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Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?
SARAH PALIN: Before it got to the other side, I shot the chicken, cleaned and dressed it, and had chicken burgers for lunch.
BARACK OBAMA: The chicken crossed the road because it was time for a change! The chicken wanted change!
JOHN MC CAIN: My friends that chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the chickens on the other side of the road.
HILLARY CLINTON: When I was First Lady, I personally helped that little chicken to cross the road. This experience makes me uniquely qualified to ensure right from Day One that every chicken in this country gets the chance it deserves to cross the road. But then, this really isn’t about me.
GEORGE W. BUSH: We don’t really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.
DICK CHENEY: Where’s my gun?
COLIN POWELL: Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road.
BILL CLINTON: I did not cross the road with that chicken. What is your definition of chicken?
AL GORE: I invented the chicken.
JOHN KERRY: Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the chicken’s intentions. I am not for it now and will remain against it.
AL SHARPTON: Why are all the chickens white? We need some black chickens.
DR. PHIL: The problem we have here is that this chicken doesn’t realize that he must first deal with the problem on this side of the road before it goes after the problem on the other side of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he’s acting by not taking on his current problems before adding new problems.
OPRAH: Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why he wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of having the chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I’m going to give this chicken a car so that he can just drive across the road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.
ANDERSON COOPER, CNN: We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed access to the other side of the road.
NANCY GRACE: That chicken crossed the road because he’s guilty! You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.
PAT BUCHANAN: To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.
MARTHA STEWART: No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was going. I had a standing order at the Farmer’s Market to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any insider information.
DR SEUSS: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I’ve not been told.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die in the rain, alone.
GRANDPA: In my day we didn’t ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.
BARBARA WALTERS: Isn’t that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heart-warming story of how it experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish its lifelong dream of crossing the road.
ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.
JOHN LENNON: Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together, in peace.
BILL GATES: I have just released eChicken 2009, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook. Internet Explorer is an integral part of eChicken 2009. This new platform is much more stable and will never crash or need to be rebooted.
ALBERT EINSTEIN: Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?
COLONEL SANDERS: Did I miss one?
HAHAHA! I’m with Aristotle on this one. 😀
Which answer do you think was the best?
The President is Not Reforming, He’s Reinventing
Yes, I’m going to get political. My apologizes to those that disagree with me but folks, this is important.
And I’m worried.
Especially for our children and senior citizens.
I woke up this morning and checked Twitter. (Twitter has become just as addicting to me as my morning coffee — yes, it IS that pathetic). And I noticed a tweet that said something along the lines of “If we had nationalized health care *beep* (I removed the name of the child to protect the Tweeter), would have died.”
And then she gave a link to a video. The same video you see below. Even if you WANT national health care, PLEASE watch it. You owe it to yourself, to your loved ones and to your children to carefully weigh, analyze and THINK about the pros and cons, ESPECIALLY THE CONS, of government-run health care and what it will do to our country.
The same country we will hand over to our children someday.
Do you REALLY want our system to deteriorate to this point?! Where even our children have to wait for important, even life-saving, treatment?? Or some bureaucrat gets to decide whether your grandmother receives the treatment she needs to prolong, and/or improve the quality of her life or denies the treatment she needs because she’s old enough and she’s lived a long and good life?
Do we REALLY want to give our government the ability to play God in our lives?
Now I’m a fair person. So I will take this video with a grain of salt. It’s most likely slanted. And there’s no telling how many people he interviewed who were happy with Canada’s health care system.
But the point is, it could get this bad.
But what if this video is pretty accurate? Do you really want to wait months, sometimes YEARS, to get in to see a doctor? Do you really want to take the chance that the medicine you, or your child needs, is not available??
Do you really want to pay 50% more in taxes on consumer goods so we can help pay for this crappy system? Do you really want to be taxed for paying taxes?!
NOTHING is free, people. Nothing. The money has to come from somewhere and that somewhere is US, the people. And just think about this for a minute: can you think of ANY government program that you’re happy with? Can you think of ANY government program that runs like it should, like our politicians have promised us it would?
Do you REALLY want to hand something over as precious and important as our health, or the health of our children, to the government?!
I actually felt sick, tense and anxious after I watched this video. Again, take it with a grain of salt, but the point of the video (and please don’t focus on the host, or his facial expressions or how he looks or the quality of the video, blahblahblah, but pay attention to the POINT), is that it COULD happen. It COULD take weeks, even months, to see a doctor.
And God forbid you need medical treatment on the weekend!!
Remember the days when we had walk-in clinics? When all you had to wait was 30 minutes to see a doctor and then the doctor could actually help you and didn’t advise you to go to yet another department for a form or for the treatment you need?
Yeah. Socialized medicine will eradicate, wipe-out, destroy that luxury. That luxury that we take for granted now.
And let’s think about the economics of the situation for a moment. If our government starts dictating our health care system and mandates that doctors take a pay cut, and/or they control the amount these doctors can be paid, then what is that going to do the men and women who are thinking about going into the health care field? Will it motivate them to go to a college for X number of years, pay an insane amount of money to pay for that schooling only to get into the field and NOT be able to make the money they envisioned when they began the journey? Do you think this will motivate future doctors to enter the field at all?
And what about the doctors already established in the field. Will they be motivated to hone their skills, to become BETTER doctors if they know all of their hard work will amount to nothing because the government is their puppet master?
The number of doctors going into the field will diminish. It’s only natural. It’s logical. And this means, that eventually, there will be less doctors.
But the number of people who need medical care will be the same. Even go up because if people think they can just walk in and get a stuffy nose and/or a headache taken care of because after all, it’s free, they will. Which will further clog the system and prevent people who truly need medical treatment from getting it!
Economics 101: Supply goes down + demand goes up = PROBLEMS FOR US!
I am NOT saying that our health care system doesn’t need reform. The price of health care has skyrocketed and that’s partly because the health care field knows it will be paid because the insurance companies will end up paying it. It absolutely needs to be restructured and overhauled, no question about it. But turning it completely over to the government, to control and therein control OUR HEALTH CARE NEEDS, is not the answer.
And the fact that our government is so hell-bent on passing this new law, this 1,000 + page law that NO ONE HAS HAD THE TIME TO READ AND ANALYZE, really worries me. What’s the hurry? This is a big deal. This will affect our country for YEARS. We owe it to ourselves and our children to do this right. Rushing through the process because our president is worried about his approval ratings is insane. And the fact that the president claims this bill is not about him is crazy too — it’s all about him. He is desperate to pass something that actually WORKS (remember the failed stimulus plan??)
And if it’s not about him, as he claims, then why are some news stories headlining: Obama may have to wait for health care passage . Shouldn’t that read, “Nation may have to wait for health care passage?”
Let’s slow down and look at this like rational adults. Let’s stop allowing our emotions to rule our heads. Our future generations are counting on us to get this right.
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(Sorry about the graininess – I recorded it on the wrong setting. Duh!)
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*~* Been blogging since 2005
*~* I am a proud Christian
*~* I am opinionated, but fair
*~* I graduated from college in ’03 with a degree in professional writing.
*~* I also post helpful parenting information: like my Summer Fun posts geared toward helping parents keep their kids busy/entertained during the summer months.
*~* Been happily married for 19 years
*~* Mother of two teenage boys, ages 16 and 14.
*~* Though I blog about my family, I don’t classify myself as a mommy blogger.
*~* I also write and post samples of my fiction here as well as on my fiction blog.
*~* I’m also part of a creative writing blog which consists of five other writers.
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What Hairstyle Are You?
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You Are a Ponytail |
 You are energetic, laid back, and a lot of fun. You are ready for whatever life throws at you. Your idea of style is looking presentable. You prefer simple, well fitting, and neat clothes. At your best, you are productive, inspiring, and full of live. You love to be active. |
There. That’s MUCH more accurate. 🙂
And it’s definitely true – I spend most of my days in a ponytail because I’m original like that.
Feeling Sexy
Yes. This is me. And yes. I’m living in virtual reality. Pathetic, isn’t it.
*sigh*
How Men and Women Shower
How To Shower Like a Woman
Take off clothes and place them sectioned in laundry basket according to lights and darks.
Walk to bathroom wearing long dressing gown.
If you see husband along the way, cover up any exposed areas.
Look at your womanly physique in the mirror – make mental note to do more sit-ups/leg-lifts, etc.
Get in the shower.
Use face cloth, arm cloth, leg cloth, long loofah, wide loofah and pumice stone.
Wash your hair once with cucumber and sage shampoo with 43 added vitamins.
Wash your hair again to make sure it’s clean.
Condition your hair with grapefruit & mint enhanced conditioner.
Wash your face with crushed apricot facial scrub for 10 minutes until red.
Wash entire rest of body with ginger nut and jaffa cake body wash.
Rinse conditioner off hair.
Shave armpits and legs.
Turn off shower.
Squeegee off all wet surfaces in shower. Spray mould spots with tile cleaner.
Get out of shower.
Dry with towel the size of a small country. Wrap hair in super absorbent towel.
Return to bedroom wearing long dressing gown and towel on head.
If you see husband along the way, cover up any exposed areas.
How To Shower Like a Man
Take off clothes while sitting on the edge of the bed and leave them in a pile.
Walk naked to the bathroom.
If you see wife along the way, shake willy at her making the ‘woo-woo’ sound.
Look at your manly physique in the mirror.
Admire the size of your willy and scratch your bum.
Get in the shower.
Wash your face. Wash your armpits.
Blow your nose in your hands and let the water rinse them off.
Fart and laugh at how loud it sounds in the shower.
Spend majority of time washing privates and surrounding area.
Wash your bum, leaving those coarse bum hairs stuck on the soap.
Wash your hair. Make a shampoo Mohawk.
Wee.
Rinse off and get out of shower. Partially dry off.
Fail to notice water on floor because curtain was hanging out of bath the whole time.
Admire willy size in mirror again.
Leave shower curtain open, wet mat on floor, light and fan on.
Return to bedroom with towel around waist.
If you pass wife, pull off towel, shake willy at her and make the ‘woo-woo’ sound again.
Throw wet towel on bed.
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