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Thank Your Garbageman

Watching the people in Katrina Victims standing in the mountains of trash at the Super Dome and Convention Center should make you fully appreciate your garbageman.

No parent dreams of the day that their child will become a garbageman, but they provide a service that we can't live without.

So, next time the garbage truck comes rattling down your street, go out to the curb and tell your garbagemen- Thank You. When they recover from the shock, they'll appreciate it.

WACKO BELIEFS OF RICH AND FAMOUS

Celebrities are battling it out to see who they can recruit to their oddball religion.

Tom Cruise is pushing Scientology. Madonna is pushing Kabbalah. Katie Holmes- latest Scientology recruit. Ashton Kutcher and Britney Spears recruited to Kaballah. Paris Hilton has a new spiritual advisor that looks like she found him living under a bridge.

Here is a television show idea- Wacko Beliefs of the Rich and Famous. They can show all the folks that pray to trees, dance with rattlesnakes, sit under pyramids, promote hemp, cry when they see a lobster in a tank, throw paint on fur wearers and who knows what, who also believe that we should take seriously anything else they offer an opinion on.

QUOTES FOR WACKOS

OPINIONS ARE THE CHEAPEST COMMODITY ON EARTH.

AN EMPTY BOX CAR MAKES THE MOST NOISE.

ANY FOOL CAN CONDEMN, CRITICIZE AND COMPLAIN. AND, MOST FOOLS DO.

TRADE DEFICITS

Mr Bad Ideas likes Frederic Bastiat's solution for trade deficits.

Protectionists like exports and hate imports.

Frederic Bastiat proposed in the 1840's a solution to this problem: Have all ships sunk at sea. That way all countries can export, but none would have to import.

Read more of Bastiat's economic solutions:
Frederic Bastiat Explains It All

Analogy

Homeland Security not stopping people from sneaking across the border is like having a safe with a back door that you leave wide open.

BANNED IN VEGAS

I was just wondering how many psychics are in the Black Book-banned from the casinos in Las Vegas along with the card counters and assorted cheats.

THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT

The current trend is to make Broadway musicals out of old movies like the Producers, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, etc.

The current trend in movies is to make them out of old television shows like the Honeymooners, Bewitched etc.

Will a future trend be to make Broadway musicals out of old movies that were made from old television shows?

WE HAVE EVERYTHING WE NEED

In 1876, the head of the British post office said that unlike Americans, the British would never need telephones. In England, office buildings were no taller than four stories, so it was easy for copy boys to run up and down the stairs delivering memos.

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