You must go and check out my oldest friend in the world's blog.
Escape From Peoria
If you read it, maybe he will write more.
(don't push him too hard, though - he's in the process of getting his MBA, and he's coming to the Mountain Redoubt in a couple of weeks, so cut him some slack, gentle readers)...
30 November 2007
27 November 2007
Almost not my week
So my favorite Collegiate football team gets deservedly squished by the all time rival...
My personal favorite on Dancing with the Stars loses out...
(related) I never thought, in my wildest dreams that I'd ever root for a Spice Girl (and a Russian!)...
Got a weird "ghost in the machine" in the network at my work...
and, it's only Tuesday.
But... it is finally snowing...
Praise be to Crom, Buddah, Allah, Muhammad (PBUH), Mr. Jesus H. Christ, Yaweh, Gaia, Earth Mother Goddess, Jehovah, Little Baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph, Zeus, Odin, Ullir, Jupiter, the Zoroastrian god, Krishna, Kali, Vishnu, take your pick of various Shinto deities - and any of the other ones I left out. Please keep it up.
Crazed American, out.
My personal favorite on Dancing with the Stars loses out...
(related) I never thought, in my wildest dreams that I'd ever root for a Spice Girl (and a Russian!)...
Got a weird "ghost in the machine" in the network at my work...
and, it's only Tuesday.
But... it is finally snowing...
Praise be to Crom, Buddah, Allah, Muhammad (PBUH), Mr. Jesus H. Christ, Yaweh, Gaia, Earth Mother Goddess, Jehovah, Little Baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph, Zeus, Odin, Ullir, Jupiter, the Zoroastrian god, Krishna, Kali, Vishnu, take your pick of various Shinto deities - and any of the other ones I left out. Please keep it up.
Crazed American, out.
24 November 2007
Hail Alma Mater Dear...
No, not that one. Army plays Navy Next week.
FSU v Florida.
Ugly game, made all the worse by CBS commentators practical verbal fellatio of Tim Teabow.
FSU lost. Florida has a decent team. Something makes me think that the more the media builds up Saint Tim "Second Coming of Christ and all around good human being, protector of lost children and champion of feeble people" Teabow (PBUH), the larger chance there is that the rest of the Florida team may begin to resent it, or (Heaven forbid) the All Hallowed TT begins to believe the hype.
Don't get me wrong - he's good, probably the best College Quarterback I've seen in a long time, but he's not perfect. Couple of times, FSU's defense was able to rattle him up, but Florida's admittedly formidable offensive line beat them back and gave the "Son of a Saviour" a bit of breathing room.
Next time I watch the FSU Florida game with the sound muted, Metallica blaring in the background.
Good Game - sh-tty commentary - Tim Teabow did not win that game by himself (although he certainly helped the process along - Florida's whole squad showed up and PLAYED. Next year will probably suck as well for us Noles, but still - Go 'Noles! Seminole Pride and all.
Cismesia - scored all of FSU's points - plus that un-fu-kin' believable 60 yard FG... get that man another donut (Krispy Creme's on West Tennessee St in Tallahassee - they probably know him by name)) to add to the potbelly (or as Moose likes to say: "a kicker's physique"). He's worth it.
So it's a little more subdued tonight at the Mountain Redoubt (the Seminole Flag flys at half staff - Old Glory flies as high as ever)...
Crazed American, Out.
PS - Crazed American and Princess Crazed American got our first day on mountain today. Tomorrow is day 2.
Crom be praised.
FSU v Florida.
Ugly game, made all the worse by CBS commentators practical verbal fellatio of Tim Teabow.
FSU lost. Florida has a decent team. Something makes me think that the more the media builds up Saint Tim "Second Coming of Christ and all around good human being, protector of lost children and champion of feeble people" Teabow (PBUH), the larger chance there is that the rest of the Florida team may begin to resent it, or (Heaven forbid) the All Hallowed TT begins to believe the hype.
Don't get me wrong - he's good, probably the best College Quarterback I've seen in a long time, but he's not perfect. Couple of times, FSU's defense was able to rattle him up, but Florida's admittedly formidable offensive line beat them back and gave the "Son of a Saviour" a bit of breathing room.
Next time I watch the FSU Florida game with the sound muted, Metallica blaring in the background.
Good Game - sh-tty commentary - Tim Teabow did not win that game by himself (although he certainly helped the process along - Florida's whole squad showed up and PLAYED. Next year will probably suck as well for us Noles, but still - Go 'Noles! Seminole Pride and all.
Cismesia - scored all of FSU's points - plus that un-fu-kin' believable 60 yard FG... get that man another donut (Krispy Creme's on West Tennessee St in Tallahassee - they probably know him by name)) to add to the potbelly (or as Moose likes to say: "a kicker's physique"). He's worth it.
So it's a little more subdued tonight at the Mountain Redoubt (the Seminole Flag flys at half staff - Old Glory flies as high as ever)...
Crazed American, Out.
PS - Crazed American and Princess Crazed American got our first day on mountain today. Tomorrow is day 2.
Crom be praised.
14 November 2007
Cost of Oil
Quick note on my thoughts on the price of oil:
I think this sucks - we are criticized for "fighting for oil", yet we are criticized when the price shoots through the roof.
The USA suffers through these high oil prices at the whim of the global market.
Oil Prices could be dropped significantly if we explored for and tapped our own, not inconsiderable oil supplies.
Brazil just announced that they have a supply of oil larger than that of Saudi Arabia...
In a sum - there is far more oil than some would like for you to believe. I remember Ms. Falk's kindergarten class at Herbrich Elementary School in Fairlawn, OH, back when Jimmy Carter ruled the roost, and it said that "by the late 1990's there won't be any more oil"
...and we were going into an ice age
...and we'd be able to take vacations on the moon
...and we'd have a colony on Mars
...and we'd have flying cars
The Price of gasoline, on the other hand is directly affected by the refinery capacity of any given nation and the world, for that matter. Here in the US there ain't been a refinery built in, what, 30 years?
So if we built a few more refineries and drilled for some of own oil, we'd be fine, right?
Wrong - this is all an effect of the Global Economy (which I am thinking might not be such a good thing). We'd first have to divest ourselves of the global economy and begin production of all of the things we get from overseas - t-shirts, electronics, toys, etc. That would cripple the lower developing countries of the planet where all of the cheap labor resides.
Globalism is raising the standard of living in the developing countries and lowering the standard of living in the developing countries, so we are all heading for a rather mediocre stabilising point, economically. I, for one, being the Crazed American and an unapologetic nationalist, do not want to see that happen.
"Good Fences make Good Neighbors" - - someone once said...
That's all right now-
Crazed American, out.
I think this sucks - we are criticized for "fighting for oil", yet we are criticized when the price shoots through the roof.
The USA suffers through these high oil prices at the whim of the global market.
Oil Prices could be dropped significantly if we explored for and tapped our own, not inconsiderable oil supplies.
Brazil just announced that they have a supply of oil larger than that of Saudi Arabia...
In a sum - there is far more oil than some would like for you to believe. I remember Ms. Falk's kindergarten class at Herbrich Elementary School in Fairlawn, OH, back when Jimmy Carter ruled the roost, and it said that "by the late 1990's there won't be any more oil"
...and we were going into an ice age
...and we'd be able to take vacations on the moon
...and we'd have a colony on Mars
...and we'd have flying cars
The Price of gasoline, on the other hand is directly affected by the refinery capacity of any given nation and the world, for that matter. Here in the US there ain't been a refinery built in, what, 30 years?
So if we built a few more refineries and drilled for some of own oil, we'd be fine, right?
Wrong - this is all an effect of the Global Economy (which I am thinking might not be such a good thing). We'd first have to divest ourselves of the global economy and begin production of all of the things we get from overseas - t-shirts, electronics, toys, etc. That would cripple the lower developing countries of the planet where all of the cheap labor resides.
Globalism is raising the standard of living in the developing countries and lowering the standard of living in the developing countries, so we are all heading for a rather mediocre stabilising point, economically. I, for one, being the Crazed American and an unapologetic nationalist, do not want to see that happen.
"Good Fences make Good Neighbors" - - someone once said...
That's all right now-
Crazed American, out.
Thoughts
Got a few quick snippets of thought / opinion to throw out there:
1) Pakistan - Attn: General Musharraf and Ms. Bhutto - both of you need to take a step back and talk about things. You are a nuclear armed nation and I'm afraid the Crazed American and a billion Indians (not to mention a billion or so Screamin' Red Chinese) are paying real close attention to your arguments. General, I know for face saving reasons you can't speak openly with her, so call her on a damn cell phone. Work it out already. I say again, you're making me (a non nuclear power) and The Indians (a nuclear power that hates you anyway) and the Chinese (those nuclear armed people downwind for fallout purposes) are all getting nervous the longer your little power shuffle takes. Talk amongst yourselves, or kill the other one - just get it done and please be a tad more stable in the future.
2) Iraq - seems to be going a little better. I fervently hope for continued success in the future.
3) Iran - got a lot more quiet out of them since Israel showed the Syrians that Russian Air Defence Artillery systems are still overpriced and under effective. The silence is 'a- thunderous"
4) I can't stand Hillary Rodham Clinton. Barack Obama seems to be an old fashioned naive socialist, but he can give a good speech. John Edwards is laughable. Which takes us to:
5) Republican Candidates - I'm not thrilled with Rudolph Giuliani, or Mitt Romney (due to their questionable records on Second Amendment issues - I like both of them much more than I like HRC). Still like Fred Thompson, but I do wish he'd up the intensity of his campaign, just a little. Ron Paul is not my cup of tea, but again, if it was him vs. Hillary, it'd be him.
6) The United States Congress (Democratic Leadership) - what a bunch of whining, ineffectual losers. Will their Bush Derangement Syndrome extend to the next President of the United States if he is a Republican?
7) Jeb Bush candidacy in 2012 - I for one am a tad tired of the whole Clinton - Bush thing. You mean to tell me that in a country of almost 400,000,000, there aren't more than two families who can put people up to run effectively for president? This will go doubly true if Hillary wins the White House in Nov 08.
8) Illegal Immigration - still a major problem, still nothing done. Simple, step - shut the damn border down (like any other country on the face of the earth). Set up plenty of legal ports of entry. Guest worker program or expand the current visa programs. Then deal with addressing those currently in country.
9) Taxes - something has got to be done to streamline the US Tax code. Flat tax, consumption tax, whatever. Real progress has to be made on this issue
10) US Debt - something has GOT to be done. The budget has got to be set so there can be some debt relief, and soon. Attention US government, if you do not have the revenue for a program, cut the damn program. If the debt went down, the rest of the world might stop their flight from the US dollar which is making it more expensive for every American to live. If the American economy collapses, then the world economy isn't going to do that much better.
Here's a plan:
After Bush's tax cuts, US federal revenue is around $2,000,000,000,000 per year. Decide that the US government will spend $600,000,000,000 on debt reduction, cap expenditures on defense at $500,000,000,000, spend $600,000,000,000 on Social Security, and run the rest of the government on $300,000,000,000. No more deficits. If some bureaucrats have to lose their jobs, sorry. I'd also incentivize budget reduction inside the federal government. Let's say a manager of a department in the Health and Human Services department can figure out a way to reduce his budget by $2,000,000 per year, while still doing the department's job. I'd throw that bureaucrat a bonus of 1% of the savings - that's $20,000 he gets - tax free.
Somethings got to give - I just hope it's the debt and not the overall American economy.
Well, that's all I've got at the moment. Thanks for reading this today.
Crazed American, out.
1) Pakistan - Attn: General Musharraf and Ms. Bhutto - both of you need to take a step back and talk about things. You are a nuclear armed nation and I'm afraid the Crazed American and a billion Indians (not to mention a billion or so Screamin' Red Chinese) are paying real close attention to your arguments. General, I know for face saving reasons you can't speak openly with her, so call her on a damn cell phone. Work it out already. I say again, you're making me (a non nuclear power) and The Indians (a nuclear power that hates you anyway) and the Chinese (those nuclear armed people downwind for fallout purposes) are all getting nervous the longer your little power shuffle takes. Talk amongst yourselves, or kill the other one - just get it done and please be a tad more stable in the future.
2) Iraq - seems to be going a little better. I fervently hope for continued success in the future.
3) Iran - got a lot more quiet out of them since Israel showed the Syrians that Russian Air Defence Artillery systems are still overpriced and under effective. The silence is 'a- thunderous"
4) I can't stand Hillary Rodham Clinton. Barack Obama seems to be an old fashioned naive socialist, but he can give a good speech. John Edwards is laughable. Which takes us to:
5) Republican Candidates - I'm not thrilled with Rudolph Giuliani, or Mitt Romney (due to their questionable records on Second Amendment issues - I like both of them much more than I like HRC). Still like Fred Thompson, but I do wish he'd up the intensity of his campaign, just a little. Ron Paul is not my cup of tea, but again, if it was him vs. Hillary, it'd be him.
6) The United States Congress (Democratic Leadership) - what a bunch of whining, ineffectual losers. Will their Bush Derangement Syndrome extend to the next President of the United States if he is a Republican?
7) Jeb Bush candidacy in 2012 - I for one am a tad tired of the whole Clinton - Bush thing. You mean to tell me that in a country of almost 400,000,000, there aren't more than two families who can put people up to run effectively for president? This will go doubly true if Hillary wins the White House in Nov 08.
8) Illegal Immigration - still a major problem, still nothing done. Simple, step - shut the damn border down (like any other country on the face of the earth). Set up plenty of legal ports of entry. Guest worker program or expand the current visa programs. Then deal with addressing those currently in country.
9) Taxes - something has got to be done to streamline the US Tax code. Flat tax, consumption tax, whatever. Real progress has to be made on this issue
10) US Debt - something has GOT to be done. The budget has got to be set so there can be some debt relief, and soon. Attention US government, if you do not have the revenue for a program, cut the damn program. If the debt went down, the rest of the world might stop their flight from the US dollar which is making it more expensive for every American to live. If the American economy collapses, then the world economy isn't going to do that much better.
Here's a plan:
After Bush's tax cuts, US federal revenue is around $2,000,000,000,000 per year. Decide that the US government will spend $600,000,000,000 on debt reduction, cap expenditures on defense at $500,000,000,000, spend $600,000,000,000 on Social Security, and run the rest of the government on $300,000,000,000. No more deficits. If some bureaucrats have to lose their jobs, sorry. I'd also incentivize budget reduction inside the federal government. Let's say a manager of a department in the Health and Human Services department can figure out a way to reduce his budget by $2,000,000 per year, while still doing the department's job. I'd throw that bureaucrat a bonus of 1% of the savings - that's $20,000 he gets - tax free.
Somethings got to give - I just hope it's the debt and not the overall American economy.
Well, that's all I've got at the moment. Thanks for reading this today.
Crazed American, out.
09 November 2007
Almost a month
Since my last post.
Fear not, loyal reader(s). The Crazed American toils mightily at for a new employer.
So far, this Crazed American is far happier than at the previous employer. I actually have been able to shut my cell phone off at night. This, alone is fabulous.
Also, I volunteered to come in this Saturday to swap out a UPS on our corporate core switches. They suggested that I not trouble myself, and wait until Monday, during business hours. Huzzah!
I'm still going to do it on Saturday, Mrs. Crazed American and the Little Crazed American have an appointment, so I can come in and do it.
Should only take 5 minutes (knock on wood). We'll see...
By the way, the Crazed American will try to discourse on the state of world affairs sometime this weekend, although Brother Moose is planning a bash at his new casa on Saturday afternoon, so we shall see.
Also, the Crazed American plans on offering to Crom this weekend, in the hopes that he deigns to drop us some white stuff (snow) on the Mountain Redoubt this weekend. I will be sad if I do not have to shovel the driveway this weekend.
Also, happy Veteran's Day - early!
Crazed American, out.
Fear not, loyal reader(s). The Crazed American toils mightily at for a new employer.
So far, this Crazed American is far happier than at the previous employer. I actually have been able to shut my cell phone off at night. This, alone is fabulous.
Also, I volunteered to come in this Saturday to swap out a UPS on our corporate core switches. They suggested that I not trouble myself, and wait until Monday, during business hours. Huzzah!
I'm still going to do it on Saturday, Mrs. Crazed American and the Little Crazed American have an appointment, so I can come in and do it.
Should only take 5 minutes (knock on wood). We'll see...
By the way, the Crazed American will try to discourse on the state of world affairs sometime this weekend, although Brother Moose is planning a bash at his new casa on Saturday afternoon, so we shall see.
Also, the Crazed American plans on offering to Crom this weekend, in the hopes that he deigns to drop us some white stuff (snow) on the Mountain Redoubt this weekend. I will be sad if I do not have to shovel the driveway this weekend.
Also, happy Veteran's Day - early!
Crazed American, out.
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