BOZO’S IN CHARGE

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Today our morning was very busy. It started out this morning when I heard the school bus go by. Our school district is only a 4 day a week district so usually the boys are off on Monday’s, so we didn’t get them up so we could enjoy a little time alone. Sure enough, this week was a week with school on Monday and having Friday off to give them a 4 day weekend next week. They do this from time to time but this one caught us by suprise. I got Shane to school with 2 minutes to spare. After that is was rush rush rush to get things done before I had to go to bed and sleep before I went to work.

We have a fish pond in our back yard and on Friday for some reason, the back wall decided to move a little and release the water. We lost a few fish in the process, and have the rest of them in our sun room until the pond guy comes tomorrow and tells us what to do. We don’t want to lose any more fish since some of them are worth over a thousand bucks each. Dawnell wasn’t very happy about losing her fish. She has even named them all.

I received my Nader bumper stickers on Saturday and put one on the back of my truck. I know he can’t win, but it shows my displeasure with the Bozo’s who are running in the main parties.

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A LULU INTO A TIZZY

Zogby International released a poll yesterday.

It showed McCain 45, Clinton 39, Nader 6 percent.

And it showed McCain 44, Obama 39, and Nader 5 percent.

“Nader’s presence in the race can potentially turn a lulu of a race into an absolute tizzy,” said pollster John Zogby. “The messages to Democrats are clear – number one, Nader may win enough support to get into the general election debates. Number two, what could be at risk is support among several key constituencies that the Democratic Party candidate will need to win in November, notably younger voters, independents, and progressives.”

We have a choice of continuing the “Bush” path our country is is on with McCain, choosing between Obama or Clinton, who are different in color and sex only, OR we can vote and take the country down a new progressive path toward peace with Nader.

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SUCCESSFUL ENDEAVOR FOR CHENEY

Dick Cheney on Monday declared the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq a “successful endeavor” in a visit to Iraq that was overshadowed by a suicide bombing that killed at least 25 people.

“If you look back on those five years it has been a difficult, challenging but nonetheless successful endeavor … and it has been well worth the effort,” Cheney told a news conference in Baghdad after meeting Iraqi leaders.

The Iraq war is a major issue in the U.S. presidential campaign. As it enters it sixth year, the war has cost the U.S. economy $500 billion and seen nearly 4,000 U.S. soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqis killed.

Shortly after Cheney spoke, a woman wearing a suicide vest blew herself up in a cafe in the southern holy Shi’ite city of Kerbala, killing 25 people and wounding 50, police and health officials said. Bombs in Baghdad killed four and wounded 13.

Cheney, an architect of the invasion, arrived as Republican presidential candidate John McCain was meeting Iraqi leaders as part of a Senate Armed Services Committee fact-finding mission.

“I was last in Baghdad 10 months ago and I sense that, as a result of the progress that has been made since then, phenomenal changes in terms of the overall situation,” Cheney said after meeting Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

Cheney said there had been a “remarkable turnaround” in security after 30,000 extra troops were sent to Iraq last year to help reduce sectarian violence that threatened civil war.

Despite the improved security, however, some 4 million Iraqis are still displaced, and the International Committee of the Red Cross said in a report on Monday that millions were still deprived of clean water and medical care.

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OH MY GOD!

Two sisters from Virginia are selling a single corn flake shaped like the state of Illinois on the online auction site eBay, with the bidding topping out at $1,525 Monday afternoon.

Twenty-three-year-old Melissa McIntire of Chesapeake, Virginia, says as of now the family is keeping the flake wrapped in cotton in
a jewelry box. McIntire’s sister, 15-year-old Emily McIntire, pulled the flake from a box of Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes.

The sisters promise the flake “has undergone no alterations” to its shape. The listing promises free shipping to Illinois and the girls say they’ll use the money earned from the winning bidder to buy more Frosted Flakes.

*** Are people really this stupid to buy things like this? Man I have a bunch of junk to sell em ***

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A LADY WITH NOTHING BETTER TO DO

A mother says the straws she bought for her three-year-old daughter were shaped like a male sex organ.

Andrea Bailey says she went shopping at the Ashland Wal-Mart on Thursday, February 28th, and bought a package of fun straws for her three 3-year-old daughter, Ashlynn.

Bailey says Ashlynn came in and used one shaped like a heart. A couple others in the package, though, were shaped like something different.

“There are two of them that are shaped like the male private area,” said Bailey. “I called Wal-Mart and they very rude with me about it. They acted like I was lying, like I was making it all up. You know, I would never make something up like that, especially about my little girl. But, that’s just how they treated me and it’s just not right.”

Andrea Bailey says her concern is not the $1.69 she paid for the straws, but what might happen to other families with kids a little older than Ashlynn.

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“I understand there’s a suspicion that we–we’re too security-conscience.”

–George W. Bush, Washington D.C., April 14, 2005

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308 Days Left
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Number of Operations Iraq Freedom and Enduring
Freedom casualties as confirmed by U.S. Central
Command: 4444

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