Thomas Jefferson said in 1802: "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies."

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."-- Thomas Jefferson

"When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout." .... jbd

"When once a job you have begun, do no stop till it is done. Whether the task be great or small, do it well, or not at all." .... Anon

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein

Television is one daylong commercial interrupted periodically by inept attempts to fill the airspace in between them.

If you can't start a fire, perhaps your wood is wet ....

When you elect clowns, expect a circus ..............




Showing posts with label ncaa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ncaa. Show all posts

Saturday, March 15, 2014

They took the "air" out of my annual tournament ... thanks Warren, for nothing!

I wanted to enter the NCAA Contest to win a BILLION dollars, I have done the brackets for many years, but, apparently, NOT THIS YEAR ....... I tried, had to answer questions about a home loan and needed by cell number, which I don't have .... so, not this year ..... because .......

by Todd Kehoe

On Sunday, the NCAA will select the 68 teams that will play for the college basketball championship. And on Monday, you might be spending some time thinking about which teams are going to win the 63 games of the NCAA tournament.

Filling out tournament bracket sheets is a time-honored tradition for people who are rooting on their alma mater or who love the game. This year, though, there's a mind-boggling pot of gold at the end of the NCAA rainbow. Warren Buffett has teamed up with Quicken Loans to offer $1 billion to anyone who submits a perfect bracket online with Yahoo Sports.

Yes, that's a B-B-B-billion. On paper, it looks amazing, especially since you can sign up for free. But how good of a deal is it really? Here are four things to think about before you go diving in to the Billion Dollar Bracket Challenge. It's free, but comes with a cost
There is no cost to signing up to play for the challenge, but there are strings attached.

To sign up, you need a Yahoo account. And to get registered, you need to give Quicken your email address, cellphone number and answer a few questions about your mortgage. That's the minimum; Quicken hopes you'll opt-in for more advertising potential.

Quicken and Yahoo want to be assured the person submitting is old enough to be in the contest and can be reached if he or she wins. But it's also a marketing gold mine, says Dave Vener, an executive with the merging Smith & Jones/Burst Marketing firm in Troy, N.Y.

With the cap on the contest set at 15,000,000 entrants, that's potentially 15 million new email addresses and cellphone numbers the company has in fresh contacts.

I used to enjoy it, looked forward to it, was going to start my usual "pool."

Thursday, March 28, 2013

I'm sorry, I can't resist ......................

Starlet Sylvia Golden shocked those in attendance last night, at the opening of her new movie, "Havlica," by arriving nude, wearing only a fully embriodered pink ghagra choli made out of the new invisible material made by Dupont. Inside the crowded theater  head usher Harley Pardee searched for the starlet for quite some time, and after the showing stated that he was not sure if she saw it or not. "I, I just don't know, one minute she was there and, well, then ..... I'm just not sure. If everyone wore that darn stuff the theater would look empty."

Follow up on the "invisible material"

Pictured here is the entire Third Army Regiment, their band, color guard and four units of their mechanized Division, all wearing the new material. Note how difficult it is to find the new M-55 tank, which has been spray painted with the new invisible paint. General Filburt Wisban is in the far left with his entire staff. He is wearing his famous sidearm, the Colt Frontier Scout,  Single Action.

The "invisible material" has so many possibilities and uses that Tech Centers around the world are racing to be the first.

The U.S. military is backing the development of camouflage fabrics that could one day make their soldiers completely invisible, it has been claimed.

The so-called 'Quantum Stealth' camouflage material is said to render its wearers completely invisible by bending light waves around them.

Its makers claim the material, which is in effect similar to the invisibility cloak worn by Harry Potter, can even fool night-vision goggles.

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Invisible materials now a reality

Shown here is a photograph of Helen Mercer, wearing the metamaterial cloth as a cloak. The photograph is taken in front of the large white syke wall at the Birmingham Studios in Florence California. A Linus Kodachrome 35mm with a reflex 4x lens was used to take the photograph. 

Researchers have taken the next step on the road to constructing a cloak of invisibility or a powerful "superlens" capable of capturing fine details undetectable to current lenses. A group from the University of California, Berkeley, this week is publishing the first demonstrations of materials capable of bending visible or near-visible light the "wrong" way in three dimensions.

Both are examples of metamaterials—specially designed structures that cause light to do things it normally wouldn't—in this case, bending backward, an effect called negative refraction. Researchers have built metamaterials capable of negatively refracting microwaves, but despite some successes bending visible light in two dimensions, they've had a harder time making three-dimensional versions.

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

AAAAWWWWWWwwwwwwww.......


LONDON (Reuters) - Eleven giant wind turbines are to be built off the east coast of Scotland, the government announced on Tuesday, a move that has infuriated U.S. billionaire Donald Trump who says they will spoil the view from his nearby state-of-the-art golf course.

Trump completed the first phase of his 750 million pound course at Menie near Aberdeen in 2010 after a fierce battle with conservationists who accused him of ruining a pristine coastal site.

The 66-year-old property magnate has long been railing against plans for what he calls the "huge and unsightly" turbines and has threatened to scrap plans to build a hotel at the course.

The 640-feet turbines will be in the sea an estimated mile and a half (2 km) from Trump's links course.

On Tuesday, he issued a statement saying: "We will put our future plans in Aberdeen on hold, as will many others, until this ridiculous proposal is defeated.

"Likewise, we will be bringing a lawsuit within the allocated period of time to stop what will definitely be the destruction of Aberdeen and Scotland itself."

Little hope seen for millions priced out of health overhaul


By Tom Brown

MIAMI (Reuters) - Millions of Americans will be priced out of health insurance under President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul because of a glitch in the law that adversely affects people with modest incomes who cannot afford family coverage offered by their employers, a leading healthcare advocacy group said on Tuesday.

Tax credits are a key component of the law and the White House has said the credits, averaging about $4,000 apiece, will help about 18 million individuals and families pay for health insurance once the Affordable Care Act takes full effect, beginning in January 2014.

The tax credits are geared toward low and middle-income Americans who do not have access to affordable health insurance coverage through an employer. The law specifies that employer-sponsored insurance is affordable so long as a worker's share of the premium does not exceed 9.5 percent of the worker's household income.

In its rule making, or final interpretation of the law, the IRS said affordability should be based strictly on individual coverage costs, however.

That means that, even if family coverage through an employer-based plan far exceeds the 9.5 percent cutoff, workers would not be eligible for the tax credits to help buy insurance for children or non-working dependents.

Probably more to the story ......


By Matthew DeLuca, Staff Writer, NBC News

An Arizona gun store owner says he will not sell Mark Kelly the AR-15 rifle that the vocal advocate for tighter gun control bought earlier this month.

The manager of the Tucson, Ariz., store where Kelly, husband of former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, bought the firearm has said that he will not complete the March 5 transaction, according to a statement posted on Facebook.

“While I support and respect Mark Kelly’s 2nd Amendment rights to purchase, possess, and use firearms in a safe and responsible manner, his recent statements to the media made it clear that his intent in purchasing the Sig Sauer M400 5.56mm rifle from us was for reasons other then for his personal use,” Douglas MacKinlay, owner of Diamondback Police Supply, said in the post.

It just came to me a little while ago ....


In my mind, I think of getting out of my chair as a thirty year old.

But, I get up as an eighty year old.

Older people will relate to that.

The first ...... fisherman


Hey, Igor, let's go fishing.

What fishing, Og?

I've been looking down at the water, and there are things under the top of the water. I think we should catch some and see if they are friendly.

Why we do that, Og?

I think seafood could be a nice compliment to our present diet.

What?

I think that if we figure a way to get them out of the water, then we could cook them, oh, I forgot, no fire yet, well we could cut them into little pieces and call them ...... soushi, or something like that.

What is soushi, Og?

She is the cute chest with long hair who lives over the hill who has fixed up an old cave and people go there to eat. When sky gets dark and white light comes down from sky and hits tree she fixes dinosaur meat over hot lite and she have a full house of people, but when fire go out soushi have only cold food

Oh, Og, then you should capitalize the S in her name, right Og?

I will from now on, Igor.

How we go fishing, Og?

Me findum mono filament line, tie it on a long stick and put in water. Fish see line and ..... well they not know what to do. We need some kind of enticement, Igor.

What is enticement, Og?

It be something we will affix on the end of the mono filament line that will attract the fish and they will try to eat it ..... we will call it bait, Og.

We usem rock, Og?

No Igor, we need something that will attract the fish, something they want, must be appealing to them. What is that crawling up your leg, Igor?

Not know, but may appeal to fish.

Brilliant, Igor, you've got it, we will use that wormy looking thing on the end of the mono filament line to attract the fish. They will see it, and when they try to eat it, we will pull them out of the water. Here, Igor, take this line and tie the worm to it .... good .... now, drop it in the water .... that's it, Igor, move it around  ..... the fish is looking at it ..... there .... it is going to eat it ...... he has it ........... pull it out Igor.

It stay in water eating the wormy thing ... why that not work, Og?

Oh, I don't know Igor, we just didn't hook it right.

What's a hook, Og?

I love women's sports - some of my idols

I admit it, I love Women's Athletics. I watch softball, basketball, pool, tennis and more. I guess my first heroine was Martina. Just one name was all she needed, just like Michael. I think that is the pinnacle, when you are recognized by one name. Martina had some memorable matches in her career, to me, she was the epitome of a "professional," I have a great deal of admiration for her.

My first softball hero was Lisa Fernandez, she was a "master, a pitcher, a coach, and a mother. During USA Softball’s “Central Park to Sydney Tour,” Fernandez pitched five straight perfect games, and in one of those games she struck out all 21 batters. At the 2000 Games, she posted a 0.47 ERA with 52 strikeouts. And then came Cat Osterman, and .......... Jennie Finch, arguably the most famous softball player of all time. She is probably the idol of any young lady playing softball, or any sport for that matter. Jennie Finch defeated Anna Kournikova in an Espn online poll as the most attractive female athlete. Married and the mother of two.

Now watching basketball. One of the great stories in all sports, male of female, one woman that I have a great deal of respect for, Pat Summit. She is the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history of either a men's or women's team in any division. She coached from 1974 to 2012, all with the Lady Vols, winning eight NCAA national championships, second only to the record 10 titles won by UCLA men's coach John Wooden. She is the only coach in NCAA history, and one of three college coaches overall, with at least 1,000 victories. Pat was named the Naismith Basketball Coach of the Century in April 2000. In 2009, the Sporting News placed her number 11 on its list of the 50 Greatest Coaches of All Time in all sports; she was the only woman on the list. In 38 years as a coach, she never had a losing season. On April 20, 2012, the White House announced that Pat Summitt would be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama. Summitt received the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the 2012 ESPY Awards. She had to step down, she was diagnosed and living with Alzheimer's disease. She is longer the coach, but she never misses a practice or a game. Do I respect her, I am "tearing up" just writing this. Many of her players are in touch with her every day, she impacted so many.

Geno Auriemma is he head coach of the University of Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team. He has led UConn to seven NCAA Division I national championships, and has won six national Naismith College Coach of the Year awards. He was also the head coach of the United States women's national basketball team from 2009 to 2012, winning the 2010 World Championship, and the gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics. They are still advancing in the tournament this year. Auburn may stand in his way of another one.

Basketball on now, softball coming up, great stuff to watch.





Bill Gates' $100 million database to track students


By Michael F. Haverluck

Over the past 18 months, a massive $100 million public-school database spearheaded by the $36.4 billion-strong Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has been in the making that freely shares student information with private companies.

The system has been in operation for several months and already contains millions of K-12 students’ personal identification ‒ ranging from name, address, Social Security number, attendance, test scores, homework completion, career goals, learning disabilities, and even hobbies and attitudes about school.

Claiming that the national database will enhance education, the main funder of the project, the Gates Foundation, entered the joint venture with the Carnegie Corporation of New York and school officials from a number of states. After Rupert Murdoch’s Amplify Education (a division of News Corp) spent more than a year developing the system’s infrastructure, the Gates Foundation delivered it to inBloom ‒ a nonprofit corporation recently established to run the database.

School officials and private companies doing business with districts might have plenty to be happy about with this information-sharing system, but ParentalRights.org President Michael P. Farris says parents have plenty to worry about when it comes to inBloom’s national database.

“The greatest immediate threat to children is the threat to their privacy,” Farris told WND in an exclusive interview. “The Supreme Court has recognized a sphere of privacy within the family, but this project would take personal information about each child, apart from any considerations of parental consent, and put it into a database being managed and monitored solely by the government agencies and private corporations that use it.”


Surrealistic moment ..... here's one



This is the dock that we pulled in at Yokohama. This is our sister ship,  the USS General George M. Randall (AP-115) Departing Yokohama, Japan, with the first Korean War dead to be returned to the United States. 11 March 1951.

Have I had a surrealistic moment, yea, now that you mention it, I have. I think that is the correct word, a moment that I, to this day,  vividly remember, it happened in 1954.

I enlisted in the Navy in 1952, and spent two years in San Diego, at the Receiving Station, which I don't think is there anymore, and then was transferred to Seattle, and did my last two years aboard the USS William Mitchell TAP 114, my two year taste of "sea duty."

On my first cruise we left Seattle, Washington, headed for Japan. Saw a lot of water before getting there.

One morning, we were alerted that we were pulling in the channel and heading to Yokohama Harbor.

Let me digress. I was born in 1932. I remember December 7, 1941, vividly. I remember the war well. I remember we were told of those "dirty little Japs." I remember all the movies, the newsreels, the radio announcements, and when it was over, after the "bomb" dropped in 1945.

So, here I was, only nine years after the war ended, sailing up these waters that still showed signs of the war, Sunken ships, debris, I remember some of the buildings had marks from bullets, it was almost like a dream to me, being there, seeing all of this, just a few years after the war.

I found this photograph on the web, but it is where we pulled in, and I remember the sign, and how strange I thought it was, to be welcomed, after all I had seen and heard during the war, to be Welcomed to Japan.

I can still see those sunken ships in the harbor, I was then, and still am, in awe of those scenes, a war I had lived in my mind, I was actually seeing, up close. I think that surreal sums it up, pretty well.

PS - I don't remember how many crossings I made. I was in Japan, Korea, Okinawa, San Francisco, Seattle, and every time we left or pulled in to a port, there were crowds of people, troops and bands to either greet us, or say goodbye. 


Mirrors = reality, and I hate that

I am 80.

Fortunately, for me, I wake up each morning, I thank God for letting me live through the night, and, perhaps, giving me another day on earth. My back hurts, my neck hurts, it takes me a while to ..... come out of a daze, get my bearings, get my head on straight, walk normally, all those things. But, I am pretty much just 30 or 40 years old, I start walking pretty well, looking forward to the day.

I head to the kitchen and make coffee, into the living room, turn on the TV, find the music station, and then have to decide between "Swing Kings" which takes me back to the 30's and 40's, or "Easy Instrumentals" which takes me back to the 50's and beyond.

Today I am at Easy Instrumentals, "La Vie En Rose" right now, by Ronald Binge and his Romantic Strings, never heard of him, but the music is pleasant. I'm sure that brings back some memories, just not sure what then are, but I am living in the past.

Got my first cup of coffee down, Walmart Generic Coffee, I can develop a taste for most anything, but it is hot and wet. I will buy Folgers when I hit the lottery, or even Maxwell House. I wonder what that recent lottery winner in New Jersey is drinking this morning. No generic coffee for him anymore. I think he has five kids. I bet they all really love him, now.

Now, a trip to the bathroom, I walk down the hall. When my back and neck really hurt, or some other aged problem arises, I mentally have trained myself to walk like John Wayne. I stop myself, put myself in a John Wayne frame of mind, it relaxes my back, slows me down, and helps me motivate. I use that walk more and more. It works though. Yesterday I went out for the mail. Walking was a little labored, so a little way out I thought ......... John Wayne .............. and made it to the mailbox and back with no trouble.

As a 30 or 40 year old, I walk into the bathroom, look into the mirror and see my aged Father in the mirror. Who is that? It's Ralph Dean Dooley, no, it's me, 80 year old Joe. Can't be, I'm too young to look like that. All those "brown" spots and blemishes, the white hair, looking like an old man.

Shaving is going to be  tough, but all the mirrors have to go, I am just not that old.

I'm back, there goes "Autumn Leaves" by Jon Burchfield, so melodic, takes me way back, nice, soft, quiet music, great to listen to, while I takes these darn mirrors down.

Monday, March 25, 2013

No title ... just ... contemplation


Tomas Young is "ready to go" as he puts it.

After nine years of suffering and with his body quickly deteriorating he has decided to end his struggle.

Young, 33, was paralyzed from the chest down by a sniper's bullet in a battle in Sadr City, Iraq on April 4, 2004, less than a week after he got to the country. He had joined the Army just two days after September 11, 2001 and assumed he would be sent to Afghanistan. Now nine years after that battle he is choosing to end his suffering. He is in hospice care and getting ready to die.

"I just decided that I was tired of seeing my body deteriorate and I want to go before it's too late," Young said in phone interview with ABC News from his home in Kansas City, Mo. "I've been doing this for the past nine years now…and I finally felt helpless every day and a burden to the people who take care of me and that's why I want to go."

Young and his wife Claudia Cuellar are receiving guests for a few more weeks. During that time, Young will say goodbye to friends and family and then will stop receiving medications, nourishment and water. They don't know how long it could be after that time he will die, but they believe it will be one to three weeks, but it could be as long as six weeks.

They don't consider it suicide, just an end to his suffering.

The word ............. enough .................. again.

In a prehistoric frame of mind, I guess ....


Even back then ............. not sure why I am in a "prehistoric" frame of mind this morning.

Gor, I want to "come out."

What you mean, Igor.

I not like other guys, they chase the longhairs with the cute chests, I not do that, I rather be with flat chests.

When you know that, Igor?

The last blurg, I chasem a longhair with a cute chest, I catch cute chest and then I not know what to do, not want to do nothing like others do. I know not what to do, I feel like bird in sky, I wantem to cook and keep cave clean, I mix red berries with white stuff and do my cave in a pink color.

I'm at a loss for words, Igor, you have caught me completely off guard and by surprise, we are on uncharted waters. I admit that I was concerned when I saw how you threw the spear at the dinosaur, you threw just like a cute chest. And then at the club, you ordered a Pink Lady while all the flat chests were drinking boiler makers. And, to be honest, Igor, you swish when you walk, more like a cute chest than a flat chest.

You use many big words when you talk to Igor, Igor not understand all your words, maybe that's why you the leader, big words, promise our people much, not understand what you say, maybe not even from our land but a land far away, but Igor want you to help me "come out."

Why you wantem to "come out?"

Want to be with one of the flat chests.

Which one?

Clung, only not know how to let him know.

You wantem to clean his cave and washem his loin cloth at the creek and do his food. No fire yet so all cold food. How you know that Clung wantem to do that?

He winkem his eye at me when we havem big fire in the land of trees.

Could it maybe just have been the smoke.

Oh, shucks, you might be right, mister.

The first dance ......


I wonder who started .... "dancing?"

Maybe the caveman. They were all sitting around on rocks, in the cave, no fire yet, just sitting and staring at each other.

Igor, get up and jump up and down, see if you can make us laugh.

What is laugh, Gor?

When I am happy my face changes.

What is happy, Gor?

Just get up and stomp your feet.

What is stomp, Gor?

I will clap my hands and you will jump up and down, and move around the cave, in time with my clapping, it will be fun.

What is clap, jump, move, time and fun, Gor.?

Just get up and do what I do, Igor.

And Igor and Gor, get on their feet, jump up and down, sway to the clapping, stomp their feet, stir up the dust, eventually start hacking and coughing, and in general, make fools of themselves.

Wasn't that fun, Igor?

What is fun, again?

We were dancing around the cave and having a good time, stomping our feet, and moving in time to the clapping of our hands, it was very rhythmic, don't you think, we were expressing ourselves in dance, I felt like I was free, at last, it was a historic moment, don't you think?

Where is Gor, you not sound like him?

We need Jack Armstrong - The All American Boy

Beautiful Spring morning in Ohio, three inches of snow on the ground, last year on this date I sat out on the porch and got some sun. Will be on the porch today, shoveling snow.

However, this crisp, cold Spring air has cleared my head, it was revealed to me this morning, the problem we are having in this country. Jack Armstrong is gone. Every afternoon at four, I would turn on the radio and listen to Jack Armstrong, the All American boy. Together, we would "raise the flag for Hudson High." Then I would spend some time, with Jack, in his world for fifteen minutes. Jack was an athlete at old Hudson High School, and often got involved in an adventure with his friend Billy Fairfield, and Billy's sister Betty, and their uncle Jim Fairfield.

Uncle Jim would have to visit an exotic part of the world in connection with his business, and he would take Jack Armstrong and the Fairfield siblings along with him. I lived those adventures with them. "All American" became very special for me, and the sponsor of the show, Wheaties, were a must on my breakfast table.

Good and bad was always the theme, i learned about good and bad and right and wrong. Often some of the ads would be about famous athletes and we would actually hear them extolling the virtues of Wheaties. To this day I buy a box once in a while, and think of Jack and Billy and Betty and Uncle Jim. I must admit too that I still listen to some of the old shows I can find on the internet. I can put the headphones on, listen to Jack, and be transported back in time.

Jack taught me right from wrong, good from bad, and we all wanted to be like Jack. Kids don't get that today. I spent at lease an hour or so, every weekday listening to Jack, Terry and the Pirates, Captain Midnight and others, all who drew that line between right and wrong, I lived their adventures, I created scenarios in my mind. I decoded messages with my Captain Midnight Decoder Badge.

The main thing, I had to use my "imagination," and kids are missing out on that these days, they "see" it all, not imagine it.

I loved those "sick" days, when I could convince my Dad, the Doctor, that "I didn't feel well. Mom would bring up that bed tray, I don't even see those anymore, other than in old movies, get comfortable under the covers, turn the radio on and listen to Stella Dallas and Ma Perkins and all of the other "soaps."

Start with The Breakfast Club, with Don McNeil, from Chicago, a great show, news from WLW in Cincinnati with Peter Grant, Ruth Lyons from Cincinnati also, then the afternoon soaps. My imagination was working the whole day.

But, the old Philco radio has been replaced with the laptop and these other tablets, etc., whatever they are, no imagination used, just images viewed.

We need to listen to Jack Armstrong again, I think we would have less problems, he was The All American Boy.

More OTR

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Needam wampum - casino losum wampum


Maybe makum too big ....
LEDYARD, Conn. (AP) -- Once the envy of Indian Country for its billion-dollar casino empire, the tribe that owns the Foxwoods Resort Casino has been struggling through a financial crisis and pursuing more revenue from an unlikely source: U.S. government grants.

The money provided annually to the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation through the Interior Department and the Department of Health and Human Services has risen over the last five years to more than $4.5 million, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press through the Freedom of Information Act.

One former tribal employee says department leaders encouraged to offset dwindling resources by seeking more federal grants.

The Pequots, who once distributed stipends exceeding $100,000 annually to adult members, are not alone among gaming tribes seeking more federal aid. Several, including the owner of Foxwoods' rival Connecticut casino, the Mohegan Sun, say they have been pursuing more grants — a trend that critics find galling because the law that gave rise to Indian casinos was intended to help tribes become financially self-sufficient.


Hello, yes this is Barack Obama, how may I help you?

And, you are who, again, Mitchell Etess. and you are CEO of the Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority, Ok, what can I do for you?

You are having financial problems, what do you think I have here?

Ha, ha, your casino is having a hard time, you're losing money, in a casino, yea, right,  that's a laugh.

No, really, what can I do for you?

Really, you have a gambling casino and it is losing money, and you want me,  us, to help bail you out, what do you mean we owe you? All the other casinos are hurting too, and t h e y also need help.

Yes, I just gave some money to Jordan, no, it wasn't the basketball player, it was the country, we might have to borrow money from Michael. Hey, it's tough here too, I was talking with a guy today about selling some of our national parks to keep this ship afloat, it's tough all over.

We did all we could a few years ago to make you redskins self sufficient.

I'm sorry, that slipped out, I get tired of always having to hand out money.

Why are you laughing?

One suggestion, cut out all the entertainment and the sports and concentrate on gambling, that's all you need to do. Cut back on your expenses, that's what we do here in Washington .......

Cut out that damned laughing, what, oh, I'm sorry, my chopper is here, heading out again. Call Joe or Nancy, they're good with grants. Send up a smoke signal, you redskins are good at that, aw, sorry again, but you guys aren't a big voting block.

Miss Emma



My Great Granddaughter
Is she something, or what?

ENOUGH ...................


Enough

Enough: occurring in such quantity, quality, or scope as to fully meet demands, needs, or expectations.

"I wish you ..... enough." What a nice way to say goodbye, that is what a fulfilled life is all about, enough. I don't recall anyone ever using the word to say goodbye, but it is so appropriate. Not, have a great life, it probably won't be, but what  a nice wish, that you have enough.

I have used that word many times and never really given it any thought as to what it actually means. It's a very simple word, a comfortable word.

I doubt that I will start using that phrase to say goodbye, "I wish you enough," people would look strangely at me, but all that goes with it has a very special meaning.

What are your goals in life, "To have enough." That says it all, enough.