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to the Weekly Notes 2008 Archives Breakthrough: This is really big,
especially for me. I learned, from the Foundation Fighting Blindness, that
three young people who were virtually blind can now see. They suffered from
an eye disease called leber congenital amaurosis or LCA. The secret was some
kind of gene therapy. The good news for me is this therapy can probably be
applicable to my problem, which is macular degeneration. I will have more on
this as I learn more. It will probably become an essay in “Ongoing
Thoughts.” Global Food Shortage: It is real. King George
wants 770 million to send to other countries to head of starvation. I ask,
what about the starvation happening in Finally: Obama showed some anger
and he finally disowned that idiot racist preacher. He said he is outraged,
Wright is offensive, and his behavior is a spectacle. My own opinion is, if
Wright is a man of God, I must be Jesus Christ. The truth is I am not and he
ain’t! He is a frothing racist as bad as or worse than George Wallace. Part or the state is on
fire again. The Someone tried to
assassinate the president of that place. The attempt failed. They say it was
the Taliban. I think it was rival politicians. If it was the Taliban they are
fools. If they killed that guy, they might cause the ascendancy of a real
leader. A real leader could make the position of the Taliban untenable. Our Marines are
beginning a big offensive into the Taliban country there. I hope the kids are
successful. I don’t see how they can be, but I hope for it. There are
not enough of them. They are spread too thin. The troops that should be there
are in Phony Words: We now officially call a
depression a recession. We cannot call it a depression because FDR ended
depressions forever. The government said we would never have another one. Now
that we have one anyway, we don’t know what to call it so we call it a
recession. That is silly enough. What’s worse is a president who denies
we have an economic problem at all. Duh! Heparin: It was imported from GM: We saw that man Wagener
on the news. He knows GM is in trouble, but he was not talking about
innovations and solving problems. He was talking about marketing and how they
can make the old product line viable. He is hoping the economy will get
better. How? If these big outfits do not do anything new, how will it get
better? The only thing that will improve That Woman in I figured she was full
of something. Now we know. That’s bad, even
for me. Seriously, a bowel
obstruction is not a trivial problem. It was caught in time, but it could
have been fatal if it was not. She came through, but the stupid media was not
satisfied. Those idiots wanted the power of state transferred to the
Lieutenant Governor because she was under anesthesia for a few minutes.
Let’s get real! Shouldn’t we also have a transfer of power when
she is vacationing in CEO’s: We learned from the
media that some CEO’s now make 433 times the pay of the average worker
in their enterprise. That would be sick even if they we doing their jobs. For
the incompetent fools like Wagoner who are letting their corporations slide
into ruin, it is obscene. In these outfits, there is no punishment for
failure. In fact, there are rewards for failure. I think it began at Bendix
with Bill Agee. He destroyed the firm and got out with a golden parachute
when it went down the tubes. The Cistern Chapel: The only cistern I knew
about was the one under Grandpa’s house when I was a kid. It was filled
with a kind of stinky green scummy water. Grandma used it to wash clothes.
Now, the other night, they had a show on TV about a Cistern Chapel. They
showed us parts of the lid from inside and it was right pretty, but they did
not show it much. Instead, they had a bunch of fools arguing about a guy
named Michelangelo who is the one painted that pretty lid. They thought he
had made dirty pictures. They looked right pretty to me. I just wish they had
shown more of them. It sure was prettier than Grandma’s cistern. I bet
it smelled better too. I never did get a good look at where the water was, so
I could not tell if it was a useful cistern or not. Bottom Line: Don’t use credit
cards. The credit card companies have gotten overtly dishonest. The
government claims to be making new rules. I won’t hold my breath. Even
if they do, using that card has become just too dangerous. The government and
the card companies have done little to nothing about identity theft. My
advice is go back to cash and checks. Most merchants will take checks now.
They finally figured out, even with the occasional bad check, it is les
expensive than accepting cards and paying the gouging card companies. Back
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