T P O

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The Patient Ox (aka Hénock Gugsa)

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** TPO **
A personal blog with diverse topicality and multiple interests!


On the menu ... politics, music, poetry, and other good stuff.
There is humor, but there is blunt seriousness here as well!


Parfois, on parle français ici aussi. Je suis un francophile .... Bienvenue à tous!

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Friday, October 5, 2012

A Moment of Levity - by TPO

A Moment of Levity *
by TPO
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Real Men
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Three guys talk in a bar. Two discuss how they are king in their castles and how much their wives respect them. The third guy remains quiet.
Finally, one guy turns to the quiet guy and asks, "What about you? Do you rule your roost?"
The quiet guy says, "Well, just the other night, my wife came to me on her hands and knees."
"What happened then?" they ask.
"She said, 'Get out from under the bed and fight like a man.'"
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Where's the Husband?
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Three women sit in a beauty parlor talking about their husbands. The first woman says, "Last night my husband said he was going to his office, but when I called they said he wasn't there!"
"I know!" the next woman says, "Last night my husband said he was going to his brother's house, but when I called he wasn't there."
The third woman says, "I always know where my husband is."
"Impossible!" both women exclaim, "He has you completely fooled!"
"Oh no," says the woman. "I'm a widow."
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Frog Talk
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A grandson runs up to his grandfather and asks him if he can talk like a frog. "Of course not," says the grandfather.
A few minutes later, his granddaughter asks him the same question.
"No, of course not. Why are you both asking me this?"
The granddaughter replies, "Dad said that when you croak, we can go to Disneyland."
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Bill O'Reilly's Chauffeur
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Bill O'Reilly and his chauffeur accidentally hit and kill a farmer's pig while driving through the country.
O'Reilly tells the chauffeur to apologize to the farmer. They drive up to the farm, and the chauffeur goes inside. He is gone for a long time.
When the driver returns, he explains his long absence, "Well, first the farmer shook my hand, then he offered me a beer, then his wife made me some cookies, and his daughter showered me with kisses."
"Why were they so grateful?" O'Reilly asks.
The chauffeur replies, "I don't know. All I told him was that I was Bill O'Reilly's driver and I'd just killed the pig."
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Bar & Donkey
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Fred and his brother, "Donkey", walk into a pub and Fred gets the first pint in and says, "I'll have a pint for me and a pint for Donkey."
The two guys drink their pints and Fred says, "Right, Donkey, your round; I'll have a pint of Guinness."
Donkey walks up to the bar and says, "2 p p p p pints of g g g g Guiness p p p please."
While Donkey gets the pints, Fred goes to the toilet and the barman says, "Say, you shouldn't let him call you that stupid nickname."
Donkey replies, "I know. He aw.. he aww... he awwwwww, he always calls me 'Donkey.'"

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* Source: jokes.com

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Ross Perot Picks No One - Wendy Zachary

Ross Perot
 Ross Perot: Neither Obama nor Romney can save America
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By Wendy Zachary*
Oct. 02, 2012

Ross Perot, a billionaire and 1992 presidential contender, has remained silent on the 2012 presidential campaigns. However, as he attempted to stir up interest in his upcoming autobiography recently, he said he will not endorse either of the candidates because he thinks none of them is capable of saving America in case of a "hostile takeover" by foreign forces.

Warning of the disaster due to the impending fiscal cliff, Perot said that our weak economy may invite invaders to come and take over America and we would not be able to do anything to stop them.

"If we are that weak, just think of who wants to come here first and take us over," the former CEO of info-tech company Perot Systems told USA Today on Monday. "The last thing I ever want to see is our country taken over because we're so financially weak, we can't do anything," Perot said.

“We’re on the edge of the cliff, and we have got to start fixing it now. Otherwise, we’re leaving a disaster to our children’s and our grand-children’s future,” he said.

When anchor Richard Wolf asked him about his possible endorsement this election season, Perot sounded unimpressed by either of the candidates when it comes to building a stronger economy. "Nobody that's running really talks about it, about what we have to do and why we have to do it. They would prefer not to have it discussed."

While not really very straight forward, Perot’s comments are his first ever since he withdrew from the political landscape after his Reform Party failed in the 2000 election. Perot also expressed optimism over Tea Party’s efforts to nudge and wake up both Washington and the electorate. “It’s had an interesting impact. … It’s not the solution, but I think it was a healthy thing to happen. … It wakes up everybody running for office.”

Perot further said that the three things that he wishes for his country are a “strong, moral ethical base,” a “strong family unit in every home” and a “better public school system.” He also briefly touched on the prosperous Clinton years calling it a "good luck" time.

“We were just lucky, going through a period where we had the money flowing. … It was just good luck that made it happen. Right now we’re going through a period of bad luck,” he said.
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* Wendy Zachary is based in Texas, and is a Reporter for Allvoices.