Monday, February 23, 2009

5 MINUTE TICKER:

PARTY LIKE IT'S 1997 - major market indexes at 12-year lows

On her knees - Hilary Clinton asks China to keep buying US debt

Hope and Change - Consumer confidence index falls to record low

Some gave all - 64 years ago today our flag was raised over Mt Surabachi, Iowa Jima

California Fever: US Gasoline Temperature Map

Global Warming Update - 2 feet of snow in New England leaves 140,000 without power

2 comments:

Jeffrey L Watts said...

" 64 years ago today our flag was raised over Mt Surabachi, Iowa Jima"

Sheperd Smith marked "Today in History" by talking about the invention of the Tootsie Roll.

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berlet98 said...

How To Catch Wild Pigs: A Parable for Our Time
“You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place.

When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence. They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side. The pigs, who are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat. You slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd.

Suddenly, the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves so they accept their captivity.

That is exactly what is happening to America. . . .

(Read the rest of this parable at http://genelalor.com/.)