 | Wednesday, August 20, 2008 |  |
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A low voter turnout is an indication of
fewer people going to the polls.George W. Bush |
An ABC TV framegrab shows a baby humpback whale trying to suckle from an yacht near Sydney. Fears are growing for the survival chances of a lost baby humpback whale who tried to suckle from an Australian yacht in the belief it was its mother.
Here we go ... proof positive of my “water skiing monkeys” theory of Main Stream Media. A cute filler with absolutely no value to the average viewer. Meanwhile REAL news is neglected. |
Medicare
The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, ‘Hello.’
‘Mrs. Sanders, please.’
‘Speaking.’
‘Mrs. Sanders, this is Doctor Jones at Saint Agnes Laboratory. When your husband’s doctor sent his biopsy to the lab last week, a biopsy from another Mr. Sanders arrived as well. We are now uncertain which one belongs to your husband. Frankly, either way the results are not too good.’
‘What do you mean?’ Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.
‘Well, one of the specimens tested positive for Alzheimer’s and the other one tested positive for HIV. We can’t tell which is which.’
‘That’s dreadful! Can you do the test again?’ questioned Mrs. Sanders.
‘Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time.’
‘Well, what am I supposed to do now?’
‘The folks at Medicare recommend that you drop your husband off somewhere in the middle of town. If he finds his way home, don’t sleep with him.’ |
| Tracey, Ben & Aaron went school shopping yesterday and they sure spent a lot! I know they didn’t get frivolous or spendy ... it’s just that the prices are going through the roof to transport this cheap Chinese stuff to our stores. I am sure at this point we are paying more to transport pencils from China than we ever would to make them here. Same goes for the clothes, calculators, etc. I do love this country but sometimes I worry very much about the intelligence of the people who own and run it. |
MjL 20 Aug 2008, 06:56 a.m.
| It takes about $5,000 per shipping car to ship products from China to the US, and it probably cost under $150 to produce the products in the first place. The government is just like Caterpillar was when I worked there--they look at how much they are saving, but not how much they are spending. |
Noah L 20 Aug 2008, 7:16 p.m.
| I know exactly what you mean Noah. I was in so many meetings at Caterpillar where someone was bragging about all the money they had “saved” and I would always ask if they had put the money in a savings account. I always got these blank stares like I was the one who was an idiot. I would always try to explain the difference between actually saving money, as in putting it in the bank and NOT spending it, and just not spending as much as they had planned to spend. You don’t SAVE money by spending it, you save money by SAVING it. Go figure. |
MjL 21 Aug 2008, 04:57 a.m.
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