Bill Maher

In case you missed HBO's "Late Night with Bill Maher," here was his open letter to the President:


Mr. President, this job can't be fun for you any more. There's no more money to spend--you used up all of that. You can't start another war because you used up the army. And now, darn the luck, the rest of your term has become the Bush family nightmare: helping poor people. Listen to your Mom. The cupboard's bare, the credit cards maxed out. No one's speaking to you.

Mission accomplished.



Now it's time to do what you've always done best:

lose interest and walk away. Like you did with your military service and the oil company and the baseball team. It's time. Time to move on and try the next fantasy job. How about cowboy or space man? Now I know what you're saying: there's so many other things that you as President could involve yourself in. Please don't. I know, I know. There's a lot left to do.

There's a war with Venezuela. Eliminating the sales tax on yachts. Turning the space program over to the church. And Social Security to Fannie Mae. Giving embryos the vote.



But, Sir, none of that is going to happen now.

Why? Because you govern like Billy Joel drives. You've performed so poorly I'm surprised that you haven't given yourself a medal. You're a catastrophe that walks like a man. Herbert Hoover was a shitty president, but even he never conceded an entire city to rising water and snakes.



On your watch, we've lost almost all of our allies, the surplus, four airliners, two trade centers, a piece of the Pentagon and the City of New Orleans. Maybe you're just not lucky. I'm not saying you don't love this country. I'm just wondering how much worse it could be if you were on the other side.



So, yes, God does speak to you. What he is saying

is: "Take a hint."

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adjust your sails.

You can't direct the wind, but you can adjust your sails.

German Proverb
(Sayings of German origin)

Discovery Trail

Couple completes coast-to-coast hike
'We are a little bit sad that a great adventure is over'

Sunday, October 16, 2005; Posted: 9:15 a.m. EDT (13:15 GMT)


Ken and Marcia Powers hike on the American Discovery Trail near Carson City, Nevada, on September 28.
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POINT REYES, California (AP) -- A husband-and-wife team reached the Pacific Ocean on Saturday after a 4,900-mile cross-country hike, becoming the first to backpack the transcontinental American Discovery Trail in one continuous trek.

Marcia and Ken Powers started February 27 at Cape Henlopen in Delaware. Nearly eight months later, they looked out over the Pacific Ocean at Point Reyes.

"We feel great. We're done," Marcia Powers said after reaching the ocean late Saturday afternoon, a day ahead of schedule. "We are a little bit sad that a great adventure is over. It was a fantastic adventure."

The couple from Pleasanton, California, traversed cities, desert, mountains and farmland as they crossed 13 states.

They overcame deep snow in the East, a quicksand scare in Utah, close lightning strikes in the Midwest and blinding desert sandstorms in the West while averaging 22 miles a day and taking only four days off.

But they raved about the French history of St. Louis, the grandeur of the Colorado Rockies, and the kindness of strangers they met along the way. They particularly remember two brothers who put them up in their homes around Chester, Illinois, and a motorcyclist who gave them water in the Utah desert.

"Americans are truly warm-hearted and wonderful people," said Marcia Powers, who is in her 50s. "We got to meet people that we would never meet in our sphere of daily living at home.

"We also got to see America up close. We got to touch it with our feet and hands and smell all its scents and hear its wildlife. It's an amazing country."

Joyce and Pete Cottrell, of Whitefield, New Hampshire, were the first to backpack the entire official route of the American Discovery Trail, but they hiked segments out of sequence over two calendar years, finishing in 2003.

The transcontinental trail starts in Delaware, meandering through Washington, D.C., Cincinnati, St. Louis and other cities, 14 national parks and 16 national forests before hitting the Pacific at Point Reyes.

The trail officially opened in 2000, 11 years after it was proposed by hiking enthusiasts as the first coast-to-coast footpath.



http://www.trailjournals.com/GottaWalkADT/

Ken & Marcia's 2005
American Discovery Trail Journal

http://www.discoverytrail.org/

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Dr. Seuss

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
--Dr. Seuss