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July 3, 2006:
Writer's Block:
I believe the best way to overcome writer's block is to turn
it over to your soul-self. Ignore it and do something else. I
am now writing the second book of my philosophy series. When
I got to Part Five, I knew what I wanted it to be about, but
I did not know exactly what I wanted to say, or how I could best
say it. I just did something else for a while. That was easy
because it was garden planting season. Then Minerva (my spirit-guide,
soul-self) began telling me what I wanted to say and I was able
to think about it. As I began laying it out, Minerva kept telling
me how to say it. Now Part Five is almost done and, in retrospect,
it seems inevitable. Ha!
Protecting Our Kids:
It has occurred to me that we are protecting our kids to death.
Suddenly we have a generation of kids who can't stand anything.
They are allergic to everything. There was once an attitude about
kids that said a kid would normally eat a pound of dirt while
growing up. Now we protect them against that kind of unsanitary
stuff. We wash and scrub and spray until Mr. Clean cannot stand
it. What has it gained? Nothing except unprecedented income for
the peddlers of soap and disinfectant sprays. It has made our
kids vulnerable as heck. I had to take baths when I was growing
up, but my mother did not spray me every time I turned around.
Mrs. Gaffer, my resident RN, told me of a study being done
in a hospital with kids who were allergic to peanut butter. In
a controlled situation they exposed these kids to trace amounts
of peanuts and guess what? They developed immunity and were able
to eat peanut butter. That is the kind of thing that used to
happen to us naturally. That was before Madison Avenue conned
us into being ultra-sanitary. For their own good, let your kids
get a little dirty and eat a little dirt now and then.
It turns out, our healthiest kids are the ones who live on
farms. I remember things about that when I was a kid. We lived
in a almost rural suburb and we had relatives who lived on farms.
Kids went barefoot in those days. I did so often. The kids also
played baseball and, on the farm, we used cowpies for bases.
Yes, we stepped in them. It gives a whole new meaning to the
term, sliding in. So what? We grew up healthy with no allergies.
A Second Chance:
Everyone deserves a second chance, right? Wrong! Everyone does
not deserve a second chance, especially pedophiles. They deserve
forgiveness as does everyone. After that, they must live with
what they did. They must never be allowed near kids again in
any capacity.
The FBI:
They found the infamous laptop computer. Actually, they did not
find it, someone turned it in. He had bought it at a pawn shop.
The feds claim the database had not been accessed. What a crock
of crap that is! There is no way they could know that. Give me
that laptop for a couple of days and I will copy the entire hard
drive to another drive and not leave a trace of my access. The
feds are either lying or they are naive, probably both. They
do not know if the database was compromised or not and they will
never know unless someone uses a lot of the data for illegal
purposes.
Death:
The Michigan legislature is trying to get a death penalty in
Michigan. Meanwhile it has been pretty much established by the
Chicago Tribune that at least one innocent man was executed in
Texas. Texas is the execution capital of the world. I would like
them to keep that honor. I do not want to see that one come to
my state. Michigan is a swell place to live in spite of the fact
that it has really awful government. I am really against killing
people except in self defense. Revenge is not a good reason for
anything, let alone murder. That just makes us too much like
our enemies. Incarceration for life is good enough.
Warren Buffett:
He is a very wealthy guy. He recently gave about 37 billion dollars
to the Gates Foundation. That will heal a lot of people. Buffett
did not want to leave too much to his kids. He and Gates agree
on that. They said the kids should get enough money to do anything,
but not enough to do nothing. Sounds good to me!
Oil Sands:
According to a 60 minute report there are enough oil sands in
Alberta, Canada to provide us with oil for the next century.
They claim the reserve is greater than all the oil in Saudi Arabia.
There is a real boom going on there. That almost insures that
America will continue to burn fossil fuel and produce greenhouse
gasses. Global warming will continue until it is too late to
reverse the effect. I must apologize to my grandchildren for
destroying their future.
In the meantime, I will try to accumulate enough money to
design and build a automobile that does not use fossil fuel.
I'm getting a late start and will possibly fail. I wish someone
else would also try. This auto must be cheaper to operate than
a gasoline auto and must also perform better. It must be clearly
better. Otherwise the rabble will not buy and use it.
Wake Up Call:
Meanwhile, on June 26, 2006 it rained like all billy hell in
Washington DC. There was one foot of rain at Washington National
Airport. The city was flooded and more rain is coming. It's the
worst rain in over 300 years. Several federal agencies were put
out of business for the first time ever and a great deal of damage
was done. These kinds of things are happening all over the world.
That's a wake up call on global warning, but I doubt if George
got it. I doubt if anyone in Washington got it. Hey fools! That
abnormal rain and flooding has a cause. The root cause is the
burning of fossil fuels and the resultant greenhouse gasses.
The Supreme Court:
They slapped King George down. They said he cannot try those
victims at Guantanamo with military tribunals. Regardless of
where we do it, we must comply with the Geneva Conventions and
the rule of law. No matter. George won't hold the trials then.
He will just keep those people in prison until they die. No one
said he cannot do that. Think about this. How would you like
to be in prison without ever having been charged with a crime
and be kept there forever with no hope of release or of any kind
of a fair trial? You say it's alright because they are probably
foreign combatants or terrorists. How do you know that?
If George can do that to them, what's to keep him from doing
it to you? He can just decide he doesn't like you, claim you
are a terrorist, pick you up, and pop you into Gitmo. Why not?
What's to stop him if the law does not apply to him? Do you think
he has a conscience that would stop him? I don't think he has
a conscience. He is just a soulless ego riding roughshod over
our constitution.
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