Dreams Restricting Flight?!?!?

(D)ude: Man! Thank goodness for the FAA! The Federal Aviation Administration made the registration of drones mandatory beginning December 21, 2015.

(M)an: Dude! Drones that are used for business purposes have already started registering with the FAA. On the other hand, drones that are termed “hobbyist”—or utilized for, I guess you could call it play or recreational purposes—are now mandated to register with the FAA?   

D: Man! Yes! According to cnet dot com [cnet.com], there were 238 cases of drone abuse in the United States last year. Shockingly, that number has climbed substantially since then, with 1,113 cases of misuse having been reported already in 2015! It’s the holiday season and I’m concerned for pilots and their passengers. Folks are buying their children such devices, which I consider irresponsible parenting. Drones are not suitable for people under the age of, at least, twenty-one. And the repercussions for disrupting pilots’ visions as they’re flying should involve assault charges and incarceration as punishment for the operators of such devices.      

M: Dude! I totally agree! In fact, I was impressed with the recent Beethoven Google doodle that succeeded in familiarizing my nieces and nephews with reading musical compositions. It was a tough, intellectual exercise but entirely entertaining nevertheless for me as well. It got me thinking about Google glasses, specifically why hasn't Google availed the opportunity to make its glasses accessible to solving problems like obstructionist radar beams disrupting the vision of aircraft operators?

D: Man! And the unpredictable weather conditions that endanger our precious emergency medical professionals when they are taking patients to and fro facilities via helicoptered care flights! Why can’t Google glasses protect against the natural elements that make visibility an added issue of grave concern for our care flight teams? Surgeons from South America to South Asia are utilizing Google glasses to enhance their practice and instructional methodologies. Nepal is already a front runner in the pursuit to change the way medical expertise is rendered through the utilization of Google glasses beginning in medical school.

M: Dude! Silicon Valley needs to take action regarding the international threats facing the world in this volatile millennium. Hillary Rodham Clinton made reference to the Manhattan Project and how she would coalesce the great minds of today in a similar fashion to the issues of cyberspace security and decrypting encryption. However, I am greatly concerned for the United States of America under a Clinton 45 (Hillary) or Bush 45 (Jeb) presidency. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Jeb Bush are detrimental to our democracy, as are the Republican National Committee Tea Partiers and the Democratic National Committee Teabags. Reince Priebus and Debbie Wasserman Schultz are interchangeable at this stage of the 2016 presidential election cycle. Reince Priebus and the Republican Party have falsely promised Debbie Wasserman Schultz that they will never challenge her seat in the United States Congress, if she complies by stifling the debate scheduling so that Hillary Rodham Clinton goes uncontested in the Democratic Primaries. Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley are far more courageous and authentic than the artificial Hillary Rodham Clinton, a covert Republican operative just like her husband.

D: Man! What do we do? Where do we go?

M: Dude! There has to be a revolutionary movement in the United States of America where people realize their power to vote not as a privilege, but a lifeline for the desperate and disenfranchised that is essentially dying as we speak as a result of the terrible voter turnout in 2010 and 2014. But, of course, this involves registering to vote way ahead of the Presidential Election in the United States, which will be held Tuesday, November 8, 2016. Charlotte Gordon’s dual biography of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Godwin Shelley touches on the issue of sovereignty and nation building in Europe and North America in the late 1700s and the early 1800s, the basic argument and concern of the Europeans being that American Democracy could only survive if generations of its’ citizenry remained conscious of their responsibility to be informed participants in that grand experiment, which was the United States.

D: Man! Didn’t the French Revolution leave France incapacitated like Germany was left incapacitated after both World Wars I and II?

M: Dude! Mary Godwin Shelley’s husband takes her, and her stepsister Jane, on a romp through France and Switzerland at the start of their matrimonial woes. Celebratory at the start, convinced that they are the disciples of the late Mary Wollstonecraft, the trio anticipate a post-revolutionary France awaiting them with open doors and a livelihood for Percy Shelley, but only find desolation and poverty at every doorstep.       

D: Man! Percy Shelley couldn’t find a publisher in London?

M: Dude! He was a wild and controversial soul in England, having left his first wife, expecting their second child, for Mary Godwin Shelley, and leaving Mary Shelley momentarily during her pregnancies as well. Their descendants made sure all journal entries betraying Percy Shelley’s and Mary Godwin Shelley’s fidelity and celebrated love story, were torn out and disposed of for eternity. And his significant literary works came after he had wed Mary Godwin. She was always a trusted intellectual colleague, Percy Shelley proclaiming her “originality” as the driving force behind their relationship.    

D: Man! Have you read Gloria Steinem’s latest memoir, My Life on the Road?

M: Dude! Yeah? Didn’t you think it was choppy compared to her previous books?

D: Man! Gloria Steinem spent 18 years constructing her latest tour de force, but it is choppy. You know, I found out the reason why it is lacking watching Steinem’s interview on PBS with Charlie Rose. According to Steinem herself, her editors at Random House took a proverbial machete and tore her latest masterpiece into incomplete shreds that left me wanting, and I bet I’m not alone in this assessment. Steinem must re-release this memoir with another publishing house and include those missing parts she had to depart with at Random House.

M: Dude! Random House? Everybody knows Simon and Schuster as being crusty conservative and the publisher of the Clintons’ memoirs, but Random House as well?  

D: Man! Of course! Jon Ellis Meacham is Random House’s exec editor and executive Vice President! Come on! Have you forgotten already? The guy wrote the latest entreaty biography of the Bushes titled Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush!  

M: Dude! Walter Isaacson, like Jon Ellis Meacham, seems enchanted by Jeb Bush, as does Joe Scarborough. Scarborough protects Jeb like a mother kangaroo keeps her joeys in her pouch. The American Press Corps and the Clintons and Bushes are conspiring against Russia right now in the same way they conspired against Iraq, wanting the major Western fossil fuel corporations to take over the oil infrastructure of the Russians as they did the Iraqis. Hillary Rodham Clinton is just as lethal to the health of the world economy as Jeb Bush. American voters need to make certain that they do not elect one more Clinton nor Bush.

D: Man! Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley are the antidote to Hillary Rodham Clinton’s artificiality and Jeb’s jabber.

M: Dude! Saddam and Iraq then, Putin and Russia now?

D: Man! That is, if you vote for either Clinton and Bush! But, fortunately, there are Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley!