Poor devils

Gay penguin pair in China prove
to be great parents after stealing
eggs to raise as their own.

I just learned this morning that 20 billionaires in Macau together possessed something like 169 billion dollars, but now because of the international economic crisis they collectively only have something like 89 billion. Poor devils. And think of those poor CEO’s of companies taking taxpayer funds that will now have to get by on a paltry $500,000 per anum. Poor devils. Of course they can always look for jobs elsewhere, where the companies are not asking for taxpayer handouts. Good luck.

I’m still partial to my Gold Star Economy (Morialekafa 4-14-06). Once someone has a billion dollars (one billion for the sake of the argument) they should not be allowed to keep anything above that amount. But for every ten or twenty million above they would get a gold star. This would be a public record so those overachievers, while they wouldn’t get the money, would get the bragging rights (I got two gold stars last year, oh, yeah, I got five, and etc.). Once you have a billion what real difference does it make if you have more? All these excess funds could be donated to the public good. I know, I know, I’m a dirty socialist.

I hope Obama has now learned his lesson and will give up his fruitless quest for bipartisanship. As I predicted, Republicans have no intention of acting in the public or national interest, their only interest is regaining power by any means possible. Let us no proceed as if they no longer even exist (at the rate they’re going that shouldn’t be too much longer). Good riddance.

Our neighbor, who is invisible to us but actually lives nearby, has had a moose in his yard for the past week or so. He named her Mollie. Yesterday morning Millie visited us, browsing on her favorite treat, buckbrush, no more than 25 yards from the kitchen window. Who says nothing exciting happens here at Sandpile (I mean Sandhill). Mollie was here again this morning. She is big, big, big. Even our fearless little cat, Katie, who sometimes contemplates attacking deer, was cowed. While we have not actually ordered any seeds this year, we have now begun to think about ordering seeds. Here in our little backwater this is considered real progress.

LKBIQ:
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butler

TILT:
The last male purebred pygmy rabbit died in the Oregon zoo in Portland, Oregon, on March 30, 2006.