Clinically Depressed Poodle Mauls Former French President Chirac
Former French President Jacques Chirac was rushed to a hospital after being mauled by his pet dog who is being treated for depression, in a dramatic incident that rattled the ex-president’s wife.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,481426,00.html
I just don’t have enough imagination to come up with better stories than what the media provides.
So what have we learned in 2 millennia?
“The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.”
Cicero – 55 BC
Evidently nothing.
Although this is intended to be humor, I can see where something like this really is possible, as we slide rapidly towards socialism/communism.
Via E-Mail …..
Washington, DC – Congress is considering sweeping legislation that will provide new benefits for many Americans. The Americans With No Abilities Act (AWNAA) is being hailed as a major legislative goal by advocates of the millions of Americans who lack any real skills or ambition.
“Roughly 50 percent of Americans do not possess the competence and drive necessary to carve out a meaningful role for themselves in society,” said California Senator Barbara Boxer. “We can no longer stand by and allow People of Inability to be ridiculed and passed over. With this legislation, employers will no longer be able to grant special favors to a small group of workers, simply because they have some idea of what they are doing.”
In a Capitol Hill press conference, House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pointed to the success of the U.S. Postal Service, which has a long-standing policy of providing opportunity without regard to performance. Approximately 74 percent of postal employees lack any job skills, making this agency the single largest U.S. Employer of Persons of Inability.
Private-sector industries with good records of non-discrimination against the Inept include retail sales (72%), the airline industry (68%), and home improvement ‘warehouse’ stores (65%). At the state government level, the Department of Motor Vehicles also has an excellent record of hiring Persons of Inability (63%).
Under the Americans With No Abilities Act, more than 25 million ‘middle man’ positions will be created, with important-sounding titles but little real responsibility, thus providing an illusory sense of purpose and performance.
Mandatory non-performance-based raises and promotions will be given so as to guarantee upward mobility for even the most unremarkable employees. The legislation provides substantial tax breaks to corporations that promote a significant number of Persons of Inability into middle-management positions, and gives a tax credit to small and medium-sized businesses that agree to hire one clueless worker for every two talented hires.
Finally, the AWNAA contains tough new measures to make it more difficult to discriminate against the Non-abled, banning, for example, discriminatory interview questions such as, ‘Do you have any skills or experience that relate to this job?’
“As a Non-abled person, I can’t be expected to keep up with people who have something going for them,” said Mary Lou Gertz, who lost her position as a lug-nut twister at the GM plant in Flint , Michigan , due to her inability to remember “rightey tightey, lefty loosey”. “This new law should be real good for people like me,” Gertz added. With the passage of this bill, Gertz and millions of other untalented citizens will finally see a light at the end of the tunnel.
Said Senator Dick Durban (D-IL): “As a Senator with no abilities, I believe the same privileges that elected officials enjoy ought to be extended to every American with no abilities. It is our duty as lawmakers to provide each and every American citizen, regardless of his or her adequacy, with some sort of space to take up in this great nation and a good salary.”
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,426103,00.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,403921,00.html?sPage=fnc/scitech/archaeology
The evidence keeps mounting.
Time to free associate.
I am loving watching the men’s swimming events. Ok yes there are some nice hard bodies to admire. But there is some wonderful emotion. I watched the relay race the other night where the US men beat the French team who were expected to win. Yeah I’m never too fond of the French attitude (same as they don’t like the US attitude which means it evens out) but I don’t like trash talking when it comes to the Olympics.
I don’t like the idea that the Chinese are apparently tricking around the rules to have wins on their home turf. The IOC is wrong to have not addressed the issue of the Chinese girls’ ages before the competition started. The Chinese girls out performed the US girls (in an absolute way) but it doesn’t seem like it was a level playing field. After reading about what gymnastics can do to underdeveloped bones and joints, I think the rule is probably for the best but no matter what it has to be a level field. Of course the stories of how the girls are pulled from their families at such a young age, how they are forced to participate, and the story goes on. Committment to a sport should come from personal desire and should be a choice.
My heart continues to break for the missing Caylee. I keep looking every day for updates.
I’m interested in hearing how the Bigfoot DNA tests come out. I’m doubtful that a Bigfoot has been found but at least they are doing tests to see what it is really.
I hate training new employees. I hate hiring new employees. So many can fake their way through an interview and it isn’t until you see a person in action that you learn anything. I hired a new woman last week and she had 4 days to train with the outgoing person (who I will miss greatly, she was fantastic to work with). Today the new woman kept getting lost in her notes. She would skip ahead and then fall back to try to repeat something already done. She can’t focus on the task. I’m hopeful this is nerves and that after she has been through the routines, she will grow comfortable and settle in. However, I might be dead before I see that.
Oh back to the Olympics, I really like the design of the Water Cube. It is a cool looking building.
First of high school football starts Saturday. We have to drive an hour and a half to a scrimmage game. Poor WT, he is a little unsure of himself going to defense. I’m excited about it. I love defensive players. It is always so exciting to see a great sack.
‘We, in Ireland, can’t figure out why you are even bothering to hold an election in the United States.
On one side, you have a lawyer, married to a lawyer, running against a lawyer who is married to a lawyer.
On the other side, you have a war hero married to a good looking woman who owns a beer distributorship.
What are you lads thinking over there?’
– William J. H. Boetcker
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,360121,00.html
So now the latest theory is that Stonehenge was a burial site. Ok, I can see the stones as large gravemarkers and especially when you go through the whole thing of how they line up with the stars, sun, etc.
What I love when I read these stories are the attempts to understand a people we have no real records of. One of the greatest things I ever read was written many years ago and it was a supposedly archeaological study conducted a few thousand years from now of a culture who uncovered a bathroom of our times. I can’t remember all of the items and how they were represented but it went along the lines that the throne (toliet) seat was a sign of power and the container on the back of the throne was a place for tributes to be placed. I can’t remember the religous significance of the bathtub but I remember the bath stopper on a chain was seen as an amulet. Oh and the plunger was a scepter. You can let your imagination go wild from here. But it goes to show the possibilities of how a future culture could totally misunderstand what we use today and what it is for. So when I read these studies by archaeologists, I love them because they could be right or they could be so far from the truth. And the great thing is that we won’t know.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/05/30/brazil.tribes/index.html
Researchers have produced aerial photos of jungle dwellers who they say are among the few remaining peoples on Earth who have had no contact with the outside world.
It is not known to which tribe the individuals photographed belong.
Taken from a small airplane, the photos show men outside thatched communal huts, necks craned upward, pointing bows toward the air in a remote corner of the Amazonian rainforest.
The National Indian Foundation, a government agency in Brazil, published the photos Thursday on its Web site. It tracks “uncontacted tribes” — indigenous groups that are thought to have had no contact with outsiders — and seeks to protect them from encroachment.
More than 100 uncontacted tribes remain worldwide, and about half live in the remote reaches of the Amazonian rainforest in Peru or Brazil, near the recently photographed tribe, according to Survival International, a nonprofit group that advocates for the rights of indigenous people.
Of course some anthropologist is going to want to study these people, someone is going to want to make a movie about them, yadada. But I love the idea that there are people still untouched by what we call civilization. I hope somehow we manage to leave them alone. Their lives are certainly better off if we do. And yes I did love the movie The Last of the Dogmen.
I had joined into a conversation regarding polygamy. After everyone agreeing that it would have to be truly consensual and among adults only, the conversation gets better. I’m cutting and pasting my off the cuff comment here.
Maybe it takes 3 adults to make it financially. Two working and bringing income and one to stay at home and take care of the kids and house. Maybe that is what my next marriage should be about….Gives me something to think about. And then when I didn’t feel like sex that night, he would have other options and I wouldn’t be made to feel guilty. Ok, I’m searching for a downside to this now.
You know, I can see this (and no I don’t watch Big Love). It does seem like it often needs two incomes to make life work out and yet I don’t disagree that the kids need someone with them too. So maybe this is the direction we need. Much like having a live in nanny but on a more equitable basis for her and less behind the scenes fiddling. Some think the man has all the benefits but he has to deal with two women having PMS cycles either contrasting with each other or coordinating. But then he doesn’t feel like he has to make all the income alone, there is a better distribution of sex for him and all that is necessary is a bigger house.
Ok, do I share well with others? Ah, the real question of it all.
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