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Thursday, November 09, 2006

DIET COKE and MENTOS…..Updated

Inspired silliness…..

UPDATE: Related because it deals with popular cola drinks, this is the funniest ad I ever remember seeing in my life.

Posted by Earl on 11/09 at 11:43 AM
Miscellany • Food • Comments •

Sunday, November 05, 2006

BEING A PARENT ISN’T FOR THE FAINT OF HEART…....Updated

Ask Dick Hoyt. But, Dick personifies the love and commitment of a father for his son….his son, Rick.

I first heard about the Hoyts in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED magazine, and the story brought the tears to my eyes and my cheeks. Rick Reilly wrote the story….

[From Sports Illustrated, By Rick Reilly]

I try to be a good father. Give my kids mulligans. Work nights to pay For their text messaging. Take them to swimsuit shoots.

But compared with Dick Hoyt, I suck.

Eighty-five times he’s pushed his disabled son, Rick, 26.2 miles in Marathons. Eight times he’s not only pushed him 26.2 miles in a Wheelchair but also towed him 2.4 miles in a dinghy while swimming and Pedaled him 112 miles in a seat on the handlebars—all in the same day.

Dick’s also pulled him cross-country skiing, taken him on his back Mountain climbing and once hauled him across the U.S. On a bike. Makes Taking your son bowling look a little lame, right?

And what has Rick done for his father? Not much—except save his life.
This love story began in Winchester , Mass. , 43 years ago, when Rick Was strangled by the umbilical cord during birth, leaving him Brain-damaged and unable to control his limbs.

“He’ll be a vegetable the rest of his life;’’ Dick says doctors told him And his wife, Judy, when Rick was nine months old. ``Put him in an Institution.’‘

Updated: with a longer video featuring Dick and Rick’s voices

Posted by Earl on 11/05 at 04:24 PM
Family Matters • Miscellany • COURAGE AWARDS • Politics • Healthcare • Life Issues • Comments •

A 21st CENTURY DEMOCRAT I CAN RESPECT…..

Because he has his priorities straight, and is brave enough to stand up for what’s really important, rather than worry about what his friends might think.

I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America’s role as a light among nations.

But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war. And since the Democratic Party seems hellbent on losing it—and in the most damaging possible way—I have no choice but to advocate that my party be kept from getting its hands on the reins of national power, until it proves itself once again to be capable of recognizing our core national interests instead of its own temporary partisan advantages.

To all intents and purposes, when the Democratic Party jettisoned Joseph Lieberman over the issue of his support of this war, they kicked me out as well. The party of Harry Truman and Daniel Patrick Moynihan—the party I joined back in the 1970s—is dead. Of suicide.

Posted by Earl on 11/05 at 02:13 PM
Politics • International • Iraq • Comments •

Thursday, November 02, 2006

IF YOU HAVEN’T HEARD ABOUT JOHN (DID I TELL YOU I SERVED IN VIETNAM?) KERRY’S REMARK…updated

...then I don’t know where you’ve been hiding for the last week.

First he said to a group of college students that if you don’t study hard and do well in school you’ll “get stuck in Iraq”. When a storm of outrage ensued, he defended himself stoutly, attacking the Republicans and the Admin for purposely misconstruing his words for political reasons, when they were meant as an insult to President Bush.

The storm only became worse, and the Democrats for whom Kerry was scheduled to campaign in the next week or so began to call and cancel his appearances. Finally, he “apologized”—by posting a statement on his website! In it, he says again that he was misunderstood, but he’s sorry that this misunderstanding should have offended anyone.

Here is the definitive “military response” to this elitist, hyper-impressed-with-himself boob:

UPDATE: Someone with far more right to respond to John Kerry than I has done so, IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. The father of a fallen hero (killed in 2003) has written what seems to me to be the appropriate “family answer” to our 21st century JFK, and you really need to read it. I don’t know the legality of it, but I’m going to paste the entire editorial at the end of the rest of my post—just in case you might think about skipping the link. I can’t improve on my brother’s reaction to this piece:

“I don’t know how guys like this contain themselves. God bless him and his family and may He also show me some way to make myself worthy of their sacrifice.”

Posted by Earl on 11/02 at 12:31 PM
Politics • Iraq • Comments •

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