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“Schumer accuses the Gazans of not ‘recognizing’ Israel, which is sort of like accusing the pelicans in the Gulf of Mexico of not ‘recognizing’ BP.” Juan Cole
“Flags are good for two things, in my opinion – identifying a person or product’s nation of origin, and as a last resort when the toilet paper/firewood runs out.” Flying Rodent
“Lost continents that got sunk because of the careless use of atomic energy are plausible, but lost galaxies are just silly.” Ken MacLeod
(Regarding the war in Afghanistan) “WTF? Why are we fighting the Taliban? How is this the longest war in US history? Is this the endless war that George Orwell warned us about? Are we bankrupting the country to go after a rag tag group of insurgents? Why are college kids not burning their draft cards? How long is this war going to continue? What will victory look like? When will we declare victory and get the heck out of there? Who is going to answer my questions?”aimlow
“NO MORE RUDE COMMENTS OR I WILL REMOVE THIS VIDEO” Adam Lambert Video
The movie ” Corpus Christi ” is due to be released this June to August.A disgusting film set to appear in America later this year depicts Jesus and his disciples as homosexuals! As a play, this has already been in theatres for a while. It’s called “Corpus Christi” which means “The Body of Christ”.
It’s revolting mockery of our Lord. But we can make a difference. That’s why I am sending this e-mail to you. If you do send this around, we just might be able to prevent this film from showing in America . Let’s stand for what we believe in and stop the mockery of Jesus Christ our Savior.
Where do we stand as Christians? At the risk of a bit of inconvenience, I’m forwarding this to all I think would appreciate it, too. Please help us prevent such offenses against our Lord. There is no petition to sign, no time limit, or minimum number of people to send this to.. It will take you less than 2 minutes! If you are not interested and do not have the 2 minutes it will take to do this, please don’t complain when God does not have time for you because He is far busier than we are.
Hey, it’s worth a shot! Apparently, some regions in Europe have already banned the film. All we need is a lot of prayer and a lot of e-mails. JUST GET THE WORD OUT
Pictures from the ” Special Collections and Archives,Georgia State University Library”

A woman in a hot air balloon realized she was lost. She lowered her altitude and spotted a man in a boat below. She shouted to him, “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.”
The man consulted his portable GPS and replied, “You’re in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above ground elevation of 2,346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude.
“She rolled her eyes and said, “You must be an Obama Democrat.”
“I am,” replied the man. “How did you know?”
“Well,” answered the balloonist, “everything you told me is technically correct. But I have no idea what to do with your information, and I’m still lost. Frankly, you’ve not been much help to me.”
The man smiled and responded, “You must be a Republican.”
“I am,” replied the balloonist. “How did you know?”
“Well,” said the man, “you don’t know where you are or where you are going. You’ve risen to where you are due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. You’re in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but somehow, now it’s my fault.”
The real question you might be asking yourself right now is why was the man in a boat? You understand, as a map savvy person, that 31 degrees 14.97 minutes North and 100 degrees 49.09 minutes West puts the balloon about 20 miles southwest of San Angelo, Texas, probably still in the city limits of Mertzon, Texas, just off U.S. Highway 67. He’s a few miles west of any significant boat-supporting body of water.
Today’s entertainment was borrowed from MilliardFillmoresBathtub, who borrowed it from comments at crooksandliars. It should be noted that MFB added a longitudinal comment. Pictures for this feature are from the ” Special Collections and Archives,Georgia State University Library”

The following is a repost. It is based on a chain email ( not a message from Dick Cheney). When the post was first put up, it got a comment. Capri said, on June 23, 2009 at 1:22 pm “Actually Regina isn’t 90 she’s in her 50s, and the column this was taken from is really titled “50 Life Lessons” written in 2006 for The Plain Dealer in Ohio. http://www.reginabrett.com/ I suspect the 90 year old thing was probably started by a hoaxter who wanted to get the piece circulating in chain letter form, and figured this false info would be a harder emotional grab on potential forwarders.”
A few days later, PG issued an addendum. Today, through the miracle of digital hindsight, you can read both features at the same url. Did you say two for one? (PG got a digital adapter for his TV. It has a great picture.) Pictures are from The Library of Congress.
It was the second friday of june. It was the last day of analog TV. Though PG had not watched much TV since he was in high school, he noted the passage of free analog TV with a bit of sadness. While cable had long since taken over, rabbit ears had defined much of American life for much of PG’s life. Things will never be the same.
On this day of transition, PG got a chain email from a former stupidvisor. The title was 7%. Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland , Ohio , it begins : “To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I’ve ever written.” My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:

1. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good. 2. When in doubt, just take the next small step. 3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.4. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch. 5. Pay off your credit cards every month. 6. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree. 7. Cry with someone. It’s more healing than crying alone. 8. It’s OK to get angry with G-d. He can take it. 9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck. 10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile. 11. Make peace with your past so it won’t screw up the present. 12. It’s OK to let your children see you cry. 13. Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about. 14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn’t be in it. 15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don’t worry; G-d never blinks. 16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind. 17. Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful. 18. Whatever doesn’t kill you really does make you stronger. 19. It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else. 20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don’t take no for an answer. 21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don’t save it for a special occasion. Today is special. 22. Over prepare, then go with the flow. 23. Be eccentric now. Don’t wait for old age to wear purple. 24. The most important sex organ is the brain. 25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you. 26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words ‘In five years, will this matter?’ 27. Always choose life. 28. Forgive everyone everything. 29. What other people think of you is none of your business. 30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time. 31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change. 32. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does. 33. Believe in miracles. 34. G-d loves you because of who G-d is, not because of anything you did or didn’t do. 35. Don’t audit life. Show up and make the most of it now. 36. Growing old beats the alternative — dying young. 37. Your children get only one childhood. 38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved. 39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere. 40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d grab ours back. 41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need. 42. The best is yet to come. 43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up. 44. Yield. 45. Life isn’t tied with a bow, but it’s still a gift.

A couple of weeks ago, Chamblee54 recycled an email. It was a list of life lessons, written by a lady named Regina Britt. It was reported that she was 90 years old.
As it turns out, the chain email industry got that wrong. Regina Britt is 53. Mrs. Britt survived a bout with breast cancer, and is happy for the life she enjoys. Shes has a book coming out.
The chain email got a couple of other things wrong. The original list of 45 RFL was printed. In her nifty at fifty column, Mrs. Britt had fifty thoughts. Since PG cares about his reader(s), he has compared the two lists, and determined which five were not included. Maybe it is the email monger who is 90 years old, or living in North Ohio.
16. Life is too short for long pity parties. Get busy living, or get busy dying.
17. You can get through anything if you stay put in today.
18. A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.
38. Read the Psalms. They cover every human emotion.
48. If you don’t ask, you don’t get.
The email distributor did not think that what Mrs. Britt wrote was sufficient. The following postscript was added: Its estimated 93% won’t forward this. If you are one of the 7% who will, forward this with the title ‘7%’. I’m in the 7%. Remember that I will always share my spoon with you! Friends are the family that we choose for ourselves.
PG suspects that Regina Britt is not a statistician. She tells the truth.
Thank you Capri, for leaving a comment at the Chamblee54 post. Capri gave the correct age for Regina Britt. Its not everyday you can take 37 years off a persons age.

A vacant lot off memorial drive was swept up in a ring of fire. Johnny Cash rolled over in his grave, while Adam Lambert just rolled over.
Fire is one of the four elements, and perhaps the one most basic to life on earth. Fire is the combination of earth and air, and has a symbiotic relationship with water. If a sufficient amount of water is applied to the fire, the procedure is terminated. On the other hand, if water is held over a fire in an earthen vessel, the water becomes air. This process is essential to the production of electricity, which is the driving force behind the electric light. That is why they don’t call it the steam lite, reserving that name for a type of beer.
There is a neighborhood in Atlanta called Cabbagetown. When PG was younger, it was a place where white trash lived. Today it is the gentrified home of artists and weirdos, with property values to match. Someone there had the bright idea of a street party involving Christmas lights, on the last Friday night of spring.
A resident of this area thought this was a horrible idea, and he decided to have an alternative event. Held in a spiffed up vacant lot, the party was to have sparklers, candles, flashlights, and other means of lighting other than the edison invented bulb. PG thought this was a cool idea, and drove down from Chamblee. PG had the good taste not to run over the idiot pedaling a bike ( without any lights) through the Moreland Avenue tunnel.
The event was a splendid night of lighting without the participation of Georgia Power. There was a crisis at one point, that quickly passed over. Someone was discussing cat videos on you tube. Someone else pulled out a smart phone, and pulled up a cat video on you tube. A crowd gathered, but went back to traditional light after the video was over.
A man named Zeus made an appearance. When PG said “Hey Zeus”, the connection to Jesus and Christmas lights became apparent.(Zeus spelled backwards is sue z. This would please Johnny Cash.) Zeus brought a device for doing a fire dance. It was a chain, with these wicks at each end. The wicks could be dipped in kerosene, lit, and twirled about the head. The kerosene and burned out fireworks added an aromatic patina. This was true for the brand of fireworks called “golden shower”.
The next day, while the garden was being cleaned, PG contributed a bit of poetry to the facebook commentary. “My candle burns at both ends//It may not last the night//but oh my foes and oh my friends//It gives a lovely light//Edna St. Vincent Millay” The host of the event had a reply. “My sparkler burns at one end//It will not last a minute//Call an ambulance, my friends//My eye has shrapnel in it.”

The word advice, for all the condescencion implied, does have a neat composition. Ad is short for advertisement, and vice is a forbidden pleasure. Unless you are talking about Vice President, who should be forbidden.forgotten, and fornicated.
For some unknown reason, the subject of discourse today is advice from William Seward Burroughs. No, the TV station on Peachtree Street was not named for him.
Before we reprint this consultation, (Chamblee54 did not write the advice) we should ponder the concept of William S. Burroughs, and wonder why anyone would ask this man for advice.
Mr. Burroughs is the namesake grandson of the man who invented the adding machine. He left his heirs a bunch of money. The young Burroughs wound up in New York, and became friends with Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.
Mr. Burroughs was married twice ( to women). The first was a platonic relationship with Ilse von Klapper, a Jew who wanted to get out of Europe. In 1936, this counted as a good deed.
The second wife, Joan Vollmer, helped make his life interesting. She is the mother of William S. Burroughs III, and was fond of speed. Mr. and Mrs. Burroughs were living in Mexico in 1951, when they decided to play William Tell. Mr. Burroughs missed the apple, and Mrs. Burroughs died.
Mr. Burroughs went on to write a few novels, including Naked Lunch. He was famous in hipster circles, and gave lie to the saying “there are no old junkies”. Mr. Burroughs settled in Lawrence KS, and lived to be 83. This leaves out a few inedible details, which are widely available, in various levels of truth.

People often ask me if I have any words of advice for young people. Well here are a few simple admonitions for young and old. Never interfere in a boy-and-girl fight.Beware of whores who say they don’t want money.The hell they don’t.What they mean is they want more money. Much more. If you’re doing business with a religious son-of-a-bitch,Get it in writing.His word isn’t worth shit. Not with the good lord telling him how to fuck you on the deal. Avoid fuck-ups. We all know the type. Anything they have anything to do with, No matter how good it sounds, Turns into a disaster.Do not offer sympathy to the mentally ill. Tell them firmly: I am not paid to listen to this drivel. You are a terminal boob. Now some of you may encounter the Devil’s Bargain, If you get that far. Any old soul is worth saving, At least to a priest, But not every soul is worth buying. So you can take the offer as a compliment. He tries the easy ones first. You know like money, All the money there is. But who wants to be the richest guy in some cemetery? Money won’t buy. Not much left to spend it on, eh gramps? Getting too old to cut the mustard. Well time hits the hardest blows. Especially below the belt. How’s a young body grab you? Like three card monte, like pea under the shell, Now you see it, now you don’t. Haven’t you forgotten something, gramps? In order to feel something, You’ve got to be there. You have to be eighteen. You’re not eighteen. You are seventy-eight. Old fool sold his soul for a strap-on. Well they always try the easiest ones first. How about an honorable bargain? You always wanted to be a doctor, Well now’s your chance. Why don’t you become a great healer And benefit humanity? What’s wrong with that? Just about everything. Just about everything. There are no honorable bargains Involving exchange Of qualitative merchandise Like souls For quantitative merchandise Like time and money. So piss off Satan And don’t take me for dumber than I look. An old junk pusher told me – Watch whose money you pick up.

There is a video floating around now, which shows Israeli soldiers unloading weapons from a container. There is a lot of text in Hebrew, which this blog does not read. The story is that the container was on the Mavi Marmara, the Turkish boat that was involved in an incident recently.
Perhaps the video is legitimate. There has been a lot of you said/I said about the raid on the Mavi Marmara. By this point, all videos must be assumed to be edited to show advantage to one side or another. Maybe there were weapons on the Mavi Marmara.
PG is not a forensic video watcher. All he can do is look at the video, and make observations. PG is sympathetic to those who seek to have the blockade of Gaza lifted, and with those who seek better treatment of the people of Gaza. He would want to thing that the video is faked.
Here are a few observations. Once again, PG is not a pro, just a tax paying American with internet access. The pictures included are from the ” Special Collections and Archives,Georgia State University Library”
-The flotilla was designed to bring attention to the blockade of Gaza. ( In this, it has succeeded spectacularly.) They knew there was a chance they would not make it to Gaza, and that the cargo would be inspected by Israel. Why would they try to include weapons in this cargo, knowing it would probably be caught? If you are looking for moral high ground, you do not bring in grenades.
– There is no visual link of the container to the Mavi Marmara. It is a container on a dock. There is no evidence to link this container to the flotilla.
-The first shot of the video shows a forklift backing up, with a pallet of white sacks. The second shot shows soldiers unloading the white sacks by hand, and loading them onto a pallet.
-At 0:14, you see white sacks stacked on the floor, on the sides of the container. There are olive colored boxes in the middle.
-At 0:17, you see soldiers, in uniform, pulling white sacks off the container. They are in the middle of the container, at the end. This space that was empty in the 0:14 shot. This shot indicates that the video is not seen in the order in which it was shot.
-At 0:22, the white sacks are stacked on a pallet away from the container. They are not stacked in a neat, efficient fashion, as though they were going to be shipped on that pallet.
-At 0:27, there are six people seen, two of whom are standing in the back of the container. The olive colored boxes are seen behind them, with stacks of white sacks on both sides.
-At 0:28, there is a box of hand grenades. The box is dated 2000, and the text is in English.
-At 0:30, there is a fork lift, with a pallet of brown boxes in front. A soldier places a brown box on top of the pallet.
-At 0:34, a crate is opened with weapons inside. There is no evidence linking these weapons to either the container with the white sacks, or to the Mavi Marmara.
-At 0:36, a soldier is shown holding what appears to be a weapon, similar to the weapons in the box of the previous shot. Behind him we see a container. There are three rows of white sacks in the front of the container.
-At 0:42, a group of soldiers pulls a shell out of a casing. If this was a confiscation of contraband, and not a media show, would these soldiers be doing this?
-At 1:03, you see the text on the side of a box. The text is in English. The date is 2008. The stack of olive colored boxes on the pallet appears to have been unloaded using a forklift.
-At 1:09, green boxes are taken off the container by hand.
-At 1:36, a pallet of green boxes is moved by a fork lift. Three pallets of green boxes are in a row in front of it. There is no apparent connection to the container with the white sacks or to the Mavi Marmara.
-At 1:52, you see a close up of some weapons. The text is in English. The date is 2007. There is paperwork, which is illegible.
Watching the video is not conclusive. It may be real. It may be a fake. Most people are going to see what they want to see.

UPDATE: The first screen on the video has the date 04.11.09. Apparently, in Israel this would mean November 11, 2009. The incident with the Mavi Marmara took place May 31, 2010.
This site was found through a google search. They claim to have found this video through the ” Burlington County (NJ) 912 group”.
This is not a discussion about the right or wrong of the blockade or the flotilla. This is about sending out false information.
The people who are spreading these videos should consider the story of the boy who cried wolf. They should also consider the concept that two wrongs do not make a right. When you are caught in a lie, that is not a good time to denounce your enemy in the boldest terms.
To his credit, the person who recommended this video (via facebook) has said “Then I stand corrected. I figured that if my cousin sent this to me that it was accurate.”

The following is a repost. Pictures are from The Library of Congress.
PG read “Churchill, Hitler, and the unnecessary war” by Patrick Buchanan. It makes some interesting points, and is luxuriously footnoted. This is not to say that PG believes all of it.
Part of the problem is Pat Buchanan. He is a former speechwriter for Richard Nixon, and a public nuisance since. He gave a hateful speech at the Republican Convention in 1992 which is known as the “Culture War” speech. This speech alienated many people, and was a factor in the victory of Bill Clinton.
The book starts with the deal making before World War I. Germany was ruled by Kaiser Wilhelm, the grandson of Queen Victoria. He tried to arrange an alliance with Great Britain. Instead, Britain entered into a secret alliance with France. In 1914, Europe blundered into war. The conflict turned into a ghastly stalemate, which continued until 1918. The victorious French forced a vengeful peace on the Germans, setting the stage for the second world war.
Great Britain made many mistakes. They severed an alliance with Japan. They allowed Hitler to advance, then gave a guarantee to Poland that they would defend her in a war. This guarantee to Poland is the biggest blunder of all, according to Buchanan. It made war all but certain.
Eventually, Nazi Germany was defeated, but at a frightful cost. The millions of dead in the war produced an East Europe under Communist Rule for 50 years. The British Empire was a shadow of its former self. The United States came out of the war looking good, but much of Europe was destroyed, and then ruled by Communists.
Winston Churchill does not look good. He is seen cheering the start of war in 1914. He makes numerous blunders and about faces. Churchill was an inspiring leader in the second war.( An actor made speeches for him on radio) The same could be said for Hitler, who read his own speeches.
As with all history, this book needs to be taken with a bit of skepticism. Tom Robbins makes a comparison of history to animal husbandry. A herd manager mixes bloodlines to create an improved breed. A historian takes “facts”, and mixes them to support an agenda. Both are usually up to their ankles in s**t.
After PG finished the Buchanan book, he started one by Deepak Chopra. The title was “Why is G-d Laughing?“. The first chapter tells the story of a famous comedian. He goes to the hospital when his father drops dead of a heart attack. The comedian cannot help but think of jokes. PG is going to return this to the library without reading any more.

There is a form letter floating through the intercourse now. It is a letter that Steve Martin used to send to his fans. ( The letter was recently immortalized at Letters of Note ).
He …that is Stephen Glenn “Steve” Martin (born August 14, 1945) … has moved up in correspondence with his adoring fans. Mr. Martin now gives out business cards, with the message “This card certifies that the holder had met Steve Martin and found him genuinely friendly”. What a wild and crazy guy!
This is becoming one of those really really modern days here. Listening to a djmix with a Lady Gaga song, drinking coffee out of a Mcdonalds plastic cup, and writing a tribute to Steve Martin. What a day! Oh, before we forget, there is the story about the drive in theater on I85 that was showing “Father of the Bride”. One day, the h fell off the marquee, and the title of the movie became “Fater of the Bride”. Good times.
The story of Steve Martin and PG began one night at the Great Southeast Music Hall. PG got tired of hearing how great the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band was, and decided to see a show. The show started when some guy in a white suit came out with a banjo. John McEuen stood next to him, and kept falling into the microphone stand and saying ” this guy cracks me up”. Soon, MeEuen left the stage, and the guy in the white suit comediated.
Mr. Martin said that he paid somebody five thousand dollars for a joke. He then took this arrow, with a coat hanger wire attached to it, with a shape for his head to fit in, and put it on. That got a laugh, but not worth five thousand dollars. There was another gag…”do you mind if i smoke, no do you mind if i fart”. That got a slightly bigger laugh.
In those days, you could not sell alcohol in public on sunday night in Georgia. To compensate, the Music Hall sold children’s tickets for the sunday night shows. Mr. Martin was not used to having children in the audience. “Hey kid I gotta joke for you. There were these two lesbians…”
The show went over well with the Nitty Gritty crowd. However, it is doubtful that anyone thought, this is the beloved entertainer of our generation.
Mr. Martin was not through for the night. At one point, the NGDB moved to the back of the stage, and a smarmy lounge lizard, in a white suit, came on stage. While the band played “The girl from Ipanema”, Mr. Martin sang about the girl with diarrhea.
This was one of the last shows that Steve Martin did as an opening act. (He did return to the Great Southeast Music Hall. Once, he did a week with Martin Mull, called the Steve Martin Mull Revue.) Within two years, he was a guest host on Saturday Night Live, and a certified wild and crazy guy. A couple of years later, he was famous again as “The Jerk”. Steve Martin had arrived.
The historic pictures today are from The Library of Congress. The animated dentures are from chattering teeth. The check is in the mail.

Today is the day that PG returns “Infinite Jest” to the library. He checked it out, renewed it, and took it back. After the required 24 hours on the shelf, he checked it out again, and renewed it three weeks later. Each of those check outs was 21 days. After 12 weeks, PG is throwing in the bookmark and admitting defeat.
At some point, PG began to skim over the parts that did not interest him. This became more and more of the book as time went along. The dialog with the cross dressing Quebecois terrorist was the first part to get ignored. Soon, the more arcane parts of the tennis academy did not make the cut. The horror stories from the drug treatment center usually were enough fun.
The amazon page linked above has a sick creator. There is a column to the left of the choices for IJ. The title of the column is Listmania, and the book at the top is “The best of American Suicides”.
Infinite Jest was written by the late David Foster Wallace, who chose to end his life. Mr. Wallace was a piece of work.
Much of IJ takes place in a drug treatment center, where the inmates are encouraged to attend AA meetings. Mr.Wallace was known to struggle with substance abuse. The tales of “the program” in IJ are tempered by the knowledge that, in the end, it did not work for David Foster Wallace. He found that anti depressants interfered with his ability to write, and he tried to function without them. Before long, he felt the need to take his life.
The last book that PG had to struggle with like this was Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance. That book did have a touch of plot, and the philosophical raging could be skimmed over, maybe the be dealt with at a later date. Zen is much shorter than IJ, and PG owned a copy, rather than returning to the library every three weeks.
Another book that PG was not able to finish was a biography of Roy Cohn. Mr. Cohn was such a repellent person, PG could not stand to read more.
And so IJ goes back to the library. PG got to page 738, and a discussion on dysfunctional families as viewed by the children. It is time for a lightweight, fun, story, and a book that does not weigh ten pounds.
Pictures are from the ” Special Collections and Archives,Georgia State University Library”

The world cup is about to start. It is by far the largest sporting event in the world. And, despite what you hear in this country, they play football (futbol), not soccer.
In the 19th century, the english wrote the rules for something called association football. This was different from rugby football. Somehow, soccer, a nickname for association, became the name of this new sport. When the pastime spread from the upper crust schools to the working class, it became known as football. It made sense, being a sport where you kick the ball with your feet.
In the USA, there was another sport called football. It involves beer and steroids. The ball only gets kicked when it is time for a commercial. For some reason, when association football became popular here, the name soccer stuck.
PG thinks soccer is a terrible word, for a pretty good sport. All those guttural noises sound bad in the mouth, like something is caught in your throat. Maybe, if the sport had another name north of the Rio Grande, it would be more popular. As it is, soccer is popular as a kids game, but strikes out as a spectator sport in the lower 48.
There was even a joke on laugh in once. It may be field hockey to you, but it’s soccer to me. If you get that, the social security office will be open at the usual time tomorrow.

PG was paying for dinner, when a cafeteria worker made a tacky comment to the cashier. When the worker left, PG and the cashier exchanged looks that said, in effect, that guy is an idiot.
The cashier started to ramble, and she told a story of how she called someone hon. This is something that people in the south do, when they don’t say sweetie or sugar, they say hon, which is short for honey.
So, the cashier said hon to someone, and the person was amazed. This person…PG does not recall the gender…said that they had never heard a black person say that. They thought that was how white people talk. The cashier asked,” how do white people talk”?
PG replied, “too much”.
Pictures today are from The Library of Congress.

The text below is a repost. The past week has seen fevered defenses, and denunciations, of a publicity stunt in the Mediterranean, and the FUBAR response it generated. There is so much killing in the name of G-d these days. The repeat of this text just seems like the right thing to do. It was based on a mass product email, with an unknown author hiding in shame. Pictures are from The Library of Congress.

How different our world would be, if we heeded the advice of this message/Time For G-d/ Read only if you have time for G-d/ Let me tell you, make sure you read all the way to the bottom/ I almost deleted this email but I was blessed when I got to the end/ G-d, when I received this e-mail, I thought…I don’t have time for this… And, this is really inappropriate during work/Then, I realized that this kind of thinking is… Exactly, what has caused a lot of the problems in our world today/We try to keep G-d in church on Sunday morning../Maybe, Sunday night…/And, the unlikely event of a midweek service/We do like to have Him around during sickness…/And, of course, at funerals/However, we don’t have time, or room, for Him during work or play…Because.. That’s the part of our lives we think… We can,and should, handle on our own/May G-d forgive me for ever thinking…/That… There is a time or place where../ HE is not to be FIRST in my life/We should always have time to remember all HE has done for us/If, You aren’t ashamed to do this…Please follow the directions/Jesus said, ‘If you are ashamed of me, I will be ashamed of you before my Father.’/Not ashamed?/Pass this on ONLY IF YOU MEAN IT!!/ Yes, ….. I DO Love G-d./HE is my source of existence and Savior./ He keeps me functioning each and every day./Without Him, I will be nothing. But, with Christ, HE strengthens me. (Phil 4:13)/This is the simplest test../If You Love G-d…/ And, are not ashamed of all the marvelous things HE has done for you…/Send this to ten people and the person who sent it to you!/Now do you have the time to pass it on?/Make sure that you scroll through to the end/Easy vs. Hard/Why is it so hard to tell the truth but Yet so easy to tell a lie?/Why are we so sleepy in church but Right when the sermon is over we suddenly wake up?/Why is it so easy to delete a G-dly e-mail, but yet we forward all of the nasty ones?/Of all the free gifts we may receive, Prayer is the very best one…../There are no costs, but wonderful rewards…. G-d BLESS!/Notes: Isn’t it funny how simple it is for people to trash G-d and then wonder what’s going wrong with the world?/Isn’t it funny how someone can say ‘I believe in G-d’ but still follow Satan (who, by the way, also ‘believes’ in G-d)/Isn’t it funny how you can send a thousand jokes through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord,people think twice about sharing?/Isn’t it funny how when you go to forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you’re not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it to them /Isn’t it funny how I can be more worried about what other people think of me than what G-d thinks of me/I pray, for everyone who sends this to their entire address book, they will be blessed by G-d in a way special for them/And send it back to the person who sent it, to let them know that indeed it was sent out to many more/