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North Powder Wind Mills

Besides the $1200 rental per month per tower, a number I don’t actually believe, a road is scratched in to each tower, a power line is hung or buried, transformers are installed (this I know costs a lot) and then the tower is erected and then this huge turbine is mounted atop the whole thing. Even from a distance these things are enormous. These things cost lots of money to install. Maybe 1600 homes rings true and they could pay $1200 per month per tower easily. I’m not certain of my facts and don’t want you to quote them as facts, but it is damn big business. << MORE >>
Posted by Pat Chandler at 7/22/2008 12:58 PM | Add Comment

I Guess We Didn’t Get it Right in Grade School.

Mrs. Scott and Mrs. Stall, get a firm grip on the sides of your caskets, you are in for a roll.<< MORE >>
Posted by Pat Chandler at 7/10/2008 3:12 PM | Add Comment

Are We What We Eat?

It is summer now and no matter where you live there is probably a "Farmer’s Market" nearby. Drop in. You may pay more per pound or per sack but you will get fresh produce or canned goods picked and processed when ready to be eaten rather than on schedule to be shipped across the world. You can really enjoy a fresh salad because it will be fresh. Oh so good. << MORE >>
Posted by Pat Chandler at 7/8/2008 1:31 PM | Add Comment

Diplomacy and Bush.

Bush said yesterday that he has made it clear to everybody involved, including Israel, that he would prefer to solve the "conflict" with Iran diplomatically. He has made it clear that talking to Iran isn’t going to happen either. That takes care of diplomacy.<< MORE >>
Posted by Pat Chandler at 7/7/2008 9:57 AM | Add Comment

Want to Hear an Old Joke?

Once upon a time the price of gas was below a dollar. In 1957 it was below 30 cents and that was the summer I worked in LA. I spent a lot of time at the beach and remember we carried a can of paint thinner and some old rags in the car to clean the tar off our feet so we won’t track it into the car. It wasn’t actually tar, we called it whale snot and it wasn’t that either, it was crude oil that had washed ashore from the oil rigs out near and over the horizon. Crude on the beach was just something we accepted back then and I for one didn’t give it much thought, it was just a bit harder to get off your feet than a few things I had stepped in back on the farm<< MORE >>
Posted by Pat Chandler at 7/3/2008 4:21 PM | Add Comment

FISA

No one will tell the extent of this illegal spying. To hear the Bush version it was all about "terrorists" but many, including me, believe he was spying on the Democratic party as well, just like Nixon. The telecoms know, but they won’t tell because Bush is promising immunity from the laws they violated if they don’t tell. Big bucks are at stake for the telecoms, they are paying millions for ads and lobbyists explaining how they were only doing their duty to their country. If it were true, they would be able to show exactly whom they targeted and why, but they don’t. << MORE >>
Posted by Pat Chandler at 6/20/2008 3:20 PM | Add Comment

Good for Business...

So what I’m trying to get at is how we should never, ever again fall for the verbal trap that something is good for business. Good for one business will in all likelihood be bad for another and doesn’t address whether it is good for us. We must learn to ask, will this be good for us? We must learn to just say "know".<< MORE >>
Posted by Pat Chandler at 5/21/2008 8:02 AM | Add Comment

An Arizona Land Deal.

Now the whole point of any swap is one party has something the other party wants and they trade. In this case about 86 square miles of land were traded and some think the government didn’t get its’ fair share. Some do. I have no idea. The rancher who proposed the deal expected to come out ahead or he wouldn’t have proposed the deal, and the government could come out ahead too. This land swap didn’t suddenly make this rancher a millionaire, he already was one. Just about every one of our large tracts of public land have been cobbled together with swaps and purchases so there is nothing wrong with swaps. It is like the Cartwrights selling Bonanza though.<< MORE >>
Posted by Pat Chandler at 5/9/2008 3:28 PM | Add Comment

And the winner is…

So I think he’ll win the nomination and the election barring some tragedy or a really dirty trick. Barack is an idealist and we have usually thought of ourselves as an idealistic nation. He’s a good fit for what we need to do. We have a lot to do too. It would be pleasant to not listen to all of the hate speech for starters. << MORE >>
Posted by Pat Chandler at 5/8/2008 12:53 PM | Add Comment

Mission Botched

But you are Gods, and if you want to keep being part of my Gods, you better not be getting all of your information from the media. Stop and think. This isn’t a good time for the world is it? One country (mine) has invaded another over a mere suspicion and the objections of most of the rest of the world. That nation (Mine) succeeded. We prevailed militarily, without so far, finding WMDs. So much for suspicion. But that is Okay, voters have short memories. I’m proud of our military might. You must be appalled. Now we are threatening Syria. They are Muslim so what could you expect? The good news is they have very little oil. << MORE >>
Posted by Pat Chandler at 5/2/2008 9:26 AM | Add Comment
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