THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES

My cancer has spread to my lungs and brain.


So far, I have or have had cancer in my colon, lymph nodes, liver, lungs and brain.


Collect all five!


Treatments have included surgery, surgery, chemo, embolisation, radio ablation and surgery.


Next week, I start on radiation.


The adventure continues.

I FEEL THE EARTH MOVE

Remember that earthquake that hit the East Coast the other day? Now we know what caused it.

Gays.

So says New York Rabbi Yehuda Levin. He reports, "One of the reasons that God brings earthquakes to the world is because of the transgression of homosexuality. The Talmud states, 'You have shaken your male member in a place where it doesn't belong. I too, will shake the Earth.'”

But, hey, some of his best friends might be gay.

The rabbi says, "We don't hate homosexuals. I feel bad for homosexuals. It's a revolt against God and literally, there's hell to pay."

So, that explains it, then.

REPUBLICAN MEMORIES OF 9/11/2001

Here are how some Republicans remember the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon:

•  "We inherited the most tragic attack on our own soil in our nation’s history. And President Bush dealt with it". -- Mary Matalin, December 2009.
• “We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s term."  -- President Bush's ex–Press Secretary Dana Perino November 2009.
• "We had no domestic attacks under Bush.” -- Ex–New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, January 2010.
• "We were certainly safe between 2000 and 2008 — I don’t remember any terrorist attacks on American soil during that period of time.” -- Fox News host Eric Bolling, July 2011.

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"You develop an instant global consciousnesses, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, 'Look at that, you son of a bitch'"


-- Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell.

SENATOR COBURN EXPLAINS IT ALL TO YOU

Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn addressed local gatherings on Tuesday.He explained to the assembled that President Obama's "intent is to create dependency, because it worked so well for him."
"As an African-American male," Coburn explained, Obama received "tremendous advantages from a lot of these programs."

Coburn called his fellow Congress members "a class of career elitists" and "cowards" and said "it's a good thing I don't pack a gun on the Senate floor."

Speaking for my fellow Americans I believe we all agree that that is, indeed, a good thing.

DOWNGRADED, DEGRADED

So Standard and Poor has downgraded America's credit rating from AAA to AA+.

Is this the same ratings firm that gave a AAA rating to bundled mortgages containing toxic assets which bankrupted banks, crashed the stock market, ruined the economy, put Americans out of work, forced a government bailout and nearly caused a worldwide depression?

Yes, it is.

CRIME NEWS

Here in Tulsa, the judge sentenced a man to 75 years in prison for robbing a Walgreen's pharmacy while he free on bond for robbing a Walgreen's pharmacy.


Try once, and if you don't succeed...

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As best I can make out, it was a game of strip golf that left a naked lady on the putting green at the Boiling Springs golf course over in Woodward County, Oklahoma, during the  Elks Lodge Rodeo Golf Tournament. The sheriff says he won't press charges because he can't find a complaining witness. 

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And police don't know why a man climbed 150 feet up a Tulsa radio tower during a lightning storm., but they'll try to find out as soon as he comes down. He's been up there now for 19 hours.

(8/13 update -- After 36 hours he's still up there, and drawing a crowd.)

(8/14 -- He's still up there.)
(8/15 -- Still there!)
(8/16 -- Still.
8/17 update-- After 128 hours, he's down and safe, dehydrated but OK. Police are taking him to what they call a "mental health facility," what I call the "booby hatch.")

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BETTER FOR THE BULL

This year's Weld County Fair in Colorado features bullfighting.


But it's a kinder, gentler bullfight. Instead of matadors, there will be rodeo clowns. And instead of killing the bull, the clowns will just annoy it a little.