Dear Dust on My Floor...

Dear Dust on My Floor,

Where did you come from? I just vacuumed and swept the condo yesterday! I suppose, however, that I've had all the windows open and it's been windy and you could have originated from someplace other than my couch, my rug or my skin.

If so, I didn't give you permission to enter my home, could you please identify yourself?

I once heard a story about the difference between shopkeepers in the US and those in European countries. In the morning, a European shop owner starts at the curb outside the front of his shop and sweeps all the trash into his shop, towards the back and then puts it into the wastebasket. This shopkeeper is creating a clean environment not just for his customers, but for all of his potential customers. Whereas, the US shopkeeper starts a sweep from the back of the shop and brushes it all outside onto the sidewalk or into the gutter.

I wonder if my neighbors are American shopkeepers. Hmmm.

Anyhow, Dust on My Floor, you can stay for the night, but you're going to get swept up in the morning because someone is supposed to come look at my place as a potential rental. Prepare yourself for a new home.

Sincerely,
BBB

To Clear Up the Confusion about Obama vs. McPalin

* If you grow up in Hawaii , raised by your grandparents, you're exotic, different.
BUT IF...
* Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, a quintessential American story.

* If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
BUT IF...
* Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you're a maverick.

* Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
BUT IF...
* Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well grounded.

* If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.
BUT IF...
* If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive and next in line behind a man in his eighth decade.

* If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.
BUT IF...
* If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and then left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a true Christian.

* If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
BUT IF...
* If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're very responsible.

* If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America 's.
BUT IF...
* If your husband is nicknamed "First Dude," with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.

This really clears things up for me, you?