Yes, I'm late, I'm late, for a very important date....



Let's face it, it's November. We've 3 months of increasing darkness and cold. Obama is still clueless, economically, and he's beginning to play Commander in Chief, which may be a pleasant distraction for him, but doesn't do anything (think expletive here) for the homeland.

So where does a battered population turn? To the Movies!

And who is better at a sugar-coated fairytale than Walter Elias Disney?

When we last visited DisneyLand

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it was 1933 and Silly Symphonies like The Three Little Pigs were packing them into theaters. But there was a big mouse on the horizon--and his name was Mickey!

Now perhaps the cruelest thing one can say about a failure like the US Economy and Recovery efforts is to call it a Mickey Mouse operation.

mickey mouse
 

–noun (often initial capital letters) Informal.
1. trite and commercially slick in character; corny: mickey mouse music.
2. useless, insignificant, or worthless: mickey mouse activities just to fill up one's time.
3. trivial or petty: mickey mouse regulations.

Origin: 1930–35; after the animated cartoon character created by Walt Disney, orig. with reference to the banal dance-band music played as background to the cartoons...

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Mickey Mouse himself was anything but a failure. So let's take the weekend to compare the two. Post what you've got, and enjoy as we sail off to Never Land, Wonderland, and all points in between.