The Daily Skunk

take someone for granted:
to not show that you are grateful to someone for helping you or that you are happy they are with you, often because they have helped you or been with you so often.

take something for granted:
to expect something to be available all the time and forget that you are lucky to have it.

take someone for granted:
to fail to appreciate someone.

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Generally, it is the people we love most who we take for granted.
Everything could be gone tomorrow, it’s easy to forget that.

I had an interesting thought tonight.

I was listening to an ad for a candidate on the radio. His career highlight apparently was that he had voted to expand coal, oil and wind energy in our state.

That got me thinking about a comment someone made to me not to long ago when I was telling them about my trip to the badlands and how there was so much oil production going on that I was in disbelief and highly disappointed, because of what it was doing to the area. Their comment was drill, drill, drill… drill it all.

Of course my thoughts were… easy for you to say, one who never makes it out of the city or off the black top. Sucks for people like me, the virtue of the land and the animals who make it home.

Within a minute after the commercial I was thinking about that conversation, the badlands, the Gulf, all the oil under the national parks in the SE US and ANWAR.

It then dawned on me that drilling is exactly what needs to be done - “we” really do need drill it all. There are so many people who never realize the cost, the why and how it really doesn’t matter? Don’t get me wrong I’m a consumer, but that doesn’t mean I’m completely unaware. It also doesn’t mean I’m completely against the use of these resources. I just cannot stand the ignorance of so many people and their complete disregard for everything else involved - especially concerning oil.

Anyway, I’m actually convinced that we need to encourage the drilling (only with extreme environmental consideration of course). The reason being that the closer we get to the last drop is the closer we get to the day when the badlands are free again and places like ANWAR will be completely forgotten to all but those who really care about it.

This is the only thing that will provide the momentum necessary to initiate the use of an energy source that is truly renewable and that will get all of these eye sores out of our wild places.

Imagine the month before the world realizes that we are that close to the last drop - will it be absolute chaos or will the world give a big sigh of relief?

Maybe they’ve put too much lipstick on that pig.

Nanotech and the Physical Manifestation of a Reality

Ok, give me some comments on this people.

I can’t figure out why my posts of this nature haven’t received any comment?

Is it beneath you all? You have nothing to say? I don’t believe that - at least call me stupid or tell me it is bullshit or something.

I find these thoughts incredibly interesting, even if it is hard to believe…

I generally tend to be a conspiracy theorist and I fully believe that we have not even come close to the pinnacle of knowledge, contrary to what many of our present day scientists seem to believe. So, as I said before I find things of this nature very fascinating.

Anyway, read this article and be prepared - the movie “The Island” comes to mind.

Tell me what you think!

You might recall a post I wrote a few months back, titled something to the effect of “Big Bang?”. I can’t recall exactly but I think it was in July.

Anyway, in that article I talked about a few things with the main point being about the fact the big bang theory is starting to loose it’s foothold.

Turns out that there is something out there in space that has been happening that just doesn’t fit within the big bang theory. Actually, it doesn’t fit within any theory that we currently understand.

All that they really know at this point is that this matter, called “dark flow” is moving in a specific direction at about 2 million miles per hour!

Check out this article Dark Flow

Bail out? I have a better plan and I am not even running for office.
 
I’m against the $85,000,000,000.00 bailout of AIG.
 
Instead, I’m in favor of giving $85,000,000,000 to America in a We Deserve It Dividend.

To make the math simple, let’s assume there are 200,000,000 bonafide U.S. Citizens 18+.
 
Our population is about 301,000,000 +/- counting every man, woman and child. So 200,000,000 might be a fair stab at adults 18 and up.
 
So divide 200 million adults 18+ into $85 billon that equals $425,000.00.

My plan is to give $425,000 to every person 18+ as a We Deserve It Dividend.

Of course, it would NOT be tax free. So let’s assume a tax  rate of 30%.

Every individual 18+ has to pay $127,500.00 in taxes. That sends $25,500,000,000 right back to Uncle Sam.

But it means that every adult 18+ has $297,500.00 in their pocket. A husband and wife has $595,000.00.
What would you do with $297,500.00 to $595,000.00 in your family?
Pay off your mortgage - housing crisis solved.
Repay college loans - what a great boost to new grads
Put away money for college - it’ll be there
Save in a bank - create money to loan to entrepreneurs.
Buy a new car - create jobs
Invest in the market - capital drives growth
Pay for your parent’s medical insurance - health care improves
Enable Deadbeat Dads to come clean - or else
 
Remember this is for every adult U.S. Citizen 18+ including the folks who lost their jobs at Lehman Brothers and every other company that is cutting back. And of course, for those serving in our Armed Forces.

If we’re going to re-distribute wealth let’s really do it…instead of trickling out a puny $1000.00 ( “vote buy” ) economic incentive that is being proposed by one of our candidates for President.

If we’re going to do an $85 billion bailout, let’s bail out every adult U.S. Citizen 18+!

As for AIG - liquidate it. Sell off its parts.
 
Let American General go back to being American General. Sell off the real estate. Let the private sector bargain hunters cut it up and clean it up.

Here is my rationale. We deserve it and AIG doesn’t.
 
Sure it’s a crazy idea that can “never work.”
 
But can you imagine the Coast-To-Coast Block Party!
 
How do you spell Economic Boom?
 
I trust my fellow adult Americans to know how to use the $85 Billion We Deserve the Dividend more than the geniuses at AIG or in Washington DC .

And remember, this plan only really costs $59.5 Billion because $25.5 Billion is returned instantly in taxes to Uncle Sam.

What do you think?

Well, I guess this uneducated fool gets to voice his thoughts now.  With the addition of roughly $1,000,000,000,000 debt to our balance sheet, we may indeed bankrupt our country by trying to “save” it. 

At what point will we all realize that the government has overstepped the Constitution, or rather left it atop a huge, steaming pile of…

Does the rule of law not exist?  Has the founding document of this nation been discarded?  Exactly what rules are we playing by now?  May I have a copy of them?

The current congress is a piece of shit.  If any of my employees, or yours, behaved in such a manner to achieve a 9% approval rating, they would be out.  No severance, no retirement.  Just fired.  Not even time to clean out their desks.  Maybe even get a security escort off company grounds.  But these dupers have led us to the edge of a chasm, and are pushing ever harder to get us to step in.  Why?

All I know is this:  I can’t ever be a victim; I fight back.

Check it out.

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/09/skunk-attack.html

Anytime someone sends me an email about McCain or Obama I immediately question the truth behind it, which there is usually very little. Usually it is a crap forward supporting McCain. Anyway, what is most bothersome to me is that so many people are wanting to accept these bullshit forwards and other misinformation’s because it supports their man… or woman. The sad thing is that its so damn easy to check if something is authentic and people just don’t do it.

Here is the BULLSHIT letter that I recieved followed by the actual letter with this title. I took the actual letter off of  Thomas Sowell’s own archives.

 ”The article below was written by syndicated columnist, Thomas Sowell, a
 black man. He wrote it in a humorous way this past week in a column
 titled ‘Random Thoughts’ and published it in newspapers nationally, so
 maybe you’ve already seen it. If not, be my guest:
 
 Senator John McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary
 Clinton or Barack Obama can cause me to vote for McCain.
 
 After long and serious thought, I have decided to endorse Senator John
 McCain for President.
 
 I have always voted for the person and have not voted for anyone because
 some political party was telling me who I should vote for.
 
 We all know the choices by now and, that said, I do believe that the
 process of selecting a chief executive is deeply flawed. The words ‘money’
 and ’special interests’ come to mind, among many others.
 
 Here’s the way I see it:
 
 Barack Obama, you are a fine public speaker. You are also an extremely
 liberal Senator from the State of Illinois, which has a long and rich
 history of political corruption of the first magnitude. You are indeed a
 child of that system.
 
 You have finally insulted my intelligence far beyond my capacity to
 tolerate your insults. It has nothing at all to do with your skin color.
 As a matter of fact, it would be so COOL to finally have an
 African-American for President. What a great statement that would be to
 the entire world that we are indeed the greatest country on earth!
 
 But, unfortunately, General Colin Powell is not running, and YOU are NOT
 the man for this job !
 
 Barack baby, you want me to believe that you have never heard the sermons
 of your own pastor, the Right Reverend ‘God Damn America’ Jeremiah Wright.
 It is a matter of record that this has been your church for over 20 years.
 It is a matter of record that you were married there by this very pastor,
 and that your children were baptized there.
 
 The good Reverend saw fit to visit Khadafy in Libya with you and to give a
 lifetime achievement award to Louis Farrakhan, of all people.
 
 We have all now seen excerpts of his sermons all over the airwaves by now.
 And you have publicly stated that this man IS your ’spiritual mentor.’
 
 BUT, your pastor is NOT the reason I am NOT voting for you. His words were
 disturb ing enough, but it is your own HUGE church congregation, seen
 jumping, hooting and howling to his words in the background that disturb
 me the most. And please don’t tell me you attended church there and never
 once heard a ‘discouraging word’ in the 20 years you attended there. Don’t
 tell me, that in addition to the good reverend, that you are now not
 having anything to do with all those other people seen hooting and howling
 out in the audience in the background of his fiery tirades. Even Oprah
 Winfrey got disgusted and walked out on your campaign. I am no Oprah fan,
 but still she did the right thing.
 
 Now you look me in the eye and ask me to believe that you never heard such
 language in all the years you attended there! This is like me telling you
 that I attended dozens of Klan rallies and never once heard the ‘N’ word.
 Yep. And Bill Clinton ‘did not inhale’.
 
 Yes, Mr. Obama, we all have friends who have said stupid things that
 embarrassed us, but NOW you have asked me to believe something that is so
 incredibly stupid that you are telling me that I am just stupid enough to
 believe you. THAT is the main reason that I will never vote for you.
 
 I am deeply sorry, that in a country teeming with enormously talented
 African Americans who would make a good President, that the political
 system has chosen YOU. You are a pathetic and plastic excuse for an
 American, who will not even salute the Flag during the Pledge of
 Allegiance . God forbid you ever get near the Oval Office.
 
 Which leaves us with Senator John McCain.
 
 John, you are a flawed man. You are a bit old, a bit looney, and you have
 a notoriously bad temper. This perfectly qualifies you, in my humble
 opinion, to lead us for the next eight years. I WANT your trembling hand
 on the nuclear button.
 
 Think about it.
 
 We have Kim Jong IL, Chavez and Ahmadenijad all running around like
 lunatics, threatening America and threatening to plunge the world into
 nuclear Armageddon. We have Putin and the Chinese blustering and rattling
 their sabers at us. I want John McCain in the Oval Office and I want him
 to be really ticked off at all these other nut jobs around the planet.
 
 John, once you are elected, I want you to go into the Oval Office and
 throw one of your perfect FITS. Jump up and down and throw something
 through a plate glass window. Rip the drapes down and foam at the mouth a
 bit. And I want the whole thing on camera so that Ahmadinejad can see it.
 I want ALL of these ‘world leaders’ to lay awake at night and to break out
 in a cold sweat every time they think of messing with the United States of
 America.
 
 I want the nuclear button sitting right next to the alarm clock on your
 night stand. I want pictures of this to be sent to Iran, Russia, China,
 Venezuela, Cuba, Libya, Syria, Pakistan, and those other dopes in the
 sheets, the Saudis.
 
 On the domestic front, poor John did try and reach across the aisle to the
 opposition in a desperate effort to compromise and to get the Congress to
 do something. You may not agree with his efforts, but at least he TRIED.
 For all his efforts, all he got handed to him was his head in a basket.
 The liberals are ticked at him and the conservatives are ticked at him.
 Just my kinda guy.
 
 Finally. John McCain knows on a most personal level what it is to suffer
 horrible torture for years and to see others die, right in front of you,
 for their love of America. When you ask him about it, he will tell you
 that what he did was ‘nothing special. ‘ Even more incredibly, he states
 that ANY American who truly loves his country would do exactly the same as
 he did in that situation. You and I will have a hard time believing that,
 but the real point is that John McCain believes that about the ‘average
 American,’ and that, dear friends and neighbors, is why I will cast my one
 poor ballot for on election day for John McCain –.”

Jewish World Review April 8, 2008 / 3 Nissan 5768

Random Thoughts

By Thomas Sowell

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com |

Some people actually think that televising Congress gives us information. What it really does is give politicians millions of dollars worth of free advertising, while they play charades on camera to fool the rest of us.

Alfred E. Neuman of Mad magazine said: “What, me worry?” During election years, Democrats running for office say: “What, me liberal?”

Senator John McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama can cause me to vote for McCain.

What is more scary than any particular candidate or policy is the gullibility of the public and their willingness to be satisfied with talking points, rather than serious arguments.

One way to reduce illegal immigration might be to translate some of our far left publications into Spanish and give everyone in Mexico subscriptions. After they read how terrible this country is, many may want to stay away.

Whenever I see one of Barack Obama’s smooth performances, it reminds me of a saying from my old neighborhood in Harlem: “An eel is like sandpaper compared to you.”

Most people on the right have no problem understanding people on the left because many, if not most, were on the left themselves when they were younger. But many, if not most, people on the left find it inexplicable how any decent and intelligent person could be on the right.

It is amazing to me that there are people who still take seriously claims by some candidates that they are against “special interests.” All politicians are against their opponents’ special interests and in favor of his own special interests.

Nothing is more fraudulent than calls for a “dialogue on race.” Those who issue such calls are usually quick to cry “racism” at any frank criticism. They are almost invariably seeking a monologue on race, to which others are supposed to listen.

The same people who have gone ballistic when some prominent figure is found to belong to some all-male social club are full of excuses for why Barack Obama remained a member of a racist and anti-American church for 20 years.

Among the many wise things said by the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan was that you are entitled to your own opinion, but not to your own facts. Yet an incredible number of people make up whatever “facts” are needed to support whatever they choose to believe.

Rachael Ray is showing up in so many places on various television programs, on magazine covers, on boxes of crackers that the question must be asked: Are we sure that she is not twins, or perhaps triplets?

The way to get people’s votes is to say that all their problems are caused by other people, and that you will stop those other people from giving them trouble. But if you really want to help, then you can tell them the truth and risk losing their votes.

The idea behind giving professors lifetime tenure is that this will enable them to speak out freely. But it would be hard to name any other occupation with a more cowardly record than academics, who have been giving in to politically correct campus bullies ever since the 1960s.

There is no question that Barack Obama is a clever and glib fellow. There is also no question that some of the most foolish, dangerous and horrific things done around the world in the past hundred years have been done by clever and glib fellows.

God damn, what am I going to learn about next that I have to post on here.

Check this shit out! Unbelievable!! Disgusting! Sad…

The Giant Garbage Patch = 1500 miles wide!

http://www.physorg.com/news112248742.html