Why you should care about the FairTax

The FairTax:

• Enables workers to keep their entire paychecks
• Enables retirees to keep their entire pensions
• Refunds in advance the tax on purchases of basic necessities
• Allows American products to compete fairly
• Brings transparency and accountability to tax policy
• Ensures Social Security and Medicare funding
• Closes all loopholes and brings fairness to taxation
• Abolishes the IRS

Someone who has plenty of money to shop all the time and buy expensive things will pay more. Someone on disability or retired who can spend very little will pay very little (if anything). Everyone will pay, whether they are here legally, working under the table, dealing drugs - whatever.

FairTax increases the number of people paying taxes so that most of us will pay less overall.

Check it out for yourselves and sign the petition if you agree.

Yeah, we are just THAT cool...

...but it takes a whole lot more than cool to make the cover of the [real] Rolling Stone.

Make your own at MagMyPic.com. Post it here and share it with everyone!

No More Fish Breath

Grayson probably wondered what was up Monday morning when he didn't get any breakfast or even a drink of water. But he thought it was pretty cool that he got to go for a car ride instead of staying home with Sara...until we got to the vet's office.

When the vet tech came to get him for his dental, Grayson climbed up on a bench near the window in the waiting room and seemed to be trying to figure out how to make a getaway before I pulled him down. Poor guy. At least they spared him a little pain and gave him his vaccinations while he was still under anesthesia.

They had to pull three teeth and he's now on his second round of antibiotics, but his breath will no longer bowl you over. Now if they could only figure out how to fit him for braces...

Earned Incom-poop Schmax Kredit

Mom said I probably qualified for that Earned Income Credit-thingy, so I tried to see if I did...but I don't understand anything! (I think...)

Can anyone tell me (in normal 20-year-old terms) what it means and how you qualify???

Becuase it seems (to me) like it's only something for poor people with kids and I aint got no kidz... (<---Bad Grammar!!!)

Too funny not to post...

Gee, thanks

Jehova's Witnesses dropped by yesterday while I was at work. I thought I was doing okay until I saw this. Then I felt an overwhelming urge to cry and eat bon bons.

Happy Valentine's Day

Snow Day!

New Englanders would probably laugh at our little dusting, but this is a big deal in the South. So anyway, my street is one big sheet of ice and it's too cold to go out side for more than minute and I sure ain't going anywhere. Daniel got off school and they both had pancakes for breakfast - a rarity during the week. You know these two are not going to complain. I got to admit, it is pretty, even if it is colder than a gravediggers butt in January.

Loves Me Like Barack

This was posted to YouTube by the talk radio host Phil Valentine, who is based out of Nashville. I don't care which side of the fence you're on, I just think this is funny:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=gIERAsVcY7U

Artsy-Fartsy Fun!!!

Here are some projects I did last Fall in my Digital Imaging class ('cause I know you all love looking at them)!

*Mardi Gras Mask; Title: Money, Money, Money. I got the idea from the movie Cabaret, along with an actual mask that I made. The main objective of the project was to show off our ability to use layer-masks, 'n' what-not.




*Pattern-Making Project; Title: The Mad Pattern. My theme was a Mad Scientist's Lab and all of his creations. I made each individual pattern and put them together to make the giant W.

The titles of the patterns are as follows (L-R): "It's Alive!" Text, "DNA", "Vile Vial", "Brain-In-Jar", "Franken-Cog Fishken", "It's my creation! Is it real?!" Text, "Mad, Mad Scientists", "Bad Brew", "Lab Rats", and "Franken-Babe".



*U.S. Stamp Final; Title: Le Cirque Stamp. It was inspired by Cirque du Soleil. The woman is an "Aerial Silk" artist. (It's hard to explain, but if you look it up, it's really cool.)

I couldn't make and actual Cirque du Soleil stamp because of copyright issues. (My teacher wanted it to be purely original... I don't blame her.) So, in the end, I came up with "Le Cirque du Reves" wich means "The Circus of Dreams."



Ta-Da! That's all for now!

Next time I post artwork, I'll post the infamous "Wet, fighting Hot Dog"!!!

Yay! Responsibility!

Sooooooooooooooo.............

I started school again, of course. Job Corps gave me an extension, so I can stay and finish getting my AA.

I'm taking 2 art classes (Digital Imaging and 3D rendering), French, Algebra, and Flamenco... Yeah! I'm taking Flamenco!

I need 3 Phys. Ed. units for my AA, so I decided to take dance classes. It;s sad to admit, but whenever I go dancing I'm drunk, so I don't know if I'm a good dancer or not... Also, I've always wanted to learn to dance. When I'm done with Flamenco, I'm gonna take Social Dance (which is swing, latin, and ballroom), and Bellydancing.

Also, I GOT A JOB! w00t!!!

I'm going to be a cashier at Cafe Pucciani. It's a Pizzaria at the Universal Citywalk. It pays $8 an hr. but they give you chances to advance. Another cool part about working there is that you get your fav. Universal movie on your badge under your name. I picked ARMY OF DARKNESS. The chic who hired me (her name is Sandra and she's awesome) has TO WONG FOO on her badge.

I can't wait to start work!

Got a Minute?

You can help Southeastern Greyhound Club in our mission to give as many former racing Greyhounds as possible a new lease on life as family pets. Won't even cost you five cents and won't take even five minutes.

From one of our Screening and Placement Committee members:

Please go to the website listed below and enter the $5000 sweepstakes on behalf of Southeastern Greyhound Club-Southeastern Greyhound Adoption. $5000 is being given away each month for 6 months, so please enter for us several times this month and again each month. I will remind you. And check the box for the OUST donation for Tara and the kennel :-)

Thanks for your support.
Patty

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A Latte Love

From Octane Coffee Atlanta

When Will I Ever Learn

This is my fourth child and of all the things that I have learned over the years, there are obviously plenty more that I have not. One of them is do not give a child a choice unless you really, really do not care what the outcome is. Case in point - Lea Anna's up coming birthday:

ME: "Lea Anna, what kind of food do you want at your birthday party?"

LEA ANNA: "fruit rollups"

ME "No, we are already having cupcakes. I mean the actual food - like hot dogs, hamburgers, pizza ..."

LEA ANNA "fruit rollups"

And on and on the one-sided conversation goes, her tuning me out in the process all the while waxing poetic about the five dollar cash card you can win from specially marked boxes (at this point I'd give her five bucks just to make this scenario go away)- only to repeat herself about the fruit rollups several hours later. This been going on for a week, and I have three more to go through till her party. AGH!

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