San Quentin Fire Dept.

 I must say that I had no idea that the San Quentin prison had a fire dept. staffed with inmates. I didn't know that they had there own fire dept. period much less staffed with inmates, but on Weds. morning around 1 am after hearing faint calls for help along the facilities shore a prison officer notified the in house fire dept. who responded and pulled a man from the water who was without a life jacket. San Rafael Fire Dept then arrived and pulled a woman out of the water who was wearing a life jacket. The female survived but the male who went into cardiac arrest on the shore was later pronounced dead at a local hospital. Apparently the couples boat engine had stalled and the man fell overboard trying to restart it and then capsized the boat trying to get back in.

CVS pulls single serve alcohol from downtown Dayton store.

 Police had requested that CVS stop selling single cans and bottles in order to help stop public intoxication Downtown. According to Daytons News Source this has also been done in other metro area's including Columbus. The article didn't say whether or not it had any effect.

I really don't see how this would have much effect. If you're downtown buying a single can of steel reserve or god only knows what other horrible substance you've obviously made some poor life choices along the way and the fact that now you have to stay out and beg for money longer, so that you can afford a 6 pack will have little impact on your drinking habits. That's just my opinion but hey you never know it could change someone's life. Like here's the homeless guy going into the store to get his 40 ounce of Colt 45 and they don't have it anymore so he says to himself "Well dang, I guess it's time for rehab.". It could happen I guess. Anything is possible. In reality all I see them doing is walking a little further to the next store that will sell them what they want. Resulting in the problem being pushed out into the surrounding neighborhoods.

I do salute CVS for trying to make a difference though. I'm sure they'll lose some sales but they are trying anyway.

AES buys DP&L

  I read tonight that a company called AES corp based in Arlington,Va. has purchased DPL which is DP&L's parent company. I wonder what this will do to our rates if anything. Apparently AES has over 11 million customers and just added another 500,000 from DP&L. AES already owns Indianapolis Power and Light. The Dayton Daily News reported that the DP&L Foundation which gives approx. 1.2 million a year to area organizations, was not part of the deal and will not be affected.

I on the other hand believe I am close to working out a deal with a crackhead to stand on my roof and fly a kite during a thunderstorm while holding a wire leading to a bunch of car batteries. If my plan works I should have a full summers worth of electricity for around two dollars.

Air Traffic Controllers

 Apparently you're not allowed to sleep anymore if you're an air traffic controller. Well that just takes all the fun out of the job, doesn't it? Remember when they did that crack down on the pilots flying drunk? That's just awesome, isn't it? Drunk pilots trying to call sleeping air traffic controllers. And then you had the air traffic controller here in Ohio that broadcast the audio of the movie he was watching over the radio for something like 3 minutes. That's pretty funny. Could you imagine the look on his face when he realized that he was leaning on the mic button?

 There's a lot of jobs that you can sort of screw up and screw around with, but being an air traffic controller isn't one of them, I wouldn't think. I'm sure it gets boring at night and they work weird hours but come on. Stop drinking beer with the pilots all day long and get some sleep before you go into work.

Nevada Earthquake Swarm

A recent swarm of earthquakes near Hawthorne, Nevada has quite a few scientists concerned. While most of the quakes have been small they are occurring in an area with no known fault line. This area is also just north of the Long Valley Caldera or otherwise known as a super volcano. As I am writing this it still seems unclear whether the quakes are from the movement of magma, possible fore shocks to a larger quake yet to come, or possibly just a regular swarm on a fault line which no one knew existed.

9/11 Terrorist Conspirators

 I saw on CNN tonight that the Justice Dept. of the United States, the same one that ummmm feels we're safer with dumber cops on the streets, has finally released the accused 9/11 conspirators to the military for trial. Did it really take them this long to figure this out? It doesn't really matter where they are tried, I'm sure the end result is going to be "kill them". At least I would hope so. So they spent this much time trying to figure out which branch of government gets to kill them? Personally I think we should let them do what they trained for. I have a plan. I always have a plan. Usually not a good one, but a plan none the less. I'm sure we've got an old plane somewhere that we're getting ready to retire. Put them on it, put it on auto pilot, and point them towards Tripoli. Come on, these guys wanted to do this. They'll have a good time doing it and we'll have a good time watching.

Wind storms

 We're supposed to get wind storms here Dayton and they're warning people to be prepared to go a couple days without electricity. Shouldn't that just be a normal thing? Have we gotten to be such wienies that we cannot survive for a few days without electricity? They shouldn't even warn people if you're that stupid you deserve to be screwed. We live in Ohio there is nothing we don't get here. Hurricanes are still tropical storms half the time when they get here. Tornado's, even the occasional earthquake. 50 degrees in July and 80 in Febuary are really not that far fetched. It's Ohio If you're not prepared you're either from out of state or you're stupid. Anyway hope everyone is ok over the next couple days.