This should make you want to run for the hills!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJqM2tFOxLQ

I wonder how much that lady gets paid for not doing her job, because I bet I could not do her job for much less than what she gets. Is it a requirement for a top government position that one not do one's job? Is there a special degree for this?

Potential government honcho: "Hello, my name is Percival G. Nudnik. I have an advanced degree in obfuscation and meandering."

Interviewer: "You're hired!"

After seeing how huge, bloated bureaucracy works, how can anyone think that a government run health care system would be a good thing?

We have entered the looking glass world, and things have become as Alice said, "Curiouser and curiouser."

Currently Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) By John Abramson see related

What time is it?

Why, it's just about time to consider secession! Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court is one spooky judge. If Texas and Oklahoma decide to leave the union, I'm all for it. The name would be problematic - Tehoma? Okas? Um, no, we'll have to think about that for a bit.

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Here's a good one.. The common wisdom (which is always common, but seldom wise) is that more fuel efficient vehicles mean less gasoline is used. Sounds reasonable, right? Wrong! Over the years, when cars become more efficient, Americans drive more!

Here it is: The Fuel Efficiency Paradox http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/04/29/the_fuel_efficiency_paradox/

Heh, heh, don't you just love it when one of the government's feel-good schemes leads to unintended consequences? Well, it would be humorous, if it didn't cost us all so much money and trouble.  *sigh*

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I missed out on my 15 seconds, not minutes, of fame. Mr. Minimom, Eddo, and I donated blood the other day. It was a special blood drive just before the Memorial Day weekend, so they had TV cameras there filming the activity. Plus, we got free hot dogs! Whoo!

Anyway, they filmed all 3 of us at various times, but only Mr. Minimom and Eddo made it on the local evening news! Actually, it's just as well. Supposedly the TV cameras add 10 pounds to you, and I certainly don't need that.

Donating blood is one of those easy things to do that make you feel all good about yourself. You can wear your little arm wrap all day if you want, and look down on all those who don't have one. "Ha, where's your arm wrap showing how wonderful you are?" you can say. Of course, people will think you're a loon, but what do they know? They don't even have an arm wrap.

Unless you are one of those people who just can't stand needles, it isn't bad at all. You sit in a comfy recliner, and the people who work at the Oklahoma Blood Institute are really nice. (I don't have a lot of good things to say about the Red Cross, but that's another story.) Plus, they give you snacks afterwards! So, maybe it isn't just the TV cameras that are adding those extra pounds. 

Anyway, no fame for me, but that's the way I prefer to live. I have always said I wouldn't mind being rich, but I would never want to be famous.

Ludwig von Mises is one of my heroes.

"A man who chooses between drinking a glass of milk and a glass of a solution of potassium cyanide does not choose between two beverages; he chooses between life and death. A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings."

Currently Artists Of The Century - Jussi Bjorling, The Ultimate Collection see related

Read it and weep...

Buy a vehicle now if you can. Wait, and you will be driving a tuna can on wheels.

Obama's CAFE Fuel Economy Standards to Create Fleet of Tiny, Expensive Vehicles

Tell you what... I will meekly accept the new CAFE standards if President Obama will agree to load up his family, dog included, in a Honda Fit or a Toyota Prius and drive from Texarkana to El Paso in the middle of summer. I doubt they would make it.

Anybody who says the US is a free country is deluding himself. We have decided we would rather have Big Daddy in D.C. take care of us than solve our own problems and be responsible for ourselves, our families, and our neighbors.

It is high time that Oklahoma, Texas, and a few other states secede. Hey, we've got all the guns! What are they gonna do? Surround us with community organizers?

Oops, must not be so militant. Militancy is not becoming in a grandma.

Time to listen to the greatest tenor who ever lived and calm myself.

Random stuff...

Jim's comment on my post about Wyatt started me thinking. Perhaps I could make a successful home business out of Wyatt's mud pies. However, if I sell real mud pies, I would probably run afoul of the FDA for selling something disgusting that some goofball might mistakenly think was real food. If I sell food that looked like a mud pie, then I would have to go through the rigamarole of getting all the permits, inspections, etc. one needs to sell a food product.

So, never mind. Yet another case of a budding entrepreneur having her idea shot down before it could even take wing.  *sigh*

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Do you know anyone who is always upbeat and cheerful? I'm not talking about the fakey ones, the ones who seem all bubbly, but you know are really not. I know a few people who are genuinely cheerful and bubbly all the time, and they always amaze me. It isn't as if they all have carefree lives, either. They have had their share of sorrows and loss, but they remain relentlessly upbeat. Weird, isn't it?

Every time I see someone like that I say, "I want the drug they are taking." Mr. Minimom came up with a name for it... we'll call it "Perkydan".  I bet it would sell like mad. I would love to discover their secret. It just can't be natural! 

Oops, I'm sure I would have to fight with the FDA over that one. Rats! How am I going to make my first million, if every idea I have is thwarted by the government?

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I love reading about finance and the economy and watching the business news channels on TV. I don't know why, since I don't understand half of it, but I find it fascinating. I used to watch the financial shows on Fox News every Saturday morning, but they started having some liberal goobers on to be "fair and balanced", I guess. It ruined the shows for me. Listening to those people is bad for my blood pressure.

This information overload has led me to one conclusion:  These people have no more idea of what is going to happen in the economy and the stock market than my 2 goofy dogs do. As soon as one makes a recommendation, the next one disagrees completely.

This has caused me to change my financial strategy yet again. Instead of burying my money, stuffing it in my mattress, or investing in the stock market, I am going to blow it on lottery tickets. Seems like better odds than investing in stocks.

Don't bother to thank me for the great advice. It's just one more service I provide here. 

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Why do computers try to aggravate me so? I just tried to add a Jussi Bjorling album to the "listening to" section, and it won't work.

Yes, he was the greatest tenor.