Fun Thanksgiving Facts

70 million pies are sold in grocery stores every year at Thanksgiving, at 300 million people here that is 1 pie for every 4 people. I like them odds, that means we all get 1/4 of a pie, bring on the whip cream.

Pecans contain more than 19 vitamins and minerals. Hey if we eat 70 million pecan pies with whip cream (our Vitamin D) just think how healthy we will be.

5 million gallons of cranberry sauce is eaten by Americans every year. Hey more healthy stuff, fruit that helps flush out our kidneys.

And that green bean casserole costs an average of $4.50 for all the ingredients, hey here is our serving of veggies.

Just think how healthy we will be the day after.

Cash for Cars and Houses

So now we know the cash for clunkers actually cost $24K per vehicle. This was so successful that we now have cash for new home buyers, but wait there is no reliable way to tell whether someone is buying a home for the first time and worse, the law did not give the IRS the authority to demand documentation that a home had been purchased at all. When the Treasury Department investigated the checks being passed out they found out 19,300 claims had not purchases homes yet; 74,000 clains were not first time buyers, and more than 580 claims were made by taxpayers younger than 18 (one as young as 4). This amounted to about $504 million in stolen taxpayer money.

So what is next, cash for ? How about cash for knitters, you know how expensive yarn is these days, I want some quiviut at $90/ounce, so how about divvying up that leftover porkulous money for us knitters, I promise it will be put to good use and yo can be assured we will spend the money for yarn.

Dishcloth Swap

Knit a dishcloth, send the pattern, and a skein of yarn. The Darrel Waltrip stitch makes a beautiful dishcloth in variegated yarn.

Staycation Swap

Many of us can not afford to take a vacation nor do we have taxpayer dollars to fly our jets across the country, so we did a staycation. I went to Michigan, some place I have always wanted to go, so Mackinac Island and Stitches n Things go on my bucket list. My wonderful box, btw the caramel corn was very yummy, you could feel your arteries slam shut for the butter and the chocolate cherry sauce made vanilla ice cream go down even better.

Warm Coaster and Mug Cozy Swap

Another swap I was involved in you had to make either a mug cozy or coaster and send it along with yummy eats and something to drink. My wonderful box I received.

Kinnearing

I went to my brothers this summer for a long weekend. Some pictures just need to be taken and shared.

If you have back boobies no one wants to see them. Please hide them. Also the pocket on the seat in front of you is not for your dirty smelly feet, people put things in there that they don't want feet on.
Just because you drive a Mercedes and it is raining does not mean you can drive on the sidewalk so you don't get wet.

Harvest Swap

I belong to an online knitting group and every so often we do a swap. This particular swap was the harvest swap. H-Halloween, A-aroma, R-Thanksgiving recipe of your family tradition, V-Veteran's Day, E-Eats, S-something squishy, and T for tacky.

I got a diy pumpkin kit where you paint it green and then decorate, I have some fake pumpkins, dark hot chocolate, 3 recipes, flags, peeps, some gorgeous yarn, and tacky halloween items. Thanks for my great box.

Pre Order Sarah's Book

To preorder from Barnes &Noble:
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To preorder from Amazon:
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Olympics 2016 and the Red/Yellow Empire State Building

So the angry one is on her way to Denmark today to hawk the 2016 Olympics to be held in Chicago. Why Chicago because someone in the current administration owns the property and stands to make more than the second stimulus package. And the imposter flies out on Friday to join her. ANother vacation on our taxpayers dime. So what is more important the 2016 Olympics or betting people back to work with healthcare they can afford. How much money is this costing and who is watching the girls?

AND in case you have not heard today the Empire State Building is lit up in red and yellow to honor China, yes folks the country who holds our debt.

NEW YORK — New York's iconic Empire State Building will light up red and yellow Wednesday in honor of the 60th anniversary of communist China.

The Chinese consul, Peng Keyu, and other officials will take part in the lighting ceremony which will bathe the skyscraper in the colors of the People's Republic until Thursday, Empire State Building representatives said in a statement.

The upper sections of the building are regularly illuminated to mark special occasions, ranging from all blue to mark "Old Blue Eyes" Frank Sinatra's death in 1998 to green for the annual Saint Patrick's Day.

Just last week the tower turned bright red.

However, that was not to mark some other communist achievement, but the 70th anniversary of the film "The Wizard of Oz" in which Dorothy wears ruby slippers rather than the silver of the original L. Frank Baum novel.

Stuck on Gum

Joanne Brunet always carries a pack of Wrigley's spearmint in her purse for chewing, but she has 4,000 packs of gum that she has saved for the last 68 years. She lives in Quartzsite, Arizona and has been collecting gum since she was 5.

Her husband built her a 600 square foot gallery in the backyard for her packs of gum. She has 112 glass covered cases to display her collection. She started collecting in the 40's and used tax tokens, five red plastic tokens (mom you h ve some of these) bought a penny pack of Wrigley's gum. She split the pack with her sister and saved one stick for her collection.

The oldest piece of gum is a stick of 1932 Wrigley's Doublemint from a woman in Grand Junction Colorado. She also has antique gumball machines, advertisements, and gum packages from 30 countires. She has a set of 1960 bubblegum trading cards featuring the TV Show McHale's Navy and Man on the Moon cards commemorating the 1969 Apollo 11 landing. She has cards featuring Kiss, Star Wars, and professional skateboarders.

If you want a tour of the Gum Gallery call 928-927-7566.

Martha's New Apron is Orange

Just how much money does Martha Stewart need? How greedy can she be? She has her stuff at Macy's, K-Mart, Wal-Mart, Michaels and now Home Depot. Starting January the outdoor furnishings will be availabe from $399-$1,999. In February home organization systems will be added to the lineup including closet gear and a nine-cube unit.

Martha's paint line ends with Lowe's earlier this month so maybe a paint line at Home Depot to follow? Really Martha how much money do you need?

I know she started a craft line at Michael's because she wanted to provide affordable crafts to crafters, HOWEVER you can't use coupons and she sets the clearance prices with her own stickers. I dont buy her stuff until I see it marked so ridiculously low I know she can't make any money from it. I also see some craft at Wal-Mart and it is all marked down now.

Hey, Martha no one pays full price for stuff when they can get other stuff with coupons, if you really want to help out, lower the prices, come down off your high horse and let us use the coupons. Most of the country barely gets by these days, so either help out or expect your stuff not to get bought. But then you are a liberal so what can we expect? Talked to Michael Moore lately?

September 25 - Muslims Pray At Capital Building

"Washington, D.C. - On September 25th there will be a national prayer gathering of Muslims on the west front of the U.S. Capitol Building. They are expecting at least 50,000 to attend from mosques all across America. They will gather to pray from 4:00 AM until 7:00 PM. The gathering will take place by the site where U.S. Presidents have been inaugurated since 1981. The organizers say that it was Obama's inauguration speech in January and his speech broadcast from Egypt in June that gave them the idea for this prayer gathering on Capitol Hill. "

They have a website set up for this event. If you never look at another website look at this one, especially the final words: islamoncapitolhill.com

Can't Cry With All That Botox Nance

Pelosi's Crocodile Tears
Date: 9/18/2009 1:15:24 PM

by Jeremy Wiggins

Nancy Pelosi has yet again managed to ruin an opportunity to provide some healing during this difficult times, and turned it into prejudiced rhetoric once again. Instead of saying something like, "We can all learn a lesson about democracy in what I think everyone will agree is a crucial topic to America," Pelosi needs to get a GPS, because she is constantly on the moral low road.


In a speech she gave on September 17, the Speaker of the House used her open mic time to compare today's town hall protests and tea parties to, and I really don't see the comparison, the violence in the late 70's against homosexuals in San Francisco. She said, "this kind of rhetoric was very frightening, and it gave--it created a climate in which we--violence took place." And then she said we should all, "curb our enthusiasm."


What I want to know is this: Where, and I mean anywhere, in this country has there been the same type of violence as there was during the time period she is comparing it to? Where are the threats against democratic store keepers and people throwing bricks through windows protesting health care reform? Now I'm not saying that there aren't crazy people out there, they live on both the right and left sides of the fence. But to compare it to violence against homosexuals??? Why do we give this lady airtime? She was practically in tears and shaking, working herself up during this moment. A moment that has actually harmed America. That's right, it harmed the country.


The more we keep with this whole criticism equals racism gig, the more damage it is doing to the overall health of the nation. What's next? Are we going to compare town hall protests to Tianamen Square? We live in a country where it is normal for protests to occur, and a majority of the time it occurs with no violence at all. I think Speaker Pelosi must have us confused with some other country.