I'm very photogenic if I do it right.

Okay, I don't have a smart phone or a Blackberry, but I do have that digital camera that my cousin gave me years ago. As far as peripheral settings, well, I'm still learning those. When it comes to small things like selfies, it looks like I'm getting the hang of it, but everything has to be just right. It is not uncommon for me to get a good shot in five takes.

Think about the position I have to give the camera...

Looks like a weather pattern will be blowing out the toxic air soon!!! Hopefully later today if not already!

Going forward:
Proposed budget SLASHES Gov's air quality requests.
Monitoring, ask $2.2M 1x/$400k - SLASHED to $1M/$200k.
Retrofit grants [CARROT], ask $500k - ZERO proposed.
Research - ask $250,000 cut to $100,000
FIX: Constituents of Executive Appropriations committee, ask your legislators to restore funding. http://le.utah.gov/asp/interim/Commit.asp…...

There is a new realization, or maybe it is old and just now resurfacing (funny thing when one isn't starving how the brain starts working again) but, I am not a fan of thought.

As I read and 'discuss' things with people it rears it's head time and again. I am not immune to it, nor am I 'above' it. I try to be cognizant but, hey, I am human. That is why I try to write in a very conversational style. My 'academic' writing was needed in college... I'm long past college. My business...

Europe vs US taxes
[QUOTE=InformedConsent;43024701]Exactly. European countries tax[B] regressively[/B], meaning that a greater tax burden is borne by lower- and middle-income earners than is borne by higher income earners, which is [B]the exact opposite[/B] of how the US Government taxes us. And don't forget they have a 20-25% VAT tax that EVERYONE pays. THAT'S how they pay for all those goodies.

[url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2012/09/19/other-countries-dont-have-a-47/[/url]...

Six-Year-Old Kendrick Lamar Witnesses MASS CHILD ABUSE & MALTREATMENT

In his 2015 Grammy award winning Rap Performance titled "I", Kendrick Lamar writes, *"I've been dealing with depression ever since an adolescent."*

In paragraph eight of a January 20, 2011 LAWeekly interview published online Kendrick, born in 1987, the same year songwriter Suzanne Vega wrote a song about child abuse and *VICTIM...