Neanderpundit

I have made balloon animals. I bought a bag of balloons for my sisters birthday once, in the mists of time.
I got the long skinny kind you make balloon animals with, instead of the regular kind. I had to go get more.

So I thought, “how hard can it be to make balloon animals? I’ll entertain the rest of the kids at the party”

I had gotten a little can of hydrogen at the Linde store and was filling the regular balloons, so I figured, why not make the animals out of that too?

yes, yes, I know, it was supposed ot be helium, bear with me.

Anyway, I wasn’t very good at balloon animals. Turns out I can make a dog, or a hat. And it is sometimes hard to distinguish which one I have made.

“hey, mister! Can I get a dog?”
“Sure kid (Lots of noise) here you go!”
“That looks like a hat”
“They all look the same kid”
“Can I have a hat?”
“Sure. (More squeaking noise) here you go!”
‘That looks like a short legged giraffe!”
“it’s a sort of a hat with legs. here, let me fix it”
At about that point the cigarette in my mouth dropped an ash and the balloon went up like a tarpaper shack.

There was LOTS of applause.

So I proceeded to make indistinguishable balloon animals, tie them to a string, and flip butts at them while they floated in midair.

Those kids are still probably in therapy, but they had a good time that day.

while recounting a conversation we had, that we live in a house of cards (so to speak).

This is an interesting idea and has a few interesting twists and turns.

undoubtedly, the left began the game by cheating. You can’t gain support for stupidity with reason, so you do it by making people beholden to you- witness the welfare act and social security and etc.- in other words, dealing from the bottom of the deck.

Once you win by cheating often enough you can win- as Pascal points out too clearly- by “Buying” the pot. Raising the bid so high that nobody can bid against you. He mentions Bloomie and all the elections he has recently purchased, but this is true of the entire liberal organization- not only in dollars raised and spent on campaigns, but in things like Obamaphones, “Free” healthcare, etc.

The house of cards will eventually fall. As the Iron lady said, you eventually run out of other people’s money. The unions now feel their bloated pensions are under attack, so they are trying to “buy the deck” from the public officials.

Only one thing is sure. WE are the losers. because they are ALL using OUR MONEY to do this. P mentions the way the Progressive Income tax was supposed to work, to remove the money from Bloomie’s hands so he couldn’t do this sort of thing, but those in power will always carve out their own loopholes so they can keep what they want and do nefarious shit with it.

Well, yeah. Let them fight it out and then go tackle the ones that are left, if we feel a need.