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WITH ALL OF THE POLITICAL TALK LATELY - NOW WE UNDERSTAND

Johnny Reb

Great food for thought...... a little indigestion with all the politics 
currently under way
Subject: A billion is......
 -----This is too true to be very funny

The next time you hear a politician use the
 word "billion" in a casual manner, think about
 whether you want the "politicians" spending
 YOUR tax money.
 A billion is a difficult number to comprehend,
 but one advertising agency did a good job of
 putting that figure into some perspective in
 one of its releases.


 A. A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

 B. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.

C. A billion hours ago our ancestors were
 living in the Stone Age.

 D. A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.

 E. A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and
 20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.

 While this thought is still fresh in our brain, let's take a look at
New Orleans It's amazing what you can learn with some simple
division

 Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu (D), is presently asking the
 Congress for $250 BILLION to rebuild New Orleans .  Interesting
 number, what does it mean?

A. Well, if you are one of 484,674 residents of
New Orleans (every man, woman, child), you
each get $516,528.

B. Or, if you have one of the 188,251 homes in
  New Orleans , your home gets $1,329,787.

C. Or, if you are a family of four, your family
gets $2,066,012.

Washington , D.C .. HELLO!!! ... Are all your calculators broken??

 Tax his land,
Tax his wage,
Tax his bed in which he lays.
Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes is the rule.
Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.

 Tax his ties,
Tax his shirts,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.

Tax his tobacco,
 Tax his drink,
Tax him if he tries to think.

Tax his booze,
Tax his beers,
If he cries,
Tax his tears.

Tax his bills,
Tax his gas,
Tax his notes,
Tax his cash.

Tax him good and let him know
That after taxes, he has no dough.

If he hollers,
Tax him more,
Tax him until he's good and sore.

Tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in which he lays.
Put these words upon his tomb,
"Taxes drove me to my doom!"

And when he's gone,
We won't relax,
We'll still be after the inheritance TAX!!
Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL License Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Perm it Tax
Gasoline Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax),
IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax),
Liquor Tax,
Luxury Tax,
Marriage License Tax,
Medicare Tax,
Property Tax,
Real Estate Tax,
Service charge taxes,
Social Security Tax,
Road Usage Tax (Truckers),
Sales Taxes,
Recreational Vehicle Tax,
State Income Tax,
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA),
Telephone Federal Excise Tax,
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fe e Tax,
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax,
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax,
Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax,
Telephone State and Local Tax,
Telephone Usage Charge Tax,
Utility Tax,
Vehicle License Registration Tax,
Vehicle Sales Tax,
Watercraft Registration Tax,
Well Permit Tax,
Workers Compensation Tax.

STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?

Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago,
and our nation was the most prosperous in the world.
We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in
the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.

What happened?  Can you spell 'politicians!'

And I still have to "press
1" for English.

I hope this goes around THE USA at least 100 times
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Subject: [Homestead] Ice sheets and Glacial lakes
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I recent post on the duration of the ice ages sent me to a book I had on =
Glacial Lake Missoula.  The book did not really address the issue of how =
long the ice sheet lasted but did mention something like 50,000 years =
and that over the last two million years there were several ice ages.  =
We cannot be sure because each succeeding age obliterated most of the =
traces of the last one.

What the book did address and what I found very fascinating is the =
multiple formation and demise of Glacial Lake Missoula.  I lived in =
Spokane in the early 80s and read some of what was written at the time =
which was still fragmentary.  This book by David Alt brings the research =
up to date.  He mentions some of the controvosary surrounding early =
works on the subject. =20

As the ice sheets moved southward down the Percival Trench (the valley =
where Sandpoint Idaho is located) it blocked off the Clark Fork River.  =
A lake formed behind this ice dam covering much of present day Montana.  =
The surface altitude of the lake could have been as high as 4500'.  In =
the northern edge the lake floated glaciers and ice berg broke off to =
float around the lake dropping rocks as the went and creating piles of =
rocks where they grounded and melted.

As the lake level rose it worked under the ice dam which caused the dam =
to float and crack then burst.  This caused a huge flood, Several =
million gallons per minute and draining the lake in as little as a week. =
 Flood waters cut into the valley south where they hit Basalt and turned =
west cutting thought the Basalt in the Spokane Valley and flooding much =
of east central Washington cutting what is not called the Channeled Scab =
lands.  Much of the topology of east central Washington and the Columbia =
River was formed by these many floods.

As to the number of floods, the best guess is several dozen.  As an ice =
dam broke the relentless push of the glacier dammed the river again and =
again.  Each successive lake was smaller than the proceeding lake as =
this was near the end of the ice age around 15,000 years ago.  The soil =
of the Spokane Valley was more like a grave parking lot, mostly because =
of the floods and the later runoff as the glaciers melted.

All very fascinating.

Don Bowen      KI6DIU
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html
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GARDENING CALENDAR =96 2008

4/4/08: 50 degrees/overcast. Planted 265 garlic in Bed Four. Used =20
largest cloves from about four pounds of the Chinese garlic from Sam=92s =
=20
Club in Phoenix. Should be good if Monsanto hasn't touched it. Soil =20
had reverted to sod but was easy digging=97Sandra reports we received =20=

over sixteen inches rain in March. Soil looks, feels, smells good. No =20=

amendments added.=