The knowledge and technology is here today to fix many of the ills that we find ourselves in as a modern 21st century country and world. Energy? We have nuclear power, and soon fission. Drunk Driving? We have inventiosn that can prevent men and women from operating a vehcile drunk. Gas consumption? We could fill the roads tomorrow with hybrids.

Crime? This is where family comes in. We cannot continue to outsource our responsiblity of raising our children. Have too many kids and now your on welfare? Mandatory birth control. Your freedoms end at my doorstep. If you crash into me, if your irresponsible behavior forces my taxes to rise, and the infrastructure of our cities to be worn threadbare, then your tresspassing. Your actions must not tresspass on my freedom.

Immigration. Goodness this one is easy. We could with simple technlogy and teams of volunteers monitor the Mexican border. Of course we need the labor force, but having 100 young mexican law breakers waiting for work at the 7-11 every morning is not the answer. This is an obvious flout of the law and is a bad message to send to the young of our country. It ruins the illusion of government control. If the government is too weak to inforce the obvious transgressions, perhaps I can steal a car!

The statistics on Drunk driving are so appalling that every government official from here to LA should be strung up by their short hairs. Just this week a young 7 year old baby was killed by a jackass driving the wrong way on Hempstead Turnpike. Everyone is blaming the seat belts in limos. NOSTRUM! Or Drunk driving laws. NOSTRUM! The fact is the will to stop this isn't there. People don't want to be bothered with the technology neceessary to make this sort of thing impossible.

Thats what this orgainzation is going to change.

The Objective Progrees Foundation is devoted to ending the hyperbole, the poltics, the inertial issues that prevent true solutions to problems that are solvable within our generation. That little show was a perfect liberal nostrum, nostrum being a pretend or snake oil solution. Liberals in particular are big on this sort of thing. Having rock concerts for Africa is noble and idealistic, but I doubt it put one grain of rice on the table of a poor family.

Conservatives on the other hand are so anti-goverment that they usually miss the point as to when its ok to use governmental powers. Statistics show that although cars have gotten safer, more people died this last year on the road than in 1994. 10s of thousands of people are massacred on the roads every year, and at least half due to drunk drivers. This orgainzation proposes the immediate mandate for the automobile industry. Place devices in the vechicles to prevent drunk driving. The time is now. You have the knowledge. There are a dozen ways to do this, as I will show. Now the poltical will must be there, and I believe mostly conservatives will oppsoe this as they are free market types. I too, being mostly conservative, am free-market. Yet, again we have the public square. Your freedome ends at my bumper. Since I cannot trust the human to be sober, I must trust the car.

This is the airbags of our generation.

Drunk drivers will be the first target of this Foundation.

Testing

One must try, in my opion, to create a consistent philosopy of life, that encapsulates most
of what you believe in a few simple sentences or belief statements.
Most people make it even easier than that...they say I'm Christian, Baptist, Buddhist,
and that's supposed to tell us what type of people they are.

Of course it doesn't. There are so many variations on a philosophy....and then there are the Philosophers, who
really kill us with statements like we can't really know anything.

Perhaps I need to give a bit of a background. I am a christian....of the CS Lewis type.
Using Lewis' name tells other people who've read his work what I believe and how
I believe, but that's it. The unwashed remain unwashed.

Simple religious doctrines go a wee bit further..... I belive in the literal jesus...he was God, and died for our
us to ensure us Eternal Life.

We are still fairly safe.

Until we get into Ethics.

After a decade of tumultous searching, I ran accross Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand. I had read her
Anthem, but Atlas was a whole other deal.

I feel that there are kernels of Objectivism that are true. Not only that, I feel that Objectivism gives the 'average' worker...the
guy who does the work and strives for more, something to be proud of. Capitalistic achievement is so under valued in our culture.

But how to integrate the idea of the primacy of the individual's reason with the selfess metaphysics of the Bible and Christianity ?

Tech
Java2 Enterprise Edition -- just had a training class on it. Interesting technlogy. It seems that
there is no super advantage to modelling data as objects. The App server is expensive, the skill set is rather
complex, but all in all it seems elegant, scalable and, most important, open source.

I am also learning a bit about the .NET thing from Microsoft. I want to generalize my training to the point if those guys
take over the world ( finally ) I'll still be employable.

The good news is that .NET brings MSFT closer to the Open Source world. I don't see a whole lot of difficulties in sharing
if everything is based in IIOP ( or SOAP), XML, and HTML.


Art
A little Uncle Walt here...
I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least,
Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself.

Why should I wish to see God better than this day ?
I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then,
in the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass.....

I think what Mr. Wittman was saying is that since God is everywhere, we are the reflections of God.
Therefore we have to go nowhere other than a park, a child, or a mirror to see Him.

God made us in his own image.
Each individual.
There for we are the most interesting things around.
How we integrate with eachother with compassion. How we do our jobs with honor and honesty.
Mother Theresa once said that we typically don't do great things. We do small things with great love......

Well, its late. More on this soon.

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