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Friday: I had a Flex Friday this Friday. I set my alarm for 7:15 A.M. and actually got out of bed. I wanted to take advantage of my day off. I let my dog out and then I went to McDonald’s for breakfast. I got the steak, egg, onion bagel with a hash brown and a vanilla ice coffee. I got home and ate my breakfast while surfing the net and watching tv. I did that for an hour and then I decided to mow my backyard. It really needed it and I figured I would get it out of the way while it was still relatively cool out. After mowing I pulled some weeds in my front yard. Then I came in about 11:00 A.M. to cool off. I watched the MLB channel for an hour. They had an old Mets game on. Then at 12:00 P.M. I went to Shop n Save to get some food for the weekend. That only took me 30 minutes. When I got back I made this dish I have been wanting to try. It’s a can of black beans, one can of dice tomatoes, and a little cilantro. I made some brown rice and then wrapped everything in some flour tortillas. It was very good and healthy as well. After the lunch I made my first tea of the day. It’s called Namring. Very sweet and floral. After the tea I wanted to run some errands. On June 1st I got some new glasses from Wal-Mart and they were stylish and had the small rectangular lenses. I didn’t like the fact that when you looked out of them some of your vision is cut off because the lenses are small. Wal-Mart has a great return policy. If you are not happy with the frames all you have to do is bring them back in 30 days and then pick out another frame. I went to Wal-Mart and found some new glasses. They are really lightweight and are the kind that you can bend without breaking. After that I bought some saline solution and some deodorant. After Wal-Mart I got my oil changed at Valvoline. Then I went to Mcdonald’s again to get a iced mocha latte. Those are excellent. I read for an hour. Then at 5:00 I listened to a Fantasy Baseball radio show on XM radio. After the show I heated some let over Thai noodle dish that I froze about a week ago. It was ok. Then I made some Yunnan Gold. Then I watched the Cardinals play the Twins. After the Cardinals I watched whatever baseball game was on until 12:00 A.M. Then I went to bed.
Saturday: I woke up around 9:00 A.M. and had a apple dumpling for breakfast. Along with the dumpling I had some brand new tea I got this week. It’s a Darjeeling tea called Risheehat. It is very complex and has peach undertones. It’s a first flush Darjeeling which means it’s the first picked Darjeeling of the growing season. It’s unbelievable. One of the best teas I have ever had. I played with my dog. Then I decided to start on my brother’s computer hard drive. He had some really bad spyware on his computer. I told him to send me the hard drive and I would go ahead and reimage it for him. Everything worked out ok. I watched some baseball and did some cleaning. I made some Yunnan Gold and made some more fajitas like I did on Friday. I also had some chips and salsa. I surfed the Internet for a while. Then I started watching baseball. Then at 10:00 P.M. I started watching a movie called, “Camille Claudel”. It was a French movie about a female French sculptor who was Rodin’s girlfriend. Rodin is famously known for sculpting the statue called The Thinker. Camille Claudel was a very good sculptor in her own right. Some say she was better than Rodin. She was madly in love with Rodin but Rodin wouldn’t marry her. The movie portrayed her life as a women in her 20’s until she died. When she was 50 her family sent her to a mental institute and she stayed there for 30 years until she died. It was an interesting but sad movie. Then I went to bed.
I couldn't find a trailer for "Camille Claudel" but here is a clip. It shows that Camille Claudel was crazy over Rodin.
Sunday: I got up and had some bad heartburn. I rarely get that. Sometimes I get it if I drink a lot of soda the day before. I usually don’t drink soda but the day before I had five cans of soda. I went a little overboard. The best thing to do is drink ice water. For breakfast I had some ice water and an apple. Then I cut my hair. I made some more fajitas. I really like those. Then I made some Risheehat Darjeeling tea . I watched some of the Marlins/Rays game and I also watched the Cards/Twins game. I cleaned the bathroom. After that I did some stretching. Right now I’m blogging. I’ll probably do some yoga tonight and watch the Yankees and Mets.
What happened on Friday? The media wasn’t covering it because they were distracted by Michael Jackson’s death. It’s sad when our society knows more about a pop singer than what their own government is doing to them. The answer is: Congress voted to pass the “The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009.” This is otherwise known as the Cap and Trade Act. Our government is going to tax CO2 emissions. Energy companies, trucking companies, oil companies, farmers, and manufacturers will be heavily penalized for all their CO2 emissions. The government officials say this is done in the name of saving the planet. Anybody with a brain knows it’s done in the name of taking everybody’s money and sending it to Washington. The companies that get penalized for emissions will pass the cost on to you, the consumers. The people mostly affected by this are lower income people. They will have to pay more for food and gas. I thought Obama and the liberals in Congress wanted to help average Americans. All they want to do is control your life and take your money.
I think it’s silly when an adult believes in man made global warming. There is no proof that man made global warming exists. Other countries are not partaking is this silly initiative of taxing carbon emissions. This carbon tax will hurt us economically and made emerging countries like India and China stronger.
Another silly thing is that energy is a means to an end. People want cheap energy so they can spend their money on other essentials like food and housing. Our government wants to produce green energy. Do you know how ridiculous this is? We already have cheap energy. Why would we spend billions of dollars on solar panels and windmills that produce the quarter of the energy as coal and oil.
Our politicians remind me of ditsy college students that have these pie in the sky ideas on how to create a utopian society. They sit around and ask themselves, how cool would it be to run America with windmills and solar panels? It makes zero sense. One of an advanced society’s goals is to produce the cheapest energy they can. That way they can worry about more important things like inventing and manufacturing new products.
The last thing that bothers me about this bill is that Obama states that this bill will create thousands of clean energy jobs. Who cares? You can’t export clean energy. You want the least amount of people creating energy so its cheap.
Here is a good clip on the Cap and Trade issue:
This ties in with the above article on the carbon tax. There is an economic theory called the Laffer Curve. Essentially the theory and curve illustrates the more a government taxes their society the less productive a society. If Corporate America and small business owners get taxed too much they ask themselves why be in Business? Why would I want to work hard if most of my money goes to the government . Then what happens is the Government stops getting tax revenue because all the productive people of society decide not to work. This is what is going to happen to America. I foresee the worst of times in 2012. Mass unemployment and a federalgovernment out of control.
Good video about the Laffer Curve. Its a little dry but short. The key thing he says is that that taxing more does not increase revenue for the government. Its very true.
These are pictues of my new Darjeeling Tea called Risheehat SFTGFOP1 First Flush
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