It has to be time for random thoughts again as it seems that’s all I have right now with little time or energy left to do a lot of research into creating not so random thoughts.
I heard today at one of the local auto garages here near my summer camp that the owner has never had so many high cost repairs to automobiles. I shared with him about my brother-in-law who just laid out $2,800.00 for repairs on a 2007 Ford F-150 truck with little more than 30,000 miles on it.
The Ford dealership where my brother-in-law went said the same thing as the local guy that it was because of the state of Maine now using just calcium chloride to clear the roads in winter. The local guy told me, of which I cannot verify, that environmentalists say the negative effects of calcium chloride are less than that of pulverized sand (after it has been spread and run over by several thousand cars and trucks). Save the damned environment, right?
At what expense! Ever looked around an auto garage at the leftover and used car parts taken out of vehicles? Where to they go? What impact do junk piles and junk yards have on the environment? How much more of the earth do we need to dig up to manufacture more parts? These are parts that normally may last the life of the automobile. They’re being replaced after 2 years.
The local mechanic also told me of trucks and SUVs of 2-5 years of age having to be junked because the calcium chloride has destroyed the frames. What happens to that mass of junk? As they say here in Maine, “Ain’t too friggin smaht if ya ask me!”
Anyone else hearing anything about “excessive consuming”? I’m hearing that in parts of the country – Arizona seems to ring a bell – communities or members of such, are pushing to pass measures that would restrict how much you can “consume”. It seems the Nazis…er, I mean those who act like Nazis, don’t think you and I have a right to buy and use what we will. We’re talking houses, cars, TVs, etc.
One method called for a cap and trade program that would be much like those of our communist politicians who want to control our carbon expenditures. Each person will have consuming credits issued. If they are used up and want more, they can negotiate the purchase of credits from some schmuck who ain’t got a pot to go to the bathroom in.
Comrades! This is good for the Mother Land?
But hang on! I heard a term yesterday I have never heard before – Imputed Income! Obama says, perhaps not directly, that we will have a tax increase if he is elected prime minister. It could be the biggest one ever. It’s slimy enough that those idiots in Congress, who actually could give a rats behind about your bank account, the price of gas, the cost of food, or the amount of taxes you pay, but this slime ball plans on instituting something called “Imputed Income”.
From what I understand, if you make over $75,000.00, you can, come April 15th, write Obamessiah a check for about $50,000.00 for your share of taxes. He vows to steal from the rich and dole out unearned cash to the lazy SOBs who refuse to contribute to our economy. (There is a growing number of believers in distribution of wealth in this country which is a good indication that we have created a bunch of lazy, good for nothing, slobs.)
So what’s this imputed income thing? Well, say for instance you make $50,000.00, you might think, according to the lies of the Obamaman, that your tax load will be less than that of the guy who made $75,000.00 and gave it all to the government. Wrong! Your “imputed income”, which according to the Kremlin-like Congress, has a perceived value much higher than $50,000.00 and therefore you owe the same tax as the guy who earned $75,000.00. Hang on folks! We’re in for a bumpy ride.
So, the U.S. Supreme Court made a ruling in which it defined the Second Amendment. Why are there people who are like Hatey Smurf who all they can offer up in response is that it ain’t nothing, it means nothing and won’t change anything? Dunno? Then why are there people who think happy days are here again and everything is looking brighter everyday? If you figure it out, write a book!
Why is Justice Scalia an idiot in some people’s eyes and Justice Stevens the most intelligent being on the planet? Or vice versa?
Why are all the leaders of the communists, dictatorships and terrorist-sponsoring nations lining up to endorse Sen. Obama? Why do conservatives hate McCain? Why does Bob Barr (libertarian candidate) dislike American troops?
I heard about a high school student who couldn’t or didn’t want to complete his essay as part of his in class work. He simply wrote, “Fu*% You” on his paper and passed it in. The teacher gave him a grade of 7.5 for what he wrote because he spelled it correctly. Evidently, the teacher made comment that had the student included an exclamation point, he would have received a grade of 12.5 percentage points.
Tom Remington
