The illusion of hope is apt to close our
eyes to the painful truth.  Harry F. Banks

                Bad Joke Monday
I'm right 98% of the time. Why worry about the other 4%!

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                 Instructions For Life
Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul.
Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. Pamela Vaull Starr 

            TWEET of the WEEK
 "Celebrate each small victory as a great awakening
and each small awakening as a great victory." Alexandra Firestein

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      Thoughts While Cranking The Snow Blower
The falsehoods we exalt, we cherish more than
the meaner truths that are a thousand strong. Anton Checkov

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice
what we are for what we could become.  Charles Du Bos

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one
heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but
because he is a man of high and heroic temper.  Aristotle

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional
glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful
scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Harold B. Melchart

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely
miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite
certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.  Agatha Christie

Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures,
costs nothing, and conveys much.  Erastus Wiman

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          Jokes That Go Over Like A Lead Balloon
              Words That Aren't - But Should Be
AQUADEXTROUS (ak wa deks' trus) adj. 
Possessing the ability to turn the bathtub faucet on and off with your toes.

ELBONICS (el bon' iks) n.
The actions of two people maneuvering for one armrest in a movie theater.

FRUST (frust) n. The small line of debris that refuses to be swept
onto the dust pan and keeps backing a person across the room until he finally
decides to give up and sweep it under the rug.

LACTOMANGULATION (lak' to man gyu lay' shun) n.
Manhandling the "open here" spout on a milk container so badly
that one has to resort to the 'illegal' side.

              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. 
Click Here To Read The First Two Chapters of Pennyman 

           Good Service Tip Of The Week
"Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans!" Robert E. Lee

           Classics From The Capital City
No man is above the law, and no man is below it; nor do we 
ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it. T. Roosevelt

Fortune's wheel never stands still,
the highest point is therefore the most perilous. Maria Edgeworth

Give your children these two things. One is roots, the other, wings.

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                   Jeremiah 6:15
       Are they ashamed of their loathsome conduct?
       No, they have no shame at all;
       they do not even know how to blush.
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       Oh Thank You, Thank You, I needed to know this!
Consumers spend more than $7 billion a year on chocolate.

Only sick music makes money today." Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1844-1900

New on YOU TUBE Herb Treebranch Sings
The Montana Rusty Old Rail Car Blues

     The Writer's Block
The medical term for the condition
known as writers' cramp is "chirospasm."

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us. Oliver Wendell Holmes

The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. George Washington

Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the
happy impute all their success to prudence and merit. Johnmathon Swift

If you ever think you are too small to be effective,
you've never been in a tent with a mosquito.

You don't get paid for the hour.
You get paid for the value you bring to the hour. Jim Rohn

             Fortune Cookie(s)
The price of greatness is responsibility.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear.

              OWIM (Oh Well It’s Monday)
                   The Classic Sayings:
* Anything free is worth what you pay for it
* COLE'S LAW: Thinly sliced cabbage
* Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
* Editing is a rewording activity
* Rap is to music, what Etch-a-Sketch is to art
* What if there were no hypothetical questions?
* Energizer bunny arrested, charged with battery
* No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway 

              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
 
          The Final Word From Herb Treebranch
I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what
has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the
best you can you can't do any better.  Harry S. Truman

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that 
accompanies important ongoing activity. Paul Goodman

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or
measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.  Donald A. Adams

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves 
is one and the same thing.  Janet Erskine Stuart

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