Hannah Blog

The vegetarian place where we ate last night, hardly noticing the absence of meat. It’s a family place and cheap. Oh, and the only commercial beer is Pabst Blue Ribbon — $1.95 instead of the $3.50 for some specialty brands.

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Dr. Ben Carson is evidence that the self-centered, instinct-driven personality is not restricted by gender or ethnic affiliation. Brown people are just as susceptible as pink ones to having scrambled brains that can’t connect cause and effect and play loose with the sequential nature of time.
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We know that to be the case when organized criminals set up shop as the “protectors” of a neighborhood or town in exchange for regular payments from residents to secure them from harm. We don’t recognize it as readily when insurance companies come calling to collect a regular fee for keeping burglars and other malefactors away by surrounding property with an electronic fence.
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Groin, groan, grab, grasp, grapple, gross, grin, gratify, gratitude, grand, gratis, grope, graft, grinder, grape, gorge…………….

The Jaws of Death.

Threatens to sue MoveOn for making a point. There’s a reason some people want government to be run like a business. Businesses are used to getting all sorts of favorable treatment so they can win in secret and stick the public with their mistakes. Public servants dislike being critiqued. That’s why the First Amendment was passed.

I presented the following to the Brunswick Glynn Joint Water and Sewer Commission:
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If nothing is to be done, or the agenda is failure, then it doesn’t matter who’s tapped as the agent. Right? Anyone will do. Anyone can be blamed. So, perhaps we can utilize this reality backwards. That is, irrelevant agents can be taken as a sign (clue?) that the enterprise is up to no good or destined to fail. Incompetents or unsuited individuals are not to blame for failure; they’re a sure sign that someone else, the organizer or organization, aims to do wrong. I mean, anyone that’s aiming for success is going to deploy competent assistants. Right?
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The news of the day is that the GWB was part of Christie’s Slush Fund. The raising of the tolls aimed to send dollars where Christie wanted them spent for maximum political effect. Christie, the legally designated highwayman.
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Solo. It’s to be a week long trip to the most populous nation on earth. In the last few days, I’ve seen favorable coverage of Obama’s nutrition initiative, the expansion of the school lunch program, the decrease in early childhood obesity, as well as the fact that her career had been more advanced than her husband’s when he ran for the Senate and then the Presidency.
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