Gleaning Facebook: Cleve's Been Gone a Year

My profile pic is in memory of my friend Cleve Burton. We lost Cleve one year ago today. Here Cleve and I flank our Camp Glisson friend Pat Alger when we visited him in LaGrange about 1965.

Kendra L Harris
I love Cleve's wife Terri.. she shops in our store a lot and I think a lot of her.. she is also great friends with a close dear friend of mine.

Bob Doster
Lord, were we ever that young and that thin? Thanks for the remembrance.

Terrell Shaw
Yes, Serf, we were. Are we not still?

Bob Doster
Depends on who's eyes were using.

Betty Smith Franklin
Love that. Are there boys hanging around like that now?

Bitsy Burton
Thanks Terry for sharing this picture. A year gone by so very fast, seems like yesterday. I really do miss my brother, Cleve!!! Even 1965 seems like yesterday. Could you tag this picture to me?

Gleaning Facebook: Singing at Jonathan and Jessica's Wedding

From Naomi Liles Crouse Facebook: 

Naomi Liles Crouse

Uncle Terry singing" Amazing Grace" with Benjamin accompanying on piano

Terrell Shaw
Actually it was "How Great thou Art". (Pay attention, Naomi!) <grin>

Naomi Liles Crouse
Sorry - I'd just heard Amazing Grace on the radio and had it on the brain 

Sara Strand Neterer
i was hoping to see you in at least one picture! i feel like a stalker clicking thru pictures of people i don't know!

 

National Debt Quiz

Here's a little history quiz for our Tea Party friends. For each pair of Presidential terms choose the one during which the National Debt rose as a percentage of GDP:

Nixon/Ford 1973-77 or Johnson 1965-69
Reagan 1981-85 or Carter 1977-81
GHW Bush 1989-93 or Clinton 1993-97
GW Bush 2001-2005 or Clinton 1997-2001

In all cases the Republican increased the percentage of debt and the Democrat decreased it. Fact: Reagan and the two Bushes (with a little help from Nixon/Ford) are responsible for ALL of the increase in the percentage of debt compared to GDP between 1945 and 2009.

President Obama inherited the worst economy since the depression and had to institute emergency measures which, exaserbated of the refusal of Republicans to allow tax breaks for the wealthy to expire as scheduled, will increase the percentage of debt further.

But if you are mad about the debt, be mad at the right folks, those who cut taxes on the wealthiest Americans while financing spending increases on the backs of our children - Ronald Reagan, George Bush, and George W. Bush. Remember it was Bush's VP, Dick Cheney who said, "Reagan proved, deficits don't matter."

Here's the whole chart:
National Debt Chart 1945-2009

Earth & Saturn from Cassini

Astounding picture from Cassini of Saturn! This is an actual picture, with the Sun illuminating Saturn's ring system from behind. Can you see a tiny dot on the left-hand side just inside the next-to-last outer ring? That's not a moon...that's planet Earth!