It might not mean you are going to have a good day when you hear a bird singing outside your window. You look. Turns out to be a vulture.

I know today's title is a little on the tacky side. I suppose we could call this Tacky Thursday because I must warn you, there's more where that came from. I do send you greetings from my little spot here at the ole blogger ranch to wherever you might be. And, according to the connection statistics, either intentional or not, that could be from a whole lot of different places, in fact, literally from all over the world. But, it is safe to say that where I am at the moment, it is Thursday, January 10, 2013, and it's time to get on with it. You might be having a rough start to your day but I think we all know it could be worse. You could be like the fellow who went to the fortune teller, got his fortune read, the fortune teller finished but before saying anything offered instead to refund his money. Or, when you Google looking for a new opportunity and it tells you to check under the category marked Loser. The truth is that we all have days that are less than spectacular. The Fox Business News guru, Neil Cavuto, had this to say: "There's nothing wrong or evil about having a bad day. There's everything wrong or evil with making others have to have it.....with you." You may have heard his raspy voice on the Fox News Network which is one of the many symptoms associated with his multiple sclerosis. Cavuto was diagnosed with MS in 1997, after surviving an advanced case of Hodgkin’s lymphoma in the late ’80s.

All of my readers know that I am a diabetic. I use the most widely prescribed medication for Type 2, Metformin. It works to reduce the production of glucose from the liver. They had a theory of how it works. This has recently been proven to be wrong. It still works but not like they thought. I'm so very thankful that it helps my situation. It's still a little worrisome that those who developed the drug, tested the drug, and presented it for approval, still had a wrong idea of exactly how it interacted internally to produce the results. It just goes to show you. There's a joke that asks the question about how many Ph.D's it takes to get a Powerpoint presentation working. The answer goes like this: You divide the total number holding this degree in the room who think they know how divided by the one who knows how to place a call to the audio visual technician. In the end, untold millions of people who suffer from diabetes have been helped by this medication, even though they were not clear on exactly how it worked. Now they do know, and, for folks like me, we are still thankful for any and all help we can get.

I tell you we live in a time when irony seems to be the rule instead of the exception. The Obama bailout plan to rescue the financial institutions is back in the news again. The AIG Company is considering joining a lawsuit against the government's terms for the bailout. Supposedly they would have gone out of business had they not received the $182 billion the taxpayers coughed up for them. Now having been rescued they are not sure they like the repayment terms they agreed to. One lawmaker said it was like a patient filing a malpractice suit against the doctor who saved his life. All of this is happening at the same time that AIG is launching a Thank You America series of advertisements to show appreciation to the taxpayers. Go figure. Only in America folks. Only in America. They will most likely use some of the money we gave them to hire the best lawyers in the world to sue us to lower what they have to repay. And, they will do this in the name of protecting their shareholders' interests. See what I mean? You really can't make up scripts like this because we have the world's craziest reality show going on all day every day and all you have to do is stay tuned. What's that? You thought the same thing about my blog? Good call. Another good reason to stay tuned. Take care and I'll catch up with you on the next episode. May God bless. Amen.   ....More later.