Thursday, July 19, 2007

Are Republicans Born Grown Up?

Other News

President Bush reiterated his threat to veto Senate legislation that would substantially increase funds for children's health insurance by levying a 61-cent-a-pack increase in cigarette taxes. Republicans don't worry about protecting children from cigarette smoking because Republicans don't have children. Most Republicans weren't even children themselves. They were born grown up.
- Unlike Democrats, who will always be children.

Gisele Bundchen tops Forbes.com's list of the world's richest models, earning $33 million in the last 12 months. Wow, I watch Fox News; I thought the richest model was Paris Hilton.

Producing pure food is now China's biggest challenge. It's right up there with getting pigeon stains off the Great Wall.

Looks like NBC is giving Donald Trump one more chance with 'The Apprentice.' And if it doesn't work this time, maybe they'll hire him to color Al Roker's weather maps.

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Love & Learn

Video Game Reviews - Animation, maneuvers make 'Ratatouille' fun. And though 'Cookie and Cream' is fun at first, it may be too cute and cuddly for some gamers to digest.

The First President's Slaves - A recent discovery has unearthed a passageway used by nine slaves at a former home of George and Martha Washington.

Today's Health Scene: You're Not Alone. Ever. - Your body consists of 100 trillion cells, give or take, but they're in the minority. Each human is also home to, among other things, an estimated 1,000 trillion individual bacteria, or 10 times more microbes than human cells.

Iraq Inc. - U.S. taxpayers now are paying 180,000 civilians to work under U.S. contracts in Iraq. Most of them work for the Pentagon, but more than 50,000 contract employees work for the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department. This is on top of the 160,000 soldiers and Marines that U.S. taxpayers are paying to work in Iraq.

Shallow Thoughts

Politics is more fun than a barrel of monkeys that dropped out of monkey school.

Actually, as I recall, I began to lose weight when I stopped buttering my chewing gum.

Kids learn a lot from TV. The 4-year-old next door asked me if I used Miracle Gro on my tummy?

Some people get fat on top, some get fat on the bottom, and some get fat in the middle. I guess it's like they say, "The lard works in mysterious ways."