Monday, December 28, 2009
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Saturday, October 24, 2009
The Truth
1. You cannot touch all your top teeth with your tongue.
2. All idiots, after reading the first truth, will try it.
3. And discover that the first truth is a lie and feel superior because they can do it.
4. You're smiling now because you're an idiot.
5. You soon will forward this to another idiot.
6. There's still a stupid smile on your face.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
NEVER TRUST THE GOVERNMENT TO DO THINGS RIGHT!
Social Security was established in 1935 - they've had 74 years to get it right; it is broke.
Fannie Mae was established in 1938 - they've had 71 years to get it right; it is broke. Freddie Mac was established in 1970 - they've had 39 years to get it right; it is broke. Together Fannie and Freddie have now led the entire world into the worst economic collapse in 80 years.
The War on Poverty was started in 1964 - they've had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our hard earned money is confiscated each year and transferred to "the poor"; it hasn't worked.
Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965 - they've had 44 years to get it right; they are both broke; and now our government dares to mention them as models for all US health care.
AMTRAK was established in 1970 - they've had 39 years to get it right; last year they bailed it out as it continues to run at a loss!
This year, a trillion dollars was committed in the massive political payoff called the Stimulus Bill of 2009; it shows NO sign of working; it's been used to increase the size of governments across America, and raise government salaries while the rest of us suffer from economic hardships. It has yet to create a single new private sector job. Our national debt projections (approaching $10 trillion) have increased 400% in the last six months.
"Cash for Clunkers" was established in 2009 and went broke in 2009 - - after 60% of the cars purchased turned out to be produced by foreign companies, and dealers nationwide are buried under bureaucratic paperwork demanded by a government that is not yet paying them what was promised.
So with a perfect 100% failure rate and a record that proves that each and every "service" shoved down our throats by an over-reaching government turns into disaster, how could any informed American trust our government to run or even set policies for America's health care system - - 17% of our economy?
Maybe each of us has a personal responsibility to let others in on this brilliant record before 2010, and then help remove from office those who are voting to destroy capitalism and destroy our grandchildren's future.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Glenn Beck - Fox News is kicking Ass
Big Beck: Goes over 3 million viewers, beats O’Reilly in demo: Cable News Ratings for Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Posted on 27 August 2009 by Robert Seidman
Though a little scandal might alienate advertisers, it’s pure ratings gold. Last night Glenn Beck had over 3 million viewers at 5pm, second only to O’Reilly for the night. But, Beck had more 25-54 viewers than O’Reilly (888K to 876K). I don’t watch or really even care about the cable news wars, but still…wow. Even though Beck airs before primetime, when there are fewer people watching TV, he had the most 25-54 viewers in the cable news world for the night.
Live + Same Day Cable News Daily Ratings for August 26, 2009
P2+ Total Day
FNC – 1,374,000 viewers
CNN – 711,000 viewers
MSNBC –506,000 viewers
CNBC – 217,000 viewers
HLN – 300,000 viewers
P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 2,667,000viewers
CNN— 1,187,000 viewers
MSNBC –984,000 viewers
CNBC – 241,000 viewers
HLN – 606,000viewers
25-54 Total Day
FNC –395,000 viewers
CNN –204,000 viewers
MSNBC –161,000 viewers
CNBC – 72,000 viewers
HLN- 139,000 viewers
25-54 Prime Time
FNC – 736,000 viewers
CNN – 321,000 viewers
MSNBC –318,000 viewers
CNBC – 113,000 viewers
HLN – 204,000 viewers
35-64 Total Day
FNC – 650,000 viewers
CNN – 329,000 viewers
MSNBC – 257,000 viewers
CNBC – 105,000 viewers
HLN – 176,000 viewers
35-64 Prime Time
FNC –1,205,000 viewers
CNN – 516,000 viewers
MSNBC –488,000 viewers
CNBC –124,000 viewers
HLN –298,000 viewers
Morning programs (6:00AM-9:00AM) P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
FOX & Friends- 989,000 viewers (390,000) (652,000)
American Morning- 460,000 viewers (210,000) (309,000)
Morning Joe-465,000 viewers (201,000) (285,000)
Squawk Box- 157,000 viewers (55,000) (86,000)
Morning Express w/ Meade- 228,000 viewers (181,000) (212,000)
5PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Glenn Beck– 3,040,000 viewers (888,000) (1,385,000)
Situation Room—688,000 viewers (141,000) (271,000)
Hardball w/ Chris Matthews—536,000 viewers (139,000) (217,000)
Fast Money—215,000 viewers (55,000) (80,000)
Prime News–267,000 viewers (97,000) (109,000)
6PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Special Report with Bret Baier– 2,067,000 viewers (463,000) (881,000)
Situation Room—739,000 viewers (155,000) (317,000)
Ed Show—541,000 viewers (211,000) (262,000)
Mad Money—186,000 viewers (73,000) (114,000)
Prime News — 259,000 viewers (94,000) (139,000)
7PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Fox Report w/Shep Smith–1,590,000 viewers (454,000) (729,000)
Teddy: In His Own Words—1,104,000 viewers (293,000) (547,000)
Hardball w Chris Matthews—778,000 viewers (265,000) (380,000)
Kudlow Report —a scratch w/112,000 viewers (a scratch w/42,000) (54,000)
Issues– 403,000 viewers (124,000) (217,000)
8PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The O’Reilly Factor– 3,303,000 viewers (876,000) (1,468,000)
Teddy: In His Own Words- 1,104,000 viewers (293,000) (547,000)
Countdown w/ K. Olbermann– 1,091,000 viewers (320,000) (504,000)
Secrets of the Knight – 181,000 viewers (68,000) (95,000)
Nancy Grace – 757,000 viewers (239,000) (315,000)
9 PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Hannity –2,592,000 viewers (752,000) (1,158,000)
Larry King Live—1,182,000 viewers (299,000) (473,000)
Hardball w Chris Matthews—1123,000 viewers (381,000) (583,000)
American Greed – 242,000 viewers (108,000) (124,000)
Issues- 567,000 viewers (191,000) (311,000)
10 PM P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
On The Record w/ Greta Van Susteren—2,104,000 viewers (577,000) (985,000)
Anderson Cooper 360—1,137,000 viewers (332,000) (470,000)
Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann— 737,000 viewers (253,000) (378,000)
American Greed — 301,000 viewers (163,000) (153,000)
Nancy Grace –518,000 viewers (194,000) (278,000)
11 PM P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The O’Reilly Factor —1,651,000 viewers (514,000) (822,000)
Anderson Cooper 360 —615,000 viewers (228,000) (299,000)
Headliners and Legends—658,000 viewers (235,000) (359,000)
Mad Money – a scratch w/101,000 viewers (66,000) (53,000)
Showbiz Tonight– 377,000 viewers (212,000) (249,000)
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Sunday, August 16, 2009
The end of the USA?
Sunday, August 09, 2009
One of the saddest days of my life......
Wednesday, August 05, 2009
Saturday, August 01, 2009
Friday, July 24, 2009
The Assholes always win!
The Gastroenterologists had sort of a gut feeling about it, but the Neurologists thought the Administration had a lot of nerve.
The Obstetricians felt they were all laboring under a misconception.
Ophthalmologists considered the idea shortsighted.
Pathologists yelled, "Over my dead body!" while the Pediatricians said, 'Oh, grow up!'
The Psychiatrists thought the whole idea was madness, while the Radiologists could see right through it.
Surgeons decided to wash their hands of the whole thing. The Internists thought it was a bitter pill to swallow, and the Plastic Surgeons said, "This puts a whole new face on the matter."
The Podiatrists thought it was a step forward, but the Urologists were pissed off at the whole idea. The Anesthesiologists thought the idea was a gas, and the Cardiologists didn't have the heart to say no.
In the end, the Proctologists won out, leaving the entire decision up to the assholes in Washington.
Friday, July 03, 2009
Commencement Address by Paul Hawken to the Class of 2009
University of Portland, May 3, 2009
When I was invited to give this speech, I was asked if I could give a simple short talk that was “direct, naked, taut, honest, passionate, lean, shivering, startling, and graceful.” Boy, no pressure there.
But let’s begin with the startling part. Hey, Class of 2009: you are going to have to figure out what it means to be a human being on earth at a time when every living system is declining, and the rate of decline is accelerating. Kind of a mind-boggling situation… but not one peer-reviewed paper published in the last thirty years can refute that statement. Basically, the earth needs a new operating system, you are the programmers, and we need it within a few decades.
This planet came with a set of operating instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Important rules like don’t poison the water, soil, or air, and don’t let the earth get overcrowded, and don’t touch the thermostat have been broken. Buckminster Fuller said that spaceship earth was so ingeniously designed that no one has a clue that we are on one, flying through the universe at a million miles per hour, with no need for seatbelts, lots of room in coach, and really good food, but all that is changing.
There is invisible writing on the back of the diploma you will receive, and in case you didn’t bring lemon juice to decode it, I can tell you what it says: YOU ARE BRILLIANT, AND THE EARTH IS HIRING. The earth couldn’t afford to send any recruiters or limos to your school. It sent you rain, sunsets, ripe cherries, night blooming jasmine, and that unbelievably cute person you are dating. Take the hint. And here’s the deal: Forget that this task of planet-saving is not possible in the time required. Don’t be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only after you are done.
When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren’t optimistic, you haven’t got a pulse. What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world. The poet Adrienne Rich wrote, “So much has been destroyed I have cast my lot with those who, age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.” There could be no better description. Humanity is coalescing. It is reconstituting the world, and the action is taking place in schoolrooms, farms, jungles, villages, campuses, companies, refugee camps, deserts, fisheries, and slums.
You join a multitude of caring people. No one knows how many groups and organizations are working on the most salient issues of our day: climate change, poverty, deforestation, peace, water, hunger, conservation, human rights, and more. This is the largest movement the world has ever seen. Rather than control, it seeks connection. Rather than dominance, it strives to disperse concentrations of power. Like Mercy Corps, it works behind the scenes and gets the job done. Large as it is, no one knows the true size of this movement. It provides hope, support, and meaning to billions of people in the world. Its clout resides in idea, not in force. It is made up of teachers, children, peasants, businesspeople, rappers, organic farmers, nuns, artists, government workers, fisherfolk, engineers, students, incorrigible writers, weeping Muslims, concerned mothers, poets, doctors without borders, grieving Christians, street musicians, the President of the United States of America, and as the writer David James Duncan would say, the Creator, the One who loves us all in such a huge way.
There is a rabbinical teaching that says if the world is ending and the Messiah arrives, first plant a tree, and then see if the story is true. Inspiration is not garnered from the litanies of what may befall us; it resides in humanity’s willingness to restore, redress, reform, rebuild, recover, reimagine, and reconsider. “One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice,” is Mary Oliver’s description of moving away from the profane toward a deep sense of connectedness to the living world.
Millions of people are working on behalf of strangers, even if the evening news is usually about the death of strangers. This kindness of strangers has religious, even mythic origins, and very specific eighteenth-century roots. Abolitionists were the first people to create a national and global movement to defend the rights of those they did not know. Until that time, no group had filed a grievance except on behalf of itself. The founders of this movement were largely unknown – Granville Clark, Thomas Clarkson, Josiah Wedgwood – and their goal was ridiculous on the face of it: at that time three out of four people in the world were enslaved. Enslaving each other was what human beings had done for ages. And the abolitionist movement was greeted with incredulity. Conservative spokesmen ridiculed the abolitionists as liberals, progressives, do-gooders, meddlers, and activists. They were told they would ruin the economy and drive England into poverty. But for the first time in history a group of people organized themselves to help people they would never know, from whom they would never receive direct or indirect benefit. And today tens of millions of people do this every day. It is called the world of non-profits, civil society, schools, social entrepreneurship, and non-governmental organizations, of companies who place social and environmental justice at the top of their strategic goals. The scope and scale of this effort is unparalleled in history.
The living world is not “out there” somewhere, but in your heart. What do we know about life? In the words of biologist Janine Benyus, life creates the conditions that are conducive to life. I can think of no better motto for a future economy. We have tens of thousands of abandoned homes without people and tens of thousands of abandoned people without homes. We have failed bankers advising failed regulators on how to save failed assets. Think about this: we are the only species on this planet without full employment. Brilliant. We have an economy that tells us that it is cheaper to destroy earth in real time than to renew, restore, and sustain it. You can print money to bail out a bank but you can’t print life to bail out a planet. At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product. We can just as easily have an economy that is based on healing the future instead of stealing it. We can either create assets for the future or take the assets of the future. One is called restoration and the other exploitation. And whenever we exploit the earth we exploit people and cause untold suffering. Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich.
The first living cell came into being nearly 40 million centuries ago, and its direct descendants are in all of our bloodstreams. Literally you are breathing molecules this very second that were inhaled by Moses, Mother Teresa, and Bono. We are vastly interconnected. Our fates are inseparable. We are here because the dream of every cell is to become two cells. In each of you are one quadrillion cells, 90 percent of which are not human cells. Your body is a community, and without those other microorganisms you would perish in hours. Each human cell has 400 billion molecules conducting millions of processes between trillions of atoms. The total cellular activity in one human body is staggering: one septillion actions at any one moment, a one with twenty-four zeros after it. In a millisecond, our body has undergone ten times more processes than there are stars in the universe, exactly what Charles Darwin foretold when he said science would discover that each living creature was a “little universe, formed of a host of self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and as numerous as the stars of heaven.”
So I have two questions for you all: First, can you feel your body? Stop for a moment. Feel your body. One septillion activities going on simultaneously, and your body does this so well you are free to ignore it, and wonder instead when this speech will end. Second question: who is in charge of your body? Who is managing those molecules? Hopefully not a political party. Life is creating the conditions that are conducive to life inside you, just as in all of nature. What I want you to imagine is that collectively humanity is evincing a deep innate wisdom in coming together to heal the wounds and insults of the past. Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course. The world would become religious overnight. We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of God. Instead the stars come out every night, and we watch television.
This extraordinary time when we are globally aware of each other and the multiple dangers that threaten civilization has never happened, not in a thousand years, not in ten thousand years. Each of us is as complex and beautiful as all the stars in the universe. We have done great things and we have gone way off course in terms of honoring creation. You are graduating to the most amazing, challenging, stupefying challenge ever bequested to any generation. The generations before you failed. They didn’t stay up all night. They got distracted and lost sight of the fact that life is a miracle every moment of your existence. Nature beckons you to be on her side. You couldn’t ask for a better boss. The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer. Hopefulness only makes sense when it doesn’t make sense to be hopeful. This is your century. Take it and run as if your life depends on it.
Paul Hawken, environmentalist and entrepreneur, is the author of, among much else, Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming.
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
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World's Shortest Fairy Tail
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Obama's Cairo Speech - Bangkok Post opinion
The power of words: understanding
On June 4, Barack Hussein Obama, the American President, delivered an important speech at Cairo University.
After laying the ground for his speech which included his life experience with a Muslim father from Kenya and societies in two continents - Indonesia in Asia and Chicago in North America - and the place of Muslims/Islam in American history and society, he addressed seven main issues of global significance: violent extremism, the deadly Israeli-Palestinian conflict, nuclear weapons and Iran, democracy, freedom of religion, women's rights, and economic development/opportunity.
As expected, millions of people around the globe paid due attention to this historic speech. It was reported that 200 million in India watched the speech live. An opinion poll indicated that more than 75 per cent of respondents in Muslim countries viewed it positively, while some Palestinian factions based in Syria viewed it as "an attempt to mislead people and create more illusions" to improve America's image (Bangkok Post, June 7, 2009).
President Obama's aides believed that it was a victory since he has "cleared the debris" that stands between the United States and "the Muslim world" (Bangkok Post, June 8, 2009).
There are those who were critical of his speech for different reasons. For example, while he spoke about Iran's attempt to go nuclear, he did not mention Israel's possession of more than 200 nuclear warheads. Quoting historical figures such as Sir Winston Churchill, others pointed out that it is deeds - difficult ones - that will truly change the course of history, and not mere words.
It is important to confront the tension between the power of the words spoken by President Obama and the structure of economic and militaristic power that exists in the world, from which he could hardly escape even if he so wished.
I would argue here that in the context of the Abrahamic religions - Judaism, Christianity and especially Islam - at a time when the whole world could be profoundly connected at the speed of light through words electronically spoken, the power of words can never be underestimated.
This article begins with a brief discussion of the structural impediments to the promise of President Obama's speech. Then words' cultural power grounded in the wisdom of Abrahamic religions will be suggested.
Violence and Economic Structures
In his speech, President Obama talked about violent extremism first and economic development/opportunity last. It is as though the two issues are not related.
Numerous research has shown that in a chain of causes, a strong link can be made between poverty resulting from economic injustice and violence.
Two years ago, the British foreign minister, Margaret Beckett, spoke in Berlin warning the world that lack of water in North African countries, including Egypt, would contribute to poverty, migration, unemployment, conflict and eventually violence.
Raymond Fisman from Columbia Business School and Edward Miguel from the University of California, Berkeley, recently argued that when failing rains create economic hardship, war is likely. They found that drought and the resulting economic hardship do matter in understanding conflict in Africa. Together with other researchers, they found that an income drop of 5% increases the risk of civil conflict in the following year to nearly 30% (
More importantly, perhaps, is the fact that when a deep economic recession looms large, adversely affecting airlines and aerospace companies, among other things, defence giants such as Boeing or Northrop Grumman could continue to enjoy a reliable revenue from countries which have been increasing their military might.
It is a curious fact that defence spending tends to rise at a time of economic difficulties and that some US$2.4 trillion or 4.4% of the global economy is dependent on violence (Global Peace Index, 2009). In fact, some may consider defence spending useful to shore up the economy and fend off recession. Therefore resisting violence in the Middle East, or elsewhere in the world, should also mean calling the global economic structures responsible for its sustenance and growth into question.
But it is not only the economy that constitutes the existing structure. There are also other forms of structural relationship which can make it difficult to move from such words to practice. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why, Mr Obama's intention and sincerity notwithstanding, his officials would consider measures such as withholding economic support as a way to pressure Israel to stop its settlement project "not under discussion," and that any pressure on Israel relating to this would be "largely symbolic" (The New York Times, June 1, 2009).
But then no one would say that Mr Obama's mission as outlined in his Cairo speech would be easy. Given the structure of the world, it is extremely difficult. That this mission may not be impossible depends on how the power of words works in the world, especially in the cultural context of the Abrahamic world.
The Power of Words
When President Obama spoke his words and was heard, something was shaped into being.
The people who specialise in crafting words are poets. In ancient Anglo-Saxon, the word for poet was "maker." This term, influenced by its biblical root, blends the meaning of weaving words with that of the material world. In fact, according to Bible, the "Word" and God cannot be separated. The first line of the prologue to John's Gospel in the Bible reads:
"In the beginning was the Word:
The Word was with God
And the Word was God." (I: 1)
But the power of words is nowhere clearer than in the story of Adam as told in the Qur'an. For the power He gave to the first man was the naming of things in the world. It is this power of words that set him apart from the angels and was responsible for the first Fall, that of Satan when he refused to bow to a being created from lowly clay.
The Muslims believe that there is a difference between good and bad words. The Qur'an says:
"Seest thou not how Allah sets forth a parable? A goodly Word like a goodly tree whose root is firmly fixed and its branches (reach) to the heavens,
"It brings forth its fruit at all times by the leave of its Lord. So Allah sets forth parables for men in order that they may receive admonition.
"And the parable of an evil Word is that of an evil tree. It is torn up by the root from the surface of the earth: it has no stability.
"Allah will establish in strength those who believe with the Word that stands firm in this world and in the Hereafter; but Allah will leave to stray those who do wrong: Allah doeth what He willeth."
(Surah (chapter) Ibrahim (14): 24-27).
There were several things the American President said in his Cairo speech that ring powerfully to all those who heard them. Though he said them in the context of the seven issues he chose to elaborate, I will choose to underscore only a few that I heard which directly relate to violence.
Provoked by the terror of Sept 11, 2001, the United States has acted contrary to its ideals because of fear and anger.
Both the Israelis and the Palestinians are people with painful histories, but both have legitimate aspirations.
Violence and killing is wrong and does not succeed. It is a dead end.
Terror - shooting rockets at sleeping children or blowing up women in buses - signifies the surrender of moral authority.
The US is committed to seek a world in which no nation holds nuclear weapons.
Hearing President Obama's views on issues related to violence, I feel that his words are beautiful, a feature of a good tree as well as word. For these words signify extremely important shifting trends. They show the world that a country with the greatest military might knows when it has forgotten its ideals out of fear and still has the will to regain its courage to live up to them by announcing the closing date of the abomination that is Guantanamo.
They teach the world that to transform conflict, there is a need to see both conflicting parties' aspirations as equally legitimate, and therefore it is a conflict between two human communities, not between angels and demons.
They categorically remind the world that violence is a dead-end and that there exist non-violent alternatives, as events in American history and elsewhere have proven.
They insist on the importance of moral authority for everyone, state as well as non-state actors, and that it will evaporate the moment when violence is used without regard to the innocents. Then they remind the world that the fate of humanity cannot be guaranteed under the deadly shadow of nuclear weapons. This is not only about Iran or Israel or Pakistan, but also China, UK, France, India and the US itself.
In the minds of so many Muslims, and others of the Abrahamic faiths, listening to President Obama, his words like a good tree are good; whether they will remain firm, provide shade and give sustenance to those in need of a world freed from violence and its threats, depends on the ways in which the existing structures could be called into question.
But it seems that the seeds of a good tree have already been planted.
Saturday, June 06, 2009
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How To Shave Your Groin - Shaving Tips From Gillette
Sometimes I feel like I have lost my mind? The world cannot get any crazier...can it?
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Gun Control?
The firearm death rate in Washington, DC is 80.6 per 100,000 for the same period (last 22 months). That means you are about 25 per cent more likely to be shot and killed in the US capital, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the US, than you are in Iraq.
Conclusion: The US should pull out of Washington."
Friday, May 08, 2009
Clever Puns
1. The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.
2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.
3. She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still.
4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class, because it was a weapon of math disruption.
5. The butcher backed into the meat grinder and got a little behind in his work.
6. No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery..
7. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.
8. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum blown apart.
9. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.
10. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
11. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.
12. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
13. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other: 'You stay here; I'll go on a head.'
14. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.
15. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: 'Keep off the Grass.'
16. A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital. When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was, a nurse said: 'No change yet..'
17. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.
18. Don't join dangerous cults: Practice safe sects!
19. The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.
20. The man who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.
21. A backward poet writes inverse.
22. In a democracy, it's your vote that counts. In feudalism it's your count that votes.
23. When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
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The Late Late Show - Craig Ferguson - March 2009
Amazing after 40 years these guys still can play!!!
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Will Buick be sold to China?
The rapidly slimming General Motors might soon cast off another brand, according to a Chinese media report. General Motors is considering selling its Buick division to the Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC), according to financial newspaper the Shanghai Securities News.
The deal could potentially involve a sale the Buick name only, or it could include the sale of plants, tooling, and designs to SAIC. Buick is extremely popular in China, despite its relatively limited success in America.
The Obama administration has apparently asked General Motors to slim to just three brands, the report says. With the Hummer brand up for sale,Saab’s future in question, Saturn likely to be spun-off or killed, Pontiac being phased out, and Opel potentially for sale, it’s easy to see how this might be achieved. In fact, wouldn’t be surprised if Chevrolet, Cadillac, and GMC are the only brands left standing when the dust settles.
General Motors is hoping to restructure to the satisfaction of the Obama administration by the end of May, in order to receive more government aid. If this fails, GM will be forced into Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.
Although the sale of Buick is strictly a rumor at this time, it opens the door to a great deal of speculation. For example, what would happen to Buick’s stylish new U.S.-specific 2010 LaCrosse? We’re pretty sure GM would not scrap the model entirely. Could it become a Chevrolet? We wouldn’t rule that out.