Is One A Lot? or The Power Of One

How many times do we read about a single instance of something bad happening that results in sweeping legislative activity? We seem to be obsessed with that dog’s tail wagging us.

In my newspaper I read where a German court has ruled that a circumcision which resulted in complications was an assault on the boy’s Physical Integrity and the practice of circumcision has been declared a cause of Bodily Harm in Germany.

The article did not say that thousands of boys have suffered this “assault”. Does this mean there was only one case that caused complications in all of Germany?

If there can be found one case where there was no Bodily Harm done, does that single case negate the single case of Circumcisional Complications? (I know “circumcisional” is not a word. Don’t write me about it. Classify it under the category of “Foolishness License”.)

I thank you in advance, dear reader, for allowing me to carry this to an extreme. Here is my Foolishness...

• There are 6,795 overpasses in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area. (Don’t check out 6,795 overpasses. I made that number up. Classify it under the category of “Foolishness License”.)
• A 6 year old child wanders away from his home, gets to one of these overpasses, climbs over the guard rail and falls into traffic and is killed.

Does this one instance of child wandering, climbing, falling and dying justify installing 12 foot high climb-proof barriers on all 6,795 overpasses?

Some of us would answer in the affirmative to the above question. Therein lays the crux of the problem. If a person or a society does not have unlimited funds, that person or that society cannot spend unlimited money.

I know some of you just said, “Why not?” That “Why Not?” makes me fear for our future.

Please do not write me back and tell me that China has the money to build these 13,590 overpass 12 foot high climb-proof barriers and all we have to do is use their money.

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We Have A National Obligation To Encourage & Support The Use Of Electric Cars

This posting is about cars. I say that upfront because I am forewarning you that I know what I am talking about in this one. I am a retired Automotive Executive and I was much respected in my rise to the height of my mediocre career. Accept what I am imparting to you in this Foolishness Posting because I know cars

Electric Cars apparently have a range of 40 miles. This is very limiting for the Electric Car Owners but Electric Cars are important. They save trees or icebergs or other such things. We all have to do our part to help the Electric Car Buyers out wherever we can.

If one of us is patriotic enough to buy an Electric Car, anyone who is a friend of said Electric Car Owner should be required by Federal Law to sell his house, if it is more than 40 miles away from the Electric Car owner’s house, and move to within 40 miles of the Electric Car Owner’s house.

Once the distance has been reduced to 40 miles or less, the Electric Car Patriot will be free to go over for a visit anytime he wants to socialize with any one of his friends.

It goes without saying that the visited friend should allow the Electric Car Patriot to charge his vehicle during the socializing so his patriotic friend can get back home.

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There Must Be A Better Example Of Tax Money Being Wasted ... Or Is There?

Can you believe it? A wasteful federal program has been defunded.

Up until recently the Good Ole USofA has been spending $20,000,000 to beam Sesame Street throughout Pakistan.

The good news is we have just saved $13,300,000. The bad news is we saved $13,300,000 because $6,700,000 has already been spent on this project.

The funding was cancelled because of corruption and misappropriation of funds by the man in charge of the Sesame Street Project in Pakistan. It appears that he was doing such things as...

• Paying off old personal debts.
• Giving lucrative contracts to friends, relatives and/or people who kicked back monies to him.
• Building himself a fancy residential complex.

When Senator Foghorn Leghorn was informed of the kinds of things that stopped the remainder of the $13,300,000 from going to Pakistan he said, “What’s wrong with that?”

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I Support Violence!

The “I” above is not the Smartfella. That “I” belongs those among us who defend violence when it is committed by people who think the way the defenders of violence think we all ought to think.

Now that I have you completely confused, I will peck on...

The Freedom from Union Violence Act was proposed in both the House of Representatives and the Senate and was passed unanimously in each chamber within minutes.

The above paragraph is not true. It ought to be true but it is not true and the bill has never passed.

The Smartfella does not claim to have all the answers (or does he?) and he admits this is one of those times he is completely baffled.

From Wikipedia...

The Freedom from Union Violence Act of 1997[1] and 2007[2] were identical bills proposed in the United States Congress. Their intended purpose was to amend the Hobbs Act and make violence committed in pursuit of labor union goals a federal crime.

You read correctly. The Freedom from Union Violence Act is not new because it was first proposed 15 years ago. It was again proposed 5 years ago.

The bills faced strong opposition from labor unions and others and failed to pass into law both times.

Just when I get to the point where I think I know what a No Brainer is, I find out that there are No Brainers out there that prove to me that I know nothing about No Brainers.

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Me Going Places and Them Getting Carried Away

I recently enrolled in a Rewards Program for a National Hotel Chain. I received a Welcome Letter that is so full of adjectives it appears to have been written to a very important person and, since it was addressed to me, I must be a very important person.

In it the hotel chain’s Letter Writer really got carried away …  Catch a ball game in Chicago. Go to the opera in Vienna. Eat blowfish in Tokyo.

It is mind boggling to realize that I am getting all of these wonderful trips around the world simply because I have a new piece of plastic in my wallet!

I don’t know what kinds of trips make you happy but I am really looking forward to eating that blowfish in Tokyo.

Don’t worry about missing out on my blogging while I am away. I believe I am safe in saying that Chicago, Vienna and Tokyo all have the World Wide Web. I’ll stay in touch.

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John Wayne Is Dead

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This Blog Posting is coming to you from one of my Ruts (I’ve blogged about this before). The Rut under discussion here is the Feminization of Men.
We once had John Wayne to lead us. Now we are the stupid one in television commercials, our “heroes” in movies have to always have a three day growth of beard (so we will be sure they are males) and we are told that we ought to carry Man Bags (used to be called purses) to hold our stuff.
I will now bring this Foolishness…Or Is It? Rant to an abrupt end and use pictures to prove my point. Below you will find three pictures from a recent four day Fashion Event in London.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, these three pictures shout from the rooftops...

Case Closed...Point Proven...End of Discussion

It is not possible to picture John Wayne in one of these outfits.
I wish I were kidding you.

Fat Thieves Are Now A World-Wide Concern

The profession of Thievery has a real problem. They are all getting fat.

There was a time when thieves would put on their masks and go out to commit crimes. They had to run from the police. They had to jump over fences. They had to do a lot of crouching down low and sneaking around.

All this physical activity led to a healthy lifestyle that resulted in our thieves being a very fit lot. In fact, they never went to a gym at all unless they went there to burglarize it.

Now they just sit at their computers and create scam emails, send them out and wait for the money to come rolling in. It is hard for many people to resist a plea for money from a Kazakhstanian who has a child born with no hands who stutters and has one functioning kidney that is on the verge of failing because Kazakhstan’s drinking water is saturated with quitanian crystals from the BP Oil Spill.

It has been reported that Mayor Bloomberg recently received one of these email solicitations for donations and he became very alarmed.

Actually he is not concerned about the child’s kidney problem. He became alarmed when an aide told him about the weight problem of the scammers.

He immediately called his advisors into emergency session to formulate a plan of action to reduce scammers’ weight in New York City and is hoping that the world will follow his lead.

My sources tell me that he and his advisors have zeroed in on the sugary cup size ordered by scammers in NYC’s fast food restaurants. At this time they have all agreed that scammers will be required to show their Internet Scammer/Thief Association Membership Card and then they will be limited to a 2 ounce cup.

That ought to do it. What clear thinking person could object to this approach?

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Our Education System Is Making Students More Dumb

The first time I saw a news article about someone Texting While Driving I honestly thought that our News Media was sensationalizing again.

I said to myself, “Self, there they go again. They found the only person stupid enough to Text While Driving and put that dummy into their newspaper just so we would spend a nickel to buy a newspaper to read all about it.”

Now I find out that there is more than that one dumb person in the country. In fact, our Department of Transportation is calling Texting While Driving a National Epidemic...and it is getting worse.

43% of our high school juniors admit they text while driving

After another year of being educated in our high schools...

58% of our high school seniors admit they text while driving

I’m sure glad someone had the foresight to invent higher education. Our colleges and universities will fix this problem for sure...Or will they?

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Pristine City Parks Or Bust!

Why do we say “or bust” in statements similar to the Subject Line of this Foolishness...Or Is It? After I pecked “or bust” above I decided to look up the etymology of the term.

After looking the etymology of the term up I decided to forget what I looked up because you really don’t care about what Mr. Etymology has to say, do you?

Wow! Talk about getting off on the wrong track with this Blog Posting! I am here and now officially changing the subject of this Blog Posting to...

Is Pristine All It’s Cracked Up To Be?

We are all familiar with public officials, bureaucrats, do-gooders or nosey people trying to protect us from evil. In the area where I live, we are very close to banning Tobacco from all City Parks.

That probably did not strike you as that unusual but take note that I said “Tobacco” not simply the “Smoking of Tobacco”.

My fellow citizens are about to ban Smoking and Dipping Snuff and the Chewing of Tobacco. The public officials, bureaucrats, do-gooders or nosey people behind this sweeping action have stated...

Our goal is to provide pristine facilities for our young people.

This tobacco banning thing got its start in the 1960s. I was OK with that but the movement went off the deep end when someone invented Second-Hand Smoke. I used to lie awake at night fearing Second-Hand Smoke.

My fear turned into thinking (another endangered American trait). I thought such things as, “Did I hear that right? Did that guy really tell me today that breathing in someone else’s dissipated and exhaled smoke was worse than dragging that filthy stuff into my lungs direct from a cigarette, letting it swish around in there for a bit and spewing it out through my nose?”

I understand that my local public officials are worried about protecting our children from breathing in someone else’s exhaust because they genuinely fear Second Hand Smoke. What I don’t understand is their concern that our children are going to have second-hand snuff jump into their little noses. How is someone else’s chaw, that was once stuffed between someone else’s cheek and gum, going to get between our precious little one’s cheeks and gums? These kinds of things are just not going to happen.

Mr. Merriam and Mr. Webster tell me that Pristine means “not spoiled, corrupted, or polluted”. That means to be truly Pristine they want us to avoid such things as...Many Modern American Children, Our Congress and the rivers in the Good Ole USofA.

Sometimes I think I am getting pessimistic but actually I’m really too cynical for that to happen.

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Species Expansion & Endangered Species

My father owned a corner grocery store. There used to be lots of corner grocery stores. My grandfather owned 3 of them (did not operate them but rented them out). His 3 rented stores were located within a 4 block area. Did I say there used to be lots of them?

My father could have been rich if he had known how to properly price his Cheez-Its.

I don’t mean to be critical of him but he sold his boxes of Cheez-Its for 19 cents. If he had sold them for the $3.14 they are being sold for today, his family could have been wealthy.

I guess he did alright because he did put my brother and me through college and we owned a 1951 Desoto but I always wished he had not traded in his 1941 Packard.

I am certain that all of you see the absolutely unassailable logic of my premise that he was Pricing Maximization Challenged, so now I will get into today’s Foolishness..Or Is It?.

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Cheez-Its used to come in one flavor. It was called Cheese Flavored. Some called it Cheez-It Flavored. Today we are covered up in different flavors or varieties of products that once came in one color, one size, one flavor, etc.

Today “they” (whoever “they” are) keep pumping out different versions of their products and we keep buying up their “new” offerings. I once heard an acquaintance of mine say, “I have 2 laptops but I don’t have a blue one”. (You probably think I made this one up but I did not...Or did I?)

Back to Cheez-Its...

Cheez-Its now come in many different flavors, sizes and combinations. My local Publix has darn near an entire aisle devoted to Cheez-Its. If you are intending to purchase Cheez-Its during any visit to this store, it can be a dizzying and confusing experience. Here is what I saw the other day...

The Original Flavor (but it was hard to find), White Cheddar, Scrabble Junior, Colby, Mozzarella, Baby Swiss, Italian Four Cheese, Reduced Fat, Reduced Fat with Cheddar, Cars, Big (original) and Big (Monterey Jack), Hot & Spicy, Pepper Jack, 2 different DUOZ (2 flavors in one box), Cheddar Jack, Whole Grain, Snack Mix, Snack Mix Double Cheese, 12 Pack Boxes of Small Bags and Various Larger Family Size Boxes.

And Sunshine’s Web Site tells me they come in many sizes:

6 ct/3 oz, 2 oz vend, 4.5 oz, 2 ct/24 oz, 3 oz, 2 ct/9 oz, 9 oz, 21 oz, 13.7 oz, 7 oz

I feel fairly certain that the Cheez-Its Rep is constantly browbeating my Publix Manager about getting more shelf space so he can win that trip to Hawaii his wife is browbeating him about winning.

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Now for the Endangered Species part of the above subject of this Foolishness...Or Is It. It has to do with Politics.

In Politics, historically, there have always been two kinds of Politician. There was the Honest Politician and there was the Dishonest Politician. I’ll leave it up to you to decide which one is the Endangered Species.

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Chick-fil-A & The Rose Bowl

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Before you even begin to read this one I am admitting to you that I am exaggerating ... A Little Bit.

The other day I was in a Chick-fil-A trying to enjoy my chicken soup but I was having hard time with the enjoying part. You don’t yet know where I am going with this Foolishness…Or Is It but you have all been in my situation. Let’s be honest, some of you have also ruined someone else’s lunch with your Cell Phone Voice.

I could not concentrate on my soup because of that guy at the table behind me who was talking on his cell phone as if he were the only person in that Chick-fil-A. There was no doubt that everyone in that dining area, the kitchen and the two drive-through lanes could hear this loud mouth telling his brother about his trials and tribulations with getting his car registration processed through the DMV.

Where does the Rose Bowl come into this picture? It is so obvious that you are going to kick yourself for not seeing it without my telling you.

If the Rose Bowl officials would open one of those press box windows and let this guy stick his head outside (with his cell phone at his ear), he could easily keep everyone informed about what is happening down on the field. They could rip out all those wires and speakers and let my Chick-fil-A fellow diner take over.

For the Half Time Entertainment he could tell everyone about his difficulties with the DMV.

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I Don’t Know What That Is But I Know I Am Afraid Of It, Whatever It Is

My newspaper tells me that in Louisiana at McNeese State University an entire building was closed down until further notice because of possible asbestos contamination.

The Smartfella fully supports such an extreme action because we can’t have those asbestos thingies crawling around inside our young students.

The late Paul Harvey just came into my Computer Room and said there may have been an over-reaction in this case. He says I should tell you, The Rest of the Story...

On the third floor of Kaufman Hall a single door was cut in half by contractors and, “There was a release of some material. It is possible that asbestos was inside the door”.

The Smartfella has several areas of concern that lean toward over reaction...

• This is a building that is at least three stories high.
• They cut open one single door.
• They found “some material” was inside that one single door.
• If there is concern about what comes out when they cut open one single door, don’t cut open any more doors.

Of course there was “some material” inside. There is some material inside of every door. Are they really afraid that the something inside the door might have been something?

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How Dare You Try To Prevent Disaster!

Sit up straight and pay attention to this one. It could be hard to follow but there is wisdom in here somewhere...Humorous Wisdom.
Words recently spoken in our 9% Approval Rated Congress...
“All members of Congress have conferred with me about this statement I am about to make. Yes that is right. All members are in full agreement about the imminent danger we are facing regarding the operation of our Post Offices across this great nation. We are demanding action!
Our Post Office has been floundering around and losing money for so long that is unconscionable that no action has been proposed by our Postmaster General to rectify this awful situation.
Without a specific and detailed plan to save the Post Office, the very fabric of life in the Good Ole USofA will be forever changed for the worst.”

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Heeding the serious prompting from our 9% Approval Rated Congress, our Postmaster General issued a specific and detailed plan to save the Post Office that same day.

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Words spoken the very next day in our 9% Approval Rated Congress in response to the Postmaster General’s specific and detailed plan to save the Post Office...
“All members of Congress have conferred with me about this statement I am about to make. Yes that is right. All members are in a state of shock that the Postmaster General has proposed a plan of action to save the Post Office.
What the heck is going on here? Does the Postmaster General really think our directive to take action to save the Post Office actually mean that we expected him to take action to save the Post Office?
This is extraordinary! What the heck is air for if it is not for members of Congress to poke holes into without having to worry about anyone taking us seriously?
If people in this country start paying attention to what we say, we stand ready to close all sessions of Congress and not let the folks back home know anything about what goes on in these hallowed chambers.
If we are going to be paid attention to, it will put a lot of pressure on us and actually take all the fun out of being a member of congress.”

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All right, I made up the two congressional speeches above...Or did I?

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If you have not had enough of reading about our Post Office and Congress, you can click on the link below and read the article that inspired me to write this Foolishness...Or Is It?.
http://news.yahoo.com/postal-loses-3-2b-2nd-161550610.html

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Before I let you go, a couple more comments from The Smartfella:
In this single article you will find two statements that, to my way of thinking (there I go thinking again), are in complete contradiction...
“The Senate last month passed a bill that would give the agency an $11 billion cash infusion...”

and

“The Postal Service, an independent agency of government, does not receive tax money for its operations...”
They must think we are stupid.
Oops, it just dawned on me that these two contradictory statements make perfect sense. It is not Tax Money. It is China’s Money.
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After All We Have Done For Afghanistan, They Turn Around And Do This To Us! This Is awful!

I see where our president and the president of Afghanistan have signed the Strategic Afghan Pact. I am not one to be too critical but on this occasion I have a deep seated need to express myself.
There is language in the Pact that I feel the Afghans have no right to demand of the Good Ole USofA!...

Assurance that more will be done to combat corruption.

This is unconscionable! After all we have done for this country are they really taking the position that they will not take our money until and unless we get rid of corruption in the United States? This is one tall order!
We had every intention of going to an awful lot of trouble to borrow the money to give to them. If we have to get rid of corruption before they will take our money, I feel certain that there are some hotheads in our Congress who are going to strike back and go looking for other countries to borrow money for or they will just go straight to Happy Hour and ForgetAboutIt!
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Some Are Going To Accuse Me Of Making This One Up

If you are the owner of a Guinness Book of World Records, please do not tell me. I would hate to think that a reader of my Foolishness...Or Is It blog could be silly enough to buy one of these foolish books.
I have really done it this time. I have insulted a whole bunch of people. Please allow me to put some weight behind my disparaging remarks...

Unwanted Cranial Ammunition Acquisition

There you have it. This is my opening salvo. Did I hear you just say you don’t know what the heck I am talking about?
I admit I did not handle that very well. Here is more information to support my position...

• Unwanted Cranial Ammunition Acquisition is a Record Category in the Guinness Book of World Records.
• This category is set up for the person (could there possibly be more than one?) who has a bullet embedded in his head that was not put there by the person with the bullet embedded in his head.

The news article that got me started on this was published in my local newspaper on April 27, 2012. The article sadly tells us about the record holder dying at the age of 103 on April 23^rd. His specific record was that he had been living with a bullet in his head longer than any other living bulleted person.
What exactly was his record? He was accidentally shot by his older brother in 1917. His record accumulation stopped on April 23^rd at 94 years and 6 months.
The saddest part of all this is the bulleted record holder did not learn he had been crowned the world record holder in the Unwanted Cranial Ammunition Acquisition category until 2006. That means he had only 6 years of being pleased as punch that he was such a special person.
What do you want to bet that this is not the only Foolish Category in the Guinness Book of World Records? That’s why I see this book as silly.
There is one category that I would be so interested in seeing that I might be willing to buy a book myself...

Wanted Cranial Ammunition Acquisition

Those who were willing to shoot themselves in their heads just so they would have a shot at being in the Guinness Book of World Records must be an interesting bunch of people to read about.
Many of you probably think I made up the category of Wanted Cranial Ammunition Acquisition. I think it is safe to say that some of those many are absolutely certain that I made up this category...Or are they?
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Prioritizing Nonsense

Before I get into the meat of this bit of Foolishness allow me to sidetrack myself...
I just read where there are several cities that have been reported as so cash strapped that they may not be able to pay for the upcoming Presidential Election. In case you have never thought about it, think about it, it takes money to set up the apparatus for voters to be able to vote in any election.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/25/us-usa-campaign-elections-idUSBRE83O0YN20120425
It is no surprise that the Once Great City of Detroit is one of those cities. Having lived in the Detroit Area twice, it makes me sad to realize that “Once Great City” is going to be in front of the word “Detroit” for the foreseeable future.
Message from the Smartfella to the Once Great City of Detroit...I know where you can get at least $50,000 to pay for your presidential election.

Above is the sidetrack and below is the meat.

Recently a single issue of my local newspaper had two separate articles that my keen and observant eye noticed were related to each other.
They were both about the Once Great City of Detroit...
First Article: Detroit currently faces a $200 Million deficit and a $13.2 Billion long-term structural debt.
These are some serious numbers. This situation ought to make any city look very closely at any expenditure of money.
This is reality. How does Detroit deal with reality? The answer is Detroit attacks reality with Nonsense!
Second Article: The good people of Detroit have set aside $50,000 to erect a statue of RoboCop. (What do you want to bet it will cost a lot more than $50,000 before it is done?)
Is this what a city in dire straits ought to be spending its money on? ...

A statue to a Fictional Crime-Fighting Cyborg?

The movie was described in the article as, “A 1980s movie set in a futuristic and crime ridden Detroit”.
Dear reader, we have seen the future and the future is now but RoboCop can’t help because, no matter how much he costs, he can’t get off his pedestal and go around fixing things.
The people of the Once Great City of Detroit ought to know this.
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If George Zimmerman Can’t ... Does That Mean I Can?

I see were the Conditions of Release for George Zimmerman are...

• He can’t have any Guns.
• He can’t drink Alcohol.
• He can’t use Illegal Drugs.

I’m sure you see my question. If he has to be specifically told that he can’t use Illegal Drugs, does that mean that under normal circumstances he could use illegal drugs? Carrying this to its logical Foolish conclusion, does that mean it OK for me to use Illegal Drugs?
I have been released for a long time now.
Heck, they have probably forgotten I am out here.
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United Nations Observers

My newspaper tells me that our intrepid United Nations has sent 300 U.N. Observers to Syria. I have a question. What are they there to observe?

For more than a year now the ruler of Syria has had his Security Forces shooting his unhappy people. They may have once been happy people but being shot and killed tends to make most people unhappy.

A truce has been in effect for many days but the shooting seems to be continuing. I wonder if a person who is shot and killed during a truce is less dead than a person who is shot and killed before the truce was declared.

The Smartfella does not want to be too critical but I think the U.N. is guilty of not being explicit enough about what their observers are supposed to observe.

Syrian Security Forces General’s announcement to his troops:

It appears that the United Nations is interested in observing how we kill our minions. Three hundred U.N. Observers have started arriving in Syria. Go get ‘em boys! Show them how good we are at doing what we are trained to do.

Strother Martin told Paul Newman in 1967 in Cool Hand Luke, "What we've got here is failure to communicate".

The U.N. should have explained that the observers are there to observe people standing upright and not to observe them falling down dead.

Want to read more of my nonsense about Syria? Click below to read what I blogged on January 19, 2012...

http://forii.blogspot.com/2012/01/its-got-to-be-worst-than-you-think.html

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Getting To Full Employment Quickly

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Chapel Hill, NC has come up with a plan of action that could get everyone in this country employed in no time at all.

They are banning all electronic device usage while driving. This means no texting and no cell phone use. When they say No Cell Phones they mean No Cell Phones. This includes all Hands-Free cell phones.

The Smartfella thinks the No Hands-Free aspect of this law is going to be tricky to enforce. How will a ticket-at-the-ready officer be able to tell if driver is talking through his car (like me) or with one of those little earpieces? I see only one possible way to make this enforcement policy work...

A bureaucrat is going to have to be stationed in every car in Chapel Hill to make sure that there is no Hands-Free Tomfoolery going on inside moving cars.

Expand this Bureaucratic Stationing nationwide and, there you have it, Full Employment!

Heck, our 9% approval rating Congress just might have to institute a Bureaucrat Guest Worker Importation Program.

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We Have A Great Product But It Has One Little Problem

My newspaper is talking to me again.

This time it told me about a Solar Panel Company that was worth $20 Billion in 2008 but, as of last week, it is only worth $2 Billion.

It has had several setbacks recently, not the least of which has to do with the company’s need to make higher warranty provisions because its solar modules may suffer “increased failure rates in hot climates”.

Silly me, I thought solar panels were supposed to be specifically designed to be installed where there was a lot of sun and a lot of heat.

Many of you know that in the real world I enjoyed a very successful mediocre automotive career. I once knew all about cars. I can tell you for certain that the Chief Design Engineer who came to the Chairman of the Board with the following statement would not have been The Chief much longer...

Sir, I can assure you that this revolutionary vehicle we have developed will get 257 miles per gallon. The only problem is it shuts down when it gets in the vicinity of asphalt.

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