Did someone forget to do a spellcheck...sheesh!
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Priceless.

LONDON (Reuters) - A cleaner at London's Tate Britain modern art gallery threw out a bag of garbage that was part of an artwork because it was thought to be trash, British newspapers reported Friday.

The transparent bag of garbage -- full of newspaper, cardboard and other bits of paper -- formed part of a work by German-born artist Gustav Metzger called "Recreation Of First Public Demonstration Of Auto-Destructive Art." It was on display next to a sheet of nylon that had been spattered with acid, and a metal sculpture on a table when a cleaner tossed it out with the other trash.

A Tate spokesman said the mistake was made the day before the exhibition opened at the end of June, and although the bag was later rescued, it had been damaged and Metzger had to replace it with another one. The newspapers said the spokesman would not reveal how much the bag had cost to replace. "It's now covered over at night so it can't be removed," the spokesman told the Times.

I saw this running around the Internet and it has had me snickering!
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"Tu Es Foutu (You Promised Me)"

You promised me
Just me and you
You promised me
the moon and the sun,
the birds in the sky
You promised me a wonderful life,
they were only lies
You promised me
all diamonds and pearls
that I never got
You promised me
red roses and gold but soon you forgot[

Chorus]
You promised me
Just me and you
You promised me
I could be your queen
and you’d be my king
You promised me
a white wedding dress, where is the ring?
You promised me
your tender caress your kisses at night
So try to show it wasn’t in vein coz I’m wasting my time[

[Chorus]You promised me
Just me and you
Tu Es Foutu

I am now beginning to be convinced that John Kerry has lied and obfuscated about his war veteran career. That boy is making too much of it...where there is smoke there's fire...IMHO... That he is trying to block publication of the book alleging his fudging his war stories, etc. is really getting me thinking.

I'm no real supporter of Pres. Bush, but me thinks we have another fibber like Pres. Clinton..."I never knew that woman, Ms. Lewinsky."

Sen. Kerry, I want to hear about what you want to accomplish, not listen to you languishing about your alleged war record in Vietnam.

As someone who intially supported Sen. Kerry to replace Shrub, it is this type of stupid rhetoric which changed my position. Sen. Kerry very well knew what he said, and has his pretty boy go out to fix the mess. In this day and age of terrorism where 3,000 souls are snuffed out, I don't want a "sensitive" war against terrorism. I want the terrorists carpet-bombed straight to Allah, and may Allah have to start rationing out the 72 virgins to all of the whacked out Muslim extremists. Hey folks, these are the people who say they will only end their jihad against the US and its allies if they declare themselves to be Islamic states. (Of course, I will concede that the whacked out right-wing Bible bangers will probably only end their Jihad if the world converts to their fire-brand Christiandom!). I want a strong leader, not some whimped out politically correct approach that has never worked in the past. Especially if they are being expressed by some rich boy pretty face as John Edwards (who I liked in the past when he criticized Sen. Kerry in the Democratic nomination period.)


FLINT, Mich. - A day after Vice President Dick Cheney criticized John Kerry , Democratic Sen. John Edwards defended his running mate on Friday, saying he spilled "his blood for the United States" and accusing the Republican of distorting Kerry's words. Cheney told voters in Ohio Thursday that Kerry had called for a "more sensitive" war on terror and mocked that notion as something that won't impress the Sept. 11 terrorists of the Islamic militants who have beheaded U.S. citizens.

Edwards, returning to the campaign after a three-day break, took issue with Cheney's comments and his target — Democratic presidential nominee Kerry, a decorated Vietnam War veteran. "He took that word and distorted and tried to use it to argue John Kerry will not keep the American people safe," Edwards said. "He's talking about a man who still carries shrapnel in his body. He's talking about a man who spilled his blood for the United States of America."
At a minority journalists' convention last week, Kerry said: "I believe I can fight a more effective, more thoughtful, more strategic, more proactive, more sensitive war on terror that reaches out to other nations and brings them to our side and lives up to American values in history."

Edwards' visit to Flint focused on issues polls show are even higher than security on Michigan voters' list of concerns: jobs and the economy. "What it is is an effort to distract, not to talk about the problems here in Flint, Michigan," the North Carolina senator told the audience of about 1,500, who gathered in a drizzling rain outside Mott Community College.
Prior to the rally, Edwards held a front-porch meeting with some Flint voters.

One was Susan Duffiny, who was laid off in 2002 from her factory job in Auburn Hills. The Flint woman was retrained as a computer network administrator but has yet to land a job in that field. "I'm sure there are a lot of people in trouble who don't have health care," Duffiny told Edwards. "Oh, I can tell you there are a lot of people in trouble," Edwards told her. "For us, jobs are a big issue." Twenty-seven percent of likely Michigan voters surveyed recently by Lansing-based EPIC/MRA said improving the economy and providing jobs was their biggest concern, nearly twice as many as those listing health care or terrorism, which tied for second. The state unemployment rate remains a full point above the national rate at 6.5 percent. Flint's unemployment rate was 14.5 percent in June, while the rate in surrounding Genesee County was 8.5 percent.

Remember when you ran away
And I got on my knees
And begged you not to leave
Because I'd go beserk

Well you left me anyhow
And then the days got worse and worse
And now you see I've gone
Completely out of my mind

And they're coming to take me away ha-haaa
They're coming to take me away ho ho hee hee ha haaa
To the funny farm
Where life is beautiful all the time
And I'll be happy to see those nice young men
In their clean white coats
And they're coming to take me away ha haaa

You thought it was a joke
And so you laughed
You laughed when I said
That losing you would make me flip my lid

Right? You know you laughed
I heard you laugh. You laughed
You laughed and laughed and then you left
But now you know I'm utterly mad

And they're coming to take me away ha haaa
They're coming to take me away ho ho hee hee ha haaa
To the happy home with trees and flowers and chirping birds
And basket weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes
And they're coming to take me away ha haaa

I cooked your food
I cleaned your house
And this is how you pay me back
For all my kind unselfish, loving deeds
Ha! Well you just wait
They'll find you yet and when they do
They'll put you in the A.S.P.C.A.
You mangy mutt

And they're coming to take me away ha haaa
They're coming to take me away ha haaa ho ho hee hee
To the funny farm where life is beautiful all the time
And I'll be happy to see those nice young men
In their clean white coats

And they're coming to take me away
To the happy home with trees and flowers and chirping birds
And basket weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes
And they're coming to take me away ha haaa

FANTASTIC THought of the Day.....

Us boys from the south don't take too kindly to people messin' with our friends. You can take our wives, and everything else; just don't mess with our beer, trucks, friends or dogs.

I still remember the old ads here in the US for Wendy's which had Clara Peller saying, "where's the beef.... I don't think there is anyone back there."

That said, seeing that Sen. Kerry apparently really didn't win the hearts and minds of America at the Democratic Presidential Convention in Philadelphia, if he wants to begin to convince voters on the other side of the church, he needs to talk about ISSUES, ISSUES, ISSUES, and must go beyond constant criticisms about the President. Cheap shots are just that.

Where's the beef, Senator Kerry?

Convince me!


MSNBC - Bush pushes comp time proposal:

"On another topic, Kerry said he would have reacted much more quickly than President Bush did on Sept. 11, 2001, when he learned of terrorist attacks.
The president spent seven minutes reading to Florida elementary school children after learning that hijacked planes had been flown into the World Trade Center in New York.
"Had I been reading to children and had my top aide whisper in my ear that America is under attack, I would have told those kids very nicely and politely that the president of the United States has something that he needs to attend to," Kerry said.

Ridiculing Bush's claimsKerry also ridiculed President Bush's claim that the nation has "turned a corner" in an era marked by terrorism and economic recession.
"Just saying that you've turned a corner doesn't make it so. Just like saying there are weapons of mass destruction (in Iraq) doesn' make it so. Just like saying you can fight a war on the cheap doesn' make it so. Just like saying "mission accomplished" doesn't make it so," Kerry said."

This will DEFINITELY sway and change my political preference? Are these (some) washed up "artists" egos so big that they think they can wield so much power? Funny thing is, the very people they are targeting are some of the least likely to go to the polls come election day.

Assholes....

NEW YORK (AP) - In an unprecedented series of concerts in nine swing states, more than 20 musical acts - including Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam and the Dixie Chicks - will perform fund-raising concerts one month before the Nov. 2 election in an effort to unseat President Bush.

The shows, which will begin Oct. 1 in Pennsylvania, will take an unusual approach: as many as six concerts on a single day in cities across the states expected to decide the November presidential race. Other stops on the tour are North Carolina, Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Wisconsin and the key state in 2000, Florida.

"We're trying to put forward a group of progressive ideals and change the administration in the White House," Springsteen told The Associated Press in the most overtly political statements of his 30-year career. "That's the success or failure, very clear cut and very simple."

The artists of different generations and genres will tour under the name "Vote For Change," with shows Oct. 1-8. But the money generated will go to America Coming Together, which promises on its Web site to "derail the right-wing Republican agenda by defeating George W. Bush."

There was no immediate word on prices for tickets, which were going on sale for all shows Aug. 21. The shows will pair artists, such as Springsteen and REM or the Dixie Chicks and James Taylor. There will be 34 shows in 28 cities.

Other artists participating in the shows include hip-hoppers Jurassic 5, John Mellencamp, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Babyface, Bright Eyes and the Dave Matthews Band. Most have a history of social activism, from Browne's anti-nuclear concerts to Mellencamp's Farm Aid shows. Pearl Jam front man Vedder was a Ralph Nader backer in 2000.

"At some point, you can't sit still," said Vedder, a harsh critic of the Iraq war. "You can't spend your life, when people are getting killed, without asking serious questions about why."

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 - Members of Congress often call the Capitol the People's House. But the house is looking more and more like a fortress. On Tuesday, one day after the Capitol police announced a series of heightened security measures, Capitol Hill resembled a walled city. The ring of concrete barriers encircling the Capitol building since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has now expanded outward to include the adjacent House and Senate office buildings.

Tourists and lawmakers said they felt safe - or, if not safe, at least comforted. But they also lamented a way of life lost, and spoke wistfully of the days when people from Kentucky or Arkansas or Oklahoma or anywhere else in the United States could march into the symbol of American democracy and ask to see their congressman - no metal detectors, no questions asked.


This is simply because of lax immigration policy....under Republican and Democratic regimes. We are now paying the price for extreme liberalism...being a little too generous offering refuge to pieces of human excrement who passes him- and her-self for being one of the "poor, Give me your tired, your poor, huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

Or was this a joke perpetrated on the US a hundred years ago by France...and we're only now figuring out that we were the butt of the joke?
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Yahoo! News - Tyson Stopped in Shocking Fourth-Round KO

FANTASTIC WRITING!

Beaten and battered, Tyson laid helplessly along the ropes, blood flowing down his face. The former baddest man on the planet stared ahead with a look of resignation on his face as his latest comeback — and perhaps his tumultuous career — collapsed along with him.

A super friend of mine made a great point today...

"They put flouride in the water for healthier teeth. If they put prozac in the water supply. The world would be a much happier place. not to mention more sane."

Definitely food for thought!

Teresa Heinz-Kerry speech at the 2004 Democratic Convention:

With John Kerry as President, global climate change and other threats to the health of our planet will begin to be reversed.

With John Kerry as President, the alliances that bind the community of nations and that truly make our country and the world a safer place, will be strengthened once more.

Will John Kerry also make water into wine?

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh PUHHHHHLEEEZE!
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This is an honest to goodness picture from the America West website promoting their inflight deli while your ticket purchase is being processed.
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Edwards: All Fla. Votes to Count in Nov

ORLANDO, Fla. - Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards (news - web sites) pledged from the pulpit of a black church on Sunday that the party will work hard to head off the kind of Florida ballot irregularities that Democrats assert gave the White House to George W. Bush.

I guess it doesn't count that former Democratic Presidential Candidate Al Gore's suing to prevent the military votes from being counted in that contested election doesn't count.

Folks, it is not about LEADERSHIP and addressing problem that our country faces. It is about EGO and nothing but EGO.

Anymore good news like this????

NYT: COLLAPSE OF THE EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD ACCELERATES
Mon Jul 12 2004 18:17:38 ET

The collapse of the earth's magnetic field, which both guards the planet and guides many of its creatures, appears to have started in earnest about 150 years ago, the NY TIMES is planning to report on Page Ones Tuesday.

Science reporter Bill Broad has filed a report, according to newsroom sources, which explores how: 'The field's strength has waned 10 percent to 15 percent so far and this deterioration has accelerated of late, increasing debate over whether it portends a reversal of the lines of magnetic force that normally envelop the earth.'

Broad explains: 'During a reversal, the main field weakens, almost vanishes, and then reappears with opposite polarity. Afterward, compass needles that normally point north would point south, and during the thousands of years of transition much in the heavens and Earth would go askew.'

Broad claims: 'A reversal could knock out power grids, hurt astronauts and satellites, widen atmospheric ozone holes, send polar auroras flashing to the equator and confuse birds, fish and migratory animals that rely on the steadiness of the magnetic field as a navigation aid.'"

This is what is going through my head tonight...

http://www.joe-ks.com/archives/Resignation.htm

Words I live by....

Promise Yourself

Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can
disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness
and prosperity to every person you meet. To make all
your friends feel that there is something in them.
To look at the sunny side of everything and make
your optimism come true. To think only of the best,
to work only for the best, and expect only the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others
as you are about your own. To forget the mistakes of
the past and press on to greater achievements of the
future. To wear a cheerful countenance at all times
and give every living creature you meet a smile. To
give so much time to the improvement of yourself
that you have no time to criticize others. To be too
large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear
and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
- Christian D. Larson