I’m getting thru to the net at 19.2k via my cell phone. It’s painful, but it works. I’m used to loading web pages in 3 seconds instead of a minute or more. I’m connecting after 9.00pm because of my unlimited minutes so you’ll get Fridays information written Thursday night. I might get some work done on the blog over the weekend.

Don’t worry, we’ll get through this.

I have had an issue with John Stossel for years. I used to be a scuba instructor, and Stossel did a standard 20/20 attack piece against the diving industry, interviewing three disgruntled people, then doing a surprise hostile interview with the VP of PADI.

But this book sounds interesting. It’s one book I might actually read. Stossel: Fight Back – Don’t Let Big Brother Take Your Freedom.

I especially liked this paragraph:

“Remember the dead-eyed look of the people in the Soviet Union?” he asked. “That’s the same look of people who live in a bureaucratic state.”

I used to notice how the eyes of people in Soviet propaganda photos out of the 50′s and 60′s looked. Now I know why.

Here’s the money paragraph:

The media use fear to panic the people, politicians use it to pander, and the trial lawyers promise to make somebody pay, all in the name of junk science fostered on the public by people with their own political agendas.

We are all being played, and it’s time we woke up to this. It almost reminds me of the subliminal messages in They live.   Yes, unfortunately I watched that movie. It’s right down there with Deep Star Six.  &nbsp But I digress.

If someone wants to buy a poor guy on disability this book, let me know by my email address on the right and I’ll set up a gift account on Amazon. Then I’ll review it for you, dear readers.

In a related vein, I found this article on Fox, Too Fat: Federal Powers Need a Constitutional Diet. And while I agree with the premise of the story, I don’t agree with the substance.

The article goes on to talk about obesity and how the federal government is considering a bill to protect restaurants and food companies from lawsuits.

This is very similar to lawsuits brought against firearms dealers and manufacturers, specifically to bankrupt them by having to defend against dozens of suits, even if the suits have no grounds and never get to trial. Just having to defend against scores of motions costs thousands of dollars.

With the number of overweight people out there that are potentially sue happy, it doesn’t take a successful lawsuit, just the chance of one to have hundreds, if not thousands of “I’m fat and you made me this way” lawsuits brought against McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s, et. al., and the weight of these lawsuits will eventually bankrupt them.

While I always disagree with the federal government stepping into such matters, this will prevent the irresponsible fat people from shifting the blame for their condition away from themselves and onto somebody else.

This is one bill that needs to pass.

I am now able to connect to the net with my cell phone. My unlimited minutes start at 9.00pm Central, so my work starts after that.

I’ll see you then.

When I came back from work last night, I found my cable down. I called and scheduled an appointment this morning and the cable guy will be out MONDAY AFTERNOON to fix my problem.

In the mean time, posting will be light and late tomorrow, and really late on Friday and Monday. I apologize for the inconvenience, but this is beyond my control. I am having to come into work to get my internet fix and this is the computer available for clients to play games on and such.

I have a way to hook (slowly) to the net using my cell phone, but I couldn’t get it to work last night. I will continue to try tonight.

Hold on. I’m doing the best that I can and help is on the way.

I found this article, Blagojevich calls for assault weapons ban, and I just want to say he misses the target, literally.

“No one needs assault weapons for hunting,” the governor [Blagojevich] said. “No one should need an assault weapon for any purpose unless you’re in the military fighting a war.”

First of all, like so many times in the past, these are not assault weapons. Those are weapons that have the option of automatic fire. Those have been regulated since 1934.

Second, he is right, you do need such a weapon when fighting a war, namely against an oppressive government that refuses to listen to the will of the people. That is the true meaning of the Second Amendment. Our founding fathers would be surprised that the system of government they set up has lasted so long without another revolution or two.

We have a three step box system to change this government, the soap box, the ballot box and the cartridge box. So far we haven’t needed the third, but when you get such a repressive and over-regulating government as such in Illinois, then step 3 cannot be far behind. That is if the people don’t like the government. It could be that they like that kind of system, in which case everything is working fine.

It has been said you get the government you want. I guess that’s true.

Well, it looks like Liberal Talk Radio has finally made it to the air. Liberal Voices Get New Home on Radio Dial. The bad news is they wanted to buy the stations so they could have total programming control over the station, but that hasn’t happened. They have had to purchase air time like everybody else.

A fellow blogger remarked that the life of Air America is only to December, whether or not Kerry is elected. If we get President Kerry, then Air America will have done its job of swaying the vote in those major markets, and if we get to keep President Bush, then it will run out of venture capitol and die anyway.

Only time will tell if Air America will make a difference or not.