Obama, Obama, whatcha gonna do?

How is it that a state where cities are declaring bankruptcy with the regularity of a Yosemite geyser votes to approve roughly $10 billion in new bonds to build a high-speed rail line from one unimportant rural town to another? That is exactly the situation in California, where sandwiched between the bankruptcy filings of Stockton and San Bernardino was a state Senate vote to approve bond issuance for the first leg of what is conservatively estimated to be a US$68 billion bullet train. It will carry passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles and back beginning in 2030, with the first leg between Merced and Bakersfield. This is quite an ambitious project, but it is ethically and morally unjustifiable at this stage. There are two bankrupt cities within the state and they could really use some of that money. The Mayans were right about 2012, and the green pig in all this may well be Obama. He has had nearly four years to straighten this mess out, but nothing has been done. And speaking of green pigs, Rovio Mobile's latest game, Amazing Alex, has finally launched for iOS and Android devices. The game sees you manipulating physics along with different objects in order to solve puzzles. There are around 100 levels and 35 objects that can be utilised in order to complete the game.