Greg In The Desert

I certainly don’t want to turn Greg In The Desert into a political blog (I know there’s not enough of those). However my friend Steve usually has interesting things to say about current events and thought I would give him a chance to express his opinions here – Greg.

German and FRENCH (mon dieu!!!) banks have received US taxpayer money…. nice… No wonder our deadbeat ‘free market’, ’self-regulating’, ‘privatized profit – socialized risk’ banks won’t say where the funds went.

I think the ‘terrorists’ have succeeded in taking down more than a few buildings with box-cutters. Thanks to our incompetent response! Talk about taking the opportunity to get one’s agenda to sail through our society… fueled on fear and extravagant, expensive war theatrics (and precious blood)…. What’s the current threat level? Orange? Pink… yes, PINK is where we are told we are headed. We sure got our underwear all tied up in knots. And BinLaden is still free! But that is understandable… if you kill the bogey man, how ‘ya gonna scare the suckers? Worked for 7 years.

Meanwhile, all our retirement plans are pushed out another 5-10 years…(my optimistic assessment). I sure hope WallMart opens up a few more stores because we sure are going to need a lot of those ‘greeter’ positions for our ‘Golden Years’.

Excuse the rant, but I just looked at my retirement funds. Foolish me! On the bright side, I do not make over $250,000 so at least I can bask in the afterglow of my tax cuts of recent years instead of worrying about my taxes going up…. oh, wait, I did not make 250k in recent years either — so my tax cuts were not even noticeable, and I can’t remember which gas station took the proceeds of those economic stimulus checks….. I certainly do not notice them in the current balances in my retirement funds…. Gee… I never saw this coming! — as most of you know!

And now we are bailing out FRENCH and GERMAN ( and who knows what other foreign) banks with our children’s future taxes… WOW!!!! …. or more to the point, WTF!!!!!

Anyone else feeling outraged? Is anyone’s ‘conservative ideology’ getting shaken by our current reality? And why are all these ‘free-market capitalists’ going to the ’society’ (sure sounds like PINK socialism) to be bailed out? I do not want to hear anyone bitching when Wall Street has to submit to a crapload of regulations in the future. In order for vultures to thrive, we need a bunch of suckers. And we sure do not have a shortage there.

And now all we hear from the solution-deprived perpetrators/enablers of this mess is that the new administration wants to take us into a socialist society! Socialist like the fire department, the city and state police, the National Guard the city and state road department, the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, air-traffic control, the Coast Guard, the Forest Service, the National Park Service, the national highway system, the CIA, the NSA, the ATF, the school systems (K-University), the unemploymnet system (which too many of us may be relying on soon)…and if you combine ALL of these, they pale in comparison to what Wall Street (and foreign banks) are are getting from US taxpayers…. gee we sure are a bunch of PINKOS!!! Karl Marx must be smiling in his grave (and BinLaden from his cave) right about now! How did we get here? Who reigned while we blindly headed here? Just exactly WHAT got VETOED in the last 8 years (besides that one stem-cell research-containing bill).

And, by the way, Rush Limbaugh needs to go on a diet and should quit dressing like he is auditioning for the Sopranos because his mouth is obnoxious enough for our country. Also, after cheerleading us into this mess with his FAILED, EXTREMIST brand of ideology, he should temper his pie-hole and quit trying to lead the GOP into being the Goose-stepping Obstructionist Party…. which too often has placed party before country in recent years. We gave W 8 years, can we give Obama at least 4 before we try to sink him along with the country? We are headed down HARD… help or get out of the way, OK Rush?

Oh yeah… here is the article that set me off: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123638394500958141.html

Not too shabby.

Nine people from Roswell have come forward and claimed the $207 million Powerball jackpot from last Saturday’s drawing.
The group collectively purchased the winning ticket from a gas station on Main Street in Roswell. They have decided to take a $102.9 million lump sum.
The nine are identified as Carl and Holly Baldwin, Kevin and Jessica Breedyk, Ron and Cindy Miller, Ryan and Nicole Miller, and Randy Miller.
Holly Baldwin purchased the tickets at a gas station two hours before the Sept. 27 drawing with money pitched in by the group.
Ron Miller said the winners will invest most of the money and set up a trust for charity. The winning numbers were 13, 24, 29, 40, 52 with 29 as the Powerball number.

According to the Albuquerque Journal, a 350,000 sq/ft shopping center, called Loma Colorado Crossing, is coming to Rio Rancho this Fall. It will be at northwest corner of 40th street and Northern.

The article also indicates that a Lowes might be built there. Whether or not it is, a large shopping center is needed around that area. Hopefully with a grocery store and a gas station.

Over on Coors rood north, past Paseo Del Norte, there’s a gas station offering gas for $1.99 a gallon. Of course there’s a line.

This Mac mini review, I can’t figure out if it’s a serious review or a joke.

…its sleek look comes at the expense of the parallel port, serial ports, the PS/2 ports and the drive bays… did I forget to mention that the Mini has no PCI slots either? And no floppy disk drive? Well, no wonder they got the unit to be so small… or I could grab an equally stylish, full-featured eMachine at the gas station with a bag of chips for less than half the Mini’s price, with the added benefit of being able to run Windows XP. Decisions, decisions… The Mini boots up into a stripped-down operating system which Apple calls OS X, similar to the stripped-down WindowsCE OS found on many handhelds

I admit to being an Apple Fan Boy, so my opinion might be a little biased. But it’s so close to completely missing the point, it must be a joke.