Worst Thanksgiving Ever

Thanksgiving Day - I've had a great day for the most part, playing cards with family, telling stories, catching up with each others' lives, eating way too much, watching a couple of football games, and taking a nice walk with the dog, and that was all fine, but one thing really has got me outraged: I went to have a Keebler Chips Deluxe Rainbow cookie and took one out of the package and there were only two candy coated chocolate nibs on top. There are supposed to be three. The package clearly shows three, their television advertising shows three, yet there were but two. How can one eat a Keebler Rainbow cookie with only two candy coated chocolate nibs? I had to take a different cookie from the package with the correct number of nibs -- three. I am beside myself. The entire fabric of western civilization is coming unraveled. Life as we know it is over. I'm trying to be thankful, but it's really depressing. This is the worst Thanksgiving ever.....................................Friday - more bad news 38-17....................................... Worst Thanksgiving ever. The only glimmer of hope was that Walmart proudly announced that no employees had been killed this weekend.......................... Bud C

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Republicans now accuse President Obama of a "wag the dog" strategy of continuing to good things even though the Obamacare website is not yet working at full speed. "It's outrageous," said one noted Tea Party Senator, "every time we see an opportunity to criticize him, he finds a way to do something important and significant and worthy. It's like he keeps trying to govern. Why can't the American people see through this anyway? First he negotiates a deal to rid Syria of chemical weapons and now he has the nerve to reach a multi-national deal to slow Iran's nuclear weapons program. What's next, world peace?" ......................................................................... House Republican Speaker John Boehner on learning he will save a bundle on his health insurance premiums under Obamacare announced he was wrong in his opposition and now fully supports the insurance exchanges and vows to help make the ACA work for Americans in every state.......................just kidding on that last part.................................................................................... Certain appointments of Judges and Executive branch employees made by President Obama will now be decided by a majority vote in the US Senate- and that's call the "nuclear" option. Outraged Republicans go ballistic! "How dare Democrats call for majority rule on these issues," said one Republican Senator. "How are we supposed to muck everything up if we go by majority votes. What do Democrats think this is -- a democracy?"............................................................ Who would have guessed that George Zimmerman would be in trouble again after being acquitted in the killing of Trayvon Martin? Answer - Everybody.................................................................... Pope Francis upon hearing that Sarah Palin criticized him for being too liberal said: "Who?"............................................................. Every so often I watch those Ancient Aliens shows on cable tv and am always amused at how amazed they are that ancient peoples could build things out of big rocks.......................................................................................... Sometimes I really appreciate gravity; other times not so much.......................................................... Happy Thanksgiving Bud ........................................................ ps. calendars still available for $20. All new dates! All twelve months included at no extra charge! Holidays free! Only $.06 per day for 365 brand new days!

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Republican Promise

Breaking News: At a press conference today, 25 Republicans all joined in a press release that said although President Obama has offered a mea culpa regarding the "you can keep your insurance plan" statements he made and has said that insurance companies can continue to offer their substandard plans for another year, they will not accept his apology, are blaming President Obama, and are proposing instead that insurance companies can continue to offer their substandard plans for another year. "We do not accept President Obama's apology, and blame President Obama instead. We do not accept his plan to extend these substandard plans for another year, but instead propose that insurance companies be able to extend these substandard plans for another year." They promised that if and when Republicans ever decide to develop a plan to help get health insurance and health care to Americans that their website would work. "It is unconscionable that President Obama's Affordable Care Act has a glitchy website. And just because we haven't come up with anything other in the last 35 years than the plan that President Obama adopted, a Heritage Foundation plan used by Governor Romney in Massachussetts, doesn't mean that we won't come up with something else someday possibly, maybe, could be anyway. We look forward to that day again when insurance companies can kick people off their plans, deny coverage to sick kids, set life-time maximums, and refuse to cover people with pre-existing conditions. And in the event that we actually ever do come up with a plan to guarantee health insurance and health care for Americans, not that we are really working on anything, or even have any plans to work on anything, we will guarantee that the website will work. You can take our word on that." They said they are hesitant to develop an alternative plan to Obamacare, because the last time they developed a health insurance plan, President Obama adopted it. "We hate to see all that effort go into developing an alternative plan, like Romneycare, just to have the President adopt it. The individual mandate -- our idea. The health insurance exchanges -- our idea. The minimum standards -- our idea. We've been down that road before," said Republican House Speaker John Boehner, a tear running down his cheek. "We're tired of the President agreeing with us. Time after time we will make suggestions and the President will agree. It's just so frustrating. And for crying out loud, on the ACA he adopted the whole fricking thing, and now it's called Obamacare. And on Immigration, he's just giving us that old George W. Bush plan. It'll be a cold day in hell before we try to solve problems again." ps. My 2014 calendars have arrived and I'm taking orders. Only $20 for 365 wonderful days!

The Week that Was

Here's an Andy Rooney question for you: Why is it that Republicans, who for decades didn't care that millions of people every year lost their health insurance, are suddenly so alarmed? Could it have something to do with Obama and Obamacare? I think so.................. This week Sarah Palin, early 21st Century rip-off artist and one-time unsuccessful politician, accused Pope Francis of being a liberal. "It's like he thinks the Bible says we should take care of poor people," she said incredulously. We'll see how that works out for her............ ............................. ............................ White supremicist Craig Cobb from Leith, North Dakota, as a result of a DNA test, found out he is 14% Sub-Saharan African (black). He has been trying to create, unsuccessfully to North Dakota's credit, an all white enclave in Leith. That he might be disqualified from his own village has got to be one of the better examples of post-modern irony...................................................................... In Britain, a British spy's decomposed body was found naked in a locked gym bag in his bath tub. In typical British understatement, police ruled it "accidental." Police have not yet come up with a satisfactory explanation. No kidding.................................................................................... And Kentucky Tea Party Senator Rand Paul, thoroughly annoyed by the discovery of his serial plagiarizing, is now footnoting his balonic nonsense............. ..................... .................... ................. A member of the House Republican Science Committee doesn't believe that 500 years of pumping trillions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere causes global warming; but he warns that building too many electricity generating windmills might slow the wind down and warm the atmosphere. I can't wrap my head around that.............................................................................. And in a response to the troubled launch of Obamacare, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Preibus pledged today that if and when Republicans ever decide to develop an alternative health care plan, their website will work. He added, "In fact, the only reason Republicans have not offered an alternative to Obamacare over the last five years, or offered anything resembling a plan to get health insurance to the 40 million uninsured Americans over the past 30 years, is that we've been working on the website."

"Plagiary" by Rand Paul

In a strange turn of events for Senator Rand Paul, several of his speeches, it turns out, have large portions plagiarized from Wikipedia and other people's speeches and articles, all without crediting the sources. He has copied and pasted long passages with minimal efforts to paraphrase or otherwise change the language. And when caught plagiarizing, Rand Paul challenged MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, who first reported the Wikipedia pilfer, to a duel, yes, a duel; he'd better hope it's not a battle of wits............................... Over the next day or two, others have reported several new instances of Rand Paul plagiarism from speeches. When asked what his concept of plagiarism was Rand Paul responded, "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." He went on to say,"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."................................... Later in the day, yesterday, Rand Paul issued a press release in which he maintained that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." When reporters pointed out the phrase was from FDR"s inauguration speech in 1933, Rand Paul took out a dueling pistol and shot them................................... Senator Rand Paul today again addressed the plagiarism scandal: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." Meanwhile, Rachel Maddow is taking fencing lessons........................... In further developments, Rand Paul now claims he wrote The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and The Hobbit, Gone with the Wind, Around the World in Eighty Days, Huckleberry Finn, Pride and Prejudice, and that he wrote the screenplays for all the Walt Disney movies, Twelve Angry Men, Jaws, The Andromeda Strain, and The Empire Strikes Back..................................... In a long and rambling speech on the Senate floor today, he said, "Call me Ishmael. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only." And in a bizarre scene, Rand Paul delivered the Gettysburg Address in the men's room of the US Senate and claimed he wrote it........................................ Fellow Republican Senator Ted Cruz, when asked for a comment on the plagiarism charges surrounding Rand Paul, said, "Hey, when I read Green Eggs and Ham to the Senate's empty chamber at least I said who wrote it."........................................ Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid says Kentucky Senator Rand Paul will be required to submit all his senate speeches to Turnitin.com, a monitoring service for detecting student plagiarism at colleges and universities across the country, for verification. Senator Paul was heard to respond: If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?