Gentle Southern lady A very gentle Southern lady was driving across the Savannah River Bridge in Georgia one day. As she neared the top of the bridge, she noticed a young man afixin' (ready) to jump. She stopped her car, rolled down the window and said, "Please don't jump, Think of your dear mother and father." He replied, "Mom and Dad are both dead; I'm going to jump." She said, "Well, think of your wife and children." He replied, "I'm not married and I don't have any kids." S...

I have had this bike for about 25 years.  I bought it when I worked for a major retailer that was trying to become the first in their niche market to pass a Billion Dollars in Annual sales.  So they had a great sale!  It is not a great bike.  A Schwinn 12 speed.  Not what you would call a racing caliber bike. Back in High School, I bought a Peugeot 10 speed that had bent front Forks.  I straightened them out, and got a $250 bike for $29!  I also learned all ...

Contrary to what most on the left believe, Science has marched on with the limited goverment assistance that so many were decrying as stifling the creative genius of scientists.  Scientists at Harvard have managed to fuse embronic stem cells with adult stem cells thus opening the door to do away with harvesting human embryos for their cells. All this comes about at the same time that many democrats are decrying the fact that Bush has stood firm on his beliefs and not swayed back and fort...

Perusing the ether, I came across this site.  Now for all the wailing and gnashing of teeth when I mention the loony loopy luddite liberals (not to be confused with the Mellow Liberals), I challenge anyone to tell me that this group is not a part of that very description.  I will go so far as to say they are further afield, as at least Luddites do not want our extinction, just the eradication over anything above a cave dwelling. VHEMT (pronounced vehement) is a movement n...

A recent press release from Moveon.org: We are delighted that we were able to help restore some of the cuts [Congress] made to NPR and PBS. MoveOn.org members sent in more than 1 million comments and made more than 40,000 calls to tell Congress to save Big Bird and Mr. Rogers. We are glad to have helped protect such an important service. Did they dig up Mr. Rogers to save him?  Since he has been dead  2 1/2 years now!

"FBI Eyes Convict Ties in Collar-Bomb Case"--headline, Associated Press, Aug. 10 This GQ kick is going too far!  Now they are critizing the ties on the criminals! "Our dessert could become a battlefield with many innocent casualties."--press release, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D., Texas), Aug. 1 That extra piece of cheese cake will do it every time! "Saddam Could Be Executed After First Trial"--headline, Associated Press, Aug. 11 That would make it hard for him to mount a ...

"FBI Eyes Convict Ties in Collar-Bomb Case"--headline, Associated Press, Aug. 10 This GQ kick is going too far!  Now they are critizing the ties on the criminals! "Our dessert could become a battlefield with many innocent casualties."--press release, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D., Texas), Aug. 1 That extra piece of cheese cake will do it every time! "Saddam Could Be Executed After First Trial"--headline, Associated Press, Aug. 11 That would make it hard for him to mount a ...

Not being a woman, I am going to have to just accept the fact that she did not know she was pregnant.  But the doctor, upon discovering it, had this conversation with her: "The doctor says, 'Ok, the fetus is 23 weeks,'" Allen said. "We said, 'The fetus?' We went back and forth with that, and he said, 'How old are you?' I said, 'I'm 37.' So , he puts his hand on me and says, 'A fetus is a baby.' I said, 'I know a fetus is a baby, but I didn't know I was pregnant.'" A doctor, a medi...

While the nation's attention is focused on Crawford texas and the 3 ring circus that has sprung up there, a mother quietly buried her son killed recently in Iraq.  And to those who would demean what her son stood for and diminsh her loss, she had this to say: "Honor me in this way," No candles.  No mad protestors.  No trinkets adorned with names of the fallen.  No demnads of nightline to give her an unopposed show to state her view. Honor me in this way. One of t...

With Kudos to Texas Wahine for beating me to the punch (I have been busy): http://texaswahine.joeuser.com/index.asp?aid=83879 I do want to chime in on this blatant and apparent ignorant stigmatism and stereotyping by our northern brethren. First of all, the illustrious north is so ignorant of the real south, that like Howard Dean, they think it is filled with a bunch of KKK robed individuals running around trying to lynch every black man in existance.  They and their willing medi...

With appologies to all teachers who read this, there is a reason not everyone is a teacher!  But unfortunately, have worked in education, I can tell you that there is a great bigotry against anyone who is not a teacher in that profession.  I was subjected to it when I worked there. But there comes a time in most people's lives when they realize they are in over their head.  Perhaps it is when you want to rebuild that Hemi, pull a bad tooth, bypass an artery, or even Build your ...

Moderateman wrote an article basically accusing the left of trashing everything that the right proposes, and then not doing a diddly damn to fix the problems.  Indeed, several bloggers on this site fell into that very trap.  Complaining about a policy of Bush's, yet offering no proposals in opposition. But you cannot blame them.  Why blame the soldiers when the leaders are doing it on record?  Yesterday on Face the nation, in addition to endorsing Saddam's torture, gassing...