March 2007
MacRamblings
Doug MacCallum
1967-68
A golf course in the shadow of Superstition Mountain near Phoenix was the site of a women's tournament this past weekend. Some of the participants were Amy Hung, Jeong Jang, Young Kim, Young Jo, Sun Young Yoo, Sung Ah Yim, and Yu Ping Lin. No, it wasn't the staff from the nearby Peking Palace restaurant. They're all professional golfers and Jeong Jang picked up a check for more than $88,000!
I read where the rat poison in pet food in the news recently is thought to have come from China. Too bad it wasn't served in the Congressional dining room. Those thieves have now stolen more than $2,000,000,000,000 from us. That's all the money we've paid into Social Security over the past 40 years or more. So for those of us now getting Social Security payments, it's not one cent of what we paid in, it's money that people are paying in today which is supposed to be for their retirement. And you voted for one or more of these crooks? Filing income tax around now? They're also the ones who created that great system. Every one of them should be forced to prepare his or her own taxes and anyone getting outside help should be executed. Let's move Election Day to April 14 and see if that will change the system!
These same idiots want use to use ethanol from corn as a substitute for gasoline yet they impose a tariff of 54 cents a gallon on ethanol from Brazil where it can be made from sugar cane much more efficiently. So we not only pay more for ethanol, we'll also be paying a lot more for grain and beef at the grocery store while at the same time our underground water resources are severely depleted. Won't be long before the Farm Belt is a dust bowl and all our food comes from China!
I see where these morons came up with the great idea to name one of the Department of Education gold-plated bureaucratic palaces after LBJ. I'm really impressed with his brilliance! Made Laos a safe retreat for the NVA so they could kick our asses and then go take an R&R. Of course 40 years later Pakistan serves the same purpose for Al Qaeda and the Taliban. Have you noticed that the more government becomes involved with education, the less educated students are? The local paper had pictures last week of four monster cranes the local port had purchased to unload massive container ships. The cranes were too big to fit through the Panama Canal! Of course they came from Red China; this country no longer has the brainpower to build much of anything.
Speaking of government, isn't the VA doing a wonderful job? I assume John McCain must have had some degree of PTSD, after six years of living in a cage, eating rats and maggots, and getting beaten half to death every day. Wonder if the VA cured him. Somehow I doubt it. But if he is cured and someone else did it, why aren't we told who and how so that those of us who need help can get it?
I have a pile of letters from the VA informing me of yet another hard drive with personal information being stolen. Each one warns me that identity theft might occur as a result. No luck yet! I'm really hoping that it does happen and when I know for sure I'll knock over a couple of banks and go on a spending spree while the guy with my ID gets caught and does time in jail.
See the new 41-cent stamp that will be good for ever? Sounds like a good way to make some money. Buy a million dollars worth and someday they'll be worth 45 cents. The catch there is the time factor as you'll be sitting on a lot of stamps for a long time so the annual rate of return will only be one or two percent. Far better to act just days ahead. Assume you knew on a Monday that a quarter would be worth 29 cents on Friday. You'd load up on all you could get your hands on and earn a return of 16 percent in just days! That's just what insiders will do with the stamps, make a killing and get away with it because there is no penalty. Keep a close eye on the guys who came up with this idea.
Finally, one of the names in the first paragraph evoked memories - Yu Ping Lin somehow reminded me of Gi Bang Mi from My Tho. Seems to me it was 500 Piasters for her company.
Although some stories will be heard in Orlando, there are many more to be told and I'm thinking Colorado Springs, in the shadow of Pike's Peak, would be a good place to do so in 2008. I'm looking into it......
Mac
March 2007