April 28...For Several Days Now....

How about 24 hours with NO mention of the Swine Flu ????

CHASING HAPPINESS ????

"People rise out of the ashes because , at some point, they are invested with a belief in the possibility of triumph over seemingly impossible odds. "

" I used to be convinced that HAPPINESS was the goal...yet all those years I was chasing after it....I was unhappy in the pursuit. Maybe the goal really should be.....a life that values honor, duty, good work, friends and family.
Maybe that's it. "

Robert Downey Jr.

Parade Magazine interview

***Somehow....this reminds me of me.



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Massacre in Binghamton, NY

What is going on in this country ? Everyone just grabs a gun or an assault weapon when they’re fed up and then they find someplace to massacre as many people as they can.

CHOICES AND CHARACTER

Choices and Character

Choose Your Thoughts, for they become Words
Choose Your Words, for they become Actions•
Choose Your Actions, for they become Habits•
Choose Your Habits, for they become Character•
Choose Your Character, for it becomes Your Destiny


Not composed by me....but I like it a lot !!

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Today is April First !!!

It's April everybody !!!

THE FLORIDA PANTHER...highly endangered

Conservation status: THE FLORIDA PANTHER

The number of living FLORIDA panthers is estimated to be between 80 and 100.

Recovery efforts are currently underway in Florida to conserve the state's remaining population of native panthers. This is a difficult task, as the panther requires large contiguous areas of habitat — each breeding unit, consisting of one male and two to five females, requires about 200 square miles of habitat. A population of 240 panthers would require 8,000 to 12,000 square miles of habitat and sufficient genetic diversity in order to avoid inbreeding as a result of small population size.

The introduction of eight female cougars from a closely related Texas population has apparently been successful in mitigating inbreeding problems.
Southern Florida is a fast-developing area, and declining habitat threatens this species. The two highest causes of mortality for the Florida panthers are automobile injuries and aggression between panthers for territory. The primary threats to the population as a whole include habitat loss, habitat degradation, and habitat fragmentation.

The Future Is.....

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There is no mystery about what the future holds.
Your actions today determine your consequences tomorrow.
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I just love this quote and cannot recall where on the web I found it.

Some of us spend a lot of time contemplating our futures..but alas, perhaps we

do that too much. I am guilty of that . Have to think more of the right

here in the moment..this is the future ..today..it's here and it's now.

This is Not Your Father's Country Anymore...Jack Cafferty

I really like Jack Cafferty on CNN....he does special commentary.
Here is a blurb from his short piece called " This is not your father's country anymore ".
When you get a minute you should click the link and read the rest of his comments. It is not a lengthy piece.
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The American dream was a job, a house, a car. A modest, affordable house and a car that was most likely a Chevrolet, Ford or Plymouth.
People weren't in debt buying things they couldn't afford, and neither was the government.
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Here's the short remainder of what he said...
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/24/cafferty.america/index.html

Think About This Fact

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Every day we should be reminded that Obama "inherited " 1.8 TRILLION dollars in debt thanks to the Bush years !!!

Think about it.
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Market Rebound ...When ???

R E B O U N D.
That's a great word.

"Past performance is no guarantee of future results". This is what my financial planner keeps sending out in his memos to his clients. I'm tired of hearing that once a month now.

In particular , with regard to the stock market ...when you are looking at all you have lost these last few months.

Why whine then you say ???

Hmm.....I could tell you that every penny I earned was hard earned. and oh yes, it was.

But to what avail NOW ?
So many in the same boat.
So very many of us.

Another Shot of Yellowstone in March

Caught some Buffalo grazing at Old Faithful today.,,complements of the Yellowstone Webcam.

Here's a Quote I Really Like...

“We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”

Frederick Keonig

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SO ,Who was this guy, Keonig. ??? Okay I found out.

Friedrich Gottlob Koenig ( 1774 – 1833) was a German inventor best-known for his high-speed printing press.

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THOSE SINFUL AIG BONUSES

Just watching MSNBC tonight 615 PM
Listening to Senator Jon Tester from Montana. I like this guy.
He's a Democrat from Montana...that's almost unheard of .

SOME AIG BONUS facts to ponder if you will..........
On Friday, March 13th 2009 the insurance giant AIG handed out
165 million dollars in bonuses. This is after the millions of dollars
in taxpayer money given to them a few months ago...our money !!
MSNBC says that 73 AIG employees were given a bonus of ONE MILLION DOLLARS or more.!!!!
Again....this is our money they are getting and putting in their pockets....while you and I worry about how high our heating bills are and the cost of food keeps going up and up....you get the picture.

It's greed in its most BLATANT form......right in front of our eyes !!!

Obama wants to do something ..to maybe get these bonuses back....or perhaps to tax 90 percent of these huge sinful bonuses.....SOMETHING.

Are we all hoping something will be done ??
You bet we are !!!

Anderson Says He's Going Back to New Orleans

Just saw a headline on Twitter that Anderson Cooper is going back to New Orleans to find out what happened to all that money that found its way there after Katrina. Money that was supposed to be used to REBUILD parks and schools and little shops ...etc.
A LOT of money.

Not sure when this will be available on CNN ....maybe he's going there next week ??? BUT oh my GOD....he is somebody who cared about those people who were affected.. from day one. You could tell by his reporting how deeply he was touched by what he saw.

That's when I first saw Anderson Cooper...during those Katrina reports . Said to myself..."Wow...who IS this guy ? He cares.

So many Americans, I'm sure have long forgotten the victims of that devastating hurricane. Yet , for a while...I was positive we could never hear the mere word Katrina again.

Now....I'm not so sure. I think a lot of Americans have just moved on...back to complacency as usual. So Bravo to you Anderson. Bravo.

And no, I'm not tired of your reporting . Keep it up.