Main street vs. Wall street

Most voters are not real smart. Most politicians work together to find out how to get votes for their party. Now days the truth is usually covered up and lies are used to persuade voters through emotions, because politicians need to incentivise voters to go to polls.

Let us search some truths. America stands for free enterprise. Big Corporations fight to compete against each other usually. Let's look at three different important areas American consumers need. Food, Fuel, Health.

Food providers must use free enterprise. A few big corporations control small parts of the whole, but costs cover a wide spectrum. People with money can get just about anything they want with little concern about the cost. Poor people may have to work hard, but for the most quality food can be bought at reasonable prices.

Fuel/ Energy cost are largely controlled by large monopolies, but there are other options usually. Large oil companies control way to much, but Americans need to move toward better options, not to kill large oil companies, but to offer more competition. Wind and solar are two options for competition. The USA needs to move toward more options to increase competition and improve our energy costs and availability.

What about health? Health providers and big health insurance companies work together to control health cost. Current laws allow large monopolize the health industry. It used to be that human health was a major item to American health, but over the last few decades money has trumped health industry. Medical insurance companies control the state laws and costs. We need do away with these monopolies with free enterprise to make health care better and less expensive.

Many people think that Obama Care is a government take over. But it is not. Like the food industry is controlled by many laws that make food better, new health laws will slowly do away with health monopolies and allow more people to afford health care. If the food industry was controlled by a few large monopolies, there would be millions starving just like there are millions without health insurance.

Right now, the big medical monopolies are controlling the Republicans to save their monopolies. They are raising insurance costs because they ARE monopolies and can do what they want, and they need more money to buy politicians. Democrats are fighting to improve health care and energy costs. Republicans are fighting for companies who give them money.

Americans should be smarter. Christians should remember that money is root of evil. Democrats are fighting for main street, Republicans are fighting for Wall street.

If Republicans were not lying about their goals, the only votes they would be from Wall street.

Which is best? (1) to save lives (2) to save money (3) save both

Which would you think is best?
(1) to save lives
(2) to save money
(3) save both

The new National Healthcare has #1 as it's main goal, and over the next few years it will save billions of dollars. Medical Insurance companies are paying millions to Republicans to fight the new health care which will stop their monopoly of health care cost.

Republicans say that the new health care will be government run. That is a lie. The new laws will enable insurance companies to compete against each other. Over the last 40 years they have worked together to set cost and raise costs as they wished.

Republicans congress people voted to delay the competition for a few years, so it will take a few years to begin saving money. Meanwhile insurance companies are trying to find ways to regain money and power.

June 6th, 2010 --- Happy Birthday, Skyler

Wow, you don't look 16 to me. You need to send a new picture.

Hey, bigger, but still very cute.

Wayne and I batting wasps

I can remember lots of stories about Wayne Brown playing together when we were kids.
Today I was in the pool playing with Aven, my dearest granddaughter and a few wasps were coming around to get a drink.

I remembered one time when Wayne and I were probably about ten years old and we were killing wasps that were flying through Wayne's home. We had a couple of those wooden paddles that you bounce a rubber ball on a rubber string. The paddles did not have the balls anymore. They were more like ping pong paddles.

We would run through the house chasing those wasps. Sometimes I would wait at an open door for one to fly in or out, then hit it like a ball as hard as I could. It was like batting at a curve ball.

It seems like we spend most of the day playing hit the wasps. We were not afraid of them. If we got stung, it was just more incentive to kill more. I remember counting them, but I don't know if we were counting as a score against each other or a total wasps killed, but I remember we got to 50. It was a most wonderious, murderous day.

Wayne loved baseball and he followed the Yankees like they were the most important thing around. We played like the wasps were curve balls and we were trying to catch Roger Maris to set a new home run record. That had to be 1961.

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Roger Eugene Maris (September 10, 1934 – December 14, 1985) was an American right fielder in Major League Baseball who is primarily remembered for hitting 61 home runs for the New York Yankees during the 1961 season. This broke Babe Ruth's single-season record of 60 home runs (set in 1927) and set a record that would stand for 37 years.

Stop the Oil Flow in the Gulf

My idea is a large steel screw. The screw would be very long with a very gradual enlargement to the top.

The point would be small and the diameter enlargement would be so gradual as to minimize the flow reduction until it started getting very deep.

At a certain depth the diameter of the screw would equal the hole diameter and flow would begin to be stopped but there would be enough of the screw in the hole to minimize blow past the screw. At a certain point, it would then be needed to start the screw twist to dig deeper and deeper. At the top of the screw there would have to be a bracket in order to screw the screw deep and tight.

When the flow had stopped enough a reinforced concrete cover would be placed around the screw,

It might be better to place a large concrete pad down first with a hole in the center at the oil hole, then the screw could be screwed down to that foundation.


Harrell Geron
Civil Engineer for the USDA
Temple, Tx

Margie......... request for thoughts or memories

This is a special request for your memories of Margie. I know it would be hard to write a long message, so it you can write a specific idea or memory I will include it in a collage of bits and pieces, and let me know if you want your name included.

send to ragknot@gmail.com

I will begin assembling them as they arrive and post them and re-edit as more arrive.

Thank God for Margie

Thank God for my sister, Margie she is loved by so many. Her family consists of her husband Mohammed, daughter Diana and son Adam. Also brothers Harrell Joe, David and sister Carolyn, and so many aunts, uncles and cousins. I thank God she is resting in heaven.

Services will be at Cate Spencer 403 Locust Sweetwater at 2 pm Sat. May 15. Everyone is invited to David & Carmen’s home to eat & visit later at 602 East Ave B, Sweetwater thank you all so much.

David Geron