Rambler 13

The FBI says it has begun an operation to eliminate the KKK but can’t say much about it because the action is clandestined.

The Board of the National Forest Products Lab has named a new man to the elm-the assumed heir to the position.

A large anonymous political survey being conducted in Bell South’s region has one of the candidates asking “For whom does Bell poll, if not for me?”

What is this game that is played when a company is caught with its hand in the cookie jar? They agree to pay the fine with no admission of guilt. As a profit making company, they wouldn’t pay the fine without substantial proof. Why can’t someone just say we did it; it was wrong, we’ll pay the fine, and we won’t do it again? Or is this a cash payment for a “get out of jail” card for the officers of the company at shareholders’ and tax payers’ expense?

After repeatedly hitting parked cars, it was determined that the perpetrator is a cliptomaniac.

We are indebted to our politicians (or because of them?).

We used to vote for someone expecting them to vote their conscience, not the party line. The power trip (or boondoggle trip) has replaced the representation of the electorate. Once elected, you have to satisfy the party, not the electorate according to the current 2-party policies which results in no party for the electorate.

I continue to reserve the right (or left)) to mix serious items with humor or sarcasm as I see fit. I have difficulty extinguishing the two. Any resemblance to anyone living or dead is intentional and I would like a position with a publication where I can continue to cover political items with impugnity. I will continue to practice my irreverence religiously. Unlike Dragnet, I cannot say the fax and nothing but the fax because today there are other options.
I reserve the right to misconscrew words (or use old words with a new twist).

One of the serious channels was covering the study of asteroids striking earth and covered the simulation software that was used as well as the Cray Computer Array used for the simulation. They said the computer could handle 43 tetraflops! That’s 43 trillion transactions a second! How do they know it’s that many? Is the counting outsourced to India and all 1 billion people pull out his/her abacus and count his/her 43,000 transactions? Even if the count is off a little, it sounds as if this is a computer big enough to keep up with government spending-at least until the next budget. P.S. The simulation (and visual observation) confirmed that volcanic activity takes place on the opposite side of the earth from the asteroid impact. Each hit is double jeopardy.

An important article on renal procedures by Wyla Catheter resulted in a last minute JAMA insertion of the item.

Texas A&M officials have said that the geological seminar on the Earth’s pole reversals will be held at a neutral site.

Vets and retirees were almost not included in the stimulus package. They think the dead, or the near dead, don’t vote. They aren’t familiar with the Chicago Area where a person’s votes have gone on for generations. Where do you think the term “daily (spelling altered) double” originated?

200 years ago, a group of tea drinkers went onto a boat to display their displeasure with taxation without representation. Today we are a bunch coffee drinkers in the same boat.

Were Hanes or Jockey involved in the Boxer Rebellion?

Some of my writing is supercilious that’s why I keep it at arm’s length. (This made some of you look the word up.)

Copyright Feb. 2008 Steve Ganshert