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WITH THE SUMMER OF 2009 NOW HAVING ARRIVED IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE (THE MINNWISSIPPI INCLUDED), Your Correspondent couldn't help but notice quite the muggy sort of feeling here alongside generally sunny conditions after lucking out (so to speak) on rough weather yesterday afterlunch into evening.
Which, it turns out, wound up afflicting Indiana for the most part with serious flooding ... and triggering a major heat spell across the Former Confederacy which could see maxima exceed or @ least approach 100 degrees and upwards over the next few days (and which could best be explained as Divine Wrath and Judgment thereupon for continuing to support the Straight Republican Ticket in line with the Nixon-vintage "Southern Strategy" from Indecision 1968 of playing up racist paranoia in especially weak-minded, easily-influenced "white trash" voters, especially the sort unlikely to be retrained for The New Green Socioeconomic Paradigm because of hard-wired complacency vis-a-vis unskilled manufacturing in the likes of textiles, iron and coal, paper and sugar refining.
(Not to mention being too dependent upon Al Cohol, Wally World, NASCAR, hyperjuvenile mindsets towards sex and high-fat/sugar/sodium diets, among other aspects of Southern Cultural Heritage in the "white trash" mindset for their own Greater Collective Good.)
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MEANWHILE, HERE IN THE MINNWISSIPPI, WHERE STEAMBOAT DAYS IS ESSENTIALLY IN ITS FINAL HOURS (concluding tomorrow night with the fireworks), Your Correspondent spent much of this morning perousing around the car show downtown, and couldn't help but be impressed @ just how much love and attention car collectors will take in preening their "muscle cars" for display (even with a 1925-vintage Ford Model T and a 1951 Ford pickup doubtless having seen better days).
Last night, over in the carnival area, the T-shirts spotted by Your Correspondent included plenty of Aeropostale, South Pole and Hollister California designs (including one in which the California state flag, itself based on the 1846 "bear flag" following a brief attempt @ independence from Mexico, was modified to read "HOLLISTER REPUBLIC") and such snappy slogans of the hour as these:
"I'm Not a Gynecologist ... But I'll Have a Look"
"You Can Have My Sister"
"Everyone Has a Right to My Opinion"
"Everyone Has a Right to Be Stupid, But You're Abusing the Privilege"
"My parents said I could become anything, so I became an [N4BSK]"
"I Wish You Were a Pinata"
"I-Tune You Out"
"Live, Laugh, Love"
"Surf, Laugh, Love"
"Ask Me If I Care"
"Boobies Turn Me On"
"Some Beach"
(By contrast, The Exaggerator Collection, this blog's own e-boutique, prefers to concentrate on featuring the logotype thereof in the various items of T-shirts and assorted other ephemera offered for purchase therefrom; as reminder, part of the proceeds I get will be turned over to, among other Good Causes, the Reduction of the National Debt. This in line with intended designs for the online-shopping component of this blog generally.)
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NOT MANY KNOW THIS, BUT DANIEL PETER, THE SWISS WHO DISCOVERED MILK CHOCOLATE IN 1876, was not the sort to believe in advertising his Gala Peter bar (and whose label could be seen as an early advocate of European Unity long before the European Union was conceived a few years after World War II), thinking it was better to let the product speak for itself; hence, the consumer should judge the Gala Peter on its merits and benefits.
I bring this up in view of where the cultural conservatives' preferred Acme and Perfection of Amerikanischer Realkultur, otherwise known as Branson, MO, is using certain bloggers to essentially shill for Die Bransoner Muzikschaukultur for pay (as expected to be identified accordingly, in line with Federal Trade Commission guidance).
Let's just hope Wisconsin Dells doesn't fall for the same game Branson is playing in the Greater Blogosphere, instead expecting bloggers to judge the Waterpark Capital and its several distractions solely on its merits and benefits so discovered, not as unwitting media whores for certain Zealots and True Believers whining (more than likely under Al Cohol's influence, methinks) about the "New York-Hollywood Axis of Cultural Evil***showing Reckless and Utter Disregard and Contempt for the Culture, Heritage and Values of Real Americans."
(Remember, for "Real Americans," read: Poor, undereducated or homeschooled, easily-led and socioeconomically-disposessed "white trash," tending to reside in lower-income or otherwise socioeconomically-disadvantaged ZIP+4 codes with few or no real job or career advancement prospects aggravated by a lack of realistic job or career skills which National Christian Homeschooling especially is unlikely to promote, instead pushing bumper-sticker slogans of oversimplified Religiopolitical Right pablum to be parroted out as "Christian Witness" if and when required.)
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WHICH PROMPTS MOI TO REMIND THAT THE ONLY PAY HE WOULD PREFER TO GET FROM BLOGGING HERE @ THE EXAGGERATOR would take these forms:
Voluntary donations through the Virtual Tip Jar (powered by PayPal, know); and
Commissions from purchases made through one or more of the several e-tailers with whom The Exaggerator hath affiliation with (including The Exaggerator Collection).
And getting back to using the Greater Blogosphere to push Wisconsin Dells for pay: I would rather prefer that such opines be fair, impartial and sincere, preferably through the likes of TripAdvisor.com and VirtualTourist.com, which allows for actual, honest, sincere opines from actual visitors to all the popular shoobie traps (and allows intending shoobies themselves to rate these opinions for themselves) without any likelihood or expectation of consideration. (I will acknowledge, though, where my recommending Vertical Illusions in Wisconsin Dells on the latter when they first opened as "a worthy alternative to T-shirt shops" seeming to be overdone to excess in the Waterpark Capital actually gave them quick the kickstart in the business department. And continues doing so to this day, even after a move a couple years back.)
As it ought to be.
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