Kinkikali

Duly Noted

Earlier this year, before the Gulf Spill, the petroleum industry ran a TV commercial that awed the viewer with deep sea drilling potential.  It was all glamorous stuff with a single primary well having multiple “tentacles” running along the seabed to other wells. Then came Earth Day and an explosion and the rest is floating in its long voyage to the Gulf Stream and beyond.  That commercial strangely has dropped out of sight. Just shows that sexy sales pitches often end up in oily ditches.

Noticing Legal Notices

Our local radio station WTPL-FM has a host Jack Heath, best described as a moderate hard right conservative Republican.  He is pro-business and anti-government.  Nothing wrong with that–reading talking points is like parroting teleprompters—just follow the bouncing ball.  Jack loves to compare how we citizens have to live within our means while government can tax, borrow, and avoid facing the fiscal music.

Well Jack. Many citizens live within their means especially those with obese paychecks and those who have the luxury to complain about taxes versus complaining about little things like hunger and homelessness.  But look at the legal notices–once a mere few, now page after page after page.  Just like state, national, and local, on the personal level a great many of NH charged their way into insolvency.  Of course back in the day, a worker could expect and get paid health coverage and a decent pension.  But it was more expeditious to ship jobs overseas—followed by pensions and health coverage.

I think it is fair to say some NH citizens live within their means.  But to say we all do is blind propaganda. Take Note.

Continuing Decline

Despite more good news on the economic front, bad news just comes in bigger mobs.  Recent notes, the Ginger House, a local restaurant with sushi service, is dropping its sushi.  This regressives sushi to Peterborough and Concord, a bummer.

Irving Oil/Shaw’s is cutting back on their groceries for gas.  It used to be $50 in groceries got you $.10 off per gallon at the pump.  Now it is $.05.

The Last Days of Hitler

Never one to attract good public relations, Hitler, despite his world class meanness, gets yet another book under his belt.  Not the calm narrative like Cornelius Ryan’s The Last Battle, The Last Days of Hitler goes gaga into character stalking and assassination.  Yes Hitler hung out with wackos and weirdos, but they were not incompetent buffoons either.

Interesting reading for those who into the popular “last Days” theme. Trevor-Roper goes full bore into belittling the personalities…Hitler in a perpetual froth, Goering grabbing for power, Bormann silently plotting. I am taking a guess, but chaos comes with titanic destruction by conquering armies.

This was a discount book; No doubt very used, like the Death Star exploding, worth watching again and again.