Salient President Bush last night claimed his decision to invade Iraq had been vindicated after US troops uncovered an arsenal of shoes on the outskirts of Fallujah.

I'm getting really sick of this:

Side effects of these drugs include: mania, insomnia, anxiety, agitation, confusion, amnesia, depression [one of my personal favorites for an antidepressant] , paranoid reaction, psychosis, hostility, delirium, hallucinations, abnormal thinking, depersonalization, and lack of emotion, among others. Two horrible ones being "homicidal ideation" and "suicidal ideation", which in layman's terms mean the drug puts the idea in your head that homicide and suicide are good ideas. There's accounts of these a little later.

Being a parent to three grown children makes me lucky in that they are beyond their formative years and are not subjected to the daily scandals of our government, the misery of many of our world's inhabitants, or the rewarding of those who chose to exist at the labor of others. My hat is off to those trying to rear children today and teach lessons of civility, generosity, and service. Yours is a daunting task.

(this is a "cut and paste", any typos, misspellings or grammatical errors are not mine)

OPEN LETTER TO BARACK OBAMA

The word from Peachtree City that the city's hands are tied and they must accept another traffic signal at Line Creek Drive and Hwy 54-W is absolutely unbelievable.

“If we do not immediately receive a significant infusion of funding from the state or another outside source, MARTA will have to take extremely drastic measures to survive our next fiscal year,”

middle of your back: you can't reach it, you can't stop it and you can't make sense of it. But if you ignore it, it wi

Most horrific of insults came flying,
The nasty, stinky, sand encrusted shoes
That was stomped on Saddam's face crying,

Most of you have probably gotten this via e-mail, since it was around last year, or maybe before. What the heck, I'm old too.

It is all about trade, isn't it?
Scarcity and demand also contribute.
You always predict success then quit
Everyone then pays to you a tribute!

I had to drive into Fayetteville this weekend and drove past the log cabin...the tree is beautiful!! Great job to the decorator(s)!

Who woulda thought?

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George W. Bush did not exist--he was a mirage! Cheney did not exist, he was a virtual!
Rumsfeld and Rove and Scooter did not exist--they were imagined.

Nothing has changed in government since the beginning of time. Neither has the consequences.

In the late 1700’s the French Ministers told the King & Queen there was great unrest in the people due to the increasing price of bread. Marie Antoinette sluffed it off with the now infamous statement, “then let them eat cake!” Not long after the King & Queen lost their heads. In the 1990’s Michael Boskin, Pres. Clinton’s Minister of Labor Statistics along with Alan Greenspan, decided to reduce inflation by changing the way the Consumer Price Index (CPI) was calculated. Heretofore, the CPI was determined by pricing a set list of goods from year to year. The difference between current prices and last year’s prices was the inflation rate. The culprits decided that by substituting some of the goods priced, a lower CPI could dupe the people. An actual example was substituting hamburger for steak since burgers were cheaper than T-bones. The inflation rate went down. From then to now, the government has said inflation has averaged 3-5% a year. Using the original basket of goods including steak, the real CPI today is 13.7%. I suppose dog food has now been substituted for hamburger. You know its true when you go to buy something.