Common Folk Using Common Sense

Remember shortly before Election Day 2006 when Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) suggested that if you don’t get a good education, “you get stuck in Iraq”?
Apparently to author Stephen King if you don’t know how to read your only choice is to join the Army and go to Iraq.
According to published reports, last month Stephen King [...]

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News anchor Dan Rather, The Reverend Jesse Jackson, National Public Radio reporter Cokie Roberts, and an American Marine were hiking through the jungle one day when they were captured by cannibals.
They were tied up, led to the village and brought before the chief. The chief said, “I am familiar with your Western custom of granting [...]

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From the New York Times:

In an interview in his home state, West Virginia, on Monday, Senator Jay Rockefeller, a Democrat, told The Charleston Gazette that Mr. McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, could not relate to the everyday concerns of people on issues like health care.
According to the article, Mr. Rockefeller said:
“McCain was a fighter [...]

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During an address to the World Economic Forum, the US Secretary of State, Colin Powell, was asked a somewhat long and involved question by the former Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, which ended with the following interrogative:

And would you not agree, as a very significant political figure in the United States, Colin, that America, at [...]

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From InsideBayArea.com:

Hey-hey, ho-ho, the Marines in Berkeley have got to go.
That’s the message from the Berkeley City Council, which voted 6-3, with Gordon Wozniak, Betty Olds and Kriss Worthington dissenting, to tell the Marines that its Shattuck Avenue recruiting station “is not welcome in the city, and if recruiters choose to stay, they do so [...]

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Normally I detest beauty pageants. They are usually nothing more than thinly-veiled soft-core voyeurism. The women watch it and say, “Wow, I wish I could be hot like her,” while the men watch it and say, “Wow, I wish I could be inside of her.”
But tonight’s Miss America Pageant contains a tiny slimmer [...]

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Today is December 7th, the 66th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
At dawn on Sunday, December 7, 1941, naval aviation forces of the Empire of Japan attacked the United States Pacific Fleet center at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and other military targets. The goal of this attack was to sufficiently cripple the US Fleet so [...]

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