The Weekly Notes 2007
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Back to the Weekly Notes 2007 Archives Biden: He was on the
Stephanopoulos hot seat. He was disturbed with Haden of the CIA. It’s
about the destruction of some tapes of alleged torture of so-called enemy
agents. Who knows? I don’t know why the Democrats are all so indignant
about torture. It ain’t news and it was not invented under the Bush
administration. Haden is a general. I
think it’s crazy to appoint a military man to a post like head of the
CIA. For a military man, force is the first option not the last. Military
people should be under the control of responsible civilians. Perhaps that is
the problem. Look at the current government. See if you can identify a
responsible person. For the life of me, I cannot. Senate and House Ethics: Both houses have
committees called ethics committees. Their alleged function is to make rules
for those people so they can adhere to ethical behavior. Don’t they get
it? If you must have rules for ethics, there is something radically wrong
with those people already. Making rules will not fix that. Witness the recent
lobbyist’s Christmas bashes for these pigs where they are not breaking
the rules because they are not sitting down. They are already stupid. It does
not matter if they stand up or sit down to get stupider. Santa: The Ralph Nader
look-alike crazies are now demanding a skinny Santa. Does silliness know no
bounds? Let’s just make obesity a federal offense punishable by
execution. We could render the carcasses and make candles for the Nazis. Get
out of my life you do-gooder fatherless dupas! Go live in a nunnery! Leave
the rest of us alone! Cut out the bologna about role models. A fat Santa did
not cause me or any other kid to get fat. Parents, packaged food makers, and
schools are behind child obesity, not Santa. Herr Klaus is fat, he has always
been fat, he is supposed to be fat. He is a jolly old lard-butt. The kids
want him that way. If he is not fat, he is not Santa. He is an imposter,
probably Ralph Nader in drag. Leave Santa alone. Stick to politics. Stay out
of mythology. You fools do not have the wisdom to discuss, let alone
understand mythology. Vick: The media is being sad
for Vick. They say he got a severe sentence. I don’t think 23 months is
severe. I think it is trivial for a monster who was involved in the torture,
drowning, and hanging of defenseless animals. I would have given him no less
than ten years. Health Care: The political hacks are
kicking it around and coming up with all kinds of harebrained ideas, but no
solutions. There is only one real solution to health care. The solution is
the same for health care and for pensions. I support portable health care and
portable pensions with mandatory taxes on employers based on their head count
and payroll. It would create a fund in the name of each employee that the
employer could never steal back. This would create a hard floor, but there
would be nothing to stop an employer from paying in more to attract preferred
employees. For sure, it would have to be administered by an independent
agency to keep the swine in congress from messing with it. Speaking of Swine: I believe it is time to
replace the Republicrumb Senate in I Knew It: Now the good old Krauts
have proved it. They discovered the secret ingredient in beer that makes it
good for us. I knew it was there all along. I just did not know the name for
it. Now I do, though for the life of me I cannot pronounce it. The secret
chemical is xanthohumol. It is a derivative of the main ingredient of beer,
hops. This derivative is an antioxidant, which is very helpful in cancer
prevention. It is better than vitamin E. I knew it, I knew it I knew it! Now,
for the sake of reality, you cannot drink enough beer to have this work all
by itself. However, its effect is helpful, not harmful in reasonable amounts.
At age 77, I am a living testimonial. Medical Costs. Now the media tells us
that the VA spends $1,500 a year less per patient than Medicare and they are
more effective that Medicare. Their patients get better treatment and they
are happier with the service. What’s the secret? Computerized record
keeping, which eliminates redundancy, lost data, and minimizes serious medical
errors. It really is that simple. Medicare and the medical industry in
general are badly organized and careless with patient records. This results
in delays and redundancy in record collecting and sometimes redundancy in
testing. If you have ever entered a hospital, you have experienced it. You
will be required to answer the same questions at least 4 times before you are
admitted. Them, the next day, they will wake you up to ask you the same
questions over again ad-nauseam. It seems no one records what you tell them. Dire Predictions: Our scientists have made
some frightening discoveries about the polar ice. It seems the ice pack is
much thinner that they thought it was. It is melting into the sea beneath it.
In fact, the thickness has decreased by half in the last three or four years.
They don’t have definitive answers, but they suspect the ice pack could
be going into thermal runaway. That is a scientific term describing a
condition wherein a chemical action becomes self-sustaining. Once triggered, it
begins to supply its own stimulus. It cannot be stopped. We may hope it is not
true, but if it is we can expect some profound natural disasters in the near
future. If the entire polar ice shield melts, the oceans of the world will
rise significantly. Any real estate that is below ten feet above sea level
could be affected. It could be under water. I believe most of Back to the Weekly Notes 2007 Archives |