Let Me Say This

Are you depressed?

Massive Meltdown On Wall Street

Stocks Plunge on Wall Street Shift

Billionaire Fears 1,000 Banks Will Close

The country is past the recession and is rapidly entering a depression.

Watch for the suicide rates to jump.

Through early morning fog I see

visions of the things to be

the pains that are withheld for me

I realize and I can see...


that suicide is painless

It brings on many changes

and I can take or leave it if I please.

I try to find a way to make

all our little joys relate

without that ever-present hate

but now I know that it's too late, and...


The game of life is hard to play

I'm gonna lose it anyway

The losing card I'll someday lay

so this is all I have to say.


The only way to win is cheat

And lay it down before I'm beat

and to another give my seat

for that's the only painless feat.


The sword of time will pierce our skins

It doesn't hurt when it begins

But as it works its way on in

The pain grows stronger...watch it grin, but...


A brave man once requested me

to answer questions that are key

is it to be or not to be

and I replied 'oh why ask me?'


'Cause suicide is painless

it brings on many changes

and I can take or leave it if I please.

...and you can do the same thing if you please.





Cell phones and driving are bad but not as bad as cell phones when driving a train:

Was Engineer in Crash Text Messaging?

Federal investigators are looking into whether an engineer blamed for a Los Angeles train collision that killed 25 people last week was text messaging at the time.

Officials say the commuter rail engineer ran a stop signal before the crash.

There is a long distance to see the red signal prior to running the switch onto the wrong rails. Even while texting one would think he was looking up then back to the phone so he should have seen the red signal.

I don't know how it is now but with the old rail switches if the switch was open when you hit it the trains would jump the track and the train would derail.

I will be curious to see how the train was able to switch tracks without incident.



Wag's Editorial;

Ike is another storm that has brought flooding to several states not just Texas. This is in addition to other storms that have flooded the Midwest. What to do with all the water?

The West has shortages of water and the East and Midwest have an abundance.

For those that are not aware of it, the states are connected to a power grid so power can be distributed from one state to another when there is a need based on heavier needs depending on cost to produce and higher demand due to weather patterns.

I have been saying for years to anyone that will listen we need to do the same with water.

A grid of water lines would not be as difficult as it sounds. For instance a line would not have to be built to every state. An example would be running a pipe line to Colorado then dump it into the Colorado river and Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and California would have the much needed water.

The route of the pipeline could be for the most part in the center median of the current freeways thus having little or no impact on surrounding land.

When other states are inundated with rain and the rivers overflowing, the pumps could be pumping water out west and all points in between.

All of the current lakes could be filled to capacity and if need be more lakes or reservoirs built for additional storage.

That to me would be a win-win situation for everyone who has too much or too little water.