Thought of the day

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A Future President

Barack Obama appears on Monday Night Football. America will fall in love with this man!

Sick

Yeah, it happened to us. Reality hit. Human mortality. Tim Johnson is a young guy. He could have changed the fate of the world, or god or something.

I cried tonight. I didn't cry for Tim Johnson. I don't know Tim Johnson. I know who he is now. I cried because I found it difficult to believe that one man's mortality could change the fate of the world, a man whom the world did not even know. How could one man's health change everything? How could some people on one side of the political spectrum rejoice because of rumors that a guy had a stroke?

This country is sick. If this is what it means to be an American, I want no part of it.

God bless you, Tim Johnson, and I hope the reports of your well-being are accurate. And God bless you, Craig Thomas, R from Wyoming who has leukemia. I would never in an eternity wish you bad health because you have an R after your name. I only wish your party would condemn those who were disgusting enough to rejoice at the news of Johnson's ill health.

If it ain't broke...

There is this myth out there that if you work hard in America, you can make something of yourself. Sadly, that age is rapidly coming to an end. As we move more towards the establishment of an aristocracy in this country, we see less and less room for hard work - it is all about who you know these days. Add the foreign service to that list.

For generations, the United States has selected its diplomats through a two-stage test seen as a model of merit-based rigor. Pass hundreds of questions in a dozen subject areas and a day-long oral grilling by Foreign Service officers, and join the ranks. Fail, and find a different line of work.

No more. In a proposed overhaul of its hiring process slated for next year and to be announced to employees in coming days, the State Department would weigh resumes, references and intangibles such as "team-building skills" in choosing who represents the United States abroad, according to three people involved in the process. The written test would survive, but in a shortened form that would not be treated as the key first hurdle it has been for more than 70 years.

As the lack of respect for knowledge continues to worsen, this nation gets dumber and dumber, and now, it appears we will be dumbing down our diplomatic corps as well, politicizing it, which always rewards the rich kids.

A way to end the abortion debate

From Wapo:

Growing evidence that chemicals in the environment can interfere with animals' hormone systems -- including the discovery that male Potomac River fish are growing eggs -- has focused the attention of environmentalists and scientists on a new question: Are humans also at risk?

If men had babies, abortion would not even be an issue.

Kidding aside (am I?), this is pretty frightening. But - Americans have the "it can't happen to me" mentality that will prevent any change in the nation's daily chemical intake. I mean, who can be bothered to cook fresh vegetables and other foods when you can just take it from a box and radiate it? And make sure you pour enough chemicals on your floor to make them spic and span! Keep taking those pills you don't actually need because some doctor needs to pay his mortgage!

Snicker...the thought of a man having a child...how many heads would it have?

Sieg Heil, Michigan

Bob and Jane live together and, like many young couples, they sometimes argue. There never seems to be enough money, and while they both want to go to college, neither has yet been able to do so. Jane recently discovered that she is pregnant.

Jane is ambivalent about the pregnancy, and her friends think she should terminate it -- she's too young, and Bob isn't very stable. Bob would like to be a father someday, but not now -- he can't pay their bills and wants a better career.

One day Bob and Jane argue over some things Jane bought with their credit card, and Bob tells Jane he doesn't want to pay their bills anymore. He says he's tired of arguing with her, doesn't want her to have the baby, and wants to move out for a while and think things over.

Under a bill recently passed by the Michigan House of Representatives, Bob could go to jail.

Yes, it's true. But it isn't constitutional.

Suck it, fundies.