Barbaric Yawps.

Like old Walt Whitman, I too like to sound an occasional “barbaric yawp” from the rooftops of the world.  Here are a few.

I love my nephew Mike’s Facebook statement –”I am sure I could remember what ‘feckless’  means if  I had any idea of what a ‘feck’ was, then ‘feckless’ would just be  the lack of it.”

(It runs in the family.)

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I also got a kick out of the comedian who tried to describe the difference between  male and female orgasms. He said “Female orgasms make them  look like flowers blossoming to a violin sonata. Male orgasms make men  look like Jerry Lewis being electrocuted.”

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It was good seeing Ted Kopel (sp?) back on TV the other night when he joined Brian Williams’ new show to go to Iraq to report on our “withdrawal.” Kopel, the nearest thing to a trustworthy Walter Chronkite, said the baloney about us leaving Iraq was crazy. He toured the fancy new America embassy, pointing out that it is the biggest in the whole world (larger than the Vatican), and has a permanent staff of 6,000. He showed us what our expenditure of ONE TRILLION dollars has brought forth. Any of our diplomats who dare step outside the embassy walls have to be accompanied by armored cars while wearing flack jackets and helmets. Those folks were supposed to throw flowers at our feet, right?  Ted tried to get us to realize how much a  TRILLION dollars is. He explained that we’d have to spend a million dollars a day for 3,000 years to reach that figure. “But we did it in just nine years,” he said. He also pointed out that the real reason we were willing to lose all that money and all those lives, and why we are hiding thousands of troops in and around Iraq is because it contains the second biggest oil pool in  the world. And you actually believed our government when they assured us our troops were going over there just to help those sweet folks become a democracy, right. Ha!

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I’m really worried that we are THIS CLOSE  to turning Iran into a democracy too.  We sent  a spy drone over their country, and when it was justifiably shot down, we had the guts to ask them to send it back to us. Thank God Dick Chenney isn’t near the button anymore — he actually said we should send bombers over there to destroy the drone so they couldn’t steal our secrets. Jesus!!!!!

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