ON THE LIGHTER SIDE. It's being forwarded around the internet and the numbers are unaudited.

If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Delta Airlines one year ago, you will have $49.00 today. If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in AIG one year ago, you will have $33.00 today. If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Lehman Brothers one year ago, you will have $0.00 today.

But, if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the aluminum cans for a recycling refund, you will have received a $214.00.Based on the above, the best current investment plan is to drink heavily & recycle. It is called the 401-Keg.

On a day when libertarian Republicans and welfare-rights Democrats find common ground, one finds amusement where one can.