New Year's Blues

Talk about blue ... if you were in the Ukraine, and the Russians supplied your source of heating energy, you'd be pretty blue too. As posted some time ago, leaving your energy source in the hands of the Russians is practically the stupidest thing that you can do. Contracts? Who cares about contracts when your supplier is the nationalized Russian behemoth, Gazprom? Gas becomes a weapon of economic warefare. Since when have the Russians EVER shown any reluctance to turn the screws to someone? I am sure that they laugh their butts off at the American squeamishness at the prospect of using that sort of economic tool. Turn someone's heating off in winter ... Christ, if a US administration were to consider that tool (Red or Blue) against someone, the liberals would be wetting themselves at the inhumanity of it. And they would be right. But do you hear any outrage in the US press about this? Huh? Someone ought to turn the heating off in the New York Times offices. Then we'd hear something.

What else up? Well its about 2 weeks since my last post, all of which seems to have been absorbed by family, weddings and vacation. None of which was very relaxing. But fun, mostly.

Been having some bizzaro dreams lately: twice I have been employed as a sniper in a Middle Eastern country. Unpleasant to say the least. But I seem to come through it. Oh, and I don't play video games at all.

I feel like having a rave at Hybrid cars, US manufacturers who seem to be unable to provide workable solutions (I don't think that the Japanese "solution" is one), and the general dishonesty in that industry. Maybe tomorrow. And of course, we are going to have to pay for the defined benefit plans of those diligent auto workers. Ugh.