Can governments move at the speed of electronic media. Not to be confused with controlled by electronic media...or maybe the government WILL be controlled by it. I am getting the feeling the world populations thinking and decision making and opinions are being formed and made in meer hours and even minutes and the governments decisions still languish for weeks, months and years. Will this process still stand in the near or distant future? It is becoming an archaic way of the operation within the development of the human race. Maybe Congress people, Senators, Presidents, Prime Ministers will all be a thing of the past. Can the political process be streamlined and made efficient and maybe even more fare by using electronic media to allow the people to decide almost all issues? A true Democracy? Our form of government looks more and more ancient, inefficient every day. When the different "parties" (ancient) cannot recognoize and commit to follow their leader then the party form of bonding has run its course. Politics is now an idividual decision now, not a party decision. Either there are very weak leaders or everyone is a leader and they don't want to listen to anyone but themselves. This new way of a governments functioning can and will be enhanced by current and future developments in electronic media.
Business has adopted and adapted to the technology in the last twenty years, maybe its time for government to "update" also. Sounds refreshing to me!

Russian built rocket engine ban to US export ???

The headline sounds a little extreme as far as halting the ENTIRE program, whats left of it anyway, but it IS true that the US does not manufacture for NASA, any engines to be able to launch low orbit space vehicles into space....This includes low orbit satellite and missions to the ISS. Why we depend on a very possible and probable adversary to "supply" these to NASA can only be as a result of the Congress on the US.  It is another indication of how the government acts irresponsibly and stupidly. I am SURE we can get our own engines built and ready for flight in...lets see...a government project??? Maybe, just maybe a decade??? Being optimistic....Oh, and we also do not have any US way of getting our Astronauts to and from the International Space Station. Yep...we depend on the Russians for that too!!! John McCain and his lot think we have the trump card all the time with all issues regarding the future of the world....Well, the position THEY have put us in has left us in the position which THEY say we should NOT be in...Vulnerable! And actually having to consider WORLD OPINION before we make a unilateral decision. The US should have to consult and abide by other countries opinions on acting militarily when it is not a case on US national security..but we should not be in a position to be forced...or blackmailed (eventually, if it hasn't happened already) into any international decisions.

Senator John McCain's Syria oppinion.

McCain's the "Catastrophe" A Senator who's time has come and gone but doesn't want to give up the power. Doesn't add anything to the crisis but stupidity. If hes the go to guy for the US media...were in a lot more trouble than we think! He's a good argument for TERM LIMITS!!!

John McCain "opinion" on the Syria debate.

A few things, one being the level of aggravation I feel when I see a story on one of the "home" pages I have of something in the news. These stories are being written more and more by what I recently heard called "civilian reporters" I think your basic "man on the street" description of the story. You cannot call them "articles" anymore like "newspaper articles" but just a story. You click in the item on the "home" page and then its a crap shoot if your going to get an actual story...or a sixty second video of the story preceded by an advertisment which runs anywhere from 14 (?) to 28 (?) seconds. I know you all know this...but my issue is, I want to READ a story which might be about a pretty horrific subject, a disaster or something those fools in Washington DC are doing. It might even be a story of human interest or, God forbid, Hollywood gossip! If you are lucky enough to get a news agency story like, AP, Reuters, BBC etc... you are VERY lucky indeed. If you are lucky enough to get a story WITHOUT a video AND ADVERTISEMENT you are VERY LUCKY!
There is something about clicking on a headline on the "home" page about someone or something like a huge loss of life and then you MUST sit through a commercial for anything from Bra's to Cadillac's! I usually turn the sound off but have found some of the ads do not let you do this. If that is the case I usually just move on and forget the story altogether. It is so insensitive to force the viewer, who really wants to be a reader anyway, to take the mind set of the individual who is thinking of the headline they just clicked on and then go to information they are expecting to get and in a nano-second, slap the brain into an advertisement and after siting through 30 seconds of nonsense, you're actually supposed to refocus on the reason you came to this place in the first place. It DE-sensitzes the information to such an extent that you really loose all interest and whatever emotion you might have experienced from viewing it. And, c'mon now, do you think ANY of those ads actually influence the consumer other than to turn them off? I cannot imagine a exec for Cadilac actually thinking that they will sell cars from a 2 x 3 inch ad on the internet of their car driving on a cliff by two morons in Nepal or wherever they are! The only reason this guy or lady agreed to the million dollar contract for such advertising must be kickbacks.
Anyway. It is a very sad state of affairs when you cannot get a real, readable, professionally written, news story anymore off the internet "home" pages. They have and are "dumbing down" the entire country and world and adding to the DE-sencitizing of peoples emotions regarding human events. The weirdest thing is...it was not much over a hundred and fifty years ago, of the six thousand years man had been communicating with the written word, that it took days for a news event to travel from one part of the country to the other, and weeks to get news from the rest of the world! In the short time span since electricity has been harnessed, we have compressed the immediate distribution of "news" into a few seconds of debatably accurate information which begins with an adverisement which no one wants to see...but is forced to.
Oh, and by the way, the video's on the Huffington Post are SO bad and presented with such laxidazical individual oppinions by the presenter (not a reporter by any stretch of the word) is REALLY going to create a nation of idiots!
All for now....

      I have to write something about the resent rash, so to speak, of horrific mass murders in this country of ours. It now seems to be a weekly occurrence which, although appalled, we as a society have become desensitized to. This is not only because of the frequencies of the shootings but most Americans enjoy viewing the repetitive, and I mean repetitive, violence on TV, movies and video games and the relative easy way to acquire a firearm. Any kind of firearm. The desensitizing was brought to a complete halt with the killing of twenty six people, 20 being 3rd graders, the week before Christmas 2012. This was an act of evil and cannot even be described in words of the ridiculousness of this horrendous event. It was on the level and in my inner feelings as tragic (I hesitate to say more tragic) than the World Trade Center attack in 2001 in which close to 3,000 souls lost there lives. I have been reflecting on what could be the cause of these frequent incidents besides the above mentioned possibilities.  I came to the realization that, although I was one to NOT believe violence on TV cause a violent society (I thought that years ago) I now think it contributes to the issue. But, upon further evaluation (in my own mind) I came to the conclusion that the American way of life is the major contributor. First I thought of all the wars this country has fought, just in my short fifty six years, not including the cold war, which was physicological like having a gun held at your head, especially for a seven or eight year old. We have been involved in seven that I can think of and I am sure I am missing a few. Korea, Bay of Pigs. (Cuba) Viet Nam, Panama, Grenada, Iraq, Iran, Iraq again, Those counties in the old Soviet Union, I can't keep track or remember the names. Not that any of these were not necessary, we, as the worlds police force have to step in with our firearms. I took a look at Wiki, entering "US at war" in the goggle search, thinking I would make a list for this blog. It became apparent it would have taken me hours to do so and since it is already compiled on Wiki you can take a look if you care to. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States Let me say that since the American Revolution, their has not been a five year period, from 1776 to present, that there was a five year period in which we were not using firearms somewhere. Nothing wrong with that. Most great civilizations have the same track record. Even though Egypt was the superpower for three to four THOUSAND years and the Romans for just a thousand or so. They did not have firearms though so they don't have any relevance here. I digress. So the firearm is in our culture from day one. It always will be. From killing Indians (whom shot back) to Wyatt Earp tracking down the murdering thieves at the OK coral. From the Gangsters who ran the country with Tommy guns to the FBI's assault (they were being shot at) on the Waco TX compound. The firearm IS our culture. Bans can be made and enforced as well as the drug enforcement actions we take as a country. The regulations always seem to make the politicians fell better anyway. But it will do nothing. This country is under some divine umbrella which we stand under with out firearms. So we need to dissect to the minutest degree (as Peroit would say) to determine how to keep firearms out of the nuts hands. This leads to another problem. I am sure "we" can determine the obvious psychopaths and other obviously mentally disturbed individuals but I think, by the looks of it, a lot of these nuts are fairly rational and no more nuts than any of the script writers of our favorite TV shows. Actually some may, at one time, been more lucid. Lets break it down here; sorry but I am going to use demographics, race and sex as part of the breakdown. Lets start with WOMEN: no, there does not seem to be any issue here. Many have guns and use them responsively whether for protection or sport. MEN: Now we have an issue, OK, black men: Not really in the mass killing world. Sure they have and use guns but mostly in a war environment. Turf and drugs, which we, as a country, have enacted laws to control. UNFORTUNATELY these wars take place in our neighborhoods and innocent people get killed. LATINO: Pretty much same as the Black guys, just in different states. WHITE: hummmm, I think I hit a nerve here. Lets break it down farther...INCOME: Well, most of these White guys don't have an income from what I could see, other than some pretty rich parents paying their way. This can be expected since most of these MEN are of college age and have not been out in the world yet. I think if we, as a nation, started screening all high school and college age WHITE MALE we, as a nation might intervene in one or two of these mass murders. Will we end them all? No, never. Will a gun ban help? No, never. Will we understand why, as a nation, we go out and buy more guns when a ban is mentioned...yes...we are a firearm oriented country. I just saw the movie LINCOLN which I thought was going to be about his life and was actually about the passage of the Emancipation Proclamation. Interesting to see the workings of politics during the Civil War (oxymoron?) but the end shows Lincoln at his end. Laying with a bullet lodged in his head. Not from a semi automatic weapon but from a single shot pistol which you could hid in the palm of your hand. It made me reflect on just how many Presidents, just Presidents, who's lives were ended by a firearm. Or almost ended by a firearm. Again, it would be a list that would take too long to list here and with Wiki already having it, take a look if you care too http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots
All I can add to this summation is that when a white male of high school or college age decides to use the all American gun to make a point, please just use it on someone who counts.......yourself.

What this is all about...

Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to my message to the world.
Nothing Earth shattering, probably just a bunch of incoherent driveling but it's mine. My thought, observations, comments on everything and anything I want. Some information and comments will be inaccurate (probably most) based on inaccurate information heard mostly on our friend the TV. I just feel compelled to write some things down. It won't make a rats ass difference in anything but I going to drivel anyway!
If you chose to read it and get by the second line, I hope you enjoy.
Thanks
Bill