Say what ?

I'm not a really big Obama fan, but I have trouble understanding all the fuss over him speaking to School kids.

I wonder how getting rid of car dealers as GM and Chrysler have done, will increase sales at the manufacturing level. If it is such a good idea, why haven't Ford, Honda and Toyota done the same.

Some years back (65 or so) saying that someone was living a dog's life, meant that he or she was living a life of misery. Today, judging from what I see and hear on TV, and in real life, it appears that it means just the opposite.


There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

The person who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

Sometimes I Wonder

I wonder just when the last person in the US, who has never who has never used a personal computer, will die.

I wonder if the young voters, who had so much influence in putting Obama in the oval office, are noticing how few of his campaign promises are being kept.


Golf is one of the few things in life you don't have to be good at to enjoy.

An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less.

More idle thoughts

So much fuss and todo over Michael Jackson's death and memorial service. I don't remember anything like this when Lawrence Welk died.

Ask your doctor ads. So many commercials on TV for medicine that can't be bought without getting a doctor to prescribe something because you want it, whether he or she thinks you need it or not.

But "wait" ads. So many ads on TV for stuff that most of the time looks useless or nearly so. Then, near the end of the pitch comes the "But wait", order now and we will double the offer, you just pay shipping and handling for the second item. Sometimes that can be fifteen or sixteen dollars for something that they are selling for $9.95, and can more than likely be shipped for a lot less than they are charging.

Bubble gum contains rubber.

The ancient Egyptians had bowling alleys similar to ours.

Mosquitoes flap their wings 10.000 times every second.

Things I thought I'd never see

GAMBLING: The state of Iowa, pretty much a Bible Belt state, with so many gambling casinos, and talking about more. The government is so dependent on the revenue, that they will more than likely never go away.
COMPUTERS: Computers everywhere, controlling every thing it seems.
NEWSPAPERS: Rather the end of same. Papers going out of business, and those that are left, eliminating staff to stay above water.
GM. Talk of General Motors going bankrupt. Chrysler in the same or worse shape.
CHINA; China seems to be getting more and more powerful every day. We, the USA, owes them so much money, they will own us one of these days.
Something new and unbelievable seems to pop up every day.

The Dead Sea is really a lake.

You can feed 24 people with one ostrich egg.

Idle thoughts

I ran across an advert for an Apple iPod recently. This particular one would hold 30,000 songs. 30,000 songs at an average of three minutes each, would be 90,000 minutes. divided by 60 would make that 1500 hours. If someone spent 16 hours a day listening, leaving 8 hours for sleep, it would take nearly 94 days to listen to them all. Downloading the songs from Apple at 99 cents each, plus the cost of the iPod, would mean an investment of about $30,000.00. The price of a pretty nice car tied up in a gad-get hooked to a small earphone. This thing also has the ability to hold 25,000 pictures. At just 15 seconds per picture, more than 6 days gone using the same 16 hours a day. A very small picture as well. It would also hold 150 hours of video. Nearly 10 days to look at that! Are we living in a techie world, or what?

When Bugs Bunny first appeared in 1935, he was called "HappyRabbit."

The first gold record ever awarded went to Glenn Miller for "Chattanooga Choo-choo."

The really

big catch phrase these days seems to be "create jobs". The government can, and does do that a good share of the time it seems. Businesses need a reason however, like sales of their product. I've seen somewhere how the big bailout could have given every household in the country ten thousand dollars. Maybe that 10 grand should have been sent, in the form of a gift certificate, to those households. No loan pay down, or saving the money. Good only for new cars, TVs, appliances, things that would put people back to work. It may have started things moving again, rather than going to pork projects, politicians pet programs, bonuses to bankers etc.

We are having great run of weather at the moment. Only a little snow left in ditches, and the north side of buildings. Sixty seven degrees here in Dayton today. It's Iowa though, so things are bound to change. This is happening during the girl's state basketball tournament.

All the Zodiac symbols are animals, except one--Libra

Most accidents are caused by people, and most people are caused by accidents.

A segment

on 60 Minutes last night had to do with the drug cartels in Mexico, and what a problem they are becoming. Murders, kidnapping, wars with police, bribery, all because there is so much money involved. The same Mexican cartels are also gaining a foothold in this country. Our government spends billions trying to stop illegal drugs from getting to the streets, and more than likely, other countries are spending a lot as well. So far it seems that it isn't working. Maybe the world should legalize these drugs. No big money involved so crime would more than likely come down, the Taliban would lose their main resource for weapons, and billions wasted trying to stop what seems to be the unstoppable could be saved. Prohibition only begets more and more crime, and has not worked. A few more people may start using, a few more may OD, but that may well be a small price to pay in the long run. The government would surely find a way to add a tax in this somewhere, which could help the economy. Perhaps this could also qualify as a change to believe in. Don't hold your breath.

Before 1863,mail service in the U.S. was free.

The first chain store was the A&P. It was founded in 1842.