POLITICS: Heed birdfeeder wisdom

A few nights ago I watched “Ancient Aliens” on the History Channel pertaining to UFOs having been recorded throughout history.

Two PhDs theorized that Earth had been colonized by beings from outer space as sort of a zoo and flew by on occasion to see if we had assimilated or exterminated ourselves.

This program brought back the memory of a few weeks prior when I had turned to Fox News for lack of anything to view. Well, I had heard of Glenn Beck from a couple publications I receive, but there he was hopping around, pulling up this poster and that one with mouth in high gear as he switched to posters of people and organizations and he gave his self-acclaimed expert evaluation of all concerned.

At any time I expected Ernie and the Cookie Monster to pop up, but then realized they had too much finesse for this program. Besides, C.M. doesn’t have any teeth so he can’t handle Beck’s menu.

Just then, on came Hannity whom I had seen a couple times previously and had graciously granted him about five minutes of my time. Before I grabbed the remote here was Sarah Palin in New Orleans informing all hw she was the self-proclaimed savior of our nation and shouting “Time to reload.” I thought she was already loaded.

With that I grabbed a well-deserved beer and went and sat on the back step to watch the legitimate performers with no axe to grind as they cavorted around the sunflower and peanut feeders.

I noticed the peanut feeder was almost empty and about that time one of them with tail twitching sixty per jumped alongside the peanut feeder and, casting its eyes back and forth from it to me and catching my eye across the yard several times, I suddenly realized it was attempting to send me a message: “Time to reload.”

JIM ARNOLDI

Dalton Gardens