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March 12, 2007:

Paulson:

He is secretary of the treasury. He appeared on ABC’s “This Week.” He adheres to the Republicrumb party line, but he does make some good point. He points out that workers who are essentially unskilled are not in high demand. People will need real skills if they want to earn a good living. He was referring to assembly line people when he said it. I have also pointed this out. The day of the well-paid ditch digger is over. If you can learn to do a job in less than an hour, even if they call it semiskilled, it is not. It is grunt work and there is less and less of it available at any wage. Automated machinery is replacing the grunts. If they want to keep working they will need to become technicians.

He also spoke of the problem with executive pay. The beef is it is not tied to performance. The packages boards of directors routinely approve are recipes for disaster. They are designed to reward failure equally with success. There is no incentive to succeed in that situation. The executives are paid no matter how they do and if they fail big time, they get a golden parachute. Dumber than dumb. Stupid!

Paulson also lays claim to being an environmentalist. I could not see if his tongue was in his cheek or not. If he is an environmentalist, what is he doing working for the most anti-environment president we have ever had?

David Walker:

He is the controller general of the United States. He is criticizing the government bureaucracy. Medicare, Medicaid, and the prescription drug plans are on his list of bureaucracies needing reform. Right on! I don’t know if he has any power, but at least he is sane enough to notice misfeasance and malfeasance in the system. Most of the people around him are so insane they think of millions and billions of dollars as normal expenditures. This fiscal insanity is a communicable disease that most of these fools catch as soon as they get to Washington.

Security:

Outside Dow High School in Midland Michigan, a crazy kid shot his “girlfriend?” and then shot himself. The first thing the school officials and the media started babbling about is reviewing security procedures. It’s as though they think they can prevent this kind of insanity with policies and procedures. Let’s get clear. This kid was insane. He was not born insane, he became insane due to the conditions of his environment. If you want to stop insanity, you must begin with the newborn children and make sure they are not driven insane by the people who are supposed to be nurturing them. Procedures will change nothing. There is no way you can prevent a crazy person from shooting someone. We cannot even protect our president for Gord’s sake.

Norman! Norman!

Michigan has its own real life psycho. This psycho, Stephen Grant offed his wife and reported her missing. He then appealed to the public for help in finding her. The cops were suspicious and got a warrant to search his home. While they were doing that, they let him wander off and escape before they found her torso in the garage. In a very grizzly, Alfred Hitchcock style, he had dismembered her. He was spreading parts around a local park. Fortunately, this guy was even dumber than the cops who let him walk away. He stole a yellow Dakota from his neighbor and drove it to Northern Michigan. The cops put out an APB and he was discovered and apprehended. Duh for him a double duh for the cops.

March 6, 2007:

Nine US soldiers were killed in Iraq today. Ninety Iraqis were killed with car bombs. I50 were wounded.

March 7, 2007:

Three more Americans killed and a couple of hundred Iraqis dead. The mad king’s surge is really working great. If it worked any better there would be no one left alive in Iraq.

Dismissed:

Meanwhile, George is working up support for his administration policies. A bunch of justice department attorneys were dismissed by Gonzales and his henchmen. The newspaper said eight were given the boot. ABC said nine were pushed out. Who knows which is right. The point is these people did not see eye to eye with George on some things. We can be sure they will be replaced by people who do.

Emails:

Some of the emails from the love triangle nutcase astronauts became public. They sounded like adolescent twaddle. Only a complete fool would put explicit stuff like that in an email. These people seem to have the intellectual prowess of children. Convince me that these nuts have been psychologically tested. Sure! How in the world did people like that get into the space program? Surly we have better qualified people in America somewhere. Don’t we? The problem, as I see it, is the space program has moved away from strict science to become politically correct.

Saginaw:

A couple of high school kid musicians from Saginaw, Michigan went to New York to compete at the old Apollo Theater against kids from all over the country. The Saginaw kids won the competition and will probably get a contract. On the ABC local evening news, they spent about 20 minutes covering high school basketball, but they never mentioned this artistic achievement. In Flint, only basketball is important. Art and academics go to the back of the bus.

Spring Ahead:

Let’s consider two things. First the new idiot legislative rule that changed the timing of the switch to daylight savings time. It is asinine. No energy will be saved. It has been clearly established that any power saved at night will be used in the morning. Daylight savings time is and always has been a fraud. We cannot create more daylight by passing stupid laws. What the legislators try to do is give the appearance that they are doing something. The truth is, they have not and never will deal with the real problems in America, so they put up this smoke screen. They cannot deal with an administration run amok. They cannot deal with corporate corruption. They cannot deal with any of the things that are destroying America. The reason is, they are a large part of the problem. They benefit by maintaining the status quo.

Now, lets take up the nonsensical notion that this change is creating a debacle that will cost billions of dollars. This is even sillier than the Y2K foolishness. If you have a Microsoft computer, look in the lower right corner of the screen. There is the time display. Hold your mouse over it. If it is giving the wrong time, left click on it, click on adjust time and date and set the time to what you know is correct. It is that simple. It’s also true for any outfit that uses computers and depend upon the time stamp. It’s simple to change. It is a nuisance, not a debacle.

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