a small dose of reality

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Playmate of the Year Anna Nicole Smith got her U.S. Supreme Court hearing on Tuesday, when her lawyer argued she should collect millions of dollars she claims her late Texas oil tycoon husband had promised her.

At one point during the hour-long arguments, the 38-year old blond widow, dressed in black and sitting in the spectator section, became emotional and started crying, a witness and her lawyer said.

Smith, who formerly also has hosted her own reality television show, did not talk to the crush of reporters, photographers and camera crews when she entered and left the Supreme Court building.

If faced with this situation, our democratic political friends would run crying home saving their own sorry butts first.  Get this:

SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian grandmother who saved a friend from the jaws of a crocodile by jumping on the giant reptile's back has been awarded Australia's highest civilian bravery award.

Alicia Sorohan was awarded the Star of Courage after risking her life to save a friend who was dragged from his tent by the crocodile during a camping trip in the remote far north of tropical Queensland state in October 2004.

Then 60, Sorohan jumped on the 4.2 m (14 feet) crocodile's back as it dragged him from a tent while the man's horrified wife tried to both pull him free and protect their baby.

 

 

Put your order in now, these are flying off the shelves.  I guess Hillary thought she would have a free ride with an opponent like Arlen Spector.  No way.

Hillary Clinton said, "Janet Reno will be my running mate in 2008 on one condition, a sex change operation.  There will be only one woman on my ticket."

Reporters immediately asked who will be what.  There was no response until from the back Bill Clinton piped up, "AFTER the surgery, Janet will be the woman."

Reno said sure but only if Medicaid paid for it.  "It would under my administration", Hillary promised.

Yeah...right.  In her dreams maybe.  What Hillary is really hopelessly wanting is that SOMEONE or SOMETHING would be obsessed with her.  $100 says even Michael Moore would not have sex with her.

By MARC HUMBERT
AP Political Writer

ALBANY, N.Y.

2b79046674ff@news.ap.org Reacting to a new book quoting Karl Rove as saying she will be the 2008 Democratic nominee for president, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that President Bush's chief political strategist "spends a lot of time obsessing about me."

The former first lady also said she believed Rove, national GOP Chairman Ken Mehlman and other Republicans are using her to divert attention from Republican problems as the 2006 congressional elections approach.

"Karl Rove is a brilliant strategist. So, if I were thinking about this," she told WROW-AM radio in Albany, "I'd say, why are they spending so much time talking about me?"

"What they're hoping is that all of their missteps, which are now numbering in the hundreds, are going to somehow be overlooked because people, instead of focusing on the '06 election, will jump ahead and think about the next one," said Clinton, D-N.Y.

In the new book out Monday from Regnery Publishing, "Strategery" by Bill Sammon, Rove is quoted as saying: "Anybody who thinks that she's not going to be the candidate is kidding themselves."

Rove is also quoted as says he thinks Clinton could have difficulty in the general election, in part, because there is a "brittleness about her."

Clinton wouldn't say if she would run for president in 2008, saying she is completely focused on her re-election bid this year.

There is a new book coming out that features interviews from several White House figures, including the president. The book, written by Bill Sammon, has interviews with Karl Rove and George W. Bush.

The White House has no horse in the 2008 race. With Cheney retiring, it's wide open. But Rove was asked who he thought the Democrats would nominate. His Answer: Hillary Clinton. But he says that while she's a shoo-in for the nomination, she won't win the general election. We can only be so lucky --- we can only hope that the American voters are smart enough to turn this mean-spirited woman away.

An indicator will be whether she pulls a Kerry and tries to run while keeping her Senate seat (sign of a pessimistic loser).  Better yet, she resigns her Senate seat, loses the presidential election and heads home to cook, line up hookers, buy cigars and clean house for Bill and in her spare time be Martha Stewart's bitch.

Do Muslims get diabetes?  Can't see any reason why not.  Well ... help is on the way!  Researchers at several medical schools have discovered that there are some insulin-producing cells that come from pancreases that can reverse type 1 diabetes in primates.  Monkeys.  Now this is going to be tried on humans.  If the trials work out it will be good news for the millions of people with type 1 and 2 diabetes.

But wait!  There's a bit of a problem here.  The cells come from the pancreases of one certain animal.

Pigs.  Newborn pigs.  Mohammed certainly would not approve.  Oh well, there's always the virgins.    

                              

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Pieter Abrahamse has an original excuse for a lost wedding ring: a crocodile ate it, along with the arm it was attached to.

"He took my wedding ring, I suppose he ate it up," Abrahamse told Reuters by telephone from his hospital Monday as he recounted his life-or-death struggle with a man-eating reptile.

We used to know how Osama spent his time before SADDAM went to prison...but what is he doing now?  Probably a few wet dreams with global war mopping up.

I couldn't be paid enough to touch THIS WOMAN even with asbestos gloves

What I don't understand is how you can tell whether the punishment is unfair until you see how hard the target is to hit.  For example if it is huge, maybe she didn't feel it or if it is very small shouldn't he be rewarded for accuracy.  This case is baffling.

BOGOTA, Colombia, Feb 24 - A Colombian man has been sentenced to four years' house arrest for slapping a woman's bottom as he rode by her on his bicycle, sparking debate on whether the punishment fit the crime.

Showing re-enactments of the incident, television news shows were filled on Friday with legal experts offering opinions about the judgment handed down earlier in the week by Bogota's district court.

Some said that to confine bicycle messenger Victor Garcia to his home for four years for smacking Diana Marcela Diaz's buttocks was excessive. Others said it would deter other men.

One program showed three models having their denim clad bottoms smacked so hard by a phantom hand it could be clearly heard by television viewers.

The women said that while the punishment seemed extreme, they hoped the case would mean they would be safer while on foot.

"It happened to me once," one of the models said. "I was walking very relaxed and a guy rode by on his bicycle and, 'ta!' He smacked me. I took off my shoe to hit him with it but he was already too far away."

or a list of things people like millardo should be warned about in time:

1. WILL THE REAL DUMMY PLEASE STAND UP?

AT&T fired President John Walter after nine months, saying he lacked intellectual leadership. He received a $26 million severance package. (Perhaps it's not Walter who's lacking intelligence.)

*******

2. WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM OUR FRIENDS

Police in Oakland , CA spent two hours attempting to subdue a gunman who had barricaded himself inside his home. After firing ten tear gas canisters, officers discovered that the man was standing beside them in the
police line, shouting, "Please come out and give yourself up."

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3. WHAT WAS PLAN B???

An Illinois man, pretending to have a gun, kidnapped a motorist and forced him to drive to two different auto- mated teller machines, wherein the kidnapper proceeded to withdraw money from his own bank accounts.

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4. THE GETAWAY!

A man walked into a Topeka, Kansas Kwik Stop and asked for all the money in the cash drawer. Apparently, the take was too small, so he tied up the store clerk and worked the counter himself for three hours until police showed up and grabbed him.

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5. DID I SAY THAT??

Police in Los Angeles had good luck with a robbery suspect who just couldn't control himself during a lineup. When detectives asked each man in the lineup to repeat the words: "Give me all your money or I'll shoot", the man shouted, "that's not what I said!".

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6. ARE WE COMMUNICATING???

A man spoke frantically into the phone: "My wife is pregnant and her contractions are only two minutes apart".

"Is this her first child?" the doctor asked.

"No!" the man shouted, "This is her husband!"

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7. NOT THE SHARPEST TOOL IN THE SHED!

In Modesto, CA, Steven Richard King was arrested for trying to hold up a Bank of America branch without a weapon. King used a thumb and a finger to simulate a gun. Unfortunately, he failed to keep his hand in his pocket!

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8. THE GRAND FINALE!!!

Last summer, down on Lake Isabella, located in the high desert an hour east of Bakersfield, CA, some folks, new to boating, were having a problem. No matter how hard they tried, they couldn't get their brand new 22 foot boat going. It was very sluggish in almost every maneuver, no matter how much power they applied. After about an hour of trying to make it go, they putted into a nearby marina, thinking someone there may be able to tell them what was wrong. A thorough topside check revealed everything in perfect working condition. The engine ran fine, the out-drive went up and down, and the propeller was the correct size and pitch. So, one of the marina guys jumped in the water to check underneath. He came up choking on water, he was laughing so hard. Under the boat, still strapped securely in place, was the trailer!

Imagine my surprise when I saw this as I was sitting in my Gulf Stream on the way to Dubai.

So far my investigation has revealed that what is going on with this company is not a new venture.  It appears that the company is hugely successful and terrific at what it does.  This is not the first acquision of a company doing business in the United States.  My investigation will continue until the entire picture is ultimately presented.

"In January 2005 DPI transformed its network with the strategic acquisition of CSX World Terminals (CSX WT), the international terminal business of CSX Corporation, renaming itself DP World to reflect the change."

Interestingly, the company's management structure consists of executives with varying ethic backgrounds.  Below are some of the areas where the company is already operating:

Country	Dominican Republic
Port	Operation	Facility
Caucedo	Container Terminal	Caucedo Container Terminal
Country	Venezuela
Port	Operation	Facility
Puerto Cabello	Container Terminal	Cabello Container Terminal
Country	Germany
Port	Operation	Facility
Germersheim	Container Terminal	Dpi Terminals Germersheim
Country	Romania
Port	Operation	Facility
Constanta	Container Terminal	Constanta South Container Terminal
Country	Morocco
Port	Operation	Facility
Tangiers	Free Zone	Tangiers Free Zone
Country	Saudi Arabia
Port	Operation	Facility
Jeddah	Container Terminal	Jeddah South Container Terminal
Country	Djibouti
Port	Operation	Facility
Djibouti	Free Zone	Djibouti Free Zone
Djibouti	Airport	Djibouti International Airport
Djibouti	Port Management	Port of Djibouti
Country	U.A.E.
Port	Operation	Facility
Fujairah	Container Terminal	Fujairah Container Terminal
Country	India
Port	Operation	Facility
Cochin	Container Terminal	Rajiv Gandhi Container Terminal
Vallarpadam	Container Terminal Project	India Gateway Container Terminal
Visakhapatnam	Container Terminal	Visakha Container Terminal
Country	China
Port	Operation	Facility
Shanghai	Logisitcs Facility	Shaghai JIFA
Yantian	Logistics Facility	ATL Yantian
Hong Kong	Logistics Facility	ATL Hong Kong
Hong Kong	Container Terminal	Hong Kong CT3
Hong Kong	Container Terminal	Hong Kong CT8
Tianjin	Container Terminal	Tainjin Orient Container Terminal
Yantai	Container Terminal	Yantai Container Container Terminal
Country	Malaysia
Port	Operation	Facility
Port Klang	Free Zone	Port Klang Free Zone
Country	South Korea
Port	Operation	Facility
Busan	Container Terminal Project	Busan Newport Company
Country	Australia
Port	Operation	Facility
Adelaide	Container Terminal	Adelaide Container Terminal

The French National Health Insurance Plan is seeking a refund of all face transplant expenses from Ms. Dinoire.  Prior to the surgery she signed a contract vowing to lead a healthy life if the Plan financed the radical medical procedure.  According to the Plan spokesperson should the payment not be received from Ms. Dinoire by March 1, 2006, the face will be taken away and replaced by THIS ONE

Australia's Sunday Times visits Isabelle Dinoire, the 38-year-old French woman who received the world's first face transplant two months ago.

Miss Dinoire remains reluctant to visit shopping centres and other busy places. But under the close supervision of a team of psychiatrists, she is gaining the confidence to return to society...

She says she is in a positive mood – though she is chain-smoking again – and is making plans to study computers and accounting at college, with a view to opening a baby-clothes shop...

Another of her surgeons, Bernard Devauchelle, said: "Her facial expressiveness is slowly returning and she is talking quite clearly, but has some problems with the letters P and B, which require the lips.

"She certainly does not look like the living dead. She's eating and drinking without dribbling.

"Psychologically, she has totally accepted her new face. Her return to smoking is not the best thing. But that's what she wants to do – we can't stop her."

There is still a risk that Miss Dinoire's body will reject the new face and for the rest of her life she will have to take preventative drugs, which cause an increased risk of cancer and kidney disease.

 

What the heck is with that clown Global War?  I maybe skim one out of 20 of the incessant nonsensical crap he posts.  Does he have streaming access to the muslim propaganda newswire?  Is he the reincarnation of THIS MAN?

Reluctantly Christopher Buckley was named the court appointed conservator for his now delusional doddering father who is a feeble shell of the great writer and American he was for a generation.  After taking control of the National Review, C. Buckley in his first order of business as publisher retracted the last six month's of his father's columns and is recalling those issues for a full refund.

Gee....and here I was thinking Planned Parenthood and dopes like millardo spoke for the majority of Americans.  That's what I get for listening to Dan Rather and Peter Jennings and their ilk all these years.  I bet Jon Stewart is glad HIS wife did not go running for abortion on demand.  Where is the weaseling voice of Tom Daschle in all this?

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The South Dakota Legislature on Friday approved a bill that would ban almost all abortions in a move that could set up a challenge to the national abortion standard set by the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade ruling.

The legislation, which calls for $5,000 fines and five-year prison sentences for doctors who carry out abortions, now goes to Republican Gov. Mike Rounds, who has said he is inclined to sign it.

Backers and opponents of the bill have said it is the most restrictive measure on abortion to pass a state legislature since the Supreme Court legalized abortion with the Roe vs. Wade decision in 1973.

Supporters hope the conflict it sets up with Roe vs. Wade will provide a vehicle to bring the issue before the Supreme Court, whose newly appointed conservative members, they hope, will be more disposed dismantle the 1973 decision.

The proposed law concludes that life begins at conception based on medical advances in the past three decades. It would ban abortions in almost all cases, including pregnancies that endanger the mother or that resulted from incest or rape. It makes an exception in cases that involve saving the mother's life.

Both the state House and Senate previously passed the bill but it did not take final form until the House agreed to a minor language change.

Rounds indicated he would sign the measure if the fine print stood up to scrutiny, as the bill's sponsors have told him it would. He vetoed a similar measure two years ago not because of its intent but because of a technicality.

The South Dakota law is part of a grass-roots, state-by-state effort to challenge abortion. Legislatures in Georgia, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee and Indiana also have measures before them that would heavily restrict abortions.

It could take years for a challenge based on the South Dakota law or some other one to reach the high court.

I am extremely disappointed that "reckless sex" is being frowned upon however I wondering exactly what sex just this side of reckless would look like, especially with the Cardinal's apparent blessing.  Apparently drugs are OK too.  Is this part of the "new" Catholic Church?  Will these teachings spread to the United States?

BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazil's Roman Catholic Church urged revelers on Thursday to abstain from reckless sex, too much alcohol and violence during the country's Carnival celebrations.

"We are not against people having fun but caution them against hurting others or abandoning good customs," said Cardinal Geraldo Majella Agnelo, head of the National Conference of Brazil Bishops.

Carnival begins across Brazil, the largest Catholic country in the world, this weekend and crowds of people indulge in a frenzy of drinking, dancing and often licentious behavior.

Although the pre-Lenten festival has its roots in Christian tradition, it provides an annual headache for the church.

Agnelo told reporters "Carnival is not intrinsically bad" but said the use of condoms and "day-after pills" were incentives for promiscuous behavior.

The government will hand out 25 million free condoms to promote safe sex during the several days of parties, revelry and parades. In northeastern Salvador, health officials will provide "next-day pills," Correio da Bahia newspaper reported.

"We don't want a stand-off with the government but the question is whether this is good for society, for Carnival," said Odilo Pedro Scherer, conference secretary-general.

The Rio de Janeiro archdiocese this week barred Mocidade Carnival samba troupe from taking a float with a statue of the Virgin to the Sambadrome parade strip, saying that the use of sacred images in a profane festival may offend Catholics.

The group, one of 14 competing for the champion's title with lavish floats and thousands of bright costumes in Brazil's most famous Carnival, said it will abide and probably cover the statue with a veil.

 

I am off to the Caymans to convert my dollars into UAE currency.

Most couples can resolve these common problems, maybe sometimes after a yelling and cursing session, but not this gay duo:

MIAMI (Reuters) - A Florida man has confessed to bludgeoning his roommate to death with a sledgehammer handle and a claw hammer after an argument that started over an empty roll of toilet paper, authorities said Tuesday.

Franklin Paul Crow, 56, was arrested early Monday and later charged with murder in the beating death of 58-year-old Kenneth Matthews in the small town of Moss Bluff, according to the Marion County Sheriff's Office.

Capt. Jimmy Pogue said Crow told investigators he grabbed the sledgehammer and claw hammer after Matthews, who rented the mobile home where the two lived, armed himself with a rifle during their altercation.

He later confessed to using the work tools to strike Matthews, who was so badly beaten he had to be identified through fingerprints, about 10 times, Pogue said.

"There were only two people there, Mr. Crow and Mr. Matthews, and unfortunately Mr. Matthews is deceased, so we pretty much just have to go by what Mr. Crow says," Pogue said. "He says that the argument started over an empty roll of toilet paper."

Crow was being held in the Marion County jail without bond. His court-appointed lawyer could not be reached for immediate comment.

Even before the Dubai purchase of US port rights can be completed, the RNC makes stunning announcement of the party's purchase of all European ports (not just management rights).  The revenue generated on an annual basis will triple the GOP campaign war chest and make future democratic fund raising futile.  Negotiations are ongoing with THIS MAN to head the new European port management team.

The New York Times received the GOP 2008 Presidential Election strategy from an anonymous source yesterday.  It has been confirmed that the RNC central command was broken into two days ago.

The NYT reports that the GOP ticket will be Dick Cheney, President, Jeb Bush, Vice President.  Based on the debate slaughters inflicted on the last two democrat VEEP candidates by Cheney, the reasoning is that Cheney will lure the democratic candidate into Cheney's lair.  In an intimate conversational close up debate format Cheney is a killer.  One such debate will fatally cripple the democratic challenger resulting in a stunning Cheney/Bush victory.  Immediately after being sworn in Cheney will resign, become chief of staff and the next eight years of a Bush in the White House will begin.  Plans are underway to find and groom Cheney's successor.

The real deal is that the whole virgin thing is pure propaganda for terrorist motivation.  What really happens is they are given a laptop and told to click HERE

The Pope makes an excellent point.  No doubt it will be lost on mainstream muslims who are hell bent on global domination.  What the Pope has in mind probably make too much sense.  It will be interesting to see what the muslim response, if any, is.

PARIS (Reuters) - After backing calls by Muslims for respect for their religion in the Mohammad cartoons row, the Vatican is now urging Islamic countries to reciprocate by showing more tolerance toward their Christian minorities.

Roman Catholic leaders at first said Muslims were right to be outraged when Western newspapers reprinted Danish caricatures of the Prophet, including one with a bomb in his turban. Most Muslims consider any images of Mohammad to be blasphemous.

After criticizing both the cartoons and the violent protests in Muslim countries that followed, the Vatican this week linked the issue to its long-standing concern that the rights of other faiths are limited, sometimes severely, in Muslim countries.

Vatican prelates have been concerned by recent killings of two Catholic priests in Turkey and Nigeria. Turkish media linked the death there to the cartoons row. At least 146 Christians and Muslims have died in five days of religious riots in Nigeria.

"If we tell our people they have no right to offend, we have to tell the others they have no right to destroy us," Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Vatican's Secretary of State (prime minister), told journalists in Rome.

"We must always stress our demand for reciprocity in political contacts with authorities in Islamic countries and, even more, in cultural contacts," Foreign Minister Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo told the daily Corriere della Sera.

Reciprocity -- allowing Christian minorities the same rights as Muslims generally have in Western countries, such as building houses of worship or practicing religion freely -- is at the heart of Vatican diplomacy toward Muslim states.

Vatican diplomats argue that limits on Christians in some Islamic countries are far harsher than restrictions in the West that Muslims decry, such as France's ban on headscarves in state schools.

Saudi Arabia bans all public expression of any non-Muslim religion and sometimes arrests Christians even for worshipping privately. Pakistan allows churches to operate but its Islamic laws effectively deprive Christians of many rights.

Both countries are often criticized at the United Nations Human Rights Commission for violating religious freedoms.

"ENOUGH TURNING THE OTHER CHEEK"

 

BERLIN (Reuters) - A Bavarian village was flooded by liquid pig manure after a tank containing the fertilizer burst, German police said Wednesday.

Sewage rose to 20 inches in the courtyards and streets of Elsa after gushing from the tank, which held some 240,000 litres of pig manure.

"The village was swamped with green-brown liquid and it was pig manure -- the mother-of-all muck," said Rainer Prediger, a police spokesman in the nearby town of Coburg.

millardo and your ilk....you might want to seek a little remedial help HERE or HERE or maybe HERE or possibly HERE or even HERE

Never afraid to jump into an issue and make a stupid comment, the soon to be former New Orleans Mayor weighed in:

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court said Tuesday it will consider the constitutionality of banning a type of late-term abortion, teeing up a contentious issue for a newly-constituted court already in a state of flux over privacy rights.

The Bush administration has pressed the high court to reinstate the federal law, passed in 2003 but never put in effect because it was struck down by judges in California, Nebraska and New York.

The outcome will likely rest with the two men that President Bush has recently installed on the court. Justices had been split 5-4 in 2000 in striking down a state law, barring what critics call partial birth abortion because it lacked an exception to protect the health of the mother.

LONDON (Reuters) - Fiddling around with in-car satellite navigation systems is causing motorists to lose concentration on the road, according to a survey on Tuesday.

The new technology, rather than helping motorists, could be even more distracting than trying to read a map at the wheel, it added.

One in 10 motorists with navigation systems set off on their journeys without bothering to program their route, and more than half admitted they had then had to take their eyes off the road to input the details whilst driving.

Nearly one in eight did not even bother to check out a route they were unfamiliar with and simply relied on the technology to get them to their destination.

In addition, almost one in four motorists said they had read maps while driving although research suggested that this might not be quite so distracting.

The survey of almost 2,000 people by Privilege Insurance found 19 percent of drivers who used their navigation system lost concentration compared to 17 percent reading a map.

The survey said most motorists who used either resource while driving would take their eyes off the road for 10 seconds, which at 60 mph, would equate to traveling twice the length of a football pitch.

"Our research shows even satellite navigation equipment, if used incorrectly, can lead to driver danger," said Ian Parker, Privilege's managing director.

The biggest problem is when guys like Howard Dean, Harry Reid, Michael Moore use the systems to download and watch porno while driving.  I thought these jokers did that stuff in the backseat of limos.

Is it me or should this be happening in Amsterdam?

BERLIN (Reuters) - A 52-year-old man from the German town of Darmstadt tried in vain to get a refund for 400 euros ($475) worth of what he said was "bad marijuana" from his dealer before turning to the police for help, according to authorities.

The police then charged the man with violating drugs possession laws and confiscated the 200 grams of marijuana he brought with him to the police station, according to a report in Bild am Sonntag newspaper Sunday.

"It is un-usable," the man told police in the hope they would help him get his money back. Amounts of up to 30 grams of marijuana are allowed in most German states for private consumption.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Iran's foreign minister denied on Monday that Tehran wanted to see Israel "wiped off the map," saying President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had been misunderstood.

A close inspection of the footage shows his fingers were crossed (not just his eyes).

What's the deal here?  Are the horns coming out of the head or the towel?

This appears on every car in the Goldwater fleet:

At last! A bumper sticker for both parties. FINALLY, someone has come out with a 100%  bipartisan political bumper sticker. The hottest selling bumper sticker comes from New York.

"RUN HILLARY RUN"
Democrats put it on the rear bumper.
Republicans put it on the front bumper.

Much like George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton, there is emerging a friendship between Cheney and Clinton.

Perhaps if Bill and Dick can get through this trip and become better friends, there may be future get togethers that include 41 and maybe even 43 in a few years when Jeb Bush is in the White House.

millardo....you might want to seek a little remedial help HERE or HERE or maybe HERE or possibly HERE or even HERE

Sincerely, your friend, Barry

Gee.  Could a sensible person be exercised about these?  A Fatwa is hereby issued against anyone seeking that dopey Cleric's reward money.  In the meantime, I enrolled in an art class and plan to create a series of cartoons that make these look like child's play.  Fatwa this clowns.

This photo was taken near Bethesda Maryland.  It depicts a species long thought extinct.

Veterinarians have identified it as the dinosaur backed right of center democrat squirrel.  It was thought that it had been eliminated by left wing nut jobs like Michael Moore and his ilk.

I had a nightmare last night:

Hillary Clinton gets elected President and is spending her 
first night in the White House.  She has waited so  long......... 
The ghost of George Washington appears, and Hillary says,
"How can I best serve my country?"  


 Washington says, "Never tell a lie."
"Ouch!" Says Hillary, "I  don't know about that."

The next night, the ghost of Thomas Jefferson  appears...
Hillary says, "How can I best serve my country?"
Jefferson  says,

"Listen to the people."
"Ohhh! I really don't want to do  that."

On the third night, the ghost of Abe Lincoln  appears.. 
Hillary says, "How can I best serve my country?"
Lincoln says,

"Go to the theater."

millardo....you might want to seek a little remedial help HERE or HERE or maybe HERE or possibly HERE or even HERE

Sincerely, your friend, Barry

(AP) LAFAYETTE, Colo. Hours after laughing about Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting mishap, Josh Kayser was himself shot by a friend during a hunting expedition.

The 21-year-old Lafayette man was taken to the hospital Monday night after his girlfriend accidentally shot him while they were trailing a raccoon that had been preying on chickens on his family's property.

"I read that thing about the vice president and said to myself 'how can you shoot your friend with your gun?' And look what happened," he said Tuesday.

Kayser was crouched down to look under a shed where he thought a wounded raccoon was hiding, and his 17-year-old girlfriend accidentally shot him with a .22-caliber rifle. Police have not identified the girlfriend.

Here is a FACTUAL story that won't be on the frontpage of the New York Times, be reported on TV stations, with the exception of FOX and will be ignored by liberal -hate blogs:

SARITA, Texas (AP) - The sheriff's department closed its investigation Thursday into Dick Cheney's accidental shooting of a hunting partner and said no charges will be filed.

The Kenedy County Sheriff's Department issued a report that largely supports the vice president's account of the weekend accident that wounded 78-year-old lawyer Harry Whittington.

Whittington, interviewed in the hospital, assured investigators no one was drinking when the accident occurred and everyone was wearing bright orange safety gear, according to the report.

Sheriff's dispatcher Diana Mata, speaking for the department, said the case is closed and no charges will be filed. She said Sheriff Ramon Salinas would have no comment on the report.

Whittington was peppered with bird shot in the face and chest Saturday while hunting quail with Cheney on a ranch in South Texas. He is in a Corpus Christi hospital in stable condition after suffering a mild heart attack caused by a pellet that traveled to his heart.

Gilberto San Miguel Jr., an investigator with the Sheriff's Department, interviewed Cheney at the ranch a day after the shooting. San Miguel reported that Cheney shook his hand and "told me he was there to cooperate in any way with the interview."

The vice president said the sun was setting when Whittington fired at some quail and went to find his downed birds, according to the report.

Cheney said he walked about 100 yards and met up with the hunting guide. He said a bird flew behind him, and he followed it in a counterclockwise direction, not realizing Whittington had walked up behind him to rejoin the group. He said Whittington was about 30 yards away, on lower ground, when he fired his shotgun.

"Mr. Cheney told me if Mr. Whittington was on the same ground level the injuries might have been lower on Mr. Whittington's body," the investigator reported.

The investigator, accompanied by another officer, briefly interviewed Whittington at his hospital room on Monday.

"I asked Mr. Whittington if we could record our conversation and Mr. Whittington requested not to be recorded due to his voice being raspy," San Miguel wrote.

The investigator asked for an affidavit, and Whittington said he would provide one when he returned home to his office in Austin. Doctors have said Whittington will probably remain hospitalized until next week.

Before a nurse asked the officers to "hurry up so Mr. Whittington could rest," Whittington "explained foremost there was no alcohol during the hunt and everyone was wearing the proper hunting attire of blaze orange," San Miguel reported.

Whittington said the shooting "was just an accident," and he was concerned all the media attention would give hunting in Texas a bad image, the report said.

Media Darling, Hillary Clinton,  positioned herself in front of the cameras to announce to her anxiously waiting myrmidons that this White House just isn't forthcoming on the Cheney incident and other issues of importance to the American public.  OK, Let's see.  We have the Vince Foster episode.  Hillary's own aides were in Vince Foster's office going through his files immediately after Foster's body was found.  Those files were delivered to Hillary.  They've never been seen since.  How's that for being forthcoming?  And then we have that matter of the Rose Law Firm billing records.  The Congress subpoenaed them from Hillary.  She claimed she didn't have them.  She said they probably have been destroyed.  Then, after two years of dodging this legal subpoena, they're found in Hillary's private office in the living quarters of the White House.  They're found with her handwriting and her fingerprints all over them.  Hillary dodges a subpoena for two years, and then she stands before the American public to bitch because the Bush White House hasn't been "forthcoming."  Amazing.  We can only hope that the majority of Americans, and a good number of American women, can see through this phony and dangerous politician's lies and distortions. 

Critics of Vice President Cheney are devastated that the news cycle is over and the feeding frenzy has moved on.                                      

This group of yo-yo's got together for a post mortem of how their efforts to use this accident for political gain failed.  Most were undressed however a ms. millard of the INS was ashamed of what is under the caftan.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's obsession with camera-equipped mobile phones has taken a bizarre twist, with mourners at funerals now using the devices to capture a final picture of the deceased.

"I get the sense that people no longer respect the dead. It's disturbing," a funeral director told the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper.

                                                                    

At one ceremony several people gathered round the coffin and took out their phones to photograph the corpse as preparations were made to begin a cremation, she was quoted as saying.

"I'm sure the deceased would never want their faces photographed," she said.

But others called it a form of a memento in the modern age.

"Some can't grasp 'reality' unless they take a photo and share it with others ... It comes from a desire to keep a strong bond with the deceased," social commentator Toru Takeda told the paper.

In an effort to mulitate the recently transplanted face, Ms. Dinoire will be lowered in a cage into a raging pack of great white sharks off the coast of California.

"It is my hope that one of the buggers busts through the cage, tears a chunk out of this hideous new face and I will have supermodels around the world competing to donate their face to me."  Dinoire is banking on several things.  1.  The average supermodel may not be an Einstein.  2.  The pity factor.  3.  Her bravery in facing the great white sharks protected only by a tiny cage.

She also has a plan for inducing a shark to break into her cage.  She will have a waterproof dvd player cycling the attack scenes for the series of Jaws films.

Unable to get a Valentine's day date, millardo had to settle for a three way with these dudes with whom she has shall we say commonalities

millardo....you might want to seek a little remedial help HERE

Sincerely, your friend, Barry

Sherrod Brown, a huge baseball fan and an avid athlete, will to need to marshal every last bit of his considerable energy in the next year as he seeks to be become the first Democratic senator from the state of Ohio since John Glenn retired in 1998. He faces a primary challenge from Iraq war veteran and Internet darling Paul Hackett; if he wins the primary, he’ll face Republican incumbent Mike DeWine, a senator with some of the lowest approval ratings in the country, but a seat that the Republicans will zealously defend. With Ohio still the nation’s premier political battlefield, the race will be one of next year’s most-watched campaigns: If a bedrock economic populist like Brown can win in a red state, it will explode the post-Clinton conventional wisdom that anything resembling “class warfare” is a non-starter for the Democrats.

But Brown’s decision to enter the race after first saying he wouldn’t prompted paroxysms of recrimination and anger in the blogosphere. “Brown’s indecision created an ugly and totally unnecessary scene,” wrote blogger Lindsay Beyerstein, one of Hackett’s most prominent online supporters. “If he’d declared in the first place, Hackett probably wouldn’t have challenged him for the nomination. Now, there’s probably going to be a nasty little primary and lasting bad blood amongst Ohio Democrats. These are very real costs that Brown chose to inflict on his party.”

Hackett, whom many bloggers treat like the local boy made good, and who was recently the subject of a glowing profile in Mother Jones titled “The Democrat Who Fought,” provides the blogosphere an opportunity to prove, unequivocally, its own influence. “The reason to support Hackett over Brown is simple,” wrote Beyerstein, “if Hackett wins (and he can win), the progressive blogosphere makes history.”

Blog opinion on the race is by no means uniform. Many support Brown, but it’s a strange feature of the blogosphere that a newcomer to politics like Hackett is widely considered a known quantity, while Brown, who’s spent his entire adult life in public office, is a mystery. One skeptical blogger on the Web site Swing State Project summed up his reservations with a post titled: “Who is Sherrod Brown?”

Nancy Reagan held a press conference on the steps of the Ronald Wilson Library today to clear the record.  "I told the VP to shoot Quayle which in no way sounds like Whittington."  "I am sick every day of my life how Dan Quayle tainted Ronnie's presidency. 

                                      

If you feel like your co-workers drive you ape, you're not alone. Fifty-three percent of workers told CareerBuilder.com that they feel like they work with a bunch of monkeys. The January 2006 "Monkey Business" survey of more than 2,050 workers also found one-in-five workers think their boss is a monkey.