WTF Is It Now?!?

Sweetness and Light Edition

Butterflies! Bunnies! Bluebirds in the birdbath! Flowers! Kittens! A newborn fawn in my front yard this morning! It's Friday, and everything is so darn peachy I could plotz. The dogs didn't poop on the carpet today, last year's snapdragons are blooming, the bear actually left a birdfeeder standing...the sun's in my heart, and I'm ready for love....






I'm making myself sick. Damn you, John Ashcroft. *





If Life hands you lemons today, smile and give thanks. Then when Life isn't looking, give him a quick knee to the groin.
That'll learn him.


"I think that any time you have countries with nuclear arms, that a tension, serious tension is dangerous. And it's hard for me to measure the degree of tension." - the Oaf of Office, 5/02.


"Hic! Condi, where's ma bottla pretzels?!"


How many times is that blasted radio station going to play "Burning for You"?? And yet "Transmaniacon MC" never gets any airplay.


Table of Contents from Katherine Harris' New Book:
Chapter 1 - Call Me Madame (Secretary)
Chapter 2 - Yes, This is my Hair
Chapter 4 - Election Day, 2000
Chapter 7 - Dieting and Elections: Getting the Results You Want
Appendix - Recounts, Flori-dada Style!
Chapter 15 - Wherein Jeb and I Behave With the Utmost Decorum and Impartiality
Chapter 8 - Funny Jokes About Gore Overheard at the Victory Party
Chapter 3 - In Conclusion
Chapter 5 - Simple Crafts You Can Do With Spare Ballots You Find Around the House




A clownish performance from a spoiled brat

For a moment it looked as if Jacques Chirac had swallowed something unpleasant. The French president gazed uncomprehendingly at George W. Bush, his lips pursing and then opening in what looked like a Gallic gasp for air.

It was halfway into a press conference in the Elysée Palace on Sunday afternoon and Mr Bush had just stumbled his way through another answer, forgetting part of the question and joking at his own lack of focus. "That's what happens when you get past 55," he cracked.

Not only is Mr Chirac about to turn 70 but his advanced age was, for a while, a sensitive issue in the presidential election campaign just finished. It was as though Mr Chirac had gone to Washington a few weeks after Mr Bush's inauguration and made flippant remarks about the unreliability of recounts and the role of patrimony in American presidential politics.

Mr Bush's insult was unintentional, of course, but it was not the only jaw-dropping moment in Sunday's performance by the travelling American president. Earlier Mr Bush had said he was looking forward to trying some French food, because "[Jacques] is always telling me the food here is fantastic", apparently indicating that he had not heard about the quality of French cuisine in his previous 54 years on the planet.

Later he got into a peevish exchange with an American reporter who had graciously asked Mr Chirac a question in French. "He memorises four words and plays like he's all intercontinental," Mr Bush sneered. Reporters shuffled their notebooks and looked at their feet, embarrassed by this spectacle of an American president jeering at a fellow American for speaking their host's language.

- From The Financial Times.

Call me kooky, but I could swear we've had (real) presidents make trips like this without the loss of their dignity, tact, and gravitas.






*Meant in the nicest possible way.



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