Cole's Notes - The Sunday Journalist

This really makes for a Friday Funny - a Congressman in the US suing God for the state of the world. However, he does get an answer. Not the one expected - but interesting nonetheless. "State Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha sued God last week, seeking a permanent injunction against the Almighty for making terroristic threats, inspiring fear and causing 'widespread death, destruction and terrorization of millions upon millions of the Earth’s inhabitants." Get the whole story and the response here: The Belmont Club: Deus ex machina

Thoughts for the day The Thoughts of the Great Japanese Philosopher - Mimotaku Mimomonoteshi AKA - Mimotakurinkato Rinkashime Mimomonoteshi There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Behind every great man there lies a great woman. And one in front of him as well if he's lucky. I like my Women like I like my cars...Stripped down and covered in oil. Suppose conventional wisdom to be a forest. I am chainsaw. You are squirrels. My aims are that of an Owl's. To whit to woo. Eh ladies? When you look in the mirror and despair and none of your clothes seem appropriate, relax, put the kettle on. It might suit you. Beware the smile of a waiter. It means he's pissed in your soup. I wanted wine, women and song. I got a drunk woman singing. The truly beautiful are often abused for apparent ugliness just as those with great vision often bump into things. Life is like a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Very popular an...

Bookworm Room : "The common thread binding the liberals’ willingness to relinquish control of their health care decisions, economy, education and business to the government is a manifest belief that the government’s collective wisdom trumps the intelligence of the ordinary person. The government, made up of experts and policy wonks, must be better at taking care of people than peoplecan be trusted to take care of themselves. (People, of course, being defined here as the Wal-Mart shopping, NASCAR loving, country-music listening masses.) And the surprising thing is that liberals cling to this belief, not only despite government’s repeated management failures over the decades, such as the failed War on Poverty or the failed care at Walter Reed, but also despite the fact that they are convinced that the administration now in charge of the government is the most evil thing since . . . well, since Satan!"