Wind-talkers Get Cutting Edge BeforeYou Do

Hold on a second.

Like me, you have been using the Internet since Al Gore fired it up on his honeymoon.  You probably bought a cell phones when they were bolted to cars.  You are practically an early adopter of everything short of Cambodian children, the better half of Bradgelina having beaten you badly there.

So why is it that 15 000 square miles of desert gets LTE before you do?

LTE is short for Long-Term Evolution.  Naturally, half of the country does not believe in any-term evolution, so they should keep their landlines.  LTE is next wave, 4G (G for Generation) wireless technology.

Oh, don't start on that WiMax stuff.  That's Sprint, for God's sake, and it is only in, like Baltimore---yes, there still is a Baltimore since "The Wire" was canceled--and Portland..., in one of those Portland states.

LTE is the future of cell phones.  iPads will show you 1080p "Avatar-3D" on LTE, even in the mall, if you are lame enough to go to a mall.  You'll get to download "Gossip Girl" on the damned beach.  That's where sand is supposed to be Hi-Tech.

Not in the desert!

Sure, you like the Navajo as much as anybody who took their land a half dozen times and wrote promises to them in invisible ink.  But, come on, all 200,000 of them live in a desert and don't need to Hulu the way you and I do.

Yeah, yeah, Navajo schools need better Hi-Tech.  Why?  They've already go the coolest, most undecipherable language on the planet. You couldn't learn it if you had giga-whatever from Space.  You saw "Windtalkers", right?  So, you already know how the Navajo  helped their fellow, if treaty-challenged, Americans, specifically the guys who used to be Nichols Cage and Christian Slater, beat the crap out of the Japanese in World War II.  LTE can't top that.  Leave these resourceful people in the past, with 2G where we can't see them on YouTube.  Better yet, leave them in their casinos where we can end up giving them back some of the wealth we used to, I don't know, build Phoenix?

When does Naples get LTE?  We don't even get FIOS down here.

This had to be another one of TBO's big ideas, although it seems more Clintonesque.

That is, well, because the Navajo are getting the Chinese to build it.