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Bored? Listless? Help is at hand!  Pass away the pointless hours with our list of things to do when you're bored

THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH ABSOLUTELY NOTHING

Blink wildly and then close your eyes really tight for an interesting light show
(Amusement Potential: 1-5 minutes)
See a variety of blobs, stars and flashes. Try to make out shapes and see if your subconscious is trying to send you a message (perhaps that funny shape is saying, 'send all your money to urban75.com'?)

See how long you can hold a note
(Amusement Potential: 4-20 minutes)
Not that much fun, but it sure passes the time. Play with a friend, or try to beat your own personal best. Inhale deeply and then try and make a noise for as long as you can. Earn extra points for making your partner laugh or ending on an amusing note.

Try to not think about penguins
(Amusement Potential: 1-5 minutes)
This is especially hard, because by trying too much, you remember what you were trying to avoid thinking of. If you try too little, you end up thinking about penguins anyway.

Use your secret mind power
(Amusement Potential: 5-10 minutes)
Pick a passing by and try to use your mind power to command them do something, like drop their bag or knock into someone. The law of averages dictates that sooner or later one of your mind commands will come true, so you can convince yourself that you really have super human powers and waste even more time trying them out.

Pretend you're a robot
(Amusement Potential: 1-3 minutes)
Walk down the street with mechanical movements, adding 'zzzzzt' sounds with each motion. Pretending to have a motor broken in, say, your left hand can add at least 30 seconds more entertainment.

Scratch yourself
(Amusement Potential: 1-3 minutes)
Go ahead, scratch yourself now. Even if nothing itches, go ahead. Doesn't that feel pretty good?

Rate passers by
(Amusement Potential: 10-15 minutes)
Secretly award passers by marks out of ten as you go along, offering (unsaid) expert criticism over their clothing, hairstyle and footwear choices.

Repeat the same word over and over until it loses its meaning
(Amusement Potential: 1-3 minutes)
Pick a random word out of a magazine and say it aloud to yourself until it becomes a meaningless set of noises.

Pinch yourself
(Amusement Potential: 1-3 minutes)
What is pain? Why is it unpleasant? There's nothing physical about it - it's all in your mind. Plus, after pinching yourself for awhile, boredom will seem nice next to being in pain.

Try to swallow your tongue
(Amusement Potential: 1-2 minutes)
There's not much to say about this one. It is possible, but really stupid.

Pretend to be a car
(Amusement Potential: 5-10 minutes)
Make appropriate revving noises in your head as you walk along and add a racing commentary as you pass strangers in the street. Use blinking eyes as indicators for extra authenticity.

Make Star Trek door noises
(Amusement Potential: 1-2 minutes)
Stand by an electric door to a bank or something and make that silly "Scccccccchwop" sound heard whenever people popped on to the bridge to hang with Captain Kirk.

Look at something for awhile, shut eyes, study after image
(Amusement Potential: 2-5 minutes)
Another great time waster. It takes about 30 seconds of staring to create an after image, and the image is then viewable for about the same length of time. Fun to combine this one with pushing on your eyes.

Get yourself as nauseated as possible
(Amusement Potential: 5-10 minutes)
Best achieved by looking straight up and spinning around. Try to be so dizzy you can't even stand up. This is also entertaining due to the "makes boredom seem a lot better" effect (see "Hurt Yourself").

Invent a weird twitch
(Amusement Potential: 5-10 minutes)
Adopt a bizarre twitch (e.g. flicking your head irregularly, twitching with eye or busting out sporadic cough noises) and try it out when you go shopping.

Make a low buzzing noise
(Amusement Potential: 15-30 minutes)
Hours of fun in libraries! Keeping a totally straight face and looking nonchalant, make a low pitch humming/buzzing noise and see who reacts.

Missouri Sheriffs & Top Prosecutors Form Obama "Truth Squads" & Threaten Libel Charges Against Obama Critics

 

More Hope and Change for Missouri...
St. Louis and Missouri Democrat sheriffs and top prosecutors are planning to go after anyone who makes false statements against Obama during his campaign. This is so one sided I can't even begin to describe how wrong this agenda is.

It's one thing if they want to keep the campaign fair for both sides, but they clearly only want to enforce the issue for the Obama Camp.

KMOV has a video report on the Obama "Truth Squads".


St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce and St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch are threatening to bring libel charges against those who speak out falsely against Barack Obama.

KMOV aired a story last night, that stated that St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch and St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, both Obama supporters, are threatening to bring criminal libel charges against anyone who levels what turns out to be false criticisms of their chosen candidate for President.


** Here you go Truth Squad... Sue me first!
Barack Obama Attacked White People!

From his audio-book dreams of my father, Barack Obama was moved to tears when he heard his racist anti-American pastor blame whitey for all of the world's pain and ills.
In fact, he was so moved by this filth that he included the story in his book Dreams of My Father.

The Real Culprits In This Meltdown

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Monday, September 15, 2008 4:20 PM PT

Big Government: Barack Obama and Democrats blame the historic financial turmoil on the market. But if it's dysfunctional, Democrats during the Clinton years are a prime reason for it.

Obama in a statement yesterday blamed the shocking new round of subprime-related bankruptcies on the free-market system, and specifically the "trickle-down" economics of the Bush administration, which he tried to gig opponent John McCain for wanting to extend.

But it was the Clinton administration, obsessed with multiculturalism, that dictated where mortgage lenders could lend, and originally helped create the market for the high-risk subprime loans now infecting like a retrovirus the balance sheets of many of Wall Street's most revered institutions.

Tough new regulations forced lenders into high-risk areas where they had no choice but to lower lending standards to make the loans that sound business practices had previously guarded against making. It was either that or face stiff government penalties.

The untold story in this whole national crisis is that President Clinton put on steroids the Community Redevelopment Act, a well-intended Carter-era law designed to encourage minority homeownership. And in so doing, he helped create the market for the risky subprime loans that he and Democrats now decry as not only greedy but "predatory."

Yes, the market was fueled by greed and overleveraging in the secondary market for subprimes, vis-a-vis mortgaged-backed securities traded on Wall Street. But the seed was planted in the '90s by Clinton and his social engineers. They were the political catalyst behind this slow-motion financial train wreck.

And it was the Clinton administration that mismanaged the quasi-governmental agencies that over the decades have come to manage the real estate market in America.

As soon as Clinton crony Franklin Delano Raines took the helm in 1999 at Fannie Mae, for example, he used it as his personal piggy bank, looting it for a total of almost $100 million in compensation by the time he left in early 2005 under an ethical cloud.

Other Clinton cronies, including Janet Reno aide Jamie Gorelick, padded their pockets to the tune of another $75 million.

Raines was accused of overstating earnings and shifting losses so he and other senior executives could earn big bonuses.

In the end, Fannie had to pay a record $400 million civil fine for SEC and other violations, while also agreeing as part of a settlement to make changes in its accounting procedures and ways of managing risk.

But it was too little, too late. Raines had reportedly steered Fannie Mae business to subprime giant Countrywide Financial, which was saved from bankruptcy by Bank of America.

At the same time, the Clinton administration was pushing Fannie and her brother Freddie Mac to buy more mortgages from low-income households.

The Clinton-era corruption, combined with unprecedented catering to affordable-housing lobbyists, resulted in today's nationalization of both Fannie and Freddie, a move that is expected to cost taxpayers tens of billions of dollars.

And the worst is far from over. By the time it is, we'll all be paying for Clinton's social experiment, one that Obama hopes to trump with a whole new round of meddling in the housing and jobs markets. In fact, the social experiment Obama has planned could dwarf both the Great Society and New Deal in size and scope.

There's a political root cause to this mess that we ignore at our peril. If we blame the wrong culprits, we'll learn the wrong lessons. And taxpayers will be on the hook for even larger bailouts down the road.

But the government-can-do-no-wrong crowd just doesn't get it. They won't acknowledge the law of unintended consequences from well-meaning, if misguided, acts.

Obama and Democrats on the Hill think even more regulation and more interference in the market will solve the problem their policies helped cause. For now, unarmed by the historic record, conventional wisdom is buying into their blame-business-first rhetoric and bigger-government solutions.

While government arguably has a role in helping low-income folks buy a home, Clinton went overboard by strong-arming lenders with tougher and tougher regulations, which only led to lenders taking on hundreds of billions in subprime bilge.

Market failure? Hardly. Once again, this crisis has government's fingerprints all over it.

MyFOXDFW Correspondent Detained during RNC Protest Last Edited: Friday, 05 Sep 2008, 12:55 AM CDT Created: Thursday, 04 Sep 2008, 9:28 PM CDT Alice Kalthoff SideBar
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A MyFOXDFW/FOX 4 News correspondent covering the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., on Thursday said she was detained by police and that a colleague was apparently arrested.

Alice Kalthoff said at 8:30 p.m. police rounded up her and about a dozen other journalists, including myFOX correspondent John Wise, along with a group of about 200 protesters.

Kalthoff, who said she was cuffed, questioned and released just after 11 p.m., said officers had corralled the group onto a bridge and then announced that they were under arrest.

"You just sat down and kept your mouth shut, and kept your hands on your head," Kalthoff said.

Kalthoff, who had been recording video of the protest, also said officers at one point separated journalists from protesters but that not all journalists were released. In fact, she said, she saw her MyFOX colleague have his mug shot taken before he was driven away in a police bus.

Kalthoff did not know why Wise was taken into custody.

She said it was a confusing situation but that law enforcement treated her well.

Kalthoff and Wise have been in St. Paul to provide exclusive Internet coverage of the convention.

By: PATRICK J. BUCHANAN 08/13/2008 In the Pennsylvania primary, Barack Obama rolled up more than 90 percent of the African-American vote. Among Catholics, he lost by 40 points. The cool liberal Harvard Law grad was not a good fit for the socially conservative ethnics of Altoona, Aliquippa and Johnstown.


But if Obama had a problem with Catholics then, he has a far higher hurdle to surmount in the fall, with those millions of Catholics who still take their faith and moral code seriously.

For not only is Obama the most pro-abortion member of the Senate, with his straight A-plus report card from the National Abortion Rights Action League and Planned Parenthood. He supports the late-term procedure known as partial-birth abortion, where the baby's skull is stabbed with scissors in the birth canal and the brains are sucked out to end its life swiftly and ease passage of the corpse into the pan. Partial-birth abortion, said the late Sen. Pat Moynihan, a New York Democrat, "comes as close to infanticide as anything I have seen in our judiciary."

Yet, when Congress was voting to ban this terrible form of death for a mature fetus, Michelle Obama was signing fundraising letters pledging that, if elected, her husband would be "tireless" in keeping legal this "legitimate medical procedure."

And her husband did not let the militants down. When the Supreme Court upheld the congressional ban on this barbaric procedure, he denounced the court for denying "equal rights for women."

As David Freddoso reports in his new best-seller, "The Case Against Barack Obama," the Illinois senator goes further than any U.S. senator has dared go in defending what John Paul II called the "culture of death."

Three times in the Illinois legislature, Obama helped block a bill that was designed solely to protect the life of infants already born, and outside the womb, who had miraculously survived the attempt to kill them during an abortion. Three times, Obama voted to let doctors and nurses allow these tiny human beings die of neglect and be tossed out with the medical waste.

How can a man who purports to be a Christian justify this?
If, as its advocates contend, abortion has to remain legal to protect the life and health, mental and physical, of the mother, how is a mother's life or health in the least threatened by a baby no longer inside her - but lying on a table or in a pan fighting for life and breath?

How is it essential for the life or health of a woman that her baby, who somehow survived the horrible ordeal of abortion, be left to die or put to death?

Yet, that is what Obama voted for - three times - in the Illinois Senate.

When a bill almost identical to the one Obama fought in Illinois - the Born Alive Infants Protection Act - came to the floor of the U.S. Senate in 2001, the vote was 98 to 0 in favor.

Even Barbara Boxer, the most pro-abortion member of the Senate before Obama arrived there, spoke out on its behalf. "Who could be more vulnerable than a newborn baby?" she asked. "We join with an 'aye' vote on this. I hope it will, in fact, be unanimous."

Obama says he opposed the Born Alive Infants Protection Act because he feared it might imperil Roe v. Wade.

But if Roe v. Wade did allow infanticide or murder, why would he not want that court decision reviewed and amended?
Is the right to an abortion so sacrosanct to Obama that killing by neglect or snuffing out of the life of tiny babies outside the womb must be protected if necessary to preserve that right?

- Creators Syndicate Inc.

©The Trentonian 2008

Husband's response to the USA mens swim team beating the arrogant smack-talking french team . . ."The irony of it all, it takes a trash talking frenchman to get an american excited about seeing guys swimming in speedos."

ha!  I love this guy.

Brooke Fraiser will be in concert tonight at the House of Blues. This is going to be such a wonderful concert.

If to distant lands I scatter
If I sail to farthest seas
Would you find and firm and gather 'til I only dwell in Thee?
If I flee from greenest pastures, would you look for me?
Forfeit glory to come after
'Til I only dwell in Thee

If my heart has only one ambition
If my soul one goal? to seek
This is my solitary vision 'til I only dwell in Thee
That I only dwell in Thee
'Til I only dwell in Thee

This is ridiculous!!!  And an "eco friendly" blanket too.  How nauseating.

 

By SAMANTHA BOMKAMP, AP Business Writer

 

NEW YORK - JetBlue Airways Corp. said Monday it is now charging customers for pillows and blankets.

 

The carrier has done away with the recycled blankets and pillows used on its flights, and has started offering an "eco-friendly" travel blanket and pillow that can be purchased for $7 on flights longer than two hours. The pair come in a kit with a $5 coupon to home furnishings retailer Bed Bath & Beyond.

 

The carrier claims the pillow and blanket feature a fabric technology, developed by CleanBrands LLC, that blocks pesky critters like dust mites, mold spores, pollen and pet dander.

 

JetBlue already offers free "Snooze Kits" on overnight flights from the West that include an eyeshade and ear plugs.

 

But the blanket and pillow kit is the latest in a string of a la carte items the company says are providing a revenue boost to help offset the soaring price of jet fuel.

 

A JetBlue spokeswoman declined to predict how much the sale of these kits will bring in, saying that the company only provides revenue details for specific items in its quarterly earnings conference calls.

 

The carrier said last month it expects to collect about $40 million from customers buying seats with extra leg room this year. Its $15 fee for a second checked bag is expected to translate into about $20 million in additional revenue. A ticket change fee, which doubled to $100 in the second quarter, is part of a "basket of fee changes" expected to produce about $50 million in extra revenue in 2008.

 

 

I am going to vote for Obama

People tell me I'm ignorant or stupid to do that, but I'm going to do it anyway, and here's why:

 I'm voting for Obama and Democrats because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would. Higher taxes will enable them to do that. Besides, I make more money than people on welfare, and that's not fair.

 I'm voting for Obama and Democrats because freedom of speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it – well, except Christians and Jews. They don't count, especially in San Francisco.

 I'm voting for Obama and Democrats because they will pull us out of Iraq, and then the bad guys will stop what they're doing because they will think we're good people.
 
 I'm voting for Obama and Democrats because I believe that people who can't tell us if it will rain on Friday CAN tell us that the polar ice caps will melt away in ten years if I don't start driving a Prius.
 
I'm voting for Obama and Democrats because I believe that business should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest away to the government for redistribution as the government sees fit.
 
 I'm voting for Obama and Democrats because I believe that when the terrorists don't have to hide from us over there, they can come here as undocumented immigrants. When they do I don't want to have any guns in the house. I will just ask them to take whatever they want and please not hurt us.
 
I'm voting for Obama and Democrats because I love the fact that I can now marry whatever I want. I've decided to marry my horse.
 
I'm voting for Obama and Democrats because I believe oil companies' profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene, but the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 15% isn't.

I'm voting for Obama and Democrats because I want the government to get what it deserves from me, and I'll deserve to have to give it to them. I'm sure the government will take care of me because I won't be able to any more. How about another stimulus?

We live in the greatest country in the world, and I'm going to vote for Obama and Democrats because I want to change that, change I can believe will happen, and I believe Obama will bring change. Oh yes, change I can believe in.

PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, Manitoba --  --  A man aboard a Greyhound bus repeatedly stabbed and then decapitated a fellow passenger, witnesses said Thursday.

The man was arrested for the killing, which occurred Wednesday night aboard a bus traveling from Edmonton, Alberta, to Winnipeg, Manitoba, The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said in a statement.

Authorities declined to name the attacker and victim, and provided no other details about the attack.

But passenger Garnet Caton said the victim was stabbed dozens of times by the man sitting next to him. The passenger then severed the man's head with a large knife.

"We heard this bloodcurdling scream and turned around, and the guy was standing up, stabbing this guy repeatedly, like 40 or 50 times," Caton said from a hotel in Brandon, Manitoba, where he and other passengers had been taken to rest.

"There was no rage or anything. He was like a robot, stabbing the guy."

Caton said passengers raced from the bus but then he, the bus driver and a trucker at the scene re-boarded to see what was happening.

Caton said he saw the suspect had the victim on the floor of the bus and "was cutting his head off and pretty much gutting him."

He said the attacker calmly came to the front of the bus to show off the head.

"He dropped the head and went back and started cutting the body back up," said Cody Olmstead, a passenger from Kentville, Nova Scotia.

The victim, who Caton said appeared to be about 19, had been on the bus since Edmonton. He said the attacker boarded the bus in Brandon, Manitoba, about 80 miles west of Portage La Prairie.

The suspect had been on the bus about an hour and initially did not sit near the victim.

"He sat in the front at first, everything was normal," Caton said.

"We went to the next stop and he got off and had a smoke with another young lady there. When he got on the bus again, he came to the back near where I was sitting.

"He put his bags in the overhead compartment. He didn't say a word to anybody. He seemed totally normal," Caton said. "About a half an hour later, we heard this bloodcurdling scream."

Greyhound spokeswoman Abby Wambaugh said 37 passengers and one driver were on the bus.

Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day called the attack bizarre, but did not discuss details, saying he did not want to jeopardize the investigation. Copyright 2008 Associated Press.

 

This video is of the Perm State Ballet School which is very similar to the Paris Opera Ballet School (article below).

They call them the 'rats'. A handpicked elite who are driven to be the best, who suffer agonising pain in silence, who regularly bear humiliation, and for whom the smallest of weight gains can lead to expulsion.

But these are children, little dancers whose secret lives of terror have been exposed by a report into training methods at the world's biggest classical ballet establishment.

The Paris Opera school has been exposed as a Dickensian closed world of 'psychological terror and medical neglect' in a new report into the training methods used on children who dream of being the ballet stars of the future.

The boarding school's 130 boys and girls, aged between eight and 18, hope to follow in the steps of stars such as former pupil Sylvie Guillem. But work inspectors allege their path to glory is paved with systematic humiliation and teaching staff's refusal to recognise or treat injuries.

The French school, the report said, had no infirmary, a doctor made a once-a-week visit, children were woken at 6.45am after performing until midnight, practised for four hours a day after normal school lessons and were expelled without explanation in notices pinned outside the school after annual examinations.

The Opera's director, Hugues Gall, and the school's headmistress and former étoile, Claude Bessy, reacted angrily to the allegations of a government-recognised independent team which condemned a culture of 'moral harassment'.

Suspicions that a nineteenth-century atmosphere reigned at the modern state-run ballet school, opened in 1987, were brought into the open by the latest étoile, Aurélie Dupont, who waited years for her nomination by Gall, a senior civil servant, who succeeded the late Rudolf Nureyev.

'What upset me more than the pain of exercising during six years at the school was the nastiness,' she said. 'The adults were so cold. We were children all alone at a boarding school. A little kindness and sweetness wouldn't have made us worse dancers.'

A union official at the school, Camille Fallen, said: 'Everything hangs on the terror of being rejected which has created a deep malaise. Talking to the outside world is a heresy. Obedience is the be all and end all.'

One 15-year-old apprentice dancer told The Observer: 'I'd be out on my neck in a minute if I was seen as a moaner.

'Aurélie kept quiet until she was assured of her star status and her pension when she's 40. I'm driven to succeed and I'm not going to destroy my chances by attacking the system. This isn't a place for cissies, fame comes at a price you have to be prepared to pay.'

With every starring role at the theatre fought over jealously, leading dancers spoke anonymously to avoid offending the hierarchy which said the investigation, commissioned by a left-wing union, was 'subjective'. But staff confirmed a rod-of-iron approach by the 30 teachers most of whom graduated when the school, founded in 1875, was still situated in the baroque nineteenth-century theatre in Paris.

'The favourite insult is to tell you that you're too fat,' a senior female dancer said. A weight surplus of 100 grammes merited a warning of imminent exclusion. 'That inevitably leads to many cases of anorexia and terrible anxiety. Some girls don't menstruate until they are 19 or 20.'

A male dancer, who spent 10 years at the school, claimed pupils as young as eight had been sent home for good after complaining of persistent pain, even though outside consultants later found stress fractures.

'I suppose you could say we were told to shut up and suffer in silence,' he added. 'On the other hand, you have to have exceptional resistance to pain to do this job.'

At the school in the Paris suburb of Nanterre, journalists are unwelcome and told to consult the Opera's lawyers. Bessy's response to the allegations underline her reputation as an implacable disciplinarian during 29 years running classes which have produced one of the world's best corps de ballet.

"I was brought up with the stick,' she told the inquiry team. 'Today, when you make a stupid mistake there is no punishment. The less you work the more money you earn. Everybody questions everything. I'll have nothing more to do with this type of society.'

An allegation that a child with a sprained ankle was forced to continue dancing for two hours was a 'lie', she said.

The Opera management supported her, saying the school had a level of excellence which could be achieved only by exceptional perseverance. But an osteopath, Alain Faugouin, who had treated stress fractures in former pupils, claimed that children were refused physiotherapy after injuries and had no continuous medical help.

'I know it's a grim world behind those walls, but my daughter would kill me if I complained about her treatment,' said one mother waiting to collect her daughter this weekend. 'She'll put up with anything to get to the top. That doesn't stop her from coming home completely miserable.'

Union demands include an overhaul of disciplinary policy at the Opera school in the run-up to Bessy's retirement in two years' time, when she will be 70.

By Guardian Unlimited © Copyright Guardian Newspapers 2008

Published: 12/8/2002

Last Tuesday I had a wisdom tooth pulled, well it was impacted so he had to cut it out. Everything went fine. I was numb and for the first time laughing gas made me laugh because this dentist started humming all serious-like to a Hannah Montana song on the radio.

Most of you know i can't have narcotics and Advil (4 at a time) was working great. On Thurs. it was obvious something was wrong. I went back to the dentist and he said it is definitely infected so he put me on a heavy duty antibiotic.

Last night and this morning the pain is horrible. I put an ice pack straight on my jaw, take 4 advil and am just about doubled over until the medicine kicks in.

I have been taking the antibiotics religiously. Oh, this morning I was achy feeling so I took my temp., it was 100 and that was after taking advil.

Does anyone have any experience with this? Any home remedies? Do I need to be concerned? One website scared me b/c it said the infection is so close to the brain. I'm very careful to not blindly believe every bit of info. on the internet.


~GG

I know this is long  and I found it hard to read because of the comparison to my Lord; but after watching the trailor to the Hype movie and seeing how fanatical people are over even the mention of Obama's name, I don't think this is so far off base.  It is written by Gerard Baker.  GG

From The Times July 25, 2008 He ventured forth to bring light to the world The anointed one's pilgrimage to the Holy Land is a miracle in action - and a blessing to all his faithful followers Gerard Baker

And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a Child appeared in the wilderness.

The Child was blessed in looks and intellect. Scion of a simple family, offspring of a miraculous union, grandson of a typical white person and an African peasant. And yea, as he grew, the Child walked in the path of righteousness, with only the occasional detour into the odd weed and a little blow.

When he was twelve years old, they found him in the temple in the City of Chicago, arguing the finer points of community organisation with the Prophet Jeremiah and the Elders. And the Elders were astonished at what they heard and said among themselves: “Verily, who is this Child that he opens our hearts and minds to the audacity of hope?”

In the great Battles of Caucus and Primary he smote the conniving Hillary, wife of the deposed King Bill the Priapic and their barbarian hordes of Working Class Whites.

And so it was, in the fullness of time, before the harvest month of the appointed year, the Child ventured forth - for the first time - to bring the light unto all the world.

He travelled fleet of foot and light of camel, with a small retinue that consisted only of his loyal disciples from the tribe of the Media. He ventured first to the land of the Hindu Kush, where the

Taleban had harboured the viper of al-Qaeda in their bosom, raining terror on all the world.

And the Child spake and the tribes of Nato immediately loosed the Caveats that had previously bound them. And in the great battle that ensued the forces of the light were triumphant. For as long as the Child stood with his arms raised aloft, the enemy suffered great blows and the threat of terror was no more.

From there he went forth to Mesopotamia where he was received by the great ruler al-Maliki, and al-Maliki spake unto him and blessed his Sixteen Month Troop Withdrawal Plan even as the imperial warrior Petraeus tried to destroy it.

And lo, in Mesopotamia, a miracle occurred. Even though the Great Surge of Armour that the evil Bush had ordered had been a terrible mistake, a waste of vital military resources and doomed to end in disaster, the Child's very presence suddenly brought forth a great victory for the forces of the light.

And the Persians, who saw all this and were greatly fearful, longed to speak with the Child and saw that the Child was the bringer of peace. At the mention of his name they quickly laid aside their intrigues and beat their uranium swords into civil nuclear energy ploughshares.

From there the Child went up to the city of Jerusalem, and entered through the gate seated on an BLEEP. The crowds of network anchors who had followed him from afar cheered “Hosanna” and waved great palm fronds and strewed them at his feet.

In Jerusalem and in surrounding Palestine, the Child spake to the Hebrews and the Arabs, as the Scripture had foretold. And in an instant, the lion lay down with the lamb, and the Israelites and Ishmaelites ended their long enmity and lived for ever after in peace.

As word spread throughout the land about the Child's wondrous works, peoples from all over flocked to hear him; Hittites and Abbasids; Obamacons and McCainiacs; Cameroonians and Blairites.

And they told of strange and wondrous things that greeted the news of the Child's journey. Around the world, global temperatures began to decline, and the ocean levels fell and the great warming was over.

The Great Prophet Algore of Nobel and Oscar, who many had believed was the anointed one, smiled and told his followers that the Child was the one generations had been waiting for.

And there were other wonderful signs. In the city of the Street at the Wall, spreads on interbank interest rates dropped like manna from Heaven and rates on credit default swaps fell to the ground as dead birds from the almond tree, and the people who had lived in foreclosure were able to borrow again.

Black gold gushed from the ground at prices well below $140 per barrel. In hospitals across the land the sick were cured even though they were uninsured. And all because the Child had pronounced it.

And this is the testimony of one who speaks the truth and bears witness to the truth so that you might believe. And he knows it is the truth for he saw it all on CNN and the BBC and in the pages of The New York Times.

Then the Child ventured forth from Israel and Palestine and stepped onto the shores of the Old Continent. In the land of Queen Angela of Merkel, vast multitudes gathered to hear his voice, and he preached to them at length.

But when he had finished speaking his disciples told him the crowd was hungry, for they had had nothing to eat all the hours they had waited for him.

And so the Child told his disciples to fetch some food but all they had was five loaves and a couple of frankfurters. So he took the bread and the frankfurters and blessed them and told his disciples to feed the multitudes. And when all had eaten their fill, the scraps filled twelve baskets.

Thence he travelled west to Mount Sarkozy. Even the beauteous Princess Carla of the tribe of the Bruni was struck by awe and she was great in love with the Child, but he was tempted not.

On the Seventh Day he walked across the Channel of the Angles to the ancient land of the hooligans. There he was welcomed with open arms by the once great prophet Blair and his successor, Gordon the Leper, and his successor, David the Golden One.

And suddenly, with the men appeared the archangel Gabriel and the whole host of the heavenly choir, ranks of cherubim and seraphim, all praising God and singing: “Yes, We Can.”

Our neighbors across the street, Heather and Brandon became foster parents with the intent to adopt after being told they couldn't have children three years ago.  Two years ago, they became foster parents to 2 little boys ages 4 and 6 who were taken from their mother and her boyfriend for neglect and exposure to drugs.  The mother signed over her rights and is now in jail.  Shortly after coming into Heather and Brandon’s home, the older boy began acting out sexually.  He was kicked out of school and sent to an inpatient behavior center.  He is still there and no longer a foster child.   A year and a half ago Heather and Brandon got a beautiful one year-old baby girl.  Her birth mother was a young teen and gave up all rights.  Claire is a thriving, happy and healthy toddler.  The other little boy, Michael, however, began showing signs similar to his brother this past year.  Last spring he assaulted Claire (Heather walked in to Claire’s screams and he was touching her private area through her diaper).  Similar episodes have happened at school in his kindergarten class, Brandon installed an alarm on the boy’s door, and Claire is supervised constantly.  Heather immediately reported this to the agencies facilitating the foster care of the children and has been working to get Michael removed from her house.  He is a registered sex offender and CPS and the other agencies have been  so slow to get him out of their home and into a foster home where there are no other siblings he could hurt.  Finally,  they got a call yesterday from their agency saying that CPS will be coming to get Michael next Wednesday but they also said they would be taking Claire too.  They gave no reason for this and CPS didn’t even bother talking to them personally.  They are absolutely devastated.  The wheels were already in motion for Heather and Brandon to adopt Claire.   My neighbors’ attorney is working to put a hold on this and attempting to get this before a judge, but evidently this is not easy to do. 

 

 

 

Time and time again CPS has devastated lives of children and parents.  They are a prime example of government trying to run and ruin the lives of people and there is nothing anyone can do about it.