re: #146 The Ghost of a Flea

Not joking when I say the internet let all the psychopaths and narcissists network up.

Yup. It’s a Mimeograph machine on steroids.

There is a wingnut Nazi (really, he has Nazi flags on the gate of his ranch) here who mails out to everyone in the Panhandle a newspaper he has printed somewhere.

It is fortunate that there is little Internet penetration in this area.

We had a problem here a few months ago when a worker in the state capitol unwrapped some pipes for maintenance and found they were cast with swastikas.

That turned into a big debate on whether a whole bunch of the plumbing should be ripped out at great expense because of the association of that symbol with the NSDAP.

The plumbing in question was installed long before the Nazi Party arose in Germany, the plumbing itself is out-of-view of the public, and it was decided not to spend millions of dollars on a project to rip it out.

Over in Scottsbluff, a number of businesses have tiny tile mosaics for the entrances of their businesses, many of which incorporate swastikas. They were put in prior to the rise of the Third Reich, and hold the original meaning of fortune or good luck.

keyt.com

In the meantime, a Nazi flag was found flying in a public park in Wyoming a couple weeks ago.

cnn.com

The flag of Nazi Germany was sighted atop a flagpole in a public park in Laramie, Wyoming.

The US flag that usually flies from the pole lay crumpled on the ground when police arrived on the scene Monday morning, according to Lieutenant Gwen Smith of the Laramie Police Department.

Shortly after police were notified of the incident, officers promptly removed the Nazi flag, which bore the swastika symbol. Upon retrieving the discarded American flag, the officers folded it properly and one saluted the flag as the other returned it to its rightful place atop the flagpole, Smith said.

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