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November 21, 2005:
The Urine Pit:
We often get into the cruel and unusual punishment problem when
we try to give criminals what they have earned. It's a good enough
rule to have, but I think we need a few exemptions for certain
classes of criminal. For example, the corporate crooks who stole
all those company assets and trashed the workers. My plan is
to have a urine pit. This is a 20 foot deep pit with an outhouse
over it. You can guess the rest.
Political Philosophy:
In any political philosophy there are three essential statements
to be made.
One: This is what we believe.
Two: These are the problems we face.
Three: This is how we intend to solve the problems.
Wouldn't it be swell if America had a political party that would
be that forthright?
A Real Disease:
We see on our television news that doctors are now performing
gastric bypass surgery on children to control weight. Does madness
know no limit? We have an epidemic in this country and it is
not an epidemic of obesity. It is an epidemic of the madness
of easy solutions. Hedonism can continue and medical science
will continue to find more and more bizarre ways of denying discipline.
We are a very sick people and the affliction starts at the top.
So, what else is new?
Queen Rania of Jordan:
She was interviewed by Stephanopoulos on his Sunday morning show.
He asked several pertinent questions and she babbled around every
one of them without giving a definitive answer to any. I get
that she is an airhead. What does that make the King of Jordan?
Answer: just a little bit smarter than King George.
The Silly Four:
George also had four congressional and senate blowhards on his
show. They spent their whole time backbiting and snipping at
each other without saying anything honest at all. Where the heck
is Specter when you need him? Worst of all was the babbling Senator
Dole of Georgia. I used to think she would be embarrassed by
the ads Bob did about his limp noodle problem. Now, I have to
wonder if he is embarrassed by her lack of political savvy and
coherence. All in he Family, I guess.
Closed Door:
Our local community's councils, including Flint, MI and Lansing,
MI have a habit having closed door sessions whenever they want
to do something underhanded. I suspect it's the same in your
local communities. If I could, I would make that illegal. There
is no way a public body should be able to hide what they are
doing from the people they supposedly represent. It should not
be allowed at the local or at the federal level.
Medicare Drug Program:
Only the feds could make something that should be simple so complected
that no one can understand or use it. They have a habit of doing
that, from income tax on down. They say they let all of the insurers
in to keep costs down. The truth is, it is most likely not about
cost at all. They are probably just making political payoffs
to political contributors. That's what I believe.
Journalists and Guides;
There are many media people who call themselves journalists.
I think they reproduce like rabbits in dark places and come out
of little holes in the ground. Those are the journalist. There
are other people who call themselves journalists who I wish we
had a better name for. Jennings, Brokaw, and Moyers are among
them. They are as far above journalist as a scientist is above
a manure shoveler. I think we would do better to call them information
guides. Rather than shovel stuff onto us, they guide us to the
information.
Terrorist Attacks:
The media tells us airlines may be risking terrorist attacks
again. According to these news people the air cargo handling
is like Swiss cheese. I would like to suggest that terrorists
may not be the only threat. Think about the employees and retirees
who were raped by these outfits in their bankruptcy collusion
with the American courts. I would be more frightened of those
folks that I would be of terrorists. They have a current and
very real grievance.
John Murtha:
He is a democratic congressman who is calling for immediate withdrawal
of all troops from Iraq. He was very emotional about it in his
speech and he was dead wrong. For us to pull out after what we
did to those people and leave them with chaos would be the pit
of dishonor. The argument about why we are there is no longer
valid. We are there now and the only thing we can do is finish
the job. Americans cannot become know in the world as quitters
no matter how tough the going gets.
What we need to do is create a real standing army and put
in enough people to finish the job. That means establishing an
maintaining martial law, just as we did in Japan. We must maintain
the law until those people can cerate a stable democracy. That
will take at least ten years. In the meantime, we can protect
our troops by putting enough people in there to do the job. And
yes, by finding and killing the terrorists in preemptive strikes.
It's easy enough to do. We demand the surrender of all weapons.
From then on, anyone caught with a weapon is by definition a
terrorist and can be executed as an enemy combatant, without
warning.
Leadership:
Our local community people, councilmen, mayors, union bosses,
and media people are all babbling on about how they should talk
to the leadership of Delphi to resolve this crisis and save the
workers. How dumb can you get? What leadership? If Delphi had
any leadership, they would not be in this dilemma. Who are you
going to talk to, the janitor? Duh!
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