Did you do your part to stimulate the economy? Are you helping to swell the coffers of the American business enterprise? Did you contribute to making our GDP grow larger? Did you pitch in to lubricate the wheels of ... oh, never mind...
Did you read how President Bush's wife, Laura, traveled to Afghanistan this past week? Visiting the troops and whatnot, getting a feel for what it's like over there for our men and women in harm's way?
Guess where she stayed while she was there. Go ahead. Guess. No, really. Guess. You'll never fucking guess, I promise you.
Yup. She had a goddamn Airstream trailer, flown over on our dime, so she could be comfy and cozy during her visit. They actually call it a "Senior Leader In Transit Conference Capsule".
Jesus H. Christ on a pogo stick. That just blows my mind.
I read this in the comments section of one of the embarrassingly large number of political blogs I read regularly and thought it was pretty interesting.
You have two choices for president:
The first one has one of the longest lines of political experience in history. He is exceedingly popular in congress. He also volunteered to defend the our country in the US Navy.
The second one has no real political experience outside of Illinois. He is tall and lanky with big ears. He even lost a few of his first attempts at gaining political office. He is an excellent speechwriter and orator. He is a good attorney and has a successful law practice.
So which one would you choose?
This is a trick question because both were already Presidents of the United States. The first one is the 15th President of the United States, James Buchannan. He is the President who mired us in the Civil War by declaring the action illegal but doing nothing when the south decided to seceed from the Union. He is largely considered by historians as being the worst President in American history.
He was followed by the other man who became the 16th President of the United States: This man is credited with the end of slavery, the end of the Civil War, and unification of the nation. He became president at a dark time when our country was deeply divided over very polarizing issues. He had no experience in Washington prior to his Presidency. His name was Abraham Lincoln and he is widely considered by historians as one of the best Presidents in American History.
Isn't this the lamest "I'm sorry for the affair" speech you've ever heard? I wonder if he made his wife stand next to him while he gave it?
Ohio (and Democrat) Attorney General Marc Dann was recently found to be boning his assistant, Jessica Utovich. She's a cute, perky li'l thing, no doubt. But, well, ya know, when you're the (married) man in charge, ya prolly shouldn't be banging your assistant like a screen door on a windy day.
But Dann is sorry. Real, real sorry.
"I did not create an atmosphere in my public and personal life that is consistent with the important mission of the Office of Attorney General ...I am heartbroken by my failure to recognize the problems being created and by my failure to stop them."
No, dude, you created an atmosphere of fucking your hot young assistant from work.
"He did not create such conditions in the physical and mental compartment of his life or the vagina of Utovich's life such that his penis unnecessarily found itself inappropriately loitering in the latter...He apologizes for the atmosphere of fucking his secretary that he allowed himself to create."
This is Dede. AFTER surgery to remove giant, bark-like growths from his body.
BEFORE pictures are below but they're a bit disturbing. You've been warned.
Dede is from Indonesia. When he was a teenager, he cut his knee. A wart developed on the injured knee and, over time, it grew to cover his entire body, developing into a bark-like covering. His hands and feet developed what looked like roots.
His wife left him. He lost his job. He became terrified that the warts would eventually consume him, suffocating him or worse.
A doctor from the USA, Anthony Gaspari, is helping through surgery and daily doses of Vitamin A which has been known to arrest the development of warts in conditions like this.
Well, in conditions SOMETHING like this. Gaspari says, "I've never seen anything like this in my entire career."
Apparently now that he's had the surgery he can walk again and can hold a pencil, allowing him to become something of a Sudoku addict. Someday, he'd like to find a wife.
Here are some pictures of him BEFORE the surgery. More pictures and videos HERE and an update HERE.
My wife and her family are from Missouri so I probably shouldn't say this but I was totally NOT surprised to read that THIS happened there.
SEDALIA, Mo. -- Officials are trying to determine whether to file charges against a man who fatally shot his wife while trying to install a satellite television system in their home.
Patsy D. Long, 34, of Deep Water, was pronounced dead early Saturday evening after being shot in the chest with a .22-caliber handgun.
Pasty Long was standing outside the residence while her husband was installing a satellite television system.
According to sheriff's department spokesman Maj. Robert Hills, Ronald Long fired a shot from the inside of their home after several unsuccessful efforts to punch a hole through the exterior wall using other means.
You get that? He was trying to put a hole in the wall to install his satellite television and couldn't gitter done. So he used his gun to SHOOT a hole in the wall. And his wife was standing on the other side of that wall. And he killed her. Dead. Bam! Just like that.
Stuck in a traffic jam? If you have the Skycar by Moller, you can say "Fuck it!" and, like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, just take off straight up.
It'll hold 4 passengers, has a range of 750 miles, a cruising speed of 275 mph, and a top speed of 375 mph.
Of course, they have some legal hurdles to surmount first. And there's that $500,000 price tag. But, hey, if you're optimistic, rich and willing to wait over four years, one of these babies could be yours.
Holy Crap! Don't watch this if you're easily bothered by decapitated bodies with necks spurting spraying blood, sushi made from human fingers or other random bits of gore perpetrated by a young, nubile Asian schoolgirl.
On the other hand, if that's the kind of thing you enjoy, well, then, enjoy...
Nice. Less than 20% of the country gives Bush a favorable rating. That's pretty much rock bottom, innit? Go ahead and tell me the Congress is more unpopular. (A) Bullshit. (B) Who gives damn? This guy is the supposed leader of the free world. And less than a fifth of the people in this country think he's doing a good job. Pathetic. Absolutely pathetic.
I'm pretty certain his favorable ratings in Europe are probably even worse than this.
Some folks sleep on a problem, but you can camp on one as well. Camping is for the mind what a high-speed run on the highway is for a car. It tends to blow out all the sludge that accumulates in the type of urban driving most of us are forced to do in order to earn a living.
-- Tim Cahill
To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives of young people in war but not the courage to tell us that we must be less greedy and wasteful.
-- Wendell Berry