Spring Is In The Air?

Well the weather has been a might bit manic lately going from one high down to an uncomfortable low. The first of spring brought its welcoming warmth. Even with temperatures that were seasonally higher than normal, there was nothing to complain about. The allergens where a little higher but one could wear shorts and find comfort in the changing of the seasons. Apparently it wasn’t all great because Mother Nature turned around and bellowed her concerns with winds that could knock down a grown person. I mean she just wouldn’t let up. This caused a huge amount of evaporation to my Koi Pond, which I mistaken for a massive leak. It’s not fun getting in water that has not warmed up to its proper temperature yet, but I’m not complaining. Maybe the wind blew all those nasty allergens far, far away. I can hope. I know it contributed to the idiocracy of some mentally deficient individuals that thought burning trash during such wind in drought conditions was a good idea. These people were able to burn through their communities faster than a politician can increase the deficit, but I am not complaining. Somehow we all adjust to sharing our oxygen with people that could be better off donating their use to the rain forest. When the wind decided to settle down I would have hoped that we were back on track to warm spring weather, but Nature Girl developed a cold shoulder after airing her troubles. These lower temperatures became somewhat uncomfortable, but you know me I wouldn’t complain. My arthritis screamed louder than Ebenezer Scrooge looking for a missing lump of coal, but you did not hear a whimper from me. No, my heart went out to my friends further north who were actually getting snow. Why they don’t have the intelligence of Texas to live outside of frigid waste lands is beyond me. Perhaps it’s in the water. Today, I had to go do some grocery shopping and yes I found it a little cool, with a breeze that made it feel darn cold at times, but I’m not complaining. We all need such diversity in our lives and this weekend it should be back in the upper 80s. Today as I was out doing my chores I passed a Walgreens. I paused for a moment when I took a look at the temperature. Here is a picture of just what I saw. So you can understand how I felt... Now I’m complaining!

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The Mobilization of Taxation

I read the most wonderful suggestion the other day. Some bobble heads have purposed a tax for our deteriorating transportation system that would meter one’s vehicle mileage. Really! What are these people smoking? Hell, I would pay a toll on every highway before I agree to have my mileage metered. If I’m going to be metered I get a cab. Don’t get me wrong I recognize the need for financing the improvement to our transportation system, but when the advice comes from those whose financial purity has put us in a situation where there is talk of tolling our own vehicles I have to have reservations. The troll would no longer stands at the bridge asking for payment to pass for now he is sitting in your car asking payment to allow you to drive. Everyone would be punished for using the intended purpose of our roads and that is to widening one’s sphere of opportunity through the ease of mass travel. In today’s world many people drive hours to get back and forth from work. So these modern trolls would punish workers for the need to travel to hold down a job. They really are trying to create a debtor’s society where we will have to rely on them for everything, and if we do rely on them we will eventually end up with nothing.

There was further explanation given for such a tax. I guessing they thought it would be a surprise to know that we do not have the money to maintain the transportation infrastructure. Apparently we are unaware of the economics called Governmental Financing that for every dollar given only a small amount becomes potentially useable. The rest is compounded and adjusted into a negative figure called debt. Maintenance has not been and may never be a priority for the government or most corporations. It is always better to create versus caring for what one has. The reasoning for this is simple, self acknowledgement. This is a resource of gratification that politicians crave more than a good affair. See no one is acknowledged for maintain an aging system, but the new improved kid on the block will earn promotions and bonuses. The real clever project manager has even a more effective and lethal bomb. The weapon in this arsenal is simple. Appear to have a great project in the works to gain well deserved acknowledgement while widening the pool of debt. This method insures the largest bonuses for minimal resources. When the acknowledgement benefits are faltering it is time to pass it on to the next sap and start a new project based on the fanfare of the prior. This insures the continuation of beneficial attention and the growth of Governmental Financing while eliminating your competition in the disguise of a gift.

Further reasoning for the proposed tax is hybrid and electric cars. These alternative fuel options are withholding their duty to pay speculative gas taxes based on thruster vehicles. Now I know my eyes might be dimming but I’m not blind yet. The alternative fuel market has not taken over the majority of transportation. So they must be speculating on future traffic. Again do not get me wrong we need to care for our aging infrastructure but not with absurdity. Look at where the real problems lie. Do not let the politicians tell us the solution. Face it, that has been done and it has gotten us… well here. These scare tactics to bully proposals through would never pass except in political atmospheres that appeal to desperation. Before accepting such solution, look at the legitimacy of the solution versus the problem. If we do not we will have snake oil sales men fixing our budget with the same poison they have always used- our ignorance.

Well It's Not Science Fiction

 Now there are a lot of things not right in this world.  Maybe it is because we messed it all up or just because we are too dense to see that it actually all makes sense.  I’m partial to the theory that it is because we need extreme circumstances so that we can rationalize the absurdities in our lives.  Nevertheless, some things just cannot be explained.  Maybe God occasionally likes to get high and play games with our rationalities.  It would be too hard to accomplish.   For instance explain the Duck Bill Platypus, Bermuda Triangle, the Belmez Faces, and how did the 2008 Cardinals make it to the Super Bowl?  Yesterday in the news I read the most disturbing thing.  No reasoning for such a thing to exist.  It was a terrifying creature that was found fossilized in Brazil.  It was about the size of a dog.  It was an amphibian… no wait… it was actually a mammal.  Scratch that it was a hybrid of both of them, nothing worse than an animal that can’t make up its mind.  I’ve seen a few of those things on the streets they’re called cross dressers.  Now it gets worse as I said it’s a scary thing.  It had saber type teeth.  They were huge like a saber tooth tiger.  Obviously a top predator of its time but stop wait it is reported to be a vegetarian.  The anguish in this, the beautiful teeth made for deep puncturing where apparently used to ward off potential rivals when mating.  No wonder they went extinct they killed each other every time they needed to mate.  If the Almighty gave you the tools use them for the right purpose, and that is steak.  

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I Would Like My Cyber Coffee Now!

Well I’m truly dazed and confused.  Went and checked out more social networks than I was even aware existed.  Now these weren’t specialized cyber societies.  You know those that can super compute and multiply your job opportunities and/or business networking to the trillionth level.   I did even walk down the cyber road to any special interest societies, or dating clubs.  No, these were just good old smack you in the face I’m here societies.  Come find me for I might have something really stupid to say and if you don’t continually follow me you will miss the whole event.  I come to the realization that I must of crashed and burned on my bike only to awake to realize that the internet is a world of its own with people desperate to reach out and find someone else only because they do not go to coffee shops, diners, neighborhood bars, or just plain get desperate enough to ride up and down the strip or go to another’s house.  I know face to face is scary. Trust me, I’ve seen pictures of some of you.   Not only that I’ve seen myself at times and wondered what the %@**.  I am pretty sure that is why cyber alternative relations are growing in popularity.  There are even places where you can get a cyber child, pet, or house.  Shoot, one lives in a small box in real world and a mansion in cyber space with everything he/she wants.  Including as one tires of their friends having the options to blow them up, shoot them and even worse de-friending them.  Try doing that in the real world.  Here on solid ground unfriending an individual can come with serious consequences.  Including they keep showing up!  It is hard to block them out when they keep driving up.  Other options, such as blowing them up have a higher price than most of us are willing to pay.  You know the cops get a might bit testy about such things.  Now cyber world don’t you get too carried away about your freedoms there are cyber cops.  Not sure what they look like but they are there.  Kind of like the IRS.  Though I’m not sure I understand cyber law either.  Commit a crime in the cyber world and go to jail in the real word.  Does that mean you get to keep your cyber mansion?  There is also a lot of cyber money out there.  Can that be brought into the real world?  Because I could use some of that currency.   Farmville I am talking to you.  I believe I am now going to sit down and have some tequila, not made by a cyber bar.  Then I’m going to pet my real dog, and at the end of the day I will cuddle up to my beautiful wife.  Sorry, this cyber thing does not have all the perks.

The Allergens are Marching Two by Achoo

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It’s spring time and the allergens are attacking.  They make air forces pale in their ability to lead a stealth attack, affecting more people in one wave than the common flu.  It starts with a tickling of the nose and ends up as a full blown explosion tearing through the olfactory system.  They won’t stop here, mercifulness in the daily pursuit of agony, these allergens are.   They delight in warning you of the suffering to come, that slight scratch to the back of the throat.  After toying with you, like a cat with its prey, the whole regiment will march down the bunker stripping the throat raw on its way to the lungs, while sending reinforcements to the sinuses.  Now they will clog up the infrastructure until the enemy is immobilized.  Oh yes, this is a well trained army, and it should be.  It has been waging its attack far longer than us.  Of course you will fight back with those snake oil treatments.  What is your favorite, vapor rubs… self suffocation?  Maybe you use an over the counter remedy, causing you to sleep through the misery putting you down nearly as good as the allergens, celebrate with this choice they will.   Maybe the Doctor’s prescribed blend of Vu-do can help after paying him/her enough to put a down payment on another condo for just the minimum of relief.  Last maybe you turn to electronics to save you with one of those filter things.  A good device for collecting all those allergens in one place creating a cannon to explode a concentrated attack at point blank range at their victim.  Yes, this army loves our technology and plans to use it against us.  Now I don’t know but I’m thinking about seeking legal help.   There are laws about unreasonable punishment and torture, and they need to be amended into the Laws of Nature.  She can’t think she’s better than all of us.  Flower power my @!!.  If refusing to quit we will threaten large scale plastic disposal, weed killers, oil, pollutants, and whatever else we can throw at her army… You know maybe this war is self-defense.