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Back to the Weekly Notes 2007 Archives May28, 2007: Global Warming: I believe it, but I
suspect no one else really believes it is happening. Even the High profile
advocates of green whatever don’t believe it. If they did they would
behave differently than they do. Instead of making up bullcrap slogan phrases
like carbon footprint, they would be looking for real solutions. All the
loudest mouths in this debate with their big cars and airplanes produce more
CO2 than 50 normal people. It’s all hooey and no effort from them. Amnesty or Whatever: I don’t care what
you call it, there is a compromise solution. There are still some bungholes
in George Bush: Perhaps his most
terrible legacy is he will make it appear that Lyndon Johnson was not so bad
after all. Humor in It seems we are running
a covert operation against covert
(kùv´ert, ko´vert, ko-vûrt´) adjective 1. Not
openly practiced, avowed, engaged in, accumulated, or shown: covert military
operations; covert funding for the rebels. See synonyms at secret. This cover sneaky
operation is the best advertised secret in Duh! Oh, Oh: Every key figure in this
Muslims: I am coming more and
more to the conclusion that there are no moderate Muslims. The way you
disable these madmen is to remove their source of support. You take away
their oil money. Without that source of support, they cannot function. The way you take away
their oil money is to find a real cheap plentiful source of energy that is
not based on oil. It ain’t Ethanol folks. If you planted all of our
available cropland to corn, it would not produce enough fuel. It would not
supply two weeks worth of Government: We need government
because too many men are savages. However, government itself is inherently
evil because it is made up of the kind of people who seek power for its own
sake. Therefore, the least government is the best government. Air Traffic: Again big delays are
happening. So, what else is new? Here is the thing. Most of the people who
are flying do not have to do it. Most executives who insist they must fly are
not being truthful. In many cases a telephone communication would suffice.
May of the tourists who fly could actually drive. It’s a fact, given
the delays involved it is faster and more efficient to drive from The IRS Thugs: They are now using
collection agencies to dun, intimidate, and coerce people for back taxes.
They are continuing this even though one tax official admits it is not cost
effective. Why? Because they can. They are the government. Of course, the do
not have the courage to go after the big cheater corporations. They are going
after private citizens. In my order of degrees of evil, collection agencies
are third down from most evil. First are politicians and bureaucrats, second
are attorneys, and third are collection agencies. Abraham Lincoln: Did you know he was the
first president to suspend Habeas Corpus? He got a lot of squalling and
squawking from congress and from the Supreme Court. They insisted that only
congress could do that. Many lives could have
been saved if he had managed to find a competent general early on.
Unfortunately, that peacetime army was not very different from the one we
have now. Most of the officers were brownnosed bureaucrats who had achieved
their position by playing politics rather than through any leadership
qualities. A Winner: We have a new winner in
the contest for the shortest book in the world. The title is, “The
Great Book of Muslim Ethics.” It has no pages, just a cover with some
fancy embossed symbols. Don’t Take Yes for
an Answer: Keep pushing your
subject around until he finally balks and says No! In that way, you have
helped the person make himself stronger. If he punches you in the snot
locker, so what? You have earned some kind of reward. Just be thankful he did
no give you full measure. Go Ahead: In a difficult
situation, when you know you are right you must go ahead. There will always
be large numbers of rabble who will naysay you and try to cut your legs off.
Even many of those who pretend to be your friends will try to get you from
behind. It was done to George Washington, John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, U. S.
Grant, and many other great people of history. They all went ahead in spite
of the opposition. Back
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