I don't need no stinkin fashion!

 

Not sure what this blog entry was all about! Perhaps I meant to say that I am no fashion icon. Duh! Cheap shirts, bad haircuts and generic jeans. That's what I've always been about, or in other words, an average guy!

The currency cools while the country bakes!

So, this is how Congress plans to run things from now on?

As an economic cesspool? And, do you all know what that is? It’s a toxic mix of watered down currency, fecal politicians and diseased Wall Streeter’s. Yeech! Now, Standard and Poor has gone and downgraded our currency from AAA to AA+. S&P stated; "The downgrade reflects our opinion that the fiscal consolidation plan that Congress and the administration recently agreed to falls short of what, in our view, would be necessary to stabilize the government's medium-term debt dynamics," S&P said Friday shortly after markets closed for the week. Neither Fitch or Moody have altered their triple-A ratings as of yet.

Meanwhile, Obama and his Congress ‘party on’ like there’s no tomorrow.

Let’s see…August may be hotter, but with more rain!

You know, this crazy weather could just get interesting. July was just plain hot with only a smidgeon of precipitation (1.37 inches) falling here in Forsyth, Mo. Now, August looks to be even more ‘exciting’ if that’s the word, with mostly hundred degree days AND plenty of rain. So, I’m getting this vision in my head of a mid western tropical rain forest setting complete with exotic birds and maybe a few crocodiles thrown in for fun! Now, I’m no expert, but aren’t those the kind of conditions that you find in an Amazon rain forest? Gee, can we also expect an upswing in diseases like dengue fever and malaria? Will three inch cockroaches become common like they are in the Louisiana swamps? Canada! You’re looking better and better to me every year.

At some point, things just have to get back to normal here in the Midwest. I think a ‘normal high’ for August would be in the mid eighties and a ‘normal low’ sixty something. Certainly, not this 103°F furnace crap combined with sweltering nightly lows of around 78°F. I’m just happy that I don’t live in Texas where things are considerably worst. It’s hot and dry there. If anything grows down there this year, I’ll bet it had the ending ‘tus after it. As in cactus!

Where are these guys when we need them?

Scientists Find Evidence of Water on Mars

Scientists may have found signs that salt water exists on Mars, which would be one of the biggest clues yet that life possibly exists on the planet. At a NASA news conference on Thursday, they announced the discovery of dozens of slopes across the planet's southern hemisphere. When Mars gets warm, the slopes appear in the form of dark streaks that expand downhill, and then the streaks disappear during the cold season, when water presumably freezes up. They believe the streaks signify a salty, syrupy-like water running on or below the planet's surface, and have counted as many as 1,000 possible streams flowing down from the planet's Newton Crater and into a basin. "If we confirm that it is a salty water, then we have the best idea yet about where to go to try to find extant life on Mars,” said the lead author of the study.

Unfortunately, it appears that any future discoveries will have to be funded by a country other than the US.  We can’t even make it to the space station on our own at this point…

Stocks take a dive while the rest of the world watches!

The last couple of days have seen our American stock market take a real tumble. Investors everywhere are understandably very nervous about the news coming out of Washington as concerns the budget and state of our economy. Many feel that just because the debt ceiling was raised, that fact has not altered the ongoing train wreck that is an economic reality for many.

Like a house of cards that was poorly constructed, the world hedge funds are listing to port and threaten to collapse in response to the slightest ill wind. That's pretty much as I see it. We’re all watching and waiting for the next blunder to come out of Washington DC. I’m sure it won’t be a very long wait. One point to consider, we have Obama at the controls for yet another year!

Please don't tell Obama...

Random Thoughts for August 2011

Is it hot enough for you yet?

With temperatures expected to crack the century mark by a good margin for the next week or so, some climate enthusiasts are asking where the hell Al Gore is. Surely it’s time for at least one victory lap before we all turn to toast!

Train Track Therapy! Myth or Fact?

Ignoring the red-and-white danger sign, Sri Mulyati walks slowly to the train tracks outside Indonesia's bustling capital of Jakarta, lies down and stretches her body across the rails.

Like the nearly dozen others lined up along the track, the 50-year-old diabetes patient has all but given up on doctors and can't afford the expensive medicines they prescribe. In her mind, she has only one option left: electric therapy.

"I'll keep doing this until I'm completely cured," said Mulyati, twitching visibly as an oncoming passenger train sends an extra rush of current racing through her body.

She leaps from tracks as it approaches and then, after the last carriage rattles slowly by, climbs back into position.

Pseudo-medical treatments are wildly popular in many parts of Asia — where rumors about those miraculously cured after touching a magic stone or eating dung from sacred cows can attract hundreds, sometimes thousands. What?

My question is, will this catch on in America? I kind of doubt it!

Tar babies again in the news!

A House Republican apologized to President Obama for saying that being associated with Obama's policies would be like "touching a tar baby."

Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colorado, made the remark last week to a Denver radio show. Lamborn told KKTV on Monday night that he did not know the phrase had a racial connotation. Really. Neither did I! Wonder if he had read my blog entry; “Brer Rabbit and the Congressional Tar Baby”?