Yesterday I was a volunteer driver for the director of the city museum and an Ameri-Corp photographer. I took them to the ghost town (Los Fuertes), the mining ruins in Pecos, the Pecos National Monument, and the valley churches. This trip was designed to get the county’s sites into the city’s photo database to be used for tourism and other advertising venues.

They were blown away by the places shown and the scenery that the county is blessed with. Canyons and hidden corners of the county that a visitor would be hard pressed to find. I expected to receive enthusiasm for the day’s show and tell, but the photographer was just amazed. He kept saying that “This is even better than the last place!”

It was a good day to be me.

Warren Buffett, in a recent interview with CNBC, offers one of the best quotes about the debt ceiling:

“I could end the deficit in 5 minutes,” he told CNBC. “You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election.

The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds)
took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971 – before computers, e-mail, cell phones, etc.

Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took one (1) year or less to become the law of the land – all because of public pressure.

Warren Buffet is asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise.

In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed around.

Congressional Reform Act of 2014
1. No Tenure / No Pension.
A Congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they ‘ re out of office.
2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security.
All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the
Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into
the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the
American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.
3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all
Americans do.
4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise.
Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
5. Congress loses their current health care system and
participates in the same health care system as the American people.
6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the
American people.
7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen/women are void effective 12/1/12. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen/women.
Congress made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in
Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers
envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their
term(s), then go home and back to work.

If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will
only take three days for most people (in the U.S. ) to receive
the message. Don ‘ t you think it ‘ s time?

THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!

So I head out to test fire my gun and I naturally head to the arroyo near Arrow’s Ridge B&B and stick it in 4-LO to gain some height for a backstop. I drive about ½ mile in to shoot normally. Well, I climb the stair, proceed through the sand, and about ½ way to my destination my right front tire sinks deep. I gun it and no joy. No problem, even though I feel the front end still sinking. I hit the switch for the lockers and pull myself right through the sand.

I proceed on and run 35 through the pistol and find it acceptable. I pack up and head out of the arroyo. I plow through the sand again and stop once past it. Now, I’m thinking that this is just a soft spot in the arroyo, but when I walk to the stuff I start sinking! That is some cool shit. One thing I notice is that it’s not actually quick though. In fact I could walk right through the entire patch of quicksand without danger, but if I stood still I would slowly sink about 3 or 4 inches in a minute.

Anyway, that’s my first experience with quicksand.

Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, ‘Lillian, you should have remained a virgin..’
– Lillian Carter (mother of Jimmy Carter)
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I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: – ‘No good in a bed, but fine against a wall.’
– Eleanor Roosevelt

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Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement..
– Mark Twain
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The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible
– George Burns
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Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.
– Victor Borge
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
– Mark Twain
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By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
– Socrates
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I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
– Groucho Marx
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My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.
– Jimmy Durante
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I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back.
– Zsa Zsa Gabor
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Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.
– Alex Levine
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My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.
– Rodney Dangerfield
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Money can’t buy you happiness …. But it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
– Spike Milligan
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Until I was thirteen, I thought my name was SHUT UP .
– Joe Namath
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I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything until noon. Then it’s time for my nap.
– Bob Hope
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I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it..
– W. C. Fields
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We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress.
– Will Rogers
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Don’t worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you.
– Winston Churchill
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Maybe it’s true that life begins at fifty .. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out..
– Phyllis Diller
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By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he’s too old to go anywhere.
– Billy Crystal
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And the cardiologist’s diet: – If it tastes good spit it out.

I have the distinguished honor of being on the Committee to raise $50,000,000 for a monument to Hillary R. Clinton.

We originally wanted to put her on Mt. Rushmore until we discovered there was not enough room for two more faces.

We then decided to erect a statue of Hillary in the Washington, D.C. Hall of Fame. We were in a quandary as to where the statue should be placed. It was not proper to place it beside the statue of George Washington, who never told a lie, or beside her husband William J. Clinton, who never told the truth, since Hillary could never tell the difference.

We finally decided to place it beside Christopher Columbus, the greatest Democrat of them all. He left not knowing where he was going, and when he got there he did not know where he was. He returned not knowing where he had been, and did it all on someone else’smoney.

Thank you,
Hillary R. Clinton Monument Committee

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• New memories are nonexistent.
• Old memories must take up too much room.
• She keeps letting them out and I have to pretend interest.
• I am sick and tired of explaining gays and lesbians to her.
• She fascinated by the topic. TV is not helping.
• I refuse to go into the mechanical details of the acts.
• That seems to frustrate her. Tough shit.
• Nina continues to see physical deterioration. I don’t.
• Thankfully I’m not in a position to see what she sees.
• I’ve been tasked to blow up photos of her family.
• Scan the little pics and make them big.
• She is very grateful for my efforts. Mom, Dad, & Ted.
• Ted was a good looking guy when young. Very good looking.
• He was not so when I met him. He looked homeless.
• She’s constantly cutting up old pictures.
• I have no idea who gave her scissors, but “that was BAD!”
• I have offered to set up a TV in her room so I don’t have to see her.
• She declined.
• She wants Jeopardy to use subtitles.
• If she had a TV in her room, I’d activate them on that TV.
• She has never asked about her condo.
• She has not asked about her condo’s contents lately.
• She doesn’t care about any of the “important” stuff anymore.
• She hates the hospice people. She blames Obama. I agree.
• I only agree because it aggregates Archie. Sorry Archie.
• She still plans on taking over the world.
• Life under Hitler would be more sane.
• I guess that’s it.  IT’S ALL OBAMA’S FAULT! Hi Archie!