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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.”

State residents in West Virginia are going to have seven months to practice dialing 10-digit telephone numbers. Yes, I said, “ten months to practice” dialing telephone numbers. Now you hear a lot of bad jokes about people from the “hollars and the backwoods of the south” but you never really think they are real.

Or are they?

From Mid July to Feb. 28th residents get to make voluntary 10-digit dialing calls after that it is a mandatory thing for them. Now how much know-how does it take to be able to dial a telephone for cryin’ out loud.

This, this is the number pad, you dial the number here, and then it goes to the person you are calling.  Now you try it. 4-1-1? Is this here information? Yes, it is, how may I assist you?  I was wondering where my socks is? Can you tell me? … Look behind the couch bubba.

The new statewide Area Code goes into effect this week, good luck.

Older Americans aren’t the only ones having more sex and enjoying it more. A new study of Swedish 70-year olds finds that they’re having sex more often than peers in the past, and that women of that age are particularly satisfied with their sex lives (That a way to go Yohand!).

Last year researchers in the U.S. reported that Americans ages 57 to 85 were getting on with a “little help from their friends” (Viagra and Levitra) and generally speaking were living better thru chemistry. Viagra was great! We had sex for two hours once … but 1’50″ of it was just me, apologizing after wards!

The findings last year dispelled greatly the rumors that Grandma and Grandpa were wasting away in suburbia and vegetating. Now on the heels of that survey, new hope on the horizon. Or perhaps not hope. From a woman’s standpoint it has to be a bulletin from the devil himself. “Oh great, now I have to have even more sex with this guy until the end of my life? Give me a break.”

The Swedish survey points out that men and women are doing just fine, and octogenarians are actually quite lively. And of course, men don’t actually need the stimulant, what we need is a pill that will help us to “talk for a little while” after wards.

So much for getting frisky in the Golden Years.

President Nixon declared that our dependency on foreign oil would be a thing of the past, it would only take us 12 years and we would be free of middle eastern oil. That did not happen. Nixon said in 1970 that we were importing 20% of our oil, that it would be ten years later, 0%. It in turn went to 42% in 1991, with the Gulf War. It is just under 70% now.

And I suppose the next logical question is … “Where will we be in ten years?”

That would be, I am afraid, anyone’s guess.  Now Mr. T.B. Boone Pickens, Texas Oil Man and Ex-Corporate raider, is on the scene and he has a plan.  Mr. Pickens’ says that “alternative energy” is our salvation and our way out.

Wind and Natural Gas.

One thing is for sure, it is a player, a citizen who has the plan, not the government. At least someone is willing to work on a solution. I see it and hear it every day, wind and gas, buy an electric car.

Do people believe that electricity is just going to magically fall from the sky?

Something has to turn … Something has to burn … In order to make electricity folks, it is a law of nature. But at least someone has a plan … Which is better than our governments solution which is kind of like drilling for more oil, 15% of nothing, is still … nothing.

Meanwhile, back in West Virginia …. Is this that there 9-1-1?? Yes, what is your problem? I cum home and my sister, Lucinda, is on the floor and she is not breathing. What is your address sir? It is 1225 Eucalyptus Drive. Can you spell that for me? ……. long pause ….. How about I just drag her down to the corner of O-A-K Street and you can pick her up there.

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