Happy Birthday to My Mother

Sam Glover

Sorry I couldn't reach you by phone. Seems like they are having telecommunications problems down there in Houston.

Chipmunk Name

Leslie asked Aaron why he wants to name the squirrel Famor.

 

"I dunno," he replied, "There's probably somebody in the universe named that. Probably somebody in the Old Testament."

Many of You Know My Family Lives in the Path of the Hurricane

Take a look at what Hurricane Ike is doing:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjOywo5EAqk 

Squirrels again

We think that maybe they were siblings abandoned by a mother, and that's why they came after us.  Later, one of them enjoyed cookies, and curled up in Shannon's scarf under our blue spruce tree.

 

This morning, before Aaron left for school, we went out to feed them some hamster and gerbil food.  Shannon spied Chip still curled up in her scarf, but unfortunately, we couldn't see Dale.  Maybe it died?  Anyway, Chip came out and greeted us and made his cute call.  It wouldn't eat the gerbil food, but it ate more cookie.  So Christopher went and got some graham crackers.  It ate that too!  So at least this one is thriving. 

 

It is really raining today, so we'll check on Chip later.  How fun!  A pet without the work.

Weird Squirrel Video Worth Seeing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1FntMjXbxg

Suppose you were an idiot.
And suppose you were a member of Congress....
But then I repeat myself.
-Mark Twain


I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
-Winston Churchill

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
-.George Bernard Shaw


A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man ...which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
-G Gordon Liddy


Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
-James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
-Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
-P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
-Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
-Ronald Reagan (1986)

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
-Will Rogers


If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!
-P.J. O'Rourke

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
-Voltaire (1764)

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!
-Pericles (430 B.C.)

No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
-Mark Twain (1866)

Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.
-Unknown

The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
-Ronald Reagan

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
-Winston Churchill

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
-Mark Twain

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
-Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save Congress.
-Mark Twain

What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
-Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
-Thomas Jefferson

Shannon's Baptism

Leslie Forgot to Blog this one

Do  you think we should worry about Chris's preoccupation with violence?

 

We were discussing a project that had to be done by a deadline. Chris asked, "A dead lion?"

 

I carefully explained that a deadline was a time by which something had to be finished. I told him that when people start a project, they agree that it must be done by a certain time.

 

He chimed in, "Or they kill the lion?"

New School Year brings...

A New Kindergartener





















A New Soccer Uniform
















But the same old fun-loving kids!

Fred Thompson exposes ""Tax the Rich"

THOMPSON:  Now, our opponents tell us not to worry about their tax increases.  They tell you they're not going to tax your family.  No, they're just going to tax businesses.  So, unless you buy something from a business, like groceries, clothes, or gasoline, or unless you get a paycheck from a business, a big business or a small business, don't worry, it's not going to affect you.