ONE FOR THE MONEY....

The local news station was interviewing an 80-year-old lady because she had just gotten married for the fourth time. The interviewer asked her questions about her life, about what it felt like to be marrying again at 80, and then about her new husband's occupation. "He's a funeral director," she answered. "Interesting," the newsman thought.

He then asked her if she wouldn't mind telling him a little about her first three husbands and what they did for a living. She paused for a few moments, needing time to reflect on all those years. after a short time, a smile came to her face and she answered proudly, explaining that she had first married a banker when she was in her 20's, then a circus ringmaster when in her 40's, and a preacher when in her 60's, and now - in her 80's - a funeral director. The interviewer looked at her, quite astonished, and asked why she had married four men with such diverse careers.

She smiled and explained, "I married one for the money, two for the show, three to get ready, and four to go."

From my email.

THOMAS SOWELL: Government is proof that the shepards are dumber than the sheep.

THE MOVEMENT KNOWN AS ENVIRONMENTALISM is not only a false religion, it is one that allows human sacrifice.

ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF GOVERNMENT STUPIDITY: Louisana homeless can't eat venison (unless, I suppose, it's road kill and they cook it themselves).

Reduce the deficit; fire the regulators.

OBAMA PHONES are bankrupting the country. Free lunches are the most expensive....

OBAMA IS FOR SALE, for the modest price of $500,000. As the old joke goes, "we both know you're a prostitute; we're just haggling over the price."

DEBUNKING Chicken Little.

FEWER GOVERNMENT SERVICES? Please, please, Br'er Fox, throw me into that briar patch.

THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE is up for sale again.

THE POWERS THAT BE ARE HARD AT WORK, turning America from the kind of country people want to sneak into, to the kind they want to leave.

They're succeeding.

THE ANSWER to a question unasked: "The president is more interested in golf, photo-ops, or picking the Final Four, and so he shrugs and thinks: 'Debts, schmebts. Who cares?'”

FIRST THERE WAS 'FAKE BUT ACCURATE'; now it's fair but biased.

OBAMA'S WASHINGTON MONUMENT STRATEGY: If you don't let us raise taxes, we will hurt you.

Here's how. All that pain for a mere 1.4% of the current annual budget....

EZRA KLEIN argues that Obama should be able to raise taxes as much as he wants because he won reelection. I agree; let him raise the taxes all he wants on the Democrats who voted for him.

QUADROCOPTER BALANCING ACT:



Linked from Popular Science.

JOHN RANSOM: Another Reason Ezra Klein is an Idiot. If you need another reason....

SINCE GUN-FREE ZONES WORK SO WELL: UN needs to declare Earth an asteroid-free zone.

Three cheers for big government....

PRESIDENT OBAMA'S Chicken Little strategy.

HOW'S THAT Hopey-Changey stuff working out for ya?