Poor Bruce
Our town's very own Bruce Weyhrauch has had a very bad week or so.First of course he fell overboard into the icy waters of Auke Bay and barely survived hypothermia and a very uncomfortable night on Coughlan Island. Our town rejoiced when we learned he had been rescued, cold, wet, hypothermic but essentially OK.
Then, barely a week later we saw his picture plastered beneath a huge headline, being led into the Federal courthouse downtown in handcuffs. He sure did not look like a happy camper in those pictures, and I don't imagine he was. I don't know if Bruce's stars had gotten seriously out of alignment or what, but all in all, it was a pretty bad week for him.
Such is, I suppose, life in the political fast lane. Perhaps Bruce was not fully prepared for that. In the same paper as appeared his latest picture also appeared a cartoon of 'Hagar The Horrible' having a bad day. The connection intersected in my mind. My apologies to cartoonist Dik Browne , but I could not resist making a few changes in his comic strip to fit Bruce's situation:
Labels: Bruce Weyhrauch, Corrupt Bastards, Juneau
posted by Gnarly Erik @ 8:41 AM
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Dear Erik....The OPEC minister will look you in the eyes and say the following:
"We are at war with you infidels. Have been since the embargo in the 1970s. You are so arrogant you haven't even recognized it. You have more missiles, bombs, and technology, so we are fighting with the best weapon we have and extracting on a net basis about $700 billion/year out of your economy. We will destroy you! Death to the infidels!
While I am here I would like to thank you for the following:
Not developing your 250-300 year supply of oil shale and tarsands. We know if you did this, it would create millions of jobs for US citizens, expand your engineering abilities, and keep the wealth in the US instead of sending it to us to finance our war against you bastards.
Thanks for limiting defense department purchases of oilsands from your neighbors to the north. We love it when you confuse your allies.
Thanks for over-regulating every segment of your economy and thus delaying by decades the development of alternate fuel technologies.
Thanks for limiting drilling off your coasts, in Alaska , and anywhere there is a bug, bird, fish, or plant that might be inconvenienced. Better that your people suffer! Glad to see our lobbying efforts have been so effective.
Corn based Ethanol. Praise Allah for this sham program! Perhaps you will destroy yourself from the inside with these types of policies. This is a gift from Allah, praise his name! We never would have thought of this one! This is better than when you pay your farmers NOT TO GROW FOOD. Have them use more energy to create less energy, and simultaneously drive food prices through the roof.
Thank you , US Congress!!!!
And finally, we appreciate you letting us fleece you without end. You will be glad to know we have been accumulating shares in your banks, real estate, and publicly held companies. We also finance a good portion of your debt and now manipulate your markets, currency, and economies to our benefit.
I particularly enjoyed your other blog but didn't find a place for commenting. Great fun!!!
Well really Anon -
Gosh, what can I say? Ummm - just which one of my posts are you commenting on or referring to? I'm having trouble relating your off-subject rant to anything in particular . . .
Do you have any idea yourself? If you know, glue the rest of us in please.
Troutbirder - if you can view this, I have visited your blog(s), and have read your remarks about commenting. Thanks to your earlier comment, I visited my setting page to reset my options so they can be viewed in my other blog -
You must be careful how you select for them to be viewed. Selecting the 'full page' option is intuitive - but doesn't result in seeing them unless there are comments to be seen appparently. It's sort of counter-intuitive, so select the option for comments to be appended at the bottom of your posts.
That's worked for me.
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