NO POST THIS WEEK

Try to have a Happy Thanksgiving.

OVER AND OVER AGAIN, Not A Sing-A-Long?

Einstein once said 'The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.'*

It is surely the mentally challenged who habitually reelect a dumb-shit, do nothing Congress and expect different results.

MORE GOVERNMENTAL BRILLIANCE IN ACTION?

Do you have any memory of the reason given for the establishment of the Department of Energy during the Carter Administration? Anybody? Anything? No? Didn't think so. Bottom line . . . . We've spent several hundred billion dollars in support of an agency the reason for which not one person who reads this can remember.

Ready? It was very simple, and at the time everybody thought it very appropriate.

The Department of Energy was instituted August 4, 1977 to LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL.

Now, it’s 2008, 31 years later, and the budget for the Department of Energy is $24.2 BILLION a year, they have 16,000 Federal employees plus approximately 100,000 contract employees and look at the job they’ve done!

THIS IS WHERE YOU SLAP YOUR FOREHEAD AND SAY 'WHAT WAS I THINKING?'

Ah yes, good old bureaucracy. Now we are going to turn the banking system, the housing industry and the automobile industry over to them?

2,063 YEARS LATER---

'The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.'

Cicero , 55 BC

A STORY OF DETERMINED INSPIRATION?

Recently I was asked to play in a golf charity tournament. At first I said, 'Naaahhh!' Then they said to me 'Come on, it's for handicapped and blind Kids.'

Then I thought...Shit - I could win this!

DEAR DEER

A man kills a deer and takes it home to cook for dinner. Both he and his wife decide that they won't tell the kids what kind of meat it is, but will give them a clue and let them guess.

The kids were eager to know what the meat was on their plates and begged their dad for the clue.

Smiling broadly and arching one eyebrow, he said, 'It's what mommy calls me sometimes.'

The little girl screams to her brother: 'Don't eat it, it's an asshole...'

OVERDRAWN?

Dear Sirs,

In view of current developments in the banking
market, if one of my checks is returned marked
'insufficient funds', does that refer to me or to
you?

Sincerely Yours,

Confused American