Tell you, I love living in Iowa. Where the temps can get into the 80′s and not have to turn the a/c on. Unless my wife gets a hot flash! hahahaha…yeah, she gets too warm, she turns on the a/c. Like yesterday, it was on for a few hours. And today, she just turned it on. But she closed the door to this room, so I am making do with the windows open and the fan running. Have to go to granddaughter’s house and get the a/c unit for this room and install it.

This evening some time, our son and his family will be showing up to spend the weekend. They will stay at our daughter’s house, but sure the grandkids will want to spend a night here. We just do not have the room for a bunch of people, unless they want to camp out on the floor. But will be super to have the grandkids here, don’t see them too much as they live in Missouri (I blame wife for not wanting to go there often). Wife just finished baking a ton of cookies for the grandkids, and I was allowed to have only one! Wife told me, you want more? Wait until the grandkids get what they want and you can have the leftovers. Geesh, somehow that does not seem fair to me.

Of course, we had to make sure we had plenty of candy on hand for the grandkids. Got enough M&M’s for sure! Plus a few bags of tootsie roll pops and super blow pops since all the grandkids love those (so do I, but again, wife said one only, which I had last night, and no more until the grandkids leave). Oh, and those awful tasting colored twizzlers! Grandkids love them, but I leave them alone. If it aint licorice or chocolate twizzlers, they can’t be good.

And now I want to introduce to the internet my latest blog! Yes, I for some reason decided to open up another blog. This blog is very niched toward on subject only, twitter. Since I am on twitter, and there is so much buzz about twitter, why not a blog about twitter? My new blog will have everything and anything that is twitter, from sites about twitter to the tools one should be using on twitter. After all, twitter has reached icon status around the world, with people like Oprah, Ashton Kutcher, CNN, the Wall Street Journal and more talking about twitter, going on twitter, and letting everyone know about twitter. So do stop by my new twitter blog, Twitter Blab, and check it out. It will flesh out over time as I post more and more about twitter and twitter stuff. If you are not on twitter, join soon. And then follow me on twitter as I do try to amuse and inform all of my followers. Heck, right now my goal is to hit 5,000 followers. 

Memorial Day Songs – Memorial Day Number – Song Memorial Day -Memorial Day Music – Popular Songs On Memorial Day.

In 1991, President George H. W. Bush implemented a ban on media coverage of returning war dead and their dignified transfer process at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware. Shortly after he assumed office, President Barack Obama asked Defense Secretary Robert Gates to review this policy, and Gates later reversed it, giving family members of the fallen the right to allow or disallow media coverage. On April 5th, 2009, the repatriation of the remains of Air Force Staff Sgt. Phillip Meyers became the first such event to be covered by the press in 18 years. This process has taken place, undocumented, over 5,000 times since the beginning of the war in Afghanistan in 2001. Collected here are photographs documenting the transfers of nine soldiers that have taken place since April 5th, 2009. (25 photos total)

Documenting the return of U.S. war dead – The Big Picture – Boston.com.

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The Hillbilly’s Ten Commandments (posted on the wall at Cross Trails Church in Harlan, Ky.)

(1) Just one God
(2) Honor yer Ma &Pa
(3) No tellin’ tales or gossipin’
(4) Git yourself to Sunday meetin’
(5) Put nothin’ before God
(6) No foolin’ around with another fellow’s gal
(7) No killin’
(8) Watch yer mouth
(9) Don’t take what ain’t yers
(10) Don’t be hankerin’ for yer buddy’s stuff

Now that’s kinda plain an’ simple, don’t ya think? Y’all have a nice day.
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Pinocchio, Snow White, and Superman are out for a stroll in town one day. As they walked, they come across a sign: “Beauty contest for the  most beautiful woman in the world.”

“I am entering!” said Snow White. After half an hour she comes out and  they ask her, “Well, how’d ya do?”

“First Place!” said Snow White.

They continue walking and they see a sign: “Contest for the strongest  man in the world.”

“I’m entering,” says Superman. After half an hour, he returns and they  ask him, “How did you make out?”

“First Place,” answers Superman. “Did you ever doubt?”

They continue walking when they see a sign: “Contest! Who is the  greatest liar in the world?” Pinocchio enters.

After half an hour he returns with tears in his eyes.

“What happened?” they asked.

“Who is this Nancy Pelosi?” asked Pinocchio.
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Education is a cure for ignorance,
not stupidity.
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Why do we press harder on a remote control
when we know the batteries are getting weak?

Been doing a lot of reading on the stimulus package our president wants. Plus a lot of reading of what economists are saying about this package and of course what our senators and congressman say about this stimulus (both sides). And of course, all the liberals and democrats (they are they same are they not?) are all hot for this package to get passed ASAP.

Well, congressman John Culbertson from Houston has this take: “Redistributing hard-earned tax dollars will do far more to expand the power of the federal government than it will to stimulate the economy,” said Rep. John Culberson, R-Houston. “This legislation is a Trojan horse that liberals are using to ultimately turn America into France, because it contains massive expansion of multiple federal programs that are utterly unrelated to stimulating the economy.”

Do you agree with the above statement? I really believe myself that there is a lot of truth in that statement. Obama and his party of liberals want the US Government to finally take over completely and run the country, the businesses and the people as they see fit. After all, they do not believe in fair markets, people making their own decisions or that the country will survive without them. You wait and see, just how close our country turns into France!

Nice Joke, as I have been to El Paso many times (almost moved there years back):

When my wife and I moved to El Paso, Texas, from the East Coast, we fell in love with the change of scenery: the desert, the beautiful sunsets, the wonderful Southwestern vistas.

When a native Texan asked what we thought of the area, I told him that I was impressed with the climate and the scenery, but I missed the beach.

“But we have lots of beaches near El Paso,” he said. “We just lack an ocean.”

Do you have a blog like I do? Want to increase the popularity of your blog and get more visitors? I got the following site from someone on twitter (follow me on twitter soon). And going through the list on the site to see how I can improve, add to, or make this blog more visible on the net.

100 tips to increase popularity of your blog 

There are 2 theories to arguing with a woman,
neither works.

Here is a tool I am using to get traffic to my blogs and sites. Will be trying it out for 30 days to see how good it works for me. I recommend you do the same.

My Newest Recommended Traffic Tool

Save Your Time Ánd Your Bandwith By Editing Your Online Files Directly On The Server! And you can get this software FREE! It does help me a lot and should help you a lot if you are using an ftp program to constantly upload new pages, etc. to your site.

Online Source Code Editor

Want to get tons of jokes to make you laugh and smile? This is my blog of nothing but jokes.

Jokes Every Day

Well, either this Saturday or Sunday, we will be taking a trip down to Missouri again. Just a fast trip to pick up some items we need and we can get them cheaper down there than around here in Iowa.

Are you ready for this Sunday? Super Bowl Sunday? We went shopping yesterday and got enough food and snackables to take care of a small army! Going to be sitting down (not counting the times we will be jumping up and down in joy) and watching the Arizona Cardinals whomp the Pittsburgh Steelers. Iowa is probably all going to be glued to a tv set as Kurt Warner, homeboy, will be guiding the Cardinals on to a sure victory. See how positive I and the wife are about this game? LOL

Never Pay for Gas Again

Okay, got to go read some more of a book I should never have put down last night! Read a bit before wife says dinner is ready.

Yesterday I put up some great advertising on my 8 blogs at: The General Blogger. If you have not seen this advertising, go to that blog now and check it out. Several options to advertise, with 3 separate sets of advertising and 2 options on each for time limits and fees for each. Be sure to take one of those options soon.

Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.
  – P. J. O’Rourke

In recent weeks a worm, a malicious software program, has swept through corporate, educational and public computer networks around the world. Known as Conficker or Downadup, it is spread by a recently discovered Microsoft Windows vulnerability, by guessing network passwords and by hand-carried consumer gadgets like USB keys.

Read more HERE. And make sure your computer has anti-virus program running to keep your computer from being infected.

Rumor is Twitter hit up more than a few venture firms to pitch the $250 million valuation, and got more than one “no.” But someone’s bit, perhaps encouraged by Twitter’s breakneck growth and the interest from Facebook. That means Twitter gets a new cash injection and time to figure out its business model at an even more leisurely pace.

We got about an inch of snow overnight. Covered up the ground that was bare of snow and ice after the warm sunny days we have early last week. The snow removal people were here early this morning clearing off the sidewalks and the parking lot. They do a great job. Earlier, after lunch, I cleared our van of the snow so it would not pack down or the bottom layer melt to turn to ice. More snow is due sometime this afternoon and early evening.

Lots of work to do! War and economic crisis are at the top of the new president’s Day One agenda. {Associated Press}

Here’s the best analysis we’ve seen of Barack Obama’s inaugural address. David Sanger of the New York Times sees it as a searing rejection of the Bush era. {New York Times}

Read the full text of Barack Obama’s inaugural speech here.

In the first family, a nation’s many faces. {New York Times}

Inauguration Day, by the numbers – Not the biggest day for traffic on the Internet, but impressive nevertheless. And CBS Best Inauguration Video Quality, Hulu, C-SPAN The Worst, Others Not Loading

How about a planet that is close in size and mass to Earth?

Last summer a team of astronomers discovered a planet, dubbed MOA-2007-BLG-192Lb, that was only three times the size of the Earth.

Now, upon a reanalysis, scientists believe the planet might be much smaller. From New Scientist:

Initially, the team believed that this host star was a brown dwarf – an object too puny to sustain nuclear fusion, as normal stars do. That suggested MOA-2007-BLG-192-L b weighed 3.3 Earths.

But more recent observations suggest the parent star is actually heavier than first thought — a type of star called a red dwarf, team member Jean-Philippe Beaulieu of the Paris Astrophysical Institute reported last week at a meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society in London.

That suggests the planet weighs just 1.4 Earths. In size terms, that makes it a near twin of our own planet, closer in mass than any known planet except Venus.

What Will Become of Windows Vista? – Once Windows 7 launches. Also Windows Vista Service Pack 2′s Latest Release Schedule

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