Breakfast Scramble: Fred Thompson Edition

Fred is back! Well, kind of, sort of.  It no secret that the last presidential candidate we liked was Fred Thompson.  Alas Fred was just not into that campaign thing.  Well now the closest incarnation of Fred has announced.  Thad

Some accumulated notes

• The more I drive the more I’m firmly convinced most people shouldn’t.
• The first point includes, I’m afraid, the police.  I have observed on several occasions now, a cop winding up their full sized car to 30 

Otherwise, but out of trying to play language police.     The over hyped non story of the day is the fact that Doctor  Schlessinger  uttered the word Nigger a  whopping eleven times.    Dr Schlessinger only crime, as see it, is rhetorical

Double standard on gods,   a twit judge in Wisconsin ruled the National Day Prayer is somehow unconstitutional.   So while praying to the God of Abraham is unconstitutional,  we can pray to silly Earth Goddess, from Ryan J. Foley, Associated

International Atomic Energy Agency pulls head out.  There as been a change at at the head of the IAEA.  Wereas the old head, Mohamed ElBaradei, had his head buried whee ithe Sun never shines nad by the way is

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This is the “We’re at the Hermann” Edition

•  A Wide Latina:  Joyner notes a typo at  the house of Matt

A little dated, but what the hell.

This one’s been making the rounds.

EFFECTIVE AUGUST 1, 2008

NEW OFFICE POLICY

Dress Code:
1) You are advised to come to work dressed according to your salary.
2) If we see you wearing Prada shoes and carrying a Gucci

It is perhaps inspirational, that as I sit down and gather my thoughts, my MP3 player, on it’s own, comes up with Pat Metheny doing “It’s Just Talk” off 1987’s “Still Life (Talking)“. (The 1990 version, not the

Seen this morning on the back of a pickup truck, that had been set up to haul a 5th wheel camper:

If you can read this, I’ve lost the trailer!!!!

You may now take Mr. Heston’s firearms. Charlton Heston is dead at age 84. The Associated Press offers an ironic headline, “Oscar-winning star of ‘Ben-Hur’ was known for heroic roles:”

LOS ANGELES – Charlton Heston, who won the

• McQ notes this report which finally catches on to the obvious…
  

  Rap music has increasingly glamorized the use of illegal drugs, portraying marijuana, crack and cocaine as symbols of wealth and status, according to a new study by the journal

From the Salem Statesman Journal:

Jacob DeShazer of Salem took part in World War II’s legendary Doolittle Raid, endured more than three years as a Japanese prisoner of war and later teamed up with his wife, Florence, to serve

Higher education. Two examples of such, from the first ten minutes of this morning’s web travels:
First example: School kids, courtesy of the Jawas:

Actually, it’s spelled “Too many”. And I’m not even going to get into the lack of