Monday Musings With The Crew

• President Obama kept up his assault on American unity last week by noting "I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth".  Nothing pleases Dear Leader like an opportunity to make one group of Americans angry at another.  It is quite sad to see a President whose only hopes of election rely on the division of the electorate, rather than its unification.  As to his silver spoon claim,  I suppose he is correct.  What he has had is the teat of the American taxpayer clamped firmly in his mouth for virtually all of his adult life.  Not only was he not born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he evidently wasn't born with a baseball in his hand either......

• Newt Gingrich was recently bitten by a penguin.  No real comment on that one, I just had to write that sentence.  Read more here.

• Look, I'm not saying that country music is a mere shadow of its former self. Actually that is exactly what I'm saying.  Exhibit A-   The #1 country album in the United States for the last two weeks is by ....Lionel Richie.  Anyone interested in seeing what real country music looks and sounds like, please click play.....

• Finally, there's this.  Frankly, I hate to dump this story on SACSTW readers.  I had several choices for this space, but chose this one through the process of elimination.  The Maryland Midnight Dumper's reign of terror is over.  Kelly Ervin was recently arrested on charges that he has defecated in the yards and driveways of his neighborhood for years.  One of the victims in the vicious ass-ault was Robert Robinson.  Robinson, an ex-cop, had complained of someone leaving piles of feces and toilet paper in his yard 7 times in the last few months.  He installed a video surveillance camera and caught Ervin in the "act".  Ervin explained his prolific pooping by saying that during his early morning jog, he would always need to defecate at about the 2 mile mark.  What was he to doo?  Apparently, running 1 mile out and 1 mile back to his house didn't occur to him.  He just carried a wad of Angel Soft around, and left his calling card whenever the urge struck.  Ervin was charged with "littering or dumping under 100 pounds".  In a related story, 3 members of the local police department's evidence room staff have resigned.