Bad Joke Monday
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve.  
Middle age is when you're forced to.  Bill Vaughn

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in.  
A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.  Bill Vaughan

                 Instructions For Life
Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, 
and let each new year find you a better man.  Benjamin Franklin

            TWEET of the WEEK 
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, 
with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.  Hal Borland

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   Thoughts While Contemplating A New Year
The Old Year has gone.  Let the dead past bury its own dead. 
The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time.  
All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!  Powell

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.  Tennyson

We will open the book.  Its pages are blank.  
We are going to put words on them ourselves.  
The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.  Pierce

    Jokes that go over like a lead balloon
May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.  Joey Adams

He who breaks a resolution is a weakling;
He who makes one is a fool.  F.M. Knowles

Grin! It makes "them" wonder!

            Pennyman - Economic Terrorist 
By Lonnie Lonnquist,  
A novel about a Montana talk show host who
has a plan to keep jobs from going overseas. 
Read The First Two Chapters of Pennyman 
A book for Patriots

           Good Service Tip Of The Week
A happy New Year! Grant that I
May bring no tear to any eye
When this New Year in time shall end
Let it be said I've played the friend,
Have lived and loved and labored here,
And made of it a happy year.  Edgar Guest

          Classics From The Capital City
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: 
To rise above the little things.  John Burrough

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Glory to God in highest heaven,
Who unto man His Son hath given;
While angels sing with tender mirth,
A glad new year to all the earth.     Martin Luther
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                Fifty Cents an Hour  
The Builders and Boomtowns of the Fort Peck Dam
A great Montana book by Helena author/historian
Lois Lonnquist  www.FortPeckBoomtowns.com

       Oh Thank You, Thank You, I needed to know this!
What is alike on both ends, has nothing in the middle, 
and will not exist in the future?   (2009)

     The Writer's Block - Editing is a rewording activity
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
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Time and money spent in helping men do more for themselves
is far better than mere giving. Henry Ford

                              Jokes That Go Over Like A Lead Balloon
"No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar." Abraham Lincoln

             Fortune Cookie(s)
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.  Oprah Winfrey

             OWIM (Oh Well It’s Monday)
A picture may be worth a thousand words
but it uses up a thousand times more memory.

Speak less of your plans - You will get more of them done.

                The Final Word From Herb Treebranch
People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, 
but they really should be worried about what they eat between the 
New Year and Christmas.

Reaction Time Test For Drivers (Thanks Carl P.)

Montana Facts & Fun Web Site Of The Month: Pennyman.MtSky.com
Read The First Two Chapters of Pennyman here

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