Topical Chat, May 17, 2007

Only a few more days until vacation for me … I hope you all can manage for a week without me…

1. On Jerry Falwell’s passing:
“Ding, dong, the witch is dead …”
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/15/jerry.falwell/index.html

2. On a senior who failed English in New Mexico, but still graduated, thanks to his dad being on the school board and his mom being county commissioner:
“I just can’t understand why politics gets such a bad rap …”
http://www.koat.com/news/13320672/detail.html

3. On an expert’s claim that Iraq will become a "terrorist Disneyland" if the US leaves:
“Wait, it’ll get THAT much better?”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070515/us_nm/iraq_alqaeda_dc;_ylt=AmQQLlYj0mJHXm2UpNODPXjMWM0F

4. On a man who sold a dog at yard sale for $15 … problem was that it wasn't his dog:
“Isn’t this what Gates did with Windows … er, nevermind.”
http://www.wusa9.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=58637

5. On David Faustino, the 33-year-old actor, best known for playing "Bud Bundy" on TV's "Married With Children," being arrested on Saturday on pot possession and disorderly intoxication charges:
“I owe somebody some money … I swore we’d never hear from David Faustino again!”
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0515071faustino1.html?link=rssfeed

6. On the Alexandria Young Republicans holding first annual Dick Cheney paintball tournament:
“Why does this not sound like such a hot idea?”
http://www.alexandriayrs.org/paintball/

7. On a report that says that Paris Hilton is "emotionally distraught and traumatized" over her 45-day jail sentence and isn't capable of testifying in a civil lawsuit against her:
“I really feel for this spoiled billionaire brat sometimes … “
http://apnews1.iwon.com//article/20070515/D8P4T3B80.html

8. On a Spanish bank repossessing a house and putting it up for auction complete with the mummified body of the former owner who had missed her mortgage payments:
“What’s the bank called, the First Bank of Adolf Hitler?”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070515/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_spain_corpse;_ylt=Aoez0tACsMrl_yvnPk7SvhbMWM0F