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May 26, 2003:
The Road to Peace:
May 19, 2003: Bush and Powell's road to peace is going to hell
in a hand basket. When are our leaders going to understand that
those people do not want peace? No one there wants peace. They
demonstrate that time after time. I think our leaders have better
things to do than pretend they can stop this primitive ancient
insanity.
Insanity and Corruption:
May 22, 2003: ABC Evening News. Nike just signed a 90 million
dollar contract with an 18 year old highschool kid to be a walking
billboard for them. The kid can play basketball at the highschool
level. He has never played pro ball, but he is expected to be
a great pro. Ain't that great? Grossly corrupt, but legal!
For Who?
The Republican Congress has approved George's tax cut. Tons of
money will go to the Bush business crones who already wallow
in money. My friend, did you benefit from this tax cut? Neither
did I. Insignificant amounts will go to the working people. Not
enough to have any effect on the economy. It's a payoff, nothing
more.
Adventures:
Marco Polo was a Venetian who traveled to China. His father and
Uncle preceded him and opened up trade routes to the East. They
brought back many valuable things like silk and spices. It was
not all one way. Marco's father Niccolo traded spaghetti seeds
to the Chinese for these things. The spaghetti trees grew well
in China and yielded huge harvests of spaghetti. The Chinese
were pleased with the deal. Marco was a bit chagrin when they
refused to call the product spaghetti. The Chinese decided that
is was really noodles and they served it with everything except
meat sauce. To this day we can find noodle trees growing along
the Yellow River.
Large Sea Creatures:
ABC News, May 17, 2003: Everyone who wants to look knows that
all of the large sea creatures are endangered. This includes
whales and dolphins. Yet the United States Navy is still killing
them with mid-frequency-range sonar tests. There are a great
number of eye witness accounts of this slaughter, yet the navy
continues to deny the obvious. This has been going on for years.
Navy bureaucrats gone mad with a new toy.
Friends of the Court, Ho, Ho:
May 23 2003, local news. Some single parents in Michigan will
not be getting their child support checks on time. Granholm's
bullies in Lansing have decided to take over and consolidate
the whole system, state wide. Of course, this means getting the
state's computers to work. Of course, this will take time. There
is no interim plan. The people who depend on those checks to
feed there kids are advised to be patient. Is that sick or what?
One of the major problems in all bureaucracies is the ineptness
of the entrenched bureaucrats in evaluating situations and making
reasonable decisions. This is never more evident that in the
purchasing decisions about computer systems. I honestly believe
there is no one in government anywhere who is knowledgeable enough
to make those kind of purchasing decision. So, they always end
up with a poorly designed system installed by some incompetent
low-bid company. The system always takes years longer to bring
up than was promised and it never quite work as advertised.
Integrity time and love:
Time and your integrity are all you have. Don't waste either
one. Once you give your integrity away, you'll never have it
again. That's also true of your time. Spent lost squandered or
given. Time and integrity can never be recovered.
Love, on the other hand is limitless. We can give it without
reservation or condition because it flows in an endless stream.
We are simply the conduit through which it flows.
Replies from Booboo:
Booboo, would you prefer democracy or monarchy?
If the monarch were someone like Peter Jennings, I would prefer
monarchy.
But we have Gorge Bush Booboo.
In that case, I would prefer a new election.
What is the nature of paradise?
Usually they are two little ivory cubes with black spots on them.
How is a broker different from a bank robber?
A broker does not use a gun.
Okay:
I am not okay.
I do not remember ever being okay.
I never expect to be okay.
But, I'm okay with that.
Concerning Housework:
We don't do it much. Our house is comfortably disordered. I graduated
from the nine-to-five game before Mrs. Gaffer did and I used
to do a lot of the house work. Now I don't do any and Mrs. Gaffer
does the essential stuff. Neither of us does windows. If they
get so we cannot see outside, one of us will bite the bullet.
Religion:
I have been thinking of getting into the organized religion business.
As an enterprise, it's a very sweat deal. There are no stockholders
to satisfy or payoff. No dividends. There are not even any workers
to pay off. The workers are volunteer dupes. All of the income
can be divided amongst the corporate executives. There is not
even any accounting for the funds. Who would dare demand that
of a man of God?
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