Democrats, Republicans, and...Libertarians! Oh, my!

Ok, I'll be honest...I'm tempted to talk about the Going-Down-Hill-ary Clinton camp blaming Obama about Hillary's comment about Robert Kennedy's assassination, blah, blah, blah...But I'm trying to leave her alone, so let's talk Libertarians...

The Libertarians have a candidate now...Bob Barr...Looks pretty respectable and decent. When was the last time we had a president with facial hair though? As a bearer of facial hair, I think it'd be cool, but don't worry, I won't vote for facial hair alone.

So, why, you ask, is Bob and the Libertarians being featured on TWIGI? It doesn't have anything to do with them...it has to do with us, the American people. Bob, and possibly Wayne Allan Root as VP, should have a reasonable shot at the White House. He's a former Republican who criticized Bill Clinton and was one of the prosecutors in Clinton's impeachment. All of that should appeal to fence sitting Republicans who are unhappy with the party.

He's also for getting out of Iraq. He's against same sex marriages, but opposes the Federal Marriage Amendment, so at least he's willing to keep the federal government out of it. He voted for the Patriot Act only AFTER a sunset clause was added making it terminate without a Legislative vote AND regrets voting for the thing at all, and he added pro-civil liberty amendments to Clinton's 1995 Anti-Terrorism Act. He supports repealing the 16th Amendment which gives Congress the power to levy income tax. So he should have some appeal with liberals.

But as the CNN article states, Libertarians haven't been able to pull 400,000 votes. The Libertarians, and possibly some other third parties, should really have a shot...but people seem more inclined to not vote at all than to vote for someone other than a Democrat or Republican. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is twigi.

Happy Mother's Day...It's twigi too!

It turns out that Mother's Day started 100 years ago. Anna Jarvis, who started Mother's Day in 1908, apparently would be appalled by what Mother's Day has become. Actually, she wished she hadn't started it after it had been going for 40 years. But then that's the way, isn't it? Any good idea quickly becomes commercialized. That's why Arbor Day is almost unheard of, while the more recent creation, Earth Day, gets a nice amount of attention. If you can sell a card for it, you have a winner. Anyway, here's an article on the 100th anniversary from the local publication. Mother's Day Celebration Reaches 100th Anniversary.

And, of course, we all know mother's deserve to earn money for their hard work. According to a recent survey, it was determined that mother's should earn $138,000. So, I propose legislation for motherhood to become a goverment paid job with pay being greater or less than the $138,000 figure based on individual mother efforts and success rates.

A bit of trivial irony before signing off...Anna Jarvis never married and never had children.

Keep the twigi on low today in honor of all of our mothers.

What Month is It?

Advertising is twigi. Plain and simple. Tale for instance what I found in my newspaper today, Sunday, May 4th. An advertisement for Danbury Mint's Snoopy Halloween Tree. On the website they just call it the Snoopy Halloween Tree, but whatever. Point being, it's 5 months before October even gets here. I guess I can expect Christmas items to be advertised in July this year.

More twigi advertisements from Nutrisystem. That's one of those weight loss programs with the before and after pictures where something seems off like this lady. The before picture, she's wearing that baggy shirt and sitting down. How can I tell that she actually lost weight? Maybe she just started wearing tighter fitting clothes. And this lady. Before: Close up shot in loose clothing. After: Shot further back in tighter clothing. The one I found in today's paper had a lady wearing this huge, flowing brown smock-like garment before, and a bikini after. The before picture looked like a skinny lady in big clothing. Now I'm not saying Nutrisystem doesn't work, because I don't know. These may be real people who really lost all this weight, but Nutrisystem's advertisements are unconvincing if you take the time to look at the pictures.

But then, advertisements in all their forms are designed to make you think something that's not necessarily true...Advertising is one of the oldest forms of TWIGI.