A new federal program is offering struggling homeowners a one time $50,000 loan that doesn’t have to be paid back! I bet you people paying your mortgage every month feel really stupid right about now! Hey, Liz is on empty. When is he going to put gas in my tank? Alex, I’ll try “buying votes” [...]

Californians will now pay more for those online purchases. Californians now required to pay sales tax on internet purchases. Beginning Friday, a new state law will require large out-of-state retailers to collect sales taxes on purchases that their California customers make on the Internet — a prospect eased only slightly by a 1-percentage-point drop in [...]

I have now officially been probed in every orifice. Most bloggers wouldn’t write about something so personal… and maybe I shouldn’t… but the cystoscopy wasn’t exactly how I’d read and/or thought it would be – either it was much worse or I’m just a big wimp. The nurse swabbed everything in sight with iodine, saying [...]

I thought they were slow….

Picture it: You are escorting your 105lb, 95 year old mother home to Michigan to be with family members because leukemia is about to kill her. She goes through the checkpoint in a wheelchair because she’s so weak standing is a problem. Bless her heart, she’s wearing Depends. Well, since “Wheelchairs trigger certain protocols, including [...]

If you believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman, then you are a ‘heterosexist’, which is apparently akin to ‘racist’. USDA gay-sensitivity training seeks larger audience U.S. Department of Agriculture activists want to impose their intense brand of homosexual sensitivity training government wide, including a discussion that compares “heterosexism” – believing [...]

Filched this from Joan at Primordial Slack: Pennsylvania’s Mike Kelly is a gust of fresh air; he’s what we so badly need in Congress: normal business men and women. Not career politicians.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor walked out of the budget talks, saying: Whether it was a ‘stunt’, as some are saying, or he felt the final straw between his shoulder blades, I find it difficult to place any blame on Cantor. The man has worked tirelessly trying to get a real budget passed and keep [...]

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