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This just in: Kansas City knows Barbecue

I drove a couple of blocks from my hotel to Gate's BBQ on a recommendation from my hotel cleaning woman (don't worry, I'm not rich enough to be a threat to her). I loaded up

on BBQ and brought it back to my room. Boom! It was all gone and I am laying on the floor trying to breathe while my full stomach pushes back on my diaphragm (<- hard word to spell). Interestingly, I am also contemplating making another run to Gate's as soon as I can get back on my feet.

I got up this morning and there is BBQ sauce everywhere. I had to scramble to clean everything up before the press arrives. As you know, I have decided to become famous so I am assuming the press is always about to arrive.

Onward...

Apparently Weiner had a relationtweep (<- you heard that here first) with a porn star. He told her to lie about it. I'm here to tell you right now that if I ever have contact with a porn star, I will post pictures and details about it on this blog.

Elsewhere...

The United States tried "chumming" Mexican drug cartels with loaded weapons. Turns out to not be a good idea. They (the drug guys) took the guns and killed people with them. What's amazing is that we did not anticipate this happening.

Breaking news - The U.N. condemns Syrian's killing of innocent civilians. When this type of thing comes out I can only shake my head. "Condemns?" You have got to be kidding me. I wonder how long they debated that before someone said, "I make a motion that we wage our finger at Syria...all if favor?"

Gates is on his way out and it leaving quite a trail behind him. First he said that NATO is basically useless. When I heard that I was at first shocked. But then I thought about it and you know what, he is absolutely correct. I was in the military when there was a Red Menace. Now there is no one. Why do we need NATO? So that our allies can tap into our resources to solve their local problems?

Gates also said yesterday, "Governments lie to each other." He was speaking to congress. They were apparently surprised by this statement. Actually, I think they already knew this but were lying about it.

Hugh Hefner's fiance has backed out. What I can't understand is how she got into that situation in the first place. He is 85 and she is 25. I wonder if there were "issues" in the bedroom. Viagra can help but there is no cure for looking like you are 85 years old.

Click on this story link if you want to read something funny. A teacher assigned a writing task to people in pairs. Each would write a paragraph and then turn the story over to the other to write another paragraph. This is really funny.

Barnes and Nobel is out with the Nook; another e-reader. It costs about $140. It can hold enough data for all of the text books you have ever had during your life. I did a sample survey of textbooks on Amazon.com. I looked at what it would cost to have the following books purchased: History, Algebra, Chemistry, English and Spanish. I went with the most expensive book that showed up in the first 5 of each search. The cost...$660. Imagine if all textbooks were ebooks. Imagine if the government had standardized books so that everyone had free access to, for example, 7th grade math. We could save thousands of dollars per student (over the life of their education) just by going with e-textbooks.

Al Qaeda has a new leader. There is some downside to this position. The first thing is that all of your robes come with a big target painted on them. On the upside, you probably get immediate access to virgins.

And finally, word is that George W. used the CIA to dig up dirty little secrets about a college professor that was critical of the Bush administration. I read that story without the least bit of surprise.

Oh yeah, Kim asked a very good question about the debt ceiling in the comment section of a post from 2 days ago (The view from the middle of the road). I replied and I strongly encourage you to look at her question and my response (under the post). Kim replied that she now understood why we need to raise it. Then she asked an even better question: "I heard that the debt ceiling has been raised several times in the last decade and that makes me wonder why even have a ceiling." I am still pondering this one.

By the way, follow this link to see how Democrats and Republicans have voted on raising the debt ceiling over the last several years. This is such a great chart. It turns out that if the other guy is in power, you vote against it. Both parties do it. They don't do it because they have had sudden changes in attitude. No, they do it to make the other person look bad.

Your quote for the day: “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you” Friedrich Nietzsche

Saving the world, one rack of BBQ ribs at a time.

Up, up and away...

jim

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