Motorcycle Helmet laws a federal issue again???

It would seem with all the issues on the country's plate motorcycle helmet laws would take a back seat to, oh, about everything else.  After all, as more and more drivers drive distracted via texting, cell phone use or pick your poison, we would pretty much bet that death while riding without a motorcycle helmet will become a the smaller of statistics.  Especially if you set out to prove that the death, was in fact, the result of a head injury.

To do so would lead one to a discussion of cause and effect.  The question becomes, not how did one die in a crash, but what caused the crash!

Have seat belts, airbags and motorcycle helmets saved lives during a crash? Of course. It would be foolish to argue otherwise. But how many lives would be saved if the "Cause" of the crash was addressed as opposed to the effect? How many lives saved if the crash never happened?

Wikileaks, blowback, Karma or just another government screw-up

The laws of unintended consequences can never be denied unless of course you happen to be a member of congress or a Bureaucrat.

The U.S. is acting all aghast, shocked and indignant that wikileaks could happen. Yet by it's own design it has pretty much guaranteed that such occurrences would happen. In fact we are surprised that they have not happened more often as it would appear that as fast as the government develops a secure network they immediately break it.  Set ups for failure at taxpayer expense that will probably end up not in legislation to hold officials responsible but more calls for censorship and more money to make and break more secret stuff.

Enter Siprnet, which is an acronym for Secret Internet Protocol Router Network. So what the hell is that?