The Watering Hole: June 30 – The Pied Piper

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Earliest Drawing of the Pied Piper - painted in 1592 by Freiherr Augustin von Moersperg

The Pied Piper of Hamelin lead the children after the elders of the city failed to pay his price for getting rid of vermin. Now place this story in a modern setting:

As roles:

  • The Koch brothers take on the role of the Piper because they are trying to take on a perceived problem at a price
  • Republicans represent the town elders because they want to have a problem solved, at a cost.
  • Liberals are the children of the town because they the innocents
  • Teabaggers are those vermin that live off the work of others, and truly believe that they would never be deprived of anything.

Now the story sequence:

  • The Piper makes a pact with the elders to direct the rodents from the town.
  • The Piper leads the rats to what they think is a better place.
  • The Piper tries to exact his price which the elders refuse to pay.
  • The Piper exacts his fee by taking the children.
  • The elders are left with nothing.

The Republicans (elders) have not thought this through to the final step and they will see what is happening only when it is too late.

This is our Open Thread. Please present your thoughts on any topic that comes to mind, rearrange the analogy or come up with another using one of Grimms’ Fairy Tales, Aesop’s Fables or any tale with a moral.

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155 thoughts on “The Watering Hole: June 30 – The Pied Piper”

  1. I was thinking along the lines of “Animal Farm” and it’s relationship to the republican party.
    “Some animals are more equal than others” seems to be a core value of the republicans.

  2. I’m still impressed with the dog that climbs the fence on Countdown, and that the airlines respect the turtles at JFK.

    So far all I’ve got is that the Koch brothers are the Pied Piper and the teabaggers are the rats. I’m still working on why us innocents would follow the Koch Brothers…and it looks like to me, if the teabaggers and liberals were both gone, then the Republican fogies (get off my lawn!) would be content.
    But then, I only saw the ‘Fractured Fairy Tales’ and ‘Aesop and son’ from the Rocky and Bullwinkle show.

    • Cats, heavily armed murderous redneck yes, what’s the reichwing angle here? I feel bad for the family of the poor lad who was killed trying to apprehend him, such a waste of life.

    • Wow, Cats, that sucks! I know that area fairly well because a family member is a volunteer at the WK&S railroad in Kempton. Lots of nuts and ‘baggers in the that middle part of PA – Toomey Country!

  5. Good morning Zoosters.

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    This arose mostly from my own desire to have a simple place to type and format my Zoo comments without having to type the HTML every time. (I’m lazy.) I also wanted a cheat sheet for all the emoticons that are available (HT: Walt for the list on the 3/17/11 post). You can even just click on the emoticon to paste it in. (There’s that laziness thing again.)

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  6. Damn! A bird just flew up against my bedroom window and startled me. It must have disturbed Klaus too, because he started meowing right after and he hardly ever meows audibly.

    I guess we should get rid of houses when we get rid of the wind power mills since birds fly into both.

    • Never mind that…. funny as it was…. one of the ads on the page was much more important:

      Gabrielle is back!!

      Gabrielle (no ‘Gabby’ for her, no sireebob), call me, let’s do something dangerous.

    • Well there is the possibility that he picked the best people for the job? isn’t there? Why is a US Attorney a partisan post? I know that Torquemada Gonzales and Fat Boy Rove abused this position all over the country, but why is this a bad choice?

    • I cannot for the life of me understand why Obama gives Republicans anything they want, when they refuse to give him even one thing that he wants. And does he think for a second that the Republican Senators will reciprocate by not blocking any of his nomnees to any post?

      I don’t care how much money it costs the Democrats, he needs a primary challenger to make him understand that WE are in charge of the Senate, not the Republicans. I am so tired of him capitulating to people who will not support him no matter what he does, even when he wants to do thigns they brought up first years ago!

      He is trying to negotiate with people who refuse to negotiate in good faith because they see that as a sign of weakness. Republicans are psychopaths.

      • Psychopaths or sociopaths?

        Russ Feingold, Alan Grayson, Paul Wellstone, where are the people to take up the struggle now?

      • During the Dem. Primaries I had three concerns about Obama:
        1) I was afraid he was more religious than he appeared
        2) He didn’t appreciate the vicious nature and incredibly entrenched power of the Right whereas Hillary Clinton has a pretty firm grasp of it.
        3) I KNEW, by looking at his resume, that he wasn’t as progressive as his most enthused fans (that suddenly appeared at TP) imagined, and that he’d disappoint in that area.

        Well, his religious sensibilities don’t seem to have become a factor ( they might reflect a degree of conservatism but they don’t appear to propel anything—except maybe his position on gay marriage?}

        He certainly does seem utterly clueless about the Republican modus operandi

        Though not being progressive, I thought he’d be more practical by virtue of his intellect, and more responsive given how his campaign was run—but it seems he abandoned those who worked for his election in favor of entrenched professionals , thus abandoning change for the status quo.

  9. So Walt, I like the idea of the post, there is great wisdom in fairy tales – one big issue I have:

    ‘Teabaggers are those vermin’

    Well this kind elminationist rhetoric is more the style of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, and others who plied their trade in the Hamelin area some 80 years ago. Ridicule them yes, dehumanize them, no.

    Just saying.

    • Why doesn’t one of them grab a microphone and start yelling:

      1. Republicans were for the record deficit before they were against it
      2. They put two wars on your children’s credit card
      3. They gave tax cuts to Paris Hilton and to their friends in big companies and created no jobs for you
      4. Now they want to take away your social security and your medicare so that they and their friends can continue to fly Lear Jets to collect campaign money from the Koch Brothers.
      5. George Bush didn’t care about black people and Republicans don’t care about you.

      • I agree but the “librul media” will just cut away. The only way I can see for Dems to get the message out is to never say anything else and hope that, in their efforts to seem fair and balanced, the press/media will be forced to pass it along or simply stop covering Dems all together.

  11. The Most Beautiful Vehicles

    Audi R8 Sypder
    Alfa Romeo 8C Spider
    Aston Martin DBS
    Audi RS5
    Bentley Continental GT
    Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano
    Hyundai Elantra (is this really in the same league?)
    Jaguar XK Coupe
    Maserati GranCabrio
    Volkswagen CC

  12. I would add, especially considering they’re in the “affordable” category:

    Audi A7
    Porsche Panamera
    Mercedes CLS

    • Current 4-door Honda Civic is affordable and beautiful.
      As a general rule the longer the car, the easier it is to give the vehicle beautiful lines, The 4 door Civic has a flow and proportion that is really remarkable for such a relatively small car,

  14. Some of my favorites:

    2nd generation Chevy Corvette
    Jaguar E-Type
    TVR Griffith, Cerberus, Chimera From the 1990s
    Lotus Elise
    Triumph Spitfire

    • Ah, the Triumph Spitfire… I had one of those when I lived in Santa Barbara. The radio only worked on hot days and the horn gave an extended BEEP when making a sharp right turn while going uphill! By the time I finished replacing nearly everything on it, it was time to start replacing all over again.

      Cute, cute car that played a huge role during the phase of my life when every story began “we were all fucked up and…”

      • I drove one for a couple months and, despite being a mechanical nightmare, it’s still my favorite car. Actually, the quirks were part of the charm. Alas, it was destroyed by a poplar tree that fell on it during a storm.

    • So I still have a soft spot for a classic Mini Cooper (“The Italian Job” style). You are so low to the ground that 30 feels like 60 and it handles like a kart. Never owned one, but drove one for a bit….

      Toyota Supra ’91, still my favourite car I have owned – my mate Tony validated my ego with “Oh you bastard!” when he saw me in it for the first time.

      In years past, an Aston Martin Ulster , “where the Hell are my plus-fours and golf clubs, Jeeves?”

      And right now that Audi A7 does look good. Not having bother with my 99 Outback though, great car.

    • He’s another one who should have retired long ago — he’s out of touch, out of date, and often dead wrong in his opinions.
      When the old farts start making fools of themselves, their friends and family should take them aside and break the news to them — they’re done!

  19. God gave Batshit a miscarriage, so now she’s rabidly pro-life.

    “After our second was born, we became pregnant with a third baby,” Bachmann told an audience of 400, CNN reports. “It was an unexpected baby, but of course we were delighted to have this child. The child was coming along and we ended up losing our child. And it was devastating to both of us, as you can imagine if any of you have lost a child.”

    “At that moment, we didn’t think of ourselves as overly career-minded or overly materialistic but when we lost that child, it changed us, and it changed us forever,” she further added. “We made a commitment that no matter how many children were brought into our life, we would receive them because we are committed to life.”

    This doesn’t even make sense…

    I might take it as “bad stuff happens sometimes and I really feel sad, but that’s just MY personal experience.” Case closed.

    But noooooooooo, she feels free to demand that every woman must “receive” every child (or pregnancy) that comes into her life, just like Batshit supposedly did.

    Guess what, Batshit? You’re not the only woman who ever had a miscarriage.

    • As I’ve said before; I vacillate on capital punishment. This is one of those hard cases. The safest, and most fair, course of action may just be to kill him but that can’t be done without a trial. The only other course of action considered should be to confine him to a padded cell for the rest of his life. Once he’s in that padded cell I wouldn’t see why they couldn’t medicate him for the safety of those who care for him but it should have no effect on his legal disposition.

      That being said; he should not be medicated in order to make him well enough to stand trial. Since, in his natural state, he’s too violent to interact with anyone on any level? I don’t see how any sane person could consider him competent to stand trial. So? Off to the rubber room.

      • I have similar views on capital punishment. I do feel there is a time and place for it (and it’s used way too often now). There are times that it the only remedy that provide catharsis to society.

        And while I don’t know all the legal terminology, it should also require a higher standard than the “reasonable doubt” standard before it can be applied.

        • It’s a “catch-22″. By the time someone commits an act heinous enough to deserve death they are pretty much defined as incompetent to be tried.

    • As for me, I am unequivocably against the use of capital punishment by the state, in any circumstance. I do not believe it is a detterent, which is the pouint of any punishment given out. The idea is to convince other people, “Don’t do that particualr thing, or this will happen to you.” Texas executes about a third of all prisoners put to death inthe US, but that doesn;t seem to stop peolpe from kiling each other in Texas. So in what way is it a deterrent?

      As for people who say, “I don’t want my tax money going to pay for killers to liver in prison, ” I’ve got news for you. It’s cheaoper to not kill them. For every prisoner sentenced to death, the tax payers have to pay for his (or her) appeals, all the way to the Supreme Court, if necessary. Either they pay for his defense (sometimeas), or they pay for the prosecution to try to keep him on Death Row (every time.) It is estimated that it costs about two million dolalrs to sentence someone to death, and that doesn;t count the years they spend in prison waiting to lose. SO if the money spent is your problem, go with life in prison without parole. It;s much cheaper.

      Lastly, young hot shots are not as afraid to die as they are to spend forty years in prison. Look at Timothy McVeigh. he waived his apepals and asked GW Bush for clemency (he must have been on drugs), because he wanted to get it over with. he didn;t want to spend any more time in prison than he had to. So, if you really wanted to punish him, why not commute his sentence to life without possibility of parole? Do you think his accomplice wishes he had been sentenced to death?

      And as for the famous Kitty Dukakis question, if someone had raped and murdered my wife, would I want her killer to get the death penalty? No, I’d want to strangle the motherfucker myself with my own bare hands. And if Michael Dukakis had answered that way, he would have won the election in a landslide. He should have.

  23. The story that comes to mind for me when I contemplate what Republicans are proposing to do to our common social contract is “They Grind Exceedingly Small” by Ben Williams.

  24. The fabulous Marcus Bachmann tells us what e thinks about the gay people he “councils”.

    “Barbarians need to be educated,” Marcus Bachmann said. “They need to be disciplined, and just because some thinks it or feels it doesn’t mean someone has to go down that road.”

    • Hey aren’t we, the taxpayer, giving him $140,000 a year to do this? I think government should stop funding ‘brainwashing by Jesus’ quack medicine.

      Hey Shelly how about that medicare and farm subsidy your family rakes in year-after-year? – I think your tea bag just went soft…

  25. OMG! The 10 o’clock viewing is TODAY. Shit, shit, shit…

    But the good news is — SOMEONE ELSE IS MAKING AN OFFER ON THE PLACE TODAY.

    ***happy dance***

    Laters!

    • Both sides said they were attempting to compromise. But time is running out, and even if an agreement is reached Thursday, it may not come soon enough to avoid a partial shutdown.

      That’s actually not true. The Republicans are not willing to compromise. Dayton’s already agreed to meet them half-way from his own positions, and they won’t budge.

      As the article points out, the ripple-effect from this will be very damaging to the economy in the state.

      • The Mn-InsaneRs are every bit as bad as the national GOoPers.Dayton could agree to totally defunding all state programs and they would still balk rather than letting the teabaggers think they were negotiating with a “librul”.

        Speaking of MN-InsaneRs: Last night the Strib website had a thread asking how we will be impacted by the shutdown. I’m retired but my only possible issue will come from having to find a friend, neighbor, or cab to get to a medical appointment in a couple weeks (they have to knock me out for an endoscope and they won’t let me drive or take a bus) rather than using the state medical transportation program. I also gave a brief synopsis of our community barbeque for kids whose parents might be struggling.

        I don’t know whether it was because: I said I was retired, I said that I have used the state medical transportation program, I acknowledged that some people are hurting, or because our community is taking care of our own whether the state is open for business or not; but I got more down votes than up. And one can damned well bet that those who objected to my post call themselves “Christians”.

  27. - “How was the fishing?”

    - “Great, it was like they were jumping into the boat!”

    • A fun video with a dark back story. In addition to some severe injuries from jumping fish the silver carp is a virulent invasive species. Most of the major river systems of the U.S. are infested and there’s a very real danger that it could spread into the Great Lakes. In many places it has become the only large fish species left because they are plankton feeders that out compete the small forage fish needed to support large carnivorous fish. They are an ongoing ecological disaster.

  28. Well, I made my required employment applications for the week, and I’ve eaten lunch and took my scrips, so my tension headache can go away now. I couldn’t let anything go til tomorrow because many shops will be closed because they work four ten hour days.

    • That’s a productive day and should alleviate the headache!

      Now, about those windows?! Did you remove them so birds won’t be harmed?/ [what type of bird interrupted your reverie]

      • Remove windows? I might replace these double glaze units with triple glaze someday.

        I looked up and saw a flash of grey, so it might have been a dove. It flew off, it didn’t hit real hard, just made a noise.

    • I don’t like the idea of spreading human misery but…

      Since the Dems appear unwilling and unable to thwart the GOoPers I almost wish they would just cave on everything. Then they could go into the 2012 election saying “this is what GOP policies have wrought. The problem, aside from all the human misery, is that the “librul media” will then blame the Dems, as they have before, for doing what the GOoPers want.

  30. It struck me this morning what this debt and deficit crap is all about, and with that single point of light came, of course, the ultimate illume(**see below) that revealed the Republican’s final solution (sotospeak). Here’s the thing, see: IF the debt ceiling is not raised, shit will happen. And how will that impact America? Simple. IF the debt ceiling is not raised, there will be no funds left in August to allow the auto deposit to my bank account of my Social Security monthly allotment. I’ll not get my $940 (nor will Medicare get the $92 which is automatically deducted from the monthly). And then, all will be well. America will be back on her feet again (for the first time since Bill Clinton left office). Thanks to the rescue of that 940 bucks, America will live on! And the Koch brothers will once again become prosperous! And the price of gas can go up to five bucks — hey, make it TEN bucks — a gallon with no risk of anyone hearing me bitch about it! Likewise the cost of food — if I can’t buy it anyway, even at 1950 prices, then the fact that I can’t buy it at 2011 prices is no longer an issue! And since my Medicare will be delinquent, I’ll no longer be able to burden the system with a doc appointment, or an illness — and the rich will survive minus the burden of me! Think how much THAT will do to save America from her otherwise impending financial collapse!

    I just hope we don’t owe China more than 940 bucks. I mean, you know those commies and how uppity they can get.

    I should get me a flag lapel pin. I would, but I can’t afford it. Nor do I have a lapel to plug one into anyway, for that matter. Oh well.

    Ah, the joy of finally Seeing the Light! Republican-style! :shock:

    **”illume,”
    by Emily Dickinson:

    The abdication of Belief
    Makes the Behavior small –
    Better an ignis fatuus
    Than no illume at all –

    • An ignus fatuus was, in the lingo of Dickinson’s day, the illumination caused by swamp gas, caused by decay. In later years it came to mean, at least in some quarters familiar to me, the brief illume caused by a college boy lighting a fart in a darkened room.

      Both definitions apply equally well to today’s “enlightening” courtesy of the teabagging GOP.

    • Frugal, I picture you as Emily’s number one admirer/groupie. Had you lived in the day and knew of her writings: I envision you sitting under a tree, gazing at her humble home (of course she’d be at her writing desk eschewing the ‘outside’ world- yet notice you under the tree…)

      • :)
        Emily Dickinson snagged me close to forty years ago and has never once loosened her grip. Nor will I ever let go of my early impression that reading her and ‘hearing’ what she was saying must have been what it was like for the ancient Greeks to be visited by one or another of their Muses. The ideas, the wisdom, the realities, the beauties, the ‘soul’ of life itself captured and expounded upon with no letup. And all of this from a legendary recluse living with her sister in their parents’ old house in Amherst, Massachusetts.

        As I’ve told others over the years, the most grandiloquent (for me) aspect of her poetry is that SHE WROTE IT ALL JUST FOR ME! :) Some believe that, some don’t of course. But still, there is this pair of lines from her poem numbered 1263 (by T.Johnson):

        How frugal is the Chariot
        That bears the Human soul.

        See what I mean? ;)

    • I’m in the same boat with the added extra that Minnesota’s state government is facing a shutdown at midnight tonight. Fortunately, the courts (damn those activist judges!) have ruled that certain necessary services continue and I should be O.K. but it’s an added stress.

      Thom Hartmann regularly points out how the GOoPers work the system. When they gain power they spend like drunken sailors and give breaks to the rich. Then, when the Dems take power, they whine about the huge deficits that the Dems try to alleviate by increasing taxes on those most able to afford it. Then the GOoPers whine about “tax and spend” and “class warfare” and “nanny state” and “socialism” and manage to convince stupid people to vote against their own interests which puts the GOoPers back in power so the whole cycle can begin again.

    • Ok, I admit it. That one leaves me speechless. Mainly because of the shortage of adjectives available to adequately modify and clarify the ultimate meaning of the word “dumbass”.

    • Oh for the love of…

      Studies of nonmechanized animal care indicate that eight people could have fed and watered 16,000 creatures. The key is to avoid unnecessary walking around. As the old adage says, “Don’t work harder, work smarter.”

      Shortsighted and compassion-less would sum up the fundies

      • And we end up being overweight and obese by being so “efficient” in so many ways.

      • Ebb, I am still sickering about the commenter there who said that “farmville” was maybe not a scientific source to use :lol:

    • Interesting. And by putting the sheep next to the wolves, it saved steps for the meat eaters as well. That’s why we have no sheep in this world now…. oh wait….

  33. He Giveth, Then Take Awayeth:

    Cuomo Will Seek to Lift Ban on Hydraulic Fracturing

    The decision would allow the controversial technology for extracting natural gas from shale in some parts of the state, according to people briefed on the discussions.

    • Great! New York sits on a fault line, you know, with a nuclear reactor, so down the road perhaps hydraulic fracturing will stir up a rumble on the fault line and we will be experiencing what Japan experienced.

  35. Brutal day on the frozen tundra. The temp is only 93 but humidity is over 60% for a heat index of 102. It was actually more comfortable when it hit 103 a while back.

    • It SUCKED today….I’ll take 0 degrees with no wind over this heat and humidity any day!

          • Perhaps. The only worst one I recall is right after I moved here. In 1991. Just before Halloween. That was a fine “Welcome to Minnesota” for me. :)

            • It’s been a while since we’ve had a real cold snap like “the old days”. I think it was the winter of 85, though I would have to check, that we had a solid week between 20 and 30 below. It was so cold that the fuel oil got too think to feed the furnace. I wouldn’t have made it without the fireplace and fish-shack heater.

              I was actually out duck hunting for the start of the Halloween blizzard. It was a slaughter. By the time one could see them through the snow they were close enough that even I couldn’t miss. Thankfully, that was when I still lived on the lake so I didn’t need to drive home. I was snowbound for four days with no power. But? Once I shoveled my boat out I was able to get supplies. Those wild ducks, slowly roasted in the fireplace, were some of the best meals of my life.

              I’ve never really minded cold weather and I’ve even done a fair amount of winter camping. Having been caught out in winter storms I tend to overdress. Hot weather doesn’t usually bother me much either but days like this, where my glasses fog up from the humidity are no fun at all. One can always put on another layer of clothes but there’s a limit to how much one can take off.

    • We are 104 right now in Phoenix, but it’s a dry heat. ;-) It is pretty oppressive heat but at least it isn’t sticky. ;-) My sympathies.

      • I misspent much of my youth in the Sonora Desert and commercial kitchens. I finished my working days in a plastics factory with no AC. With the possible exception of winter camping, there’s nothing I love more than fishing during the “dog days” and I can tolerate heat pretty well. However, I’m not very young anymore, and carry a few more pounds than in my prime, so it affects me more than it did.

    • Senator Cornyn: Job killing tax increases….

      Hello….Democrats…? Is there anybody listening in your party? Why do you let these republican scumbags get away with telling this lie over and over?

      We are still under the Bush tax cuts…remember? How many new domestic jobs did they create in 10 years? How many new jobs have been created since the Bush tax cuts were extended?

      • I still think that more Dems are telling the truth than ever get press and/or airtime. The press/media is as big an enemy as the GOoPers and the corporations. How often does Al Franken make the news? The other night I watched a bunch of his YouTube clips and he’s still speaking as strongly as when he was on the radio but no one covers it. Keith Ellison and Betty McCollum have both delivered stirring speeches that never see the light of day.

        Then there’s the whole “debate” thing. I generally like PBS Newshour but they’re as guilty of the false equivalency as anyone. There was a recent joint appearance by Gov Schweitzer of Montana and Daniels from Indiana. Daniels lied thru his teeth the whole time and Schweitzer easily rebbuted every lie only for Judy Woodruff to give Daniels the last word and finish the segment with “we’ll have to leave it at that”. It makes my blood boil.

        It’s not “bias” for a journalist to point out that a given person is lying even if that person is being “balanced” by someone with an opposing view. But? Everyone who isn’t on SaudiFAUX “News” is so terrified of being called a liberal, even though the simple fact that they work anywhere else results in them being labeled anyway, that they fail to do their most basic job of ferreting out the truth.

        I think it was Bill Maher who said; “it’s not fair and balanced to give both sides when one side is bullshit”. And that’s the battle we face. Our press/media is so broken that they are afraid to point out that one side of any debate is bullshit.

  38. Alex Pareene destroys Mark The Dick” Halperin:

    “Being a professional observer of the “horse race” is bad enough, but Halperin doesn’t even understand the horse-race element of politics. He fails at being a hack. He’s too dumb to correctly parrot conventional wisdom. He is pretty sure Sarah Palin and Donald Trump are 2012 front-runners. He thought “suspending his campaign” to fix the economy and not knowing how many houses he has were both huge messaging victories for John McCain. He wrote a book about how to win in 2008 that predicted everything Hillary did, but in his world it all worked. He thought Bush’s political comeback would come any day now throughout the entirety of the years 2006-2008. He can’t interpret polls or see through the spin of GOP consultants who are much smarter than he. If I were revising the Hack list I’d put him above No. 1.”

    http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/06/30/fire_halperin#

  39. Shit. Think of it. All this going on about five miles from where I used to live.

    Bristol Palin is following in her mother’s footsteps.

    No, she’s not taking off across the country on her own “One Nation” bus tour, as her mother, Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska and one-time vice-presidential hopeful, did this year.

    Bristol is coming to Barnes & Noble bookstore at 21001 N. Tatum Blvd. in Desert Ridge Marketplace.

    She’ll be there at 2 p.m. July 9 to sign her book, “Not Afraid of Life: My Journey So Far.”

    Her mother came to the same store last Nov. 23 to sign her book, “America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith and Flag.”

    Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/community/nephoenix/articles/2011/06/30/20110630bristol-palin-sign-books-phoenix-barnes-noble.html#ixzz1Qo63kZov

    Who wrote Bristol’s book for her? Anyone know?

    • Both the Palins were at the Mall of America for a joint book signing. I could almost feel the black hole of stupidity dragging at my synapses. Wait a minute. I thought that Bible Spice had jury duty.

    • “Make hay while the sun shines” comes to mind. And the sun is shining for them. Not that they deserve it. They have an ‘audience’, as unbelievable as that is. Soon, I hope, the sun will set.

  40. Look up, waaaay up. Not that far. Ok you got it.

    Canada has a birthday tomorrow. This means we have a holiday tomorrow and today feels alot like Friday. I came to the Zoo expecting music night :oops:

    For my Friday, a little Neil

    • And then there is this (using the old fashion method – with apologies to zxbe)

  41. Speaking of the broken press/media:

    SaudiFAUX “News” is all atwitter over a Nigerian guy who took a flight without the benefit of a ticket. They’ve been using it to justify “profiling” even though the guy didn’t apparently do any harm or have any intent to do harm. Meanwhile, the most recent story I’ve found on David Burgert who has a long criminal record, a history of white supremest affiliations, has shot at cops, and is wandering around the wilderness with a stolen arsenal; is this one.

    http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/article_1d1f4cb8-9bb4-11e0-85d5-001cc4c002e0.html

  43. Good news, ya’ll. I’ll be accepting an offer on my place tomorrow morning.

    A CASH offer. Tentatively closing 7/18. :)

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