Awhile ago, I received a graduation announcement for my niece Dawn’s son Nathan. Along with the announcement was a picture of my very handsome great-nephew (his brother Daniel is also very good looking, but I didn’t get a picture of him). I finally spent this morning scanning all of my paperwork including Nathan’s picture.
He’s always been cute as you can see by the following (he’ll probably want to kill me for showing you this):
I think his eating habits are a little neater these days.
Freedom Trail
Today, Sarah Palin spoke about the Freedom Trail in Boston, MA (see http://www.sarahpac.com/posts/freedom-trail). Mark and I walked the Freedom Trail (it’s 2 1/2 miles long and wanders through Boston with lots of historic places). I took some of the best pictures I’ve ever taken there and then found out I had no film in the camera. With digital cameras, that is not a problem, but with film cameras – how disappointing. If you’re ever in that area, please take the time to follow the red bricks on the Freedom Trail. We did get to go back and take a few pictures of the Freedom Trail.
In this picture of the Old State House near the Bostom Common, you can see the red bricks denoting the Freedom Trail.
In this one, kind of at the other end of the trail is the USS Constitution, better known as Old Ironsides.
Interesting Facts
Since its inception, I have made it a habit to check theblaze.com several times a day, Interesting Facts found there include:
- 77,000 federal employees make more than the governors of their states per http://www.theblaze.com/stories/77000-federal-employees-make-more-than-their-state-governors/
- Aside from GE, the other companies that barely paid any taxes were American Electric Power, Dupont, Verizon, Boeing, Wells Fargo, FedEx, Honeywell, IBM, Yahoo!, United Technoloties and ExxonMobil. per http://www.theblaze.com/stories/report-some-major-u-s-corporations-are-paying-0-tax-rate/
- The man who avoids paying his own taxes says the “We must increase taxes.” per http://www.theblaze.com/stories/charlie-rangel-on-debt-we-must-increase-taxes/
- the number of limousines owned by the federal government increased 73 percent during the first two years of President Barack Obama’s presidency. per http://www.theblaze.com/stories/limousine-liberals-report-shows-major-growth-in-governments-limo-fleet/
- The Obama administration said Wednesday that the government will lose about $14 billion in taxpayer funds from the bailout of the U.S. auto industry. per http://www.theblaze.com/stories/obama-admin-admits-govt-will-lose-14-billion-on-auto-bailout/ (I wonder if this includes the huge subsidies the government has been giving for those who buy the Chevy Volt)
The comments at the end of the articles found on theblaze.com are often as insightful as the articles themselves.
Until next time…
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