The face of American politics is changing and for the better, or do you enjoy looking at John McCain’s face? We’re to have a cute vice president. Haven’t had one since Dan (Mr. Potatoe Head) Quayle, who not only was attractive but a scratch golfer.
Cute veeps have been few. Al Gore was fine but not my type.
Spiro (Chete) Agnew was a piece of work. He and Chainsaw Cheney: uncute and uncool.
William Miller was Barry Goldwater’s veep candidate and was a handsome little-known man and those mobbed up rumors never were proved.
It will be refreshing to have someone in the veep chair who’s won beauty contests and is a deep water Christian.
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“This election is not about issues. This election is about a composite view of what people take away from these candidates.”
- Rick Davis, McCain campaign manager
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A Duke professor puts forth this idea: Ten minutes for first grade homework, nightly. Twenty for second grade. An hour for sixth grade. After middle school these rules change, but by then the student will have the knack of studying, a skill needed for college.
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From a Birmingham matron:
The owner of a golf course was confused about paying an invoice, so he decided to ask his secretary for some mathematical help. He called her into his office and said, ‘You graduated from college and I need some help. If I were to give you $20,000, minus 14 percent, how much would you take off?’
The secretary thought a moment, and replied, ‘Everything but my earrings.’
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Man of a certain age was reading a book as he walked down beside Tennessee Boulevard. Classes were letting out. Semi-nude teen boys, their ribs countable, from the bed of a pickup howled at the doddering reader.
He called them over and as they sat in the pickup bed like featherless mouth-breathing crows in a stew pot, he held up the book. “This is a book. Between its covers one is apt to find entertainment and information. Get your mother to read one to you.”
He didn’t actually get to say that to a pickup traveling at 40 mph, but it went through his mind.
While strolling he read this from Rainer Rilke:
“It happens only rarely that an individual gains a deeper and more serious understanding of himself during a happy and fulfilling time in his life; at such moments, most people dismiss the outcomes of their preceding solitude as gloomy errors and throw themselves into the blinding glare of happiness.”
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Copied from Amazon book section:
Polarographic Response of the Deproteinated Serum of Individual Rabbits Before and After Implantation With the Brown-Pearce Car (Paperback)
by Benton B. & J.W. Thompson & Dean Burk Westfall |
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