TGIF

Happy Friday to you all! I was heartened to hear a few things this morning, and a few others disturbed me. First of all, the news that the congressional email system got trashed because it was overloaded is good news, no matter which side of the Health Care debate you fall on. What it means is that people are contacting the representatives they put in charge there, and reminding them that they are NOT the sheriffs of Nottingham, they are there to do the will of and whats best for thier districts. And even though every liberal rag out there has some sort of story about how the "death panels" are not real, false, never happened, Palin's crazy, ect., for some reason they are taking that very thing out of the bill. Right now, my mom is in the hospital. She has to go there probably every couple weeks in part because she has had some internal issues, but also because she smoked herself into barely enough lung capacity to live. She has problems with her sodium levels going up and down, and swelling in her extremeties, and overall, she requires some care. Under this "plan", i am not sure if she would have been considered "valuable" enough to society to continue providing care to. So i kind of take this debate personally. My own belief at this time is that this bill or any bill like it is not going to pass. If you were a congressman/woman in your first term, you would have to be an idiot not to see the groundswell of anger at this. But we shall see.

I read something very disturbing today, apparently the air traffic controller who was supposed to be watching the area where the small plane crashed into the helicopter in New York was talking to his girlfriend on his cell phone when it happened. Between this and the operator that was texting his girlfriend when the commuter trains crashed, i am not sure society can handle this technology. I pass people driving every day who are swerving all over the road because they are tappity tap texting while driving. I know a bit about technology and know that if we can design some of these phones with voice recognition technology so that you can say "call home" and it knows what you said, why not make it so you can say "start text message" and then just dictate it? then send it? All while keeping your eyes on the road? It doesnt seem to be much of a stretch, or rocket science. For people like Air Traffic Controllers, a cell blocker in the control room is what they need. You can find these things online for less than $50, and you can even get ones to take to the movies in case you are crazy enough to go on a Friday night when all the teens are out, texting themselves stupid during the movie. I find that a scene of a movie is not helped by someone next to you writing War and Peace on their cell phone. Especially if they havent turned off the key sounds, so you hear nothing but beep beep boop beep boop through the whole thing.

Anyway, wasnt going to rant, but it is morning, my neck is killing me, and i need more caffiene. Loves.