Don’t really know why, the thought occurred to me ! didn’t know the requirements for senators and representatives, other than their age. So I looked them up. You will be glad to know that both must be US citizens. However, unlike the president, they may be born outside the US. Isn’t that nice. Senator must be a citizen nine years, representatives 7 years. As for me they will not get my vote unless they were born here, and I don’t mean an anchor baby either. And as for President, I would prefer mine to be second generation. And four years active service.

And, oh yes, none of them should have any foreign entanglements with any other nations. I suspect they would have written it that way if they really thought it through.

One would think it would be a sound idea to change the requirements accordingly, but that would require an amendment. The Supreme Court already ruled on that. Change cannot be made by states or Congress. Also, that goes for term limits and memory capacity. Yeah, it sort of appears we are stuck with current rules. I don’t see much hope for a change in the law, let alone an amendment.

If we should get one through I think we should also disallow lawyers from even entering the Capitol Building.

Those that have read my posts know mostly how I feel about illegal immigration. For those few that don’t, let me summarise. All people here illegally should be deported as soon as possible, if not sooner.

While I do believe the above, I am willing to that we should revise their stay to legal if:

1. Renounce their former citizenship and agree to proclaim their allegiance to the US and only the US.
2. Agree to follow American laws to the best of their abilities.
3. That they are able to earn their own livelihood or someone will provide full support for them.
4. That they know how to speak, read and write English or will know how at a third grade level in six months; and at a sixth grade level within a year.
5. If it is for the convenience of the USA for one of the following: as a witness, particularly one involving a serious felony such as murder, rape or grand theft, by going into and completing at least 4 years of service, especially in a combat zone, determined by an appropriate agent that it is convenient for us to keep the alien. Example, the rocket scientists we brought from Germany at the end of WW II.

The above would still be subject to evaluation and determination by appropriate US agents. Moreover, if it is determined that the exception was granted because of fraud, the person would still be subject to immediate deportation. Also, if at any time it is determined that any of the above was not followed, they would be deported without notice.

Pulled up my computer screen and saw the headline “Selma Blair arrested for allegedly trying to open airplane door and biting flight attendant.”

My first thought was to look more closely at the article. Then I thought better of it. First plane I rode was a 727 out of L.A. There were no inspections. I walked straight back to the gate, presented my ticket and received a boarding pass. A while later, I got on the plane. A few hours later, I got off. That was it.

I have had reason to fly from time to time since and each time it was worse. The planes improved, but the security was successively worse. Or, should I say tighter. Yet people like this get on the plane. Biting attendants? Do I ever want to get on a plane where passengers are apt to try to take a bite from anyone? Certainly I would not want to risk sitting next to one. He or she might succeed.

They still say traveling by air is safer than car. Maybe so. But I am beginning to wonder. Perhaps the next step is to muzzle all passengers.

Of course such things, they say are rare. The hitch is that they are getting less rare.

The prompt on search engine optimization and the kind explanation of the meaning of the mnemonic triggered some old memories of when I worked on computers. It was back in the 1970s though 80s. Some of the machines I worked on weighed tons, literally. The processor cabinets alone were 1500 pounds and there were three of them. To work on them, we had the aid of microfilm, about eight or nine pounds of them.

Mostly it was lists of signal and the paths they took. I will save you the details but they used mnemonics for signal names. For instance, atbe001, which stood for A register to B register enable for bit one. We got used to them quickly, first in our work. We knew exactly what each signal was for from its mnemonic or its name.

It is training I used quite a bit and became practiced at it, a lot.

Now, it is a little odd. Those tons of computers are now scrap. The knowledge, required then is mostly useless now.

Even so, occasionally I see a license plate and I say to myself, “Yeah that’s the signal that….” Recently, not so much. Even these memories are fading.

Occasionally, I do learn new mnemonics. However, retired and almost eighty, the just aren’t so important as they were.

I keep getting these requests for surveys, oddly most frequently near election time. If you happen to be one of them, don’t. I don’t do surveys. First, I find they are likely not much more than tools of persuasion. If they really want to know what I believe they have access to my blog year round, not just election times. Moreover, they wouldn’t use questions that are worded for persuasion.

On the other hand, you might want to save yourself some time and read the following. Most of those who read my points will tell tell you I am a little right of Rush Limbaugh in my political views. However, I would have preferred that his behavior would have been more in line with Christianity.

Now if I could get all those surveyors to read my blog. I suspect it would save us both some time. More importantly, it would serve the proper purpose of surveys; to find out my beliefs. Then again, as I have said, that’s not the real reason of the surveys anyway, right?