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| I probably won't post much here anymore. You can find me at www.deekaman.blogspot.com. Stop by and visit. | | |
| I found this interesting: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88520025&sc=emaf What's notable in this is the idea that "we just don't fully understand the data", not "Hey, we could be wrong about this Global Warming stuff". I'm all good with research, but shouldn't scientific thought include doubt? Rather than looking to confirm pre-conceived notions, shouldn't science be looking to disprove the theory? In fact, I recall from my science and math classes that it was always "theory". The very idea that the scientific or mathematical thought may be wrong was the crux of scientific thought. Attempting to disprove was the key to removing doubt. I submit that "Global Warming" is not scientific at all, but religious in nature. No debate allowed. "It is, I believe it and that's that". Sounds a lot like, "God said it, I believe it and that's that". | | |
| Eliot Spitzer talked a lot of talk. Kinda like Bill Clinton did over the Monica thing. Is it that hard to "man-up"? Be a man. Take your medicine. Pay the price. Move on. Karma caught up with ol' Eliot. Now he's not willing to face the music. Not willing to say he was wrong. A lot of political double-speak, but not much on substance. Do you ever wonder about the guy in the front pew? Or the guy patting himself on the back for his charitable giving? I wonder what they're hiding. I wonder because I was one of those guys. On the outside one, on the inside, another. There comes a time when it all caves in. You decide. Are you really a man? Or just pretend? If you're a man, you take your medicine. Pay the price. Don't whine or make excuses. Deal with it, do what needs to be done and move on. Learn from it. I lost everything. The woman I loved and married, my home, the respect of my children, my job, my friends. I took the beating....it was substantial. But I learned the lesson. I never whined. I paid the price, whatever it took. I was fortunate that God allowed me to move along in my life. I'm not sitting here being pious...ok, maybe I am. But I'm trying to be an object lesson here. We are all human. We make mistakes. Some are small, some are gigantic. None are insurmountable. Are you willing to suffer the consequences and move on? My brother and I have never been terribly close. We are closer now than we've been, but not as one would expect brothers to be. But my brother might be the most genuine person I know. Not the most motivated, but certainly, what you see is what you get. He's always ended up golden. I'm sure he has regrets; many things haven't gone as I'm sure he would like. But he knows what he is, is what he is and has no pretense. Eliot Spitzer can learn a lot from my brother. | | |
| And I come back to this: http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/03/10/pharma.water1/index.html This: http://topics.cnn.com/topics/eliot_spitzer and this: http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/environment/2007-06-27-climate-poll_N.htm I guess I should take them one at a time. First, prescription drugs in the water. Great. Parts per TRILLION. Even the most avid water drinkers would have to drown themselves to get any effect at all. That said, CDC and EPA should be able to cast a wide-enough research net to find out who, what, when, where, why, and how. Pretty sure that's what our tax money should be going to. Easiest way to avoid this stuff in your home drinking water is a Reverse-Osmosis system. Pricey, but if you're REALLY worried...... Eliot Spitzer. This is all about Karma. "Mr. Clean", the super do-gooder, who with a metaphorical wave of his hand detroys evil capitalists like Dick Strong. Rather than fight City Hall, Dick Strong closed up shop. The media made it look like Spitzer was a regular "Batman" to Strong's "Joker", but the people of Milwaukee and Wisconsin know better. Eliot Spitzer, IMHO destroyed a relatively small investment firm to further his political aims. If this scandal doesn't sink his ship (and he richly deserves it), expect to see him as a Democrat candidate for POTUS in a few years. Climate: The media keep beating that drum. I'm freezing my ass off through the coldest winter in a decade and the biggest snowpack since 1966 and it's global warming? This is a joke, right. And now that the Southern Baptists have weighed in, it must be. I don't think they've ever been on the correct side of an issue. They're nearly as bad as the Episcopalians. Oh yeah...and I'm sick. Great. Maybe I'll drink some water. | | |
| If you haven't listened to Jane Monheit, you're missing a good bet. I bought this CD for my lovely wife. There's a reason food and energy are kept out of the inflation numbers. If they went in, we'd show a GIGANTIC inflation rate. In the last year, wheat and flour have tripled, corn has nearly doubled. That's just the tip of the iceberg. Connect the dots here. It's all about the corn. The ethanol mandate has driven the price of corn from about $1.25 a bushel two years ago to almost $5.25 a bushel. More farmers are moving to corn from other grains. Simple supply and demand drives up the cost of the other grains as well. And if you add in that nearly everything from animal feed to cookies has corn of some variety in it, the price of everything is up. In addition to being bad for the wallet and stomach, ethanol is bad for the environment, if you believe the carbon dioxide/global warming hoax. Forests are being cut at an enormously rapid rate to plant ethanol crops (corn in the U.S., sugar is Brazil). And there's no significant energy upside to ethanol....at all (you do the math. It will offset that lousy public edumacation you got). We need to end this ridiculous, expensive and dangerous experiment now. | | |
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