Middle East Country buys Port Management Company

First, what makes you think we are safe now from Terrorism at our Ports? Do you really think it will be more or less safe if the United Arab Emirates takes over?

And second, with our energy hogging ways coupled with our gutless energy policy, where do you think all the money is going? What do you think they are going to do with all that money? We are selling America one tank of gas at a time. We are selling out children's future. All because we won't face the basics with regard to energy.

Guantomino Bay

Guantomino Bay
What’s the plan in Guantomino Bay. Is the plan to keep the prisoners there without due process of law until they die or until Jehovah Bush dies? Which is it? Doesn’t anyone in America, the once noble republic, care about due process of law?

Don’t give me the crap about it only applying to American Citizens. It’s a concept that applies to every human on the planet. Unless, of course, that you believe Americans are a super people, the basic Nazis approach. To say that our concepts do not apply to all mankind is to make a mockery of all of our noble beliefs. It proves Big Bin’s statement that we are tyrants that make up the rules as we do along. We are self-serving and really believe in nothing. Look’s like Bin has us on this one.

In a way, Bin was a test. Bin is a test. A test to find out if we have any real principles left in America – or are we fat cats just living on our remaining wealth and military power. The end of America won’t come from a military defeat, it will come when there are not enough of us left that care about the principles that made this country great. America is dying, one day at a time, in Guantomino Bay.

Government Should Resale the Drugs

TUCSON, Arizona (AP) -- Federal agents have seized nearly $5 million in illegal drugs this week on the border in the Nogales area, authorities said.

The above was the headlines this week. Now the question is, what should they do with the drugs. Destroy them?

Plan A. What is the effect of destroying the drugs. It removes them from the street, potentially putting upward pressure on the prices. Higher prices increases the incentive for others to enter the trade. The more drugs taken off the street, the more incentive for new drug entrepreneurs.

Plan B. The government should resale the drugs. Check them for safety, that they are good quality drugs. Put a seal on them verifying their quality. They could even mark them up some because of the seal. Putting the drug back on the street has several important effects: 1) it keeps the supply of drugs constant, 2) the police make money to fight drugs, and 3) it cuts the drug dealers out of their revenue. In short, apply this system effectively and it makes drug selling unprofitable.

Well, what about the people using the drugs. Well, for the most part, they just keep on using the drugs. Demand is inelastic meaning the demand is not altered much by price. In either case, whether the police put the drugs back on the street or not, the use of drugs is not altered. Temporarily there could be a lowering of inventories, but drug supplies will soon make more to fix the shortfall in inventory to make sure it doesn’t impact their customers.

Ok, Plan A is what we have been trying for 30 plus years. It’s called the Drug War. We have proven that it doesn’t work. Of course, the other half is that we treat people with a drug problem like criminals, unless they are alcoholics, in which case we name clinics after them.

Our Drug War is the Definition of Stupid

Stupid. What is the definition of stupid. When you keep doing the same thing and expecting a different result; that is the definition of stupid. Drug Wars. Have you noticed that there are tunnels going from Mexico to the U.S. in the news. Have you noticed that billions of dollars are spent each year on pot dispite billions of dollars spent trying to stop it. Have you noticed that this has been going on for 40 plus years. We keep doing the same thing for 40 years and expecting a differnt result and somehow we are amazed that we get the same result.

Do you know what a proportional control is? Say you want to control the amount of water being pumped into a tank. You have a level control that reads the differnece between the tank being full, where you want it, and the actual level. the bigger the differnce, the more the value is opened to allow water into the tank. Drugs. Pot. People want them. when you disrupt the supply, the demand goes up. the proportional controller notices the gap between supply and demand and opens up the valve. Close down a tunnel, the price of drugs go up, and another 10 tunnels are dug. In reality, most drugs are just brought over on cars going across the border legally.

So, what is the drug war all about. More than half of American adults have tried pot. Should we put them all in prision, or continue to just put the poor and minorities in prison. The Great Wall of Mexico, perhaps that would fix it. Rememeber the proportional controller. Remember the definition of being stupid.

Our drup policy is stupid. We are stupid. We somehow are unable to stop the pattern. What amazes me is that we just keep doing the same thing year after year. I guess being amazed year after year, means that I am stupid -- it fits the definition. But, what about our system lets something continue that makes no sense. Is it the hypocritical nature of religion forcing itself upon our culture, our national vaules? Or, is it just plain dishonesty?

Guess how we end the insanity. We make pot legal. And the world ends, is that you think? Life as as we know it ends. No. Nothing happens. It is already happening. People already smoke pot. Dua. We smoke pots and we put blacks in jail for our sins. A sin that we create by our laws. Change the law, and it is no longer a sin. Perhaps a few less tunnels will be built. Perhaps less black will rot in prison. Perhaps the level of honesty in the Universe will increase. Probably not.

Stupidity, self righteousness as been around for a long time. It is probably too much to expect it to change.

Exxon the Great

Exxon just made the biggest profit of any company in the history of the known universe, something like 31 billion last quarter. I say great. They did their job, they optimized the return for their shareholders. I started buying shares of Exxon ten years ago and they have contributed to my oldest daughter’s college education and will contribute to my youngest daughter education soon. Thank you Exxon. Thank you BP. Thank you, Occidental. I love you.

If Exxon played by the rules and won big, then more power to them. The excessive profits tax is just plain stupid. Popular, but stupid. I refuse to discuss it, its so stupid. One of the few times, I am glad that Jehovah Bush is the reigning King of Macho America.

What is stupid is our total disregard for the FACT that WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF CHEAP ENERGY. Our politicians have no guts for the truth. The only energy supply that is sufficient to keep us going for the next hundred years is Nuclear. Second choice is coal. Third choice is mass transit – go to the moon mass-transit, not lets build another monorail between Baltimore and Washington mass transit. We are out of easy answers, no-effort answers, no-consequence answers. But, even worse, the cost of doing nothing, i.e., the current policy, is a dramatic fall in our living standard as we all fight for declining oil production. China will win that fight. Look at their cash reserves, put a negative sign on it, and it equals our cash reserves. We are stupid and lack vision and leadership. We want easy answers and there are none. We lack the moral fiber to even address the issue honestly.

Oil reserves in Alaska. Stupid. It doesn’t matter. Spit in the air, that’s how much difference it will make if we drill in Alaska in the bigger picture of things. Oil supply is in decline, nothing we can do to change that. The supply is going down and the buyers are increasing – China, India, Asia, South America, Texans.

Hydrogen power. Again, somewhat stupid. Hydrogen is similar to electricity. It is a way of carrying power from point A to point B. But, you have to make the hydrogen using another energy supply. To have hydrogen as the primary focus of our energy policy is just plain stupid, or dishonest. We are all gutless idiots in this debate.

Does it mean things are hopeless. No, only as long as we remain stupid, gutless idiots. When we get some moral fiber behind us, the courage to be honest, the strength to standup for some unpopular choices, then we have prayer. Until then, we are toast, burnt toast.