DISPATCHES FROM THE GHOST MOOSE

Halloween...the time change is this weekend...where does the time go? I get a kick out of reading the snippets from the soon-to-be-published biography of Steve Jobs...the guy is lauded as a visionary and a genius, but comes across to me as a first class asshole.  He seemed to revel in his position of power and his ability to bring someone to tears.  What a bully and a buttwipe.  If he wasn't running a successful company, he would be sued for creating a hostile workplace.  We've all worked with that type, and I surmise if we were lucky enough to work with them when they died, you'd feel pretty good about their misfortune and hope that their death was slow and painful.  right??? or is it just me... at any rate, a slow news day.  I will have to surf for some good stories, as I am pretty sure there are lots out there...after all, nothing got better over the weekend, did it?

A quick trip to Florida.  I am always amazed at the lack of any normal consideration by some travelers.  standing on the walking sidewalk...wandering through the terminal then just stopping right in front of you when you are hustling to get to your gate...then on the plane, standing in an aisle, not aware that their ass is right in your face.  I could go on, but I would imagine you have your own examples of this annoying type of person.  anyway, I need to get revved up again and find some of those infuriating stories I love so much...I'll have to do that tomorrow...when my diet will start...again....

let the ass rapin continue....let's see - we have had the 66% income tax increase, toll increase, taxes on every good and service increase, water bill, parking, and now our pantload politicians have paved the way for an electric rate increase.  http://www.suntimes.com/8429910-417/house-passes-companion-bill-paving-way-for-comed-rate-hike.html why is it our responsibility to pay for their capital improvements?  I remember working with a utility client years ago, when a dollar was still worth 50 cents (not like the current 25 cents) and seeing all these people younger than I making way more that I did.  I was told that the utility, by law, takes its expenses, marks them up and uses that to calculate the kilowatt cost to consumers...so, the higher the expenses, the better the profit for them.  Now, we are supposed to accept that the power outages of this summer will go away if we let them gouge us just a bit more....what an effin joke. oh..and no action taken o...

I had to add a second posting today, because this is the type of story that should be met with outrage. http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20111026/NEWS11/111029830/tenaska-ties-30m-for-minority-students-to-springfield-votes-for-power-plant to tie the approval for a power plant to the set aside of $30 mil for non-white students is discrimination at its worst.  but where is the outrage?  where is the set aside for whites?  if there was a $30 mil set aside for non-minority students, there would be hearings, the reverands would be there, and the end result would be $60 million set aside for minorities because of their hurt feelings.  and who pays for this $30 million for non-white college scholarships?  why, the people that pay their electric bills, of course.  US. the Ghost Moose just picked up another tick....show him somewhere to lay down and die, please.

Here's a newsflash...the government buying copies of Obama's books...because no one with a brain would buy them.  As I have written before - have you ever seen one of his books?  do you know anyone that has read one of his best sellers?  Our messiah has written books, and we should revel in his geniusness... http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/25/state-department-buys-70000-worth-obama-memoir/ the government buying his books is like if your daughter was a girl scout, and you give all your friends and relatives boxes of girl scout cookies for Christmas. Nobody really wants them, but we are all too polite to do anything other than smile and jam the cookies down our pie holes.  (I love the term "pie hole"). Did you see our failure in chief on Leno last night?  I saw a clip of the fawning, no-talent leno setting up obama for stupid punch lines...and the applause signs must have been lit up, because the audience reaction was a bit much for such...

Cook County, a taxing body that exists for no known reason, wants to increase taxes on tobacco, liquor, luxury items...AND TO CHARGE FOR PARKING FOR THE PLEASURE OF SERVING ON JURY DUTY. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-cook-county-budget-1024-20111025,0,4210305.story Chicago wants to impose a $1 per ride surcharge on cab rides....I love the point about Chicago having the second lowest big city cab fares....as if that is something that needs to be fixed asap. http://www.suntimes.com/8394057-417/fare-warning-chicago-taxicab-overhaul-could-be-on-the-way.html Presidential Candidate, Rick Perry, is proposing a 20% flat federal tax on us http://nationaljournal.com/2012-presidential-campaign/texas-governor-argues-for-replacing-current-tax-code-with-flat-20-percent-rate-20111024 One day...countless proposed tax increases.  where does it all end?  the ass raping continues.  and how are we coming on reducing those ridiculous pensions???  not so go...

well, that weekend went by fast.  too fast.  just like the month of October is flying by.  Here is yet another link to a story of pension crime. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/sns-ap-il--teacherpensions,0,3023109.story 2 union lobbyists who were not teachers got a substitute teaching certification in order to qualify for a teachers pension.  and yet this kind of crime goes on unabated.  the pension hogs stand behind the "constitution does not allow for pensions to be changed" argument....and it is obvious that arcane law is the reason the pension system creates parasites like these two mopes.  Illinois...what a shithole.