Pen-pricks
• George Washington’s birthday will be honored at Mt. Vernon today with a performance by the Fife and Drum Corps and a reading. There’s a reason he remains so popular to this day. George Washington is the only U.S. president who never blamed his problems on the previous administration.
• Hollywood celebrities protested against U.S. immigration agents rounding up criminal illegal immigrants in Los Angeles and deporting them. The stars were outraged. It’s funny how the same people who said they were leaving America are so upset that people are having to leave America.
• Alexander Historical Auction sold Adolf Hitler’s telephone which was retrieved by the first British officer who entered Hitler’s bunker shortly after the Fuhrer’s suicide. It’s his military phone. Hitler’s phone sold for $243,000, most of it roaming charges.
• The Washington Post reports that scientists have discovered a brand new submerged continent of Australia’s east coast called Zealandia. Reaction was swift. President Trump issued a travel ban on any creatures from Zealandia entering the United States until we figure out what’s going on.
Argus Hamilton is the host comedian at The Comedy Store in Hollywood and a speaker. His email address is argus@argushamilton.com.
Goodbye to Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus – “The greatest show on earth.”
They will close in May after a 146-year run. The big top is coming down, and with it death-defying trapeze artists, brave in excess lion and tiger tamers, and Jumbo, the world’s largest elephant.
The circus entered our town like a sapphire wasp, bringing the wonders of the world. Bringing joy to countless millions including myself, when I was a young lad on the farm. It was an unhurried sliceof-life. Witchery for folks stooped from years of cotton-picking, ladies fashionable with puffed-up sleeves and landowners with lordly acres.
For my mom standing in joy, her hands pressed to her breast with excitement. Dad smiling like a man with aces back-to-back. My brother and I in our no-fuss haircuts, stunned as though paralyzed by it all.
Excitement modulating in our blood. Bobbing our heads with satisfaction, shivering with laughter at the clowns dressed in over-sized polka-dot clothes and floppy shoes. We were farm folk, animal folk, but we had never seen an elephant, a lion, a tiger, or a pygmy goat.
The day kept going on and on into the future.
Goodbye, Ringling Brothers. You were a memorial slice of my childhood.
General Flynn was Director of Army Intelligence. He was a spy. It was his job to talk to foreign agents. He knew that his conversations were being recorded. That’s what they do. The CRIME is that our intelligence agencies are leaking information for one purpose, to derail President Trump’s effort to break up their cabal. They are protecting their empire. Remember “Tremors”? That is the metamorphosed bureaucracy that is eating our country alive. This could be our chance to destroy it.
When my blue jeans got religion and were holier than you,
My mother would mend them with a little patch of blue
When my soul became discouraged, didn’t know just what to do I’d pray for a miracle or two But now I’m on the straight and narrow path to meet my savior
And I know he will greet me, when my life is thru
Then I look up to the heavens and see dark clouds all around
And occasionally a little patch of blue
When that patch of blue got larger and the sun came shining thru,
I thought of my redemption from the sad life that I knew
Now I can face tomorrow with a different point of view
While searching for that little patch of blue
The good Lord said that he’d forgive my sins and my transgressions
I believe that every word He spoke was true, Yes, I do
And when I go to meet him, on the other side
There’ll be more than just a little patch of blue
Then my world will be one solid patch of blue