Thursday, March 24, 2011
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
• Living on Earth may be expensive...but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.
• Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.
• Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you’re a mile away and you have their shoes. • It’s always darkest before dawn. So if you’re going to steal your neighbor’s newspaper, that’s the time to do it.
• If your father is a poor man, it is your fate; but if your father-in-law is a poor man, it's your stupidity.
• How come "abbreviated" is such a long word?
• Never test the depth of the water with both feet. • If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it. • There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works. • Generally speaking, you aren’t learning much when your lips are moving. • Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it. • Even when opportunity knocks, you still have to get off your ass and open the door. • Bad decisions make good stories. • As a driver I hate pedestrians, and as a pedestrian I hate drivers, but no matter what the mode of transportation, I always hate cyclists. • My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
• It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
• For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program.
• Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.
• Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.
• How Long is a Chinese person's name.
• Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
• Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence. • If it's tourist season, why can't we shoot them?
• 6 out of 7 dwarfs are not Happy. • If it's zero degrees outside today and it's supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be? • If the universe is everything, and scientists say that the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into? • Why are there 5 syllables in the word "monosyllabic"? • Why do scientists call it research when looking for something new? • If "con" is the opposite of "pro," then what is the opposite of progress? • Do married people live longer than single people, or does it just SEEM longer? • I couldn’t repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder. • When everything’s coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane.
• Do you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.
• Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.
• Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you’re a mile away and you have their shoes. • It’s always darkest before dawn. So if you’re going to steal your neighbor’s newspaper, that’s the time to do it.
• If your father is a poor man, it is your fate; but if your father-in-law is a poor man, it's your stupidity.
• How come "abbreviated" is such a long word?
• Never test the depth of the water with both feet. • If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it. • There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works. • Generally speaking, you aren’t learning much when your lips are moving. • Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it. • Even when opportunity knocks, you still have to get off your ass and open the door. • Bad decisions make good stories. • As a driver I hate pedestrians, and as a pedestrian I hate drivers, but no matter what the mode of transportation, I always hate cyclists. • My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
• It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
• For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program.
• Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.
• Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.
• How Long is a Chinese person's name.
• Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
• Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence. • If it's tourist season, why can't we shoot them?
• 6 out of 7 dwarfs are not Happy. • If it's zero degrees outside today and it's supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be? • If the universe is everything, and scientists say that the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into? • Why are there 5 syllables in the word "monosyllabic"? • Why do scientists call it research when looking for something new? • If "con" is the opposite of "pro," then what is the opposite of progress? • Do married people live longer than single people, or does it just SEEM longer? • I couldn’t repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder. • When everything’s coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane.
• Do you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.
Friday, February 18, 2011
From a friend
No one has been able to explain to me why young men and women serve in the U.S. Military for 20 years, risking their lives protecting freedom, and only get 50% of their pay. While politicians hold their political positions in the safe confines of the capital, protected by these same men and women, and receive full pay retirement after serving one term. It just does not make any sense.
Monday on Fox news they learned that the staffers of Congress family members are exempt from having to pay back student loans. This will get national attention if other news networks will broadcast it. When you add this to the below, just where will all of it stop?
35 States file lawsuit against the Federal Government
Governors of 35 states have filed suit against the Federal Government for imposing unlawful burdens upon them. It only takes 38 (of the 50) States to convene a Constitutional Convention.
This will take less than thirty seconds to read. If you agree, please pass it on.
This is an idea that we should address.
For too long we have been too complacent about the workings of Congress. Many citizens had no idea that members of Congress could retire with the same pay after only one term, that they specifically exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed (such as being exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment) while ordinary citizens must live under those laws. The latest is to exempt themselves from the Healthcare Reform... in all of its forms. Somehow, that doesn't seem logical. We do not have an elite that is above the law. I truly don't care if they are Democrat, Republican, Independent or whatever. The self-serving must stop.
If each person that receives this will forward it on to 20 people, in three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message.. This is one proposal that really should be passed around.
Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution: "Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States."
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Lawmaker wants to cut kindergarten funding
BOISE — More kids would stay at home instead of going to kindergarten before they start the first grade, under a bill introduced Tuesday in the Idaho Legislature.
The plan would largely gut the roughly $50 million annual budget for public kindergarten and leave about $17 million for school districts to focus on at-risk students who have not been prepared for the first grade at home by their parents. Students who already have the skills to succeed in first grade could spend as little as three weeks in kindergarten, while districts could offer the full 36 weeks to students who do not yet have those skills under the bill.
A Republican state lawmaker introduced the plan, saying the state needs to decide what it’s trying to accomplish with programs geared at Idaho’s youngest students.
“Are we providing daycare or are we providing an academic environment?” said Rep. Steven Thayn of Emmett. “If we’re paying for daycare, I think we could find some less expensive teachers.”
While Thayn contends his plan would require parents to become more involved with their children’s education, critics say it would force some parents to pay for private kindergarten or, in the case of families where both parents work, force one of them to quit their job.
“I interpret this as nothing more than a tax on parents,” said Rep. Brian Cronin, a Boise Democrat who noted that his own children would not be in kindergarten if the plan is adopted. “We’re really just passing costs onto families at a time when families are really struggling.”
The plan to ax funding for kindergarten is among cost-cutting measures lawmakers are floating amid Idaho’s worsening budget outlook. The governor projected a $35 million shortfall for next year in early January, but that swelled to an estimated $185 million revenue shortfall.
The budget deficit has been trimmed to an estimated $137 million.
Thayn argues the state should cut two-thirds of the public kindergarten budget, saving more than $30 million that could be funneled back into the state general fund and spent filling in public education budget gaps in grades one through 12.
School districts now receiving money for 36 weeks of kindergarten would only get enough money for about 12 weeks, under the plan. They would be given more flexibility in how they spend the remaining and focus a majority of the time on at-risk students, not those who have already been prepared for the first grade by their parents.
Those kids would spend as little as three weeks in kindergarten and then stay at home, where parents could continue to work with them until they start the first grade, Thayn said.
“In this case, we might actually improve the education system by doing a little bit less,” he said
source IPT
A Republican state lawmaker introduced the plan, saying the state needs to decide what it’s trying to accomplish with programs geared at Idaho’s youngest students.
“Are we providing daycare or are we providing an academic environment?” said Rep. Steven Thayn of Emmett. “If we’re paying for daycare, I think we could find some less expensive teachers.”
While Thayn contends his plan would require parents to become more involved with their children’s education, critics say it would force some parents to pay for private kindergarten or, in the case of families where both parents work, force one of them to quit their job.
“I interpret this as nothing more than a tax on parents,” said Rep. Brian Cronin, a Boise Democrat who noted that his own children would not be in kindergarten if the plan is adopted. “We’re really just passing costs onto families at a time when families are really struggling.”
The plan to ax funding for kindergarten is among cost-cutting measures lawmakers are floating amid Idaho’s worsening budget outlook. The governor projected a $35 million shortfall for next year in early January, but that swelled to an estimated $185 million revenue shortfall.
The budget deficit has been trimmed to an estimated $137 million.
Thayn argues the state should cut two-thirds of the public kindergarten budget, saving more than $30 million that could be funneled back into the state general fund and spent filling in public education budget gaps in grades one through 12.
School districts now receiving money for 36 weeks of kindergarten would only get enough money for about 12 weeks, under the plan. They would be given more flexibility in how they spend the remaining and focus a majority of the time on at-risk students, not those who have already been prepared for the first grade by their parents.
Those kids would spend as little as three weeks in kindergarten and then stay at home, where parents could continue to work with them until they start the first grade, Thayn said.
“In this case, we might actually improve the education system by doing a little bit less,” he said
source IPT
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Home Foreclosures
Back in December on 16, 2010 the banks stopped all Foreclosures, until January 3, 2011. During the mean time they were doing all the paper work to remove you from your home on Jan. 4, 2011 On Jan. 4, 2011 the banks are going to start removing home owners and families from their homes (that's about 30,000-$50,000 families in the United States). Even if there in the middle of a refinance of their loans, banks are going to remove them out of their home. The banks will leave the homes vacant with no up keep causing the property values to drop more and raise crime rates.
My plain is to leave them in the homes charge them minimal rent to keep families in the homes, and work with families to refinance their homes. If it doesn’t work then have them stay in their home while it’s on the market and pay the families moving money, when the home sells. Then the property values will remain stable crime will remain low.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
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