From StrangeCosmos, new word definitions: Smile – A curve that can set a lot of things straight. Dictionary – The only place where divorce comes before marriage. College – A place where some pursue learning and others learn pursuing. Office
Interesting Newspaper Headlines
It kind of makes you wonder about how journalists think… Hat tip to Joe K
How Democrats and Unions Sank a California City
… the city’s decades-long journey from prosperous, middle-class community to bankrupt, crime-ridden, foreclosure-blighted basket case is straightforward — and alarmingly similar to the path traveled by many municipalities around America’s largest state. San Bernardino succumbed to a vicious circle of
Obama Approach to Economy, 2013 and Beyond…
Here’s one for you — How to (not) run a government: don’t worry about tracking expenditures against a budget (Harry Reid’s no budget for last 3 years), and at the same time assume you can take on an endless amount of
Mayan Calendar and the End of the World
The Mayan calendar theoretically predicted the end of the world in December 2012… Hat tip to Slick
More Little Known Facts
The first novel ever written on a typewriter, Tom Sawyer. The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, John Hancock and
Obamacare and Business
A day after Barack Obama earned a second term in the White House, Papa John’s founder and CEO John Schnatter said the president’s signature health-care reform law would increase his business costs and possibly result in employees’ hours being cut.
Rising number of states seeing one-party rule
“There are mores states that have tipped either increasingly Republican or Democratic over time. Even in close elections you have a majority of voters who live in counties where the election wasn’t close at all. The world they see at
Early Christmas Card
I love Christmas lights! They remind me of… “the people who voted for Obama…” They all hang together; half of them don’t work, and the ones that do, aren’t all that bright!
Little Known Facts
Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better. Coca-Cola was originally green. It is impossible to lick your elbow. The State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work — Alaska The percentage of