The Ponderosa: Our new pet name for THK

Death before Dhimmitude

Energy Independence

Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?

--Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Monday, August 23, 2004

Our new pet name for THK

She fashions herself the doyenne of the highest social circles, appreciates only the finest things like her Royal Doulton china with hand-painted periwinkles and is renowned for her glamorous soirees and candlelight suppers. She even speaks several of the romance languages. From time to time, though, she slips up, and an imprudent outburst reminds us that, underneath it all, she's just "dead common".

Theresa Heinz Kerry? Nope, Hyacinth Bucket ("It's Bouquet!") from the Britcom Keeping up Appearances".

Obviously having noted the similarities and being as immature as we are, we have decided to slap this sobriquet on the erratic catsup heiress.

We anxiously await invitation to her Indoors/Outdoors Luxury Barbecue with Finger Buffet!

Hyacinth Bucket

Theresa Kerry Heinz Bucket

The Ponderosa

Monday, August 23, 2004

Our new pet name for THK

Available from The Virginia City Trading Post . . .

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