05aug11

Customer—“What does this mean? There’s a fly in the bottom of my tea-cup?”
Waitress---“How do I know? I’m a waitress, not a fortune teller.


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In 1906, John Huston is born

1962, Nelson Mandela, South African freedom fighter, imprisoned. He was not released until 1990.

1966, Beginning of the Cultural Revolution in China with the publication of Mao’s Little Red Book.

1984, Death of Richard Burton.

2002, Divers recover USS Moniter turret.

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Nothing in the news today except the crazy heat wave summer that we are having. Somebody in Fort Worth died because someone stole the outside air-conditioner. They said on the news that thieves steal them because of the copper in them is scrapped for money.

If you ask around the story is that the police station had been quiet most of the wee. Things were so slow the detectives were playing cards to pass the time. “What a life,” grumbled one of the officers, “No fights, no thefts, no riots, no murders, no nothin’.”
“Rest easy, Mike,” said the captain, “Things’ll break soon. You just gotta have faith in human nature.”

Seems like everything is in meltdown. The financial markets, the power grid is close to have another set of running blackouts and all the rest of the stuff this summer. I think that the most obvious thing is wrong is what congress did about the job market~~You got that right no jobs were created but they sure can worry about their own stuff. They don’t give a damn about the American people all they care about is the rich people who send all the money they make over seas to their little factories and so they protect them so they can have funds to run for re-election There ought to be a time limit some of these senators because they rob the people blind with their little programs to help the rich and help themselves. They stay in office forever doing nothing but helping their cronies or the old boy network. The whole crap with the debt ceiling was just that~crap! So what if the government stops~it needs to stop. Maybe if they didn’t work for themselves and instead work for the country this land wouldn’t be in the mess that it’s in.
The country needs to set time limits that a senator can stay in office just like the president. That way there can be different mind sets and ideas to keep this country on track. Because there would be ideas that were more current with the ideas of the present population instead of some old fart who has been up there for a hundred years doing the same old stuff for his buddies like Sen. Robert C.Byrd of Virginia. Who robbed the taxpayers blind in support of his programs for his state. He was a US Senator from 1948 until 2010
How much money do you think he had funneled to his old buddies in Virginia from the taxpayers??
But the big problem in this country now is jobs!! Everybody knows that the jobs are going overseas because of the tax benefits that multinational companies get for having factories overseas. They not only get tax breaks but they also get cheap labor to boot! What a win win situation. And who catches the brunt of it? You guessed it Your neighbor and mine whose place of employment all of a sudden just ended up in India, China or Mexico. And what does congress do about this? Nothing! They need to nationalize foreign companies who have factories in this country that way the money stays in this country instead of going overseas to their parent companies. And they need to set up a taxing program for goods coming into this country from foreign entities because these products are so cheap that everyone buys them but if the taxes bring their cost up to the same thing that we produce then the choice would be about quality instead of quantity.

Well I have rambled on too much about government and their shortcomings. Here is a parting shot about congress.

The toastmaster was seated between two distinguished United States senators at a big New York dinner. He rose, and in complimentary language declared: “Ladies and gentlemen, it is my very high privilege to present to you an old friend; a man who is a staunch supporter of the Constitution. He is regarded in Washington as a friend of the veteran, a friend of business and of labor, a brilliant lawmaker. May I present to you at this time, the Honorable…the Honorable…”
Here the toastmaster became bewildered. Then, turning quickly from one senator to the other, he sputtered, whith a broad flush:
“By the way, which one of you fellows wants to speak first?”

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Here is another story about Abraham Lincoln past President of the United States

When complaints were made to Lincoln of the strenuous dictatorial
methods of Secretary of War Stanton, Lincoln made this comparison:
"We may have to treat Stanton as they are sometimes obliged to
treat a Methodist minister I know out West. He gets wrought up
to so high a pitch of excitement in his prayers and exhortations
that they put bricks in his pocket to keep him down. But I guess
we'll let him jump awhile first."