I heard it was true (urban myth)

The Queen of England decides she wants a Kentucky thoroughbred in the royal stable, so she calls President Reagan, who decides to meet her in Lexington, Kentucky.

When they get there, they decide to go for a ride. They're just pulling out of the barn when the Queen's horse's tail goes up and "Lbbttt!" - out comes a monstrous fart.

The Queen says, "I'm so embarrassed!"

Reagan says, "You shouldn't be! I thought it was the horse!"

I actually heard someone on FoxNews pass this off as fact, but with Reagan visiting the Queen in England and riding the grounds instead of her coming over here looking for a horse.

After a little looking around (yeah, I thought it was humerous) it turns out that in the 1972 Patrick O'Brian novel Post Captain, there's a drunk guy named Babbington driving a lady in the back of a horse-drawn cart:

-  The horse slowed to a walk - the bean-fed horse, as it proved by a thunderous, long, long fart.

-  "I beg your pardon," said the midshipman in silence.

-  "Oh, that's all right," said Diana coldly. "I thought it was the horse."

Perpetuation of self

"Do we really think that a government-dominated education is going to produce citizens capable of dominating their government, as the education of a truly vigilant self-governing people requires?"

-Alan Keyes

 

Just found this too and thought it interesting

It would appear that more and more of our fair and balanced news sources are trying to downplay the fiasco with missed references to the controversy behind Kerry's remarks:

New York Times: "As Vote Nears, Stances on War Set Off Sparks."

Washington Post: "Bush Calls Kerry Remarks Insulting to U.S. Troops."
- (The Post wins some sort of prize for partisanship. Kerry's on A-8. On page one, the big headline is "Campaigner in Chief Has Limited Reach: An Unpopular President Avoids Many Key Races.")

USA Today: "Kerry, White House exchange words over Iraq 'bad joke'."

Chicago Tribune: "It's Kerry vs. Bush once again: Senator's remark on Iraq war sparks coast-to-coast clash."

The Boston Globe wins a point or two for actually getting a bit quote-specific: "Kerry's 'stuck in Iraq' remark ignites firefight with Bush, GOP."

And from our friendly BBC chaps: "Embattled Kerry seeks low profile"

Since last time...

 jeez... we've had a month of news since my last blog here.  Where do I begin?  Let's see, we've had:

• The whole Foley thing (not that I'm brushing it off, but what's left to say about it?  The guy's creepy and should have gone a while ago, as should anyone who hid it {to include those who knew from the other side of the aisle and hid it until it was beneficial to their party to release the tid-bit to the press.})
• Alaska turning down Chavez (Really cool {pardon the pun})
• NJ courts made their ruling on gay marriage. (yawn... I'll still be just as married to my wife either way.)
• Kerry goofed... now this one's a little newer and targeted/construed to include me
• I saw/heard/read the speech as given.  I read excerpts of the speech as written.  It was less of an attack on troops and more of an open palmed slap at the President.  It still wasn't funny.  However, the way it was delivered did leave free interpretation open as an attack on the military and who (what with Kerry's background of support for American troops {rapists, murderers... army of Genghis Khan... terrorizing children, babies, women in the dark of night.})  can blame those who took it as an insult?  He said what he said and his Pope-ish apology isn't cutting it.
• For a reference to the "Pope-ish apology" comment, (CHECK THIS OUT) 
• And, something I think is not getting enough press time, Guatemala and Venezuela have agreed to pull out of the race for UN Security council and to support Panama for the position.  Hmmm... I wonder what concessions had to be made there.

So... now that I've caught up with the times again, I'll try to stay up here with you guys in the present.  Wow, the future looks a lot nearer and brighter from here... did you guys polish it while I was back there in the past??

"I apologize to no one for my criticism of the president and of his broken policy."
- John Kerry
"Conceit is God's gift to little men."
- Bruce Barton