Category: General

Time magazine this week focused on the Bailout of Wall Street.  It starts with a quote from a reader letter, “Bear Stearns, Freddie Mac, AIG… It’s as if a corporate crime wave has swept cross our nation.” from Jeff Morris of Saugerties, New York, then the editors add, “Dazed and Confused A common theme in…

A BankA place where they lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.DentistA person who extracts both your teeth and your money.JuryIt consists of 12 people chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.PessimistAn optimist with experience.CityA large community where people are lonesome together.FriendshipA ship big enough to carry two in…

Today during Sunday Morning on CBS channel WCCO in Minneapolis/Saint Paul they played a “Political advertising break.”  It featured a toddler sitting in a high chair playing with a bowl of spaghetti noodles and giggling.  A timer counted up to 30 seconds, then it was back to the mayhem.

Latecomers eat bones.Never insult the crocodile before you cross the water.A person without faith is like a zebra without stripes.Before you go out with a widow, ask first what killed the husband.The lead cow always gets whipped the most.from an article by Fr. Dennis Dease in Saint Thomas Magazine, Fall 2008 about my friend Charles…

My little brother, Jay is the Fire Chief of a little town in New Hampshire.  I was hanging out on the 2nd of August talking on the phone when I got an email from my friend Michael who lives a little way from my brother with a link to the following article.  So there I…

I was listening to the prepared statement of our fearless leader, George Bush, on the six central banks (Fed, ECB, BoE, BoJ, SNB, and BoC) pushing more money into the system on the aftermath of the AIG bailout, and realized that Bush is the biggest sock puppet of all time.  Cheney and the other criminals…