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January 23, 2006:
Why Not?
Wouldn't it be great if we could make a car that would run on
buffalo chips? We could all keep herds of buffalo in our backyards
and the oil cartel would be out of luck. Automakers could advertise
the EPA chip mileage of their cars. For example, 8 MPC highway
and 6 MPC city. Just think, no more foreign wars over oil. The
extremist fringe Muslims could drown in their own oil along with
the Saudi Prince who harbors them.
Bin Laden:
He is threatening us again. For sure, we are vulnerable and we
are defending the wrong targets. If he hits us it will be in
a place that our government does not expect and is not guarding,
like our power grid. A handful of operatives could take out our
entire grid and keep it out by hitting the sub-stations with
small bombs all over the country. Another place we are vulnerable
is in our municipal water supplies. These are both areas that
it is probably impossible to guard, but we ought to try. If nothing
else we could organize local minuteman brigades of citizens.
This is an area where women and older kids could definitely participate.
The kids would love it, cloak and dagger stuff.
The GM:
When Mighty Mouth says to the Lion fans, "I feel your pain,"
it makes me want to puke. If he had any feelings for the fans
he would refrain from making silly statements like that.
School Vouchers:
We got more and more of this silliness from the media and from
politicians. Everyone wants to give vouchers to parents for children's
education. Another advocate, who should know better, John Stossel
wrote about it with enthusiasm. Stossel is smart most of the
time. That is why I have trouble understanding this. I will say
it one more time. School vouchers are a bad idea because their
viability depends on the rabble being able to make good choices.
One need only look at Washington and Lansing to realize how silly
that assumption is. We need to fix the schools, not abandon them.
Fraud:
We were warned by the media about health insurance scams. They
showed us one tragic example of a woman who had paid insurance
premiums for many years. Then, when she got cancer, she found
out her insurance company was a fraud. It seems our laws covering
that are inadequate. Don't we have state and federal agencies
that regulate that industry?
How could this have happened? The company that defrauded this
woman is under investigation. Is that crazy? The investigation
is done. They defrauded a woman. The officers of that company
should be in jail, not being investigated. The should be stripped
of all of their assets and the money used to pay the claims of
their victims. Then they should get life in prison with no possibility
of parole. The government people who should have been regulating
them should go to prison with them. When I become God Emperor
these people will be stripped of their assets. Then they will
be stripped of their clothing and put in a urination pit.
Psychotherapy:
To the extent that the goal of psychotherapy is to make people
adjusted, it is wrong. Adjusting and adapting is not what it
should be about. It should be about healing, becoming the best
we can be, reaching for all that is in us. We don't want to fit
in, we want to be outstanding. Our culture is insane. To help
someone adapt to that is stupid. We should be fighting like mad
to change it.
Good News:
We attacked a mountain village in Pakistan and killed some people.
We probably got, we may have killed, I think we, it's possible
that we — well, actually we're not sure.
Martin Luther King:
He was one of America's greatest heros. It's too bad about his
family. He is dead and I still doubt that any one of them could
be great enough to amount to a pimple on his dead butt.
New Orleans:
Ray Nagin really put his foot in it this time. He has been outspoken
right along, but he went off the deep end in his chocolate city
raving. It seems he wants all of the black people to come home,
but he would rather not have the white folks there. He tried
to back off from that later, but the damage was done. How is
he different from George Wallace?
Jill Carroll:
This is the young woman journalist who was taken prison in Iraq
by some evil people. These scumbags are demanding that America
release 8 Arab women who are being held in Iraq. Otherwise they
will murder Carroll. Meanwhile a phoney Iraqi commission has
recommended the release of the six female prisoners. They deny
it has anything to do with demands of terrorists holding Carroll
hostage. Sure! Bush's talking head, Scott McClellan, says the
return of Carroll is a priority for the Bush administration.
What else could he say? It seems we will give in to blackmail
this time. I think that is a very slippery slope. Giving in can
only encourage them to do it again.
The fact is, journalism in a place like Iraq is a dangerous
business. Carroll knew that going in and she took the risk. We
can and should admire her, but we should not sell out the principles
she represented. Here is what Margaret Mead had to say some years
ago. "If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for
release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think
certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons
should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken
hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists
in taking hostages?"
Granholm:
She has a new plan to make Michigan great. She is giving money
away. It's money we do not have. Some of it, they say is from
private funds. Sure. How much is public and how much is private?
Why aren't they saying? She is giving away 2 billion dollars
in grants. These are not loans, they are grants. There are no
strings. There is no incentive to succeed. All the people who
want the grants have to do is write a good proposal. A proposal
is a science fiction piece. When I worked at Ford and Bendix,
I saw a lot of those. Those things work as well on mangers as
they do on bureaucrats. All you need do is be good at making
pipe dreams look feasible. Manages and bureaucrats are eager
to believe it. Granholm, you fool, don't give grants, give loans
and make the pipe dream proposers accountable.
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