Diane Sawyer begins her promos masquerading as journalism as she anchors “World News Tonight” from Afghanistan for ABC. How many promos do you think will run for ABC’s new show “Combat Hospital”, which is set in Afghanistan, during the news?
One other bet. Obama will be promoted as a courageous leader, a visionary, a tactical genius. After all, it is getting near “sweeps”.
I really did not need to read this question before going to bed.
Thanks a lot Leo.
(Oh and I’m guessing the answer isn’t “he who dies with the most toys wins” is it?)
Thank you Charolette::
These are actual comments made by South Carolina Troopers that were taken off their car videos:
1. "You know, stop lights don't come any redder than the one you just went through."
2. "Relax, the handcuffs are tight because they're new. They'll stretch after you wear them a while."
3. "If you take your hands off the car, I'll make your birth certificate a worthless document." (My Favorite)
4. "If you run, you'll only go to jail tired."
5. "Can you run faster than 1200 feet per second? Because that's the speed of the bullet that'll be chasing you." (LOVE IT)
6. "You don't know how fast you were going? I guess that means I can write anything I want to on the ticket, huh?"
7. "Yes, sir, you can talk to the shift supervisor, but I don't think it will help. Oh, did I mention that I'm the shift supervisor?"
8. "Warning! You want a warning? O.K, I'm warning you not to do that again or I'll give you another ticket."
9. "The answer to this last question will determine whether you are drunk or not. Was Mickey Mouse a cat or a dog?"
10. "Fair? You want me to be fair? Listen, fair is a place where you go to ride on rides, eat cotton candy and corn dogs and step in monkey poop."
11. "Yeah, we have a quota. Two more tickets and my wife gets a toaster oven."
12. "In God we trust; all others we run through NCIC." ( National Crime Information Center )
13. "Just how big were those 'two beers' you say you had?"
14. "No sir, we don't have quotas anymore. We used to, but now we're allowed to write as many tickets as we can."
15. "I'm glad to hear that the Chief (of Police) is a personal friend of yours. So you know someone who can post your bail."
might be the only ones that have noticed that’s it been quite awhile since I posted anything.
Oh well.
Life has gone on.
Robin of Berkeley is discovering that too.
What a treat.
A real mission to Mars is decades away because of its huge costs and major technological challenges, particularly the task of creating a compact shield that would protect the crew from deadly space radiation.
Best Blog Post Title of the Year…
"TOGETHER WE WRITHE"
And…
Best Sentence In A Blog Post…
I am always amazed at this woman’s passion and energy. If you can’t be passionate about truth and justice then hang it up.
(Notice I didn’t add the American way because the American way has lost its way. What do you think?)
"We need ambassadors (for our product), and all the people who come to the suite become ambassadors."And to assuage any artificially intelligent guilt, there’s this…
“Most include a charity component to temper the appearance of greed,…”By the way, I wouldn’t be surprised to see White House swag on the back of the attendee’s chairs…
“Guests at GBK's gift lounge can walk away with a weeklong trip to a health retreat in Africa. Visitors to the HBO Luxury Lounge are given designer handbags and gym memberships. Another suite offers diamonds and trips to Fiji.
DPA's World Experience Gift Lounge at the L'Ermitage Hotel offers trips to Bora Bora, handmade handbags, Diane Von Furstenberg sunglasses, party dresses, cologne and more.”Thank you. Thank you very much “ambassadors”. (Applause)
If White House Was Surprised by Applause at Tucson Pep Rally… Why Was It Printed On Jumbotron?
maybe it would help humanity if we became the artificially stupid ones.
Let the machines do the dirty work of rationalism.
I mean, where is the wisdom of the world?
And if you understand what I’m trying to say, then thank God.
Just keeping it simple here folks.
And probably end lives too.
And you think that uncivil humans are the problem?
Just wait.
Death by motherboards.
What is 'Watson'? IBM computer wins 'Jeopardy!' practice round
Via Althouse.
as long as it fits this dictionary definition…
–noun
1. an effect or extraordinary event in the physical world that surpasses all known human or natural powers and is ascribed to a supernatural cause.
…then tell me about it.
And none of this ”I barely missed hitting that car! It was a miracle!” Or…I found my wedding ring underneath a flower in the backyard that had been missing for many years! God returned it!”
I mean I want supernatural stuff like “I had not walked since the day I was born. I am now fifty years old, and one day God told me to rise and I walked and am walking!” Get it? Those kinds of miracles.
Thank you.
For lack of a better title, that’s what I’m feeling. Must be Christmas coming up that brings it out in me. Or rather, it’s the upbringing I suffered in the “THE churches of Christ” that did the trick.
Ya see, no one Christian group is more proud to see Christ being erased from the meaning of Christmas than “the churches of Christ”. “Season’s Greetings! Happy Holidays! flow from their lips rather than “Merry Christmas!”
In their churches you will never hear “Silent Night, Holy Night”, Joy To The World!”, “O Come All Ye Faithful”. Carolers from their college here, Freed-Hardeman, sing “Jingle Bells”, “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”, “Frosty the Snowman”. The myth of Santa Claus, minus the reality of Saint Nicholas, is a glorious and holy replacement for the babe in a manger.
Some changes have occurred in some of their church buildings. It is now permissible to play “Dirty Santa” after Sunday evening services as their “holiday” party. And at the Estes church of Christ of Henderson, Tennessee they have started something called “memory poinsettias” being placed in their auditorium at Christmas. (They don’t have sanctuaries.) I’m really puzzled trying to find the New Testament church in the Bible decorating with “memory poinsettias”. Ya see, they refer to themselves as the original New Testament church, as if they hold the keys to the kingdom. And supposedly as as their theology says, even though they decry theologies and statements of faith, they speak where the Bible speaks and are silent where the Bible is silent. Well the Bible is silent on flowers in a church service isn’t it?
Lord have mercy.
Lutherans, Sikhs break bread
“…Evangelicals are “divisive” when they quote Jesus saying that he is the only way to God, he said.”
Yeah. That old Jesus didn’t know what he was talking about did he Reverend? Why not drop the pretense and start your own religion? Oh? And what’s that? Who’s gonna pay for that parsonage, your paid-in-full health care, and that comfortable pension? What’s that? You’ll just keep practicing “play-Christianity”?
Thought so.
Oh and by the way…
John 14:
[6] Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me.
[7] If you had known me, you would have known my Father also; henceforth you know him and have seen him."
Can’t wait for the Reverend Leonard’s excuses for worshipping with Wicca’s.
Uh, would that be Obama?
That's Barack Obama's political résumé. Is it enough to qualify him to be president?
Durn Republicants.
Let’s see. This is the party that gave us John McCain and Bob Dole trying to put on their best impersonation of a conservative.
But what do I know.
“We are the world! We are the children!…”
Liam Neeson: C. S. Lewis was Wrong, Narnia Books Also About Mohammad
“Neeson said: ‘Aslan symbolises a Christ-like figure but he also symbolises for me Mohammed, Buddha and all the great spiritual leaders and prophets over the centuries.”
Take that C.S.
See, Liam knows better than you what you were writing about.
This could guarantee him an Oprah appearance don’t ya think?
I Peter 3
[15] but in your hearts reverence Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to make a defense to any one who calls you to account for the hope that is in you, yet do it with gentleness and reverence;
[16] and keep your conscience clear, so that, when you are abused, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.
especially this one…
cause they’ll be next…
It’s for our national security, don’t ya know.
Thank you Big Brother.
In my opinion, (but what do I know), the cartoon of the day for 11/27 is way over the line.
For shame.
Added: Here is the response I received to my email to them…
“We appreciate your opinion. It is the first negative one we have received.”
Wow.
One negative response to a cartoon of the President of the United States being led to a beheading.
Wow.
And another: I would have no problem with the cartoon if the one being led to the guillotine was a donkey, just as the mob and executioner are elephants representing the GOP. For balance, shouldn’t the executioner be personally shown as the leader of the Republican Party or the most-likely candidate?
