From the Mind of Linna

Link of the Day
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Saying for the Day:

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. ~Oscar Ameringer

Picture of the Day:

I Was Born2Cree8's Bridges
The Days Wrap UP

The first bridge was over a little river right next to the zoo we went to visit on Tuesday. The second was over a tiny creek inside the zoo.
This morning we went on the Great Bridge Adventure or as my grandsons called it the parking lot tour of Neenah. We found five bridges so I have a bridge for Friday and Saturday.
Planned on going to the Houdini Museum this afternoon but arrived there too late so the boys ended up riding go-karts and playing miniture golf. But they enjoyed it. Also found another bridge. Now we have too many bridges. I visited all my links but left shorter comments or no comments. Life gets back to normal next week. Now I need a breathing treatment.
GBYA

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From the Mind of Linna

This morning I shook the hose on my breathing machine and out fell one of those ideas I lost the other day. It was a bit bent and dented but otherwise it seemed okay. So I decided to use it today. Here it is one of my great , late, night ideas, aged in my breathing tube.
Recently our two Presidential candidates have accused each other of being so rich that they couldn’t understand the poor. Now this is probably true of both of them. One took in six million last year and the other four. It has to be hard for them to understand the problems of the little guy who has to choose between gas for the car and heat for the house. Or the poor guy who holds off too long on taking his kid to the doctor because he has no health insurance.
So I am proposing Linna’s election laws to be in effect in the election of 2012.
1. Either the Presidential or the Vice Presidential candidate must have had an income in the previous year of less that sixty thousand dollars. That means one or the other will understand and give some guidance.
2. A nationwide website will be set up and people who earn less than fifty thousand a year will be given the opportunity to tell why they should be President. They could do this until June of 2012 and then their names would be voted on on the web. Anyone can vote but only once.
The top five candidates would then appear in a nationally televised debate telling why they would make a good President. Then a national primary would be held. The top vote getter would be the Presidential candidate and the second place the Vice Presidential candidate. The government would then give their ticket $85 million to conduct their campaign.
I’m not saying they would be elected. It’s possible we want the rich to govern us. But we would have a choice.
Choice is good.

News from Pigeon Falls

-The little town in my basement where the trains still run, dragons fly, and life is back to normal.
Mrs. Alicia Groove did her story yesterday and she got a 9.3 and so was eliminated. That leaves only Jon Bergall with a chance to win without some kind of tiebreaker. He will do his story today.
Nancy has been researching the movie star Mary Maxim. It was one fantastic career . She showed up in Hollywood in September of 1984. She entered the head office of MGM and announced that she was the next Marilyn Monroe. They were so moved by her efforts they gave her a bit part in a movie they were making. They liked what they saw and gave her a bigger part in the next movie. Then they decided to go all out and advertised her as the next Marilyn Monroe. They starred her in the “ Tall Man Falls Far” and it was a blockbuster. She was nominated for an Academy Award for her part in it. That same year she made two more movies which did well but were not great. Her acting was great in both of them but the scripts left much to be desired.
But then she stared in “Grandma Raises Rabbits” which many critics maintain is the funniest movie ever made. It grossed unbelievable amounts of money. Mary, herself was now getting a million dollars a picture and that was back when a million was a lot of money.
After that one picture followed after another until in 1993 she made the sequel “ The Tall Man Rises High” and again was nominated for an Oscar.
It was after that picture that she vanished. Nobody seems to know why or where she went. For a time there was speculation in all the fan magazines. They said she had died and the studio didn’t want anyone to know. One said she was kidnapped. Another that she had killed a screen writer and fled. The National Enquirer suggested she was taken by aliens.
But after a time she was forgotten and they moved their attention to other stars.
Could she be Mrs. Trumble?