Up In Smoke
According to the latest news, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California, on an official trip to Canada this week, bought himself a $17 Cuban cigar and smoked it. This, it turns out, is a serious violation of U.S. law. I am adamantly against smoking of any kind, and particularly detest cigars. I'm also no fan of the governor, though I'll admit that while I don't trust him and oppose many of his policies, I still don't dislike the man. In any case, you might think that his current difficulty with the law would be cause for some healthy schadenfreud, but it's not the case. I'm much more concerned with the idiocy of the law itself. I can see where smuggling verboten items into the country would be a no no, but I can't understand why the long arm of the American system can follow a citizen to another country and forbid him from buying and consuming there something illegal within the U.S.. On a related subject, what was Ahnold doing on an official trip to Canada? Something to do with California's Canadian border, perhaps?
posted by John M Crowther @ 6:55 AM
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So that is where that border went, thought it had got lost but now it makes sense. After all we are know as the nuttest state. What's not to like about Arnie? He was a Democrat who ran as a Republican and hasn't kept his promises to the people who put him in office. Par for the course. He does have one or two ideas that are fairly good.
First two panels of today's cartoon had me shouting "right on, sister" but now fearful that she will fold as of the last panel. Forget my going to NOW, they say they have bigger fish to fry!
Am I on John Crowther's Cartoon Odyssey, or did I inadvertently stumble onto the illustrated version of Who's Afraid Of Virginia Wolfe?
ahhh... the body's willing but the spirit's weak *sigh* ((chuckles))
Another great Travesty John!
FLASH!!! The State of California, of which Arnold is Governor, is thinking of conquering Canada for its natural resources, foremost of which are wet-back sketch comedy artists and writers, most of whom migrate to Chicago, some to New York. California now has an over-abundance of migrant farm laborers and an appalling lack of first-rate writers. If Canada becomes part of the United States, the joke market will be able to compete with strawberries and avocados as the state’s prime industry.
Love your answer, il professore.
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