ALL ARE EXPENDABLE

I hear lots of worry on the news concerning what will happen to Apple without Steve Jobs. Apple will continue on. Henry Ford died. Ford is still going strong after all the years since Henry left the scene.

PG&E GAS LINES

San Francisco Chronicle page 1 headline for January 16, 2011: "Gas lines pushed to limit".
Reading the article under the headline, I learned that 375 psi is the standard pressure for the lines and the "spike" is 400 psi. My question is this: What is the factor of safety in these lines? If 375 psi is the "safe" level, and 400 psi is the limit, then there is no factor of safety, I believe that a reasonable safety factor should allow at least a 3 times increase in pressure without causing any weakening of the line.
We need far more rigorous engineering standards for these gas lines. Public safety before profit.

EPITAPH FOR ARIZONA

Live by the gun. Die by the gun.

Amendment II
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

I am sure that our Founding Fathers had no intention that every raving lunatic should be able to aquire any sort of gun he or she should want. If I remember history, the intention was to allow each State to form a militia for self defence. Again, if I remember correctly, some of the delagates to the Constitutional Convention had concerns that too much power was being given to the Federal Government, and some balance should be struck.

Unfortunatly, the NRA, firearms manufacturers and other gun nut groups have convinced people that their interpretation of the Second Amendment is the correct one, and anyone that wants a gun should have one.

The Arizona horror should disabuse us of this falacious notion.

The new Senator Joe McCarthy

Congressman Darrell Issa of Southern California is on a campaign to discredit President Obama by spouting lie after lie. He has gone so far as to call the President "corrupt". He has denied saying that, but he was on camera and the evidence stands.
is the evil Joe McCarthy Darrell's hero and example?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Issa

Poor Charlie

Regarding the Congressional censure of Charlie Rangel, I have an admonition for our representatives. "Let he among you who is without sin cast the first stone"

ARE WE WINNERS OR LOSERS?

The last war we WON, was World War 2. What does this mean? First off, It may be very important to be fighting a war that is justifiable. The next war was Korea. One may say that it was, like WW2, justified. This war ended with a truce. No win. Then there was Vietnam. No justification. No win. Since then, disaster.

Now, we are so far in debt, we may not survive as a viable economy. Shame on the government. Shame on the people for alowing the government to run amok.

We will pay. We will suffer.

IS THE TEA PARTY

A REINCARNATION OF THE NAZI PARTY? If the votors give them power, we may find out to our great sorrow.