Frostbite

From Yahoo! News: “MONTPELIER, Vt. – The cold wave that stunned the nation's midsection expanded into the Northeast on Wednesday with subzero temperatures and biting wind that kept even some winter sports fans at home. The wind chill hit 33 below zero during the night at Massena, N.Y., and the National Weather Service predicted actual temperatures nearly that low in parts of the region by Thursday night. Winter-hardened people across northern New England bundled up amid warnings about how fast exposed skin can freeze. "Anyone who sends their kid out today is out of the running for parent of the year," said Eric Friedman, a spokesman for Mad River Glen ski area in Fayston, Vt. A frostbite caution sign was posted at the ticket office, but few skiers were there to see it because of the 5-below-zero cold, Friedman said.” When I lived up there, I went out for a stroll in 10 below zero weather. My walk lasted all of two minutes. This woman, of course, doesn't care - she lives in Puerto Rico.

I.O.U.S.A. what???

From an ad I recently read: "At last, here's how you can own the award-winning I.O.U.S.A. documentary FREE on DVD... over a month before it's even available to the general public! It's my gift to you, and it's also just the beginning of what you'll get in our new "Emergency 'Personal Bailout' Bundle" — also FREE — which shows you... What a sham the bailout is, how we got here, and what happened to the America we used to know. How to rescue your retirement with up to 78 personal "bailout" checks instead, paid direct to your account over the next 24 months. And how to salvage the financial security of your children, your grandchildren and America itself." So, you think this is free??? Nope. Nothing is free. If you follow the ad until the very end - it is extremely long and wordy and repetitive and wordy and long (written for persons who have nothing better to do), you will discover that you will be pitched a report on how to get out from having to pay taxes to support the government. If you don't pay taxes, how will that salvage the financial security of America? It is sad and funny at the same time. I don't see the girl on the left laughing. She is sort of asking something like "What's all this about?"