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Weekly Notes:
January15, 2007:
They Don’t Understand:
Saginaw, Michigan
has a crime problem. They keep groaning and moaning about it. They keep on wanting
to add more cops to get on top of it. At the same time, a large number of Saginaw’s
kids do not graduate from high school. The government and the citizens cannot
seem to make the obvious connection. Spending money on cops will not cure the
problem. Spending money on education may, but it’s
long term. All real solutions to real problems are long term. That’s why politicians ignore them.
Meanwhile, what does the local media
do? They give daily coverage to the local school sports teams, especially basketball.
If a kid gets good and gets onto Tom Izzo’s Michigan
State team, he will
be lauded to high heaven. How much coverage do they give to real
education? Little to none! In a very real way, they
promote ignorance by ignoring academic achievement. It is not important, but
basketball is.
The Big Guns:
There were three guys on the
Stephanopoulos hot seat this time. These were the Dumbocratic
big guns who moved up after the Dumbocrats
took over in Washington. First
was Dave Obey of the appropriations committee. From what I could tell after
his hedging, he will give George all the money he wants. Second was Charles
Rangel of Ways and Means. Third was Henry Waxman of the Government Reform
committee. Reform? Sure! He wants to audit Iraq.
He thinks a lot of money has been pilfered. No kidding? After listening to these guys
for several minutes, I get that nothing will change. They
did not talk about, they talked around every issue.
Brent Scowcroft:
He used to be a
Lieutenant General. He is advising George to go ahead with a troop surge. He
talks about these events in Iraq as though he were discussing a chess
game. He is as cold as ice about the human beings involved. It is clear that
he has no relatives or friends in the service. It is also clear that he has
never been in the trenches or on the firing line. He is an armchair general
personified. He keeps babbling about abandoning our friends in that region.
None of these fools seems to understand that Muslims are not our friend, have
never been our friends, and will probably never be our friends. We have no
friends in the Middle
East. Let’s try to get clear on that.
Even Stephanopoulos
falls into the trap of saying we may get defeated in Iraq. For Gord’s
sake, we are defeated in Iraq. We out to face that
and get out. Scowcroft babbles about having chaos in the Middle East if we abandon our
“friends.” He babbles about 100 dollar per barrel oil. I frankly
believe chaos I the Middle
East is the
best thing that could happen to us. It would force us to become energy
independent. That’s something we should have
done 30 years ago.
Language
Barrier:
One of the
problems we have in Iraq is we don’t
have enough translators. We do not have people who can speak Arabic. They are
talking about the problem of training translators. That’s
crazy. We don’t have to train them. They are
already here. My Gord, why don’t
they go to Dearborn,
Michigan and hire a few thousand of the
out-of-work Arabs there? They are fluent in Arabic. It’s
their native language. Pay them good and take them over there to translate. Let’s find out if they are really Americans.
Michigan Law:
Our courts are overloaded with more cases than they can handle.
Justice is delayed and denied. So what are they
doing? They have one woman who was convicted of
murder. She has been sentenced to life in prison.
The DA is not satisfied. The woman is being tried
again for another murder. Why? What will that do
except feed the ever-hungry media? Can she receive two life sentences? Maybe
we can extend her life for another lifetime. Duh!
Did You Notice?
Whenever a
general retires or gets fired, there is another one
to step in and take his place. We have enough brass for two or three armies,
but not enough troops for one tenth of an army.
Ford:
They are
putting a Microsoft gadget called Sync in their cars. It lets the driver of a
car do everything except pay attention to driving. These morons still have it
in their heads that it’s lack of hand contact
that causes accidents. What causes accidents is lack of attention,
distractions. Someone should keep track and find out how many accidents these
gadgets will cause in the coming months.
Graffiti:
It’s everywhere. I have a solution to the
problem. We can’t catch everyone doing is, but
we could catch a few. We should make examples of those few. They should be stripped naked, and spray-painted, perhaps
passion pink. Then they should be taken to Flint Michigan and shoved out of a
car on Dort Highway. I thought they would get beat up and
ridiculed. Mrs. Gaffer suggested, on Dort Highway, they might get offers.
Ethanol:
They are
building more plants in Michigan to convert corn to an inferior auto fuel. The media is gushing
about it. They babble about fuel independence. These idiots never do their
homework. They completely slip over the fact that these plants are being subsidized with our tax money to make them even
marginally competitive. That’s what Granholm is doing with our tax dollars. That is part of
the reason Michigan has a deficit. What fools these mortals be!
Captive
Viewers:
The Saginaw, Michigan schools have moved to a new low of
integrity. They are going to put advertisements in the school busses that
haul the kids to and from school. They are going to victimize them with ads.
They cannot escape. They had the chairman of the
school committee on camera and he rationalized this disgraceful behavior on
the grounds of revenue for the schools. It won’t
net them enough money to justify victimizing the kids. All they would have to
do is fire a couple of Vice Principles and they could save a lot more money.
I think we should find out who the advertisers are and boycott them.
A Puzzle:
What is theodolite? What is it used for?
Who invented it? As always, write a one-page paper and submit it to your
mother or spouse. Don’t send it to me.
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