We Have NO Control Over the Planet!

12 degree Celsius = 53.6 degree Fahrenheit
17 degree Celsius = 62.6 degree Fahrenheit
22 degree Celsius = 71.6 degree Fahrenheit

Interesting. A fluctuation of 18 degrees. Wow, ain’t that a kick in the pants….preferably Gore and his disciples.

I’d say the odds are…..we ain’t gonna fry! The temperature has been fluctuating for longer than man has been on this planet. What makes us think we have that big of an impact? We just ain’t that dadburn important. Get over it! And hey algore, get over YOUR self too, you ain’t that important either!

(yes bad grammer….so sue me 🙂 )

The way I see it, if we can’t adapt to our environment as it changes, we don’t deserve to be in charge. Are we so arrogant to believe that we control this big ol’ spinning ball? PFFT! We can quit polluting, make the air a bit nicer, but if anyone truly believes that anything we do can affect the thermometer, they are well and truly cracked.

A Memory

I had a cat named Psycho who did this type of thing every time she got mad at us. Do you know how hard it is to clean up a whole roll of teeny tiny shreds of toilet paper? She died last year and is now sitting on the counter in a box with her picture on the front. I miss that lunatic cat. She was aptly named. 😦

Evening Snack

French PM says US should leave Iraq within 1 year

French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said the United States should pull out of Iraq within one year and work with Iraq’s neighbors and Europe to resolve the crisis.

Villepin, in a speech Friday at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government on Friday, said the United States’ true strength “isn’t its army.”

Does anyone give a happy crap what the French think? Where have THEY been for the last 4 years?

Girls chant ‘kill him’ as gang chases schoolboy then stabs him to death

Witnesses say that teenage girls egged on the attack with shouts of “Kill him, kill him” before the victim, named last night as Kodjo Yenga, was surrounded. At one point Kodjo raised his arms to fend off blows from sticks. The suspects being held include four 13-year-olds, two 15-years-olds and a man aged 21.

What kind of sick demented person behaves in such a manner? Girls? The world has truly gone mad!

Gore collects 300,000 signatures on climate change

Gore said the signatures demonstrate “that hundreds of thousands of people share my sense of urgency” on climate change. Gore is scheduled to testify before Congress about the issue Wednesday.

Evidently, “hundreds of thousands of people” have been drinking way too much Kool Aid.

Internet sites spread false rumor of Sinbad’s death

Rumors began circulating Saturday regarding the posting, said Sinbad, who first got a telephone call from his daughter. The gossip quieted, but a few days later the 50-year-old entertainer said the phone calls, text messages and e-mails started pouring in by the hundreds.

Can you imagine hearing that you are suppose to be dead from your child? A tad eery if you ask me. I’m glad he’s not dead. I rather liked him in First Kid, but then, I’m rather easily amused.

Nurse at veterans home resigns after inappropriate actions

Sarah Nixon forced a woman whose legs were in chronic pain to stand in a long line to receive her medicine despite the patient’s protests, sarcastically remarking: “It’s not as if you have anything to do,” according to a state investigation.

She should not have been allowed to resign. She should have been fired and charged with neglect! This type of treament of the brave men and women who have served this country well is absolutely appalling!

Coca-Cola challenged to drop coca reference

The farmers want the word “Coca” dropped by the US soft-drink company, arguing that the potent shrub belongs to the cultural heritage of this Andean nation, where the coca leaf infuses everyday life and is sacred to many.

A commission of coca industry representatives advising the assembly rewriting Bolivia’s constitution has passed a resolution calling on Coca-Cola, which is based in Atlanta, Georgia, to take “Coca” out of its name.

They have got to be kidding!

Media Bias

Real Debate Wisconsin has some real interesting info.

Morning Coffee 3/16/07

FdL woman admits to string of gas drive-offs

The woman admitted to Police Department detectives on Tuesday that she was responsible for the drive-offs and that she removed her front license plate before going to the gas stations, according to a press release.

Since the whole area had seen her picture, it would be kind of hard for her to deny it, doncha think?

Study: CPR Would Be Better Without Mouth-to-Mouth

Twice as many heart attack victims would live if they received only chest compressions — and not mouth-to-mouth ventilation — because people fear contracting infectious disease during CPR, a new study from Japan says.

This is a good thing to know. I’ve never had to use CPR, luckily, and I sure don’t have a germ phobia, but it seems to me, I might do a better job if I didn’t have to do the count and breath thing. I think it’s the “walking and chewing gum” problem.

Troop surge will get job done in Iraq, Franks says

Army Gen. Tommy Franks, former commander in Afghanistan and Iraq, said he believes President Bush’s troop surge will yield positive results.

“One never has a guarantee — wars have a way of providing uncertainty,” said Franks, speaking to reporters Thursday before the 2007 Boy Scout Patron Luncheon.

It would also help if the “destroy Bush at all costs” bunch would zip their lips now and then too. They are doing nothing more than encouraging the bad guys and dividing our country.

New on eBay: The desks of Enron execs

The desks that once adorned the Enron offices of Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling can now be yours at not-quite-yard-sale prices — a minimum of $25,000 each.

But judging by the company’s fate, they didn’t get much use.

I need a new desk. 🙂 Think Mr. Ol’ Broad would spring for a piece of ugly history? LMAO Naw… I kind of doubt it. Besides, I know where I can find one MUCH nicer with a MUCH smaller price tag. 🙂

Senate Rejects Democrats’ Call to Pull Troops

The Senate on Thursday rejected a Democratic resolution to withdraw most American combat troops from Iraq in 2008, but a similar measure advanced in the House, and Democratic leaders vowed to keep challenging President Bush to change course in Iraq.

I’m starting to wonder if any other business is being taken care of in D.C. while the Dems are obsessing on defeat.

Cops in new blitz on cannabis factories

POLICE have shut down seven cannabis factories and seized more than 2000 plants following a series of raids in the west of Scotland.

The plants, with an estimated street value of more than £630,000, were grown under high-powered lamps at homes in the greater Glasgow area.

I guess some Scots will have to find another way to get stupid for a while.

U.S. attack on British forces in Iraq called criminal

“The attack on the convoy amounted to an assault,” Walker said. “It was unlawful because there was no lawful reason for it, and in that respect it was criminal.”

Walker said, “I don’t think this was a case of honest mistake. There is no evidence the pilots were acting in self-defense.”

I don’t honestly think the U.S. pilots target British soldiers intentionally. Yes, it WAS a mistake, a horrible one, but criminal? No, I don’t think so.

How To Pronounce Oklahoma

The proper way to pronounce Oklahoma is ” Okla …..homa”
(there’s a pause between the A and the H)

see the reason below

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Something for the gentlemen. But I did think it was amusing. 🙂

Just a Grocery Store?

Grocer rumor raises tension

A rumor that Farmers Branch may be getting a grocery store that caters to the Hispanic market has touched off a controversy in a city where tensions already are high over the illegal immigration issue.

A group of residents has been calling Minyard Food Stores Inc. to say they want a Minyard store at the southeast corner of Valley View and Josey lanes – not a Carnival, which serves primarily Hispanic shoppers. Minyard operates the Carnival chain.

Farmers Branch use to be one of the nicer areas of the Metroplex. It has seriously gone downhill since I last lived in Dallas. I’ve also seen those Carnival grocery stores. The parking lots are fairly trashy. I mean with trash, litter, garbage, whatever you want to call it. This is not bigoted, this is a physical (personal) observation. I can understand the city not wanting to bring this store into their area.

The movement to keep Carnival out has angered some residents, who say the effort is racially motivated and an attempt to keep out a store that would be favored by Hispanics.

“I am so sick, my stomach is upset,” said Elizabeth Villafranca, president of the Farmers Branch chapter of the League of United Latin American Citizens. “This is a person that is running for City Council, trying to control which businesses come in and out of the city based on his own prejudices. … They are so prejudiced, but they don’t want to face it.”

The city council has every right to prevent a business that would be damaging from coming into their city. The one who is prejudiced is Ms. Villafranca, and those like her. I have never, in recent years gone into a grocery store, anywhere in the larger cities of this country and NOT found an aisle dedicated solely to mostly Hispanic types of food. Some have two or three. But this is the United States of America, not Mexico, or Cuba, or any South American country. Assimilate into OUR culture, do not force us to assimilate into yours.

Mr. Scott said that at issue is the quality of store he wants for the Four Corners shopping center – not race.

“I don’t think we need any sort of ultra-discount store in there at all. We’re a town of ultra discounts as it is,” Mr. Scott said.

Must have a Super Wal Mart, which 20 years ago, would have surprised me.

Mr. Scott criticized those who say it’s a racial issue.

“It’s so interesting because it shouldn’t be stirring up a lot of tensions,” he said. “People who want to make this an issue have latched on to it.”

Everything has become a racial issue these days, or religious, or gay, or whatever issue is the flavor of the day. Is it any wonder we are so divided? It would be nice if some folks would figure out, the world does not revolve around them, not everything is about THEM. I know a few people like that……

Texas declared it’s independence from Mexico in 1836. It’s now losing that independence. Unless people start paying attention, lose the “me” mentality, and focus on the “we”, I’m afraid we are skidding to our decline. You might say, “It’s just a grocery store!” No, it’s much more than that. It’s an example of how our nation is being over run, and turned into something that it was never meant to be.