Mixter's Cow, Minnesota Edition

Mixter, who is running for Congress, I believe, has this cow fascination. I have a previous post about a cow for Mixter & recently came upon this cow, at the junction of I35 & 70, just west of Grantsburg, Wisco. Maybe there's a road trip in it for Mixter, oh, the cow was for sale, Xmas, anyone?

Happy Valentine's Day #2

Via The Kid, we get this piece about zoo love, if you know what I mean.

Among the things Chandler, 30, and her date learned on their “Wild at Heart” zoo tour: Male pigs have a unique corkscrew endowment and impressive, um, output; manatees have orgies and don’t really care if their partners are male or female; and a male porcupine has only one four-hour window a year to mate — very carefully, of course.

Oh

Happy Valentine's Day

Jeez Louise

Looks like the goofball Judge Eaton of Ashland, WI, has some friends over in Wolverine Land.

In a ruling sure to make philandering spouses squirm, Michigan's second-highest court says that anyone involved in an extramarital fling can be prosecuted for first-degree criminal sexual conduct, a felony punishable by up to life in prison.

Yet, what's most interesting is that the MI Attorney General, who successfully appealed a lower court ruling, had this little issue.

In November 2005, Cox confessed to an adulterous relationship.

Here Bluegill

The Kid calls & reminds me of this

A type of fish so common that practically every American kid who ever dropped a fishing line and a bobber into a pond has probably caught one is being enlisted in the fight against terrorism.

Maybe NYC could have used a few in the Hudson River. Oh, never mind, it's above water level. It's seems they need a canary or a million canaries, or something.

NOTE: For those among my loyal four readers, our pet bluegill has recovered enough to eat some wax worms & small earthworms. He still sports an impressive chin, however. It makes him looks quite manly, if in fact he's male. I'm not too good at sexing fish. Quiet, y'all, before I call the vice squad.

I Know

Where Whitey lives, I think. I think it's here.

Today marks the beginning of Whitey Bulger's 12th year on the run. The longtime FBI informant was warned by his handler, retired FBI agent John J. Connolly Jr., to flee just before his January 1995 federal racketeering indictment. The 77-year-old gangster, one of the FBI's 10 most wanted....

We All Laughed On Christmas Eve Eve, That Would Be The 23rd

Sneezing panda, priceless!

Via Dr. Turk.

Someone Was A Bit Late

& in more ways than one.

The project supervision and assessment general manager of the European Union-sponsored Health for Healthy Society, Augustus Tiamberg from the Philippines, was shocked to meet a man with four wives and 42 children in the village of Tabanlı in Muş province on Monday, asking those around him to leave him alone for a minute to catch his breath.

Tiamberg told the Doğan News Agency: "This is a historic day. I cannot believe what I saw and heard. I am in shock. I need a minute by myself."

The project is briefing the region's people on family planning. The people are warned against inter-family marriages and having as many children as they can feed.

What's The Matter With Kansas?

New law?

In response to a Nov. 7 referendum, Kansas lawmakers passed emergency legislation outlawing evolution, the highly controversial process responsible for the development and diversity of species and the continued survival of all life.
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Violators of the new law may face punishments that include jail time, stiff fines, and rehabilitative education and training to rid organisms suspected of evolutionary tendencies. Repeat offenders could face chemical sterilization.
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Some warn that the strict wording of the law could have a deleterious effect on Kansas' mostly agricultural economy, since it also prohibits all forms of man-made artificial selection, such as plant hybridization, genetic engineering, and animal husbandry. A police raid on an alleged artificial-insemination facility outside McPherson, KS on Friday resulted in the arrest of a farmer, a veterinarian, four assistants, one bull, and several dozen cows.

Oh, it's The Onion.

Recipe

Good soup with sausage recipe here. Who among us can resist the nom de plume Burdockboy? Not me. I'll need to add him to my list o links.

A Cow For Mixter

I saw this cow on Highway 70, east of Grantsburg somewhere. Roadtrip, Mixter?

Funny

Yes, I think this is funny. I do, I really do.

Even Barney's Getting Pissed

Interesting post from a Marine in Iraq. Here's a tidbit. Go read the whole thing.

Worst Case of Déjà Vu - I thought I was familiar with the feeling of déjà vu until I arrived back here in Fallujah in February. The moment I stepped off of the helicopter, just as dawn broke, and saw the camp just as I had left it ten months before - that was déjà vu. Kind of unnerving. It was as if I had never left. Same work area, same busted desk, same chair, same computer, same room, same creaky rack, same . . . everything. Same everything for the next year. It was like entering a parallel universe. Home wasn't 10,000 miles away, it was a different lifetime.
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Most Surreal Moment - Watching Marines arrive at my detention facility and unload a truck load of flex-cuffed midgets. 26 to be exact. I had put the word out earlier in the day to the Marines in Fallujah that we were looking for Bad Guy X, who was described as a midget. Little did I know that Fallujah was home to a small community of midgets, who banded together for support since they were considered as social outcasts. The Marines were anxious to get back to the midget colony to bring in the rest of the midget suspects, but I called off the search, figuring Bad Guy X was long gone on his short legs after seeing his companions rounded up by the giant infidels.
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Most Profound Man in Iraq - an unidentified farmer in a fairly remote area who, after being asked by Reconnaissance Marines (searching for Syrians) if he had seen any foreign fighters in the area replied "Yes, you."

Whiskey River

& not Willie Nelson's. These ReThugs are giving gin & bourbon really bad names. First, we have this, then secondly, the boy-lover goes to rehab. Man, I drink, but have never taken a bribe or propositioned an underage male.

Now, I don't know if this quote attributed to Willie is true, but it sure makes sense to me.

”It's a good thing I had a bag of Marijuana instead of a bag of spinach. Otherwise, I'd be dead by now."

This Guy Just Died

Feeling Safer Yet?

Another Bu$hCo failure. & these are the guys touting themselves as the protectors of the fatherland? Whooooeeeee.

The last of the anthrax-laced letters was still making its way through the mail in late 2001 when top Bush administration officials reached an obvious conclusion: the nation desperately needed to expand its medical stockpile to prepare for another biological attack.

The result was Project BioShield, a $5.6 billion effort to exploit the country’s top medical and scientific brains and fill an emergency medical cabinet with new drugs and vaccines for a host of threats. “We will rally the great promise of American science and innovation to confront the greatest danger of our time,” President Bush said in starting the program.

But the project, critics say, has largely failed to deliver.

So far, only a small fraction of the anticipated remedies are available. Drug companies have waited months, if not years, for government agencies to decide which treatments they want and in what quantities. Unable to attract large pharmaceutical corporations to join the endeavor, the government is instead relying on small start-up companies that often have no proven track record.

My emphasis. I wonder how many of Bu$hCo's friends got contracts? I wonder if Neil Bush got a contract? We may never know.

Wish

I wish Jon Stewart was President & I want to have his babies, which is, of course, biologically impossible, but it is the thought that counts & it's like the only thought I've had in awhile. Hey, I can hear the snickers. Watch out or I will report y'all to, to, to...somebody.