Make sure you watch #10....excellent.......
Three stories on climate change, this first one with some rare good news.......
1/ Environmentalists have an image of the Obama administration doing nothing for the planet, but Jonathan Chait argues in Rolling Stone how the President is doing everything he can, and is actually quietly achieving quite a bit despite the ferocious opposition of the Republicans.
Interesting, and it might be a start.......
Obama Might Actually Be the Environmental President
His climate-change policy has been an abject failure, says Al Gore and just about everyone else. They’re wrong. Here’s why.
- By Jonathan Chait
- Published May 5, 2013
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He passed $90 billion in green-energy stimulus ...
(Photo: David Benjamin Sherry. Courtesy of David Benjamin Sherry, OHWOW Gallery, Los Angeles, and Salon 94 Gallery, New York (Winter Storm in Zion Canyon, Zion, Utah, 2013). All photographs are currently on view at OHWOW Gallery, Los Angeles, as part of the exhibition “Wonderful Land.” )
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State of the Union addresses are wearying rituals, in which stitched-together lists of never-gonna-happen goals are woven into idealistic catchphrases, analyzed as rhetoric by an unqualified panel of poetry-critic-for-a-night political reporters, quickly followed by a hapless opposition-party response, and then, in almost every case, forgotten. This year, plunked into the midst of the tedium was a gigantic revelation, almost surely the most momentous news of President Obama’s second term. “I will direct my Cabinet,” he announced, “to come up with executive actions we can take now and in the future to reduce pollution, prepare our communities for the consequences of climate change, and speed the transition to more sustainable sources of energy.”
Here was a genuine bombshell. It sounded a little vague, and the president did not explain precisely what he intended to do or how he would pull it off. But a handful of environmental wonks had a fairly strong grasp of the project he had committed himself to, and they understood that it was very, very real and very, very doable. If they were to have summarized the news, the headline would have been OBAMA TO SAVE PLANET.
2/ But here's the problem - it's not just us - it's the Chinese and the rest of the third world's rising middle class demanding more resources and energy, and even if the US makes progress quietly how can we take the moral high ground and demand action from the rest of the world without a commitment from this country in general?
And the warming is accelerating - as this story says we have passed the 400ppm mark for CO2, and this level alone will drive major climate change, seas rising and extreme weather. And any progress will be resisted by the most powerful corporations in the world......
Heat-Trapping Gas Passes Milestone, Raising Fears
Chris Stewart/Associated Press
The average carbon dioxide reading surpassed 400 parts per million at the research facility atop the Mauna Loa volcano on the island of Hawaii for the 24 hours that ended at 8 p.m. on Thursday.
By JUSTIN GILLIS
Published: May 10, 2013 700 Comments
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The level of the most important heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide, has passed a long-feared milestone, scientists reported Friday, reaching a concentration not seen on the earth for millions of years.
Scientific instruments showed that the gas had reached an average daily level above 400 parts per million — just an odometer moment in one sense, but also a sobering reminder that decades of efforts to bring human-produced emissions under control are faltering.
The best available evidence suggests the amount of the gas in the air has not been this high for at least three million years, before humans evolved, and scientists believe the rise portends large changes in the climate and the level of the sea.
“It symbolizes that so far we have failed miserably in tackling this problem,” said Pieter P. Tans, who runs the monitoring program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that reported the new reading.
Ralph Keeling, who runs another monitoring program at the Scripps Institution of Oceanographyin San Diego, said a continuing rise could be catastrophic. “It means we are quickly losing the possibility of keeping the climate below what people thought were possibly tolerable thresholds,” he said.
3/ And this is how the Kochs and Exxon Mobil climate deniers resist - as well as purchasing their puppet Congressmen and Senators to quash any legislation, they set up institutes and impressive sounding think tanks that are for the sole purpose of denying climate change, which are then quoted by the media as the other side of the "climate debate".
There is no debate. It's happening, but we aren't being told the reality.......
This six-part series, "Unreliable Sources: How the Media Help the Kochs and ExxonMobil Spread Climate Disinformation," documents that the press routinely cites climate contrarian think tanks without reporting their ties to the fossil fuel industry.
Part 1: A Glaring Lapse in Climate and Energy Coverage
One of my morning rituals is half-listening to NPR's "Morning Edition" while I'm getting ready for work. But on January 3, when a story came on about the fate of the wind industry's production tax credit, I snapped to attention. It was good news. Congress's eleventh hour "fiscal cliff" agreement had left the tax credit in place for at least one more year.
The NPR story featured a spokesman for a small Iowa wind project who explained how the tax credit benefits rural communities. For balance, it also included a naysayer: Thomas Pyle from the American Energy Alliance, who wanted Congress to kill the subsidy.
"It's not that the subsidies for the wind industry in and of themselves are bad, but it is part-and-parcel of a larger problem, and that is, is that the federal government is notoriously bad at energy policy," Pyle said. "They have been for decades, and we think it's time for them to step aside."
But who is Thomas Pyle and what is the American Energy Alliance? The story didn't say.
It turns out that the American Energy Alliance is a front group for the oil and gas industry. Pyle, AEA's president, is a former lobbyist for the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association and Koch Industries, the Wichita, Kansas-based coal, oil and gas conglomerate owned by the billionaire brothers Charles G. and David H. Koch (pronounced "coke"). Koch Industries is the second largest privately held company in the country.
Digging a little deeper, I learned that AEA is the political arm of the Institute for Energy Research, where Pyle also serves as president. From 2006 to 2010, IRE received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the oil and gas industry's trade association, the American Petroleum Institute; ExxonMobil; and the Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation, a philanthropy controlled by Charles Koch.
4/ Light relief #1 - after three serious stories about the environment you now need a funny talking dog video.......2 minutes.....
5/ Light relief #2 - a four minute video of people doing amazing stuff.....it's "People are Awesome 2013", and worth another look.....
Note - this is not the fails compilation, noone gets hurt! Just astonishing athletics.....good song too!
6/ Saturday Night Live opening - The Republicans in Congress are obsessed with Benghazi, but are very annoyed the media with the exception of Fox for not taking the hearings seriously. Of course SNL has a take on this........four minutes.....and an appearance from Jodi Arias.....
This week’s Saturday Night Live opened with a news-of-the-week recap of sorts, meshing the Benghazi hearings with the Cleveland kidnappings and the Jodi Arias trial.
Mocking the GOP’s persistance of a cover-up in the Benghazi attacks, SNL held its own House Oversight Committee hearings, in which a faux-Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) doggedly pursued the truth by grilling… convicted murderer Jodi Arias. The show’s version of Rep. Trey Gowdy(R-SC) also made an appearance — albeit with a bizarre “Rep. Peter Welch” plaque in front of him — to grill Arias.
Kenan Thompson portrayed Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) — but, like Gowdy, with an incorrect name card? — who downplayed the entire situation, and even suggested the committee consider grilling Cleveland kidnapping suspect Ariel Castro.
7/ Fascinating story from the Times Magazine on an incident that happened last year, where a CIA contractor in Lahore killed two Pakistanis and was arrested and held in prison for months.....
This was a big story, or could have been except for the fact the next week we took out Bin Laden, so it fell off the media radar. This is an excellent piece of journalism, with the story behind the story, and illustrates how our foreign policy is becoming more and more driven by the military, and not our diplomats.....
Long but a worthwhile read.....
The burly American was escorted by Pakistani policemen into a crowded interrogation room. Amid a clatter of ringing mobile phones and cross talk among the cops speaking a mishmash of Urdu, Punjabi and English, the investigator tried to decipher the facts of the case.
“America, you from America?”
“Yes.”
“You’re from America, and you belong to the American Embassy?”
“Yes,” the American voice said loudly above the chatter. “My passport — at the site I showed the police officer. . . . It’s somewhere. It’s lost.”
On the jumpy video footage of the interrogation, he reached beneath his checkered flannel shirt and produced a jumble of identification badges hanging around his neck. “This is an old badge. This is Islamabad.” He showed the badge to the man across the desk and then flipped to a more recent one proving his employment in the American Consulate in Lahore.
“You are working at the consulate general in Lahore?” the policeman asked.
“Yes.”
“As a . . . ?”
“I, I just work as a consultant there.”
“Consultant?” The man behind the desk paused for a moment and then shot a question in Urdu to another policeman. “And what’s the name?”
“Raymond Davis,” the officer responded.
“Raymond Davis,” the American confirmed. “Can I sit down?”
“Please do. Give you water?” the officer asked.
“Do you have a bottle? A bottle of water?” Davis asked.
Another officer in the room laughed. “You want water?” he asked. “No money, no water.”
Another policeman walked into the room and asked for an update. “Is he understanding everything? And he just killed two men?”
8/ A classic music video, the Killers with "Mr. Brightside"......a decadent music vid that appears to be set in a New Orleans brothel with the Killers as the house band.....great costumes, acting [yes, acting!] and the lyrics are a little naughty as well.....jolly good fun!
9/ A different type of Bill Maher clip - this is a discussion on the 3D printers being used to replicate guns, and interesting to watch.....a few jokes, but mostly intelligent conversation......
Listen to the Libertarian panelist - he has some good points.......7 minutes.....
10/ "Cell Block Tango", a wonderful clip from the musical "Chicago"......this is one of the best numbers from that movie, with scantily clad dancers explaining why "he had it coming".....seven minutes of some of the best choreography you will ever see......
And ignore the subtitles in [I think] Serbian.....
11/ Did you know there is more student debt out there than credit card debt? Over a trillion dollars? Of course you don't - the big banks don't want you to know, and so the media is quiet on the fact we are crushing our kid's futures......
But it's coming out now, thanks to Elizabeth Warren......
Joseph Stiglitz in the Times with an excellent essay on this major issue.
Think about it - a kid graduates from college in debt, and he/she may delay starting a family, buying a house and spending which benefits our businesses, if they can find a decent paying job. It's the silent factor slowly crippling the economy.....
A CERTAIN drama has become familiar in the United States (and some other advanced industrialized countries): Bankers encourage people to borrow beyond their means, preying especially on those who are financially unsophisticated. They use their political influence to get favorable treatment of one form or another. Debts mount. Journalists record the human toll. Then comes bewilderment: How could we let this happen again? Officials promise to fix things. Something is done about the most egregious abuses. People move on, reassured that the crisis has abated, but suspecting that it will recur soon.
The crisis that is about to break out involves student debt and how we finance higher education. Like the housing crisis that preceded it, this crisis is intimately connected to America’s soaring inequality, and how, as Americans on the bottom rungs of the ladder strive to climb up, they are inevitably pulled down — some to a point even lower than where they began.
This new crisis is emerging even before the last one has been resolved, and the two are becoming intertwined. In the decades after World War II, homeownership and higher education became signs of success in America.
Before the housing bubble burst in 2007, banks persuaded low- and moderate-income homeowners that they could turn their houses and apartments into piggy banks. They seduced them into taking out home-equity loans — and in the end, millions lost their homes. In other cases, the banks, mortgage brokers and real-estate agents pushed aspiring homeowners to borrow beyond their means. The wizards of finance, who prided themselves on risk management, sold toxic mortgages that were designed to explode. They bundled the dubious loans into complex financial instruments and sold them to unsuspecting investors.
Before the housing bubble burst in 2007, banks persuaded low- and moderate-income homeowners that they could turn their houses and apartments into piggy banks. They seduced them into taking out home-equity loans — and in the end, millions lost their homes. In other cases, the banks, mortgage brokers and real-estate agents pushed aspiring homeowners to borrow beyond their means. The wizards of finance, who prided themselves on risk management, sold toxic mortgages that were designed to explode. They bundled the dubious loans into complex financial instruments and sold them to unsuspecting investors.
Everyone recognizes that education is the only way up, but as a college degree becomes increasingly essential to making one’s way in a 21st-century economy, education for those not to the manner born is increasingly unaffordable. Student debt for seniors graduating with loans now exceeds $26,000, about a 40 percent increase (not adjusted for inflation) in just seven years. But an “average” like this masks huge variations.
http://opinionator.blogs.
12/ And following this excellent story, this is a video of Senator Warren on the floor of the Senate. proposing her new bill the "Bank on Students Fairness Act".....six minutes of calm, reasoned common sense, something you rarely see in Congress......
The act says that students should be charged the same rate the big banks get for their overnight loans....0.75%.....
13/ Jon Stewart mocks Nancy Grace, she of the Jodi Arias trial marathon......what a horrid beastly.....
One of the funniest three minutes ever......at least three guffaw moments.......recommended!
Ever found yourself watching Nancy Grace and thinking, "something is very, very wrong with this woman"? So has Jon Stewart.
Jon opened Thursday's "Daily Show" with this quick swipe at Grace's coverage of the Jodi Arias trial, calling her an "engorged tragedy tick." Watching the HLN host's nearly sadistic glee as she describes the details of a crime, it's hard to argue with his description.
14/ "Big Food" is not quite as bad as "Big Ag", but just as cynical......here is a great story from an retired senior executive from Kraft Foods on how the food industry knowingly wants to make you fat and unhealthy.....it's good for profits.....
OPINION
How to Force Ethics on the Food Industry
Andrea Tsurumi
By MICHAEL MUDD
Published: March 16, 2013
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A COURT has struck down, at least for now, New York City’s attempt to slow the growth of obesity by limiting the portion size of sweetened beverages.
But governments should not be deterred by this and should step up their efforts to protect the public health by limiting the marketing tactics of food companies. Anyone who believes these interventions are uncalled-for doesn’t know the industry the way I do.
I was part of the packaged food and beverage business for more than 20 years. As the national waistline grew, the industry sought refuge in the fact that the obesity epidemic has many causes. It has insistently used that fact to fight off government regulators and justify why it should not have to change what it sells or how it sells it.
With tobacco, the link between product and disease is direct and singular. But it is less clear with food: the rise in obesity is the result of multiple factors. Suburban life discourages walking. Escalators have replaced stairs. Schools have eliminated gym class. Kids play video games now, not kickball. Even the vast increase in two-income households over the past 40 years has had an impact, discouraging cooking and increasing reliance on packaged foods and chain restaurants. It all adds up.
So when it’s time to pick the guilty party out of the police lineup, the food industry cries foul whenever critics point to it. “Hey,” the industry complains, “why pick on us when everybody in the lineup is guilty?”
But that’s not true. Everybody in this lineup of cumulative social and environmental changes may have played a role in the growth of obesity, but none are culpable the way the big food processors and soft drink companies are.
15/ Todays "nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care" George Carlin award goes to the FDA, which just approved the insecticide that the EU banned because it was killing all of the bees in Europe.
Monsanto wins again......
Corporate politics is business as usual inside the United States, as I am once again shocked to report the EPA has sided with industry lobbyists over public health in approving a highly dangerous pesticide that the European Union recently decided to ban over fears of environmental devastation. Not only have neonicotinoid pesticides been linked repeatedly to mass bee deaths, also known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), but the continued use of such pesticides threatens other aspects of nature (and humans) as well.
What’s even more amazing is that the decision not only comes after the EU publicly discussed the major dangers surrounding the use of the pesticides, but after the USDA released a report surrounding the continued honeybee deaths and the related effects — a report in which they detailed pesticides to be a contributing factor. Just the impact on the honeybees alone, and we now know that these pesticides are killing aquatic life and subsequently the birds that feed upon them, amounts to a potential $200 billion in global damages per year. We’re talking about the devastation of over 100 crops, from apples to avocados and plums.
16/ When the summer reruns start, here's one we will definitely stream - "Scandal", a really hot show on ABC with the 18-49 segment. Some of the plots sound very realistic......and raunchy!
Network TV Is Broken. So How Does Shonda Rhimes Keep Making Hits?
Jeff Minton for The New York Times
Rhimes on the set of “Scandal” in Hollywood.
By WILLA PASKIN
Published: May 9, 2013 91 Comments
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“I love that the gay White House chief of staff is threatening to pretend the first lady is a closeted lesbian,” Shonda Rhimes said to a roomful of writers. “It is so wrong. In the best way.” Ten of the writers — seven men, three women, five plaid button-down shirts and two pairs of outsize hipster glasses frames — were sitting in her bright Hollywood office, pens in hand, scripts in laps, going through notes for the 20th episode of “Scandal,” Rhimes’s gonzo political melodrama, which is about to finish its second season on ABC.
When “Scandal,” which is based very, very loosely on the life of the Washington crisis manager Judy Smith, had its debut last spring, it appeared to be a standard soapy procedural with a fizzy twist: the main character, the fierce Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington), was having a torrid interracial affair with the president of the United States, a Republican named Fitzgerald Grant (Tony Goldwyn). By the end of the first season, however, when the chief of staff was hiring an assassin to kill a former intern who slept with the president, the show had revealed itself to be much wilder than it initially seemed, a brash, addictive mixture of Douglas Sirk and realpolitik, and TV’s most outrageous spectacle.
In the second season, there has been a waterboarding, an assassination attempt and a mail bomb. Three women, a gay man and a sleazy oil baron successfully stole a presidential election. The president personally murdered a Supreme Court justice. One of Olivia’s staff members, a C.I.A.-trained assassin and torturer, sits in on A.A. meetings because he has an addiction to killing people.
As the audacity of “Scandal” has increased, so have its ratings. The series now averages an especially impassioned eight million viewers a week, making it the No. 1 drama at 10 p.m. on any night, on any network, among the most desired demographic, adults 18 to 49.
Todays video - The 100 Best Movie Insults - how many movies can you name? The clips come fast and furious, but anyone who is vaguely interested in movies should be able to name 40 or 50 of the titles.....some of the most descriptive and imaginative insults ever.....
Warning - bad language in most segments....and I mean really bad language. Not for the workplace.....
Did I mention bad language?
Todays Irish joke
An Irishman was drinking in a bar in London when he gets a call on his cell phone.
He orders drinks for everybody in the bar as he announces his wife has
just produced a typical Irish baby boy weighing 25 pounds.
Nobody can believe that any new baby can weigh in at 25 pounds, but the man just shrugs,
"That's about average up our way, folks...like I said - my boy's a typical County Clare baby boy.."
Two weeks later the man returns to the bar..The bartender says,
"Say, you're the father of that typical Irish baby that weighed 25 pounds at birth, aren't you?
Everybody's been making' bets about how big he'd be in two weeks
.... so how much does he weigh now?"
The proud father answers, "Seventeen pounds."
The bartender is puzzled and concerned. "What happened?" "He was 25 pounds the day he was born."
The father takes a slow swig of his Jameson Irish Whisky, wipes his lips on his shirt sleeve, leans into the bartender and proudly says,
"Had him circumcised."
Todays blonde jokes
Once there was a blonde who was going to take flying lessons, so she went to the airport to rent a plane. The manager told her there were no planes left so she would have to use a helicopter.
So the blonde got in the helicopter and took off. Every 10 miles she checked in with the manager; after the first 10 miles, she said it was a blast.
When she reached 20 she told him that she had never seen so many buttons.
But when she reached 30 miles she didn't check in so the manager went to rescue her. When he found her he asked her how she crashed.
The blonde replied, "It was getting cold so I turned off the big fan."
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One day, a blonde went to a ventriloquist show. During the show, the ventriloquist used his "dummy" to make fun of blondes. The crowd roared with laughter, but the blonde was angry.
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One day, a blonde went to a ventriloquist show. During the show, the ventriloquist used his "dummy" to make fun of blondes. The crowd roared with laughter, but the blonde was angry.
Outraged, she stood up and said, "How dare you make fun of blondes!"
The ventriloquist replied saying, "Madam, I'm very sorry. But it's just part of the act."
The blonde screamed, "You shutup! I'm talking to the little man on your knee!"
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A blonde and a brunette decide to start a farm together. They add up their life savings into a total of $200.00.
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A blonde and a brunette decide to start a farm together. They add up their life savings into a total of $200.00.
Then, the blonde decided to purchase a bull with it. The brunette agrees, and so the brunette leaves to go find the perfect bull. When she does she is to telegram the blonde and tell her to come get it.
Finally, the brunette find the bull of her dreams. The farmer says he wants $200 for it. The brunette, thinking she can get a better deal, says no to his offer.
The farmer says, "Alright then, I'll give you a great deal, how about $199.00?"
The brunette accepts and buys the bull. She has $1.00 left for the telegram. The telegram guy says, "It's $1.00 per word."
The brunette thinks about this and says,"Comfortable, write that."
"Comfortable?" the guy questions.
"Yes, you see she reads slow."
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Q. What is the fastest way to get a one-armed blonde out of a tree?
A. Wave at her.
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Q. What is the fastest way to get a one-armed blonde out of a tree?
A. Wave at her.
And more Irish jokes
Only the Irish have Jokes Like Theser
Into a Belfast pub comes Paddy Murphy, looking like he'd just
been run over by a train.
His arm is in a sling, his nose is broken, his face is cut and bruised
and he's walking with a limp."What happened to you?" asks Sean, the bar tender." Jamie O'Conner and me had a fight," says Paddy.
" That little shit, O'Conner," says Sean, "He couldn't do that
to you, he must have had something in his hand."
" That he did," says Paddy, "a shovel is what he had, and
a terrible lickin' he gave me with it."
" Well," says Sean, "you should have defended
yourself, didn't you have something in your hand?"" That I did," said Paddy.
"Mrs. O'Conner's breast, and a thing of beauty
it was, but useless in a fight."
Into a Belfast pub comes Paddy Murphy, looking like he'd just
been run over by a train.
His arm is in a sling, his nose is broken, his face is cut and bruised
and he's walking with a limp."What happened to you?" asks Sean, the bar tender." Jamie O'Conner and me had a fight," says Paddy.
" That little shit, O'Conner," says Sean, "He couldn't do that
to you, he must have had something in his hand."
" That he did," says Paddy, "a shovel is what he had, and
a terrible lickin' he gave me with it."
" Well," says Sean, "you should have defended
yourself, didn't you have something in your hand?"" That I did," said Paddy.
"Mrs. O'Conner's breast, and a thing of beauty
it was, but useless in a fight."
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home from the city one night and,
of course, his car is weaving violently all over the road.
A cop pulls him over.
" So," says the cop to the driver, where have ya been?"
"Why, I've been to the pub of course," slurs the drunk.
" Well," says the cop, "it looks like you've had quite
a few to drink this evening."
" I did all right," the drunk says with a smile.
"Did you know," says the cop, standing straight and
folding his arms across his chest,
that a few intersections back, your wife fell out of your car?"
"Oh, thank heavens," sighs the drunk.
"For a minute there, I thought I'd gone deaf."
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Brenda O'Malley is home making dinner, as usual,
when Tim Finnegan arrives at her door.
"Brenda, may I come in?" he asks. "I've
somethin' to tell ya".
" Of course you can come in, you're always welcome,
Tim. But where's my husband?"
" That's what I'm here to be telling ya, Brenda."
There was an accident down at the Guinness brewery..."
"Oh, God no!" cries Brenda. "Please don't tell me."
" I must, Brenda. Your husband Shamus is dead
and gone. I'm sorry."Finally, she looked up at Tim.. "How did it happen, Tim?"
" It was terrible, Brenda. He fell into a vat Of
Guinness Stout and drowned."
"Oh my dear Jesus! But you must tell me the truth,
Tim. Did he at least go quickly?"
"Well, Brenda... no. In fact, he got out three times to pee."
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home from the city one night and,
of course, his car is weaving violently all over the road.
A cop pulls him over.
" So," says the cop to the driver, where have ya been?"
"Why, I've been to the pub of course," slurs the drunk.
" Well," says the cop, "it looks like you've had quite
a few to drink this evening."
" I did all right," the drunk says with a smile.
"Did you know," says the cop, standing straight and
folding his arms across his chest,
that a few intersections back, your wife fell out of your car?"
"Oh, thank heavens," sighs the drunk.
"For a minute there, I thought I'd gone deaf."
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Brenda O'Malley is home making dinner, as usual,
when Tim Finnegan arrives at her door.
"Brenda, may I come in?" he asks. "I've
somethin' to tell ya".
" Of course you can come in, you're always welcome,
Tim. But where's my husband?"
" That's what I'm here to be telling ya, Brenda."
There was an accident down at the Guinness brewery..."
"Oh, God no!" cries Brenda. "Please don't tell me."
" I must, Brenda. Your husband Shamus is dead
and gone. I'm sorry."Finally, she looked up at Tim.. "How did it happen, Tim?"
" It was terrible, Brenda. He fell into a vat Of
Guinness Stout and drowned."
"Oh my dear Jesus! But you must tell me the truth,
Tim. Did he at least go quickly?"
"Well, Brenda... no. In fact, he got out three times to pee."
*
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Mary Clancy goes up to Father O' Grady after his Sunday
morning service, and she's in tears.He says, " So what's bothering you, Mary my dear?"She says, "Oh, Father, I've got terrible news . My
husband passed away last night."The priest says, "Oh, Mary, that's terrible. Tell me, Mary,
did he have any last requests?"She says, "That he did, Father."
The priest says, "What did he ask, Mary? "She says, He said, 'Please Mary, put down that damn gun...'
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AND THE BEST FOR L AST
A drunk staggers into a Catholic Church, enters
a confessional booth, sits down, but says nothing.The Priest coughs a few times to get his attention
but the drunk continues to sit there.Finally, the Priest pounds three times on the wall.The drunk mumbles, "ain't no use knockin, there's
no paper on this side either!"
Mary Clancy goes up to Father O' Grady after his Sunday
morning service, and she's in tears.He says, " So what's bothering you, Mary my dear?"She says, "Oh, Father, I've got terrible news . My
husband passed away last night."The priest says, "Oh, Mary, that's terrible. Tell me, Mary,
did he have any last requests?"She says, "That he did, Father."
The priest says, "What did he ask, Mary? "She says, He said, 'Please Mary, put down that damn gun...'
******************************
AND THE BEST FOR L AST
A drunk staggers into a Catholic Church, enters
a confessional booth, sits down, but says nothing.The Priest coughs a few times to get his attention
but the drunk continues to sit there.Finally, the Priest pounds three times on the wall.The drunk mumbles, "ain't no use knockin, there's
no paper on this side either!"
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