It's the last picture that's giving people trouble.
Hint: "Besides being one of France's most popular and enduring singers, he is also one of the most well-known singers in the world."
Friday, May 16, 2008
Biden says "Bullshit" - and he's right!
BUSH said: “The fight against terror and extremism is the defining challenge of our time ... Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: ‘Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.’ We have an obligation to call this what it is – the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.”
BIDEN said: “This is bullshit. This is malarkey. This is outrageous. Outrageous for the president of the United States to go to a foreign country, sit in the Knesset … and make this kind of ridiculous statement.”
BUD (um, that would be me!) sez: Biden's right!
I understand that Bush may have been talking about a larger group than Obama. OK- Fair enough, give him that. Then, what he's saying is that anyone who wants to talk to an enemy is an appeaser. Here's who else he means:
Kennedy (with Khrushchev), Nixon (with the Chinese and the Vietnamese), Carter (with the Palestinians), Reagan (with Kadafi, and the Ayatollah), and even himself (with N. Korea)
BIDEN said: “This is bullshit. This is malarkey. This is outrageous. Outrageous for the president of the United States to go to a foreign country, sit in the Knesset … and make this kind of ridiculous statement.”
BUD (um, that would be me!) sez: Biden's right!
I understand that Bush may have been talking about a larger group than Obama. OK- Fair enough, give him that. Then, what he's saying is that anyone who wants to talk to an enemy is an appeaser. Here's who else he means:
Kennedy (with Khrushchev), Nixon (with the Chinese and the Vietnamese), Carter (with the Palestinians), Reagan (with Kadafi, and the Ayatollah), and even himself (with N. Korea)
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Sparty's Challenge
SPARTY has posed a conundrum: Bush claims that in order to respect the war dead and their survivors, he has stopped playing golf. SPARTY - says this is because Bush is stupid.
GIGi - says it's because Bush is nuts.
JANET - says it's because Bush is drunk again.
Any other theories out there as to why Bush says he quit playing golf?
Environment: Drowning Bears
Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne has done the right thing in giving greater protection to the polar bear. Now it is on the threatened species list of the Endangered Species Act. As the arctic ice melts in the American territory of Alaska and adjacent waters/islands, the population of bears can be expected to diminish, so more will need to be done in the future to relocate some bears and possibly to restore some icy habitat. International cooperation will be needed as well.
CLICK
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
What Bad People Do
A bar owner in Georgia has created a controversy of unknown dimensions by having the tee-shirts shown here printed and offering them for sale.
[The bar owner] who began selling the shirts in late April, has said they are not meant to be racist. He said he thinks the Illinois senator and the character "look so much alike."CLICK
Bill Nigut, southeast regional director for the Anti-Defamation League, said Norman is being disingenuous.
"He can pretend he doesn't understand what the message of that T-shirt is, but he knows full well that's an offensive and demeaning stereotype used to insult African-Americans," Nigut said. He called on citizens not to buy the T-shirts, but stopped short of calling for a boycott of Norman's business or denying him to speak out.
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We have 3 things to say about this:
1. Barack Obama is too fine a gentleman and too accustomed to insult to be likely to make any sort of an issue of this.
2. Disdainful caricature is a fine American art. Have you seen the depictions of George Bush as a chimpanzee? They're everywhere. See:
3. The use of ape-ish pictures to represent black people in America is a raw act of racism respected by ignorant people of ill-will whose contribution to society is poison. Most of them are slowly dying out. There will always be some. The difference in the examples is the difference between humor and hatred. People of judgment will be able to tell the difference at a glance.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Republican Humor (50)
It seems somehow like a milestone. Here is the 50th sample of Republican Humor that we've printed since the current "election cycle" began last year. Who knew that America's second most popular party could be so droll? Well, now we all know! ====
One day, three Democrats came upon a large, raging river.
The first Democrat prayed to God, saying, "Please God, give me the strength to cross this river." Poof! God gave him big arms and strong legs, and he was able to swim across the river in about two hours, after almost drowning a couple of times.
The second Democrat prayed to God, saying, "Please God, give me the tools to cross this river." Poof! God gave him a rowboat and he was able to row across the river in about an hour, after almost capsizing the boat a couple of times.
The third Democrat prayed to God saying, "Please God, give me the intelligence to cross this river." Poof! God turned him into a Republican and he walked across the bridge.
For What It's Worth
Forty-eight of the 50 states have had a chance to decide when and how they wold hold their primaries, if they held any at all. If I were a resident of any of those states, my vote would have counted for something. The Democratic Party has decided that what the people of Michigan may want is not in the figuring. It makes no difference to me, whether it was the National Democrats or the State Democrats, the party or the politicians, the majority or the minority. Fact is, we're out of the process.
So, Hillary is out of the process, too.
In all fairness, a number of delegates equal to the number of delegates from Michigan and Florida should be subtracted from every candidate.
-Bud
Goodbye Irena Sendler
(from ALICE)
As a young woman, she saved thousands of Jewish children from murder at the hands of the Nazis. She was arrested, imprisoned and tortured, but she never betrayed other persons working in her secret organization.
"Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory."
CLICK AND CLICK
As a young woman, she saved thousands of Jewish children from murder at the hands of the Nazis. She was arrested, imprisoned and tortured, but she never betrayed other persons working in her secret organization.
"Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory."CLICK AND CLICK
Monday, May 12, 2008
Monday Morning Friends Report, May 12, 2008
In Mid Michigan, the spring has taken a step backward with cooler and darker weather coming in from Minnesota where they can't stand to keep their discomforts to themselves. The Baltimore orioles have returned and we've enjoyed watching them and listening to those clear whistles, even though none ever stay all summer under the BIRCHES. In our yards, though, we have seen many welcome spring travelers at and under the feeders, most recently a rose-breasted grosbeak. ===
Gatherings of friends:
ALICE - has dodged storms and hurricanes to return safely from a friendship gathering in Alabama.
The GIGI STREET GANG - is meeting for a theater gathering. This time it's Mozart, so maybe they're called the "Fan Tutte" Gang.
PAT W - a gathering of former school roommates.
SCOT and TRASE - a gathering of Mom's Day Mothers and birthday boys.
DASHMANN and SKUZZA - travels with and to relatives.
BRIDGEPORTERS - lunch gathering at Damon's as a fundraiser for The Bridgeport Science Club.
BARB C - lots of talk around the table at coffee club about traveling, and she says: do it while you're young and able. So at the club, there's talk about Christmas in New York, that upcoming European journey some are taking, and maybe some are going to the U.S. Northwest.
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Et cetera from friends:
SANDY - says that her daughter has moved to Florida, and
IRISH MIKE says that his son has come home for the summer.
STEVE and BRENDA - will spend Memorial Day weekend in the north country.
DASHMANN- says that listening to Obama reminds him of listening to John Kennedy because they both speak from the heart and with great honesty. Can't remember anyone who says things more honestly and effectively. "Now I'm an Obama man 100%!" he says.
PAT W - has been cheering for Hillary but would gladly vote for Obama in the fall, she says.
IRENE - "I'm glad to see Obama win North Carolina. I think he's the best chance at a Democrat victory in November... If Obama isn't on the ballot, I'm afraid a lot of people may not bother to vote."
SCOT - has made an important announcement on his blog: CLICK
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What's on People's Minds these days:
ALICE - is telling everyone: You HAVE to read this book: Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill)
by David Cay Johnston
SPARTY - Recommends everyone read this article: A Prison of Shame -- and It's Ours! CLICK
EXCERPT:"Reliable information is still scarce about Guantánamo, but increasingly we’re gaining glimpses of life there — and they are painful to read."
MIKE CARROLL almost from CARROLLTON - recommends this funny look at Hilllary from The Joke Libary: CLICK
MARGARET - says that here's some really hopeful environmental news "for a change" (and it is!) -- CLICK
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Why some friends are smiling:
BUD - says: The other day I came home early and saw a guy jogging, naked. I asked him why, and he said, “Because you came home early.”
BILL from WNNCO:
A woman asked her doctor if anal sex is OK.
"Well," the doctor said, "there's no reason that you shouldn't do it, if that's what you like, so long as you take care not to get pregnant."
She was mystified. "What? You mean I can get pregnant from THAT?"
"Of course,' the doctor replied. 'Where do you think Democrats come from?
JOE:
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Newsflash: How we live
"New York, NY - The Acme Dungeon-in-a Box Company has recorded strong sales for the past two weeks after securing an agreement from Josef Fritzl, the Dungeon Master of Austria, to allow them to market the product using his name.The box contains a prefabricated dungeon set-up complete with bars, a steel door, a potty, and a mattress. It can be set up in as little as 15 minutes and is guaranteed to prevent screams from being heard outside the dungeon area!
Over 1,500 boxes were sold in the UK this past week and another order for 25,000 is expected soon." [SOURCE: "The Spoof": click ]
* NOTE: Of course, it's a joke.
Sunday silly Sites #24
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Wacko of the Week 05/10/08
Those considered for the Award included:
1. This JUROR:
HOUSTON — A prospective juror in a marijuana possession trial was hauled off to jail Tuesday after police said they caught her smoking a joint outside the courthouse.
Attorneys in the case had narrowed the jury pool down to 20 people when they took a 45 minute break.
When the break was over, 49-year-old Cornelia Turner Mayo didn't return to Judge Sherman Ross' courtroom. She was, herself, under arrest.
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2.This GENTLEMAN:
Martin Turner had a fascination for workmen wearing big boots, a court was told. The 39-year-old, of Lord Street, Blackpool, Lancashire, pleaded guilty to four offences of harassment.
The former shop assistant harassed random workmen for three years in Britain's most bizarre stalking case. This resulted in him picking tradesmens' numbers at random from Yellow Pages and bombarding them with texts and calls. Turner would ring the workmen and plead with them to come round and stand on parts of his body with their boots, including his fingers, toes, and genitals.
click
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3.This JUDGE:
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- A Federal Judge sentenced a Roman Catholic priest to four years in prison for having sex with two inmates while a chaplain at a women's prison.
Vincent Inametti, 48, worked at Federal Medical Center Carswell in Fort Worth for seven years until last fall. He pleaded guilty in November to two counts of sexual abuse of a ward.
[Fortunately, "English" is spelled write .. er-r, I mean right.]
1. This JUROR:
HOUSTON — A prospective juror in a marijuana possession trial was hauled off to jail Tuesday after police said they caught her smoking a joint outside the courthouse.
Attorneys in the case had narrowed the jury pool down to 20 people when they took a 45 minute break.
When the break was over, 49-year-old Cornelia Turner Mayo didn't return to Judge Sherman Ross' courtroom. She was, herself, under arrest.
click
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2.This GENTLEMAN:
Martin Turner had a fascination for workmen wearing big boots, a court was told. The 39-year-old, of Lord Street, Blackpool, Lancashire, pleaded guilty to four offences of harassment.
The former shop assistant harassed random workmen for three years in Britain's most bizarre stalking case. This resulted in him picking tradesmens' numbers at random from Yellow Pages and bombarding them with texts and calls. Turner would ring the workmen and plead with them to come round and stand on parts of his body with their boots, including his fingers, toes, and genitals.
click
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3.This JUDGE:
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- A Federal Judge sentenced a Roman Catholic priest to four years in prison for having sex with two inmates while a chaplain at a women's prison.
Vincent Inametti, 48, worked at Federal Medical Center Carswell in Fort Worth for seven years until last fall. He pleaded guilty in November to two counts of sexual abuse of a ward.
[Is this like throwing Br'er Rabbit into the briar patch?]
click
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This TEXAS SCHOLAR, protesting Mexican 'immigration':
click
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THE WINNER:
This TEXAS SCHOLAR, protesting Mexican 'immigration':
[Fortunately, "English" is spelled write .. er-r, I mean right.]
Recommended Reading
Especially for those of you who have the wit to appreciate the insanity of unfettered gun ownership --
Happiness is a warm gun in a steaming hot car. After years of wimping around, Florida lawmakers finally passed a law that will allow you to bring your favorite firearm to work, providing you leave it locked in your vehicle. CLICK
--try this gem:
Friday, May 9, 2008
Tuesday Challenge: ANSWERS
Here are some of the answers you clever folks offered:
JERRY - Hillary Clinton's Hispanic campaign advisor.
BINA - a frightened comedian?
PAT W - He's saying: "So the bull won. Does that mean he gets to do the mercy killing?"
SMILEN LADY - "Who said that damn bull could fight back?"
PAT C - A frightened toreador hiding from the bull.
ANONYMOUS - He is a terrified bull fighter who finds a concealed toilet useful.
FELIX - Manny Noriega's brother: "You're loco if you think I'm coming out in this outfit!"
SCOT - Paul Wolfowitz embarks on a radical career change after his scandalous term running the World Bank. Here, he plays peek-a-boo with an angry yak. (It does look like him, doesn't it?)
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Bang-bang. Armed man protects himself
In Ft. Walton Beach, Florida, a man took his loaded .357 revolver out of the glove compartment of his truck and shot himself with it. It was an accident, evidently. He said he was trying to unload it to show his friends.
Maybe he should be the next Wacko-of-the-Week, but in any case, it goes to show how important it is that we all carry loaded guns around to protect ourselves. click
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