Checking around a one year CD(certificate of deposit) pays a whopping 0.55 percent on a minimum one thousand dollar deposit. So a person could realize enough money for the year to buy a cup of coffee at Starbucks. In the meantime the banks will assess a ten dollar a month service charge on your checkingContinue reading “Bank Robbery with very low interest earnings.”
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The takeaway congress.
So you want congress to take away your affordable health care? And you want congress to cancel your mom’s Medicare? And you want congress to take away your grandparent’s Social Security? And you want your single mom’s sister Child Health Insurance Plan cancelled? Plus you want congress to take away your blind uncle SocialContinue reading “The takeaway congress.”
Blogs are for blockheads.
Blogs, like this one, is just for the semi-illiterate and lazy. Blogs are thoughtlessly composed by the impulsive and reactionary. Hastily written with no fact checking. Opinion with no scholarship. Just stupid scribbling on an old model PC. Here is my point; newspaper journalist typically come from accredited journalism schools. People and institutions capable ofContinue reading “Blogs are for blockheads.”
Freaking Freeways
The omnipotent self-important state highway pinheads who want to widen major freeways in southern California should rethink their road and transportation strategy. More and/or wider freeways, as they propose, only serve to congest and pollute. It would place more diesel belching stinky trucks traveling over already polluted highways. Plus remove by demolishing low income housesContinue reading “Freaking Freeways”
Such hair-brain non-sense.
Why is there hair growing out of my ears? Is this some kind of joke? Worse yet, why is hair growing from my nose? This is absolute proof God exists. He has a very different crazy sense of humor. It must be to keep us oldsters humble. And most of all to discourage ourContinue reading “Such hair-brain non-sense.”
Sheriff Sheba.
Sheba, the cookie sheriff is back in town with knight stick and handcuffs. My secret nameless wife is telling me my choice of cookie which I wish to bake and give to some friends is a bad choice. Tomorrow is our friend Doug’s birthday. I suggested baking what I call my ‘butter pecan’Continue reading “Sheriff Sheba.”
Where would I keep baby cows?
But I don’t want to be a cow farmer. All of us teen boys and girls just walked in to Mr. McIntire’s ninth grade science class and took our seats. Before he took role Mr. Byerman, the audio visual movie operator and math instructor opened the room door and came and asked allContinue reading “Where would I keep baby cows?”
The big wedding.
May 8, 1937. The two met out that early morning on the gravel road going to town. It was a Saturday and their intent was to see the Justice of the Peace in Ardmore, Oklahoma. He was wearing his best seersucker pants and white dress shirt. She in her flowery cotton dress and wideContinue reading “The big wedding.”
We gotta do this.
It takes a village.Actually it takes a significant population to do the heavy lifting. It takes a significant number of people to fund a benevolent charity. It takes money and volunteers to run a helping organization like the Red Cross or to support research for diabetes.None the less, it will take a little bit fromContinue reading “We gotta do this.”
Stories of the south
Book report. Author Rick Bragg, Pulitzer Prize winner for his bestselling book “All over but the shoutin’ has published a compilations of his writings taken from various columns and articles he had written for newspapers and magazines titled, “Where I come from: Stories from the Deep South.” Where he came from varies between Alabama andContinue reading “Stories of the south”
Chuck the Blogger Guy 