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A man wanted to get married. He was having trouble choosing among three likely candidates. He gives each woman a present of $5,000 and watches to see what they do with the money.

The first does a total makeover. She goes to a fancy beauty salon, gets her hair done, new makeup, buys several new outfits and dresses up very nicely for the man. She tells him that she has done this to be more attractive for him because she loves him so much.

The man was impressed.

The second goes shopping to buy the man gifts. She gets him a new set of golf clubs, some new gizmos for his computer, and some expensive clothes. As she presents these gifts, she tells him that she has spent all the money on him because she loves him so much.

Again, the man is impressed.

The third invests the money in the stock market She earns several times the $5,000. She gives him back his $5,000 and reinvests the remainder in a joint account. She tells him that she wants to save for their future because she loves him so much.

Obviously, the man was impressed.

The man thought for a long time about what each woman had done with the money he’d given her.

Then he married the one with the biggest tits.

Men are like that, you know.

And on another note –

There is more money being spent on breast implants and Viagra today than on Alzheimer’s research. This means that by 2040, there should be a large elderly population with perky boobs and huge erections who have absolutely no recollection of what to do with them.

If you don’t send this to five OLD friends right away there will be five fewer people laughing in the world…

And yet that’s all that’s talked about in the reporting.
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 This is taken from his newest book on Where have all the leaders gone.

 Lee is back!!

 Friends, would you believe that Lee Iacocca is 82 years old and is still KICKIN’?

Check out his latest rant.

Just as true today as it was when his book first came out.

He was, and still is, a brilliant businessman!

Often we need to be reminded of Iacocca’s words.

Remember Lee Iacocca, the man who rescued Chrysler Corporation from its death throes?

He’s now 82 years old and has a new book, ‘Where Have All The Leaders Gone?

Lee Iacocca Says:

Am I the only guy in this country who’s fed up with what’s happening?

Where  is our outrage?

We should be screaming bloody murder!

 We’ve got a gang of tax cheating clueless leftists trying to steer our ship of state right over a cliff, we’ve got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can’t even run a ridiculous cash-for-clunkers program without losing $26 billion of the taxpayers’ money, much less build a hybrid car.

 But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, ‘trust me, the economy is getting better..’

 Better? You’ve got to be kidding. This is America, not the damned Titanic’.

You might think I’m getting senile, that I’ve gone off my rocker, and maybe I have.

But someone has to speak up. I hardly recognize this country anymore.

The most famous business leaders are not the innovators but the guys in handcuffs..

While we’re fiddling in Afghanistan, Iran is completing their nuclear bombs and missiles

and nobody seems to know what to do. And the liberal press is waving ‘pom-poms’

instead of asking hard questions. That’s not the promise of the ‘ America ‘ my parents

and yours traveled across the ocean for. I’ve had enough. How about you?

I’ll go a step further. You can’t call yourself a patriot if you’re not outraged.

This is a fight I’m ready and willing to have. The Biggest ‘C’ is Crisis!

(Iacocca elaborates on nine C’s of leadership, with crisis being the first.)

Leaders are made, not born. Leadership is forged in times of crisis. It’s easy to sit there and talk theory. Or send someone else’s kids off to war when you’ve never seen a battlefield yourself. It’s another thing to lead when your world comes tumbling down.
On September 11, 2001, we needed a strong leader more than any other time in our history. We needed a steady hand to guide us out of the ashes.

We’re immersed in a bloody war now with no plan for winning and no plan for leaving.. But our soldiers are dying daily.

We’re running the biggest deficit in the history of the world, and it’s getting worse every day!

We’ve lost the manufacturing edge to Asia , while our once-great companies are getting slaughtered by health care costs.

Gas prices are going to skyrock again, and nobody in power has a lucid plan to open drilling to solve the problem. This country has the largest oil reserves in the WORLD, and we cannot drill for it because the politicians have been bought by the flea-hugging environmentalists.

Our schools are in a complete disaster because of the teachers’ union.

Our borders are like sieves and they want to give all illegals amnesty and free healthcare.

The middle class is being squeezed to death every day. These are times that cry out for leadership. But when you look around, you’ve got to ask: ‘Where have all the leaders gone?’ Where are the curious, creative communicators? Where are the people of character, courage, conviction,omnipotence, and common sense? I may be a sucker for alliteration, but I think you get the point..

Name me a leader who has a better idea for homeland security than making us
take off our shoes in airports and throw away our shampoo?

We’ve spent billions of dollars building a huge new bureaucracy, and all we know how to do is react to things that have already happened.

Everyone’s hunkering down, fingers crossed, hoping the government will make it better for them. Now, that’s just crazy.. Deal with life.

Name me an industry leader who is thinking creatively about how we can restore our competitive edge in manufacturing.

Who would have believed that there could ever be a time when ‘The Big Three’ referred to Japanese car companies? How did this happen, and more important, look what Obama did about it.

Name me a government leader who can articulate a plan for paying down the debt, or solving the energy crisis, or managing the health care problem. The silence is deafening. But these are the crises that are eating away at our country and milking the middle class dry.

I have news for the Chicago gangsters in Congress. We didn’t elect you to turn this country into a losing European Socialist state. What is everybody so afraid of? That some bonehead on NBC or CNN news will call them a name? Give me a break. Why don’t you guys show some spine for a change?

Had Enough? Hey, I’m not trying to be the voice of gloom and doom here. I’m trying to light a fire. I’m speaking out because I have hope – I believe in America .. In my lifetime, I’ve had the privilege of living through some of America ‘s greatest moments. I’ve also experienced some of our worst crises: The ‘Great Depression,’ World War II,’ the ‘Korean War,’ the ‘Kennedy Assassination,’ the ‘Vietnam War,’ the 1970’s oil crisis, and the struggles of recent years since 9/11.

Make your own contribution by sending this to everyone you know and care
about. It’s our country, folks, and it’s our future. Our future is at stake!

I just returned from a ride with Catherine. She’s never been on a motorcycle and I volunteered to fix that problem . I didn’t expect her to say yes, but she did and I’m a man of my word. We did a 130 mile circuit from her house down Rte. 3, east on I-40 to US 84, and back to her house. She enjoyed it.

Dennis and I left the property today at the same time. He went to SF and I took Catherine for a ride. I planned on a ride this morning anyway.

Other Stuff

Tomorrow is Indian Market and the new IFAM competition market that politics in the Indian Market brought about. Now we have 2 Indian Markets competing for the same collector money. I’m half tempted to visit both and see which one wins and I’m also half tempted to ignore both and go for a nice Sunday ride.

I posted an old picture of Andrew & Jennie on FB this morning. I guess it was emotional from some to see. So many likes from so many people.

ML is acting up again when I’m gone or out of hearing her shit. Making ridiculous requests for food and Erin’s toys. She’s now interested in hearing the TV and so we have it a painful volume. Of course the plus is that she spends most of the afternoon in bed.

Earlier this week, I took some of Nina’s unwanted nail polish with me backcountry and shot them up. Nine bottles, ten bullets. That 9422 is the most accurate long gun I own. I love that gun.

Vacation is on the horizon. Can’t wait! ML goes into nursing for the time we’re gone and we’ve added a week for us to be alone at home after we return for a bit.  Of course here, being alone is sort of impossible. Diana, ML’s second caretaker gave her notice that she would not return when ML is brought home. She’s going to Texas to be with family. That leaves us with a void in the schedule.

Poor Stanley…

Stanley died in a fire and his body was burned pretty badly. The morgue needed someone to identify the body, so they sent for his two best deer hunting friends, Cooter and Gomer. The three men had always hunted and fished together and were long time members of a hunting camp.

Cooter arrived first, and when the mortician pulled back the sheet, Cooter said, “Yup, his face is burned up pretty bad. You better roll him over.” The mortician rolled him over and Cooter said, “Nope, ain’t Stanley .”

The mortician thought this was rather strange, So he brought Gomer in to confirm the identity of the body. Gomer looked at the body and said, “Yup, he’s pretty well burnt up. Roll him over.” The mortician rolled him over and Gomer said, “No, it ain’t Stanley.”

The mortician asked, “How can you tell?” Gomer said, “Well, Stanley had two ass-holes.”

“What! He had two ass-holes?” asked the mortician.

“Yup, we never seen ’em, but everybody used to say, there goes Stanley with them two ass-holes.”

Cooter and Gomer are both now employed in the Obama administration. One is in the Cinncinatti IRS office and the other in the Justice Department.