June 30 - Friday Funny - Jesse Jackson

It appears that “The Reverend” Jesse Jackson has apparently moved to the “ B-list" of activists. He has been passed by the likes of Bono, Angelina Jolie, and the upstart duo of Bill Gates and Warren Buffet. Two people haven’t taken America by storm this fast since Milli Vanilli.

The sign of his personal apocalypse came as Jackson showed up this week in Louisville to address the annual meeting of the Jockeys' Guild. Yes, jockeys, the vertically challenged people that ride horses. Jackson seems an incongruous figure in this setting. There are no civil rights issues on the Guild's agenda.

What’s next, the Lilliputians suing Gulliver for missing royalties or the Wizard of Oz Munchkins demanding the ability to NOT follow the yellow brink road?

For my FUNNY FRIDAY, here is one of my favorite Jesse Jackson jokes:

Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, on his way home from work at City Hall, came to a dead halt in traffic on the Dan Ryan Expressway and thought to himself, "Wow, this traffic seems worse than usual. Nothing's moving at all."

He noticed a State Trooper walking back and forth between the lines of cars, so he rolled down his window and asked, "Officer, I'm Mayor Richard M. Daley, what's the problem; what's holding everything up."

The trooper replied, "It's the Reverend Jackson. He's so depressed about the thought of everyone knowing about his extra-martial affair and his illegitimate child, that he stopped his car in the middle of the Dan Ryan Expressway and is threatening to douse himself with gasoline and set himself on fire. He says the country and his congregation are blaming him for his infidelity and doesn't know if he can live with the shame and embarrassment. The people in the halted cars along the expressway are taking up a collection for him."

"Oh really," replied Mayor Daley. "How much have they collected for the Reverend Jackson so far?"

"About 300 gallons," said the trooper, "but they are still siphoning"