Home again 2/3/15

Rainy day today.  Don't know if I made much money, but I did do 10 deliveries.

It seems that I have lost touch with space news.  There's going to be a crewed Dragon test soon.  More signs of progress being made.  There may be another attempt to land the first stage of the falcon rocket on Sunday, but I'm not sure.  That would really be something if it pans out.

Not everything seems great.  I was thinking how the political situation could be getting worse, that is, if you are a conservative type.  The reason is that the media isn't trying to be independent anymore.  The reason I think that is because of a news item I remember reading about recently.  It seemed as if the reporters were allowing Democrat operatives push them around.  If they had any pride about themselves, we would have heard a big stink about that, but I don't think anybody really noticed nor cared.  At least 30 years ago, when Reagan was president, the media, even though it was biased towards the left, would at least protested being treated like that.  These people now have their noses stuck right up the Democrat party's ass.  No independence at all.

So, there's not going to be anybody watching to see if there's any corruption in the government as long as the Democrats are in charge.  You only get that when a Republican is in charge.  Since the media isn't independent of the Democrats, the quality of governance is going to keep going down until something really bad happens, and then what?

The way the system is supposed to work is that the media will be the watchdogs over the government.  Since this only works when the Republicans in power, the obvious result is that there is no spotlight being put on really bad stuff going on in the government.

It should work both ways, but it doesn't.  That's how you'll end up with one party government and an end of freedom in this country.  The news organizations should at least be independent of the government.  If they get captured by one party or the other, that will end up meaning a one party government.  There will be no accountability to the public because the public will not know what's going on.

With the media the way it is now, even Ronald Reagan couldn't win an election.  Or to put it another way:  if the media was as bad in 1980 as it is now, Reagan probably wouldn't have won.

The left has too much influence over this country, and that is why we are going down the shit hole.