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March 20, 2006:
Women and Lung Cancer:
A lot of women who never smoked are suddenly dying of lung cancer.
Way more that men who never smoked. There must be a reason. Mrs.
Gaffer believes the reason could be in the ingredients of hair
sprays and deodorants or other chemical preparations that are
supposed to make women beautiful. Some women breath them regularly.
The products must make them beautiful, because Madison Avenue
says so. They have to use that stuff to be acceptable. I must
ask, acceptable to who? It sure as hell ain't me. Is being acceptable
to some short sighted male jerk worth dying for?
Tell you what. Here is what I think is beautiful. Clean and
natural is my choice. Regardless of what he says, there are only
two ways a really health man wants to see the woman he loves.
One is freshly bathed and dressed to the nines, just to go out
with him. The other is squeaky clean and stark naked, perhaps
with a sheen of perspiration, just for him. All the paint and
varnish in the world cannot improve on that.
Canada's Trash:
There is a big brouhaha in Michigan about trash. It seems our
neighbors to the north are finding it economically feasible to
ship their trash into Michigan for landfill disposal. Politicians
apparently cannot see the obvious answer is to make it not economically
feasible. They are waving their arms and demanding, of course,
federal intervention. I suppose George could impose an import
duty on trash. That would be a first. The problem is, if we put
an import duty on Canadian trash, Canada might retaliate. Then
our politicians would have to pay a duty every time they visited
Canada.
The Single Business Tax:
It turns out that Michigan is the only state in the union that
punishes small business with what amounts to cash flow tax. It
is not a profit or income tax. It is a cash flow tax. Instead
of encouraging entrepreneurs we discourage them with oppressive
taxes. Some of our legislatures are thinking about eliminating
that tax. Of course, our great governor Granholm is against that.
She would rather suck up and give irrational tax breaks to big
business than encourage our startup people and watch them grow
and prosper in Michigan. Remember, a vote against Granholm is
a vote for better government.
Genius:
We understand that Van Gogh was a genius. We also understand
that Dr. Einstein was a genius. Thus, we notice there is a profound
diversity in the ways genius can manifest. From this, I will
make the leap that there is genius in each of us. Even the idiot
savant has genius in him which is closer to the surface than
it is for the rest of us. In most cases genius does not get the
proper stimulus to manifest. Our genius gets lost in the thicket
of conditioning and survival. We are educated out of our creativity.
Instead of being invited to be creative, we are told to grow
up. Sad, really sad.
Newsworthy:
The media does rationalize what they report to satisfy themselves
that they are noble and good. They are, after all, mostly human.
Recently we have had a controversy about what should be reported
locally. This had to do with their reporting on the monstrous
people who used the solemn occasion of a soldier's funeral to
protest against gays. I discussed this in the March 13, Notes
in a piece I called "Beyond Evil." It had already been
reported by channel 12 and I picked up on it. The difference
is, I made a judgement about these monsters and channel 12 did
not. They simply reported it as news and gave it equal coverage
along with the funeral. I thought the funeral got short changed
in that.
I would have preferred to never have seen those swine on TV.
I would wish the media would have pretended they were not there
and just covered the funeral. After some local people challenged
them they gave a limp rationalization about their coverage. It
amounted to, they have a duty to report all of the news. Would
that it were so. The truth is, they regularly pretend things
are not there. For example, I must ask, why did they not expose
Mayor Stanley and the City Council of Flint many years before
the city was bankrupt. The editor of the Flint Journal pretends
to be noble because he exposed Stanley after the damage was done,
years too late. I guess it was not newsworthy until the city
was done in.
Iran:
One big mistake Bush made was in not understanding that Hussein
was the natural enemy of Iran. Iran is and has always been our
real enemy. When we took out Iraq, we removed a natural barrier
to Iran's goal of imposing fundamentalist Islam on the entire
Middle East. Hussein was right. He believed that America would
not invade Iraq and Iran was his real challenge. How was he to
know that our president was a loony bird? He probably though
it was just sabre rattling by Bush.
Iraq:
We are sending more troops to Iraq because of some kind of holy
day. In spite of what our generals say, it is very clear Iraq
is in the midst of a civil war. I think we should get the hell
out instead of sending more of our kids in. If the arabs want
to kill each other, we should not interfere.
Kansas:
Perhaps I was wrong. Perhaps there is a God. Kansas got ripped
up pretty bad by tornados this week. It was so bad their college
was destroyed and they had to close it. Is their God punishing
Kansas for spawning those dreadful monsters who use funerals
to make a stupid political point? I could hope for that. Perhaps
their God, in his infinite wisdom, decided these primitive minded
people had no need for a college. The question remains, what
about those poor college students? Where will they go now to
pretend they are being educated?
Zacarias Moussaoui:
The sentencing trial has gone badly. As usual, the feds screwed
up. The prosecution team bungled badly and lost their most important
witnesses. The judge, rightfully, disallowed testimony from people
who had been coached by the prosecution. At least one person
on the prosecution team broke the law. It was not just a violation
of law, but a violation of ethics. I suspect they all knew she
was doing it and the whole lot of them should be in prison.
Later, the judge reversed herself and allowed substitute witnesses
in place of the coached ones. How d we know they were not coached
also? We don't. The prosecution has tainted this case beyond
repair. Based on what the media reported, I think the judge should
declare a mistrial and give Zacarias Moussaoui the minimum sentence.
I know it's awful, but we are either lawful or not. We cannot
have it both ways.
Puzzle:
Who was Walter Reed? What did he do that warranted having a hospital
named after him?
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