Oh Thursday, You're So Funny!

Hello there...I borrowed the following from a good humored fellow in Mankato (Hey Bob!). I laughed my PANTS off. And then I went to bed. I got up this morning and thought, "hey....I bet the readers of MY blog would be happy to see this too". So, here it is (hold onto your pants):

Why did the chicken cross the road? Well, let's let some of our nation's "leaders" and famous politicians answer that questions for us...

BARACK OBAMA: The chicken crossed the road because it was
time for a change! The chicken wanted change!

JOHN McCAIN: My friends, that chicken crossed the road
because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation and
dialogue with all the chickens on the other side of the road.

SARAH PALIN: You betcha he crossed the road, but let's
not talk about that, let's talk about energy policy, and
how gosh darn hard it is for a middle-class hockey mom to
manage the budget of the only state in America with a
massive surplus, especially while surrounded by countless
Russian and Canadian chickens we have to keep an eye on.

HILLARY CLINTON: When I was First Lady, I personally helped
that little chicken to cross the road. This experience makes
me uniquely qualified to ensure - right from Day One! - that
every chicken in this country gets the chance it deserves to
cross the road. But then, this really isn't about me.

GEORGE W. BUSH: We don't really care why the chicken
crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on
our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against
us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.

DICK CHENEY: Where's my gun?

COLIN POWELL: Now to the left of the screen, you can
clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road.

BILL CLINTON: I did not cross the road with that
chicken...What is your definition of crossing?

AL GORE: I invented the chicken.

JOHN KERRY: Although I voted to let the chicken cross the
road, I am now against it! It was the wrong road to cross,
and I was misled about the chicken's intentions. I am
not for it now, and will remain against it.

OPRAH: Well, I understand that the chicken is having
problems, which is why he wants to cross this road so bad .
So instead of having the chicken learn from his mistakes and
take falls, which is a part of life, I'm going to give
this chicken a car so that he can just drive across the road
and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.

ANDERSON COOPER, CNN: We have reason to believe there is a
chicken, but we have not yet been allowed to have access to
the other side of the road.

PAT BUCHANAN: To steal the job of a decent, hardworking
American.

DR SEUSS: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it
with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it
crossed I've not been told.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die in the rain... alone.

JERRY FALWELL: Because the chicken was gay! Can't you
people see the plain truth? That's why they call it the
'other side.' Yes, my friends, that chicken is gay.
And if you eat that chicken, you will become gay, too. I say
we boycott all chickens until we sort out this abomination
that the liberal media whitewashes with seemingly harmless
phrases like 'the other side.' That chicken should
not be crossing the road. It's as plain and as simple as that.

GRANDPA: In my day, we didn't ask why the chicken
crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the
road, and that was good enough.

ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.

JOHN LENNON: Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing
roads together, in peace.

ALBERT EINSTEIN: Did the chicken really cross the road, or
did the road move beneath the chicken?

COLONEL SANDERS: Did I miss one?

Pretty funny, huh? I think I peed my pants a little with the Al Gore one while re-reading them for this blog post this morning. The Ernest Hemingway stirred another chuckle as well.

On a serious note, my uncle who was in a car accident Sunday seems to be on the road to recovery. That is so awesome. If you want to check out his progress and maybe even leave a note of encouragement, his caringbridge site is: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/paulrotta . Our families and friends are the reason that Christmas is so awesome (ok, well...maybe also because it's Jesus's birthday...), but I know that we'd see the same amount of support at anytime of the year. Caring together and helping each other, I think, makes us stronger and helps us more fully live our lives.

BTW...only 21 days until Christmas...