The Clear Water Gator

A new English word? 

We may have a unique new word being introduced into the English language.  The word is "boutteweught" ( pronounced "butt -wait" ).  It is a contraction of two polish words that means " poor value" or "extremely overpriced"  It can be heard daily on the paid TV comercial shows.  It seems that as a settlement of a class action suit, the producers of such shows have agreed to insert this word  following any price quote when the quote is more than 4 times the wholesale cost of the item. ww/'7/08

A new low in US ethical standards?

It appears that our business community is sinking toward  the ethical standards being pushed by our radical left and their political party the Democrats.  Those standards, which would make an earthworm blush,(where did those files come from?   I did not have sex...It won't do any good to drill now...it's not my baby....) seem to assume that the citizens are too stupid to be able to recognize  pretty obvious  lies.

Well now we have a new startup company; a major, well financed company, spending millions on a TV ad with a catchy tune. This company is selling subscriptions to a credit reporting arrangement and their sales are based upon total deceit.  They claim there services are free.  They are not free - if you are a poor person with no money or credit cards and really need their "free services" they will laugh at you. Their entire Company business plan is based on deceiving their customers.  In fact , when the company was founded and a name was selected, apparently all the bankers and corp attorneys and board members all agreed that the Company would be based on deceit and the name of the company was selected specifically to further this deceit.

The company is :"Freecreditreport.com"  ww /7-08

                   Things I like

1)  Clear Water

2)  Folks who honor their word  

3)  The feel of a deepwater swell smoothly raising the deck of a boat like an express elevator.

4)  A sawgrass flat with no buggy tracks in it.

5)  A horde of mosquitos who hatched only because the snook fry gorging on larvae were stuffed and couldn't get to them before they hatched.

6)  The unique sound of a sea breeze sighing through a stand of Australian pines.

7)  The deep blue color of the far offshore water of the Gulf of Mexico

8)  The sight of lobster antennae, as thick as the hair on a sea monster's back, sticking out from beneath a grass ledge.

9)   The exileration, elation and pure delight exhibited by children and dogs when they  step on a Cook Inlet Beach.

10)  The feeling of home sickness that comes with the opening of the last bloom on the fireweed spike, the appearance of splashes of color in the aspen and cottonwood leaves and the hauntingly lonely sound of geese as they head south.  It's time to go home.

Click to enter your own text or images in this area. You may want to briefly introduce yourself, your staff, and your company or display your business's mission statement, if you have one. Make a splash!

Hint: A mission statement can have a powerful effect on potential customers, but only if it's clear and concise! Keep your statement or introduction to just a few lines.

The thrill of walking

Where the bears walk

Is worth the risk

Of an occasional bite ww.'08

One third of US voters

Refuses to believe the evidence

that evolution is the basis

Of life on earth.

Another one third of US voters

Refuses to believe the evidence

That socialism doesn't work.

In our democratic system

That leaves the last third of us

In deep doo-doo. ww/'08

In the US we have some companies we affectionaly call "Big Oil".   These companies were formed to do things with oil.  Their empyoyees are trained to know how to do things with oil, such as search for oil. drill for oil,  refine oil, sell oil and even clean up oil spills.  Most of the equipment they own was manufactured specifically to do things with oil. Their corporate charters states that they will be oil companies.   The laws of the US allow companies to specialize in specific endeavors.   They are not required to, nor are they expected to have employees or equipment to deal with anything but oil

And yet we see daily on our news media, prominent politicians and liberal spokespersons demanding:  "that the oil   companies must immediately start to develop other forms of energy"  or "that the oil companies really let us down when when they didn't start using alternative energy sources years ago."    These guys must have IQ's considerablely below 80   (or, as I suspect, believe that their constituents have such IQ's)

I guess our politicians and reporters really missed a chance when , a hundred years ago, our larger cities were having a "pollution problem"  from poop from all the horses.  And when they realized that the horseless carrages didn't leave poop and pretty much solved the problem they could have gone to the ranchers raising the horses and demanded that they  "immediately start producing alternative forms of transportation that didn't leave poop behind"

Ah!  How we long for the good old days when reporters and politicians were smart enough to understand  that  ranchers produce horses, and car companies produce cars and oil companies produce oil. ww/'08

How to spot a bad deal

It's really easy; when looking for a used car in the classifieds,  pick out those ads without a price listed.  It's a sure bet the seller knows his price is so ridiculous no one will call if his price is displayed.  Or better yet look for a new car ad in which the price of the car is only indicated as a price per month, without mention of a down payment or a number of payments required.  Or, the best of all, look for a wireless phone service with the cheapest "introductory" monthly cost and no mention of the real monthly charges or the cost of the instrument or the length of the required contract.