Comments on: “Happiness and misery depend not on how high up or low down you are- They depend not on these, but on the direction in which you are tending.” (Samuel Butler, 19th century writer)

By: Rusty Shackleford

Rusty Shackleford — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:27:21 +0000

With posts this long the blog should be called South Dakota War and Peace!

By: troy jones

troy jones — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:02:46 +0000

Sven

CEO’s who miss there upcoming two quarters by this much either get bailed out by obama or are already Obama employees. See General Motors

By: Lee Schoenbeck

Lee Schoenbeck — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 03:00:40 +0000

personally, I have always thought we win as Americans when the federal government has gridlock

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:11:11 +0000

It would seem the more the Government tries to ‘fix’ the ills of the United States the worse it gets. Maybe they should stop trying.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:29:45 +0000

GOOD ONE!!

By: Lee Schoenbeck

Lee Schoenbeck — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:56:21 +0000

….and a Noble Peace Prize

By: sven

sven — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:22:26 +0000

Actually, Troy, a CEO who missed his projections by this much would get $100 million in stock bonuses and a $25 million pay raise.

By: Donald Pay

Donald Pay — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:14:30 +0000

Looking up some Middle Ages music for the holidays I found this ditty, which seems to apply to this topic.

Cuckoo Song
[Brit. Lib. MS Harley 978, f. 11v]

Sumer is ycomen in,
Loude sing cuckou!
Groweth seed and bloweth meed,
And springth the wode now.
Sing cuckou!

Ewe bleteth after lamb,
Loweth after calve cow,
Bulloc sterteth, bucke verteth,
Merye sing cuckou!
Cuckou, cuckou,
Wel singest thou cuckou:
Ne swik thou never now!

Although the season is wrong, “cuckou” and “verteth” is about right. “Verteth,” means “fart.”

By: Troy Jones

Troy Jones — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:53:59 +0000

I meant to say the earth could actually be cooling. Right now since we now know the data was manipulated and the peer review process manipulated in an attempt to decieve, nothing we think we know may be true.

By: Cliff Hadley

Cliff Hadley — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:42:35 +0000

Churchill was scorned as he warned of a “gathering storm” in the 1930s. So too are conservatives who see nothing but calamity if we continue to borrow and spend recklessly at home and cozy up to tyrants and stiff our friends abroad. Conservatives must stand their ground. Liberty’s at stake.

By: oldguy

oldguy — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:41:38 +0000

You are good Troy. I would bet I am the only person here who travels to the Nunavut on a 1/4 basis. Their goverment laughs at all of this. The fact is Polar Bear numbers have never been higher. Maybe all you people who preach doom and gloom should go to one of the neatest places in the world…The Nunavut!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:15:15 +0000

Not to be a grinch, but future Thanksgivings are going to be marred by the Trial of the Century when the terrorists come (back) to New York. The next few years will be agonizing as these vermin put the United States on trial. But you know what? There is a silver lining. This ensures that Obama will be a one-term President, because Americans will quickly grow tired of and angry about what the decision to hold this trial in NY will to do the country.

By: Lee Schoenbeck

Lee Schoenbeck — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:42:33 +0000

Amen Brother — and Happy Thanksgiving to all

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:33:39 +0000

It appears the facts need a holiday, too.

By: grudznick

grudznick — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:56:51 +0000

I give thanks for the globalwarmingalarmists, as it is fun to mock them. And I also like Dharmatweets.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:51:37 +0000

“The earth is not warming but actually cooling.”

Look at the ice, bro, and then tell me if you really believe that.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=ice+loss&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g2g-m3

By: Todd Epp

Todd Epp — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:23:08 +0000

Troy:

What, no footnotes?

Todd

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:30:37 +0000

Not too much to add.

My happiness does not come from a trend, or for that matter anything that someone else does or says, My happiness comes from within. Life is about choices, you can be miserable or happy. I have chosen the latter.

Happy Thanksgiving all.