That's the truth!

"If you put the Federal Government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there'd be a shortage of sand." Milton Friedman

No-Bake Candy Bar Cookies

With the temperatures topping out at 111 this week, the last thing I wanted to do was turn on the oven even if it meant no cookies! This is a recipe that has been around for years in many variations. I'll give you the plain and simple and then it's up to your imagination on how to adjust it to suit your needs!

No-Bake Candy Bar Cookies
3 sticks of butter (Margarine just want do for this one!)
4 cups graham cracker crumbs
2 cups chunky peanut butter
1/2 cup chopped, salted peanuts
2 cups powdered sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
4 cup semisweet or milk chocolate chips
1 cup white chocolate chips

Soften the butter and combine with graham cracker crumbs, peanut butter, peanuts, powdered sugar, vanilla, and combine. Press the mixture into a jelly roll pan. Freeze for approximately 10-15 minutes while you prepare the chocolate layer.

Slowly melt the semisweet or milk chocolate chips (I like to use a combination) either in the microwave or over a double boiler. Pour the melted chocolate over the now cold graham cracker layer. Now, melt the white chocolate chips and drizzle it over the chocolate layer. Refrigerate until firm.  Cut into bars and serve. Store between layers of waxed paper in the refrigerator.

Ideas . . .
Before the chocolate layer sets, sprinkle some colorful sugar or decorations over it.
More chopped nuts is always a plus on the chocolate layer.

Passing on Some Great Quotes . . .

"I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but I still keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out."
-- David Sedaris

"Dance like it hurts,/ Love like you need money,/ Work when people are watching."
-- Scott Adams

"I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it."
-- Terry Pratchett

"The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one."
-- Joan Baez

The Ten Cannots . . .

Reverend Boetcker is the author of a pamphlet called The Ten Cannots regarding the freedom and responsibility of the individual. It was first published in 1916. It is often credited to Abraham Lincon. The mistake probably happened when The Ten Cannots was published on a leaflet when contained Lincoln quotations on one side. In any event, the list of Cannots is so applicable to our political climate today . . . and it is obvious our current administration doesn't believe in them!

• You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
• You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
• You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.
• You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
• You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
• You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
• You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
• You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
• You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
• And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

A Walk for the President!

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=FKhVnAgt0EY

Winning the election on merit?

Listening to the radio is often a hair-tearing endeavor. On the liberal stations, you hear the stretched truths and downright lies. You switch to the more conservative stations that explain what is really going on and you have to wonder where the media is on this and if they'd treat the same untruths told by Republicans with as much silence as they do for the Democrats.

The latest is that the Welfare Act signed by Democratic President Clinton in 1996 and passed by a Republican Congress has now been changed, and illegally so, by the obama administration. Where is the outcry? The 1996 act has a provision by which recipients of welfare checks had to fulfill certain work requirements one of which was spending a certain amount of time actively looking for work. The whole program was basically a success and weeded out the entitlement people from the people who really needed the help. The law had some 'wiggle room' but the one point that could not be changed was the work requirement. It took months of discussion and argument before this reached President Clinton's desk for signature.

The current administration bypassed all this checks and balance 'nonsense' and just took out the work requirement provision with a flourish of the pen. You have to wonder why . . .

I was listening to AM 590 and one of the producers ventured that if people do not have to actively look for work, they probably will not look for work. If they take their names off the list of unemployed looking for work, the unemployment numbers go down . . . No incumbent president has ever won re-election with high unemployment numbers and as we all know from the nightly news, this president's numbers are not good in that area. It seems that the numbers are being 'adjusted' to improve the president's chances. It also seems that he will stop at nothing to bring down his opponent and try and fool the American people into voting him in for another four years.

As all this garbage goes back and forth and he promotes political ads that are untrue about the Republican candidate, you have to wonder where his heart is in this campaign. Actually, it is pretty evident . . . His record of the last four years hasn't panned out well and the only agenda he can run on is lying about the Republicans and trashing their candidate. In doing this, he obscures the real issues of economy, citizens' rights and freedoms, unemployment, and the massive debt he has accrued and forced on future generations.

All I can say is that I hope that November 2012 with give us some change!

Even when things seem impossible . . .

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

- William Shakespeare