Six Truths of Life

Six Truths of Life

1. You cannot touch all your teeth with your tongue.

2. All idiots, after reading the first truth, will try it.

3. And discover that The first truth is a lie.

4. You're smiling now because you're an idiot.

5. You soon will forward this to another idiot.

6. There's still a stupid smile on your face.

What Happens When An Idiot Meets His Echo?

Johnny Bravo Rocks!

Gas below $2.00!

Gas prices dropped nearly 33 cents in the past two weeks, dipping below $2 for the first time since March 2005, a national survey said Sunday.

The average price of self-serve, unleaded gasoline on Friday in the United States was $1.97, said Trilby Lundberg, publisher of the Lundberg Survey.

The last time the price was below $2 was on March 4, 2005, she said.

The all-time high average was $4.11, set on July 11, according to Lundberg, and prices have been dropping ever since.

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Around here it has fallen to $1.86. That's still a buck and a half too high!

Obama’s Use of Complete Sentences Stirs Controversy

Stunning Break with Last Eight Years

In the first two weeks since the election, President-elect Barack Obama has broken with a tradition established over the past eight years through his controversial use of complete sentences, political observers say.

Millions of Americans who watched Mr. Obama's appearance on CBS' "Sixty Minutes" on Sunday witnessed the president-elect's unorthodox verbal tic, which had Mr. Obama employing grammatically correct sentences virtually every time he opened his mouth.

But Mr. Obama's decision to use complete sentences in his public pronouncements carries with it certain risks, since after the last eight years many Americans may find his odd speaking style jarring.

According to presidential historian Davis Logsdon of the University of Minnesota, some Americans might find it "alienating" to have a President who speaks English as if it were his first language.

"Every time Obama opens his mouth, his subjects and verbs are in agreement," says Mr. Logsdon. "If he keeps it up, he is running the risk of sounding like an elitist."

The historian said that if Mr. Obama insists on using complete sentences in his speeches, the public may find itself saying, "Okay, subject, predicate, subject predicate - we get it, stop showing off."

The President-elect's stubborn insistence on using complete sentences has already attracted a rebuke from one of his harshest critics, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska.

"Talking with complete sentences there and also too talking in a way that ordinary Americans like Joe the Plumber and Tito the Builder can't really do there, I think needing to do that isn't tapping into what Americans are needing also," she said.

Great piece from the Borowitz Report.

Man shot and killed by scientologists in Los Angeles

Further proof those scientology whackos are just that - whacko!

Los Angeles police say a security guard at a scientology building shot and killed a man wielding a sword.
Officer April Harding says the man approached the guard in the parking lot of the scientology celebrity centre international around noon today (Sunday November 23, 2008).
Harding says the guard "felt threatened for his life" and fired at the man.
He was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Homicide detectives have cordoned off the building in Hollywood to investigate.

Abbas threatens early elections

The Palestinian president says he will call elections in early 2009 if unity talks don't begin between his Fatah faction and its Hamas rivals.

Mahmoud Abbas says that if the sides don't start talking to each other by the beginning of the year, he will call elections for the presidency and for the Palestinian parliament.
Elections remain unlikely though, as Abbas' moderate government rules only the West Bank while the Hamas controls the Gaza Strip.

The violent split has paralyzed the Palestinians' fledgling democratic system.

Abbas was speaking today (November 22,2008) in Ramallah to leaders of the Fatah-dominated Palestine Liberation Organization.

Hamas says Abbas' four-year term in office is up on January 9, 2009.
But because of a contradictory Palestinian election law, Abbas has said the next election should be held simultaneously with a parliamentary vote scheduled in 2010.

Vatican: Beatles music better than today's songs

Wow! There is something that the Vatican and I can agree on!

Vatican media are praising the Beatles' musical legacy and sounding philosophical about John Lennon's boast that the British band was more popular than Jesus.

Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano recalls that Lennon's comment outraged many when he made it in 1966.

But it says in its Saturday edition that the remark can be written off now as the bragging of a young man wrestling with unexpected success.

The newspaper as well as Vatican Radio last week noted the 40th anniversary of the Beatles' "White Album."

It said the album demonstrated how creative the Beatles were, compared with what it called the "standardized, stereotypical" songs being produced today.

Well except for the Beatles are more popular than jesus thing - they are ... and it was no bragging on John's part when he said so ... more people know of and like the Beatles and their music than know or even care about jesus.