U.S. Secretary of Offense Leon Panetta said today that U.S. military forces will withdraw from combat in Afghanistan as early as middle of 2013, more than a year before all American troops had been scheduled to come home. This is the first statement of an intended withdrawal ‘date.’
On this date in 1948, Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi was murdered by a Hindu extremist.
ARBITRATOR: A cook that leaves Arby’s to work at McDonalds.
AVOIDABLE: What a bullfighter tries to do.
BERNADETTE: The act of torching a mortgage.
BURGLARIZE: What a crook sees with.
CONTROL: A short, ugly inmate.
COUNTERFEITERS: Workers who put together kitchen cabinets.
ECLIPSE: What a Britsh barber does for a living.
EYEDROPPER: A clumsy ophthalmologist.
HEROES: What a guy in a boat does.
LEFT BANK: What the robber did when he’d gotten the money.
MISTY: How golfers create divots.
PARADOX: Two physicians.
PARASITES: What you see from the top of the Eiffel Tower.
PHARMACIST: A helper on the farm.
POLARIZE: What penguins see with.
PRIMATE: Remove a spouse from the TV.
RELIEF: What trees do in the spring.
RUBBERNECK: What you do to relax your wife.
SELFISH: What the owner of a seafood store does.
SUDAFED: Brought litigation against a governmental official.
On January 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court, in the “Roe” versus Wade case, ruled that killing babies in utero is legal in the United States of America.
Since then, 52 million babies have been killed in the U.S.A.
Decide to be your best.
In the long run the world is going to want and have the best, and that might as well be you.
- Booker Washington
On this date in 1981, minutes after Ronald Reagan assumed the U.S. presidency, Iran released 52 Americans whom it had held hostage for 444 days.
Later, President Reagan sold F-4 warplane parts and missiles to Iran.
“Victory or death.”
Really?
Rick Perry, who is supposed to be governing the State of Texas,
not traveling the U.S.A. at the expense of the citizens of Texas, quit his quest for the U.S. Presidency!
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Perryisms: “Write yer checks.”
“Live free or die. Ya gotta love that. Victory or death. Bring it.”
“Those that will be twenty-one by November 12, I ask for your support.”
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Tim Pawlenty
Michelle Bachman
Herman Cain
Jon Huntsman
Rick Perry
The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body,
his information and his recreation, his love and his religion.
He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing.
To him he’s always doing both. - James Michener
