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Do you remember?
beneteau
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Subject: Do you remember why the Dept. of Energy was formed???? I doubt it!
Your tax dollars at work. Nobody does it better than the Federal Government.
Read this slowly.
Let it sink in.
Quietly we go.
Like Sheep to slaughter.
Absolutely The Funniest Joke Ever! ....
. . . ON US
Does anybody out there have any memory of the reason given for the establishment of the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY ..... during the Carter Administration?
Anybody?
Anything?
No?
... Didn't think so.
Bottom line . . we've spent several hundred billion dollars in support of an agency ... the reason for which not one person who reads this can remember.
Ready?
It was very simple
... and at the time everybody
thought it very appropriate.
The Department of Energy was instituted 8-04-1977 TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL.
... HEY, PRETTY EFFICIENT, HUH?
AND NOW IT'S 2008, 31 YEARS LATER ... AND THE BUDGET FOR THIS NECESSARY DEPARTMENT IS AT $24.2 BILLION A YEAR
THEY HAVE 16,000 FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AND APPROXIMATELY 100,000 CONTRACT EMPLOYEES
AND LOOK AT THE JOB THEY HAVE DONE!
THIS IS WHERE YOU SLAP YOUR FOREHEAD AND SAY 'WHAT WAS I THINKING?'
Ah yes, good ole bureaucracy.
And now we are going to turn the Banking System & the Auto Industry over to them?
God Help us.
Your tax dollars at work. Nobody does it better than the Federal Government.
Read this slowly.
Let it sink in.
Quietly we go.
Like Sheep to slaughter.
Absolutely The Funniest Joke Ever! ....
. . . ON US
Does anybody out there have any memory of the reason given for the establishment of the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY ..... during the Carter Administration?
Anybody?
Anything?
No?
... Didn't think so.
Bottom line . . we've spent several hundred billion dollars in support of an agency ... the reason for which not one person who reads this can remember.
Ready?
It was very simple
... and at the time everybody
thought it very appropriate.
The Department of Energy was instituted 8-04-1977 TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL.
... HEY, PRETTY EFFICIENT, HUH?
AND NOW IT'S 2008, 31 YEARS LATER ... AND THE BUDGET FOR THIS NECESSARY DEPARTMENT IS AT $24.2 BILLION A YEAR
THEY HAVE 16,000 FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AND APPROXIMATELY 100,000 CONTRACT EMPLOYEES
AND LOOK AT THE JOB THEY HAVE DONE!
THIS IS WHERE YOU SLAP YOUR FOREHEAD AND SAY 'WHAT WAS I THINKING?'
Ah yes, good ole bureaucracy.
And now we are going to turn the Banking System & the Auto Industry over to them?
God Help us.
Comments
My name is Mary Jo Kopechne.
I would have been 65 years of age this year.
Read about me and my killer below.
When Sen. Ted Kennedy was merely just another Democrat bloating on Capitol Hill on behalf of liberal causes, it was perhaps excusable to ignore his deplorable past.
But now that he's become Sen. John Kerry's leading campaign attack dog, positioning himself as Washington's leading arbiter of truth and integrity, the days for such indulgence are now over.
It's time for the GOP to stand up and remind America why Sen. Kerry's chief spokesman had to abandon his own presidential bid in 1980 - time to say the words Mary Jo Kopechne out loud.
As is often the case, Republicans have deluded themselves into thinking that most Americans already know the story of how this "Conscience of the Democratic Party" left Miss Kopechne behind to die in the waters underneath the Edgartown Bridge in July 1969, after a night of drinking and partying with the young blonde campaign worker. But most Americans under 40 have never heard that story, or details of how Kennedy swam to safety, then tried to get his cousin Joe Garghan to say he was behind the wheel.
Those young voters don't know how Miss Kopechne, trapped inside Kennedy's Oldsmobile, gasped for air until she finally died, while the Democrats' leading Iraq war critic rushed back to his compound to formulate the best alibi he could think of.
Neither does Generation X know how Kennedy was thrown out of Harvard on his ear 15 years earlier -- for paying a fellow student to take his Spanish final.
As they listen to the Democrats' "Liberal Lion" accuse President Bush of "telling lie after lie after lie" to get America to go to war in Iraq, young voters don't know about that notorious 1991 Easter weekend in Palm Beach, when Uncle Teddy rounded up his nephews for a night on the town, an evening that ended with one of them credibly accused of rape.
It's time for Republicans to state unabashedly that they will no longer "go along with the gag" when it comes to Uncle Ted's rants about deception and moral turpitude inside the Bush White House. And if the Republicans don't, let's do it ourselves by passing this forgotten disgrace around the Internet to wake up memories of what a fraud and fake Teddy really is.
The Democratic Party, not to mention Sen. John Kerry, should be ashamed to have the national disgrace from Massachusetts as their spokesman. And the GOP needs to say so out loud. I remember all of this and I'm sure most of you do, too.
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Peace
Dan
Brad Steele
http://www.artbylogic.com/puzzles/numSlider/numberShuffle.htm
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
as a kid
remember them well ,
but I learned to cheat [:(][}:)] popped the numbers out and put than in order
patience was never one of strong points
how about the boards with the golf tees you had to move one at a time to get the correct arrangement [B)]
here you go. Enjoy!
http://www.artbylogic.com/puzzles/numSlider/numberShuffle.htm
144 moves. I would imagine that is pretty bad.
Brad Steele
quote:Originally posted by Mr. Perfect
here you go. Enjoy!
http://www.artbylogic.com/puzzles/numSlider/numberShuffle.htm
144 moves. I would imagine that is pretty bad.
256 moves, but I didn't even notice that it was keeping score until about half way into the process.[B)]
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!
That puzzle right was good practice for me to get anything out of my shed. In order to get to the table saw, I have to move the chainsaws, then the radial saw then the jointer over there and so on....
I'm glad I'm not the only one. [:D]
I used to be super organized and neat. [V]
quote:Originally posted by notnow
That puzzle right was good practice for me to get anything out of my shed. In order to get to the table saw, I have to move the chainsaws, then the radial saw then the jointer over there and so on....
I'm glad I'm not the only one. [:D]
I used to be super organized and neat. [V]
Count me in as a member of the must-step-over-it-to-get-to-something-else club. I often admit, only half jokingly, that my life is a series of barely maneuverable paths from Point A to Point B in my shops and garages and machine sheds. I desperately need to get rid of stuff and get organized. Hoarder's Syndrome!