Webcam video from March 25, 2013 5:59 PM

Launch A Kite

When I was a child flying kites I never heard of a kite launcher not even on television.  But that soon changed when I found that running with the kite was and is not now my special talent or gift now that I have Parkinson's and cannot run with the speed and agility of a rated and ranked tennis player in the small local tennis tournaments.  But I can still fly kites and enjoy it as much as when I was a young boy running about  the fields like a jack rabbit.  With the way I rigged up a kite launcher in my backyard not  knowing if such a rig or device existed since I googled for one at the time but found none I proceeded to design and make my own essentially a twenty foot tall flag pole but with a kite instead of a fly with the attached line for string or rope depending on the size of the kite.  Large kites pull so hard a rope is more desired for gripping.  Such a kite launcher already was invented not by me as the configurations for the information as I was told had not been worked out exactly.   But use a kite launcher if you can't run anymore and be happy observing all the safely rules avoiding  power lines and mean old neighbors who don't want you trespassing on their property trying to retrieve down kites.  In my other blog It Never Takes A Genius I drew an illustration of a Harrier Jet and showed a bomber could be outfitted with the jet propulsion thrusters turned in the same way a Harrier jet has their jet thrusters positioned.  The ideal is to get a bomber off the ground without the need for a runway much in the same fashion a Harrier jet takes off from the ground like a helicopter.  Now go  ahead launch a bomber with a jet launcher and be happy but  watch for enemy  incoming craft and missiles waiting to take you down.  But  don't do this home alone the military branches of the United States of America are equipped to do this.

As for cars that will fly when and where I   have no ideal.  But they will fly it is just right  now such news isn't big news not just yet.  I already discussed this flight of cars on the air with Dr. Bill Wattenberg a   former physics professor at UC Berkeley and this was not a joke.  Yes I  can write about science fiction I am not the first to do so tell me about the movie "Back To Future" starring Michael J. Fox  and that was a long time ago.  It is time we start thinking again and get our vehicles out of the rut and into the sky just anywhere but the ditches!  Are the inventors and designers of such craft listening?

When We Fly

I doubt the Wright Brothers ever used a hang glider but I did read that they flew kites.  I may have to take this video down writing blogs requires a continuous learning but I'd rather not have to learn the hard way.  Abiding the terms and conditions is important to me and any violations of the copyright rules and regulations will be corrected I make no profit by writing this blog and do not make an income by writing this.  I wish the creator of this posted video an enhancement and pride in this creation of this video and all credit due him.  Flying in a hang glider is not a dream of mine but  more of a wild eyed dream I have not the wherewithal  nor the courage to take off in such a wing craft only to control a kite sometimes mistaken by the unknowing for a hang glider as one of my kites is one of the larger  kind and I use a  rope rather than a string to control it.  A simple thing like a kite in flight and launching it from a kite launcher in a small area where a large runway is not practical is enough to  capture my inspiration and imagination as I admire the beautiful blue skies and the birds which soar up above into the clouds and over the rainbow.   I predict cars will fly as we approach consumer demand for such vehicles and this is more than science fiction now.  There are already prototypes of cars which do fly and as many of us can see it is only inevitable that cars will fly in mass numbers with air traffic control doing more than directing airplanes.

Dream flight high in the mountains in spring

In 1903 The Wright Brothers To The 2014 The Wong Brothers

I'm so confused it is no wonder that I never considered or at least never submitted an application to the school of journalism.  A professional journalist would never write in the manner I am writing which is often cynical of the way the establishment is and often I take a lighter side maybe even comical in the way I see our world after all this isn't just my world but our world I must share it with my fellow humans.  I did google a very important message to Google our beloved and most popular engine search so that I may get to the facts as close to that truth as possible.   No one should read this journal if I'm going half cocked and reporting on the story with intense fabrications and total lies.  It would never sell. Come to think of it there are some tabloids which make outrageous profits by doing so but that is just not me I'm here all alone minus the corporate power enabling me to become an all powerful entity or to put it simply…important.  I would love to be superman by the twilight hours and Clark Kent by day and report the most relevant news stories and thus maybe even gainfully employed.  When will the Chinese wake up and confess that to challenge the American space  programs is silly folly Yee is where  I  descended from and my last name isn't Wong and I  should be so right about my point.  The white boys have it all they began with the Wright Brothers which the right name invented the airplane and yes they flew kites and they were the first to fly an airplane plain and simple.  The Chinese didn't do it.  But give the Chinese credit for inventing gunpowder and  for inventing printing.  I'm so forgetful nowadays having Parkinson's I tried to become a good candidate for deep brain stimulation but because I did not quality and pass with high marks in the cognitive testing I cannot seek this remedy to combat this dreaded disease of Parkinson's. But some of the time I know what I'm speaking about in this case writing about because I know what the Chinese are thinking.  The Chinese are so wrong in thinking that they could equal the American Space Program let alone surpass them.  The Chinese are so infamous for their failures that they will never come to know what a dynasty is and if they ever did have one the world has long forgotten because it has been so long since they did have one.  Oh my God is this issue now more confusing?  What I am driving at it is simply the facts and the truth nothing more and nothing less.

Does China Have A Space Program?

First of all I know nothing about aviation.  The only thing I can fly is a kite.  Go ahead and laugh so I'm not the cream of the crop the expert journalist who knows about space exploration perhaps even having lived the life of an aviator.  But I do fly kites for fun and yes I am a grown up man who hasn't gone beyond the level of a child to more sophisticated devices or craft.  Many of us haven't.  And so therefore I can take some of you to the   sport mostly children adore not adults so much.  If it is safe then I will fly it and yes Howard Huges was a great  man an aviator and industrialist who I came to admire.  Call me one of his fans.  The time before  last not counting  today the Chinese were recovering from  a long time of being in  the cellar poor and backwards and when in  grammar school the Chinese space program consisted of cartoons mocking the Chinese sitting in a rocking chair with fireworks beneath the chair in their attempt to send a man far far away.  But my teacher stepped in and interceded by not ridiculing the Chinese.  This was in the 1950's when Elvis was the pelvis.  The thing to do for me was to tell my classmates that I was Japanese after all they had some pretty good ships and a navy until they were defeated by America.  From what the expert journalist report on the Chinese Space Program they the Chinese are doing a little bit more than putting firecrackers beneath a rocking chair and sending it off to the moon.  And no I did not get this from my 1973 Funk And Wagner set of encyclopedias.  But the real question is how did the Forty Niners do today against their opponent?  Did you think I would want to  jinx them by watching play?  If they lose today then I will be hurt far less than if I watched it.  It would be nice to see this home town team of mine claim another dynasty  in football like they did in the 80's.  Do I have to wear another paper bag over my head  and see the word dynasty as just another foreign word?

When Diaries of The News Become Journals

Enough of the need for me to define the meaning of what the phrase or title of a blog should or should not be  called when the issue of this blog called Journalism Reports has only just begun…or has it?  Ordinarily attracting attention in my direction is not an everyday desire but only in my fantasy or a far off dream.  Commenting on the news on the air does not appear to be radical or a brand new threat anymore as I am adjusted to this form or format.

Ann Frank succeeded in writing a world famous diary due to the time of history  where she had no choice but to attempt to survive against all odds.   Having read the book The Catcher In The Rye many times over as did Bill Gates I will have to say it does  please me as that this is also what a super rich man had done maybe because we both dropped out of college but this is the only two things we have common.  Let us face the fact that everyone is interested in a good news story whether we admit to it or deny it.  As  many of us know  Holden Caufield was the main character in JD Salinger's fictional book where we see Holden Caufield a loser who drops out of college.  But yes it is fact as I know it one of the richest men in the world has read this book many times over.