- November 10, 2012 -

Thank you to 1st Response Photography for this wonderful photo of our engine & for the Windex Award. :) Absolutely nothing happened between now & the last time I was on here except we picked Josh up from work, I cooked macaroni & cheese w/ ground beef for dinner, we watched the 2 hour season premier of Burn Notice, & went to bed ... & proceeded to sleep 12 hours. It's a beautiful fall day outside & happy weekend! Milligan Water meeting Monday.

Accepting another's offer to taste some of his dish - or offering a bite of yours - is fine as long as it's done subtly & neatly. Pass your bread plate to the person so he can put a spoonful on it; or, if he's sitting close by, hold your plate toward him so that he can put a bit on it. Don't hold a forkful of food to another diner's mouth or spear something off his plate - both moves are messy & unappetizing.

Bush addresses the United Nations regarding terrorism (2001):

On this day in 2001, in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President George W. Bush addresses the United Nations to ask for the international community's help in combating terrorism around the world. He also pledged to take the fight against terrorism to any place where terrorists were harbored.

In his speech, Bush called the war on terror a case of "light overcoming darkness" and warned that civilization itself was being threatened by those who used terror to achieve their political aims. In a poignant moment, Bush pointed out that only a few miles from United Nations headquarters in New York City "many thousands still lie in a tomb of rubble," referring to the site where the World Trade Center towers formerly stood. Bush cited the U.S.-led military action in Afghanistan against al-Qaida and the Taliban regime that had sponsored them, begun a month earlier, as proof that the U.S. was fully prepared to attack other nations that harbored or financed terrorist groups. Bush went on to promise that the U.S. would stand by its commitment to peace in the Middle East by "working toward a day when two states, Israel and Palestine, live peacefully together within secure and recognized borders as called for" by the United Nations.

Bush concluded his speech by saying he expected the United Nations member states to live up to their global obligation to help root out terrorist cells. "The cost of inaction is far greater," he said, and the attacks on September 11 proved that "the only alternative is a nightmare world where every city is a potential killing field." This speech was the first time Bush laid out a policy of pre-emptive action against regimes that sponsored terrorists. He followed up on his threat two years later by sending American troops to overthrow Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, whom he accused of funding terrorist organizations and developing weapons of mass destruction, though no such weapons were ever found.

Donate old or worn towels, sheets, or blankets to a local animal shelter. These are always in need to keep the animals clean & warm.

Exiguous:

Excessively scanty : inadequate.

Current spending on the project is exiguous, but the boss is lobbying to have the budget tripled in the next fiscal year.

You might expect today's word to mean "extensive" instead of "meager," since it sounds so expansive. Even a scanty glimpse at the word's etymology will disabuse you of that notion, however. "Exiguous" derives from the Latin exiguus, which has the same basic meaning as the modern English term. Exiguus, in turn, derives from the Latin verb exigere ("to demand," "to drive out," or "to weigh or measure"). The idea of weighing or measuring so precisely as to be parsimonious or petty gave "exiguous" its present sense of inadequacy.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, & endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Moron Test:

Graduate from Moron to Genius as you tap, twist, and shake your way through these fun and tricky challenges! Master the game, then laugh as your friends and family struggle with these seemingly simple puzzles!
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SECTIONS:
- Old School
- Late Registration
- Winter Break
- Food Fight
- Skip Day
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We even include an extra 'Pocket God'-themed section named ‘Ooga School’. Also, check inside for "Failing in Love", the first animated short featuring characters from The Moron Test!

Shut your eyes & imagine your stressful situation is a scene in a movie. Stop the action. Pull the picture off the screen. Hold it in your hands as if it's a snapshot. Imagine it shrinking until it's a postage stamp. Put the stamp on an envelope & mail it.

Some love real estate, & love buying rehabs & flipping & all that. Their mind moves toward deals. But now, before their mind moves toward a deal, it moves toward risk awareness because they went broke all those years ago. It's not that their risk meter was broken, they just didn't have one installed.

What hard-throwing major league pitcher named his firstborn son Gehrig after baseball great Lou Gehrig?

When it comes to Wall Street slang, what is the meaning of the acronym KIPPERS?

Kids in Parents’ Pockets Eroding Retirement Savings. It refers to adult working-age children who’ve finished school and are living at home with and off their parents.

Which game involves rolling balls up a sloping, table-sized ramp into a variety of holes?

A. Skee ball

B. Dunk ball

C. Scooter ball

D. Rollerball

Answer: A. Skee Ball

Which of these words uses every vowel in order?

A. Facetiously

B. Cauliflower

C. Enunciator

D. Ambidextrously

Which religion is America's largest?

A. Protestant

B. Roman Catholic

C. Mormon

ABC. The 1st Amendment guarantees right to freedom of religion & ensures the government doesn't act in the interest or disinterest of religion. Hallelujah!

Your __________ is disgusting, the way you __________ is unpleasant, & when you __________, it annoys me to no end.