Don't take me too seriously. I don't.
The Villages Daily Sun quoted the New York Post regarding global warming and beer prices:
High beer prices are on tap, and global warming could be to blame.
The environmental crisis has hit suds-lovers where it hurts most–at the bar and in the wallet–as prices of grains and hops soar, activists say.
Mrs. Major gave blood for the very first time in her life today. In preparation for the bilateral knee replacement she’s scheduled for next month, she needed to donate two pints of her own blood in case they’re needed during the surgery. She has awful veins for the vampires. In fact, when she gives samples for blood tests, they have to use butterfly needles and get the blood from her hand. Today, the expert from Ocala was in town at the blood center and she drew Mrs. Major’s blood. She had to fish around a little to find the vein in her arm, but she found it. One pint down. One to go.
I got bored again so I changed the theme of Musings. I had to modify it a little because I didn’t like the way some stuff was displayed and it didn’t accommodate all of the plugins I have installed.
I’d also love to do a countdown for Mrs. Major’s knee replacement and for Son Major and The Major’s trip to California to work at the U.S. Open Golf Championship, but the plugin that handles that doesn’t work with this version of WordPress. I guess I’ll keep looking for a compatible one.
The Congressional Budget Office released the following figures: 1Historical Effective Tax Rates: 1979-2005. Released December 2007
| % of Population |
Approx Annual Income |
% of Tax Burden Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Top 1% | $1.3 M or more | 38.8% |
| Top 20% | $512 K or more | 86.3% |
| Top 40% | $58 K or more | 99.4% |
| Bottom 60% | Less than $58 K | 0.06% |
| Bottom 40% | Less than $37 K | 0.00% 2Many in the category will get money “back” even though they paid no taxes. |