Wherin Holland, Michigan is Mecca

This week starts off a very little known, local, pagan celebration called Tulip Time. Throngs of worshipers estimated at 500,000, of the Tulipa (latin for Tulip) gods have been, and are descending upon our quiet community wreaking havoc on local traffic patterns. They come by carload, nay, busload, wearing their cameras, overly-large sunglasses and sock garters gleefully Oo-ing and Ah-ing, over the hundreds of thousands of Tulips, planted at taxpayers expense, like they are on some flower pheromone-induced high like the Tulip is some type of aphrodisiac. It's absolutely insane! It's a fricken flower!

It begs to question how bored does one have to be, or desperate, to say, "Hey Honey, Lets go to Ho-Dunk (Holland) Michigans Tulip festival and look at all the purdy flowers, see da dutch dancers, da vind-mill and da parades" (3 of them, mind you, in 4 days time that present, on their own, a traffic night mare of epic proportions)

So, they come, and drive like idiots....turning left where they are not supposed to, never using their turn indicators, clogging intersections and jamming streets and hogging up all the local eateries. It's really nothing but a giant sea of blue hairs.

Consider the incident of today where I am following an obviously out of state tourist driving in the right hand lane, riding the brake causing his cars brakes lights to continuously flash on and off and his right turn indicator stuck on as they traveled down the highway for at 40 mph for at least 4 miles in that condition then making an illegal left hand turn without turning on the left hand turn indicator. It's no wonder the locals leave town for the week. They do it to preserve their sanity, safety and well-being

Now I guess I should not complain. I mean these Tulip crazed tourists spend a load of dough whilst here in town and also keep the local collision repair facilities booked solid til mid summer. So I guess one could say that it's a boost to the local economy to some degree. Even if it is highly localized, it's a help....or so they say...but if these were 500,000 jobs coming into the area, heck even if it was 500 jobs, now that would be something to celebrate and would be an even bigger help to the local economy.

I tell you what, I'll trade any community out there our local Tulip Time festival and the 500,000 tourists it draws every year for 500 permanent full time jobs for our local area. Any takers?? Now that would really be something worth crowing about ... but even then Michigan's lame-ass failure of a Governor, Jenny Grahm-cracker would swoop in like the ugly opportunist vulture that she is and claim credit for the deal! How she can even claim credit for any jobs created in our State when Michigan still has, at the very least, a 3 to 1 net job loss (-74,000 jobs since last year) and the highest unemployment rate (7.2%) in the country and the States weakest economic growth in 50 years is beyond me.

What I find mildly entertaining is that Der Rodham, Hillary Clinton, wants Jenny to be a part of her economic cabinet if she is elected President. That's really just laughable and stupid....wait.... H-mmm...maybe I'll have to vote for Hillary if she gets the Democratic nomination and nod just to get Jenny Grahmn-cracker out of our State...a diabolical plan! We'd send Jenny back to Canada, the land from whence she came but just as Michigan is Canadas dumping ground for their trash, they don't want her either. Why can't they just keep their garbage over there?