So now we learn that the reason that California is in such a financial mess is that teacher and public worker pensions are to blame…classic misdirection…bad special interests…by the way where can I get a list of the Governors Approved special interests?
Oh and by the way stop borrowing from public employee pension funds to balance the budget…it’s the peoples money you know… the ones that teach our children fight our fires and police our streets…damn special interests….
Friday, January 14, 2005
How Long Will We Stay In Iraq
6-24-03
How long will we stay in Iraq? As long as we need and not a day more!
Consider:
How long will we stay in Iraq? As long as we need and not a day more!
Consider:
- Troops deployed in Europe 113,000 since 1946
- Troops deployed in Japan 43,000 since 1947
- Troops deployed in Korea 38,000 since 1953
- Troops deployed in Iraq 146,000 ?
Total Recall
7-24-03
This recall Davis drive is really is driving me crazy. So let me get this straight, the national economy is in the dumps, the feds are rolling it down hill to the states, and no one sees the connection. So let’s look around and blame the grayest of them all, let’s recall the gray one, that’s the ticket, that will solve our financial problems. Hey Arnold come on down! What are your qualifications? What’s that you say you don’t need any this is California?
% to become president 47.9%
% to become Attorney General *1 0%
% needed to get recall on ballot *2 12%
% needed to pass state budget 65%
There will be two questions on the ballot: A) Should Gov. Davis be recalled; and B) if he is recalled, who should replace him? The second question is a non-partisan "winner-take-all" election. There is no need to obtain 50 percent plus one. Whoever gets the most votes that day is the new governor-elect ..."
1 But first you have to lose a Governors race to a dead man
2 Of those who actually bothered to vote in last election
This recall Davis drive is really is driving me crazy. So let me get this straight, the national economy is in the dumps, the feds are rolling it down hill to the states, and no one sees the connection. So let’s look around and blame the grayest of them all, let’s recall the gray one, that’s the ticket, that will solve our financial problems. Hey Arnold come on down! What are your qualifications? What’s that you say you don’t need any this is California?
% to become president 47.9%
% to become Attorney General *1 0%
% needed to get recall on ballot *2 12%
% needed to pass state budget 65%
There will be two questions on the ballot: A) Should Gov. Davis be recalled; and B) if he is recalled, who should replace him? The second question is a non-partisan "winner-take-all" election. There is no need to obtain 50 percent plus one. Whoever gets the most votes that day is the new governor-elect ..."
1 But first you have to lose a Governors race to a dead man
2 Of those who actually bothered to vote in last election
Man Goes Into A Classroom
7-24-03
From time to time I must remind myself that emotion over rules logic…it’s deep down in our limbic brain…our inner caveman
A man goes into a classroom of kindergarteners and asks “hands up all who want free ice cream”, everyone raises their hand. One precocious little boy says “can I have a tax cut with that”.
To paraphrase Sara Lee “nobody doesn’t like taxes”. Geez Louise I hate taxes, hate the thought of them, hate them as much as a Republican on the 4th of July. Yes sirey Bob I hate taxes with the best of them…there goes that limbic inner cave man again. Actually its part and parcel of the American psyche hard wired in our DNA since the Boston Tea party.
At some point isn’t all this talk about taxes enough. Wont just one politician tell us the truth? Sorry to tell you this boys but taxes are the necessary evil that greases the wheel; the glue that holds the whole shebang together. Nobody ever lost an election grousing about taxes. But its time for some original thinking, for some non limbic rational thought, some discourse, some systematic discussion about tax policy…not the piecemeal tax code changes that lead to unintended (and sometimes intended) consequences; its time for some creative long-term thinking about taxation…something that doesn’t start with I have a sexy little late model tax cut I’d like to sell you; something that talks to the greatness we can create when we turn off the limbic brain and don’t listen to the inner caveman…”say do you want a tax cut with that mastadon”?
From time to time I must remind myself that emotion over rules logic…it’s deep down in our limbic brain…our inner caveman
A man goes into a classroom of kindergarteners and asks “hands up all who want free ice cream”, everyone raises their hand. One precocious little boy says “can I have a tax cut with that”.
To paraphrase Sara Lee “nobody doesn’t like taxes”. Geez Louise I hate taxes, hate the thought of them, hate them as much as a Republican on the 4th of July. Yes sirey Bob I hate taxes with the best of them…there goes that limbic inner cave man again. Actually its part and parcel of the American psyche hard wired in our DNA since the Boston Tea party.
At some point isn’t all this talk about taxes enough. Wont just one politician tell us the truth? Sorry to tell you this boys but taxes are the necessary evil that greases the wheel; the glue that holds the whole shebang together. Nobody ever lost an election grousing about taxes. But its time for some original thinking, for some non limbic rational thought, some discourse, some systematic discussion about tax policy…not the piecemeal tax code changes that lead to unintended (and sometimes intended) consequences; its time for some creative long-term thinking about taxation…something that doesn’t start with I have a sexy little late model tax cut I’d like to sell you; something that talks to the greatness we can create when we turn off the limbic brain and don’t listen to the inner caveman…”say do you want a tax cut with that mastadon”?
Rock, Paper, Scissors
8-1-03
From time to time I have to remind myself that emotion over rules logic…it’s wired deep down in our limbic brain…our inner caveman. Witness what has occurred in our country since 9-11. Over three thousand souls perished on that dark day, and it would not be overstating the obvious to say that the nation as a whole suffered a shock to its collective limbic system. When bad things happen we often turn to blame and scapegoating. In the first incidence we blamed Afghanistan and the Taliban for harboring Bin Laden. We basically bombed Afghanistan back into the middle ages. But that was not enough, with no Bin Laden to put on trail or body to display something did not feel right, we did not have “closure” as the psychologist would say. So we went looking for Sadam, as bad a character as you are likely to find, but with no apparent connection to 9-11, and this time we bombed Iraq back into the Middle Ages. But again there was no body and no closure. The world’s only superpower with the most lethal WMD ever known and we can not bomb our way out of our national depression. The problem with all this blame is that you can not undo what’s been done and the blame game becomes mass psychosis. Interestingly enough while our limbic brains are in overdrive the rest of the world does not understand us. The French arbiters of all that is je ne sais quoi think we are off our rockers. Perhaps we are. But here’s the deal, you can’t put the genie back into the bottle and sometimes when bad things happen people and nations act irrationally.
So maybe we will start acting rationally when the French do…but I hope sooner!
From time to time I have to remind myself that emotion over rules logic…it’s wired deep down in our limbic brain…our inner caveman. Witness what has occurred in our country since 9-11. Over three thousand souls perished on that dark day, and it would not be overstating the obvious to say that the nation as a whole suffered a shock to its collective limbic system. When bad things happen we often turn to blame and scapegoating. In the first incidence we blamed Afghanistan and the Taliban for harboring Bin Laden. We basically bombed Afghanistan back into the middle ages. But that was not enough, with no Bin Laden to put on trail or body to display something did not feel right, we did not have “closure” as the psychologist would say. So we went looking for Sadam, as bad a character as you are likely to find, but with no apparent connection to 9-11, and this time we bombed Iraq back into the Middle Ages. But again there was no body and no closure. The world’s only superpower with the most lethal WMD ever known and we can not bomb our way out of our national depression. The problem with all this blame is that you can not undo what’s been done and the blame game becomes mass psychosis. Interestingly enough while our limbic brains are in overdrive the rest of the world does not understand us. The French arbiters of all that is je ne sais quoi think we are off our rockers. Perhaps we are. But here’s the deal, you can’t put the genie back into the bottle and sometimes when bad things happen people and nations act irrationally.
So maybe we will start acting rationally when the French do…but I hope sooner!
Dear God Have A Word With Pat Robertson
1-5-04
Dear God
I know you talk with Pat Robertson quite often. The next time you do could you ask him why he is saying that he has a direct line to you and that you are letting him in on the future and all. You see some of us are getting a little bit peeved with Pat. So maybe you could just tell him to knock it off or give him some bad stock tips (just kidding). It sure would be nice not to turn the tv on and see Pat talking for you...I know you dont talk much...but really if you had something to say, come on Pat Robertson!?
Dear God
I know you talk with Pat Robertson quite often. The next time you do could you ask him why he is saying that he has a direct line to you and that you are letting him in on the future and all. You see some of us are getting a little bit peeved with Pat. So maybe you could just tell him to knock it off or give him some bad stock tips (just kidding). It sure would be nice not to turn the tv on and see Pat talking for you...I know you dont talk much...but really if you had something to say, come on Pat Robertson!?
It's Canada
1-6-04
Genetic testing confirms that the cow diagnosed with the first U.S. case of mad cow disease was born in Canada, agriculture officials said Tuesday. I can now confirm that the recession that began during the waning years of the Clinton Presidency in late 2000 can now also be traced to Canada.
Top ranking White House officials confirmed today that they were also looking into several other instances where Canada seemed to be to blame or implicated in such wide ranging issues as the present recession, and to pollution in Huston Texas and the San Fernando Valley. Ex California Governor, Gray Davis, now says that he long suspected that Canada was responsible for the energy crisis, and in sign of bipartisanship Governor Schwarzenegger agreed that his budget director Donna Arduin has traced the California Budget Crisis to Canada.
A poll taken after the news of Canada’s complicity in many of nations woes became pulic showed that 63 percent of the public thought that we should invade Canada, or failing that annex Canada and reap the benefits of cheap prescription drugs. A spokesman for the pharmaceutical industry agreed that we should invade Canada, but said that Canadian drugs were harming millions of Canadians and that we should offer Canadians the right to buy safe drugs.
Meanwhile an ACLU spokesman said that as soon as Canada became the 51st state that they would move to protect all Canadians rights to have a single payer health insurance plan and the right to buy unsafe drugs.
Many experts agree that it might be years before all the complicity of our Northern neighbors is uncovered, but they worried that Canadians would never feel truly American given the unilateral action taken by the president. One expert who has studied the dynamics of our Northern neighbors worries that the French Canadians might stage a nation wide boycott of all things American. But the president today seemed to have squelched any hint of dissension by making all of Canada above the artic circle a free speech zone and promised to have all official documents printed in English and French. Mexican President Fox was said to livid and has threatened to pull out of NAFTA and recall all Mexican Nationals.
Genetic testing confirms that the cow diagnosed with the first U.S. case of mad cow disease was born in Canada, agriculture officials said Tuesday. I can now confirm that the recession that began during the waning years of the Clinton Presidency in late 2000 can now also be traced to Canada.
Top ranking White House officials confirmed today that they were also looking into several other instances where Canada seemed to be to blame or implicated in such wide ranging issues as the present recession, and to pollution in Huston Texas and the San Fernando Valley. Ex California Governor, Gray Davis, now says that he long suspected that Canada was responsible for the energy crisis, and in sign of bipartisanship Governor Schwarzenegger agreed that his budget director Donna Arduin has traced the California Budget Crisis to Canada.
A poll taken after the news of Canada’s complicity in many of nations woes became pulic showed that 63 percent of the public thought that we should invade Canada, or failing that annex Canada and reap the benefits of cheap prescription drugs. A spokesman for the pharmaceutical industry agreed that we should invade Canada, but said that Canadian drugs were harming millions of Canadians and that we should offer Canadians the right to buy safe drugs.
Meanwhile an ACLU spokesman said that as soon as Canada became the 51st state that they would move to protect all Canadians rights to have a single payer health insurance plan and the right to buy unsafe drugs.
Many experts agree that it might be years before all the complicity of our Northern neighbors is uncovered, but they worried that Canadians would never feel truly American given the unilateral action taken by the president. One expert who has studied the dynamics of our Northern neighbors worries that the French Canadians might stage a nation wide boycott of all things American. But the president today seemed to have squelched any hint of dissension by making all of Canada above the artic circle a free speech zone and promised to have all official documents printed in English and French. Mexican President Fox was said to livid and has threatened to pull out of NAFTA and recall all Mexican Nationals.
Think Tank Fantasy League
Originally 6-24-03
Fantasy baseball league…sometimes Ken Griffy gets traded and then he doesn’t bring a championship to Cincinnati and Seattle against the odds prospers. This could not have been foreseen while Wolf and his fantasy league buddies were up there in their Think Tank scooping out how to change the world…so now we are stuck with a bill of $200 billion and growing, a country that oddly enough is not embracing us, and have lost the good will of 9-11. Now in my fantasy baseball league I trade one Wolf for… and one Chaney for...and one Condi for...and world hot spots to be named later.
Fantasy baseball league…sometimes Ken Griffy gets traded and then he doesn’t bring a championship to Cincinnati and Seattle against the odds prospers. This could not have been foreseen while Wolf and his fantasy league buddies were up there in their Think Tank scooping out how to change the world…so now we are stuck with a bill of $200 billion and growing, a country that oddly enough is not embracing us, and have lost the good will of 9-11. Now in my fantasy baseball league I trade one Wolf for… and one Chaney for...and one Condi for...and world hot spots to be named later.
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