Iran to send monkey into space

"The Kavoshgar-5 rocket will be launched during the month of Mordad [July 23 to August 23] with a 285-kilogram capsule carrying a monkey to an altitude of 120 kilometers ," according to Hamid Fazeli, the head of Iran's space organization.

In the above picture we see the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, begging the Mullahs to reconsider sending him on the rocket since he is the only monkey in Iran. He promises to be good and will even join the circus if it will keep him from being shot into space.

Harlequin novel, Love American Style 2011

He grasped me firmly, but gently, just above my elbow and guided me into a room, his room. Then he quietly shut the door and we were alone. He
approached me soundlessly, from behind, and spoke in a low, reassuring voice close to my ear.

"Just relax."

Without warning, he reached down and I felt his strong, calloused hands start at my ankles, gently probing, and moving upward along my calves, slowly but steadily. My breath caught in my throat.

I knew I should be afraid, but somehow I didn't care. His touch was so experienced, so sure. When his hands moved up onto my thighs, I gave a
slight shudder, and partly closed my eyes. My pulse was pounding.

I felt his knowing fingers caress my abdomen, my ribcage. And then, as he cupped my firm, full breasts in his hands, I inhaled sharply.

Probing, searching, knowing what he wanted, he brought his hands to my shoulders, slid them down my tingling spine and into my panties.

Although I knew nothing about this man, I felt oddly trusting and expectant. This is a man, I thought. A man used to taking charge. A man
not used to taking 'No' for an answer. A man who would tell me what he wanted. A man who would look into my soul and say . . . .




"Okay ma'am, you can board your flight now."



Thanks Judy S for sending this our way!!

Women Who Know Thier Place !!!!

Barbara Walters, of  20/20, did a story on gender roles in  Kabul , Afghanistan , several years before the Afghan conflict.

She noted that women customarily walked five paces behind their husbands.

She recently returned to Kabul and observed that women still walk behind their husbands.

Despite the overthrow of  the oppressive Taliban regime, the women now seem happy to maintain the old custom.

Walters  approached one of the Afghani women and asked, 'Why do you now seem happy with an old custom that you once tried so desperately to change?'

The woman looked Walters  straight in the eyes, and without hesitation said, “Land Mines.”

At least the women who live in repressive countries are smart.

Political Quotes

By Lance M Hillier Sr

 


Political Quotes - Various ones I've collected over the years; attribution sometimes given, others were caught while listening to radio or reading over someone's shoulder or in waiting rooms...
"Outside of the killings in Washington DC, we have one of the lowest crime rates in the nation." -- Marion Berry
"I resent your insinuendoes."
 "If we don't make some changes, the status quo will remain the same."
 "We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world."
 "I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate." -- Dan Quayle

"If Lincoln were alive today, he'd roll over in his grave."
 "We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report."
 "Candidly, I cannot answer that. The question is too suppository."
"Let's jump off that bridge when we come to it."
 "To be demeanered like that is an exercise in fertility."
 "I deny the allegations, and I defy the allegators."
 "If somebody's gonna stab me in the back, I want to be there."

"When you're talking to me, keep your mouth shut."
 "Let's do this in one foul swoop."
 "I want to thank each and every one of you for having extinguished yourselves in this session."
 "We'll run it up the flagpole and see who salutes that booger."
"I would like to take this time to reirritate my remarks."

"The average age of a 7 year old in this state is 13."
 "I hate to confuse myself with the facts."
 "We have a permanent plan for the time being."
 "Family planning has many misconceptions."
"The people in my district do not want this highway bypass, no matter if it goes through or around the city."

"My knowledge is no match for his ignorance."
"As long as I am in the Senate, there will not be a nuclear suppository in our state."
"These numbers are not my own; they are from someone who knows what he's talking about."
"People planning on getting into serious accidents should have their seat belts on."
"In 1994, Americans stand on the horns of an enema."
**************************And for those waiting with bated breath, the best political humorist of all time in my opinion: Will Rogers:
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate; now what's going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House?
I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How's the President?"
An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing -- and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
A fool and his money are soon elected.
About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.
Our Constitution protects aliens, drunks, and U.S. Senators.

"If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"~~Will Rogers

One of Life Little Mysteries.

I've often asked this question myself "Why do ordinarily rational people defend giving away money to the already rich?" At their own poverty stricken expense? I've always considered it a form of religion: "You have to believe in the delusion before you can understand why they do it"

However, the underlying link gives some thought to the matter and a request for restraint. How dumb do you have to be before you realize you are cutting your own financial throat?

http://thepragmaticprogressive.org/wp/2011/06/07/why-do-the-poor-continue-to-defend-tax-breaks-for-the-rich/

Why Obama Cannot be Beat in 2012

 The top 10 reasons that I believe that President Obama will be reelected.


1 - Higher food prices will only help make Americans stay thinner and more healthy

2 - Higher fuel prices will help make people walk and/or make families stick at home to spend quality time together.

3 - He has spent so much time on luxury vacations and on entertainment TV that people have learned to live vicariously through him and would feel lost if he was not out having fun.

4 - High unemployment means that parents have more time with their children

5 - The promise of Amnesty for illegal immigrants means that we will no longer need to work but can let others do it for us.

6 - He won the  Nobel Peace Prize so it is ok that he is leading in 3 different wars and looking to possibly put us in a fourth. This is great entertainment for us Americans, we need the modern coliseum for our fun.

7 - Working hard to increase the national debt so we can enjoy our lives and hope to be dead before the bill is due.

8 - Devaluing home values and increasing failed mortgages means that we all will have nice small apartments that will be easier to clean.

9 - We no longer need to worry about telling our doctor what is wrong with us, Obama care will now take care of that.

10 - A huge portion of people who say they plan on voting for him in 2012 also claim to get most of their political information from Comedy Central.

Life is absolutely wonderful..... lets enjoy it.

Time to Leave Washington

An interesting letter in the Australian Shooter Magazine this week:

"If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq Theater of operations during the past 22 months, and a total of 2112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000 soldiers.

The firearm death rate in Washington, DC is 80.6 per 100,000 for the same period. That means you are about 25 per cent more likely to be shot and killed in the US capital which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the U..S., than you are in Iraq.

Conclusion: The U.S. should pull out of Washington.