Here we go, again

They say things come in threes. I sure as hell hope so, because if I have to reinstall Windows one more time, I may become a Buddhist monk. This latest problem resulted from a bad USB port shorting out and wiping out the power supply. Or I guess that is what happened. I plugged a Creative Zen Touch into the USB port, the computer shut down instantly and I had to replace the power supply.

After replacing the power suply, I discovered Windows was hosed again so here I went. Three times in a week, not counting one foray into Vista (which didn't work out too well!). Anyway, I decided to change from 2 320 GB hard drives in a RAID(0) to 2 500 GB drives in a RAID(1). Which brings up a question; If you defrag the working drive, does the mirrored drive get defragged also? All I can find only refers to the striped RAID (0) array. Anyone out there???

Back to polidiotics. Finally, people are beginning to ask questions about Obama's lack of experience. He has never taken a stand on anything he did not later back away from.; Who will be his advisers? Particularly his economic advisers, although his National Security person is crucial. Oprah won't cut it! I am not opposed to him because he is black, but because he is unable to frame a coherent response to pointed questions.

McCain is no better. His ideas on illegal immigration are ludicrous. It's painfully obvious he is nothing but a schill for businesses dependent on cheap labor.

Neither he nor Obama have any idea how to get out of Iraq without incuring massive casualties. The troops are not going to just go to the airport and get on a plane. They will have to fight their way out. Didn't we learn anything in Vietnam? Or from the British in southern Iraq? It will be a fighting withdrawal of 150,000 men and an untold number of civilian contractors, along with Iraquis who have worked with us. I think it would be safe to say 2 to 3 million people trying to leave.

No national energy policy other than Gore's goal of completely switching over to green energy sources within ten years. What is he smoking (and inhaling deeply)? The technology is not there to provide infrastructure. We do not have the public funding available for works such as this. There is no consensus of what kind of energy we need to concentrate on.

Using food for energy is worse than stupid. Biomass might be a way out but that remains to be seen. Simplest thing right now is to make trading in oil futures illegal. Then slap a tax on the excessive profits earned by big oil. Use that money to start funding alternative sources research and development. Cut through the red tape surrounding nuclear power. Put an excise tax on all vehicles with less than a true 25 mpg average, with the rate going up the worse the average is. Encourage telecommuting by establishing a national broadband policy for reasonably priced high speed access to a more secure and speedy web. Quit worrying about Daylight Savings Time, which actually uses more energy, and start worrying about solving these problems. Then we can worry about world peace and such.