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Weekly Notes:
November 26, 2007
I am still struggling
with earthlink to get control of my domain. There is more on this ongoing
fight in William’s Corner. I regret that I have been distracted by this
struggle. I have been able to do little else except fight it out with
earthlink. Meanwhile, my columns must suffer. I will get back to them as soon
as this madness is resolved.
Other Issues:
Pakistan:
They are under martial
law. The cops are beating up and arresting Musharraf’s political
enemies. The media reports that our government is worried about the
situation. They fear that Pakistan’s nuclear weapons my fall into the wrong
hands. Who in hell’s hands do think they are in now? I would not call
that dictator a safe bet to not use them. Wait until is back is to the wall
and see what he does. That will be soon. He has made too many enemies. I
expect the military to turn against him soon. They will have a choice of
murdering their own brothers and sisters or turning on their leader. Even
though they are Muslins, I doubt if they will continue to support him. He
will not survive, but he could do one heck of a lot of damage before he goes
down.
We have always known
that he is a fascist. It’s nothing new. But, they say, he’s on
our side. I am a democracy loving American. A fascist cannot possibly be on
my side. I reject that nonsense out of hand. The really sick part is, we have
been giving that thug 130 million bucks per month since 9-11. It’s
classic American foreign policy. Arm your future enemies. He will turn
against us, just as he has turned against his own people.
Bad Joke:
A Local radio
personality, Johnny Burk, was lampooned and removed from his radio show for
making a really bad joke about Flint Schools and Flint students. The joke implied that they were
criminals. Although some of them probably are, most of them are just
disadvantaged kids struggling to make it. Of course, the school board
exaggerated the incident out of all proportion to the insult. They did not
see the humor in it at all. Burk is an intelligent person and he should have
known about school boards and teachers. A sense of humor is a disqualifier
for board membership and teaching in the Flint community. One only need look at the products
coming out of those educational factories to know that no one with a decent
sense of humor was involved in that. Look at those kids then tell me about
bad jokes.
Nitrogen:
The notion that pure
nitrogen will make your tires last longer than air is a pure fraud. Air is 80
% nitrogen. If oxygen really leaked out faster than air, it still would make
no significant difference. Think it through. You have a normal mix of
nitrogen and oxygen. All the oxygen, 20%, leaks out and you replace it with
air that is 80% nitrogen. Now you have 96% nitrogen in your tires. What
happens the next time? Duh!
Are You Comfortable?
I started thinking about
it and I suddenly realized. I have never been comfortable. I never expect to
be comfortable. I am wondering what it would be like to be comfortable. That
would be a situation in which I felt no pressure or stress of any kind. I
suppose carrots and cabbages are comfortable. I don’t think thoughtful
humans could or should be comfortable. If you look at what is going on in the
world, how could you be comfortable with that? When it comes to the truth of
it, as long as there are crooks, slime balls, and other evil people in my
world, I don’t want to be comfortable. Perhaps Bush and Cheney are
comfortable. Perhaps that is the problem.
On the Tube:
On one of the morning
babble shows they featured a pair of guys who wrote some kind of book on how
to live to be 100. This was the pinnacle of silliness. Neither of those
jokers was 40. Duh again!
MDOT:
That’s the Michigan department of transportation. They have decided
to close some of their highway rest stops to save money. They claim they are
only closing six, but they are not mentioning the dozens they have already
closed. Soon we will overtake Ohio as having no good places to stop and take a
crap. What’s next? Perhaps they should sell the rest stops to
commercial interest, advertisers and merchants. Let them provide a service
and make money. That’s the way it used to work before we had
expressways. There were privately owned facilities along the major highways
with huge parking lots and fuel stations. Many of them had motels, food
services, and even small picnic areas. People could stop and get what they
needed, including clean restrooms. It would be better than having people stop
beside the road to pee, or crap in a can and throw it out the window.
That’s what will happen if we don’t give them a better way.
Pedophile:
We have one in Flint, Michigan, who is accused of molesting dozens of kids. The
evidence is unmistakable. The guy took photos and movies of himself doing
these monstrous deeds. Now the judge has sent him for psychiatric evaluation.
Of course, he is insane for craps sake. Almost everyone who commits a crime
is insane. Should we let them all walk because they are mentally incompetent?
Thinking About it:
I have thought about Michigan’s sorry governors, present and recent.
Then I thought about what it takes to be a good governor. It don’t seem
like a lot. I think the best governor in the United States is California’s Schwarzenegger. He ran as a
Republicrumb, but he is no more Republicrumb than I am, nor is he a Dumbocrat.
His wife comes from a Dumbocrat background, but that is not relevant. I think
the voters know that too. He is not partisan, he is just the governor of California.
Who Could Do More?
America’s economy is pretty close to being in the
tank. The market is going into freefall. Our dollar is declining in valued
while oil prices are rising. There is one person in America who is in a position to turn that around.
William Clay Ford is the one person could do more than any other person to
save this economy. All he would have to do is produce an automobile that
everyone would see as a must have item. He has the technology and the people
to do it. Missing in Ford are the leadership skills to get it done.
That’s all.
Stalking:
When is stalking not a
crime? It seems, according to the prosecutors and law enforcement people, it
is not a crime when it is done on the internet. We have the recent case of a
woman who drove a child to suicide with predatory stalking methods. Our
cowardly indolent law people claim they need a new law to deal with that.
That is patent nonsense. We have laws against stalking. All they need to do
is get off their lazy butts and enforce them. They know who did it. All the
evidence is there. They simply need the courage to act. I repeat, they are
morally indolent and cowardly.
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