Beware of statistics!

A while back I attended a public meeting.  A gentleman, to prove his point stood up and said,  "I circulated a petition in my neighborhood and the majority of homeowners agreed with me".  I needed more information so I stood and asked, "to how many homes  did you go"?   His reply, "four"...................marge

Stay home!

Don't be used by money hungry stores on this upcoming Thanksgiving Day.  I know its fun to go shopping on your day off, but not this one.  There are 363 or so other days to shop.  Let the employees have the day off too.  What you 'desperately' need can wait.  Honestly.  You will survive staying out of stores on this day.  All the 'Super Sales' will NOT disappear if you stay home!  They will get even bigger and better.  Then go shopping................marge

Draining Medicare?

I'm not sure who may be abusing Medicare.  Is it various companies TV ads who comes up with  gadgets/gismos that promise Seniors they will get/feel better if they use their products?  Is it the Dr. who writes a prescription for their Senior patient?  Or finally, is it the patients who convince their Dr. they really could use these products.  Somewhere, somehow, I strongly feel that once again, Medicare is being scammed, at the expense of our government agency and all seniors..............marge

Speaker of the house Boehner

Speaker of the House John Boehner.  To you and all members of Congress.  It appears many Senators and Congressmen ran for office not for the betterment of our country but for their own big egos.  They thrive on the attention and sense of importance they attach to themselves.  To them, its worth running this great country, our USA, into the ground.  Speak out and up.  Try, at any political costs to yourself,  to awaken any self decency they might possess.  Difficult?  Certainly.  Impossible?  Pray not...............................marge

Pumping breast milk at work.

A recent article on AOL spoke of a male coworker secretly taping a mother pumping breast milk at her desk.  Many suggested she should have gone to the 'bathroom' to do it.  This is clean, sanitary milk to be fed to a tiny infant and you want it pumped in  the communal toilets  area?   May I Then ask a question of all of you?   Every day of every week, would YOU eat your lunch in a restroom??.............marge

Faithful Detroit Tigers follower, BUT...

The commercials they slip in between innings need a change.  The young, descent looking ladies holding a bat is getting boring.  How about middle aged (or slightly above) being 'bat holders'?  I would qualify and a little more variety wouldn't be all bad.  Raquel Welch I'm not (how many are)?  Alright, so I look more like Lon Chaney Jr.  Really, variety is a good thing and I fit that category, I swear.........................marge

Danger danger Will Robinson!

It would seem that some or all new garden hoses have permanent labels that read as follows.  'Not for drinking water'.  Garden hoses are for gardens, right?  If they're not safe to drink from, are they safe to use for the vegetables and fruit (grape vines) we grow in our yards?  Are we contaminating the foods we plan on consuming?  From where and whom do we get answers?  We need to know.  The sooner, the better.........................marge....PS.  One of the items we should be concerned about in these new hoses, appears to be lead.