Economy

  • When Gina lost her job, her friend Kiki suggested pole dancing.  Gina was puzzled; dance with a Polish man up here? Too crowded . . . and was it to be ballet? Ball room dancing? An Irish  jig? Clogging or tap dancing?  Would she have to take lessons first . . . ?

Pole Dancer

By |December 17th, 2018|Categories: Birds, Economy, Pop culture|Tags: , , |Comments Off on Pole Dancer
  • When the Washington bureaucrats said they wanted to cut farm subsidies, saying there wasn't a grain of truth in the farmers pleas, the farm lobby suggested the politicians price new tractors and combines . . .

Grain of Truth

By |December 13th, 2018|Categories: Economy, Politics|Tags: , |Comments Off on Grain of Truth

Flood Insurance

As the tropical depression turned into a tropical storm and perhaps later a hurricane, LaVerne (pictured) was trying to remember if she had paid her flood insurance premium. After the trouble she had collecting last year, she wasn’t sure she cared; it took a law suit filed in Judge Judy’s court to finally get the company to pay . . .

By |September 18th, 2018|Categories: Beach Scenes, Economy, Natural Disasters|Tags: , , , |Comments Off on Flood Insurance

She Works Hard for Her Money

Lola took the job as border patrol spotter; the pay was good, the benefits better, but even with good thermal updrafts  to ride, 8 hours flying was hard work . . .

By |August 27th, 2018|Categories: Birds, Economy, Politics|Tags: , |Comments Off on She Works Hard for Her Money

Fired

Lenny (not pictured) called his wife Lucy (also not pictured), who everybody agreed was the brains of the outfit, to ask if she had any ideas on getting some FEMA money to start a business. The last of the debris from his Hurricane Harvey job had been collected, and as he told it, both the debris and he had been fired . . .

By |August 24th, 2018|Categories: Economy, Natural Disasters|Tags: , , |Comments Off on Fired

Business Off

The storks were in a quandary; delivering babies as a business model was on the decline.  FedEx, UPS and the new Postal Service plan just made it too hard to compete financially.  Maybe a contract with UNICEF could pull them through . . .

By |August 9th, 2018|Categories: Birds, Economy|Tags: , , , , , |Comments Off on Business Off