The Weekly Notes 2007
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Back to the Weekly Notes 2007 Archives Buying an Automobile: For some people it is a
big deal. There is a lot of emotion involved. Many people want their car to
be an extension of their personality. For some men, though few would admit
it, it is an extension of their male hardware. They like to ram around in
their car. Some advertisers try to exploit that factor. It is possible I was
once like that. I won’t pretend to understand what a car is to a woman.
I do know, for many, it is more than transportation. There is considerable
emotion involved. Suffice it to say, for many people a car is not an
appliance. But a symbol. I have changed over the
years. My body has changed too and I cannot fit my arthritic frame into most
of those low profile bullets just to be fashionable. In buying a vehicle for myself,
comfort is the key. That is why I prefer a van like vehicle. I want a vehicle
that is, comfort, reliability, efficient, safe, and durable. I also like a
car to look nice, of course. As to that, I would like to see a return to the
classic lines of pre WWII. People talk a lot about classic cars, but when I
see the classic car shows I don’t see what they are talking about. You
see a lot of late model cars with snazzy pain jobs and powerful engines, but
no classic lines. To me, if a car was produced after WWII, it is not a
classic. The Beat Goes On: Now it’s the home
mortgage market that is down the tubes and again, we are expected to bail
them out. The fed and our government, in it’s infinite largess, is
making cheap money available, to save the economy so they say. Once again the
people who caused the disaster will get away with it. A few years ago the
crooks in the Savings and Loan scandal got off Scott free. Now it’s the
lenders and their idiot victims getting off. Before that it was Chrysler and
I don’t know how many others. You know who will pay
for this. You will! Our idiot government to reward these crooks will punish
every good honest citizen in Muslims: This is just a thought I
had. I believe the only way we will ever get these radical madmen to give up
their monstrous behavior will be when they find their own children, wives,
parents, and grandparents are dying and their mosques are being destroyed.
When we leave them with nothing except their hidey-hole in the ground, when
we or someone else begins to destroy their nests, some of them will
reconsider. Not all of them will. Some of them are so insane even that will
not affect them. The only thing to do with those is to find them and execute
them. On Being a Parent: I have made this point
several times, but no one seems to get it. The latest Mattel crap and lead
paint tells me that. People are not nurturing their kids properly. They have
been fed this insane notion by Madison Avenue that all they need to do to
have happy kids is to buy them junk. Most parents know that is bull but they
pretend to believe it. One of the parents said my kid got conned.
That’s bull! The kid was not conned. The parent was conned. When you made a baby,
you had a few seconds of passion, if you were lucky. The results of that were
your kid and a large responsibility to your kid. Until you meet that
responsibility, you have no rights. You gave up your rights in the passion of
procreation. Kids have rights. You have responsibilities. Quit being in
fashion and upward mobile at their expense. Quit buying that Mattel junk and
spend time with them. Teach them to do origami. Bake a cake. Build a fort,
like you did when you were a kid. You owe them that. Kids will do anything if
you do it with them. Love does not come in a toy box. It must be delivered
physically and verbally in person. George went there on
memorial day. Perhaps he has a secret death wish. If some Iraqi whacks him,
he will not have to face the impossible future. He is still talking about
withdrawing from a position of strength. You’re a couple of years too
late George. We will never have a position of strength there. We don’t have
enough troops for that. Petraeus is going right along with the charade. He is
selling out his troops. Whatever George wants to hear, he will say. And the
dance of idiots continues. Petraeus was promoted
from a two star general to a four star since this crap started. It’s
bizarre. He has failed at everything he has tried to implement in Media: The TV news people
constantly encourage kids to hate school. They do it regularly and they seem
to see nothing wrong with that. Their latest insanity came when the minor
league baseball season ended. A channel 12 reporter interviewed a kid at the
final game and said something like, Well the baseball season is over. For you
that’s a double whammy isn’t it? No more baseball and you have to
go back to school. That’s a bummer isn’t it? duh! Do kids really hate
school? Sure! Most of the adults they see tell them they should do it. I
don’t see how this makes it any easier on the teachers. Who is encouraging
kids to have fun learning? Where are they? Whoopie Goldberg: She took Rosie’s
place on the Babbling Broads show. It was a great improvement. Whoopi is
articulate, funny, and intelligent. Most of the time, I am working when that
show is on. One time I happened to notice the show when I went to the kitchen
for a snack and Mrs. Gaffer was watching it. Whoopie was wearing the
loveliest outfit I have ever seen her in. It was a beautifully embroidered
black suit making her the best dressed woman on the show. Back to the Weekly Notes 2007 Archives |