How much do you owe?

And do you have enough money to pay off your portion???

http://buttonwood.economist.com/content/gdc

Teaching Latin to the young

SALVETE!! My middle daughter decided to return to homeschooling this year. Part of her curriculum is basic latin. But what struck me about this program is it reportedly “Kindergarden-3rd” and the level of grammer rules (which teaches both in English/Latin) seems to be in the 6th grade area. When would you feel comfortable with the young learning Latin?

Mississippi is the dumbest state new study shows!!!

Link.

So with this logic, Colorado is the cutting edge with genius trails galore. I wonder if that will be in the Obamacare?

(aside.  Sorry the link is so large but the company firewall doesn’t like me)

edit: fixed -nb

What state will we get too before for it is all too much?

With the unemployment reaching 576K?  That is a higher number than the entire population than State of Wyoming. When will it stop? Rhode Island? (a million?) How about 3 million (Iowa?)

Do you deserve a tax break or shall the Government quit spending?

borrowed from PerotCharts.com

I don’t know exactly each of our readers income, but most likely it is in the first 90% not the top 10%.   That being said that bottom 90% only pays 28.8% of the US income or a measly $320 billion.   In 2007 the top 10% paid 71.2% while just in 2005 they paid 69.7% (a difference of only 1.5% or 16 billion more) With this year’s deficit projected at $482 billion, I guess maybe we could tax the poorest 90% by 2.5 times to make up for it.    THAT way the people will get angry and rise up to stop spending.  Or maybe it will just take taxing of their pops (leading to the next logical step sugar).  And we can have a sugar party in Boston.

I wonder what the rub is??

To beat that pesky Priest.    This a story I heard tidbits about on NPR so I had to check out.

http://www.dnaindia.com/world/report_bank-that-loans-money-for-soul_1271140

So what is your soul worth?  Is the devil in Latvia?  Is this for some lost unknown obscure Pagan god that needs to be reborn?  And does one end up becoming a star in Hollywood if you don’t pay up.

Drinking and Driving is ok, in your country

Hello everyone.   As this is my first tenetive step onto this blog,  please excuse any breach of etiquette, crass word play, or just plain old sarcasm.   That being said..

I am a people watcher.  I like to observe.  And when given the opportunity, sometimes it shows core morals (or lack thereof) in a sick humorous tendency of what people will do.  It is akin to the young man working out on the road tempted to visit a strip club, a found wallet with cash, or the governors that use public funded trips to indulge their own happiness.  No one there will know who they are, will they?  These tendencies aren’t limited to just individuals, but also larger groups like businesses and governments.  And here is one of my current favorites, StatoilHydro.

StatoilHydro is a Norwegian oil company.  It is the largest off shore oil drilling company in the world and in the past has been reported to have involvement in a number of shady deals in Europe and the Middle East.  Recently they opened a large number of petro filling stations in Lithuania.   And why were these built?  Was it to secure a market share of fuel sales?  No my good readers these were placed for the lucrative sale of alcohol.

Until Lithuania enacted a law January 1^st banning the sale of alcohol after dark, you could buy fuel and heavy drink at the same time.  So when Lithuania discovered they had this alarming and rising death toll from drunk driving, so they voted to toughen the drinking laws.  Since the ban there has been a drop in alcohol related accidents by nearly 50%.

But our friends at StatoilHydro though don’t care about this and in an official letter to the Lithuanian government they report that the ban has dropped revenue from alcohol sales by 43% and total sales by 23%, they “urge the ability to sell without restrictions” and that the main reason they invested in Lithuania was this alcohol selling ability and may have to enforce massive layoffs.

WELL Howdy, give me my Vodka and 3 gallons of gas!!!   The irony in this story is Norway has among the strictest laws regarding the sale of alcohol.  And since StatoilHydro cannot do it at home, it seems good to them do it across the water.

No one there will know any different…