New Fair Deal

Fellow Business Executives:
As the CEO of this business that employees 140 people, I have resigned myself to the fact that Barrack Obama will be our next President, and that our taxes and government fees will increase in a BIG way. To compensate for these increases, I figure that the Clients will have to see an increase in our fees to them of about 8% but since we cannot increase our fees right now due to the dismal state of our economy, we will have to lay off six of our employees instead. This has really been eating at me for a while, as we believe we are family here and I didn't know how to choose who will have to go. So, this is what I did. I strolled through our parking lot and found 8 Obama bumper stickers on our employees' cars and have decided these folks will be the first to be laid off. I can't think of a more fair way to approach this problem. These folks wanted change; I gave it to them. If you have a better idea, let me know.
Sincerely,

Welcome to the United Socialist States of America!

According to this article linked from Drudge : our "friends" in Washington have spent $2 TRILLION dollars as part of the bail out of the banking and credit industry. And according to them, it is in your best interest for them not to let you want or where they spent that money.

I know that for many of us, math was not our favorite subject in school, so lets break it down: $2 TRILLION is $6666.66 per person for every man, woman, child, and baby in the country when we hit the 300 millionth baby last summer. That means beyond the the already outrageous sums they take from our paychecks and various other sundry taxes - today they took another $18.26 out your pocket - and the pocket of every person in the country - including the beggar on the street corner - to "buy toxic debt clogging our nation's credit system". And they will need to dip into your pocket for that $20 every day this month. From you and your brothers and sisters and parents and every single person you see today (if you are in the country).

BUT THEY WILL NOT TELL YOU WHERE THEY SPENT IT!

But if you voted for McCain or Obama - it is okay. This is crucial time in American history and unlike the previous 200 years of American experience, and 6000 years of human history - we should just trust the government is making the best decision for us and our friends and families.

Not me. I have decided to listen to our president elect and cling to my religion and guns...

Where is the outrage?

We're back....did you think we disappeared?

Finally - here are pictures of the addition. It is still empty because we pretty much left town for a few weeks once it was done and have been bonkers since we got back...click the pictures for descriptions of what you are looking at.

New Family Room
(flooring is cork tiles in a brick pattern)

Family Room colors:
Gold walls, moss green ceiling

Sorry it took so long to get these pictures posted. I kept hoping to take pictures when we get furniture moved into it - but obviously that hasn't happened yet. :) In the mean time, at least you'll get an idea of what we have been so busy working on. I didn't post a picture of the new Laundry Room because it is still in shambles. I'll post a picture someday when we actually get all the construction junk out of it.