The Weekly Notes
Weekly Notes: January 5, 2009 Modern Singers: Not all of them, but way too many are very insecure. They cannot just sing a song. They cannot get that the song is about something, like Christmas or our national anthem. They make every song they sing about themselves and thus spoil it. They put their own fragile ego into the song. Instead of just singing it, they bellow a personal version of it. The really great singers do not do that of course. They trust their voice and just sing the song. TVA: I think they are beyond the scope of their original franchise. I believe they were originally chartered to control the watershed of the Tennessee Valley with dams and to produce cheap electric power for the area. They were also supposed to promote land conservation, public health, and education programs. Now they are into emission belching coal plants and nuclear facilities. I do not think those last two fit in with the rest. They seem contradictory to me. I Have Hope: A few bad things have happened to Mrs. Gaffer and me in the last few days. Our snow blower took a crap right at the beginning of the biggest snowstorm in the last ten years. We had the biggest runoff of melted snow I have ever seen a couple of days ago and our septic system said no thanks. It backed up. That thaw was followed by a windstorm that put several trees down in our driveway. I’m not sure if we are finishing up a bad year or if this is the beginning of our personal Armageddon. I’m hoping for the former, of course. The upside is we found some good help to deal with our problems. A nearby business delivered a new snow blower the next day. A businessman neighbor came out the same day and cleared our driveway. The jury is still out on the septic system. I called a business, that was several miles away and they promised to call back. I waited for that call one entire day and they did not call back. You got to know their name was Dependable Septic. Another problem with Dependable was the person who answered the phone. She has a speaking problem wherein she breathed her words rather than spoke them. I do not think she was some kind of female vamp so she must have had a breathing problem of some kind. I had trouble understanding her. I am always stunned when I realize how many people who answer phones cannot communicate. I would think this first line of customer communication for a company would be their best speakers. That’s what I would do. I did call someone else nearer to me and they actually answered the phone. They gave me temporary relief but pumping the tank but that will not fix the problem. They can fix the problem, but the fix may take a while since the health department will be involved. With the bureaucrats involved, all I can do is hope. They could block me and essentially make my home unlivable. They could condemn it. I did not tell Mrs. Gaffer about this possibility. It is, after all, the holiday season. My Grand Slam Theory: I think that people who use a gun in any kind of felony should be put in the slammer for life on the first offense. There should be no appeal allowed. That is a real grand slam that would prevent a lot of human suffering inflicted by repeat offenders. A Radical Cure: Some crazy people are doing intestinal bypass surgery on children to “cure” obesity I think this is a case of the cure being worse than the disease. Of course, calling this emotional problem a disease is at the core of the problem. These kids who are dangerously obese need to go into therapy with their parents. They need to deal with the behavior rather than continue it under the guise of medical procedure. The kid they showed us in the news was still obese after the surgery and she was still eating like a hog. I could not help but notice that her mother was almost as fat as she was. Duh! Ford: It is very strange to see Ford with enough resources to last a while and GM begging for a handout. Wagoner is the culprit who squandered GM’s huge capital reserve while he bungled every opportunity too meet the market demand with the old business as usual approach. Ford just might accidentally survive because Ford will be the last man standing. Arabs: There is a bunch of silly Palestinian fools demonstrating and complaining in Flint about Israel’s bombing in the Gaza Strip. I don’t know what they hope to accomplish. They are in the wrong venue. If they want to complain, they should complain to the Jewish Embassy in Washington. Flint cannot deal with their problems. Flint cannot even deal with its own problems. If these fools are really put out about the situation, they ought to go over there and join Hamas. If they are intelligent at all, the might even try to persuade Hamas to stop shelling Israel. That is not our war and the only people who can resolve it are the principals. Listen you fools, do not bring your war here. We do not want it! A New Senator: The Governor under siege of Illinois has appointed a man to take Obama’s seat in the Senate. According to Article I of our constitution, he is allowed, in fact duty bound to do that. There are a bunch of Dumbocratic Senators who say they are going to block the appointment. Other media fools say they cannot do that. Well, you know me. I looked it up and indeed, they can do that, but it is not easy. If the media fools had bothered to read the constitution, they would know that. The Senate or the House may expel any member they wish. Here is the rule under which they may expel a member. Article I, Section 5, paragraph 4. Each House may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two thirds, expel a member. I don’t think they can get a two thirds majority. If they cannot, the new guy must be seated.
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