Dow in the cellar.
State budget in crisis.
Propery tax is up, again.
A large % of our population admires Sarah Palin - a woman whose grandchild will be just a scant few months younger than her own newborn (on the "ICK, EWW" scale...that's like, ohhhh, say a "75". The Ick, Eww scale runs from 1 to 100 with 1 being "not at all icky" to 100 "ickiness of the supremest measure".
Oh, and as Joe noted, she says "nu-cu-ler". There is NO SUCH WORD. Don't believe me > http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nuclear
So, I'd like to provide a brief respite for anyone who is burnt out on all this bad news.
Some eye candy for the car afficianado:
check this out. Cool looking, isn't it? Can you see yourself zooming down the hiway in this? Here's the killer.... it's a Hyundai. Can you BELIEVE that? HYUNDAITheir line gets sexier each year.
It's a rear-drive sports car that is TOTALLY affordable. $22K to $29K. Features are cool. Engine rocks. Ahh, some good news. I feel my blood pressure dropping.
Some eye/ear candy for the music/BBC/comedy afficianado:
Oh...here's the cynical part in case you thought I'd gone soft....this little youtube tidbit should have some appeal for all the rednecks (aka uber conservatives) that loooooooooove S. Palin. And if after viewing this, you scratch your head and say "I love Sarah Palin but why should this appeal to me?" Well, what can I say? The rest of us get the joke.
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Bill Bailey is great. I love Black Books.
That scene from Deliverance.
Sarah Palin.
Me.
Thanks Kath, you did provide me with some respite from the bad news!
(yes, you can punch me in the face next time you see me...)
didja squeal like a Lehman Bros. employee?
I asked Sarah to squeal like a Hockey mom or a pitbull with lipstick, whichever...
Both are disturbing in their own right.
OK,
I'm not impressed by the Hyundai. It reminds me of a Honda Civic or Nissan or most of the other Japanese toasters out there. Why do people buy Japanese cars? Because they're like toasters. They work when you want them too. If you're looking for sexy car, not a toaster, look to the Germans.
About the ewww factor. Sorry, as a mom with five kids ages 12 to 2.5, I have no problem with Sarah Palin's kids covering such a broad age range. Perhaps if those of you who are parents to the national average of 2.3 kids had any faith, you'd relinquish the need to have absolute control over your bodies and the size of your families and become open to life. Oh, but what should I expect from Cynics online?
Hey Cheryl,
How are you? Haven't seen you in, like, 20 years! 5 kids? Wow...keeping up with the Ouellette's, I see. Or vice-versa, judging by the timeline.
I can't really comment on the Sarah Palin children thing and what looks to be a Pro-Life rally coming in this little comment section.
Would Palin make a good Commander-in-Chief if put in that position? That's more something I can comment on: scarier things have happened. George W. Bush was elected. Twice.
All I can hope for is this country takes a turn and keeps religion out of politics. I do realize that will probably never happen, as a candidate's faith seems to be paramount to most voters. Wouldn't it be great to have people realize that Creationism is laughable? Wouldn't it be a relief to actually, truly have a separation of church and state?
Hey, someone should write that down. Mr. Jefferson, would you do the honors?
German engineering and German design sense are two different things. Germans were very hip on utilitarian design for their automobiles. Mercedes and the BWM were the most boxy, toaster-ish, albeit extremely well engineered cars on the market. The Merc R230 Turbo is a beauty, as are some of the Porsche models. But the design isn't German. It's Italian.
And don't even get me started on Volkswagen. Unless you consider something like the Beetle a beauty. In that case, you can thank it's designers, Ferdinand Porsche, Hans Ledwinka, and, of course, Adolf Hitler.
For sexy supercars, one can always look to Italy. Ferrari, Lamborghini, Alfa Romeo, the Zonda by Pagani, the De Tomaso...all elegant, sleek and automotive works of art. And, of course, completely impractical to the average human.
I suppose that's ultimately the point.
Hello, Joe,
Congratulations on the twins.
Your statement about keeping religion out of politics is interesting, as is your comment on the separation of church and state: "Hey, someone should write that down. Mr. Jefferson, would you do the honors?"
Thomas Jefferson was actually the one who wrote, "When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Did you notice the words "God" and "Creator" in that little excerpt from the Declaration of Independence"?
I've commented further on the "separation of church and state" in my response to your newest post.
LOL....Cheryl, thank you for proving so many things that this blog was set up to to be cynical about.
Now, everyone else...can we get back to being peevish and captious?
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