More Penn and Teller

You really just can't make this kind of person up, can you? Pure caricatures.

Penn and Teller on Dolphins

Have I posted this video on the blog before? It's just too funny.



Howe: "Say Humanoooooiiiiiid. Humanoooooooiiiiiiiiid."

Dolphin: "EEEEEEEEE! ECK!"

Howe: "NNNNNO! Not right!"

Hehe. Be sure to watch parts 2 and 3 as well.

That'll teach the little bastard

This is what you get for peeking at your presents.

I haven't watched the video, but I got a good chuckle from the story.

Tax Dollars at work, part II

This from my milkroom supplier: They had been having trouble getting paid by a "government-supported" farmer for supplies that they had given him. The USDA loans money to "farmers" who can't get money from normal sources like banks because, you know, the poor farmer needs help. This fella had been given money not once, but twice, the second time when he couldn't pay back the first. My supplier's partner went to the farm and found the barn locked up and the cows bawling inside. He contacted the local FHA banker and the starving cows were removed that day. The manure in the barn was a couple of feet high.

I'm not an animal lover and I don't think they have any rights. But the thought of a cow chained in a barn and not able to get food makes me ill. And to think that we as a people support "farmers" like this one makes me sicker still.

Tax dollars at work

This is the first of two stories I heard this am within ten minutes of each other. This from my vet: The New Berlin Public Libray is raising $83,000 to install solar panels. To save $2000 a year in electricity bills. And, of course, to "reduce our carbon footprint." To top it off, they'll get $53,000 from New York State. That's a 68 year payback. My vet said, "This is what happens when liberals do math."

It's hopeless.

Stunning

photographs.

How to Play in the Snow

in case you were wondering.

Whew.

Our link from last year isn't working and I was worried there for a moment-- what would become of Christmas? But it's on YouTube!

Lily the Cat

She gets kind of annoying because she follows me down to the house and scratches the door and meows. I left the house this am and she was there in the driveway walking to the barn with something large in her mouth. It was one of the squirrels that steal from the bird feeder. She could hardly walk with it but she jumped up onto the hay elevator and carried the squirrel all the way up the elevator to the hay mow, where she shared it with her kittens.

Good kitty.

Important Qualities in a (prospective) Spouse

#1. The ability to make a good soup.