Paraprosdokian Of the Week

A Friend sent me a list of these. I thought it would be fun to share them.

Paraprosdokians are phrases or sentences that lead us down the garden path to an unexpected ending.

If you are supposed to learn from your mistakes, why do some people have more than one child?

SOTU, not really impressed

There was a headline from a Florida Newspaper that said, “More of the same”, referring to the Presidents speech.

I tend to agree.

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Rubios rebuttal was interesting because of the points he made, not that he needed a little water to finish his speech.

The media was showing it’s bias in a big way this morning. 

Had Obama taken a drink mid speech, the Media would probably have said little if anything other than “Well The President has been in meetings all day…”

But the way they were losing their minds this morning, you’d have thought Rubio grabbed a bottle of Scotch or something.

There was one CNN crawler that asked the question “Career Ender?” superimposed over a picture of Senator Rubio drinking some water.

Come on people. If you were listening to what Rubio was saying you could hear that he was getting dry throat.

How about we drop this insanity of our politicians being held to inhumanly high standards. 

President Obama isn’t the second coming of Christ.

Republicans aren’t the spawn of Satan.

Isn’t it enough that our politicians aren’t cheating on their wives (most of the time)? Isn’t it enough that they’re not embarrassing us as a nation (most of the time).

So Senator Rubio needed a little sip of water… Big Deal!

The more important question is did what he said make sense?

Is that why the Media seized on his drink?

Did someone in the media say “Hey, wait a minute… This guy just said the right things to galvanize the middle class into swinging Republican…” 

I hope not, I hope it’s something as simple as the Media being stupid and petty.

Nice day even with a heck of a drive

Had a dental appointment today. The last under my current insurance plan.

Thankfully I’ve got good teeth. Otherwise I’m sure that insurance would decline to cover me calling it a “pre-existing” condition.

My teeth, and gums are a bit sore. But I’m going to be fine even if I just want soft food tonight.

I barely missed all the excitement coming home, I passed a sign saying that “all the mountain roads were closed” it was a bit of a concern.

As it turns out CALTRANS was overstating the issue. The mountain roads into the Big Bear area were closed. Not all mountain roads.

The police say that they’ve cornered Christopher Dorner. Apparently, Mr Dorner has been killed in a fire in a cabin.

I’ll wait until the forensic report comes out.

I’m amazed that the Dorner issue has preempted the POTUS State of The Union Address on some of our local TV stations.

This is the first time I’ve created a blog post on an iPad. So if there are any really goofy typos… I’m blaming the iPad!

Signing off to watch the State of the Union.

Should be interesting.