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April 21, 2008

The Pope Came:

Yippee! King Georges is pandering to him and fawning over him as if a he were the most important head of state in the universe. He is not a head of state. He is a preacher. He is also head of the wealthiest corporation in the World. I suppose that is a good enough reason to fawn over him.

Economic Crisis:

They call this everything but what it is. We are in a serious depression. If you think about this situation and know a little history, you will see a parallel. This is very similar to what was going on in the events leading up to the crash of 29. In that crash, it was mostly stock values that were way out of line. Now everything in our market is grossly overvalued because wild speculation has been going on for at least two decade.

People are stuck with overpriced mortgages on houses they never could afford. Shoddy merchandise is offered at prices that should shock us even if it were well made. Even the junk from China commands prices beyond belief. The bubble is beginning to burst and our government is scrambling, but how can they save fools from themselves? I see a crash coming, no matter what the government or the Fed does. The fools think this crisis will soon end. I think is has just begun and will get much worse. One thing that could end it would be a real solution to the energy crisis. Civilization depends on plentiful cheap energy and we do not have it. Everything else is dependent upon that.

Tax Incentive:

I am beginning to think this big give away is going to cost the government (me and you) more money and more headaches than it is worth. There is some question in my mind as to whether it will do any good at all. It is taking way to long to get it done and there is no assurance that the money will be put back in the economy in a timely way. Most of the people interviewed say they will just use it to pay down their huge debts. That will only help the credit card companies and the banks, the ones who need it and deserve it the least. I think the nation would be better served if that money were used to help the people who are losing their homes, the victims of the mortgage fraud.

FAA:

The FAA is out of control with their rules and inspectors. I think this is in retaliation for the Washington hearings. They have grounded hundreds of planes on what amounts to a technicality. These inspectors are by-the-book morons with no common sense at all. I have had to deal with fools like this all of my life and I despise them. They go by the letter of the rule rather than the spirit because they are incapable of rational thought. Instead of making sure the cable is secure, they measure the distance between ties. A difference of 1/4 inch will have no effect on safety, but these morons cannot see that. It is wrong according to the book and must be redone. I once watched an electrical inspector measure the distance between staples in the same way. I have seen inspectors like this in my work ever since I first became a technician. These morons are sick pitiful small-minded people. They should not be inspectors. That task requires intelligent judgment. These fools should be sweeping hanger floors not grounding airlines.

Usury:

It seems it is legal in most states. The media showed us a case in Ohio where a dumb woman lost her home because of a balloon mortgage and these evil payday lenders. We have shabby little lenders lending money to desperate people at rates of 400 percent and more. According to the media, that is legal. While we cannot protect fools from themselves, we should be able to protect them from evil people. Those predatory lenders should not be getting wealthy they should be in prison. If I were in charge, they would be. I would be Draco personified. Supporting predators is evil and our government continues to do it.

Bigger and Better:

Northwest and Delta are about to merge. They say the new airline will be bigger and better. For sure, it will be bigger, but better for who? It will sure not be better for the passengers. There will be fewer seats at higher prices with shabbier service. Count on it! It’s straight mathematics. Fewer choices mean higher prices.

The Florida Insanity:

We had the case of these ugly punk girls who beat up another girl just so they could film the beating and post it on the internet. There was a stupid shrink on one of those morning talk shows who said they should not go to prison. He said they should receive counseling. That is exactly the kind of limp brained bleeding heart liberal nonsense that got America into the shape it is in. Read Skinner for Gord’s sake. Those girls are criminals. They have gone bad. I don’t know why and I don’t care why. We do not have the tools to turn criminals back into citizens once they have degenerated. We do not have the technology to sooth a worried grandmother for Gord’s sake.

Criminals must go to prison if we are ever to turn this country around. We cannot and should not forgive assault. That would be an affront to every law-abiding citizen in America. As Skinner has indicated, when we arrange the contingencies of reinforcement to reward criminal behavior, we are likely to get more, not less criminal behavior. We can thank Gord that the prosecutor saw the situation differently than the stupid shrink. He has charged these brats as adults who committed criminal assault. We can hope a jury sees it the same way and sends them to the slammer.

The Media:

We watched the news and there wasn’t any. There was nothing except frothing ugly vindictive divisive politicians. It is enough to upset the strongest stomach. It is enough to make a thoughtful person puke.

Iraq:

I think Townsend said it best. I won’t search for the exact phase. I will paraphrase what he said. If you came to a place to solve a problem and you are still there two years later, you are the problem. What are we still doing in Iraq? We are the problem. The money we are dumping into that rat hole is being stolen by the politicians and the contractors over there. It is not doing Iraqis or us any good. We could be using that money to get America on the right research track. We could be using it to rebuild New Orleans. We could be dealing with the housing crisis causes by predatory banks and lenders. Must I go on? We are the problem. Can’t anyone get it?

Let’s tell Iraq we are leaving in three months and then do it. Let them get on top of it or not. It’s their country. It is true, we caused the problem, but we cannot fix it. Only the Iraqis can do that. This is not the first time a bungling president created a problem that we could not fix. Remember Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover. They made the blunders that caused the crash of 29. Remember LBJ and Vietnam? We have a history of bungling presidents, with a few lucky ones to bail us out now and then.

Branch Davidians:

Now these women who turned their child daughters over to rapists are sad. They would like to have their children back. They made a tearful appeal for the TV cameras. I listened as well as possible, but I could not hear the sad violin music.

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