It rained yesterday.
It's been a dry, sunny summer. It's only rained for 13 of the last 14 days, I think.
A woman at work, running out to close her car windows, muttered, "It's not supposed to rain today."
I don't know what she's thinking. She should know that it only rains on days of the week that end in 'y'.
I lived in the rain forest where it rained every day for 8 straight months and it wasn't this annoying. At least there, you knew what to expect. Every day, between 3-3:30 PM, it would get dark fast and you knew to run to your house/hut. It would rain for 2-3 hours and stop. It would never rain, or even be cloudy, any other time of day during the rainy season. You knew not to plan to be outside at 4 PM. You knew certainly to plan to be not far from the village.
Here, even when it's not raining, it looks like it's going to rain. Considering that, in the summer, 95% of my non-work activities are done outside, it's so (*$#(&*$#&(*%$&(*!@!$#)__$( annoying.
Summer? My foot!
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If any more assurance is needed that gays will treat marriage with the same reverence as straights, just read this article. One of the first gay couples married in Ontario has filed what is believed to be Canada's first same-sex divorce.
As one commentator said, "Gay marriage will lead to gay nagging."
Ironically, though some Canadian courts have ruled gay marriage laws legal, the divorce act still refers to a spouse as "of a man or a woman who are married to each other".
The couple, who had been together for five years, separated five days later.
Hey, that's five times longer than Brittney Spears lasted.
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Remember when Fox News [sic] sued Al Franken for copyright infringement over the phrase 'Fair and balanced'? Well now, MoveOn.org (a Democratic advocacy group) and Common Cause (a consumer group founded by Ralph Nader) have filed a petition with the Federal Trade Commission to force Fox to stop using the slogan. The groups said Fox News reports are -- as they put it -- "deliberately and consistently distorted and twisted to promote the Republican Party of the U.S. and an extreme right-wing viewpoint", reports the AP.
Thus proving that idiocy is not limited to one side of the political spectrum. Do I think Fox News [sic] fair and balanced? No. Is the motto deceptive? Yes, though it's so farcical, that it might constitute satire.
Is it demonstrably and objectively false in a legal sense? Absolutely not. Should they be legally forced to stop using it? No way.
Part of a free press is that media outlets can make themselves look like morons. If they do, people will just ignore them.
Making Fox into some free speech martyr is the last thing we need. These anti-Fox folks should remember how Fox's campaign against Al Franken helped put the latter's book sales through the roof.
Though a Fox spokeswoman called the suit, a "transparent publicity stunt," thus demonstrating that the days of pots taunting black kettles is not yet over.
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