Archive for the ‘News / Events’ Category
Just Asking . . .
. . . but in all this abortion kerfuffle,
has anybody considered birth control?
FYI: WSJ Letter to the Editor
Whatever His Faults, Biden
Is Still Preferable to Trump
Regarding William David Stone’s letter to the editor (“In Life There Are Trade-Offs,” June 14). President Biden doesn’t control gas prices, though he is considering a federal gas-tax holiday. He doesn’t control the crime rate. Nor does he control Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping or baby-formula manufacturers.
Republicans never miss and opportunity to denigrate Mr. Biden. But at least this president can speak in clear, coherent sentences, isn’t flaunting loose morals and isn’t in a position to be blamed for inciting a rebellion against our government.
Give me a president worthy of respect for trying to unite our fractured country instead of urging people to storm the capitol, where they wanted to hang Vice President Mike Pence.
(Name withheld because letter was in June 17/22 WSJ)
Columbia, S.C.
Going On a Diet . . .
. . .will help you combat inflation on two fronts.
You’ll cut back on the escalating cost of food
as well as the need to buy record-priced gasoline
to go shopping.
Another Sign of a Diminishing Sunrise . . .
. . .I’ve been quarantined half a week now and regulations demand lunch and dinner be delivered to such sequestered residents.
I call daily to ask what’s on the menu but to really remind staff I’m here.
Today, lunch was not delivered. No one knows why.
And the dinner server remained in the hallway this evening to wave when I opened to door to retrieve my food.
COVID Quarantine . . .
. . .has certain advantages.
I haven’t done a damned thing
for the past three days.
The Lunar Eclipse . . .
. . . was a popular topic of conversation and one person was so enthused about not seeing the moon the previous night that I didn’t have the heart to tell them they were looking up at the sky from the wrong side of the building.
Cinco de Mayo . . .
. . . is more of a holiday in the U.S. than in Mexico.
Mexico’s independence day is celebrated Sept. 16.
Today’s anniversary memorializes the Mexican Army’s defeat of the French force in the Battle of Puebla in 1862. Mexican immigrants have popularized the festivities as a way to celebrate their heritage.
April Was A Success . . .
. . . because we had one night of rain to make it a complete month.
No one here expects any more showers until monsoon arrives.
That’s when it’s really needed to keep everyone from frying.
Bit of Excitement Here . . .
. . . being so close to where the winning ticket was sold for the $473 million Power Ball winner announced t’other day..
A bit of Googling revealed the simple tax answer is IRS takes 25 percent right off the top, although fed top rate is 37 percent so more will be due at tax time. Then comes 3 percent state levy.
Instead of choosing an annuity of 30 payments over 29 years, a lump-sum takeaway in this case would be about $280 million before taxes.. Simple “rule of thumb” is the winner walks away with about one-third of the announced total.
The ticket was sold at the Qwik Trip convenience store/gasoline station a five-minute stroll from the front of our building. Don’t know when it was sold or to whom. The selling store owner in Arizona gets 6.5 percent of all lottery ticket sales and $50,000 prize money.
Local news sources will probably set up a 24-hour watch schedule because the winner has 180 days to claim the prize.
Made A Discovery . . .
. . . on a shopping trek today.
After prowling through Kohl’s, Dillard’s and Macy’s
on a hunt for a couple of all-cotton T-shirts in colors I don’t have,
I unearthed the inescapable truth:
there’s a cotton shortage in our current world.
Every Tee I dug up had to be bolstered with polyester,
as much as 40 percent of the total garment,
to make up for that shortage.
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