All Entries in the "Reflections on Disorder" Category
Hinckley Mistakenly Drafted by Raiders
(Special from The Federal Rehab Flyer – Gunnison, CO – July 10, 2015)
Longtime federal guests and Texas (not Colorado) native John Hinckley, who attempted to assassinate then President Ronald Regan on a rainy Washington morning back in 1981, has been accidently drafted by the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League (Aren’t long sentences hard to read?)
The foul-up came late in the meetings when most team representatives and player agents were bored and tired. It is not uncommon for a team to draft a dead person or a fictitious person, much to the chagrin of the sports franchise.
“Oversights can happen,” said Red White, organizer of the draft and subsequent festivities following the workday. “All those names and faces and the films and the statistics can make a normal person into a raving lunatic! It’s a wonder we don’t draft ourselves.”
White reminded the press that in 1985 Dallas drafted Sirhan Sirhan, who had changed his name to Mohammed Sirhan after assassinating Robert Kennedy in 1968. Of course the Cowboys dropped all contact after realizing they had acquired a pariah, especially when, due to prior commitments, he couldn’t make rookie camp.
Hinckley, who has not fired so much as one shot at a major politician since his incarceration, may be eligible for parole in 2020.
The Raiders employed Jack Tatum for all of those years,” said White. “The fact is that Hinckley has been legitimately drafted and now the ball is on our quart…or gridiron as it were. The team plans to pursue the mater until it runs out of rope,” he smiled.
Meanwhile Hinckley has been lifting weights and running pass routes in his cell. He has again began writing Jodi Foster, a former 49ers drum and bagel girl. The content of those letters has not been made public but cellmates say it is a confusing arrangement of Xs and Os with a progressive rendition of Taxi Driver, written in Greek and Latin, thrown in for ballast.
Other teams, most notably the Denver Broncos, have been mum on the development while awaiting the evolution of what could be a major precedent and newest hype in professional sports.
“Remember when Denver prematurely drafted the Manson Family in 1975?” smiled White. “The team wanted to shore up a porous offensive line and may have done just that, until someone came to his senses. This just proves once again that in this twisted society, there is no such thing as bad publicity,” he railed. – Kashmir Horseshoe
Summer camping above Crested Butte
Summer is never a given at a campsite above Crested Butte
Nudists offer clothes to earthquake victims
(Special from The Voice of the Volga – July 10, 2015)
An altruistic nudist sect that donated several truckloads of clothing to earthquake victims in Chile is at it again. This time an airplane full of warm duds and blankets are headed for Hashishistan, a former Soviet republic located somewhere north of Turkey and west of China.
According to unpublished reports the Potomac Rambling Bares, an ancient society of nudists is still collecting generators and wool socks that are slated to be shipped Friday. Temperatures in Hashishistan, although temperate to date, can begin the plunge to zero as early as October.
The Bares, who wear clothes to work have been invited as honored guests to both Chile and Russia in September. However, political footballs, kicked from Kiev and Santiago may succeed in foiling the visit. In Chile nudity is no big deal. Even the serious Catholics don’t seem to give a damn. The group will probably never even be noticed unless, of corpse, there is coinciding trouble with Argentina, Bolivia or Peru and the black-tie nudists are buttonholed as spies, strip-searched and collared.
In Russia nudity, along with most everything else, is nothing new.
The unclothed were first discovered near Yekaterinburg near the Ural Mountains in 311. Many of the slapstick czars were born naked until Nicholas I put a stop to that in 1825. Czar Nicholas II, under the influence of Russian monk, Gregori Rasputin, banned nudity altogether in 1908, stirring hopeless resentment that may have ignited the revolution in 1917. Although a Communist, Stalin returned to the stringent norms of the Czar, making nudity a crime in the Soviet Union. Victorious German soldiers tell of newly liberated, nude villagers coming out to meet them in Belarus and Lithuania in 1941.
Today Russia proudly boasts over 4.8 million nudists with many more born each day. – Neville Hoser
NORWOOD BEACHES OFF LIMITS
Wright’s Mesa True Wave – July 10, 2015, 2015
Officials in Western San Miguel County have ordered the closure of four popular beaches Saturday morning after lifeguards sighted several sharks in the vicinity.
There was neither further explanation nor information as to the reopening in time for the summer holidays. Critics say the sharks are harmless and that the termination of beach services will all but cripple the spindly-legged economy based on sweatshop ceramics, leaf art, exotic livestock and the bi-sexual Gildaberry harvests in August and November.
Former mayor and post office jockey, Oral Noise, is hopping mad because he has nothing else to do.
“Do you really think those tourists come up here to look at the mountains? They come here to sit in the sand, not play net games with the political football. Our elected legislators forget that no one, including themselves and yours truly, is paying the least bit of attention to all of this drivel.”
Oceanographers studying the micro-issue here restated long-held theories that the imposing Disappointment- Redvale Current and the little known Cape of Norwood reef would dry up and decompose “at about the same time California reconnects with the North American continent, somewhere near Lake Tahoe.”
They go on.
“While we realize that we have detractors and others within our own ranks that question the validity of our research in disposed species and natural anomalies such as palm trees in Cork and penguins in Uruguay,” said
one scientist, “we also warn that any shark capable of travel through California, Nevada, and Utah in order to harass bathers here had ought to be taken seriously.”
Noise disagrees saying that Colorado has plenty of tourists and not that many beaches or sharks.
“We need to get our priorities straight,” he said.
– Ronald Reggae
“Opium is the television of the 21st Century.” – Merle Sparks
Telluride to fax garbage to West End
(Ames) In what many see as a vain attempt to placate residents of Naturita and Nucla the Telluride Town Council has voted in favor of faxing further garbage cargoes to the dump there.
“That way no one can get angry when they see our garbage trucks unloading in a different county,” said Ima Reddi, spokesman for the governing body. Our trucks will no longer crawl through the downtowns causing resentment. Keep in mind,” said Reddi, “that these communities voted to host a nuclear waste plant here.”
If this primary program is successful Telluride will fax other waste materials directly to the dump or to other specific locales since, contrary to the general opinion in parts of San Miguel County, much of this refuse often stinks.
“We should be able to sell our garbage as souvenirs on E-Bay,” said Reddi. “We have already generated a lot of interest posting mining artifacts and old photos. Trash is next.” – Melvin O’Toole
