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The Death of Democracy
In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of
Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some
2,000 years prior: “A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will
continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can
vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise
the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every
democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is)
always followed by a dictatorship.” Continued on page 3
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DEMOCRACY... a Utopian theory
By Alexander Fraser Tytler
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can
only exist until the voters discover that
they can vote themselves largesse from
the public treasury. From that moment
on, the majority always votes for the
candidates promising the most benefits the public treasury with the result
that a democracy always collapses over
lousy fiscal policy, always followed by a
dictatorship. The average of the worlds
great civilizations before they decline
has been 200 years.
“These nations have progressed in
this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from faith to great courage;
from courage to liberty; from liberty to
abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to Complacency;
from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency
back again to bondage.”
I am one of the out-voted taxpayers. I don’t pay my taxes, I go to jail.
No questions asked. It doesn’t matter
how much I disapprove of the use of
tax dollars. It doesn’t matter that the
elite political class votes itself elaborate benefits at my expense. it doesn’t
matter that the entrenched corporate
and agricultural and manufacturing
and union class interests vote themselves special privileges unavailable to
the rest of us. And it certainly does not
often cannot rule. And even if they did,
the very concept of innovation, change
and dynamism stands in opposition to
the existence of a “majority.” No doubt
that collective action is necessary in
some areas of our lives – but also no
doubt that we have extended its reach
beyond anything reasonable people
could tolerate. Were it not for our magnificent wealth today, the Revolution
would have started long ago.
In fact, one of the proper roles of
government, in my view, is to promote
in a society a flexibility and an insensitivity to technological and societal
changes. Yes, there might be some losers in the short term when institutions
evolve, but in the long run, “we” all
win from it. How the government can
do this is quite another story – I think
Plato would have had more confidence
than I do on that one.
of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota,
points out some interesting facts
Cont’d. from Page 3
concerning the last Presidential
election: “The average age of the world’s
Number of States won by Obama:
greatest civilizations from the be19,
Romney: 29; Square miles of
ginning of history, has been about
200 years. During those 200 years, land won by Obama: 580,000, Romthese nations always progressed ney: 2,427,000; Population of counties won by Obama: 127 million,
through the following sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; Romney: 143 million; Murder rate
From spiritual faith to great cour- per 100,000 residents in counties
age; From courage to liberty; From won by Obama: 13.2, Romney: 2.1 Professor Olson adds: “In agliberty to abundance; From abungregate,
the map of the territory;
dance to complacency; From complacency to apathy; From apathy Romney won was mostly the land
to dependence; From dependence owned by the taxpaying citizens of
the country.
back into bondage.
Obama territory mostly enThe Obituary follows: Born 1776,
compassed
those citizens living
Died 2012, It doesn’t hurt to read
this several times. Professor Joseph in low income tenements and
Olson of Hamline University School
DEATH, cont’d. on Page 4
DEATH OF DEMOCRACY
seem to matter that we are running at
the state and federal levels a degree of
spending that is completely unsustainable. This cannot happen in a marketplace. I may wish to charge each of my
students $1,000 per class. But I am limited by competition and choice to not
be able to support such desires.
This should, of course, give myth to
the notion that democracy and majority rule are means in and of themselves
to be desired. They are not. Majorities
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Just ignore our
Constitution,
Mr. President
By Armstrong Williams
One of our greatest achievements in
the founding of our beloved America
was the execution of our framers constructing two very essential aspects of
the U.S. Constitution,
that being both the
concepts of federalism and the
division of powers. Both of
which are
carried out
in devel-
opment in efforts to limit and divide
the power of the government’s wouldbe overreaching arms. Federalism was
specifically an engine to do this by the
design of two sovereign powers, i.e. national and state governments. Whilst,
the division of powers allotted for the
branches to retain totally separate
functions, yet remained compelled to
share their powers with the others. Our
founding fathers crafted the Constitution with divided powers as such for
good reason. With the powers of government limited through the division
between our Executive, Legislative,
and Judicial branches, the actions of
DEATH
is now somewhere between the “complacency and apathy” phase of ProfesCont’d. from Page 4
sor Tyler’s definition of democracy,
living off various forms of government with some forty percent of the nation’s
welfare...”
population already having reached the
Olson believes the United States “governmental dependency” phase.
If Congress grants amnesty and
citizenship to twenty million criminal
invaders called illegals - and they vote then we can say goodbye to the USA in
fewer than five years. If you are in favor of this, then by all
means, bypass this message. If you are
not, then pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake,
knowing that apathy is the greatest
danger to our freedom.
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government would ideally grow more
coherent in terms of resonating in consensus with society. The framers were
indisputably worried about the possibilities of giving creed to a dictatorship and the lack in restriction of the
government in terms of the freedom
to the American public.
Last week President Barack
Obama, former professor of
Constitution law, effectively announced that as president of the
United States he was ignoring
the spirit of the constitution.
In lieu of his incapability to get
agreement with Congress he is
willing to use executive power
to implement laws that Congress
will not officially endorse. An extraordinary leader does not merely
conceive extraordinary ideas but is
additionally able to convince his
political adversaries that these
ideas are in fact extraordinary.
President Obama has decided he is no longer willing to
work with the Republican
Party in Congress to pass
legislation.
His desire and will
for reaching compromises has wholly diminished. He has made
clear that he will henceforth move with actively
implementing laws without
convincing a majority of the
Congress that it is the right thing
to do. This is in clear violation of
our Constitution.
I’m sure that President Obama has
good intentions and the best interest of the American public at heart
through implementing by executive
order certain changes in American law.
Unfortunately the only issue remains
is the fact of the matter that this quite
plainly is called a dictatorship. While
authoritarian dictatorships ignore the
will of the people, dictators will passionately hold that they know what is
ultimately best for their constituents.
We as Americans can expect to see our
freedom drastically eroded if Congress
and the Supreme Court do not impede
this president at once.
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George W. Bush
43rd President of the United States
Served from Jan. 20, 2001 to Jan. 20, 2009
“You can fool some of the
people all the time, and those
are the ones you want to
concentrate on.” — George W. Bush
2004
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Dick Cheney
46th Vice President of the United States
Served from Jan. 20, 2001 to Jan. 20, 2009
World events
• Queen Elizabeth II christens
the RMS Queen Mary 2
cruise liner
• Suicide bombers
detonate car bombs in
Basra, killing at least 74
• U.S. transfers sovereignty and
control back to the Iraqi people
• 60th anniversary of D-day
• World AIDs report tells of 5 million new cases and 3 million people
dead
• Japan
is hit
with
multiple
Desmond Tutu
earthquakes and
typhoons
• Following ethnic
cleansing by
governmentbacked militia in
Darfur, Sudan, one million people flee
their homes
• West African countries suffer the
worst locusts plagues in 40 years
• Hurricane Ivan strikes Grenada, destroy 90% of homes
• Hurricane Jeanne kills
over 3,000 in Haiti
• EU accepts 10 new
states
• Four U.S.
contractors am-
2004
Gull-winged
Mercedes
bushed and murdered with photos
released to new agencies worldwide
• Strongest earthquake in 40 years
originates from the Indian Ocean
close to Indonesia, measuring 9.3 on
the Richter Scale. It creates tsunami waves that sweep across
much of the coastlines
of
Sri
Lanka, India,
Bangladesh,
the Maldives, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. At least 290,000 people are
confirmed to have died.
U.S. news
• U.S. admits there was no imminent threat from weapons of mass destruction before the 2003
invasion of Iraq
• CBS
uncovers
systematic torture of
Iraqi prisoners at
the Abu Ghraib
prison
• Statue of Liberty is reopened the
public
•
Colin Powell resigns
and Condoleezza Rice is nominated
as his replacement for Secretary
of States
• President George
Bush beats John
Kerry to gain a
second term
in office
• Facebook is
launched
• Oil
peaks at just
over $50 a barrel,
then retreats back
• Ex-soldier John Muhammad is found guilty of one of
a series of sniper shootings
that terrorized Washington,
D.C.
• Martha Stewart is convicted of a felony and sentenced to
five months in prison
• First same sex marriage
performed in Massachusetts
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Sports
• Lance Armstrong wins 6th
consecutive Tour de France
cycling title
• Summer Olympics held
in Athens, Greece
• New England Patriots
32 over Carolina Panthers 29
in Superbowl XXXVIII
• NBA Finals Detroit Pistons 4
games to 1 over the LA Lakers
Technology
• Space Ship One is the first
privately-funded spaceplane to
achieve space flight
• Google IPO raises $1.67
billion
• Official opening of Taipei
101, tallest skyscraper in the
world at 1,676 feet
• National WWII Memorial opens in Washington,
D.C.
• Remains of a previously unknown species of
human is discovered in
Indonesia, named Homo
floresiensis
Popular culture
• Janet Jackson’s
breast exposed in Super Bowl
Nipplegate
• Ken Jennings wins over $2.5 million on Jeopardy
• High controversial film Fahren-
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Popular music
• Usher, “Yeah” “Burn”
• Alicia Keys, “If I Ain’t Got You”
• Maroon 5, “This Love”
• OutKast, “The Way You Move”
• Hoobastank, “The Reason”
• Mario Winans, “I Don’t
Wanna Know”
• OutKast, “Hey Ya!”
• J-Kwon, “Tipsy”
• Nickelback, “Someday”
• Evanesence, “My Immortal”
Popular
TV shows
• Lost
• House M.D.
• Veronica Mars
• Battlestar
Gallactica
• Entourage
• Desperate Housewives
• The L Word
• Boston Legal
• Deadwood
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• Gallon of milk .............. $3.75
• Loaf of bread ............... $1.20
• First-class stamp ........... 37¢
• Movie ticket ................. $7.00
Popular films
• Harry Potter and the
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VA accused
of changing
rules to
reach goals
By Bryant Jordan
Military.com
Longtime allies of the Department of Veterans Affairs directed
some tough-love at the agency recently, accusing its leadership of
playing games with Congress and
creating policies to make the claims
backlog look healthier than it is.
Panelists drawn from several
veterans service organizations criticized the VA for defining claims in
order to make the backlog appear
small and shrinking, and for proposing to process some claims faster
than others as it pushes its electronic system.
“What you see here is a coldblooded assessment by VA officials
that if they cannot achieve their
goals under the current standards,
they will change the rules to achieve
their goals,” said Gerald Manar,
deputy director of National Veterans
Service, Veterans of Foreign Wars. Diana Rubens, VA deputy under
secretary for field operations, later
opened her testimony by noting that
the VA has reduced its claims backlog by 35 percent.
However, Manar had already testified that the VA excludes veterans
dependents and claims appeals from
its backlog claims.
“Today there are over 1.7 million
compensation, pension and education claims and appeals. Instead of
fully fixing the problem, VA leaders have redefined them,” he said.
“Since VA couldn’t reduce the entire
1.7 million by 2015, they decided to
define the workload as only disability claims requiring rating action.”
The 700,000 disability claims currently pending represent just 41 percent of outstanding claims, he said.
Focusing on disability claims that
require a rating decision resulted
in the VA not processing 60 percent
of its overall claims. As a result the
inventory of claims filed by dependents of veterans has grown from
about 40,000 to more than 630,000 in
the past three years, he said.
The inventory of appeals has
grown over the past year from
252,000 to more than 268,000.
New tech can seal a
gunshot wound in
15 seconds
By Rose Pastore, Popular Science
WILSONVILLE, Ore. — RevMedx
recently asked the FDA to approve
a pocket-size invention: a modified
syringe that injects specially coated
sponges into wounds. Called XStat, the
device could boost survival and spare
injured soldiers from additional pain
by plugging wounds faster and more efficiently than gauze.
The team’s early efforts were inspired
by Fix-a-Flat foam for repairing tires.
“That’s what we pictured as the perfect
solution: something you could spray in,
it would expand, and bleeding stops,”
says Steinbaugh.
“But
we
found
that blood
pressure
is so high, blood would wash the
foam right out.”
So the team tried a new idea: sponges. They bought some ordinary sponges
from a hardware store and cut them
into 1-centimeter circles, a size and
shape they chose on a whim but later
would discover were ideal for filling
Petty Officer promotion
standards get overhaul
By Erik Slavin, Stars and Stripes
The Navy is making several changes
to its advancement system for petty officers, including a formula that would
add greater weight to performance
evaluations and less to advancement
tests.
The changes are part of a long-term,
phased approach that could change the
promotion quotas for the Navy’s many
job ratings, Chief of Naval Personnel
Vice Adm. Bill Moran wrote in a post
on the Navy Times’ Facebook page.
“The majority of you seem to like
greater weight added to performance
— make the evals count more, make it
less about who can pass the test or who
hangs around long enough,” Moran
said. “In general, I agree with you.”
Currently, for sailors vying for E-4
and E-5 pay grades, the next-level
exam equals 37 percent, and evaluations equal 42 percent of the total
promotion score. For sailors aiming for
E-6, the test equals 33 percent and the
evaluations equal 47.5 percent of their
promotion score.
The new formula, which could be
introduced as early as the autumn test
cycle, would minimize the importance
of testing and increase the weight of
evaluations even more, though exact
figures have not yet been determined,
according to Navy Times.
Sailors’ personnel records online
U.S. Navy selection board season
runs January through October. Taking
the time to prepare in advance can
relieve a lot of stress when a Sailor’s
record goes before a board. Sailors can
review their Official Military Personnel File (OMPF) online by selecting
the “OMPF - My Record” link under
the BUPERS Online (BOL) Application Menu Log available online. It is
still possible to update your OMPF
prior to the board commencing if you
discover something is missing. The
Navy Personnel Command can scan
images into OMPFs. Also, Sailors who
have any missing, new, or additional information, like recently obtained qualifications, degrees and awards to be
considered that are not in their OMPF
may submit them to the board via a letter to the board. For more information,
visit the Naval Personnel Command’s
Boards tab and webpage at http://goo.
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VA launches new online
college comparison tool
By George Altman, AF Times
The Veterans Affairs Department
has unveiled a new way for student veterans to quickly get important information about schools they’re considering
attending.
The online GI Bill Comparison Tool,
found at url shortcut http://goo.gl/
XSI58S, can be searched by school and
details whether a school participates
in the Yellow Ribbon program and has
agreed to the White House’s Principles
of Excellence for military education, as
wounds.
Then, they
injected
the bits of
sponge into
an animal
injury. “The bleeding stopped,” says
Steinbaugh. “Our eyes lit up. We knew
we were onto something.” After seeing
early prototypes, the U.S. Army gave
the team $5 million to develop a finished product.
DoD has no plans to
close commissaries
According to Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, there are no
plans to close military commissaries. The chairman first addressed
this issue during his Facebook
town hall meeting last month (a
transcript of the recent town hall
meeting with General Dempsey is
available on DoD Live). Although
the DoD officials are not planning to close commissaries, they
did ask the Defense Commissary
Agency for a range of options, including how the system would operate with reduced or no taxpayer
subsidies.
Military exchanges work on
this system and that the same potential exists with commissaries.
TRICARE update on
automatic payments
An electronic fund transfer
(EFT) is an easy, low-maintenance
option for managing TRICARE
Reserve Select (TRS) payments.
While TRS beneficiaries are
required to setup an EFT to pay
their premiums, it is not foolproof
and missed payments can result
in a loss of health care coverage.
One major reason for missed
payments is an expired credit
card. Check the expiration date
on the credit card used for TRS
EFTs, and update the regional
contractor with any new or pending account information. Failure to pay any overdue premium
amounts will result in suspension
of coverage.
Learn more about TRS premiums and EFT options at www.
tricare.mil/Welcome/Enroll/TRS/
Premiums.
well as how many GI Bill beneficiaries
the school enrolls. The site includes academic success and cost data for institutions, such as graduation rates, loan
default rates and average borrowing
costs, although the data is not limited
to student veterans.
However, it provides some specific
information for vets on how much of a
housing allowance they can expect to
get from the Post-9/11 GI Bill, based on
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‘NFL not ready
for gay player’
T:5.6875”
COMMUNITY
By Dan Graziano, ESPN.com
any different. But that could be diffiMichael Sam's announcement that cult for some people, just the way our
he is gay has been the story of the week locker rooms work.”
in the NFL, and players in the league
Pressed on the likelihood that he’s
know the story is just beginning.
already played on teams with gay playFor that reason and for others, New ers, Thomas said, “I’m pretty sure I
York Giants cornerback Terrell Thom- have.”
as said, Sam could find acceptance in
“But there’s a difference between
NFL locker rooms difficult to come by.
knowing and not knowing that changes
"The attention on him is going to a lot of things,” he said. “You’re talkbring attention to the team — unwant- ing about playing in the NFL, the grind,
ed attention, questions that the play- the brotherhood, the joking that goes
ers, the coaches, the whole organiza- along with it. The locker room may not
tion is going to
be ready for that,
have to answer
because it’s the
— and that's
kind of thing that
a lot for one
changes
everyI think society is
player to carry
thing.
by
himself,"
“It may make
ready for it and
Thomas told
guys feel like
America's
ESPN.com in
they
have
to
a phone interchange the way
ready for it,
view Tuesday
they carry them“You just
selves and some
but I don't
look at what
of the things they
think the
happened this
say. You’re talking
year with the
about a league
NFL is. As
Miami
Dolwhere things have
a player, all
phins’
situbeen done a ceration.
That
tain way for a long
you want to
became sometime, and now
thing we were
you’re going to
know is if he can play.
being
asked
expect people to
That's on the field. But
about
every
change, and peoday in our lockple may not know
in the locker room, it's
er room, and it
how to do that the
different.
wasn’t
even
right way.”
our team. And
Sam came out
they’re
the
to his University
— Giants CB Terrell Thomas,
kinds of quesof Missouri teamon an openly gay player
tions
where
mates prior to
you have to
the 2013 season,
in the NFL
think carefully
and the team emabout how you
braced him and
phrase things.”
went 12-2.
Sam, an All-America pass-rusher at
“That’s the hardest question. If a
Missouri, announced he is gay during bunch of 18-year-olds can accept him,
an interview Sunday with ESPN’s “Out- why can’t a bunch of grown men?”
side The Lines.” Assuming he is draft- Thomas said. “I just think it’s differed, Sam would become the first openly ent when you put him in an NFL locker
gay player in NFL history.
room with a bunch of grown men the
Thomas said he was personally un- way we are around each other, and with
sure about the situation because of people who don’t already know him.
his “views as a Christian,” and he was
“Their locker room accepted him,
concerned that players in NFL locker
but at the same time, their locker
rooms might start to act differently
room knew him before he came out. If
with Sam around.
he would have said it after his second
“I think society is ready for it and
year in the league, things might be difAmerica’s ready for it, but I don’t think
ferent. But to come in as a rookie who
the NFL is,” Thomas said. “As a player,
nobody knows and have this be the
all you want to know is if he can play.
big story, that could make it tough for
That’s on the field. But in the locker
some people to handle. It’s going to put
room, it’s different. There’s a lot of talk
people on edge. Not necessarily make
and joking around, and some guys walk
everybody uncomfortable, but maybe
around completely naked all the time,
guys just might not know how to act.”
and they might not want to do that anyThomas played a full season for the
more. When you add that situation to
the mix, I think it’s going to make some Giants in 2013 after missing the previous two seasons with torn ACLs in his
people uncomfortable.
“Things are changing, and certain right knee. He is eligible for unrestrictchange is inevitable. We have to look at ed free agency when the new league
him like a brother and can’t treat him year opens March 11.
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Innocence lost
The first one pulls out a harmonica
and says “I can play all my favorite
songs on this.”
The second takes out a deck of
cards. “I can play poker with myself
with these.”
The third gets out a box of tampons.
“Well, it says on here that with
these I can go swimming, horseback riding, cycling...”
Partially
paralyzed
Just
for
Laughs
A big heavy set housewife is on her
hands and knees, scrubbing the kitchen floor, when she suddenly yells to her
husband, “Come here quick, Charlie!
I’m paralyzed! I can’t get up!”
He comes in, takes a look, and says,
“Stand up, silly. You’re kneeling on
your breasts.”
New name
After everything I keep hearing daily concerning the Arabs, Palestinians,
Afghans, etc., I have decided to search
my roots. So, from now on, please call
me by my new Muslim name. Seldom
Ben Laid.
Oldest tampon joke
in the book
PUZZLE PAGE
Three newly incarcerated convicts
are discussing how they will pass their
time in jail.
As the two little girls walked hand
in hand to kindergarten, one confided:
“I found a contraceptive on the patio
yesterday.”
Asked her friend: “What’s a patio?”
Old, old practice
It has been determined that having sex before participating in athletic
activity, such as a marathon race, does
not impair the athlete’s abilities.
In fact, men have known and practiced this for centuries. After sex, they
glance at their watches and say, “Oops,
gotta run!”
What, what,
whaaaattt?
A chicken and an egg are
lying in bed. The chicken is
leaning against the headboard
smoking a cigarette, with a satisfied smile on its face.The egg, looking
a bit pissed off, grabs the sheet, rolls
over, and says, “Well, I guess we finally
answered THAT question!”
Where’s the cork?
Men are like a fine wine.
They start out as grapes and it’s up
to women to stomp the hell out of them
until they turn into something acceptable to have dinner with.
Oh no he didn’t...
Human Resources Manager: “What
is your greatest weakness?”
Interviewee: “Honesty.”
Human Resources Manager: “I don’t
think honesty is a weakness.”
Interviewee: “I don’t really give a
damn what you think.”
All in the name
Okay, if the Jacksonville Jaguars are
known as the “Jags”.
And the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are
known as the “Bucs.”
What does that make the Tennessee
Titans?
Life lessons
Doctor, please
Give a man a fish, and he will eat for
a day.
Teach a man to fish, and he will sit
in a boat drinking beer all day.
But teach him how to surf the ‘Net
for porn, and he’ll never bother you
again.
ACROSS
1. Religious belief
6. Wings
10. Not legs
14. Hello or goodbye
15. Focusing glass
16. Get-out-of-jail money
17. Provide food for
18. Tight
19. Anger
20. In a crosswise direction
22. Small island
23. Trumpet
24. Not the youngest
26. Competent
30. Frozen water
31. Cup
32. Weightlifters pump this
33. Piecrust ingredient
35. Clobbered
39. Simpleton
41. Troop formation
43. Besmirch
44. Carve in stone
46. Require
47. Wander aimlessly
70. Visual organs
49. Historic period
71. Pays attention to
50. Throw
51. Ancient ascetic
DOWN
54. Lease
1. Proven information
56. Flower stalk
2. Winglike
57. A type of infantry
3. Greek letter
63. Alike
4. Not now
64. Is endebted to
5. Abrasive
65. Slant
6. Quarrel
66. Biblical garden
7. Student
67. Rational
8. Rectum
68. A sloping mass of
9. High regard
loose rocks
10. A shortened version
69. Dispatched
11. Lift
12. Grinds
13. Mixture of rain
and snow
21. “There you have it!”
25. Verdant
26. Helps
27. The top edge of
a vessel
28. Solitary
29. Betrothal
34. Diminishes
36. Margarine
37. Foot digits
38. Terminates
40. Fiber source
The aged patient doddered into the
doctor’s office with a serious complaint.
“Doc, you’ve got to do something to
lower my sex drive.”
“Come on now Mr Peters,” the doctor said, “your sex drives all in your
head.”
42. Cantillate
45. Terrestrial
48. Force out
51. S S S S
52. Ancient Greek
unit of length
53. Seminal fluid
55. Garbage
58. On the road
59. A single time
60. Monster
61. Implored
62. Views
“Thats what I mean, you’ve got to
lower it a little.”
Dental humor
The dentist pulls out a Novocaine
needle to give a man a shot so he can
pull his tooth. “No way! No needles. I
hate needles,” the patient said.
The dentist starts to hook up the
nitrous oxide and the man objects, “I
can’t do the gas thing. The thought of
having the gas mask on is suffocating
to me!”
The dentist then asks the patient if
he has any objection to taking a pill.
“No objection,” the patient says. “I’m
fine with pills.”
The dentist then returns and says,
“Here’s a Viagra tablet.”
The patient says, “Wow! I didn’t
know Viagra worked as a pain killer!”
“It doesn’t‚“ says the dentist, “but it
will give you something to hold on to
when I pull your tooth!
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