Minorities Hit Hardest
As President Bush and his staff sit comfortably in the White House, the snow continued to pile up on the many poor and minority victims in the Buffalo, NY area who could not afford to get out of town or to safety in Florida . Crucial supplies of blankets, hot cocoa, popcorn, gold jewelry, plasma TVs, Colt 45, and dark rum – so essential to surviving the stress of any major snowstorm lay in stores undelivered.
“Where is the government? I need my sidewalk shoveled so I can get out to buy my lottery tickets!” said one Buffalo resident from his living room. “Why are we wasting money in Iraq when we could be spending it here on me?”
Progressive blogs blasted the President for his inaction. “We find the timing terribly suspicious – just as the North Korean sanctions kick into high gear, what happens? A major northeast Blizzard. Why now?” wrote one blogger.
HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHO TO MARRY ?
You got to find somebody who likes the same stuff. Like, if you like sports, she should like it that you like sports, and she should keep the chips and dip coming.
– Alan, age 10
No person really decides before they grow up who they’re going to marry. God decides it all way before, and you get to find out later who you’re stuck with.
– Kristen, age 10
WHAT IS THE RIGHT AGE TO GET MARRIED ?
Twenty-three is the best age because you know the person FOREVER by then.
– Camille, age 10
No age is good to get married at. You got to be a fool to get married.
– Freddie, age 6 (very wise for his age) More »
The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that, “When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.”
However, in corporate America, and especially in government agencies, more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:
1. Buying a bigger whip.
2. Changing riders.
3. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
4. Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride horses.
5. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
6. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired.
7. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
8. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.
9. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase dead horse’s performance.
10. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse’s performance.
11. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do some other horses.
12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.
And of course my favorite …
13. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.
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