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ALERT TO READERS: Some have commented about my inconsistent views of politics and social views. I change philosophies more than Hindus change Gods . . . So Newt Gingrich has proposed a permanent lunar station by 2020. 71% of the space coast voters in Florida support this concept. But it jumps to 96% when voters in this area would like to see Mr. Gingrich as the lone occupant of the lunar colony . . . The groundhog showed his face in Pennsylvania February 2, and we all know what that means --- six more weeks of Gingrich . . . The average price for the first superbowl in 1967 --- Nine Bucks! The average price this year ---$3800! A thirty-second commercial? $3.5 million! Wow! I thought we were POOR! . . . Reader Chris Buck checks in: "Your blog goes great with coffee". Chris doesn't drink coffee . . . Early to bed, early to rise, and your girl goes out with other guys . . . Thought for the day: the greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, and to some extent even antibiotic --- in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea to man --- is work.
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ALL WE ARE SAYING is give war a chance: Why is it that all of our presidents since WWII think they need to assert their power and authority in this way? Republicans, Democrats, they're no different. Even WWII, obviously had to get Hitler and Tojo. Well and good but we had a hideously expensive cold war that lasted over 40 years, with continuous bad feelings that last through this day. Korea, Cuba, and Vietnam were full of innocent victims that we used as human sacrifice to rid the planet of communism. The result? A bunch of (hopefully not) permanently destroyed relationships. A war with Iraq? There were no weapons of mass destruction. We were lid to about that war, and left it in ruins. The political unrest and unsafe lives these people will endure for generations. Sadam was not threatening any of his neighbors. Nine years---for WHAT? And Afghanistan--- The eleven year war? We got Bin Laden, so why are we still there? Just looking for more enemies? We're so good at getting into kerfuffles, so bad at getting out. It's over 40 years since John Lennon made his modest suggestion, why NOT give peace a chance?
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WHAT IS THE world coming to? A british study finds that men spend 81 minutes a day grooming themselves. Women? Only 75 minutes. One must remember the study was done in Britain . . . War with Pakistan! The country has notified its phone companies it would ban over a thousand "obsene english words from text messages, including "quicky", "condom", "flatulence", and "period". . . As his gift to Chicago, former Obama advisor Rahm Emanuel promised as newly elected Mayor of Chicago, he would reinstate social security to dead people . . . A family in Danvers, Mass. has to call 911 when they couldn't find their way out of a 7 acre corn maze. "I am really scared, it's really dark and we got a 3 week old baby with us"" said the man who made the call. "We thought that this was going to be fun".
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According to industrialist Henry J. Kaiser : "When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt".
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