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Hold My Calls...

varifrank in his current physical state...

Look, its not that I dont care, its not that I dont have something to say, its not that there isnt a thousand things going on right now...

Its just that I'm busy ok? You savvy "Busy"? Busy,busy,busy,busy and every time some jackass pundit comments on "how bad the economy is" I want to scream! Bad Economy? are you kidding me? We should be so lucky! I stopped accruing vacation time in August! AUGUST!

And it never stops. Everytime I think I clear the deck, bam!, a new set of emergencies arrives.

In all seriousness, things are winding down to a respectable 80 hours a week so I should be recovering soon to my previous 3 post a day standard. I see by the sign in front of the local Sams Club that Former Attorney General John Ashcroft is in town plugging his book on Friday, so I might have to make time and go cover that little event so I dont get fired from Pajamas Media for a lack of posting.

Quickly:

- Kinky Friedman - Best looking Campaign Poster - EVER.

- Still havent met one single Republican who has said "yeah, I think its Nancy Pelosis turn at the helm of the government, so I'm voting against my own party this time" Sure I havent met a single Democrat whos changed sides either, but you could say that about every election since 2000. My guess at this point is that this is going to be the "Shakespeare election" full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. A change here and there, and a few surprises, but in the end, I'm betting that the rock rolls about an inch from where its at now. ( except that Hastert finds another job in January and that's fine and he's probably not that upset about it either...)

- Which begs the question; "What do the Democrats say when they lose since everyone is working overtime to manufacture the expectations of a big win?" How do you explain it away? Diebold, butterfly ballots? If the republicans lose, it will of course by all "Bushs fault, but if the Democrats lose, then what will the story be?

- The A380 is now generating money for the airlines that ordered it, not by flying paying passengers but from refunds from EADS. We can now call it the "flying CEO Killer" for its amusing habit of destroying the careers of european manufacturing CEO's. Making big airplanes is easy, making big airplanes that pay off for the shareholders and airlines that order them is very hard, jst ask Boeing - the 747 nearly killed that company off.

- Taiwan is the key to North Korea. Its Taiwan that can provide the Chinese with the proper motivation to shut off the oil to that horrid little regime. North Korea is a Chinese invention, its time they fixed their little problem before things get out of hand.

- North Korea is the same today as it was on the Saturday before the test and as it was 10 years ago or 20 years ago. Until the regime ends and every day that they exist until that day comes, they exist as a threat to the peace of the world. That is their express designed methodology. It is all they know how to do, they sure as hell can't feed their people. The weapons they have only help them express that threat, its their way of making the "mulberry street extortion shakedown" into state policy. The "nuclear test" changes nothing. End that nightmare, and the weapons become irrelevant.

- Oh, and If I find out that we bought all those fancy billion dollar nuclear weapons systems and billion dollar submarines to carry them just so we could NOT use them when the time comes out of some misplaced sense of supposed "decency", then I'm going to be very, very unhappy. I'm not one to lightly advocate all out nuclear war, but for North Korea to sit back and not just threaten - but to actually DO IT, to think that our response should be anything less than total is just irresponsibly asinine. To fail to act invites more of the same and that cannot be allowed to occur. China should be on notice, nuclear materials have fingerprints. We find any materials anywhere with North Korean fingerprints, it will be taken as an act of war against the United States and will take immediate action. In that event, if China were to choose to protect North Korea from us, we will act against China as well.

- Blockades sound like fun, then someone in the blockade decides to get antzy and suddenly you are in a real live shooting war. Wars often start as a result of just such things getting out of control. If Bush pushes for a North Korean embargo, hes likely to get it. The story however doesnt end there, the story doesnt end until Kim does. The Blockade will not end his regime, but it will make us feel like we are doing something in the mean time.

- Yes, My Grandfather is rolling in his grave at the popularity of the idea of a re-militarized Japan. The revolutions his grave is creating stand to generate several hundred kilowatts for the local utility company. "We were damn lucky to win against them last time, we wont be so lucky next time, if there ever is one and you better hope there isnt..." he used to say.

Lots of thing going on, lots. Just none of them are "bloggable". Oh, I forgot to mention, I've developed an addiction to Honeycrisp Apples. I dont think I've ever eaten anything that is so staggeringly good. I could honestly not eat another piece of candy for the rest of my life as long as I had access to these apples. They are just incredible!

Posted @ October 09, 2006 10:22 PM | Current Affairs