just get messed up on your best stuff

i was wondering why it was taking so long to get a finicial aid package from worcester state, and i found out why today.
the federal goverment.
i processed my fafsa on 5/11 and i got an email today saying it was processed on 7/29.
i filled it out online and submitted it that day. it took them 2 1/2 months to process it.
somehow, that doesn't seem very quick to me.

man, i can't wait til i get to run the federal government starting on jan 20, 2017.

the volare passed 70,000 miles on sunday morning.
i was even stopped at a stoplight when it was reading 7 and zeros.
i desperately wanted a digital camera. hell, any camera.
i almost asked the guy stopped next to me if he had one on him.
i should have. you only hit 70 thou once on a 1979 blue plymouth volare with a 220 cubic inch single barrel carb slant six with a 3 speed automatic transmission that has cruise control--and a bench seat in the front.

i'm glad that the terror market the pentagon was thinking up was shut down. but the very fact that this--a market for investors to basically bet on when and where the next terrorist attack or assination would be--got out of a meeting and actually put forward with a website and program and potential investors makes me sad that i live in america.
senator carl levison of michigan thought 'that it was a hoax."
sen. ron wydon of oregon had this--which basically sums up my opinion on it--to say, "the idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque."
i'm glad the plug was pulled before it got to the point--and this speaking pessimistically probably a bit cynical--that people were trying to make sure their "investments" actually happened.
i agree with what senator warner of virginia had to say about it:
"here's been no effort whatsoever to make it secret. the program is modeled after a successful program, utilized by one of the nation's foremost think tanks, which while not directed toward terrorism, is directed toward analysis of other contingencies in the future, and in the community's been perceived as a fairly successful program."
but if they want to go through with it, they should use it set up with dummy money and let fark run it.
a futures market could have it's place in the fight against terrorism, but i think someone got overzealous and tried to rush it out without taking an assessment of how it was actually going to be run--and perceived--by the public.
measure twice. cut once.

i can't wait til i run the federal government starting jan 20, 2017.