|
Back to the Weekly Notes
Archives
April 25, 2005:
My Apologies:
Whoopie, I'm sorry. I campaigned for you for Pope, but I didn't
do a very good job. Another person got the job. I think the fix
was in. This guy was like a vice Pope already. He had the inside
track. The worst thing is, I suspect he has no sense of humor
at all. What a shame. He is also anti-gay and anti just about
everything else though he claims to be modern. Oh well, there
is always next time, in about 50 or 60 years.
FoMoCo:
In the toilet for sure. The good news is, they can't go anywhere
but up from where they are. Of course, they could go belly up.
Would the government allow that? They kind of set a precedent
with Chrysler. Of course, Chrysler thanked us by selling out
to the heavy handed Krauts.
Teenage Suicide:
At first our local ABC news reported there were three suicides
in the Flint, Michigan area in the past month. Now they are reporting
there have been several. We don't know what several means, but
we can be sure it is more than three. That is the only way the
media people can count I suppose. It's like cave man counting,
one, two, three, several. If it is a lot more than several they
will call it thousands. A caveman would call it many, many.
All of the bureaucrats are pretending they don't know what
is wrong. What kind of enormous pressure are we putting on these
kids that causes this fatal despair? The pressure to succeed
by societies terms is surely a factor. Why can't we let then
become whoever they are on their own terms? Why can't we quit
beating up on our kids?
One of the bureaucrats says, we have counselors. Why don't
you young people come to the counselors? The reason, you damn
fool, is the kids know the counselors are part of the establishment.
Their goal in counseling is not to heal the kids but to get them
back into the machine. It is the machine they want to escape
from, don't you know? Why can't you understand that? Are you
so steeped in the machine's mythology that you can't see any
other way to be? Well, so are those kids. That is what we have
done to them. They are choosing to die just to escape our stupid
machine.
Again in Michigan:
Our wonderful legislators are now trying to ram through a bill
that will make the entire state smoke free. Smoking will no longer
be a choice. It will simply be against the law everywhere. I
can foresee the results. Just as we once had speakeasies, we
will now have smokeeasies. There will be dingy little basement
hideouts where people who want to will have a smoke. The proprietors
will have to pay protection money to the cops, just like in the
good old days. If they don't pay, they will get raided and the
cops will smash up the place.
Why must we always take a good thing and push it to an extreme
where it becomes a bad thing? Why can't we leave people alone
and let them make their own choices? You vill nod smoke, or elze,
und dat's der law! Hail to der Fuhrer.
Amtrak:
Is it bad management or what? They keep on losing money, yet
their railways are in a unreasonable state of disrepair. The
tracks are dangerous to all of us. We have derailments and the
chemical spills that often accompany them on a regular basis
now. At least once a month, people must be evacuated from their
homes. The situation is becoming untenable.
Now, the big shot managers are at the federal trough again
with hat in hand. Give us more money they cry. We don't have
enough to do the job. No one has yet successfully explained to
me why I should subsidize rail travel for big shot New York executives
who choose to live too far from their work. they want it all,
but they want me to pay for it. Bull crap! This is not public
transportation. It is subsidized transportation for a select
few.
Public transportation by rail is unnecessary. The whole system
is obsolete. This is another situation, not unlike the energy
problem, where we cling to an obsolete technology rather than
invest the research money needed for new technology. Except for
fission reactors, all of the technology we have was developed
in the 18th and 19th century. It's time, past time, for new ideas.
It's time for a government that will not pander to the rabble
and to special interests and begin to do what is necessary to
bring America into the 21st century. We need investment dollars
put into new technology rather than into the coffers of administration
cronies. What we really need is honest government.
April 21, 2005:
We get a news report that congress is pushing through an energy
bill. The president is expected to sign it. This bill will protect
the companies that contaminate our groundwater with fuel runoff.
There is no money for new research into energy. There is permission
for big oil companies to drill in Alaska. It's always all about
oil and the cronies of the government. It is not about energy
at all. It's about political payoffs.
French Fried Finger:
I continue to hold the theory that a penalty for a crime must
be equal to the cost of the commonwealth's recovery from the
damage caused. In this case, if she is found guilty, the woman
who claimed to find the finger in the chili should go to prison
for life. That incident did millions of dollars in lost revenue
damage to the Wendy's chain.
Abu Ghraib:
Now we learn the only people who will be punished in this debacle
are the peons and one minor big shot. None of the people who
were supposed to be in charge were culpable according to the
military brass. They were exonerated. Yeah right! Rotten, that's
what I call it, rotten! Scum-bags, that's what I call the army
brass, scum-bags!
A Puzzle to Ponder:
We are told by the meteorologists that we have a norther jet
stream and a southern jet stream which zip through the air above
us. We are told these jet streams have great influence on our
weather patterns as they shift their routes. We are not told
why they shift their routes. What causes these streams to change
their patterns of travel? Can we influence that somehow? If we
could, could we control our weather? Would you like to be a meteorologist
trying to predict events where you do not understand even half
of the forces that cause the events?
Back to the Weekly Notes
Archives
|