Strange how Changes Come From Casualties...usually...
For example, if there is a fatality at a four way stop sign based road, then usually a government will put up lights, versus just signs.
Right now the government is looking into banning texting while driving because people are dying while doing such.
However, here is South Florida, we have lobster (hunting) miniseason, and, as you can imagine from the title of this blog, people are dying, as usual, however, this happens EVERY year, and nobody seems interested in making laws...
So far this year, four people have died, out of how many divers is unknown, but it ain't a lot. The season is not over. Last year 5 people died.
May only guess is that it "means too much economically"...
Okay, dive away fools. Yes, I am sure it is fun, sure it is great to bring lobster back to eat, but personally the odds don't look so good. I would rather go to the supermarket and buy one, but then again, I might get hit by a car driving through a stop sign by someone text messaging their dive buddies about lobster miniseason...
S.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Thought of the Day: Unemployment
1 out of 10 working American's don't have jobs, (so we are told) instead of the usual only 1 out of 20. Of that 5% that typically don't work, how many choose NOT to work because of such reasons as: they can afford not to, they are a homemaker, they have to take care of a love one - kids / parents, they are homeless, they are retired military, they are in school...et cetera.
Where does the official unemployment number come from?
If the number of unemployed comes solely from unemployment checks being sent out, then the number of American's not working much be much higher, for the reasons stated above.
However, since I recently read that Larry Summers, Mr. Obama's top economic advisor, used Google to determine that the country was much happier about the economy because less people had searched the term "economic depression" than the month prior. WHAT!? Maybe he should do some REAL research. Maybe people read it, and don't need to "google" it all day every day...
I bring this up because I wonder, again, where does the offical unemployment number come from? Hopefully not from some Federal employee "googling" or going to Wikipedia...
That being said, let us be thankful it is not like Spain, which over 18% are unemployed. That is scary. A major industrial nation with nearly double our unemployment...ouch!
That is the Thought of the Day
S.
Where does the official unemployment number come from?
If the number of unemployed comes solely from unemployment checks being sent out, then the number of American's not working much be much higher, for the reasons stated above.
However, since I recently read that Larry Summers, Mr. Obama's top economic advisor, used Google to determine that the country was much happier about the economy because less people had searched the term "economic depression" than the month prior. WHAT!? Maybe he should do some REAL research. Maybe people read it, and don't need to "google" it all day every day...
I bring this up because I wonder, again, where does the offical unemployment number come from? Hopefully not from some Federal employee "googling" or going to Wikipedia...
That being said, let us be thankful it is not like Spain, which over 18% are unemployed. That is scary. A major industrial nation with nearly double our unemployment...ouch!
That is the Thought of the Day
S.
Friday, July 10, 2009
The Plan
Robin Williams' plan.....(Hard to argue with this logic!)
'I see a lot of people yelling for peace but I have not heard of a plan for peace. So, here's one plan.'
1) 'The US will apologize to the world for our 'interference' in their affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those 'good 'ole' boys', we will never 'interfere' again.
2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany , South Korea , the Middle East, and the Philippines . They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders... No one allowed sneaking through holes in the fence.
3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave. We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of whom or where they are. They're illegal!!! France will welcome them.
4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.
5) No foreign 'students' over age 21. The older ones are the bombers.. If they don't attend classes, they get a 'D' and it's back home baby.
6) The US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while.
7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go someplace else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.)
8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not 'interfere.' They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need.. Besides most of what we give them ends up being stolen or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if anything.
9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island someplace. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.
10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us 'Ugly Americans' any longer. The Language we speak is ENGLISH...learn it...or LEAVE...Now, isn't that a winner of a plan?
'The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses...' She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling, 'you want a piece of me?' '
'I see a lot of people yelling for peace but I have not heard of a plan for peace. So, here's one plan.'
1) 'The US will apologize to the world for our 'interference' in their affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those 'good 'ole' boys', we will never 'interfere' again.
2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany , South Korea , the Middle East, and the Philippines . They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders... No one allowed sneaking through holes in the fence.
3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave. We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of whom or where they are. They're illegal!!! France will welcome them.
4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.
5) No foreign 'students' over age 21. The older ones are the bombers.. If they don't attend classes, they get a 'D' and it's back home baby.
6) The US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while.
7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go someplace else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.)
8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not 'interfere.' They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need.. Besides most of what we give them ends up being stolen or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if anything.
9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island someplace. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.
10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us 'Ugly Americans' any longer. The Language we speak is ENGLISH...learn it...or LEAVE...Now, isn't that a winner of a plan?
'The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses...' She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling, 'you want a piece of me?' '
Monday, July 6, 2009
Roger Federer
WOW you are good.
Who else, in any sport, claim 143 Wins and 9 Losses...
You might even be too good.
Who else, in any sport, claim 143 Wins and 9 Losses...
You might even be too good.
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