My many apologies for not being more consistent in my blogging (writing and reading) the last few weeks. Summer usually means doing more after work as well as added responsibilities at work due to everyone going on vacation.

That and I seem to be in the bowels of a depression that I can get out. It happens almost like clockwork ever month (some sort of hormonal thing… and you women that you were the only ones) lasting maybe two or three days at the most and I usually get by with a lot of chocolate and some really scary movies and mindless entertainment. This bout doesn’t seem to want to go away. I guess I’m coming down with something.

Warning: rants ahead!

Flying cars — Yes, if would be nice to have flying cars and some of the news lately is the development of a feasible model that will go into production in the next few years, but has anyone really thought this through?

• How are we gong to police the skies. The air traffic controllers are overworked as it is and there are fewer new ones every year. Will the police be involved? Will they need flying cars as well? Think of the public expense.
• Who is going to buy them? My guess it will be the rich first and eventually the price will become lower for common people to afford one. I don’t see much of a viable market when most people are going to want to be ground based.
• Fuel costs, it is gonna be expensive to fuel those things especially with the price of oil as it is now.
• Insurance? Who is gonna insure these vehicles and what insurance will the states and federal government require?
• I haven’t heard anything about safety devices. What happens if the engine dies or if there is a collision? Air bags are not going to help much.
• Security and terrorist concerns. This is one I would have thought the super paranoid Bush administration would have jumped on. What is to prevent flying a flying car full of explosives into a building a la 9/11?
• How are you going to train people and what type of training will be required before being licenced to fly one? Who will administer the licences, the DMV or the FAA?
• Would you really trust the person driving next to you to be in a flying car?

NPR, PBS, and CPB — Who said you could mess with my public TV and radio? All this mess with political appointees, funding, and emails from the administration is just an attempt to make the services a platform for the administrations propaganda. The reporters are the most even handed and non-biased I have found any any news organization who are not afraid to report on the news, even if it is about NPR and PBS. News isn’t about giving all sides a chance to respond, news is about information about events. You are doing something right if the government tries to shut you up. I didn’t see the Clinton administration (or the Carter one for that matter) try to control and shut down public broadcasting even though it was the focus of much scrutiny.

Spam — What is the deal with trackback spamming? You really think I’m not gonna monitor my trackbacks? I track my comments, what makes you think I wouldn’t track everything.

Downing Street memo — Come on, you had to be living in a hole in the ground not to know that Bush had been planning on finishing his daddy’s war before 9/11.

Mytob Virus — Okay, I don’t know who it is, but someone who has been here and maybe even gotten from me or sent me an email has the Mytob virus. It didn’t come from me, but my pop server was really getting a lot of hits and returns of email address that don’t exists with my server name. Do me a favor and update your anti-virus software, run a virus scan, and run the removal tool suppled by Symantec. It is safe to run the removal software; I ran it just in case will no ill effects.

Censoring cable and satellite TV — Stay out of my TV! I paid for those channels and I want to be able to watch what I want, even if it is glossy, fake women having fake orgasm during fake sex. I have enough intelligence to shut the TV off or change the channel when I find something that offends me or my children. My children know what they are allowed to watch and know what kind of deep trouble they can get into when they watch the SPICE channel. I watch what my kids watch to make sure it is okay, hell my kids ask me if they can watch a program. No one is forcing the signal into my home, no one is forcing me to watch TV. Hell, you should even leave broadcast channels alone, none of them are forcing people to watch. Grow some balls parents and start raising your children.

Abortion — Even though I think it is wrong, it is NOT my place to tell you or force you not to have an abortion. It is the woman’s choice, it is her body.

United Nations — Have we forgotten that we were one of the founding nations? We have a responsibility to the United Nations, to pay our dues, to follow the rules, to send qualified ambassadors, and to abide by their decisions. It is not the U.S. against the world, people. We are part of the world like it or not. We can’t just discard the UN whenever we feel like it. What would happen if other nations followed our lead? If we are ever going to find a lasting peace and live together, we will need the UN.

There’s more but I have to stop now before I get even more depressed.

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