What am I missing? Obama makes a major speach on Health care, and the stock market drops. Is it connected? I don't get it.
I wonder if the unemployment numbers cover the people that have just plain said "Too Hell with it."
I had hoped by now that I would see some "stimulus money" floating around. Do you have any in your pocket yet?
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"The sound "squaw," regardless of its spelling, is OUR word for woman, and it is NOT to be used as an insult! When I hear it spoken by Native peoples, in its proper context, I hear the voices of the ancestors. I am reminded of powerful grandmothers who nurtured our people and fed the strangers, of proud women chiefs who stood up against them, and of mothers and daughters and sisters who still stand here today. In their honor I demand that our language, our women, and our history, be treated with respect.
Thank you for listening."
Wlibomkanni, travel well.
Quotes from Richard Dawkins:
...Anybody who thinks you need religion in order to be good is being good for the wrong reason. I’d rather be good for moral reasons. Morals were here before religion, and morals change rather rapidly in spite of religion. Even people who rely on the Bible use nonbiblical criteria. If your criteria are scriptural, you have no basis for choosing the verse that says turn the other cheek rather than the verse that says stone people to death. So you pick and choose without guidance from the Bible...
...I draw strength from reflecting on what a privilege it is to be alive and what a privilege it is to have a brain that’s capable in its limited way of understanding why I exist and of reveling in the beauty of the world and the beauty of the products of evolution. The magnificence of the universe and the sense of smallness that gives us in space and in geologically deep time is humbling but in a strangely comforting way. It’s nice to feel you’re part of a hugely bigger picture...
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Less than 2% of the "Stimulus" funds have even been ALLOCATED, Ernie. Why did it have to be passed in such a big hurry? No reason, except one person demanded it. It's a huge giant colossal JOKE. A boondoggle. A burden on future generations. The 'generational theft act.' Voted on and passed without a single person even knowing what they were voting on or for.
It's No wonder we don't have any confidence in our government.
Obama insisted that the stimulus bill be passed by a certain date, then HE sat on it until he could fly Air Force One to Colorado to sign the bill in front of his Colorado groupies.
I had to wonder why he thought that we would not see that his action was pretty much the same as the auto exects flying to Washington.
"I wonder if the unemployment numbers cover the people that have just plain said "Too Hell with it.""
I think they only count the people who are on unemployment insurance. I'm probably wrong.
I had hoped by now that I would see some "stimulus money" floating around. Do you have any in your pocket yet?
We have. We were called by our mortgage holder, B of A, and offered a new loan at 4.75% bringing our house payment down from $1,100 to $759!!! I've been stimulated! I hope you get stimulated soon Ern.
Bunny wrote, I think they only count the people who are on unemployment insurance. I'm probably wrong.
I've heard that's how they do it. How else could they?
Do you have any in your pocket yet?
The wifey got a letter from the U.S. Treasury a few months ago saying she'd be getting a check for $250.00 as part of that stimulus thing, since she's on disability. They said it would come in May. Unless it slipped in to our bank account somehow, I don't believe we ever got it.
Those stimulus checks went into our accounts, we got ours AND I BET Ernie got his too. so thank God he's been stimulated.
???...Huh?
Sarah Palin
Happy 4th y'all!
B of A is now everyone's bank. We all own it now. I like the look of that interest rate, Bunny.
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