How To Fix The Economy

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A resort town sits next to the shores of a lake. It is raining, and the little town looks totally deserted. It is tough times, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit.

Suddenly, a rich tourist comes to town. He enters the only hotel, lays a 100 dollar bill on the reception counter, and goes to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one.

The hotel proprietor takes the 100 dollar bill and runs to pay his debt to the butcher.

The Butcher takes the 100 dollar bill, and runs to pay his debt to the pig raiser.

The pig raiser takes the 100 dollar bill, and runs to pay his debt to the supplier of his feed and fuel.

The supplier of feed and fuel takes the 100 dollar bill and runs to pay his debt to the town's prostitute that in these hard times, gave her "services" on credit.

The hooker runs to the hotel, and pays off her debt with the 100 dollar bill to the hotel proprietor to pay for the rooms that she rented when she brought her clients there.

The hotel proprietor then lays the 100 dollar bill back on the counter so that the rich tourist will not suspect anything.

At that moment, the rich tourist comes down after inspecting the rooms, and takes his 100 dollar bill, after saying that he did not like any of the rooms, and leaves town.

No one earned anything. However, the whole town is now without debt, and looks to the future with a lot of optimism.

How About A Few Bocephus Videos?

Say what you will but the 80's had some of the greatest music ever!

Car Trivia

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Q: What car was the first to have automatic transmission?
A: Oldsmobile introduced its four speed Hydra-Mastic, as a $57 extra in 1939.

Q: What car was the first to offer air conditioning?
A: The 1939 Nash offered an optional heating - ventilation system called the "Weather Eye"


Q: What car used the first steering wheel?
A: The 1900 Packard Model C, built by The Ohio Automobile Co.

Q: What was the first official White House car?
A: A 1909 White Steamer, ordered by President Taft.

Q: What city was the first to use parking meters?
A: Oklahoma City, on July 16, 1935.

Q: What was the first car fitted with an alternator, rather than a direct current dynamo?
A: The 1960 Plymouth Valiant

Q: What was the first car to be offered with a "perpetual guarantee"?
A: The 1904 Acme, from Reading, PA. Perpetuity was disturbing in this case, as Acme closed down in 1911.

Q: What car was the first to have it's radio antenna embedded in the windshield?
A: The 1969 Pontiac Grand Prix.

Q: What was the first car to use power operated seats?
A: They were first used on the 1947 Packard line.

Little Known (Mostly Useless) Trivia Information

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Many people burn more calories sleeping than they do watching television.
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Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are twenty (20) years of age or older.
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The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
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The King of Hearts is the only king WITHOUT A MOUSTACHE
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American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one (1) olive from each salad served in first-class.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
(Since Venus is normally associated with women, what does this tell you?)
(That women are going the 'right' direction...?)
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Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning . (It's the sugar)
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Most dust particles in your house are made from DEAD SKIN !
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The first owner (Philip Morris) of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
So did three men who appeared in Marlboro advertisements - Wayne McLaren, David McLean, and Dick Hammer.
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Walt Disney was afraid OF MICE!
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Pearls dissolve in vinegar
(A pearl is mostly calcium carbonate, which is susceptible to even a weak acid solution)
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It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...
but, not downstairs because of how cows knees bend.
(A cow produces on average 30lbs of urine and 65lbs of feces daily)
(They also can produce up to 32 quarts of milk a day)
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Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least six (6) feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
(I keep my toothbrush in the living room now !)
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Turtles can breathe through their butts.
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Politics- There Once Was A Time

.. when things were far different











These politicos knew what honor and respect meant for one another and the people they served. The last four years were an aberration.



May this country once again return to the days when we valued such things. The United States in the past experienced war, depression, prior pandemics and natural catastrophes. Each time we managed to upright ourselves. Hopefully we can once again despite those who have caused so much damage to the American spirit with their evil words and deeds over the last few years.

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Trump/Elon Funding Cuts Are So Illegal. Here's Why..

As these cases go before the courts it's important for them to straighten these bunch of cronies out. Failing to do so puts us into a constitutional crises unlike anything we've ever experienced before. This should be an open and shut case. Failure of the courts to impede them will spell the end of the United States as we understood it to be.

Wanna See A Real Ship Show?

Welcome aboard the 'Emerald Princess' cruise ship's stage show in 2008

A Good Woman (Humor)

Oklahoma City man says social security benefits terminated without warning or explanation

This wouldn't be Elon's DOGE boys (who don't know what they're doing) tinkering with the Social Security data files?

I Wish People Would Learn To Spell Correctly

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U.S. Marine Band forced to cancel concert with students of color after Trump DEI order

Click here for the Equity Arc Wind Symphony's full concert:

The Rewriting Of Fairytales

Most of the fairytales as we know them today... well let's just say they're fairytales about fairytales.

Stories which have been rewritten so as to make them more palatable for young readers and movie goers. There are several versions of what might have been written originally or handed down orally. Below are a few samples of what some of them have been.

Sleeping Beauty
In the original version it wasn't a prince that simply kissed her, thus awakening her from her slumber. It was a hunter who came across her body and raped her while she lay there unconscious. Nine months later she gave birth to twins while still remaining unconscious. At this point fairies of the forest happen across the babies. They placed one of babies on top of her for feeding who sucked a poison splinter from her thumb instead mistaking it for a nipple. Thereupon she awakened.

A few months later the hunter returned for a second helping of the unconscious babe only to now find her awake. She followed him into a barn and had sex with him despite him telling what he did to her while she lay unconscious. Well it turns out the hunter was married and when his wife found out these two's shenanigans she set about to kidnap the kids, have her cook boil them alive and serve them unbeknownst to her cheating husband. Turns out the cook couldn't bring herself to do it and cooked a goat instead. In the end the hunter left his old lady and lived happily ever after with his new girlfriend and the kids.

Cinderella
Long story short, Cinderella's sisters chopped off portions of their feet so they could fit into the glass slipper. In the end when the plan didn't work out the prince had a couple of birds peck out their eyes as punishment for trying to trick him.

Rapunzel
Rapunzel was locked up in a tower for a very long time. Not only did her hair grow extremely but so did her desire to be intimate with a man. So when a prince happened to wander by she asked him to have sex with her if she'd leave down her hair for him to climb up on. Both had a pretty good thing going on for sometime till her clothes kept getting ever tighter. Turns out it wasn't because she was eating too much but rather treating too much (the prince that is). Apparently he wasn't using protection.

It seems when the witch (her captor) found out she became jealous, chopped off Rapunzel's hair, then magically transported Rapunzel who was forced then to live with a homeless beggar. She ended up broke, hungry and becoming a beggar herself in order to feed she and her hungry child . All this was unbeknownst to the prince who returned to the tower for another love making session. Instead when he got to the top of the tower, the witch who awaited him, shoved him out the window landing him in a patch of thorns which poked his eyes out. The ending in one version says the prince and Rapunzel eventually hookup and got even with the witch.

The Little Mermaid
The mermaid rather then trade her voice for legs trades her tongue. Unfortunately though she gets legs they hurt like hell every time she tries to walk. Even so in order to try and snag the prince she dances with all her heart in a failed effort to attract him unto herself. Instead the prince marries some other broad. Seeing this her mermaid sisters cut off their hair and sell it for a magical dagger. The mermaid is then told to cut up the prince and let his blood drip on her feet. If she does this she will get her fins back.

She does sneak up on him but can't bring herself to it, instead jumps back into the sea and drowns. Later the writer of the fairytale (Hans Christian Andersen) felt this was a rather crappy ending so he rewrote it adding that if the mermaid for 300 years performed good deeds this would earn her the right to acquire a soul hence enabling her to go to heaven.

Pinocchio
In this version Jiminy wasn't a cricket and Jiminy ended up murdered by Pinocchio. Since puppets can't be sent to jail it was Geppetto who was for his negligence in creating this little monster. Many years later after Geppetto served his jail sentence he reunited with his much beloved puppet. He had nothing after being locked up all those years except the coat on his back. Still he wanted the best for the little guy and sold it for school books so Pinocchio could become educated.

Pinocchio being the ever grateful douchebag hocked them for tickets to the theatre. To make a long story short he became worse then he already was because of two scoundrels (a cat and a fox) he took up with. In one version the two scoundrels later hung Pinocchio from a tree suffocating him to death. In another version one of the scoundrels (the cat) who deceived him and led Pinocchio's life into misery is overcome by age and blindness. The Fox chops off his tail for money and becomes hairless and lame. Pinocchio (being not susceptible to such things) scoffs at both their poverty and suffering saying they deserved what they got.

'The Hunchback Of Notre Dame'
It was written by the same guy that wrote Les Misérables, Victor Hugo. Hence full of the suffering and unhappiness you'd expect from this writer. It's been reworked several times.

In the original novel a gypsy dancer (Esmeralda) has drawn the attention of many men, but none so much as both the hunchback (Quasimodo) and Archdeacon of Notre Dame.(Frollo). The Archdeacon orders Quasimodo to kidnap her but is caught by the head of the guards (Captain Phoebus) who orders Quasimodo to be flogged and placed without water in the stockades.

Esmeralda takes pity on him and offers water. Quasimodo falls hopelessly in love with her. Turns out so did the Captain of the guards who also had a thing for her. This upset the Archdeacon (Frollo) who became jealous then murdered the captain. Instead Esmerelda is falsely accused, tortured and sentenced to death by hanging. In the last minute Quasimodo swings down the bell ropes saving her.

There's a few more twists and turns in the plot eventually Esmeralda ,who had sanctuary in Frellos church, was expelled by the church hierarchy. After she rejected Frello's advances one last time, he turned over to the soldiers where once again she found herself facing death. This time ending up with her execution while Frollo laughed out of spitefulness for rejecting his advances. Quasimodo seeing this pushed the Archdeacon off the roof of the church killing him.

He escapes. In the final scene Quasimodo is bending over her lifeless body in the graveyard where those who've been executed are dumped. It is there were Quasimodo finally succumbs to starvation wishing to never leave her side even in death.



Notre Dame de Paris full musical 1998 (With CC in English)

Politics: I'm Told By Critics To Educate Myself, So....

Gee, I hope I haven't offended anyone :-)

Speaking With A Genuine Irishman

In 2018 Colm Flynn from Ireland's TODAY Show visited Killarney in Ireland. He popped into one of the local pubs to have a chat with Sham.

AOC Breaks With Schumer On GOP Government Funding Bill (With Updates)

03/13/2025

This is why the Senate needs new fresh faces and ideas.

The Senate will vote later today (03/14/2025). Let us see how it goes.


~~UPDATE~~
Senate passes Trump-backed bill to fund the government

Home Schooling In The 50's (Humor)

My mother taught me religion
"You better pray that will come out of the carpet."

My father taught me about time travel.
"If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!"

My father provided clarification to all my philosophical inquiries.
"Because I said so, that's why ."

My mother explained the importance of maintaining good health.
"If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going to the store with me."

My mother taught me how to dress appropriately.
"Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident."

My father taught me how to be emotionally resilient.
"Keep crying, and I'll give you something to cry about."

My mother taught me stamina.
"You'll sit there until all that spinach is gone."

My mother provided me with an example of hypocrisy.
"If I told you once, I've told you a million times, don't exaggerate!"

My father taught me about the circle of life.
"I brought you into this world, and I can take you out."

My mother on behavior modification.
"Stop acting like your father!"

My mother taught me about other children worse off.
"There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don't have wonderful parents like you do."

My mother helped me understand how stress and anxiety can affect someone.
"Just wait until your father gets home."

My father inspired me to live life to the fullest in the present in much the same way.
"Just wait till we get home!"

My father taught me to stand on my own.
"When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don't come running to me."

My mother taught me about genetics.
"You're just like your father."

My mother taught me about wisdom.
"When you get to be my age, you'll understand.

My father was so proud of me he once said...
"One day you'll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you!"

Rep. John Larson Delivered A Fiery Speech, Where's Elon?

Rep. John Larson delivered a fiery speech blasting Republicans for blocking Elon Musk from testifying to Congress and enabling the Trump administration to go after Social Security.

DOGE Hearing 03/12/2025

We The People In Order To Form A More Perfect Union

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Should outlaw and abolish all political parties.

I'm of the mind the only reason the two major parties still exist is for the benefit of people too stupid and lazy to understand who/what they're voting for. Just imagine the panic on voters faces if they picked candidates not knowing to which party they belonged. Heaven forbid if voters actually had do a little research on their own instead of religiously voting for the big 'R" or 'D". Ever see those prank street interviews where people didn't have a clue which candidate said what?

As I scroll through the countless comments the majority lump every politician as if they were fighting the civil war. Either their favored candidate is wearing a red hat or blue hat allowing for nothing in-between. I'd be certain more then a few would be surprised to find out some Republicans actually favor DACA and strengthening Social Security. They might equally be surprised to learn over 15 Democrats right now are cosponsoring legislation in favor of deregulating wall street banks. So too liberals in the Senate joined the Republicans passing one of the largest defense spending measures ever for 2019 The vote count was 89 to 8. Just because someone votes for a Republican or Democrat doesn't mean they are going to get what they're expecting. So too some so-called Republicans and Democrats are so far off the charts with their wacky ideas they shouldn't be allowed to call themselves a member of either party.

The second part of this consideration for elimination are the legislators themselves. Many of them hold their nose forced to vote for things their party says they have to. Even those bills they don't agree with.

The third consideration is election fairness. Think about the pointlessness of gerrymandering if partisanship no longer existed. Face it voters are getting screwed when grouped together in certain voting districts just to swing the electoral counts in favor of one party or another. This doesn't serve voters well in what we like to think as being a honest democracy.

Far as I'm concerned political parties are an obstacle to a greater democracy. Not an enhancement to it. Either major party can be bought off by big donors. Without central party headquarters it would be much harder for these donors to single out each candidate in every district. Currently the political parties act as a conduit making it easier for the high rollers to target where their money goes for them. Ideally we should end this practice by eliminating these two major parties. These two are the reasons why we're seeing so much divisiveness.

Some will argue people can make the change by voting for 3rd party candidates. Hate to break the news. Check the historical records. It ain't never going to happen that way. Course neither is the elimination of political parties considering it would take members themselves from both parties to agree to it. Yeah that's likely to happen only when the sun goes out and Earth goes extinct. Hey, I didn't say it "could happen". I only said it "should happen".

‘They are trying to break it’: Social Security Changes

Canada Fights Back

12:00 PM 03/10/2025

A Canadian Speaks Out

Bernie Sanders Spoke In Kenosha, Wisconsin Friday- Several Thousand Showed Up.

The audience filled the main event space – the gym at Lincoln High School – and two overflow rooms, and still left hundreds more outside.

Guess How Much Vanna White Is Paid On 'Wheel Of Fortune'

Vanna reported she only works (if you can call it that) 35 days a year.

She receives $10,000,000 a year.

That works out to...

$285,714.28 PER DAY!

Ryan Seacrest $800,000 per day ($28 Million per year).

Social Security Cuts Dangers

Senator Murphy Breaks Down Trump And Musk's Open Corruption

Kevin Salsbury Explores The LV Railroad Barber Branch In Allentown PA.

"This is a section of the Barber branch. The name Barber comes from the name of a factory that is long gone. This was a short branch only a couple miles long. There are pieces of it still hanging on but the best remain is the wooden trestle over the Little Lehigh Creek. This branch was constructed around 1890 and was abandoned in the 1970s."

Today Trump Claims He Brought Microchip Manufacturing Back To America. LIAR, NO HE DIDN'T!!!

September 09, 2022
President Biden delivers remarks at the groundbreaking of the $20 billion Intel microchip manufacturing plant in Licking County.

Nobody Here But Us Earthlings

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I went down this path before. Thought I'd do a revisit on this subject. Yeah I know.. it ain't healthy to think this much :-)

It's been estimated by some there are 300 billion stars in our Milky Way with some 30 billion planets orbiting around some of them with another estimated 100 billion galaxies for lo these many billions of years.

So where the hell is everybody !


Some theories are: (1) Technological advances made it possible to wipe themselves out in warfare before reaching into space. (2) Religious dogma or government over lords prevented their advancements into the sciences. (3) Their planets might have made life unsustainable before they were able to evolve. (4) We're more evolutionary advanced then any other planet for some reason despite these billions of years and the number of them. (5) They're so advanced they've been able to evolve beyond the physical limitations we're mired in and consider us not worth associating with..

Whatever the reasons one thing's for sure.. if they's around ain't nobody's got evidence of em'. Yeah sure some claim to have seen, been abducted or photographed space visitors. I'm calling bullshit on this. Show me one piece of physical hard evidence. All these years and there's not one piece of alien space junk. Don't even try and tell me about a government cover up. Governments are lousy at keeping secrets. Too many people with big mouths. It can't be done. We've had satellite radio and visual telescopes searching high and wide for decades yet nada..

Face it we are like guppies living in this fish bowl. A few miles beyond this Earth's our body's bone structures w/o gravity begin to deteriorate. Radiation begins to take it's toll no matter how well a capsule's design. The time factor to get from here to anywhere is impossible as far as we know in a person's lifetime. All these would have to be overcome for they just as it would for us. So far it appears nobody's been able to pull off this stunt.

Even If We Were Recognized
Civilization far advanced beyond our own could go one of three ways. (1) They are far more civilized then our own making them consider us barbarians unworthy of participating or sharing in their knowledge. This would be similar to star trek in nature in following the prime directive thus ignoring us. (2) Their culture was ruled under a total 100% complete totalitarian state which disallowed any dissention. (3) Robotic machines replaced their creators having no need any longer of food, water oxygen or other essentials required of flesh Woe be to us if it were the latter two.

Here's What I Concluded
Whoever/whatever the originator of intelligence is finds it's place in whatever is available merely as a reflection of itself whatever he/she/it may be. Hence has no need for mirror images to communicate among itself. If some wish to refer to this creative intelligence as God so-be-it. Hence there may never come a time we'll ever experience other beings.

There's no evidence anyone from our distant future was able to bridge time either. Since intelligence is a function beyond the constraints of physical time which is unto itself may very well be merely a reflection within whatever exist would also account for the lack of necessity for this intelligence to communicate unto itself in this way either.

If someone has a better explanation why no one's around I'd be interested in their explanation as to why not.

Allie Sherlock Says This Is Her Best LIVE Performance Ever

Here's another

19 year old Allie has built popularity by performing live in the streets of Dublin every weekend.

Best Years Behind Me (Repost)

Not just me but possibly the entire generation I grew up in.

When I graduated in 1966 it took me one week to get a job with Allen Organ on my very first interview. Two years there I finally landed a job in radio broadcasting. After two years of being taken advantage of walked out and two short weeks later landed a job managing and maintaining a large apartment complex. Eventually that job soured and I applied for a job with Kraft foods. I was hired the same day I applied and started one week later. Where in today's world would these things ever be possible.

When I worked in radio we took a bus trip to Niagara Falls Canada for a country concert. The night before I and a couple of others decided to cross the bridge into New York to go to a disco. I got a hoagie and loaded. Walked across the bridge back to Canada. No passports were required. No questions were asked. Almost for 50 years of my life you could simply hop on a plane without going through any kind of security. We took cruises to the Caribbean. Again no passports or metal detectors required.

I started out earning $93 week. Rent was $96 a month. Groceries and gasoline combined cost me around $35 a week. I even managed to buy a brand new Volkswagen Beetle on this salary. Banks were paying around 5% interest on savings.

My God how things have changed. In today's world everyone is suspect. Things are more difficult in every way. I shall remain ever grateful for the era in which I was born just after WWII. If there was one shooting in Allentown in an entire year it was front page headline news. I have no idea how things have become what they have. Today we like to "TALK" about freedom and morality. Back in those days most people never did. They just lived it.

Maybe I was naive or plain ignorant of such treachery back in those days. Whether that be so, in my twilight years I'm forever grateful I was born when I was. I can honestly say I had a pretty good life. Now that I no longer travel, remain relatively healthy and have no need for a job it's pretty damn good now as well. I remain ever hopeful to have many more. So too I wish for others to have the good fortune to live their lives as well as mine has been. Also to be aware of the more positives that you too experience along the way.

Canada will respond to Trump tariffs ‘like they’ve never seen before,’ says Ontario premier

Canadian PM Trudeau announces 25% retaliatory levy on U.S. products.

Made in America: What's In Your Home? | David Muir (2011)
It's not possible to manufacture a TV in the U.S. without imported parts. There are no consumer American made televisions. The last ones were made in Chicago by Zenith and Indiana by RCA in the early 2000s. Both gone.

Did Russia Recruit Trump as a Russian spy in 1987?

Zelensky Thanks America For 4 Minutes Straight

Andrew Takes Us Behind The Scenes At The White House Of Zelenskyy Visit

02/28/2025

Andrew is an independent photographer

02/28/2025