Very Local News

• Politicians are lining up, crawling over each other to say we need an energy policy. Where did this come from all of a sudden? Our policy for decades has been to use as much energy as possible and put it all on our credit card. What changed?
• I had the Smurfs theme going through my head for a while today. I had to listen to some Helmet to root it out.
• I really want to get Elle's computer on the network so she can play some of the educational online games. Nat did some research in to what I call sandboxing. There are a number of software packages that allow children to experience the web, but only from a limited number of places and with controls that allow us to monitor what she is doing.
  
• News flash today, "Whistle Blowers Fired". This does not surprise me. There is an effort for a whistle blowers protection act for national security folks. Let's face it, if an FBI agent witness something, they are required to report it by law, but the only protection they have from that point on is at the whim of the higher-ups who they just tattled on. No wonder there are so few people who step up. Bad things happen to those who embarrass their leaders.
  
• Assigned to answer a phone that never rings. (actually happened)
  
• Parrish
• Allowed to stumble and thus get fired.
  
• The number one country for the reception of U. S. aid in any form (Foreign Aid and Military Aid)  is Israel. Pakistan is second.
• We got home and Nat started making dinner. The TV is just sitting there. Apparently there was some promise of the movie made when we got home. Elle said "I'm waiting real hard."
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