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to the Weekly Notes 2008 Archives Predators: The profound loss of
morality and ethics in Western culture has bred a huge community of
predators. Many of these freelance wherever they can to find victims. Many
others now dominate most of the corporations in He Knows no Shame: For a short while Jarvik
was back doing ads for Lipitor. Greed knows no shame. There is no honor in
marketing. It is a dirty business populated by dirty people. Pfizer finally
had enough sense to dump him. I think they finally realized he was hurting
whatever image they think they still have. Real Crumbs: The United States Postal
(Service?) refused to deliver mail to people in Just Perhaps: What if Ford, GM, and
Chrysler were to start their own oil company? Instead of BP petroleum, we
would have B3 petroleum. It is just a thought. However, if they could get in
and drive the price of gasoline down, they might be able to make it possible
for people to want real cars again instead of toy cars. Politics: Nothing changes, year
after year. They all pretend they are fresh and new with new ideas, but it is
always the same tired old political bologna. With all kinds of tragedies,
genocide, and impending disasters coming down everywhere, all the media can
think to show us more-and-more of these political buffoons saying less and
less. Everywhere we tune we see political hacks doing their monkey dance and
babbling away as though they were making sense. They are so identical in
their monkey dance and babbling that you have to look and see them to know
which one it is. It is sickening, and the media is sickening. Sadly enough, for
comic relief, all we have is Rush Limbaugh. Buckley: The man died. He was the
darling of the liberals and an early personal hero of mine. He was the
quintessential conservative who I liked because he could out debate any and
all of the fifties and sixties flaming liberals. Those were the days when it
seemed the liberals wanted to outlaw everything American and especially
patriotism. Those were also the days when politics were debated rather than
shrilly screamed. Personal attacks were in very poor taste and frowned upon
by everyone important. Of course, things have changed now. The liberals have
calmed down and decided they are Americans after all while the conservative
philosophy has evolved into military — religious fascism. The foo is on
the other shuot. School Fights: It seems the media is
reporting on fights in schools almost daily now. Of course, no matter the
circumstance the police must be called in and the school shut down for at
least a day. I all just seems so stupid. The administration is stupid, the
police are stupid, the parents are stupid, and the kids are stupid. The kids
learn their behavior from the adults around them. I remember school fights
when I was a kid six decades ago. We did not fight in
school because we knew the adults would intervene and discipline would be
implemented. If something came down in class, the kids involved made
appointments to meet after school. Now, the stupid parents won’t allow
that discipline to be applied. They interfere. Consequently, the kids do whatever
they please, in or out of school. The whole mentality has changed. There are
no rules. The code of honor that applied when I was growing up is gone. The
use of a weapon in a personal dispute would have got the perpetrator
ostracized. No one even considered it. Now weapons are common. It is not the
weapons that have changed. They were available when I was a kid. What has
changed is the cultural mentality. Culturally, we are insane now. Blackout: A small glitch in the Depression: King George says he does
not believe we are going into a recession. This time, I fully agree. We are
way beyond that. We are in a full depression. May Americans I know look much
like my father did in the thirties. He was very solemn. Most laughter now is
forced, except that from the oil cartels and the mortgage bankers. That is
very real mocking laughter. Wry Humor: Eisenhower campaigned
with the promise that he would bring an end to the Korean war, which our
government called a conflict. I was there. It was not a conflict from where I
stood. People were trying to kill me and we were trying to kill them. The war
did end in 1953, so Eisenhower’s promise was redeemed. However, guess
what happened in 1954? You know, that was the year the Vietnam War began. We
were not directly involved then, except in clandestine operations. Our
involvement became overt in 1961 when Kennedy was about to take the throne
from Ike. By 1969 we had half a million troops in Back
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