Not Swine Flu

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Loony Wednesday

Update below

Florida is once again proving itself to be the loon center of the universe. The Florida Senate approved new license plates without even looking at them.

But, Michelle Bachmann, is surely trying her best to help Minnesota into 2nd place.


Ms. Bachmann didn't pay attention in history class, because the swine flu outbreak started in February 1976, while Gerald Ford, a republican, was president.

Update:

Read this letter to the editor in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Gay Marriage in Iowa: The Aftermath

Yesterday Iowa had a "coming out" day as the state began issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples. Licenses were issued all over the state, in urban counties and rural counties.

These people were happy and smiled and enjoyed themselves.

Other people were not happy, they protested by praying and signing petitions.

None of that matters, because The Captain Crab has his own take on this:

There is no way in hell that the following are just coincidence!

Iowa Gay Marriage: Swine Flu

Iowa Gay Marriage: Air Force One buzzing the Statue of Liberty

Iowa Gay Marriage: Arlen Specter turns Democrat

Iowa Gay Marriage: GM drops Pontiac

Iowa Gay Marriage: Bob Dylan's new album gets a B- rating

and there are gorillas in Iowa:

A New and Exciting Career

I am thinking of giving up piracy for a new career.

Captain Crab's Pictures of the Week

It's construction season in Iowa

I thought this might be Dale the Truck Driver until I saw the Oklahoma license plate

Nixon Mao Handshake Revisited

If you a Bill O'Rielly fan, you may not want to watch him make a fool of himself. Oh, he never admits that he is wrong, but he is.



From Media Matters

Captain Crab's Seafood

The Dread Pirate Roberts called tonight from somewhere off the coast of Martinique. She and the crew are extremely upset about the bad rap that pirating is getting due to those dudes over in Somalia.

They are so upset that actually want to quit being pirates and open a sea going seafood restaurant aboard the ship!

One of the 1st Mate's ideas is to fish and actually have a true "catch of the day"! Bizarre? Yes indeed.

But not like all of those other seafood places like Red Lobster, Joe's Something Shack, and the poorly named Captain Crab's, who claim to have a catch of the day, but it's whatever they thawed out the night before.

There are several upsides to this idea:

1. Low overhead, we already have a ship with a galley
2. Unruly customers are merely tossed overboard
3. Health inspections; sail out of port quickly
4. The ship's crew will actually have to work

No decision has been made about going forth with this plan, but The Dread Pirate Roberts has spotted some folks she's going to invite for lunch, kind of as an experiment. (They may have money too!)

If she can keep the cook from pouring rum into everything, it just might work.

Stay tuned!

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Tea Parties

From the Macon Telegraph:

"During the Ronald Reagan years our debt went from about $85 billion to $255 billion. Not a tea party in sight — as a matter of fact, Reagan is viewed by some as the greatest president of the 20th century.

When Bush 41 took the deficit up to $399 billion during his final year in office, he hailed it as a victory. The year before the deficit hit $432 billion. Still no tea parties.

The Clinton years saw the deficit morph into a $128 billion surplus. No tea parties. No dancing in the streets. No waving of signs and rejoicing that our children’s futures were secure.

That’s a good thing because the first year of George W. Bush’s presidency that surplus turned into a $133 billion deficit. We hadn’t seen nuthin’ yet."

Shaking Hands (an update)

The conservatives have gone a bit overboard about the Obama-Chavez handshake. But they tend to forget (especially when it's not one of their own) that shaking hands with the enemy is a way to make diplomatic inroads.

Nixon's trip to The People's Republic of China on February 21, 1972 confused most average Americans of the time. For one thing, most Americans had come to believe that all communist countries were evil, and that it was American's duty to rid the world of such threats - hence the military involvement in Vietnam. So, you can imagine their confusion when they saw Nixon shaking hands with a communist leader in the name of friendship. After all, if communism was the enemy, and China was communist, didn't that make them the "bad guys?"

From "Nixon's Visit to China"