I need a little more practice - two more times perhaps - and I'll be an expert on emergency preparedness.  My firewood will be stacked and dry.  I'll be able to brew coffee in a jerry can or at least boil water for tea on the grill.  Maybe I'll even build a wood fired oven for fresh baked bread!

A triple insulated cooler would be good.  The refrigerator warms up far too fast and you can't always find ice.

On the plus side, school was unaffected which helped to keep my son's anxiety levels low.  We did have to rendezvous at an alternate bus stop due to having our road completely blocked by downed lines.

My husband left her a note that she can't see her boyfriend tonight or tomorrow (she's grounded) and then took off for a ride on his motorcycle. I am left here to be the bad guy.

She told me that by grounding her, it makes her want to do even worse. She said she didn't turn it in because she didn't get through and didn't want a bad grade. I told her she can't do lower than zero.

"He fueled new enterprises with a national currency, spurred innovation, and ignited America's imagination with a national academy of sciences, believing we must, as he put it, add "the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery...of new and useful things." And on this day, that is also the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth, let us renew that commitment to science and innovation once more."

That was thrilling to me.

Rendell, who is relying on an infusion of federal money to balance the state budget, warned this week that if Congress approved the Senate's pared-down version of the stimulus package, Pennsylvanians should be prepared for severe pain from state budget cuts.

In the end, discretionary funding for governors to plug budget holes was reduced from $79 billion in the House bill to $39 billion, the amount contained in the Senate version.

But Rendell said that by drawing $600 million over two years from the stimulus package's school-district funding, the state would be able to meet its budget estimates without hurting Pennsylvania school districts.

"I thought what we got in House bill was very generous and helpful," he said. "But we roughed out with essentially the same as the House bill."

As a result, Rendell said, he will not have to make the additional 1,500 job cuts and even deeper agency funding reductions that he had predicted under the original Senate bill earlier this week.

not HOLC not expansive enough, only via means testing for hardship, doesnt get the underwater loans or stop the decline in inventories from deeds in lieu of foreclosure in non recourse states which happen to be CA and AZ for two examples...

WHY WHY WHY are they letting the banks write the housing proposal??? this is the same garbage plan that hasnt been working? the pymts arent low enough with loan extension and primcipal forebearance which is why they have been redefaulting as FDIC has been saying for over a year

this is another clusterfrak that wont be fixed cause they arent being progressive and arent getting pressure form the left

this sucks

I'm going to look in the 'FDR Didn't Create Jobs' thread from a few days ago, but does anyone have advice how to answer this nonsense?:

"As for FDR, let me quote this article by Peter Ferrara in the American Spectator:

"By the end of the 1930s, even FDR's Treasury Secretary and close personal friend Henry Morgenthau told the House Ways and Means Committee, "We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work....I say, after eight years of this administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started...and an enormous debt to boot."

It didn't work. The way out of this is tax cuts. We need to keep more of our hard-earned money so we can spend it, and businesses need to reinvest and expand, thereby creating jobs."

see Reuters UK here,
he said we should be 'realistic'