The World According to Me.

Father's Day is tomorrow and I can't help but think about my dad. I look back on his life and his times and I am constantly amazed. The things this man saw and the events he went through are substantial. This is a man that was born in the 1940's. In his youth he saw the close of World War II, the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the assassination of a US President, a man on the moon, Vietnam, the dawn of technology, the birth of the Internet and numerous other universal events that I had to read about in a history book for the most part. I think about my father often. The life he lived and lives, the things he has seen and the things he has overcome. My dad was born the son of a Marine in the bowels of South Philadelphia. He spent his days going to Catholic school and playing stick-ball, basketball and any other sport with his friends. He started working when he was barely a teen. Unlike today's youth he didn't complain about having to work at the age of 16 or ...

So regardless of income, you'd get it. This is a GREAT idea. At some point this nation has got to start rewarding those amongst us (the vast majority actually) that paid their bills and live within their means. For to long we've been playing second fiddle to the failures of society. The odds of a responsible person making responsible choices with a 15k tax credit is far more probably than a person who got in a loan for much more than they could afford with no plan of paying it back. Simply bailing out foreclosure after foreclosure is and endless cycle of stupidity. Finally someone in Congress has realized you can not routinely punish successful and responsible individuals. Good on yah

A woman in a hot air balloon realized she was lost. She lowered her altitude and spotted a man in a boat below. She shouted to him, "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am." The man consulted his portable GPS and replied, "You're in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above a ground elevation of 2,346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude. "She rolled her eyes and said, "You must be a Republican." "I am," replied the man.. "How did you know?" "Well," answered the balloonist, "everything you told me is technically correct. But I have no idea what to do with your information, and I'm still lost. Frankly, you've not been much help to me." The man smiled and responded, "You must be an Obama Democrat." "I am," replied the balloonist. ...

What I think I think: I see all these notes flying around on CNN and other 'news' (used loosely) agencies that say "America - how can it repair its image with Muslims?". Hmm, well how about the fact that a recent poll said 1 in 5 (yes only 20%) of Americans had a favorable view of Muslim countries. Kind of hard to have an outward 'happy face' when internally you hate the person. Maybe we should stop caring about what other groups/countries think about us until we get our house in order. If 80% of citizens don't particularly like a group, you need to fix that first and find out why that is before you being fake patches to make everyone feel good. If you're American what have you got on the bad corner: 1) 9/11 terrorist attacks which killed more people than Pearl Harbor 2) Beheading of US citizens 3) 2 attacks on the World Trade Center 4) Bombings of US embassies in Africa 5) Constant threats against Israel (a US ally) 6) Moves towards Nuclear weapons 7)...

The ultimate driving machine.