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Testing local edits. Remote posting seems to be the problem causing the themes to break.

Testing local edits. Remote posting seems to be the problem causing the themes to break.

Testing local edits. Remote posting seems to be the problem causing the themes to break.

Testing local edits. Remote posting seems to be the problem causing the themes to break.

Testing local edits. Remote posting seems to be the problem causing the themes to break.

Testing local edits. Remote posting seems to be the problem causing the themes to break.

Well, not exactly. But the White House admits no mechanism in any of the current bills would prevent illegal aliens from getting insurance on the "exchange".

Of course, they’re still NOT admitting that the bills also don’t contain any way to keep illegal aliens from getting their "exchange" insurance subsidized by the taxpayers.

Testing. Again.

Really, someday we’ll fifnish testing and start posting again.

Someday.

Probably.

OBITUARY FOR COMMON SENSE

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who
has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was,
since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He
will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:
Knowing when to come in out of the rain; Why the early bird gets the
worm; Life isn’t always fair; and maybe it was my fault.

Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don’t spend more
than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in
charge).

His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but
overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy
charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended
from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for
reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.

Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the
job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly
children.

It declined even further when schools were required to get parental
consent to administer sun lotion or an aspirin to a student; but could
not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an
abortion. Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became
businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims.

Common Sense took a beating when you couldn’t defend yourself from a
burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.

Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to
realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in
her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.

Common Sense was preceded in death, by his parents, Truth and Trust, by
his wife, Discretion, by his daughter, Responsibility, and by his son,
Reason.

He is survived by his 4 stepbrothers:
I Know My Rights
I Want It Now
Someone Else Is To Blame
I’m A Victim

Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone.

Still just a test, still nothing to see here. Please move along folks.
Thank you.

San Diego County and Palm Springs – you know, southern California San Diego County and out-in-the-desert Palm Springs - have been  hit by a snowstorm accompanied by rain, sleet, hail and ice.

A couple of days ago Palm Springs was 85 degrees.

Clearly, more proof of man-made global warming.

You hear people complaining all the time:  it always rains on the weekend.

Science says otherwise. A recent study concluded more rain comes down mid-week than on weekends:

The study was carried out by atmospheric scientist Thomas Bell of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and his colleagues. They looked at data collected by NASA’s Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite from 1998 to 2005. This method has advantages over rain data collected with ground-based gauges that can vary from one gauge site to the next.

They found it rains on average more between Tuesday and Thursday than from Saturday through Monday. The clearest day of the week was Saturday, with nearly twice the rainfall on the wettest day, Tuesday afternoon.

I just noticed we’ve had some issues over the last few days with posts not appearing when posted. We’re down to one error on the page now, and I’ll be inserting the missing material in the order it should have originally appeared. It’s not your imagination, and it’s not the time travelling space aliens that provided the computer and copy of MS Word for Dan Rather’s memos, there really are entries from before today suddenly appearing today.

Did You Know . . .

Once upon a time, the garage  organizers were meant to sort out the garages only. That meant figuring out storage arrangements etc.  Now, the concept of organizers has broadened to include things as mundane as a medicine cabinet. The cabinet organizer is responsible for  everything from the cabinet  knob to the arrangements. With advanced technology, we also have organizers for data storage systems. These organizers basically make sure that everything in the data storage systems is in an orderly fashion. There are organizers for the entire home storage line as well.