Look who was on Capitol Hill today...she doesn't look so good but will STILL sweat to the oldies.  Watching Richard Simmons do his thing outside of the Capitol today caused me to double over with laughter.

This is an interesting way to put gossip into perspective:

A nineteenth-century folktale tells about a man who went about town slandering the town's wise man. One day, he went to the wise man's home and asked for forgiveness. The wise man, realizing that this man had not internalized the gravity of his transgressions, told him that he would forgive him on one condition: that he go home, take a feather pillow from his house, cut it up, and scatter the feathers to the wind. After he had done so, he should then return to the wise man's house.

Though puzzled by this strange request, the man was happy to be let off with so easy a penance. He quickly cut up the pillow, scattered the feathers, and returned to the house.

"Am I now forgiven?" he asked.

"Just one more thing," the wise man said. "Go now and gather up all the feathers."

"But that's impossible. The wind has already scattered them."

"Precisely," he answered. "And though you may truly wish to correct the evil you have done, it is as impossible to repair the damage done by your words as it is to recover the feathers. Your words are out there in the marketplace, spreading hate, even as we speak."

I thought about commenting on each of these Bushisms, but they speak volumes on their own.  The most striking thing about Dub is his lack of subject-verb agreement.  Also, can anyone tell me the correlation between being a Republican/Christian/NRA member?   

"I'm the decider, and I decide what is best. And what's best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the Secretary of Defense." George W. Bush, Washington, D.C. April 18, 2006

"You work three jobs?   Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." George W. Bush, to a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005

"After the bombing, most Iraqis saw what the perpetuators of this attack were trying to do." George W. Bush, on the bombing of the Golden Mosque of Samarra in Iraq, March 13, 2006, Washington, D.C.

"I think we are welcomed. But it was not a peaceful welcome." George W. Bush, defending Vice President Dick Cheney's pre-war assertion that the United States would be welcomed in Iraq as liberators, NBC Nightly News interview, Dec. 12, 2005

"Wow! Brazil is big." George W. Bush, after being shown a map of Brazil by Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brasilia, Brazil, Nov. 6, 2005

"It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life." George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Dec. 21, 2004