Wish Me Luck, Huge Project, Strange for Me, Good Point

Hey there everyone, hope your day is going great!  Hopefully today went good, I took that test again for the 911 job, I'll probably get the results tomorrow sometime.  I skipped the gym because of that but I will be going again tomorrow before my doc appointment at 3.  I pushed around today, keeping up with pushing at least a half mile every other day.  It was too humid for me to push my normal 2 to 3 miles so I mostly stayed in my neighborhood.  So anyway, time to get into it!

History Day!  Here is an engineering project that you may not have heard of, Atlantropa.  This was the dream of German architect Herman Sörgel who wanted to dam up the Mediterranean Sea.  Many now see this project as a folly but I think that if done right it would have really worked out for Europe and Africa.  Some of the mans plans were a little out there, like blocking the Congo River in Africa to flood the Sahara.  That might seem like a good plan but it would have probably killed a whole lot of people and definitely left a lot homeless.  Think of how much energy would be produced by the dams, the page I found this on said it would power 250 million people every day, that's way more than we can now get from atomic power and this was proposed before we built the bomb.  I am sure there were some writers that thought this was a good idea for a science fiction book and are a little upset that they didn't think of it first.  This is a subject I might look at trying to bring to page.  So here is that page; https://allthatsinteresting.com/atlantropa

This is getting a little ridiculous, they keep adding to the symptoms list for Covid-19 and it needs to stop or they will have pretty much every symptom on the list.  First off this is bad for those that are hypochondriacs, thinking they have something when they actually don't and are taking resources from those that really need it.  I didn't buy the symptom list when it first came out anyway because they were so common, fever and cough, give me a break about that.  But I do like to keep people informed so here is the new symptoms added; https://www.yahoo.com/news/cdc-adds-runny-nose-nausea-171508483.html

I feel a little dirty now, I actually agree with something that crazy lady, Rep. Pelosi, said.  She thinks Congress should hold off their August recess and I am totally for that.  For one, during this crisis Congress should not have had long breaks, give them a week at most at a time, that's what people working in the real world get in America normally.  Also, why are they getting paid?  I think that should have stopped a while ago or at least their pay should be cut when they don't do anything or cannot agree to something.  Their salaries are a killer to the federal budget, they get paid way too much as it is.  I always wished that the founders put in the Constitution that members of Congress do not get paid.  200 years ago the people in Congress had regular jobs, the for sure should not be able to get a pension, serving in Congress is not a job, it's a public service and we should start holding them accountable.  Here is an article on that; https://www.yahoo.com/news/absolutely-pelosi-willing-cancel-august-193750841.html

Now this is someone I agree with that I'm not ashamed to admit it, Idris Elba.  He has seen the streaming channels remove a lot of programming because it might contain something deemed as racist but the actor thinks they should be left alone so people will know that they were made.  He suggests using a rating system to let people know what this is about.  I don't think any of those should be taken down, leave them all up and available.  This is just another way the left in this country are trying to remove our history, keep it.  Here is an article on this; https://www.yahoo.com/news/idris-elba-cancel-culture-racism-120649135.html

Well, that's all for me tonight.  I really hope that all of you have a great night or day, take care and stay safe!