So, it looks like the democrats have ran into a major road bump on their dream ride to socializing health care. Now I’m not completely opposed to the intent and vision of what the democrats are trying to accomplish. In fact, part of me had hopes that they would come up with the dream solution that Obama always spoke of. Lower costs, insure everyone, and do it at no additional expense. The problem was, that it turned out to be as impossible as it sounds. But now that the democrats have lost the ability to ram a flawed incomplete piece of optimistically deceptive legislation through the senate they are refocusing on passing parts of the bill that sound good to both sides of the isle.
You have to remember once and a while that few poloticians get to where they are today by being brilliant at math or science. Most were elected for their ideolgical views, and their sparkeling resume, but most of all, because they begged and pleaded and raised a lot of money to spend begging and pleading people to vote for them. I worry that a complicated system required for a complete health care overhaul can not be pulled apart into a buffett table for senators to pick and choose their favorites. Most of the ugly parts to the reform bills only existed to make possible the more attractive offerings. I think it’s important now to take a step back and look ahead to where we are going with all of this.
Remember in highschool there was a certain group of grease monkey hot rodders who when given the opportunity to purchase their first car looked for a fixer upper? They would convince themselves that this was a golden opporutnity. If they purchased this 1983 Camaro with no engine and minor body damage, they could fix it up like new and sell it for a profit when they were done. How many times have you heard that logic from a sixteen year old boy? How many twenty year olds do you see driving around in a fully restored ten year old Camaro? Not many. Because this is what happens. You purchase a car for $3k and think that if you put $5 worth of parts into it and a lot of your own sweat and blood that you will end up with a car worth $10k. What really happens is you buy a car worth $3k and by the time you are $5k into the rebuild, you realize how far you are from completing and as you fix up one part of the car, the vehicle is also putting on miles and needing more and more maintenance.
When you go to sell the car, you learn that it is only worth $7k as an unfinished restorated not so classic 15 year old camaro. I get the feeling this is what’s going to happen to the health care reform. We will work real hard stripping the paint and priming the car, but never pick a color to paint it. And since we couldn’t afford the factory parts, we just went to the auto store and picked out the most affordable spoiler that is sitting on the shelf along with every other piece of gaudy cosmetic piece of bling we could get our hands on, just to keep the appearance up that we are fixing up the car.
If total reform wasn’t possible, then we can’t just pick the pieces that sounded good and get rid of the rest. The math just doesn’t work. If we want to take another look at this, the president should push for a new idea plan of gradual modifications to the system to focus on improving care and lowering costs using incentives and oversight, not just more insurance.
So God stopped work on the tower by changing their languages and moving them to new locations. Kind of a strange story. I imagine a SIMS game where God just picks up SIM characters and physically moved them, but it also could just be that people got sick of communication failures and moved on. The story explains the biblical history of how so many people groups developed speaking different languages across the world. If you think you are to intellectual to believe a story like that, then tell me this. Since science has already proven that all men are descend from one man, how did completely unique languages form? You would think that all languages would have closer commonality if we all developed out of one group. Interesting thought, but not the thought I want to discuss today.
Have you seen the latest and greatest achievements of man when it comes to architectural height? The Burj Khalifa in Dubi which was just completed at the beginning of 2010 stands at 2,717 ft tall. That’s a little more than nine football fields. It now tops the scale of largest man made structure knocking down the current reigning champion which was a radio tower in North Dakota. Nearly twice the size of the Empire state building, you can see the entire city of Dubi from the top of the tower.
With 160 floors, it really is something to look at. I thought after 911 the world would have backed off of building super tall sky scrapers, but apparently they believe that placing a mosque on the 158th floor will deter Islamic terrorist from trying to knock it down. But even if they built the safest structure in history, I’m not sure you could ever convince someone to lease the top 60 floors with all the fears of working that high up. Not to mention the 15-30 minute elevator ride once it get’s populated and people are getting on and off. What a hassle. And just so you could look outside and have an awesome view? Buy a poster! Dubi is already suffering from some pretty serious financial problems due to the world financial climate and the amount they have been investing in infrastructure. But other than the financial worries, there have been no major setbacks during construction.
Since this latest achievement of tower building is much grander then that of the early babylon empire, that leaves us with a few thoughts about God’s actions and current lack of actions concerning tower building.
Whatever God’s reasons, he hasn’t given any a language lobotomy to anyone over it yet. One thing is for sure though. People haven’t changed one bit. All our self praise over how evolved we are, and how we live in an age of enlightenment. We are still guys in rudimentary garments, shoving monoliths up in the loose soil so that everyone can see how gifted we are. Something to consider. The tallest Non-man-made structure is Mount Everest, standing at 
Homosexuality is more comparable to the hippie movement of the late 60′s and early 70′s. It’s a lifestyle, not a race. And people hated hippies too, and even kicked them out of stores and restaurants. But that wasn’t racism. That was seeing someone who’s culture and values were perceived as a danger to you and your offspring and reacting to protect your culture and values. And now, several centuries later, we can all agree that the drug and free love atmosphere of that movement wasn’t all that they had hoped it would be and did in fact do a lot of damage to those who got lost in it.
It’s not how you land or take off, it’s how you crash a plane that makes you a great pilot
Reality Television is destroying families
Kanye West is a punk
The media loves an epidemic just a little too much
Chickens are worth more then the stock market investments
Don’t fear the liberals taking over the governemt
Something you’ve never seen before.
Over Simplification
I was told that Apples were better for graphic design. When I researched to find proof or some kind of benchmarking for graphics, at the time, nothing standard between macs and PCs existed to quantify their speed. It’s like trying to compare a 
Porche 911 to a Ferrari 599 GTB and assuming that the Porche is faster based on the number applied to it being higher then 599. This is a ridiculous way to to compare cars, but unfortunately it is very difficult to test drive a Mac and PC side by side, since they are rarely carried in the same store. Much the same, as an incumbent in the 2008 elections every democrat ran on the same platform. “We will do better than it is currently being done.” And since every democrat also thoroughly agreed that the Bush years had been one step above pure crap, they only needed to promise two steps above pure crap. This marketing effort of saying the other team is so terrible and I will do it better is the most vague type or marketing, because what exactly are we promising. Apple did feel like they ran faster, but at the time most PC’s were multitasking 10 to 15 applications at a time and on Mac’s there were only 10 to 15 applications you could run on a Mac. When it came down to it, the hardware was about the same. A lot like what we got with Obama.
The latest craze for Macs is based around the lack of viruses for Macintosh operating systems and the low amount of bugs in the system. This is true. But not because the system is impenetrable. It would be like Obama claiming that the he was the better choice because he had never lost a war. If you haven’t been in a war, then you can’t loose. Macs are based on a Unix platform that is very secure and has a strong foundation. But Macs are going the same direction as PCs. More integration with other devices and software. This is where the bugs come in. Yes, if you bought a PC and never loaded any software that didn’t come from Microsoft, you may never experience a bug. But in the world of PCs, there is an abundant amount of software available. With all this software comes bugs. As Macs start to have more applications developed for it, there will be conflicts with resources leading to freeze ups. You of course wont’ get a blue screen of death, but instead a cute twirling disk cursor. When it comes to viruses, they are written for the bottom end users of the computer world. People who are likely to believe anything they read and click buttons that most advanced users would never click. Right now, most Mac users are more advanced users. At least, that was true until they started advertising that their OS couldn’t get viruses. Now everyone is getting their grandmother a Mac instead of a PC. College kids are buying Macs to take to school. Soon there will be a larger population of ignorant computer users all on Macs. Venerabilities are discovered on Macs, just like Windows comes out with patches, so do Macs. Right now those holes are patched before they can be misused, but that will not always be true. Once there are enough users for the Mac world, there will be a fair share of viruses. Only the problem will be doubled, because the users will believe they are not likely to get a virus. So they won’t be running antivirus, and they won’t be concerned over strange behavior or requests from the operating system.
So years have now passed since my first purchases of an iBook and an iMac. I am now fully converted over to PCs because they are so much more cost effective if you know how computers work. Of course now, there are people who buy PCs and load the Mac OS on to them. And Mac fanatics have learned new ways of running Windows based software. There is now a growing number of software application built on a universal model that runs on both platforms. The systems emulate each other’s designs to the point that it is difficult to decipher the differences. The truth is that software evolves based on the community that it serves. As the technology develops in different areas, it tends to merge together toward the most effective solution. The same is true for politicians. As the voter community builds and advances in communication, politics will move away from the extremes of left and right and closer to the middle. It might not be completely true for Barak Obama, but he did turn out to be a lot more moderate then either side anticipated. I could see a day when running for president has less to do with fundraising from the extremes of society and more to do with pleasing the wider public that lives somewhere in the vast gray middle of political thought.