“JCB Construction’s new 60 MPH, state-of-the-art HMEE, built for the U.S. Army and poised for deployment in Iraq and Afghanistan.(PRNewsFoto/JCB)”
Um … yeah. So evidently we can’t protect our work sites and roads leading to them in Iraq and Afghanistan very well. So the solution isn’t to better protect them, it’s to order a backhoe that can outrun the insurgents. I wonder how well this handles the Top Gear test track?
I was listening to some call in show on the radio here in Baltimore this morning driving to the office from our hotel. There wasn’t a lot of moderation beyond “Hello caller…” and it pretty much just seemed like a call in and rant show, with most folks dancing around various different radical ideas. It was interesting.
There was a caller saying that the Republicans are behind the push to computer-based voting machines so they could easily rig more elections, “just as they have been for years.”
There were callers lamenting the disenfranchising of voters because of ID requirements to prove you actually are the person on the voter rolls. Specifically one lengthy complaint was that it was too difficult to get yourself down to the DMV to get a drivers license, or even just a simple state ID card (no driving privileges, but it’s a photo ID).
The last call we heard was a rebut of this notion, and it was truly one of the best calls to a radio show I’ve heard ever. The main point was driven home like this…
I live in a fairly poor area of town … it’s the ghetto really. If people ’round these parts want to vote they can put the ribs down and the malt liquor and take a couple hours to get their butts to the DMV and get an ID. They don’t seem to have any trouble finding time to go to clubs or buy lottery tickets.
I’ve been a bit out of it lately. Alicea and I spent a full week with a really bad sickness (won’t go into the details). The there was the holiday week, and work is ramping up into another busy period for me. Unfortunately blogging hasn’t been at the top of my to do list.
That being said, I just saw a diatribe from Keith Oberman from his MSNBC broadcast on July 3rd (here’s the link). Keith more than makes up for my lack of words lately.
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