SNOWED BY AN INCONVENIENT ALGORERYTHYM

Every time I wash my car it rains!
Every time Al Gore says "Global Warming" it gets colder.
It is an inconvenient truth.

See if you can guess what this is:
dot dot--dot-----dot--------dot-dot-dooooooooooot-d-o-t-
Its an example of an Al Gore Rhythm.

Timing is everything in a real good propaganda campaign and Al just can't catch a break. It is colder and more snowy this Christmas Day in the Pacific Northwest than it has ever been in written records! We have some 20 inches of snow here in the West Hills of Portland.

I have been an environmentalist since before I knew how to spell it. I never throw away usable items. I do not buy a new car every 3 years. I plan where I am going before I leave to save gas. When I am down on my knees praying for better times I also look under the bed for dust bunnies and lost socks. I save energy everywhere I can.

I guess you could say I'm lazy with an understanding of the great benefit to mother nature for being so. It is an attitude developed by being the son of South Dakota farm folks who lived through the Great Depression. I just naturally got a good working knowledge of such things. Grandma always made her own ketchup and canned everything from the garden for winter. I do what I can.

Now I've learned that the Earth has about 186 billion tons of CO2 rising from it's surface every year according to guys who sit around getting paid to know these things. They figure about 90 billion comes from biological activity and another 90 billion from plant decay and volcanic action leaving about 6 billion say 3% from human beings.

Al Gore has done a wonderful job of making us aware of how we could be smarter at how we go about living our lives. But, what about the potential downside of doing it through first class lying?

We needed to be made aware of how every plant and animal on this planet is interactive with one another. George Harrison reminded us that "The time would come when we see we're all one and life flows on within in you and with out you".
The thing I am scared of is what happens when we all get just barely educated enough by Al Gore's propaganda to start doing a better job at being good humans then learning Al has exaggerated the points of inconvenient truth way out of proportion.

I think the truth alone is very convenient enough. We no longer throw our trash out our car windows like we did here in Oregon when I was young. How come do you think? It dawned on us it was stupid. Since we all live here together why not practise a little common sense and stewardship?

Below is some strategy Al Gore has developed so he can start his energy credit business and I suppose an alternate business during winter time selling indulgences when it is kind of hard to sell "global warming". Interview lines from a guy at Grist magazine and Al Gore.

"I think the answer to that depends on where your audience's head is. In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality. And the Category 5 denial is an enormous obstacle to any discussion of solutions. Nobody is interested in solutions if they don't think there's a problem. Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.
Over time that mix will change. As the country comes to more accept the reality of the crisis, there's going to be much more receptivity to a full-blown discussion of the solutions."

Here is another guy who thinks lying might work better than offering a convenient truth.

"We have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we may have. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest."
Stephen Schneider (leading advocate of the global warming theory)(in interview for Discover magazine, Oct 1989)

Here is a guy that agrees with me. Why lie when the truth about this stuff ought to do.

"In the long run, the replacement of the precise and disciplined language of science by the misleading language of litigation and advocacy may be one of the more important sources of damage to society incurred in the current debate over global warming."
Dr. Richard S. Lindzen(leading climate and atmospheric science expert- MIT) (3)

I am all for planting more trees. Taking better care of our planet. Using to the fullest the products we produce. Make the highest use from God given natural resources.
Shame on me, when I was young for selling parts of Redwood trees to make decks and siding . The Japanese and Chinese make wonderful little figures and musical instruments and things with Redwood and get high dollars for them too. All these common sense truths would also conveniently help lower that 3% of the carbon dioxide we add to the worlds CO2 totals.

Of course don't expect this effort to change the tilt of the Earth to the Sun or make Mars and Venus' poles quit melting as the universe makes its little shifts in it's celestial path.

Above all, remember to use the tools God gave us all. Common sense and an innate knowledge of what is right comes natural when you take to looking inward.


Write to Barrack Obama and be sure that governemnt applies the truth for a "change".


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TOO MANY NUTS NOT ENOUGH DOUGH

CHRISTMAS COOKIE RECIPE FOR OUR NATIONAL ECONOMY



When aggregate power has become too pervasive and abundant you can't keep your economic cookies from crumbling!
We have way too many nuts making cookies and there is not enough dough to hold it all together.

You can not fix a failed cookie recipe by making a bigger batch!

Loaning money to a system that does not have the right mix can not produce a different result! All you get is just a bigger batch of bad cookies.

The government wants us to loan our money to guys who have proved they do not know how to run their operations successfully. It does not even insist that they consider a different recipe . The best thing they have offered as a way of changing their operations so far is they won't fly around in big airplanes as much!

We know ,the only thing for sure is that we lose along with them, by loaning public money which means each and every dollar anywhere in your Grandmothers sock to your fancy smancy cash/bond broker accounts will lose value due to the increased inflation we suffer by dilution of the money value; IE: not enough dough
so to speak!

I'm not just talking about the auto industry alone; it is the whole cookie jar kids!
We have Bear Stearn's, AIG, Lehman Bros ,Washington Mutual, Fannie May, Freddie Mac , Indy Mac, maybe even Big Mac as far as I know, all going insolvent. All hooked together in this regulated publically owned government run, capitalist socialized partially vested collective.

The number one most wonderful thing about free market system is when things don't work they fail, and things that do work, keep going on working to provide vital service to the consumer.
The number two wonderful thing about free enterprise is everybody gets to decide. Yes, there are laws to follow. The government maintains the mixing bowl but keeps it's hands out of the cookie jar.

We are being told that they can't fail because they are too big.
Well they have failed and they continue to fail us consumers.

If I have to invest my governments fortune in an auto company why not make it a million dollars at a time to these new little outfits building these great electric and alternate energy cars. Give them a million and then another million when progress is demonstrated and make them pay back the money out of their successes.
I'd just spend maybe 20 million dollars instead of 500 billion for a demonstrable Obama Change.

I love Ford pickup trucks. I have owned one or another all my life. Ford makes a good pickup. All the rest of the automobiles in my little fleet are made by foreign manufactures.
Thanks to the free market system and private enterprise I buy my vehicles from people who do not operate under rules imposed by the AFL-CIO and idiot mid management teams. If I was Ford I would find out if I could make a living just selling the "most successful selling pick up in America." I would sell the rest of my asset infrastructure to another outfit who could re-tool and build some real fine electric cars, or tractors, or some other contraption that everybody on the planet just has to have.
I would not help put the whole world in economic jeopardy because some 3 million people have tried to convince me and my congressmen they are too incompetent to get jobs in winning successful operations!

Why then are we loaning money to these failing outfits? Does not Congress have enough to do without deciding what kind of an automobile I want to buy. I'll bet you they are going to try to tell me what kind of products I want with the rationalization that they have the best interests of the public in mind since the public is invested in the company producing the product. Wait and see. Oh wait just a minute, thats what too many people do now, just wait and see. Government wants the increased power that comes with the regulation of this industry. They have colluded with them for so long one can hardly see daylight between the government and the company anyway.

Do not be one convinced that this collapse of the system is due to a inate flaw in the basics of a free market system.

This is NOT free marketing. We, that is, everybody allowing this to continue, and me too incidently being draged along are promoting a central planning system, that only a few get to participate in. Freedom of commerce is what will correct our cookies. Sell the infrastructure to someone who can run it successfully Those people can learn to work for a new outfit for Gods sake. Break a few eggs. Make a good cookie


Government operated central planning of commerce --------------------------------DOES NOT WORK!

READ A BOOK ABOUT ANY SOCIALISTIC GOVERNMENT------------- IT DOES NOT WORK!


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COLUMBIA RIVER GOLDY GETS HOOKED ON HANDOUTS

One time I jumped clean across the Columbia River, just so I could say I did it. The river starts 150 miles or so up in Alberta Canada north of the Idaho Montana border. There is a meadow, and a spot where a log helps span part of the little stream, making it a pretty easy leap, even when you have on your waders.

The native trout there are energetic and finicky about what they eat. They don’t fall for just any old fake bug floating down the stream. The fish up there eat plump, natural, bite sized salmon flies that emerge from the water in the afternoon on sunny days come June. Salmon flies are not an easy meal for even the best of fish to catch. Salmon flies are good fliers and don’t stay long on the surface of a stream. The fish are hearty, and good fighters as a result.

I love that kind of fishing! You can get up late and come home early.

Fisherman up there, drink pure Canadian whiskey. If they do water it down it is with water right out of the stream!

The water and people up there are clean, good, and pure, naturally!
Life springs forth the same way.

Just a month or so ago I went up on the Columbia glacier as close as a regular guy like me can get to the headwaters of the Columbia River. From that little spot the Columbia flows more than 1200 miles down hill to the Pacific Ocean. A lot happens in that effort. It invites, Idaho, Washington, Montana, Nevada, Wyoming, and Utah to add to its Canadian waters. The Kootenay, the Okanagan, the Wenatchee, Spokane, Snake, Deschutes, Willamette, Cowlitz, and the Lewis rivers all chip in to make the Columbia system drain some 259,000 square miles of the western part of North America.

Several kinds of anadromous fish make their living there. Salmon, Cut Throat and huge ocean going Rainbow Trout pass by great dams that have been put in their way. They swim through water that has been so dirtied that you can’t even see through it.

Up river fish and fisherman make their way through life like they ought to, wild, and free to be what they are. They live without much help or harm, from anything or anyone. It's uncivilized natural law, unfettered self-supporting, uncluttered, clean and real. No waiting in line to get what’s “left.”

Now, downstream is another thing altogether.
Eleven hundred miles downstream. One hundred miles up the Columbia River from the Pacific Ocean is the big fat civilized city of Portland, Oregon.
Big city fish and folks don’t live quite so proud down there.

I live there in Portland Oregon. I try the best I can to be outdoors, to do what’s “right”.
I fish when I can, and do my best to make an honest living there.

One day I read an advertisement in the “Oregonian”, saw a television commercial on KGW, and heard a great song on “KINK” radio about drinking Sangria wine. I figured it was my time to try it.

What you do is you mix a bunch of store bought spices and frilly dilly stuff altogether with some cheap wine and as much 151 proof rum as you can stomach. Then you heat up the whole mess in a microwave or something to make it good to the taste. It ain't exactly the good pure beverage they drink upstream from here. Of course nether is the water. Things down here are civilized!

It was a real cold day the first time I drank Sangria wine. The eyelets on my fishing pole would have frozen solid had I been fishing. The more Mike and I drank, the more difficult it became to navigate the mighty Columbia to the marina in Portland Harbor. A good place to drink a whole lot of Sangria is in the city, at anchor in the wintertime. We dropped the anchor off the bow of the “TJ” and went below to see if perhaps we could find some good in the day and later some shut eye to clear up the confusion.

The Portland Harbor was known as the Columbia slough for the longest time till some developers decided to rename it and sell property along the banks to city people that didn’t know any better.

About 5 decades ago a whale swam all the way up the Columbia River some one hundred miles from home and turned right into the harbor slough, He languished there for awhile interested in all the free stuff the Portland people were throwing in the water for him to eat.
Finally the “good life” got to be too much for him. He almost died from the experience. So he turned tail and ran back to the sea having realized it was better to fend for himself than feed from the public slough, lose his self respect, dignity, and in the end his own life.

I woke up with an awful headache from that citified Sangria brew. My stomach was not happy with the mix and it volunteered to pitch what was left in me over the side of the boat.
When I let fly the mix, the chum that was created got a rise from some kind of city fish malingering below.

I guessed at first the fish was habituated to the flotsam and jetsam boats sent over board when they were stuck there unable to negotiate the entrance of the marina like we were.

It was still awful cold and the sun had not yet rose but there were fish to be had and I had an inside line on how to get them. I went below for my pole and an old rotten hot dog. I knew I still had one left in an ice cooler brought from Jantzen Beach about a month earlier.

I figured the chumming I did ought to be about enough to fool those fish into thinking something good and stinky was about to happen!
I hooked up the hot dog for bait the best I could without actually touching it. I hung a lantern on the life stanchion at the back of the boat. I sent my lash up a flying out into the dark, heard the bait plunk into the river, and settled in for the rest of the night to nurse the balance of my hangover.

In about a minute I felt a definite tug on the line so I began my retrieve. To my delight it was a great big five-pound fish! A great big fat old pale white fan tailed “gold fish.” Yep! a real live fan tailed gold fish.

You can win goldfish when they are real little at the Multnomah county fair by the Lloyd Center. If you pitch a ping-pong ball in their bowl just right they let you take them home for your mom to take care off. Somebody probably thought the little carp was dead or the kid forgot about him so they flushed him down the toilet and right out into the Columbia Slough.

The Goldy had made his home at the outflow effluent end of one of the many sewer lines that flow directly into the Columbia River. In Portland when you flush your toilet, depending on what part of town you are in you send a little bit of big city civilization right down the pipe and into what’s left of the natural world.

The big fat fellow did not fight at all. He just turned over, belly up and came on the boat without as much as a flop. Why should he try? He was a big city fish entitled to life as it is doled out.
Be damn the standards set by his unsophisticated small time upriver cousins.

Now; it may not have been the biggest fish I've ever caught, and it certainly wasn't the proudest moment I’ve ever had, but, one must admit it is a memorable event to catch and release a great big five pound FAN TAIL GOLD FISH!
We took a picture of it with a little Polaroid and kept the picture on board for a long time. By and by the shinny stuff that makes the picture wore off in the high humidity and cold weather and in the end all proof of it might have been lost all together.

It now exists in my head, as all good fish stories should.
A high-minded memory, better than a picture, and more rewarding for what was learned.

Every once in awhile we cruise a little too close to shore by the out flow effluent of the sewer pipe by the marina and we see him there enjoying his entitlements with the rest of the good citizens of the big fat City of Portland.

ALL THATS LEFT IS RIGHT

WELL NOW -------------------BLACK FRIDAY Nov 28th 2008

My right wing Republican friends in an effort to create a more perfect Socialist Party are bemoaning the loss of the recent presidential election.

WHILE

My left wing friends in an effort to create a more perfect Socialist Party are bemoaning the loss of rhetoric for the left and are watching Barrack Obama rehire the centrist Clinton administration with an emphasis on moving toward Reganomics or better stated OBAMANOMICS!
So far he seems to be honoring his campaign promises to include the tax cuts for 95% of Americans IE: the $250,000 a year earners, and it looks like he is going to allow Bush's tax schedule to continue till it runs out.
This will maintain cuts in income tax rates for the real productive $250,000 plus crowd.

Arianna Huffington warned Obama to not move to the right which she perceived he was doing along about July. Arianna told me Wednesday on public radio that a catastrophic economic disaster is a "terrible thing to waste". She called the Obama brand------------- "Obama zero"
George Soros seems to be warning his followers that Obama does not seem to be turning out to be "our man"!
"Move on" George. Arianna claims that "the right is wrong" accepting influences from the "lunatic fringe".

SO WHO ARE WE GOING TO FOLLOW TO "THE NEW WORLD ORDER" ?
(G. Bush Sr)

Republicans? or Democrats?
Which can lead us most quickly to the great socialist ideals of Karl Marx?

Recently some right wing Republican friends of mine very adamantly defended limited Socialism as developed by Governor Palin with regard to her Oil revenue redistribution policy and another bunch really liked Senator McCains advocating for public investment in many of our largest publicly owned corporations.

Here; this is from Merriam Webster defining the concept.
Socialism
Date: 1837
1: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods
2 a: a system of society or group living in which there is no private property b: a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state
3: a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done.

Now I had a wide number of contemporaries try to redefine this bit of historical record to justify actions of their favorite candidates. No amount of collective tyranny or peer group pressure could dissuade me from my basic belief in an individuals right to free commerce and personal freedom.

I don't know, maybe it isn't really Socialist if it is just a minor percentage.
Maybe 20 % doesn't even qualify. Just heading toward the concept of control by the state may not be Socialist by itself. At least some of my friends compliment me for my brilliance in considering this possibility if just momentarily. Maybe we need to measure by degree.

LETS SING -ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDERS ----or-----
THIS LAND IS MY LAND, THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND to see if we can start the movement really rolling. Bruce Springsteen and Mike Huckabee could be national singers.
We could all sing it say four times a day. It could be pumped through loud speakers all over the country. Especially in the Big City States where we need a concentrated effort to harmonize.

Lets have WPA plans for the benevolent future run by our corporate heads to make sure they are as productive and successful as they possibly can be.
Lets have our cars designed by government guys because god knows the consumer sure as hell doesn't have the right these days to drive what ever he wants.
Be sure that the damn things are built by members of the AFL - CIO and the up to date management coolie's with the pencils and slide rules who watch to be sure they can turn real good to the left as they perform for NASCAR Republicans.

I am somewhat puzzled and am seriously asking for some guidance.
Refer me somewhere.
What party or group could I subscribe to that is intent on encouraging the widest possible distribution of commerce through private capital enterprise.

Both the Republican and Democratic Parties seem to be heading more and more to large publicly owned collectives with ever narrowing great power structures at the top.

The other day I heard that the government was encouraging the banks they gave the big loans to to use them to buy little banks to get them out of competitive markets.

Really is there someone or some group out there that remembers fifth grade social studies?

Don't misunderstand; I am libertarian but to a degree. But if you think I would have Ron Paul move in with me and marry my daughter.
"I wouldn't do it for all the farms in Cuba".
Bob Dylan- sort of

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CLEANLINESS IS NEXT TO GODLINESS

IN OUR HOME WE HAVE THREE KIRBY VACUUM CLEANER ---MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
EACH ARE PLACED ON A FLOOR READY TO PERFORM WITHOUT MUCH TROUBLE OR GREAT FAN FARE.

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CLEANLINESS IS NEXT TO GODLINESS PART TWO



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LISTEN TO THE HUM THEIR ROTARY MOWERS PRODUCE AS THEY CUT THRU THEIR LAWNS FRESHLY FERTILIZED. CREATING AND OUTDOOR CONCERT FROM THE ROTARY MOWERS FRICTION ON THE GRASS.

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Sunday mornings, for me, is a time I take to read, to relax, to worship, and to watch informative panel discussions on the TV regarding how the world is and how we are doing.
The subjects that interest me are Religious, Economic, Political etc. These little intellectual pursuits are all conveniently packaged into this particular time.

The TV shows include Meet the Press NBC (Tim Russert-now- Tom Brokaw), Face the Nation CBS (Bob Schiffer) Fox News Sunday (Chris Wallace) and This Week ABC (George Stephanopolis) Once in a while I'll linger a bit long and watch a little bit of some sports program. I like the one's Bryant Gumball hosts the most!

Today I noticed that the shows I like are all spread out till past 4:00PM or on top of one another on competing stations at the same time stuffed in between these extravagant Sports Events.

There are sport shows for Republicans that include Skiing, Auto Racing and Golf. Republicans like sports that reward the individual.
The sports for the Democrats include Baseball, Football, Basketball. Democrats tend to like sports that have a real strong leader and a loyal following of team players. You know Quarterbacks Pitchers Centers the like.

A notable exception to this generalized interest was the poster child for Democratic-Socialistic team play Adolf Hitler.
"Ad" was absolutely committed to Track and Field sports held in the state sponsored stadium in Berlin during the 1936 Olympics.

A simple footrace against another is clearly the celebration of the individual. Many of my left wing leaning friends and relatives like to think Hitler is a Republican type. I personnally think and history should show that he was hoping for victories among his Teutonic individuals to prove the legitimacy of his "master race".

Now look how we have been distracted from the very provocative title of this article by the discussion of sports. It is no big wonder why our stadiums and race tracks across this great country are subsidized by the Federal Government as they were back in Roman times.
Imagine the distraction! The Coliseum virtually teaming with simulated Army and Navy conflicts or individual gladiators competing to the death. The "opiate of the people". It still works!

Anyway John McCain's friend Colin Powell went on the record this morning in front of Sports, God, and everybody to reveal he was voting for Barack Obama for President!.

John McCain had been suffering a growing visceral pain in the gut over the last few months wondering if his friend of 2 1/2 decades and compatriot in the military Colin Powell would help him win the office.

Today it all got blown out on the TV screen. A virtual explosion of pent up crap came out on the "Meet The Press"show hosted by Tom Brokaw.

Powell said he thought both guys could make a great President, but he had noticed over the last two years of the campain race that John McCain had been making too many quick calls and was unwilling to change his mind after reviewing the play.
Powell noted that Barrack Obama demonstrates a more calm and comprehensive decision making discipline. So in the end he felt that the rookie was a quick study and had the judgement needed to be our next President.
Apparently John McCain's decision to have Governor Palin be his cheerleader and running mate was all the more Colin Powell could stomach. And so out came the "Colin blow"

So for me I hope next week I can watch my programs without all the sports shows in my way.

I hope and pray that his fellow, Barrack Obama, really can play the game we need played across the United Sates and through out the entire world.
Because from the cheap seats in the the nose bleed section where I sit it sure looks like he is the going to be our next President and head play caller.

YELLOWSTONE BANKS RECOVER RAPIDLY

Wolves in Yellowstone National Park have turned out to be the Rainbow Trouts best friend!
While the Government was paying out bounty on dead wolves all over the park and surrounding areas the Elk were eating all the easy to get aspen trees along the banks of the Yellowstone, the Gibbon, and the Firehole rivers to mention a few.

The aspen provide the much needed shade for the Trout to prosper.

Now the wolves are back and have retaken the area near the river banks. The aspen regrow and the shaded river returns to good habitat for the trout.

Get it Folks? The symbolism that is!

Here think of this then.

Hand outs to Bears.
Cars would drive by with little free handouts to the bears.
Two generations went by and they were so habituated they could not make it on their own.

Get it folks? The symbolism that is!

The Government used to put out every little fire and managed and regulated every little thing they could in the Nations first National Park.
The forest finally had had enough and went into a fire rage that lasted almost two years.
Burnt pretty much everything down.

Get it folks? The symbolism that is!


Please recognize that the the two guys we are considering for the Presidents job both want to run a bigger more invasive government.

Consider possible unintended consequences.
Things need to succeed while others need to fail.

There are dangers in messing with the natural order of things.
Handouts rob both sides in the transition of the dignity to be whole.
A lot of little failures keep a system strong. Big overbuilt failures are an abomination to all.



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"METOLIUS”

"METOLIUS”

IN INDIAN MEANS “WHITE ROTTING FISH”
PRETTY NAME FOR A NOT SO PRETTY IMAGE.

EARLY ON, THE RIVER HAD MIGRATORY FISH THAT SPAWNED THEN DIED ALONG ITS BANKS. INDIANS OCCUPIED THE AREA DURING THIS TIME TO GATHER THE BOUNTY.

A BUNCH OF GUYS DOWN RIVER AT THE PORTLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY DECIDED IN A MEETING THAT NOBODY MUCH NEEDED OCEAN GOING FISH ABOVE THIS DAM THEY WANTED TO BUILD, AND SURELY NOBODY NEEDED ANYMORE GULLY WASHERS DOWN STREAM. BESIDES THE CITY FOLKS IN PORTLAND NEEDED "POWER".

NO ONE ACTUALLY ASKED THE INDIANS IF THEY COULD GET ALONG WITHOUT THE BIG OCEAN GOING CHINOOKS. THE INDIANS DID'NT EVEN LEARN ABOUT THE MEETING WHERE THE BIG DECISIONS WERE BEING MADE TILL SOMETIME LATER.

SHERMAN COUNTY FARMERS USED TO COME UP TO THE RIVER AND TRADE TINWARE AND KNIVES AND OTHER THINGS FOR SMOKED SALMON.
THEY WOULD THEN SELL OR TRADE THE INDIANS NATURE CANDY TO OTHERS THAT LIVED DOWN THE BACKSIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN FOR FARM TOOLS AND SUCH.

THE FARMERS UP THERE DID'NT HEAR ABOUT THE BIG MEETING EITHER CAUSE
THEY WERE BUSY EATING SMOKED SALMON AND FARMING, AND THEIR WATER CAME FROM A DIFFERENT RIVER ANYWAY.

“LAND LOCKED” SOCKEYE SALMON, INDIANS CALL “KOKANEE”, STILL COME UP AND DISCARD THEMSELVES ALONG THE BANKS OF THE RIVER ABOUT SEPTEMBER. SO LIFE GOES ON KINDA LIKE IT DID BACK THEN.


PINE TREES OF THE METOLIUS RIVER VALLEY SAVE ALL THE EVENTS, THOUGHTS, AND CONVERSATIONS THAT OCCUR THERE. THEY ARE THEN RELEASED THROUGH THE BREEZE TO THE CAREFUL LISTENER.


HERE'S ONE OF UM

WHITEY GETS HIS OWN
LIFE LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

I’VE FISHED WITH HIM MANY TIMES.
HE IS THE GRAND OLD MAN HERE. HE KNOWS THE RIVER WELL.

HIS GRANDFATHER BROUGHT HIM HERE TO FISH WHEN HE WAS
VERY YOUNG. HIS GRANDFATHER WAS A SHERMAN COUNTY FARMER WHO CONDUCTED COMMERCE WITH THE INDIANS IN EARLY FALL AFTER THE HARVEST. WHEN I LOOK AT WHITEYS HIGH CHEEKBONES AND WISE DEEP SET EYES I SOMETIMES WONDER ABOUT ALL THAT GRANDPA WAS ENGAGED IN.

THE FARMERS KEPT A BASE CAMP OVER AT THE LAKE. NO ROAD HAD BEEN LAID FOR WAGONS TO RUN ON YET, SO THEY WALKED IN TO THE RIVER LEAVING THEIR WAGONS BACK AT CAMP.
IT WAS EASILY WORTH THE TEN-MILE HIKE, JUST FOR SITES.

THERE WERE PLENTY OF OCEAN GOING FISH IN THE STREAMS IN THOSE DAYS.

IT WAS REAL EASY THEN TO TELL THAT LIFE HERE HAS MAGIC IN IT.
HERE YOU ARE ALLOWED A MOMENT TO REST AND GAIN AGAIN ALL THAT YOU NEED FOR BODY AND SOUL.

TIME IS THE RIVER. THEY LIVED IN A GREAT LANDSCAPE THAT STOOD PERFECTLY STILL.
TIME MOVED IN AND OUT AND ALL AROUND THEM TILL THE FUTURE FINALLY RAN THEM OVER.

WHITEY SAYS WHEN IT’S STORMING AT THE COAST THE SEAGULLS ARE DRIVEN INLAND BY THE WIND. I DON’T BELIEVE THAT--THEY ARE WONDERFUL FLIERS.

I AM QUITE CERTAIN IF THEY STAYED AND WORKED THE AREA WHERE THEY BELONG THEY WOULD DO JUST FINE.

THEY COME FOR THE EASY PICKINGS!

WHITEY AND I HAVE WATCHED IN HORROR WHILE THEY DIVE IN, SWOOP DOWN, ATTACK RAVAGE AND SCAVAGE THE FISH AS THEY LAY THEIR EGGS. “SEEMS LIKE JUST WHEN THINGS ARE GOING WELL, WHEN LIFE IS GOOD, AND PROSPERITY ABOUNDS SOME DARN FOOL GANG OF IDIOTS COME ALONG TO SPOIL IT”.

“FREE” IS'NT WHATS “FREE AND EASY”

SPOILERS UNITE, DIVY UP THE SCRAPS, AND CALL IT A GOOD DAY?

SO IT GOES!

I FOUND WHITEY FISHING DOWN AT THE LOWER END OF THE DOLLY HOLE ONE DAY WITH A WHOLE BALL OF BIRD FEATHERS TIED ON HIS HOOK. I LOOKED IN HIS TACKLE BOX AND HE HAD ABOUT TEN MORE BRIGHTLY COLORED GIANT FLIES IN THERE.
HE CLAIMED HE WAS CASTING “ARTIFICIAL BIRDS NOT FLIES”.
TO CATCH A BIG DOLLY VARDEN ONE NEEDS A MIGHTY BIG BAIT.

THINK ABOUT IT NOW:

THERE IS ALWAYS A TIME BEFORE SOMETHING IS, AND A TIME AFTER IT WAS.
BETWEEN THESE TIMES LIES A SIGNIFICANT EVENT.

SO HERE WHITEY WAS IN ONE OF THOSE TIMES.

THE POWER BOYS, FROM DOWN RIVER, STRETCHED AN ELECTRICAL LINE FROM THE ROAD ACROSS THE RIVER AND OVER TO A PUMP AT THE NEWLY BUILT WIZARD FALLS FISH HATCHERY. WHITEY HAD SPOOKED A FLOCK OF COOTS INTO FLIGHT AND ONE OF THEM HIT THE WIRE AND WAS STUNNED AND FELL TO THE WATER. NOTHING IN THAT TIME WAS ACCUSTOMED TO THE OBSTACLE YET.

THE POOR LITTLE COOT NEVER GOT ANOTHER SWIM BECAUSE ONE OF THOSE BIG DOLLYS JUMPED CLEAN OUT OF THE WATER AFTER HIM AND TOOK HIM UNDER LEAVING JUST FOR A MOMENT A LITTLE RIPPLE AND SOME FEATHERS ON THE SURFACE OF THE RIVERS WATER.

FISH, “FEEDING ON BIRDS”.

MORTAL ENEMIES: FISH AND BIRDS.

TURN ABOUT IS FAIR PLAY. SO THE SAGES WOULD SAY.

POWER, OVER EVERYTHING ELSE, TEMPTING TIME TO TAKE THE ADVANTAGE.

WHITEY TOLD ME EACH YEAR FOR THE LAST FIFTY HE HAD “TRIED” TO CATCH A FISH ON ONE OF THESE MONSTER HAND MADE BIRDS.

I ASKED HIM HOW MANY FISH HE HAD BEEN FOOLED WITH THE MOCK UP.
TO MY SURPRISE HE CLAIMED NONE. NO FISH!
NOT A BITE------------------EVER-------------------FOR FIFTY YEARS!

A TESTAMENT TO THE WISDOM AND TENACITY OF THE FISHERMAN.

WHITEY WAS A PRACTICING CATCH AND RELEASE MAN WAY BEFORE ANYONE ELSE EVER THOUGHT OF IT.

HE THOUGHT THE FUN OF FISHING IS TO OUTSMART THE VERY DUMBEST OF THE DUMB FISH, AND THEN LET THEM OFF EASY.

“FREE AND EASY”.

NOPE; HE NEVER EVEN GOT A CHANCE RISE TO THE BIG FEATHERED FOOLERY!
IT'S THE ULTIMATE IN “EARLY RELEASE”.
"SOMETIMES THEY WAG THEIR TAIL TO YOU AS THEY SWIM AWAY".

“WHEN YOU RELEASE A FISH ----- THE JOY OF LIFE RETURNS TO YOU”

AS FOR ME, I SIT BY THE TIMELESS RIVER TRYING DESPERATELY TO SEE IT MOVE.

I KNOW IT IS, I AM DEVOTED TO SEEING IT.

OCCASIONALLY, I’LL PUT A FISH AWAY IF I DON’T THINK IT WILL LIVE, OR IF THERE ARE FOOLS BACK AT CAMP WHO THINK I’M NOT REALLY FISHING IF I DON’T EVER BRING ONE OF THE DUMB THINGS HOME.

THE DUMBEST FISH GET EATEN FIRST!

EACH YEAR IT GETS HARDER AND HARDER TO FIND A DUMB FISH TO CATCH.
IT IS AN ASCENSION OF FISH CIVILIZATION.

FISH ARE FOR EATING, FOR GOD’S SAKE.

FISH ARE GOOD, AND HERE FOR A PURPOSE. WE CAREFULLY DISTINGUISH OURSELVES IN THIS PROCESS AS DESERVING WHEN WE CHOOSE TO CATCH AND KEEP ONE OF THESE FISH.
IN THE WHOLE OF IT ALL WE PRAY THAT WE NEVER TAKE WHAT WAS NOT INTENDED TO BE GIVEN FOR THE BETTER.

MORE THAN THE HORDE, THE WORK OF THE SINGLE FISHER REMAINS THE KEY TO MOVE MANKIND.

GIVE A MAN A FISH AND HE WILL THE EAT FOR A DAY.
TEACH A MAN TO FISH AND HE WILL FEED HIMSELF AND THOSE HE LOVES TO THE END OF HIS DAYS.

THINGS I'VE HEARD OUT THERE ALONE----- WHILE FISHING

I BELIEVE CIVILIZATION IS A VOYAGE NOT A HARBOR.

I BELIEVE IN THE VALUE OF “SELF RELIANCE” AND THE JOY OF SIMPLE TOIL.

I BELIEVE USEFUL SERVICE IS THE COMMON DUTY OF MAN TO THE WORLD, THE RIVER, AND TO HIMSELF.

I BELIEVE THAT EVERY ONE AND EVERY LIVING THING IS OBLIGED BY NATURAL LAW TO BE HAPPY.

I BELIEVE NOTHING IS MORE SERIOUS THAN A SENSE OF HUMOR


AND FINALLY, I BELIEVE THIS,

MEN ARE IDIOTS AND ARE PROGRESSIVELY MORE SO THE FURTHER THEY ARE FOUND FROM THE VALLEY OF THE
METOLIUS RIVER.

EARS AND ARMS RACE

Bill Clinton was arguably the smartest fellow we have ever had in office.
He was caught in acts of oral outrage with someone other than Hillary Clinton his wife.

Other people had expressed dissatisfaction with Hillary as well but many people thought enough of her to let her run for the job of democratic nominee for President of the United States of America.

She ran as kind of a new age populist who promised to take money and power from all the "A" and "B" students who now controlled large publicly held corporations or worked for the pubic in the Federal Government. She promised to dole out money and power to the "C" "D" and "F" people in return for their votes.

I guess she was so mad at her husband that she had not paid much attention to the remarkable job he had done allowing big publicly owned business and government to collaborate so well with one another. The elitist mass aristocracy was having a hay day the way things were!

For example Bill Clinton had signed a bill that asked the "Fed" to relax regulation and guidelines enough to get about 60% of Americans to begin to participate in home ownership!
What you have to do to get a thing like that going is to kind of be real forgiving and optimistic that things will just keep getting better and better and that people will pay their bills even though they hadn't been good at it before being just average "C" or even "D" or "F" students.

Bill Clinton was a middle of the road democratic party President who balanced the budget and fixed up the welfare system and cut military spending and two or three other things that needed doing.
George Bush junior came along who is a way left of center Republican party member who grew the government by 40% and started wars with Iraq for having pretend poison and all sorts of other things including increasing this interest in letting everybody participate in home ownership.

Now the People who owed money to the banks for their new expensive houses could not pay.
So the banks could not pay money they owed to the likes of investment banks.
If investment banks could not pay the 2% or so back to the "Fed". So we the smart people with good "A" and "B" marks that are now running the government and big publicly owned corporations get all the monopoly money and property. Yea we win!
We the Collective People win it all we own little houses all over the board.
Oh, I hope the real Smart "A" and "B" kids will still help us run things.

We have two candidates for the Presidents job who find great ills in this present circumstance and are running little populist programs of their own. They want Hillary Clintons people to help them get the job as President, And they told us so in the great debate last friday.

One guy has arms he can't lift high enough to point out who the enemy is, but by damn if he gets in there he knows who they are and won't be swayed again from kicking their ass either abroad or right here in the corrupt government of the United States of America.

The other guy has big ears to listen to everyone who has a bitch about not getting their share and will appoint committees to be damn sure every body's getting something out of the United States of America.

I had hoped that maybe the smart guys and the average guys along with the really dumb guys would get eyes to see us working together to change the government to one that does not maintain a more powerful self interest. Work for one that does not seek more power to perform larger military or social functions.

Government works best when it governs least.
Maintain laws, roads ,and our well being yes, but stop this escalation of bigness.

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LAST WEEKS CRACK

I rented a little bus in Las Vegas last week and piled a bunch of site seers in it for an overnight visit to the Grand Canyon.
It is more than 300 miles from my condo in Vegas to the canyon, so I got a chance to visit with some of the folks riding along.
I found out from one guy that the world had been created somewhere around 6000-7000 years ago instead of the more customary millions and millions we hear about on the science channel!

This information has been passed down from the King James administration in the 1600's by the Church of England.

The King James version of the bible was published in 1611 around the time of William Shakespeare, John Donne, Ben Johnson and Sir Francis Bacon. That's why it reads so pretty.

The idea was that the Classical Latin was "too Roman" and people needed something that was real easy to read.
Apparently in there it says that this whole thing started pretty recently compared to all the findings of our scientists.


All of the Bibles that have been written since then, except the Mormon bible, have this information copied down correctly for easy understanding. King James Revised, American Standard, Living Bible, Gideons Bible etc. all are good references to this event.
More on those poor Mormons later.


So anyway, we got to the Canyon and I found out that according to scientists the Grand Canyon starting eroding almost to the day when God created the earth!----6000 years ago!

Yep!
The whole sedimentary layer, according to geological scientific instruments, started about 1480 million years ago. They figure that 6000 years is about right for the canyon to have washed away like it has.

I was going to inquire why the Mormon's Bible didn't get copied down right. However, I did not ask the fellow to elaborate so I could focus on time space continuum and quantum theory.

Being a Lutheran Christian I kind of got a little miffed that this information was deliberately left out of the Catechism I had studied. Luckily Martin Luther just nailed up those 99 complaints on the door of the Catholic Church instead of trying to write his own Bible.
He might have gotten included on that lonely list with the Mormons!

The whole thing, as we see it so far, is defined in a linear way.

So, if God had started the whole thing up one day about 6000 years ago, he started it mid point along a linear measuring stick. The light was already in motion before it started, history started with a built in memory of the past, rocks where placed and polished as if they had been there much longer! Whole skeletons of old reptiles and mammals, pre-humanoid types and ancient relics were placed here and there to make it seem like we are living on an older planet.

Now, I meant to ask this informed fellow if he could come up with a reason that one group of folks were seemingly so deceived by God and the other guys back there in the 16th century were not. I did not get the chance having arrived at the edge of the great chasm by then.
I saw for myself that it was mind boggling and surely was much bigger than I could possibly ever understand. I simply thrilled at the glory of it all.
I then was preparred to truly believe all that had been reported to me.

I had nothing at all to muse about.

That night in my dreams I reconciled this seeming conflict of information.
I realized that we all think we live linear, that is; in three dimensions.
Yet science and God tells us to consider we live in at least a four dimensional universe the fourth being time space continuum.

The string theory lately presents the idea of predictable movement in more than the three commonly known directions, forward,back, left, right, up, down.

I think a lot about separate channels of reality. Parallel and chaotic to one another; mostly at night in my dreams. I think about chaotic religous beliefs from far off places and times.

It hit me------------- the Canyon------- was formed 6000 years ago! -------------------and again 5999 years ago then again 5998 years ago and then yesterday and then this morning and then now and now and then to the very left letter of the word now!

Then (reading linear from left to right) to the very inky edge of the letter "n" and then

NOW AGAIN------------------------------- AGAIN NOW!

I drove back to Las Vegas the Gambling Meca of the recently formed planet Earth to wonder why the Wall street guys had not located here in the Capital City of chance and sin.

When I returned to my condo room, I saw on the TV that the wall street guys had finally been caught selling chances at nothing at all! Then I saw the most remarkable thing!

They found a way of selling what had already been established as nothing at all to the American People to put in there savings account to spend on their next trip to Sin City Las Vegas.

I hope they can spend nothing at all somewhere more substantial like I did, on a drive to the Grand Canyon where the thin fabric of reality began eroding away at the very start of the planet and where the very fabric of our ecomony might tear in the knowledge that nothing from nothing is nothing at all.


I have nothing at all. Out of nothing at all. I have nothing at all.

POLITICAL ENVIROMENT

DATELINE 2016+/-

I saw one of those little all electric 3 wheel pick up trucks buzzing along down Barbur Boulevard today. A bicycle guy pulled up along side and yelled to him that the single headlight set in the middle of the vehicle was turned on. It was 3:30 in the daylight afternoon.

The old guy driving the little pick up may have been a little hard of hearing and yelled back his response "it's an all electric vehicle".

The bike guy yelled back, "your light is on in the day time wasting energy"!

The old guy yelled it is an all electric car! I have light on for safety.

The bike guy pulls up to his window and pounds his fist on the side window of the old guys little pick up truck.

The old guy rolls down his window all the way and repeats "it is an all electric vehicle".
"The light is on for safety"!

The bike guy says "I don't give a damn about your safety"! "If you don't turn off that energy wasting light I am going to call the cops" and they will fine you all the energy credits you'll ever earn. You god damn right wing capitalist pig polluting energy wasting son of a bitch!
"The carbon foot print you are trailing is an affront to every rational human being on the planet".
Now, turn that polution shit pot off or I'll blow your sticking guts out right here and now.


THE END



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THINK FOR A "CHANGE"

John McCain, the "imperfect servant" accepted his candidacy from the Republican Party for the Presidency last week and got a bigger crowd to listen to him than Barrack Obama the week before!
Even with the storm interrupting the whole deal more people tuned in. Maybe they wanted to watch the new gal.
I know I did. Nothing better to turn my head than a good looking, ass kicking female, in charge of blowing away the good old boys.

So I guess it is all over now but the shouting.
We are going to have one or the other as President this next go around.
They are going to change how Washington does business.
It doesn't matter which team wins ------------------that's what the game will be.

It makes sense to me. I understand the only thing people hate more than the present President is the guys they hired for Congress.

"SO YOU WANT TO WATCH SOME FOOTBALL"

The NFL announced Tuesday its 17-week, 256-game regular-season schedule for 2008, which kicks off on Thursday night, Sept. 4 and concludes on Sunday, Dec. 28.

2008 NFL schedule
By team: AFC NFC
NFL Network games Video
Preseason schedule
Carucci: 43 must-see games
Schefter: Dissecting the schedule
Promising Browns hit prime time
Inside the schedule: AFC NFC
Video: Madden breaks down key games
The season begins with the NFL's annual Thursday primetime kickoff game. This year the opener on Sept. 4 on NBC (7 p.m. ET) features the Super Bowl XLII champion New York Giants at home against the NFC East Division-rival Washington Redskins.

Looks like a hell of a line up, and how ironic that the Washington Redskins are going to try to beat some New York Giants. Thought that had already happened! Let me double check.

Now McCain has a lot of experience on the field and is stubborn as hell about his playbook.He does not take plays called in from the sideline.

Obama does not have much field play but statistics show so far he takes almost all his plays from the sidelines.

I don't know which team is my favorite yet.

If I was sure that we the people would call in the plays I would vote Obama.Yet statistics show the people sent in a bunch of guys they ended up hating.

So maybe McCain would be better since he knows so many more players.

Yeah that's probably the best idea.

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"SO WHAT ARE THE HUMANS FOR"?

2001 Space Odyssey. "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"!


Remember? The computer had gained a sense of self.
It had it's own entity.
It began to connive to survive.

Back when we first learned of computers we saw group speak, and computer geeks take a strangle hold on our independent doodle pad thinking.
Then all at once from doodle to Goggle we had a Jean-Paul Sartre existential moment when we found each of us on line as individuals working together but apart to a common good.
Wasn't so scary anymore.

I think of the Federal Government much in the same way!
A lot of geeks and group thinkers trying to take over our independence.
The personal life is dead. Long live the State.
It began to connive to survive.

Government began to feed itself and started thinking of humans as the caretakers. Lots of caretakers with jobs oiling the good old bones of the government.
All you have to do to keep your job is once every four years go down to the government voting booth and punch out a little box that promises more government caretaker jobs.

You can actually vote for your own feed bag full of goodies as long as enough of your government buddies do the same.
They say just about half of the population are in on it now in some way or another.
So, the other half has a lot of real work to do to fill all the big feed bags.

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Last Thursday we saw the Democratic Convention on the TV and we witnessed the "improbable candidate" graciously accept the nomination for the presidency.

Then, we saw just a hint of something spectacular.

He suggested the people go to work for a change!

Yep; he kept this idea pretty much to himself till he got the democratic nomination.
Then he sprung it on them.

THE PROMISE--- "It is that promise that has always set this country apart-that hard work and sacrifice, each of us can pursue our individual dreams, but come together as one American family, to ensure that the next generation can pursue their dreams as well."

He reminded us what the Humans are for.

Think of it! A democratic candidate for the top job stood right up there in Denver Colorado and told us that "the change we need doesn't come from Washington.
Change comes to Washington!"

The corporate collusion two step we have all been enjoying and enduring as of late can be turned off?

Really------------------------- I'm afraid---------------can they do that?------ Dave

He suggested that the change would come if the Humans turned off that machine.
"And Democrats we must also admit that fulfilling America's promise will require more than just money. It will require a renewed sense of responsibility from each of us to recover what John F Kennedy called our intellectual and moral strength."

Yes, Barrack Obama had hinted that he would help turn off the big government machine!
He was careful not to promise to turn a whole bunch of people off, but he said he would help.
Man that had to scare a whole lot of people with the thought of having to go to work for a change.
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Now, John McCain hasn't had a chance to get up on his promissory points yet out there in St Paul. So we'll have to see what he has to say about everything.

He just picked a Vice Presidential Partner that is currently the Governor of Alaska!
A lot of people like her up there cause she isn't scared to turn off the big machine wherever she finds it running. She went after Exxon; but still wants to drill for oil, and McCain doesn't.
He sides with the environmentalists that want to exploit all the rest of the world first and leave our stuff whole and untouched till the end. That will be interesting.

Her husband will be the "first dude" in the Blair House if McCain and She are elected. He works in the oil fields now and is in a labor union. Politics makes strange bed fellows for sure.

I know John McCain has felt like a combatee and has been maverick against government of one kind or another all his life. I believe he is not afraid of much after what he has been through, and at 72, he probably isn't too worried who's machine he is messing with either.
I like him, and would be really happy to vote for him if it it weren't for this new fella who says he has a way of getting a lot of people out to work for a change.

I'm still watching and waiting to see how he can change the minds of so many so soon.

He did for sure already change the Clinton's and the way they will be thinking for awhile.




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It's the stupid economy

Barrack Obama has mentioned to me many times on the TV that he is after change. I find this very comforting after having endured so many years of George W Bush trying to get at my folding money.

I heard that George Bush had spent as much as Bill Clinton by the time we hit April in the forth year of his term. So we went on spending like a drunken sailors on the federal government for another 8 months.

Now, I liked the idea that Bush kept up with Reagan's tax cuts. He just didn't help cut the overhead and therefore spent too much.

I read Obama's new tax plan which might even be better Reaganomics than Reagan. Hope the Democrats don't find out. He promises to lower taxes even more on the major amount of working people but raises the levels on guys making the work happen above $250,000 per year.

Before in Reagan's and Bush's plan there is an explicable 1 1/2% additional drop based on the old Clinton plan at the $209,000 level for the guys who make the work available.
So, I guess those guys end up paying 3 1/2% more than they did in the last administration.
That is $8750.00 sent off to feed the federal government more than they would have in the past.

I have a friend that makes that kind of money and once in a while he hires me for about three times that amount of money to build another building somewhere. I hire somewhere around 70 different people who get to make a little money off his building projects.
I sure hope he still is in the mood to do it again even though he has to pay some guy in the federal government a third of the money I normally get .

I wonder if the federal government will try to get into the building business? McCain said the other day he wanted to spend 80 million bucks to buy back those bad sub prime loans that the bankers made here a while ago. I guess they are going into the building business and they are going to need that money I usually get.

I am really scared of everything getting bigger and more difficult to manage.
Yet my countryman keep voting like drunken voters to make it so.

I realize now that I am alone.---------On myself I have relied.

So here I stand on my own.------------------------- If I fail I tried.

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THE ENERGY CRISIS AND THE WAY I SOLVED IT

The other day Barrack Obama suggested we all check our tire gauges for proper pounds per square inch inside our tires. Incorrect pressure could waste gas and lead us all to ruin.

John McCain suggested we do a lot more than that! He thought, a little while back, that the government should quit taxing gas at the pump for the summer and save us a couple of bucks; maybe $75 if you have driving habits like mine.

I think we are all "left" thinking "right".

On the weekends I pump my tires up to at least 110 pounds per square inch to get that cat screeching scream around corners to impress the young folks. Then during the week I lower the pressure to around 40 pounds per square inch to assure soft luxury ride and increase traction when I drive on sand.

Now, I have noticed I hardly ever get gas on the weekends so that must work, and when pumping my tank full during the week I feel so proud to be a successful American that I enjoy paying the $75. to the government to help the poor unfortunate ones stay in their place and just depend on the government for their next meal. Saving gas money with self respect.
I wish I could vote them both in for the rest of my life.

"Just get it over with" vote McCain / Obama for the rest of your life.

Last week my hired officials in the "HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES" voted to take some money away from the people who had invested in Exxon oil. Apparently they had made 7 1/2% on revenue last quarter and since they thought they had helped them so much with taxes and all and they had so much fun with that Valdez court decision they thought they would vote to take some money to keep some other class of people on the string somewhere where they don't have gas money .

They did not ask me if it was OK they just did it.
The Senate did not think it was OK to just take money from people even if they do have some pretty big guns to do it with.
Big government and big public business do collude so much it kind of seems like everybody's money anyway.
In the end the people in the Senate thought about what might happen if someday someone may vote to take their money away from them.

I have thought about it. I think about it a lot!

For me I do not think it was OK for the Exxon ship to kill an entire way of life and then not pay out some money to help make it right even after the court told them they had to.
I don't think it is OK to take the money from people that are supposed to be paid dividends for retirement and such before or after they paid the people of Valdez who were owed it first.
I checked and I have stock in my mutual funds that includes Exxon I want the money I have coming for my efforts after I pay my share to the people of Valdez!
NO I DON'T THINK IT WAS OKAY shame on the guys in the House of Representatives!

Lets think real seriously about taking away their money this election!

When I was at Edwards Building Supply we were always trying for 15% on the money we went through each quarter. I am sure glad we never got successful at that.

Of course I suppose I would have gotten famous by being on TV telling everyone we want big government regulating our every move including taking our money away from us from time to time if they promised to use it to give little gift packets to people standing in line waiting for what is "left".
I could have started a little company manufacturing the packets in China and made a million for me and all the kids who worked for me in the summer while waiting for law school to resume in the fall.


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Mind blogging moment Opening day for My first blog

I have never read a blog except for my son Abram's who has just started "Abrams Right".

He has set this one up for me.

He thinks I could use an outlet for all this pent up intellectual energy, and he thinks you the reader may actually be interested in what I might write about that normally runs rampant in my head!


So way up front you must know that I don't like people telling me what to do.
I will write this because I'll enjoy it and I think It will help with a focus and be good for us all.

I pretty much make judgements regarding everything based on whether or not this or that is trying to make me do something I don't want to do.
I don't like people telling other people what to do.
I don't like people who help people tell other people what to do.

I am just wired that way. I think most people are wired pretty much the same way down deep inside, but maybe not so much right on the surface like me.

I believe right up front, right on the surface that we all ought to have respect for each others individuality and that by itself is a general condition for all of us together to be happy.

The contrary irony to this general condition is, I'll probably soon be telling you why you ought to be getting wired up just like me.

I'll tell you right now, if you want to tell somebody what to do; tell them to do what ever they want to do for themselves . People should not expect others to do things for them that they could reasonable do themselves.
Now, sometimes you just can't do things big without considerable help from others.
So get along to get along.
Be very careful when giving out your individual liberty.

I believe all people share this belief in the same general condition. The sense of self worth, the love of self direction and the liberty to pursue their own kind of happiness. I also think that people sometimes forget the general condition from time to time and make shortcut compromises that lead to unintended consequences.
It can sometime take years to put back right the general conditions it takes to live happily. I also think that sometimes people are confounded and confused and used by others who think the wiring of their ambition is so important it needs to short circuit the wiring of others general condition.

This blog then will be used as a kind of meter to measure this and that considering different things to help preserve the general condition.

You should know I love doing stuff for people. Ask me to do something with you and I'll do just about anything to please you. Bark out an order at me with authority to do something and I am gone. I have noticed that the more I put myself into a project the more to my liking it becomes.
I am very wary of other "authority"

I question authority; but I think people ought to help one another in pursuit of their own ambitions and in this process some people get to be an accepted authority. Get along to get along. Be very watchful of this. This authority can lead to some scary politics from time to time as we all know.
Live philisophical. Choose the things to do you love, and you will never work a day in your life, be your own boss, be your own critic, do the best you can do, be satisified with yourself, live liberated.
Always do more than you think you could do or are expected.
Always sell the biggest and best doughnut in the store to your customer.


I hope this blog will help sort out the the shorts in the wiring and keep us in pursuit of the general condition.


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