One More Ad

Just in case you're still undecided who to vote for, and there is a chance that just one more freaking ad will cause you to help shift the election and change the world, I give you:


If you know who that is, then you probably think this is funny, or at least understand it.

No matter who wins tomorrow, we all lose. Welcome to the end of the empire. Cheerful SOB ain't I?

Regardless I wish someone would play this clip for congress and the president every time they try to enact any one of the campaign promisses they made.

Thanks

Thanks for hanging around and checking in. There are 25 of you that still stop by every day to check on me. I appreciate it. Nothings changed in my life and I'm getting by on pick up consulting work. Anyway, I'm pleased that you still come by even if I haven't been up to a post in a month.

The Bail Out...

I think its crap.

This works out to about $400,000 per person over the age of 18 in this country. I don't owe $400,000 on my house. How about this for a mortgage bail out, pay off every mortgage in the country up to the $400,000 limit. That would free up some major cash for American families. After all that's who this is for right, American families. No mortgage payments means no default crisis.

Of course I don't favor the nation going even deeper in debt and its no ones responsibility to pay off their debt other than their own. Which makes me wonder, whose responsibility is it to make good investments? Who makes the profit when those investments are sound? Conversely who should take the hit when they go south? If you answered the investor keeps the profits when they make them and the tax payers foot the bill when they go in the crapper; congratulations you have what it takes to go to an ivy league school and run an investment bank, or congress.

We need a man like Calvin Coolidge again.

"I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we prudently save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical form."

Calvin Coolidge

UPDATE

Man did I screw up the math on this. The error was caused by my not paying attention to which data set I was using from the census bureau. I compounded my mistake by screwing up the formula I typed in excel. The break down should be:

US HOUSEHOLDS Age 25 to 65 by household status buying a home = 46,380,000
DUMB IDEA FOR A BAILOUT = $700,000,000
AVERAGE COST PER HOUSEHOLD = $15,092.71
30 YEAR GOV BOND (today's quote from Bloomberg) 4.50%
TOTAL COST OVER 30 YEARS $27,561.21 per household

I majorly screwed that up. I'm not changing the post, you can all see the mistake. My bad. It doesn't change the fact that this bailout is a really really bad idea. Kudos to Giraffe for catching my error.

Job Search, Govt Business Oportunity

Honorable Secretary of Agriculture
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

My friend, Ed Peterson, over at Wells, Iowa, received a check for $1,000 from the government for not raising hogs. So, I want to go into the "not raising hogs" business next year.

What I want to know is, in your opinion, what is the best kind of farm not to raise hogs on, and what is the best breed of hogs not to raise? I want to be sure that I approach this endeavor in keeping with all governmental policies. I would prefer not to raise razorbacks, but if that is not a good breed not to raise, then I will just as gladly not raise Yorkshires or Durocs.

As I see it, the hardest part of this program will be in keeping an accurate inventory of how many hogs I haven't raised.

My friend, Peterson, is very joyful about the future of the business. He has been raising hogs for twenty years or so, and the best he ever made on them was $422 in 1968, until this year when he got your check for $1,000 for not raising hogs.

If I get $1,000 for not raising 50 hogs, will I get $2,000 for not raising 100 hogs? I plan to operate on a small scale at first, holding myself down to about 4,000 hogs not raised, which will mean about $80,000 the first year. Then I can afford an airplane.

Now another thing, these hogs I will not raise will not eat 100,000 bushels of corn. I understand that you also pay farmers for not raising corn and wheat. Will I qualify for payments for not raising wheat and corn not to feed the 4,000 hogs I am not going to raise?

Also, I am considering the "not milking cows" business, so send me any information you have on that too.

In view of these circumstances, you understand that I will be totally unemployed and plan to file for unemployment and food stamps.

Be assured you will have my vote in the coming election.

Patriotically Yours,

PS: Would you please notify me when you plan to distribute more free cheese.

Biblical Headlines

If Biblical Headlines were written by today's liberal media...

On Red Sea crossing:
WETLANDS TRAMPLED IN LABOR STRIKE
Pursuing Environmentalists Killed

On David vs. Goliath:
HATE CRIME KILLS BELOVED CHAMPION
Psychologist Questions Influence of Rock

On Elijah on Mt. Carmel:
FIRE SENDS RELIGIOUS RIGHT EXTREMIST INTO FRENZY
400 Killed

On the birth of Christ:
HOTELS FULL, ANIMALS LEFT HOMELESS
Animal Rights Activists Enraged by Insensitive Couple

On feeding the 5,000:
PREACHER STEALS CHILD'S LUNCH
Disciples Mystified Over Behavior

On healing the 10 lepers:
LOCAL DOCTOR'S PRACTICE RUINED
"Faith Healer" Causes Bankruptcy

On healing of the Gadarene demoniac:
MADMAN'S FRIEND CAUSES STAMPEDE
Local Farmer's Investment Lost

On raising Lazarus from the dead:
FUNDAMENTALIST PREACHER RAISES A STINK
Will Reading to be Delayed

Received from Andy Maslin.

Getting in the Beaver

This is a "beaver". This one was built in 1947. I should have taken a picture of the still mostly original cock-pit. Bush pilots still use them to land on lakes. This is what I was doing on the lake.
This is part of the reason no one has heard a peep out of me for weeks. The other reasons being that game I posted about taking up my online time and I've been in a major funk over the job situation. I thought I had the perfect job lined up and was 99% sure it was mine only to have them decided to try to find someone more qualified. Fishing is more interesting, than my whining. My dad had one of those birthdays that end in a zero this year and my brother and I took him on a fly in fishing trip in Northwest Ontario as a present.

Those are walleye if you can't make them out. The biggest one is only about 24 inches and apx 3lbs. Those are all I caught that night. I also caught a few pike. The fishing was ok. I've done much better with an outfitter that costs a whole lot less than this one and who does a much better job taking care of his customers. I shouldn't complain since this was my first trip to Canada in 8 years. I used to get to go at least once a year but since moving to Wyoming I haven't got to fish like I used to.

A good time was had by all except the fish, whom we ate many of every day.