Government is so whacked.....

* Walmart announced today they were stopping sales at all stores in New York at 8am on Monday morning. The stores will not ring a sale again until Thursday, as the company updates it's inventory and checkout computer systems. WalMart's stock is reported to have dropped 6% on the news.

* The FAA announced today that all US flights will be grounded for forty eight hours as the computer systems monitoring weather conditions are updated to modern standards. Airports across the country are searching for room to park planes on short notice.

*The State of Pennsylvania announced last week that all criminal background checks would be halted for four days as they struggle to update the states computer systems. This means no firearms sales, no new teacher hires, and any job requiring a background check cannot be filled. Sporting goods stores and other damaged parties from across across the state fail to stop the action by the Rendell administration in court today.

*Barnes and Noble today scheduled store closures across the state of Delaware for system upgrades, and will leave the state without their services for up to four days. No word yet on how this effected B+N stock prices.


Ok, which story is true?
It's number three of course, as we all know from the news.

But.... all four are comparable, with the only difference being just one would actually be allowed to happen. The idea of any important government or commercial function just being shut down for days on end for a computer upgrade.... is incredulous in today's world. That's what would be expected in a third world setting, in a backward nation.

What kind of utter government incompetence builds a system that's relied on daily by law enforcement and commercial business's, and builds it so well the only way it can be serviced is to take it off line for almost a week?!?

All the business done on that system won't just go away. It will stack up... and up .... and up...... maybe until it falls on Fast Eddy Rendell's head. He might be a Teflon angel, able to break the law with impudence, but it's going to catch up one day. Not to be too crude about it, but piss off enough people and cost them enough money and it's going to come home to roost.

I think I'll go buy a firearm on Monday... just to add my little paper to the stack.