Meanwhile, the two Iranian ships proceed to Suez- where they haven't been since 1979. I'm thinking that whatever happens in Libya will set the mood and pace for the others that are struggling- including Iran.
Back on the home front, Dr. Pepper has revealed a new "manly" diet soda called Dr. Pepper 10. Is this REALLY necessary? Have we lost all resemblance of a society with respect to the important issues? Would a "manly"(whatever that is) man not drink just ANY soda? I know I'd pick a beer first...
Funny Presidential Quotes
''I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy: 'Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.''' —President John Kennedy
''It was absolutely involuntary. They sank my boat.''
—President John Kennedy, answering a little boy on how he became a war hero
''Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.''
—President John Kennedy
''He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas better than any man I ever met.''
—President Abraham Lincoln, referring to a lawyer
''A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.''
—President Franklin Roosevelt
''They say I'm popular on Twitter and Facebook. Or as Sarah Palin says, the 'socialized media.'''
—President Barack Obama, at the 2010 White House Correspondents' Dinner
''If I had to name my greatest strength, I guess it would be my humility. Greatest weakness, it's possible that I'm a little too awesome.''
—President Barack Obama, at the 2008 Al Smith Dinner
''Just think what my margin might have been if I had never left home at all.''
—President John Kennedy, commenting on the fact that he had campaigned hard in Alaska and lost but won Hawaii handily without visiting it
''All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it.''
—President Lyndon Johnson on Hubert Humphrey, his vice president
''Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.''
—President Lyndon Johnson
''If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'''
—President Lyndon Johnson
''Many of you know that I got my name, Barack, from my father. What you may not know is Barack is actually Swahili for 'That One.' And I got my middle name from somebody who obviously didn't think I'd ever run for president.''
—President Barack Obama, at the 2008 Al Smith Dinner
''You know nothing for sure...except the fact that you know nothing for sure.''
—President John Kennedy
''I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.''
—President John Kennedy, at a dinner honoring Nobel Prize winners of the Western Hemisphere, the White House, April 29, 1962
''If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?''
—President Abraham Lincoln
''My esteem in this country has gone up substantially. It is very nice now when people wave at me, they use all their fingers.''
—President Jimmy Carter
''Let's not talk so much about vice. I'm against vice in any form.''
—President John Kennedy, to a friend who was telling him that he could be vice-presidential candidate in 1960
''Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.''
—President Lyndon Johnson
''I hope you're all Republicans.''
—President Ronald Reagan, speaking to surgeons as he entered the operating room following a 1981 assassination attempt
''The candidates are an interesting group, with diverse opinions -- for tax cuts and against them, for NAFTA and against NAFTA, for the Patriot Act and against the Patriot Act, in favor of liberating Iraq and opposed to it. And that's just one senator from Massachusetts.''
—President George W. Bush on Sen. John Kerry, March 2004
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