Another dispatch from Burning Man...Fearless Leader being smug...Inhofe blames the dead...it's only Tuesday!

We’re at Tuesday and charging forward here at Burning Man 2018 with some 70,000 of our closest friends. It took quite a while to get my two travel companions up and around yesterday. Both were worn out, burned out, hungover from the previous night. Last night was not different. We were floating from party to party well into the night.

I’ve been amazed at the number of things there are to do around here. In fact, it’s a bit overwhelming at times. Literally, the events run 24-hours a day. Yesterday, while waiting for Friend Lamont and Cousin Fred to show, I took a knife throwing lesson over in one of the camps. After that, I sauntered over to enjoy some BBQ at another site.

Late yesterday afternoon as we were enjoying a pitcher of martinis made by Friend Lamont (our BM version of Happy Hour) under the RV’s awning, we were joined by a fellow Burner. It was a woman dressed in a full-length fake fur open in the front with nothing underneath. She had tucked into her arm a really angry-looking, aged Chihuahua that she said was named Puddles.

Interestingly, the woman wouldn’t tell us her name. She said it didn’t translate well. She was looking for Seaside Blondie who has yet to contact us to claim her BM pass. She had a couple of martinis and wandered off.  

Of course, all of the goings on around here haven’t kept me from constantly checking my newsfeed. I saw there was much controversy when The White House initially lowered its flag to half-staff over the weekend in honor of John McCain, but then raised it right back to full-staff on Monday morning.
Fearless Leader seemed pretty smug about it all, but then consented to have it lowered back to half-staff Monday afternoon after a nearly full day of blowback for having raised it back up so soon.

Wow, Fearless Leader listening to critics. Go figure.

I would normally have just let it all go, but then I saw something come past about that old fool James Inhofe weighing in and defending Fearless Leader.

For those of you who may not know Inhofe, he’s a U.S. Senator from Oklahoma who has been in D.C. far too long. When he comes back to Oklahoma to visit constituents, he flies himself around in his private plane and insists that constituents and/or media come out to whatever airport to meet him.

To say Inhofe is a conservative would be a gross understatement. He is a rabid, vehemently unapologetic conservative. And, he has no qualms about going on television to express whatever is crossing his brain at the time. He knows he’s a senator for life, mostly because undereducated Oklahomans believe he is the Messiah come to reestablish the Norman Rockwellian America in which they all grew up.

Inhofe, who is expected to succeed McCain as chair of the powerful Senate Armed Services Committee, told a group of reporters that McCain was “partly to blame” for The White House flag controversy.

Huh?

No, seriously.

He went on to tell reporters that McCain “disagreed with the president in certain areas and wasn’t too courteous about it.”

Umm.

Okay, everyone knows that McCain and Fearless Leader hated one another and didn’t take any steps to try to hide it.

During the presidential campaign, Fearless Leader was quoted as saying about former Vietnam War POW John McCain that he was “not a war hero” because he was captured. “I like people that weren't captured,” Trump said on national television.

Yeah, lots of courtesy there.

Of course, McCain didn’t mince words when he went public after Fearless Leader’s meeting with Vlad the Poot Putin this summer in which FL downplayed Russia’s interference in the 2016 general election, saying, “The damage inflicted by President Trump's naivete, egotism, false equivalence, and sympathy for autocrats is difficult to calculate. But it is clear that the summit in Helsinki was a tragic mistake.”

But, still…it really irks me that Inhofe would weigh in. Ass kisser. Just shut up and fly your plane.
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That is all!
 
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