Nobody 757

Sunday, February 22, 2009
Nobody # 757

Nobody Asked Me But:

The world dies a little when good people do nothing.

In a modest way I have tried to live by this code, but my country makes it difficult by giving guns to every Tom, Dick and Harriet.<<<

QUICK! SEND FOR A CLOWN!

On Friday, former candidate for the Republican presidential nomination Alan Keyes called President Obama a communist and usurper and said he refuses to acknowledge the validity of Obama's inauguration because, like other conspiracists, he has lingering questions about the 44th president's birth place.

DON’T BOTHER HE’S HERE!<<<

I’ve got to know! I’ve just got to know! Why do we pronounce the (priv) in privacy as it rhymes with drive and the British say it as if it rhymes with give?<<<

I have rarely if ever seen the Republican Party, nationally and in California, so unified. It is obvious that they love their minority status and are working overtime to insure its future.

And here is some advice to help them stay down:

Since you are so opposed to the Economic Recovery Act, and to federal spending, why not persuade your states to turn down all rescue money?<<<

CNN asked this question last week: Will the opinions of historians' regarding President George W. Bush improve over time?

Here are the responses:

Yes 39% 39960
No 61% 61899

I voted a shaky no, because history tends to be kinder than deserved to “take charge” Presidents. But my vote will be upheld if historians remember that:

He sent Americans to die in an unjust war.
He subverted the Bill of Rights and the Geneva Accords.
He presided over a collapsing economy.
He elevated governmental secrecy to an art form.
He completely mishandled the greatest natural disaster of his Presidency.
He conducted a foreign policy based on the pretense that “we are the world.”
He chose and supported the worst Vice President in American history.

Sadly, this last entry alone is the root of many of his mistakes. He certainly seemed a better man during his final year when he paid little attention to The Evil One.<<<

Could there be a more ridiculous, more inane, more idiotic commentary on the stimulus package than that of the new G.O.P. chairman Michael Steele who said - “In the history of mankind” no federal, state or local government has ever created one job?”<<<

News Item: North Korea greets Hillary Clinton with threat.

Reaction: Obama’s response should be a carrot AND A STICK.<<<

Stupid politician of the week – the California controller who has a $1M contract for new office furniture in this year’s budget.<<<

Headline: “GOP senators say Obama off to bad start going completely away from the GREATSUCCESSES of the past 8 years.”

Reaction – LMAO!<<<

Fair and balanced – I think that President Obama is off to an excellent but not a perfect start. Here are two thumbs UP and two DOWN:

Opposing "Buy American" provisions in the stimulus bill – UP.

Going on the road to sell his vision - WAY UP.

Waiting for Congressional action on stem cell research – DOWN.

Retaining Bush’s faith-based initiative plan – DOWN.

Did you know????????????????????

That a vehicle going 200 miles per hour as it crosses the starting line will lose in the quarter mile to a top fuel dragster starting from a dead stop at the same time?<<<

Muslim fanatic – “Soon I will be in Paradise with many virgins.”

JT – “What if the virgins don’t want to do IT?”

Muslim fanatic – “They are merely women and have no say.”<<<

According to a recent Pew Institute study 46% of Americans would like to move. Like their ancestors, most still want to go west. Here, in order, are their top ten cities (seven of which are in the West – eight if you count San Antonio):

Denver, San Diego, Seattle, Orlando, Tampa, San Francisco, Phoenix, Portland, Sacramento, and San Antonio.

LA is 22 – just behind Riverside – Riverside??

As for me, if I’m moving, I’ll take San Diego in a microsecond. San Francisco, Seattle and Portland are not far behind.

The rest? Denver? I don’t it know well enough to speculate. Phoenix? Only if I can live in one of the great suburbs and never go downtown except for pizza. San Antonio? Sorry, I remember the Alamo. Orlando, Tampa, Sacramento? In your dreams!<<<

ANOTHER Pew question - Would you rather live in a community with a McDonald’s or a Starbucks? I will let you guess my answer. (In the poll, McDonalds won – but only by 43% to 36%.)<<<

I didn’t know that - In the Depression era, “gunsel” meant either a hired gun and/or a young, submissive homosexual.<<<

News Item: In the middle of darkest night, Senate Republicans oust their leader, who had joined with Democrats to forge a budget package containing higher taxes.

Reaction: We need music that is worthy of California’s Republican legislators. How about the theme from the Keystone Cops?<<<

And did you know that the new GOP leader in the state Senate, Dennis Hollingsworth, used to sell frozen bull semen? His philosophy that all taxes are evil is closer to another excrement from cows of the male persuasion.<<<

News item: Tonight is the Academy Awards.

Reaction: Yawn. Wake me when it is over.<<<

Just in case you missed them, Saturday evening The Raspberry Foundation presented its Razzies for the worst 2008 films.

Worst picture – “The Love Guru.”

Worst prequel, remake, rip-off or sequel award - "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull."<<<

If you think golf is humbling, try being a Bruin basketball fan this year.<<<