Sunday - May 13, 2007
Sunday Funnies
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Permalink • Saturday - May 12, 2007
Photo Of The Week
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“I am ready to face the consequences of violating probation. I do not expect to be treated better than anyone else who violated probation. However, my hope is that I will not be treated worse.”
-- Paris Hilton, who will start her 45-day jail sentence June 5 but will probably not serve more than three weeks (if even that much time) due to prison overcrowding. She has filed an appeal with Governor Schwarzenegger for clemency.
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Permalink • Week’s Poll Numbers
It’s time to check in with the week’s poll numbers and see what people are thinking about their guvmint. The polls below (source: Real Clear Politics) show President Bush still around 35% approval rating. Oddly enough, Congress’ approval rating is also around 35%.
But ... but ... but I thought the Democrats in Congress were now governing with a “mandate” from the people and making all kinds of changes, enacting new legislation and turning back the Eeeeevil BushHitlerCheneyHalliburtonCo conspiracy. It’s obvious folks aren’t too happy with any of our guvmint officials right now. Is this Bush’s fault too ... ?
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Permalink • Mom
Tomorrow is Mothers Day. You didn’t forget, did you? OK, I am giving you fair warning this year. You now have twenty-four hours to get your slacker butt off the couch and plan something for your Mom tomorrow. Failure to do so will result in severe punishment. I kid you not.
You can go buy her flowers or sweets. You can take her out to dinner. There are a thousand things you can do to show your love and respect for the woman who raised you. For what it’s worth, I suggest just wait until she is not looking and sneak up on her, give her a big hug and say “I love you, mom.”
My mother passed away in 1991. I sure wish I had another chance to do that very thing for her one more time. In the meantime, here is a story of one mother’s love and devotion you need to read. Make note of the address to send contributions to.
For Mother’s Day - A Mother’s Determination
-- By Tom Purcell
Later that night, she was preparing for bed. The phone rang. It was the doctor. Her daughter tested positive for Cystic Fibrosis. The doctor warned her not to panic. The tests could be wrong – he’d run them again the following day. He warned her to avoid reading about the illness until it was confirmed.
But she couldn’t wait. She threw a rain coat over her pajamas, grabbed her sleeping baby out of her crib, then rushed out to a late-night book store. As she cradled her baby in her arms, she read everything she could about CF.
It is an hereditary disease that causes a child’s lungs, intestines and pancreas to become clogged with thick mucus. It is fatal. She’d be lucky if her daughter survived into her 20’s.
She broke down in the book store. She slid to the floor, crying uncontrollably as she held her baby tightly. She cried as though her baby had already been taken away. The doctor confirmed the lab results. The pain was unbearable. She and her husband did not know what to do.
She reached out to a friend. Luckily, her friend knew plenty about CF. She knew former NFL star Boomer Esiason and his wife Cheryl. They have a son with CF. They’ve done extensive fundraising for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and now head their own foundation.
The Esiasons contacted her right away. They understood her pain well and consoled her. They shared everything they knew about the illness. She was instantly transformed. She began channeling her pain into mastering CF. She learned how to apply medications and treatments to give her daughter the best hope.
She learned of CF’s other challenges, too. Though there are 30,000 Americans who suffer from the illness, the number is too small to spur drug companies to do research. The CF market cannot generate enough revenue to recoup the millions needed to develop new drugs.
So she took the bull by the horns. She quit her job and jumped into the CF fundraising business full time. She joined boards and chairs events. She gives speeches wherever she can.
The money she raises goes to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. It hires its own scientists to advance its own medical breakthroughs (90 percent of the funds raised go directly to research). Thanks to so many just like her, the average lifespan of a child born with CF has jumped to 36.5 years.
But that isn’t good enough for her. In 1998, her second daughter was born with CF. There was only a 25 percent chance that she and her husband, both CF carriers, would have another CF child, but fate struck again. They felt unbearable pain again.
Every day is a battle for her now. Every day, her girls must take a collective 34 pills and an array of oral medicines. They must complete 10 breathing treatments and six 30-minute therapy sessions. The treatments and medicines are designed to extend their lives.
Every day, she works tirelessly to raise money to advance any technique or medicine that might extend a CF child’s life a little longer – that might, if promising new research goes as hoped, cure this dreaded disease. Hers is the story of a mother’s love – a mother’s powerful determination to breathe life into thousands of children.
Her name is Angela Kinney and she could use a little help. She’ll be participating in the Great Strides walk in Pittsburgh on May 20th (an event that is held throughout May in cities across America). To contribute to her efforts go to http://www.cff.org/great_strides/angiekinney or contact her directly at angiekinney@comcast.net.
You might want to wish her a Happy Mother’s Day while you’re at it. She’s certainly earned it.
Tom Purcell is a humor columnist nationally syndicated exclusively by Cagle Cartoons. For comments to Tom, please email him at Purcell@caglecartoons.com.
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Permalink • Saturday Silliness
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Permalink • Weekend Eye Candy
College Co-Eds - 101
OK, guys! Show of hands! How many of you are willing to admit that we love the ladies for their brains and not their body? C’mon, now! You know they’re smarter than us. The fact that they are so beautiful really doesn’t matter, does it?
Oh, well. You slobbering animals will learn one day. Today we are giving a little lesson in feminine intelligence. We have four delightfully smart college co-eds who are working on serious degrees at small colleges and universities.
So take the tour and examine the bright, intelligent look in all of their eyes. EYES, I Said! These are the gals you need to help you with your homework. Study hard and click the image of lovely Jessica Erin Sylvia to enter the Gallery. (WARNING: NSFW)
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Permalink • Friday - May 11, 2007
America Alone?
Meet the new face of our ally in the War on Terror in Iraq. This is Gordon Brown, the new resident of Number 10 Downing Street. Tony Blair hasn’t even managed to clear his bags out of his office yet and the new Prime Minister is already making noise about “reversing Blair’s policies in Iraq” and leaving the US to manage things on our own.
Prime Minister Brown seems to be more concerned about saving Britain’s health care system and “economic development” than he is about Islamic radicals and the growing problems in the Middle East. I’m sure he has Britain’s best interests at heart and I wish him well. Thus it must be.
Perhaps his next announcement will include a note from Osama Bin Laden and an announcement of “peace in our time”? We shall see.
Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. And so, the next chapter is brought to a close and a new chapter begins in the long history between the United States Of America and the United Kingdom. May God have mercy on us all ...
Brown Reviews Strategy On Iraq
(LONDON TIMES) - May 12, 2007
The Chancellor said he would govern Britain in a different way – “I want to lead a government humble enough to know its place” – as he lambasted the excessive use of spin and the cult of celebrity, and pledged to restore trust in Labour and politics.
But he also accepted for the first time that mistakes had been made in Iraq, saying that much more must be done to promote economic development and political reconciliation.
His decision to make an early visit to see army chiefs on the ground and the Iraqi Government will raise speculation that Mr Brown would like to speed up the timetable for British withdrawal. British forces are due to hand over control of Basra to Iraqi forces by the end of the year, when troop levels will be reduced from about 7,000 to 2,000.
British forces are due to pull out of Saddam’s former palace in the centre of the city this summer, and eventually all British forces and the consulate will be relocated to the airport.
One of the Chancellor’s allies said last night: “His current assessment is that the the timetable is right. But such matters must be kept under review and that will be among the purposes of his visit, although his big concern is to make the people of Iraq feel they have a stake in their country through economic development.”
A change of policy on Iraq would be considered a dramatic shift from Mr Blair’s stance, but diplomatic sources said that the strong US criticism of President Bush for sending 25,000 more troops to Baghdad gives Mr Brown an opportunity to accelerate the withdrawal process.
Mr Brown could go to Iraq within weeks if the Left fails to raise enough votes from MPs to challenge him for the Labour party leadership. But, if there is a Continued on page 2, col 4 contest he would not be able to use taxpayers’ money for a government trip that might be seen to boost his standing.
Mr Brown used his launch speech in London to distance himself from elements of Mr Blair’s legacy: “As a politician I have never sought the public eye for its own sake. I have never believed presentation should be a substitute for policy. I do not believe politics is about celebrity.”
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Permalink • Position Overrun!
Michael Ramirez - Investors Business Daily
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Permalink • Lost!
Lost again? You bet and the countryside below us is pretty crowded. We’re over the East Coast of the US somewhere and the people down there in the tower are sure talking in a funny accent. This USAF base below is pretty close to where some hot action in the War On Terror recently occurred. Now where in heck are we?
Ten points extra credit if you can identify the huge tanker plane in the picture below that flies out of this base on a regular basis. Ready, set ... GO!
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(Photo from Google Earth Desktop)
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Permalink • Quote Of The Day
“This campaign of criticism is part of a plan orchestrated by the West and the occupying power to attack Islam on the one hand and the Palestinian cause on the other.”
-- Hamas spokesman Fathi Hamad, and chairman of the board of Al-Aqsa television after refusing to bow to pressure to remove the Palestinian Mickey Mouse Show which is being used to indoctrinate Palestinian youngsters. The show was removed for one day after complaints but is now being re-broadcast again.
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Permalink • News Of The Weird
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - The police log entry said it all: “Deceased fawn was dressed up like an infant and abandoned at the Pantages” Theater. Why would anyone dress up a dead newborn deer, lay it in a basket and leave it outside an ornate downtown landmark?
“Your guess is as good as mine,” said Tom Sayre, a spokesman of The Humane Society for Tacoma and Pierce County. The outfit included an infant sleeper and a bib that read, “You think I’m cute? You should see my aunt,” Sayre added.
NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. (AP) - Authorities were led on a high speed vehicle chase by an armless, one-legged man, and they said this wasn’t the first time the 40-year-old eluded police.
Michael Francis Wiley taught himself to driver after losing both arms and a leg in an electrical accident when he was 13. He spent time in prison for kicking a Florida Highway Patrol trooper after an accident in 1996. He led police on a 120 mph chase in 1998.
On Tuesday, Wiley sped off in a Ford Explorer when police approached him at a convenience store, New Port Richey police Capt. Darryl Garman said. Officers pursued, but called off the chase after eight minutes because they did not want to put others in danger, Garman said.
CALCUTTA, India (AP) - A father chained and locked up his 19-year-old son for three weeks for marrying against the family’s wishes in eastern India, a police officer said Friday.
Police rescued Raghu Amin Mollah from his father’s house Thursday on the outskirts of Calcutta, the capital of West Bengal state, said Joy Biswas, a police officer who took part in the operation.
“Yes, he was kept in a room locked and chained,” Biswas told The Associated Press. The father, Abed Ali Mollah, has been arrested and charged with illegally detaining and torturing his son for 21 days, he said.
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - Dutch customs police turned a fake break into a real bust Friday when they stopped a woman trying to smuggle 3.3 pounds of cocaine into the country in a plaster cast on her leg.
Police spokesman Rob Stenacker said the woman, whose name was not released, acted nervously while her passport was being checked and agents became suspicious about the thickness of the cast.
“She had two different letters from a doctor about her leg, and both of them appeared fake,” he said. A sniffer dog quickly indicated that the cast contained more than plaster. The woman was taken to hospital, where an X-ray revealed the drugs but no fractures.
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Permalink • Thursday - May 10, 2007
So Long, Amigo
Say what you will about Ol’ Tony, he has been our friend through thick and thin, taking all kinds of heat for his support of the War On Terror. I hate to see him go. Gordon Brown is a murky figure to us on this side of the pond right now. I’m not 100% sure I like everything I’m hearing. Then again, he is Labour Party (read: Liberal) like his predecessor so he won’t help our Brit friends dig themselves out of their socialist nightmare.
In the meantime, I’ll bid Tony a fond farewell ... WE LOVE YA, BABE! ....
RIMDON, England (AP)
Tony Blair said Thursday he would step down as prime minister on June 27, closing a decade of power in which he fostered peace in Northern Ireland and followed the United States to a war in Iraq that cost him much of his popularity.
In a somber farewell, Blair made way for Treasury chief Gordon Brown to take the top post. The British leader looked overcome with emotion, struggling to retain his trademark broad grin as loud cheers rang out.
Following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States, it was right, Blair said, to “stand shoulder to shoulder with our oldest ally, and I did so out of belief.”
“Hand on heart, I did what I thought was right,” Blair told party workers and supporters at Trimdon Labour Club in his Sedgefield constituency in northern England. “I may have been wrong, but that’s your call. But believe one thing if nothing else. I did what I thought was right for our country.”
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