 By Alvin Engelke
alvinengelke@hotmail.com
Joe Echard, Joberta White & Alvin Engelke were all consulting their chiropractor. Alvin was also consulting with his tonsorial artist.
The Creston area has had a significant amount of precipitation of various types. While the sun spots have stopped and the earth is cooling the prophets of the Worldwide Church of Manmade Global Warming are screaming gloom & doom. Why should they let facts get in the way when they can collect tax dollars and create powerful governmental agencies to control how ordinary folks live. The head of Exxon decided that a tax on carbon use would be better than the proposed "cap & trade" program as it is clear that the so called "agents of change" plan to show that they can change the world. Back in Bible times some other foolish folks tried to build a tower to reach heaven too and we know what happened to them.
Athens Ohio resident Catherine Marshall has been maintaining a 'low profile' presence out on the Annamoriah Flats. She isn't really hiding from the authorities but she is getting a much needed rest from a stressful job.
Nancy Engelke consulted her physician again and seems to be on the mend.
Local residents, as those elsewhere, continue to be concerned about the long term effects of bailouts and other federal giveaways of taxpayer money. The big eared fellow who likely was born in Kenya said that there would be trillion dollar deficits for the foreseeable future. Of course this cannot work and the result will likely be more job losses and runaway inflation. One of the NPR (government news media) spokesmen said his job was to assure that Barry would be a wonderful president. Presently his 'former' Chicago friends have been giving him some embarrassment, but, of course, unlike all the rest of them, he never did anything improper. Some have been told that they had better not speak out for if they do they will be called nasty names and banished from 'the club'. To illustrate the absurdity of the present situation the pornography industry has asked for a five billion dollar bailout. In the past government intervention extended and deepened bad times which, if left alone, resolve themselves within 12 - 24 months.
Prominent Brooksville oilman David Cain was attending to business in Creston.
The price of local Penn grade crude fell to $34.50/bbl while local gasoline prices went back up to the $2 range. Elsewhere in the nation gasoline is/has been $1.60/gallon.
The price of corn has come back down to the $4.50/bu range and the wholesale price of fertilize has dropped back into more reasonable numbers. One fellow said, "I'm the worst at buying and selling. I bought my fertilize for 2009 in July 2008." Cattle, hogs and poultry on feed are now less than previously and 30% of the corn crop is now dedicated to corn likker to fulfill the environmental ethanol mandate for gasoline.
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