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August 7, 2006:
Oh Well!
I did not get much work done today. I spent most of the day chatting
with my good friend, Residual Inertia. It is very difficult to
work when he is around. He is very persuasive.
Fareed Zakaria:
He is a frequent participant on the Stephanopolous roundtable
discussions. He was right on about Rumsfeld. He said if he were
making a democrat's campaign program it would consists of tapes
of Rumsfeld's public pronouncements. The man, he said, is not
even on this earth, he is living in an alternate universe. That's
as good a description of the secretary of war as I have ever
heard.
James Hanson:
He was featured on Sixty Minutes as an expert on global warming.
He claims the administration for which he works is trying to
prevent him from speaking out about global warming. He is doing
it anyway. He says the administration is suppressing information
on global warming and courting disaster by so doing. His estimate
is we have about ten years to reverse our course before the climate
gets into a runaway cascade mode which will be irreversible.
The bottom line is George Bush does not give a damn about his
children or his grandchildren. He only cares about his personal
wealth and the wealth of his cronies. He will sacrifice the future
for that. Ignorant and stupid, that's how I see him.
Classic:
On channel 12 local news the other day we got the classic non
sequitur. They used the phrase Rap Artist. To me that's like
calling the scribbles dumb kids put on men's room walls poetry.
Rap is not art. It's vulgar and at best it is very bad poetry.
Normally it's just sewage, the venting of an adolescent's spleen.
Don't tell me some of these rapper bappers are grown men. Adolescence
has nothing to do with physical age. It's about emotional maturity.
Scumbags:
Castro, the 80 year old leader of Cuba, was hospitalized. He
had some kind of internal bleeding problem. The wallowing expatriate
Cuban parasites in Florida thought that was a good enough reason
to celebrate. These bums bring enormous shame upon the Cuban
people.
The Tapes:
ABC managed to get copies of the Air Force tapes from 9-11. What
a debacle. The Air Force was as unprepared and inept as everyone
else. There was total confusion. Instead of the calm steady voices
we go used to hearing from the NASA launches, we heard on woman
say, "Oh my God." That has to be some kind of classic.
Real professional, wouldn't you say? Our best defense actually
came from the civilian passengers on the plane that crashed in
a field. They knew what to do and they did it.
Civilized:
It occurs to me that civilized people would not use churches,
Mosques, and other religious installations as bases of military
operations. Whether they believe in a particular God or in no
God at all, only savages of the lowest kind would hide behind
religion to justify and perpetrate their evil. Only Muslim extremists
do that. These Muslims who do these things are evil monsters
and should be annihilated. They are as evil as Pope Clement VIII.
Attitude:
This morning the show "Good Morning America" had an
old woman (101 years) on the show. They asked her how she had
come to live so long. She answered that she ate a lot of pickles
and she went out to lunch as often as she could and had a martini
every time. The bottom line is, she is looking out for ongoing
experiences rather than shriveling up just because she is old.
What you do, so long as it's positive, is irrelevant. Attitude
is everything.
Still Doing It:
Some of the generals and that alternate universe guy Rumsfeld
were before a Senate committee again. They keep talking about
the civil war that may happen in Iraq and what we would have
to do if it happens. How in the world can these fools so blatantly
deny the obvious? There is an ongoing civil war in Iraq. It's
not going to happen. It's going on. It is centered in Bagdad
and now they are putting thousands of our kids right in the middle
of it. Those B******s are insane and our kids will pay the price
of that madness.
It's over. We have lost in Iraq just the same as we lost in
Korea, just the same as we lost in Vietnam. In all cases, we
lost for the same reasons. We did not have the hearts and support
of the locals. It's time to face reality and salvage what we
can. The invasion of Iraq was a monstrous error. We took out
Iran's major enemy and destabilized the whole Middle East. Now,
not even the Jews can deal with the crisis we created. The whole
thing is about to go up in smoke. I hate to say this, but I think
it's time to turn the war over to Israel and give them our full
support including whatever military hardware they need. They
have become a naturally warlike people, much like they were under
King David, and they just might bring it off. A lot of Muslims
may die, but a lot of Muslims are going to die anyway. We should
want to make sure a lot of American kids don't die with them.
Right now we should be talking about saving what's left of civilization.
Selling Cars:
The big shots at Ford said they can't be overly concerned with
the ups and downs of monthly sales. They have more important
things to do. Betsy Stark of ABC News said it seems strange for
a company that is in the business of selling cars to not be concerned
with sales. She was right and wrong in that. She was right in
that Ford is indeed in the business of selling cars and they
don't know how to do it. She was wrong in assuming selling cars
is the business Ford should be in. They should not!
Ford should be in the business of building cars. If they did
that well, the cars would sell themselves. Believe it or not,
that's what used to happen years ago. Ford made attractive hot
cars and people lined up to buy them. The last time they did
that was with the Taurus and that was more than a decade ago.
It was also an accident. The Mustang was half a century ago and
they fired the guy who made that happen. Now they have nothing
new at all. Duh!
I'll never understand why they did not have the foresight
to put front wheel drive on the T-bird. That was one of the best
cars Ford ever build. I always demanded to have a T-Bird rent-a-car
when I was traveling. That thing hugged the road like it was
running in grooves. I never ordered one in the winter, because
of the rear wheel drive. If they had put front wheel drive on
that it could have been a long term best seller. Now it's too
late. Double duh!
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