I’m the train that leaves first and I local stops skip;
When a thought in your mind becomes words on your lip;
An American card that Americans zip;
And in package delivery, fast is the trip.
Who am I?
UPDATE: Riddle solved by Annalisa. See comments for answer.
From Henry IV, Part Two:
I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers;
How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!
Shift around the letters, and it becomes:
The newly-anointed Henry was too rehabilitated to hallo his former fellow Jack. Poms!
In a poll taken over a decade ago, 96% of Canadians said they preferred their health care system to ours.
A more recent poll indicates that 64% of Americans think “the government should provide a national health insurance program for all Americans, even if this would require higher taxes”.
Michael Moore’s film Sicko is the fourth highest grossing documentary of all time.
And millions of Americans have no health insurance at all.
What specifically is it going to take to get Universal Health Care in this country?
I caught the Republican debate this morning. Bush and Cheney were praised for keeping us safe for the last six years.
Actually, for the past six years, an average of over 500 Americans have died each year on American soil in 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Think about it.
From Troilus and Cressida:
The ravish’d Helen, Menelaus’ queen,
With wanton Paris sleeps; and that’s the quarrel.
Shift around the letters, and it becomes:
The writer’s quill had spun equal enemies’ warpaths that have seen lands not here.
The problem here – well, in addition to all of O’Reilly’s usual problems – is that he seems unaware, or pretends to be unaware, of the difference between an online community forum like Daily Kos and traditional corporate-owned pre-Internet media. Inviting users to participate in an interactive, Web 2.0 medium doesn’t make you automatically agree with everything they post to your site. If it did, there would be very little reason to do it.
O’Reilly even seems unaware of the comments left by people on his own site. Again, it’s possible that he just chooses not to be aware or he pretends not to be aware. But given O’Reilly’s demographic and the hate he peddles, it’s not hard to imagine that O’Reilly has more than a few viewers who would be willing to express views in a public forum that even O’Reilly wouldn’t want to be associated with.
I don’t consider comments on the O’Reilly site as coming from O’Reilly himself. It’s inappropriate for O’Reilly to use the comments on blogs or the postings of Kos diarists to compare progressive blogs to the Nazis and KKK.
The rebuttal to this lunacy was, of course, put best by Stephen Colbert:
Exactly. The Ku Klux Klan and the Nazis were both notorious for allowing people to express unpopular views in an open and free forum.
And that basically sums it up. If O’Reilly wants to make the argument that people who instigate hate are responsible for all of the comments and opinions of their followers, he’s free to do so. But then, we’ll all need to have a word with O’Reilly himself.
I’m a bad break in baseball; in bowling, a boon;
I’m how labor gets management changing its tune;
When you hit with a fist, or deploy a platoon;
Or how grandfather clocks would announce that it’s noon.
Who am I?
UPDATE: Riddle solved by Andrew. See comments for answer.
Ken Jennings says:
True confession: when celebrity deaths come in threes, as with Ingmar Bergman, Bill Walsh, and Tom Snyder yesterday, I like to imagine the deceased shooting each other in a three-way standoff, like at the end of Reservoir Dogs.
That’s funny. For me, when celebrity deaths come in threes, I like to make up jokes about the three of them arriving at the Pearly Gates at the same time.
Anybody want to take a crack at this one?
From The Comedy of Errors:
We came into the world like brother and brother;
And now let’s go hand in hand, not one before another.
Shift around the letters, and it becomes:
Both the worn globe-wanderer and the torn homeowner learn the locations of their abandoned kin.