Thanks to non-blogging Ted for this one:
Five surgeons are discussing who has the best patients to operate on…
The first surgeon says, “I like to see accountants on my operating table
because when you open them up, everything inside is numbered.”
The second responds, “Yeah, but you should try electricians! Everything
inside them is color coded.”
The third surgeon says, “No, I really think librarians are the best; everything
inside them is in alphabetical order”
The fourth surgeon chimes in, “You know, I like construction workers.
Those guys always understand when you have a few parts left over at the end,
and when the job takes longer than you said it would.”
But the fifth surgeon shut them all up when he observed,
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How can people who voted for this clown, watch him on television and not be embarrassed?
(J. Scott Applewhite - AP)
From the Nation, re: Tony Perkins (Family Research Council president - You know,… the people who sponsored “Justice Sunday.”) :
Four years ago, Perkins addressed the Louisiana chapter of the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), America’s premier white supremacist organization, the successor to the White Citizens Councils, which battled integration in the South. In 1996 Perkins paid former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke $82,000 for his mailing list. At the time, Perkins was the campaign manager for a right-wing Republican candidate for the US Senate in Louisiana. The Federal Election Commission fined the campaign Perkins ran $3,000 for attempting to hide the money paid to Duke.
I told you the only thing missing was the burning cross.
I came across this quote in my travels today:
“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time,
and your government when it deserves it.” — Mark Twain
I think I’ve found a new sig!!!
Dave Johnson at Seeing The Forest, hits the nail on the head today when he writes about corruption in the bush administration. Think he’s exaggerating? Check out his 10 corruption links at the end of the post.
Even more information discovered about Guckert/Gannon that the MSM is ignoring:
“1. Secret Service Access Control Records which establish that so-called ‘reporter’ ‘Jeff Gannon’ (real name ‘James Guckert,’ ‘working’ name ‘The Bulldog’; yes, we’re serious) entered the highest-security building in the world–The White House–on dozens of occasions when there was no journalistic reason for him to be there, because, in short, no press briefing was being held.”
(my emphasis)
(Via The Nashua Advocate.)
A friend of mine, who is much more knowledgeable about stocks, bonds and the economy than I am, recently sent me an email in which he wrote about his concerns of the dire situation the US is in:
I see a real recession & depression on the way for the USA and it seems like no one is worried……….Here’s an equation for you:
lots of consumer debt + high housing prices (with an average of 40% of disposable income going to just pay for the mortgage) + raising interest rates + high oil prices + stagnate wages + flat employment + a weak dollar = ?????????, you fill in the blank.
Yeah, I thought, how is it no one in the administration is seeing this? And then I read Paul Krugman’s article:
Is the administration’s obliviousness to the public’s economic anxiety just partisanship? I don’t think so: President Bush and other Republican leaders honestly think that we’re living in the best of times. After all, everyone they talk to says so.
Check out the rest of the article. It all makes sense.
Columnists, Frank Rich at the NY Times has an article today entitled “A High Tech Lynching in Prime Time”.
He is writing about the big Democrat/left/judge bashing party called Justice Sunday. In fact it seems the only thing missing from this event is the burning cross. It doesn’t take much to see that these are the same people who were opposing civil rights and pushing for segregation.
It brings mass-media firepower to a campaign against so-called activist judges whose virulence increasingly echoes the rhetoric of George Wallace and other segregationists in the 1960’s.
Don’t be fooled by the claims of this being Christianity either:
“people of faith,” as used by the event’s organizers, is another duplicitous locution; it’s a code word for only one specific and exclusionary brand of Christianity. The trade organization representing tonight’s presenters, National Religious Broadcasters, requires its members to “sign a distinctly evangelical statement of faith that would probably exclude most Catholics and certainly all Jewish, Muslim or Buddhist programmers,” according to the magazine Broadcasting & Cable.
Events like this point out not only why, there is separation of church and state, but why not separating them is dangerous. I, for one, intend to take note of who decides to align themselves with these political wolves in sheeps’ clothing.
Today’s Republicans are often quick to point out that they are the party of Lincoln. But I was thinking, that it seems they represent more of what John Wilkes Booth stood for, than what Lincoln stood for.
I came back to work yesterday, despite still feeling crappy. In talking with my MD, I set up an appointment with a specialist for Thursday morning. Hopefully he/she will be able to pinpoint what is wrong. This is getting soooo tedious.
Meanwhile, I am learning a great deal about CSS and XHTML via the book mentioned earlier. I’ve also been following the tutorial over at WestCiv. The tutorial is an excellent walk through on CSS (and their product of course) while creating a web page. I have, so far, found only one inconsistency from what I have read elsewhere. For instance, in using shortcuts in CSS, the order I’ve learned is:
top, right, bottom, left. They give a different order. I’m not sure what the reason is.
I made the mistake of listening to Jerry Springer on the way into work. He actually thinks the powers that be, care about America. I think they care about themselves and their friends, but they have no love of country. They have done nothing to indicate they care about this country or its citizens. Wearing a lapel pin of the American flag is just not enough in my book.
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April 30, 2005 8:47 pm | 
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