The Weekly Notes 2007
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Back to the Weekly Notes 2007 Archives The Once Great We can call the ongoing
insanity in The lotto makes much
more money than it costs to operate. The Secretary of State’s Office
(SOS) should make money. It has plenty of revenue. If it is losing money it is because of who is running it and how it is
being run. I went online to try to find out the payroll of the SOS office. It
should be public information, but I could not find it. That tells me
something. Ditto for the DNR. Many people who had paid their fees were thrown out of Here is the worst part.
That woman in Meanwhile, the state
remains completely hostile to the only people who could help. The small businessmen and small entrepreneurs meet a cold stone wall
when they try to get a start up business going. They are likely to encounter
bureaucratic red tape instead of being offered help.
Yet these are the very people who, if the manage to get started, can create
real jobs rather than just move them around as the giant corporations do.
They are the ones with new ideas and new products. They need an ombudsman,
but that woman in There is news that they
have finally partly resolved their childish behavior and done what those evil
wallowing brutes always do. They will punish the citizens with additional
taxes. They are even putting a tax on human labor. I wonder if they will
reinvent debtor’s prison while they are at it?
Those people are a disgrace to the human race. Not one of them suggested that
they should not be paid for what they have done. Not
one of them has agreed to give back the money they stole under the pretext of
doing their jobs. Meanwhile, they are still squabbling over another 440
million in budget reductions that they still have to achieve. I won’t hold my breath. When the do make reductions, I’m sure it will not be in their fat salaries or in
their plums. The cuts are more likely to be in essential human services.
There is no one in either house on either side of the aisle who does not
belong in hell. Crime: I keep hearing the
bologna about hate crimes and I’m sick of it.
The nonsensical notion that a crime can be more important if we call it a
hate crime is typical of our current cultural nuttiness. A crime is a crime
and it carries certain penalties if we have a conviction. If the penalties
are not appropriate, we have remedies for that. It’s
called legislation. We can change the penalties through legislation. It is
beyond stupid to rename a crime depending on who was the victim. If a street
thug beats me up and calls me an old fool, that is
assault. If he beats me up and calls me a stupid Kraut, it is still assault.
If he beats me up and calls me a friggin Heb, it is still assault. If the
penalties are appropriate for the first case, they are appropriate for all
cases. Let us try enforcing the laws we have rather than inventing new names
for crimes. Read a Banned Book: Mrs. Gaffer went to our
local library the other day. They had a display near the entrance. It was a table with a sign that proclaimed, “Read a Banned
Book.” If you had not noticed
the sign, you might have surmised that the library was featuring books by great
authors. Two that she noticed were Vonnegut’s “Slaughter House
Five” and Faulkner’s “As I lay Dying.” There were
others, but those two alone are noteworthy for the lasting impact they had.
Yet, these fools continue to ban books as though they were having a positive
effect on human morality. Suppressing truth has never been moral, good, or
effective. It did not work for Hitler. It did not work for the Church of
Rome, but they continue to do it. It don’t
change much from year to year. Sports: We can wonder what
George Washington might have thought if he had realized he was founding a
republic that would degenerate to a dull-minded hedonistic culture, which
would reward simple-minded buffoons for playing children’s games much
more extravagantly than they would reward the top leaders of the republic. Cherry Blossom: Sometimes, while
strolling down the lovely They told us God is
dead. In the morning we were
mourning, At night, we got tight. Next day we were gay, No more prayers to say, We are free to just be. Global Warming: We must face the fact
that government is never going to do anything about global warming. If we
want to do anything about it, we will have to do it ourselves. This has
always been the case. Governments never solve problems. They create new
problems where none existed before. Back to the Weekly Notes 2007 Archives |