Day: June 9, 2009

Take The Money & Shut Up!

Do you remember all those Repub govs who did not want any of the stim money?  Some took it and others did so reluctantly, but there was always one who said he did not want any thing from Washington and that is the Gov of South Carolina, Mark Sanford.

South Carolina—-the third highest unemployment at 11.5%, had to cut $1 billion from its budget and has a sharply plunging tax revenue because of the recession.  A state that has a high percentage of poor people, low educational results and in other words a traditional Southern state.

South Carolina’s Supreme Court ordered Gov. Mark Sanford on Thursday to take $700 million in federal stimulus money aimed primarily at struggling schools.

The decision brings a likely end to months of wrangling between the nation’s most vocal anti-bailout governor and legislators who accused him of playing politics with people’s lives.

Now dickhead take the money and shut the hell up!

There Is Always An Environmental Trade-Off

When the new light bulbs became vogue, my daughter said that there had to be a trade off for something good.  She was right!  The new lights bulbs contain mercury and in the future there is a good possibilty for the mercury to make it into the water table.

Using that same question I checked into wind power….would there be a trade off for the good that the power source would be providing?  Of course there is!

Reuters has a pretty good article on the subjust:

For the most part the wind energy industry has coasted along with favorable press and public opinion. The industry has had to weather some resistance, particularly pertaining to wildlife impacts (primarily birds and bats) and the consistency and reliability of wind power. Yet these criticisms have not gained enough traction to have a noticeable effect on the growth of the industry, which is being hailed as a source of tens of thousands of potential new jobs in the evolving green economy.

Wind turbines emit inaudible sound waves in the low end of the sound spectrum and rhythmic vibrations caused by the spinning blades. These are suspected to cause a host of adverse health effects in some people that live in close proximity to the turbines, including:

insomnia,
headaches,
acute hypertensive episodes,
cardiac arrhythmia,
heart palpitations,
high blood pressure,
the sensation of bugs crawling on the skin,
humming in the head,
continuous ringing in the ears,
dizziness

My daughter seems to be always right….when something good and environmentally friendly is considered, there will always be a trade off.

Political Debate On Spending

As usual the commentators on the right and the left are throwing accusations around about the final product of the massive spending bills that have been passed.  Yes, it is a personal agenda.  Those on the Right say the media is in love with the Obamas and for that reason they will not report on the down side of the spending programs.  They say there is NO substantial debate on the spending.

The part I love is that, for now, it is that they are concerned with the effects that all this spending will have on future generations…….smile…….as I remember back to the day, future generations were not important when spending was for wars or massive satellite systems or other defensive programs.  I remember being called naive and stupid when I brought this up 20 or 30 years ago.

It is all so much horsesh!t!  These commentators are doing nothing more than justifying their existence.  These dipsticks do not want a conversation…they want an argument.  Again, so much crap in a can.

These people, and I use the term loosely, do NOT, I repeat do NOT, look at what John Q. Public wants.  John is worried about feeding his kids or their health or if they will continue to have a home….he is worried about today the next generation is just a TV show….2025 is too far away for worry and today at 0800 hrs is the most pressing of problems.

Politicians and commentators can piss and moan and sell their little books and boring interviews, but not one has a plan to solve any of the problems of today.  All they have is their egotistical rants and average person suffers and worries while the analysts listen and love the sounds of their own voices.

John Q. Public wants a liveable wage, his home,  health care, education for his children and beyond that is of NO concern.