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Bill Otto, Kansas House Republican-District 9, is in the news today. Previously, he posted a video called “Redneck Rap” in which, he was seen wearing a cap that said “opossum the other dark meat” and opining on the current political climate. Some were offended and Otto’s daughters pulled the video. He has since re-posted it.

In the new clip, Otto addresses his Ozarks/Hillbily heritage, defends racism charges and explains the other dark meat.

DISCLAIMER:
1. I do live in the Ozarks but, am not a native.
2. I do not claim to be a hillbilly but, I know many.
3. I have never dined on opossum nor have I ever seen anyone else do so. But, I have heard many people claim that they had.
4. I have never heard of Bill Otto before but, I would have a cup of coffee with the guy.
5. I don’t really know what goes on in Kansas.

As always, fire up the corn cob pipe and click pause on the music player located in the side bar before playing the YouTube.

Note: The actual “rap” starts a little past the half way mark.

Butter or margarine?

I’m a butter man myself. I don’t eat much of either but, if I’m making some popcorn I’m putting butter on it. It tastes better.

I remember hearing my parents talk about growing up during the depression when they would buy a bag of “oleo” that was whitish in color. There was a color capsule in the bag that they would break and knead through the stuff, turning it a more appetizing yellow color.

Ther were many states, especially dairy producing states, that had restrictions on margarine. In Missouri, one law banned the sale of yellow margarine. Nobody ever repealed the law. From Breitbart/AP.

A state legislator wants to dump a 19th-century law banning the sale of yellow margarine, though it’s been years since any violator was ordered to spread ‘em.

Rep. Sara Lampe said Tuesday she plans to file legislation repealing the law when the 2009 legislative session starts in January.

Most of Missouri’s restrictions on imitation butter date to 1895, and they were last amended in 1939. Although the state no longer enforces them, the penalties could still make dealers in contraband dairy product toast: up to a month in jail and a $100 fine for first-time offenders and six months in jail and a $500 fine for repeat offenders.

So, to all of you who have lectured me for my popcorn or cast a disapproving glance when spying a stick of butter in the fridge over the years or, debated me over the health benefits of consuming margarine, I would just like to say, you have been eating contraband and you are law breakers.

A man in Jackson, Missouri took a bag full of partially, mouse-eaten money to his bank to see if there was any way to get a reimbursement

From the Southeast Missourian.

Mice had devoured most of Andrew Jackson’s face from the majority of the $20 bills in the bag, Johns said.

The four women pieced together as many serial numbers as they could and came up with $1,000 — the amount the customer believed he’d had in the bag.

The federal mint requested all of the contents of the bag the money had been in, so everything — the torn money, feces and feathers — were shipped to the mint, where it can be examined, Johns said.

The mint will then issue the customer a check for the exact amount the torn money is worth.

Good to know that the mint has your back in cases like this.

Mice are peculiar. I wonder why they didn’t eat the entire bills. Must be that Andrew Jackson’s face is especially tasty.

I had a friend who kept a quarter ounce of weed hidden away in a drawer for hard times. Quite a while went by and I guess the whole town was dry so, one day he grabbed the dope out of the drawer. Mice had gotten in to the bag and ate all the seeds. They left the dope but ate all the seeds, And, yes he did smoke it anyway. He said; “It was like the mice cleaned the dope for me”.

Go figure.