The Mad Sailor

Monday night, congress failed to pass the economic rescue bill. The democrats blame the republicans and the republicans blame the democrats. What the hell, it was Wall Street that created this problem, let them fail. Congress doesn’t care. Well, Congress doesn’t understand. So let me help you out.

Wall Street, who is that? It’s millions of individuals with a few hundred to a few thousand dollars invested in the American economy. Congressional failure just cost all of those poor people 1 trillion dollars according to a popular TV news show. And you failed because the medicine was unpopular. Some individuals are confused about who created the mess and who would be helped by this bill.

So who created this mess? It wasn’t some Wall Street wizard. It wasn’t some dishonest CEO with a golden parachute. It was congress! You clowns wrote the rules. You are the game’s referees. You filled the troff with slop and then blamed the pigs for eating. Shame on you.

And who are you trying to help. Not some mega-bank, investment firm or insurance company.  As the stock market just pointed out, you have to bail out the boat to keep the crew afloat.

Finally I want to thank Congress for reinforcing my lack of confidence. A plague on both your houses.

Digital, over the air, TV will shortly become the standard in the US. Good ole analog TV we be turned off. If you listen to the propaganda this is a good thing ….. but is it?

I’ve been experimenting with DTV for some time and I’m sorry to say it’s not very good. Don’t get me wrong, when it works the picture is great! It’s actually wasted on us over 50 crowd, we can’t see that well anyway. But! When it doesn’t work it’s terrible. Actually it stops completely, no picture, no sound, nothing. There is no way to adjust your antenna to improve your signal. You are lost, just wave your antenna around aimlessly and hope for the best. Once you get a signal there are all kinds of problems that can interfere with your viewing pleasure. You see the greedy TV industry chose a signal format that is very suseptible to interference and multipath because it allows them to broadcast multiple channels on one channel. (note: the fox is in charge of the henhouse). So if you live in a marina the multipalth from all of those sailboat masts waving about will rip up your signal making the picture start and stop and the sound cut in and out … VERY ANNOYING! It gets worst when an airplane passes overhead.

So, here’s the bottom line. If you live more than 20 miles from the transmitter, sorry about that. If you live in an airport flight plan, bummer. And if you live near a military base or other source of interference, you lose.

Thank God for wifi and hulu.com

I don’t usually have much to say about politics. I haven’t seen a politician I would buy a used car from in years …. years! Personally, I’d like to see a third ballot position, “NO CONFIDENCE”. If No Confidence wins then both parties have to throw out their candidates and start over. I thought that Gore versus Bush was a poor choice. It seemed to me that neither party wanted to win. I called it a rerun of the movie, “Dumb and Dumber”.

This election though trumps all. Obama (is that his name) can’t get away from the race card. Sorry, he’s stuck with it. His choice in V.P. leaves me cold. I lived in Delaware for a while. I am so unimpressed! And I’m sorry, I just don’t think Obama has enough experience. I wouldn’t hire him to run a corporation, I won’t hire him to run a country.

But McCain had to insult the world by playing the SEX card. With all the people that he could have chosen, he went for an unknown just because she was a she. Shame on you. Who is more insulted? Men because she is unknown and untested, women because she was picked because of her gender and not her qualifications.

I think I’ll vote, “NO CONFIDENCE!”