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Over a week and I’ve really got nothing new to offer.  So with that I bid you all good-bye.  ”the KID” has enjoyed his space, and he hopes all that were involved can say the same.  ”the KID” has no catchy phrases or quotes to leave you with, but he will offer one last ...............“SEEYA”

 “the KID”

Confucius:

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

 

 

 

“the KID” has run out of interesting things to discuss…..thus he will not be posting any new material for the time being  (Guess you could say he’s burned out)  However he will continue to read and comment on his fellow spacers’ postings… yep he’s going to be freeloading for the time being…with that I leave you with one final...."seeya"…

 

“the KID”

Three Roman soldiers are in a drinking-place at eleven o’clock at night.  There are barrels around the wall.  Behind the wooden counter is a Hebrew wine-seller.  The three Roman soldiers are a little cock-eyed.

 

1^st Roman Soldier ---- You tried the red?

2^nd Soldier ---- No, I ain’t tried it.

1^st Soldier ---- You better try it.

2^nd Soldier ---- All right, George, we’ll have a round of the red.

Hebrew Wine Seller ---- Here you are, gentlemen.  You’ll like that.  {he sets down an earthenware pitcher that he has filled from one of the casks.} That’s a nice little wine.

1^st Soldier ---- Have a drink of it yourself. {he turns to the third Roman soldier who is leaning on a barrel.} What’s the matter with you?

3^rd Roman Soldier ---- I got a gut-ache.

2^nd Soldier ---- You’ve been drinking water.

1^st Soldier ---- Try some the red.

2^nd Soldier ---- I can’t drink the damn stuff. It makes my gut sour.

1^st Soldier ---- You been out there too long.

3^rd Soldier ---- Hell, don’t I know it?

1^st Soldier ---- Say, George, can’t you give this gentleman something to fix up his stomach?

Hebrew Wine-seller ---- I got it right here.

 

{The third Roman soldier tastes the cup that the wine-seller has mixed for him.}

 

3^rd Soldier ---- Hey, what you put in that, camel chips?

 Wine-seller ---- You drink that right down, Lootenant. That’ll fix you right up.

3^rd Soldier ---- Well, I couldn’t feel any worse.

1^st Soldier ---- Take a chance on it. George fixed me up fine the other day.

Wine-seller ---- You were in bad shape, Lootenant. I know what fixes up a bad stomach.

 

{The third Roman soldier drinks the cup down.}

 

3^rd Roman Soldier ---- Jesus Christ. {He makes a face.}

2^nd Soldier ---- False alarm!

1^st Soldier ---- Oh, I don’t know. He was pretty good in there today.

2^nd Soldier ---- Why didn’t he come down off the cross?

1^st Soldier ---- He didn’t want to come down off the cross.  That’s not his play.

2^nd Soldier ---- Show me a guy that doesn’t want to come down off the cross.

1^st Soldier ---- Aw, hell, you don’t know anything about it.  Ask George there.  Did he want to come down off the cross, George?

Wine-seller ---- I’ll tell you gentlemen, I wasn’t out there. It’s a thing I haven’t any interest in.

2^nd Soldier ---- Listen, I seen a lot of them ---- here and plenty of other places.  Any time show me one that doesn’t want to get down off the cross when the time comes ---- when the time comes, I mean ---- I’ll climb right up with him.

1^st Soldier ---- I thought he was pretty good in there today.

3^rd Soldier ---- He was all right.

2^nd Roman Soldier ---- You guys don’t know what I’m talking about.  I’m not saying whether he was good or not.  What I mean is, when the time comes. When they first start nailing him, there isn’t none of them wouldn’t stop it if they could.

1^st Soldier ---- Didn’t you follow it, George?

Wine-seller ---- No, I didn’t take any interest in it, Lootenant. 

1^st Soldier ---- I was surprised how he acted.

3^rd Soldier ---- The part I don’t like is the nailing them on.  You know, that must get to you pretty bad.

2^nd ---- It isn’t that that’s so bad, as when they first lift ‘em up {he makes a lifting gesture with his two palms together}

When the weight starts to pull on ‘em. That’s when it gets ‘em

 

Parts of “Today is Friday” by Ernest Hemingway  

 

 

Today's post is short but anything but simple.  What should the United States and/or the United Nations do about the current situation in Iran? 

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Mohandas Gandhi

NEW YORK - Katie Couric is risking her television legacy to leave NBC’s “Today” show and anchor the CBS evening news - as a new poll shows that people would rather watch her in the morning.
     Asked if they prefer to see Couric in her longtime role as anchor of “Today” or on the evening news, 49 percent chose mornings and 29 percent said evening news, an AP-TV Guide poll found.
     But the poll suggests that Couric, who announced Wednesday that she’s leaving “Today” after 15 years, is making a transition at a good time because no TV news anchors dominate the public’s attention. More than half of those polled, 55 percent, said they have a favorable view of Couric. That’s comparable to the favorable opinions of NBC’s Brian Williams, CBS’s Bob Schieffer and higher than ABC’s Elizabeth Vargas.

So it looks as if Katie Curic will be leaving the "Today" show and will become the nightly news anchor for CBS.... which got “the KID” thinking the following:

 

1)      How do you get your news?  Print, TV, Internet?  If TV what network if any do you prefer?

 

2)      “the KID” would also like your opinions on Katie Curic both professionally and hot or not opinions.

 

 

Katie Couric, an NBC television anchor, attends a fundraiser in this March 2006, file photo.(AP Photo)