7 wonders

1. Our Senators and Congresswomen do not pay into Social Security. When they retire, they continue to draw the same pay until they die. For example, Senator Byrd and Congressman White and their wives may expect to draw $7,800,000.00, with their wives drawing $275, 000.00, calculated on an average life span. Their cost is $0.00. You and I pick up the tab. MSNBC

2. CNN first reported the allegations of euthanasia months after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast and triggered flooding in New Orleans. The investigation concluded that four patients, ages 63 to 93, were given a “lethal cocktail” of morphine and midazolam hydrochloride. None of the patients had been prescribed the drugs by their caregivers, and none of the accused treated the four before the injections.“This was not euthanasia,” Foti said at a news conference last summer. “This was homicide.”. CNN

3. The IRS has lost a lawyer’s challenge in front of a jury to prove a constitutional foundation for the nation’s income tax. Attorney,Tom Cryer says “I think now people are beginning to realize that this has got to be the largest fraud, backed up by intimidation and extortion and by the sheer force of taking peoples property and hard-earned money without any lawful authorization whatsoever,” World Net Daily

4. Monsanto declared war on dairy companies that have chosen to ban the injection of their cows with Monsanto’s genetically engineered Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH). Due to escalating consumer demand, an increasing number of large dairies around the U.S. have declared themselves rBGH-free in the last couple of years. www.organicconsumers.org/

5. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic. -- Dresden James.

6. A team of scientists from Bangor University’s School of Ocean Sciences believe they have found the oldest living animal, a quahog clam, Arctica islandica, which was living and growing on the seabed in the cold waters off the north coast of Iceland for around 400 years. The specimen’s age is between 405 and 410 years. This has been assessed by counting the annual growth lines in the shell.

7. Joyous Yule & Happy New Year!

 

mary beth wrenn