A better product
It does not matter how good a product you have. It does not matter how much better it is than all the other products out there. What matters, is how much money you make off it. Remember Tucker. He had a far superior product. Rather than compete with him and improve their own products, the other car manufacturers squashed him. The same thing happens every day with Microsoft. Right now Microsoft is patenting processes in their new operating system to make sure no one else can make compatible or comparable products. It makes me sick.

Art Car
I missed the art car parade. I slept until three in the afternoon. I wanted to get a bunch of pictures too. I suppose it was too much to ask for. To be honest, I hoped to run into Anna. I can't win for loosing.

Shame
This whole thing with the soldiers and the prisoners and the pictures is a disaster. It is a public relations nightmare. People have been saying for years that the U. S. is a hypocrite. The first trial starts soon. I wander if some one can plead the fifth in a military court. I'm sure this first trial will only point to other parties. I've read some speculation that the CIA instructed the guards to act the way they did. The CIA apparently wanted the prisoners to be softened up for interrogation. I can't find the story, but I read that the CIA wanted a woman to perform the humiliating acts and for pictures to be taken. I can believe this. When you think about what an interrogator would be after, it makes sense. Yes, this is all humiliating. Yes, it shocks even weathered Americans (some of whom pay to be treated like this (you know who you are)).
Here is a semi-related story. Disturbing. It isn't just Americans.

More on the Chech president's murder
It was a mortar shell. I'm not the only one asking who had access to such a high security area. I've heard both that it was a timer and that it was set off by remote. The president was Muslim and had called for jihad against the west. He was hated by the people who elected him. His son is in a position to take control, and is as hated as his father. The Russian government is screwed, because the president was basically helping settle the area down. Remember that theater incident in Russia in 2002? That was Chechnyan rebels. Those may have been the same one's who did this.

Listen to the experts
There is no such thing as herbal Viagra!!!! For the love of email, stop clicking on the spam adds that say you can get it for pennies a pill. I bet half the spam out there is selling Viagra. After a few horror stories from friends, I will not even try the real stuff on a bet.