Yellow Bird

Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement (ICCI, that's ICKY to us) is promising a Big Bird protest at Mitt Romney's rally in Van Meter today.

ICKY says -- “Big Bird and ‘Sesame Street’ didn’t cause the economic crisis and financial meltdown, the big banks on Wall Street did. The letter B is for bully, and that’s exactly what Mitt Romney is: a bully who picks on PBS instead of Goldman Sachs.”

The letter R stands for REBUTTAL...

Former Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) chairman Kenneth Tomlinson agrees it’s time to pull the plug. “Public television doesn’t need this massive bureaucracy funded by the American taxpayers called CPB to survive and be successful,” Mr. Tomlinson said in an interview. “PBS now has this highly successful show, ‘Downton Abbey.’ Such shows as well as Big Bird do not depend on taxpayer funding of the plush CPB bureaucracy in Washington.”

The letter W is for WASTE...

Sesame Workshop, the independent nonprofit corporation that produces the popular childrens’ program Sesame Street, received a $1,067,532 stimulus bill grant in August 2010, via the Department of Health and Human Services. The funding was to promote healthy eating according to the federal Recovery.gov website.

The projected created “1.47″ new jobs, the website reported which comes out to about $726,000 per job created.

The Recovery Act website lists the healthy eating project as more than 50 percent completed though most of the grant money appears to have been drawn.

The Liter would like to suggest our favorite "Dumbass" David Goodner for the Big Bird role.

 Goodner wouldn't even need to wear a costume and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Money To Blow

Instead of Big Bird, as we suggested (Yellow Bird), our favorite "Dumbass" David Goodner went to the Romney rally dressed as Elmo.

I was surprised the Ragister referred to them as ragtag.

This bunch despise the 1% and Wall Street, but are big fans of Sesame Street because that is their intellectual level and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Sesame Street, more like Wallet Street, is part of the 1% with 2011 total revenue of $134 million and their total assets are valued at $289 million.

Former Sesame Workshop CEO Gary Knell earned $988,456 in the fiscal year that ended in June 2011, and the current CEO, H. Melvin Ming, made $584,572 during the same period, records show.

“Carroll Spinney, who has played Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch since the show’s inception, earned more than $314,000 in compensation in 2011.” 

Time to leave the nest and go free, Bird.

Mockin' Bird Hill

President Ornithologist, err Obama has ruffled some feathers over his love for Big Bird.

Democrats frustrated by Obama's "Big Bird" campaign turn

According to an e-mail from our friend Cal (Freedom's pal), If Obama had defended our consulate [in Libya] as strenuously as he defends Sesame Street, four Americans might be alive today.

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

Back on Sesame Street, we see salaries average between $300,000 and $450,000 per year, with one member making a cool half million.

Wallet Street is more like it for these one percent-errs.

$60 Duck

The Big "Lame Duck" Lug Nut is the bird of choice for 43% of Iowans this Thanksgiving.

That's just fowl and the scientific community is united in that fact.

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen and when both ends don't meet, make one potatoes.

Quack!











...he's got the duck in one arm and the bill in his hand and mud in his eye then he shows me the duck it's a pitiful thing he's got a splint on his leg and a cast on his wing serenely sedated though feeling no pain just layin there limp and lookin loaded...

A Little Birdie Told Me

Caught some inane banter, and the scientific community is united in that fact, on TV between the Twinkie Tandem and the Main Weather Wienie at WHO DT regarding this story...

Iowa, Nebraska reach hunting license deal

It's a reciprocal agreement for hunters with valid small game, upland game, migratory bird and furbearer licenses.

The new agreement doesn't apply to deer, turkey or grouse.

Sonya Heitshusen wondered what a grouse (pictured) was and Erin Kiernan wondered about furbearer.

Ed Wilson pictured a scenario where the borders between the two states would be erased and we'd be left with one big, long state.

To which Mrs. Kiernan, a Nebraska native, replied she hoped not because she didn't want to have to drive that far!?!?!?!?!

I know TV people, they're familiar with grouse.