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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Jeff Foxworthy on Michigan...



Are you aware that Jeff Foxworthy is now picking on Michigan ?
Read on. (pretty funny and accurate)



1. If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 18 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by,  you might live in Michigan .

2. If you're proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights each year because Pellston is the coldest spot in the nation, you might live  in Michigan .

3. If your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March, you might live in Michigan .

4. If you instinctively walk like a penguin for five months out of  the year, you might live in Michigan .

5. If someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don't work there, you might live in Michigan .

6. If your dad's suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his forehead, you might live in Michigan .

7. If you have worn shorts and a coat at the same time, you might live in Michigan .

8. If your town has an equal number of bars and churches, you might live in Michigan .

9. If you have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you might live in Michigan .

Part 2 - You know you're a true MICHIGANDER when . . .

1. "Vacation" means going up north on I-75

2. You measure distance in hours.

3. You know several people who have hit a deer more than once.

4. You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.

5. You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching.

6. You see people wearing camouflage at social events (including weddings).

7. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.

8. You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend knows how to use them.

9. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.

10. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.

11.  You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction.

12. You can identify a southern or eastern  accent.

13. Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a  deer next to your blue spruce.

14. You were unaware that  there is a legal drinking age.

15. Down South to you means Ohio .

16. A brat is something  you eat.

17. Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new pole barn.

18. You go out to fish fry every Friday.

19. Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.

20. You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.

21. You find 0 degrees "a little chilly."

22.  You drink pop and bake with soda.

23. Your doctor tells you to  drink Vernors and you know it's not medicine.

24. You can actually drink Vernors without coughing.

25. You know what a  Yooper is.

26. You think owning a Honda is Un-American.

27. You know that UP is a place, not a  direction.

28. You know it's possible to live in a  thumb.

29. You understand that when visiting Detroit , the best thing  to wear is a Kevlar vest.

30. You actually understand these jokes, and you forward them to all your Michigan friends  

Sunday, February 3, 2013

CLASSROOM SOCIALISM

CLASSROOM SOCIALISM


Is this man truly a genius?
An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.

The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan". All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an “A”.... (substituting grades for dollars - something closer to home and more readily understood by all).

After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a “B”. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.

As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride
too so they studied little. The second test average was a “D”! No one was happy.

When the 3rd test rolled around, the new average was an “F”.

As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.

To their great surprise, ALL FAILED and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.

Human nature will always cause socialism's style of government to fail because the world has producers and non-producers (makers and takers).

It could not be any simpler than that.

(Please pass this on)

These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read and all applicable to this experiment:

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.

2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!

5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.