The Maxson Homepage on the WWW
As you can probably tell, I’ve made some changes to the website. It looks different. Comments are also different. I have a few bugs to work out yet (and I might change the colors) but it is going to stay. If you see anything broken or have problems, leave me a comment and let me know.
Image from grufnik via flickr
Here’s some random pics of Cyndi…my smokin hot wife:
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“The fact that we’re here today to debate raising America’s debt is a sign of leadership failure. Leadership means the buck stops here” and “Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren.”
Who said that? When? It was Pres. Obama back when he was Sen. Obama and voting against raising the debt ceiling for Pres. Bush.
If you haven’t heard, there is a battle looming in the House of Rep. as the US debt ceiling issue is tackled. What do I think? Here you go…..
The US is way way way way in debt. Too much in debt. The government–and we the people–need to control spending. We can’t go on spending more than we make every year.
Governments–state, local, and federal–should HAVE to have balanced budgets. If income–tax revenue–is less than expected, either cuts should be made or increases passed. I would make one exception to this: in times of war or extraordinary circumstances, the Federal Government should be allowed to borrow money…for that specific thing.
It is time we the people stood up and made our government act. Either we want the services and are willing to pay the taxes to fund them or we are unwilling to pay the taxes and, thus, unwilling to fund the services/programs. We can’t have everything all the time!
Image from trey via flickr
To all of our Serbian friends, Srecan Bozic (I know it isn’t really in Serbian…I can’t figure out how to get this computer to type in another language right now).
For those who don’t know, the Serbs celebrate Christmas on Jan 7 because the Serbian Orthodox Church uses the Julian Calendar.
[Update 01-06-2011 19:29:06] The picture above is an ornament on our Christmas tree. If the Serbs put up a tree like what we would call a Christmas Tree, they would usually do it for New Year’s and call it a New Year’s tree. For Christmas, the traditional tree is a badnjak.
I just finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
and looking for my next read. I’m trying to decide between these two:
Before we left Cacak, Serbia, a fair came to town. We went to look around. They had cotton candy. Lydia and I paid about $1 for what we got and split it. It was great. Here are some pictures:
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Today, we went to see the famous White Cliffs of Dover. Only all we saw was white. It was foggy when we left here…as we got closer to the coast, the fog got thicker and thicker. By the time we got there, it was so thick it was falling from the sky as a drizzle. But, we got some pictures anyway. Prijatno!
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