Monday, October 03, 2005
burnout
Ever get totally used up with the ever-increasing batshit reportage? From silly crap like Alaska Airlines getting $225,000 of the federal "budget" to paint one airplane like a fish to Bush nominating one of Gore's supporters to the Supremes all strikes me as assinine. That $236 Million Cruise Ship Deal, oh sweet lord. Gimme just one tiny taste of a reason for THAT. And International A.N.S.W.E.R., the primary organizers of the "protests", where do we get people so numb? Pat Santy has a few thoughts. She's on my daily gotta read list. She's got LOTS of thoughts!
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Since I've spent the majority of the last 5 days attempting to do useful things and ignoring the news (can't do it completely, need to get back into the iso mode!), I've no real comments about the "issues"other than we are probably doomed. Sheesh. Listened to Neal Boortz this morning and his comments about maybe it would be a good thing for the dems to get the house, senate, and presidency back was bothersome. His reasons were valid. Kinda. Personally, it probably won't affect me or many folk around 60 years of age much but it'll chew up the remains of the US economy such as it is for younger folk. Bush is a total cave-in on all but one economic issue and that one is only temporary. Other than the resistance against the noble freedom fighters of the followers of Mohammed the Camel Humper, the prophet of the Moon God, he has let us down something awful.
Where is the tip-point when a system goes over to regenerative feedback? Where does it tip into an out of control oscillation? With the open borders policy where somewhere close to 20% (depends on source) of Mexico"s population is living in the US illegally, or when approximately half of the federal budget (not including state and city) going to "Great Society" projects, is it already unfixable? With the welfare programs, what would happen if the payouts were not increased constantly? Or a serious thought to enforce immigration laws? And, just for kicks & giggles, how is our GDP measured? Wal*Mart profits, Homeland Severity costs, and all the tort settlements? Wages of civil servants and teachers in government schools? Income from the military/industrial complex (tax money of course)? Welfare income? Payments involved in the prison and judicial system and the absolute pork in ALL of the DOT "systems"? What IS the GDP these days?
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Got some thoughts about energy. Since I'm out of it, they'll keep. ACIDMAN has a case of the crummies and since I've gotten too damn familiar with the brown-outs and zero energy crap this last 6 months, I invite one or more of ya'll to link the photo below to where he might find it. Found it in my .gif file when looking for another I want to use when energy returns.
A larger version is available here.
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Since I've spent the majority of the last 5 days attempting to do useful things and ignoring the news (can't do it completely, need to get back into the iso mode!), I've no real comments about the "issues"other than we are probably doomed. Sheesh. Listened to Neal Boortz this morning and his comments about maybe it would be a good thing for the dems to get the house, senate, and presidency back was bothersome. His reasons were valid. Kinda. Personally, it probably won't affect me or many folk around 60 years of age much but it'll chew up the remains of the US economy such as it is for younger folk. Bush is a total cave-in on all but one economic issue and that one is only temporary. Other than the resistance against the noble freedom fighters of the followers of Mohammed the Camel Humper, the prophet of the Moon God, he has let us down something awful.
Where is the tip-point when a system goes over to regenerative feedback? Where does it tip into an out of control oscillation? With the open borders policy where somewhere close to 20% (depends on source) of Mexico"s population is living in the US illegally, or when approximately half of the federal budget (not including state and city) going to "Great Society" projects, is it already unfixable? With the welfare programs, what would happen if the payouts were not increased constantly? Or a serious thought to enforce immigration laws? And, just for kicks & giggles, how is our GDP measured? Wal*Mart profits, Homeland Severity costs, and all the tort settlements? Wages of civil servants and teachers in government schools? Income from the military/industrial complex (tax money of course)? Welfare income? Payments involved in the prison and judicial system and the absolute pork in ALL of the DOT "systems"? What IS the GDP these days?
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Got some thoughts about energy. Since I'm out of it, they'll keep. ACIDMAN has a case of the crummies and since I've gotten too damn familiar with the brown-outs and zero energy crap this last 6 months, I invite one or more of ya'll to link the photo below to where he might find it. Found it in my .gif file when looking for another I want to use when energy returns.
A larger version is available here.
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I just got an e-mail from newsmax money page saying that the world's money people are statrting to invest heavily in gold and that in the past when that happens we are in for some hard times. But no one seems to want to listen-like a fuckin ostrich with its head in the dirt trying not to see or hear any warnings.
'tis possibly true Guy but if I had excess, I'd buy a lot of dried beans and smoked meat! Ammunition is a good hedge since prez Hillary is gonna ban all things gun. Way back in '79 when prez peanut had everything totally FUBARed, a mediumly young friend of mine went out and turned his 10 year's of savings into gold at a bit more than $800 an ounce. That's $2,144 an ounce in today's fiat bucks. Reverse it and at the ~$460/oz these daze, one has to think if any funny money is tied to anything golden.
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