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The Marshall Tucker Band - Fire on the Mountain

The Marshall Tucker Band - Fire on the Mountain

Crow Peak Fire, Lawrence County, SoDak, June 26th, 2016.

Crow Peak Fire, Lawrence County, SoDak, June 26th, 2016.

"Only people who agree with ME should be allowed to vote."

“Only people who agree with ME should be allowed to vote.”

- European Millennials on my Tumblr & Facebook feeds

Bird is the word.

I’m standing out in the yard, watering my prize-winning azaleas, when a fluttering in the bushes caught my eye. Ok, I’m being facetious. I was drinking a gin and tonic. I don’t even know what azaleas are.

A fluttering in the bushes DID catch my eye, however, and when I went over to it, lo and behold, it was a bird hanging upside down from a nest. His foot was all tangled up in some sort of string that had been woven into the nest. Most accidents, they say, occur in the home. Apparently, this includes birds.

His little leg was rubbed raw and bloody from the struggle. While his compadres flew around me screaming and yelling and trying to scare me away (one of them even took a shit on my shoulder), I attempted to untangle him–to no avail.

I went inside, got a pair of mustache scissors, and cut him loose. He fell to the ground, where he lay, unconscious. I thought about picking him up, but decided not to. I then corralled my cat and took her inside, where she became, through no fault of her own, grounded.

An hour later, I went back out and the bird was awake and sitting up. I went back in the house and got a little saucer of water and sat it next to the bird, but it fluttered and hopped away, still unable to fly. An hour after that (which was like 15 minutes ago), I went out and the bird appeared to be gone.

Hopefully it lived. Its compadres are also gone.

My cat is still grounded, though, and boy, is she pissed.

So how’s your Sunday going?

Every day is a gift, but why does it have to be a pair of socks?

The breathless hand-wringing and proclamations of doom will continue for a bit, then business and markets will make the necessary adjustments, and we can all get back to the Kardashians.

"Buy when there’s blood in the streets."

“Buy when there’s blood in the streets.”

- Baron Rothschild

Here is John Cleese, explaining what is wrong with people who...

Here is John Cleese, explaining what is wrong with people who disagree with him.

Like all liberals, John believes he is an absolute political genius. 

Going out on a limb, but I think John may be wrong…

Independence Day

The stock market, from what I can tell, is like a weird, nervous, hysterical person riddled with panic attacks and in severe need of medication. Any change or even slight wobble from the status quo will send it into a sweat-covered, heart-pounding tizzy. In short, if the stock market were a person, I wouldn’t hang out with him and may even punch him in the face.

Brexit is going to make the market shit it’s pants. It will freak out, for no real reason at all, and drop like a rock (market futures are down all over the globe on this result).

This is a good thing, because all stocks will become cheaper. It’s looking like were going to have a lot of blue plate specials tomorrow!

Giddyup.

The BBC has just called it: the UK votes to leave the European Union.