The Ethanol Blunder has happened. President Bush in his 2007 State of the Union Address set our course for an all ethanol fuel nation. The “decider” proclaimed our nation to go, team, go ethanol all the way.

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Killing Jobs, Killing the Economy — that’s what your old company is doing. Mergers, takeovers, buy-outs, cutting costs to be competitive. Where the savings, where the money made by our bosses is found in racking up the lowest score in the number of salaries that no longer need to be paid. Ignore their PR of good intentions for their customers; look below the surface and it’s job cuts that are the real reasons behind it all. Service and better products? No, now the number one best way to “make” money is to let go of most of your workers.

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Let’s unite, Friday.

Okay, I have just finished the delegate training seminar, and boy, was I awoken to what we REALLY need to do. We, the Obama delegates, are much more entangled with the Clinton delegates than I thought. This is not an Obama group caucusing, and Clinton group caucusing in separate areas arising with separate results for the state convention. This is a precinct caucus with Obama and Clinton groups going head to head trying to out vote the other for positioning delegates for the next convention. If we are not careful, we could end up stalemating our end and letting the Clinton group slide their choice right in, leaving Obama’s chances behind.

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Barack Obama may have made our generation’s “I have a dream” speech.

Barack Obama made a speech a couple of days ago that rocked the minds of those that truly understand our present societal problems. Those that have the perceptual abilities to see past the bullshit and petty distractions are gearing up for a new wave of public discussion. I strongly feel that Senator Obama is the leader, the inspiration this country has needed for decades.

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Who’s next?

Just imagine a world where …

She looked at the back cargo hold and counted the children. “If we must,” she said, “let it be Josh.”

“Let’s try for a hitchhiker instead,” he said. “R9 has always been good for hunting hitchhikers. If I can trap three hitchhikers, Josh can be saved for another trip.”

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Before you’re out of money, before there’s holes in your socks, before your and your loved ones’ stomachs rumble on empty, you may want to set up a local and personal bartering web.

One can learn from functioning junkies. They will decide upon trading, say a computer game, for cash. What’s to be learned from them is that they have a circle or web of friends, close and even just-say-hello-to friends. This is their market, a closed market, where they can make their rounds. They’re always looking to add others to their personal marketing web. Making their rounds, they also gather leads on what items interest their friends. It works!

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Ah, the corporate life.

Okay, they, and I mean they, have fired you because they had to do that in order for the company to weather these bad times and more bad times next year, perhaps. Did the boss even allow you to clean out your desk or locker of your personal items — a trust issue — or did he or she have the company security cops escort you right out the back door? Whatever; Never mind: You lost your job — pink slip, e-mail pink slip, or a verbal: “Get out here!”

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WHY?!!

What happened? Why did it happen? Why did we lose? Doc, I want a second opinion. The facts, madam, just the facts. The weather as a scapegoat. Who did it? What malfunctioned? Why? Why? Why? When, exactly, did he snap? Where was I then at that precise moment? What actually happened on November 22, 1863? Answers, answers, answers, we demand answers!

A plane crashes and after an investigation the public is told all 97 passengers died due to a ruptured hydraulic line. That solves the mystery and everyone except the families can get on with their everyday stuff. Also, everyone in on the know can erase that mind slate and … what? Forget about it! So was anything really learned; what steps were taken to prevent a history of these things happening again and again? Does it matter? Not really. Only being given an answer to why the plane crashed matters. Any answer would have satisfied just as well.

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Escape to the woods, maybe?

As a kid, my father and I took a vacation every summer which we could afford … to my father’s favorite destination: Porchview. Porchview was sitting on our front porch and watching the cars go by, and also included, was doing maintenance work on our house. I remember every summer I painted the concrete floor of the front porch and the wooden side porch floor either gray or deep red. And I held the bottom of the ladder for my father who was up four stories painting the wooden siding of our house. I didn’t have any vacations other than Porchview until many years later.

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Oh, boy!

Where did we go wrong? When did we go wrong? Or was it going wrong over a decade rather than one specific day?

If you don’t know what I’m talking about/getting you to know about, then read or listen to or watch today’s news, tomorrow’s news, next week’s news, next month’s news. It will all be the same: the economy, stupid. Or more to the point, you and yours truly, and my life, too: what we eat, what we wear, where we live, how we work (how we work — ha!) and how we play.

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