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Driving skills? Handwriting? What do you find is the strongest indicator of someone's personality?

IT’S CALLED–––RESPECT.

Liza Donnelly's Cartoon of the Week: Double, Double, Toil and Trouble

BELLONA’S BREW

Something is brewing—you can smell it in the air—

Like vapors wafting from a huge caldron

Of a sickening soup

That no one wants to eat.

This morning my fish monger—the one who calls me honey—

Tells me he has no more fresh fish,

And yesterday the woman from the Salvation Army

Stopped ringing her bell.

And who was that strange man standing

By the flag pole with a gun pointing

At something flying overhead?

Well, we all have questions,

Our backs bending from all their weight:

Will it snow tomorrow, do you think?

What about taxes on dividends?

And why does this chocolate mousse

Have such a chalky undertaste?

From 2002

Driving skills? Handwriting? What do you find is the strongest indicator of someone's personality?

Since people have many, many indicators relating to personality traits and since the question was what would be the strongest indicator, I would have to agree with those that mentioned how people treat those that are servicing them. I once went out to dinner with someone I thought I knew pretty well, but the way he related to the waitress––condescending, arrogant, rude–––I saw a part of him that confirmed something I had suspected from the get-go, but never could put my finger on.

One study from Yale says that women are evolving to become shorter and fatter. In recent years have you shrunk or gotten fatter?

Well, Lizzie and Susan, we three can go on the road as the " Incredible Shrinking She-bees." I, too, was 5’5” and now am a little under 5’4" and my weight has always been around 110-115 throughout my life. After I stopped taking estrogen, quit cold turkey, I remember feeling incredibly light. When I had my yearly check-up I had dropped five pounds––next year, another three pounds and I joked with my doctor that I was slowly disappearing so perhaps next visit I would be reduced to a fragment of myself. But then things seemed to get back on track and slowly I am now back to normal. But who knows, we three may end up like Edith Ann, sitting pretty in a chair much too big; tiny, but oh, so much fun to love.

Step into Nancy Pelosi's shoes for a moment: What should be done about Charles Rangel (D-NY)? What do you think will be done?

What a bloody shame. Why is it that people in high places with such ways and means end up in the gutter with the worst? Why do these people think they can finagle, lie, cover-up and deceive? Does power have such a power to corrupt? Trust is key, and when trust is broken, we all get jade eyed once again. Whether Democrat or Republican risky business is risky business and these people in Congress need to fly right and straighten up and stop thinking they are exempt from scrutiny.

Stupidly Standing By Your Man? (Photos)

In the discussion with Judith, Sheila and Julia one of them argued that in these kinds of marriages where the husband has been philandering, the wife has got to be aware of it. "When your husband has lost a tennis match you know it before he tells you from the way he comes in the door." So, they posit, you would know if your husband has been warming someone else’s body. I would tend to agree, but this is a conjecture that might fit us, but not necessarily others who may not be as sensitive to the signs of infidelity. Christi’s comment about the wives perhaps having their own affairs which may stay hidden since they are not the ones in under discussion that are in the limelight except for Hillary and in her case where on earth would she find the time or the energy. It seems to me part of the problem is accessibility. When successful men have access to cream cakes and cherry tarts, it’s hard to resist. This, of course, does not speak well for the male gender, but when we realize there are thousands of men who remain faithful to their spouses–-be they male or female––then we can rest easy. All is not lost.

One more thing: When wives stay with their husbands after these dalliances, it could very well be that their love is strong enough to overcome and forgive, especially if children are involved. If the marriage survives she is the one who will have the control ––she is the strong one, the one who sits way up high on the moral rung, a comfortable place to be in, I would think.

Cemeteries Dying Out: Mr. wOw's Plan B

deber–-that is so funny! Talk about planning ahead–-your Mom must be a riot.

Cemeteries Dying Out: Mr. wOw's Plan B

Interesting that Mr. Wow brings up this issue when my husband and I are in the process of prepaying our cremation bill. The price today will be locked in and since prices for any funeral business have sky rocketed, it might be wise to do it this way. Actually it is a gift to those you leave behind that will be in charge after you die. I was surprised at the high price of urns––a coffee can will do––you could even decorate it yourself.

From the Hitler Diaries to Balloon Boy, what are the greatest hoaxes you remember?

Orson Well’s "War of the Worlds" –––read all about it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(radio)

Brittle Obama Thrashes Wall Street: All Form, No Substance, by Liz Peek

Wow–-good work! I have lots of Johnson in my foreign policy files, but didn’t connect him with Roman History and the way it had been written I made an assumption which you just pointed out as incorrect and for that I, indeed ,should be chastised. I thank you for finding this source and for being a smart detective!

Brittle Obama Thrashes Wall Street: All Form, No Substance, by Liz Peek

Happy to oblige. The information that is in quotes is from my files on Roman History and I’m afraid I didn’t source which book they came from, but since it is factual history, and not opinions, it shouldn’t matter. The rest is my own output. The "snark" that you refer to was not meant to be that, but was just having a little fun–-thought it amusing that you had not seen the reference, but since you meant another post entirely, the mistake is understandable. That happens so often and it makes reading some of these replies confusing.

Caption This!

Tinker Bell seen in Neon Green during Global Warming power point presentation.

Brittle Obama Thrashes Wall Street: All Form, No Substance, by Liz Peek

If thee wouldst glance down at the end of said postie, thee wouldst see that it came from the Huffington Post–-the link is there for further reading.

Brittle Obama Thrashes Wall Street: All Form, No Substance, by Liz Peek

Ha! Here’s a little Factus Checkus for those that grumble that Obama doesn’t give a rat’s ass about small business:

It’s time for those banks to fulfill their responsibility to help ensure a wider recovery, a more secure system and more broadly shared prosperity," said Obama.

The president said the administration will "take every appropriate step to encourage them to meet those responsibilities." He did not specify what those steps might be.

Obama’s were the latest instance of the populist tone he has employed to pressure the financial industry.

Earlier this week, Obama criticized the banking and finance industries for working through Congress to try to weaken the Consumer Financial Protection Agency he has proposed. He accused them of "using every bit of influence they have to maintain the status quo that has maximized their profits at the expense of American consumers, despite the fact that recently those same American consumers bailed them out as a consequence of the bad decisions that they made."

The financial bailout package cost taxpayers $700 billion.

Brittle Obama Thrashes Wall Street: All Form, No Substance, by Liz Peek

Poor Cicero who had devoted his life to trying to curb the kind of power represented by the tyrant Octavian, now gave up on the rule of law in favor of realpolitik. He recognized that "for all his struggles the constitution was dead and power lay in the hands of soldiers and their leaders." In Cicero’s view, the only hope was to try to co-opt Octavian, leading him toward a more constitutional position, while doing everything not to "irritate rank- and- file opinion, which was fundamentally Caesarian." Cicero would pay with his life for this last, desperate gamble. The collapse of the Roman Empire offers a perfect case study of how imperialism and militarism can undermine even the best defenses of a democracy. I assume, therefore, that Jan Gardner had this in mind in her post. The last administration’s hubris and empirical outreaching smacks a teeny bit like Rome’s or perhaps like Britain’s in her glory days, wouldn’t you say?