Using available resources

One of the biggest financial wastes in this country is the funding of institutes. We have institutes on the economy, the war, politics, big government, little government and almost any other facet of our lives here in the USA. These institutes costs big bucks and the hired guns are expected to spiel the crap that the financiers want to be spieled.
What we overlook is the most prevalent wide-spread problem-solving institute in America. It is the "Cheap Coffee for Senior Citizens Institute" and can be found between the hours of 6:30 and 11:00 each weekday morning (excluding weekends and holidays) at almost any McDonald's in America. The participants who gather each morning belong to the "What they really ought to do if they had any brains..." school of logic. If something crucial or dramatic has occurred in the past 24 hours, this group of high level thinkers will have found the solution by next morning and passed on their wisdom to the bevy of listeners who also gather for inexpensive coffee.
My father belonged to one these institutes but dad was a listener and passed on the problem-solving of others. It also serves as a social occasion so it's really a "two-fer." Why do we waste monies on over-educated effete intellectuals when there are so many outlets coming to similar conclusions. We need to tap this resource. Remember: Coffee is a small price to pay for a mind.

This is from a story in yesterday's USA Today.
The president of New York University makes more than $1.3 million; Columbia U. over$1.3 million; Univ. of Pennsylvania over $1.2 million; Yale over $1.2 million; and Southern Cal over $1.1 million. The chief investment officer at Yale makes over $4.3 million and several professors in medical schools make between $2 and $4 million per year.
The Southern Cal football coach makes over $4.3 million and the basketball coach at Duke earns over $3.7 million. Something is wrong. Universities and colleges are out begging for money, cutting staff and entire departments-tuition isn't going down. It isn't just private industry that pays a lot for leadership at the top and for sports.

Bumper sticker on the back of an aging sedan:
"I HAVE A PERFECT BODY
but it's in the trunk and beginning to smell"

There is a downtown restaurant in Casper called Sanford's. It has a restaurant liquor license which in Wyoming means that the minimum balance ration of food to liquor sales must be 60/40. Last week Sanfords all of a sudden is selling penny beers and dollar drinks. The owner claims he is just helping people so they can dine out due to the economic downturn. He says it has nothing to do with the ratio. Right. Why would I ever suspect an American entrepreneur of doing anything suspicious. Witness the high ethical standards of the banking and insurance industries when they just had to pay out large bonuses using government monies so they could keep their sometimes overpriced executives. It's just the American way of doing business honestly. How could I ever suspect an ulterior motive?

I'm not that old

Yesterday at the UW-UNLV FB game in Laramie, I did something I never thought I would do. I rode the golf cart for the handicapped and seniors from the second level down to the main level. I left the game with a minute or so to go. The cart was getting ready to take a couple down. I asked if I could go down with them and the driver said sure. It's faster to take the cart and I was trying to avoid as much post-game traffic as possible. I did beat most of the crowd and had a smooth getaway. That's my story and I'm sticking with it. I'm not that old!

Siren Sam

Siren Sam is alive and well and making his/her presence known. With the reduction in revenues for most government agencies, it appears the law enforcement community has taken it upon itself to pump up funds for governmental spending at state and local levels. On the highways I have never seen so many highway patrol cars with speed offender pulled off to the side (It appears that a majority have out-of-state license plates). I've even seen cars pulled over in Colorado which was a rarity. Their favorite spot seems to be in the median where cars come over a rise and are headed downward picking up speed. Crafty devils.
At the local level, the grey fuzz can be seen hiding in alleys and have an affinity for work zones. With all the street and road construction with moisture and colder weather coming on, the number of construction zones is at its zenith-besides the fines double (two bucks for the price of one).
Yesterday I saw the most brazen speed enforcement of all-they were using an unmarked pick-up (in Wyoming no less). Is nothing sacred???
FIGHT FAIR, MAN!!!!

No more homonym blogs.

Had the swamp cooler winterized yesterday. This is the equivalent of putting the snow blower away in the spring. It's supposed to be in the 80's by the weekend.

Drank coffee with my homies. Small crowd as it's hunting season.

From the calendar:
"You might be a Redneck if.....Your working television sits on top of your non-working television."
Or
"...... You've ever forced people to take your homegrown squash."

Riting inn homonyms

When eye tot English, I used two teach uh unit on homonyms (similar pronunciation; different spelling/meaning). Two-day aye thought I wood try too rite ah blog inn Homonyms.
Thee wife is still on Nova Scotia time and we all most eight breakfast together. As hour table is small, I red the paper be four taking my tern to eat. Things knead too get back two normal soon.
My to favorite base ball teems, the Rockies and Twins, one last knight. Their playing well rite now.
My brother called. Wee are planning two attend thee UW-UNLV foot ball game on Saturday. Will meat at the ticket booth and than will half lunch at thee Cowboy Joe tent.
I thought the spell checker wood go crazy, butt it only questioned three words.
Happy Homonym Day.