Recently I was perusing some videos in my local video rental store. I chanced across a movie called 'I am Sam'. It stars Sean Penn who plays a mentally retarded adult. Finally, Penn has a role he can handle.

Earlier this month, cafeteria workers at the U.N. in New York went on strike and walked off the job. But that didn't stop the world's peace makers from having a satisfying noon time repast. Without even security guards to stop them, the guardians of world peace looted the cafeteria of food, drink, and alcohol. So, why was the New York Times complaining about Bahgdad?

As I always say, you can take the dictator out of the third world, but you can't take the third world out of the dictator.

Habitat for Humanity recently announced it would build a third world "Slum Theme Park." It would build it, of course, here, in the United States, so that we insensitive white males can see what it's like to live in the third world. I have only one question. Will there be rides? What's a theme park without rides?

Here's an idea--third world bus ride. Get the feel of the third world from the road! You're crammed onto a bus filled with chickens, sheep, and other assorted farm animals. Sometimes you sit on the roof. The bus is at least 20 years old, lacks a suspension and shocks, and at the end of the ride it plunges off a gravel road into a ravine.

Will there be concession stands? What's a theme park without concession stands?

Here's an idea--third world fast food. It's all recently looted from the U.N. cafeteria in New York and served by exceptionally rude French waiters (Isn't France a third world country?).

I'm not necessarily against this idea, as lunaical as it sounds. I do have definite ideas about who should visit the park, once it's opened--viz. every democrat who whines about the problem of children, poverty, and the elderly who can't buy their prescription drugs. Instead of making the United States look like a third world country with their whining (I remember Dicky Gephardt whining about all the school children who will go without a "hot" lunch if the Federal school lunch program were cancelled) they should get a chance to see what real poverty looks like, not the fake poverty in the United States.

It's easy to scream about poverty from your million dollar home in the United States (Dicky Gephardt's summer home in the Carolinas cost a cool mil). If you're not a hypocrite about curing poverty, go somewhere where there's real poverty and do something about it and stop whining in a country where welfare recipients have cars, television sets, and cell phones.

Yes, cell phones.

I'm an avid listener to day time talk radio and particularly enjoy the Sean Hannity radio show. This Monday past, a guest called in to announce that he was a homeless man. This was after Hannity spent a few minutes educating his listeners why no one in this country has any legitimate reasoning for being homeless if they are of sound mind and able to work. (When I lived in New York, I noticed that all of the homeless people I saw seemed to have severe mental illness, which is why they were on the street. The city faced serious legal and ethical problems in attempting to round them up and keep them in hospitals or asylums, not to mention financial problems.)

Hannity's guest revealed that he was calling from his cell phone. I found this intriguing. Unfortunately, Hannity never got the real heart of the matter. He tried valiantly to unmask his caller as a fraud, but failed to ask the one crucial question. If this guy's homeless, where does Verizon send the monthly bill?

A recent article on Newsmax.com announced that a survey of prison populations found that convicts register their party affiliation as 'democrat' by almost 85 percent. That surprises me about as much as viruses that emanate from Microsoft.

Just one more surprising and amazing thing, seen and heard.