First, in Mississippi, there’s the mascot change at the University of Mississippi.

Now, in Georgia, somebody wants to change the State Bird. Right now, the Brown Thrasher is the state bird. I learned that in Georgia History class back in the 8th grade. But, quite honestly, I don’t know if I’ve ever seen one.

There’s a fellow in Augusta who wants to change the state bird … to the chicken.

Now, sure, chickens account for $15-billion a year to the state’s economy. But, really, is the chicken the best representation for the state? Having grown up in Georgia, I have some ideas.

The mosquito

The house fly

The Sand Gnat

The buzzard

The Obama Bird

There may be better suggestions for the state bird of Georgia. Perhaps for other states, too.

So are Democrats really going to try to shove their health care bill down everyone’s throats through reconciliation? The American people have made it abundantly clear they don’t want that mess, but the Democrats seem so eager to pass the bill despite the fact that they aren’t even sure what’s in it. Considering the potential political fallout, I guess that shows the Democrats are principled — except the principle seems to be the American people are stupid and shouldn’t make their own choices, so it’s kinda hard to admire. A suicide bomber is principled, too, but again gets no admiration from me.

Personally, I don’t think they’ll be able to find fifty-one Democrat Senators willing to pull the trigger on this and be held accountable. What do you think?

You ever think maybe it was the generals in charge of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that got Obama interested in working on health care? When Obama came into office, he had two wars to deal with and a failing economy, so why spend all his time on a total distraction? Maybe at first Obama went to the generals and was like, “I got all these neat ideas on how to do the wars completely differently. They’re all outlined in these notebooks right here; the one with unicorn on front is about Iraq and the one with the kitties on front is about Afghanistan.”

And the generals were like, “Here is a ball, Obama; perhaps you’d like to bounce it.”

And Obama went to play with the ball, but the generals knew that wouldn’t keep him occupied for long. So then they told him, “Hey, I bet health care really needs your help right now.”

And Obama was like, “But isn’t this other stuff more important?”

And the generals were like, “No, nothing is more important than health care; you should spend all your time on that.”

And Obama was like, “I’m really smart, so I’ll go do that! I have this new notebook with ponies on the front where I’ll write down all my ideas! I’ll write the biggest bill ever!” And then he scampered off to work on health care and stayed out of the generals’ hair. So I’m not saying blame the military for this health care stuff, but it sure has worked to their benefit.

Here’s an idea of maybe how to make a common cause with liberals on the idea of small government:

Okay, we think the Democrats in Congress are completely useless morons. And liberals think that the Republicans in Congress are stupid and evil. So both conservatives and liberals are agreed that the government is full of people who make really bad decisions. So isn’t the logical solution to put these people in charge of as little as possible? If liberals disagree, why do they want the Republicans, who could quite likely be in the majority again, to be able to make all these decision for them? I know liberals just want to get rid of Republicans, but they have to realize by now that’s just ice skating uphill and they’ll always be a significant portion of the decision-makers.

Unless I’m missing something, small government seems like the best course of action for two sides that think Congress is full of idiots.