Popeye

Popeye and Olive Oyl are not Swee' Pea's biological parents

I was doing an older New York Times crossword puzzle yesterday and came across the clue "____ Pea (Popeyes kid)". I knew that Popeye and Olive didn't know each other in the Biblical way. That would have been shameful back in 1929 (the year my Dad was born) when Popeye first appeared in the comic strips. How dare the NY Times suggest such a thing?

Turns out that Swee' Pea was left on Popeye's doorstep and Popeye adopts him - so, in that way, I guess, one could call Swee' Pea Popeye's kid. There are two versions of Swee' Peas' origin. In his first appearance, he is sent as protection from the Demonians who want him because of a group of moles on his back that look like the number 7 on a pair of dice. The other story is that he has been made Crown Prince of Demonia and an uncle wants to kill him so he is again sent away. In any case, he appears to be Demonian in origin and is adopted by Popeye. He first appears on July 28, 1933. Popeye christens Swee'Pea as "Scooner Seawell Georgia Washenting Christiffer Columbia Daniel Boom." Although Swee'Pea remains his most common name, he is occasionally referred to as Scooner by Popeye and others in various later strips.

Who is Popeye's dog? Popeye did not have a dog, but did have a pet called Eugene the Jeep who is magical. Eugene lives in a 3 dimensional world but is really a 4 dimensional creature. He answers yes/no questions by bowing down for yes and not bowing down for no. Eugene subsists on a diet of orchids. He made his first appearance on April 1, 1936.

(There was a lot of shit happening to Popeye and his friends before I was born in 1951. Demonians and 4 dimensions? Wow!)

Who did Popeye's voice? Originally in the first few cartoons, William Costello, aka, Red Pepper Sam did the voice. The voice that is best known is that of Jack Mercer. He was responsible for all the mumbling and asides and the great Popeye laugh. Olive's voice was done by Mae Questel who also did Betty Boop's voice. Gus Wickie did the original voice of Bluto. During the war when Mercer was overseas, Mae Questel did Popeye's voice for 6 or 7 cartoons! She did both Olive Oyl and Popeye in those cartoons. I think I remember some of those. Popeye didn't sound exactly right but she did a great job just the same.

Who are Popeye's nephews? Peepeye, Poopeye, Pipeye and Pupeye.

Either Clowns can't read or they are idiots.

This smoke and mirrors thing the Congress is doing - pretending to be experiencing outrage over the $165 million paid to AIG executives - is very troubling. What's it all about? Does Congress think we'll believe that all of this was a surprise to them? that it knew nothing about it? Why has Congress adopted mob tactics? Does it really think we'll think they are on the side of the citizens by going after this money? Does it think it can get away with throwing the Constitution, Bill of Rights and Contract Law into the dumper?

Many in Congress admitted that they didn't read the legislation.

It is beside the point that all of the members who voted for the legislation at the behest of Congressional and Presidential administration goon leadership, not knowing what they were voting for, should be tossed out for malfeasance and failure to do the work of representing the people. In fact they didn't have to read the entire bill to know that the AIG execs were going to get bonuses. The provision was made in the form of an amendment presented by Senator Christopher Dodd who says he was approached by an administration official to do it. (First he denied responsibility, then admitted responsibility, refused to name the administration official and then said it was Geithner.) (What a trustworthy guy!!! Just another example that the old adage "There is no honor among thieves" still describes the activity of the thieves.) Amendments are reviewed in detail and advertized to Congress to prevent contradictions. On top of that, AIG made no secret whatsoever of the intention to pay the bonuses given that it was contractually obligated to do so.

And there's more - and this is what it's really all about

$105.3 billion of the $180.0 billion given to AIG went to bail out foreign banks (Societe Generale of France, Deutsche Bank of Germany and Barclay's of the UK) and other domestic entities. Was our future tax money used to bail out foreign banks that made their own AIG-type mistakes and should have been bailed out by their own people (assuming that their people, already saddled with paying for the socialism they live under, had anything left to pay in taxes anyway)? Or did AIG make so many egregious mistakes that it dragged those foreign banks and domestic entities along with it without their complicity? In any case, is/was AIG worth saving?

So Congress turns into a mob so it can cover it's own porculent butt

Congress is culpable for issues other than AIG - too many to go into now. But how does one deflect criticism? Do like Nancy does. Create another hoopla that takes center stage. If you can blame the new hoopla on somebody else - all the better.

So it subpoenas the names of the AIG execs who got bonuses. (Constitution/Bill of Rights in the dumper #1). As far as Congress is concerned, it's OK to get this kind of personal information on Americans but it's not OK to get information on terrorists via telephones or "torture" because that would make the US "look bad" to foreigners. Hey you Bozo's, we out here in the hinterlands don't give a dead rat's ass what foreigners think of the US. You are making the US "look bad" to us and you'll be very concerned about that soon.

So it proposes to take the bonuses back because the "people" own "80%" of AIG and the "bosses" make the rules. (Constitution/Bill of Rights in the dumper #2 and Contract Law in the dumper also). But see above. 58.5% of the money given to AIG went to foreign banks and other domestic entities. So the "people" don't really own "80%" of AIG. But that too is beside the point. Congress cannot be permitted to ignore the Constitution , The Bill of Rights and Contract Law just because it says it can. And to use "percentage of ownership by the people" as the reason it says it can is ludicrous beyond the pale.

And when it realizes that it can't confiscate the bonuses, it proposes to tax the bonuses at 90%. (Constitution/Bill of Rights in the dumper #3). The House of Representatives just passed it's version of the bill (5:30 PM 3/19/09).

Be vewy, vewy careful

Elmer Fudd said it best. But he was talking about Bugs Bunny who is a cartoon just like Popeye and his friends. Elmer is a cartoon too. But the Clowns are vewy weal. And they are vewy, vewy dangerwous. Watch out for them. Would that our enemies be cartoons instead of being clowns. The little baby that invests money, and pukes in the commercials also said it best. He spent his extra coin on the clown Bobo and admitted that he had underestimated the freakiness factor. How about this to hammer the message home???

I've studied this poster at more length

Pelosi-Galore isn't interested in being the icon that energizes the common American woman. She isn't "rolling up her sleeves" to do work. She's rolling up her sleeeves so we can see where her hand goes next. It goes directly to the crook of her arm so she can give Americans the Italian Salute.