03sep11

The owner of the restauant walked menacingly toward his cashier.
“I see,” he barked, “that you’re a little behind in your accounts.”
“Oh, no,” answered the cashier, happily. “The restaurant’s behind—I’m a few bucks to the good!”




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1939, France and England declare war on Germany.

1941, First experimental use of gas chamber at Auschwitz.

1965, Charlie Sheen is born.

1969, Ho Chi Minh, President of North Vietnam dies.

1970, Vince Lombardi football coach, dies in Washington DC at 57

1982, Michael Thoma actor (8 is Enough, Fame), dies at 55

1984, Arthur Schwartz actor, dies after a stroke at 83

1984, Duncan Renaldo actor (Cisco Kid), dies at 80

1990, David Acer Florida dentist, dies of AIDs after infecting 5 patients

1991, Frank Capra director (It's a Wonderful Life), dies at 94

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Well the weekend is upon us again and it is the famous Labor Day Weekend!! What a joke it is nowadays because there is nothing to do except brave the heat if you wanna go outdoors~~Otherwise every body has been watching the fires out at Possum Kingdom Lake near Weatherford. Been watching bad programs on TV which seems to migrate to the air waves during holidays!! Reminds me of when I was a kid some years back watching the marathons which used to dominate the weekend!! Now I don’t see em much because of the variety that’s on television nowadays~~but the stations have made up for it with the long commercials that they put on. I have seen an hour program but that hour is filled with at least at the minimum fifteen minutes worth of commercials which means you can go to the bathroom a lot if you need to.
Enough said about that which reminds me of an old joke my grand dad told me when I was a kid.
Henry Ward Beecher, famous New England clergyman, was opening his mail one morning. Drawing a single sheet of paper from an envelope, he found written on it the one word: FOOL!
The next Sunday, in the course of his sermon, he referred to it in these words: “I have known many an instance of a man writing letters and forgetting to sign his name. But this is the only instance I’ve ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write his letter.”

I have been having problems with my blog because The Layout Tab has disappeared and now I get some support jock at Google that tells me to change to another system. I don’t understand why they just don’t fix it and let me go on. Better to just make life difficult for me. If I wanted to do that I would have did that and wouldn’t have said anything to them. It’s bad enough having to search through their help forever for an answer that only a support rep can fix, And then have to gripe at them to get a support rep to contact you, and then to have the support rep throw you out the window. They may be right I might just go ahead and get another web page to put my blog on, because it’s a waste of their time to help anyone.
Anyway I pray you never have any problem with your blog and have a nice weekend.!!

29Aug11

We have everything on the menu today sir, the waitress said.
So I see, the customer said, How about a clean one?


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1915, Ingrid Bergman is born

1949, Richard Gere is born

1958, Michael Jackson is born

1967, George Rockwell American nazi party leader, murdered

1975, Eamon de Valera Irish independence fighter, dies at 92

1982, Ingrid Bergman dies.

1983, Simon Oakland actor (Toma, Kolchak, Baa Baa Black Sheep), dies at 61

1985, Evelyn Ankers actress, dies at 67

1985, Patrick Barr actor, dies at 77

1987, Lee Marvin dies in Tucson, Ariz at 63

1990, Saddam Hussein declares America can't beat Iraq

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The Irene storm is still on the news even though it has more or less dissapated into Canada and the Atlantic as a tropical storm, but the news is all about the damage on the eastern seaboard the flooding and the electricity being off and people playing board games and listening to battery radios.
Which reminds me of a joke about a lady who phoned her TV serviceman and complained that something was wrong with her set. The serviceman asked her if there were any visible symptoms.
“The newscaster is on right now,” said the lady,” and he has a very long face.”
“Madam,” replied the serviceman, “if you had to report what’s happening these days you’d have a long face too.”
Of course nowadays they don’t have television repairmen as they used to in the old days. Now you send it off to a repair center or buy a new one. What a waste progress can bestow on all of us. Not to mention the loss of jobs that it entails.
According to the weather forecasters it is supposed to be another 100 plus degree day today~I am looking forward to Autumn in earnest.
Have a nice day and stay cool!!

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Here is another story about Abraham Lincoln past President of the United States.

From discussing the physical peculiarities of Douglas, who was a
very small man, a group of Lincoln's friends turned to the question
of how long a man's legs should be. Upon Lincoln's joining the group,
he was asked the question.
"Well," he said, "I should think a man's legs ought to be long enough
to reach from his body to the ground."

28Aug11

A man in his carefree bachelor days, had been very fond of a Washington restaurant which specialized in waffles with honey. Year after year he had journey to to the place to get the delectable viand; so, when he finally married, he decided to take his wife there, in order to share the pleasure with her. He did not tell her what was coming; merely ordering an excellent meal, with two orders of waffles.
The meal came, the waffles came; but there were two small pitchers of near-maple syrup, and no honey.
He called the waitress over, and whispered, loud enough for his wife to hear: “Where’s my honey?”
The waitress beamed intelligently, “She’s on her vacation now, sir,” was her answer.


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1949, Soviets detonate their first atom bomb.

1963, Martin Luther King reads his famous speech I Have A Dream.

1972, Mark Spitz-US Swimmer, 1st athlete to win 7 Olympic gold medals.

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Just enduring this hot summer~~It’s been a hundred degrees here for so long I wonder what it’s gonna feel like when autumn finally does get here, other than hot!!
Well school has started again down here. Whatever happened to the school year that started on Sept the first??
The hurricane Irene slammed into the eastern seaboard of the United States and that’s all there is in the news nowadays.
What did Charles D. Warner say? “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
But then I got my own ideas about weathermen and their lot! There is an old saying:
FIRST FARMER: “Don’t think much of that weather prophet the government’s got on the radio.”
SECOND FARMER: “Well, let’s don’t do any complainin’ about it. Just think how bad it would be if the government started regulatin’ the weather instead of predictin’ it!”
Another line of thought!!
Just watch what happens after Irene goes away= Just watch the gas prices go up!! For what reason?? Who knows but the oil companies will find an excuse to jack it up at the pump no matter what. Wait and see.
Today is another Sunday gone into history~~Enjoy your week!!

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Here is another story about Abraham Lincoln past President of the United States


Lincoln's innate democracy was humorously expressed in this mark
about his ancestry: "I don't know who my grandfather was, and
I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be."

13Aug11

“Now, girls,” said the restaurant manager, “I want you all to look your best to-day. Add a little dab of powder to your cheeks and take a bit more care with your hair.”
“Somethin special on?” asked the head waitress.
“No,” informed the manager. “The beef’s tough.”


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1899, Alfred Hitchcock is born.

1926, Renowned Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro is born/

1961, Building of the Berlin Wall

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On this day in 1981, at his California home Rancho del Cielo, Ronald Reagan signs the Economic Recovery Tax Act (ERTA), a historic package of tax and budget reductions that set the tone for his administration's overall economic policy.

During his campaign for the White House in 1980, Reagan argued on behalf of "supply-side economics," the theory of using tax cuts as incentives for individuals and businesses to work and produce goods (supply) rather than as an incentive for consumers to buy goods (demand). In Congress, Representative Jack Kemp, Republican of New York, and Senator Bill Roth, Republican of Delaware, had long supported the supply-side principles behind the ERTA, which would also be known as the Kemp-Roth act. The bill, which received broad bipartisan support in Congress, represented a significant change in the course of federal income tax policy, which until then was believed by most people to work best when used to affect demand during times of recession.

The ERTA included a 25 percent reduction in marginal tax rates for individuals, phased in over three years, and indexed for inflation from that point on. The marginal tax rate, or the tax rate on the last dollar earned, was considered more important to economic activity than the average tax rate (total tax paid as a percentage of income earned), as it affected income earned through "extra" activities such as education, entrepreneurship or investment. Reducing marginal tax rates, the theory went, would help the economy grow faster through such extra efforts by individuals and businesses. The 1981 act, combined with another major tax reform act in 1986, cut marginal tax rates on high-income taxpayers from 70 percent to around 30 percent, and would be the defining economic legacy of Reagan's presidency.

Reagan's tax cuts were designed to put maximum emphasis on encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship and creating incentives for the development of venture capital and greater investment in human capital through training and education. The cuts particularly benefited "idea" industries such as software or financial services; fittingly, Reagan's first term saw the advent of the information revolution, including IBM's introduction of its first personal computer (PC) and the rise or launch of such tech companies as Intel, Microsoft, Dell, Sun Microsystems, Compaq and Cisco Systems.

Economists have argued to what degree Reagan's economic policy drove the boom of the 1990s, but his tax program undoubtedly set in motion powerful forces of change that would result in both short- and long-term economic gains. On the other hand, critics of so-called "Reaganomics" argued that his tax cuts and the effects of steady economic growth disproportionately benefitted the wealthy, and increased the gap between the nation's rich and poor.

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Here is another story about Abraham Lincoln past President of the United States

Lincoln once dreamed that he was in a great assembly where the
people made a lane for him to pass through. "He is a common-looking
fellow," said one of them, "Friend," replied Lincoln in his dream,
"the Lord prefers common-looking people--that is why He made so many
of them."

10aug11

Patron---“Do you serve fish here?”
Waiter---“Certainly, we cater to everyone.”


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1938, Air France offers a flight route between Marseille and Hong Kong. The voyage lasts 5 days.

1959, Rosanna Arquette is born.

1960, Antonio Banderas is born.

1953, In Canada, liberal Louis Stephen Saint-Laurent is re-elected for a second time as Prime Minister.

1980, Allen, the most powerful hurricane in Caribbean hits Brownsville, Tx

1988, UN estimates Asia's population hit 3 billion


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Today is Wednesday~~Another hot day they say. Which brings this thought to mind. Man, in his anxiety to refute evidence that he is a monkey, manages to further to the belief that he is an ass.

Nothing going on today except that heat wave~~When summer is gone I will probably be wishing that it would come back haha. It always amazes me to wish for something that is gone but gripe and complain about it when it is handy and in the foremost part of the mind. I reckon that is a part of human nature. I don’t think I am alone in this observation. There is this book that I have been reading by Ed Morrow called “599 Things you should Never do.” Some of the things in this book are hiliarious. The first thing in this book is named ‘ Academia.’ With this quote by Paul Samuelson. Referring to a former Harvard treasurer. “Never consult the economics department….never consult the business school.”
First off I don’t know who Mr Samuelson is and what is the quote about?? When I was going through college in my younger years. Economics was not my choice of a subject matter to spend my money on but it was a required subject for my major so like all the rest of the courses which everyone called core courses, you know the course had to taken to get the degree in that field of endeavor. Courses that you didn’t pass that were required usually ended up with you sitting in the hot seat of a counselor who would try to get you to switch your major to something that you would be able to pass the core courses in and the major itself. I remember this one kid who was with me had switched his major twice and he was still there when I graduated with my bachelors degree~~he not like me working to make ends meet in college his parents were well off and he didn’t apply himself to the subject matter at hand. But of course I have wondered what ever happened to him. As with most of his kind when I was going through he probably ended up in the family business which he probably knew inside and out anyway so his future was secured for the rest of his life.
The only thing I personally get out of this quote that if you are a treasurer and you get into trouble don’t consult those departments. Any treasurer worth his salt is going to have his hands full just keeping his department in line much less worry about outside intelligence that may be able to help him if he needs it.
Anyway why the book?? A bunch of quotes that begin with Never! Anybody could do that~There are dictionaries on quotes which if it is worth it’s salt you can find in the index typically all the quotes in the book alphabetized so that you could see every quote in that book beginning with whatever letter you wish so that you can look up a quote you may have heard but don’t know who said it.
I will lay my choice of who the culprit was for this book at the doorstep of the publisher who was in search of something to make money with. And of course who should come along but me the sucker of the lifetime to give my hard earned cash for this pot boiler. He either saw the hook in the title to grab a certain psyche ~~I bought this book in haste apparently because after sitting down and going through it and seeing the contents my better judgment tells me that I should have never bought it. So I kick myself for that every time I see this book. There are some things in here that are fun to read though in spite of the bad choice to purchase it. For example” A quote by ‘American Adage” this writer just pulls any non verifiable quote out of nowhere “Never choose between two good things, take both.” That’s a great quote unless both things are terribly expensive then you can either choose one or none depending on what you have in mind. So with further ado I am going to lay this to rest. One day in the future I may return to this book and talk about some of the quotes in there.

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Here is another story about Abraham Lincoln past President of the United States


The Northern armies had been inactive for some time, when a telegram
came to Lincoln from Cumberland Gap saying that firing had been
heard toward Knoxville, where General Burnside was in much peril.
Lincoln calmly remarked that he was glad of it. Some one expressing
surprise at his remark, Lincoln said:
"You see, it reminds me of Mistress Sallie Wared, a neighbor of mine,
who had a very large family. Occasionally one of her numerous progeny
would be heard crying in some ou-of-the-way place, upon which Mrs.
Ward would exclaim, "There's one of my children not dead yet.'"

09Aug11

A well known, but shy, actor, dropped into a Broadway restaurant very early the other morning.
He sat at a table and waited--- and waited. Three waiters, at a table in the rear were earnestly playing pinochle. Finally, after long minutes, the proprietor sauntered through and caught the situation at a glance.
“That’s how it is!” he roared. “I got three waiters and they can’t even wait on one lousy customer!”


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1962, Marilyn Monroe dies.

1936, Jesse Owens wins fourth gold medal at Summer Olympics in Berlin.

1945, The United States drop the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki.

1957, Melanie Griffith is born.

1963, Whitney Houston is born.

1969, Sharon Tate actress, killed by Charles Manson's gang

1974, Richard Nixon resigns presidency, VP Gerald Ford becomes 38th president.

1988, Alan Napier (Alfred the Butler on Batman), dies at 85

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Tuesday and it’s gonna be another scorcher outside. Another 100 degree plus day. Who can change the weather nowadays??

IT WAS SO HOT, the cows were giving evaporated milk.

Here is another Vernon Howard story:

Edward Arlington Robinson sums up the desperate predicament of man in his classic poem, Richard Cory.
Everyone in town admired Richard Cory’s princely manners. They envied his apparently exalted station in life. He seemed the very ideal of the successful individual. But it was all a stage performance. No one knew it better than Richard Cory. In his despair, he finally fled the stage in the only way he knew, in self-destruction.
Genuinely happy people are much rarer than one supposes. People wear a variety of masks: smiling masks, wise-appearing ones, excited ones, masks of worldly success, all in a frantic attempt to convince themselves and others that the act is real. But, sooner or later, the play must come to its end, leaving the actor alone and afraid on his little stage.
What does every man want? He only senses what he wants. He wants to be free. From what? From his heartache and suffering, from his compulsive desires, from his fear of what other people can do to him, from secret shames and guilts carried over from past folly.
He wants self-liberty. But he doesn’t know what it is, or where to find it. Still, he anxiously seeks, and almost always in the wrong places. In despair over finding the right needle in the haystack, he doesn’t even see he is searching in the wrong haystack.
He hopefully comforts himself, “Well, tomorrow will be different.” But it won’t. And he knows he will look back and find himself in the same old despair. The only change will be in a few exterior surroundings. But it’s still the same old haunted house.
The famous prisoners-in-the-cave allegory of Socrates, as told by Plato, explains man’s condition: A number of men are chained in a dark cavern. A fire blazes around them, producing fearful shadows. Falsely assuming that the shadows are real, they cringe in terror and hostility.
But one prisoner gets tired of it all. Taking courage, he decides to risk all in an attempt to escape. Fighting his way through the darkness, he emerges into the sunlight of the real world. He finds himself a free man.
And what happens if he goes back to tell others of his wonderful discovery? What if he explains that their agonies result from their illusions, that an entirely new world exists on the outside? Will they welcome his message? They will not. What!-and give up their smug assumptions that they already know what is real? And disturb their ego-centered ways? No! They will scorn and resent him, call him a deluded fool-and remain in their secret despair.


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Here is another story about Abraham Lincoln past President of the United States

When practicing law in Illinois, Lincoln wrote upon a subscription
paper passed to him in behalf of the worn-out trouser-seat of
his opponent:
"I refuse to subscribe to the end in view."



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8Aug11

Waiter—“Would you mind settling your bill, sir? We’re closing now.”
Irate Patron---“But, hang it all, I haven’t been served yet.”
“Well, in that case, there’ll only be the cover charge.”


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1919, Dino De Laurentiis is born.

1922, Jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong, part of the great exodus of Blacks from the southern to the northern US, leaves New Orleans to play jazz in Chicago with mentor King Oliver.

1925, An estimated 40,000 Ku Klux Klan members march through Washington, D.C. as part of the organization’s national congress.

1937, Dustin Hoffman is born.

1974, Nixon announces he will resign the Presidency.

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Monday, Monday!! The heat wave here in Texas is still over 100 degrees daily and it will be the same today they say.
For the lack of something to write about I think I will put some of Vernon Howard’s ideas on here starting with the one below. I really enjoyed his books because to me he tried to put complicated ideas into stories that I could remember. Of course everyone is so sophisticated nowadays these quaint ideas seem really old but I still enjoy them. I hope you do to.

You may have heard the story about the tourist visiting a beautiful tropical isle of the South Seas. As he strolled along the white sands he came across a native resting comfortably in the shade of a palm tree. Alongside him was his grass-skirted girl friend. The tourist asked the native:
“How come you don’t work?”
“Why?” replied the native.
“To earn some money.”
“Why?”
“So you can retire peacefully.”
“Peaceful already.”
That amusing story contains a curious truth, which is: comfort and peace of mind can be yours now.




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Here is another story about Abraham Lincoln past President of the United States

Lincoln and a judge were having a friendly contest of wits on the
subject of horses, when Lincoln said:
"Well, look here, Judge! I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll make a
horse trade with you, only it must be upon these stipulations:
Neither party shall see the other's horse until it is produced
here in the courtyard of the hotel and both parties must trade
horses. If either party backs out of the agreement, he does so
under a forfeiture of twenty-five dollars."
It was agreed, and Lincoln and the judge each left to find
a horse for the joking trade, while a crowd collected to
watch the fun. When the judge reappeared there was a great
laugh at the incredibly skinny, dejected-looking animal, blind
in both eyes, that he led. But the uproar came when Lincoln strode
upon the scene eith a carpenter's saw-horse on his shoulder.
Relieving himself of his burden, Lincoln with a disgusted air
scrutinized the the judge's animal.
"Well, Judge," he said, "this is the first time I ever
got the worst of it in a horse trade."