Last Friday the new Motorola Droid "landed: so to speak. It went on sale to less than expected crowds but rave reviews. Everyone who does reviews is already comparing it to the iPhone, but it will be a while before it's sales match the iPhone's and it's customer reviews. One thing that might help is there ad Campaign, constantly making fun of the iPhone, including now there new ad in time for the holiday season, putting it on the island of misfit toys, take a look below

The House late last night, an unusual move for them, passed the new health care bill. At over 1900 pages it will cost us taxpayers about 1.2 trillion dollars, more than the bailout even. The new bill passed even without support from 38 fellow democrats. This landmark new bill will be th e largest expansion of health care since the creation of medicare in the 60's. This new bill will make health care affordable for 96% of the population if it is passed in the senate, let's hope it is.

Today the Dow Jones went back over 10000, due to rapid increases in the medical industry and Tech. industries, with IMS health inc. jumping almost 4 points, or about 20% and Google going up 8 points or 1.5%. Another somewhat gain is the phone company Motorola, who has seen there stock jump about 17% in just the last week with the anticipation of there new phone, the Droid, hailed as the only real competition to the iPhone this coming holiday season, promising better pictures, service coverage being on Verizon, video capture, longer talk time, and a whole lot more. You might have seen there commercials for the new smartphone, they start out by mocking the iPhone and say all the things it doesn't do, it is the video below.

A while back, in august, a local math teacher and retired engineering professor at DVC , Ken Green, at the old age of 75 managed to win one for the bay area and took silver in the senior Olympics down at Cañada college. He raced in the men's age 75-79 40k road race in the cycling category and due to a rather unexpected turn of events (someone forgot to do the last lap), he managed to win the silver. The previous day he had raced in the men's 20k road race and managed to win a bronze 3rd place medal too, and the next week he raced in the 5k and 10k time trials and managed to win second there too. This just goes to show you that sometimes, age is irrelevant when it comes to some things.

The FAA isn't asleep, unlike some of the pilots seemed to be. The two pilots, Capt. Timothy B. Cheney and first officer Richard Cole had there pilot's licenses revoked today as a result of there overshooting the target airport by about 150 miles. During the FAA's investigation on how exactly these pilot's managed to screw up this bad, it was found out that the two men were on there laptops instead of flying the plane. They probably were doing one of 3 things, either looking at inappropriate sites, playing a computer game like Left 4 Dead or Borderlands or they were just looking at funny videos on YouTube like the one below

Even though Harry Reid came out the other day saying "The Public Option is back!" some people are still divided on the issue, even the democrats. Some democrats of all people are still wondering if this is the best idea to bring it back to the table. Senator Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana, said this on the issue,

" I Don't Know. I Don't Know. I Don't Know" "I just really don’t know"

Baucus says this because in the first place, he spent months trying to get a bill through to the senate without a public option because in his mind he didn't think that it would get the 60 votes needed

Despite all that is going on in the world, the main point at the White house brief today was the basketball game. The president along with several cabinet members and congressman played a game this afternoon and later in the briefing noted that they were regretful that they didn't invite any women. There are SO many other things they could have been doing, but instead they chose to play a game of basketball, probably leaving whatever they had to do until the last minute, like this blog.