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Weekly Notes:
October 15, 2007:
My Last Will and
Testicles:
I don’t have much of a will. Mrs. Gaffer can tell you
that. Therefore, anyone who wants it can have it. As to my worldly
goods, if I can keep the Michigan Probate Court from stealing them and giving them to a
“friend of the court?” I will leave them to my kids. I trust my
kids to be more honest with each other than they are with me and share them
equally. As to my testicles, for what they are worth, anyone who wants them
may have them after I die. That and three bucks will probably get you a
boilermaker at any bar that serves boilermakers.
Union
Management.
GM workers are
claiming that this transfer of benefits management to the union is a good
thing. Perhaps they should check with a few retired Teamsters before they buy
into that. I have a couple of relatives who would like to explain to them how
bad an idea it is.
Pelosi:
It is difficult to not notice her foolishness. She seems bent on making as
many enemies as she can as quickly as she can. She cannot seem to refrain
from making nasty remarks for no other reason than to get cheap laughs.
Columbus Day:
I had not thought
about it much until it came up this year and the Post Office was closed. It is a national holiday,
wherein we pretend that Columbus was the great man who
discovered America. The only problem with that is, as near
as I can determine, it ain’t
true. First of all, America was not lost. It was
occupied by a whole bunch of people. So far
as we can tell, these people migrated from Siberia in Northern Asia
into America either by a land bridge over the Bering Strait or by boat. They eventually migrated
over both continents and developed a number of independent cultures. So these Mongol types who became American Indians are the
ones who discovered America.
If
you want to take it from Europe’s perspective, it
was still not Columbus who discovered America. My studies indicate that Leif Ericsson
did that when he visited the northernmost Atlantic coast of America around ad-1000. What Columbus did do was begin the exploitation of the
Americas and it’s
native people. It was a bummer for the Indians when he showed up.
Banned Books Again:
We have an article
from the Detroit Free Press on October 7, 2007. According
to that another book came under attack recently.
This was the so-called controversial book Tango. From the article, I could
not tell, but I surmised that Tango is a thinly disguised book for children
about penguins written by a couple of fruits that advocates adoption of
children by fruits. I consider that to be an idea
which is dangerous in the extreme. My position on fruitiness, as an emotional
pathology, is not secret. We should not be teaching that to children.
While I disagree
with these nuts I think banning books is even more
dangerous. If our position is sound, letting these fools speak out for their
pathology will not hurt us. If parents are doing their jobs, they will be in
a position to expose the irrational and unhealthy nature of that lifestyle. Let’s keep in mind that people are not born as
fruits, the become fruits. The cause of that can only be improper nurturing
by the parents. So, never mind banning books. If you want to protect your
kids, nurture them.
Those people, who
want to ban this book, are the very people who would also have removed
Freud’s “Interpretation of Dreams” from the Wyandotte High School library. They did not know about the book and I found it there.
Finding that book was a true pivotal point in my life. It opened a whole new world to me that I did not even know existed. It
took me away from science fiction to true science and set me on a lifelong
adventure of reading and learning. Don’t ban
books. If your own position is sound, it will not be necessary to silence
others. If your position is not sound, banning books will not protect it.
Higher Education:
People are
concerned, so they say, about the ever-increasing cost of higher education.
The problem is acute in Michigan because that woman and her cohorts in Lansing are taking state money away from the big-time institutions. Even though my daughter has a PHD
in genetics, I tend to snicker at our tendency to overvalue so-called higher
education. Let’s look at the record. The
founder of Microsoft never finished college before he became wealthy. I don’t know, of care, if he finished later. I don’t think the Google Boogles
ever did higher education either. What about Henry Ford,
Firestone, Johnny Studebaker, etcetera?
So what good is
higher education? If you want to spend you life working for other people,
doing what they think should be done, it’s the
way to go. If you really want to make a mark, higher education will simply
waste from 4 to 10 years
of your precious life. You ought to get clear on the fact that time is the
only commodity you have to trade. You only have a very limited quantity of
that, so it is purely stupid to waste it.
Flint, Michigan:
Almost every day we
get another report that someone has been shot in Flint. The same is true of Saginaw. Sometimes the shooters are caught, but they are rarely seriously punished. We
hear of sentences of from two years up to about 15 years regularly. Why? If I were God emperor, the use of a firearm in a felony
would get an automatic life without parole sentence. I would also make more
and meaner prisons to contain them. My prisons would be no frills. An iron
bunk with a cheap mattress, a place to crap and whiz, rough clothing and
shoes, a communal shower, medical care, and three bowls of gruel a day is
what I would provide. There would be no TV, recreation, or outside
communication. There would be required exercise and work to do. That’s all. It is still much better than what we do
for hogs and chickens who did not commit any crimes at all.
Insanity:
Our government, it it’s madness has passed a resolution condemning the
Turks for something that happened about a century ago. Now Turkey has recalled their ambassador and our
use of bases in Turkey is in doubt. Nice work! Why?
Because some nutty Armenians were agitation in America for us to do it. We have Cubans in Florida trying to run our foreign policy, We
have Irish nuts trying to run our foreign policy, and now we have Armenian
nuts trying to run our foreign policy. It is purely crazy to let rabble
immigrants influence our government decisions. What is wrong with those madmen in Washington? They should all be horsewhipped. We do not
have the time, the energy, or the wherewithal to get into other peoples wars.
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