The above succinct declaration was made by a Kimberley Clark representative upon receipt of a demand by Greenpeace that they stop making ‘luxury’ butt wipers.

Greenpeace is on the warpath against the American preference for virgin forest paper products, especially when it comes to “…. a product that we use for less than three seconds and the ecological consequences of manufacturing it from trees is enormous!”  As Ded and I have often commented, we can’t even begin to dent the surface in less than 12 seconds!

Here’s where Greenpeace is right now:  ”A campaign by Greenpeace seeks to raise consciousness among Americans about the environmental costs of their toilet habits and (to) counter an aggressive new push by the paper industry giants to market so-called luxury brands.”

I don’t feel the least bit guilty, because we use the cheaper of the two Costco brands.  We never keep less than 90 rolls on hand here at the house, just in case of earthquake or war.  

What’s your position when it comes to wiping your butt?

Pres. Obama inherited about a trillion dollar deficit.  He’s proposing to add his own 750 billion dollar deficit to the former amount.  Next year he’s projecting a 1.2 trillion dollar deficit.  The deficit goes down from there, but he still figures that by 2012, it’ll still be running around 600 billion dollars.

The deficit won’t be cut by lowering spending, or as our silly, silly parents taught us, living within our means, but rather by levying nearly $1 trillion in new taxes on the highest earners, defined as families with gross income of more than $250,000 a year.  That word ‘gross’ is the scary part.  I suspect that includes most of us!

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Cassius Clay became  the  world  heavyweight champion  by defeating  Sonny Liston .

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that was caught  in  Thailand.   It  was tagged and released.   Marine sting  rays are  even   bigger   then  this and  are  also  interesting  animals.

site: http://news.aol.com/article/monster-stingray-caught-in-thailand/356255

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The German Workers Party met in  Munich to adopt it’s  platform . 

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I order all the time from Amazon’s used vendors.  Really, discovering their used vendors might be one of the worst thing that’s ever happened to me financially speaking.

Anyway – almost a month ago I ordered a book from a used vendor.  The book was shipping from Texas.  It just got here yesterday.  Books I ordered more than a week after that one got here first.  So, I rated them as fair and said it was because of how long it took for the book to get here.  I wasn’t sure it was their fault, but I’d never had that experience with a used vendor before.  You know those mugs had the nerve to send me a nasty e-mail bitching me out because I only rated them as fair.  Why would I rate them as better than that?

I looked on FoxNews.com and the first headline says VP Biden is named Stimulus Czar.  Then in a bit I checked the stock market and the DJ average is down 102 points.  Naturally it’s humorous to say the two things are connected.  

But honestly I have no clue as to what has been driving the market since 2001.  My favorite speculation is that the people in charge of the stock markets and the commodity markets are rich people, trying to get richer.

What’s your favorite speculation?

I’m a very thrifty person.  I just finished buying my Spring wardrobe on Ebay.  I bought four golf shirts, three sweaters and four golf shorts.  With shipping, I paid $101, which is good, since three of the shirts retail for over $40 each, two Ashworths and a Nike climate control.  

In looking to see where the new stuff would fit, I did some rearranging of my closet and drawers.  I threw out three old pairs of golf shorts and one golf shirt.  That left me with 19 golf shorts and 43 golf shirts.  They’ve been accumulated over about 10 years, and for the last four years, mostly from Ebay, with a few from Costco. Thrifty, thrifty, thrifty.  Plus they’ll last for years and years since I only wear each shirt 8-1/2 times a year!  This is what they mean when they talk the about economy of scale.

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And it does make sense, but not the kind of sense I wish life would make…  

To protect what money you have now, invest it in businesses/commodites dealing with:

1:  Baby Boomers, the care and feeding of those soon to be retiring 50 to 62 year olds,

2:  Obese Americans, the care and feeding of this rapidly growing population segment, &

3:  Tattoos, both applying and removal.  The person who invents easily removable ink will destroy the latter industry but make the former industry boom.

Can you think of any other industries or commodity markets that will be sure winners?

seems  like  it  wasn’t  that  long  ago  when  crude  was  over  100 a  Barrel and  approaching  150 .  I  remember  some  arab  type predicting  oil  at  250 in the  not too  far  future .    If  these  prices   hold  or  drop  more   then  I  would  expect  gas  at the  pump  to  come  back  down to say a  buck a gallon  by  summer .   Right  now  around  here  it’s  about  2  bucks or  so .  

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