Pop Culture- Ben Carpenters Ride on the Grill of an 18-Wheeler; The Hero Dog From Baghdad

Here's a Pop Culture update and we've got the story of Ben Carpenter's harrowing ride on the grill of an 18-wheeler.

Some Ronnie Dove video and the heart-warming tale of the puppy from Baghdad.

Plus blind items, gossip from Hollyweird and some surprising pics of young celebrities.

Pic of the Day

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Quote of the Day "It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was." -- Anne Sexton "One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters." -- English Proverb "To be a successful father . . . there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years." -- Ernest Hemingway "A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father." -- Gabriel García Márquez "I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection." -- Sigmund Freud "I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example." -- Mario Cuomo "Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young, Who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, And joined in thy innocent glee." -- Margaret Courtney "If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right." -- Bill Cosby "Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!" -- Lydia M. Child The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. Marcus Aurelius

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TIDBITS You're stuck between the Baby Boomers & Generations X'ers if: 1. You remember when Jordache jeans with a flat handle comb in the back pocket was cool. 2. In your class picture you were wearing an Izod shirt with the collar up. 3. You know by heart the words to any Weird Al Yankovic song (Just eat it, eat it, don't make me repeat it...) 4. Your hair at some point in time in the 80's became something which can only be described by the phrase, "I was experimenting." 5. Three words: ATARI, IntelliVision and Coleco, sound familiar. 6. The phrase "Where's the beef?" still doubles you over with laughter. 7. A predominant color in your childhood photos is plaid. 8. While in high school, you and your friends discussed elaborate plans to get together again at the end of the century and play Prince's "1999" until you passed out partying. 9. You remember with pain the sad day when the Green Machine hit the streets and made our old Big Wheel quite obsolete. 10. You took family trips BEFORE the invention of the minivan. 11. You rode in the back of the station wagon and you faced the cars behind you. 12. You ever dressed to emulate a person you saw in either a Duran Duran, Madonna or Cyndi Lauper video. 13. Schoolhouse Rock played a HUGE part in how you actually learned the English language (Conjunction junction, what's your function....). 14. You honestly remember when film critics raved that no movie could ever possibly get better special effects than those in the movie TRON.

 


Family Brings Fallen Soldier's Puppy Home from Iraq

On March 4, Army Specialist Justin Rollins and his 82nd Airborne squad came across a litter of newborn puppies outside an Iraqi police station. Squad members photographed Rollins, a lifelong animal lover, nuzzling one of the tiny pups.

The next day, Rollins was killed by a roadside bomb. Pictures of him with the puppy made their way back to his parents and girlfriend in Concord, N.H. “Seeing the pictures of Justin with that puppy, and knowing he was happy the day before he died, it was like a gift from God,” said his mother, Rhonda.

The family asked whether someone from the unit could retrieve the little dog for them. The men in his unit went back to the area and managed to find her. They built a small doghouse at the barracks to keep her until they could find a way to get her out of Iraq. After a tremendous amount of work by New Hampshire Congressman Paul Hodes and his staff, Hero was flown back to the States by delivery service DSL, the only commercial carrier that flies between the U.S. and Baghdad.

The dog, by this time named Hero, arrived in New Hampshire early in the morning on May 26 and is now living with Rollins' parents.

Of Course With Dan Rather We Had Seriousness Built on Lies....

I always enjoy when liberals fight with each other. I also enjoy any crap thrown at the beloved Katie Couric because, hey, I intensely dislike the woman.

From Breitbart.com:

Rather, speaking by phone on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program with Joe Scarborough Monday, said CBS had made the mistake of taking the evening news broadcast and "dumbing it down, tarting it up," and playing up topics such as celebrities over war coverage.

But dear Lord, for Dan Rather, of all people, to be lambasting Katie, well if that ain't the pot calling the kettle "tarted" up. Dan Rather should sit down and shut up with his nonsensical "fake but accurate" crap that had the man go down in flaming disgrace.

Sometimes you just can't make the audacity of these people go away.

Ben Carpenter's Scary Ride

What a blessing that this young man's handlebars got stuck in the semi's grill in such a manner that instead of being crushed, Ben Carpenter, who suffers from Muscular Dystrophy, got the ride of his life.

From WZZM13:

Investigators say the semi truck owned by RMI had pulled out of a local gas station. The young man in the wheelchair some how pulled in front of the semi-truck, causing his wheelchair handles to become stuck in the front grill of the truck.

Why Be So Mean?

Here's an interesting human interest story that I still have not quite figured out. I also got into a bit of a debate on a FreeRepublic thread about this very story.

Seems some teachers thought it would be cool to give out bogus, tongue-in-cheek "award" certificates to the children they taught the year prior. Seems Matt Porter got two awards: "Most Likely Not To Have Children" and a "Sir Clowns-a-Lot" from his teachers.

Now I'm not at all sure I understand that bit about not likely to have children. I gather from the "Sir Clowns-a-Lot" thing that young Matt tends to goof off a bit in the classroom.

From the Denver Channel.com:

Sixth-grader Matt Porter didn't enjoy getting "Most Likely Not To Have Children" and "Sir Clowns-a-Lot" awards from two teachers at his school.

His parents aren't pleased, either.

Matt said he received the awards in front of classmates during a ceremony at the Decatur Intermediate Learning Center at the end of the recently finished school year. His mother and his stepfather have asked the Decatur Township school system to reprimand the teachers, and they want an apology.

My debate with fellow Freepers is that at the least that bit about most likely not having children seemed a bit cruel. Well frankly I don't get it. Are class clowns the least likely to reproduce per some scientific study or something? I mean I don't get the connection between goofing up in class and eventually not having children. Do class clowns goof off so much that they can't even concentrate enough to reproduce as required?

So okay, the joke is lost on me. As such, I consider that supposedly funny award of being least likely to have children to be a bit cruel. I can understand these teachers chuckling in the teacher's lounge, perhaps guffawing over their little personally titled awards. But to do this in front of the child that is the object of the fun seems unnecessarily cruel.

My fellow Freepers, at least some, disagreed and said that Matt was likely a pain in the butt to these teachers during the year and yeah, I'll go along with that. That cute "Sir Clowns-A-Lot" isn't so much of a problem as that other "award".

At any rate, as tends to happen in this liberal society run amok, Matt's parents are distraught and demanding that their son receive special psychological counseling and frankly it all looks to this observer as if Matt's parents are trying to make bucks off of a few teachers' lack of forethought.

If Matt is such a clown I'm sure he's not as devistated as his Mom and Stepdad are making out. He'll get over it.

Those teachers ought to re-think how they phrase their "awards", which probably were given out in fun.

Ronnie Dove

My teen years were filled with this guy's husky voice and romantic lyrics. Sent to me by my husband, goodness I didn't even know he was still around.



Angelina Jolie-Dippy Broad With No Brains

So she makes a movie about Daniel Pearl, who died while pursuing a story. Then Jolie, a dippy Hollyweird actress with sexy lips, BANS a news organization from her interview re the movie.

From, heh, Foxnews.com:

Angelina Jolie's true colors came out Wednesday as she promoted a film about freedom of the press and then tried to censor all her interviews.

Jolie is touting press freedom these days, playing the widow of murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in a new movie called "A Mighty Heart."

But Jolie turns out to be a mighty hypocrite when it comes to her own freedom of the press. Her lawyer required all journalists to sign a contract before talking to her, and Jolie instructed publicists at first to ban FOX News from the red carpet of her premiere.

The hypocrisy of this move by Jolie isn't lost on but the densest amongst us. But I'll add another thought. It's NOT a coincidence, as I see it, that the Democrat party too banned Foxnews from sponsoring a presidential debate.

Hey, if these nuts think they are somehow going to force Fox off the air...heh, Fox is the HIGHEST rated of all the cable news organizations so stick that in your pipe and smoke it...they are NOT going to succeed.

There's a new day dawning in America, of late. The latest and greatest method for liberals to win is to CENSOR those who disagree. Damn, even President Bush is in on it as regards his effort to push through his immigration crap that no one wants. They are also going after Rush Limbaugh.

Well I must smile. For the Hollyweirdites and others with way-out ideas simply can't stop us idiots who carry this country on our backs. We watch Fox news, we like Rush Limbaugh and hey, no one MAKES anybody watch or listen to anything in this country.

Yet STILL they want to ban them, to censor them, to make king-sized and thick-lipped decisions to be hypocrites.

They only make us stronger, us right-wing fools.

Because I Am Amused

I'll not complain about the Paris Hilton coverage. That the vapid media that wants to ban Fox News and Rush Limbaugh thinks this Paris Hilton story is the end-all and be-all...hey, they amuse me.



Sends Tacos to John McCain

First, I LOATHE John McCain. Let this be stated in the interest of fair and balanced.

Ever since that self-serving camera hog politician with a terrible temper passed that McCain-Feingold nonsense that essentially stepped all over my freedom of speech this lackluster wannbe presidential candidate has been the object of my wrath and disdain.

So I chuckle all night and all day at this tidbit re Tancredo's ha-ha.

For if anyone has suffered tremendously from the Senate's recent exercise in pissing upon our feet whilst telling us it's raining, it would be John McCain. The name of the bill was the MCCAIN-KENNEDY comprehensive immigration reform package for God's sake! May John McCain's name forever be tied to this piece of legislative crap and may each day have this nothingburger slide lower in the polls.

From Earth Times.org:

While in New Hampshire for the June 5th Republican presidential candidates' debate, Rep. Tancredo ran into Senator John McCain at Blake's Restaurant. Tancredo sent an order of nachos to Senator McCain, mocking Senator McCain's efforts to find a path to legal status for millions of undocumented residents once they have paid penalties, fines, learned English and passed citizenship tests -- proving they are hard-working members of our communities.

And kudos by the way to Tancredo. It's a good thing this isn't school for McCain could demand psychological counseling to his damaged ego.

Because It's Cute...

....and note in this montage below that I've included a pic of Angelina Jolie as a young child just to show I hold no malice in my heart.



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