An Epic

Long ago, in a faraway land, men had progressed to a point where multi-arrow bows were accepted. After a few occasions where mass-arrow killings occurred, the king's peasants set up a campaign to rid the kingdom of the evil machines.

Town cryers (journalists of the day) went about yelling and screaming over the evil contraptions.  Focus groups would appear at the gates of the castle to demand the king rid the kingdom of such evil.

The king came out at some point, and spoke of how he would use his executive powers....to do the good of the kingdom.

But Lords and Dukes from across the kingdom....asked of the wisdom of this.  If evil men came in the middle of the night....would people have the protection necessary to save their families?  Town cryers yelled that this was all bogus-talk.

Eventually, towns in the kingdom sat about to tax arrows at a much higher rate than normal.  Other towns told the arrow makers to up and move.....to their village, where taxes would not be dumped upon them.

The king talked of registering all bows in the kingdom, and making a ID check mandatory for any bow purchase.

Peasants eventually tired of the talk, and of the town cryers.  Eventually, all settled down, and people got back to growing crops, milking cows, cutting hay, and drinking whiskey.  All was well....eventually.

Simply Observations

I sat and downloaded Argo yesterday.  It's a two-hour movie.   I have to say that it's probably on my list of thirty movies that you ought to watch in your life.  It is that good.  It does make the Iranians look like idiots, I admit that.  So if you have the time....watch it.

Congress (well, the Republicans)....stood up and hinted to the President that his 100-city tour that is being planned out....is taking a chunk of government money to fund.  They'd like for him to downsize.  The President hasn't responded yet....but I'm guessing that he intends to double his tour now....just to prove a point that funding traveling tours doesn't make a difference.

Yeah, that story of the 13-year-old girl stabbing another 13-year-old (boy) over a bag of potato chips....is absolutely true.  It was from California and the young lady says that she was mostly kidding, and is a bit sorry.  Cops won't say much except they did arrest her, and charges have yet to be filed.  My humble guess is that she will one day marry this boy....and shoot him accidentally one night.  Just kidding.

VP Joe Biden says "Americans are tired of being tired".  This was referring to gun control, immigration reform, tax reform, etc.  From the heartland, if you dragged ten guys out of a barbershop.....they'd all say that folks in DC are hyped up on drugs, booze or in a schizophrenic state of mind.  VP Joe?  Yeah, they'd probably say the same thing over him.  Tired?  Yeah, they are just tired of fake journalist taking reports and just blabbing on some emergency that no one really takes serious anymore.

C. Everett Koop has finally passed on....at 86.  He was the Surgeon General under Reagan and Bush.  He'd appear almost weekly on TV and dispensed advice left and right.  Pretty smart guy.