Election Expatriates, Bah!

With the imminent candidacy of Donald Trump for President, a number of celebrities have declared that they would move to Canada if he gets elected.

Among those who have so declared include Cher, Jon Stewart, Miley Cyrus, Samuel Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg, and others.

Now my take on it is that Trump becoming President is an unlikely event; so they are betting on a sure bet.

But if there was the Trumpian twilight of the gods, they certainly would have the means to effect being comfortable expatriates. Unlike most of us.

But what does it tell the rest of us? That they are suggesting that we leave also and flood Canada with refugees? Or are they saying, "I've got mine; screw the rest of you!"

That's one possibility. Another is that they're parleying their celebrity status into making their opinions something other people should particularly care about. In short, they're attention whores who have an inflated sense of their own importance.

But it also says that they're not really into assuming the burdens and obligations of American citizenship in the clinch. Winter soldiers they are not.*

Nuts to them. Don't let the doorknobs hit you in the asses.

*Thomas Paine allusion.

http://www.inquisitr.com/2835395/list-of-celebrities-who-will-leave-the-u-s-if-donald-trump-becomes-president-jon-stewart-whoopi-goldberg-al-sharpton-more/

http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/04/8-celebrities-who-promise-to-leave-the-country-if-trumps-elected-slideshow/

Pig Statue

I found this pig statue in the yard of a garden store:

I wonder when it will be sold and who will buy it.

In Honor of Prince

Knoxville, Tennessee lit up the Henley Bridge purple in honor of Prince. Enjoy!

Scenes from the Smoky Mountains Air Show

Sunday my daughter took me to see the Air Show at McGhee-Tyson Airport near Knoxville. It was fabulous! Here's some scenes of the Blue Angels performing:

Good Advice from an Acerbic Uncle Sam

The Okie from Muskogee

It's sad to read about the passing of singer and songwriter Merle Haggard. His Bakersfield style definitely opened a fresh approach in country music, encouraging other outlaw singers and moving away from the rigid Nashville style. He's of the same caliber as Johnny Cash; a setter of new directions away from the whiny C-W songs of the 1950's and 1960's or the production numbers.

But he generates controversy with what became his signature song, The Okie from Muskogee. Even after 44 years he still could get some peoples' knickers in a wad! I remember thinking back in 1969 or so, while enjoying a Dixie Beer, "Damn! He stuck it to those counterculture poseurs!"

Anyway, here's Merle Haggard's great song. He will be fondly remembered.

Blue Butterfly