Our Top Story Today: Nancy Nipples Has Some Milk For YOU!
Nancy Nipples started the Pike Place Market Creamery in Seattle 30 years ago, selling milk, butter, cream and the like to help local independent dairies. It didn’t help enough, and little by little they disappeared. "Last year a whole new group of local independent dairies started up a new cycle," Ms. Nipples said. "Hallelujah! The cream has 40 to 45 percent butter fat so you don’t have to chant over it to whip it."
"To be honest it gives us quite a thrill," journalist Wimar Witoelar says. "We find it difficult to produce great leaders for ourselves so it will be great to produce a president of the USA."
We used to find that task very difficult also, Mr. Witoelar, but we're trying!
発射される! 行くために用意しなさい! Meanwhile, even a few Japanese are getting into the act, at least in the town called Obama:
Obama's name graces posters hung in the main hotel. Headbands and T-shirts with drawings of the candidate's face will be available soon. Local confectioners are designing Japanese-style sweet bean cakes with Obama's portrait on them.
The mayor even went so far as to send a letter to Barack Obama, with lacquered chopsticks enclosed as a gift. Thank goodness Japan's Obamans didn't come up with a version of this to commemorate his candidacy.
(BTW, the Kanji above is supposed to be "Fired Up! Ready to Go!" in Japanese. Of course it may say, "Head On! Apply directly to the forehead!" if the online translator got it wrong.)
¿Sabe Lou Dobbs sobre este? And they say Clinton has had the Latino vote sewn up:
This week's Floyd R. Turbo award winner: We do have our share of wingnutty goodness in our neck of the East Metro woods, as this missive to the Alton Telegraph illustrates:
The tragic shooting that occurred at NIU has cost the lives of six students, including the shooter. This should not have happened, but it did. This is what happens when people, particularly politicians, think you are safer if you are not able to protect yourself with a firearm.
Only the gunman was armed. No one else there had any way of protecting themselves. Why? Simply because guns are prohibited on the campus. They are also prohibited in government buildings, hospitals, libraries, train stations, sport complexes and many other locations where, in the past, shootings by a deranged individual have occurred. Were these students safer?
Obviously not, or the shooter would not have been able to shoot over 20 people unopposed. I understand the argument that having guns on campus is not a good idea, but then prohibiting guns on campus has had a very negative impact as well.
BYRON E. SHERFY
Cottage Hills
Let's review: he understands the argument that guns on campus are not a good idea, yet condemns the fact that the students "could not protect themselves." It is hard to argue with that logic.
This week's notable birthdays:
It's a two-fer this week. Today's notable birthday is the obvious one:
Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.
The unity of Government, which constitutes you one people, is also now dear to you. It is justly so; for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquillity at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very Liberty, which you so highly prize.--from George Washington's farewell address, 17 September 1796
Yesterday, another birthday occurred, and I would be remiss (not to mention banished to the couch) if I didn't acknowledge it:
I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.--Alan Rickman, born on February 21st, 1946.
Here's serial celebrity groper major Alan Rickman fan SnoKat's special tribute:
That's sticky toffee pudding. Mr. Rickman wasn't available, so I ate it. It was mighty tasty!
I should also mention that she has had a short work of fiction she wrote, Not Here, (warning: Harry Potter spoilers there) accepted for reading at Terminus, a Harry Potter conference to be held this August in Chicago. Congratulations!
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