**Math nerd joke alert!**

I was on Google looking for some famous math quotes for my bulletin boards at school.  My counselor friend there and another friend have taken it upon themselves to set up my bulletin boards and wanted some quotes to put up. 

Among the other quotes by Albert Einstein, Plato, Leonardo Da Vinci and others, I found this amusing one:

“In the fall of 1972, President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time a sitting president used the third derivative to advance his case for reelection." – My dad.

Now, I know he’s been a math professor since before I was even born, and I don’t even know if he meant it to be funny.  But, knowing Calculus and his sense of humor (having inherited it), I couldn’t help but get a hearty chuckle from it.  And, of course, a little pride in his being quoted on several sites alongside those other people.

90 Days left.

• There is already a mountain of evidience that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons...adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest.
• I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children.
• Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.
• September the fourth, 2001, I stood in the ruins of the Twin Towers. It's a day I will never forget.
• This is an impressive crowd - the haves and the have-mores. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base.
• We've never been 'stay the course'.

100 days of Bush Presidency left, 100 days of George Bush, take one down.....

More Bushisms to laugh at;

• "As Luce reminded me, he said, without data, without facts, without information, the discussiona about public education mean that a person is just another opinion."
• "This is what I'm good at. I like meeting people, my fellow citizens, I like interfacing with them."
• "Free societies are hopeful societies. And free societies will be allies against these hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at the whim of a hat."
• "I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy."
• "A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness."
• "I am a person who recognizes the fallacy of humans."
• "I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavor for what's moving. I rarely read the stories, and get breifed by people who are probably read the news themselves."
• "America better beware of a candidate who is willing to stretch reality in order to win points."
• "I like to tell people when the final history is written on Iraq, it will look like just a comma because there is - my point is, there's a strong will for democracy."
• "We need an energy bill that encourages consumption."
• "I own a timber company? That's news to me. Need some wood?"
• "It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas."
• "Saddam would still be in power if [John Kerry] were the president of the United States, and the world would be better off."
• "See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction."
• "Border relations between Canada and Mexico have never been better."

Only 100 days left!

"We stand for things" - Davenport, Iowa, Aug. 4, 2004

A hundred sixty nine days left of what is arguably the worst presidency in the history of our country. Let me put it this way - less than half the people in Utah are happy with our president. (According to the Rasmussen Report on June 23, 2008, only 45% of Utahns think GW is doing good or excellent). When you consider that even George the First at his worst hit 68%, (Deseret News, May 25, 2003) that says a lot. So, in honor of the dwindling number of days left of this walking embarassment of a leader, here are some of the quotes I've gleaned from my "GWBush Official Countdown Calendar";

• "I don't know all the facts, I want to know all the facts. The best place for the facts is to be done is by somebody who's spending time investigating it" - Washington, D.C., July 2005


• "Give me a chance to be your president and America will be safer and stronger and better" - Marquette, Michigan, July 13, 2004 (campaigning for reelection)


• "Justice ought to be fair" - Washington, D.C., 2004


• "No more public scatology." - In a personal note to future Supreme Court nominee, Harriet Miers, July 18, 1997.


• "I wish I wasn't the war president. Who in the heck wants to be a war president? I don't." - Washington, D.C., 2004


• "These people don't have tanks. They don't have ships. They hide in caves. They send suiciders out." - Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 2002


• "I think war is a dangerous place." - Washington D.C., 2003