Web Log Archive, November 18th through December 1st, 2007
Saturday, December 1st, 2007 Measure Twice. Cut Once.
"The Republican Party has won a lot
of elections in recent years. So maybe this crop of candidates knows something
about American voters that many us would rather not acknowledge: that too
many of them are small-minded, fearful, bigoted and too shallow to
recognize policies that are against their own — and their country’s — best
interests."
Bob
Herbert
Friday, November 30th, 2007
Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
“He
not only threw me under his campaign bus, he backed up and ran over me
again!”
Larry Craig
"So it's not so much the isolated
situation which he and the judge will have to explain...he's kind of thrown her
under the bus, so it's hard to know how this is all going to come out."
Rudy Giuliani
Monday, November 26th, 2007
Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Saturday, November 24th, 2007
"It's
a long process, pardoning. It takes a lot of paperwork. And the funny thing is,
people said to me afterwards, 'Governor, you'll do that for Keith Richards,
but you wouldn't do that for an ordinary person.' And my answer to that is
always, 'Hey, if you can play guitar like Keith Richards, I'll consider
pardoning you, too!' "
"If anybody wants to believe that they are the descendants of a primate, they are certainly welcome to do it. Science changes with every generation and with new discoveries, and God doesn't. So I'll stick with God if the two are in conflict."
"If you're with Jesus Christ, we know how it turns out. I've read the last chapter in the book, and we do end up winning!"
"Mike
Huckabee, who's been known to make fart jokes in front of the state legislature,
said he would oppose gay marriage 'until Moses comes down with two stone
tablets from Brokeback Mountain saying he's changed the rules.'
"
Matt Taibbi, from an
hilarious article in the current issue of Rolling Stone
Friday, November 23rd, 2007
"I
have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing
the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors."
George Herbert Walker Bush, ex-President, from
a speech during a CIA dedication ceremony, April 26, 1999
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007 ...half a what ya see...none a what ya hear
Now I
ain't saying
this is what happened here but...suppose you screwed up. I
mean...suppose you screwed up BIG TIME!
Like...suppose you burned your own house down on account a because, say, you got
drunk...or you got stoned...or whatever it is you did before you passed out. And suppose you were the
only one around when it happened...except for your ornery cat!
Then...after the firemen came and put out the fire...would you
cop to what had happened? And...suppose you were a person with a vivid
imagination...somebody who had done a lot of writing and drawing and painting...
"I saw a ring of light coming from the pantry
door. I felt like a little boy peeing into Niagara Falls. Oh, my beautiful
house! Nothing in my life has ever happened like last night. My book was here — on
fire. I had just finished it last night. It was 700 pages
long, and I hadn't titled it yet. It was a tragic love story on an alien planet
— that's all I can say about it. Ten thousand pages of original paintings — gone!
Every painting is like a child, and I've just lost a whole country. You can't put a price on my
life! My books
and art and music are my life — and now they're gone."
But nary a word about what might have caused the fire except that
"the cottage had two smoke alarms, neither [of
which] was functioning at the time of the blaze."
"Nobody really likes Mo, including me. I'm
grateful to Mo, but she's still a bit of a bully, very demanding. My last cat
was not like that at all — he was a prince of cats! Yeah, I love my Mo — and I'm still very glad she saved my life."
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
"I
will confess to you that I was kind of a goof-off in high school. You know,
I made some bad decisions that I've actually written about! You know, I
got into drinking. I experimented with drugs. There was a whole stretch of time
that I didn't really apply myself a lot. It wasn't until I got out of high
school and went to college that I started realizing, 'Man, I wasted a lot of
time.' " Barack
Obama
Now I, for one, was comforted to hear the above 'confession'
from the Illinois Senator, whom I regard as a quite intelligent man but with one
glaring fault: he's God-awful boring! ABC News is
broadcasting a camera-panning-view of a young audience being addressed by the 46
year-old Presidential Candidate. It's fittingly called Obama Faces Sleepy High Schoolers.
I'm with you, kids! Maybe he needs do to some more
drinkin', druggin' and whorin'!
Tuesday, November 20th,
2007
Happy Birthday, Halle! Happy Birthday, Morgan!
“I’ll be right here. I’ve got
some corn flakes and canned vegetables. That’ll be my Thanksgiving.”
Rosa
Dailey, Chicago, Illinois
Monday, November 19th, 2007
So this guy goes home from a bar with a
beautiful woman.
As his head clears in the first light of the new day (after a long night of
lovemaking), he notices a photo of another man in a frame on her nightstand...by
the bed.
He begins to worry:
"Is this your husband?" he asks.
"No, silly," she replies,
snuggling up to him.
"Your boyfriend, then?" he
continues.
"No, not at all," she says,
nibbling away at his ear.
"Is it your dad...or your brother?"
he inquires, looking for reassurance.
"No, no! Oh my God, you are so hot when
you're jealous!" she answers.
"Well, then, who the hell is he?"
"Me...before the surgery."
Sunday, November 18th, 2007 This is World Toilet Day!
Well...really it's from today through tomorrow. According to the World Toilet Organization, there are "2.6 billion people out there who have never used a toilet in their life! The purpose of World Toilet Day is to have people in all countries...take action [to] increase awareness of [a] toilet user’s right to a better toilet environment, and to demand for it (sic) from toilet owners. As such, it is also the toilet user’s duty to contribute towards its maintenance, cleanliness and hygiene. The public marks the day to practice toilet etiquette, the restroom community-at-large celebrates with a new declaration for the forthcoming year."