President Obama has laid out his plans to increase the number of troops on Afghanistan. What we need to work on in that country and in Pakistan is public relations. If the people trust the Talliban more than they do the US government, we will never pervail. Of course Afghanistan was the USSR's "Viet Nam". They thought they could win in a land war in a spread out and sparcely populated country. I don't see why the President cant see that escalation only leads to more escalation down the line continuing on an ever diminishing cost-effective basis, and that eventually after we have sunk a lot of blood and money into the region, we will only have to admit defeat and get out. What I'm hoping that President Obama will do is to reform the CIA and "de-politicize" it so that we get straightforward, accurate reports as to what is really going on in this region. And hopefully we are engaging in some kind of quiet propaganda campaign that will actually have fruitful results.
There are times when this writer has "free floating anxiety". Nobody likes the idea of getting older and wonders where their life is headed in the next ten years or so. People like me who are on the dole worry about some as yet unannounced cut in funding either on the state or the national level. You just never know when something is going to come out of left field. People like myself are sucking up an enormous ammount of subsedy in various medications, many of which may not be necessary, and were I on my own I may decide t stop taking. People like myself wonder whether they are too old to again attempt to enter the employment market. Of course they have medications for "free floating anxiety" but I am not one who believes you can make your worries go away through chemistry. "Better living through chemistry is more a myth than it is a reality" as far as this writer is concerned.
British health care costs three percent of a person’s annual income for life. I suppose that’s fair. I can definitely think of times in my life when I have spent less than thirty dollars per month on doctor’s care, like most of my life. But considering what most people claim that health insurance costs these days, this three percent deal could be a real bargain if we can con all the basically healthy people to subsidize it even though the bulk of the benefits will go only to a relatively few people.
Apple I Phones are coming out with “Cut” and “Paste” finally. It is my belief that since most people believe the I Phone II has stood up so well against Blackberry encroachment that Apple may decide to let their profits ride, and not risk a good thing when some recent “improved” devices have spawned criticism.
This is after dinner. We had chicken Alfredo and cabbage. There were no seconds. We had two oatmeal cookies for desert. I went to the bakery for a large coffee that was actually hot from the pot. CBS treated us all to a fifteen minute marathon of commercials today a little after five, coming in three waves. UConn is beating Purdue at the moment, however Purdue is trailing by only a few points.
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The swarm of earthquakes in or near the Salton Sea in the
The jury has the retrial case of the Phil Spector murder of Lana Clarkson. Reports are that the jury is going to acquit. There are two reasons for this. First is that they have really built up the case for Lana Clarkson’s having committed suicide to an even greater degree than the first trial two years ago. (and that was pretty bad) The other reason is that they have the options this time of second degree murder or even involuntary manslaughter. To my way of thinking this shows weakness on the part of the prosecution that they really don’t have a good case. Naturally, Specter didn’t testify.
Sean Hannity is upset because President Obama in his internet town meeting wasn’t more indignant about his opposition to the legalization of marijuana. He attempted to make light of the whole thing saying that marijuana legalization is not recommended for economic growth. We should legalize it anyhow.
The US Senate “in a rare display of unity” voted 78 to 20 for a 5.7 Billion public service bill. Sean Hannity alluded to some “Civilian citizens army” that he wants to institute that’s based on compulsory service of young people. According to Hannidy this outfit will have equal authority to the regular military. The whole thing seems highly far-fetched to me. Some have inferred that student loans would somehow be tied to national service for a year, but re-reading Obama’s speech, there isn’t much to base that on.
There are apparently new computer circuits that feed off “noise”. They work more efficiently when their surroundings are buzzing. The topic I was actually looking for was "Non-linear computer chips in the news", but apparently there was no news on this topic, even though supposedly this is the great break-through of the decade.
Apparently the era of Billionaires paying to go on a junket to the International Space Station may be coming to an end. This one guy is on his second trip. But no more. This is because NASA officials are doubling the number of “real astronauts” on the Station, so that there just won’t be accommodations.
There is a study on circumcision that claims it cuts a whole host of sexually transmitted diseases by 25%. There is one glairing thing wrong with the study however and that is all the whack-ees were volunteers! They were thus more “compliant” and probably more introspective about their sexual habits than the average African man.
Dogs have an inherent sense of “Not being Fair” just like kids do. When one dog is asked to do a trick and does it, then a second dog does the same trick but is given a reward. The first dog says “No Fair”. They say “Not only will he now refuse to do the trick, he may not even look at you”. It’s too bad God doesn’t realize this about humans.
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