Launch Pad

The United States Air Force is requesting proposals for the development of high energy laser shielding for its Katushya rockets such as the spray-on coating featured on Wired.com. Lasers can burn holes in munitions rendering them ineffective.

House Arrest

Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich signed legislation in memory of Cindy Bischof, a victim of domestic violence, who was killed by a former boyfriend who violated a court protective order. Governor Blagojevich's bill enables domestic violence offenders to be fitted with GPS monitoring devices as a condition of bail. The satellite tracking system alerts victims of domestic violence when offenders approach a victim's place of work or business. Space-age technology in the hands of Illinois constituents that don't have to pay-to-play to get a foot in the door of state politics is commendable. Governor Blagojevich's campaign fundraisers have been under federal indictment for questionable accounting practices. The Chicago Sun-Times blog Eye on Tony Rezko monitors the trial updates and the release of sealed court documents.

Archived Messages

I tried to check out a Carl Thomas concert on Friday evening, but when my hot pink high heels, hair and make-up began to melt from the high humidity waiting on line outside, I decided to take my party of one elsewhere. I did not see anyone that I knew, and I felt that I might have a better opportunity experiencing sour apple hookah on an outside patio. No one called that night although the email banter ealier that week announced a planned meetup for the Carl Thomas, and my recent hanging out buddies, my brother and his platonic girlfriend, were not interested. Communist China has allegedly entreated the help of the International Olympic Committee or IOC to block e-mail correspondence of the human rights afflicted Chinese public. In the United States, a republic of full disclosure, Hillary Clinton, opposed to her husband dodges the Federal Election Committee and blogs such as the Judicial Watch's Hillary Watch and Paul v. Clinton dedicated in her esteemed honor tracking such mundane occurrences as her guests at the White House when she was NOT a cookie-baking First Lady. Like Clinton, Vice President Dick Cheney has more to worry about than dodging Scooter Libby's collect calls at the office or Mary Cheney's next baby shower to worry about. The Vice President is tied up in Martha Stewart-esqe chit chats with the Securities and Exchange Commission on disclosures of the Halliburton slush fund to keep Nigerian oil barons from dumping the profits in the Niger Delta. Who wants to know? inquiring minds and the French government... As for me missing the club meetup...why can't you all call nobody?

King James Version

An Op-Ed piece in the Sunday Times decided it was brilliant to conflate the curse of Noah's son Ham and the plight of homosexuals in one long winded diatribe. Now that the Vatican Observatory acknowledges the existence of aliens, the Times proposes that God detests Africans over gays. Once a poof, always a poof so the Anglican Church deserves the credit for straightening out the proper sacrements. However, while the Sodomites might have laid camp with a few of Ham's progeny, the retelling of Ham's exploits in no way means that the curse itself is a birth right of supremacy for black people who also believe in the demise of black cats, broken mirrors, and walking under a ladder. My thought is that any person that feels the need to embody the spirit of Ham, deserves the undoing that was given to Lot's wife.

From the Big House

The United States House of Representatives resolution for an apology for slavery introduced by Representative Steve Cohen D-TN has cleared the House to be approved by the United States Senate. Strange enough, only two members of the Congressional Black Caucus signed on as co-sponsors of the landmark bill.

Fat Cats

If you haven't fallen in love with the 44 pound homeless cat named Princess Chunk by now, you are probably dry heaving over the cat's grotesque enormity. Personally, my guess is that Princess Chunk's size is due to some sort of undisclosed experiment. A cat that huge and having to fend for itself probably escaped its cage with the laboratory scientist turned her back to give the feline another shot of human growth hormone. It could be possible. Bruce Ivins, one of the perperators of the 2001 Anthrax scares committed suicide this week a criminal probe indicated that he might face the death penalty for his work at a United States Army bioweapons laboratory. What will they come up with next?

Navajo Nation

The Navajo Nation located in parts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah are facing a disruption of satellite telecommunications services provided by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) due to a failed audit by the Universal Service Administrative Co or USAC. The USAC which has the authority to administer FCC grants to rural and low-income consumers is charged with mishandling funds to the Navajo Nation's internet providers. As for satellite communications, I was pleased to see the FCC's public service flyer announcing the switch from analog to Digital TV among the handouts provided at a prominent African-American professionals conference that I recently attended. Since 1996, the FCC has been steadily moving television to Digital TV to free up weaker radio frequencies to be auctioned off to new industry and for emergency services. Satellite telecommunications enable the Navajo Nation's telephone services, library online access, and access to online university courses. The Navajo Nation, credited by the pentagon for its skill in creating code cyphers during World War II, are currently battling for continuity of the services on its 27,000 square mile reservation.