Posted on 02/06/2015 4:26:13 AM PST by Lucky9teen
When : Always February 6th
Hey, today is everything it's quacked up to be. Lame Duck Day is set aside to give recognition to people whose tenure in a position is running out.
Okay, so you are probably thinking that a "lame duck" is a duck with some sort of injury. If only that were the reason for toady! Rather, a "Lame Duck" by human, definition is a person who is in a position of some kind, and will soon be "shown the door". The best example is an incumbent politician who lost in the November elections. They usually remain in office until the beginning of January. It also applies to leaders, managers, etc, who are retiring or whose term of office is up.
During the interim period, a Lame Duck is usually far less effective, and frequently ineffective. After all, loyalties will soon shift. It's impossible to rally the troops to one more cause or project.
On Lame Duck Day...
If you are a Lame Duck: Enjoy those final days. Reflect upon your successes, and the joys and rewards the position provided to you. Kick back a little and have some fun today, and in the remaining days.
If you know a Lame Duck: Supporters should provide recognition and support. Non-supporters can cut the Lame Duck a little slack today. They will soon be gone.
If you are a duck and you are lame, seek medical attention.
On February 6, 1933, the 20th amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect. This amendment addressed presidential succession. Now there's a lame duck issue.
As democracy is perfected, the office [of the President] represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal.On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
-H.L. Mencken, July 26, 1920
As a Pats fan I find it quite amazing all the second guessing about the call as the Lynch was stopped 4 out of 5 times from the 1 yard line, but the talking, guessing heads just babble on and on. Like the deflated balls story, Pats scored 17 points with them and 28 without them. Raises the question, "Did someone sabotage the balls before the first half?"
Gotta hand it to the punsters that came up withe the caption "The Butler Did It!"
#6?
Not really conducive to deep romance tho!
LOL!!
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, stated by Sherlock Holmes
Definition of OCCAM’S RAZOR
: a scientific and philosophic rule that entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily which is interpreted as requiring that the simplest of competing theories be preferred to the more complex or that explanations of unknown phenomena be sought first in terms of known quantities
In other words, the most likely explanation for deflated footballs is that the NFL official marked them OK without actually checking. That is, unless, you believe that someone could deflate so many footballs during a 90 second trip to the bathroom.
Are those LGBT support bracelets on the little owls?
;>)
“unless, you believe that someone could deflate so many footballs during a 90 second trip to the bathroom.”
A few days before the SB, some reporter made a vid of himself in a restroom deflating 12 (or 11) balls in even less time than that!
Best BBC April Fool’s joke ever!
“O” don’t know the difference.
Christianity - present the loving forgiveness of Jesus....let the person make his own decision.
Islam - CONVERT OR DIE!!!!
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