Death once had a near-Sarah Palin experience.
Tuesday - August 03, 2004
Accident Prone? Get Hurt Often? Boring Personality?
We already know that if get into an accident you need only call the bottom feeding, scum sucking ambulance chasing landsharks at John Edwards' law firm and become rich overnight.But did you know you can become an instant war hero AND give your personality a boost, too? When you sustain an injury (paper cut, fingernail cut too close, a nick from shaving) or people walk away when you tell jokes at the office copying machine, use what The Poodle uses: Bland Aids!
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More Liberal Bullshit
I just received this from "T". This is what Liberals think Republicans and Conservatives believe in. Here are all their arguments in one place, kids. As you can see, the list is a twisted mixture of hatred and hypocricy. These are the Liberals' "Talking Points". Go ahead. Let me know what you think of these accusations. I'm already making a list ....Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a bad guy when Bush's daddy made war on him, a good guy when Cheney did business with him and a bad guy when Bush needed a "we can't find Bin Laden" diversion.
Trade with Cuba is wrong because the country is communist, but trade with China and Vietnam is vital to a spirit of international harmony.
The United States should get out of the United Nations, and our highest national priority is enforcing U.N. resolutions against Iraq.
A woman can't be trusted with decisions about her own body, but multi-national corporations can make decisions affecting all mankind without regulation.
Jesus loves you, and shares your hatred of homosexuals and Hillary Clinton.
The best way to improve military morale is to praise the troops in speeches while slashing veterans' benefits and combat pay.
If condoms are kept out of schools, adolescents won't have sex.
A good way to fight terrorism is to belittle our long-time allies, then demand their cooperation and money.
Providing health care to all Iraqis is sound policy. Providing health care to all Americans is socialism.
HMOs and insurance companies have the best interests of the public at heart.
Global warming and tobacco's link to cancer are junk science, but creationism should be taught in schools.
A president lying about an extramarital affair is a impeachable offense.
A president lying to enlist support for a war in which thousands die is solid defense policy.
Government should limit itself to the powers named in the Constitution, which include banning gay marriages and censoring the Internet.
The public has a right to know about Hillary's cattle trades, but George Bush's driving record is none of our business.
Being a drug addict is a moral failing and a crime, unless you're a conservative radio host. Then it's an illness, and you need our prayers for your recovery.
You support states' rights, which means Attorney General John Ashcroft can tell states what local voter initiatives they have the right to adopt.
What Bill Clinton did in the 1960s is of vital national interest, but what Bush did in the '80s is irrelevant.
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God Sends A Message
Joe Biden, from Delaware, the ranking dummycrap senator on the Foreign Relations Committee, found out yesterday his house had been struck by lightning.Joe's really been an asshole the past 4 years and I think God was tired of it.
Think Joe will listen?
Three Guesses Who Journalists Would Vote For
Did anyone say, "The Poodle?"HOORAY!! You're right!
Even more disturbing is that Washington journalist favor The Poodle and his Puppy 12 to 1!!!!
Now, please explain to me how anyone can expect unbiased news reporting when the media tilts so heavily to America-haters, socialists, misfits, criminals (yep, most criminals vote Dummycrap!), and other assorted low lifes?
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It’s Tuesday. Is Work Stressing You?
Fret no more. Here are 25 ways to cope with stressl. Jam miniature marshmallows up your nose and sneeze them out. See how many you can do at a time.
2. Use your Mastercard to pay your Visa, and vice-versa.
3. Pop some popcorn without putting the lid on.
4. When someone says "Have a nice day," tell them you have other plans.
5. Drive to work in reverse.
6. Dance naked in front of your pets.
7. Sit naked on a shelled hard-boiled egg.
8. Fill out your tax form using Roman Numerals.
9. Tape pictures of your boss on watermelons and launch them from high places.
10. Leaf through "National Geographic" and draw underwear on the natives.
11. Tattoo “Out to Lunch” on your forehead.
12. Go shopping. Buy everything. Sweat in it. Return it the next day.
13. Buy a subscription to “Sleazoid Weekly” and send it to your boss’s husband/wife.
14. Pay your electric bill in pennies.
15. Make a list of things to do that you have already done.
16. Find out what a frog in a blender really looks like.
17. Tell your boss to “blow it out your mule”, and let him figure it out.
18. Put your toddler’s clothes on backwards and send him to pre-school as if nothing is wrong.
19. Polish your car with earwax.
20. Read the dictionary upside down and look for secret messages.
21. Start a nasty rumor and see if you recognize it when it comes back to you.
22. Braid the hairs in each nostril.
23. Write a short story using alphabet soup.
24. Stare at people through the tines of a fork and pretend they’re in jail.
25. Make a language up and ask people for directions in it.
Irony Smacks Eco-Freaks Up Beside the Head
The scene: Eco-freaks take a vacation on a small cruise ship.Eco-freaks: OOOH! AAAHH! Look at that pretty whale. Let's pet it and show it we are at one with it!
Whale thinks: "assholes!"
Cruise ship: "hey, Captain! YO! NUMBNUTS!! You're too close to......................CRASH! SCREECH! (sounds of tearing metal)
Ship runs aground! Punctures the fuel tank. Probably fucks up a bunch of wildlife.
Returning to the present: No outcry from PETA or the Tree-Huggers or Greenpeace yet. They're probably all gathered together plotting to release a news story saying the Captain was a drunken, religious zealot, right wing republican in favor of logging.
Am I the only one who sees the irony in this?
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And the beat goes on
Check out this awesome piece on The Poodle's voting record--------while on the INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE!Here are a couple of snippets from it:
During his tenure on the committee, which provides oversight of national intelligence agencies, Kerry was absent for 38 of 49 public hearings, according to Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga. `
Sorta like how he's been absent 88% of the time this year, eh? And to show the liberalism of Massachusetts' voters, they allow him to collect his $130,000 (MOL) unemployment compensation salary while running for president. Hey, as far as those moonbats are concerned it's government money after all, not theirs.
"For example, in 1993 after the World Trade Center bombing Senator Kerry introduced a number of measures that were to reduce funding for the intelligence community by $7.5 billion, including a bill that he introduced in 1995 that called for the reduction in funding for the intelligence committees and intelligence communities by $300 million a year for five consecutive years"
And here's the best thing about all this. While on the campaign trail yesterday, The Poodle castigates our President for not calling a special session of Congress in order to implement some of the measures proposed by the 9-11 commission. He also went on to say he"
would interrupt his campaigning to be there for debate and voting "when necessary."
How's THAT for chutzpah, ladies and gentlemen?
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Quote of the DayThe length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. Alfred Hitchcock
I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight. Rita Rudner
On This Day in History
1678 Robert LaSalle builds 1st ship in America, Griffon
1914 Yankee catcher Nunamaker throws out 3 would be stealers in 1 inning GO YANKEES!
1958 The nuclear-powered submarmine Nautilus became the first vessel to cross the North Pole underwater.
1977 Radio Shack issues a press release introducing the TRS-80 computer 25 existed, within weeks thousands were ordered
1981 U.S. air traffic controllers went on strike.
1958 NAUTILUS TRAVELS UNDER NORTH POLE
On August 3, 1958, the U.S. nuclear submarine Nautilus accomplishes the first undersea voyage to the geographic North Pole. The world's first nuclear submarine, the Nautilus dived at Point Barrow, Alaska, and traveled nearly 1,000 miles under the Arctic ice cap to reach the top of the world. It then steamed on to Iceland, pioneering a new and shorter route from the Pacific to the Atlantic and Europe.
The USS Nautilus was constructed under the direction of U.S. Navy Captain Hyman G. Rickover, a brilliant Russian-born engineer who joined the U.S. atomic program in 1946. In 1947, he was put in charge of the navy's nuclear-propulsion program and began work on an atomic submarine. Regarded as a fanatic by his detractors, Rickover succeeded in developing and delivering the world's first nuclear submarine years ahead of schedule. In 1952, the Nautilus' keel was laid by President Harry S. Truman, and on January 21, 1954, first lady Mamie Eisenhower broke a bottle of champagne across its bow as it was launched into the Thames River at Groton, Connecticut. Commissioned on September 30, 1954, it first ran under nuclear power on the morning of January 17, 1955.
Much larger than the diesel-electric submarines that preceded it, the Nautilus stretched 319 feet and displaced 3,180 tons. It could remain submerged for almost unlimited periods because its atomic engine needed no air and only a very small quantity of nuclear fuel. The uranium-powered nuclear reactor produced steam that drove propulsion turbines, allowing the Nautilus to travel underwater at speeds in excess of 20 knots.
The submarine traveled at a depth of about 500 feet, and the ice cap above varied in thickness from 10 to 50 feet, with the midnight sun of the Arctic shining in varying degrees through the blue ice. At 11:15 p.m. EDT on August 3, 1958, Commander Anderson announced to his crew: "For the world, our country, and the Navy--the North Pole." The Nautilus passed under the geographic North Pole without pausing. The submarine next surfaced in the Greenland Sea between Spitzbergen and Greenland on August 5. Two days later, it ended its historic journey at Iceland. For the command during the historic journey, President Dwight D. Eisenhower decorated Anderson with the Legion of Merit.
After a career spanning 25 years and almost 500,000 miles steamed, the Nautilus was decommissioned on March 3, 1980. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1982, the world's first nuclear submarine went on exhibit in 1986 as the Historic Ship Nautilus at the Submarine Force Museum in Groton, Connecticut.
Today's Birthdays
1900 Ernie Pyle, correspondant during WW II
1900 John T Scopes, Tennessee teacher convicted for teaching evolution
1924 Leon Uris US, novelist (Exodus, QB VII)
1926 Tony Bennett,Queens NY, singer (Left a body part in SF)
1941 Martha Stewart, cookbook author/actress (Those Two) (Now a prisoner!)
Thanks to The Quotations Page Famous Birthdays Snopes
Monday - August 02, 2004
The Numbers Suck for Kerry
Latest polling shows The Poodle actually LOST ground to President Bush. Most polls released recently reflect the same sort of trend.Let me know how much coverage this gets on the news, OK?
I'll bet all you'll see is the ABC poll which shows Kerry's ahead.
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Why Has This Not Been Asked?
The Breck Girl is one year younger than I am. He's old enough to have been subject to the draft. Considering the youthful appearance, I am not surprised someone's not done some digging yet but why haven't we heard anything about his service record? Did I miss something?I read his bio and nothing is mentioned of military service. Did he evade the draft? Why didn't he volunteer? After all, President Bush has been dragged through the mud and he served with the National Guard and we've been made to believe (by the media) that this was dishonorable service because it wasn't active duty like Kerry. The media and Democrats are besmirching the name of and the honorable service of all Guard members with these tactics. Yet no mention is made of Edwards' service.
Could this be more media bias displayed in an effort to support The Poodle and his Puppy?
So, how about it? Anyone know?
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A Little About John Edwards
Not much is known about The Poodle's Puppy, or, as I like to call him, The Breck Girl, John Edwards.As luck would have it, here's a piece that fills you in on the "middle class worker's" son. It's from Lowell Ponte.
In it you will find out more about how Edwards built his name on junk science, pretending to be babies in the womb, how his methods increased caesarian births in this county but DID NOT decrease MS births as he contended.
You'll read about his roll in the increased donations by trial lawyers to the Democratic Party.
You'll read about his ties to a specific law firm and what impact its founder expects to have on the body politic in general and the American public in particular.
If Kerry wins, we will need to fear for the state of the union. Like the hacks on the left who "claim" Cheney makes decisions to favor his pals at Halliburton, there will be hacks on the right that will go after Edwards for his influence with trial lawyers. The only difference? We'd be right.
Learn about Edwards' ties to the Saudis, the liberalism of his voting record.
It's not a pretty picture.
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Sucking Terrorist Ass
Looks like the ACLU has something to hide. Seems they do not like the fact that non-profits taking money from the United Way will be required to have their employees' names checked against a government watch list of terrorists. So they decided not to take any. GOOD!Of course, THEY claim this violates civil rights but as far as I am concerned they are hiding behind this supposed cloak of "intrusiveness" when in fact they may very well have something to worry about. I'd think a company would be grateful to know none of their employees are on this list. If they are, they can either be arrested, kicked out of the country, or have their name taken off due to error.
Considering how much money has gone to terrorists through charitable organizations here in the US, this is a great idea.
Too bad the ACLU would rather submit to terrorists than support measures to weed out them out. Makes you wonder who is in who's pockets.
Monday Rant (see addendum below)
Should We Eliminate The IRS? (see addendum at bottom)I just read on Drudge that Denny Hastert is going to propose the elimination of the IRS during President Bush's second term.
You're all thinking, "HOORAY!! YIPPEE!! ABOUT DAMNED TIME!!! F**KIN' A!!!!!"
Hold on a minute now. Let's not get too excited just yet.
Something like that, frankly, scares me. Remember, this is Congress you are dealing with. The same people that passed Campaign Finance Reform with loopholes in it so big you could steer an aircraft carrier thought it with room for its destroyer escorts.
Here's what I would want you to consider in such a move:
1. What will be the sales tax rate and HOW will it be calculated?
2. What assurances do we have that the methodology for RAISING those rates is one tied to the requirement to maintain a balanced budget----at all costs? If not, you'll find this to be a nightmare!
3. Here's the biggest one of all which I rarely ever see discussed: during what sort of economic times will we be doing this changeover? If our economy is depressed, it will get even more so. If the economy is vibrant, no president will want it to happen during his watch. Why? Think about it.
a. How many people are employed by the IRS? They will be UNEMPLOYED!
b. How many people specialize in tax law? They will be UNEMPLOYED!
c. How many people are independent contractors doing printing of IRS publications? They will be UNEMPLOYED!
d. How many independent contractors run things like web sites, doing QC on print jobs for the IRS? They will be UNEMPLOYED!
e. How many companies specialize in tax preparation? (H.R. Block, among others) They will be UNEMPLOYED!
f. How many companies print "How-To" manuals for tax form preparation (J.K. Lasser for one) They will be UNEMPLOYED!
g. How many small print companies are there making copies of forms for individuals, mailing them out, etc. Some of them will become UNEMPLOYED!
h. How many accountants do nothing but tax preparation? They will be UNEMPLOYED!
Now let's look at the economic implication all these unemployed have on those who sell real estate, cars, furniture, appliances, etc. Their business will turn down as there will be millions of folks with no jobs to make the money to buy these things. Home prices will tumble. Neighborhoods will be at risk as folks will need to move who no longer have jobs.
And when this ripple effect begins folks start laying off and it begins to affect restaurants, gas stations, convenience stores, etc.
Bankruptcies will skyrocket. Inflation will shoot up. Cost of borrowing will make purchases prohibitive. People will consume less. GDP goes in the toilet. Wages follow. The vicious circle widens. Revenue to the treasury will PLUMMET (since people won't be buying) and sales taxes will need to be increased further exacerbating the now dire situation.
Just something for you to consider.
Hey, I think it is more than overdue that the IRS be abolished. But let's not get too excited about it yet, OK? We may think our Congressmen are nothing but a bunch of incompetent, power hungry individuals but stupid they are not. Once the public begins to grasp the enormity of such a change, you'll see how quickly it gets killed.
As for abolishing the IRS in small increments? Silly, silly people! Name for me when that's ever happened since every year Congress promises to make things simpler yet all they do is add more laws, more pages to the code, more complexity necessitating more accountants.
Sweet dreams, boys and girls!
ADDENDUM:
The comments have been spirited and lively. But I fear some have missed the point completely so let me polish a couple of points and add a couple more:
Some of you folks are missing the point on my "economic" numbers: remember, it is not JUST the IRS we are abolishing. It's the printers, printing companies, accountants, lawyers, etc. This group numbers in the MILLIONS!!! Do I care much for lawyers? No! Accountants? No. My recent dealings with them regarding financial planning for my parents reinforced that feeling. Will I feel sorry for them losing their jobs? No. But it is not just them.
Back on topic--How many people work JUST for J.K. Lasser and H&R Block?
Maj Mike brought up another point--states! In states with income taxes and treasuries to handle the returns, how many hundreds of thousands MORE people get the pink slip?
DO NOT GET ME WRONG! The IRS should be abolished. It is confiscatory in its dealings.
BUT......................there is TOO MUCH invested by trial lawyers and such types (too many special interest groups paying off Congressmen, too) for this to get much headway. The rhetoric is great but if done too quickly the economy WILL suffer. GREATLY. Much as I'd like to see them go away I believe the solution will devastate the economy and repercussions would last years. To the young this can easily be overcome. But what about the others approaching retirement? This isn't just a couple of thousand of people from a large corporation. This will be hundreds of thousandss, millions---at once! Can we survive something like that? What if our unemployment numbers were already high? It's too ugly to think about.
And yes, the cost of running government with these people is prohibitive and we'd shrink government by not having them but to do this in one fell swoop is political and economic suicide.
I'd love to see a consumption tax but you can be guaranteed there will be NOTHING simple about it. There will be gradients in it. Exclusions to it. Rebates for others. Higher taxes for some. This new beast will not die.
In this particular scenario I'd rather have an enemy I know rather than a new one, unknown and created overnight by people who do NOT have my best interests at heart.
One last thing: Remember, we are approaching 50% of people in the US who pay NO INCOME TAX whatsoever right now. How excited do you think they will be when they find out their next pair of shoes will cost them 15% more? Or the next car about $4000 more? How much you want to bet the democratic rhetoric will reach heights and pitches we've not even begun to imagine as they are informed about this? Believe me, their incentive to vote will be very high!
I predict: We will not see abolition of the IRS in my lifetime.
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Unbiased Reporting at NPR
If you ever need a good example of the left-leaning agenda at NPR, you'll have it with this one.As usual, NPR is my wake-up alarm every morning. Usually within 3-4 minutes they've pissed me off enough that I get out of bed, fix the coffee, and start blogging.
This morning they were blathering about Kerry and what he says he'd do if he becomes President and what Bush should be doing in light of the newest terrorist threats and how not adopting the measures proposed by the 9-11 commission is to blame for what is going on. What pure, unadulterated claptrap.
Anyway, the announcer happily goes on to say that The Poodle's Puppy, Edwards, would be in the Orlando area where he was going to the home of a Republican who said he was changing allegiances this November.
Who is this republican? Frankly, my dear, who gives a fuck? Some schmoe.
But the Mayor of St. Paul Minnesota, a Democrat, goes in front of the media to say he is voting for Bush in November and what does NPR say about this?
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ........................................nothing!
Do you need any more proof?
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Quote of the DayI stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph. Shirley Temple (1928 - )
On This Day in History
1776 Formal signing of the Declaration of Independence
1819 1st parachute jump in US
1858 1st street mailboxes-Boston, Mass
1909 1st Lincoln head pennies minted
1990 Iraq invades & occupies Kuwait
1861 First income tax is passed
The United States Congress passes the first income tax to raise revenues for the war effort. Although never enacted, it was an important fiscal innovation that paved the way for growth of the government in the 20th century..
HITLER BECOMES FÜHRER
With the death of German President Paul von Hindenburg, Chancellor Adolf Hitler becomes absolute dictator of Germany under the title of Führer, or "Leader." The German army took an oath of allegiance to its new commander-in-chief, and the last remnants of Germany's democratic government were dismantled to make way for Hitler's Third Reich.
Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria, in 1889. As a young man he aspired to be a painter, but he received little public recognition and lived in poverty in Vienna. Of German descent, he came to detest Austria as a "patchwork nation" of various ethnic groups. He found direction as a German soldier in World War I, and was decorated for his bravery on the battlefield. He was in a military hospital in 1918, recovering from a mustard gas attack that left him temporarily blind, when Germany surrendered.
He was appalled by Germany's defeat, which he blamed on "enemies within"--chiefly German communists and Jews--and was enraged by the punitive peace settlement forced on Germany by the victorious Allies. He remained in the German army after the war, and as an intelligence agent was ordered to report on subversive activities in Munich's political parties. It was in this capacity that he joined the tiny German Workers' Party, made up of embittered army veterans, as the group's seventh member. Hitler was put in charge of the party's propaganda, and in 1920 he assumed leadership of the organization, changing its name to Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers' party), which was abbreviated to Nazi.
In November 1923, after the German government resumed the payment of war reparations to Britain and France, the Nazis launched the "Beer Hall Putsch"--an attempt at seizing the German government by force. Hitler hoped that his nationalist revolution in Bavaria would spread to the dissatisfied German army, which in turn would bring down the government in Berlin. However, the uprising was immediately suppressed, and Hitler was arrested and sentenced to five years in prison for treason.
Imprisoned in Landsberg fortress, he spent his time there dictating his autobiography, Mein Kampf (My Struggle), a bitter and rambling narrative in which he sharpened his anti-Semitic and anti-Marxist beliefs and laid out his plans for Nazi conquest. Political pressure from the Nazis forced the Bavarian government to commute Hitler's sentence, and he was released after nine months. However, Hitler emerged to find his party disintegrated. An upturn in the economy further reduced popular support of the party, and for several years Hitler was forbidden to make speeches in Bavaria and elsewhere in Germany.
The onset of the Great Depression in 1929 brought a new opportunity for the Nazis to solidify their power. Hitler and his followers set about reorganizing the party as a fanatical mass movement, and won financial backing from business leaders, for whom the Nazis promised an end to labor agitation. In the 1930 election, the Nazis won six million votes, making the party the second largest in Germany. Two years later, Hitler challenged Paul von Hindenburg for the presidency, but the 84-year-old president defeated Hitler with the support of an anti-Nazi coalition.
Although the Nazis suffered a decline in votes during the November 1932 election, Hindenburg agreed to make Hitler chancellor in January 1933, hoping that Hitler could be brought to heel as a member of his cabinet. However, Hindenburg underestimated Hitler's political audacity, and one of the new chancellor's first acts was to exploit the burning of the Reichstag (parliament) building as a pretext for calling general elections. The police under Nazi Hermann Goering suppressed much of the party's opposition before the election, and the Nazis won a bare majority. Shortly after, Hitler took on dictatorial power through the Enabling Acts.
Chancellor Hitler immediately set about arresting and executing political opponents, and even purged the Nazis' own SA paramilitary organization in a successful effort to win support from the German army. With the death of President Hindenburg on August 2, 1934, Hitler united the chancellorship and presidency under the new title of Führer. As the economy improved, popular support for Hitler's regime became strong, and a cult of Führer worship was propagated by Hitler's capable propagandists.
In 1938, Hitler implemented his plans for world domination with the annexation of Austria, and in 1939 Germany seized all of Czechoslovakia. Hitler's invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, finally led to war with Germany and France. In the opening years of World War II, Hitler's war machine won a series of stunning victories, conquering the great part of continental Europe. However, the tide turned in 1942 during Germany's disastrous invasion of the USSR.
By early 1945, the British and Americans were closing in on Germany from the west, the Soviets from the east, and Hitler was holed up in a bunker under the chancellery in Berlin awaiting defeat. On April 30, with the Soviets less than a mile from his headquarters, Hitler committed suicide with Eva Braun, his mistress whom he married the night before.
Hitler left Germany devastated and at the mercy of the Allies, who divided the country and made it a major battlefield of Cold War conflict. His regime exterminated nearly six millions Jews and an estimated 250,000 Gypsies in the Holocaust, and an indeterminable number of Slavs, political dissidents, disabled persons, homosexuals, and others deemed unacceptable by the Nazi regime were systematically eliminated. The war Hitler unleashed upon Europe took even more lives--close to 20 million people killed in the USSR alone. Adolf Hitler is reviled as one of history's greatest villains..
Today's Birthdays
1905 Myrna Loy Montana, actress (Rebound, Emma)
1922 Carroll O'Connor NYC, actor (All in the Family, Heat of the Night)
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Sunday - August 01, 2004
All My Blog Children
Sob .. it brings a tear to my eye. A happy tear though. Another of our faithful readers has started her own blog. First, Mr. Minority left the fold and and kicked out on his own (although he still visits to comment) and now Barb (the Annoying Little Twerp) has started her own blog.It is sad when one of our little birds leaves the nest but Vilmar and I continue to carry on. We wish them all well and urge you to visit them often.
Memo To Tribune Barb: I expect to see a blog post slamming the rotten Cardinals ASAP, kiddo. Get vicious, get mean .. and then tell us what you really think about Dummycraps. We will be watching ....
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