One Drunk Redneck

Article 1, Section 2 of the Constitution is clear.   Every ten years Congress is to count how many people there are in each state for the purpose of determining how many representatives in Congress each state should have. Question 1 of the 2020 census asks the question to meet this goal.   Quite simply, the government wants to know how many people live in the home. How many people were living or staying in this house, apartment, or mobile home on April 1, 2020? They even explain, satisfactorily, how this question meets the constitutional requirement of counting how many people live in the state. Why we ask this question: This helps us count the entire U.S. population and ensures that we count people where they live most of the time as of Census Day (April 1, 2020). Question 2 is a catchall question to ensure no one is missed in the counting. Were there any additional people staying here on April 1, 2020, that you did not include in Question 1? And they have...

Estimated reading time: 17 minutes Background In our slow, but continual march towards a police state, Delaware has introduced a bill mandating DNA collection of accused sex offenders.  Currently, Delaware law only allows for the collection from convicted sex offenders.  The new law also extends collection to any convicted violent felon. So here we go.  Introduce a law everyone can get behind, namely collect DNA of convicted sex offenders since sex offenders are more likely to commit their crime again.  Yeah, yeah!  Good law.  Now comes the slow evolution to requiring DNA collection of those accused of sex offenses and those convicted of any violent felony.  What group will the law be extended to tomorrow?  How about ten years from now?  How long will it be before every citizen is subjected to DNA collection for any infraction of the law? The proposed law states "Additional safeguards and protections have been included in the law ...

Four months ago, I applied for a position as a Correctional Officer I in Somerset County.  The correctional facility down there is short staffed since half of the officers were arrested on corruption like charges (trafficking drugs to prisoners, for example) and many others left before getting caught.  Long story short (one of the few times I am adept at the shortened version), I applied, took a test, passed the test, and was sent an application package. I took more than one look at the application package, with lots of hesitation.  I even began filling it out.  After a couple of weeks, I tabled the application and moved on to other career options. Fast forward four months to today.  I received an email form a correctional officer recruiter asking me to contact him if I wanted to continue the hiring process.  He even left open the possibility that maybe missed emails led to my classification as a "failure to respond." I assured him my lack of response...

Welcome to the New World of Machines brought to you by the laziness of people. We know the old adage.  "No one wants to do their job anymore."   Thanks to technology, we can add to that.   "Why should they when a machine can do it for them?"  Walmart human resource people found a way to do less on their job.   Let a machine reject job applicants so a human doesn't have to weed through them all. Around one in the morning, I applied online for a job with Walmart.   The application is not an easy task.  It took me about two hours to get through it...a lot of time for a job that doesn't even pay a living wage.  The last part of the application process consisted of an online job interview, Walmart's euphemism for personality test. After taking the test, I checked my email to ensure the application went through.  Waiting for me sat an email from Walmart with the standard, non-original subject line, "Thank you for applying...."  ...

Estimated read time: 12 minutes More than two centuries ago, a handful of great forward thinkers gathered in a locked room to put to paper revolutionary ideas no one but a traitor to the establishment would dare pen.  Despite the summer heat, they locked the windows shut lest anyone on the outside heard their whispers. When they finished their secret meeting, the paper they held dared speak of inalienable rights afforded every person regardless of their status, wealth, or intellect.  In their vision, the common man not only was entitled to the same rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as the wealthy elites had, but they also had to be afforded the equal opportunity to exercise those rights. The Declaration of Independence laid the groundwork for the formalizing of the new government of the United States in what we call the Constitution. Our Constitution detailed many of those inalienable rights generalized in the Declaration of Independence.  Free...

We know what clickbait is.   It's the hyperbole-style of writing that makes a reader want to click on a story.   The style is so compelling, resistance is often futile.  25 stars who've aged horribly - you won't believe #17  Ok, admit it.   You're mad at me because you clicked the headline and didn't go anywheres.   Of course, if I had linked it and you got to seventeen, you'd think, "Umm, yeah, I can believe it.   She's ninety-six-years-old and she actually aged pretty well, considering." You swear you won't fall for that nonsensical type headline again, then along comes President Obama and we all listen intently.  His eyebrows aged better than the rest of him.  How could that be? We listen to his whole speech on gun control expecting to hear inspiring and persuasive statements and profound solutions.   Instead, we come to the equivalent of #17 and think, "Umm, is everything coming out of DC a running advertisement played...

Short, sweet, and simple: Real photo of the spy blimp from Wilson Point, MD, about 15 miles from Aberdeen Proving Grounds.  The first of two to be launched, this blimp is moored to a single spot 10,000 ft above the Aberdeen Proving Grounds.  It's only purpose is to stare and record everything, 24 hours per day, seven days per week.  If you think it is only staring at the Baltimore area, think again.  It is staring from NC to Boston and from central Ohio to some distance out over the ocean.  One may only be able to see the blimp around the Baltimore area, but the blimp can see you even if you can't see it.    And this brings me to the quote of the day: "It's bad enough God is watching everything I do every day and now you're telling me Uncle Sam is watching everything I do every day? Something's not right here." - Keith when he asked me what that thing in the sky was when we went to Baltimore to visit his Mom (Yes, Keith is one ...