2009: Elephant Bar Year of the Woman

In 2009 our first female President took office, injecting a shot of much-needed œstrogen into the political discourse after eight muscular years of Bush-Cheney. Maureen Dowd praised the President's "soft-power sewing circle approach" which involves "less towel-snapping and more towel color coordinating, less steroids and more sensitivity."

Osama bin Laden, Kim Jong-Il, Hugo Chavez, Vladimir Putin, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad give kudos to Obama for his more nurturing and inclusive style. After eight years of failed policies confronting these misunderstood dictators and thugs with the projection of US military power, Barack Obama changed course. Now a kinder and gentler America engages in dialogue and tries to find common ground as the basis for moving forward. How can Li'l Kim rattle his nuclear sword with Obama's song ringing in his head:

Have you never been mellow?
Have you never tried to find a comfort from inside you.
Have you never been happy just to hear your song?
Have you never let someone else be strong?”

The only problem Obama has is remembering to bow to kings and emperors and not curtsey.

2009 was also the year the Elephant Bar grew a pair...of hips. Most of the conversation was focused on a disagreement over how to spell a certain nation on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and it looked like a transcript from audio taken from a Junior High School girl's bathroom.

This year the Elephant Bar elevated yours truly to the status of proprietor, which entails the duty of posting new topics to be ignored when the old topic reaches nearly two hundred comments.

Oh yes I am wise, but it’s wisdom born of pain,
Yes, I’ve paid the price, but look how much I gained,
If I have to I can face anything,
I am strong (strong),
I am invincible (invincible),
I am woman!

Lady MLD emerged from lurkerhood and became a full-time regular of the Bar, and our curmudgeonly wheat and alfalfa farmer from Idaho, Bob, aka Bobal, aka Bobalharb fell deeply and eternally in lust for her. I was moved to give her the nickname MeLoDy and it stuck. When the normal rough-and-tumble of this place resulted in Melody being insulted, Bob protested by closing his purse and walking off with the sound of his stiletto heels echoing from the Elephant Bar walls.

desert rat: Only the women of the Bar get to resign, multiple times, they having the prerogatives due their fairer gender.

Our resident Peak Oil believer, ever ready with a forecast, identified new ways that technology can serve females of any species:

Rufus: If a Dairy Farmer can afford a robot that can identify a cow, then identify the teats, then position the tubes on the teats, and milk the cow, there's not a job on an assembly line anywhere in the world that can't be done cheaper, and more efficiently by a robot.



(Apologies to WiO for losing his two comments, there was a customer complaint with this thread the first time it was posted)