Sunday Shows....And...Babies!...Parrot and Chicken Blogging in the Snow!

(more of these babies available for sale soon)

OK...I'm trying to not throw up all over Condi Rice on the monitor; holding my breath and hoping that the next few weeks pass quickly...God, if you're there, get these people off our screens and out of our bookstores! No such luck, I'm sure, as the masters of marketing and manipulation are gonna do great out there on the consultant book party circuit. Its time to rewrite history again...and I'm just tired of it.

George Will says that Obama's picks somehow indicate that we are failing in our ability to prove to the rest of the world that we aren't a tribal people....huh?
This is why I have nothing to say about the shakeout going on. Aren't humans tribal in nature? Does rising above the warlike, selfish instincts of the migrating tribes that we have been, following resources and chopping up anyone in the way, mean that we rise above the fact that we are a tribe? Without that tribal feeling we've lost everything...because we are only as strong as the weakest person, not only here in America, but anywhere in the world. So if we can't expect our supposedly most venerated pundits to give even the slightest nod to cultural anthropology 101, or even pop culture history; If we can't expect a realistic picture of the human condition, whats the point of even turning on the TV on Sunday? If Heres to hoping that the big shakeout includes the vast and vapid punditocracy. Heres to hoping that the CEOs of the networks are looking over to MSNBC at the Rachel Revolution! Lets try to tease out what part of our tribal nature is the part that we must rise above in order to stand the test of evolution.

And WTF is George talking about "tribal" anyway? Is that some sorta reference to Obama's tribal roots in Kenya and all....OK...Im kidding. But, I don't put it past these old fucks. As a lifetime avid watcher of these sorts of shows, I have news for the networks; I'm watching that which has Obama and new ideas featured and I'm changing the channel when I see the likes of Condi Rice or any of the old guard who should be in jail...who should suffer the pain somehow of the realization of what they've done.

And is it wrong to go for the most experienced cabinet members across the board because it might not represent the packaged "change" message properly for the unwashed masses out there? I think that real change comes partly from dropping the false expectations and fears of the neocon party and just picking who fits and works. Its a new dawn out there, and as much as I'm exhausted and feel like its maybe for a new generation of hopeful bloggers and commentators, I'm hopeful and relieved as much as anyone can realistically be. The biggest danger is the lack of patience in the American people when things don't magically return to the milk and honey of legend. Oh well....its disappointingly just more of the same....I'd like to be pleasantly surprised sometime.

In happier news...on to birds:


Ive been looking for a Mustached Parakeet for some time, and I'm not patient enough to wait for the babies that will be coming from Parrots and Co....so, I found a guy in Flushing who is a small home breeder with beautiful birds and...well, he had 2 available for a good price....and now I have these:










Why? you ask....Well, even if you aren't taken, as I am, by babies; here they are later:














I sold the previous lovebird babies and my hen is on 5 eggs again....so, onward! I may let one of these go or keep them both...I haven't decided.


And for our wild friends....



And welcome to our new girls, flying in sometime next week, weather permitting. Their old mom was expecting some show quality something else when she purchased their eggs...so, here they come, Black and Seabright Frizzle Hens:


















Here is a tattoo that I like...alot...Darwin's Finch Beak Evolution. I'm not ready for another tattoo but I might consider this across the base of my back at some point if I want to keep with the bird thing...I'm also enamored of some pictures of roots and thorn branches...but the science tattoo category has got me interested.....:





















I must mention this great site for when you've been asked a stupid question again: Let Me Google That for You
Enter your search term in the box and click on create. It puts a tinyurl on your clipboard that, when sent to the questioner, opens a google search page, types the term into the google box, and says "was that so hard?"...you have to see it; very funny!