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September 29, 2003:
The Race:
Wouldn't it be interesting if the Democrats could find an intelligent
charismatic candidate? So far, it does not look hopeful. There
are no stand-outs. We see political hacks of various sorts and
an ex-General. No thank you on the general. Career solders do
not normally make good statesmen. Look at history.
Hasbeens, ustabees and wishicoulds. That is the field of democrats
for president. Bush is extremely vulnerable. He can be exposed
in everything he has done since his appointment, but all the
Democrats can manage is the same tired old political hacks. Some
of the faces are different, but the tired old formulas are the
same. It don't change much from election to election.
The Money Back Wish:
U of M and Webber are at it again. His disgrace cost them some
money. They are suing to recover. In this rare situation, I agree
with an attorney, Webber's attorney. The school made millions
selling Webber paraphernalia. They used him and they winked when
he took the slippery slope. If the school had been doing what
they were supposed to be doing, he never could have got away
with what he did. They don't have an honest case, but since when
has any bureaucracy been honest? Why should U of M be different?
What a crock of maize and blue crap.
James Yee:
This guy seems to be the latest target of Rumsfeld. He is an
American military Chaplain who was sent to minister to the prisoners
in Guantanamo. It seems he did that. Now he is accused of being
a terrorist. Do you suppose he really is? Do you suppose he just
treated those lost souls like human beings? Could that be construed
as aiding and abetting our enemies?
I wonder what they are trying to cover up in Guantanamo. Two
other people have been accused of criminal deeds in association
with these captives. All three are people that were there because
they were sent there. At the same time an Al Jazirah correspondent
has been accused of terrorism. What's going on?
Air Force:
It seems the Air Force was not forthcoming about the sexual abuse
scandal at the academy. A civilian panel did an investigation.
The findings were somewhat different than what the Air Force
investigations revealed. The panel called it a chasm of leadership
in the academy. They have no plaintiff protected procedure for
even reporting sex abuse let alone dealing with it. Are we surprised?
Janklow:
He is the Governor of South Dakota. He drove recklessly. He killed
a man. He is charged with manslaughter. He refuses to step down
as governor. He defense is, "Everyone else drives fast too."
Is that sick or what?
Same Case, Another Issue:
A woman who is to testify against Janklow talked to the media
about the case revealing details of her testimony. It may not,
but that could jeopardize the case. At the least it is a violation
of the defendants rights to a fair trial. Perhaps we need a new
law forbidding witnesses to shoot off their mouths to the media
before they testify in the trial. Perhaps we need some stiff
penalties for the media people who seek that kind of information
from unsuspecting witnesses. Do I support freedom of the press?
Yes! Irresponsible reporting is not freedom of the press. It
is stupidity.
George:
He is still begging the UN for help in his and Tony's fiasco.
It seems he is still not willing to yield power in Iraq to the
UN or anyone else. Nor is he willing to admit that he was wrong
in the first place. Week in, week out, it don't change much.
William Clay:
Excuse me sir, but FoMoCo is in deep kaka. We desperately need
a new product. We need to steal the march like we did with the
Taurus. Consider taking a page from your granddaddy's book. He
said, "You can't build a reputation on what you're going
to do." I would add, you cannot rest on history. Quit making
promises. Quit telling us about what your uncle and granddaddy
did. Do something!
Wayne Brady:
He has many guests on his show. Recently we saw a little white
girl sitting beside him, smiling and happy like all get out.
I love the way, without saying anything at all, he gives the
lie to the fools who continue to play the race card as though
it were still the ace of trumps.
Bad Government:
Michigan is not the only state with bad government. In Nashville
Tennessee a nursing home burned down and eight people died horribly.
Many did not. Courageous firemen got a lot of them out through
windows and down ladders. Here is the stupid thing. The building
was old and did not have a sprinkler system. Why? Because the
law did not require it. I suspect some of the nursing home administrators
will be brought to the bar for this. I think it would be appropriate
to charge Tennessee's legislature, governor, and nursing home
inspectors with negligent homicide.
Told Ya So:
Since the recent Northeastern power grid failure we have had
three or four local power failures. I don't know for sure how
many. Isn't it strange how we come to disremember these minor
failures? That is because they are becoming common, kind of like
getting an occasional rainy day. It's annoying, but not memorable.
Most of these outages last an hour more or less.
Last night we had a prolonged failure. The power went off
somewhere between 11:00 PM yesterday and 1:00 AM this morning.
It went back on about 8:00 AM. These failures are going to become
more and more common as time goes by. We'll probably get used
to it. Eventually we will reach the point where the power is
off more than it is on.
Our infrastructure is degenerating. The power grid is inadequate
and vulnerable. No one seems to know what to do about it. The
various power company executives seem to be resigned to it. They
have assumed a dull-minded, hunkered-down, finger-pointing mode.
Research into alternatives that should have begun fifty years
ago are still not underway. We keep sliding further backward.
No one is leading or pointing the way. It don't change much from
week to week. And Nero fiddled around in Iraq while America burned.
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