Multi tasking! I hate it!

I'm tired! I boiled up 10 pints of fig preserves today! Oh...and while doing that I cleaned house, mopped, swept, put toys in 2" capsules for my vending machines, made breakfast and lunch for mother, called the home health folks and ordered needful stuff for mother, turned valves in the orchard, disinfected the shower, gave mother her meds and I will be skinning the insulation from copper wire the rest of the evening in order to bring in some kind of income for today.

Sitting here writing this is really a little break. I did manage to hear that Muslim Democrat Congressman Keith Ellison whined that Republicans have no respect for women. Chuckle! This coming from a man whose religion advocates female genital mutilation, honor killing and beatings!

Tried to cook some meat from the local HEB store and for the third time in a few weeks the beef was too tough and inedible for even mother's lapdog!

And no surprise here; the meat from Wal Mart is just as bad! Did notice that Wal Mart and HEB, both, are downsizing the products in the packages while the prices increase.

Turned on the radio and found more inept, silly stuff concerning ethanol! Not being a fan of ethanol I still tire of the idiots out there saying ethanol takes food out of the food chain! Do these idiots think after the alchohol is extracted the corn mash just disappears? Dopey!

That corn mash goes right back into the food chain as animal feed! Sooooo, why is animal feed still rising when there is an abundant supply of it? Because people BELIEVE there's a shortage!

America is indeed in trouble! The USDA is working very hard to get farmers to grow less and as the population increases! Americans are growing farther away from the production of the food they eat every day! Most have forgotten how to either garden or put away a small supply of non-perishables!

People have too much time on their hands! Unproductive time not working! The idea of silly idiots fighting over a place in line to see the Casey Anthony trial is a testament to America's lost values and common sense!

Oops! Back to work! Also gotta put a new deck belt on the lawn mower!

Institutional corruption as a policy!

1974, summer, it was hot! I was in the Victoria County Jail. Spent two weeks in Tank 2 before the Sheriff made me a trustee. Sheriff Dalton "Dutch" Meyer was a friend of my grandfathers and Pop was sick. Sheriff Meyer laet me out to visit him before he passed. Let me out for his funeral too.
Anyway, while I was in the tank we were visited by a well-known local businessman preaching the Word to us inmates. I could quote John 3:16 and he was impressed so I asked him for a job when I got out. He promised me one and made good on it! Then I was impressed.
Uh...er...until I saw how his business operated. It was corrupt! Selling un-needed car repairs. In a meeting we were told to cut off every valve stem on every wheel we put a tire on and we'd get .25 cents out of the $1.75 charged for the valve stem.
This was corporate, institutionalized fraud, theft and corruption as a matter of policy! Hmmm! Maybe these folks needed to spend some time in Tank 2!

Today it's much worse! Went to Wal-Mart tonight and they have a bulk items "Rollback" isle! And there it was, Kraft Miracle Whip at $1.97! Boy, that's cheap! HOWEVER, look closely! It's not in a quart jar anymore! It's a 30 ounce jar!
I spoke about rising food prices two years ago on the local rag and got labeled a fear monger for it! Well Archie, I told you so!

And it's everywhere you look at almost all commercial businesses. Went to Sears to buy lawnmower blades. Always makes me grit my teeth paying $38.00 for two blades made of such soft metal they don't get past the second sharpening! The nice young man said, "You can get $15 off if you apply for a credit card," so I figured I'd just get my discount and pay the other $18 and cut up the card and poof!
Ooooooh no! What the nice young man didn't tell me was there was a $59 yearly fee! So to get a $15 discount I was on the hook for $59! He even folded the reciept for me to sign in such a way that I couldn't see the yearly fee!
Corporate corruption as a matter of policy!

Greed, covetousness and outright fraud is everywhere! Chuckle! My local paper hired an admitted plagerist!