We're back from a nice trip to Lancaster, Pennsylvania to see a show devoted to the music of Irving Berlin. You remember that music... it was the kind that you could listen to without getting a nervous stomach, and you could also understand the words in the lyrics.. and... they rhymed!
On the way up, we had a little extra time and visited the Stauffers complex in York.. and, of course, we bought some (a bunch) of cookies.. Elaine likes chocolate animal crackers.. so, we now have a closet full of them. Come on over to visit and help us devour them.. otherwise we will probably consume them in short order.. to the detriment of our health.
A few news items caught my eye today:
1. Saudi Women Drivers
King Abdullah overturned a court ruling that would have given a Saudi woman driver 10 lashes. The Kingdom has an unwritten law that restricts women from driving. Conservative tradition holds that giving such freedom to women would probably make them vulnerable to sinful activity.
Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world that bans both Saudi and foreign women from driving cars. No "women driver" jokes in that country.
2. Here's looking at you..
You can now buy designer 3D glasses for around $100 a pair. (Why would you want to?) Theater owners will soon be selling reusable regular 3D glasses for a couple of dollars a pair. (Same question.)
3. Bookies
Yesterday, I found out that Big Lots is selling their $3 remainder books for $1. I searched through the hundreds on display and found not even one book that got my attention enough to read the cover blurb.
However, today, I learned that the Dollar Store has some new $1 remainder books. I hurried in and found that a few did get my attention.. I bought 5 of them. Let me tell you the titles:
An Illustrated Guide to the Lost Symbol (Connections between the Freemason's and our nation's capitol).. edited by John Weber. It has lots of slick photographs and looks very interesting.
Zero Decibels, The Quest for Absolute Silence by George Michelsen Foy. One part of the book concerns tinnitus, which I have.
Upgrade Me by Brian Clegg. Concerned with "humanity's self-driven instinct to evolve."
Beef, The Untold Story of How Milk, Meat, and Muscle Shaped the World by Andrew Rimas and Evan D. G. Fraser. Now, how could anybody not be interested in a book with that title!
Don't Get Sick (A panic-free pocket guide to living in a germ-filled world!) by the editors of Prevention magazine.
Now, honestly, don't you think I got a great bargain for $5. plus tax?
Of course, even being a speed-reader, there is not enough time left in my life to read these and all the other hundreds of books I want to read.
4. How to get out of the budget abyss?
Albert Velasquez (Eldersburg, Maryland) writes to the Carroll County Times today about the money problems of the Government, and makes a suggestion that should be written on a flag and hung outside of everyone's residence:
The tax code should be made fair for everyone.
It's as simple as that. Wouldn't it be wonderful if everyone paid their fair share of the expenses of running this marvelous country of ours?
5. Otherwise Try..
If Congress does not take the steps necessary to change the tax code, what would be another step to take to get our Country going again?
Government Bonds
"Buy a bond today! Bonds of freedom, that's what I'm selling. Buy a bond today!"
If you are old enough to remember this song, you know how the Country responded patriotically to Bond Drives in World War II. We all contributed.. even kids took dimes to school to buy stamps.. get enough stamps and turn them in to a bond. I still have some of those bonds.. uncashed.
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My hour is up again. See ya.
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