I need answers because I have questions.

If you have sex with a prostitute against her will, is it considered rape or shoplifting?

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Can you cry under water?

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How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?

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Why do you have to 'put your two cents in'... But it's only a 'penny for your thoughts'? Where's that extra penny going to?

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Once you're in heaven, do you get stuck wearing the clothes you were buried in for eternity?

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Why does a round pizza come in a square box?

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What disease did cured ham actually have?

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How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?

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Why is it that people say they 'slept like a baby' when babies wake up like every two hours?

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If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?

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Why are you IN a movie, but you're ON TV?

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Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?

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Why do doctors leave the room while you change?

They're going to see you naked anyway.

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Why is 'bra' singular and 'panties' plural?

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Why do toasters always have a setting that burns the toast to a horrible crisp, which no decent human being would eat?

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If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a stupid song about him?

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Can a hearse carrying a corpse drive in the carpool lane ?

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If the professor on Gilligan's Island can make a radio out of a coconut, why can't he fix a hole in a boat?

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Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours?

They're both dogs!

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If Wile E. Coyote had enough money to buy all that ACME crap, why didn't he just buy dinner?

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If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oilis made from vegetables, what is baby oil made from?

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If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?

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Do the Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star have the same tune?

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Why did you just try singing the two songs above?

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Why do they call it an asteroid when it's outside the hemisphere, but call it a hemorrhoid when it's in your butt?

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Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him for a car ride, he sticks his head out the window?

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Do you ever wonder why you gave me your e-mail address in the first place?

windows 7

I haven't been on the computer much lately as Rick has been messing around on it and my wrists are still bothering me. This new computer has windows 7 on it and getting its set up is still taking some time. My fonts are either very tiny or huge . So question? Is it large to you also reading it? The large print makes it great for reading but it takes up so much room. And they don't come with any instructions these days. I haven't figured out how to get a homepage, when I sign on it just comes up to google search. But like I said I haven't been on much.

Tonight I start my long stretch. It will be longer then normal even as I have to work 4, off 1, work 3. That's a lot of 12 hours in a row. Especially with my arthritis on such overtime lately. Both wrists, my shoulder and my neck and middle back are killing me. Rick usually does all my lifting and stuff these day and his back is still out. Tomorrow he sees the doc. We are quite the pair. I like winter OK, but I hate how it affects my joints.

Anyway, enough whining. I made split pea soup for supper tonight and it should be good on this cold day. And I make a pretty good one I must admit. Nice and thick, more like a chowder.

I see our wonderful government just passed another stimulus package to add to their slush fund. And their using Chicago tactics to get holdouts to sign to the health care bill. Lets make you an offer you can't refuse. There are some holdouts that have actually listened to the people who voted them in. Good for them. Remember them on voting day.

Unbelievable they made them stop reading the bill yesterday. Unconstitutional even. In the senate! They just disregard whatever they want to pass this evil bill. Why is it so hard for them to understand that we don't want this. I bet if they told them there was a addition on it that made them and their family have to have the exact same things they were voting it for us they would all of a sudden be interested in reading it.

Strange isn't it that all of a sudden your hearing things like CAT scans causing cancer and mammograms and prostate checkups being unnecessary. I have heard this bill referred to as the tax and kill bill and it looks like they are getting the stage set up for it. Next thing you know living past your retirement will be bad for your health. Actually it will be because the government takeover of your health care will deem caring for you to be way to expensive.

Al Gore, the snake oil salesman. Told them the latest most update news is that the polar cap will be completely gone in 7 years according to the top scientist he just talked to. Except the top scientist said he never said that and that he hasn't talked to Gore for several years. But they are still in Cobenhagen trying to pass this climate bill. Promising billions of dollars of our tax dollars a year to the world. How can they promise that? We don't have it.

The real reason for the summit meeting. Get rid of capitalism. They said it out loud. Know this song. There's nothing wrong with capitalism, nothing wrong with free enterprise. It's true. Where will we be with all the small business's gone. Who will fix our cars and appliances, who will hire us. Free enterprise is why people came here and started business. Why they were successful and built this country. There is nothing wrong with capitalism. Stop apologizing because our country was successful! We worked hard at it. And our government is throwing it away. So keep contacting them. Keep telling your elective officials what you want and don't vote them in ever again if they keep going against what is best for us.

Well, time to get ready for work.

Freezing cold

Today was my appointment with my skin doc. It has been almost a year since my skin cancer was found. Time just flies. The weather was so bitterly cold this morning, 2 below, that I sure didn't want to leave the house. The heated seats help though and the 100 layers of clothes I had on. Takes 20 minutes to get dressed to go out.

I have a area on my temple that he thinks is a basal cell cancer but it is only 4 mm and we decided to just watch it for now. Skin cancer usually grows very slow, unlike my first one, so we will see how it looks during my next 3 month check. The one on my nose is slightly bigger but still not enough to go carving into my nose. I am content to wait and see. Maybe it will grow soooooo slow I will be long gone before it ever becomes bad enough to remove. He said I have one more year to go before they worry less about the original cancer coming back. As fast as this year has gone it will go the blink of an eye. I will be ticked though if it is a week before my 2 year date. They don't count the basal cells I am getting as being the same as the aggressive one I had on my face. So good news.

By the time we got out it was 1 above. Heat wave. Amazing how it feels warmer. But it did. The bad thing about this weather is my wrists and shoulder have been really bothering me. The surgeries don't seem to have helped much. Darn.

Rick put the old keyboard back on and it is much easier for me to type. I have a wrist support on it which helps. The keys are still sticking but its a small price to pay.

I thought Obama's speech to the banks was amusing. Here the government tells them to relax their loaning standards. Then they attack them when people can't pay and treat them like enemy number one so they can bail them out, and the banks, realizing that they had just been involved in a hostile takeover hurried and paid them back. So now the man which in the blink of an eye spent trillions of our taxpayers money lectured them and told them to start leading again. A created financial crisis by our government and they want to do it all over again. Do you see the scam in this? Just unbelievable.

My son was telling me at his job they stopped paying holiday pay. They no longer give bonuses. They don't pay overtime. We are all going backwards. His job figures if the workers don't like it there will be several hundred to replace them with in this economy. Thing is it is hard physical labor plus it requires some skill and training. So they keep getting these temps who work one day and then quit only to be replaced by another temp the next day. Everything is getting further and further behind and the standards, mostly cleanliness is suffering. And this is a food product. And it isn't like the company is doing poorly. They have been doing well and picking up more accounts. Its a sad state of affairs. And I would not be surprised if it is happening all over the country.

Well, Rick is making us a egg pie for supper and I am going to make a cup of tea. This time of year I drink a ton of tea. Just seems to hit the spot. Thank you to those who sent me Christmas cards. I would love it if you would resend your addresses to I can send cards back. I lost all my addresses. Should have put them in a regular address book. I will the next time.

Monday already

And it is a cold day here at that. It takes me 15 minutes just to get dressed to go out. But if you spend the entire winter indoors you won't get anything done.

I am still getting used to this keyboard. I was used to one of those large ergonomic type for my arthritis. I may have to put it back on as this one is harder on my hands. They have been hurting nonstop for days since the weather got cold.

Not much going on here. I read the NY times article about the government monitoring twitter, face book and probably the blogs. Not a big surprise but what they do with the information. Can't say anything about our government, remember....big brother is watching.

Here is a interesting article I was reading. Especially since the holidays are here. Here is a piece, you can read the entire article also. Another reason I am conservative.

Arthur Brooks, the author of a book on donors to charity, 'Who Really Cares,' cites data that households headed by conservatives give 30 percent more to charity than households headed by liberals. A study by Google found an even greater disproportion: average annual contributions reported by conservatives were almost double those of liberals.

Yup, they just take our money and pad their pockets. Poverty for all. Spread the wealth my ....... yeah right. I still have that swamp land.

Do you all have your shopping done? Christmas is just around the corner. I am done. Well, time to brave the cold.
Ta all

New Computer

Nope, not my photo, wish it was.

We g0t a new computer. It will take me awhile to get use to the keyboard. Lots different then my old one. This computer works so fast and is amazing what it can do. What a difference a decade can make.

As so often happens this was my son's old computer. I think he has gone through 3 more. He plays games on the computer and always wanted faster and faster. I just wanted to work on my photos and sell on line when I had my shop.

So, the old computer was fine for me. But it was breaking down alot and they were having trouble finding the parts. This is our Christmas present to each other. My typing is even going to be worse until I get use to this tiny keyboard. I think I will have to put my big on back on.

The memory on this is huge. I lost all my links and all the photos I hadn't put on my external. All my recipes, saved addresses, birthdays etc. And I have to figure out how to get everything set but I think I will be just pleased as punch with this. I have most of my programs loaded now so time to hit the hay.

Thanks for all the help you all.

Darn computers

Don't you just hate it when your computer crashes. You realize how much you use it. I have been having trouble about 3 days. I can get on but I have no bottom menu where the start button would be. Means I can't get into the menu, programs, settings, download photos, system save, any of the hundred of things you do from that area. I can't add photos to this and my picture file is gone, completely. I think it is all saved in my f book but I don't want to hook it up and risk it getting corrupted also.

I have tried repeatedly to start my computer in safe mode so I can do a system restore. Can't get into system restore because the darn start button isn't there and I have not found a way to go in any other way. The computer says I have a corrupt file. I was able to do a complete scan and it isn't a virus so during one of the updates the file was corrupt and it totally screwed me up. So into the shop later today. I have done all I can think to do.

What I can do is get online which is weird. I have to actually shut the entire computer down to shut down which may not be good but it works for now.

Work was very busy all week. We had a blue light special in A-fib with our admits being 4-1 in that fun rhythm. My back was so sore. I was also sore from my tumble in the snow. Gee it felt so soft when I first landed. Yesterday I saw the doc and he raised my lifting limit to 15, slowly getting there.

Well, I guess I will pop around and visit the blogs I haven't seen since the puter crashed. Oh, thank you everyone for the lovely Christmas cards. I was hoping to get mine out this week but quess where my addresses are filed. On the computer of course. And that file seems to have vanished into cyberspace. Along with all my recipes files. Waaaaaaaaa.

Harry Reid, Scary.....

Isn't he a scary thing. How can he cut medicare benefits on one hand by billions and increase medicare? Doesn't work that way. No social security raise for you but I bet they got a raise, a big one. My MIL would be rolling in her grave.

And then he tried to say Republicans were responsible for slavery when throughout history the democratic party has fought to keep slavery alive and well. Read The History of the Democratic Party or better yet, read Kevin's blog the black sphere. He got hot under the collar with that remark.

We need to send some more people to the moon, I vote Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid get the first one way flight, do something positive for America. Leave the planet..