Taco Cowboy's Journal: 10 year anniversary to an official absurdity

Back in 2003, the city of Los Angeles demanded that manufacturers, suppliers and contractors stopped using the terms "master" and "slave" on computer equipment, saying such terms were unacceptable and offensive.

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/11/26/master.term.reut/

From 2003 to 2013, many more such absurdities came into being, from Obama's wish to revamp NASA into an organization to please the Muslims

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/7875584/Barack-Obama-Nasa-must-try-to-make-Muslims-feel-good.html

to Obamacare website fiasco originated from the a no-bid $93 Million contract to Mitchelle Obama's ex classmate.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2477403/Michelle-Os-Princeton-classmate-exec-company-built-Obamacare-website.html

When I signed on to become an American I never imagine that my new country would become the buttjoke of the world, but unfortunately, it is.

Sigh !!

Back in high school I didn't see this shit coming.

[kermidge]

Raised in the Fifties, edumacated at a megaversity in the Sixties, things sure looked a lot different. There were lots of big problems, but we at least made some progress - civil rights, environment protection, reining in some government abuses. Now? Well, the U.S. is not the country I was born into and likely not the one in which I'd choose to live given a choice. I find myself hurt, angry, saddened. I'd like to live for a long while (given good health) in order to learn, explore, build, but otherwise