Saturday, August 25, 2012

The really really important headlines of the day

Rick Warren's Presidential civility summit has been canceled...for lack of civility.
...(The) minister told the Orange County Register in an article published Wednesday: “It would be hypocritical to pretend civility for one evening only to have the name-calling return the next day.”
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The "mark of the beast" alert comes from Dave Barry:

Israeli biblical park outfits donkeys with wi-fi

Read more here: http://blogs.herald.com/dave_barrys_blog/2012/08/as-for.html#storylink=cpy

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Also from DB: 
Drought Blamed for Cow Chip Shortage
We're learning that the drought is impacting a tradition in our area, one you may take your family to each year. Every Labor Day weekend, tens of thousands of people herd into Prairie du Sac for the Wisconsin State Cow Chip Throwing Contest and Festival.
Organizers say this year, there's a shortage of chips.

BUT DON'T DESPAIR: Someone stored last year's leftovers:
Organizers say they have a reserve stash of cow chips held over from last year's competition. They say those couple hundred cow chips will make up for this year's shortage.
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The "Don't Mess With Texas" Article of the Day:

StrategyPage notes that Texas now has it's own Navy....

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The David Hasselhoff story of the day:

David Hasselhoff’s pet pig has made him late again. “I’m sorry,” exhales the TV star, sinking into a deckchair on the beachfront of a Santa Monica hotel. “He was stuck in the house scratching at the door asking to be let out. Then the water dragons needed feeding.”
Welcome to Hoff-world: an alternative universe where pot-bellied pigs govern schedules, conversations veer off on wild tangents and waitresses swoon like schoolgirls....



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