Administration Overly Optimistic about Fate of Spilled Oil "Great News, Beav!" "Gee Wally, What's the great news?" "Well Beav, the Pres and the Gov say that the vast majority of the oil is gone from the Gulf! Isn't that great?" "Gee Wally, Does that mean it's gone gone, or has it moved to other places where they aren't looking or maybe it moved deep under water down the coast of Florida toward the Keys and is heading up the East Coast? And...and does that mean there's no more problems with the fish and animals, huh Wally?" "Gosh Beav. You're so cynical. Here the Pres says that things are getting lots better and you're questioning him? Are you a scientist? No, didn't think so. Leave the analysis to the experts. He says most of the oil is gone from the Gulf. That's good enough for me and should be for you, too!" "But Wally, isn't that like saying your girlfriend might be a little bit pregnant?" "Shut up and eat your Wheaties, Beav."
Wanted:
Approximately 600,000 square miles of carpet to cover the Gulf of Mexico. Shag acceptable! Please contact the White House, Coast Guard or BP for further information. Must be able to install without causing public disruption. Prefer installation at night. Serious inquires only.
A while back, California abruptly legalized marriage between people of the same gender, and 18,000 couples immediately started shoveling money into the state economy (marriage license fees, catering, gifts and so on).
Naturally, this didn't sit well with Certain People, who put forward a ballot initiative called Proposition 8. Prop. 8 basically forced a change to the California Constitution, making it illegal for same-gender couples to wed. Thanks to a tsunami of money and ads from interested groups (like the Mormons), Prop. 8 passed.
Well, the proposition was challenged in Federal Court, the plaintiff's argument being that the law violated their Equal Protection rights under the 14th Amendment (yes, that 14th Amendment) and therefore violated their civil rights under 42 USC 1983.
Today the judge in the case handed down a ruling, which you can read in its entirety here. It's 138 pages long, so I'll simply give you the money shot:
"Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage license. Indeed, the evidence shows Proposition 8 does nothing more than enshrine in the California Constitution the notion that opposite-sex couples are superior to same-sex couples. Because California has no interest in discriminating against gay men and lesbians, and because Proposition 8 prevents California from fulfilling its constitutional obligation to provide marriages on an equal basis, the court concludes that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional."
Now, this fight isn't over, and I expect it to go all the way forward to the US Supreme Court. On its face, the Court's argument is compelling, and I can't wait for someone to challenge the Federal Defense of Marriage Act under the Commerce Clause, the Full Faith and Credit Clause, and the Supreme Court decision of Loving v. Virginia.
And I can hear heads exploding, which is always fun to hear.
Oceanographic satellite data now shows that the Loop Current in the Gulf of Mexico has stalled as a consequence of the BP oil spill disaster. This according to Dr. Gianluigi Zangari, an Italian theoretical physicist, and major complex and chaotic systems analyst at the Frascati National Laboratories in Italy.
He further notes that the effects of this stall have also begun to spread to the Gulf Stream. This is because the Loop Current is a crucial element of the Gulf Stream itself and why it is commonly referred to as the “main engine” of the Stream.
The concern now, is whether or not natural processes can re-establish the stalled Loop Current. If not, we could begin to see global crop failures as early as 2011.
Sunrise. August 4th. As I watched the sun slowly coming over the trees, there were faint wisps of nearly invisible, high clouds drifting ever so slowly to the east. I noticed the leaves were still on the trees, a robin was singing while its mate scrounged the damp grass for worms and grubs. There was not even the slightest tinge of frost on the window. Curious! The back door was open all night so the cats could relax on the screened-in porch. Crickets were chirping. And yet I know Winter is just around the corner. How do I know? Because it’s Freakin’ Football Training Camp time and we still have 2 months of Boring Baseball plus the playoffs and World Series to be played out in… November? Ruth, Cobb and company must be spinning in their dugouts! We wait all Winter for the warm days of Spring but they pass much too quickly. Just about the time we get settled in to comfortably decent, enjoyable weather, Summer comes. But more importantly, before we can even enjoy July 4th, the fools on TV start telling us it’s only so many days until Football Training Camp! Get your Coors Light, foam fingers and stadium seat-warmers. Good Gawd! Got your snow shovels yet? Don’t get caught without them! And make sure you have a supply of rock salt for your walkway! The solstice occurs late June and that heralds the end! You may think Summer’s just begun but you’d be wrong. Alas! Sol starts his inexorable journey south making way for Old Man Winter. In no time at all, we start seeing hints of what’s coming. Summer isn’t even off to a month's start but the harbinger of Winter is inevitable – Football Training Camp! Yeah, yeah! Football connotes cool Autumn afternoons, colorful falling leaves and carving pumpkins...for about a month and a half. But it really means Winter is just about here. It’s summer or so they say. If you’re not already getting storm windows cleaned, making sure the snow tires are ready, piling firewood behind the house, buying yarn and books for those nights with your loved one sitting beside a roaring fire, you’re at least thinking about them. Winter’s many days or months away you say? Phooey! That’s no time at all. Time isn’t absolute. Einstein was right. As we age, time moves faster. The scientists just haven’t released the proof to the public yet. Too traumatic for us oldsters! It’s just that we never noticed it flying so quickly when we were younger. We all “know” that Winter lasts about 300 days but Spring, Summer and Autumn share only about 20 of what’s left of those precious days (the few extra are holidays). Football was supposed to be an Autumn sport but adding games has dragged it out nearly to Spring what with the StuporBowl. Ask anyone. They’ll tell you if you mention Football, they'll think of Winter. And Winter comes much too early! I like Football. I like Autumn. I don’t even mind the season’s first snows, they’re beautiful…until after the holidays, then the stuff gets old real quick! Our Congress can legislate anything (with the help of SCOTUS) so why can’t they make snow after January 1st illegal? An amendment at least? Then there’s that interminable wait for the first Robin we doubt will ever come while we bitch about long cold nights, heating bills, roads never cleared and Seasonal Affective Disorder! We rush through life prisoners of the television and newspaper (remember them?) advertising business. Already, Winter clothes are on the shelves. By December, they’re stocking bikinis. One local store has Halloween items out now! It’s Freakin’ August 4th! Next week, they’ll probably stock cornucopias and Currier and Ives prints! We no longer live for today, we live for the next season or holiday. We’ve been pushed that way by business and we accept it because we’re too dumb to say no...enough…stop and let us take a breath! You people on the Left Coast, Southwest and Deep South, ignore this (you live in one season that changes only in degree of hot). For those of us who despise Winter though, Global Warming can’t come soon enough. Yeah, Football Training Camp means Winter's just around the corner, like it or not. However, there is ONE redeeming virtue to be found during those cold snowy nights: HOCKEY! HE SHOOTS…AND SCORES! Almost makes Winter tolerable!
Here in sunny Flori-Duh, the Fifth (US) Congressional District seat was held by a Republican, Ms. Ginny Brown-Waite. Ginny was not a bad person, by any stretch of the imagination, and after seeing one of the contenders for her vacated seat I will miss her.
That contender is a fellow named Jason Sager. According to an article in the local paper, Sager is in favor of rewriting part of the 14th Amendment, just to keep illegal immigrants from having babies in our country.
Well, apart from basically invalidating the entire history and foundation of the Republican Party (not to mention saying that the Union was wrong to fight against slavery, and the Dred Scott decision was just fine and dandy), there is an unintended consequence to this idea.
Say for example (and why not?) I am traveling in Sweden with my pregnant wife. She goes into labor, and is delivered of a bouncing baby. Since that child was not born on US soil, he won't be a citizen, and we would have to jump through hoop after bureaucratic, pettifogging hoop in order to not bring the child into the country illegally.
Sager's also in favor of repealing the 17th Amendment. What is that, you might ask? Well, the Mighty 17th changed a bit of the original Constitution - specifically, the election of Senators. Under the original wording of the Constitution, Senators were chosen by the state legislatures, NOT by voters. The 17th changed that.
And Sager wants the pack of venal cretins in Tallahassee deciding who my US Senators should be. Naturally, he has an ulterior motive - the Republicans have solid majorities in the State Legislature, so it'd be a simple matter of enshrining a venal cretin into office without going to the trouble and expense of having the people, you know, actually vote for a guy. Cuius regio, eius religio, anyone?
I'm really not surprised Sager is making these stands. The article states that Sager arrived at his decision to run for office after four days of "prayer and consultation."
WOW! Isn't it wonderful how much this will mean to those who can least afford it? Hey Obama and the Democrats, take a big "It's the best we could do" out of petty health care. What's really cool is that if your President, Congressperson's or Government Employee's kids are diagnosed with a pre-existing condition, be thankful we taxpayers are footing the huge bill for your loved ones, in addition to paying for our own.
Pennsylvania's Department of Insurance today unveiled the details of a new "high risk" insurance plan, meant to provide health coverage for those deemed uninsurable because of pre-existing conditions.
Monday, August 02, 2010
By Bill Toland, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
It's called PA Fair Care, and the program will be administered by Pittsburgh's Highmark Inc.
The department will accept applicants on a first-come, first-served basis. Call 1-888-767-7015 or visit www.PAFairCare.com for details. Applications will be accepted starting Aug 4.
Premiums are $283.20 a month, not including co-pays. The program is initially expected to serve 3,500 people.
when the going gets tough, the outrage-fatigued get back to basics
I spend the bulk of my time now as an urban homesteader, when I'm not commuting to and from a job with a vague expiration date on it. If there is anything positive to be said about spending upwards of 4 hrs a day commuting, it is that one has a bit of time to spend reading. When one is not snoring on the train, which is often.
Aside from the occult-flavored reading that I decided to re-immerse myself in upon moving, I picked up two books that have pretty much reassured me that any move I make to get outside of the system, away from The Man, is going to be a net positive over the long haul. At the very last, I am the mistress of my own fate.
The first quasi-life changing book I read was Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture. Yes, the cover has a woman wielding a rolling pin on it. But it is a lot more than that. It is basically a call to arms to steadily work to quit perpetuating the extractive economy. 'Extractive' meaning we work in order to buy things, and are not particularly benefited by the process because we were sold on consumer culture as soon as manufacturers realized they could even manufacture a sense of need. We work long hours in order to afford things. Who benefits from that but the manufacturers. This is a paradigm-shifting book if one wasn't already suspicious of rampant consumerism. I know quite a few women who were really angered when it came out because it looks from the outside to be a book putting women back in the kitchen. That interpretation is horseshit. It puts the whole family back into the running of the household (guess what, most households have a kitchen in them) and gives examples of living situations where a sense of community is regained because people are working together as partners in order to get away from being wage slaves. Which is how it is supposed to work, within reason.
The second quasi-life changing book I read was Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream. This one stirred up vitriol in people who don't like the thought that the predominant US way of life is wasteful, unsustainable, irresponsible, and negligent towards future generations. (Tough shit, guys, but it is. As is globalization as it's been spoon-fed to us. Okay, buy some carbon offsets, and you'll have shit with a bow on it, is that better?) The 12x12 cabin in the book belongs to a country doctor who works just enough hours per year to fall under the tax-paying radar. It has no plumbing and no electricity, because in the county she lives, having those would make it a bonafide dwelling, and thus subject to property taxes and the like. Of course, it would also afford her some squatter's rights and some say in how the county does its business, to officially exist to state and local officials, but she's decided she prefers to not contribute to a system she doesn't believe in, and to spend much of her time remembering humility and being an activist. It isn't for everyone, but I felt envious of living that... small. For lack of a better word. To take up so little space, to have a permacultured garden and orchard which is irrigated by rainwater. To have a composting toilet and basically not worry about such mundane things as a septic system backing up, or an electrical bill. Her shower is outside the dwelling, the water heated by the sun all day. And this isn't even what the book is about, rather the context and crucible...
But I was talking about outrage fatigue in the title for this post.
Wiki-leaks that aren't leaks of anything we didn't already suspect (leaking the names of the informants was bloody irresponsible, though). An oil company shirking responsibility for killing several ecosystems in one go (I'm sorry, how is this a revelation?). A Congress which refuses to live by the work ethic the rest of the country lives by (e.g. they are basically refusing to address global warming because apparently they got stressed out with the medical overhaul which wasn't - sorry, assholes, but you work for us and you won't be able to eat money when agriculture becomes impossible). Sewage sludge being given to communities and farmers across the US as 'fertilizer' so the processors don't have to pay to dispose of it as hazardous material (the SFPUC and the Chez Panisse Foundation have a lot to answer for right now); sewage sludge is full of super happy fun things like flame retardants, dioxins, phthalates, pharmaceuticals, heavy metals, etc - this is not unlike the coal ash being encouraged as garden amender in the east so the power companies don't have to pay to deal with it properly.
Honestly? The stuff above isn't even the tip of the iceberg for me, but these are the bits that currently have my attention. The Wiki-leaks stuff less so, because it is a Weapon of Mass Distraction in the media right now. This means BP and Toyota are probably holed up in a titty bar somewhere doing shots, glad to not be the leading topic on the news every night. I'd bet Monsanto is there right now with them, because while the Roundup-ready alfalfa's been disallowed for now, they'll be back. They're counting on Elena Kagan being confirmed because the White House is way more concerned with putting a couple more ovaries on the Supreme Court right now, no matter the bias. I guess Clarence Thomas needs the company. But shit makes the flowers, grow, does it not?
So, I go out into my backyard and find solace in weeding out dandelions between the rows of corn and sorghum. I harvest plums from the neighbor's tree hanging into my yard and make wine and syrup. Last week I belatedly started broadcasting seed for nitrogen-fixing cover crops for the chickens to peck at, like red clover, and the task today is to till in some compost in one of the side yard patches so I can finally put the elderberries into the ground now that they've leafed out in pots (got them bare-root from a nursery, pretty nifty way to get trees and shrubs). The bees are back in the yard because I managed to coincide the sunflowers with the squashes, which means I will actually have a squash crop this year thanks to sufficient pollinators. I am kicking myself for yanking out so many nettles in the spring; those could have gone into herbal beer and pesto, but they seem to be coming back. And so it goes.
Fetch water, carry wood, muck out coop, compost, sow, grow, fetch water. (Speaking of water, I managed to cut the water bill in half with irrigating the yard with gray water this season.) The garden is a small oasis in a neighborhood that quite belligerently does not give a shit about simple things like a sun-ripened tomato, or greater self-sufficiency, but what matters is that my enthusiasm for what I do when I get home every day has been contagious, and several coworkers who were apathetic last year are growing their own this year, and I have friends thinking about keeping chickens. And there are many oases in front yards in my community which did not exist last year, where one can see a row of corn and sunflowers acting as a windbreak for tomato and pepper plants. I still have my eye on two sizable empty lots nearby, for the purpose of squat-gardening leading up to community gardens eventually. If I just throw seed balls and let the rain take care of those in October, come February and March people will see pretties and edibles growing. It is a start.
Show your concern for your local Progressive, or Liberal Congressman or Candidate. Please feel free to substitute your name.
Dear Democratic Incumbent or Candidate,
I’m writing this to let you know I’m worried, worried about you. You see, the last group of Democrats that won in 2008 by such a “mandate” promised progressives, liberals and moderates to get us out of the financial and military mess the Bush Administration got us into.
We see that for whatever reason, most of the Democrats we voted in are now supporting bills that benefit Big Business, Banks and the Military over the concerns of tax payers. They promised us help with a health care bill but didn’t deliver. They promised no more funding for the illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but continue to throw our tax money at corrupt regimes (the ones over seas, too). They promised to bring home American soldiers so no more would have die for an illegal war, but didn’t deliver. They promised relief from credit card rip offs, but didn’t deliver. They promised help for the housing situation and help to families facing foreclosures and families who lost their homes because of greedy bankers and Wall Street schemes, but didn’t deliver. They are even thinking of reducing or gutting social security, Medicare and Medicaid so millions of seniors will suffer and most probably die well before they normally would have.
But the main reason I’m writing this is about my concern for your political future. You see, there’s this talk about the Republicans winning big in November 2010 and 2012 because the Democrats in power didn’t do nearly enough for the people they pledged to represent and the people are blaming the Democrats! Imagine that! Based on the Bush years, a Republican takeover of the House or Senate this year or in two could spell another long term disaster for the country and people...and your political ambitions.
Now this Republican sweep won’t affect most of the Senior Democrats already in Congress because when they lose their seats, they’ve already shown business what they can do for them and they can always go to work for Corporate America as consultants or lobbyists and make an exceptionally fine living. But if you’ve only been in Congress a few years, why, businesses may think you don’t quite have what they want yet or aren’t sure enough of you. They will look elsewhere (probably your Republican replacements) for those coveted, high paying positions that could have been yours.
If you are an aspiring candidate promising what you can’t deliver, chances are you’ll lose to a Republican next election. And since the mood of the people is swinging away from the Democrats making it more and more probably that you will lose the election, you will also lose your chance at all the big money you could make after you leave office! Now that can’t be good, can it?
You see, if you don’t help the people you promised you’d help, there’s a good chance that you WILL lose the coming election. And if you lose the election, well, there goes the chance at that great business or K Street offer!
I’m really concerned for you! I mean, how can a business expect to hire you if you don’t first show you can be supportive of their agendas? And the only way to do that is get into office. And the only way to stay in office to build the trust of business is to do the will of the people so they’ll keep electing you so you can keep impressing business. I know that’s a bit of a conundrum and it means you’ll sometimes have to compromise to the people instead of business but that’s politics. Call it the Political “Circle of Life.”
With the advent of Citizens United, you may think most support for you will come from business and won’t worry about constituent contributions. Those big bucks can also go to your opponent. And no matter how many millions business spends on you and your opponent, it still comes down to one person, one vote. If you should win and those voters don’t like what you did while in office or what you promised during your campaign (and didn’t deliver), all that money won’t keep you there. Even if you don’t think of the voters as people you depend on for your job, at least think of your family. How would you like to have to survive on a paltry private sector job when you have visions of everything a political career would offer?
During your campaigning, please consider what could happen if you don’t support the views of progressives, liberals and moderates. You could be just as easily outsourcing a job you want - YOUR JOB - that coveted political position - and your financial future, to a Republican. Wouldn’t that be just terrible?
Those are the kind of errors that I never forget. Name a mistake that cost me a significant amount of money, and I can name the circumstances - even the date, in some cases.
And that's for amounts of about thirty dollars or so.
So do you think 8.7 BILLION dollars might honk me off if it went missing?
In the runup to the war with Iraq, we were given many breezy and heartfelt assurances that the total cost of the war and the reconstruction of the country would be borne by the Iraqis, out of their oil revenue of course.
But quite naturally those people lied. People like Paul Wolfowitz and his greasy ilk, so in response to their lies we started sending money into Iraq.
Lots of money.
Loaded on pallets and driven aboard C5-A Galaxy transports by forklifts.
Crisp new bills, straight from the Federal Reserve Bank to Baghdad - where it all disappeared.
Poof, like a fart in a tornado.
This isn't a brilliant scoop by some enterprising journalist - those are few and far between nowadays. The news of this monumental mistake (part of an entire avalanche of mistakes) broke a few years back, but was quietly dropped after causing a bit of a stink.
But I never forgot. I don't forget mistakes that cost money.
Where did the money go? Who lost it? Who got it? Did it benefit the insurgency that was in its "last throes" for so many years that we made the phrase a joke? Did it end up lining the pockets of our Viceroy, L. Paul Bremer and his satraps? Is it squirreled away somewhere, in quiet places so that it can accrue interest until certain people retire?
No one knows - or, rather, no one who wants to talk about it knows.
Now, compared to the total cost of the war in Iraq, nine billion dollars is chicken feed. But when our economy is reeling from the burden of that war, and the war in Afghanistan, and the repercussions of the Bush tax cuts, nine billion dollars is a huge amount. It looms over us like a mountain.
"Though we seemed dead, we did but sleep; advantage is a better soldier than rashness . . . now we speak upon our cue, and our voice is imperial . . . "
- Shakespeare, King Henry V, Act 3, Scene VI
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Yes, I've been away for a bit, mainly because night shift is a stone bitch and most of the time my brains have been hammered to tapioca.
But no more.
Here in sunny Flori-Duh, we have a raft of Gubernatorial and Senatorial candidates that have at times made me feel as if I should shove myself feet-first into a stump grinder. Rick Scott's trying to buy the office outright, Bill McCollum's unleashed his best rightward lurch as a dance step, and Alex Sink's watching her poll numbers go up as a result. On the Senate side, even Democrats like Charlie Crist, much to the disappointment of Kendrick Meek and Jeff Greene. Marco Rubio? A complete asshole who's managed to irritate the senior vote.
Elsewhere, we have the Obama Administration allowing itself to be buffaloed by the likes of Andrew Breitbart and Matt Drudge. The knee-jerk firing of Shirley Sherrod smacks of very poor managerial practices, and I'd advise her to walk away from their offer to reinstate her.
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Kim Jong Il's rattling his tiny saber again as the US and South Korea conduct their annual war games. This time the DPRK's threatening to unleash its nukes, which is rather silly considering that every square inch of North Korea has already been programmed into targeting computers.
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The sheer tonnage of malevolent stupidity facing us from the Right is impressive, isn't it? Rep. John Boner - er, Boehner (R-Coppertone) suggests that a GOP majority in the House would concentrate solely on repealing the health care law and giving more money to the rich, while Rep. Bachmann (R-Totally Bugfuck Insane) suggests that all the House will do from 2011 to 2013 is issue subpoenas and investigate Obama.
White Phosphorus, 'willy pete', 'sort of legal' napalm or napalm substitute, if you will... yeah we talked about it here on the blog back in '04 when word got out that the US used it on the citizens of Fallujah in retaliation for the brutal murders of a couple of mercenaries who we later found out were terrorizing the Fallujans in the first place. But the US retaliated against Fallujah as if the whole city had conspired to blow up the World Trade Center for god's sake.
Yeah, we were called conspiracy theorists and Iraqi sympathizers even though I thought the US mission was to liberate them, not hate them... but whatever....
So here we are years later. If god forbid you mention the Fallujah debacle to anyone, they think you're an evil socialist progressive who is hell bent on destroying America (well yes, but only the evil parts) ... but now the studies are published and indeed, we (the US) fucked them over good.
In my email this morning from a teacher friend.....
(her bold)
Greetings!
Many SC students end up taking the GED because a large percentage of high schoolers in some communities here drop out of high school, do not graduate, and then find themselves jobless because they lack a diploma!!! (Duh...) A chunk of state money is allocated each year to fund classes for students preparing for the GED and then support funding for the actual administration and scoring of these exams. Although the state reports that much progress is being made, the following sample of some responses to GED tests given in 2009, seem to reveal that the reports of such "progress" indicate much more progress is desperately needed. Remember as you read that these are actual test responses, not edited remarks shared by comedians!!!! Actually, it's a sad situation....if you're a teacher, these responses should help make your day as long as you teach north of the Mason-Dixon line!!! Enjoy and pray for our SC students!
GED Test (Sample Responses)
ARE YOU SURE YOU ARE READY FOR THIS?
Q. Name the four seasons A. Salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar
Q. Explain one of the processes by which water can be made safe to drink A. Flirtation makes water safe to drink because it removes large pollutants like grit, sand, dead sheep and canoeists
Q. How is dew formed A. The sun shines down on the leaves and makes them perspire
Q. What causes the tides in the oceans A. The tides are a fight between the earth and the moon. All water tends to flow towards the moon, because there is no water on the moon, and nature abhors a vacuum. I forget where the sun joins the fight
Q. What guarantees may a mortgage company insist on A. If you are buying a house they will insist that you are well endowed
Q. In a democratic society, how important are elections A. Very important. Sex can only happen when a male gets an election (may have got that one right)
Q. What are steroids A. Things for keeping carpets still on the stairs (Shoot yourself now , there is little hope)
Q.. What happens to your body as you age A. When you get old, so do your bowels and you get intercontinental
Q. What happens to a boy when he reaches puberty A. He says goodbye to his boyhood and looks forward to his adultery (So true)
Q. Name a major disease associated with cigarettes A. Premature death
Q. What is artificial insemination A. When the farmer does it to the bull instead of the cow
Q. How can you delay milk turning sour A. Keep it in the cow (Simple, but brilliant)
Q. How are the main 20 parts of the body categorized (e.g. The abdomen) A. The body is consisted into 3 parts - the brainium, the borax and the abdominal cavity. The brainium contains the brain, the borax contains the heart and lungs and the abdominal cavity contains the five bowels: A, E, I,O,U.. (wtf!)
Q. What is the fibula? A. A small lie
Q. What does 'varicose' mean? A. Nearby
Q. What is the most common form of birth control A. Most people prevent contraception by wearing a condominium (That would work)
Q. Give the meaning of the term 'Caesarean section' A. The caesarean section is a district in Rome
Q. What is a seizure? A. A Roman Emperor. (Julius Seizure, I came, I saw, I had a fit)
Q. What is a terminal illness A. When you are sick at the airport. (Irrefutable)
Q. Give an example of a fungus. What is a characteristic feature? A. Mushrooms. They always grow in damp places and they look like umbrellas
Q. Use the word 'judicious' in a sentence to show you understand its meaning A. Hands that judicious can be soft as your face. (OMG)
Q. What does the word 'benign' mean? A. Benign is what you will be after you be eight (brilliant)
Q. What is a turbine? A. Something an Arab or Shreik wears on his head
