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to the Weekly Notes 2008 Archives The Stupid FDA: The farmers had to plow
their tomato crops under losing millions of dollars. No one would buy the
harvest after the stupid FDA said they were
contaminated with salmonella bacteria. Now the fools at FDA have decided they
were not the carriers after all. Should we say woops? Try saying woops to a
farmer who has lost his livelihood in this latest government fiasco. Does
anyone remember when they all but destroyed the
apple industry with false reports on Alar? They
said it was dangerous to humans. That was a lie based on ignorance. Does
anyone remember the cranberry debacle when they
tried to wipe out the cranberry industry in their prime season with another
phony report? Why do we trust these fools? They are less than useless. They
are a constant threat to human health and to our economy. They are and choose
to be ignorant. I think I would sooner trust Merck. A new drug; We have a new drug for
old-timers disease. It is called Dimebon.
According to the test results, it not only arrests the advance of
Alzheimer’s, it improves memory. This could be a super breakthrough.
Mrs. Gaffer is terribly frightened of this problem. She had a relative who
suffered from some kind of age related dementia and she concluded it must
have been Alzheimer’s. As do we all, Mrs.
Gaffer tends to forget things sometimes. However, she does not see it as
normal, but as the early stages of this disease. It does not help for me to tell her she does not forget more now than she
did when we first met. She does not believe it when I tell her she could not
remember my name on our second date. She just puts her fists on her hips and
stares at me. If she forgets to do that or forgets who I am now, I will
believe she has Alzheimer’s. Otherwise, she is
the same as thee and me. She forgets sometimes. The N Word: They showed us a repeat
clip on ABC of an old charade where a gang of black people was pretending to
bury the N word. They had a wooden coffin and went through some silly
nonsense. I’m not sure if this rerun was a
response to what Jessie Jackson did. It could be. The truth is black people
use that word more often that the rest of us. I do not use it at all. There are much more subtle ways to insult someone I decide to
dislike. I don’t need to use a crude
epithet. Cuisine in For variety in dining, He ordered for us, and I
later saw some items on the menu that I might have tried had I ordered
myself. I think my ordering would have improved it for Mrs. Gaffer and me.
When we got home, I wanted to do it my way so I looked in vain for a Japanese
restaurant near my home. I was not able to find one. The best I found was a
Sushi bar. We will try it, of course, but it was not what I wanted. I know Cash Advance: In It’s a Gas: Our local ABC television
station makes me giggle sometimes when they pretend they can cover the
national news. They have two prime time hours every day to do news and in my
opinion, they do not do a good job of covering the local news. They breeze
over important news without giving us names and points of interest, then they will spend long minutes on some trivial stuff
that is of limited interest. I think if they had only fifteen minutes to do
it, they would do a better job. They should leave the national news to Charlie
Gibson. He does it well. He studied under a master, Peter Jennings. Get Honest: This handful of people
who call themselves Vets for Freedom should get honest. They should call
themselves Vets for McCain. They are not fooling anyone who does not want to be fooled. Even the knee jerk Republicrumbs probably know
the truth. Verizon: I am still searching for
a way to replace Verizon with some kind of reliable service. Today, our
landline went out again, as it often does. It is good we had a cell phone to call
in the problem. The bad part is the cell phone does not work here. Mrs.
Gaffer had to drive over to the local village to find enough bars to make a
call. Normally, they will promise to have the service restored within 24
hours. This time they promised 3 days. What that means is, a
lot of people called in with the same complaint and they don’t
have a clue of where to look for the problem. I would still like to see a
federal effort like TVA to bring wireless phone service to the millions of
people who are in dead zones. There are some local efforts, but they really
are local. The service area is very limited. Only a federal effort would
handle it. I did Not Read It: I got an email on my
server the other day addressed to topguy@wesoomi.com from some fool. It
contained 1272 blocks of data. Needless to say, I
did not download it so I did not read it. The header I did look at contained
a title for what looked like some kind of a book or story, apparently about
robots. My best guess is the email was the full text of the tome. Duh! Back
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