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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “If you look like your Passport Photo, then you more than likely do need a vacation.”

I am running a little slow today, slept in for a change. It is not often that in a house where two of the residents are parrots, that you are allowed to sleep much past daylight. It has also been a very trying week for me, the wife in honor of the China Olympic’s has decorated the whole house feminine, with feng shui. You know what feng shui is?

It’s an ancient Chinese word that means, put your husband’s crap in the garage.

Dark Days In Dodge City. Someone in Kansas bought a PowerBall ticket that had five winning numbers on it and was worth some $200,000 large and the time limit on it has expired. How would you like to wake up this Saturday morning, sit down with your cup of Joe, and look at the paper and see that? Then when you check the shoebox in the closet down the hallway and there the ticket be ….. only to discover that it is now worthless.

Florida sure seems to have a lot of whacked out news. You ever notice that? Might be because of the population or something, but they always have something interesting. A 54 yr old Grandmother was arrested on Child Abuse complaint in Marathon Florida. She had placed her 3 year old granddaughter on the roof of her car and was spotted making laps around a parking lot with the child on the roof of the car.

When police arrived she claimed that “she was driving at a snail’s pace, and that she had ahold of the childs leg” and that she was perfectly safe. The police disagreed and arrested the woman, who then spent 15 hours in jail and was released on bail. This is one of those Dr. Phil “What Were You Thinking Moments” for sure.

They walk among us.

A new U.S. News and World Report poll this week asked respondents, “President Bush is about to get the Oliver Stone treatment in the new movie W. Of recent movies, which title best sums up your view of the Bush administration?” The results: 35 percent chose “Get Smart,” 25 percent — “X Files: I Want to Believe,” 19 percent — “Hellboy II: The Golden Army,” 14 percent — “Batman: The Dark Knight,” and 7 percent — “Enchanted.”

Reach out … Reach out and bug somebody! I sure wish they would make up their mind on this deal. This week they announced that cellphones may be giving us all brain tumors again. Kind of like this deal with coffee, isn’t it. Coffee is bad for you … Coffee is good for you … Coffee is really bad for you. So I guess if your kid is speaking in abbreviated sentences (text messaging) and glowing in the dark, you might have a radiation problem.

How do you check a kid for tumors anyway?

So you want to make some changes in your life Bucko? Tired of being broke all the time? Need a little extra jingle to get you thru tax time? If you answered yes to any of these questions, do we have a deal for you!

You could start hoarding five dollar bills. Now the average American might have a problem with this, because it requires you to pay cash for everything. Lot of $5 bills out there, as a matter of fact, they don’t get much use, the government actually prints up larger denominations and of course the old stand-by the one dollar bill.

A one dollar bill was talking to a one hundred dollar bill and he said, “Where have you been?” and the hundred replied, “Oh, I been everywhere. I have been to Europe, Asia, went to China last week, Viet Nam, I have been everywhere,” and then he asked the one dollar bill the same question. The one looked down and said, “I’ve been to a buffet, the movies and a Baptist collection plate at Sunday School.”

Your Own Personal Cash Enrichment Plan: So here you go, here is the plan, the new road to prosperity and the good life that all of a sudden just disappeared. (Kind of like the illegals, one day they are here, the next day everyone has went south … American Dream? I am sorry, your search results provided nothing, please re-word your query and try again)

You start saving up $5 bills, each time you get one, put it away in the coffee can on top of the refrigerator (which is the sole repository of your life savings) and keep doing this until you have ten of them. Then take that to the bank (if it is still open) and put it in savings. Doing this faithfully will produce a lump sum of about $12,000 in a three year period if you are an average spender.

But you have to spend “cash” in order to do it. Debit or Credit Cards will not cut it.

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