Money does not buy happiness; it merely placates your misery

According to a recent survey, money really does not make people happier.

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Where to eat in Orlando

Three meals per day, why cook at home

• Breakfast at: Le Peep http://snipurl.com/siai

• Lunch at either:
• Julie’s Waterside http://snipurl.com/sia7
• Yellow Dog Eats http://snipurl.com/sia5

• Dinner at: Columbia http://snipurl.com/sia6

IQ and mental health testing on the streets

Have you ever noticed how much you can tell about the intelligence and mental health of people by the speed at which they drive their cars?

For example:

• Anyone in front of you who is driving slower than you would like to go is obviously an idiot.

• Anyone who passes you when you are clearly driving as fast as any prudent driver should be going, is obviously insane.

Would you like to waltz?

I started taking ballroom dance lessons about six months ago. It’s fun, good exercise, and provides something of a social life. I haven’t met any genuinely bad people on the dance floor; of course some dancers are better than others in more ways than one.

I probably won’t become a world champion dancer, but I enjoy learning new steps, and improving my skills on the dance floor. Thus far I’ve been in two ballroom dance competitions, and I’m pleased with my performance. Dancing is a fun hobby, and a social skill which I hope to continue using for many years to come.

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Tango

Tango in Buenos Aires

(Argentina)

Tango is Argentine - danced first and best by immigrants in dismal brothels over a hundred years ago. And it clings to the air of Buenos Aires like the scent of marzipan to a cake tin.

It is a dance of sorrow and you must do it with passion, with intimacy, and with a mind empty of anything but that demanding beat. Turn on the 24-hour tango radio station, drink it in like fog, and, once the clock has struck midnight, walk down the wide Paris-like streets and join the Porteños. Catch an eye, old or young, rich or poor, fat or thin, and wrap your legs around them. Dance, with joy, all night.

Your Own Happiness

From The New Yorker

Grass fire in the Bai Long Valley, Viet Nam 1970

This was a grass fire, probably started by U.S. artillery, which nearly got into the perimeter of our night defensive position. Made for an interesting evening.

My Smiling Face

A recent ballroom dance competition

An Evolutionary History Of The World

An Evolutionary History of the world....

Humans existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunter/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer & would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in winter. The 2 most important events in all of history were the invention of beer and the invention of the wheel. The wheel was invented to get man to the beer.. These were the foundation of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into 2 distinct subgroups: Liberals and Conservatives.

Once beer was discovered it required grain and that was the beginning of agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum can were invented yet, so while our early human ancestors were sitting around waiting for them to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery. That's how villages were formed.

Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to B-B-Q at night while they were drinking beer.. This was the beginning of what is known as "the Conservative movement."

Other men who were weaker and less skilled at hunting learned to live off the conservatives by showing up for the nightly B-B-Q's and doing the sewing, fetching and hair dressing. This was the beginning of the Liberal movement. Some of these liberal men eventually evolved into women. The rest became known as 'girliemen.'

Some noteworthy liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, the invention of group therapy and group hugs and the concept of Democratic voting to decide how to divide the meat and beer that conservatives provided. Over the years conservatives came to be symbolized by the largest, most powerful land animal on earth, the elephant. Liberals are symbolized by the jackass. Modern liberals like imported beer (with lime added), but most prefer white wine or imported bottled water. They eat raw fish but like their beef well done. Sushi, tofu, and French food are standard liberal fare. Another interesting revolutionary side note: most of their women have higher testosterone levels than their men. Most social workers, personal injury attorneys, journalists, dreamers in Hollywood and group therapists are liberals. Liberals invented the designated hitter rule because it wasn't "fair" to make the pitcher also bat. Conservatives drink domestic beer. They eat red meat and still provide for their women. Conservatives are big-game hunters, rodeo cowboys, lumberjacks, construction workers, firemen, medical doctors, police officers, corporate executives, Marines, athletes and generally anyone who works productively outside government. Conservatives who own companies hire other conservatives who want to work for a living.

Liberals produce little or nothing. They like to "govern" the producers and decide what to do with the production. Liberals believe Europeans are more enlightened than Americans. That is why most of the liberals remained in Europe when conservatives were coming to America. They crept in after the Wild West was tame and created a business of trying to get MORE for nothing.

Here ends today's lesson in world history:

It should be noted that a Liberal may have a momentary urge to respond to the above before simply laughing and forwarding it. A Conservative will be so convinced of the absolute truth of this history that it will be forwarded immediately to other "true believers."