Just some half-baked stuff of of my word pad.

The First Lady goes to South Africa to tell the people there to pay attention and to eat right. More of our tax dollars went down the toilet sending her there.

What is she thinking? The people there are sucking on rocks, for God's sake. They were probably looking at her, salivating and thinking: Pork chop.

Of course, they were not because nobody poor or hungry got within a mile of her. I'd bet that her audience was probably a pretty well fed group.
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Someone told me about a group at MIT that are trying to figure a way to build a laptop for under a hundred bucks so the third world can afford to go on the internet. Hmmm.

There is also supposidly a group there that is a little more down to earth. They are working on a toilet that will simply make feces burn up and disappear. This is in an effort to cut down on disease.

Guess what, people? There are actually problems WORSE than no internet service.

And another thing, you have to be able to eat to use a toilet.

Why are you wasting your time on the wrong problem?

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In the background the other day there was a program about Northrup-Grumman getting the OK to see a WW2 German airplane that has been in a secret government warehouse since the end of the war. It is some kind of a flying wing. I was busy at the time and did not pay very close attention so I may be wrong here.

Northrup-Grumman recently put a team together to build some sort of a duplicate to see how stealthy it was and I guess it was pretty stealthy and could sneak past the radar to a pretty fair extent.

Of course, you can bet that the government, in their quest for secrecy didn't make the airplane available to the defense contractors that were studying stealth technology back when they were designing our stealth bombers because it was a big secret. They probably kept the old plane in a government warehouse, presumably a couple aisles down from where they keep the Ark of the Covenant which Indiana Jones supposidly snagged back in the 30s, where it was supposidly examined by 'Top Men'.

Letting the scientists responsible for designing our stealth aircraft check the old German airplane out was out of the question because it was a classified item. Instead, the government sent the team back to square one to start from scratch even though they were going to have to pay for all of this research even though they already had a sample of it.

We spent millions researching technology we already had. While I'm sure the old airplane wasn't as good as our stealthy planes are today, I'd bet we could have saved quite a huge chunk of change if we had looked at what we already had in our national attic.

What gets me about this World War 2 airplane and the secrecy around it is that some of the people in R&D should have been going over this plane in the 40s. Why didn't they have 'Top Men' look it over?

What good is a secret like that if we don't exploit it?
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