Nobody 780

Sunday, August 16, 2009
Nobody # 780

Nobody Asked Me But:

I SCREAM! YOU SCREAM! WE ALL SCREAM! FOR ICE CREAM

I don’t have to tell you how much I love ice cream, but even I take a pass on certain exotic flavors. For example:

We sampled some very good ice cream at Morelli’s in Harrods, London but passed on the bangers and mash flavor and wanted no part of haggis ice scream – based on Scotland’s traditional dish made out of sheep’s innards.

At Fenoccio’s gelateria in Vieux Nice you can get black olive, tomato basil and lavender. The latter doesn’t sound terrible, although one person described it as tasting like “my grandmother’s armpit.”

In Turkey you can order fox testicle ice cream, which is so chewy that you can eat it with a knife and fork. No, it’s not really made of those, but with a name like that, I’ll pass.

Here’s one for Elizabeth. In Rustico Restaurant in Alexandria, Virginia you can order “brew pops,” popsicles made with beer.

Garlic ice cream in Gilroy, Ca, is no surprise but bacon ice cream at the Ice Cream Store in Rehoboth, DE is a bit of a stretch. Better than their pulled pork flavor though, especially if you have one of the 10 bacon malts that they sell each day.

And now we come to the two worst flavors.

At Ice Cream City in Tokyo, you can buy basashi vanilla. Well, that doesn’t sound too bad until you know that it contains raw horseflesh. You get your sushi and your dessert in one scoop.

And, if you care enough to try the very worst, (and are willing to fly to Venezuela), go to an ice cream shop called Heladeria Coromoto, which holds the Guinness record by offering 900 flavors. But forget the first 899 and try, if you dare, their vivid aqua-colored Viagra ice cream. Warning: IF YOU ICE CREAM STAYS HARD LONGER THAN THREE HOURS, CALL YOUR DOCTOR!

LIARS, DAMNED LIARS AND STATISTICIANS. This saying is out of date and should be changed to change to LIARS, DAMN LIARS AND THE FAR RIGHT.

Even in politics there are rules of decency and morality, and the Rush nuts have gone too far. Common decency says that you don’t even think of trying to defeat something like Obama’s health proposal by using terms like Nazi and Hitler. Those who do have no shame and deserve nothing but scorn. Give me a chance to spit in Rush’s face and I will do it – with great pleasure!<<<

LIAR OF THE WEEK

"On Fox News Sunday," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, speaking about the mobs at health care town halls, said: "I think attacking citizens in our country for expressing their opinions about an issue of this magnitude may indicate some weakness in their position on the merits.”<<<

But do you know who I think is the most despicable of all? The mainstream media - because they know the lies and the liars and yet they refuse to call them out in plain words. That is just gutless.

And, while we are at it, the President could show some passion and do a little of the same.<<<

LET’S ALL SING

When I read in the NY Times that President Barack is being kept on the defensive about his health care reform, I was reminded of that old Johnny Mercer/Harold Arlen song:

You've got to accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
Latch on to the affirmative
Don't mess with Mister In-Between.<<<

ASK ME MR. REE

Question: Mr. Ree, can you tell me why so many independents who voted for Obama now turning against him?

Answer: Because they love the concept of change but hate the reality of it. Talking about a better society feels good. Creating one takes sacrifice.<<<

FACING REALITY

Americans are well advised to fear a rationing of health care services. But thanks to dishonest Republican scare tactics, their fear is misdirected. The government is not the enemy. Insurance companies and the whole for-profit health care system are to be feared, because they are the ones who ration. The quantity and quality of your health care today is based on (1) your ability to pay, (2) your employment status, (3) any preexisting conditions you might have, (4) the capacious whims of insurers and (5) the effect your care will have on their profits. NOW THAT’S RATIONING!<<<

AIN’T IT THE TRUTH

Bush trampled individual rights and conservatives yawned. Obama wants to regulate property rights and conservatives scream.<<<

RIDDLE ME THIS

Someone named Wang Chung wrote an anti-immigrant letter to the Arizona Daily Star last week.<<<

BAD BARACK

I know that getting his health care bill passed involves some give and take, but cutting out the government insurance option is giving too much.<<<

EUTHANIZE IGNORANCE: (But NOT ignorant people!)

Diane Campbell, a Dunkin’ Donuts franchise owner from Kingstown, N.H - “Hitler killed six million people; he killed everyone who wasn’t perfect.” I have an elderly mom and a severely handicapped sister, and I fear for their lives if this plan goes though.”

Ben Hershenson, at the same meeting, - “Hey America, You want Change? Hitler did too!”

Like Lincoln, when I read this stuff, I don’t know whether laugh or cry. But mostly I cry.<<<

IF IT AIN’T BROKE

You know the old saying, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. Well, guess what. Our health system is broke. Not for me but for millions who are not as lucky as I. And if I don’t care about them, who will?<<<