DGIF

Just Some Observations That's All.... Why do people stop walking when they hit a moving sidewalk or escalator?  Escalator with luggage---I get that, but the moving sidewalk with luggage with wheels...keep moving.  We're the fattest folks on the planet, no breaks people. Is the weather channel trying to scare the crap out of me?  Seriously, go to their website and check out the headlines.  As I type this I ventured over to the weather channel website and saw this headline:   Eerie Abandoned Toy Store and Factory   Come on people....just let me know if I need a sweater, not a bodyguard, or in this case a psychiatrist. There should be a universal symbol to let someone know the toilet is not working and I didn't have time to mess with it.  Like a big X that goes across the seat.   If your kid has ADHD they get a stimulant from the doctor...OK that makes sense. Someday I hope to have the life I portray on Facebook. Why do I always have ...

Before you even start to read this post you have to throw out every stereotype you have ever come to know about people. Do it right now because this is not about race, color, gender, whatever you use to classify any group of people. This story is about two groups: GIVERS and TAKERS, with an emphasis on the TAKERS. In this world you can apply these two classifications to any one person in a certain situation and it should work.  And just because you are in one group now, this does not preclude from jumping into the other group later. It all depends on the circumstances you find yourself in at the very moment in time. When confronted with one of those proverbial forks in the road of life.....are you a GIVER or a TAKER? OK, that's all we need to know to proceed. Oops, I lied. We also need to know what EBT stands for....it is the abbreviation for Electronic Benefits Transfer and it is basically a debit card for the Food Stamp program. The Food Stamp Program is officially ...

I am staring down the barrel of 50.  As I write this I am three days away from turning the big five-O and it's about this time in life you realize there is more life in your rear view mirror than there is in your headlights.  I still believe my best days are ahead of me.  To quote Monty Python "I'm not dead yet!", but as I get older I think about the people I have met in my life and this one guy keeps popping up.  I don't know his name and we met for all of five minutes, and I hope he is doing well. I was in the Philadelphia are and it must have been 2005/2006.  I was working for Merck at the time and I was waiting for Pete Van Bemmel to pick me up so we could go to dinner.  I was sitting on this bench out front of the hotel and this guy walks out wearing all kinds of Philadelphia Phillie gear.  Me being Captain obvious ask this guy if he's going to the game and he replies affirmative.  We sit and wait together and he offers up that he is exc...

OK the title was intended to get you here, but if you are expecting me to spew venom about Jesus and the church, keep surfing.  I recently started reading the bible again---you know the book with the dust on it!  At least that is what it was in my house.  I would keep the bible on my nightstand in case someone wandered into my bedroom and saw it.  I wanted them to think I was a great guy, when I know otherwise.  The book accumulated dust and served me well as a coaster, but like all books, you have to open it to read it. Well I opened it recently and the thought process was this---I'm getting close to fifty and I need to start studying for the final.  All throughout my academic career I would wait until the last minute and then cram all the knowledge of one semester into every nook and cranny of my short term memory and then spit it out for the test and proceed to forget much of what I studied.  Except I once read that Vanna White's zodiac sign is Aq...

I am by no means a financial expert and I have the meager checkbook to prove it, but my gut tells me that my country (USA) cannot continue to ignore our growing debt.  While writing this I took a quick peek at our debt clock and immediately felt sick.  See for yourself:   http://www.usdebtclock.org/ The current congress is impotent, even the women, and every president in my lifetime was clueless on how to reel in spending.  To that end I, Dennis Martin Gillan, being of sound mind (sort of) propose the following measures in order to right this sinking ship we call America: Sorry friends and foes, effective immediately all foreign aid is suspended.  Yes this will chap some countries and some may argue that this will threaten world peace.  OK...how much money have we pumped into the middle east and how peaceful is it right now?  Here are the top ten countries that are going to be upset with this policy:   http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/ful...