How do the bookies make money?

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/how-do-bookies-make-money-sports-betting

I just did the math....

...with a $775 billion deficit we are borrowing $47, 564.68 a second.

Mike Ditka....and what could have been.

http://deadspin.com/mike-ditkas-biggest-mistake-was-letting-obama-become-1443109185?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

It knows no boundries.

http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-shutdown-hits-econonerds.html

Wisdom from U.S. Grant

 "I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution."

America meet Europe.

http://www.brookings.edu/about/projects/bpea/latest-conference/2013-fall-coibion-unemployment-persistence

This makes so much sense I want to shed tears....

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323595004579065361191486206.html?mod=djemEditorialPage_h

You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.

http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2013/09/13/argentina-taking-pages-from-kgb-playbook/

Win-Win proposition.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324094704579065432802151184.html?mod=djemEditorialPage_h

Want to help stop global warming and grow the economy and get rid of nuclear power plants and help the poor all at the same time? Then support fracking. If you are against global warming, and you should be, then you should also be for fracking. If you are against both, then look for "P" in the yellow pages, for psychiatrist.

My happy ending!

As many of you know, my dog Mikka (dog on the right) ran away for 30 days. I thought she was gone...until she wasn't. Here she is with my good friend Kathy Queck who found her in the woods around south Charlotte. My wife and I had committed to adopting a "rescue" English Springer Spaniel from the English Springer Rescue Association, thinking my dog was gone and wanting to do something to help another dog out that needed a forever home. And that is her "Xena" on the left. Mikka turned up two days before we got Xena and the people wanted to know if we were still going to go through with the adoption. I said heck yes! We committed and we are sticking to it. I went from one dog who is at gun dog school to three just like that. A nasty, nasty curve that life had thrown my way has now been nullified. My dog is home and has a new sister. As Winston Churchill once said, "there is no feeling in the world like being shot at and missed." Amen brother.