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to the Weekly Notes 2008 Archives Granholm: The governor of Bank Failure: Now we can add bank
failure to our growing list of economic disasters. The disasters come in
bunches like grapes. The latest was the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
(FDIC) takeover of the IndiMac bank. The bank was another foolish victim of
the mortgage fraud. There will be more failures as we go along. We should
never have things like that happen. The government has failed profoundly in allowing
it to happen. They say the people with
less than 100 grand on deposit do not have to worry --- much. Sure! The
people with over 100 grand will get burned badly. If I had money in this
institution, I would be trying to get it out right now. Meanwhile, the feds
are bailing out the Freddie Mac and Fannie May bunglers. They say in doing
that, we have dodged a bullet. Well, dodging one bullet ain’t much when
we seem to be facing an economic machinegun. The biggest problem is
these other disasters, which need not have happened, just mask the real
problem, which is still an energy crisis. That will not go away whatever the
government does. Solving it requires genius. Our government does not have
that particular commodity. We have damn little genius in What education are we
talking about? Did George Washington cut down a cherry tree? Did he heave a
silver dollar across the Taliban: We had nine American
military people who were killed in Don’t ask,
Don’t Tell: The military is still
trying to weed out fruits. That is insane when they are having trouble filing
their quotas for recruits. The have lowered their standard to allow stupid
people to serve, but they will not allow fruits to serve. Many of these
people being rejected are highly trained skilled technicians. They are the
kind of people the military desperately need. Instead, they are trying to
train dumb people to do those tasks. That can only lead to disaster. I
believe Frutiness is an aberrant behavior pattern, but that should not
exclude them from being soldiers. We do not exclude rednecks because they are
ignorant. Fruitiness does not affect patriotism or courage. In general,
fruits make damn good soldiers. If I were in a bunker facing crazy Muslims, I
would rather have a smart fruit next to me than an ignorant straight. New Yorker: Everyone who wants to
has seen the front cover of the New Yorker rag. I saw it and I did not want
to. For those who have not seen it, it is a crudely drawn amateur sketch
depicting Obama and his wife in the White House dressed as Muslim militants.
It is being circulated on the internet to titillate the low mentality
surfers, most surfers. Even for that rag, this is a new low in so-called
journalism. The editors called it satire. Say what? You have a bunch of
adolescent jerks pretending to be intellects and publishing a childish
magazine for people just like them. Most kids outgrow that mentality in high
school. Those who don’t end up working for those kinds of rags. Duh! Each year they have a
musical production called the Showboat. It is kind of an ongoing summer
festival. It has been very successful. So, what are they doing? They are
going to change the format to go after younger people. To me that means they
will go from musical productions to garbage. They will lose their base. Seems
to be a lot of that going around! Duh again! GM: They finally caught up
with Ford in raping their retirees. They are going to discontinue health
benefits for the people who need them most, the folks over 65. These are
solemn promised that Ford and GM made to their retiring employees year ago.
Those promises helped them to get and retain first class workers. If I were
advising young people now, I would say, never trust a manager anywhere
anytime, but especially at GM and Ford. Do not believe anything they tell
you. Never turn your back on them, because they will stick it to you to save
their own pitiful butts. They are all swine and the fattest of the swine are
Wagoner and Ford. In saying that, I must apologize to normal pigs. Gouging: I have been looking for
a short four-legged cane or other device that I could lean on in our garden
to harvest crops and pull weed etcetera. I have become so unstable on my feet
that I would surely fall down when I bent over without some kind of support.
I’ll have more too say on falling down at another time. Needless to
say, it ain’t no fun. So we went to Hurley Medical Supply in Back
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