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June 4, 2007:

Michigan’s Budget:

We have a budget deficit in Michigan of almost a billion bucks. The so-called lawmakers are struggling to fix the problem. Meanwhile, that woman in Lansing is stealing tax monies to subsidize Ethanol production. I don’t know if she is just stupid or dishonest. She has to be one of those, perhaps both. We pay for that fraud in three ways. We pay at the pump because the fuel is just less efficient than gasoline. We pay again in increased taxes to cover the subsidies. Then we pay again at the store where everything costs more because our croplands are being diverted into this fraud. And the dance of idiots continues.

In Addition:

Our ignorant lawmakers are getting ready to take money from Michigan’s universities to cover their bungling of the budget. To these carpetbaggers, nothing is sacred nothing is immune. This does not square at all with the lottery bull that implies education is getting more money now than it did before the lotto started. It is not, and now it will get even less. Education is the last place to cheat the system, unless your goal is to create a third world state. Perhaps we will soon catch up (down?) with Mexico.

America:

America is a great country. It was born great and it is still great. However, the recent degeneration in the morality and ethics of our leadership, and the people in general does not bode well for our future.

Nifong:

This is the DA who trumped up charges and attempted to destroy the lives of three Duke Student athletes. They say he will face charges and could be disbarred. That would be a mild punishment for what he has done. If I were God Emperor, he would go to prison. He would get what he tried to give to those three kids. He is a criminal!

Cochran and Foley:

These guys are personal injury attorneys. They are on my crap list forever. They had the unmitigated gall to compare themselves to one of America’s great heroes. In a television ad, they actually compared themselves favorably to John Adams. Sick, very sick!

May:

It has been a disaster for the troop surge this month. We lost Four 4 soldiers per day. King George says we will not abandon Darfur. Instead we will abandon our troops. They will be sacrificed to the great god of ego. It don’t change much from year to year.

Spam:

The authorities have arrested one of the biggest offenders. His name is Soloway. I think he should be shoved away. I hope they give him more than a slap on the wrist. He should go to prison for life. It only makes sense. A criminal’s penalty should be proportional to the cost to the community of his illegal activity. In this case, that would be billions of dollars. 75% of all email is spam. The cost of dealing with that to industry is billions of dollars. The cost to me is about one hour per week.

Lucky:

I love people who think I am lucky. I will never have to compete with them. While they are sitting around waiting to get lucky, I will be working, as always. Sometimes I am so lucky that some of my work actually pays off.

Who do we Believe:

This guy who has TB exposed a whole lot of people to the disease. TB can be transmitted in its contagious stage through the air, but not easily. This is not a case like Typhoid Mary, but it’s dangerous enough. The guy pleads innocence, because he was not ordered to stay home. He was not quarantined. However, he knew he had TB. In addition, the CDC did not tell him forcibly enough to not travel. Then we have homeland security who had him on the watch list and did not know where he was and could not find him. I think there is enough blame to go around.

Remember?

When you were a kid, did you have a chemistry set? I did not, but I always wanted one. I still want one, so I ordered one. It’s not just to be a kid again, although that is a worthy goal. Kids, after all, are usually more creative than adults and learn faster. I really bought the set, because I wanted to learn about chemistry. I finally realized a car engine is really a chemical processing plant. That’s what a heat engine is. So, if I want to understand how a car works, I must understand the chemistry involved.

Rats:

Years ago, in the copper mines of Michigan’s Kewenaw peninsula lived a rat that should not have been alive. He was blind an only had three legs. Normally, he would have starved, but he lived in the copper mine where he was the pet of a miner who fed him every day. Rats are quite smart. One old fellow in the mines proved it this way. The rats were always near and visible when the men were in the mines except when rock was about to be blown. All this old fellow had to do, to prove the rats were smart, was to shout ‘FIRE!’ You could hear the scurry of thousands of tiny fleeing feet whenever that word was shouted.

Grim Reaper:

I don’t know what’s on the other side. I will resist death, of course. Because I’m busy doing things and I don’t want to stop yet. But, I don’t think I fear death. It’s just the last great adventure. Perhaps it’s not the final adventure, but the last one we know about.

A puzzle:

Why does popcorn pop? There is a scientific explanation. See if you can find it.

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