Rambler 23

To be a politician you must be bilingual-able to speak out of both sides of your mouth.

The Bates Casket Co. will soon be offering more options. Prospective buyers have pointed out that since they will be spending the rest of their lives in the casket, they were looking for more creature comforts.

Government fines for infractions need to be high enough to get the attention of the companies committing the infractions: toy companies; medical supply companies, pharmaceutical, food supply….. Today they are low enough they are just accepted as a business expense.
Combine that with an average 6 month -2 year delay in reporting the problem, they have enough earnings to cover potential problems.

The Jules Verne Estate has published 96,000 Kilometers Under the Sea to be metric compliant.

I used to be against harvesting trees from national forests. After watching the massive fires that are eliminating these forests, I believe a controlled harvesting with replanting makes sense. We might as well our government thinks we have money to burn.

Energy Conservation: Six countries have eliminated night fall to reduce lighting requirements.

Democrats pass tax bill on solar collections under their premise that there is no free sun.

Based on floods in one geographic area while drought is occurring in another, will we one day have national water pipeline to move large quantities of water from one area to another? Or from flood areas into aquifers where water tables have dropped noticeably?

Homeland Security has had ogres and trolls removed from all fables to reduce terrorist threats.

“Classical Music Magazine” has named Vivaldi its man for all seasons.

A Chinese restaurant chain has developed a new pan for stove top baking. The Cake Wok will soon be introduced to the home wares sections of retail stores. Makers said they are so sure there will be no problems with “wok don’t run” they will provide an extended warranty.

I guess collusion, companies getting together to fix prices, is no longer outlawed. Just watch the local gas stations and how soon they all have the same price advertised. Maybe it is ESP. Or was it STP?

The Alaskan Pipeline is approaching 30 years old and in need of replacement. Which do you think will be replaced first: failing bridges or the
pipeline?

The professor found that his paper on redundancy had been pairaphrased.

After looking at the girths of some of our DC officials it gives new meaning to tabling a bill.

Copyright March 2008 Steve Ganshert