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December 10, 2007  Our 10th year of service in Montana

      Bad Joke Monday
"Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. 
Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it."  Richard Lamm

"Last week, the city of Boston renamed their giant spruce tree a holiday tree instead of a Christmas tree."
Next week Bostonian's will be told to refer to the Nativity Scene as "that Holiday Homeless Family."

Instructions For Life
I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed, but
the spirit in which we face them, that constitutes our comfort. Elizabeth T. King

Great Christmas Gift From MtSky Press = Fifty Cents an Hour
The Builders and Boomtowns of the Fort Peck Dam
by Helena author/historian Lois Lonnquist.
For information visit MtSky Press at www.FortPeckBoomtowns.com or call 406-495-9554

      Quote Of The Week
Like a ticking time bomb, the national debt is an explosion waiting to happen. 
It's expanding by about $1.4 billion a day — or nearly $1 million a minute.

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Thoughts while waiting in line at the Post Office on Saturday morning

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. 
In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.  Larry Wilde

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. Roy L. Smith

"Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty,
they merely move it from their faces into their hearts."

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him 
in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.  Shirley Temple

Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten 
and his present remembered. Phyllis Diller

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, 
toys not included.  Bernard Manning

The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, 
and people keep sending it to each other. Johnny Carson

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Good Service Tip Of The Week
 
A hero is a man who does what he can.  Roman Rollard

The AMA that counts
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

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      Classics From The Capital City
Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement.  Thomas N. Carruther

Pa, he always said a man had to look spry for himself, because nobody else would do it for him; 
your opportunities didn't come knocking around, you had to hunt them up and hog-tie them. Louis L'Amour

One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. Sigmund Freud

The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously 
and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous. Margaret Fontey

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Proverbs 12:11
He who works his land will have abundant food, but he who chases fantasies lacks judgment.
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       Oh Thank You. Thank You, I needed to know this!
I really didn't say everything I said.  --Yogi Berra

It's so simple to be wise.  Just think of something stupid and then don't say it.  Sam Levenson

Football combines the two worst features of American life:
Violence and committee meetings.  George Will

      Jokes that go over like a lead balloon
If only the good die young then what does that say about senior citizens?

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      OWIM (Oh Well It’s Monday) 
Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Q: Why are frogs so happy?      A: They eat whatever bugs them!

      The Writer's Block
Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement.  Thomas N. Carruther

 Surely the finest teachers of creativity, persistence,
and unconditional love are children.

It's hard to detect good luck; it looks so much like something you've earned.

Happiness is the state of minimum regret.

There is no heavier burden than great potential. Linus (Peanuts)

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect
everything, the young know everything. Oscar Wilde

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  Fortune Cookies
If a nickel knew what it is worth today, it would feel like two cents.

      The Classic Sayings:

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. Einstein

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. Bombeck

Don't accept unacceptable behavior.


What They Are Saying
If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise.

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. Tom Brokaw

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Gandhi

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs,
not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. William Hazlitt

The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it
but what he becomes by it. John Ruskin

Time and money spent in helping men do more for themselves
is far better than mere giving. Henry Ford


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 May good fortune smile on you the whole week through! Treebranch
 
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