Wry On The Rocks

    Michele Obama lashed out at George Bush today in announcing her mission to solve the obesity problem among young people.  The First Lady pointed out that one-third of young Americans today are over-weight and under nourished; a problem caused, she explained, by former President Bush.  “It’s no secret,” she said, “that Mr. Bush had a weakness for M&M’s.  In fact, when he left the White House, he presented each of the press corps with a gift-wrapped box of M&M’s embroidered with the Presidential seal.  What kind of message was that to send to the youth of America?”

    Mrs. Obama discussed her goal of trying to un-do the 8-years of damage to nutritional values caused by the previous administration.  “What we need to do is get kids to eat more fruits, for example,”  she explained, “maybe the way we do it at State dinners..fruits dipped in chocolate.  We find it the perfect companion to the pumpkin pie tart, whipped cream & caramel sauce, petits fores and pecan pralines that ends our meals.”

     If that doesn’t work, she suggested that  they could eat cake.

     It’s that time of year when it is custom for  many of us to make New Year’s resolutions.  Some of these fall into the give-me-a-break category as in “I promise to be a better person” or the how-you-going-to-do-that category, as in, “I promise to make the world a better place” resolution.  Most of these resolutions are made by people who still have an Al Gore for President tee-shirt and think Harry Reid would be fun to hang out with.  Unfortunately, no matter what the pledge, resolutions will be kept by only 3% of Americans. …

(read more of this at www.wrysandwherefores.com)

The quote of the week has to be from Harvard senior Jim Crossen, from Davenport, Iowa.  ”No one ever told me I was poor until I got to Harvard!”