One way to avoid school

30th August: Rapunzel.
In 1862 in Northern Virginia, however, Major General John Pope was about to get his long awaited comeuppance. Lee was ready to take the offensive against the man he had come to despise, for his over confident bombast and disregard and disrespect of Virginia and the men he had come east to command.
Not heeding his subordinates’ requests for caution, Pope tried once again to break Jackson’s battered Corps(one Brigade did break, but others plugged the gap). On the union far left were only two brigades of Infantry and they were to be assailed by ten times their number. Three Southern Divisions, Hood’s, Kemper’s and Jones’ crashed onto the field, making short work of the outnumbered Northern troops.
Pope did well to recognise the danger when it appeared and sent four Brigades from three different Divisions to hold at Henry House Hill on his left. Remember this was ground fought over 13 months ago, by much the same men and officers, although most were now promoted.
This time around there would be no rout. Understandably, there was much jubilation on the side of the Southerners and a great loss of morale on the Northern side. This sense of martial superiority, begun last Summer  at 1st Manassas, was to continue and come to a head on the field of Gettysburg another Summer from now.

there are many ideas a man can think but if he thinks it twice he thought about another idea which makes his idea nonsense…

I miss school.  I think I am going to take a few night courses just for fun.

Enjoy it while you can.

“Study History, Study History” - Winston Churchill

The school of agricutlture’s dean of admissions was interviewing a prospective student, “Why have you chosen this career?” he asked?

“I dream of making a million dollars in farming, like my father,” the student replied.

“Your father made a million dollars in farming?” echoed the dean, much impressed.

“No,” replied the applicant.  “But he always DREAMED of it!”

“leave a bad taste in your mouth” is a figure of speech.  When you try something and it leaves a bad taste in your mouth you don’t want to try it again.

The double entendre bit refers to oral sex.

http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/sayitloud/kane223

Granted BET ain’t ABC, cBS, or NBC, but they made a decision based on the bottom line…
or the viewership line.  Which due to advertising works out to about the same thing.

What? They don’t want to edgykate de bros about the evils of W, Republicans, Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice and Clarence Thomas??

I seem to recall one or more of the major networks going through financial struggles and having to cut the budget so the news wasn’t such a drag on the bottom line$$$$.

And now we may soon have Perky Katie Kouric(sp?) taking the anchor news_reader_ chair @ one network and the Survivor Celebrity Newstarget(who was set up for an assassination attempt by his own network) taking another news_reader_ chair.

More big money to a losing cause.
Just like Leno($14M/year) and Letterman($17M/year.)

It amazing that those idiots can be so naive. It’s like they don’t even realize that the majority of their consumers are patriotic Americans, and would rather not have their president or other fellow singers bashed on.