Rambler 37

Current events have resulted in the reissue of an old song: “Age of Precarious.”

The current financial fiasco was caused by the government sponsoring of the loosening of credit in an attempt at social engineering combined with banks and Wall Street taking credit into overdrive. Add “default swaps” and you have the recipe for disaster.

I am trying to get my grandson to think outside the blocks.

To prevent childhood trauma, Grimm’s Fairy Tales has been changed to Pleasant’s Stories.

The Federal Reserve, the SEC, and Martha Stewart are combining to publish new recipes for cooking the books.

I bought a voice activated phone. How do you spell 911 frenetically?

The nicest thing about the election process is the fact that it eventually ends.

Phil Mickelson, instead of hitting his shot on the fairway, hit onto the steep hill above the green resulting in a triple bogey. When asked after the tournament what caused him to lose he said: “It was the part ridge in the par three.”

To increase his vocabulary, famed author Jack London used to hang slips of paper with: words, their spellings, and their definitions on lines hanging in his work area until he had memorized them. His “hang-it notes” preceded “Post-It Notes” by at least 70-80 years.

This week, the Middle Eastern Peace Keeping Force is meeting in Warroad, MN.

Our elected officials are encouraging companies to take their operations off-shore. They seem to have overlooked the fact that to obtain the monies they spend so profligately require workers in this country paying income taxes. (Addition deficit disorder)

To protect the environment, the EPA has ruled that churches can only use organic music. (They must have overlooked the lead content of the actual pipes)

I recently toured The National Psychiatric Museum. Since I had not paid my dues, they only took me through the Guilt Complex.

Applecations for fruit picking positions are being accepted at a local orchard.

How different American History would be if the Native American Population had not been depleted by 90% by diseases brought by the visitors.

St. Cloud State’s Music Theory Professor said he gave the student a failing grade because she had used “Clef Notes.”

Energy Conservation: to reduce loads of wash, Hanes has come out with a new line of reversible underwear allowing it to be worn two days. The four day version (inside out and front to back) is currently in R&D.

Why do they call them thunderstorms? The lightning, rain, and the wind do the damage.

Copyright October 2008 Steve Ganshert