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March 26, 2007:

Plans:

There should not be any Medicare plan. There should not be any Medicaid plan. There should not be any prescription drug plan. There should not be any health insurance plans. People who need medical attention should be able to go and get it. I bet that would be less expensive than the bureaucratic nightmare we now have. Why? Because we would not be paying any bureaucrats, clerks, claims administrators, and other fools. They would all have to go out and get honest work.

Education:

The fact is, about half of our kids never learn anything useful in our educational system. The students who do well in this system would learn with no system at all. They would follow their interests and learn. However, for the vast majority of kids, our system does not work. If you want kids to learn, you must offer them something that grabs them, something they will be interested in.

Cold Remedies:

We saw a blurb on a TV news show. It was about cold remedies being marketed for children. The rap is that these remedies are dangerous for kids and should not be out there. I suspect it’s true. Most of these cough medications have too much booze in them. No matter what they say, look at the fine print and you will find alcohol is the active ingredient in most of them. There is a better solution. My mother made it when I was a tad. I used it for my kids a couple of times and it works great. Just mix a tablespoon of lemon juice into a ¼ cup of honey then add a drop or two of whiskey. Just a drop or two, I said. For kids, a little bit goes a long way. If you try this, make sure your kid is not allergic to alcohol. Some kids are.

Chlorine Gas:

The savages in Iraq are using it now. So far, they have not been very effective in terms of murders, but the terrorist aspect is huge. The gas is deadly, but using explosives to release it burns most of it before it does damage. A sprayer would be more effective. I have some experience with chlorine gas from my childhood. I lived in Wyandotte, Michigan where Monsanto chemical was located. One of the things they did was to mine the salt the underlay most of that area south of Detroit. Salt is, of course, sodium chloride, (NaCI). It can be broken down to make various products. One of them is chlorine (think bleach).

There were several companies in the business of exploiting this resource around Wyandotte. However, every once in a while, Monsanto would accidentally release a cloud of chlorine gas, which would float out over the town. I don’t know if this ever killed anyone, but there was usually a panic amongst the citizens when it happened. Those were the good old days when companies could get away with stuff like that with no penalty. I’m not sure that aspect has changed. Some companies still get away with too much bad behavior.

Mortgages:

Déjà vu! Remember the old Savings and Loan debacle that hit us several years ago. It happened because the government did not bother to regulate a predatory industry. It cost all of us a huge bunch of money when the government decided to bail those crooks out. Get ready for another hit. This one will be with the mortgage industry, another predatory crap heap. They gave loans to people who they know could not possible pay them back. The loans were based on the irrational notion of a continuously fast growing economy. The growth is no longer there and foreclosures are coming down like hailstones. The housing market is in the crapper and a lot of people have homes they can no longer afford. Not to worry. The feds will step in and bail them out and we taxpayers will get the bill. Bet on it!

Rutherford:

He ran the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge. He was the first man in history to achieve the transmutation of one element into another. In 1919 he bombarded nitrogen with alpha particles and knocked a hydrogen nucleus out of the nitrogen. The result was a hydrogen nucleus and an isotope of oxygen with an atomic weight of 17 instead of 16. Amazing! Rutherford lived in the golden age of Western science. That age died somewhere between WWI and WWII. It never revived. Now, we have directed research designed to make political hacks look good. Methanol is a prime example of that wasteful crap. Where are we looking for solutions? Why? Why are we burning food to feed cars. Why have the Rutherford’s of the world been suppressed in favor of suck up pseudo scientists.

Caro Center:

The Caro Center is a place in Michigan where they are supposed to care for loony bird criminals. These are people who have committed a crime, but got off easy because they are supposedly insane. Last week, a guy walked away from this place and scared heck out of the local residents. Their fear was justified. The last time this happened, two years ago, a walk away escapee beat some people over their heads with a hammer. There are some bureaucrats there who claim they are not allowed to confine these loonies. Instead, the locals have to lock themselves in their homes and wait for the all clear when one of these nuts is allowed to walk. That is crazy! A 12 foot chain link fence would resolve this problem. The keepers at Caro are nuttier than the inmates.

Our Ism-Anti Culture:

We are going more and more insane with each passing year. I mean, we, Americans. How many times have we seen this? A person witnesses something and reports faithfully on what he saw. Most likely, the first thing that will happen is he will be accuse of some kind of ism. I think the extreme of this irrational behavior came when Jimmy Carter, a truly decent person, reported what he learned in the middle east and was accused of anti-Semitism. Stupid, Completely stupid! I am sick of it.

I have been accused of racism, sexism, adult-ism, and homophobia for Gord’s sake. I am none of those. I am surly not homophobic. Phobic means fearful of or in fear of. I assure you, I am not afraid of fruits or of their emotional condition. I know it will not rub off on me. What they have is an emotional pathology. It is not communicable. If anything I pity them for their pathology. I just wish they would not shove their fruitiness in my space. If you want to be fruitful, do it in private.

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