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“Photo enforcement exists to help slow people down, thereby ensuring the safety of everyone on the road. Sadly, some drivers have no regard for the safety of others as they continue to recklessly speed,” (Link)

In the story it seems a couple of dumbasses have been caught habitually speeding as if the cameras weren’t even there. So, what if you were not “recklessly” speeding? What if on a long stretch to work you routinely drive five miles over the limit? No more taxi cab stops or stopping past the white line or you can be subject to being arrested, jailed and fined. Well fined. The cops probably wait until the total fines are over $10,000 before sending out a squad car to pick these reckless citizens up. Like shooting fish in a barrel.

If you think cops are watching all this video for the sole purpose of public safety, you are naive. Video surveillance seems contrary in a free society but if we are going to have it we must be sure it’s done fairly. At a minimum we must make all real-time surveillance of all citizens freely accessible to the public.

Video sureillance of the public should not be left to the police. Let the public police themselves. Millions of eyes on millions of monitors. UsTube.com. At least that way the vigilant citizen can bring grief to errant public servants, which I bet would happen at a far greater rate for public officials than for ordinary citizens.

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Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan on Tuesday called for ‘climate justice’, saying that it was polluters who should pay for the effects of climate change, and not the poorest and most vulnerable.

What an idiot like Kofi doesn’t understand is that the poorest countries are the worst polluters and that the poorest polluters are benefactors of the richest polluters. Americans cause more pollution because we make and export products that improve the daily lives of the poorest countries. Products like corn and the people willing to go over and pour it down their starving gullets.

The poorest countries must be held accountable for their fair share of pollution whether they produce it directly or indirectly through consumption. As a matter of fact, the poorest countries should have to pay extra if they are consuming donated products because there was no monetary offset on the rich producer’s side of the economic equation.

Why should a rich producer pay energy taxes on something that was given away to the poor polluters? In other words, who would willingly pay high taxes on a cost? The answer: many will not. Only the best of the best of the best philanthropist would do that. One who thinks taxes are good no matter what. How many of those are there out there I wonder.

Only someone who thinks the largess that flows from rich nations to poor nations is an unshirkable obligation instead of voluntary  charity could think in such a way as Kofi and the rest of his one world ilk.

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For lack of a better word I used the air-hooked “Mother Nature” in my explanation, literally, being sure they were aware of the hooks to avoid any hippie-like connotations. That’s the last thing I need is some hippie teen-agers going on and on about love and mother nature.

So I explain to them in a manner that only a drunken fat man sitting on kayak can do that in any natural event such as a hurricane, tornado, flood, earthquake, tsunami, etc you take the best precautions available given your immediate situation and then relax until the aftermath. I slept right through the the very worst of Hurricane Alicia. It was kinda scary.

Certainly it is imperative that you are informed and prepared for any natural disasters that are likely to strike in your area–you don’t want to make it too easy for her– but when the time is upon you and Mother Nature comes for your ass, it’s your ass. Mother Nature don’t play.

The moral: Don’t be stupid, but don’t be afraid either. Believe me, it’s easier said than done.

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In the windowless front rooms of a former day care center in a tiny Texas community, children as young as 5 were fed powerful painkillers they knew as “silly pills” and forced to perform sex shows for a crowd of adults.

There has been two convictions in the case so far and Patrick Kelly goes on trial today for aggravated sexual assault of a child, tampering with physical evidence and engaging in organized criminal activity.

The other two, Jamie Pittman and Shauntel Mayo, were sentenced to life and Kelly faces the same. With due respect to what allegedly happens to child molesters in the prison caste, these guys are getting off easy.

There are supposedly three others charged in connection with the case. What I don’t understand if the children are known to have danced for crowds as large as “50 to 100″ why aren’t there 50 to 100 people charged?

Then who is standing in line to take care of the children after they are removed from their parents, who seem to be involved somehow, another alleged child molester, John Cantrell.

What the hell is the world coming to?

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Eleanor Coner, the SPTC’s information officer, said: “Children are very IT-savvy, but they are rubbish at researching. The sad fact is most children these days use libraries for computers, not the books. We accept that as a sign of the times, but schools must teach pupils not to believe everything they read.

“It’s dangerous when the internet is littered with opinion and inaccurate information which could be taken as fact.

Dangerous? Oh my freaking god, it’s dangerous to use Wikipedia.

At one college in Vermont in the US, a history professor found several students repeated the same error in exam papers. On discovering the information came from Wikipedia, the college outlawed its future use.

How about educational institutions adapt and improvise. Instead of banning Wikipedia, how about teaching students how to do research in the information age, you know, using the Internet. How about teaching how to corroborate information from different sources; teaching the different technologies used to ferret out plagiarism; teaching how to ensure that they are not falling for a bunch of bullshit. This is what today’s students need. What they don’t need is for some dumbass professor banning portions of the Internet because they failed a history question. What a fucking moron. I think it might be time for some educators to consider retirement or a change of profession if they can not get with the new paradigm of the information age.

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“If consumers do not cut down consumption by 10 percent, we will have blackouts until the end of the summer,” (Link)

This is nothing but an announcement that there will be blackouts and make no mistake, one way or another there will be blackouts.

So that leads me to wonder why Iran is preparing for blackouts in a country with more energy than they could ever use in ten generations? It could be that the Islamic terrorists in control of Iran have simply mismanaged the affairs of state and there really is a shortage of electricity. This is not out of the question since the mullahs surely must be constantly preoccupied with the destruction of Israel. So perhaps they failed to build and maintain enough power production capacity to sustain their population. Or maybe they have sufficient production capacity but can not meet power demand because they are selling every teaspoon of crude to gain maximum benefit from the insane profits that a teaspoon of crude is bringing these days.

On the other hand and equally as likely is that the Iranian “government” is flat out lying and instituting a power shortage on purpose as propaganda to build internal support for it’s extremely ill-advised nuclear program.

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