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December 3, 2007

I thought I would be done with earthlink last week. I was wrong. There was another earthlink gotcha in the domain transfer process. The struggle goes on. There is more on this ongoing fight in William’s Corner. If some senator wanted to do some good and make a name for himself, he could do worse than to put together a bipartisan committee to investigate these internet bullies. I would love to see the CEO of earthlink squirming on the hot seat of someone like Levin. They could also look into the spam situation and discover that the phone companies and the providers could stop it, if they wanted to do it. They don’t because they make a bundle of money by supporting it.

Other issues:

Assumptions:

I have been hearing about global warming and carbon footprint from politicians and other fools until I am sick of it. I saw a PBS documentary last week on energy and handling emissions etcetera. I thought it would be different. I was wrong. These fools had the same dull-minded going in assumption as the politicians. Namely, that it is necessary to produce carbon monoxide when we produce energy. The entire direction of their discussion was about how to deal with it rather than how to keep from doing it.

There is no creative thinking at all. The main idea seems to be that we need not hunker down. We can produce enormous volumes of CO2 and handle it. The most harebrained of the ideas I hear was that we can hide this stuff underground and it will not trouble us. They are actually planning to build a huge power plant based on that insanity. It’s the old nuclear waste solution. If we can hide it, we can pretend it’s not there and leave it for our descendents to deal with. They will have to deal with all of this evil crap, because it will not stay hidden.

We don’t have to hunker down, but we don’t have to produce earth poisoning gas either. I am sure we can produce enormous amounts of energy, all we need, and do it without producing CO2. It is a matter of doing the research and applying the technology of the scientific community to these new problems. The old solutions no longer work. We need new solutions. Brain-dead corporate and government planners cannot do that. All they can do is put leaky patches on the old failed solutions.

Bangladesh:

The recent typhoon or whatever ruined the ground water in Bangladesh and the poor folks don’t have any drinking water. There is way too much water, but it is contaminated. The situation is critical. For crap’s sake. Doesn’t anyone know how to build a still anymore? Heck, I build one when I was a kid with just a Fresnel lens. I doubt there is a grown man in the hills of Kentucky or Tennessee who could not build a dandy still. Why don’t we send some good-old-boys over there to teach them how? It would be less expensive and more effective than sending the army. As to that, when I was in Korea, the army had some mobile stills. What happened to them? I don’t know.

Officer Down:

ABC is doing a series this week on the increased attacks on police officers across the nation. Their focus seems intended to attribute the tragic situation to guns. The idea is that there are too many guns out there and they are superior in firepower to those the police have. Many police departments are approaching this problem by arming their police with assault weapons. While it is hard to blame the police for this, it is an escalation that will put the ordinary citizen in the middle off a shooting war. As the cops and crooks exchange fire we will be caught up in the madness.

I do not object to the police having more firepower. What I hope is they will receive a level of training that is consistent with the danger they present to the community. So far such training has not been demonstraited. The record of police bungling in the Flint, Michigan area is all too apparent. In another example, ABC showed us two cases of officer down where police were shot and killed. In both cases, what I saw was a tragic lack of procedure that could only be the result of poor training.

Neither incident should have happened. In the first case, an office sprayed a man with mace and then turned his back on him. He should never have turned his back on a person who he had just enraged. The man shot him in the back and fled. In the second case, two officers approached a home together and both were shot with a rifle from within the house. In the worst case, only one office should have been exposed. The other should have been in some kind of protective cover, out of range. Cops should take these simple protocol steps automatically. They were obviously improperly trained and it cost one of them his life.

Thanks For Nothing!

On the local ABC news they told us about a huge coal fired energy generating plant being built by Consumers Power. This is being built somewhere in central Michigan. We were also told we had a right to go and ask question about this project. The meeting was in progress at the time we got the news. All we had to do to get in on it was drop everything and rush to Bay City, a distance of about 70 miles, and hope we get there before the meeting is over. Thanks for nothing.

The Service Tax:

The once great state of Michigan has reached a new low in legislative skullduggery. To cover the economic shortfall their incompetence caused, they have passed what they call a service tax. This is really a tax on certain types of labor. It is a special income tax on people who earn their income through some kind of service. Not all services were taxed however. Ski slope operators were taxed, but golf courses were not. The whole pattern looks random until one realizes these legislative monsters were sparing the services they used personally. All of these fools are too fat, lazy, and clumsy to ski, but they can all pretend to play golf.

This is what we have come to expect of our legislators and governor. They think nothing of taxing a person’s livelihood. Everyone else knows it is plain evil, but they do not because they are filthily dishonest. They continue to draw huge salaries for systematically destroying the fiscal solvency of our state. I suppose we will next have a repeal of child labor laws along with a debtor’s prison for people who are too poor to pay. There is no low beyond the reach of these bums. Michigan government has always been hostile to small business and this is just another example.

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