The gig is up

Heh-heh. Yep, we're smart all right. Let's see. Two days ago some satellites collided in space. No biggie, life happens. Today two nuclear subs collide in the ocean. Yep, we're high-tech all right.

Last week a truck accidentally cut an optic cable running across the road outside the school. Nothing lost, but no net access for a few days.

Heard something similar happened in the Mediterranean a month ago, but that took out a lot more than a school building.

Yep, we're high tech. Hey! No mare TV starting tomorrow, right? We are great!

Heard that Korea s begging for us to attack. HA! And the President announced again that he's still going to support all the Bush policies, and can't figure out why the Republicans won't back him. Heck, they started it all.

Oops, wait, I just remembered. Gore started the Internet. Tax, that is.

Oh Well

It's always a dream, I guess - hoping the new boss is different than the old boss. So far Obama has reneged on every promise that I cared about (closing the Cuban prison, ending torture, revamping the budget, and most importantly ending the war). He's carrying on with Bushes plans in all these areas instead of stepping forward with "Bold New Plans". I'm disappointed, but not surprised.

I love the line "I inherited a trillion dollar deficit". So, what's the answer? "Double It!" If the deficit makes things bad for the country, then dang it, let's show that we can make it twice as bad.

The bail-out was a joke when Bush suggested it AND got it through congress- a minor miracle in itself. Obama, instead of negating the bailout, said, Hey! These guys deserve $500,000 a year, let's bail them out some more." The fun part, of course, is they ca simply change their job titles and steal more than $500,000 from the coffers; but that's another story.

Another fun line is "the economists are telling me this is the best way". HA! He shoulda talked to my mom, his mom, anyone's mom. Spending money you do not have is never "the best way". The only people who think this is the best way are people who think the system is going to collapse anyway, "so here's our last chance to get out with our pockets filled with someone else's money".

The only thing he's honest about that I can see is the promise that the next few years will be hard on the poor and middle class. What's sad is those are the folks whose votes he courted. Typical.

I was hoping he'd end the war in 10 days, close Guantanamo in one day, put bush & cheney on trial for war crimes - set an example to future despots that war crimes will be labeled correctly by the United States of America, that he'd jail the mortgage bankers who cheated and lied to their customers, and take the failing companies whose workers have always starved while the bosses partied hearty and turn the companies over to the workers to run. Autos can be built without bureaucrats. In fact, everything that has ever been built has been built without bureaucrats - the workers build it, the bureaucrats have profited from their labor.

He should have stood up and declared the failed No Child Left Behind act as a failure. Instead, he's promising to reform it. A guy with his education should have learned somewhere along the line that you cannot reform failure. Simply closing the Department of Education and returning the responsibility of educating back to educators would have been wisdom.

And on and on I go, same old arguments - some of which Obama accepted when he was a candidate, and has now rejected. His children are now in private school, his goal has been reached. Everything else can be forgotten now.

Oh well.

Hmmm

Hamid Karzai has become increasingly vociferous in his criticism of American military tactics and has been making half-hearted threats to shift his allegiance to Moscow if he does not get his way.

Am I wrong in saying "Why Not?" They don't want us, we certainly don't intend to do anything serious there in regards to stopping heroin & Bin Laden's troops, so why not? There's no way America can bring peace to the region. We helped them defeat the Russians with the help of Bin Laden a few years back. If the guy we propped up as a puppet would rather ally with the Russians, why the heck not? What have we got to lose? So our heroin becomes more costly. So what?

Let me know where my thinking is off.