and business is good

AND BUSINESS IS GOOD


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I really had no idea, once I decided for sure that I was going to stop wandering and actually sink down roots in the late great state of Nevada, how outstanding we were. I didn’t have any clue that we would be number one in the nation in unemployment. Number one in underwater mortgages ( two friggin thirds of all homes! ). And at the time I didn’t know we were number one in the nation as the most urbanized of all states. You would think something like Alaska would be, where it would make sense to be on grid heat with snowplows around. But no, we are 88% urban. This makes sense because the cost of getting water almost anywhere in the state is prohibitive, plus a lot of areas are under the control of our good buddy Obammy. So, you cluster in Vegas ( Hoover dam ) and Reno ( Truckee river and Sierra snow pack ). This explains why the state went Democrat, also. City slicker asshats love to act as colonizers to the surrounding countryside. Hey, the state is pretty messed up, the prime example of all the bad things that followed the Great California Out Migration and The Housing Bubble. Of course, there are so many places out there that are a lot worse that overall you are bound to do MORE poorly living elsewhere. I wouldn’t want to live elsewhere, all things considered. Nevada used to be the prime Libertarian state, and it has a long way to get as socialist as most others.

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Almost nobody used to live here. It was as Western and cow county as you could get except for west Texas. The Mexicans moved in, but what was the end result there? Family orientated, hard workers. More Protestant work ethic than most white boys anymore. A plus for the state. But then the Californians moved in. What did we get? The once happy little cities turned into Oakland East as Yuppie Scum jacked up the real estate costs, forced through zoning restrictions and overbuilding that the terrain couldn’t sustain, and turned a relaxed atmosphere into just another over regulated government pestilent craphole. Now we have reached the state of affairs where all the roosters are coming home to roost. Yet no one is changing a thing. It is business as usual, and business is good. Here you have the two major industries overtaxed to give all the Yuppie Scum free services, gaming and mining. Gaming has been in perpetual decline before the economy got worse, since most other states emulated Nevada and legalized it. What would have been the ideal solution? Legalize pot, and tax it. Strange that a bunch of former Granola State citizens didn’t pass that one, but perhaps not so much given their love affair with big daddy government micromanaging everything so they never need feel any pain. And then, just to plunge a fork into the gaming industry to make sure it was done as done could get, the idiots outlawed smoking most everywhere. Hey, getting stupid drunk while throwing away your paycheck and chocking down cancer sticks all go together like glitter and unicorns.

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The mining industry is, surprise!, running out of ore to mine. So lets add a few more taxes to it so the mining companies will move overseas quicker as their costs go up. And why encourage home ownership? Let’s double and triple property taxes, water fees, etc. If you want to see the perfect example of business as usual, a self destructive reinforcing, snake eating its own tale, look no further. If your state isn’t there yet, it will be. Nevada!! We are Number One!

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News today that our little buddy Gadhafi has been killed. Hey, I always say that you should die doing what you love. If kicking ass and killing folks after boring them with Castro length speeches appeals to you, best to go out as a dictator. And yet… was he really killed? I find this new trend disturbing. We just claim we killed enemy number one, and everyone mills around congratulating each other and takes it at face value. Does anyone ask for pictures, or more tangible proof? No, they just hear what they want to hear. Obammy, who we all strongly suspect is a liar, Muslim, illegal immigrant, should never be believed ( a half a friggin million new unemployed every month- at this rate there simply won’t be any more jobs left in a couple of years- and the unemployment rate stays at 9% )( “read my big ass lips, No New Taxes” and two months later loose tobacco goes up three times in cost )( “our troops out of Iraq” and into Afghanistan ) and yet as soon as he claims Bin Laden is dead, no proof, bumper stickers are on every other car with inane BS like Terrorists zero, Seal Team Six one. Crap, at least put up the illusion of a struggle as they are pulling the wool over your eyes.

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Apropos to little if nothing, here is an interesting observation. A female coworker observed that she had never met a female that liked The Three Stooges. Of course, this was amongst a demographic that had actually HEARD of them. Your younger pups are either too busy being drowned in a sea of media infotainment and have too much else to pick from, or simply never watched something that old. She found this strange, but I think there is a very simple explanation. Males are genetically predisposed to not only be entertained by violence, but think it is normal. If you love violence, engage in violence, and hence trivialize violence, you easily incorporate violence into everyday normalcy. Cries of, Slaughter The Deer, Slaughter The Butt Pirate, or in cases of extreme boredom, Let’s Watch Sports Dudes Slaughter Each Other, are guy things. Guys are supposed to go out and slaughter the enemy. Three Stooges engaged in a never ending comic routine of violence ( no one is ever injured, so the violence is non-stop ) is the best of all worlds.

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