Sunday, September 30, 2007

Beware of your pancake mix . .

there might be mold in it which can cause you harm. Snopes says it's true . . click here

Sunday, September 23, 2007

the value of the dollar

the Canadian dollar is now on par with the US dollar and the Euro hits a new high against the greenback this past week but the real news is the peso . . . .

Two hundred twenty-two years and two weeks ago today, the United States made the peso its official currency. Nonetheless, many Americans went nuts last week when Value Giant announced that it would start accepting pesos in all of its stores on Saturday, July 14, fearing an increase in peso-spending illegal immigrants to the United States.

Sunday, September 16, 2007

Live your life

"Every man should live his life so that he can be half the man his dog thinks he is."

C Wallenbrock

Monday, September 10, 2007

Owning your own home

The reason that it's good when people own their own houses is that they take better care of them, they invest (emotionally) in the local community and are concerned about schools, crime, street maintenance, etc . . . . . renters usually are ambivalent on such issues.

As
one person of influence once put it : "In the history of the world, no one ever washed a rented car.''