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October 20, 2003:
About Afghanistan and Iraq:
You are not going to take a degenerate primitive culture that
has evolved over centuries, wave a magic wand, and turn it into
a democracy in a few months. That is patently absurd. If you
manage it at all, it will take decades.
What Are We Doing:
I am going to die. You are going to die. Some people's death
looms near. Some are as yet undetermined. We are all going to
die. The question is not whether we will die. The real question
is, how are we going to spend our time? Will it really matter
if we die? The truth is, for most of us it won't matter. We are
not doing anything important or even useful.
It's Up To Us:
On TV news, we saw featured the coffee shop of a guy who hires
nothing but mentally disabled people. He is successful and he
is expanding. He is employing more and more people. What I noticed
is that there is no way in the world the government could do
that. They waste billions of dollars trying to do it. That man
is doing what the citizens must do if we are to recover. We must
do it ourselves as responsible individuals and as greedy capitalists.
This guy is not whining about government aid and level playing
fields. He has his own money into this, because he believes and
cares. Responsibility is where it starts. It starts with the
citizen.
Helmet Laws:
People should be allowed to ride motorcycles without helmets,
but they should have to first post a surety bond. The purpose
of the bond being to pay for the cost of scraping their brain
from the pavement and cleaning up the mess when they do what
they are sure to do. This is nothing more that a classic case
of natural selection. We should not interfere with it.
About Cruelty:
Cruelty is the mark of a primitive mind whether it's a Christian
burning a crazy old woman, a Jew killing Arab children, or a
Muslim murdering Jewish children. This primitive mentality is
what we are trying to outgrow.
Necessities:
There was a stupid story on the local TV news about people who
got into financial trouble. There are a great number of these
fools who have maxed out several credit cards and are spending
too much of their income just to cover the usurious interest
rates without reducing their primary debt. The silly part was
the pretense of the so-called financial counselors. They pretended
it was too difficult to make these fools understand the difference
between necessities and luxuries. What bologna! Just go to heaven
or hell and ask my grandfather. Necessities are enough food and
a warm enough place to sleep. Everything else is a luxury.
Media:
Bush is whining about these folks reporting what's going on in
Iraq. He says they put too much emphasis on the violence there.
He says they should emphasis the good things. How can you put
too much emphasis on the fact that our kids are sitting ducks
who are regularly getting butchered? None of good things are
going to make that go away. To pretend it's not happening would
be unconscionable. Should we also ignore the fact that our president
went on a worldwide begging tour trying to get other countries
to support his debacle.
Fake:
At the same time, some dishonest colonel over there had his troops
send out a bunch of fake form letters to the news media. The
letter was written by him and his stupid staff. It's designed
to make it appear that our GIs moral is very high in Iraq. What
an unmitigated piece of crap he is!
Kobe Bryant:
I don't really care what happens to him. I do care about law.
What's happening there is a gross perversion of law. They have
no case. If he were a no-name person, there would have been no
action taken.
Mother Teresa:
The Calcutta crone. Some old fools in the Vatican are pretending
they have the power to make her a saint. We can wonder if they
checked with God to see what she thinks.
Southwest:
Someone breached security and put some stuff on Southwest's aircraft
that could be used by terrorists. The authorities are real upset.
They are going to search all of the planes in the USA. I did
not hear anything about what they are going to do to close the
hole. It turns out that the ground people don't have to go through
security to get to the planes. They just use their badges to
open the gates. Let's think about that. If I was a terrorist
I could go to a local bar, take down one of these ground crew
guys, and use his badge to get into the secured area. Some security!
It don't get any better with the feds in charge.
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