscal conservative, arguing against the Democrats' health overhaul on the grounds that the nation simply can't afford it.

When, Sarah Palin, the unsucessful vice presidential candidate, resigned as governor of Alaska in the summer of 2009, she left the state with a 70 percent debt-to-GDP ratio -- the highest state debt burden in the United States.
That's according to data compiled by the Washington Independent's Megan Carpentier, who notes that Alaska has a debt burden similar to "that of Jordan and Palin's favorite health care resource, Canada, and a higher ratio than Ghana, India, the Philippines or Uruguay."

By comparison, crisis-stricken California has a debt ratio of less than 40 percent.
What makes observine Republican governance in Alaska all the more confounding about Alaska's debt is the fact that it is an oil-producing region with a small population to share in that wealth. Oil-rich Alberta, Canada, for example, collects no sales tax and still managed to retire its debt entirely in 2004.

Alaska's massive debt burden can't be blamed entirely on Palin's two-and-a-half-year stint as governor, she did face similar debt problems while mayor of Wasilla, and those appear to be of her own making."
Chart.

Open gays in our military is compromising the security of our country! Thursday, March 25, 2010 at 5:31 AM

Discharging gays to draw more scrutiny in military - The Associated Press

"Reuters Discharging gays to draw more scrutiny in military The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Discharging a gay person for violating the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy will draw unprecedented scrutiny under new orders from Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who is already pushing to repeal the ban on gays serving openly in ... Pentagon prepares to relax enforcement of 'don't ask, don't tell' Washington Post Gates: Lopsided F-35 costs "drove me… "

Open gays in our military is compromising the security of our country! It degrades our integrity. Simply by the fact that one's personal sexual preference overrides the structure-strength, of our military just for the sake of one's sexual preference!
How will they modify the living quarters and conditions? Will they have to completely re-build military stations to comply with one's sexual preference? It's ludicrous! It's good to be open minded but you can be so open minded your brain falls out.
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What was the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah?

What was the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah? Why did God judge the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah so severely?
www.gotquestions.org/Sodom-and-Gomorrah.html

Dr. Livingstone, I Presume? Friday, March 19, 2010 at 6:39 AM

"Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?" (1813)

David Livingstone, a Scottish missionary and explorer, was the first European to cross the African continent. He aimed to facilitate the abolition of the slave trade by opening Africa to commerce and missionary stations. During his travels, Livingstone made many geographic discoveries and amassed a complex body of knowledge that took decades to mine after his death. He is the subject of the popular quotation, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" Who uttered the famous phrase upon meeting him in 1871? More... Discuss

If Dr. Livingstone were here I would say, 'happy birthday!'

Lazy Daisy Cake Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 11:20 AM

4 eggs, well beaten 2 c. sugar 2 c. flour 2 tsp. baking powder

2 tsp. vanilla 1 c. hot milk 2 tsp. melted butter 1/2 tsp. salt

Add to well beaten eggs, sugar, mix well. Sift dry ingredients into mixture and add vanilla. Beat together well. Add milk and butter. Beat again. Makes a thin batter, bake in moderate oven, 350 degrees for 30 minutes.

Ice with:

3/4 c. brown sugar

6 Tbsp. butter

2 Tbsp. cream

Combine all ingredients in pan, bring to boil, pour over cake as soon as it comes from the oven. Put under flame and let icing bubble up and get a little brown. An extra treat-sprinkle with chopped nuts.

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Without icing this cake tastes much like an angel food cake! Hubby prefers cakes without icing, I love most icings.

Cowboy Cookies Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 7:54 AM

2 c. flour 1 tsp. soda 1/2 tsp. salt 1/2 tsp. baking powder 1 c. shorening 1 c. sugar

1 c. brown sugar 2 eggs 2 c. oatmeal 2 c. corn flakes 1 c. chopped pecans 1 tsp. vanilla

Raisins and or chocolate chips may be added or coconut, just use your imagination. Very good!

Sift dry ingredients. Blend shortening and sugar. Add eggs, beat until light. Add flour mixture and oatmeal. Add corn flakes and nuts and vanilla. Mix well. Drop by spoonfuls on greased cookie sheet. Bake in 375 degree oven until delicate brown for approximately 12 minutes.

Note: This is my husbands absolute favorite cookie! It's delicious!

Pudding Cake Tuesday, March 09, 2010 at 11:15 AM

Pudding Cake

• 1 pkg. white cake mix
• 1 pkg. vanilla instant pudding
• 1 cup (1/2 pt.) sour cream
• 1/3 cup oil
• 4 eggs

Combine all ingredients in a large mixer bowl. Blend at low speed with electric mixer just to moisten, scraping sides of bowl often. Then beat 4 minutes at meduum speed. Bake at 350 degrees for 50 t0 60 minutes. I bake mine for about 40 minutes. My oven is cranky. Bake in a greased and floured tube pan.

Monday Multitasking Monday, March 08, 2010 at 12:02 PM

Laundry-cleaning-work on blog-unstack images.
Unstacking images is impossible here at Blogger. I just don't get it. No matter how tiny the pics they will stack. I have to make a table with separate cells in order to show my images next to one another instead of stacking on top of each other. As if I didn't have enough to do and I haven't even had my nap yet!!
My coffee is cold. No problem. I just finished off a whole bag of M & M's.

My AI Picks

Crystal Bowersox	Casey James
Lee Dewyze	Aaron Kelly

These are my picks this year. Crystal is my very favorite! Anyone of these could and or should win. Anything less would be an atrocity!

Can You Read Me now? Tuesday, March 02, 2010 at 1:18 PM

2.3.2010
I just cannot make up my mind on my background imaging. I make my own graphics and I seem to spend so much time working on that, with little time left for posting! My bullets aren't red enough I don't think. Hmmmm.
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2.2.2010
Hubby looked at my Blog yesterday and couldn't read it so I completely redone the whole thing. Actually, I couldn't read it either, hehe. Tomorrow I will work on a menu tab that will be placed at the top instead of the Category list which I do not like.

Make meat loaf

Work on this list

Finish supper

Eat

Do dishes

A Mess On The Sofa Monday, March 01, 2010 at 10:11 AM

This is what we call relaxed and a "mess on the sofa" here at our house. These two are more fun to watch than television. Cept maybe American Idol.

Deadly Beauty

Next on the list, an unusual, graceful bloom is to blame...the ANGEL'S TRUMPET (datura stramonium). It's other names include JIMSON WEED, STINK WEED, LOCO WEED and DEVIL'S SNARE. Loco weed is the best description as this lovely specimen is a potent hallucinogen. However, a small "mistake" can lead to a fatal overdose! Just say "no" to drugs!!!

I have this all over my yard, and my neighbor has a huge tree of it. It's gorgeous. I had no idea it was deadly!! until I came across this Blog, "Garden in Paradise" this morning, awesome! Tons of information on deadly plants. I hope she doesn't mind that I'm using her pic of this deadly beauty. If so, just let me know (if you see it here) and I'll remove it.

Sunshine Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 10:09 AM

What a beautiful Saturday morning! Well, it would be much better if fweety would let me help him with the fence. We're putting a piece of fence back up on the side of the house to keep Frazier and Niles from the back yard and destroying the garden this Spring. Plus my roses, fig trees and grape vines, they tinkle on those and kills most of it. Not this year!!

Oh, I need a new weed eater too. I wore my old one out. It only lasted 1 or 2 years, (made in China). I bought one at a garage sale for $5 one time, from Sears! It was old when I bought it and it lasted for about 10 years I think. American made that's why.

My coffee is done!

A Rainy Thursday Friday, February 26, 2010 at 10:12 AM

Today's weather is really yucky! Hubby went to town and asked if I wanted to go, not! Hehe. I hate going to town. I don't like going anywhere for that matter.
I've been working on my blog's layout for a few days. I love the way it looks. Had to do lots of figuring to get this much done for my background to show half way decent.
My coffee is brewing, mmmm, the house smells so good! My favorite isle in the grocery store is the coffee isle. I love coffee aromas, awesome.

Toyota - Made In China?

You know, when the Toyota car racing-gas peddle-floor mat news broke, my first thought and warning light was, "made in China". Almost every single thing China makes breaks, unravels, thins out, falls apart--totally trash! You may buy something American made but the parts, circuit boards, switches are probably made in China!!

This morning I typed in the search engine, 'are Toyota's made in China' and found this site, so I pasted some very interesting stuff...

TOKYO, July 2, 2003; Reuters reported that Toyota Motor Corp, Japan's top automaker, is in talks to tie up with China's Guangzhou Automobile Group to produce passenger cars in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, Japanese media reported on Wednesday.

Various media, including the Tokyo Shimbun daily and the Kyodo News agency, said the two automakers were finalising an agreement to form a joint venture and begin producing the Camry sedan at a new plant starting in 2005 at the earliest.
Full story...

Very interesting, don't ya think?

Credit Card Dept Fix Monday, February 22, 2010 at 9:54 AM

This is the only fail safe fix for credit card dept. Credit cards are abused, misused and a way of (economic) life for the majority of Americans. Our country really needs to change our whole way of thinking. If we can't pay cash, that means we can't afford it. If we can't afford it, we do without till we can. That's the way it used to be.
The American Dream is (over) a vision of the past. It does not exist any more. It's gone, been spent on greedy appetites, feeding the tapeworm-corruption.
Our new dream is to be dept free. When you are dept free you are free indeed.
I would suggest anyone in dept from credit cards to cut it-them up in peaces and mail it-them in with your bill and vow to never charge again.
When we ow, in dept, we are slaves to those we are in dept with.
I am a slave to no man. I do not own a credit card. If I can't pay cash I don't buy, why? It's the simplest and most productive way of life and it's an American dream. I'm dept free and living the American Dream.