Politically Incorrect

If the devastated country of Haiti receives only food, water and tents...there will be MORE helpless, hurting people needing rescue a year from now...than there is now. Lots more. Somebody smarter than me needs to teach somebody down there how to fish...and how to make the ground productive for animals and humans. You know...grasslands, fruit trees, olive trees, grape vines, potato plants. If the land and sea in that area won't support life, that life needs to move on. It's not safe relying on the fickle kindness of others. Just sayin.

One key to a successful life...

...is not necessarily knowing all the right answers, but it's asking the right questions. Here's a good one (and this isn't original with me ).

***Was the juice worth the squeeze ?***

Number-crunching

You might be a geek if your tax paperwork was ready to file on Jan 1 before lunch. (guilty)

Our efforts at being productive in 2009 look more like a hobby than an actual job. We're hoping for a stimulus check...absent that, "there's gonna be some changes 'round here".

Gene Lyons in ArDemGaz

I cannot stop reading this guy any more than I can stay away from my oreo cookie stash...but he's making me crazy. Regarding the attempted terrorist bombing over Detroit, he writes. 1. Fox News went into warp overdrive reporting it, 2. America is slipping into "sky-is-falling" hysteria over the attempt, and 3. Americans have little to fear from al-Qa'ida. KNOW THIS. The ONLY reason we didn't have 279 deaths on that Christmas day is...the incompetence of the bomber and/or his handlers. This is not comforting to think about, because people who hate America have a way of climbing the learning curve and correcting their procedures. We better correct ours.

ArDemGaz editorial.

TSA agent Barney Fife says don't worry about how they didn't notice a Muslim pay cash for a ticket and actually board an international flight for Detroit with no coat and no luggage...even after receiving a call detailing his jihadist beliefs. With his best Mayberry swagger, he loads his only bullet and announces they will do even better with health care.

Side note : These Keystone Kops can't even work a guest-list at a dinner party without screwing something up.