{"id":543,"date":"2009-11-22T15:00:33","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T19:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/22\/the-mule-american-politics\/"},"modified":"2009-11-22T15:00:33","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T19:00:33","slug":"the-mule-american-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/the-mule-american-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mule: American Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Our politics are so screwed up; we seem to have lost what we once stood for in our country.  Just read the following for a chuckle and maybe a story just too close to the truth:<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Curtis &Leroy saw an ad in the Starkville Daily News Newspaper in Starkville, MS. and bought a mule for $100.  The farmer agreed to deliver the mule the next day.
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The next morning the farmer drove up and said, “Sorry, fellows, I have some bad news, the mule died last night.” <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Curtis & Leroy replied, “Well, then just give us our money back.” <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

The farmer said, “Can’t do that. I went and spent it already.” <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

They said, “OK then, just bring us the dead mule.” <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

The farmer asked, “What in the world ya’ll gonna do with a dead mule?” <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

Curtis said, “We gonna raffle him off.” <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

The farmer said, “You can’t raffle off a dead mule!” <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

Leroy said, “We shore can!  Heck, we don’t hafta tell nobody he’s dead!” <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

A couple of weeks later, the farmer ran into Curtis &Leroy at the Piggly Wiggly  grocery store and asked.
“What’d you fellers ever do with that dead mule?”
They said,”We raffled him off like we said we wuz gonna do.” <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

Leroy said,”Shucks, we sold 500 tickets fer two dollars apiece and made a profit of $898.” <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

The farmer said,”My Lord, didn’t anyone complain?” <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

Curtis said, “Well, the feller who won got upset. So we gave him his two dollars back.” <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

Curtis and Leroy now work for the government. <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

They’re overseeing the Bailout Program.
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Limit all US politicians to two terms.
One in office
One in prison
Illinois already does this! <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Our politics are so screwed up; we seem to have lost what we once stood for in our country.  Just read the following for a chuckle and maybe a story just too close to the truth:   Curtis &Leroy saw an ad in the Starkville Daily News Newspaper in Starkville, MS. and bought a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}