BLOWING SMOKE

Only fools and knaves get surprised when the road of life gets a little bumpy.
                                                  RL Ellison

Blowing smoke has been around for a while.

Here's proof positive. And as we keep repeating, there's nothing new under the sun. It's just packaged a little different as the excerpt below from Burt Prelutsy's recent article, Guns & Goons, at BurtPrelutsky.com recounts about the powers that be in D.C.

Who said all the good rappers are in Hollywood?

Finally, someone else sent me a photo of a strange-looking instrument and asked me if I could identify it. I couldn’t. It turned out to be a combination of a bellows and a tube that was widely used in the 18th century. The purpose of the contraption was to help in the resuscitation of drowning victims by forcing tobacco fumes into their rectums. 

The warmth of the smoke was thought to promote respiration, but doubts about the smoke enemas ultimately led to the popular phrase “blow smoke up someone’s ass.”

Although it fell out of favor two centuries ago, it has not only been rediscovered by the Democrats in Washington, D.C., but Pelosi and Reid are insisting that it be mass-produced as an essential part of ObamaCare.

Editor's Note: Though we weren't yet able to verify it, rumors abound that instrument actually originated on Wall Street at an investment bankers convention.