Well, we've finally gotten rid of Alberto Gonsolez. This has been a goal of all right thinking people virtually since the day he took office. Gonsolez officially made the announcement 7:30 yesterday morning that he was going to leave office September 17th. That is none too soon. Of course the President didn't want him to resign and even had Gonsolez out to his ranch at Crawford to urge him to stay last weekend. After he resigned the President told the media that me was a man of exemplary character and that he was a victin of democratic politics and was allowed to be dragged through the mud. Stacy Taylor on his radio program yesterday was urging people not to seek further criminal action against either Gonsolez or Rove. But one thing this democratic congress does need to do is when they make their next appointment they need to secure a promise from the next Attorney General that he will appoint a special prosecutor.
Now they are saying that our youth gang mentality is being exported to Iraq because gang slogans have appeared in Iraq. That shows I guess the sort of character of the people who are inlisting to fight in the war. Stacy Taylor was saying "Now the democrats need to devote all their energy twords ending this Iraq war. Things here don't look at all promacing. Knowing this congress and how they vote contrary to American wishes, they rather than withdraw troops just might institute the draft to "solve the problem" that way.
George Bush has his criminal cocaine record expunged by his father or something and now there is nothing on his police record if anyone investigates. There is a new sex scandal brewing. Larry Craig or some anti gay republican senator from Idaho was caught in a sting operation. Apparently he propositioned an under cover agent in a restroom in a Miniapolis airport. People have been talking about the Mark Fowley scandal. Someone refresh my memory; I'm not fermiliar with that. This Craig guy is on record for his anti gay votes. It does seem strange that those who yell the loudest about gays are themselves in the closet.
It's been long suggested that we change our drug laws to make drug use a medical de-tox problem rather than a criminal matter. According to yesterday's show, the military has sold the police a lot of surplus military equipment and there has been an escalation of SWAT raids lately. SWAT used to be just for people with a bomb or bank robbers or people holding hostages or something. But it seems the chief use of SWAT teams are for drug busts and there have been eight hundred of them in the last twenty years and forty people have died, and most of those have been innocent. Also they have often gotten the wrong house. Perhaps it wouldn't be a bad idea to try a "kinder and gentler" law enforcement system for a while.
According to Leo Le Port there is a whole other new kind of Computer called a quantum computer, and there is even an article on the subject in the Wickipedia. But the article is aimed at people with IQ's somewhere over a hundred and fifty and much of it is hard to follow, particularly the math. However this is a computer which unlike the computers of the past fifty years, doesn't use bits or bytes or even a binary system. Now there is an "On" and an "Off" but also an "indetermanent". This new computer can solve all kinds of advanced math problems that elude ordenary computers including advanced therems thought up by geniouses that were unprovable before. One danger factor is that cracking encryption codes is a snap for this new computer. As you followers of trends know they've been saying since the sixties that computers should double in speed every eighteen months. People who are aware know that lately we have fallen way behind keeping up with this trend. Things have kind of leveled off over the past four years at about 2.4 gigahertz. Of course that figure means nothing with all of today's viruses and spyware, computers of twenty years ago were relatively just as fast in their world. The 2.4 gigahertz figure is a mockery. But since they have shrunk things as far down as they can, this New kind of computer embraces a whole new concept in computing that even uses a whole new vocabulary and calculation technique.
This economy is slowly but surely sliding into a recession. Wall Mart is saying to expect a slow down this quarter because customers aren't coming into their stores. Median housing prices are showing a universal decline throughout the entire United States and they say this is the first time that has happened since the thirties. Problems with Real Estate will only get worse; they won't get better. Summertime is normally the time when people sell houses. If things are slow now, what will happen when the winter comes? I'm also warning you to expect some New international incident next month to again send the stock market into a panic. We're just getting started with the down-trend. Summer is normally a period where nothing happens, particularly in August. The problems we are now seeing in Real Estate will spiral into other areas of the economy. Every day you will read about some new problem that wasn't there the day before.
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