Third birthday post this month.

Today …

to my AWESOME, LOVING MOM, who is [age goes here] YEARS OLD!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM! I LOVE YOU!

"I don’t want to nationalize them. I think we need to close them," he added. "If they’re dead, they ought to be buried. We bury the small banks; we’ve got to bury some big ones and send a strong message to the market."

On "Fox News Sunday," Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) agreed.

"I don’t think they made the hard decision, and that is to let these banks fail, to let General Motors go into bankruptcy and reemerge and reorganize with new contracts with labor and others," McCain said. "I don’t think they’ve made the tough decisions. Some of these banks have to fail."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/08/AR2009030802035_2.html?sid=ST2009030802414

My point exactly.

I don’t usually like to identify with parties, but the GOP has a point on this one. And it’s not just the banks – it’s any large corporation. Taxpayers should not be responsible for bailing out these companies. They need to pay for their mistakes, not us.

Happy birthday to my cousin Gia, who is already 9 years old!

Happy birthday Gia!

So I have a stuffy nose that at the same time is constantly running, I’m sneezing every 5 minutes, and I have head aches off and on. And it’s 65 outside. Go figure.

I paid $13 for U2’s new album No Line on the Horizon today. I must say, I think Get On Your Boots, the first single released a few weeks ago, very much underrates the rest of the album. That song … doesn’t even fit in with the rest of the album.

In my opinion, this is one of the best tracks on the album:

Happy birthday to my cousin Christopher, who is a whopping 14 years old today!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHRIS!

The official website for Mario’s Italian Restaurant and Lounge in Weirton, WV is now online. Check it out at www.mariodicarlos.com. It was made and designed by yours truly.