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Hey Y'all, watch this! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D99NHb6B03s

Going down there twice a year while growing up was a great experience especially listening to her tell stories of her growing up having to work in the fields during the depression into her teens the later moving to Atlanta and working at Lockheed on the assembly line during the war. She went from there and worked for a big name national retailer until the 1980s and she retired. But on the downside, the woman wouldn't let you walk out of a room without turning off any lights or TV, even if you getting up to get a glass of water. And if you went out to the beach in front of her house you'd

The only thing I inherited were her genes. To air some dirty laundry, there wasn't an inheritance, not when someone got her to sign her entire estate over to them in her final months, with a token smattering of CD's put up for a few, and before anyone knew what happened it had all disappeared into an offshore investment, and he disappeared for 10 years only to show up later broke, alone, and dying of alcoholism. Indeed you reap what you sow and shows the mindset between her generation and the now. In fact I'm the only one out of everyone born in my family to go to college. And

While that philosophy is true, take my great grandmother's example. She retired with nearly a million dollars in assets between multiple savings accounts and land she always paid for in cash, she never ever held a mortgage in her life. And before you think, silver spoon, she was born in rural Alabama in a house with a dirt floor, married a man who's parents had to take both of them in. But they both worked for years and saved every penny they made, she was able to buy a water front home in Florida in her retirement, where her kids, grand-kids, and great grand-kids got to visit for nearly 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etp7o2MYWjk I know I know.. it's four and a half minutes of your life you won't get back, but the "I'm Back" topic and "Freakflag Fly" sig inspired me to find this clip.

Hey hey, everyone calm down, it's all going to be okay.. Jersey Shore in Italy starts tonight.

Awesome, I threatened to make that the other night for the wife who looked at me like and said she never heard of such a thing. I'm going to try your recipe out since I've heard of it but never had it myself The only hot fish dish I grew up with was fried salmon patties, which you either love, or it runs those who don't, like my dad and I, out of the house to eat fast food for the evening while the house airs out.

Yeah you'd think after 70 years of doing this, off and on, they (we) would have learned by now.

I've been sitting on my butt jabbering on P.com all day so now that the wife is home I have a feeling I'm about to be eating Crow.

I would agree with it too except for far too long "Republicans" have been calling themselves conservative. At this juncture I think we couldn't do any worse if we had Bonzo the Chimp as our commander in chief, having run on his "Does it really make a Damn?" ticket.

Two security guards were hired specifically as night watchmen at a museum to guard the priceless treasures on display. Over the course of the night the two guards became unenamored with each others way of guarding the jewels, and began a debate. The debate soon turned into a heated argument over the best tactics to use to keep said treasures best guarded. At the end of their shift, as the sun arose, they looked around and realized the treasures were stolen right from under the noses. The point being.. One of the Guards was a Liberal The other a conservative And the treasure..

Not a liberal, but I'll defend the "double dip" and say that's not what's not happening at all. Whats happening is we've been slowly entering a full blown depression here in the states, which is beginning to accelerate, with the rest of the western world to follow us down into in short order. China will weather it best and become the biggest super-power in the new economy to come out of this while the rest of the world slides into 3rd world status. You have to wonder why they've been pouring billions into SE Asia and African countries as of late to boost those infrastructures.

Off shoring jobs, Which I disagree with but understand, did not cause the meltdown. I didn't say that it caused the melt down. I was just replying to your comment of why a company who off-shored got government payment. And by that reasoning every American who owns stocks, bonds, mutual funds, has a retirement fund / account or any of a myriad of the financial investments is JUST AS GUILTY as the business entities. Sorry to say, but yes, when you did so you bought into a system of creative accounting that you were led to believe would turn your money into more money, don't be surpr

I responded to the need to move comment made before the one about college grads. Higher education has become it's own racket here in the states. You really want to give your kids a good college education without the inflated price, move them to India to receive it for pennies of what we pay, then have them emigrate to another country that's paying the highest wages for their lines of work. Co-sign. (except I would add more many's to that) You look to blame the consumer, I look to blame those that made the game. The problem with the mortgage crisis went beyond picking the

Like I said, certain entities, which doesn't mean all companies as it relates to the financial market meltdown, but then again the juggernaut of off-shoring has been in full swing going on over a decade now. As to why they got themselves a check, it probably all has to do with which politician favored their golfing supplies best. The US government is just the good ol' boy system we see everyday in paulding, only it's on a national scale. But the vast majority of US companies did have something to do with some of the problems we now face, since they do tend to diversify and put their mon

Companies don't NEED to move anywhere, they've chosen to do so in order to pay slave wages for slave labor so we have the choice of buying cheap crap made at either Chinese factory A or factory B. The only thing our government has tried to do is hold certain entities accountable for their .. well.. accounting.. of the past decade that got us into this mess, then turn around and write them checks when they become near insolvent from the illusion of due diligence. But when all you got left is to blame the left for 3 years of nothing much, just like the previous admin of 8 years.. and t

Yeah I think it's skeeting along in a S-SE direction for now but dang my littlest dog said that was skeery as we were hiding under the blanket together.

The tops of one of my tallest trees was peeking at me through my window.

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Yeah but large multinationals don't have this concern. Lay off a few tens of thousands here, invest your monies saved over there, at the end of the quarter the sheets balance out, might be you even show a nice profit, investors are happy and everybody wins, except for the ex-employees that is. I see the main problem as having become a catch-22 here in the States. Heading for a bad quarter, lay off to balance your sheets. More unemployed in the job market equals less purchasing power in the markets. Jobs reports come out, show economy to be faltering, investors sell off and all that

Congratz! And think of all the money you are saving!!!!

I agree wholeheartedly with this. I'm having trouble parsing this. Small business, and on shore corps, are hurting all around, but large multi-national corporations are having the times of their lives, especially for those at the top of the companies. They're almost being rewarded seeing how many have built their companies to the point that they've become "too big to fail" and so on.

Don't be surprised if you start hearing a new phrase bandied about on the "talking head" news shows here soon. It's "Peak Employment", and will likely become the topic de jour for the next few years as we'll officially have 7 billion people on the planet by October of this year.

It's my fault guys.. I've been watering the yard every day this week and then washed my car yesterday afternoon, it's the only make it rain juju I know.

She could go all "Whitesnake" girl on the hood of his cruiser when he gets home from his shift. Just sayin'