@Sahlah – Airlines. Can’t fly with them and can’t fly without them. And Leona is a nutter. But even the crazies can do what they want. pretty much. Look at O’Reilly…

@Keben B – Turning all English now are you with the M&P Bank? Or is it the Viking Bank (dare you to come and take some money?) Haha. But love your weiner take. I had to be careful…

@Coffeewallah – Thanks. We could try the “politician-be-human-for-a-day”. But I am not sure how I would feel if politicians act like humans. I have enough problems trying to come to grips with people telling me the I come from the ape. Saying that politicians share some DNA with me will be going way too far. Keep them in the DC Zoo (Congress & White House) and I’ll through peanuts (taxes) just to keep them away from me.

The other day I was speculating with some friends about whether elected officials should be made to go through the same things as us regular folk. You know, line up, not be able to duck the traffic with their security teams, have to have public health care; maybe then they would see fit to actually change things. Apparently they undergo memory modification when their butts hit their herman miller office chairs!

Thanks for the laugh, have a great weekend!

I guess it’s not a phenomenon that is local to GB. I’ve recently had to close my Mom and
Dad’s Bank of Whateveryouneeditfor too. At $4.00+ a gallon, convenience rides are out. At $7.00 a pop, no more ciggarettes either. Yup, I’ve had to turn the spigot off myself.

The kids? They have to roll their own and take the bus. I’ll still help if they run out of food or need medical attention though…

“Law dogs…”

At least we know in which order spp. Homo and spp. Canis rank on her priority list…

“Wiener-country…”

Finally! Someone ELSE is committing the gaffes around here! It’s about time someone noticed how compassionate and in touch McCain & Co. are when it comes to the mental, er, um, economic recession.

Why just this weekend, the mortgate crisis and other economic dominoes fell: IndyBank, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac are all now in the docket, awaiting government bailout.

If you hear that McCain and Graham came up with a pill I can take to get rid of this “mental recession”, will you let me know? I need one NOW!

***Cultural interlude***
The thought just occurred to me:
Why is the racial divide so serious in our country?

The answer:
The difference in our perception of dominoes!

I mean, seriously, as an avowed Viking (yeah! we kicked British ass in 1066!), many white Americans think that dominoes are these little rectangular thingies that you stand up on their ends, one behind the other, so you can knock one down and watch ‘em all fall.

Yup!

We think of the “domino theory” (the ideology behind the Vietnam war) and of people setting up thousands of ‘em so they can make videos, sometimes spectacular, of dynamic patterns and interesting effects as they fall.

On the other hand, Black Americans take their dominoes quite seriously. It’s the Black version of chess, and just as difficult. Believe me, I play both. I’m ok in chess, but I SUCK at real dominoes. I get my ass kicked regularly.

I really should stick to the “white” version…
***End of Cultural Interlude***

“A flying fork…”
I can’t really comment with any real knowledge, other than to say that I flew Alaska Airlines in 2002 to San Diego.

I flew in a beer can with wings (737), got nothing but a small bag of almonds and water.

It figures, though, that the price of oil will affect everything though…

“Bush does a ‘Lorena Bobbitt’ on UN…”

It would almost be funny if it weren’t for the fact that it has now backfired un the Sudan, but with the Chin and Zimbabwe as well.

Yup, our Libertarian cum Republican cum Militia cum Paranoid Schizophrenic 28% base sold us on how the UN was gunning to take of the US. Yup. We, in our Inestimable Knowledge of All Things Political knew we had to snip them before they snipped us.

It worked. Weiners plopped in the dust.

But now, as an unnamed individual (no! Not Rev Wright!) said:

Our chickens have come home to roost!

And just like with Katrina, the world noticed…

I find it incredible that in the face of terrible labor issues, poor service, rising prices – the top managers still give themselves huge bonus money. I hope they choke on it when their airlines go down. I agree they ought to open up the skies to greater foreign competition.

I like your weekly wrap-up – and Leona Helmsley was mad as the hatter – but it’s her right to fund Fido… I read this week some of the money may end up funding things like veterinary schools and animal research. All better than the folly in Iraq.