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July 10, 2006:
Blindness and Good Teachers:
It was brought to our attention by the local media that some
kids are partially blind and their parents do not even know it.
The situation depends on good teachers noticing the problem.
This happened to us when our daughter was in elementary school.
She always sat in the front of the class and most folks, including
us, just assumed she was an eager student.
The truth is, she could not see the blackboard from the back
of the room. He teacher realized this and brought it to my wife's
attention. No one was more shocked than my daughter when she
got her first glasses and realized the world was not just a blur,
but had separate and distinct parts. There was another upside
to this story. My daughter continued to sit at the front of the
room and became a magna cum laude graduate. She went on to get
a doctor of philosophy in genetics. Not bad for a kid who started
out almost blind.
Loony Muslims:
It seems the authorities caught some loony Arabs who were planing
to blow up a commuter train tunnel in New York. They had to be
Muslim extremists because they were really out of touch with
reality. Dumb is the word that comes to mind. They thought they
could flood part of New York by blowing up the tunnel. What they
did not notice is the real estate they thought to flood was somewhat
above sea level and clearly above the level of the Hudson River.
Three Cheers for Home Depot:
They threw the religious fascists off of their property. These
religious Baptist swine from Kansas were setting up to interfere
with another funeral for a Michigan serviceman. The maggots had
no place to set up so they crawled back under their rocks. The
funeral went off as the relatives planned it.
Rights in America:
It did not start out that way, but rights in America have come
down to this. All of the rabble believe they have a right to
do whatever they please regardless of how it affects anyone else
including their neighbors. Our responsibility to respect our
neighbors and behave decently has becomes irrelevant. We have
become a very sick culture.
Uniform Code of Military Justice:
It seems the Supreme Court will allow this military code to be
applied in the trials of the prisoners at Guantanamo. That is
much more reasonable than an ad hoc military tribunal where there
would be no rules. The court has also specified that we follow
article 3 of the Geneva Conventions. That means we got to treat
these people as though they are human beings until we prove they
are not. We must prove they are guilty before we can treat them
as guilty. That seems reasonable to me.
Feinstein:
She says what she thinks. She was on the Stephanopolous show.
She stated the obvious. Iraq is in the middle of a civil war.
She said we cannot do any good there. She is not for a cut and
run strategy, but she does think we should have a plan for getting
our kids out of there, soon.
Mollohan:
He's a congressman from West Virginia. He got so blatant about
misdirecting taxpayer's money into pet projects that the FBI
is looking into his dealings. He has misdirect half a billion
bucks over the past ten years. I know the FBI is inept, but I
hope they manage to get him, even if it's by accident.
The New Battle of Gettysburg:
Some pigs in Pennsylvania want to build a casino near this historic
site. They can then misuse the natural drawing power of this
place to get customers into their gambling den. Then they can
pander to the human pathology of gambling to make huge profits.
Hell, why not! It's the American way isn't it? Pure decadence
for profit. Our swinishness knows no bounds. I'm sure the profiteers
will succeed.
The main pusher seems to be a guy named David LeVan. He has
some opposition. Some people are asking if his plan would desecrate
Gettysburg. My opinion is, if you put a casino in a sewer, the
sewer would be desecrated. Casinos are obscene. Gambling is a
pathology. Gamblers are sick people.
Arby's:
These nut cases have some new TV ads where they malign Wendy's
and McDonald's. I don't know how sensitive the rabble are, but
that does not fly with me. I think it is the extreme of bad judgement
and bad business to malign anyone in your advertising. You don'‘t
win customers away from Wendy's by telling them they are fools.
Discovery:
They finally got it up on the Fourth of July. Good show. I hope
it is successful. However, I am rapidly losing respect for the
managers and engineers at that place. They know the foam is unstable
and vulnerable, but they have done nothing to find a replacement
for it. There must be a better way, but it will not be found
within the establishment. They have been in business too long.
Their minds are closed to new ideas. That's the problem with
all closed cultures. They become set in their ways and become
incapable of innovation. It matters not if it is the FBI, Ford
Motor Company, or NASA. Closed cultures will always stop looking
outward and atrophy.
North Korea:
Sooner or later they are going to get it right. It should be
clear that we need a reliable way of knocking missiles out of
the air before they reach apogee and tip toward their target.
What we have now is a Rube Goldberg kluge. We really have nothing
we can call effective. The ICBM threat is more that 40 years
old. Hitler's scientists invented missiles in WWII for crap's
sake. We ought to have done something by now. China, South Korea,
and Japan could probably get together and hammer North Korea
without our help. China should be more concerned than anyone
else, but they are still covering for the pompous midget, Kim
Jong Il. Inscrutable orientals. Duh!
The Capital Visitor's center:
It's not complete yet. It began about 3 year's ago. So far it
has cost more than 500 million. They wanted a visitor's center
to show how congress worked. I would say they have succeeded.
The capitol looks like it was bombed. Double duh!
Ken Lay:
He died the morning of July 5, 2006 of a massive coronary. He
was facing several decades in prison. He was due to be taken
away the next day. Perhaps he knew he was dying and just did
not care. Whatever, it's over. The proper social protocol is
we do not speak ill of the dead. I think that's a good rule.
I could hope folks will observe it when I die.
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