On This Day In History . . .

. . .Juan Ponce De Leon, also known as "The Ponce", discovered Florida. He began his search for the Fountain of Youth.
Obviously, it was not in Florida where the average age is 82.5. Citizens still search for the miracle waters as evidenced by the large number of cars driving aimlessly about with their left turn signals on.

I understand that the Democratic Party denies the existence of intelligent life in Florida and Michigan. Wait! I've got that wrong- there's no evidence of intelligent life in the Democratic Party.

You want proof? Howard Dean, the Clintons, Obama, Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi- I could go on but I need to bathe after typing those names.

Happy St. Patrick's Day

"May those who love us love

And those who don't love us

May God turn their hearts

And if He doesn't turn their hearts

May he turn their ankles

So we'll know them by their limping."

--Irish prayer

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever. Sigmund Freud (about the Irish)

Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!

"Be who you are and say what you feel 'cause people who mind don't matter, and people who matter don't mind."~ Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. "Dr. Seuss" 1904-1991

February 24 thru March 1

This is National Eating Disorders Awareness Week.

There will be no potluck. Pie will not be served.

On This Day in History

1907- President Theodore Roosevelt signed an immigration act which excluded "idiots, imbeciles, feebleminded persons, epileptics and insane persons" from being admitted to the United States.

A hundred years later we can see that President Roosevelt was prophetic: The U.S. is able to produce home-grown idiots and imbeciles.

Year of the Rat

Is it a coincidence that our election year is also the Year of the Rat?
A subtle Chinese connection?

Another Rat fact:
I was reading a health magazine and was surprised at one warning:
There is a chemical in some nail polishes that causes cancer in rodents.

Next month: Humans in shoes can cause squashing-death to spiders and ants.