In the last week before Election Day, the vote of hot air balloonists in Wisconsin is still up in the air. According to Google, from October 1 to October 21, over 750 political ads were unleashed on the Wisconsinite public every single day. Personal appearances by presidential and senatorial candidates have gone up dramatically.
Will Loftus, longtime balloonist, isn’t happy. “State and national politicians have been appearing all over Wisconsin like a rash on a baby’s bum. I hate to vent, but it breaks my heart to see that amount of hot air go to waste. All I hear from the politicians is talk about Medicare, taxes, wars in those foreign countries, jobs, and this country’s future. Why do they keep speaking to special interest groups? Frankly, I’m deflated. Political hot air is a renewable energy resource, yet not one politician has addressed that. I’m just your average citizen with a $25,000 hot air balloon. What about me and my needs?””
Unidentified sources close to Windbreaking News estimate that capturing political hot air would provide every citizen in Wisconsin a 30-minute ride in a hot air balloon each day for one month. Identified sources confirm this, and a random poll conducted by a random pollster on a random day in Random Lake* found that voters felt “let down” on hearing this news.
(*Random Lake, WI is known for its palindromic population: 1551.)
Photo courtesy of Nicolas Raymond http://www.freestock.ca/view_photog.php?photogid=1
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Thank you for bringing a smile to my face this morning:)
So glad it made you smile.
We need more hot air enthusiasts! I vote for all balloonists to elected to office this year!
Sorry, Natalie, I disagree. There is enough hot air in DC already.
I will vote for whoever creates the least hot air.
Perhaps all the hot air politicians would climb into their balloons and be off to the Land of Oz…
I was just wondering, does Random Lake not allow new residents to move to town until someone dies?
I love random questions. Thank you.
If we could just learn to properly attach a balloon to the exhaust vents of each politician, we might have a more beautiful skyline, and at the same time vacate the landscape for the ordinary folk.
It would be interesting to have them wear a device that measures the amount they produce. I bet there’s an app for that.
Love that picture. So appropriate for this metaphor.
It’s a great picture. If you go to the link for the photographer, he has other great ones.
Thanks, I’ll do that! 🙂
I always suspected that those politicians were taking us for a ride!
Yes, they take us to the dry cleaners every chance they get.
Every time I turn on the TV news station, I hyperventilate. Now I know why. Thanks for a much needed chortle.
Chortle would be a good name for candy. Thank you for that idea.
Oh, oh, ow. A bit of pun-overdose there. I need my own break; *poot* ahhhhhh, I’m recovering.
Please understand that it’s a medical condition.
I think that the winds of change are needed. It’s time to take the air out of over-inflated egos.
We can try, but there’s always a new group of them rising up.