Crazy Guvs on the Loose

From Florida:

In just weeks, Scott makes state cry uncle - St. Petersburg Times

Hey, here's an entrepreneurial idea: crazy governor trading cards. Governors could be rated on their likelihood of getting recalled, impeached, run out of town, or simply just ruining their states.

I remember when the voters in Minnesota thought it would be a hoot to have that wrestling guy as their governor. And now he looks pretty darn sane, doesn't he. What was his name?

If I had a set of crazy governor trading cards, maybe he'd be included and I could remember his name without having to google it. Hold on a minute ...

Jesse Ventura!

Very Interesting

I was curious about the governor of Wisconsin who says he will call out the National Guard on Wisconsinites if they squawk about losing collective bargaining rights and other employment protections for public servants.  He says he's just doing what he'd do if there was a snow emergency or flood.  

Since I've never heard of this fellow Scott Walker, I looked him up on Wikipedia.  He was born in 1967, never finished college, and got his first government job at age 27 when he was elected to the Wisconsin state assembly (in his second attempt).  He had that job until 2002 when he became the county executive for Milwaukee County.  In 2010 he won the race for the governor's job with a platform that included cutting wages for state employees and rolling back taxes.

All during his government career, he's been a champion for spending cuts, reducing government, shutting programs and services down.  To his credit, he gave back half of his salary for some of the years he was the county executive, but after a time, he cut his give-back amount to $10,000.

So, what we have here is a 17 year civil servant, earning a good living off of the government, accruing retirement benefits, providing his family with health care coverage, living a nice upper middle class existence; in other words, getting all the good things every family hopes for in America.  Who knows, maybe his charisma and political skill may take him all the way to the White House.

The rest of you chumps better shut up and take it and just be happy you have a job.  The National Guard is watching.

Torn Curtains

Do you remember that movie?  Julie Andrews and Paul Newman were in it.  I don't think there were any cats in it.

Remember my nice new curtains that I put up to keep the cold air out?

Certain members of our household are having issues with the curtains:

Tux says he don't know nothing about no stinking curtains

 Tippy says she's going to run away from home if I don't stop yelling at her about the stupid curtains.

And this is why we can't have nice things at the Empty Nest.