“Although there were signs that its fall was imminent, the empire managed to stave Gotterdammerung for another two-hundred years.”
The Olympics wrapped up and now all the Chinese have to figure out, is how to pay for it all. All the pageantry and the splendor, isn’t cheap, most countries that host the games end up with a huge tab when it is over. Olympic games tend to cost an exorbitant amount of money.
The Democrats have concluded the speechifying, glorifying, and pontificating of their chosen hero’s or whatever reasonable facsimile of one, they could dredge up from the gene pool. The fodder-rall is over in Denver with some noted casualties in the fray.
I hear that Bill Clinton got the loudest applause and roar from the crowd when he said the words “In Conclusion” at the end of his speech the other night. Bill and Joe Biden seem to be running neck and neck on the verbosity issue, Clinton in the lead, and Biden speaking not in sentences, but rather paragraphs.
I don’t understand why Bill gets all this attention by the media and the Democrats, he has had his day in the sun.
Obammer was talking “Capital Gains Tax” again this week, which is nice, kind of like oatmeal for the masses, but let’s face it, this strategy doesn’t produce one gallon of gasoline, one barrel of oil. This will do nothing but anger the beast. You can try and teach a pig to sing, but it will not work, and all it does is irritate the pig.
Another energy genie was there.
Albert Gore has a plan, but his plan takes some ten years to get going, which isn’t going to provide any kind of immediate relief for our dilemma. And don’t forget the other mover and shaker, T. Boone Pickens, working the room and glad handing those in charge of the federal purse strings.
He finally let the cat out of the bag on what he is really up to. He says that we need to build a totally new power-grid in this country, and where do you suppose would be the first place that it would hook up? And who do you suppose he wants to pay for it?
Is it just me or have you noticed, that no one seems to bring up the subject of our refining deficit, why is it no one wants to build a refinery or at best, even talk about it?
The people of the United States deserve a coherent energy policy, a policy that will offer them a future free from dangerous dependence on foreign oil. We are now sucking down roughly 12 million barrels a day, to put it in the proper prospective. Saudi Arabia pumps about 9 million barrels per day. No one, can sustain levels like these.
Man, got my electric bill yesterday, all this hot weather, my tendency to sleep in a cool house at night, really adds up at the end of the month. Across the nation electric rate hikes are on the move, at least seven states this week announced rate hikes of 20% or better. The TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) said the hike will raise about $2 billion and is expected to be passed on to about 8.8 million rate consumers. They are blaming the high cost of fuel, and a three year drought that has lowered hydroelectric water levels.
Wonder what it is going to be like when everyone starts plugging in their electric cars?
Yesterday I commented on a poop shooter in Ohio that got fed a hand grenade for lunch. Today it is a poop shooter seat auction in Lucas, Kansas. An art gallery is hosting a show and benefit auction of toilet seats to raise funds for a new public restroom. The Great Toilet Seat Art Show at the “Flyin’ Pig Studio and Gallery” will be held Saturday during the town’s annual Apple Festival.
Sounds like a fun place to take a date. B.Y.O.P (Bring Your Own Paper) Don’t forget your digital camera so we can post the photographs later on in the week. I wonder if they will have “Sunday On The Pot With George” a painting in pointillist style (made up of dots) depicting a heavy man wearing only his underpants, sitting on a toilet.
One reviewer called the work “the single most memorable artistic experience in my life … a bit like my recent bout with shingles.”
Ralph Stephens in Virginia Beach is a happy camper this day. He has won the $100,000 Jackpot in Virginia’s Lottery Cash 5 game three times. He won on August 3rd of this year, in 1997, and repeated in 2007. Last night we only had two numbers, not exactly collateral for a new house or a trip to Barbados. But I believe I know why it is that we are not winning.
You see, they just don’t give you enough time “to wish upon the numbers” they are rolling them too fast.
You want paper or plastic? Consumers seem to be slippin’ back into their old habits. Plastic is being used more than cash (paper). Some customers are using credit cards more often. What their cards are buying: Gas 70%, food groceries 67%, clothing 51%, Leisure activities 50% and health care 24%.
One more convention to suffer through and we will be done with it for awhile.
Then we can go back to the “good old days.” Sit back and take it easy, until November and then finally put it to rest. Ah … The Good Ol’ Days … When can we go back to wasteful consumerism fueled by reckless borrowing against our children’s’ uncertain future.
Is this a great country or what?
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