Tuesday - May 24, 2005
Tuesday Morning Coffee Break
Here’s something for you to discuss on coffee break this morning. Try to remain calm. It could be worse .... couldn’t it ....?
- For four and a half years Democrats in the Senate have been throwing a temper tantrum because they didn’t want to eat their broccoli, instead crying for ice cream and being allowed to go outside and play rather than doing homework. Last night Republicans caved in and let them have the ice cream in exchange for one mouthful of broccoli and half-assed swipe at homework. Parents everywhere know what I’m talking about.
- Not even the Jedi can save Hollywood. Boxoffice receipts are still down, even after “Star Wars” monster opening. Do ya think it could have anything to do with Sean Penn going to Baghdad and sucking up to Saddam or Barbra Streisand making an ass out of herself or could it be .... just lousy movies?
- For forty years the French government has been trying to build a house of cards known as the European Union and it looks like in next Sunday’s vote the French people are about to tear that house down. I could tell you everything that is wrong with the new proposed EU “constitution” but this page couldn’t hold all the text. Suffice it to say that “when was the last time the French came up with anything that was worth a damn?”
- Newsweek reporter says he “dropped the ball” and that the recent episode of bad reporting had “thrown us off our game for a little bit”. Your humble editor here thinks these sports references suck worse than the Quran story and that (Newsweek reporter) Isikoff needs to be sent down to the minor leagues or traded to Iran (Dang! Now they’ve got me doing it too!).
- Bill Clinton is returning to the tsunami-hit region to cheer up the survivors again .... this time as a ”special UN envoy”, according to a report from the United Nations. Clinton? The UN? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no .... I am putting my hands over my ears now. I don’t want to know any more ....
Now go enjoy your coffee and get back to work .... unless you work for the BBC, in which case you’re on strike today because the “Beeb” decided to make much-needed job cuts. And the world just keeps on a-turning, don’t it ....?
And the Good News is: Students at a middle school in Tallahassee, FL are bombing Iraq .... with candy ....
(AP)—Students at a middle school in Tallahassee, FL are getting generous with their candy. Students at Fairview Middle School wrapped candy in plastic bags and shipped two cartons to a Rhode Island National Guard helicopter pilot for distribution to Iraqi children.
The candies are being dropped in Baghdad and surrounding areas with messages such as “America Loves You.” Teacher Jennifer Simmons says it’s a friendly hello from Americans.
The project ties in with a school requirement that every student complete three hours of community service.
Brian Trapani, a Rhode Island National Guardsman who has been dropping “candy bombs” donated by others, has e-mailed to say the first box is already empty. His only cautionary note is “No Chocolate.” It melts too easily in transit and in the desert heat.
“Thank you for sending the candy bombs to me,” Trapani wrote. “Love the notes of support from your sixth graders—they are a wonderful tribute to cultures working together to make a better world.”
Sarah Pace liked the feeling of goodwill her class spread. “It really made me feel better because I knew I was helping a lot of people in Iraq who were needy and didn’t have a lot of stuff,” she said. “I thought it would be good to help somebody.”
Posted by The Skipper on 05/24/2005 at 04:24 AM
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