Fear for sale. Get your fear here

                                          

A falling meteor. A man eating shark. A terrorist under your bed. Everywhere you turn it's fear fear fear. Pick any place or time or any situation for that matter and fear is all around us. Can't even go to bed without worrying about a sink hole swallowing you up. Or maybe a tree giving up its' roots and crashing through the living room crushing you to death. The bizarre seems commonplace now. Cannibals and pedophile priests roaming the country side looking for their prey. Next thing you know they'll say writing blog posts causes dementia. Hum, they might have a point there.

Clouds darkening overhead? Is it a tornado? A lightening storm? A blizzard waiting to pack a wallop? Will the power go out? Will the river flood it's banks. A tsunami perhaps? Mud slide land slid or volcanic eruption? Or maybe something man made like a nuclear plant meltdown should grace the headlines... film at 11. A robbery, a mugging or drive by shooting is always good for a minute or two. Embezzlement or fleecing old ladies out of their retirement is a quick empathy fix unless it's the dog caught in the drainage pipe or the two year old stuck in the well.

Better not mess with that I know a cousin of a friend of a friend who lost an eye that way. And if all this weren't enough the microscopic sleuths of the media bring up bed bugs, e coli, salmonella and flesh eating bacteria all with new and improved versions. Brush you teeth with lead tainted toothpaste in waters fit to run a car. Weren't those pajamas recalled when somebody went up like a torch? Pollution alert don't go outside except the inside isn't too healthy either with carpets and paneling out gassing and homes sealed up so tight Houdini couldn't get out.

A knock at the door - a robber maybe? A ring of the phone - no I didn't enter your contest and I'm not giving you my credit card number. An email from a loved one - sorry babe I happen to know you aren't locked in a Mexican jail and I won't wire you the bail.

So what's the expression? "You can fool some of the people all of the time..." With fear it's making us all fearless or maybe crass and cynical. So fear not because we all know something will get us in the end. We aren't immortal.   

Who cut the cheese?

                                     
I don't know what this photo has to do with anything but I liked it. Make up your own caption. Maybe the next senator from your state?

UN sanctions for North Korea

Un to discuss new sanctions on North Korea.

(What's left to hold back?)

Snow warning 9 inches possible

(Looks like the midwest got all of our winter or will we get snow in July? Paybacks are hell you know.)

New TV show called "Revenge"

(What ever happened to the altruistic shows like the "Avengers"?)

The Dow blew past it's historic high today

(Watch out, what goes up must come down and there's no real reason it should be this high. Expect a major crash as austerity comes to our shores.)

Apple working on an iWatch

(I just want something that tells the time and not a smart ass that talks back.)

Congress deals with our economic situation.  Not!

(Only votes the last two weeks were to not close tax loopholes. Oh but they did add another U.S. district court judge in NY.)

Weird news

                                      

Man accuses ex-girlfriend of stealing sperm 

(I'll let you make your own joke.) 

In Brazil barbecuing is a form of protest

(Especially when it's the disposed dictator who's getting barbecued)

Rats can communicate with each other via cable

(Wait till they get wifi)

Language police try to ban 'pasta' on Italian restaurant menu in Montreal

(No spaghetti for you frenchy) 

Paris, Diner closed after inspectors find a boiling pot of... (wait for it),,, caterpillars!

(Gad those French will eat anything. I got some slugs in the backyard they can have.)

So remember not to be messing around with any bridges. Go for the drunk overpass. :-)

Friday pussy all locked up

That pesky budget pussy is now in her cage where she belongs. So now what? When the economy continues into its' slow motion train wreck those at the top will surely say "it's not my fault". Oh but it is very much your fault Mr. congressman. You let this happen and we're on to your plan. You're sucking the last ounce of marrow out of this dying soon to be corpse. And you thought there was no such things as zombies. We don't need Cliff notes for this cliffhanger. But maybe quicksand is the better analogy. Slowly getting sucked into the abyss of the afterlife, rather be shot by a terrorists bullet than endure being choked to death. This would make for a fine Halloween horror tale if it wasn't for real. Thoughts of Simon Legree and Slidley Whiplash come to mind but they're too cartoonish for this main feature. Don't think it's not coming to a country near you. It's just a matter of time. Look at Greece. Look at Spain. Look at Ireland and you'll see what the future holds. Notice a rise in crime? Now multiply that when cops get laid off and "Escape from NY" won't seem like such a fantasy.



So there you have it the spin it to win it lame stream media has neatly covered their tracks. You'll see no protests marches on their squeaky clean freshly scrubbed airwaves unless it's corporations whining about lower profits in the forth quarter. And who cares when they already made off with your pension and are now going for your medical and any gold fillings you might have? I'd wonder how much a cadaver is worth at the local medical school but I don't want to give them any ideas.

Can't speak the truth because no good deed goes unpunished. Now get back to work. Oh that's right you don't have a job either. Okay then carry on.

Bank fails later.
UPDATE: No fails this week.

Still busy

While I wait for life's usual way of getting in the way of fun some more fluff to fill your day.


Hey it beats elevator music. No?

Wed. funnies

Some Wed. funnies for your viewing pleasure. Busy right now. If I'm not back by Fri. send a rescue pussy squad would ya?

XL and I don't mean men's big and tall

                                     

I always thought conservatism meant to conserve to be frugal with ones resources. How diametrically opposed the republican party seems to be with that way of thinking. They were the ones who came up with the slogan "drill baby drill". And it's been the U.S. policy to do just that over the last 10 or 15 years. Our oil supply has increased substantially in spite of what they'd have us believe.   But what people fail to realize is that the building of the Keystone pipeline will have risks and potential damage to our environment that far outweigh the benefits.  The initial economic impact will be the creation of some construction jobs and maybe some maintenance positions later but the bulk of the profits will not be seen here in the U.S. but by foreign companies who have a strangle hold on the world's oil supply. I suspect that little if any of this oil will see the light of day in our country but be shipped to ports in China and other developing countries. It is after all dirty cheap oil. And there in lies another problem the pollution generated by burning this oil in China where environmental laws are lax. I can't think of a time when our factories here were required to shut down because the air pollution was so bad. It's estimated that a great deal of our air pollution on the west coast comes from China. One can only imagine what this is doing to the oceans as well. 

Another thing about this oil from what I'm hearing is that it's similar to Bunker C oil. For those that don't know Bunker oil is the crap oil that they use to run the oil tankers. It's about as thick as peanut butter and has to be heated to be used. To do an oil clean up you first have to spray it with diesel to break it down. That is after you've scraped the bulk off. It's a very messy job and takes far longer than a regular spill. 

People fail to realize the long term cost benefits of renewable energy and conservation measures. We see renewable energy projects crop here and there and some are even sponsored by the oil companies but this is just lip service to and a mere pittance of what other countries spend. There is no way we can compete with countries like China with things like solar panels because their labor costs are so low. 

Will it be built? I suspect it will, but it's going to take a bit more legal wrangling as more than one state is involved unlike when they built the Alaska pipeline. If you recall the folks in Alaska got so many royalties that they had no taxes and each resident got a check from the oil companies. I don't think that will happen this time around. The oil companies are just too greedy now.

So as they say (or used to) in the trucking business "Keep the shiny side up and the greasy side down".