We would like to apologize to our many dear friends for our posting hiatus, as we have been on a research expedition deep into the foul heart of Red America. Our journey took us across the forbidding wastes of eastern Oregon, home to a few thousands of Hardy Rugged Individualists who hate government but live off federal timber payments, subsidized water, crop payments and food stamps. We crossed into that reddest of states, Idaho, filled with cultist Mormons and more Rugged Real Americans, then deeper, deeper into the most forlorn of all red states, Wyoming. We counted about three trees between Evanston and Laramie, but plenty of signs of coal mining. We now understand the cowboy lament that, while rounding up 'dogies,' poor, motherless calves, sings "whoopie tie-yie-ay, git along little dogie, it's your misfortune and none of my own, whoopie tie-yie-ay git along little dogie, you know that Wyoming will be your new home." And God help the poor beasts.
Our journey ended in Purple Colorado, where we saw plenty of Romney yard signs in the Stepford Wife-like metropolis of Fort Collins. We can, however, report that the town has a abundance of fine brewpubs and Colorado State University. We predict however, that Romney will carry the town by a whisker, but trust that our tortilla-fancying friends in the Denver region will deliver the state the Obama. Time will tell.
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Monday, November 5, 2012
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
1. In The Land Of The Dwarfs
Ned understands that he has many young followers who want to hear a good fable. Ned will therefore begin a story of The Land Of The Dwarfs.
Once upon a time there was a land of the dwarfs. These were mainly chuckle-headed fellows who scorned learning and thought, but loved riches and power above all else. They kept their dwarf women under a Spell, given to them by White Dwarf Lords of Old. One day, the dwarfs were drinking Lite Ale and talking NASCAR in Council, when a messenger arrived, with a fearful look upon his visage. 'Lo!' He cried. 'Word has come of a Great Lord in a land over the mountain, A Magic Negro, who lives in a Great White House on the banks of a mighty river. He has great riches and power, and wields his great power through his Magic Wand! We fear that if our dwarf princesses hear of this our spell will be broken and they will all flee to The Magic Negro's Magic Wand! What shall we do?'
At this news the Dwarfs were sore afraid. But they loved riches above all else, and power over their princesses. So they decided that they must go to the land of the Magic Negro, seize his Magic Wand and take his riches for themselves. This made them very happy until they thought how best to accomplish this quest, and again, they were sore afraid, for they were cowards at heart. But six of their number, quaking with fear, drank more Lite Ale to bolster their courage, and set out for the Land of the Magic Negro. They were Little Newt, Timmy Pee, Huckie of the Billy Hills, Thune who called himself The Great (tho he was very small in mind), Romni the Great Hunter (tho he had in fact only hunted little since he was a lad in the Land of the Great Cult from whence he came), and Rudy Fuggedaboudit the Bald, from a great teeming city.
As they walked through the Great Wood they came upon another dwarf and hailed him, thus: 'Lo! We are on a great quest! To wrest a Great Wand from the Evil Magic Negro who lives in the White House over the mountain Lest he free our princesses from our spell!'
'Well, fellers', said the new dwarf, who was none other than Haley of the Red Neck, 'Ah know all about these Magic nigras, but we didn't call them that where ah hail from!' And he sniggered. 'Ah think ah can handle him!'
And so the Seven Dwarfs set off for the Kingdom of the Magic Negro, to seize his Great Wand and his treasure for themselves.
To be continued.
Once upon a time there was a land of the dwarfs. These were mainly chuckle-headed fellows who scorned learning and thought, but loved riches and power above all else. They kept their dwarf women under a Spell, given to them by White Dwarf Lords of Old. One day, the dwarfs were drinking Lite Ale and talking NASCAR in Council, when a messenger arrived, with a fearful look upon his visage. 'Lo!' He cried. 'Word has come of a Great Lord in a land over the mountain, A Magic Negro, who lives in a Great White House on the banks of a mighty river. He has great riches and power, and wields his great power through his Magic Wand! We fear that if our dwarf princesses hear of this our spell will be broken and they will all flee to The Magic Negro's Magic Wand! What shall we do?'
At this news the Dwarfs were sore afraid. But they loved riches above all else, and power over their princesses. So they decided that they must go to the land of the Magic Negro, seize his Magic Wand and take his riches for themselves. This made them very happy until they thought how best to accomplish this quest, and again, they were sore afraid, for they were cowards at heart. But six of their number, quaking with fear, drank more Lite Ale to bolster their courage, and set out for the Land of the Magic Negro. They were Little Newt, Timmy Pee, Huckie of the Billy Hills, Thune who called himself The Great (tho he was very small in mind), Romni the Great Hunter (tho he had in fact only hunted little since he was a lad in the Land of the Great Cult from whence he came), and Rudy Fuggedaboudit the Bald, from a great teeming city.
As they walked through the Great Wood they came upon another dwarf and hailed him, thus: 'Lo! We are on a great quest! To wrest a Great Wand from the Evil Magic Negro who lives in the White House over the mountain Lest he free our princesses from our spell!'
'Well, fellers', said the new dwarf, who was none other than Haley of the Red Neck, 'Ah know all about these Magic nigras, but we didn't call them that where ah hail from!' And he sniggered. 'Ah think ah can handle him!'
And so the Seven Dwarfs set off for the Kingdom of the Magic Negro, to seize his Great Wand and his treasure for themselves.
To be continued.
Monday, January 17, 2011
Q A Wagstaff (OBE, FRS) Makes A Modest Proposal
Prof Dr Q A Wagstaff (OBE, FRS) has communicated to Ned and has made, after giving the matter his mature reflection, a Modest Proposal: to reconstitute the Guardia Civil of Franco. It's task will be to make stupid, ignorant, tiresome, vulgar, obnoxious and annoying persons Go Away.
A review of the history of the Guardia shows that they carried out this responsibility honorably beginning around 1850. It is true that under Franco they carried out their duties with perhaps a bit too much enthusiasm and verve, but Wagstaff proposes a Commission (co-chaired by Ned and the Prof) to oversee the Guardia's behavior and see that it doesn't get involved in too much mischief.
Ned would begin by ordering the Guardia to issue a warning to all right-wing Republican politicians, putting them on notice that they were at risk of being Made To Go Away, but would provisionally allow them to stay as long as they stopped being sanctimonious hypocrites and mindless idiots.
Ned's friends in government are working as we speak on appropriate legislative language to make the Prof's dream a reality.
A review of the history of the Guardia shows that they carried out this responsibility honorably beginning around 1850. It is true that under Franco they carried out their duties with perhaps a bit too much enthusiasm and verve, but Wagstaff proposes a Commission (co-chaired by Ned and the Prof) to oversee the Guardia's behavior and see that it doesn't get involved in too much mischief.
Ned would begin by ordering the Guardia to issue a warning to all right-wing Republican politicians, putting them on notice that they were at risk of being Made To Go Away, but would provisionally allow them to stay as long as they stopped being sanctimonious hypocrites and mindless idiots.
Ned's friends in government are working as we speak on appropriate legislative language to make the Prof's dream a reality.
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Governor Barbour and the WCC
Haley Barbour, in his second term as governor of Mississippi, has apparently made some regrettable and factually inaccurate remarks concerning the nature and purpose of White Citizens Councils in the south during the '60s. Ned recalls the era with some fondness, mainly because he was shielded from the real world. His schools contained no black children. He was surrounded by family and friends who were hostile to civil rights, and of course we all knew we were right and if the "Yankees" would just "leave us alone" we could solve all our racial problems by ourselves. In most, cases, even "Christians" were white supremacists, generally refusing to allow blacks into their churches for worship (they could come in to clean, of course).
All this by way of saying Ned can understand Barbour waxing eloquent about his slanted perception of the halcyon days of the '60s in Mississippi, watching the girls and not paying attention to Martin Luther King. But one expects more of persons who aspire to the presidency (or perhaps after George Bush all standards are off).
One other thing troubles Ned: in its editorial excoriating Barbour, the Times went back to remarks he made in 1982. Ned shudders to think what could be made of his own remarks from the 60s through the 70s, as should we all. Let him who is without sin...
The danger here is that if a lie or distortion is repeated often enough, aided and abetted by propagandists in Fox "News" and other reactionary outlets, it begins to challenge the truth, and we begin to see "debates" about which side is "right" about southern history.
Ned had some complimentary things to say about Barbour in his handling of the Gulf oil spill. But he thinks that Haley should now crawl back into his hole for a few weeks, and watch some videos of dogs attacking civil rights marchers to get his perspectives properly aligned, and to get himself "properly motivated" to govern a state a fifth of whose citizens are black and may not share his "whitewashed" views of southern history.
All this by way of saying Ned can understand Barbour waxing eloquent about his slanted perception of the halcyon days of the '60s in Mississippi, watching the girls and not paying attention to Martin Luther King. But one expects more of persons who aspire to the presidency (or perhaps after George Bush all standards are off).
One other thing troubles Ned: in its editorial excoriating Barbour, the Times went back to remarks he made in 1982. Ned shudders to think what could be made of his own remarks from the 60s through the 70s, as should we all. Let him who is without sin...
The danger here is that if a lie or distortion is repeated often enough, aided and abetted by propagandists in Fox "News" and other reactionary outlets, it begins to challenge the truth, and we begin to see "debates" about which side is "right" about southern history.
Ned had some complimentary things to say about Barbour in his handling of the Gulf oil spill. But he thinks that Haley should now crawl back into his hole for a few weeks, and watch some videos of dogs attacking civil rights marchers to get his perspectives properly aligned, and to get himself "properly motivated" to govern a state a fifth of whose citizens are black and may not share his "whitewashed" views of southern history.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
SOCIALISM!
As more and more intellectually-challenged persons decry the slide towards SOCIALISM! in this country, Ned decided to have a look at the issue. He hypothesized that most people who screamed the loudest didn't know what socialism was. Moreover, if they did have a firm idea, it was probably wrong.
Ned believes socialism is a state of national organization under which the government owns the means of production, but he thinks that most of the Unwashed who use the term refer to some idea that the government is taxing people to death, or taking money from white people to give it to colored people. Or taxing the successful to give to the lazy, shiftless no-accounts who don't want to work for a living, or being in favor of a One World Government, or maybe just people who ride around in black helicopters making dogs bark at night.
With that Preamble, Ned suggests that this country is certainly NOT socialist if one means that the government controls the means of production (quite apart from the bailouts of GM and the financial industries that were brought about by avarice and greed on the part of the very sneering plutocracy that were bailed out).
Moreover, it is not socialist if one means it is taxing people to death. Taxes today are as low as they have been since before the Great Depression, especially on the sneering plutocracy.
If they mean socialist in the sense of redistributing wealth, then perhaps they are on to something, but of course not in the way they think.
In fact, the Great Unwashed have the stick by the wrong end.
The greatest redistribution of wealth the country has ever seen has in fact taken place since 1986. What has happened is, the working classes and the middle classes have seen their meager wealth transferred to the top one percent of people in this benighted country. That's right, friends, the very top of the sneering plutocracy, the top 1% of wage and salaried persons, takes home 23% of the wages.
And the top 1% of "households" has about one-third of the net worth of the entire country, more than the BOTTOM 90%. This is worse than France, worse than England, worse in fact than any developed country on the face of the earth. It is even worse than the Banana Republics of past fame. In fact, the ambassador of one of the former banana republics wrote an indignant letter to the NYT demanding that their country not be slandered in this fashion any more, given the wealth distribution in the US.
And finally, this country is not taking money from white people and giving it to "the coloreds", unless one refers to salaries paid to prison guards to keep in custody the millions of black men in jails, many on trumped-up charges.
Maybe wealth is in fact going to the secretive Organization to Promote Black Helicopters (OPBH) after all.
Ned believes socialism is a state of national organization under which the government owns the means of production, but he thinks that most of the Unwashed who use the term refer to some idea that the government is taxing people to death, or taking money from white people to give it to colored people. Or taxing the successful to give to the lazy, shiftless no-accounts who don't want to work for a living, or being in favor of a One World Government, or maybe just people who ride around in black helicopters making dogs bark at night.
With that Preamble, Ned suggests that this country is certainly NOT socialist if one means that the government controls the means of production (quite apart from the bailouts of GM and the financial industries that were brought about by avarice and greed on the part of the very sneering plutocracy that were bailed out).
Moreover, it is not socialist if one means it is taxing people to death. Taxes today are as low as they have been since before the Great Depression, especially on the sneering plutocracy.
If they mean socialist in the sense of redistributing wealth, then perhaps they are on to something, but of course not in the way they think.
In fact, the Great Unwashed have the stick by the wrong end.
The greatest redistribution of wealth the country has ever seen has in fact taken place since 1986. What has happened is, the working classes and the middle classes have seen their meager wealth transferred to the top one percent of people in this benighted country. That's right, friends, the very top of the sneering plutocracy, the top 1% of wage and salaried persons, takes home 23% of the wages.
And the top 1% of "households" has about one-third of the net worth of the entire country, more than the BOTTOM 90%. This is worse than France, worse than England, worse in fact than any developed country on the face of the earth. It is even worse than the Banana Republics of past fame. In fact, the ambassador of one of the former banana republics wrote an indignant letter to the NYT demanding that their country not be slandered in this fashion any more, given the wealth distribution in the US.
And finally, this country is not taking money from white people and giving it to "the coloreds", unless one refers to salaries paid to prison guards to keep in custody the millions of black men in jails, many on trumped-up charges.
Maybe wealth is in fact going to the secretive Organization to Promote Black Helicopters (OPBH) after all.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Ned's Ideal Candidate
The recent election debacle has led Ned to think about the attributes his "ideal" candidate would possess. Whether such an individual could be elected is, of course, another matter entirely.
* His candidate would support a freeze on immigration. In future, this country would not accept immigrants when our own unemployment rate was over 6%, and it would only accept immigrants, up to 200k a year, from countries which had replacement-level birth rates. No more subsidizing global population growth and its associated environmental impacts.
* His candidate would immediately initiate an investigation of federal "disability" policy and require all persons on disability to become re-certified as disabled by independent medical experts.
* The candidate would tie future social security payments partly to income, such that members of the sneering plutocracy would get little or no cost-of-living increases. The salary level subject to payroll taxes would rise to $1 million per year.
* The candidate would immediately call for a National Single-Payer Health Service modeled on some mutant of the Great Britain or Canadian system. Any medical practitioner who chose would be included into the system as an upper level cvil servant. Any person accepted as a medical practitioner would have medical school debt repaid on an annual basis depending on years of service. There would be no more expensive lawyer-enhancing lawsuits arising out of poor medical care. Any practitioner who so chose could opt out of the system, but would then have to arrange payment with patients individually, or could go to Botswana, where they need doctors and dentists. Dental care would be included.
* The candidate would initiate an immediate investigation into military spending, and would cut military spending to a level equal to the single highest spender globally. Right now the US spends more than the next ten countries combined.
* The candidate would immediately declare the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act, passed in the 1940s, to be the law of the land. Any citizen who wanted a job but couldn't find one could be employed by the federal, state or local government.
* The candidate would increase gasoline taxes by 25 cents per year, indexed for inflation, annually, and apply the proceeds to environmental remediation and the reduction of fossil fuel use, mainly coal.
Mountaintop removal as a coal mining technique would be immediately banned.
* The candidate would initiate an immediate campaign to rebuild the Nation's infrastructure, including water and sewage systems, the Amtrak Eastern Seaboard rail system, and high-speed rail between all cities of 50,000 population or greater, the conditions designated for the Interstate Highway system.
* The candidate would support a revision of the income tax structure, lowering corporate rates and eliminating deductions, and raising the sneering plutocrat top rate to 90% on any income of any kind over $10 million. The rate would be 50% on amounts over $1 million. Interest deductions for housing would be limited to $10k per year phased in over 10 years. Capital gains would be free of tax for the first $5k, and would ramp up to the income tax rate as capital gains increased.
* The candidate would immediately notify the Israeli government that the US would no longer tolerate further occupation of Palestine, and Israeli troops and "settlers" must leave within 6 months. The US would immediately notify the Arab states that it would no longer tolerate attacks on Israel from their territory. The US and the UN would guarantee the borders of the Israeli and Palestinian states.
* The candidate would apologize to the States of Iraq, Iran, Guatemala, Cuba, Nicaragua, Honduras, Vietnam, Panama and any other state in which the US had intervened in its internal affairs. if that were to have been found to be contrary to international law.
* The candidate would declare that the US does not support torture and declares its intention to close the Naval Base at Guantanamo, Cuba, illegally held against the wishes of the Cuban people. The Cuban embargo would immediately be repealed. A War Crimes Tribunal would be installed with mandate to investigate the Iraq war and hold miscreants accountable.
* The US would declare that it no longer offers Most Favored Nation trade deals to countries that do not enforce environmental or labor laws at least as strict as those in the US.
* The US would initiate measures to lower carbon emissions drastically to deal with the proven fact of climate change.
* His candidate would support a freeze on immigration. In future, this country would not accept immigrants when our own unemployment rate was over 6%, and it would only accept immigrants, up to 200k a year, from countries which had replacement-level birth rates. No more subsidizing global population growth and its associated environmental impacts.
* His candidate would immediately initiate an investigation of federal "disability" policy and require all persons on disability to become re-certified as disabled by independent medical experts.
* The candidate would tie future social security payments partly to income, such that members of the sneering plutocracy would get little or no cost-of-living increases. The salary level subject to payroll taxes would rise to $1 million per year.
* The candidate would immediately call for a National Single-Payer Health Service modeled on some mutant of the Great Britain or Canadian system. Any medical practitioner who chose would be included into the system as an upper level cvil servant. Any person accepted as a medical practitioner would have medical school debt repaid on an annual basis depending on years of service. There would be no more expensive lawyer-enhancing lawsuits arising out of poor medical care. Any practitioner who so chose could opt out of the system, but would then have to arrange payment with patients individually, or could go to Botswana, where they need doctors and dentists. Dental care would be included.
* The candidate would initiate an immediate investigation into military spending, and would cut military spending to a level equal to the single highest spender globally. Right now the US spends more than the next ten countries combined.
* The candidate would immediately declare the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act, passed in the 1940s, to be the law of the land. Any citizen who wanted a job but couldn't find one could be employed by the federal, state or local government.
* The candidate would increase gasoline taxes by 25 cents per year, indexed for inflation, annually, and apply the proceeds to environmental remediation and the reduction of fossil fuel use, mainly coal.
Mountaintop removal as a coal mining technique would be immediately banned.
* The candidate would initiate an immediate campaign to rebuild the Nation's infrastructure, including water and sewage systems, the Amtrak Eastern Seaboard rail system, and high-speed rail between all cities of 50,000 population or greater, the conditions designated for the Interstate Highway system.
* The candidate would support a revision of the income tax structure, lowering corporate rates and eliminating deductions, and raising the sneering plutocrat top rate to 90% on any income of any kind over $10 million. The rate would be 50% on amounts over $1 million. Interest deductions for housing would be limited to $10k per year phased in over 10 years. Capital gains would be free of tax for the first $5k, and would ramp up to the income tax rate as capital gains increased.
* The candidate would immediately notify the Israeli government that the US would no longer tolerate further occupation of Palestine, and Israeli troops and "settlers" must leave within 6 months. The US would immediately notify the Arab states that it would no longer tolerate attacks on Israel from their territory. The US and the UN would guarantee the borders of the Israeli and Palestinian states.
* The candidate would apologize to the States of Iraq, Iran, Guatemala, Cuba, Nicaragua, Honduras, Vietnam, Panama and any other state in which the US had intervened in its internal affairs. if that were to have been found to be contrary to international law.
* The candidate would declare that the US does not support torture and declares its intention to close the Naval Base at Guantanamo, Cuba, illegally held against the wishes of the Cuban people. The Cuban embargo would immediately be repealed. A War Crimes Tribunal would be installed with mandate to investigate the Iraq war and hold miscreants accountable.
* The US would declare that it no longer offers Most Favored Nation trade deals to countries that do not enforce environmental or labor laws at least as strict as those in the US.
* The US would initiate measures to lower carbon emissions drastically to deal with the proven fact of climate change.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Our Conservative Republican Friends
In this election season, Ned has taken the liberty to revise and extend some of his earlier remarks concerning the positions of the two main political parties. Some have argued that the republicans are 'bereft of ideas.'
But if there is one thing that most Republicans have, it bloody well IS ideas. And what are those ideas? Led Ned enumerate some.
They are rabidly anti-science, denying the fact of human-induced climate change, and the fact of organic evolution.
They are rabidly pro-gun, supporting an unrestricted "right" to keep as many guns and as much ammo as one can. Apparently they never met a school massacre they didn't like.
They are rabidly anti-abortion, but when it comes to taking care of that life after birth, they usually couldn't care less.
They are rabidly pro-military, and support assassination campaigns and torture.
They are opposed to any kind of tax increase, except indirectly on the poorest and most vulnerable, and support slashing taxes for the rich and super rich, a policy that disgusts even many of the super-rich.
They oppose inheritance, or "Paris Hilton", taxes. We all know how well she turned out.
They oppose environmental legislation and support in general the elimination of the EPA.
They slavishly adore big business. In this, however, they are only slightly ahead of most Democrats, Ned regrets to say.
They are anti-social security. They've always hated it since Roosevelt rammed it through.
They oppose health care for all Americans.
They have managed to be all over the map on immigration: some support it, some support "amnesty", some oppose it, but all but the most marginalized support unceasing floods of immigrants.
They are generally pro-Israel and anti-Palestinian.
They support military intervention in any state peopled with persons of color, as long as their own children do not have to do any fighting.
In almost all things they exhibit a degree of sanctimonious hypocrisy that would literally gag the proverbial maggot.
(Now, Democrats often exhibit a degree of sanctimonious hypocrisy, let it be said, especially about our "brave" troops, immigration and Israel. Ned didn't just fall off the back of a turnip truck.)
They oppose "big government" unless it benefits their constituents. The farm-state folks and the "rugged individualists" in the West are the best examples.
They usually express their positions as a series of empty, meaningless platitudes and bromides, such as "lower taxes", "fewer regulations", "more freedom" and "smaller government."
And they often don't even understand the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of these positions.
But if there is one thing that most Republicans have, it bloody well IS ideas. And what are those ideas? Led Ned enumerate some.
They are rabidly anti-science, denying the fact of human-induced climate change, and the fact of organic evolution.
They are rabidly pro-gun, supporting an unrestricted "right" to keep as many guns and as much ammo as one can. Apparently they never met a school massacre they didn't like.
They are rabidly anti-abortion, but when it comes to taking care of that life after birth, they usually couldn't care less.
They are rabidly pro-military, and support assassination campaigns and torture.
They are opposed to any kind of tax increase, except indirectly on the poorest and most vulnerable, and support slashing taxes for the rich and super rich, a policy that disgusts even many of the super-rich.
They oppose inheritance, or "Paris Hilton", taxes. We all know how well she turned out.
They oppose environmental legislation and support in general the elimination of the EPA.
They slavishly adore big business. In this, however, they are only slightly ahead of most Democrats, Ned regrets to say.
They are anti-social security. They've always hated it since Roosevelt rammed it through.
They oppose health care for all Americans.
They have managed to be all over the map on immigration: some support it, some support "amnesty", some oppose it, but all but the most marginalized support unceasing floods of immigrants.
They are generally pro-Israel and anti-Palestinian.
They support military intervention in any state peopled with persons of color, as long as their own children do not have to do any fighting.
In almost all things they exhibit a degree of sanctimonious hypocrisy that would literally gag the proverbial maggot.
(Now, Democrats often exhibit a degree of sanctimonious hypocrisy, let it be said, especially about our "brave" troops, immigration and Israel. Ned didn't just fall off the back of a turnip truck.)
They oppose "big government" unless it benefits their constituents. The farm-state folks and the "rugged individualists" in the West are the best examples.
They usually express their positions as a series of empty, meaningless platitudes and bromides, such as "lower taxes", "fewer regulations", "more freedom" and "smaller government."
And they often don't even understand the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of these positions.
Saturday, June 26, 2010
WHAT'S IN A (NICK)NAME?
Devotees of Shakespeare will remember the star-crossed lovers in Romeo and Juliet. Juliet, in frustration with the fact that her lover Romeo is a member of the family with which her family has a long and deadly feud, asks "What's in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
This quote inspired Ned to do a post on nicknames, and has a modest quiz for his loyal readers.
NAME: John
NICKNAME:
NAME: Robert
NICKNAME:
NAME Henry
NICKNAME:
NAME: Margaret
NICKNAME:
NAME: Plyush
NICKNAME:
Finished?
The answers are as follows JOHN: Jack; ROBERT: Bob; HENRY: Hal or Hank; MARGARET: Peg or Peggy; PLYUSH: why, Bobby of course!
If his readers wonder how in the world someone named Plyush could be nicknamed Bobby, Ned reminds them that this is America!
Besides, anyone born with the name Plyush Amrit, who would like to run for office in redneck Louisiana had better do better than Plyush. So, early on, Ned suspects, Plyush had his friends start to call him, "Bobby." Not, "Ply" or "Ushie" or even "Shoofly", or that old souther standby, "Skeeter."
This is, in fact, our old friend, the Governor of Luisiana, Plyush Amrit "Bobby" Jindal.
Earlier Ned did a post on the governor linking to a NYT article calling into question the governor's inactions and missteps during the Gulf spill crisis, while he kept up a non-stop criticism of BP, the Coast Guard, and the Obama administration. And refused to call out more than a token number of the national Guardsmen authorized by the President.
Ned's readers know that Ned has been harshly critical of the President, for whom he voted by the way, but Ned would allow that a person named Barack could get away with nicknaming himself "Barry."
But Plyush? To Ned it smacks of cynical opportunism, but then Ned has always been a suspicious bastard. Chalk it up to that.
This quote inspired Ned to do a post on nicknames, and has a modest quiz for his loyal readers.
NAME: John
NICKNAME:
NAME: Robert
NICKNAME:
NAME Henry
NICKNAME:
NAME: Margaret
NICKNAME:
NAME: Plyush
NICKNAME:
Finished?
The answers are as follows JOHN: Jack; ROBERT: Bob; HENRY: Hal or Hank; MARGARET: Peg or Peggy; PLYUSH: why, Bobby of course!
If his readers wonder how in the world someone named Plyush could be nicknamed Bobby, Ned reminds them that this is America!
Besides, anyone born with the name Plyush Amrit, who would like to run for office in redneck Louisiana had better do better than Plyush. So, early on, Ned suspects, Plyush had his friends start to call him, "Bobby." Not, "Ply" or "Ushie" or even "Shoofly", or that old souther standby, "Skeeter."
This is, in fact, our old friend, the Governor of Luisiana, Plyush Amrit "Bobby" Jindal.
Earlier Ned did a post on the governor linking to a NYT article calling into question the governor's inactions and missteps during the Gulf spill crisis, while he kept up a non-stop criticism of BP, the Coast Guard, and the Obama administration. And refused to call out more than a token number of the national Guardsmen authorized by the President.
Ned's readers know that Ned has been harshly critical of the President, for whom he voted by the way, but Ned would allow that a person named Barack could get away with nicknaming himself "Barry."
But Plyush? To Ned it smacks of cynical opportunism, but then Ned has always been a suspicious bastard. Chalk it up to that.
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