Perez Who????? Apples and Oranges...

Since when is Perez Hilton a celebrity? I thought all he was good for was trying to get the "dirt" on the hollywood crowd. Ooooh, he was upset by Miss California telling her honest opinion, just because it was in front of all of America, he thought he would step all over it and have a hissy. My belief system gives me the same value that "marriage" is a blessed union between a man and a woman. I know that anyone can call something else whatever they wanf but if I have an apple and you want to call your orange an apple too I really don't think they are the same thing. Gay people have been able to get married for years. I mean if a gay man wants to marry a woman...hey what's holding him back...now if you want to call two guys living together a marriage , well that is where you are trying to call an orange an "Apple" ... two plusses don't make it. I believe if they want some form of state sanctioned arrangement then that is fine, just don't call it "marriage" ... That is just the way I see it. It isn't taking any "Rights" away, that is not what I am about, just let them find their own arrangement, but it isn't marriage.

(picture credited to: http://shirts-by-eye.blogspot.com/2007/01/apples-oranges.html )

Some things are better with baby slobber...:)

I was thinking the other day, somethings are best with "baby slobber" I mean, think about all the good times with your children, ( when they were real small ) and it didn't take any time at all then poof they are grown or growing up and wanting to be their own person. So, appreciate the times when they are little and give you their version of love..."baby slobber" I know, I know...it sounds gross, but you will learn to miss it. This is my first baby ...growing up too fast... I know I miss her little days but I have learned to appreciate her grown days too. I hope and pray I have raised her properly, I am proud of her and the choices she makes. This is for you ...my little "Homer" ( another story for another day) I am proud of you ...keep making the right choices and know I will always love you,

Love Da

Relay For Life

Most likely you know someone who has been affected by someone who has or has had cancer of one form or another. For me it has been my grandfather, my mother , her mother and several other friends. My father-in-law too has been touched by a mild form of cancer; but has no signs any longer, thank God. So in remembrance of my mother please support Relay for Life. My brother has a team site and your gift is tax deductable. Thank you.

http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR/RelayForLife/RFLFY09MS?px=10393442&pg=personal&fr_id=15800&fl=en_US&et=lbPvKu1B9FhnzocxT9VXag..&s_tafId=272508

Powder? What Powder...

Just looking at old photo's...this one is one of my favorites. I can't find the one with peanut butter, but you know the drill. How did you know what I was up to...after all . I love these memories. everyone should have em so good. Thanks "Em" for the good days and the not, but hey I hope I am raising you right. I am so proud of you. Love, Da

Now that I have paid...

Hey, now that I have paid my taxes to my government of my no longer "Christian" nation...do I get to wear a scarf in my new driver's license picture???? Just checking to see if we are still a free country? Not that I would ever have a "mug shot" but what about that? Hey is this rediculous or what...have you seen that one where a girl (of a nationality or religion that says cover up) accused of murder was arrested and in her mug shot she wasn't covered from head to toe so her husband was "offended"... http://www.southtownstar.com/news/opinion/speakout/1530741,041709mugshotreact.article http://www.wbbm780.com/Islam--insulted--by-alleged-child-killer-s-mug-sho/4179883 http://republicaninthearts.blogspot.com/2009/04/alleged-child-killer-nour-hadids.html not to worry, he wasn't offended at all that she killed their child ( allegedly ) . apparently the value of life is only good if it hiding under a sheet. I don't think I will ever understand. I don't know if I ever want to understand either.

How did your TeaParty go?

I thought this was a pretty cool poster for the Tea Parties to protest excessive spending. Just in case you thought it was over taxes...this time it was more over the excessive spending of this current administration. Differences of opinions over how the economy should be revitalized. etc... This is where I got the pic... http://patriotroom.com/article/grab-your-indian-gear--the-american-tea-party-happens-on-friday- ... here are some notes on other tea parties that went on yesterday. http://www.wtoctv.com/global/story.asp?s=10190245 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090415/ap_on_re_us/tax_day_protests http://taxdayteaparty.com/ http://www.teapartyday.com/ http://redstateeclectic.typepad.com/redstate_commentary/2009/03/april-15-tea-parties.html even in California http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/n/a/2009/04/15/national/a080019D17.DTL&o=0

Teaparty Mania

Gotta love the spirit...I support em too... Today is the official Tax Day for this year and it is also the day that many across America are expressing their frustration with the current administrations tax policies. Spending all my hard earned money for me. Well I think if you really want to induce me to spend more and help the economy you should allow mw to keep more of my money in the first place. By the way, why do we need all those extra people in the Government for anyway. How does spending my tax dollars on someones else to have an abortion ( killing a very small person ) help the economy? : or giving some of my money to some artist for some display ( which he/she might have done anyway for the appreciation of the public ) that will only be shown for a short while benefit my community? I can see spending money for the safety and wellbeing ( fire services, security, some infrastructure ( most of which should be funded locally ) schools, and that sort of thing but don't make me pay for the extra things that perhaps someone in California might want like nationalized healthcare. I believe in States rights' and as such I believe that the Federal government shouldn't interfere in such matters that are not specifically outlined in the Constitution.

Remembering Good Friday

Today we also need to recognize Good Friday and its significance in our history. This is the day we take time to remember Jesus death on the cross.

John 3:16 (New International Version)
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[a] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

We also have other means to help us to remember...http://www.thepassionofthechrist.com/splash.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW_05tnZxTI

Ten Trill, not Tendril

Although they want to get their tendrils into your money this is about Ten Trillion... can you say? $ 1 0 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 . 0 0 . a whole lotta zero's. Hey we have almost reached the deficit count. see http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/ . I think when I began this counting thing, the deficit was only 9.3 Trillion or something like that... well it is now over eleven and counting. What can I do next? I suppose I might go back and see if I can see how many things we can buy with that kind of money hmmmmm... by the way, other people are concerned about this money thing too... http://yedies.blogspot.com/2009/03/trillion-dollars.html

A Trilli---an, A Lot

A TRILLION is a whole lot.

Lets see that... $ 1 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 . 0 0 ...hoo hoo. (http://100777.com/node/455) (http://www.jimloy.com/math/trillion.htm) What could it buy two years ago...well see http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/17/business/17leonhardt.html ... any way if you want to see the current debt clock here it is... http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/ . I do like this one though...check it out http://chris.jurnl.com/files/2009/03/trilliondollarsvacation.jpg I know I sure could use one. :)

Billions and Billions, and I don't mean stars

Just like Carl Sagan used to say, "Billions and billions..." If you are just joining, I have been doing a progressive series on how many days will it take to get to the grand amount our Prez and congress are going to be billing our kids in the future. Today is the day I picked to give you another zero, added to yesterdays... so now our figure is $ 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 . 0 0 , I guess that would one hundred Billion . It is nowhere near our deficit yet but it is over what tht Prez recently requested. ( see http://87billion.com/ ) Just to get an inkling of what that would be like to see well it would be huge... here is another guy concerned about this amount... http://www.correntewire.com/remember_when_100_billion_dollars_seemed_like_a_lot_of_money although in the war torn country of Zimbabwe 100 Billion of their dollars is only equal to one of ours...that is literally $1.00. http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/07/19/zimbabwe.banknotes/index.html Man, I could be a rich man over there. What is the world coming to.? Think about it. By the way, this picture is nowhere near how large a stack this will be. Check out the http://87billion.com/ site for a more accurate depiction. It is quite impressive. WOW.

11BigBills

Eleven Billion Dollars today...well I tried to find a good pic to represent $11,000,000,000.00 but this will have to do. It is just a big stack of money, not enough I am sure, but tomorrow I will show a bigger stack. But if you are interested in what will be coming next, well I found a site that has the names for all the amounts listed, I mean the really big ones that I never knew the names for... http://www.jimloy.com/math/billion.htm enjoy! I just know that it is gonna take a real long time to pay off that kind of money. :(

A Milliard?

A milliard you saay, what is that, well in America it is a Billion so in dollars that would be $ 1,000,000,000.00 . Hmmm that is a lot of zeros. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000000000_(number) also known as 1000 million (1 milliard) Hey I learned something new today.

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Another 100,000,000.00 that is history

I am sure, in my mind at least, that one hundred million used to be a really big number. After all if it were to take me more than 48 years just to make my first million then heavens! It will take 480 years to make this amount...no I am sorry , lets make that 4800 years. So Methusalem wouldn't have even made a dent either. Nowadays I guess it is just another drop in the bucket, and since everyone is doing away with their money and getting some other form of exchange that would make this bill either worthless or nearly so. ( Except for some collector) Once, though I guess this could have really done some good for a bunch of people. It is worth thinking about.

If only it were this easy

Ten Million, that is a lot of stuff...so you would think, but here is an example of not a lot of worth. Ten Million Dollars in Zimbwabe sounds like a lot but if you converted it to U.S. Dollars well se here:

Saturday, April 4, 2009
10,000,000 Zimbabwe Dollar = 0.26731 US Dollar roughly almost 27 cents.

but if you had 10,000,000 US Dollar (USD) that equals 374,100,300,000,000.00 Zimbabwe Dollar (ZWD) I don't even know if there is a name for this number .

I don't think outside of winning a lottery, I will never see even the other big numbers I have posted this week, but I wanted to see how big it was. Just for your info, I got the conversion through this site: http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/africa/zimbabwe/currency.htm

Is There A Roman Numeral for this?

1 Million Dollars...Is there a short numeral for this? We tend to say 1 Mil or some other little phrase that makes this seem small but it is actually pretty huge. $1 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 . 0 0 If I were making minimum wage ( Covered nonexempt workers are entitled to a minimum wage of not less than $6.55 per hour effective July 24, 2008 ) How long would it take me to make my first Million dollars...not to actually have a million but to have earned it ( remember you have to live on something at the same time...) well calculated on an average of 2080 hours per year ( 40 hours times 52 weeks ) making $13,624 annually ...it would take that person 73.4 years just to say they made a million in their lifetime. That is also why it peaves me when these young talented athletes with bad attitudes make millions and also get bonuses then blow their money without anythought for their fellow man or community. They don't think about the people that have to WORK for a living. This is an extreme I know, but there are many Americans that are on the low end of the wage scale. If you were to move the wage up to around ten dollars hourly, it would still take a bit over 48 years to earn. More do-able yet still how much of that are they able to invest or save? I am sure for about 98% it ain't no million. So the next time congress throws these numbers around so easily, remember it is still a lot of money. Tomorrow...we get the next zero...........ooohh

By the way...this bill is not real legal tender, here is where you can get some though if you like...
http://www.cr8apl8.com/milliondollarbill.html . For those of you interested in what might be an actual million dollar certificate see thie site... http://www.moneyfactory.gov/document.cfm/5/44/122

A Grand Cee

A Grand Cee or 1000 100's or $100,000.00 That is a lot of cha-ching... at least in my opinion. So whether I wouldn't mind having a few of these, well I wouldn't mind putting them on the list of "nice to have." ( especially since this is the Gold variety) Note I still have a lot of zero's to go before getting to our goal. Here is a little bit more information about these notes... http://www.moneyfactory.gov/section.cfm/5/42

10G

Boy oh boy, would I like to have some of these...that would be a few zero's I wouldn't mind having. $10,000.00 hmmm maybe just a few. Actually they are only worth the paper they are printed on except to collectors... the government made it illegal to hold these years back... http://www.treas.gov/education/faq/currency/sales.shtml#q7 Still ... wouldn't it be nice if?