Posted by
William D. Dannenmaier on Tuesday, October 04, 2011 12:27:15 PM
The Environmental Protection Association (EPA) has declared “hay” a pollutant. This solves one problem for me and creates another. “Hay” is simply long, dried, grass. Whenever I cut my grass the cut pieces fall and become miniature hay. EPA could sue me. A solution would be to stop cutting grass. I can retire my push mower. Sounds good. But what happens when the grass gets longer and dries of its own in the autumn? The EPA could still sue me. You may consider this unlikely, but my opinion of our current leadership is that they will sue me before they sue the White House for its lawn. It is the “bully syndrome” in politics; pick on the little guy, not the big guy.
Democratic Governor Beverly Perdue of North Carolina has suggested suspending elections for two years until our government can get its house in order. That’s like giving a two year old child who messes his pants time to clean them.
Stephanie Pisten, arrested as a murder suspect, says she is a vampire. She should have no fear of execution. She can just fly away on the night after her execution.
Even more brain power has been demonstrated by Jose Acosta. While carrying illegal drugs into the country or, at least, being found with drugs believed to be illegal upon exiting an airplane, he also carried notes for a planned book on how to succeed in carrying in illegal drugs. The airport examiner read his outline intensified his search and found the drugs. Perhaps Mr. Acosta should write a book on how to get caught carrying illegal drugs.
I really like Herman Cain. I liked him when I listened to him on television and I liked him still more when I read his biography. I have heard good things about Santorum, but know nothing about him. Interesting, to me, Sheila received a telephone call from daughter Megaera this morning asking if we had ever heard of Herman Cain. When Sheila replied that not only had we heard of him, we planned to vote for him, Megaera said that she and Shane liked him and that people they knew at work liked him. (The idea of a person who has worked for a living becoming President appeals to me.)
Sheila claims that if Cain wins the nomination, it will be on word of mouth from persons who have heard him speak and read about him on the Internet. Little has been said of him in the national media. Even Fox Sunday Morning roundtable simply reported that he had won the straw pole in Florida and then spent the remainder of the broadcast discussing Romney and Perry. In all fairness, the Wall Street Journal had a half page column on Cain, including his family history (working people) and background – major in mathematics in college and then, starting by cooking hamburgers, taking over one failing restaurant at a time, turning each into a success, and ending up as CEO of a major restaurant network. Not bad for a guy who started as a poor boy whose father was a taxi driver and mother cleaned houses.
A young woman at Colorado Mountain College was asked to drop a class because her epileptic seizures were disrupting the class. She has sued claiming this is a violation of the American Disabilities Act. I’ve done the arithmetic. Most classes meet three 50 minute hours a week for eighteen weeks. The cost of such a class per student at Austin Peay State University is $834.60 and the typical class has thirty students. This works out to $463.67 for each instructional hour. For those who haven’t seen one, a grand mal epileptic seizure is completely disruptive: the ones I have seen the person was sprawled on the floor kicking and foaming at the mouth for some time. The person having such a seizure is, in effect, taking $462.67 from the class in addition to destroying any instruction. I’m sorry for the girl, but doesn’t the majority have rights also?
I’ve been amused by the protesters disrupting the traffic on Wall Street because people working there make money. It they really wanted to protest people making money and get attention, they should block the streets before National Football League. There are probably more millionaires and multimillionaires playing professional football on any given Sunday than there are on Wall Street. Of course, people paying to attend the game might get a bit irritated.
A report on the Internet said that a goldfish has a memory span of only three seconds. Having raised eight children, I’m prepared to testify that is longer than the memory span of any adolescent who has been given a job to do.