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| | When bad things happen... | | | Thursday, July 24, 2008 (6:55 PM)
(I'm feeling hopeful) | | Below is a link to a commentary a friend sent to me as well as to others, who are interested in what she has to say. I think this is quite enlightening and I wouldn't be much of a friend if I didn't think my friends deserved to hear it just as much as I, so here you go. Check it out, I'm glad I listened. ~ Retro
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| | "Disorder in the American Courts" | | | Sunday, July 13, 2008 (2:42 PM)
(I'm feeling creative) | | >These are from a book called "Disorder in the American Courts",
and are things people have actually said in court, word for word taken down and now published by court reporters who had the torment of staying calm while these exchanges were actually taking place. It's worth reading to the end!
Those of you who have worked with attorneys will find this
very easy to understand. Others...will find it easier.
>ATTORNEY: Are you sexually active?
>WITNESS: No, I just lie there.
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>ATTORNEY: What is your date of birth?
>WITNESS: July 18th.
>ATTORNEY: What year?
>WITNESS: Every year.
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>ATTORNEY: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact?
>WITNESS: Gucci sweats and Reeboks.
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>ATTORNEY: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all?
>WITNESS: Yes.
>ATTORNEY: And in what ways does it affect your memory?
>WITNESS: I forget.
>ATTORNEY: You forget? Can you give us an example of something you forgot?
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>ATTORNEY: How old is your son, the one living with you?
>WITNESS: Thirty-eight or thirty-five, I can't remember which.
>ATTORNEY: How long has he lived with you?
>WITNESS: Forty-five years.
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>ATTORNEY: What was the first thing your husband said to you that morning?
>WITNESS: He said, "Where am I, Cathy?"
>ATTORNEY: And why did that upset you?
>WITNESS: My name is Susan.
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>ATTORNEY: Do you know if your daughter has ever been involved in voodoo?
>WITNESS: We both do.
>ATTORNEY: Voodoo?
>WITNESS: We do.
>ATTORNEY: You do?
>WITNESS: Yes, voodoo.
>______________________________________
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>ATTORNEY: Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep,
he doesn't know about it until the next morning?
>WITNESS: Did you actually pass the bar exam?
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>ATTORNEY: The youngest son, the twenty-one-year-old, how old is he?
>WITNESS: Uh, he's twenty-one.
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>ATTORNEY: Were you present when your picture was taken?
>WITNESS: Would you repeat the question?
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>ATTORNEY: So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th?
>WITNESS: Yes.
>ATTORNEY: And what were you doing at that time?
>WITNESS: Uh....
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>ATTORNEY: She had three children, right?
>WITNESS: Yes.
>ATTORNEY: How many were boys?
>WITNESS: None.
>ATTORNEY: Were there any girls?
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>ATTORNEY: How was your first marriage terminated?
>WITNESS: By death.
>ATTORNEY: And by whose death was it terminated?
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>ATTORNEY: Can you describe the individual?
>WITNESS: He was about medium height and had a beard.
>ATTORNEY: Was this a male or a female?
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>ATTORNEY: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a
deposition notice which I sent to your attorney?
>WITNESS: No, this is how I dress when I go to work.
>______________________________________
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>ATTORNEY: Doctor, how many of your autopsies have you performed on dead people?
>WITNESS: All my autopsies are performed on dead people.
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>ATTORNEY: ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK?
What school did you go to?
>WITNESS: Oral.
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>ATTORNEY: Do you recall the time that you examined the body?
>WITNESS: The autopsy started around 8:30 p.m.
>ATTORNEY: And Mr. Denton was dead at the time?
>WITNESS: No, he was sitting on the table wondering why I was doing an autopsy on him!
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>ATTORNEY: Are you qualified to give a urine sample?
>WITNESS: Huh?
>____________________________________________
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>And the best for last
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>ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
>WITNESS: No.
>ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure?
>WITNESS: No.
>ATTORNEY: Did you check for breathing?
>WITNESS: No.
>ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you
> began the autopsy?
>WITNESS: No.
>ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
>WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
>ATTORNEY: But could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
>WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law.
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| | WHAT MAKES WHERE YOU LIVE IN THE USA SPECIAL ? | | | Sunday, July 13, 2008 (2:03 PM)
(I'm feeling contemplative) | | > ALABAMA ... Was the first place to have 9-1-1, started in 1968.
> ALASKA ... One out of every 64 people has a pilot's license.
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> ARIZONA ... Is the only state in the continental U.S. That doesn't follow Daylight Savings Time.
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> ARKANSAS ... Has the only active diamond mine in the U.S.
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> CALIFORNIA . Its economy is so large that if it were a country, it would rank seventh in the entire world.
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> COLORADO ... In 1976 it became the only state to turn down the Olympics.
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> CONNECTICUT ... The Frisbee was invented here at Yale University.
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> DELAWARE ... Has more scientists and engineers than any other state.
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> FLORIDA ... At 759 square miles, Jacksonville is the U.S.'s largest city.
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>GEORGIA ... It was here, in 1886, that pharmacist John Pemberton made the first vat of Coca-Cola.
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> HAWAII ... Hawaiians live, on average, five years longer than residents in any other state.
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> IDAHO ... TV was invented in Rigby, Idaho, in 1922.
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> ILLINOIS ... The Chicago River is dyed green every St. Patrick's Day.
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> INDIANA ... Home to Santa Claus, Indiana, which get a half million letter to Santa every year.
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> IOWA ... Winnebagos get their name from Winnebago County. Also, it is the only state that begins with two vowels.
> KANSAS ... Liberal, Kansas, has an exact replica of the house in The Wizard of Oz.
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> KENTUCKY ... Has more than $6 billion in gold underneath Fort Knox.
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> LOUISIANA ... Has parishes instead of counties because they were originally Spanish church units.
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> MAINE ... It's so big, it covers as many square miles as the other five New England states combined.
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>MARYLAND ... The Oujia board was created in Baltimore in 1892.
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> MASSACHUSETTS ... The Fig Newton is named after Newton, Massachusetts.
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> MICHIGAN ... Fremont, home to Gerber, is the baby food capital of the world.
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> MINNESOTA ... Bloomington's Mall of America is so big, if you spent 10 minutes in each store,
you'd be there nearly four days.
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> MISSISSIPPI ... President Teddy Roosevelt refused to shoot a bear here
>. that's how the teddy bear got its name.
> MISSOURI ... Is the birthplace of the ice cream cone.
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> MONTANA .. A sapphire from Montana is the Crown Jewels of England.
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> NEBRASKA ... More triplets are born here than in any other state.
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> NEVADA ... Has more hotel rooms than any other place in the world.
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> NEW HAMPSHIRE ... Birthplace of Tupperware, invented in 1938 by Earl Tupper.
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> NEW JERSEY ... Has the most shopping malls in one area in the world.
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> NEW MEXICO ... Smoke y the Bear was rescued from a 1950 forest fire here.
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> NEW YORK ... Is home to the nation's oldest cattle ranch, started in 1747 in Montauk.
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> NORTH CAROLINA .. Home of the first Krispy Kreme doughnut.
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> NORTH DAKOTA ... Rigby, North Dakota, is the exact geographic center of North America.
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> OHIO ... The hot dog was invented here in 1900.
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> OKLAHOMA ... The grounds of the state capital are covered by operating oil wells.
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> OREGON ... Has the most ghost towns in the country.
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> PENNSYLVANIA ... The smiley, :) was first used in 1980 by computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University.
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> RHODE ISLAND . The nation's oldest bar, the White Horse Tavern, opened here in 1673.
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> SOUTH CAROLINA ... Sumter County is home to the world's largest gingko farm.
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> SOUTH DAKOTA ... Is the only state that's never had an earthquake.
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> TENNESSEE ... Nashville's Grand Ole Opry is the longest running live radio show in the world.
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> TEXAS ... Dr. Pepper was invented in Waco back in 1885.
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> UTAH ... The first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant opened here in 1952.
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> VERMONT ... Montpelier is the only state capital without a McDonald's.
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> VIRGINIA ... Home of the world's largest office building ... The Pentagon.
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> WASHINGTON ... Seattle has twice as many college graduates as any other state.
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> WASHINGTON D.C. ... Was the first planned capital in the world.
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> WEST VIRGINIA ... Had the world's first brick paved street, Summers Street, laid in Charleston in 1870.
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> WISCONSIN ... The ice cream sundae was invented here in 1881 to get around Blue Laws
prohibiting ice cream from being sold on Sundays.
> WYOMING ... Was the first state to allow women to vote.
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| | 10 Thoughts to Ponder | | | Sunday, July 13, 2008 (6:35 PM)
(I'm feeling contemplative) | | Subject: 10 Thoughts to Ponder!!!!
Number 10
Life is sexually transmitted.
Number 9
Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
Number 8
Men have two emotions: Hungry and Horny.
If you see him without an erection make him a sandwich!!!!
Number 7
Give a person a fish, and you feed him for a day;
teach a person to use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.
Number 6
Some people are like a Slinky..... not really good for anything, but you
still can't help but smile when you shove them down the stairs.
Number 5
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday,
lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
Number 4
All of us could take a lesson from the weather.
It pays no attention to criticism.
Number 3
Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars,
and a substantial tax cut saves you thirty cents?
Number 2
In the 60s, people took acid to make the world weird.
Now, the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.
AND THE NUMBER 1 THOUGHT FOR THE DAY :
We know exactly where one cow with Mad-cow-disease is located among the
millions and millions of cows in America, but we haven't got a clue as to where thousands
of illegal immigrants and terrorists are located...
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| | John Glenn Said... | | | Sunday, June 22, 2008 (1:12 PM)
(I'm feeling contemplative) | | Sometimes I would like to post items that make one pause and think. I assuming that there will be plenty of times where we even agree on issues and then there will be times where we just don't agree but agree to disagree. Remember that friction can sometimes be a healthy thing, and remember too that if your going to leave a comment
by all means do so... just be decent and respectful about it..
Here's my latest "Perceptions and Perspectives" piece for thought that I've come across on the Internet...
JOHN GLENN SAID ...
Things that make you think a little:
There were 39 combat related killings in Iraq in January.
In the fair city of Detroit there were 35 murders in the month of January.
That's just one American city....about as deadly as the entire war-torn country of Iraq .
When some claim that President Bush shouldn't have started this war, state the following:
a. FDR led us into World War II.
Germany never attacked us; Japan did.
From 1941-1945, 450,000 lives were lost ..an average of 112,500 per year.
b.Truman finished that war and started one in Korea.
North Korea never attacked us.
From 1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost ... an average of 18,334 per year.
c.John F. Kennedy started the Vietnam conflict in 1962.
Vietnam never attacked us .
d. Johnson turned Vietnam into a quagmire.
From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were lost an average of 5,800 per year.
e. Clinton went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent.
Bosnia never attacked us .
He was offered Osama bin Laden's head on a platter three times by Sudan and did nothing.
Osama has attacked us on multiple occasions.
f.In the years since terrorists attacked us , President Bush has liberated two countries,
crushed the Taliban, crippled al-Qaida, put nuclear inspectors in Libya , Iran , and, North
Korea without firing a shot, and captured a terrorist who slaughtered 300,000 of his own people.
The Democrats are complaining about how long the war is taking.
But It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno to take the Branch Davidian compound.
That was a 51-day operation..
We've been looking for evidence for chemical weapons in Iraq for less time
than it took Hillary Clinton to find the Rose Law Firm billing records.
It took less time for the 3rd Infantry Division and the Marines to destroy the Medina Republican Guard
than it took Ted Kennedy to call the police after his Oldsmobile sank at Chappaquiddick.
It took less time to take Iraq than it took to count the votes in Florida !!!!
The Military morale is high!
The biased media hopes we are too ignorant to realize the facts
But Wait There's more!
JOHN GLENN (ON THE SENATE FLOOR)
Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:13 am
Some people still don't understand why military personnel do what they do for a living.
This exchange between Senators John Glenn and Senator Howard Metzenbaum is worth reading.
Not only is it a pretty impressive impromptu speech, but it's also a good example of one
man's explanation of why men and women in the armed services do what they do for a living.
This IS a typical, though sad, example of what some who have never served think of the military.
Senator Metzenbaum (speaking to Senator Glenn):
"How can you run for Senate when you've never held a real job?"
Senator Glenn (D-Ohio):
"I served 23 years in the United States Marine Corps.
I served through two wars. I flew 149 missions. My plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire on 12 different
occasions. I was in the space program. It wasn't my checkbook, Howard; it was my life on the line.
It was not a nine-to-five job, where I took time off to take the daily cash receipts to the bank."
"I ask you to go with me. as I went the other day... to a veteran's hospital and look those men ...
with their mangled bodies in the eye, and tell THEM they didn't hold a job!
You go with me to the Space Program at NASA and go, as I have gone, to the widows and Orphans of Ed White,
Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee...and you look those kids in the eye and tell them
that their DADS didn't hold a job.
You go with me on Memorial Day and you stand in Arlington National Cemetery ,
where I have more friends buried than I'd like to remember, and you watch those waving flags.
You stand there, and you think about this nation,
and you tell ME that those people didn't have a job?
What about you?"
For those who don't remember .
During W.W.II, Howard Metzenbaum was an attorney representing the Communist Party in the USA .
Now he's a Senator!
If you can read this, thank a teacher.
If you are reading it in English, thank a Veteran.
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