Reader Fran C submitted this link where Chuck Woolery explains how to solve our budget mess.
You know this country has problems when game show hosts can figure things out but those whom we elect to lead us struggle with the simple.
Day: January 7, 2012
Men And Women At The ATM
Men And Women At The ATM Courtesy of Ricky Palinko
Men and Women using drive up ATM machine
Male :
Pull up to ATM
Insert card
Enter PIN
Take cash, card and receipt
Drive away
Female :
Pull up to ATM
Back up and pull forward to get closer
Shut off engine
Put keys in purse
Get out of car because you’re too far from machine
Hunt for card in purse
Insert card
Hunt in purse for grocery receipt with PIN written on it.
Enter PIN
Study instructions.
Hit “cancel”
Re-enter correct PIN
Check balance
Look for envelope
Look in purse for pen
Make out deposit slip
Endorse checks
Make deposit
Study instructions
Make cash withdrawal
Get in car
Check makeup
Look for keys
Start car
Check makeup
Adjust mirror
Start pulling away
Stop
Back to machine
Get out of car
Retrieve card and receipt
Get back in car
Put card in wallet
Put receipt in checkbook
Enter deposits and withdrawals in checkbook
Clear area in purse for wallet and checkbook
Check makeup
Adjust mirror again
Put car in reverse
Put car in drive
Drive away from machine
Drive three miles
Release parking brake
Larry Weathers R.I.P.
Larry Weathers Jr. died yesterday, Jan. 6, 21 months after being diagnosed with metastatic melanoma. He was 80.
Mr. Weathers was the proprietor of Weathers Motors the auto dealership at 1187 Baltimore Pike, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pa.
It was started as Weathers Dodge in 1922 by his father, Lawrence Sr., on land next to his family’s grocery store. It remained a Dodge dealership until May 2009 when Chrysler — with the federal government now holding a significant stake in it — announced that franchise agreements wouldn’t be renewed with 789 dealerships nationwide.
Rather than fold, Mr. Weathers and his son, Lawrence III, turned it into Weathers Motors, which has become a very highly regarded auto repair shop and dealer of used vehicles.
R.I.P. Mr. Weathers.
Larry Weathers R.I.P.
Blame For School Closings Belongs To Catholics
The Philadelphia Archdiocese announced, yesterday, that the 49 of its schools will be shut forever come June.
The schools are Monsignor Bonner and Archbishop Prendergast high schools in Upper Darby, and elementary schools Annunciation BVM in Haverford Township; St. Cyril of Alexandria in East Lansdowne; Our Lady of Fatima in Secane, Ridley Township; St. Gabriel in Norwood; Holy Savior-St. John Fisher in Lower Chichester; St. Francis de Sales in Aston and St. John Chrysostom in Nether Providence.
Some of their students will go to other Catholic schools. Others will enter the public school system further increasing the tax burden on property owners in those unlucky districts.
Who is to blame? A lot, maybe most, of the parents who send their kids to these Catholic schools are dyed-in-the wool Democrats who’d rather have a toenail ripped out than vote Republican, as are a lot, maybe most, of the teachers at these places. They cannot even begin to get their minds around the fact that their party is the puppet of the PSEA, the union that represents most Pennsylvania public school teachers (and nurses and librarians etc.) and that fights like a rabid badger for every penny of the education budget regardless of who it hurts.
They cannot even start to fathom that their party is the toy of the trial lawyers who get warm and fuzzy at the notion of seeing criminal acts treated as civil torts so their wallets get fatter and who cares if all it does is harm the schools and hospitals and turn the victims into male prostitutes.
Who is to blame? Catholics, look in the mirror.
A Needed Respite
The Roar
A Needed Respite
I must ask, what has and is happening to us as a free people? I ask this, with regards to this current political assault season against the Presidential challenging party. What has happened to our American decorum?
Questions flit through my “windmills” and often I am at a loss to answer. Just where did this debating season originate? I seem to remember debates of a chosen candidate from one party against the opposition’s chosen candidate. But when did this endless prime time primary debating sessions begin? I am at a loss. Is it just a profitable moment for the networks? Is the damage inflicted upon one’s character and reputation the going price? Or are Presidential contests nothing more than a Sunday/Monday night political contest of survival? Is the quest for TV ratings now into our leadership selections?
As I watch what is happening to those who for some reason put their personal lives on hold in order to serve our Country, I recall when such devotion precluded all of this intricate inspection. Not only precluded but such individuals were treated with respect.
Questions remain from the recent accusations which have already reshaped our primary leadership ledger. Were those accusers in it just to take Cain out of contention? More importantly, where is the journalist’s integrity to finish a story which is only half written? It seems that after Cain dropped out, so did the media’s quest for truth and closure. But, what about those poor victims?
This obvious ruse against Cain is a sad asterisk to our free elections. Whether one supported his candidacy or not, this sort of character assassination is third world. If this behavior is not addressed properly, it will become a political weapon and will eventually discourage the qualified to run.
To say that corruption has entered our election process would be an understatement. The signs are everywhere. So is the public’s quiet apathy. In response to this apparent primary sham, we need to become jealously protective of our American system, regardless of our party affiliations. We also need to understand what has led us to this election subterfuge. We must to take an active part in all that makes America strong and we can start by acting like that rare breed that we are. Americans! Free and forever freedom loving.
Jim Bowman, Author of,
This Roar of Ours