Tony Brewer

You Tube is full of wonderful videos of our soldiers dancing over in Iraq. This particular one really impresses me and I thought that I’d share it here on my blog. Like I said there is a good amount of videos on You Tube, if you like this one you should check it some of the others as well.

To me it is sad to hear that a man was so terribly desperate with his tax problems that he felt that he had to burn his house down and then crash into the local IRS building. Taxes have always been a big issue in people’s lives, something that I guess we will always need to deal with. These are scary times, what with the economy in such a mess and now that it is tax time I’m afraid we will be hearing more stories like this one.

Thank goodness the year’s elections are over!  I was getting tired of all of the automated phone calls coming in promoting one candidate or the other!  I may not be happy with the results of who won and who lost, but at least I can hit the sack early if I want to and not be awakened by the phone just to hear a pre-recorded message to vote for so-and-so!  I wish there was some way we could opt-out from receiving those calls!  All they do is annoy me!

On this special day, the anniversary of the twin towers bombing, I was surprised to notice as I was driving around how many businesses were flying their American flags at full staff.  Yes, there were a lot of businesses that were flying their flags at half-staff, but it seemed that just as many were flying at full staff.  I don’t remember hearing an official proclamation that flags were supposed to fly at half-staff, but the post offices and government buildings were definitely at half staff, so I’m guessing that the proper protocol for the day would be for half-staff.  I wondered if the the full staff businesses were simply ignorant or just plain arrogant in some way.  Were these people proclaiming their “gee, we’re Americans and can’t be taken down” or were they “gee, we don’t think that the victims of the terrorist attack deserve the respect of a half-staff flag?”  I guess I’ll never know!

I’ve never been able to swat a fly with my bare hand, have you? Well, our President has shown his ninja skills in his fly-swatting success! And of course, PETA is unhappy about it and has sent him a humane fly trap for future nuisance bugs! What a riot!