2004/04/24
When my father died and my two brothers and I sat down to talk about him, we discovered that we were talking about three different men - and I had never met the other two.
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Hello....its Saturday. Finally, a day of rest!
Sir Humphrey Appleby would give Guite a run for his money!!.........
"Yes Minister" is one of my favourite TV shows. The several quotes below are from the show about St. Edwards hospital It is running with 500 civil servants and no patients and it has been running that way for 2 years. It is a hoot when Appleby tries to justify it! Read on......
(1) Jim Hacker: "The National Health Service, Humphrey, is an advanced case of galloping bureaucracy."
Sir Humphrey: "Ooooh, certainly not galloping. A gentle canter at the most."
(2) Sir Humphrey: "Minister, you said you wanted the administration figures reduced, didn't you?"
Jim Hacker: "Yes."
Sir Humphrey: "So we reduced the figures."
Jim Hacker: "But only the figures, not the number of administrators."
Sir Humphrey: "Well of course not."
Jim Hacker: "Well that is not what I meant."
Sir Humphrey: "Well really Minister, one is not a mind-reader, is one? You said reduce the figures, so we reduced the figures."
(3) [Discussing the opening up of St. Edward's hospital]
Sir Ian Whitchurch: "First of all, you have to sort out the smooth running of the hospital. Having patients around would be no help at all."
Sir Humphrey: "They just be in the way."
(4) Jim Hacker: "Fortunately Bernard, most of our journalists are so incompetent that they have the gravest difficulty in finding out that today is Wednesday."
Bernard Woolley: "It's actually Thursday, Minister."
(5) Jim Hacker: "You think it [St. Edward's hospital] is functioning now?"
Mrs. Rogers: "Minister, it is one of the best run hospitals in the country. It is up for the Florence Nightingale Award."
Jim Hacker: "And what is to praise that?"
Mrs. Rogers: "It is won by the most hygienic hospital in the area.
Raking and de-lighting.....
Catherine and I spent most of our 'day of rest' cleaning out the flower beds, raking and taking down the christmas lights. It was a nice day to do it. 17 degs C but quite windy. They expect a high tomorrow of about 14 deg. but less wind and sunny....
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Old joke: A man repeatedly rides a bike across the Mexican-United States border. Each time, he's stopped by customs and the bike is taken apart. Nothing is found. Finally, one day a customs official offers the man immunity from prosecution if only he will tell what he's smuggling. The man pauses for a second, shrugs and says, "Bicycles."
Kinda like George Bush's deception ".....It's hard to know which is more disturbing. That George W. Bush misled the public by stating in the months before the Iraq war that he was seriously pursuing a diplomatic resolution when he was not. That he didn't bother to ask aides to present the case against going to war. That he may have violated the U.S. Constitution by spending hundreds of millions of dollars secretly to prepare for the invasion of Iraq without notifying Congress. That he was misinformed by the CIA director about one of the most critical issues of the day and demanded no accountability. Or that he doesn't care if he got it wrong on the weapons of mass destruction. " "......(George Dubya) is a president who eschews accountability and responsibility, who is embedded in a world detached from critical or challenging perspectives, who appears incapable of self-doubt, who mistakes stubbornness for leadership." David Corn...(Alternet.org)
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Well better go, supper is ready.....keep blogging.
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Hello....its Saturday. Finally, a day of rest!
Sir Humphrey Appleby would give Guite a run for his money!!.........
"Yes Minister" is one of my favourite TV shows. The several quotes below are from the show about St. Edwards hospital It is running with 500 civil servants and no patients and it has been running that way for 2 years. It is a hoot when Appleby tries to justify it! Read on......
(1) Jim Hacker: "The National Health Service, Humphrey, is an advanced case of galloping bureaucracy."
Sir Humphrey: "Ooooh, certainly not galloping. A gentle canter at the most."
(2) Sir Humphrey: "Minister, you said you wanted the administration figures reduced, didn't you?"
Jim Hacker: "Yes."
Sir Humphrey: "So we reduced the figures."
Jim Hacker: "But only the figures, not the number of administrators."
Sir Humphrey: "Well of course not."
Jim Hacker: "Well that is not what I meant."
Sir Humphrey: "Well really Minister, one is not a mind-reader, is one? You said reduce the figures, so we reduced the figures."
(3) [Discussing the opening up of St. Edward's hospital]
Sir Ian Whitchurch: "First of all, you have to sort out the smooth running of the hospital. Having patients around would be no help at all."
Sir Humphrey: "They just be in the way."
(4) Jim Hacker: "Fortunately Bernard, most of our journalists are so incompetent that they have the gravest difficulty in finding out that today is Wednesday."
Bernard Woolley: "It's actually Thursday, Minister."
(5) Jim Hacker: "You think it [St. Edward's hospital] is functioning now?"
Mrs. Rogers: "Minister, it is one of the best run hospitals in the country. It is up for the Florence Nightingale Award."
Jim Hacker: "And what is to praise that?"
Mrs. Rogers: "It is won by the most hygienic hospital in the area.
Raking and de-lighting.....
Catherine and I spent most of our 'day of rest' cleaning out the flower beds, raking and taking down the christmas lights. It was a nice day to do it. 17 degs C but quite windy. They expect a high tomorrow of about 14 deg. but less wind and sunny....
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Old joke: A man repeatedly rides a bike across the Mexican-United States border. Each time, he's stopped by customs and the bike is taken apart. Nothing is found. Finally, one day a customs official offers the man immunity from prosecution if only he will tell what he's smuggling. The man pauses for a second, shrugs and says, "Bicycles."
Kinda like George Bush's deception ".....It's hard to know which is more disturbing. That George W. Bush misled the public by stating in the months before the Iraq war that he was seriously pursuing a diplomatic resolution when he was not. That he didn't bother to ask aides to present the case against going to war. That he may have violated the U.S. Constitution by spending hundreds of millions of dollars secretly to prepare for the invasion of Iraq without notifying Congress. That he was misinformed by the CIA director about one of the most critical issues of the day and demanded no accountability. Or that he doesn't care if he got it wrong on the weapons of mass destruction. " "......(George Dubya) is a president who eschews accountability and responsibility, who is embedded in a world detached from critical or challenging perspectives, who appears incapable of self-doubt, who mistakes stubbornness for leadership." David Corn...(Alternet.org)
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Well better go, supper is ready.....keep blogging.
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