Bret Bennett

Old Photo

Contrast in Babes...

A picture is worth 1000 words!

Think the housing market is recovering?!

As of March, banks had an inventory of about 1.1 million foreclosed homes, up 20% from a year earlier, according to estimates from LPS Applied Analytics. Another 4.8 million mortgage holders were at least 60 days behind on their payments or in the foreclosure process, meaning their homes were well on their way to the inventory pile. That “shadow inventory” was up 30% from a year earlier.

Based on the rate at which banks have been selling those foreclosed homes over the past few months, all that inventory, real and shadow, would take 103 months to unload. That’s nearly nine years!

Branding in Montana

This is how it is done...branding "Montana style"!

Picture of a real Hero...

Alex was a friend of mine...his life was taken by a low-life drug dealer and he now has a memorial in his honor:

We're movin' on up!

Michelle Malkin

Park-blogging, originally uploaded by It's Michelle Malkin.

Profile of a true conservative

Repeal The Health Care Bill

The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to an electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The republic can survive a Barack Obama. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.”

-- Author Unknown

My next car

Olympian skier

A great American...

Political Science for Dummies....

DEMOCRAT



You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
You feel guilty for being successful.
You push for higher taxes so the government can provide cows for everyone.

REPUBLICAN



You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
So?

SOCIALIST



You have two cows.
The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.
You form a cooperative to tell him how to manage his cow.

COMMUNIST



You have two cows.
The government seizes both and provides you with milk.
You wait in line for hours to get it.
It is expensive and sour.

CAPITALISM, AMERICAN STYLE



You have two cows.
You sell one, buy a bull, and build a herd of cows.

BUREAUCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE



You have two cows.
Under the new farm program the government pays you to shoot one, milk the other, and then pours the milk down the drain.

AMERICAN CORPORATION



You have two cows.
You sell one, lease it back to yourself and do an IPO on the 2nd one.
You force the two cows to produce the milk of four cows.
You are surprised when one cow drops dead.
You spin an announcement to the analysts stating you have downsized and are reducing expenses.
Your stock goes up.

FRENCH CORPORATION



You have two cows.
You go on strike because you want three cows.
You go to lunch and drink wine.
Life is good.

JAPANESE CORPORATION



You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk.
They learn to travel on unbelievably crowded trains.
Most are at the top of their class at cow school.

GERMAN CORPORATION



You have two cows.
You engineer them so they are all blond, drink lots of beer, give excellent quality milk, and run a hundred miles an hour.
Unfortunately they also demand 13 weeks of vacation per year.

ITALIAN CORPORATION



You have two cows but you don't know where they are.
You break for lunch.
Life is good.
RUSSIAN CORPORATION



You have two cows.
You have some vodka.
You count them and learn you have five cows.
You have some more vodka.
You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.
The Mafia shows up and takes over however many cows you really have.
TALIBAN CORPORATION



You have all the cows in Afghanistan , which are two.
You don't milk them because you cannot touch any creature's private parts.
You get a $40 million grant from the US government to find alternatives to milk production but use the money to buy weapons.

IRAQI CORPORATION



You have two cows.
They go into hiding.
They send radio tapes of their mooing.

POLISH CORPORATION



You have two bulls.
Employees are regularly maimed and killed attempting to milk them.

BELGIAN CORPORATION



You have one cow.
The cow is schizophrenic.
Sometimes the cow thinks he's French, other times he's Flemish.
The Flemish cow won't share with the French cow.
The French cow wants control of the Flemish cow's milk.
The cow asks permission to be cut in half.
The cow dies happy.
FLORIDA CORPORATION



You have a black cow and a brown cow.
Everyone votes for the best looking one.
Some of the people who actually like the brown one best accidentally vote for the black one.
Some people vote for both.
Some people vote for neither.
Some people can't figure out how to vote at all.
Finally, a bunch of guys from out-of-state tell you which one you think is the best looking cow.
CALIFORNIA CORPORATION



You have millions of cows.
They make real California cheese.
Only five speak English.
Most are illegal.
Arnold likes the ones with the big udders.

Bret Bennett Texas 2002

Bret Bennett Texas, originally uploaded by bretbennett.

Life in Texas, 2002

Flickr

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How to Fix The Economy

How To Fix The Economy



Dear Mr. President,

Please find below my suggestion for fixing America's economy. Instead of giving billions of dollars to companies that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan. You can call it the "Patriotic Retirement Plan":


There are about 40 million people over 50 in the work force. Pay them $1 million apiece severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:

1) They MUST retire. Forty million job openings - Unemployment fixed.

2) They MUST buy a new American CAR. Forty million cars ordered - Auto Industry fixed.

3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage - Housing Crisis fixed.

It can't get any easier than that!!


P.S. If more money is needed, have all members in Congress pay their taxes...

Mr. President, while you're at it, make Congress retire on Social Security and Medicare. I'll bet both programs would be fixed pronto!

If you think this would work, please forward to everyone you know.

These fixes probably wouldn't cost even one-tenth of the totals Obama is racking up while accomplishing nothing!

World

The Worlds Shortest Books.

THINGS I DID TO DESERVE
THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
by Barack Obama
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THINGS I LOVE ABOUT MY COUNTRY

by Jane Fonda & Cindy Sheehan.
Michelle Obama Illustrated by Michael Moore


MY CHRISTIAN ACCOMPLISHMENTS &
HOW I HELPED AFTER KATRINA

by Rev Jesse Jackson & Rev Al Sharpton

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THINGS I LOVE ABOUT BILL

by Hillary Clinton

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Sequel:
THINGS I LOVE ABOUT HILLARY
By Bill Clinton

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MY LITTLE BOOK OF PERSONAL HYGIENE
by Osama Bin Laden

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THINGS I CANNOT AFFORD
by Bill Gates

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THINGS I WOULD NOT DO FOR MONEY
by Dennis Rodman
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THINGS WE KNOW TO BE TRUE
by Al Gore & John Kerry
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AMELIA EARHART'S GUIDE TO THE PACIFIC

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TO ALL THE MEN WE HAVE LOVED, BEFORE ......
by Ellen de Generes & Rosie O'Donnel
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THE AMISH PHONE DIRECTORY
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MY PLAN TO FIND THE REAL KILLERS
by O. J. Simpson
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HOW TO DRINK & DRIVE SAFELY
by Ted Kennedy
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MY BOOK OF MORALS
by Bill Clinton, Tiger Woods and David Letterman
with introduction by the Rev. Jesse Jackson

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AND, JUST ADDED:

Complete Knowledge of Military Strategy!
By Nancy Pelosi

Uncle Pete is gone...

Well, my Uncle Pete passed last week and I wanted to make a quick note for him. He was quite the inveterate fisherman and joke teller. Lived a full life in Montana, and was a friend of many. Taught me the finer points of fly fishing - as in tie as many Royal Coachmans and grasshoppers to an 8 ft leader and just toss it out into a quiet eddy - as in any place on the Boulder River!

Bumper Stickers for the times

Here are a few of my favorites, to date

My hero...George Bush

Tell it like it is, Mr Bush!