Sign my petition!

To make this an Olympic sport.  It's right in so, so many ways.

Cluelessness in Advertising

 Soy  Mitt Romney,  and I have no idea non-Cuban Latinos live in Florida and vote.

Aren't we all?

"When Mitt Romney Came to Town":

Its slightly less shy producer is Barry Bennett, a supporter of Texas Governor Rick Perry, who says he is only trying to help: “I wanted people to see what the Democrats are going to do [to] this guy.”

Aren't we all just trying to help in our own special way?

Truth in Advertising

Man in Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain orders penis enlarger over the internet.  Receives magnifying glass.  Goes to the local police to file a complaint but then decides against it.

Maybe I should start paying closer attention to those messages that get plopped in the Spam folder without my being asked.

A Strange and Bitter Crop

In this case the southern trees are from way down south, way down in Central America.

Strange seeds and the strange fruits they yield: I watched the trailer for the Scary Movie about Romney the Raider, and this line caught my attention:

Romney took foreign seed money from Latin America.

The seed was foreign and from Latin America, which makes it doubly foreign, or doubly Latin American, or both.

In any event, Newt's surrogate's xenophobic appeal aside, I surmise the reference is to Salvadoran coffee exporter and ARENA bankroller Orlando de Sola, a scary dude indeed.

Morna Mourning

A very sad day here in the Land Without Bread: one of my favorites in all the wide world passed away yesterday.  I got to see her in Atlanta in 2001 and I have her music, both of which make me happy.

Once upon a time, I made mischief of one kind and another

and I shall not now be deterred from claiming what is rightfully mine: coauthorship and substantial monetary compensation for my efforts.  And no, this constitutes no setback to my cause as it happened in a Foreign Country and therefore does not count.

A tax on Christmas is a war on Texas

Noise Machine's latest noise: the national Christmas tree industry's program to promote itself is actually another Obama tax on something sacred.  Desired effect achieved, at least partially.

Part of the process to review and set up this program included the collection of comments on it by interested parties.  As noted by the National Christmas Tree Association (see first link), the vast majority of the comments submitted were positive.  A few were negative, and the good folks at the Ag Department were kind enough to include summaries of these in its "Christmas Tree Promotion, Research and Information Order."  One stands out, at least for me.  First, collecting taxes for that arrogant, greedy, ruthless, no-good Prince Barack (to be said in the voice of Friar Tuck).

One commenter raised concerns about a perceived unequal burden of taxation. The commenter suggested that the exemption provision could affect producers that produce 500 trees or less because this creates unequal taxation treatment of Christmas tree producers. However, the assessment provided for in this type of program is not a tax nor does it yield revenue for the Federal government. These producer and importers funds raised by producers and importers are for the benefit of producers and importers.

And then, from the same commenter, a nation under siege:

The commenter also stated that some Texas producers were not in favor of the proposed Order, that Texas is a sovereign State, and therefore Texas Christmas tree producers should not be included in the Order. The 1996 Act provides that programs under the Act would be applicable to agricultural commodities produced in the United States, which is defined as collectively the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the territories and possessions of the United States.

The dry refutal is amusing.