Year: 2007

  • Decisions

    Decisions are like Jello molds.  They only turn out firm when the right amount of water is added.Roy Palm

  • Vacationland USA

    The Maine Turnpike began a new program this summer where they handed out flyers titled “Welcome To Vacationland.”  These flyers will be handed out to all cars with license plates from Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey.  The flyers state the following rules for visiting Maine:That slope-shouldered farm boy you are snickering at did…

  • Revenge

    He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.John Milton

  • Kids

    After creating heaven and earth, God created Adam and Eve.And the first thing He said was “Don’t”“Don’t what?” Adam replied.“Don’t eat the forbidden fruit,” God said.“Forbidden fruit?  We got forbidden fruit?”“Hey, Eve! We got forbidden fruit!”“No way!”“Yes, way!”“Don’t eat that fruit!” said God.“Why not?”“Because I am your Father and I said so!” said God, wondering…

  • Is ethanol the right thing?

    Ethanol production, as Tad Patzek of UC Berkeley’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering wrote in a report this year, is based on “the massive transfer of money from the collective pocket of the U.S. taxpayers to the transnational agricultural cartel.”Ken Silverstein, Barack Obama Inc., Harper’s, November 2006, Pg. 40

  • It ain’t easy bein’ GREthanolEN

    Since producing most domestic ethanol requires large amounts of fossil fuel, and regular gasoline provides about 30 percent more mileage per gallon than E85, it’s arguably preferable from a conservation standpoint to drive a stand gasoline car rather than a flex-fuel vehicle.Ken Silverstein, Barack Obama Inc., Harper’s, November 2006, Pg. 32

  • Self-made man

    There is no such thing as a ‘self-made’ man.  We are made up of thousands of others.  Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.George Burton Adams