Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 11, 2021

Then Michigan will start the Toledo Border War all over again.

There is a place in Michigan where you can head South to Canada. Could be another border war.

Cheese wheels? Hah! They’ll hit ’em in the kisser with hot pierogis.

There is even a small, small portion of northern Minnesota that is across a lake that borders Canadian province Manitoba. Should that also be a worry of Pig?

Wisconsin and Michigan already fought for it, Michigan lost.

Ah, wouldn’t it be nice if those were our only worries at the moment?

The issues that worry me lately are of Playboy; they no longer have complete nudity, and I’m concerned that fully dressed women are just around the corner.

On the southern edge, there is the Toledo strip, the subject of the Great Toledo War between Michigan and Ohio in 1835. Michigan had a habit of grabbing others’ territory.

Michigan vs. Wisconsin is a Big Ten issue! #gowolverines

My brother has a bigger portion of our bedroom than I do!

Borders are weird. There’s a tiny section of Washington state that is surrounded by Canada on all sides. Missouri owns hundreds of tiny islands east of the Missouri River, between it and Illinois/Kentucky/Tennessee. And here in Minnesota, there’s a small section of the northern border that juts into Canada because they couldn’t figure out exactly where the 49th parallel was.

Beautiful country up there anyway!

Being as how that land was never Wisconsin’s in the first place, we don’t much care. Ohio traded that land for the right to keep Toledo. We should have given them Detroit to go along with the deal.

I don’t get this, but never mind.

Did you know you can borrow cheese from the bank in Utah?

It’s called a Provo-loan

michiganders don’t need to worry – cheeseheads have more important things to worry about now, like unimmunized quarterbacks…

The UP is not worth fighting over; cheese wheels on the other hand….

Uppity Yuppie Yooper Super Soup Supper? Eh?

And when will New Jersey attack New York for the return of Staten Island?

I worry about California. They’re burning down and soon enough, no more movies or cartoons.

Yeah, the state really got tricked badly into giving that piece up. It was a Wis con sin…

My wife and I were in the UP for week last Summer. It’s a different planet from Detroit and its suburbs.

Poor Pig! Delusional, out of touch and never on the same page….

Sounds bad to me!

I remember a movement in the UP to secede from Michigan years ago … they wanted to call it Superior. It is beautiful UP there!

Let Michigan have it! That means less Wisconsin.

Maine was once “North Massachusetts” but seceded. A model for the rest of us, particularly in NY.

It’ll never go anywhere, they’re just spinning their cheese wheels.

It’s all Ohio’s fault.

No, really.

Michigan and Ohio were having an actual dispute over the “Toledo Strip” on their shared border. Militias were raised. Finally, Andrew Jackson sent in the federal troops to calm things down. Ohio got to keep the disputed area, and Michigan was given the upper part of the peninsula as a boobie prize. (Wisconsin hadn’t been formed yet.) Michigan – which everyone thought got the fuzzy end of the lollipop at the time – ended up producing more mineral wealth from the U.P. than the California Gold Rush.

Ohio got the city of Toledo.

It was back in the 80’s when Libya and Palestine talked about forming a joint, but separated country. Someone did a joke skit about Gaddafi and Arafat visiting Michigan and asking what their protocol was incase the UP was attacked by the godless infidels from Wisconsin. Did the armies of southern part of the state have guaranteed right of passage through Indiana and Illinois to come to their aid?

The end result of the Michigan-Ohio border war.

There’s enough Wisconsin.

Maybe they’ll take Aaron Rogers.

Demagoguery

The reason Wisconsin does not have the Upper Peninsula has to do with the Toledo War (1835). Michigan and Ohio had a dispute over a thin strip of land that contained Toledo. The issue was eventually resolved with a land swap. Ohio got Toledo, and Michigan got the U.P. As to which got the better deal, I’ll leave it for you to decide. Wisconsin did not even have a say in the matter as it did not become a State until 1848. As a Wisconsinite, I can truthfully say that we do not hurl wheels of cheese at Yoopers - at least not most of the time. ;) The Yoopers are Packer fans, and that’s good enough for us.

Then there’s the section of Minnesota between the St. Croix and the Mississippi that rightfully belongs to Wisconsin and was stolen from us in 1848. We Badgers have long memories, at least in those rare moments when we’ve run out of beer for long enough for our brain cells to wake up.

Let us see. Top Ten things threatening our Great nation, the United States of America.

10. The global warming hoax creating the silly goal of going “carbon neutral”.

9 .Globalists who seek to create a Great Reset (World Economic Forum).

8. The ESG standards for finance that will create a social credit score to subjugate people to the will of the globalists (World Economic Forum). (ESG- Environmental, Social, Governance standards)

7. The rise of Marxism in America that seeks to end individual liberty and create a Collectivist hellhole.

6. The debauching of our currency by the Federal reserve through endless prinbting.

5. A political class of RINO’s and nearly ALL democrats who work to build FASCISM with thier corporate cronyism.

4. The end of critical thinking and replacement by “scientism” instead of true science.

3. The end of truth, best personified by the people that claim a man can have a baby when a woman calls her self a man.

2. Woke mobs that seek to end, cancel and destroy all who don’t submit to the agenda of the elitists that control the woke mob.

1. The people have abrogated their responsibility to keep the government that “We the PEOPLE” created in service to them and the Constitution.

There are many other, but it really comes to this: THE TURNING AWAY FROM GOD by the citizens of the United states and the embrace of the spirit of the age that is run by the great enemy of God who seeks to destroy humanity, through lies.

REVIVAL OR BUST!

Considering the relationship between the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions, if anything we should worry about Michigan invading Wisconsin. Sidenote: Happy Veterans day!

Not the cheese wheels! That would start a cheese lovers vs. Wisconsin war. The last one was really ugly.

The Upper Peninsula was awarded Michigan when Toledo was awarded to Ohio as a negotiated settlement to a mini-war between the two. Both wanted Toledo with the river access and beginning port facilities.That “place” where you can go south to Canada is called “Detroit”. Kind of a big city – not as big as it used to be in population but still one of the geographically largest cities in the country. You might have heard of it.It is, btw, the only place from the continental US where you can travel south into Canada.

There’s a small piece of Minnesota that is surrounded by Canada and you can only reach it by water or bring your passport and go through Canadian customs.

Niagara Falls, NY is north of Canada as well

We would use beer cans, bottles and kegs instead.

I live in Wisconsin……I want the UP back!!

I always joked that next time the Packers win the championship, you could probably convince a bunch of wasted “Up North” Packers fans to take it back.

Michigan was give that land in exchange for us giving Ohio the city of Tolodo. And calling off the war. I say we came out the winner on that one.

I’m from Wisconsin and this is DEFINITELY not our plan! We’re going to drink beer first. THEN we’re going to hit them with cheese wheels. Muahahahahahaha.

Say “Yah” to da U.P., eh?

I need to write this down and keep it handy for when the pollsters call. Do you think that if enough people start responding with this being their #1 issue, we’d start hearing about it in the news? I’d love it!

Michigan once fought a war with Ohio over who owned Toledo. Apparently Ohio lost.

Goat, this would be a good time to teach Pig about the Upper Peninsula.

Say “Yah!” to da U.P., eh? If Wisconsin comes at us with their cheese wheels, we’ve got a rather large Uniroyal Tire down by Detroit (Allen Park) we can use.

If Michigan didn’t have it, they would be thumbless

Pig may be right….

See the events of 1835-37 noted in this Wikipedia article: https://tinyurl.com/yfapccdj

Escanaba…it you can haba.

When Michigan and Ohio were trying to get admitted as states, they fought over who would get Toledo. The compromise was: Ohio got Toledo, and Michigan was given the U.P. But if you want to know where the U.P. really belongs, just ask a few residents if they’re fans of the Detroit Lions, or the Green Bay Packers.

Michigan was given the Upper Peninsula as a result of the “Toledo War.”A dispute between Ohio and Michigan over the position of the state line. Michigan wanted it to be farther south, and the lowest geographic point of Lake Erie. The two state militias were lined up ready to go to battle over what was called the “Toledo Strip” about 10 miles wide.The line was left where it was, and Michigan was given the UP as compensation (Wisconsin was still a territory, not a state)I’ve been to Toledo. I’ve been to the UP.Michigan won that round.

Actually we got the UP in exchange for Toledo. Wisconsin has no say in the matter.

yes we’ve heard about the cheese caves