Random Thoughts 2/1/06

• Citizen Kane is on Turner Classic Movies tomorrow afternoon if you've never seen it and know how to work your VCR or TiVo. I asked my Sunday School class to watch this movie if they had a chance (we're studying Ecclesiastes) and here's your chance.
  
• John Kerry, bless his heart, said this morning that 53% of our kids don't graduate High School. Really? According to the Census Bureau, 85.9% of Americans age 20-24 are High School graduates. According to my public school math skills, that's 14.1 per cent, not 53 per cent, Senator Kerry.
• Western Union no longer sends telegrams. 145 years continuous service stop sorry for any inconvenience stop use your phone, fax, or email stop pony express and carrier pigeon also discontinued stop
• Here's a good article about casualties in Iraq and why they are so low.
  
• Chiefs President Carl Peterson says he is considering troubled receiver Terrell Owens. All of Kansas City cried out in unison, "Nooooooooo!" The opposite of that would be the signing of Pro Bowl guard Brian Waters to a six year extension announced today.
  
• I watched a documentary the other night and it turns out that President Roosevelt had American hero Charles Lindbergh wiretapped because Lindbergh spoke at anti-war rallies. Then I heard that Kennedy wiretapped Martin Luther King, Jr. to catch him in an extra-marital affair and discredit him. This peaks my curiosity. How many times have we illegally wiretapped our own citizens? It puts Bush's wiretapping of Al Qaeda in perspective.