The Bottom of the Barrel

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The Bottom of the Barrel?

This has been a mean political season. Nasty e-mails from both the true believers of the left and right have filled my in-box. They have pulled out all the stops.
I thought they had hit the bottom when the true believers on the left said Palin was unfit to be Vice President because she was a born again Christian. They prefer politicians who pretend to be Christian.
But they topped that by referring to her mentally challenged child as her “ picture trophy child”. How cruel can you get?
Then they insulted all the people of Alaska by saying being governor of that state didn’t count because it didn’t have very many people and the one’s it had weren’t too sharp.
So I thought we had reached the bottom.
But today I got an e-mail forwarded to me ,by one who should know better, that I think is the real bottom.
This was from a true believer on the right.
He suggested that Obama’s rise to power was not because of his call for change in a nation fed up with the status quo but rather, now get this, because he was being helped by demonic powers.
That has to be the bottom.
Here is a man who lives his faith, attends church every Sunday, and really cares about people. He even went to Church the Sunday before and after the Democratic convention. I know because the churches he went to were Lutheran.
The idea that this man, who has a lot about him I don’t like, is being lead by demonic powers is ludicrous. It is just plain insane.
It is the bottom of the barrel.
This kind of stupid, mean attack is almost enough to make me vote for him.
The worst part is that the friend of mine who forwarded this to me is a good Lutheran and really ought to know better.
He needs to go back and take Lutheranism 101 again.

News from Pigeon Falls

The little town in my basement where the trains still run, dragons fly, and life is back to normal.
Well despite the problems of yesterday morning the pumpkin toss went off very well last night. It was won by a weight lifting lady from Chicago. She tossed her two pumpkins three quarters of the distance of main street, nobody else even came close. She was so good that her second pumpkin landed on her first pumpkin. You can’t beat that. She got the winner’s T-shirt that said “I’m the Champion”, on the front and “Pumpkin thrower” on the back beneath a picture of a big orange pumpkin and twenty five dollars in prize money.
After the throw the kids were able to help them selves to left over pumpkins. There still are a few left this morning over by the Gazebo.
Friday is the big street dance with the “Bow and Arrow Hunters Band” playing. There will be plenty of free beer and an Octoberfest King and Queen will be named. The street will be decorated with fall colors. It will be another great small town festival.
Eino heard today from the private detective in New York. It seems the piano was auctioned off fifteen times before the great uncle bought it. Each time it went for less as stories about the piano began to circulate. It seems the uncle got a twenty thousand dollar piano for four hundred dollars. He always was a sucker for a bargain. Now the detective is trying to trace the original owner. There was one other odd thing. The auction house claimed they threw the shoes away. But every time the piano was brought back the shoes came back with it and they threw them away again.
Nancy’s poltergeist has gotten into the spirit of Octoberfest and is floating a couple of pumpkins around the shop. It is a bit weird to have a cup of coffee and a saffron bun with a pump-king floating next to your table but it’s also kind of fun. Out of town people ask Nancy how she does it and she tells them it’s a secret.

Wrap Up

Hard breathing day. I went through one of those little tanks of oxygen. I went on line and renewed my license plate. That was easier than I thought. Worked all afternoon in the basement. We found the missing transformer but the engine is still missing. When we came up I visited all my ;links.
GBYA

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