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Friday, November 22, 2013

Fish for Friday

Edited by Morris Dean

[Anonymous selections from recent correspondence]

Memorial Limerick:
In fifty years I've forgotten a lot,
but one thing I've forgotten is not
    where I was when I heard
    the spirit-crushing word:
"No, no, no, no! The President's been shot!"
Whenever we reflect on the horror of Nov. 22, 1963, we mourn not only the murder of a graceful and inspiring leader but also a steady ebbing in the years thereafter of our faith in what we could achieve through public life and common endeavor: "What We Lost."

Huffington Post reports that CBS will air footage that excludes Dan Rather from its commemoration of the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination: "Dan Rather: CBS 'Airbrushed' Me From History, 'Like Kremlin'."

Whatever happened to the promise that the power companies would buy what you didn't use? Now they want to charge you for not using their electricity: "Compromise in Arizona Defers a Solar Power Fight."

UNC Police officers responded to a report around 2:00 a.m. Sunday morning (Nov. 17) of a male UNC student breaking and entering rooms on the second floor of Granville Towers West.
    A male subject reportedly entered the room of a female resident who awoke to find the suspect asleep in her bed. She asked the individual to leave, and he left the room without further incident. He then reportedly entered the room of another female resident where he attempted to lay down in that student’s bed before he was asked to leave and complied.
    The suspect tried to enter several more rooms on the same hall before he was apprehended by UNC Public Safety officers and placed under arrest on two charges of breaking and entering.
    At the time of this notice, the suspect is being held at Orange County Jail on a secured bond.


Knowing how to ride a motorcycle can save your life. Don't believe it? Check this story: "Frenchman escaped 11 months captivity in Nigeria." For those who may not know much about terrorism beyond 9/11 and Al Qaeda, the French engineer somehow managing to escape from a Boka Haram group is a very big deal, especially in Nigeria, where the terrorist organization controls substantial swaths of territory. The only bad news from this story is it will probably inspire a Hollywood-hyped "real-life" film version of the abduction and escape.

Don't you just love it? The Tea Party Leadership Fund's ad attacking the GOP—calling them "traitors" and implying that donations would be used to help Tea Party-approved candidates—is a money-making scam put together by con artists exploiting the dim-witted: "Tea Party Group Raises Millions To Unseat GOP, Then Exposed As Scam."

More of Rand Paul is...less: "Move over, Ted Cruz: Rand Paul’s wacko public meltdown." Frank Rich isn't convinced that Rand is toast: "Frank Rich on the National Circus: Cuccinelli’s Near-Win Says More Than Christie’s Landslide." Excerpt:
[Eric Benson asks Rich:]Christie's ideological sparring partner, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, has found himself at the center of a growing plagiarism scandal that began, bizarrely, with the discovery that he had copied from the Wikipedia entry on the sci-fi movie Gattaca. In September, you wrote about Paul's meteoric rise to become perhaps his party's brightest hope. Has his meteor now flamed out?
    [Rich replies:] Not at all. Let’s not forget that the real race for the GOP nomination in 2016, as things stand now, is between Rand Paul and Ted Cruz; it’s not Paul or Cruz vs. Christie. And while Paul has made an utter fool of himself with this plagiarism scandal—blaming it on “haters” in the press, for instance—it is no more likely to end his national political career than plagiarism ended the career of Joe Biden. Indeed, by 2016, no one will remember it, and even if they do, Paulites will view it, as he does, as a partisan plot by liberal elitists. But as with other Paul screw-ups thus far—he has also had to part ways with an unreconstructed racist who turned up on his staff—this is an indicator that for all his natural political skills, he’s playing with an amateur team. That said, I still would give him the edge over Cruz in their race to the top of the party because Paul was smart enough to stay clear of front-and-center association with the shutdown and, unlike Cruz, has even been courting GOP donors in Christie’s supposedly sewn-up Northeast.
Is it that late already? "How to rain on the Chris Christie 2016 parade." Excerpt:
The New Jersey governor's re-election win has exacerbated hype about a GOP presidential nod. Let me burst the bubble.
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2 comments:

  1. Good Fish. I was in France the day JFK died. The French when nuts. They were crying, and shouting at me and my two friends. We couldn't understand what they were saying but we knew it wasn't good. The whole world changed that day, and not for the better.

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  2. awakened at 4:50 am by hubby's usually-under-the-pillow radio speaker... the haunting "Taps" was unmistakable and unforgettable

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