Since Ted Turner dumped her, Jane Fonda has found nothing better to do except make a few lousy movies and, inevitably, crawl back to her Hanoi Hannah roots. She’s been attending anti-war rallies and, in her latest one on Saturday, repeated her old anti-American script from the 1970s. I guess next she’ll show up smiling in Osama bin Laden’s cave and pose with him as he and his buddies fire their weapons at our GIs.
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Hillary Clinton was in Iowa Sunday talking to crowds of potential voters. One asked if she could stand up to "evil men". She said her experience proved she could, and the audience laughed and applauded for a long time. Hillary was so pleased, I’ll bet she told Bill all about it when he sneaked into the house at 3 am this morning.
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An Ontario, New York, church last week staged what it called a “Porn and Pancakes” breakfast. It involved preachers conducting what they called “honest discussions about pornography in America” while members of the congregation enjoyed the pancake breakfast. It must have been a fun session, especially if it involved some of the more creative uses they could have made with the syrup.
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Not many people noticed, nor gave a rodent’s gluteus maximus, but England’s Prince Charles and his Camilla are visiting the US this week. Their first tour was in Philadelphia, where they stopped in at historic sites including Independence Hall. If they had listened closely inside the meeting room where the Declaration of Independence was signed, they could have heard loud spinning noises from the ghosts of such anti-monarchy advocates as Ben Franklin, Tom Jefferson and John Adams.
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If you’ve visited the state of Tennessee lately, you’ll notice that many of the cars have Elvis Presley license plates. I’m all shook up, because old time rock stars are ON license plates, while many of today’s rock stars are MAKING them.
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The news reports say there have been more than one incident involving husband and wife suicide bombers. Can you imagine the conversation as he straps on his bombs. Wife: “There you go again. Always out there grooving with your al-Qaeda homies. You never take me anywhere anymore.” Husband: “Oh, all right, you can come along on our next suicide mission. But just this once.”
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Ted Sherman is a retired corporate PR manager and executive speech writer. Today he's a humor and travel writer, and occasional contributor of jokes to a major TV comedy show. He's a graduate of the University of the Arts and the University of Penn Grad. School of Communications, and a US Navy veteran of WWII and the Korean War.
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