Friday :: 03 July 2009 :: 07:38 PM
175 days to Christmas!
Getting into the investment game is not as hard as some think. You don't need to start big. It's like adding pennies in a pot: Small amounts contributed regularly begin to add up.
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Fourth Of July Fact
Why do we celebrate Independence Day on July 4?
All kinds of history books and reference books will explain that the federal holiday celebrates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, declaring our independence from Great Britain. However, while that day is celebrated as the day of independence, it really is not. Our nation officially became independent on Sept. 3, 1783, when the British King George III and the American leaders signed the Treaty of Paris.
-- from Land Line magazine, published by OOIDA. July 2007 page 106.
This next commentary is from the same magazine and page. It is an excerpt from an article by Pete Rigney, the Silver Fox:
". . . Every time I read the original document [Ed - Declaration of Independence], I get goose bumps. I think about a little remembered delegate named Richard Henry Lee, a farmer from Westmoreland County, VA. Lee took on the whole British Empire when he introduced a motion that declared we were free from all allegiance to the British Crown on June 7, 1776. Talk about guts!
"John Adams seconded the motion. Thomas Jefferson penned the first draft based on Lee's outline. Ben Franklin and Adams made a few more changes and we were on our way with the noble experiment. Eventually we would become the most powerful nation in the world.
"Thank you, Richard Henry Lee. Thank you, signers who put it on the line for all of us. . ."
Random Humor: Football Tryouts
Ole Olsen was trying out for football.
"Can you tackle?" asked the coach.
"Watch this," said Olsen, whereupon he proceeds to run into a telephone pole and bust it to splinters.
"Wow! that is amazing! Can you run fast?"
"Sure can," said Olsen, and he ran a 9 second 100 yard dash.
"Great!" said the coach. "Can you pass a football?"
"Yessir, if I can swallow it, I can pass it."