I can get my household budget done in a day!

I’ve not seen anything happening, you would think after a month the ecomony would be all fixed!

Inflation is still on the rise. Banks still folding. Jobs still being lost. Companies are still laying off workers. What is going on here!

I have not seen the magic genie, nor the wizard that promised me a brain. And what about that rabbit he was to pull out of his – Ive not seen that either!

Common Mr. President dont you think by a month the world should be all put back together again? God did it in a week, what are you going to say your only human and these things take time?

Are you going to say that with the world in such a cluster fump that a month isnt long enough to fix what took decades to get us to this point?

Are you going to say that you have the best minds in America working daily on finding the best guessed solutions as that’s all we have is a best guess?

Are you going to tell us to quit our whinning and put on our big boy pants and act like adults and do our part to fix whats broken?

Are you going to ask us to work for our money and stop taking hand outs from Daddy?

Are you going to tell us that such a difficult task is not solved in a little over a month, that it may take years to get the world under control again? Jee, its only the world that is in a mess, whats wrong here! This should be all under control by now!

[In case there are those who have the disease 'ostridge syndrome', this is a facetious post to say that the President is doing the best that can be done, and people have to give it a chance to see any positive changes.]

Tuesday President Obama will be signing the stimulus package and were off!

Its a scary thing as there is no mathematical chart to tell us how this will all come out, all we can use is trial and error. Myself Im hoping for the best and expecting the worse. I now know how to eat off the land with different greens that grow in my back yard that are edible and nutritious. Wonder what blue Jays taste like………..

Heres is the short list:

Health Care

- $87 billion for Medicaid health care coverage for the poor.
- $19 billion to accelerate the use of health information technology systems.

Education
- $53.6 billion in direct aid to states, including $40.6 billion for local school districts, $5 billion in bonus grants for meeting key education performance measures and $8 billion for public safety and other critical services.
- $2,500 annual tax credit for higher education expenses.
- $500 increase in the maximum Pell Grant for low-income college students to $5,350 in 2009 and $5,550 in 2010.
- $13 billion for Title I grants for schools in low-income areas.
- $12.2 billion for special education.
- $2 billion for the Child Care Development Block Grant program to help low-income parents.
- $1.1 billion for Early Head Start and $1 billion for Head Start.

Infrastructure
- $29 billion to modernize roads and bridges.
- $18 billion for clean water, flood control and environmental restoration.
- $8.4 billion for transit.
- $8 billion for high-speed rail.
- $5 billion to upgrade Defense Department facilities, including housing for troops.
- $4.5 billion to make federal office buildings more energy-efficient.

Tax cuts
- “Making Work Pay” tax credit of $400 for single filers earning up to $100,000 and $800 for couples earning up to $200,000.
- Allow low-income families earning as little as $3,000 to qualify for the child tax credit.
- Expands the Earned Income Tax Credit for families with three or more children and increases marriage penalty relief.
- Exempts 24 million taxpayers, for another year, from the Alternative Minimum Tax.
- Revises the $7,500 tax credit for first-time homebuyers by removing the repayment requirement.
- Exempts from federal taxes the state and local sales taxes paid on the purchase of cars, light trucks and SUVs.
- Temporarily exempts some unemployment benefits from income taxes.

Unemployed
- Continues through December 2009 the program that provides up to 33 weeks of extended unemployment benefits.
- $25 increase in weekly unemployment benefits.
- A 60 percent federal subsidy for up to nine months for the cost of continuing an employer’s health care coverage after a layoff under COBRA.

Food
- Increase monthly food stamp benefits by more than 13 percent.
- $100 million for emergency food and shelter to help community groups.
^Workers
- $4 billion for job training.
- $2 billion for the Neighborhood Stabilization Program to help communities buy and fix up foreclosed, vacant properties.
- $1.5 billion for the Emergency Shelter Grant program to provide short-term rental assistance and other aid.
- Payment of $250 to Social Security and disability recipients and veterans receiving disability compensation and pension benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
- Extends Trade Adjustment Assistance benefits over the next two years for at least 160,000 new workers who lose their jobs because of increased imports or factory shifts to certain foreign countries.

Energy
- $30 billion for a smart power grid, advanced battery technology and other energy efficiency measures.
- $20 billion in tax incentives for renewable energy and energy efficiency over the next 10 years.
- $6.3 billion for energy efficiency in multifamily housing getting federal assistance, such as HUD-sponsored low-income housing.
- $5 billion to weatherize more than 1 million homes owned by “modest-income” families.

Science
- $8.5 billion for programs at the National Institutes of Health, including biomedical research on Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, cancer and heart disease.
- $3 billion for basic research by the National Science Foundation.
- $1.6 billion for the Department of Energy’s Office of Science for areas such as climate, biofuels, high-energy physics, nuclear physics and fusion energy.
- $1.5 billion for NIH to renovate university research facilities.
- $1 billion for NASA, including $400 million for climate change research.

Broadband
- $7 billion to expand broadband services to under-served communities.

Don’t know about you but YEA, broadband!!!! that will stimulate me! Gotta run and  go google Blue Jay.

At this point I would like to thank my girlfriend, Kimberly, who is always here to encourage me in this endeavor. I would also like to give a note of gratitude to Kate, my Vice President of Technology, without whom none of this would have been possible. And also to Evelyn, VP Finance, for helping to fund this blog.

Thanks to all my readers for their past support, and I hope these upgrades only add to your experience on Manfredeye.

Apparently a gravedigger, Keith Chartrand, broke into a casket while he was digging a grave and stole a skull and thigh bone. Then he took them home with the intention of making an ashtray and pipe from the body parts.

He was discovered Wednesday after his wife called the police with a complaint that he had killed her dog.

Chartrand was charged with removing a body from a grave and with cruelty to animals.

Even if I get pummeled in the final vote, it is still quite an honor just to be considered. I congratulate my 80+ co-honorees and wish all of them–as well as those nominated in other categories–the best of luck in the balloting.

“I do believe that it was the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel, ” O’Donnell said when questioned on whether she thought the US government was behind the collapse of World Trade Center.

“I do believe that it defies physics for the World Trade Center tower which collapsed in on itself–it is impossible for a building to fall the way it fell without explosives being involved. Miraculously, the first time in history steel was melted by fire,” she said.

“To say that we don’t know that it imploded…is beyond ignorant. Look at the film, get a physics expert from Yale, from Harvard, pick the school. It defies reason. Imagine if somebody could convince you of that.”

With these remarks, in support of conspiracy theorists, the outspoken co-host of the ABC talk show “The View,” began to pave her way off the show.

That path was cemented when the liberal O’Donnell and co-host Elizabeth Hasselbeck, a political conservative, had a heated exchange last Wednesday over the Iraq war. O’Donnell criticized US policy by saying, “655,000 Iraqi civilians have died. Who are the terrorists?”

All of these remarks were made on national television.

While I personally don’t agree with conspiracy theories regarding 9/11, I do believe that O’Donnell has every right to express her opinion in a public forum.

To those of you who would say that ABC has every right to scrag O’Donnell because they own the network, I would say that they are suppressing public opinion because they have another agenda. A corporate agenda that backs Bush administration policies whatever they may be.

Why else would they ditch someone who has sent the ratings (profits) for the show through the roof? Patriotism? Give me a break.

He will face 20 years in prison if the plea agreement is accepted.

Matthews killed the illegal cable guy as he stood on a ladder performing the hookup. His anger was prompted by the fact that he would have to spend money to purchase additional equipment.

It must not be murder if the shooter is already brain dead.

This is a site that has to be seen to be believed. Reading entries from Conservapedia is almost like being educated in the 19th centuary. Here is one comparison:

US DEMOCRATIC PARTY

WIKIPEDIA

“The party advocates civil liberties, social freedoms, equal rights, equal opportunity, fiscal responsibility, and a free enterprise system tempered by government intervention.”

CONSERVAPEDIA

“The Democrat voting record reveals a true agenda of cowering to terrorism, treasonous anti-Americanism, and contempt for America’s founding principles.”

 He and a friend go duck hunting in upper Wisconsin. It’s mid-winter;
and of course all of the lakes are frozen. These two guys go out on the ice
with their GUNS, a DOG, and of course the new NAVIGATOR.

 They decide they want to make a natural-looking open water for the
ducks to focus on, somewhere for the decoys to float. Now making a hole in
the ice large enough to invite a passing duck, is going to take a little
more power than the average drill auger can produce. So, out of the back of
the new Navigator comes a stick of dynamite with a short 40 second-fuse. Now our two Rocket Scientists, afraid they might slip on the ice while trying to
run away after lighting the fuse (and becoming toast, along with the
Navigator), decide on the following course of action:They light the 40-second fuse; then, with a mighty thrust, they throw
the stick of dynamite as far away as possible. Remember a couple of
paragraphs back when I mentioned the NAVIGATOR, The GUNS, and the DOG?

Let’s talk about the dog: A highly trained Black Lab used for RETRIEVING,
especially things thrown by the owner. You guessed it: The dog takes
off across the ice at a high rate of speed and grabs the stick of dynamite,
with the burning 40-second fuse, just as it hits the ice.

 The two men swallow, blink, start waving their arms and, with veins in
their necks swelling to resemble stalks of rhubarb, scream and holler at
the dog to stop. The dog, now apparently cheered on by his Master, keeps
coming. One hunter panics, grabs the shotgun and shoots the dog. The
shotgun is loaded with #8 bird shot, hardly big enough to stop a Black
Lab.

 The dog stops for a moment, slightly confused, then continues on. Another
shot, and this time the dog, still standing, becomes really confused and
of course terrified, thinks these two geniuses have gone insane. The dog
takes off to find cover, UNDER the brand new Navigator.

The men continue to scream as they run. The red hot exhaust pipe on
the truck touches the dog’s rear end, he yelps, drops the dynamite under the
truck and takes off after his master.

Then ” “” “” “” “” BOOOOOOOOOOOOM “” “” “” “” !

The truck is blown to bits and sinks to the bottom of the lake,
leaving the two idiots standing there with “I can’t believe this just happened”
look on their faces.

The insurance company says that sinking a vehicle in a lake by Illegal
use of explosives is NOT COVERED by the policy. And he still had yet to
make the first of those $560.00 a month payments.

 The dog is okay. . doing fine. And you thought Rednecks only live in the South.

About 30 minutes later, the doorbell began ringing insistently. As she does not like to answer the door when she is alone and not expecting company, she went to the window to see if it could be determined just who the unexpected caller might be. Much to her shock, there was a police cruiser parked out front!

She ran to the door, snatched up the dog, who was barking furiously, and opened it.

The officer stated our address and asked, “You called?”

“No,” she replied, looking at the still yapping canine, “but my dog did.”

The policeman cracked up with laughter.

there’s a white boat

comin’ up the river

With a big red beacon,

and a flag,

and a man on the rail

I think you’d better call John,

‘Cause it don’t

look like they’re here

to deliver the mail

And it’s less than a mile away

I hope they didn’t come to stay

It’s got numbers on the side

and a gun

And it’s makin’ big waves.

Daddy’s gone,

my brother’s out hunting

in the mountains

Big John’s been drinking

since the river took Emmy-Lou

So the powers that be

left me here

to the thinkin’

And I just turned twenty-two

I was wonderin’ what to do

And the closer they got,

The more those feelings grew.

Daddy’s rifle in my hand

felt reassurin’

He told me,

Red means run, son,

numbers add up to nothin’

But when the first shot

hit the docks I saw it comin’

Raised my rifle to my eye

Never stopped to wonder why.

Then I saw black,

And my face splashed in the sky.

Shelter me from the powder

and the finger

Cover me with the thought

that pulled the trigger

Think of me

as one you’d never figured

Would fade away so young

With so much left undone

Remember me to my love,

I know I’ll miss her.

–Neil Young

Bradley’s journalistic abilities were recognized with four Peabody awards and 19 Emmys, among other achievements.

He covered the Vietnam War, in which he was wounded while on assignment. He reported on Jimmy Carter’s presidential campaign in 1976, then became the first black White House correspondent for CBS during the Carter presidency. Bradley joined “60 Minutes” in 1981 when Dan Rather replaced Walter Cronkite as CBS News anchor.

Ed Bradley was a great journalist, one of the very best. He will be missed by many, and his absence will be noticed by many more.

A small amount of marijuana was found in the car belonging to Jamaal Tinsley. No determination was made as to who the pot belonged to. These are the basic facts, but there are two variations as to how they occurred, Jackson’s and Prosecutor Carl Brizzi’s. Each of them has a reason for his take on the situation.

Jackson, who was caught up in the moment, and probably doesn’t even have total knowledge of the step-by-step unfolding of events, doesn’t want to go to jail. Brizzi, who is running for reelection to his position, has a vested interest in making a big splash. So in Jackson’s version, it was self-defense, while in Brizzi’s it was unlawful assault. Due to Jackson’s checkered past, and his unpopularity with Pacer fans, most people have chosen to believe the Brizzi version. The true version may never be known, but a legal decision will be made anyway.

Unfortunately, this episode has prompted an inordinate amount of dirt-digging and mud-slinging, and now the entire Pacers organization is under suspicion. The court of public opinion is unforgiving. Marijuana was found in a car registered to Jermaine O’Neal, so now he, too is guilty. Along with the unpopular Tinsley.

Tell me none of you know somebody who uses marijuana, at least socially, and I will call you a liar. The stuff is all around us, and to say these guys are thugs because they also have those types of friends is hypocrisy. To set these young men up as role models for your children is emotional abandonment. You, Jackass, are the one responsible, not some shoulda, coulda, woulda athlete. Stop throwing stones for a moment and examine your own lives.

Yes, Jackson deserves some kind of punishment for his behavior. Does he deserve to go to prison for disillusioning your children? No. Suck it up.

Carlisle, who has never missed the playoffs, has a record of 146-100 with the Pacers.

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