Make sure you watch #10, very funny and please load "Buycott" [#13]........
1/ Our shrewdest political commentator, Frank Rich, on the "scandals" enveloping the White House, and what the frothing at the mouth from the Republicans really means......
Frank Rich on the National Circus: The IRS, Benghazi, and the Republicans Who Cried Wolf
- By Frank Rich
Every week, New York Magazine writer-at-large Frank Rich talks with contributor Eric Benson about the biggest stories in politics and culture. This week: The GOP finds a new Watergate, the Justice Department bullies the AP, and Bloomberg News gets caught snooping on Bloomberg clients.
Last week, conservatives called Benghazi Obama's Watergate. Now they're applying that label to a new scandal in which IRS officials admitted applying special scrutiny to tea-party-affiliated groups applying for tax-exempt status. President Obama has condemned the IRS's actions. The FBI has opened an investigation. Do you see this having a major impact on the administration and its credibility?
It would help the GOP’s political cause if it didn’t ratchet up to DEFCON 1 at every Obama White House mishap that lurches into its sights. Benghazi is the “most egregious coverup in American history” (in the words of Senator James Inhofe, R-Oklahoma), but if every other story is Watergate, too, then Inhofe and the rest become the Boys Who Cried Wolf. With all due respect to George Will, who now refers to the Obama “regime” in his column and is citing Watergate articles of impeachment to indict the president, the IRS scandal only becomes Watergate if it turns out that the targeting of tea-party groups was under White House orders or direction. There is no evidence of this. Indeed, the IRS commissioner in charge at the time this happened was Douglas Shulman, a Bush appointee who testified before a House oversight committee in March 2012 that there had been “absolutely no targeting” of conservative groups. Why would a Republican official be part of an Obama cover-up?
It would help the GOP’s political cause if it didn’t ratchet up to DEFCON 1 at every Obama White House mishap that lurches into its sights. Benghazi is the “most egregious coverup in American history” (in the words of Senator James Inhofe, R-Oklahoma), but if every other story is Watergate, too, then Inhofe and the rest become the Boys Who Cried Wolf. With all due respect to George Will, who now refers to the Obama “regime” in his column and is citing Watergate articles of impeachment to indict the president, the IRS scandal only becomes Watergate if it turns out that the targeting of tea-party groups was under White House orders or direction. There is no evidence of this. Indeed, the IRS commissioner in charge at the time this happened was Douglas Shulman, a Bush appointee who testified before a House oversight committee in March 2012 that there had been “absolutely no targeting” of conservative groups. Why would a Republican official be part of an Obama cover-up?
2/ Some good news this week as a follow-up to his story theme "Everything Is Rigged" - Matt Taibbi reports that the EU raided offices of some major European oil companies looking for evidence of price fixing.....
This of course won't affect the US based oil giants, as they are immune from prosecution - they own the regulators, and the politicians, so can operate with impunity. But the Europeans still have some integrity......
We're going to get into this more at a later date, but there was some interesting late-breaking news yesterday.
According to numerous reports, the European Commission regulators yesterday raided the offices of oil companies in London, the Netherlands and Norway as part of an investigation into possible price-rigging in the oil markets. The targeted companies include BP, Shell and the Norweigan company Statoil. The Guardian explains that officials believe that oil companies colluded to manipulate pricing data:
The commission said the alleged price collusion, which may have been going on since 2002, could have had a "huge impact" on the price of petrol at the pumps "potentially harming final consumers".Lord Oakeshott, former Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman, said the alleged rigging of oil prices was "as serious as rigging Libor" – which led to banks being fined hundreds of millions of pounds.
The inquiry also involves Platts, the world's largest oil price reporting agency. The concept here is very similar to both the LIBOR scandal, which involved banks manipulating the benchmark rates for interest rates, and to the possible rigging of interest rate swap prices through the manipulation of ISDAfix, the benchmark rate for those instruments, which is also the subject of a regulatory probe.
We wrote about both of those scandals in last month's Rolling Stone article, "Everything is Rigged." In that piece, finance professionals talked about the potential for manipulation in other markets that involve voluntary price reporting:
What other markets out there carry the same potential for manipulation? The answer to that question is far from reassuring, because the potential is almost everywhere. From gold to gas to swaps to interest rates, prices all over the world are dependent upon little private cabals of cigar-chomping insiders we're forced to trust.
3/ Bill Maher somehow got hold of the IRS forms that the tax authorities were making the Tea Party people fill out....
Very funny indeed, one of his better ones - three minutes......
Bill Maher might not agree with Republicans when it comes to Benghazi, but he's on their side when it comes to the recent IRS scandal targeting Tea Party members.
On Friday night's episode of "Real Time," Maher admitted that he's quite convinced that the IRS was unfairly scrutinizing Tea Party members -- and he has the tax forms to prove it.
4/ The quiet surveillance of the AP reporter's phone records is a serious matter, because the full force of the gumment is descending on "Whistleblowers, hackers, anyone who is dissenting. It's a crackdown on who controls information."
This isn't good folks........this is why they have basically tortured Bradley Manning, and are keeping Julian Assange holed up in an embassy in London......
This week, it was revealed that the Department of Justice secretly seized two months' worth of private phone records from Associated Press reporters and editors. As this decision comes under increasing scrutiny, press freedom advocates say it's just part of a larger battle for control of information – one that they've been trying to sound an alarm on for a long time.
"I've been saying for years that this is a backdoor way to go after journalists," says Jesselyn Radack, a former DOJ employee and whistleblower who is now director of national security and human rights at the Government Accountability Project.
The Obama administration has prosecuted more whistleblowers under the Espionage Act of 1917 – a 96-year-old law that was written to target spies, not journalists' sources – than all previous administrations combined. Reporters (sometimes thinly anonymized as "Reporter A") often show up in these indictments, says Radack, a fact that she believes "should have been a wake-up call."
On Monday, the AP revealed that the phone records seized by the DOJ could bring over 100 employees who use those phone lines under the scope of the investigation – which appears to be focused on a single AP story, from May 7th, 2012. The story reported that the CIA disrupted an al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula plot to blow up an airliner, though it later came out that the plot was actually a sting set-up. In recently confirmed CIA director John Brennan's words, "We had inside control of the plot and the device was never a threat to the American public."
So why is the Obama administration targeting the reporters and editors who worked on this story – one that, by the CIA's own admission, didn't even involve an actual national security threat? "There's a broader war on [those who reveal] information," Radack says. "Whistleblowers, hackers, anyone who is dissenting. It's a crackdown on who controls information."
Thomas Drake, the National Security Agency whistleblower who was prosecuted under the Espionage Act in 2010, echoes Radack's concerns. "The real issue is the government's pathological need for control of information in order to protect the imprimatur of the 'state' religion, namely national security," says Drake. He fears the DOJ investigation will have a clear chilling effect for journalists and their sources: "It sends a message to the press that we can ferret out your sources, so watch out, because we are watching you." Director Robert Greenwald's timely new film, War on Whistleblowers, features Drake and illustrates the consequences for those who seek to expose government corruption and illegality.
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5/ Sometimes a cartoon can nail it - Brian McFadden in the Times on the Presidents obsession with whistleblowers......
6/ Michael Davis is decent at the art of juggling, but he is really a comedian......his act is quite amusing, and does include some juggling.....six minutes....
7/ Rachel Maddow with [for her] quite a passionate segment on why the tapping of the AP reporter's phones was a continuation of the intrusion of the government into our privacy, all in the name of control of information....
She gives the history of how the Pentagon Papers were published, with some history as well. She doesn't just give the facts, she gives us a story too.
One of our best political analysts.....her commentary is about 15 minutes, and she interviews the attorney for AP for another 7 minutes......
Rachel Maddow called out President Obama for "sort of changing his mind" on the issue of a federal shield law once he became president.
Maddow reacted to what she called the "bombshell revelation" that the Department of Justice secretly obtained the phone records of AP journalists. The Justice Department was investigating a leak that was responsible for an AP story on a thwarted Al Qaeda terror plot that was published around this time last year.
"Who knows what kind of irrevocable harm this has caused," Maddow said, adding that confidential sources would probably question speaking to the AP again, after knowing that the Justice Department obtained the news organization's phone records.
8/ Remember these? Roadrunner cartoons, with Wily E. Coyote constantly getting creamed in his quest to get the wabbit?
Here is the first new one for decades, made digitally......2 minutes.......
An honest to goodness, brand new Wile E. Coyote - Roadrunner cartoon made with today's technology (but all of the old humor). Enjoy !
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9/ A few months ago DDD had a story saying the insurance industry was worried about climate change and extreme weather, and I wrote my opinion that perhaps the giant insurance corporations would prove a counterbalance to the fossil fuel industry.
How naive I was. The insurance industry is fully aware of the changes in our weather to come, but are only taking the necessary steps to preserve their profits. They believe in global warming, but don't care enough to lobby or work for any measures to mitigate the damage. They are just cold-bloodedly assessing how they will maintain their margins......
A chilling, cynical story in the Times.......we are so screwed, and when I say we I mean the human race.......
ECONOMIC SCENE
For Insurers, No Doubts on Climate Change
Master Sgt. Mark Olsen/U.S. Air Force, via Associated Press
Damage in Mantoloking, N.J., after Hurricane Sandy. Natural disasters caused $35 billion in private property losses last year.
By EDUARDO PORTER
Published: May 14, 2013
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If there were one American industry that would be particularly worried about climate change it would have to be insurance, right?
From Hurricane Sandy’s devastating blow to the Northeast to the protracted drought that hit the Midwest Corn Belt, natural catastrophes across the United States pounded insurers last year, generating $35 billion in privately insured property losses, $11 billion more than the average over the last decade.
And the industry expects the situation will get worse. “Numerous studies assume a rise in summer drought periods in North America in the future and an increasing probability of severe cyclones relatively far north along the U.S. East Coast in the long term,” said Peter Höppe, who heads Geo Risks Research at the reinsurance giant Munich Re. “The rise in sea level caused by climate change will further increase the risk of storm surge.” Most insurers, including the reinsurance companies that bear much of the ultimate risk in the industry, have little time for the arguments heard in some right-wing circles that climate change isn’t happening, and are quite comfortable with the scientific consensus that burning fossil fuels is the main culprit of global warming.
“Insurance is heavily dependent on scientific thought,” Frank Nutter, president of the Reinsurance Association of America, told me last week. “It is not as amenable to politicized scientific thought.”
Yet when I asked Mr. Nutter what the American insurance industry was doing to combat global warming, his answer was surprising: nothing much. “The industry has really not been engaged in advocacy related to carbon taxes or proposals addressing carbon,” he said. While some big European reinsurers like Munich Re and Swiss Re support efforts to reduce CO2 emissions, “in the United States the household names really have not engaged at all.” Instead, the focus of insurers’ advocacy efforts is zoning rules and disaster mitigation.
10/ I thought this video might be a little naughty [as in politically incorrect], but I am assured by a teenage family member and Mary that it's just really, really funny.......so here is a black inner city substitute teacher who has trouble with white peoples names......3 minutes......
Note when he uses the phrase "insubordinate and churlish"......it's clever too......
11/ A chilling story - did you know this?
The information allows drug makers to know which drugs a doctor is prescribing and how that compares to a colleague across town. They know whether patients are filling their prescriptions — and refilling them on time. They know details of patients’ medical conditions and lab tests, and sometimes even their age, income and ethnic backgrounds.
How are the drug companies getting this information? And are doctors feeling pressure to prescribe drugs based on peer pressure? You bet. I've been waiting in a doctors office when the pharmacutical reps come in, and they are whisked in to see the doctor immediately. No waiting.....
Pills Tracked From Doctor to Patient to Aid Drug Marketing
By KATIE THOMAS
Published: May 16, 2013 144 Comments
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In the old days, sales representatives from drug companies would chat up local pharmacists to learn what drugs doctors were prescribing. Now such shoulder-rubbing is becoming a quaint memory — thanks to vast databases of patient and doctor information being used by pharmaceutical companies to market drugs.
The information allows drug makers to know which drugs a doctor is prescribing and how that compares to a colleague across town. They know whether patients are filling their prescriptions — and refilling them on time. They know details of patients’ medical conditions and lab tests, and sometimes even their age, income and ethnic backgrounds.
The result, said one marketing consultant, is what would happen if Arthur Miller’s Willy Loman met up with the data whizzes of Michael Lewis’s “Moneyball.” “There’s a group of geeks, if you will, who are running the numbers and helping the sales guys be much more efficient,” said Chris Wright, managing director of ZS Associates, which conducts such analyses for pharmaceutical companies.
Drug makers say they are putting the information to good use, by helping a doctor improve the chances that their patients take their medications as prescribed, or making sure they are prescribing the right drug to the right patients.
Some doctors, however, expressed discomfort with the idea of sensitive data being used to sell drugs, even though federal law requires that any personally identifiable information be removed. “I think the doctors tend not to be aware of the depths to which they are being analyzed and studied by people trying to sell them drugs and other medical products,” said Dr. Jerry Avorn, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a pioneer of programs for doctors aimed at counteracting the marketing efforts of drug makers. “Almost by definition, a lot of this stuff happens under the radar — there may be a sales pitch, but the doctor may not know that sales pitch is being informed by their own prescribing patterns.
12/ A classic music vid - "How Deep is Your Love", by the Bee Gees - live.......one of those really nice songs......
13/ A new free app for your Apple and Android phone is available, called "Buycott". This lets you scan a barcode and it tells you the brand, the company and the parent corporation of who made the product, so you can tell if it is manufactured by the Koch Brothers, Monsanto or George Soros - it's non-political.
I got it, registered with Buycott [2 minutes] and tried it - it works! It's not as timeconsuming as it sounds - we all have our favourite brands, so you only need to do this a a few times......
This gives YOU power, because the only way these bastards will listen is when it affects their business.....
so use it.......
In her keynote speech at last year’s annual Netroots Nation gathering, Darcy Burner pitched a seemingly simple idea to the thousands of bloggers and web developers in the audience. The former Microsoft MSFT +2.29%
Burner figured the average supermarket shopper had no idea that buying Brawny paper towels, Angel Soft toilet paper or Dixie cups meant contributing cash to Koch Industries through its subsidiary Georgia-Pacific. Similarly, purchasing a pair of yoga pants containing Lycra or a Stainmaster carpet meant indirectly handing the Kochs your money (Koch Industries bought Invista, one of the world’s largest fiber and textiles companies, in 2004 from DuPont).
At the time, Burner created a mock interface for her app, but that’s as far as she got. She was waiting to find the right team to build out the back end, which could be complicated given often murky corporate ownership structures.
She wasn’t aware that as she delivered her Netroots speech, a group of developers was hard at work on Buycott, an even more sophisticated version of the app she proposed.
“I remember reading Forbes’ story on the proposed app to help boycott Koch Industries and wishing that we were ready to launch our product,” said Buycott’s marketing director Maceo Martinez.
14/ I did not know this, did you?
Florida's citrus industry is in big trouble, affected by a bacterial infection.....
Citrus Disease With No Cure Is Ravaging Florida Groves
By LIZETTE ALVAREZ
Although the disease, citrus greening, was first spotted in Florida in 2005, this year’s losses from it are by far the most extensive. While the bacteria, which causes fruit to turn bitter and drop from the trees when still unripe, affects all citrus fruits, it has been most devastating to oranges, the largest crop. So many have been affected that the United States Department of Agriculture has downgraded its crop estimates five months in a row, an extraordinary move, analysts said.
With the harvest not yet over, orange production has already decreased 10 percent from the initial estimate, a major swing, they said.
“The long and short of it is that the industry that made Florida, that is synonymous with Florida, that is a staple on every American breakfast table, is totally threatened,” said Senator Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat who helped obtain $11 million in federal money for research to fight the disease. “If we don’t find a cure, it will eliminate the citrus industry.”
The relentless migration of the disease from southern to northern Florida — and beyond — has deepened concerns this year among orange juice processors, investors, growers and lawmakers. Florida is the second-largest producer of orange juice in the world, behind Brazil, and the state’s $9 billion citrus industry is a major economic force, contributing 76,000 jobs.
The industry, lashed over the years by canker disease, hard freezes and multiple hurricanes, is no stranger to hardship. But citrus greening is by far the most worrisome.
The disease, which can lie dormant for two to five years, is spread by an insect no larger than the head of a pin, the Asian citrus psyllid. It snacks on citrus trees, depositing bacteria that gradually starves trees of nutrients. Psyllids fly from tree to tree, leaving a trail of infection.
Concerted efforts by growers and millions of dollars spent on research to fight the disease have so far failed, growers and scientists said. The situation was worsened this season by an unusual weather pattern, including a dry winter, growers said.
15/ In theaters this week is the new Star Trek movie - "Into Darkness".....review is pretty good, but note they say this one, although exciting and dramatic, has not got the whimsicality and humanity of the original movies....
But still worth seeing, especially if you like sci-fi......
Directed by J.J. Abrams, with the cast from the last one including the excellent Zachary Quinto as Mr. Spock......
There is some intermittent complaining, in “Star Trek Into Darkness,” about the militarization of the Federation’s Starfleet. You may recall that the historic mission of the starship Enterprise was “to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations.” While the crew on the first television series found its way into plenty of fights, the show itself always tried to stay true to the ideals of peaceful intergalactic ethnography.
You get a bit of that in the beginning of the new movie, the second in the rebooted franchise directed by J. J. Abrams, which takes place before all the stuff we remember from television and the first six feature films. James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) is on the surface of a faraway planet overgrown with bright red vines and populated by primitive creatures with chalky white faces. For a few minutes, the nerdy, earnest multicultural vision of 1960s television is brought to life in the digital present, giving rise to an exciting sense of continuity. How great it would be to update the wit and sincerity of the original with the scale and velocity enabled by 21st-century moviemaking.
That hope is not entirely dashed. Mr. Pine and the rest of the cast, with some important new additions, continue to pay sharp and playful tribute to William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and others who first made the voyage from small screen to big. The identity of the main villain cleverly connects the movie to some of the very best episodes from long ago. But all the same, it’s hard to emerge from “Into Darkness” without a feeling of disappointment, even betrayal. Maybe it is too late to lament the militarization of “Star Trek,” but in his pursuit of blockbuster currency, Mr. Abrams has sacrificed a lot of its idiosyncrasy and, worse, the large-spirited humanism that sustained it.
In some of his television work — notably “Felicity”and “Alias”; most famously “Lost” — Mr. Abrams has shown both sensitivity to character and an inventive approach to storytelling. As a movie director, though, an opposite set of instincts too often takes hold, as he clings ever more anxiously to the conventions of the revenge-driven action genre. Hardly one to boldly go anywhere, he prefers to cautiously follow and skillfully pander.
After increasingly noisy and bloated starship battles, “Into Darkness” reaches a climax with the smashing of a North American city followed by a long fistfight on a flying metal platform. It’s uninspired hackwork, and the frequent appearance of blue lens flares does not make this movie any more of a personal statement. Mr. Abrams will never be Michael Bay, who can make kinetic poetry out of huge pieces of machinery smashing together. Why should he want to be?
The trailer shows a bit of plot, but also stuff blowing up good, real good............
Todays video - Steven Wright is a stand-up comedian, and you either love him or hate him. He is the epitome of deadpan delivery, throwaway lines and clever stuff.....
Here is a clip of a young Wright......
Todays blond joke
| A plane is on its way to Detroit when a blonde woman in economy class gets up and moves into an open seat in the first class section. The flight attendant watches her do this, and politely informs the woman that she must sit in economy class because that's the type of ticket she paid for. The blonde replies, "I'm blonde, I'm beautiful, I'm going to Detroit and I'm staying right here." After repeated attempts and no success at convincing the woman to move, the flight attendant goes into the cockpit and informs the pilot and co-piolet that there's a blonde bimbo sitting in first class who refuses to go back to her proper seat. The co-pilot goes back to the woman and explains why she needs to move, but once again the woman replies by saying, "I'm blonde, I'm beatiful, I'm going to Detroit and I'm staying right here." The co-pilot returns to the cockpit and suggests that perhaps they should have the arrival gate call the police and have the woman arrested when they land. The pilot says, "You say she's blonde? I'll handle this. I'm married to a blonde. I speak blonde." He goes back to the woman and whispers quietly in her ear, and she says, "Oh, I'm sorry," then quickly moves back to her seat in economy class. The flight attendant and co-pilot are amazed and ask him what he said to get her to move back to economy without causing any fuss. "I told her first class isn't going to Detroit." |
Todays guy joke
When I was 13, I hoped that one day I would have a girlfriend with big tits
When I was 16, I got a girlfriend with big tits, but there was no passion,
so I decided I needed a passionate girl with zest for life.
so I decided I needed a passionate girl with zest for life.
In college I dated a passionate girl, but she was too emotional.
Everything was an emergency; she was a drama queen, cried all the time and threatened suicide.
So I decided I needed a girl with stability.
When I was 25, I found a very stable girl but she was boring.
She was totally predictable and never got excited about anything.
Life became so dull that I decided that I needed a girl with some excitement.
When I was 28, I found an exciting girl, but I couldn't keep up with her.
She rushed from one thing to another, never settling on anything.
She did mad impetuous things and made me miserable as often as happy.
She was great fun initially and very energetic, but directionless.
So I decided to find a girl with some real ambition.
She did mad impetuous things and made me miserable as often as happy.
She was great fun initially and very energetic, but directionless.
So I decided to find a girl with some real ambition.
When I turned 30, I found a smart ambitious girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground, so I married her.
She was so ambitious that she divorced me and took everything I owned.
I am older and wiser now; and, now I am looking for a girl with big tits!
I am older and wiser now; and, now I am looking for a girl with big tits!
Todays golf jokes
When I die, bury me on the golf course, so my husband will visit.
Female Author Unknown
I don't say my golf game is bad, but if I grew tomatoes they'd come up
sliced.
Author Unknown
I've spent most of my life golfing. The rest I've just wasted.
Author Unknown
They call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken.
Raymond Floyd
The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody would put a
flag stick on top.
Pete Dye (His golf courses reflect this belief!!!)
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think
they are out having fun.
Jim Bishop
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I
did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
Hank Aaron
Golf is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and write down five.
Paul Harvey
Give me golf clubs, fresh air & a beautiful partner, and you can keep
the clubs and the fresh air.
Jack Benny
Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?
Al Boliska
The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course..
Billy Graham
Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are
inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect
golf swing.
Ben Hogan
Go play golf. Go to the golf course. Hit the ball. Find the ball.
Repeat until the ball is in the hole. Have fun. The end.
Chuck Hogan
If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf
ball.
Jack Lemmon
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are
still rolling.
Mark Twain
Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.
Harry Vardon
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with
implements ill adapted for the purpose.
Woodrow Wilson
A golfer's diet: live on greens as much as possible.
Author Unknown
Gone golfin' ... be back about dark thirty.
Author Unknown
Born to golf. Forced to work.
Author Unknown
My body is here, but my mind has already teed off.
Author Unknown
Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at
them.
Jimmy DeMaret
May thy ball lie in green pastures - and not in still waters.
Author Unknown
If I hit it right, it's a slice. If I hit it left, it's a hook. If I
hit it straight, it's a miracle.
Author Unknown
The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't
improve your lie.
George Deukmejian
Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out
of bagpipes.
Author Unknown, but believed to be Robin Williams
Female Author Unknown
I don't say my golf game is bad, but if I grew tomatoes they'd come up
sliced.
Author Unknown
I've spent most of my life golfing. The rest I've just wasted.
Author Unknown
They call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken.
Raymond Floyd
The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody would put a
flag stick on top.
Pete Dye (His golf courses reflect this belief!!!)
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think
they are out having fun.
Jim Bishop
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I
did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
Hank Aaron
Golf is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and write down five.
Paul Harvey
Give me golf clubs, fresh air & a beautiful partner, and you can keep
the clubs and the fresh air.
Jack Benny
Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?
Al Boliska
The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course..
Billy Graham
Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are
inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect
golf swing.
Ben Hogan
Go play golf. Go to the golf course. Hit the ball. Find the ball.
Repeat until the ball is in the hole. Have fun. The end.
Chuck Hogan
If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf
ball.
Jack Lemmon
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are
still rolling.
Mark Twain
Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.
Harry Vardon
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with
implements ill adapted for the purpose.
Woodrow Wilson
A golfer's diet: live on greens as much as possible.
Author Unknown
Gone golfin' ... be back about dark thirty.
Author Unknown
Born to golf. Forced to work.
Author Unknown
My body is here, but my mind has already teed off.
Author Unknown
Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at
them.
Jimmy DeMaret
May thy ball lie in green pastures - and not in still waters.
Author Unknown
If I hit it right, it's a slice. If I hit it left, it's a hook. If I
hit it straight, it's a miracle.
Author Unknown
The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't
improve your lie.
George Deukmejian
Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out
of bagpipes.
Author Unknown, but believed to be Robin Williams
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