It Is Just A Tuesday

• I'm worried about this country- not in a middle aged, lived long enough to think things were better when I was young so they must be bad today kind of way. I'm worried about this country in a way that I think we may not overcome kind of way.
• We are spending money like a crackhead whose just won the lottery and we are broke- not in a kind of sideways in our finances kind of way- we are broke and politicians and citizens alike feel because we are so broke we should be spending more money in the same irresponsible ways.
• Odd.
• Right now the President is saying to the effect,"Shave off 1% and that is our education budget."
• Cool- shave off 2% of what we call entitlements and call it double good.
• Insanity: DARPA has only recently killed a program where 50 million dollars was wasted determining the feasibility of a military truck that could convert to a vertical take off vehicle to fly over IED infested areas (yes, the idea was for fold out rotors from a truck that could then fly and to top it off requirements called for it to autopilot if the driver was incapacitated). At a glance any scientist would know this is essentially impossible to do in a cost effective manner. Interestingly, a car that converts into a plane has been in the collective conscious of every science buff for oh, about the last 70 years. The reason it has not happened is because it's impossible for two such highly specialised things to do the other well.
• PS to the above thought which was written weeks/months ago: Yes,  that program was since killed but then recently brought it back from the dead. It won't work. It can't work and our government will waste billions of dollars to prove that when all they would have to do is ask me.