Apparently, leaders in the administration and Congress are aware of economic facts which they don't dare to express in public. Two dirty little secrets would change national thinking on illegal immigration. Here they are:
1.) The Social Security system needs a steady increase in worker contributions to keep a sustainable ratio of payments to benefits - more income than outgo - and the falling birth rate endangers the size of the work force.
2.) The debt-based dollar requires expanding growth in demand and activity or it diminishes, resulting in a retraction of both currency and economy, and possible depression. A shrinking population would bring disaster and a level one makes for stagnation. Only a growing population
raises production and creates a robust economy under our monetary system.
If you knew that, wouldn't you welcome the influx of new people?
~~~
Hot Items
* What kind of people are we that we send not only mothers into battle, but amputees? The Pentagon has changed the centuries-old practice of discharging soldiers who lost limbs in a war. This signals desperation with the low volunteer numbers. Even the $40,000 bonuses aren't enough. Mothers, amputees - how low can you go?
* Can you believe the liberty-compromisers in Washington are considering issuing national ID cards? Sure, you can.
* A local SUV has a flag on the back with a message under it: Make War, Not Love
* Ron Paul - a choice, not an echo.
Dixie Thinker: Serious fun, but not for the smug and snug.
Meetings & Events
Dr. Ira Longterm, noted economist, will be back in his adopted hometown to speak at a luncheon at the Holiday Inn, Saturday at noon. Open to the public. The talk will be based on his latest book: "Debt Is A Many Splendored Thing."
Help Wanted
Shredding Machine Operator in vice president's office. Fast-paced work, much of it overtime. A chance to meet top executives of favored corporations. Call Karl Rove for application.
Overheard
At Only The Lonely bar: "Bush wants to invade France, but he's afraid the French would follow us home."
Twenty-Years-From-Now News
While the military missions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Cuba, North Korea, and Russia continue to drain our treasury and manpower, the Sons of Liberty uprisings in Idaho, Montana and Utah are growing and will require at least 50,000 troops to prevent an eventual civil war.
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
SLOW NEWS DAY
He's at it again, ma. President Bush chose another insider to head the World Bank after doing all he could to save the job for a disgraced bank president. Robert Zoellick, with years of experience in the State Department will replace Paul Wolfowitz as the top man. Those two are buddies, you know. Paul and Bob were together in the notorious group in the Pentagon and state under "The Project for an American Century." This was the plan devised and being sold to Rumsfeld, Cheney and others before 9-11. That's right. Before the atrocity at the World Trade Center.
The group was nicknamed "Neocons" (new conservatives) and was comprised of some familiar names. Besides Paul and Bob, there was Elliot Abrams, Richard Armitage, Richard Perle, Larry Franklin (now in prison for spying for Israel), and William Kristol. Each of them has a story on the fringe of shadiness, at least. They were the architects of the War on Iraq.
So it's here we go again. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Bush names Robert Zoellick, another character with the usual credentials: CFR and Trilateral Commission membership. Those are essential to high level promotion in Washington.
Hope and pray that they all make it into the history books.
~~~
Randoms
* Russians are boasting of their new missile prowess capable of destroying any defenses. Great, now we can fight on another front. Preemptive show soon: Shock & Awe on Moscow. Bring 'em on. Just so they don't follow us home after we wipe them out.
* If this administration is so well-supported by Republicans, why isn't Vice President Dick Cheney among the list of candidates for president?
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Meetings & Events
A Thinkathon Festival is planned for the fall, when the smart folks return. (Snowbirds.)
Help Wanted
Pilots for spreading chemtrails over Dixie. Average workdays: 8 days per month. Top pay. Secretive. Apply at Area 51.
For Sale
Pogo sticks, hula hoops and yo yo. What am I offered?
Twenty-Years-From-Now News
The St. George City Council will take up the matter of a new airport at Thursday night's meeting.
Personals
You took it. You know who you are. I want it back.
The group was nicknamed "Neocons" (new conservatives) and was comprised of some familiar names. Besides Paul and Bob, there was Elliot Abrams, Richard Armitage, Richard Perle, Larry Franklin (now in prison for spying for Israel), and William Kristol. Each of them has a story on the fringe of shadiness, at least. They were the architects of the War on Iraq.
So it's here we go again. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Bush names Robert Zoellick, another character with the usual credentials: CFR and Trilateral Commission membership. Those are essential to high level promotion in Washington.
Hope and pray that they all make it into the history books.
~~~
Randoms
* Russians are boasting of their new missile prowess capable of destroying any defenses. Great, now we can fight on another front. Preemptive show soon: Shock & Awe on Moscow. Bring 'em on. Just so they don't follow us home after we wipe them out.
* If this administration is so well-supported by Republicans, why isn't Vice President Dick Cheney among the list of candidates for president?
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Meetings & Events
A Thinkathon Festival is planned for the fall, when the smart folks return. (Snowbirds.)
Help Wanted
Pilots for spreading chemtrails over Dixie. Average workdays: 8 days per month. Top pay. Secretive. Apply at Area 51.
For Sale
Pogo sticks, hula hoops and yo yo. What am I offered?
Twenty-Years-From-Now News
The St. George City Council will take up the matter of a new airport at Thursday night's meeting.
Personals
You took it. You know who you are. I want it back.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
JUST ANOTHER CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY
No alarms or whistles are going off about the use of depleted uranium (DU) in Iraq. The military uses DU in bombs and shells because DU's density allows it to penetrate armor. The problem is that it strickens and sickens both the target and the user. The damage has been on going since the first Gulf War. Iraq is a wide depository of DU, presenting a hazard for many years to come.
The story is suppressed, ignored and rationalized. If news people have a responsibility to report news, why are they silent through this screaming disaster?
More than a thousand tons of internationally banned depleted uranium in the form of bombs and tipped shells have been used in Iraq since 2003.
Why is there no discourse about eminent scientist Leuren Moret's assertion that DU is the definitive cause of Gulf War Syndrome?" Uranium munitions is the reason thousands of our military personnel suffer and died. That's the terrible truth.
Terry Jamison, Public Affairs Specialist of the Office of the Deputy in the Department of Veterans Affairs, reports the number of Gulf War veterans now on medical disability, since 1991, is 518,739. Out of the 580,400 soldiers who served in the first Gulf War, 11,000 are now dead. By the year 2000, there were 325,000 on permanent medical disability, 56% of those who served. Those numbers are way beyond the figures from other wars.
Marion Fulk, a nuclear scientist who worked at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, commented that the new and rapid malignancies of soldiers from the Iraq War are a "spectacular matter of concern."
Why the cover? Who in the media is concerned and courageous enough to tell the people?
~~~
Other Concerns
* Isn't it clear that the citizens want an end to this war of occupation? The last election sent the message. The Democrats have already failed to deliver the peace. This places both major parties in the same sinking boat. As they sink, a third party might rise again, on a platform of peace and Fix America First. Ron Paul, Chuck Hagel, and a few others have an opportunity. Yup, Paul should tell the Republicans where to go and do a Ross Perot without the "crazy aunt in the attic" routine.
* Congress voted to let Bush make war, thus relinquishing its responsibility under the Constitution. The Supremes should have stepped in to reverse the act, and relinquished the court's constitutional responsibility when it did not do so.
* Anyone who still believes the news is not managed should drink a glass of cold water. Look at the number they are doing on Congressman Ron Paul. The Republican candidate is a newsmaker, but he scares the establishment and receives no attention.
* Paul Wolfowitz is gone from the world bank. Everyone is happy except Dubya.
Serious fun. Not for the snug and smug.
Meeting & Events
* Eavesdroppers Anonymous meets tonight. (You probably know.) The topic: how hearing aids can improve you lifestyle.
* Lonesome Liberals second meeting will not take place. No one showed up for the first get together.
* Pessimists Club is now forming. Call 688-0287. Join before it's too late.
* Stop The Growth Committee membership is increasing as fast as the population in Dixie.
Help Wanted
Food Tasters for Ron Paul, Michael Moore and Rocky Anderson. Call Security Agency at 801-555-0124
For Sale
Gas guzzling SUV - will trade for bike.
Twenty-Years-From-Now News
With the water pipeline completed only a mile from Lake Powell, the lake went dry. A frustrated Utah Governor Huntsman exclaimed, "My heck."
Personals
Cell-phone cowboy searching for a roaming companion.
The story is suppressed, ignored and rationalized. If news people have a responsibility to report news, why are they silent through this screaming disaster?
More than a thousand tons of internationally banned depleted uranium in the form of bombs and tipped shells have been used in Iraq since 2003.
Why is there no discourse about eminent scientist Leuren Moret's assertion that DU is the definitive cause of Gulf War Syndrome?" Uranium munitions is the reason thousands of our military personnel suffer and died. That's the terrible truth.
Terry Jamison, Public Affairs Specialist of the Office of the Deputy in the Department of Veterans Affairs, reports the number of Gulf War veterans now on medical disability, since 1991, is 518,739. Out of the 580,400 soldiers who served in the first Gulf War, 11,000 are now dead. By the year 2000, there were 325,000 on permanent medical disability, 56% of those who served. Those numbers are way beyond the figures from other wars.
Marion Fulk, a nuclear scientist who worked at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, commented that the new and rapid malignancies of soldiers from the Iraq War are a "spectacular matter of concern."
Why the cover? Who in the media is concerned and courageous enough to tell the people?
~~~
Other Concerns
* Isn't it clear that the citizens want an end to this war of occupation? The last election sent the message. The Democrats have already failed to deliver the peace. This places both major parties in the same sinking boat. As they sink, a third party might rise again, on a platform of peace and Fix America First. Ron Paul, Chuck Hagel, and a few others have an opportunity. Yup, Paul should tell the Republicans where to go and do a Ross Perot without the "crazy aunt in the attic" routine.
* Congress voted to let Bush make war, thus relinquishing its responsibility under the Constitution. The Supremes should have stepped in to reverse the act, and relinquished the court's constitutional responsibility when it did not do so.
* Anyone who still believes the news is not managed should drink a glass of cold water. Look at the number they are doing on Congressman Ron Paul. The Republican candidate is a newsmaker, but he scares the establishment and receives no attention.
* Paul Wolfowitz is gone from the world bank. Everyone is happy except Dubya.
Serious fun. Not for the snug and smug.
Meeting & Events
* Eavesdroppers Anonymous meets tonight. (You probably know.) The topic: how hearing aids can improve you lifestyle.
* Lonesome Liberals second meeting will not take place. No one showed up for the first get together.
* Pessimists Club is now forming. Call 688-0287. Join before it's too late.
* Stop The Growth Committee membership is increasing as fast as the population in Dixie.
Help Wanted
Food Tasters for Ron Paul, Michael Moore and Rocky Anderson. Call Security Agency at 801-555-0124
For Sale
Gas guzzling SUV - will trade for bike.
Twenty-Years-From-Now News
With the water pipeline completed only a mile from Lake Powell, the lake went dry. A frustrated Utah Governor Huntsman exclaimed, "My heck."
Personals
Cell-phone cowboy searching for a roaming companion.
Friday, May 25, 2007
GET WITH IT, FOURTH ESTATE
The media is under constant attack for spinning the news. The news-and-information professionals cover-up and manage daily news stories, it cannot be denied. The fourth estate let's us down in more ways than is commonly understood.
Journalists are important, critically so. Thomas Jefferson said something about governments will take away your rights without newspapers watching them. George Orwell said, "People believe what the media tells them to believe."
The journalists in the papers, magazines, radio, and television carry a responsibility to be investigative and honest. These people report the truth and they also make news. The Republican ex-Congressman now serving an eight year term in prison for taking bribes, was exposed by a journalist for the San Diego Union. We would not have heard of the My Lai atrocity in Viet Nam or the Abu Ghraib prison tortures in Iraq were it not for Seymour Hersh, a journalist devoted to truth.
The self-styled experts on radio - Rush, Sean, Glenn - consider the press an enemy in our struggle in Iraq. Let's make a case the other way. In other words, look at how the fourth estate failed to do its job, and could have averted this awful war.
The journalists reported almost nothing about our sanctions against Iraq from 1991 until 2003. The U.S. blockaded both food and medicine as well as critical items like pesticides, x-ray equipment, soap, electrical equipment, and cleaning agents. The result was one and one half million deaths - mostly infants and elderly.
They did not tell the truth about inspections for weapons of mass destruction. Scott Ritter, the U.S. inspection team chief, fought to get his story out about the successful work of the inspections and the cooperation of Saddam's regime. Hans Blix was ridiculed for being right.
Journalists did not question the Bush administration's claims about WMD. Colin Powell now admits he told George Tenet and Dick Cheney that the CIA's claims of WMD were b.s., even though he went ahead and presented the falsehoods to the UN.
They failed to tell of the widepsread use of depleted uranium by our military. DU is banned internationally - we signed onto the ban and continue to violate it. You won't read about in the big press.
They, the journalists, allowed themselves to be part of the action with their embedded positions in the invasion. As a result, the military misled us by their propaganda surrounding Pat Tillman's death and the rescue of Jessica Lynch.
They didn't and don't tell us anything about oil. Oil is an ignored factor although it's action-packed. The people of Iraq will probably never see their precious oil again. The corporations are moving in quickly, as our state department writes key portions of the new constitution soon to be established.
The latest on Iraq from an American view point is the Ron Paul story. The Republican candidate for president debates nine others about the folly of this war/occupation and recieves overwhelming support in the polls. For that, he is ignored. Journalists continue to focus on the candidates who play the game. You know: Romney, McCain and Giuliani. Nobody wants Ron Paul except the people.
Neither the fourth estate (nor the USA) will last long unless it tells the truth, the whole truth and nothing else.
~~~
Hot Stuff
* A new book claims that Ronald Reagan's diary contains passages indicating his irritation with our Senator Hatch. No comment.
* The Congress is really going at it, arguing about the various provisions of the proposed illegal immigration bill. They ought to add an amendment for drafting aliens into the military
as soon as they are caught. This would be a multi-purpose section of the new law. It would discourage running across the border, it would give us a surge in soldiers to go to you-know-where, and it would save the big bucks - about $30,000 - spent on bonuses to get Americans to volunteer/enlist. Eventually, Bush would refer again to the jobs Americans won't do.
* That wall on the border is to be two wire mesh fences with a road between them. Funds are available for 700 miles so far, but about 2,000 miles when it's completed. But is it anything but ugly, is it stunning in any way? Won't we all be embarrassed in 500 years when historians compare the China Wall with our wall? I mean, ours will have eroded away while people still ride Segways on the China Wall.
* Senator Bennett has taken up with the diplomacy crowd who want to end the Iraq quagmire the way the Baker-led study commission suggested. Give Bennett some credit (not too much) for finally coming around. Now watch the War Party turn on him.
* The newspaper in St. George, Utah printed a cartoon today featuring Michael Moore - the devil himself - and his soon to be released movie about health care. The cartoon claims that Sicko is full of lies. There they go again. Accusing Moore of lies when they have not (and will not) lower themselves to see the film.
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Meetings & Events
* The Civilian Review Board monitoring local media invites the public to view evidence of bias at the newspaper and radio regarding war propaganda. War crimes may have been committed. June 7 at Starbucks. Check your firearms at the door, please.
* Stop The Pipeline meets for an hour at 8 pm each Wednesday, right after Stop The Growth and just before Stop The War. So don't be late, or early either. See you at the Slippery Slope Saloon.
Help Wanted
Elvis impersonator to entertain at the western convention of Restless Leg victims. You'd better be good, it's a tough crowd.
For Sale
Ralph Nader's getaway car. Collectors' value. Used at BYU. Proceeds go to paint the White House green.
Twenty-Years-From-Now News
Hooray. St. George was selected as the site of the 2028 Olympics, beating out Wachovia, Lake Wobegon and Luchenbach.
Personals
If you're a Libra who likes circling the roundabouts at midnight, sipping O'Douls at The Outback, and eating jello for breakfast - we have much in common. Race and age don't matter, but do send a photo along with your resume and current financial statement to Lucille, POB 111, Leeds. (I feel really good about this, don't you?) Maybe we'll have it all.
Journalists are important, critically so. Thomas Jefferson said something about governments will take away your rights without newspapers watching them. George Orwell said, "People believe what the media tells them to believe."
The journalists in the papers, magazines, radio, and television carry a responsibility to be investigative and honest. These people report the truth and they also make news. The Republican ex-Congressman now serving an eight year term in prison for taking bribes, was exposed by a journalist for the San Diego Union. We would not have heard of the My Lai atrocity in Viet Nam or the Abu Ghraib prison tortures in Iraq were it not for Seymour Hersh, a journalist devoted to truth.
The self-styled experts on radio - Rush, Sean, Glenn - consider the press an enemy in our struggle in Iraq. Let's make a case the other way. In other words, look at how the fourth estate failed to do its job, and could have averted this awful war.
The journalists reported almost nothing about our sanctions against Iraq from 1991 until 2003. The U.S. blockaded both food and medicine as well as critical items like pesticides, x-ray equipment, soap, electrical equipment, and cleaning agents. The result was one and one half million deaths - mostly infants and elderly.
They did not tell the truth about inspections for weapons of mass destruction. Scott Ritter, the U.S. inspection team chief, fought to get his story out about the successful work of the inspections and the cooperation of Saddam's regime. Hans Blix was ridiculed for being right.
Journalists did not question the Bush administration's claims about WMD. Colin Powell now admits he told George Tenet and Dick Cheney that the CIA's claims of WMD were b.s., even though he went ahead and presented the falsehoods to the UN.
They failed to tell of the widepsread use of depleted uranium by our military. DU is banned internationally - we signed onto the ban and continue to violate it. You won't read about in the big press.
They, the journalists, allowed themselves to be part of the action with their embedded positions in the invasion. As a result, the military misled us by their propaganda surrounding Pat Tillman's death and the rescue of Jessica Lynch.
They didn't and don't tell us anything about oil. Oil is an ignored factor although it's action-packed. The people of Iraq will probably never see their precious oil again. The corporations are moving in quickly, as our state department writes key portions of the new constitution soon to be established.
The latest on Iraq from an American view point is the Ron Paul story. The Republican candidate for president debates nine others about the folly of this war/occupation and recieves overwhelming support in the polls. For that, he is ignored. Journalists continue to focus on the candidates who play the game. You know: Romney, McCain and Giuliani. Nobody wants Ron Paul except the people.
Neither the fourth estate (nor the USA) will last long unless it tells the truth, the whole truth and nothing else.
~~~
Hot Stuff
* A new book claims that Ronald Reagan's diary contains passages indicating his irritation with our Senator Hatch. No comment.
* The Congress is really going at it, arguing about the various provisions of the proposed illegal immigration bill. They ought to add an amendment for drafting aliens into the military
as soon as they are caught. This would be a multi-purpose section of the new law. It would discourage running across the border, it would give us a surge in soldiers to go to you-know-where, and it would save the big bucks - about $30,000 - spent on bonuses to get Americans to volunteer/enlist. Eventually, Bush would refer again to the jobs Americans won't do.
* That wall on the border is to be two wire mesh fences with a road between them. Funds are available for 700 miles so far, but about 2,000 miles when it's completed. But is it anything but ugly, is it stunning in any way? Won't we all be embarrassed in 500 years when historians compare the China Wall with our wall? I mean, ours will have eroded away while people still ride Segways on the China Wall.
* Senator Bennett has taken up with the diplomacy crowd who want to end the Iraq quagmire the way the Baker-led study commission suggested. Give Bennett some credit (not too much) for finally coming around. Now watch the War Party turn on him.
* The newspaper in St. George, Utah printed a cartoon today featuring Michael Moore - the devil himself - and his soon to be released movie about health care. The cartoon claims that Sicko is full of lies. There they go again. Accusing Moore of lies when they have not (and will not) lower themselves to see the film.
------------------------------------------------------------
Meetings & Events
* The Civilian Review Board monitoring local media invites the public to view evidence of bias at the newspaper and radio regarding war propaganda. War crimes may have been committed. June 7 at Starbucks. Check your firearms at the door, please.
* Stop The Pipeline meets for an hour at 8 pm each Wednesday, right after Stop The Growth and just before Stop The War. So don't be late, or early either. See you at the Slippery Slope Saloon.
Help Wanted
Elvis impersonator to entertain at the western convention of Restless Leg victims. You'd better be good, it's a tough crowd.
For Sale
Ralph Nader's getaway car. Collectors' value. Used at BYU. Proceeds go to paint the White House green.
Twenty-Years-From-Now News
Hooray. St. George was selected as the site of the 2028 Olympics, beating out Wachovia, Lake Wobegon and Luchenbach.
Personals
If you're a Libra who likes circling the roundabouts at midnight, sipping O'Douls at The Outback, and eating jello for breakfast - we have much in common. Race and age don't matter, but do send a photo along with your resume and current financial statement to Lucille, POB 111, Leeds. (I feel really good about this, don't you?) Maybe we'll have it all.
Thursday, May 24, 2007
PACKING HEAT
President Bush was shocked, shocked that North Korea exploded a "nukular" bomb. He doesn't want dangerous nations to have the ability to do a Hiroshima or a Nagasaki. Apparently, no one told Dubya about the concept of mutual destruction deterrent which kept the cold war from getting hot.
When President Harry Truman quietly told Soviet Premier Joesph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference that the USA had an atomic bomb, Stalin replied, "Yes, I know." Of course he knew, with his vast web of subversion operating here. American atom spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed in 1952 for delivering our bomb secrets to the Soviets. The traitors' Communist friends said they did it to insure a balance of power between East and West.
In the world of nations and in the community of individuals, the little guys need an equalizer. Granny walking to her car at night can feel equal to a mugger if she is packing heat. Her equalizer can be of small caliber, and she will feel and be safer as will all of us by the protection it provides. Only the perpetrator is at risk.
* Fidel Castro, Cuba's Maximum Leader, says he feels much better and realizes he didn't take care of himself. That's a surprise because he took care of so many others.
* The State of Utah reveals its cost figures for schooling illegal immigrants. Are you sitting down? $85 million. Statistics can lie, so you'd better watch out on this one. If these dear little ones are to be future citizens, the funds are well spent. On the other hand, they might go home, by choice or deportation - then it's not a good investment. Close the borders, don't let them out.
* Don't tell me again. I know. Our governor speaks Chinese, but so do a billion other people. Can he whistle Dixie? That's what counts.
* The Vatican announced that there isn't a limbo after all. Sorry about that. In Dixie, we still have Purgatory and we're not dropping it.
* I would not let Sean Hannity or Glenn Beck into my living room under any conditions. Rush Limbaugh would be welcome if he would raise his hand to speak. Michael Savage could sit on my sofa anytime, just for a conversation starter. Laura Ingram, no. Mark Levin, no. Ollie North, no.
* The State of Utah soon will establish a second liquor store in St. George. Why? If booze is bad, why does our state government sell it? If the stuff is good, then why can't it be free and sold in supermarkets or Wal-Mart? We all know the answer: REVENUE.
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Meeting & Events
* Tailgaters Anonymous at Outback tonight. Drive carefully getting here.
* Losing Coaches Support Group at Casablanca Sports Book in Mesquite, nightly.
* Police Chief Harding will answer questions about Saturday night's midnight sighting of swarms of bees in the parking lot at Only The Lonely, a popular saloon on St. George Boulevard.
Help Wanted
Iraqi language teachers, for when they follow us home.
For Sale
Will trade exercise equipment for food.
Twenty-Years-From-Now News
* "The proposed water pipe line from the Great Lakes to St. George is necessary to sustain our current population," according to new mayor Rocky Anderson. Senators Hatch and Bennett oppose the plan, preferring to use the funds for the next generation of nuclear weapons.
* The temperature is 137 degrees in St. George today - right in line with the continuing global warming. The humidity registers at 5. It's not the humidity, it's the heat.
When President Harry Truman quietly told Soviet Premier Joesph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference that the USA had an atomic bomb, Stalin replied, "Yes, I know." Of course he knew, with his vast web of subversion operating here. American atom spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed in 1952 for delivering our bomb secrets to the Soviets. The traitors' Communist friends said they did it to insure a balance of power between East and West.
In the world of nations and in the community of individuals, the little guys need an equalizer. Granny walking to her car at night can feel equal to a mugger if she is packing heat. Her equalizer can be of small caliber, and she will feel and be safer as will all of us by the protection it provides. Only the perpetrator is at risk.
The same goes for nations of the world. The weak ones are intimidated by the bullies and giants who threaten them and tell them how to live. They need equalizers to feel comfort and self-respect when confronted by potential perpetrators.
Nine nations of the world are packing heat (that we know of) and only one of them has ever pulled the trigger - Great Britain, France, Russia, China, Pakistan, India, North Korea, USA, and Israel. Interesting that Israel developed the bomb in total secrecy. The revelation aroused no horrified reaction from Washington as was the case with the others.
Guns and other weapons are equalizers which make crime and violence less likely and individuals and nations safer.
We all need to pack heat to be safe.
~~~
Hot Stuff* Fidel Castro, Cuba's Maximum Leader, says he feels much better and realizes he didn't take care of himself. That's a surprise because he took care of so many others.
* The State of Utah reveals its cost figures for schooling illegal immigrants. Are you sitting down? $85 million. Statistics can lie, so you'd better watch out on this one. If these dear little ones are to be future citizens, the funds are well spent. On the other hand, they might go home, by choice or deportation - then it's not a good investment. Close the borders, don't let them out.
* Don't tell me again. I know. Our governor speaks Chinese, but so do a billion other people. Can he whistle Dixie? That's what counts.
* The Vatican announced that there isn't a limbo after all. Sorry about that. In Dixie, we still have Purgatory and we're not dropping it.
* I would not let Sean Hannity or Glenn Beck into my living room under any conditions. Rush Limbaugh would be welcome if he would raise his hand to speak. Michael Savage could sit on my sofa anytime, just for a conversation starter. Laura Ingram, no. Mark Levin, no. Ollie North, no.
* The State of Utah soon will establish a second liquor store in St. George. Why? If booze is bad, why does our state government sell it? If the stuff is good, then why can't it be free and sold in supermarkets or Wal-Mart? We all know the answer: REVENUE.
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Meeting & Events
* Tailgaters Anonymous at Outback tonight. Drive carefully getting here.
* Losing Coaches Support Group at Casablanca Sports Book in Mesquite, nightly.
* Police Chief Harding will answer questions about Saturday night's midnight sighting of swarms of bees in the parking lot at Only The Lonely, a popular saloon on St. George Boulevard.
Help Wanted
Iraqi language teachers, for when they follow us home.
For Sale
Will trade exercise equipment for food.
Twenty-Years-From-Now News
* "The proposed water pipe line from the Great Lakes to St. George is necessary to sustain our current population," according to new mayor Rocky Anderson. Senators Hatch and Bennett oppose the plan, preferring to use the funds for the next generation of nuclear weapons.
* The temperature is 137 degrees in St. George today - right in line with the continuing global warming. The humidity registers at 5. It's not the humidity, it's the heat.
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
AMERICA'S DESTINY: HUMANITARIAN SUPERPOWER
Take heart, true patriots. Our day will come. The corporate oligarchists won't rule us much longer. Their number will be up one day when the stars are aligned just right and the people clamor for a restoration of traditional values and virtues. We'll conquer the world with faith, hope and charity. The sun will be out tomorrow, bet your bottom dollar.
Humanitarian superpower, that's us.
~~~
Hot Stuff
* A component of the oligarchy controlling us is Big Pharma, the prescription and over-the-counter drug manufacturers who finance both elected and appointed government officials. One agency designed to protect our health and safety is the FDA, but its record is spotty. They do act strangely at times. Now the FDA is embroiled in a dispute about the heart attack risks of Avandia, a diabetes treatment. The manufacturer confessed months ago to the FDA that there was a problem. A recent study by the Cleveland Clinic indicates an even worse problem exists. The apparently unalarmed federal agency issued a statement that it would "Look at it again."
* California Governor Arnold Schwarzenagger (he drives a Hummer) visited Utah Governor Huntsman in Salt Lake City to lay plans for joining the war on global warming. Before they get all hot and bothered, please tell them about how the sun is heating up, as is Mars. The governors should cool it, but we know it's hard for them. When you have power, you tend to think that you, well, that you have power.
* Have you noticed how dogs are different nowadays? The canines used to turn their backs and kick dirt on their messes. Honest, dogs kicked dirt. Those were the days my friend. No more of that. In our modern times, the dog's masters carry plastic bags, scoop it up and carry it home. Has the dog become the master? What does the dog think of these subservient humans?
Dogs should kick dirt, that's what kicking is for. Otherwise, put the leashes on the owners.
* Senator Hatch has returned from Iraq. He believes in the mission more than ever. Was there ever any doubt he'd say that? He should tell us what the mission is. Has it changed, AGAIN?
* Let's build statues in the park for Scott Ritter, Hans Blix, Ron Paul and Michael Moore.
* Puiffed-up, big shots in Congress, that includes Senator Chris Dodd, who chairs the Senate Banking Committee and our own Senator Robert Bennett, just go nuts at the idea of Wal-Mart or Home Depot establishing banks. Isn't free enterprise the American way? If Pete's Electric Repair wants to start Pete's Bank as an added source of revenue, why not? Uncle Sam, get off our backs! Unregulate us, please.
* Stop the war.
The Dixie Thinker is serious fun, but not for the snug and smug.
Meetings & Events
A Club Gitmo Reunion for former detainees meets every Saturday morning at Worthen Park. Enjoy rehashing the good times, the memories and the exchanges of information.
Help Wanted
Clean-up man to remove debris left by political cnadidates from now 'til November (2008).
Must have strong nose and be quick to act. Expect overtime. Prefer you be an independent, (heavens) not a Democrat. Libertarian, maybe. Call this office.
For Sale
Snowbird equipment - rv, golf clubs, bike, scooter, fishing gear - will go cheap. Can't come down this year because of the gas gougers. $4 per gallon is outrageous. - call Sammy in Oregon
Twenty-Years-From-Now News
Ultimata - an all-in-one shot to prevent every illness known to mankind has been approved by the FDA. A Pfizer/Merck vaccination will cost $72,000, but it's covered by Medicare - which has agreed to pick up the tab for treating the inevitable side effects.
Humanitarian superpower, that's us.
~~~
Hot Stuff
* A component of the oligarchy controlling us is Big Pharma, the prescription and over-the-counter drug manufacturers who finance both elected and appointed government officials. One agency designed to protect our health and safety is the FDA, but its record is spotty. They do act strangely at times. Now the FDA is embroiled in a dispute about the heart attack risks of Avandia, a diabetes treatment. The manufacturer confessed months ago to the FDA that there was a problem. A recent study by the Cleveland Clinic indicates an even worse problem exists. The apparently unalarmed federal agency issued a statement that it would "Look at it again."
* California Governor Arnold Schwarzenagger (he drives a Hummer) visited Utah Governor Huntsman in Salt Lake City to lay plans for joining the war on global warming. Before they get all hot and bothered, please tell them about how the sun is heating up, as is Mars. The governors should cool it, but we know it's hard for them. When you have power, you tend to think that you, well, that you have power.
* Have you noticed how dogs are different nowadays? The canines used to turn their backs and kick dirt on their messes. Honest, dogs kicked dirt. Those were the days my friend. No more of that. In our modern times, the dog's masters carry plastic bags, scoop it up and carry it home. Has the dog become the master? What does the dog think of these subservient humans?
Dogs should kick dirt, that's what kicking is for. Otherwise, put the leashes on the owners.
* Senator Hatch has returned from Iraq. He believes in the mission more than ever. Was there ever any doubt he'd say that? He should tell us what the mission is. Has it changed, AGAIN?
* Let's build statues in the park for Scott Ritter, Hans Blix, Ron Paul and Michael Moore.
* Puiffed-up, big shots in Congress, that includes Senator Chris Dodd, who chairs the Senate Banking Committee and our own Senator Robert Bennett, just go nuts at the idea of Wal-Mart or Home Depot establishing banks. Isn't free enterprise the American way? If Pete's Electric Repair wants to start Pete's Bank as an added source of revenue, why not? Uncle Sam, get off our backs! Unregulate us, please.
* Stop the war.
The Dixie Thinker is serious fun, but not for the snug and smug.
Meetings & Events
A Club Gitmo Reunion for former detainees meets every Saturday morning at Worthen Park. Enjoy rehashing the good times, the memories and the exchanges of information.
Help Wanted
Clean-up man to remove debris left by political cnadidates from now 'til November (2008).
Must have strong nose and be quick to act. Expect overtime. Prefer you be an independent, (heavens) not a Democrat. Libertarian, maybe. Call this office.
For Sale
Snowbird equipment - rv, golf clubs, bike, scooter, fishing gear - will go cheap. Can't come down this year because of the gas gougers. $4 per gallon is outrageous. - call Sammy in Oregon
Twenty-Years-From-Now News
Ultimata - an all-in-one shot to prevent every illness known to mankind has been approved by the FDA. A Pfizer/Merck vaccination will cost $72,000, but it's covered by Medicare - which has agreed to pick up the tab for treating the inevitable side effects.
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
BLOWBACK IS KARMA
Our great republic would be safer and happier if every citizen would learn the meaning of blowback, in a world politics context. Congressman Ron Paul has given us a term to work with in improving our foreign policy. "Blowback" is a name given to American empire building in Chamler Johnson's book. The CIA adopted blowback in several reports. It is important.
So many slogans and terms have shaped history. A few of these were: isolationism, saving face, balance of power, eternal vigilance, peace through strength, and pre-emptive war. Blowback has the potential to be a most useful term to define a concept in modern politics and diplomacy.
Blowback means karma. What goes around, comes around. Natural law causes that which you send out to come back to you. How could it be otherwise?
America is an interventionist, occupying nation. We don't conquer, unless attacked, but we do meddle. We have troops stationed in 134 countries. As a random example, consider Honduras. Do we really need eight military bases in that nation?
We cannot afford our current foreign policy and the world doesn't like it. We're tiring of it.
Blowback. What a concept!
~~~
Hot Stuff
* What's-its-name, the local paper, reported today on the City of St. George's budget. The headline dealt with the possibility of increased golf fees. Horrors. A couple of guys said they might have to play only four times a week instead of five. This brings up the question: Why is the municipality in the golf business? Four golf courses and a practice driving range are city owned. That, dear hearts, is socialism with a capital s. Socialism. And don't forget the swimming pools are the city's. Pretty soon now, we'll have city bowling lanes and dance halls.
* If every American could see the films of World Trade Building 7 - a 40 story skyscraper - crumbling to the ground in 6.4 seconds, there would be a congressional investigation by sundown. No plane hit that structure on 9/11. So why did it fall?
* The Spectrum's Jennifer Weaver was interviewed on Bryan Hyde's radio forum yesterday. She spent considerable time discussing the illegal immigration issue. I don't think she realizes that about 60% of the undocumented workers pay into the Social Security system. They are not burdening Social Security, they are bolstering it. Jennifer also spoke of foreign students being educated in American universities. She said she wants them to stay here. Well, maybe they don't want to. Many of the parents and governments of those other nations send their young people to gain knowledge and skills with whioh they will improve their homelands. Should we force them to stay and then shoot at them if they try to leave, Castro-style?
* With all the arguing about America being a democracy or a republic, remember: Democracy separates responsibilty from authority.
* Michael Moore's new documentary, Sicko, is soon to be released. You can be sure that those who refuse to see it will be insisting Moore is lying, or something worse. More than a year ago I wrote to a few of his critics to find out where Moore is wrong on Fahrenheit 9/11. I'm still waiting for a reply. Moore's critics are blinded by hate.
The Dixie Thinker is serious fun, but not for the snug and smug.
Meeting & Events
* Lecture tonight at Frenchy's Cafe, back room at 7:30 PM. Topic is Meadow Mountain Massacre in a talk by an anonymous speaker: New evidence of shots from the grassy knoll indicate that Lee did not act alone.
* An eyewitness speaker tonight - 8 PM in the culture room at Only The Lonely - will reveal that Rush really does have half of his brain tied behind his back. Snapshot photos and other evidence will be on display. This would explain a lot.
Twenty-Years-From-Now News
Elian Gonzales has been picked by Cuba's National Assembly as the successor to Fidel Castro in the event the Maximum Leader fails to recover from his still mysterious ailment. Cuban-American relations are not expected to improve under a Gonzales regime. He has an anti-American bias dating back to his expulsion from the "land of the free" when he was a young boy.
Help Wanted
Dumbwaiter at Frenchy's. Apply in person, ask for Gigi.
For Sale
Old McDonalds transfat recipes. Dirt cheap or OBO.
IT'S ALL SO SIMPLE
So many slogans and terms have shaped history. A few of these were: isolationism, saving face, balance of power, eternal vigilance, peace through strength, and pre-emptive war. Blowback has the potential to be a most useful term to define a concept in modern politics and diplomacy.
Blowback means karma. What goes around, comes around. Natural law causes that which you send out to come back to you. How could it be otherwise?
America is an interventionist, occupying nation. We don't conquer, unless attacked, but we do meddle. We have troops stationed in 134 countries. As a random example, consider Honduras. Do we really need eight military bases in that nation?
We cannot afford our current foreign policy and the world doesn't like it. We're tiring of it.
Blowback. What a concept!
~~~
Hot Stuff
* What's-its-name, the local paper, reported today on the City of St. George's budget. The headline dealt with the possibility of increased golf fees. Horrors. A couple of guys said they might have to play only four times a week instead of five. This brings up the question: Why is the municipality in the golf business? Four golf courses and a practice driving range are city owned. That, dear hearts, is socialism with a capital s. Socialism. And don't forget the swimming pools are the city's. Pretty soon now, we'll have city bowling lanes and dance halls.
* If every American could see the films of World Trade Building 7 - a 40 story skyscraper - crumbling to the ground in 6.4 seconds, there would be a congressional investigation by sundown. No plane hit that structure on 9/11. So why did it fall?
* The Spectrum's Jennifer Weaver was interviewed on Bryan Hyde's radio forum yesterday. She spent considerable time discussing the illegal immigration issue. I don't think she realizes that about 60% of the undocumented workers pay into the Social Security system. They are not burdening Social Security, they are bolstering it. Jennifer also spoke of foreign students being educated in American universities. She said she wants them to stay here. Well, maybe they don't want to. Many of the parents and governments of those other nations send their young people to gain knowledge and skills with whioh they will improve their homelands. Should we force them to stay and then shoot at them if they try to leave, Castro-style?
* With all the arguing about America being a democracy or a republic, remember: Democracy separates responsibilty from authority.
* Michael Moore's new documentary, Sicko, is soon to be released. You can be sure that those who refuse to see it will be insisting Moore is lying, or something worse. More than a year ago I wrote to a few of his critics to find out where Moore is wrong on Fahrenheit 9/11. I'm still waiting for a reply. Moore's critics are blinded by hate.
The Dixie Thinker is serious fun, but not for the snug and smug.
Meeting & Events
* Lecture tonight at Frenchy's Cafe, back room at 7:30 PM. Topic is Meadow Mountain Massacre in a talk by an anonymous speaker: New evidence of shots from the grassy knoll indicate that Lee did not act alone.
* An eyewitness speaker tonight - 8 PM in the culture room at Only The Lonely - will reveal that Rush really does have half of his brain tied behind his back. Snapshot photos and other evidence will be on display. This would explain a lot.
Twenty-Years-From-Now News
Elian Gonzales has been picked by Cuba's National Assembly as the successor to Fidel Castro in the event the Maximum Leader fails to recover from his still mysterious ailment. Cuban-American relations are not expected to improve under a Gonzales regime. He has an anti-American bias dating back to his expulsion from the "land of the free" when he was a young boy.
Help Wanted
Dumbwaiter at Frenchy's. Apply in person, ask for Gigi.
For Sale
Old McDonalds transfat recipes. Dirt cheap or OBO.
IT'S ALL SO SIMPLE
Monday, May 21, 2007
OPERATION WHOLE ENCHILADA
Millions of illegal immigrants in the United States and millions of Mexicans still in Mexico want to become American citizens. Other millions who came here plan to return home one day.
We can help them all.
We certainly need the millions already here to do those jobs which Americans apparently did not do before they came. Most of them are good people whose second generation will be more Americanized, as usually is the case.
The happy solution is annexation. If Mexicans now here want it both ways - dual citizenship with amnesty - they can have it. We deliver.
Immediate ciitizenship will be granted to all Mexicans once the U.S. Army crosses the border and liberates the people from one of the most corrupt oligarchist governments in the world. They'll throw flowers and cheer our soldiers, there will be dancing in the streets. Congress will grant statehood to each provincial state in Mexico. Steve Covey will call it a win/win situation.
Don't be bothered by the military conquest characterisics of this action. We're Americans. Folks kind of expect that. We can keep this one clean, with no CIA involvement. We're looking over a four-leaf clover that we've overlooked before. Let's hope the borders are just as porous going south as they are coming north. We'll be over; we're coming over.
Oh by the way, (I almost forgot) Mexico is oil-rich and the people work their heads off. The new USA will be self-sufficient in oil, the border problems will have gone poof, you can forget NAFTA, and the peso is passe. We'll all be working for the Yankee Dollar.
This might beat the The Louisiana Purchase. Mexico has rich agricultural land and mining deposits from sea to shining sea. The new America south of the border offers untold potential for peace and prosperity for U.S. citizens.
Okay padre?
~~~
Hot Stuff
* While you're drinking those six to eight glasses of water (doctor's orders) every day, think about how you'll be able to keep it up when another 300,000 thirsty interlopers move into Dixie. I mean, they're coming to America, destination St. George. Offer your ideas, your solutions, please.
* Dr. Steven Jones, former professor of physics at BYU, gave talks in our area last week. He presented his bold and enlightening claims of the circumstances of the World Trade Center atrocity on 9/11. Jones does not agree with our government's version, and his ideas are gaining respect. One would expect that a local newspaper would provide publicity when a giant such as Jones speaks.
* Most state legislature's (Utah's included) are not yielding to the big pharm monster, Merck, who has lobbbies promoting a new anti-cancer drug,Gardasil, for mandatory vaccination laws to cover young girls. Gardasil will be injected into every school girl in Texas, where the prevailing philosophy puts individual rights in last place. The next state to fall to the madness is Georgia.
* Utah Governor Huntsman is enthusiastic about his upcoming participation in a governors' conference on Global Warming. The guv ought to tell that to the Chinese, who are careless polluters. Everyday someone tells me that our governor speaks Chinese. Great. He can stop the carbon emissions in both China and Utah.
* The Spectrum's Ed Kociela had only one bad day. That was last Saturday. He wrote that those upset by rampant illegal immigration were actually racists on the inside. Ed, you can't always be right. We love you. Now go sit in the corner until we say, "time's up."
The Dixie Thinker is serious fun, but not for the snug and smug.
Meeting & Events
Former Vice President Al Gore will speak on Friday at 7PM in the convention hall at Starbucks. The topic is: "Where have all the UFOs gone?
Twenty-Years-From-Now news
Research and development engineers at ATT/3M demonstrated their all-in-one, miniaturized
gadget which is a composite computer, television, telephone, camera, and fax machine in a ring on your finger. Also, when removed from your finger, Atlas, can quickly change the oil in your car.
For Sale
* Psst. Social Security cards. Dime a dozen. Ancestor Square, 24/7 - under the No Loitering sign.
* Peace Patches. Fasten like a band aid to your forehead, and the war fever goes away in 10 minutes.
Help Wanted
Translator to serve as interpreter for proponents and opponents of school vouchers at Utah capitol.
We can help them all.
We certainly need the millions already here to do those jobs which Americans apparently did not do before they came. Most of them are good people whose second generation will be more Americanized, as usually is the case.
The happy solution is annexation. If Mexicans now here want it both ways - dual citizenship with amnesty - they can have it. We deliver.
Immediate ciitizenship will be granted to all Mexicans once the U.S. Army crosses the border and liberates the people from one of the most corrupt oligarchist governments in the world. They'll throw flowers and cheer our soldiers, there will be dancing in the streets. Congress will grant statehood to each provincial state in Mexico. Steve Covey will call it a win/win situation.
Don't be bothered by the military conquest characterisics of this action. We're Americans. Folks kind of expect that. We can keep this one clean, with no CIA involvement. We're looking over a four-leaf clover that we've overlooked before. Let's hope the borders are just as porous going south as they are coming north. We'll be over; we're coming over.
Oh by the way, (I almost forgot) Mexico is oil-rich and the people work their heads off. The new USA will be self-sufficient in oil, the border problems will have gone poof, you can forget NAFTA, and the peso is passe. We'll all be working for the Yankee Dollar.
This might beat the The Louisiana Purchase. Mexico has rich agricultural land and mining deposits from sea to shining sea. The new America south of the border offers untold potential for peace and prosperity for U.S. citizens.
Okay padre?
~~~
Hot Stuff
* While you're drinking those six to eight glasses of water (doctor's orders) every day, think about how you'll be able to keep it up when another 300,000 thirsty interlopers move into Dixie. I mean, they're coming to America, destination St. George. Offer your ideas, your solutions, please.
* Dr. Steven Jones, former professor of physics at BYU, gave talks in our area last week. He presented his bold and enlightening claims of the circumstances of the World Trade Center atrocity on 9/11. Jones does not agree with our government's version, and his ideas are gaining respect. One would expect that a local newspaper would provide publicity when a giant such as Jones speaks.
* Most state legislature's (Utah's included) are not yielding to the big pharm monster, Merck, who has lobbbies promoting a new anti-cancer drug,Gardasil, for mandatory vaccination laws to cover young girls. Gardasil will be injected into every school girl in Texas, where the prevailing philosophy puts individual rights in last place. The next state to fall to the madness is Georgia.
* Utah Governor Huntsman is enthusiastic about his upcoming participation in a governors' conference on Global Warming. The guv ought to tell that to the Chinese, who are careless polluters. Everyday someone tells me that our governor speaks Chinese. Great. He can stop the carbon emissions in both China and Utah.
* The Spectrum's Ed Kociela had only one bad day. That was last Saturday. He wrote that those upset by rampant illegal immigration were actually racists on the inside. Ed, you can't always be right. We love you. Now go sit in the corner until we say, "time's up."
The Dixie Thinker is serious fun, but not for the snug and smug.
Meeting & Events
Former Vice President Al Gore will speak on Friday at 7PM in the convention hall at Starbucks. The topic is: "Where have all the UFOs gone?
Twenty-Years-From-Now news
Research and development engineers at ATT/3M demonstrated their all-in-one, miniaturized
gadget which is a composite computer, television, telephone, camera, and fax machine in a ring on your finger. Also, when removed from your finger, Atlas, can quickly change the oil in your car.
For Sale
* Psst. Social Security cards. Dime a dozen. Ancestor Square, 24/7 - under the No Loitering sign.
* Peace Patches. Fasten like a band aid to your forehead, and the war fever goes away in 10 minutes.
Help Wanted
Translator to serve as interpreter for proponents and opponents of school vouchers at Utah capitol.
Friday, May 18, 2007
SUCH A DEAL
White House officials and Senate leaders in both parties worked behind closed doors for months to produce a bill to solve the question of illegal immigration. They presented their creature yesterday. President Bush immediately announced his support. Senators Ted Kennedy, D, and John Kyle, R, wrote most of it and urge everyone to get behind it.
The debate is on. Certain features are certain to rile and beguile. The aliens can stay, but they must first return to Mexico. They have to pay a $5000 fine. The border fence would be completed.
Opponents call it amnesty, but those in favor say it's not that at all. The proposed bill is more than 700 pages long. No one comprehends the creature yet, so we don't know whether it's fish or foul.
Like the song says: It's Impossible.
President Eisenhower deported one and one-half million illegals to Mexico in the mid 1950s with the explanation that they're taking jobs from Americans. President Bush wants to send 12 to 20 million back home with a plan to return legally because "They do jobs Americans won't take."
If illegal alien Jose has to return south of the border, he loses his income with which he supports his wife and American-born baby. Then he pays a hefty fine and returns to wife and babe, who meanwhile must be aided by government dole.
The hard truth is: Jose is here because he was allowed to enter and encouraged to work here. The real reason 12 to 20 million Mexicans were welcomed in by our government is because our upside down Social Security system requires a steady increase in producers (workers) to recipients (pensioners) ratio to continue to exist. Also, our debt-based money system as dictated by the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 requires an increase in capital expansion by way of production and demand to avoid deflation and depression.
This is theatre. The latest act by the senators and the president is comedy. You have to laugh and cry at the same time.
```
More Hot Stuff
* Congressman Ron Paul won most of the polls pertaining to the two Republican debates. Isn't that why the War Party leaders are trying to ignore him? They're afraid of him, just as they were of Barry Goldwater and Pat Buchanan. They will smear him if they can.
* Ron Paul asserted that "We have been bombing Iraq for 10 years." Paul's wrong about that. It's been 15 years.
* Paul Wolfowitz got the axe at the World Bank. The directors wouldn't let him do just anything he wanted to do. He's been fired, and he is oh, so indignant. Too bad Carter or Reagan or Clinton or Rumsfeld or Powell or Bush didn't fire him, either before or after he and the notorious Scooter Libby designed the plan to invade Iraq 10 years ago.
* Scooter Libby! That's another suspect who should go through Gitmo's torture program. He has problems with his memory. We can help. We have ways. And now that Mitt Romney is calling for doubling the size of Gitmo, we'll have plenty of space.
* Jose, the Mexican, can cross the border into the USA without being shot at. Let's compare Jose's movements with some Cuban dude, named Raul. If Raul decides to leave Castro's island, climbs onto his homemade raft and sets out into the Gulf of Mexico for Mexico, he might be shot in the back. If he makes it to Mexico, he might be shot in the face while entering or crossing the southern border. (A few weeks ago, a Mexican border guard shot at an illegal immigrant and accidentally killed one of his compatriots.) Cuba shoots the emmigrants; Mexico guns down immigrants. Jose has it better than Raul.
* Speaking of citizenship, how does it happen that the bulls-eye nation of the world (that's us) hires a man with dual citizenship to be boss over Homeland Security? Michael Chertoff has two countries - USA and Israel. Isn't that double loyalty and a potential conflict of interest? Is America Chertoff's wife while Israel is his mistress? Or is this polygamy? Help me here!
* The twins of the oil corporation nations, Bush and Blair, strutted and swaggered together to their news conference yesterday. They expressed perfect belief and pride in the mission which is not quite accomplished because the oil provision in the Iraq Constitution - which our state department wrote for the Iraqis - has not yet been approved. British Oil, Exxon/Mobil, Chevron and Conoco/Phillips are most grateful for the services of Bush and his puppy.
The Dixie Thinker is serious fun, but not for the snug or smug.
Meetings & Events
The reunion of former CIA spooks and operatives is in the planning stages. We are tentative about a meeting in July. Mail or call in your ideas and preferences. Osama bin Laden and Manuel Noriega are not welcome this year. Neither is George Tenet.
For Sale
Used shredding machine, as is. Buyer might want it for collectors' value rather than functional use. History of long night's of heavy use in the White House basement office during the Iran-Contra days. Once touched by President Reagan, some say his fingerprints are all over it. Best offer gets this old workhorse of Ollie North. (We'll throw him in with the deal.)
Help Wanted
Car Counter for the City of St. George. The mayor warns, "Too many of our vehicles turn up missing, and we really have to find out how many cars we have or we'll lose our assets." The job is full time and you can speak any language you want, except English. Must be able to read numbers and count to about 250. Full benefits: medical, dental, legal, and a Hummer to take home at night. Apply at city hall.
The debate is on. Certain features are certain to rile and beguile. The aliens can stay, but they must first return to Mexico. They have to pay a $5000 fine. The border fence would be completed.
Opponents call it amnesty, but those in favor say it's not that at all. The proposed bill is more than 700 pages long. No one comprehends the creature yet, so we don't know whether it's fish or foul.
Like the song says: It's Impossible.
President Eisenhower deported one and one-half million illegals to Mexico in the mid 1950s with the explanation that they're taking jobs from Americans. President Bush wants to send 12 to 20 million back home with a plan to return legally because "They do jobs Americans won't take."
If illegal alien Jose has to return south of the border, he loses his income with which he supports his wife and American-born baby. Then he pays a hefty fine and returns to wife and babe, who meanwhile must be aided by government dole.
The hard truth is: Jose is here because he was allowed to enter and encouraged to work here. The real reason 12 to 20 million Mexicans were welcomed in by our government is because our upside down Social Security system requires a steady increase in producers (workers) to recipients (pensioners) ratio to continue to exist. Also, our debt-based money system as dictated by the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 requires an increase in capital expansion by way of production and demand to avoid deflation and depression.
This is theatre. The latest act by the senators and the president is comedy. You have to laugh and cry at the same time.
```
More Hot Stuff
* Congressman Ron Paul won most of the polls pertaining to the two Republican debates. Isn't that why the War Party leaders are trying to ignore him? They're afraid of him, just as they were of Barry Goldwater and Pat Buchanan. They will smear him if they can.
* Ron Paul asserted that "We have been bombing Iraq for 10 years." Paul's wrong about that. It's been 15 years.
* Paul Wolfowitz got the axe at the World Bank. The directors wouldn't let him do just anything he wanted to do. He's been fired, and he is oh, so indignant. Too bad Carter or Reagan or Clinton or Rumsfeld or Powell or Bush didn't fire him, either before or after he and the notorious Scooter Libby designed the plan to invade Iraq 10 years ago.
* Scooter Libby! That's another suspect who should go through Gitmo's torture program. He has problems with his memory. We can help. We have ways. And now that Mitt Romney is calling for doubling the size of Gitmo, we'll have plenty of space.
* Jose, the Mexican, can cross the border into the USA without being shot at. Let's compare Jose's movements with some Cuban dude, named Raul. If Raul decides to leave Castro's island, climbs onto his homemade raft and sets out into the Gulf of Mexico for Mexico, he might be shot in the back. If he makes it to Mexico, he might be shot in the face while entering or crossing the southern border. (A few weeks ago, a Mexican border guard shot at an illegal immigrant and accidentally killed one of his compatriots.) Cuba shoots the emmigrants; Mexico guns down immigrants. Jose has it better than Raul.
* Speaking of citizenship, how does it happen that the bulls-eye nation of the world (that's us) hires a man with dual citizenship to be boss over Homeland Security? Michael Chertoff has two countries - USA and Israel. Isn't that double loyalty and a potential conflict of interest? Is America Chertoff's wife while Israel is his mistress? Or is this polygamy? Help me here!
* The twins of the oil corporation nations, Bush and Blair, strutted and swaggered together to their news conference yesterday. They expressed perfect belief and pride in the mission which is not quite accomplished because the oil provision in the Iraq Constitution - which our state department wrote for the Iraqis - has not yet been approved. British Oil, Exxon/Mobil, Chevron and Conoco/Phillips are most grateful for the services of Bush and his puppy.
The Dixie Thinker is serious fun, but not for the snug or smug.
Meetings & Events
The reunion of former CIA spooks and operatives is in the planning stages. We are tentative about a meeting in July. Mail or call in your ideas and preferences. Osama bin Laden and Manuel Noriega are not welcome this year. Neither is George Tenet.
For Sale
Used shredding machine, as is. Buyer might want it for collectors' value rather than functional use. History of long night's of heavy use in the White House basement office during the Iran-Contra days. Once touched by President Reagan, some say his fingerprints are all over it. Best offer gets this old workhorse of Ollie North. (We'll throw him in with the deal.)
Help Wanted
Car Counter for the City of St. George. The mayor warns, "Too many of our vehicles turn up missing, and we really have to find out how many cars we have or we'll lose our assets." The job is full time and you can speak any language you want, except English. Must be able to read numbers and count to about 250. Full benefits: medical, dental, legal, and a Hummer to take home at night. Apply at city hall.
Thursday, May 17, 2007
OUCH, THAT HURTS
At the Republican debate two nights ago, moderator Brit Hume asked about the use of torture. Senator John McCain, who was beaten at the Hanoi Hilton during the War in Viet Nam, said he was against the practice even in extreme circumstances. He added that torturing reduces America's stature in the world.
Mitt Romney, who wears gloves and a scarf when it's 40 degrees, came up with: "We should double the size of Guantanamo." Oh. great. Romney obviously has strong ties to Utah. Both Utah senators have praised Gitmo. Senator Bennett came away from there thrilled with the menu in the cafeteria. Sure, Utah folks love this war, and apparently they approve of torture too.
Countless pundits on the radio - and they are countless - made comments such as, "Of course we should use every possible means to extract information from the enemy." Bill O'Really insists that torture is a valuable and effective tool (even though generals have claimed that often the information gained is fictional.)
If these torture-people represent my America, I'm out of here.
Torture is inhumane. We've signed international agreements banning torture. The Geneva Conventions were signed by the United States of America. If we don't care anymore, we should renounce the agreements!
If your grandsons - and granddaughters, we send girls into battle - are shipped off to future wars in foreign lands, wouldn't you prefer them to be protected by the rules of war?
Consider the important fact that some of the torture victims are innocent and have no information to divulge.
Sometimes bad is bad.
Other Items
* Don't leave Utah to look for work. According to the Utah Department of Workforce Services, the jobs are coming here at the fastest rate in the nation. This is the place, however, you might need two of those jobs to make ends meet.
* Kentucky Senator McConnell says the Iraq government had better get with it. "They're moving too slow and not doing it right." Stop, senator, stop. Whose country is it?
* Mayor Bloomberg of New York City, is considering running for president. A news report claimed that this humble man is willing to throw a billion dollars into his own campaign. He's like George Steinbrenner, owner of the N.Y. Yankees who tries to buy championships. Sometimes it doesn't work. Bloomberg might blow the billion, but there's more where that came from.
* Money. It reminds one of Mitt Romney. The guy is worth $240 million. He could buy John Kerry, not that he'd want to. Sure enough, these super-rich power seekers can win the votes of the masses. The Roosevelts and Bushes did. Notice how they always claim to feel your pain.
* Half of the students in major American cities don't graduate from high school, about 50 million citizens are uninsured, insurance companies are prescribing for doctors, outsourcing is respectable, we have no idea as to the number of illegals who live here, and our chief exports are factories and jobs. Meanwhile, our leaders speak to us of trash and trivia.
* A doctor was arrested in Murray, Utah for overprescribing meds. No kidding. They can't do that? My aunt took six different prescribed meds a day. What controlling legal authority should I notify?
* If torture is acceptable, why can't the Senate investigators torture Alberto Gonzales to help him remember? They could also use it on Tom DeLay, Paul Wolfowitz and Bob Ney. We could torture Dick Cheney just to see what comes out of him. Bush? Never mind.
* Sadistic pleasures can be delicious. Watching the World Bank President Wolfowitz squirm and twist in the wind is rich stuff. If we get an impeachment, The Decider will squirm too.
The Dixie Thinker is serious fun, but not for the snug and smug.
Meetings & Events
* The Restless Leg support group meets the third Thursday of every other month on odd numbered years. That's tonight. More members are needed. We know you're out there (we see you.)
* A slide and video presentation will be shown at the Santa Clara library this Saturday at 10 am. Several middle class sightings have been made in the Dixie area recently. Skeptical cynics are invited, we have visual proof.
* Loiter Pride support group has changed its next meeting place from Ancestor Square to Blue Bunny.
* Height Watchers meets daily at 5:30 at Starbucks Cultural Center. Regular attendance is helpful. Never give up, you can beat this thing.
Mitt Romney, who wears gloves and a scarf when it's 40 degrees, came up with: "We should double the size of Guantanamo." Oh. great. Romney obviously has strong ties to Utah. Both Utah senators have praised Gitmo. Senator Bennett came away from there thrilled with the menu in the cafeteria. Sure, Utah folks love this war, and apparently they approve of torture too.
Countless pundits on the radio - and they are countless - made comments such as, "Of course we should use every possible means to extract information from the enemy." Bill O'Really insists that torture is a valuable and effective tool (even though generals have claimed that often the information gained is fictional.)
If these torture-people represent my America, I'm out of here.
Torture is inhumane. We've signed international agreements banning torture. The Geneva Conventions were signed by the United States of America. If we don't care anymore, we should renounce the agreements!
If your grandsons - and granddaughters, we send girls into battle - are shipped off to future wars in foreign lands, wouldn't you prefer them to be protected by the rules of war?
Consider the important fact that some of the torture victims are innocent and have no information to divulge.
Sometimes bad is bad.
Other Items
* Don't leave Utah to look for work. According to the Utah Department of Workforce Services, the jobs are coming here at the fastest rate in the nation. This is the place, however, you might need two of those jobs to make ends meet.
* Kentucky Senator McConnell says the Iraq government had better get with it. "They're moving too slow and not doing it right." Stop, senator, stop. Whose country is it?
* Mayor Bloomberg of New York City, is considering running for president. A news report claimed that this humble man is willing to throw a billion dollars into his own campaign. He's like George Steinbrenner, owner of the N.Y. Yankees who tries to buy championships. Sometimes it doesn't work. Bloomberg might blow the billion, but there's more where that came from.
* Money. It reminds one of Mitt Romney. The guy is worth $240 million. He could buy John Kerry, not that he'd want to. Sure enough, these super-rich power seekers can win the votes of the masses. The Roosevelts and Bushes did. Notice how they always claim to feel your pain.
* Half of the students in major American cities don't graduate from high school, about 50 million citizens are uninsured, insurance companies are prescribing for doctors, outsourcing is respectable, we have no idea as to the number of illegals who live here, and our chief exports are factories and jobs. Meanwhile, our leaders speak to us of trash and trivia.
* A doctor was arrested in Murray, Utah for overprescribing meds. No kidding. They can't do that? My aunt took six different prescribed meds a day. What controlling legal authority should I notify?
* If torture is acceptable, why can't the Senate investigators torture Alberto Gonzales to help him remember? They could also use it on Tom DeLay, Paul Wolfowitz and Bob Ney. We could torture Dick Cheney just to see what comes out of him. Bush? Never mind.
* Sadistic pleasures can be delicious. Watching the World Bank President Wolfowitz squirm and twist in the wind is rich stuff. If we get an impeachment, The Decider will squirm too.
The Dixie Thinker is serious fun, but not for the snug and smug.
Meetings & Events
* The Restless Leg support group meets the third Thursday of every other month on odd numbered years. That's tonight. More members are needed. We know you're out there (we see you.)
* A slide and video presentation will be shown at the Santa Clara library this Saturday at 10 am. Several middle class sightings have been made in the Dixie area recently. Skeptical cynics are invited, we have visual proof.
* Loiter Pride support group has changed its next meeting place from Ancestor Square to Blue Bunny.
* Height Watchers meets daily at 5:30 at Starbucks Cultural Center. Regular attendance is helpful. Never give up, you can beat this thing.
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
IN YOUR HEART, YOU KNOW HE'S RIGHT
Congressman Ron Paul of Texas provided the American people a snippet of true history at the Fox-sponsored debate last night. In the plain manner of the late Barry Goldwater, Paul tells it like it is.
Of course we breed terrorists in the Middle East when we invade and occupy their lands. What else would you expect? And why are we building 14 permanent military bases in Iraq, if we don't intend to stay from here to eternity?
Those who have acquired the habit of war despise Ron Paul and resort to name-calling. They tried "stupid," but quit when they heard he was an accomplished medical doctor and probably has some brains. Paul is so clean, fresh and loyal to American principles that his adversaries do the only thing they can, they try to ignore him.
Not only is Paul right, he was right before the 9/11 atrocity. So was Pat Buchanan, who was actually a prophet during his run for the White House in 2000. Goldwater, Buchanan, Paul - birds of a feather. Please check out the message from Buchanan in the summer of 2000.
"How can all of our meddling fail to spark some terrible retribution? Have we not suffered enough - Pan Am 103, World Trade Center (1993), the embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dares Salaam - not to know that intervention is the incubator of terrorism? Or will it take some cataclysmic atrocity on U.S. Soil to awaken our global gamesmen to the going price of empire.
America today faces a choice of destinies. We can choose to be a peacemaker of the world, or its policeman who goes around night-sticking troublemakers until we, too, find ourselves in some bloody brawl we cannot handle." - Pat Buchanan
We didn't listen to Pat. We have another chance with Congressman Paul.
Other Items
* What a sight over at the Justice Department. Attorney-General Alberto Gonzales found a scapegoat in one of his closest associates. Paul McNulty resigned - or was he fired? I guess the dude is also responsible for Gonzales's poor memory.
* When Newt Gingrich announced that there is a great possibility he will run for president, my heart skipped a beat or two, I fainted and my vital organs flashed on amber alert. Newt, you're no Ron.
* Now President Bush has appointed a "War Czar" to oversee our various wars. This is a new position. C o n f u s i n g ! Good results are hoped for, however, the scene is made even murkier by creating another office. The Joint Chiefs of Staff have to wonder. The new czar is Lt. General Douglas Lute. By the way, General Lute has three stars and might have authority over those who outrank him.
The Dixie Thinker is serious fun, not for the smug & snug.
Meetings & Events
* The public is invited to a meeting this evening sponsored by St. George Future at the Dixie Convention Center to review the reasons for our huge influx of population as determined by a Dixie College study. People decide to move here because of: the roundabouts, the climate, health care facilities, the night life, Bluff Street, the hiking trails, and the anti-loitering campaign.
* The Feng Shui convention at Holiday Inn has been cancelled. A dispute about rearranging the furniture for the event reached an impasse between Feng Shui committee members and hotel management.
Twenty-Years-From-Now News
* Utah is the fifth state annexed by Mexico effective in 2027. The public referendum to approve the change of national allegiance passed by a 51% vote. Only Spanish will be spoken here next year.
* NASA plans for a one way trip to the sun. Support for the $200 trillion project is bolstered by the successful Mars expedition which produced so many domestic benefits such as
Help Wanted
Unusually responsible baby sitter to be with my body while I go on out-of-body experiences.
Expect to watch over me for about four hours each time. Stay by the phone in case I call. Lunch is in the fridge.
Of course we breed terrorists in the Middle East when we invade and occupy their lands. What else would you expect? And why are we building 14 permanent military bases in Iraq, if we don't intend to stay from here to eternity?
Those who have acquired the habit of war despise Ron Paul and resort to name-calling. They tried "stupid," but quit when they heard he was an accomplished medical doctor and probably has some brains. Paul is so clean, fresh and loyal to American principles that his adversaries do the only thing they can, they try to ignore him.
Not only is Paul right, he was right before the 9/11 atrocity. So was Pat Buchanan, who was actually a prophet during his run for the White House in 2000. Goldwater, Buchanan, Paul - birds of a feather. Please check out the message from Buchanan in the summer of 2000.
"How can all of our meddling fail to spark some terrible retribution? Have we not suffered enough - Pan Am 103, World Trade Center (1993), the embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dares Salaam - not to know that intervention is the incubator of terrorism? Or will it take some cataclysmic atrocity on U.S. Soil to awaken our global gamesmen to the going price of empire.
America today faces a choice of destinies. We can choose to be a peacemaker of the world, or its policeman who goes around night-sticking troublemakers until we, too, find ourselves in some bloody brawl we cannot handle." - Pat Buchanan
We didn't listen to Pat. We have another chance with Congressman Paul.
Other Items
* What a sight over at the Justice Department. Attorney-General Alberto Gonzales found a scapegoat in one of his closest associates. Paul McNulty resigned - or was he fired? I guess the dude is also responsible for Gonzales's poor memory.
* When Newt Gingrich announced that there is a great possibility he will run for president, my heart skipped a beat or two, I fainted and my vital organs flashed on amber alert. Newt, you're no Ron.
* Now President Bush has appointed a "War Czar" to oversee our various wars. This is a new position. C o n f u s i n g ! Good results are hoped for, however, the scene is made even murkier by creating another office. The Joint Chiefs of Staff have to wonder. The new czar is Lt. General Douglas Lute. By the way, General Lute has three stars and might have authority over those who outrank him.
The Dixie Thinker is serious fun, not for the smug & snug.
Meetings & Events
* The public is invited to a meeting this evening sponsored by St. George Future at the Dixie Convention Center to review the reasons for our huge influx of population as determined by a Dixie College study. People decide to move here because of: the roundabouts, the climate, health care facilities, the night life, Bluff Street, the hiking trails, and the anti-loitering campaign.
* The Feng Shui convention at Holiday Inn has been cancelled. A dispute about rearranging the furniture for the event reached an impasse between Feng Shui committee members and hotel management.
Twenty-Years-From-Now News
* Utah is the fifth state annexed by Mexico effective in 2027. The public referendum to approve the change of national allegiance passed by a 51% vote. Only Spanish will be spoken here next year.
* NASA plans for a one way trip to the sun. Support for the $200 trillion project is bolstered by the successful Mars expedition which produced so many domestic benefits such as
Help Wanted
Unusually responsible baby sitter to be with my body while I go on out-of-body experiences.
Expect to watch over me for about four hours each time. Stay by the phone in case I call. Lunch is in the fridge.
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
STOP WITH THE LABELS, ENOUGH ALREADY
Worthless labels are worth less each time they're used. Cheap, cheap, cheaper. In The Spectrum's letters to the editor section today we read about the "liberal left." What does that tag prove? Why doesn't the writer challenge the ideas or behavior of the person he's striking out against instead of lazily tacking on a moniker meant to put down or insult someone?
Every single day, we hear and read about the "wackos, Islamo-fascists, anti-Americans, defeatists, leftists, right-wingers, liberals, jingoists, neocons, and extremists."
Don't call me a peacenik, you warmonger.
It just doesn't work.
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Other Matters
* Utah's Senator Hatch is urging fellow senators to get behind the push for another seat in Congress to represent Utah. If it happens, it will be tied to giving the vote for the first time ever, to District of Columbia residents who live under taxation without representation.
Constitutionalists have always considered such a vote franchise as against the law of the land, and that's hard to dispute on paper. I was always for extending the vote to DC, regardless. But now that Orrin Hatch is for this, I'm against it. I was for it before I was against it.
* The Southwest Utah Public Health Department warns against too much consumption of fish. Gunlock Reservoir bass is bad. The problem is mercury, which is rampant in this country anyhow.) It's about time we avoid mercury, microwaves, cell phones, depleted uranium, sodium fluoride, sodium benzoate, color dyes, plutonium, and aluminum. But we are Americans and we fear nothing. Bring 'em on.
* Oh, by the way, a famous leader said, "All we have to fear is fear itself." A famous doctor said, "You've got to die from something." So eat the trout, bass and whatever else moves in the water.
* Immediately after raising the price of a stamp to 41 cents, the U.S. Post Office issued a new "Forever" stamp which will retain it's value, well, forever. They've really gone postal this time. The e-mail computer industry will make the government's monopoly obsolete long before forever.
* Think for a moment. You know the Dems will run Gore & Obama against the Reps Romney & Giuliani.
Dixie Thinker is serious fun, not for the snug & smug
Meeting & Events
* Confidential notice: Good ol' boys emergency meeting tonight at ONLY THE LONELY saloon on St. George Boulevard. Must decide on items tabled at last meeting. No recorders, cell phones or cameras.
* The ex-Defense Secretary Rumsfeld will be here to speak on his new book, "Don't Blame Me. I Believed Too." Time and date to be announced.
* Anyone having an out-of-body experience will benefit by calling Louis at 800-8666-1151. He'll get your story out there.
Twenty-Years-From-Now News
* The last health insurance company will go out of business on June 1, 2007. Management blames the total absence of insured customers. Corporations no longer provide insurance to employees ("major overhead burden") and independent individuals have not been able to afford the protection in recent years.
* An AMA spokeperson told the national conference of Future Physicians, "I am proud to inform you that American health care is the finest in the world."
Help Wanted
Finance director (CFO) at The Dixie Thinker. Must be willing to face serious challenges such as negative cash flow, management incompetency and embezzlement. Tumultuous work atmosphere. (You will grow on this job.) Our new CFO will have to go along to get along - drop a few principles. Mail a handwritten resume. No calls or office visits, please. Only a proven team player, non-smoker, tea totaler, quiet natured, house-paid-for, married with spouse working, short haired, fair, frugal, and clean-driving-record person need apply. The pay depends.
Worth Repeating
* "The level of activity that we see today from a military standpoint, I think will clearly decline. I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency." - Vice President Cheney, 2005
* "Insurgencies tend to go on for five, six, eight, 10 or 12 years." - former Defense Secretary Rumsfeld
Every single day, we hear and read about the "wackos, Islamo-fascists, anti-Americans, defeatists, leftists, right-wingers, liberals, jingoists, neocons, and extremists."
Don't call me a peacenik, you warmonger.
It just doesn't work.
~
Other Matters
* Utah's Senator Hatch is urging fellow senators to get behind the push for another seat in Congress to represent Utah. If it happens, it will be tied to giving the vote for the first time ever, to District of Columbia residents who live under taxation without representation.
Constitutionalists have always considered such a vote franchise as against the law of the land, and that's hard to dispute on paper. I was always for extending the vote to DC, regardless. But now that Orrin Hatch is for this, I'm against it. I was for it before I was against it.
* The Southwest Utah Public Health Department warns against too much consumption of fish. Gunlock Reservoir bass is bad. The problem is mercury, which is rampant in this country anyhow.) It's about time we avoid mercury, microwaves, cell phones, depleted uranium, sodium fluoride, sodium benzoate, color dyes, plutonium, and aluminum. But we are Americans and we fear nothing. Bring 'em on.
* Oh, by the way, a famous leader said, "All we have to fear is fear itself." A famous doctor said, "You've got to die from something." So eat the trout, bass and whatever else moves in the water.
* Immediately after raising the price of a stamp to 41 cents, the U.S. Post Office issued a new "Forever" stamp which will retain it's value, well, forever. They've really gone postal this time. The e-mail computer industry will make the government's monopoly obsolete long before forever.
* Think for a moment. You know the Dems will run Gore & Obama against the Reps Romney & Giuliani.
Dixie Thinker is serious fun, not for the snug & smug
Meeting & Events
* Confidential notice: Good ol' boys emergency meeting tonight at ONLY THE LONELY saloon on St. George Boulevard. Must decide on items tabled at last meeting. No recorders, cell phones or cameras.
* The ex-Defense Secretary Rumsfeld will be here to speak on his new book, "Don't Blame Me. I Believed Too." Time and date to be announced.
* Anyone having an out-of-body experience will benefit by calling Louis at 800-8666-1151. He'll get your story out there.
Twenty-Years-From-Now News
* The last health insurance company will go out of business on June 1, 2007. Management blames the total absence of insured customers. Corporations no longer provide insurance to employees ("major overhead burden") and independent individuals have not been able to afford the protection in recent years.
* An AMA spokeperson told the national conference of Future Physicians, "I am proud to inform you that American health care is the finest in the world."
Help Wanted
Finance director (CFO) at The Dixie Thinker. Must be willing to face serious challenges such as negative cash flow, management incompetency and embezzlement. Tumultuous work atmosphere. (You will grow on this job.) Our new CFO will have to go along to get along - drop a few principles. Mail a handwritten resume. No calls or office visits, please. Only a proven team player, non-smoker, tea totaler, quiet natured, house-paid-for, married with spouse working, short haired, fair, frugal, and clean-driving-record person need apply. The pay depends.
Worth Repeating
* "The level of activity that we see today from a military standpoint, I think will clearly decline. I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency." - Vice President Cheney, 2005
* "Insurgencies tend to go on for five, six, eight, 10 or 12 years." - former Defense Secretary Rumsfeld
Monday, May 14, 2007
HISTORY ACCORDING TO GLENN BECK
Truth seekers who listen to Glenn Beck on radio have to be masochistic and self-loathing - that would be me. You know better than to listen, so I'll have to tell you what I heard this morning. Mr. Beck said that President Clinton should have done something about Saddam's plotting to assassinate ex-President George H. W. Bush. You'll recall that our present president said, "I want to get Saddam because he tried to murder my daddy."
Good grief. The historical record is that the four men arrested in Yemen for planning to kill the elder Bush were set free even though one of them confessed (under torture.) The plot was bogus.
But our impulsive and political animal in the White House at the time - Clinton - reacted to the news (read rumor) of the plot by ordering the U.S. Navy to fire 26 cruise missles into Baghdad at midnight. Scores of people were killed, including Iraq's most famous woman artist.
Clinton's murderous action was a result of ignorance, politics and who knows. Maybe Slick Willie did it just because he could.
Mr. Beck is aware of none of that. Our radio hero blabbers half-truth after half truth all morning long, and the masses love him. He boasts that he's the third-most-listened to liar, right after Rush and Sean.
He's probably right about that.
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More Hot Stuff
* The chem trails were back over Dixie during the weekend. You saw them, right? They'd been absent for several weeks, and today they're gone again. Must be doing it elsewhere.
* Kiss the mail man and tell the world. I've been preappoved for yet another credit card. I am somebody.
* The Pentagon now places the number of deserters since the year 2000 at an astonishing 40,000. No wonder we need a surge in Iraq.
* Hey, it's not a war in Iraq. It is an occupation.
Meetings & Events
* A Mensa membership drive is underway, with smart discounts until June 1, 2007. An IQ of 150 can get you in. It's a no brainer.
* The creator and author of two books on reverse mortgages will speak on Tuesday at the main library in St. George. He will review his new book, "I Was Only Kidding." The public is invited. Donations at the door.
Twenty-Years-From-Now News
In the absence of bees, John Deere Corporation is introducing it's new pollination machine. A company spokesman stated that the device works better than the bees did. The news sent the stock market to record highs.
Help Wanted
Pastor, First Hedonist Fellowship of Las Vegas. Overflow congregations willing to support our cause - money is no object. Only hell raisers, please.
Quotable
"I'm damn near insane and a recovering alcoholic." - Glenn Beck
Good grief. The historical record is that the four men arrested in Yemen for planning to kill the elder Bush were set free even though one of them confessed (under torture.) The plot was bogus.
But our impulsive and political animal in the White House at the time - Clinton - reacted to the news (read rumor) of the plot by ordering the U.S. Navy to fire 26 cruise missles into Baghdad at midnight. Scores of people were killed, including Iraq's most famous woman artist.
Clinton's murderous action was a result of ignorance, politics and who knows. Maybe Slick Willie did it just because he could.
Mr. Beck is aware of none of that. Our radio hero blabbers half-truth after half truth all morning long, and the masses love him. He boasts that he's the third-most-listened to liar, right after Rush and Sean.
He's probably right about that.
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More Hot Stuff
* The chem trails were back over Dixie during the weekend. You saw them, right? They'd been absent for several weeks, and today they're gone again. Must be doing it elsewhere.
* Kiss the mail man and tell the world. I've been preappoved for yet another credit card. I am somebody.
* The Pentagon now places the number of deserters since the year 2000 at an astonishing 40,000. No wonder we need a surge in Iraq.
* Hey, it's not a war in Iraq. It is an occupation.
Meetings & Events
* A Mensa membership drive is underway, with smart discounts until June 1, 2007. An IQ of 150 can get you in. It's a no brainer.
* The creator and author of two books on reverse mortgages will speak on Tuesday at the main library in St. George. He will review his new book, "I Was Only Kidding." The public is invited. Donations at the door.
Twenty-Years-From-Now News
In the absence of bees, John Deere Corporation is introducing it's new pollination machine. A company spokesman stated that the device works better than the bees did. The news sent the stock market to record highs.
Help Wanted
Pastor, First Hedonist Fellowship of Las Vegas. Overflow congregations willing to support our cause - money is no object. Only hell raisers, please.
Quotable
"I'm damn near insane and a recovering alcoholic." - Glenn Beck
Friday, May 11, 2007
LIVING LONG IN COOBA
Cuban government officials are claiming a fast-rising level of longevity of its people and a national goal to achieve 120-year-long lives. (Mandatory, of course.) They point to a health care system reputed to be one of the best in this hemisphere, if not the world. Cuba produces an astounding abundance of doctors although their expertise and skills are challenged by many in the health field. Another factor in Cubans' long lives - which exceed the life expectancies of Americans - is the mild climate which allows a body to stay in rhythm. The people living on the beautiful island have limited opportunities and plenty of security, therefore, less stress. We report, you decide.
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MORE TO THINK ABOUT
* The news is out that the divorce rate is down because more unmarried couples are living together. Think about it.
* Some guy named Rush was talking on the radio this morning. He called our national economy "roaring and robust." He sounded serious, on the other hand, he also sounded mistaken.
* Only 70% of America's high school students graduate, according to Department of Education Secretary Spellings. The other 30% are candidates for our post-industrial, factory-free economy's opportunities. And our republic will suffer by less informed citizens. It isn't pretty.
* A national study conducted with the cooperation of the Census Bureau has established that there is no relationship between your IQ and your likelihood of attaining wealth. (It don't matter none.) Toss out the old bromide: "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?"
Twenty-Years-From-Now News
The last public library in America was converted into an internet information center today. The last to change over is metro St. George's suburb of Leeds. The library held out until now, hoping to become a museum of the American library system. The issue went to court and the facility is now to be part of the consumer data division of the Microsoft-Kinko-FedEx-Apple-Covey Corporation.
Meetings & Events
The struggle for equal rights can be lonely. An alliance is being formed tonight in the first meeting at the new library, 7 pm. In numbers there is power, in union there is strength. Skateboarders, loiterers, jaywalkers, Democrats, ticket scalpers, and litterbugs are welcome to attend and be a part of this new organization. The future is ours to hold.
Help Wanted
"Plumber" to stop leaks in the White House. Watergate history a plus, if you were not indicted. Apply to Mr. K. Rove.
Worth Repeating
"Congratulations to you, Cicero, for it is far nobler to enlarge the boundaries of human intelligence than those of the Roman Empire." - Julius Caesar
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MORE TO THINK ABOUT
* The news is out that the divorce rate is down because more unmarried couples are living together. Think about it.
* Some guy named Rush was talking on the radio this morning. He called our national economy "roaring and robust." He sounded serious, on the other hand, he also sounded mistaken.
* Only 70% of America's high school students graduate, according to Department of Education Secretary Spellings. The other 30% are candidates for our post-industrial, factory-free economy's opportunities. And our republic will suffer by less informed citizens. It isn't pretty.
* A national study conducted with the cooperation of the Census Bureau has established that there is no relationship between your IQ and your likelihood of attaining wealth. (It don't matter none.) Toss out the old bromide: "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?"
Twenty-Years-From-Now News
The last public library in America was converted into an internet information center today. The last to change over is metro St. George's suburb of Leeds. The library held out until now, hoping to become a museum of the American library system. The issue went to court and the facility is now to be part of the consumer data division of the Microsoft-Kinko-FedEx-Apple-Covey Corporation.
Meetings & Events
The struggle for equal rights can be lonely. An alliance is being formed tonight in the first meeting at the new library, 7 pm. In numbers there is power, in union there is strength. Skateboarders, loiterers, jaywalkers, Democrats, ticket scalpers, and litterbugs are welcome to attend and be a part of this new organization. The future is ours to hold.
Help Wanted
"Plumber" to stop leaks in the White House. Watergate history a plus, if you were not indicted. Apply to Mr. K. Rove.
Worth Repeating
"Congratulations to you, Cicero, for it is far nobler to enlarge the boundaries of human intelligence than those of the Roman Empire." - Julius Caesar
Thursday, May 10, 2007
WHAT DO WE DO WITH GEORGE TENET?
The ex-CIA boss has written a book. "The Center of the Storm," in which he reminds us of his role in providing intelligence - if you will - to The Decider and his vice president. At least six of the spies who worked for him went public months and years ago to deny the validity of the data used by our leaders to justify Shock & Awe and Operation Iraqi Freedom. That makes George a bit late.
After he resigned from CIA, there never was heard a discouraging word and the sky was not cloudy all day. The Decider pinned a Medal of Honor on his chest, and that seems to have been enough to keep him hushed - until now.
The ex-spy chief came in from the cold and appears before every camera in the nation. The former agents of his who resent his early silence suggest he donate the book's profits to the families of fallen heroes in the war.
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Meanwhile
* That French conservative - Sarkozy - was voted in as President of France in an election with an 85% turnout. He has his hands full because of immigration problems, crime, lavish social programs, a dubious national work ethic, unemployment, and sluggish economy. He'd better hurry with his solutions. The French public and foreign adversaries want to trip him up.
* The University of Chicago conducted a study about the affects of Wal-Mart stores on towns. One statistic indicated that the opening of a Wal-Mart store reduces the number of jobs in the community by 65. In other words, the retail monster hires a large staff, but causes a larger number to lose their jobs elsewhere.
* It has been said that we are planting democratic roots in Iraq. What would we do if the Iraqis voted in a referendum to answer the question: Should American and Coalition forces leave now? If they said yes, would we say no?
Meetings & Events
* Now forming, a support group for recovering Republicans. Call 688-0245 for date of initial meeting, and remember to be ever vigilant because you are never really cured.
Worth Repeating
"The era of big government is over." - President William Jefferson Clinton 1997
After he resigned from CIA, there never was heard a discouraging word and the sky was not cloudy all day. The Decider pinned a Medal of Honor on his chest, and that seems to have been enough to keep him hushed - until now.
The ex-spy chief came in from the cold and appears before every camera in the nation. The former agents of his who resent his early silence suggest he donate the book's profits to the families of fallen heroes in the war.
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Meanwhile
* That French conservative - Sarkozy - was voted in as President of France in an election with an 85% turnout. He has his hands full because of immigration problems, crime, lavish social programs, a dubious national work ethic, unemployment, and sluggish economy. He'd better hurry with his solutions. The French public and foreign adversaries want to trip him up.
* The University of Chicago conducted a study about the affects of Wal-Mart stores on towns. One statistic indicated that the opening of a Wal-Mart store reduces the number of jobs in the community by 65. In other words, the retail monster hires a large staff, but causes a larger number to lose their jobs elsewhere.
* It has been said that we are planting democratic roots in Iraq. What would we do if the Iraqis voted in a referendum to answer the question: Should American and Coalition forces leave now? If they said yes, would we say no?
Meetings & Events
* Now forming, a support group for recovering Republicans. Call 688-0245 for date of initial meeting, and remember to be ever vigilant because you are never really cured.
Worth Repeating
"The era of big government is over." - President William Jefferson Clinton 1997
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
ECONOMY SLOW; STOCK MARKET FAST
All signs in recent months indicate a sluggish economy. The growth is at an underwhelming 1.3% per annum rate. China's is near 12%. We have lost thousands of factories to other nations and millions of good jobs went overseas, but the price of stocks on Wall Street keeps rising to records highs. A contradiction seems to exist in the figures, but one can to reason out what's happening.
Profits are up for most corporations, probably because the labor forces employed are working for less these days because their standard of living is low. Also, many of the foreigners and not subject to expensive union connections or government regulations, including environmental rules.
In other words, labor costs are down and so net profits are up. This enhances the prices of the shares bought and sold in the companies we are discussing here.
Investors are enriching their net worth, not so much for the good of America but in spite of this once proud nation.
This ugly condition has solutions. Raise tariffs, invite the factories back, end out-sourcing, stop illegal immigration, and wage peace not war.
IT'S ALL SO SIMPLE.
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Thinking Departments
* Iraq's Congress wants to take a two-month vacation. Vice President Cheney is rushing over there to try to stop any recess. Even important voices in our Congress are upset that leaders in Iraq would consider relaxing when they ought to be bearing down. I wonder whose decision this is. Isn't it their country? We are the liberators and occupiers - then who is "the decider?"
* The city parks in St. George and surrounding communities have an impressive scheduling arrangement. When there is no organized baseball, softball or soccer on the parks, the canines get to romp and..........
Quotable
"I was a Republican until they lost their minds." - Charles Barkley
Profits are up for most corporations, probably because the labor forces employed are working for less these days because their standard of living is low. Also, many of the foreigners and not subject to expensive union connections or government regulations, including environmental rules.
In other words, labor costs are down and so net profits are up. This enhances the prices of the shares bought and sold in the companies we are discussing here.
Investors are enriching their net worth, not so much for the good of America but in spite of this once proud nation.
This ugly condition has solutions. Raise tariffs, invite the factories back, end out-sourcing, stop illegal immigration, and wage peace not war.
IT'S ALL SO SIMPLE.
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Thinking Departments
* Iraq's Congress wants to take a two-month vacation. Vice President Cheney is rushing over there to try to stop any recess. Even important voices in our Congress are upset that leaders in Iraq would consider relaxing when they ought to be bearing down. I wonder whose decision this is. Isn't it their country? We are the liberators and occupiers - then who is "the decider?"
* The city parks in St. George and surrounding communities have an impressive scheduling arrangement. When there is no organized baseball, softball or soccer on the parks, the canines get to romp and..........
Quotable
"I was a Republican until they lost their minds." - Charles Barkley
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
PHARM PRICE SUPPORTS
The big pharmaceutical corporations poured more cash into political parties (mostly Republican) in the past election than any other group, including insurance, exporters, manufacturing, or finance. Yesterday, their "investments" paid off when the U.S. Senate voted to prevent the import of medication drugs from foreign nations.
The 49 senators who were persuaded to vote the way the pharmaceutical lobbyists asked them to claimed consumer safety as a reason. Are we to believe that the people in Japan or Canada have more trouble with their meds than Americans do? The FDA has a poor success rate. They have approved a long list of dangerous drugs and had to remove quite a few. Even now, they continue to pass on the dangerous, toxic mercury content of many products.
The millions of Americans hooked on drug medications - physically or mentally - deserve the benefits of price competition. They cannot afford to buy price-fixed products.
On a clear day, you can see influence buying and bribery.
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Thoughts While Jaywalking
* People I like the most tell me that Ron Paul won the debate last week, while the more pushy and aggressive acquaintances of mine claim that Paul was a disaster. Next time I'll watch for myself. Meanwhile, I'll believe those I like the most. Let's hear it for Ron Paul.
* I can recall Paul Harvey saying that after he retired he was going to tell us "What's really going on, the rest of the story." I keep waiting for the man to step down, so that I can hear his whole truth.
Meetings & Events
* The We-Were-Young-and-We-Were-Middle-Class support group meets each Tuesday night at 7 pm, on the grassy knoll in Ancestor Square.
Twenty-Years-From-Now News
* President Jeb Bush warned the nation that we must not cut and run from Cuba. He said, "If we don't fight them there, we'll have to fight them here - if we leave they'll follow us home."
* Veteran radio broadcaster Paul Harvey retired yesterday. When an old listener asked him what it was he said he always wanted to tell his audience, Harvey said he couldn't remember.
Quite Quotable
* Corporations are threatening our system by influencing our Congress."
- James Madison, before he became president.
The 49 senators who were persuaded to vote the way the pharmaceutical lobbyists asked them to claimed consumer safety as a reason. Are we to believe that the people in Japan or Canada have more trouble with their meds than Americans do? The FDA has a poor success rate. They have approved a long list of dangerous drugs and had to remove quite a few. Even now, they continue to pass on the dangerous, toxic mercury content of many products.
The millions of Americans hooked on drug medications - physically or mentally - deserve the benefits of price competition. They cannot afford to buy price-fixed products.
On a clear day, you can see influence buying and bribery.
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Thoughts While Jaywalking
* People I like the most tell me that Ron Paul won the debate last week, while the more pushy and aggressive acquaintances of mine claim that Paul was a disaster. Next time I'll watch for myself. Meanwhile, I'll believe those I like the most. Let's hear it for Ron Paul.
* I can recall Paul Harvey saying that after he retired he was going to tell us "What's really going on, the rest of the story." I keep waiting for the man to step down, so that I can hear his whole truth.
Meetings & Events
* The We-Were-Young-and-We-Were-Middle-Class support group meets each Tuesday night at 7 pm, on the grassy knoll in Ancestor Square.
Twenty-Years-From-Now News
* President Jeb Bush warned the nation that we must not cut and run from Cuba. He said, "If we don't fight them there, we'll have to fight them here - if we leave they'll follow us home."
* Veteran radio broadcaster Paul Harvey retired yesterday. When an old listener asked him what it was he said he always wanted to tell his audience, Harvey said he couldn't remember.
Quite Quotable
* Corporations are threatening our system by influencing our Congress."
- James Madison, before he became president.
Monday, May 07, 2007
OIL IS WELL
Liberals make my blood boil. They're spoiling it for the president. While Bush toils to defeat the terrorists, the liberal congress embroils the nation in turmoil and the Islamo-fascists coil up to strike again. But don't be foiled. Our oil is under their soil, and that's what it's oil about.
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Thoughts While Jaywalking
Where have all the bees gone? They go to work in the morning and never return. Some say the air is filled with cell-phone vibrations which interfere with the bees' communications. Others believe pesticides have damaged their immune systems. Still others believe that bees are being raptured. Yes, raptured. Maybe they're just on strike. They are workaholics!
They have to come back soon if we are to maintain a normal supply of food. For instance, alfalfa requires bee pollination. The cows which you eat live on alfalfa. Pretty soon, you'll have to survive on spirulina and sea food (I mean kelp.) But you'll live to be 120.
Meeting & Events
* Happy People Support Group will meet on Thursday evening at Only The Lonely Saloon on St. George Boulevard. If you go, be prepared to explain your condition's causes and symptoms.
* Noted economist Dr. Ira Longterm will give a talk: "Poverty and Wealth, The Subtle Differences" at the Starbucks Culture Center downtown on May 15.
Twenty-Years -From-Now News
The City of St. George has purchased automated busses - driverless and computer controlled -for the Sun Tran system. Scores of drivers will lose their jobs and add to the unemployment miseries of our slow economy. A few of the new busses are already in use. The average count of people on board has dropped from one to zero.
Help Wanted
No help wanted
For Sale
Waterboard. Slightly used. A few nicks here and there but cleaned and newly painted. Works like a charm. Make an offer. Call Vinny at CIA.
Quote
"Free trade is destructive. That's why I'm for it." - Karl Marx
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Thoughts While Jaywalking
Where have all the bees gone? They go to work in the morning and never return. Some say the air is filled with cell-phone vibrations which interfere with the bees' communications. Others believe pesticides have damaged their immune systems. Still others believe that bees are being raptured. Yes, raptured. Maybe they're just on strike. They are workaholics!
They have to come back soon if we are to maintain a normal supply of food. For instance, alfalfa requires bee pollination. The cows which you eat live on alfalfa. Pretty soon, you'll have to survive on spirulina and sea food (I mean kelp.) But you'll live to be 120.
Meeting & Events
* Happy People Support Group will meet on Thursday evening at Only The Lonely Saloon on St. George Boulevard. If you go, be prepared to explain your condition's causes and symptoms.
* Noted economist Dr. Ira Longterm will give a talk: "Poverty and Wealth, The Subtle Differences" at the Starbucks Culture Center downtown on May 15.
Twenty-Years -From-Now News
The City of St. George has purchased automated busses - driverless and computer controlled -for the Sun Tran system. Scores of drivers will lose their jobs and add to the unemployment miseries of our slow economy. A few of the new busses are already in use. The average count of people on board has dropped from one to zero.
Help Wanted
No help wanted
For Sale
Waterboard. Slightly used. A few nicks here and there but cleaned and newly painted. Works like a charm. Make an offer. Call Vinny at CIA.
Quote
"Free trade is destructive. That's why I'm for it." - Karl Marx
Friday, May 04, 2007
THE GRATE DEBATE
The debate of Republicans last night featured 10 candidates, all men, all tall, and mostly warmongers. Five of them wore red ties. Another wore a red and white striped tie - which makes pink. My colorologist suggests that this indicates socialist tendencies.
I mean, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez wears red!
Sure, it's subtle, but now you know where we are headed.
One White House hopeful, Ron Paul, kept bringing up the Constitution. Silly man. He must know that our president referred to the law of the land as "That scrap of paper." So what can Paul be thinking when he says Constitution, liberty and rights?
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton - who already lived in the White House once (somehow) - made news yesterday by recommending that Congress rescind its authorization of the president's war in Iraq. This is big.
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Twenty-Years From Now News
SunTran, the city bus of St. George, will institute a "rider promotion" which will pay passengers $20 per ride. Mayor MacArthur says, "This will reduce street traffic, plus justify the existence of the bus system. The money? Don't worry about that. St. George always has the money." (Only 13 folks boarded the busses in April.)
Federal water experts are here this week to assist Dixie folks in their search for water. We are losing population at a fast clip due to the shortages. "Dying for a drink" and "BYOB" have taken on new meanings.
Quotable
"It used to mean something to be crazy. Nowadays, everybody's crazy." - Charles Manson
I mean, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez wears red!
Sure, it's subtle, but now you know where we are headed.
One White House hopeful, Ron Paul, kept bringing up the Constitution. Silly man. He must know that our president referred to the law of the land as "That scrap of paper." So what can Paul be thinking when he says Constitution, liberty and rights?
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton - who already lived in the White House once (somehow) - made news yesterday by recommending that Congress rescind its authorization of the president's war in Iraq. This is big.
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Twenty-Years From Now News
SunTran, the city bus of St. George, will institute a "rider promotion" which will pay passengers $20 per ride. Mayor MacArthur says, "This will reduce street traffic, plus justify the existence of the bus system. The money? Don't worry about that. St. George always has the money." (Only 13 folks boarded the busses in April.)
Federal water experts are here this week to assist Dixie folks in their search for water. We are losing population at a fast clip due to the shortages. "Dying for a drink" and "BYOB" have taken on new meanings.
Quotable
"It used to mean something to be crazy. Nowadays, everybody's crazy." - Charles Manson
Thursday, May 03, 2007
BLACK GOLD IN UTAH
Rich Utah, the Saudi Arabia of the west. The federal government's Interior Department approved a renewed effort to produce oil from shale land in Utah. This new industry might lift Utah's economy to match the explosive growth. All it takes to become reality is more technology. This is likely soon. Advances are coming at an impressive clip.
This will help all of America, not only Utah. The international significance can only be limited by our imaginations.
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Thoughts While Jaywalking
* H.L. Mencken said, "The only way to make our system work is to shoot the 50 worst congressmen every year." That used to be funny.
* Notice that Secretary of State Condi Rice is actually talking - visiting even - with members of the Axis of Evil? She's learning to never say never.
* The ex Spook boss, George Tenet, is taking a lot of deserved derision for not speaking out when he knew his CIA intelligence reports indicated that Saddam was not armed with WMD.
Instead of blowing a whistle on Vice President Cheney, Tenet kept quiet and accepted a Medal of Honor from the president.
* Utah Senator Bob Bennett has a plan to provide universal health care to American citizens. Let's look at it more closely tomorrow.
* See Jose run across the border. See Jose work hard. See Jose march in the streets. Jose's a busy hombre.
Help Wanted
Undercover agent to follow Civilian Review Board members. Apply at St. George P.D.
Quote
"Rumsfeld was the worst Secretary of Defense in our nation's history." - Senator John McCain
This will help all of America, not only Utah. The international significance can only be limited by our imaginations.
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Thoughts While Jaywalking
* H.L. Mencken said, "The only way to make our system work is to shoot the 50 worst congressmen every year." That used to be funny.
* Notice that Secretary of State Condi Rice is actually talking - visiting even - with members of the Axis of Evil? She's learning to never say never.
* The ex Spook boss, George Tenet, is taking a lot of deserved derision for not speaking out when he knew his CIA intelligence reports indicated that Saddam was not armed with WMD.
Instead of blowing a whistle on Vice President Cheney, Tenet kept quiet and accepted a Medal of Honor from the president.
* Utah Senator Bob Bennett has a plan to provide universal health care to American citizens. Let's look at it more closely tomorrow.
* See Jose run across the border. See Jose work hard. See Jose march in the streets. Jose's a busy hombre.
Help Wanted
Undercover agent to follow Civilian Review Board members. Apply at St. George P.D.
Quote
"Rumsfeld was the worst Secretary of Defense in our nation's history." - Senator John McCain
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
FIRST, THEY CAME FOR THE PEACEMONGERS
War is sell. Propaganda rules, so it's a done deal for Iran and Syria. Peacemongers will be dealt with as part of the problem. If you're patriotic, you'll go along with the presidents/potentates.
So get your flags and ribbons ready. They'll be needed for a long time this time. Think of all those Arabs and Muslims yearning to breathe free. We might have to knock off most of them because freedom isn't free - especially when it's given away.
Presidents use power, often arrogantly, as everyone knows. Things will get worse before we catch on. Someday we'll be wise enough to avoid conflicts - like the French, Swiss, Italians, and Swedes who have had enough of war. Their genes remember. They want no more war.
The war people will call it isolationism, but we'll tell the world: "If you can't overthrow your Stalins, Hitlers, Maos, Saddams, and Castros, then maybe you don't deserve to live free." Liberties have to be struggled for from the inside out. We'll no longer plant democratic governments. Oh, neither will we send CIA assassins into your countries. It's your country, your government. You know what your problem is, solve it yourselves.
Meanwhile, we must endure the silence of the lambs being led to wars. Protesting will become more dangerous. During the Mexican War, Henry David Thoreau went to prison for refusing to pay a tax to support the war. When Ralph Waldo Emerson visited his friend behind bars, he said, "Henry, what are you doing in?" Thoreau replied, "Ralph, what are you doing out?"
We'll have to decide whether we are in or out.
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Thoughts While Jaywalking
* Many thousands marched in every city yesterday, demanding immigration reform. The cry was heard: "USA, We will stay." They want to be legal; they want citizenship. But wait, if we make Americans out of them, who's going to do the jobs Americans won't do?
* The truth-twister on radio, ("Which one, you ask?) Glenn Beck, is claiming that President Bush's Mission Accomplished ceremony on the ship in San Diego harbor four years ago was meant only for those sailors returning from Cheney's War in the gulf. Most of his listeners are too sharp for that one, but apparently Glenn doesn't think so.
* The president used his veto against the bill to withdraw troops. He'll meet with the Democrats in Congress about a different way to deal with this war to end all wars.
* Senate majority leader Harry Reid says Bush got us into the middle of a civil war. Who could deny that? I mean, besides Snowjob Tad? Saddam's secular government kept the Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds from what they're doing now. The peacemongers pointed this out BEFORE Shock & Awe. We can't bring the dictator back, can we?
* Governor Richardson has the experience, judgement and soul to be a very good man in the White House. His likely vice president would stay close by, so she could make coffee and greet visitors.
Meeting & Events
What Don't Women Want Expo....coming soon. Watch for time and place.
Help Wanted
Speechwriter for presidential candidate Governor Richardson. Consignment and contingency basis. Pay delayed until January 2009.
Twenty-Years-From-Now News
* President Juan Aquino ordered the U.S. Army to seize all the oil fields in the United States yesterday. He intends to nationalize all future oil pumping and reserves allocations. He said, "Our oil is our oil, not Chevron's or Exxon/Mobil's." Oil executives intend to fight in the courts. The Supreme Court will probably take the case in future months, weeks or days.
* Top tune on the Hit Parade is "Who Would Buddha Bomb?".
* Water rationing begins in St. George on June first. Anyone caught gulping - not sipping - H2O will be sent to Purgatory and housed with loiterers.
Quote
"History is bunk." - Henry Ford
So get your flags and ribbons ready. They'll be needed for a long time this time. Think of all those Arabs and Muslims yearning to breathe free. We might have to knock off most of them because freedom isn't free - especially when it's given away.
Presidents use power, often arrogantly, as everyone knows. Things will get worse before we catch on. Someday we'll be wise enough to avoid conflicts - like the French, Swiss, Italians, and Swedes who have had enough of war. Their genes remember. They want no more war.
The war people will call it isolationism, but we'll tell the world: "If you can't overthrow your Stalins, Hitlers, Maos, Saddams, and Castros, then maybe you don't deserve to live free." Liberties have to be struggled for from the inside out. We'll no longer plant democratic governments. Oh, neither will we send CIA assassins into your countries. It's your country, your government. You know what your problem is, solve it yourselves.
Meanwhile, we must endure the silence of the lambs being led to wars. Protesting will become more dangerous. During the Mexican War, Henry David Thoreau went to prison for refusing to pay a tax to support the war. When Ralph Waldo Emerson visited his friend behind bars, he said, "Henry, what are you doing in?" Thoreau replied, "Ralph, what are you doing out?"
We'll have to decide whether we are in or out.
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Thoughts While Jaywalking
* Many thousands marched in every city yesterday, demanding immigration reform. The cry was heard: "USA, We will stay." They want to be legal; they want citizenship. But wait, if we make Americans out of them, who's going to do the jobs Americans won't do?
* The truth-twister on radio, ("Which one, you ask?) Glenn Beck, is claiming that President Bush's Mission Accomplished ceremony on the ship in San Diego harbor four years ago was meant only for those sailors returning from Cheney's War in the gulf. Most of his listeners are too sharp for that one, but apparently Glenn doesn't think so.
* The president used his veto against the bill to withdraw troops. He'll meet with the Democrats in Congress about a different way to deal with this war to end all wars.
* Senate majority leader Harry Reid says Bush got us into the middle of a civil war. Who could deny that? I mean, besides Snowjob Tad? Saddam's secular government kept the Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds from what they're doing now. The peacemongers pointed this out BEFORE Shock & Awe. We can't bring the dictator back, can we?
* Governor Richardson has the experience, judgement and soul to be a very good man in the White House. His likely vice president would stay close by, so she could make coffee and greet visitors.
Meeting & Events
What Don't Women Want Expo....coming soon. Watch for time and place.
Help Wanted
Speechwriter for presidential candidate Governor Richardson. Consignment and contingency basis. Pay delayed until January 2009.
Twenty-Years-From-Now News
* President Juan Aquino ordered the U.S. Army to seize all the oil fields in the United States yesterday. He intends to nationalize all future oil pumping and reserves allocations. He said, "Our oil is our oil, not Chevron's or Exxon/Mobil's." Oil executives intend to fight in the courts. The Supreme Court will probably take the case in future months, weeks or days.
* Top tune on the Hit Parade is "Who Would Buddha Bomb?".
* Water rationing begins in St. George on June first. Anyone caught gulping - not sipping - H2O will be sent to Purgatory and housed with loiterers.
Quote
"History is bunk." - Henry Ford
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
THE GREAT DEBATE THAT NEVER WAS
When Dan Rather interviewed the late Saddam Hussein months before Shock & Awe, the dictator suggested an American-style debate with President Bush to be broasdcast worldwide. The two leaders would have addressed the issues of WMD, terrorist connections and Iraq's perceived threat to its neighbors.
Saddam challenged Bush to talk it over, instead of exchanging threats and insults. But our president didn't say no, he just cut and ran. Why? Didn't George Bush have truth on his side, as well as God? Didn't he hold the high cards of morality, freedom and goodwill while Saddam was merely a leader in the Axis of Evil?
The debate might have served as a witness to the world, produced peaceful solutions and saved thousands of lives.
The debate's interpreter might have had trouble with Bushspeak, and Saddam just might have debated W out of the building, but even if Bush had lost face in the debate, we all would be much better off today.
You'll recall that Bush said, "I want to beat Saddam because he tried to kill my daddy." George W. was focused on what he wanted, not what we needed.
Now we'll have more than a year of debates about the issues which a Bush-Saddam debate could have settled.
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Thoughts While Jaywalking
* Senator Harry Reid drew heavy fire with his remark:"The war is lost." Can we be honest about this, just for once? HIS STATEMENT WAS TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT. Immediately after taking a breath, Reid said, "We need political and diplomatic solutions." His total remarks were quite temperate, no? Then how can those who tolerated "The mission is accomplished" and "Bring 'em on" be so critical of Harry Reid? Because they don't want to end the occupation of Iraq, that's why. Not yet. The oil fields are still not quite secure and we have not finished building our 14 military bases there.
* Ex CIA director George Tenet is the latest administration insider to turn on the Cheney, excuse me, Bush presidency. So now, of course, he is an idiot. The public is beginning to focus on Cheney as the engineer of the false WMD threat.
* Cheney and Rumsfeld were close buddies on this. Call it the Cheney/Rummy War.
* May Day, May Day. The Commies are parading in Cuba and Fidel hasn't shown up. He must be out of it to be so out of it.
Meetings & Events
Nothing happening today.
Help Wanted
The City of St. George, Roundabout Capital of the World, is looking for a tour guide to visit the roundabouts and explain the history, the evolution, the magic.
Twenty-Years-From-Now News
* The entire function of the Utah State Legislature has been outsourced to China, the fountain of all ancient and modern wisdom. The newly retired legislators do have hefty pensions, so don't worry.
* Bill Clinton and Al Gore met at a party and had to be introduced. They hadn't seen each other since Clinton's last day as president, when he pardoned all of those criminals.
Quote of the Day
"To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant." - Amos Bronson Alcott
Saddam challenged Bush to talk it over, instead of exchanging threats and insults. But our president didn't say no, he just cut and ran. Why? Didn't George Bush have truth on his side, as well as God? Didn't he hold the high cards of morality, freedom and goodwill while Saddam was merely a leader in the Axis of Evil?
The debate might have served as a witness to the world, produced peaceful solutions and saved thousands of lives.
The debate's interpreter might have had trouble with Bushspeak, and Saddam just might have debated W out of the building, but even if Bush had lost face in the debate, we all would be much better off today.
You'll recall that Bush said, "I want to beat Saddam because he tried to kill my daddy." George W. was focused on what he wanted, not what we needed.
Now we'll have more than a year of debates about the issues which a Bush-Saddam debate could have settled.
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Thoughts While Jaywalking
* Senator Harry Reid drew heavy fire with his remark:"The war is lost." Can we be honest about this, just for once? HIS STATEMENT WAS TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT. Immediately after taking a breath, Reid said, "We need political and diplomatic solutions." His total remarks were quite temperate, no? Then how can those who tolerated "The mission is accomplished" and "Bring 'em on" be so critical of Harry Reid? Because they don't want to end the occupation of Iraq, that's why. Not yet. The oil fields are still not quite secure and we have not finished building our 14 military bases there.
* Ex CIA director George Tenet is the latest administration insider to turn on the Cheney, excuse me, Bush presidency. So now, of course, he is an idiot. The public is beginning to focus on Cheney as the engineer of the false WMD threat.
* Cheney and Rumsfeld were close buddies on this. Call it the Cheney/Rummy War.
* May Day, May Day. The Commies are parading in Cuba and Fidel hasn't shown up. He must be out of it to be so out of it.
Meetings & Events
Nothing happening today.
Help Wanted
The City of St. George, Roundabout Capital of the World, is looking for a tour guide to visit the roundabouts and explain the history, the evolution, the magic.
Twenty-Years-From-Now News
* The entire function of the Utah State Legislature has been outsourced to China, the fountain of all ancient and modern wisdom. The newly retired legislators do have hefty pensions, so don't worry.
* Bill Clinton and Al Gore met at a party and had to be introduced. They hadn't seen each other since Clinton's last day as president, when he pardoned all of those criminals.
Quote of the Day
"To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant." - Amos Bronson Alcott
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