We simply couldn't allow the racing stripe. Remember Ted Kennedy saying the offshore wind turbines were an eyesore?

I've often thought about that.... we have 3 major desert areas on earth... each about 120 apart... The American southwest, Australian outback and the Sahara. If we built a solar station on each of these three deserts, at any time, two would be producing power. A DC intercontinental power grid and we'd solve our energy problems.

It is not the cop's responsibility to help the guy. Of course they can on their personal time, but not on the clock. What about where the food he guy stole came from? He's denied me the sale or use of that food. Honestly with so many government programs, he could get help, and if he hasn't then the police arresting him would cause his kids to be placed in foster care where they will be fed. Problem solved. I don't like his kids being taken from him, but face it, he wasn't able to provide for them and at least in that regard, they are better off.

I would love to mod you up on this.... the police are not acting in the best interest of the public by not serving such warrants. You mean to tell me that for 9 years they couldn't find her??? They're not trying very hard.

So, my car won't allow me to get closer than 2 seconds behind the car in front of me. Great. Now what happens when a car wizzed by and cuts in front of me. Does my car suddenly jam on brakes and cause an accident behind me?

The missing percentage is Windows ME... but they can't keep it running long enough to phone home and report to their database.

We have fiber in our neighborhood and in each house is a power supply that charges a battery in the box on the side of the house. Last year, two neighbors lost their phone/internet/cable about 2 days after a big lightning strike. The strike took out their power supply and the batteries lasted two days. Suprising to them, but really not that bad.

My neighbor bought a Ford truck in 1997. It came with an alarm system. He haggled the price down and said he didn't want to pay for an alarm system. They took the truck around to the service bay and disabled it with a code reader device. Talk about someone being upset.... the idea that it was there installed in the truck and Ford had rather install the parts by default and then disable it infuriated him.

See, that's what you think.... an ordinary person looks at the headline and thinks it's terrible so many people are that bad off. The government is free to define the poverty line where it wishes. It can also redefine the program to include more people (usually a politician buying a block of votes). How often have you seen a program go into effect only to later be expanded and redefined down the road when the public forgets the original intent?

The truth is not all of those people need the welfare. But most will say if it's free it's for me!

We do provide breakfast at school to all students. Sumter, Richland and Kershaw counties that I know of, I'm sure there's more. And we provide free lunches. And in the summer time we open the cafeteria (not the school mind you) and feed the kids. Hey, this is great, but there's a flaw in it. We're already paying the parents with SNAP benefits. So we pay to feed the kids twice. But if you talk about cutting SNAP benefits, they always chime in about starving kids. No one points out the redundancy in the system.

My dear man, we have all the money we can print... until the Chinese call in their bonds and the Germans demand their gold back from Ft Knox. At that point we're screwed... and we are presently past the point of no return. Why it would be political suicide for either party to admit this to us, so they keep kicking the can down the road.

They should also avoid unobtanium. Not even available in China, only available on Pandora.

Despite what the people say about the french, they did lop off the head of their king who improved the design of the guillotine. That's heavy duty!

I think there was an article on the interwebs about Ford developing a sensor that could differentiate between a deer and something else at it's max range. Snicker... of course it's the device's max range... any further and it wouldn't differentiate. duh....

This is an excellent point.... I have the skills to drive, but the next generation won't. Never thought of that!