Boxers or Briefs now we know

I can not believe all the newscast about Saddam standing in his underwear. What is going on? Surely it must have been a slow news week. Other wise the news made no sense at all. Saddam Hussein, one of the most feared men has been reduced to shuffling around a prison cell in his underpants. He is awaiting trail for genocide, torture and numerous other crimes against humanity that saw the disappearance and murder of 300,000 people durning his rule. I really do not care about Saddam, he is ruthless and deserves worse. He is a modern day Adolf Hitler, no one should feel sorry for him. Seeing him in his underwear, even naked means nothing to me but to lots of people in the Middle East the picture was a violation of the Geneva agreement. There is something wrong with this picture alright, it's that the media made so much hay out of a man in his shorts. Saddam is not a Superman or God, he is now just an ageing and humble old man. It is important that the people of Iraq see him like that to destroy the myth. Maybe that will kill a bit of passion in the fanatics who still follow him. It's over guys, the evil days of Saddam's Baath Party are never coming back.

Closed till Friday

I took the week off from Carlton"s Corner. Check back next Friday, there will be another interesting post.

My Mom

I think of my Mother often even more so this week with the observance of Mothers Day. I wonder what she was thinking as she looked at me? Here are just a few of the things that every Mother teaches her children

1 APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE "If you are going to kill each other, do it outside, I just cleaned"
2 RELIGION "you better pray that will come out of the carpet"
3 TIME TRAVEL "if you don't straighten up, I am going to knock you into the middle of next week"
4 LOGIC "because I said so"
5 FORESIGHT "make sure you wear clean underwear, in case your in an accident"
6 IRONY "keep crying and I will give you something to cry about"
7 STAMINA "you will sit there till all that spinach is gone"
8 WEATHER "this room of yours looks like a tornado went through it"
9 HYPOCRISY "if I told you once, I've told you a million times, don't exaggerate"
10 CIRCLE OF LIFE "I brought you into this world and I can take you out"
11 BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION "stop acting like your father"
12 ENVY "there are million of children in this world who don't have wonderful parents like you do"
13 ANTICIPATION "just wait till we get home"
14 RECEIVING "you are going to get it when you get home"
15 MEDICAL SCIENCE "if you don't stop crossing your eyes , they'll freeze that way"
16 ESP "put your sweater on, I know you will be cold"
17 HUMOR " when that lawnmower cuts off your toes, don't come running to me"
18 HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT "if you don't eat your vegetables you will never grow up"
19 GENETICS "you are just like your father"
20 WISDOM "when you get to be my age, you will understand"

Booty Bust

The Texas House passed bill 1476 in an attempt to make it safe to go to a sporting event. Since when has a back flip or a high kick been classified as sexually suggestive? I don't know about you but I always went to a Friday night game to see young men clashing on the football field not girls with exposed midriffs and short skirts. If this bill becomes law, Texas cheerleaders will be shaken a little less booty come September. The Booty Petrol will be in the stands every Friday night, altho none will be able to define the behavior much less prevent it or specify punishment. The bill says they are supposed to know it when they see it.
The Texas House seems to think that every girl between 12 and 18 is a prostiteen that is working to upgrade her resume so it will look good when she applies for her first job in Vegas. When a cheerleader wears a skirt only millimeters from the promised land anything she does can be seen as sexually suggestive, God forbid she binds over to tie her shoe!
Mabe the Texas House should pass a law that says only big fat ugly girls can be cheerleaders, thoes lingering images would discourage sex of any kind between anyone in high school. Oh lets stop playing patty cake, just castrate all the boys!
I just don't see this as something that could mean the end to western civilation as we know it. I can not grasp the motive behind the Texas politicians. Do they think they are saving the world from certian destruction? Mabe they think the cheerleaders are al-Qaida or Taliban! Taliban, don't they make their women wear burqas and keep them locked up in their houses? Yes that is what the Texas politicians want. I'am telling you right now, booty and ballgames are inseperable, just watch the TV games and comercials. If you try to pry them apart, sports will be replaced by something else as the national past time.
The goverment should not be telling people how to express themselves and what to look at and what not to look at. What will Texas regulate next? Mabe the color of your shoes or the color of the person you can marry! Government has to recognize it has limits and morality comes from within not enforced from without. They just better not try to get the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders out of thoes shorts. There are three things you do not mess with in Texas, BEER BOOBS and the BIBLE.