The Angry Neighbor…joke…humor…

Angry Neighbor

A man was in his front yard mowing grass, when his neighbor storms out of the house straight to the mailbox, opens it, slams it shut and storms back in.

A little later the neighbor storms out and does the exact same thing again, before storming back in even more red-faced.

As the man was getting ready to edge the lawn, out the neighbor comes again, marches to the mail box, opens it before slamming it closed harder than ever.

Puzzled by the neighbor’s actions the man asked, “Is something wrong?”

“There certainly is!” the neighbor replied. “My stupid computer keeps saying, YOU’VE GOT MAIL.”

Davis Suzuki Interview, on “The Hour,” with George Stroumboulopoulos…

Here is a link to an interesting interview on “The Hour” with George Stroumboulopoulos with David Suzuki [one of my personal heroes]:

http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/video.php?id=1141

Enjoy…
~The Baby Boomer Queen~

The GREEN HOUSE EFFECT is melting Artic Ice at a RAPID rate! …science…green peace…

This is a video that I thought some of my GREEN Baby Boomers, out there, would like to see.

They say that there is no green house effect…

I say that they lied then and that they are still lying! When in truth, we are not getting closer to the sun…

We are ruining our planet…chopping down the forests and not replanting them, at an alarming rate. Still sucking up gases for transportation, still using aerosols, not using mass transportation.

How many of you, Baby Boomers thought that you would have to buy water because the water is so nasty from your tap that you don’t dare drink it.

The list is incredible of things we should and should not be doing.

The Arctic ice is melting faster than previously thought, according to new research. As a result, the fabled Northwest Passage may become a reality.

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1184423697/bctid1184380025

World peace and green peace!

~The Baby Boomer Queen~

WATER COOLER TALK…Who will WIN the SUPER BOWL??? …sports…football…

WATER COOLER TALK…Who will WIN the SUPER BOWL???

OK, Baby Boomers here is some water cooler talk…WHO WILL WIN THE SUPER BOWL???

I know you probably have favorite teams but they might not be in the SUPER BOWL this year.

WIll you vote for the team that has the best stats? Well, that would be really hard since they are SUPER TEAMS…the BEST.

Will you vote for the best uniforms [ok guys it is a girl thing!}?

You must take sides…no wishy washy stance on this game! Who will it be…???

Share your comments with me/us.

ME…I am waiting for half time and the commercials!

Any good recipes for Super Bowls? What do those SUPER BOWL fans like to chow down on??? Or drink???

Lets talk Super Bowl…it is the last game of the season and let’s hope it is the BEST!

~The Baby Boomer Queen~

Global Stock Market plunges…DO NOT let PANIC prevail!

Global Stocks Plunge as U.S. Crisis Spreads
Sell Offs on All Major Exchanges

Even pedestrians are reflected on the electronic market board in Tokyo Monday, Jan. 21, 2008. The Nikkei 225 index shed 535.35 points, or 3.86 percent, to close at 13,325.94 points on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, tracking declines on Wall Street and around Asia, on worries that the U.S. economy is recession bound.

A visitor studies stock prices at the Australian Securities Exchange in Sydney, Australia, Monday, Jan. 21, 2008. The Australian stock market closed lower for the eleventh session in a row on Monday. At the close the S&P/ASX200 index was down 2.9 per cent to 5,580.4 with the All Ordinaries down 2.91 per cent to 5630.9.

A visitor adjusts his glasses as he studies stock prices at the Australian Securities Exchange in Sydney, Australia, Monday, Jan. 21, 2008. The Australian stock market closed lower for the eleventh session in a row on Monday. At the close the S&P/ASX200 index was down 2.9 per cent to 5,580.4 with the All Ordinaries down 2.91 per cent to 5630.9.

People watch a giant screen showing Bombay Stock Exchange index on BSE building in Mumbai, India, Monday, Jan 21, 2008. Indian shares plunged Monday amid a regional market sell-off sparked by worries that the U.S. economy may enter a recession. The country’s leading stock index appeared to be headed for its biggest ever single day loss.

Stock markets around the world plummeted yesterday as a financial crisis that began in the market for U.S. home mortgages spread to almost all corners of the globe.

U.S. markets were closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, but all the world’s other major economies experienced sell offs. Stock prices fell more than 7 percent in Germany and India, 5.1 percent in China, 5.5 percent in Britain and 3.9 percent in Japan. Many countries experienced their worst market declines since Sept. 11, 2001, and the only country whose stock market rose was Sri Lanka.

Asian markets continued their steep drop today, with Japan down 4.4 percent in morning trading. As the market opened in India, shares fell nearly 10 percent, triggering an automatic halt to trading.

“Where the bottom is now is anyone’s guess,” said Wesley Fogel, a market strategist for HSBC.

Officials at the Treasury Department, in the Federal Reserve system and at major stock exchanges worked the phones yesterday, calling one another and their counterparts around the world. They were preparing for what looks likely to be a volatile week on Wall Street: Futures markets yesterday forecast a 4.5 percent drop in the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index when exchanges open this morning.

A Treasury spokeswoman said only that the department is always monitoring markets and in touch with participants. A spokeswoman for the Fed declined to comment.

The markets fell as fears spread that massive losses on loans made to U.S. home buyers would cascade through the world financial system. Some of the firms that play important, but usually invisible, roles in the global financial architecture are turning out to be exposed to the downturn in the housing market in such a way that their ability to function is threatened.

The companies that insure bond investors against defaults are having to make massive payouts. One, ACA Financial, owes $60 billion that it cannot afford to pay and has been taken over by the Maryland insurance regulator. Its credit rating has been lowered.

The problems among bond insurers have meant that a wide variety of financial institutions cannot count on receiving payments due them, causing further losses.

Other news yesterday shows just how widely the damage has spread. A Chinese newspaper reported that the Bank of China is exposed to subprime U.S. mortgage loans to a degree it had not previously disclosed and may have to write down the value of its $8 billion in such investments. Several large European banks have taken similar hits.

Those losses could have importance beyond the hit they cause to the banks’ share prices. Banks and other financial institutions play an important role in an economic downturn: lending to businesses and consumers so they can help the economy get back on track. The multibillion dollar losses could make them unable to play that role.

Moreover, foreign investors have been plowing capital into U.S. banks to help them continue lending, which made the losses particularly worrisome, some analysts said.

“Those infusions of capital have been crucial to maintaining performance to date,” said Joseph Mason, a finance professor at Drexel University in Philadelphia. “If foreign investors should significantly retreat from U.S. markets, that leaves us to our own recovery. In that case, the current credit crunch will continue to bite and we maintain a very high risk of recession.”
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Thank you Rajesh Nirgude, an AP News writer
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Boy, am I glad that I don’t play the stocks!

OK people…here we go…do not panic…it is infectious! Do not stop being a consumer…that is what hurts the economy.

~The Baby Boomer Queen~

Kiefer Sutherland has been released from jail after serving 48 days on a drunken driving charge

LOS ANGELES, California, Kiefer Sutherland has been released from jail after serving 48 days on a drunken driving charge, according to a police official.

Kiefer Sutherland served time for a drunken driving charge.

Two police spokesmen did not return phone calls seeking confirmation of a story on People magazine’s Web site saying the 41 year old actor walked out of jail at 12:05 a.m. Monday, hours earlier than had been expected.

But a police official who spoke on condition of anonymity and wasn’t authorized to speak publicly confirmed that Sutherland had been released.

People quoted police Officer John Balian as saying, “(Kiefer) looked like he was glad to be out,” and that Sutherland was wearing a shirt and jeans when he left the facility.

Sutherland, the star of Fox television’s drama, “24,” has spent his sentence cleaning sheets, pillowcases and blankets on laundry duty, Balian told The Associated Press on Friday.

“He was very humble, never complained,” Balian said. “He didn’t give us any problems at all.”

Sutherland pleaded no contest in October to driving with a blood-alcohol level above the legal limit of 0.08 percent. He was sentenced to 30 days, as well as 18 days for violating probation stemming from a 2004 drunken driving arrest.

After entering his plea last fall, Sutherland issued a statement saying he was “very disappointed in myself for the poor judgment I exhibited recently, and I’m deeply sorry for the disappointment and distress this has caused my family, friends and co~workers.”

He was granted a request to serve his time in suburban Glendale’s city jail rather than in the overcrowded downtown Los Angeles County jail. The trade off was that he could not shave any time off his sentence for good behavior or early release because of overcrowding.

The actor must also serve five years probation and complete an 18 month alcohol education program and attend weekly therapy sessions for six months.
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Thank you CNN and AP News
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WOW! Kiefer is 41…it doesn’t seem possible!

~The Baby Boomer Queen~

Dr Martin Luther King JR. Day…A day to reflect the man and his DREAMS…FROM A Kenyan view point…

Time to reflect on Dr. Martin Luther King’s model…

The world yesterday observed the 78th birthday of Dr Martin Luther King Jr, one of the celebrated crystal clear advocates for civil rights.

King, who at 35 earned the Nobel Peace prize for his nonviolent struggle for civil rights, was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968.

By his own accounts, he was a man frequently racked with doubt, a man not without flaws, a man who, like Moses before him, more than once questioned why he had been chosen for so arduous a task, leading a people to freedom, the task of healing the festering wounds of a nation’s original sin.

And yet, lead a nation, he did. Through words, he gave voice to the voiceless. Through deeds, he gave courage to the faint of heart.

By dint of vision, and determination, and most of all faith in the redeeming power of love, he endured the humiliation of arrest, the loneliness of a prison cell, the constant threats to his life, until he finally inspired a nation to transform itself, and begin to live up to the meaning of its creed.

Martin Luther King Jr would never live to see the Promised Land. But from the mountain top, he pointed the way for Americans, a land no longer torn asunder with racial hatred and ethnic strife, a land that measures itself by how it treats the least of these, a land in which strength is defined not simply by the capacity to wage war, but by the determination to forge peace, a land in which all of God’s children co~exist in a spirit of brotherhood.

In Kenya, we are yet to arrive at this longed for place. For whatever progress we have made, the land of our dreams still recedes from us. We are lost, wandering spirits, content with our suspicions and our angers, our long~held grudges and petty disputes, our frantic diversions and tribal allegiances.

Today, Kenyans need to ask: Can peace and unity exist where justice has ceased to be our shield and defender?

In seeking solution to the Kenyan crisis, we need hindsight of the American experiences in the era of Martin Luther King Jr.

Historical evidence shows that the racism that plagued the southern part of the US for decades, severely retarded the economic development of that region.

NORTHERN AND WESTERN REGIONS of the US, which embraced diversity to a much greater extent, and did a better job of bringing all groups into the economy, surged ahead and became prosperous.

However, the southern states only recently honoured their varied cultural heritage and allowed the participation of the entire population in the political and economic process.

As a direct result, the southern states are now prospering, with centres of excellence in education, business, medicine and politics.

US’s last two presidents, as well as the present Secretary of State, came from that region.

Kenyans must know that exploitation of tribal divisions and failure to take a national approach to development priorities impedes economic progress.

Like the American federal system that balances national and local interests in a way that protects diversity and encourages development, Kenya’s diversity of 42 cultural communities must be turned into strength.

Although here in the US they say that “all politics are local”, meaning that voters tend to vote on the basis of economic and political issues that affect their region and ethnic groups as well, most citizens think of themselves first as Americans, not as residents of a particular state.

One means of overcoming tribally based politics in Kenya is through devolution of power and revenue to local communities with appropriate safeguards to protect local minorities.

Kenya could only achieve its national development goals when voters gain insight on a leadership system committed to a national, rather than tribal, approach to government.

As we nurse the Kenyan wounds, we might do well with the words of Martin Luther King, Jr: “Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must ever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.”

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Thank you Daily Sun and writer, Mr ALPHAYO OTIENO who is an MA Student at Phoenix University and writes for the Daily Sun in the US.
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I do not think I could write something about Dr King, that someone else has not said better.

But, I thought perhaps you might enjoy the outlook of a Kenyan on this day…

I will say this…do not let the world turn you against your own brother or sister…do not let they conquer and divide you.

And get out there and vote be a voice and be heard…it is never to late to scream at the top of your lungs if you are not heard.

My favorite quote from Dr. Martin Luter King Jr., was “Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate can not drive out hate; only love can do that.”
Smiles, world peace and equal rights for ALL,
~The Baby Boomer Queen~

“I have dream…”

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