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Picked up another link at Conservative Grapevine . Dave Barry has got to be one of the funniest people I have ever read, and this article has a great one: I was a fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I was practically a member of Congress. Kinda makes one think of Mark Twain . Mr. Barry is actually referring to a fairly serious issue, but he still makes it funny.

Man clings to girlfriend's car in fight Sun Feb 24, 8:12 AM ET (-AP) HAVERSTRAW, N.Y. - A man fighting with his girlfriend clung to a car roof and punched her through the window as she drove more than a mile on a busy road, hitting several other cars, police said. Both were hurt in the brawl Saturday and were arrested, police Sgt. Manfredo Figueroa said. The man, William Kremer, apparently jumped onto the car and held on as girlfriend Stacey Sperrazza wove along Route 202 with the car's air bag inflated, police said. She eventually stopped the car and hit him with it, police said. Sperrazza, 37, of Stony Point, was arrested on a felony charge of reckless endangerment. Kremer, 42, of Haverstraw, was arrested on a misdemeanor assault charge. No telephone numbers could be found for the two. Police had no immediate information early Sunday on whether they had lawyers. He was treated for a foot injury, she for eye and head wounds, police said.

That being my current state, my inner geek wondered where that came from. Aren't we always "under" the weather? Since the opposite would be "over" the weather (and I'm a bit delirious) I thought of three definitions. Over the weather - Literally. as in a plane. Over the weather - as in "the boss of". I think the Gorbical has that job. Over the weather - as in sick of, "I am so over this weather!" As with most idioms, this one is hard to track down. The best sounding answer I found here. Moreover, the deck they were under was likely "the weather deck", meaning the most exposed deck on the ship, usually the foredeck (over the seamen's quarters at the front end of the ship) or the quarterdeck (where the helm was located, high for a good view). Either way, if you needed to be sick, you wouldn't want to "toss your cookies" where the wind could toss them back in your face, nor would anyone with you want you to do so...

I was visiting with a Mormon friend of mine the other day, when there was a knock at his door. Standing there was a very friendly man about my age, with his 6-year-old son in tow. He and his family were new to the area, and they were visiting local members of the Church, and giving out homemade cookies. After the man left, my friend and I were devouring the cookies when I asked him, “Hey, if I eat these Mormon Cookies, do I become one?” He responded, “No, you don’t. But if I ate a Catholic Cookie, would I become Catholic?” “Yes!” I replied. “That’s the whole point!”

Well, this is certainly an interesting little story . It definitely will make one sit up and take notice.

Mitt Romney dropped out of the primaries @ CPAC today. So now who the heck am I gonna vote for? I'd sit this one out, except I hate doing that. Haven't given Ron Paul enough thought. Maybe I'll look into that... UPDATE: Nevermind. Ron Paul supporters are crazy, apparently.

My curious Daughter was going through my wallet today, when she found my Metro Card. “What’s this for Dad?” “It’s for the subway, in New York City” I said. “’Eat Fresh?’” she asked. I laughed and said, “No dear, not that Subway.”

This was my first video effort. I hope you like.

The Martians are at it again. They keep teasing us with images that make us wonder if there is life there or not. First there was the famous Face on Mars, but now they're getting silly, and there's a Smiley Face on Mars . If you read the article, you'll find that this is not even the only one. Other people say these are natural rock formations, but I say the Martians are messing with our heads. Heh.

MY LIVING WILL Last night my sister and I were sitting in the den and I said to her, "I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on some machine and fluids from a bottle to keep me alive. That would be no quality of life at all. If that ever happens, just pull the plug." So she got up, unplugged the computer, and threw out my wine. She's such a bitch.

10. Liberals only pretend to like him. 9. Conservatives only pretend to like him. 8. So it would be four years of nothing new from DC. 7. No more stupid impeachment bumper stickers. 6. John is a Veteran. 5. So is Ron Paul. 4. Bush didn’t push the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy’s plans enough, even when he had a “mandate”. 3. We’re not getting “The Fence” anyway. 2. I get to go back to not liking the President, like all the cool kids. 1. John could actually win in November. UPDATE 1 : It's seems that D4 is clairvoyant. Check his comment and reflect.

Look ma, no monkeys!

Well, since Fred dropped out of the race I've been trying to pick a Candidate to vote for. I tend to vote Republican and I still plan to. It's just that they all kinda sound the same: "I voted for it but they all voted against it!" or vice versa. Rudy seems a decent guy - and the way he handled 9/11 was nothing short of phenomenal - but I disagree with too many of his other policies. Mitt is a step in the right direction politically speaking- but nothing about the guy makes me really WANT to vote for him. It's more like, "I trust you more than the other guys, so here's my vote. Try not to mess up, ok?" Also, I don't suffer from short-term memory loss so don't get me started on John. And I never even heard of Mike before last month. Voting for Ron would be a lot like voting for Perot in ’88: many of his ideas sound good till you realize it just ain’t gonna happen. Anyway, what do you think?

... over at Kim du Toit's site . The caption fits the look perfectly .

Since Rachel decided to take on the "10 Things You Should Never Say To A Woman", I thought I would take a shot at the "10 Things You Should Never Say To A Man", which was linked to in that article. This list was obviously written by someone who is Not A Real Man. If the article didn't attribute it to a man, I would suspect it had been written by a woman who wrote what she thought a Redneck would say. 1) "That looks cute." For the most part, men hate cute. We don't want to hear about it, we don't want to see it, and we sure as hell don't want to be it. If we come down stairs after getting dressed and you tell us we look cute, there's a 100 percent chance we're changing. We're supposed to be your protector, your rock, and cute does not fit into that picture. Sorry pal, but a Real Man understands that women often don't use the same language that men do. If they want to say that something we're wearing, or something we'...