Is Brian unique?

She and I walk into a pet shop. “Go chat with the birds; I want to talk to this dog in the window.” First though, while I’m checking out the other dogs in their cages while laughter comes from the birds’ section, I know she’s telling bird jokes. She laughs at a joke a bird just told her. None of the dogs in the cages appeal to me. No one says a word.

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I can’t take it anymore!

White House Press Secretaries speak for the president to the press corps and often are overheard by the media for the nation. One thing never revealed are the President’s personal secrets. At times when the President’s term is over and loyalty is no longer an issue, the former press agent may write a tells-all book. Even so, there are certain things that are proper and improper to discuss.

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A Jimmy Halto Classic.

The following background information is from a press release sent out by California State Senator Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto). Sanator Simitian.

The Senator is holding his seventh annual “There Ought To Be A Law” contest which invites Californians to submit ideas for new state legislation. The deadline is Monday, December 3, 2007.

Since its inception, the contest has generated “proposals that are striking in their diversity,” said Senator Simitian. Eleven of those ideas have been signed into law, including most recently a law to put in place a drug “take-back” program to help ensure the proper and environmentally safe disposal of over-the-counter drugs and prescription pharmaceuticals.

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Ready, aim …

You’re in a low-paying job, have few prospects and know there’s more to you than that job. You want a profession, a career. You want to be recognized. You want to be somebody.

What do you do? You might become an expert. An expert in what you ask. It doesn’t matter. Pick any subject, any area, any activity. Any one single thing. What you pick doesn’t necessarily have to interest you now in a great way. In time, interest will grow. You will be absorbed by what ever it is. Yes, you will.

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If you plan to off yourself, do it in style. Do it the write way. What should your suicide note or goodbye letter contain? Should it be handwritten? Yes, you will be leaving something of yourself behind (this note) and it might as well be the most of you — a handwritten note. Will it be a suicide note or a goodbye letter? They’re basically the same, although a “goodbye letter” would be longer and would properly be enclosed in an envelope.

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Snipped from Salon.com.

This is hilarious, sad and true all in one. We definitely have some thinking to do about how our society is affecting our natural human tendencies. Something is obviously not right with the majority of conservative ideological beliefs. Check out this cartoon:

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Snipped from the uk.Reuters.com.

This is hilarious and should be done by all countries that allow the US to have military bases in their own country.

The US is wanting Ecuador to renew the lease for the only military base that the US has in South America. This lease is set to expire in 2009, but problems are already starting to surface. “Washington must let [me] open a military base in Miami if the United States wants to keep using an air base on Ecuador’s Pacific coast,” said Rafael Correa, Ecuador’s leftist President. Since the US is still fighting the ‘War on Drugs’ that has lasted decades and shows no sign of quitting, US ambassadors are trying to persuade Correa because the base is an important part of controlling drug trafficking.

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I like the thumb-cuffs!

About now every Tom, Dick and Harry, every Martha, Jenny and Mary has heard of water boarding and what it entails. There’s no way now that anyone could use it as a torture technique. Everybody knows about it. Congress is debating it just like any other, by now, dead issue.

In American War Veterans’ hall #2 to hall #22,222 all the talk has gone beyond water boarding back into the past. Former POW’s now hold court telling the others what they had suffered at the hands of the enemy. How, for supper, one slice of bread had to be divided evenly among twelve prisoners. But the times are a-changin’ and we’ve gotten serious about the torture business.

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