Many of the statements about the availability and costs of gasoline share a similar odor with the gas that is one of the favorite subjects for the jokes of middle school boys. In both cases the sounds come from the same orifice.
It’s almost impossible to find a discussion of differences on this issue where either party employs any facts. For such a common commodity, it seems strange that it is so little understood. This also applies to all of the peripheral issues.
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It’s true. If you mix religion and politics, you get politics.
Perhaps it was only a coincidence. Perhaps it was the recent emergence of that voice of the 12th Century, Rick Santorum.
Whatever is was, something spurred the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to declare war on the administration. Perhaps it was coordinated. Perhaps not. Whatever, the GOP immediately fell into lockstep.
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You probably think that the most appropriate symbol for America is the flag, the bald eagle. the Liberty Bell or the greenback.
Wrong. That’s America’s symbol, right there. The contented cow.
It exhibits itself as contentedness but I suspect it is based largely on complacency and the laziness engendered to a great extend by the automobile, as described in my previous article.
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Could we exist without the automobile? The question pops into my head every time I stop at the pump, but there is reason for doubting the possibility.
One of every ten jobs in the country is manufacturing cars or supplying the manufacturers. Add in the dealers, the repair shops, gas production and distribution and a few odds and ends and it comes to about one in seven jobs.
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How many minutes has it been since you heard someone call this the greatest country in the world? How many seconds? Did you agree? Ooops. Was it you saying that?
It used to be arguably true. We got accustomed to telling ourselves it was so. We believed it. Many of us, most of us still do.
What ruler do you use? How do we measure the relative greatness of the country? What statistics should we employ? Perhaps I should find a synonym for that last word.
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Yes, you. You are the enemy.
Actually, it’s not you. It’s nothing personal. It’s your attempts to exercize those Constitutional rights you used to have.
With me, it is personal. I was once a commissioner of police. One of my grandfathers was a sheriff; the other was a chief of police. In tracing my ancestry I discovered several family members that served as sheriffs, even extending back to England.
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Lucky me. I first met Newt during his first unsuccessful run for public office, way back in 1974. He wanted to meet me and get my support. Even at that tender age I was smart enough to demur. Actually, turning him down didn’t require that much smarts.
I was serving as mayor of a town in Georgia’s then 6th Congressional District at the time. Newt was an instructor at what was then West Georgia College. It was obvious that he wasn’t remotely qualified for either position, though he was telling everyone how intelligent he was even then.
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There are some things that everyone knows but many refuse to admit. Then there are the cretins that have a critical gene missing that would allow them to absorb truth.
Fox doesn’t just make the occasional error. Their coverage on every subject, even those that might be considered non-political, is riddled with what might be generously characterized as “facts” created from whole cloth.
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Thanksgiving is coming, in case you forgot. It has both a positive and a negative aspect for me.
Well, okay, there are two problems if you count staying on my diet.
My wife and I were married the Saturday before Thanksgiving. So, I always think of our anniversary as being on Saturday. Unfortunately, the 19th (I verified this) doesn’t always fall on a Saturday.
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Do you know which company is the world’s largest health care corporation? Care to guess? Aw, go on. You know the answer.
Time’s up. It’s Johnson & Johnson, with a logo that often includes the words, Family of Companies. Oh, doesn’t that make them sound so cozy? Maybe they should ‘incorporate’ a teddy bear with a Band-Aid as a part of their corporate symbol.
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