Toni Roman’s Blog

1. Eight babies (duh!)
2. Already had six children under eight years old
3. Living with parents who are near bankruptcy
4. No job
5. No husband
6. No way to pay for fertility treatments which resulted in octuplets
7. No way to pay for delivery rooms or hospital stay

and drumroll please . . .

8. Healthy nonuplets (that’s nine for the prefix impaired)

I hope she is able to take care of the babies without killing her parents in the process.
I hope the babies will be healthy and live to see age 21.
I hope the world doesn’t reach eight billion (8,000,000,000) population.
I hope she doesn’t end up on welfare so that you and I have to pay for her expensive hobby or pyschological condition.  (Collecting cats is cheaper though less sanitary).

Led Zeppelin good.   Even the tribute Led Zep bands are good.
Alison Krauss & Union Station good.  Nickel Creek better.
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss forgettable.  What was I talking about?

Yeh right, the Reunion Tour.  Better without Robert Plant.  Bonzo’s son Jason is filling in for him.  Does Robert Plant have a son with strong vocal chords?

Lyrics to At Last for karaoke:
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“At Last Lyrics by Etta James

At last, my love has come along
My lonely days are over
And life is like a song
Oh, yeah, at last
The skies above are blue
My heart was wrapped up in clovers
The night I looked at you
I found a dream that I could speak to
A dream that I can call my own
I found a thrill to rest my cheek to
A thrill that I have never known
Oh, yeah when you smile, you smile
Oh, and then the spell was cast
And here we are in heaven

Lost in the rush to lionize Captain Sully is the fact that his co-pilot had to help control a dead stick when both engines failed.  Were the hydraulics working?  Obviously that was a great ditch but all pilots are trained to do what he did.  This is something that Captain Sully himself has said.

And could somebody take the time to praise the flight attendants?  They are on any airliner primarily for safety and not to get you a cup of coffee.  Getting you coffee is something they do to pass the time until their primary function is ever called into use.  They hope, we all hope, that primary duty is never called for but if it is, then it is they who have to save your life after the pilot has put the plane down in a river or on the ocean or on a deserted highway or a flat field or something safer than skyscrapers and suburbs.

Bet you’ll pay attention the next time a flight attendant is going over safety procedures.  At least until we all forget until the next tragedy that we hope never happens.

An incomplete list of Bernard Madoff’s clients was published.  Some of the rich (some of whom we actually like such as stars, Spielberg, Sandy Koufax, etc.) are suffering like the middle class and the poor.

The list does not spell out that foundations and other charities that support people down on their luck are among the victims.  Also pensions and unions which may affect you the reader.

Was this Bernie Madoff trying to get a cross section of America?

Etta James made a classic.
Beyonce did a cover of it.
The First Couple enjoyed a dance.
Let us move on.

You can go wrong
 with a bong.
He lost his cereal deal
but he won’t miss  a meal.
Perhaps a cover with High Times,
it is not one of the worst crimes.

They say it disillusions the kids who put their faith in athletes.  But if you put your faith in athletes rather than in principles, you need to be disillusioned.  Athletes are not heroes or heroines.  They are just people who are healthier, faster, or stronger than you — not better than you.

Having said all the above, I think he will get past this.

Bikini Girl was asked by an entertainment reporter (anybody who which one?) if she wanted her fifteen minutes of fame to be remembered as “Bikini Girl.”  You have to be kidding.  She enters the elite pantheon of women like Supergirl, Obama Girl, and Wonder Woman.

YouTube links –

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obztmh1xT7Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wql5-GOTGo8

I hope she has a long career and saves her money even if the judges didn’t like her.

1. File early.
2. If you always wait until the last minute or you always file late or you always get audited, then go to the Yellow Pages to find an accountant to prepare your return for you.  Many companies have relationships with accountants and can get you a discount on their services.  Go to your company bulletin board or ask Human Resources or Personnel where you work and ask if this is true for your employer.
3. Write down the amount of your Rebate from 2008 if you got a check.
4. Go to http://www.irs.gov/ for tips and free information from the Infernal Revenue Service themselves.

NASA’s unmanned division (the only worthwhile part of NASA) is planning an orbital telescope that will image Earth-sized planets orbiting stars in nearby stellar systems.  This is part of the SESP (Search for Extrasolar Planets) program.  I will post more information if readers want it.