A woman walks into the downtown welfare office, trailed by 15 kids.
WOW!, the social worker exclaims. Are they all yours?
Yep, they are all mine,the flustered momma sighs, having heard that
question a thousand times before.
She says,"Sit down Leroy." All the children rush to find seats.
Well, says the social worker, then you must be here to sign up. I'll
need all your children's names.
Well, to keep it simple, the boys are all named 'Leroy' and the girls
are all named 'Leighroy'.
In disbelief, the case worker. Are you serious? They're ALL named
Leroy?
Their momma replied, Well, yes it makes it easier. When it's time to
get them out of bed and ready for school, I yell, 'Leroy! An when it's
time for dinner, I just yell 'Leroy! an they all comes a runnin. And if
I need to stop the kid who's running into the street, I just yell Leroy
and all of them stop. It's the smartest idea I ever had, nameing them all
Leroy.
The social worker thinks this over for a bit, then wrinkles her forehead
and says tentatively. But what if you just want ONE kid to come, and
not the whole bunch?
Then I call them by their last names.

Weston David June 23, 2009. 6lbs 10oz. Yeeeeeeeehaw, welcome to the world.

Florida biker bar!!

By RACHEL JONES
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
VALENCIA, Venezuela -- General Motors Corp. is halting production in Venezuela for three months starting Friday. Ford Motor Co.'s subsidiary announced 10 percent cutbacks last week. Other automakers also are shrinking their business - but not because Venezuelans don't want to buy cars.
They're closing down because the government won't give them enough dollars to import parts.
It's a crisis entirely brought on by the currency controls imposed by President Hugo Chavez, Gabriel Lopez, president of Ford Motors for Venezuela and the Andean region, told The Associated Press. "Year after year we're shrinking by about 10 percent compared to the year before," he complained.
Chavez began regulating access to dollars and making it harder for businesses and people to transfer money in 2003, after confidence in his government was shaken by a failed coup and a subsequent strike. Venezuelans must now apply to the currency agency Cadivi for dollars at the official rate of 2.15 bolivars to import goods or take vacations.
These controls have backfired with a vengeance - businessmen, companies and private citizens transferred some $72.7 billion out of Venezuela over the last six years - nearly double the outflow of the previous six years, according to the Central Bank - distorting the economy, fueling inflation and discouraging private investment.
But the controls themselves haven't led to a political backlash, perhaps because Venezuelans with means tend to be opposed to Chavez's socialist policies already. Poorer Venezuelans haven't been as affected, partly because the government subsidizes food and free health care.
That could change now that oil income has plunged from last year's record highs. Oil represents 93 percent of Venezuela's exports, and with crude prices at 52 percent below their July peak, the inflow of dollars is expected to drop by half this year to about $42 billion, said Alejandro Grisanti, an economist at Barclays Capital in New York.
The oil price drop has roughly cut in half the amount of goods Venezuela can afford to import, so the government has had to tighten currency controls even more and ration the dollars it supplies to travelers and importers in response, Finance Minister Ali Rodriguez said.
Just $4.9 billion was allotted for imports in the first quarter of the year - 39 percent less than the same period last year, according to the Caracas consulting firm Ecoanalitica - and the government is prioritizing dollars for food and medicines, while limiting those it provides for luxuries like liquor, cosmetics and designer clothing.
Nearly all private businesses are feeling the pinch - from automakers to hairdressers. Textile manufacturers are waiting for currency to import cloth. Dairies complain they can't buy imported powdered milk.
The closure of GM's two plants in central Carabobo state could be a tough blow to the local economy. GM is Venezuela's largest automaker, employing 4,000 people and generating 70,000 indirect jobs.
Many will be affected - including 40-year-old transport worker Franklin Gonzalez. He said his employer, Tegma Venezuela - a subsidiary of Brazilian firm Tegma Gestao Logistica SA - will have to find business elsewhere or its roughly 20 drivers will see their salaries slashed by 60 percent or more.
"How is one supposed to work?" asked Gonzalez, who stopped supporting Chavez years ago because he believes the president's policies have strangled private business.
Chavez has assured that "Venezuela won't go under," but said spending must be regulated carefully until oil revenues rebound.
Even hair salons - a weekly staple for many Venezuelan women - have been affected.
"You try to get one hair dye and you get another. Or you ask for 10 shades and you get six," said 42-year-old hairdresser Judy Morales, whose salon is now using more local products than those from France, Brazil or other countries.
"We're not used to this in Venezuela," she said.
When they can't get government dollars, many companies turn to dollar-denominated government bonds or to the thriving black market, where the dollar sells for about three times the official exchange rate. This contributes to Latin America's highest inflation, which hit 26.8 percent in May.
Inflation is reducing Venezuelans' purchasing power and putting brakes on economic growth, which officially dropped to 0.3 percent in the first quarter of the year from 5 percent a year earlier.
Araceli Reyes, a 54-year-old housewife browsing a Caracas department store, said she was only comparison shopping because prices for some goods - especially household electronics - have skyrocketed.
"I bought them before, but not anymore," said Reyes, who is saving for an increasingly expensive plane ticket to visit her three grandchildren in Phoenix, Arizona.
The Chavez government cut in half the amount of dollars residents can get to send to relatives abroad - from $1800 to $900 a month. It also cut in half the amount of dollars travelers can spend on their credit cards abroad, to $2,500 a year. Manuel Barroso, who heads Cadivi, estimates the credit card restriction will keep an extra $2.3 billion in Venezuela.
Venezuelans are taking fewer and shorter trips abroad as a result, said Francisco Melean, who said the past few months have been the most difficult for his Caracas travel agency in years. "What we don't know is, how long it's going to last," he said.
Chavez has said Venezuela can always draw on the billions it has stashed in government reserves and joint development funds formed with allies including China.
But much of that money is committed to other projects, and cash flow problems are growing.
Carmakers GM, Ford, Toyota Motor Corp., Chrysler LLC, Iveco Venezuela, Mack de Venezuela and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. produced 54,113 cars in Venezuela during the first five months of 2009 - 9.7 percent less than a year earlier, according to the nation's automotive chamber.
State oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA, or PDVSA, has fallen behind on billions of dollars in payments to foreign and domestic oil contractors - prompting some, such as Dallas, Texas-based oil driller Ensco International Corp., to halt their Venezuela operations. Such moves could decrease oil production just when Venezuela needs those revenues most.
Venezuela ran a trade deficit of $1.4 billion in the first quarter of this year, and $3.7 billion in last year's fourth quarter - its first in more than a decade.
Small importers are particularly struggling. Nagibe Chaya, who helps run her family's electronics store, said her family is as much as a year behind on payments to distributors in Panama, and is still waiting for the government to exchange an approved $400,000 through her bank. Sales are falling and interest on those payments is 10 percent a month.
"How can a company function?" she asked.
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Associated Press Writer Fabiola Sanchez contributed to this report
http://www.seattlepi.com/national/1102ap_lt_venezuela_currency_crunch.html

I did not write this but geez sounds good don't it?

congratulations go out to our son John and his wife Brooke in Washington state on the arrival of Weston David to the world. And here is a pic of Carter and Weston.

whew Obama!! This about says it.

bad day pics..

Why Italian Grandfathers pass their handguns down through the family

An old Italian Mafia Don is dying. He calls his grandson to his bedside. " Elio, I wanna you lissina me. I wanna you to take-a my chrome plated .38 revolver so you will always remember me."
"But grandpa, I really don't like guns. How about you leave me your Rolex watch instead?"
"You lissina me, boy. Somma day you gonna be runna DA business, you gonna have a beautiful wife, lotsa money, a big-a home and maybe a couple of bambinos "
"Somma day you gonna come-a home and maybe finda you wife inna bed with another man.
"Whatta you gonna do then? Pointa to you watch and say, 'Time's Up'?"

You can not legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government can not give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that is does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You can not multiply wealth by dividing it. ~~~~~~~Dr. Adrian Rogers 1931

I picked up this article off of the internet, and is reprinted with permission. Before you read this article I do need to say something. Atlas Shrugged was brought to my attention from one of my sons. He kept badgering me to read the book, so I did. It is quite a read, with a little over 1000 pages. However I told him I would read it. I couldn't put it down! If you have not read it then the following article will not make any sense to you nor some of the things I have been writing about. So if you have not read this book you really need to sit down and put your mind into it. Now for the article.

"Atlas Shrugged": Ayn Rand laughs; the rest of us weep.

"I will stop the motor of the world."

With those words, a charismatic hero was born. John Galt, the mysterious character at the heart of Ayn Rnd's "Atlas Shrugged," decided that he could not stand idly by as the nation put on chains and fetters as if they were party favors. Today, more than 50 years after the novel was written, Galt is offering hope to many Americans who see the country on a slow but steady slide toward socialism. As we talk about the government takeover of General Motors, it is educational to remember that the fictional Galt rose up of of the ashes of another car company, the Twentieth Century Motor Company, which like GM ended up in bankruptcy. The allegoric lesson of Twentieth Century Motors is much more instructive for the country as a whole, however, than for another automaker, because it is about how "hope" and "change" can motivate people to make choices that lead inevitably to "despair" and "stagnation." A former worker at the plant, now a lonely tramp, tells the story years later of how the workers let themselves be inspired by the company's new owners to work for the common good. "They told us that this plan would achieve a noble ideal." Yes, a noble ideal, a way to help each other, something no one could possibly oppose, But there were few details on the table when the company's workers were asked to vote on their future, just these vague promises and a few catchphrases on which to pin their hopes. "None of us knew just how the plan would work, but every one of us thought that the next fellow knew it. And if anybody had doubts, he...kept his mouth shut--because they made it sound like anyone who'd oppose the plan was a child-killer at heart and less than a human being." And so the workers voted overwhelmingly to follow the new plan, which would mean that no worker would fall through the cracks--everyone would take care of everyone else. "We thought it was good," the tramp says wearily. "No, that's not true, either. We thought that we were supposed to think it was good." And so begins this experiment in "modified" capitalism. As the worker explains it, "The plan was that everybody in the factory would work according to his ability, but would be paid according to his need." Of course, in the long run, "modified capitalism" turns out to be socialism or worse, and as Rand points out with brutal logic, it leads inevitably to a system that encourages laziness and lying and punishes success. The tale of Twentieth Century Motors is one small sliver of "Atlas Shrugged," but on virtually every page of the gargantuan novel, there is some bit of wit or wisdom that presages the mess of the current era. The "shrug" of the title tells it all. It is a symbol of indifference, but also a symbol of frustration, and a telling representation of the tremendous power wielded by the talented individual such as John Galt. Atlas, the great being on whose shoulders rests the world, finally gets tired of being taken for granted, and up-ends literally everything with the slightest of gestures. Likewise, "Atlas Shrugged" tells the tale of a handful of innovators who struggle to survive in an era of big government and corporate greed, and seem doomed to fail, until one man--Galt--dares to change everything. Rand said the idea came to her during a phone conversation when she asked a friend, "What if all the creative minds of the world went on strike?" Few prophetic novels get everything right, and "Atlas Shrugged" gets plenty wrong, but Rand's image of recession-weary America as a nation sputtering toward collectivism and running out of intellectual steam is so familiar to observers of the current scene that her excesses and errors are easily forgiven. In particular, her ability to lampoon government intervention in business is deadly accurate. Time after time, Congress passes laws in the novel that are trumpeted as necessary for the common good, but which ultimately weakens society in unexpected ways and enrich only a few (those whom Rand characterizes as "looters"). It is almost scary how much of the villainous agenda of Rand's novel would fit perfectly well into the world as envisioned by readers of the Huffington Post. The "Anti-Dog-Eat-Dog Rule" passed by the railroad industry gives the National Alliance of Railroads the authority to protect established railroads from new competition. The theory seems to be that the established company has only limited resources and shouldn't have to stretch itself thin by defending itself against fresh and innovative competition. this is great if you care about protecting established companies, but not if you care about providing the consumer with the best service and prices. It has to remind you a little bit of the government's takeover of GM. Pity poor Ford Motor Co. which was the only one of the Big Three automakers in the United States that was healthy enough to pass up government bailout money last November. Now, instead of owing money to the government, they actually have to compete AGAINST the government (the new owner of GM) selling cars. Supporters of government intervention, of course, say they are doing what is necessary to clean up after the horrid capitalists who mismanaged their companies into bankruptcy, but that fails to acknowledge the fact that the American economy is far from capitalism. It is instead what Rand called with unfeigned disgust a "mixed economy"--namely, a mix between freedom and regulation--and it is the government's own policies which lead inevitably to economic failure. The latest real--life government intrusion being plotted by the "looters" in Congress is to force the health insurance industry to jettison the basic principles under which it operates in order to once again serve the "common good," or as Rand put it, "a noble ideal." This suggests a basic misunderstanding of the principles of liberty and equality. "Equality of opportunity" is the God given right that our Constitution is supposed to protect, but instead our government has decided to ensure "equality of results" and is willing to bankrupt us all to do so. In its wrong-headedness, at least, it is reminiscent of the "Equalization of Opportunity Bill" from "Atlas Shrugged," which forbids any one person or corporation from owning more than one type of business concern. One disastrous result of that bill in the novel is that companies which had planned on expanding must instead shut down their older, still viable, operations in order to be able to expand into much more prosperous new ventures. This, when companies, following the logic of the Equalization of Opportunity Bill, start closing their factories on the East Coast in order to move to the West (Colorado is the symbol of American resilience and energy), Congress is suddenly enlisted to try to correct yet another unintended consequence. This time, there is demand for a Public Stability Law that would forbid companies from abandoning their current territory for a new one. The argument is that people have a right to expect jobs that existed yesterday to continue to exist tomorrow. But no explanation how Colorado is going to get the equipment, factories and jobs it needs while the government is propping up floundering industrial dinosaurs elsewhere. Rand's vision of the economic madness of government "do-good-isim" culminates in Directive 10-289, which mandates that everything must stop where it is. The order doesn't just freeze wages and prices; it also forbids workers from changing jobs without permission from a federal board. It halts new product development (too confusing) and makes the U.S. government the keeper of all intellectual property as a means of ensuring that no one takes advantage of anyone else. Needless to say, with the government in charge of everything, chaos ensues. These are just a few of the touchstones of "Atlas Shrugged" which resonate as pure prophecy to an audience that has lived through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Perhaps that's why the book is more popular than ever, and why "Going Galt" has become a symbol for our time of resistance to over-regulation. Critics were merciless in mocking Rand's magnus opus when it appeared in 1957, but 50 years later, as her worst fears are realized, it appears to be a bet certain that Ayn Rand will get the last laugh. Frank Miele is managing editor of the Daily Inter Lake and writes a weekly column. Email responses may be sent to edit@dailyinterlake.com.

This picture comes from India,,,you know the place where you call when you have problems with your computer??

After being interviewed by the school administration, the prospective teacher said: "So let me get this right. you want me to go into that room with all those kids, correct their disruptive behavior, observe them for signs of abuse, monitor their dress habits, censor their t-shirt messages, and instill in them a love for learning." "You want me to check their backpacks for weapons, wage war on drugs and sexually transmitted diseases, and raise their sense of self esteem and personal pride." "You want me to teach them patriotism and good citizenship, sportsmanship and fair play, and how to register to vote, balance a checkbook, and apply for a job." "You want me to check their heads for lice, recognize signs of antisocial behavior, and make sure that they all pass the final exams." "You also want me to provide them with an equal education regardless of their handicaps, and communicate regularly with their parents in English, or any other language, by letter, telephone, newsletter, and report card." You want me to do all this with a piece of chalk, a blackboard, and bulletin board, a few books, a big smile, and a small salary." "You want me to do all this, and then you tell me....I can't pray!"

Can anyone tell me why??

Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are almost dead?

Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but have to check when you say the paint is wet.

Why doesn't tarzan have a beard?

Why does Superman stop bullets with his chest, but ducks when you throw a revolver at him?

Why do Kamikaze pilots wear helmets?

If people evolved from apes, why are there still apes?

Why is it that no matter what color bubble bath you use the bubbles are still white?

Is there ever a day that mattresses are not on sale?

Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with hopes that something new to eat will have materialized?

Why do people keep running over a string a dozen times with their vacuum cleaner, then reach down, pick it up, examine it, then put it down to give the vacuum one more chance?

Why is it that no plastic bag will open from the end on your first try?

How do those dead bugs get into those enclosed light fixtures?

In winter why do we try to keep the house as warm as it was in summer when we complained about the heat?

How come you never hear father-in-law jokes?

The Pentagon announced Today the formation of a new 500 man elite fighting unit called the United States Redneck Special Forces (USRSF). These boys will be dropped off in Afghanistan and have been given only following facts about terrorists:

1. The season opened today.

2. There is no limit.

3. They don't like beer; pickups; country music or Jesus.

4. They are directly responsible for the death of Dale Earnhardt.

The Pentagon expects the problem in Afghanistan to be over by next Friday. (Enclosed is a recent picture of their commander.)

Now I did not write this piece. It came from a Russian paper called Pravda. You would think that an American would write this, but this is not the case. Now I ask you, if the Russians that lived under Marxism or Communism for over 70 years; see what is happening to the USA, then why can't we? The lnk is at the bottom of the piece. I took the link off of a site in Atlanta, however I went to the site six hours later and it would not open for me so good luck.

It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse dear reader, I meant people. True, the situation has been well prepared on and off the the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money wall street poured into the fists of the Marxists. Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters. First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather than the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas than the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their "right" to choke down a McDonalds burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our "democracy." Pride blind the foolish. Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different "branches and denominations" were for the most part little more than Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more than heppy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the "winning" side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the "winning" side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America's short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more than another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe. These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the vwery thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. these make our russian oligarchs look little more than ordinary street thugs, in comparison. yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?

Pssssssssssst interesting ain't it? http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/107459-0/

Here is something that should be of great interest for you to pass around. Back during The Great Depression, President Herbert Hoover ordered the deportation all illegal aliens in order to make jobs available to American citizens that desperately needed work. Harry Truman deported over two million illegals after WWII to create jobs for returning veterans. And then again in 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower deported 13 million Mexican nationals. The program was called "Operation Wetback." It was done so WWII and Korean Veterans would have a better chance at jobs. It took 32 years, but they deported them. Now...if they could deport the illegals back then they could sure do it today. If you have doubts about the program then google up Operation wetback and see for yourself...Oh and remember don't forget to pay your taxes, the illegals are depending on you. Thanks go to my friend Dick for this article.