Mark Kleiman pointed me to a blog post at Muth's Truths, posted by Chuck Muth (how clearly is a serious Republican player), titled The Chicken for Checkups Fuster-Cluck-Cluck-Cluck - now, that almost got my attention, a line itself worth repeating. The post itself repeats words put out by Jon Ralston of the Las Vegas Sun, both online and in his email blast. Ralston had already described the Sue Lowden phrase as her "macaca moment" which seems appropriate - 4 years ago when George Allen's campaign, instead of apologizing, dug itself deeper with attempting to justify the expression - like Lowden is doing now, Allen only dug himself in deeper.
Part of a comment by C. J. Snyder reads
From now on, every cashier I encounter may be asked, "How much is that in chickens?" It’s tempting to put up a sign in my car that reads "Nevadans: Will Work For Chickens".
So I want to answer Snyder's questions with a few of my own . . .
Live chickens or processed birds?
How do we make change?
Are we going to use a standard weight for a bird?
If it is a dead bird, will we use a different value if it is cooked? Will the method of cooking make a difference in the value?
I we are using a live bird, does it matter if the bird is fertile?
Are we going to convert our currency to be on the chicken standard?
Will OPEC be willing to accept chickens in lieu of dollars for payment of petroleuM? - oh, wait, let me channel Terry McAuliffe: we are going to generate so much chicken waste that maybe we can process that and get rid of petroleum: we will have a truly renewable source of energy, eh?
What is the annual deficit restated in terms of chickens?
Might our new chicken-based financial system be subject to being undercut by foreign producers, or will only accept American-grown and USDA certified chickesns as legitimate currency?
Perhaps we will now truly have a GROSS domestic product . . . in an attempt to pay off our national debt we can rebuild the Appalachian peaks being level by MTR with mounds of manure . . .
The Chicken for Checkups Fuster-Cluck-Cluck-Cluck . . .
How many chickens is a NN10 scholarship worth?
Publishers Clearing House will announce "You may have won 2.5 million chickens"
In order to be able to pay our bills, lawas against keeping livestock in urban and suburban areas will have to be changed . . ..
Oh, what a wonderful question C. J. has given us . . .
How much is that in chickens?
Forgive me, but on this one I do believe Sue Lowden has truly laid an egg.
Peace.