Archive for March, 2009
The Obamas & Having High Tea In London
The predictions are that the President is in for a stormy reception at the G20 meetings in London. That may be the case but there is a typical English recipe for recovery after a rough day trying to organize the world. The English have a long history of participating in world organization with [...]
Mozzarella to Provolone
In a casual conversation today I wondered about the aging process that turns mozzarella into provolone. Everyone looked at me with a quizzical look of somewhat disbelief. It turned out that no one realized that the stretched curd process that creates mozzarella is the first step in creating the various types of provolone. [...]
Danger-Danger: March Snow In Colorado
Snow in Colorado—Time to Panic?
We had a snow storm yesterday and the media made it look like a terrorist attack. I realized that Colorado now has a complement of media personel that all must have come from Florida The hysterical coverage of the March storm was similar to what you might expect [...]
Teddy Geithner and the Nightmare on Wall Street
The use of $2 TRILLION to bail out the toxic assets held by banks is the next act in a growing nightmare being written by Geithner and the Obama administration
The previous Bush administration was justifiably criticized for allowing government and the deficit to grow at an alarming rate. The eight years of Bush saw [...]
Stimulus: Do They Know How to Do Any Deal?
We Have the Administration we Deserve. We voted them in:
Several old friends have jumped on me concerning my hard negative descriptions of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reed. They didn’t disagree with my basic outline of their ineptitude but said they were looking for me to give suggestions for solutions to our current misguided [...]
Bryce Canyon & Zion National Parks: Two of My Favorites
Colorado is a great state in which to live and it is also a great starting place for road trips throughout the Southwest. At one point in our lives while living in the East we realized that we spent more time vacationing in Europe than in our own country. I came home one [...]
Obama’s AIG Circus Comes To Town
Ringling Brother’s Barnum & Bailey Circus has it’s first serious competition in years. President Obama has an semi organized circus group that is about to open their three ring acts for us all to witness. An AIG high wire act will be the centerpiece of the first performance. The legendary clowns such [...]
Obama Is Copying The Bush Administration
The last election cycle featured sharp criticism of Bush’s use of fright tactics to get passage of some legislation without proper debate and thoughtful modification. The Patriot Act was the prime example used by Obama’s supporters to describe legislation pushed to passage by the use of fear.
There was some validity to the criticism and [...]
AIG and the DC Beltway Fiddle Section
While Rome burned it was reported that Nero fiddled.
In our current credit and banking firestorm we have an entire string section fiddling in Washington.
Several months ago I listed my thoughts for action to help alleviate the problems that had paralyzed the American economy. No genius here, but a lot of life experience to call [...]
Electoral College Reform
There currently is much activity in some state legislatures to change our election procedure for the Presidency. The effort of the current Democrat party and it’s minions is to find a way to circumvent the Constitution for their electoral advantage. The basic thrust of the effort is to have the election decided [...]
