Random Thoughts 4/13/06

• I'm feeling political today. That usually goes over like a lead balloon.
  
• Many are joking that Hillary has already been impeached as President, now that the tv show starring Geena Davis as the first woman (and very Clinton-like) president is going to be cancelled. Does this demonstrate that Americans don't want a woman as president? No, it reveals that that show wasn't very good and this may or may not indicate that people don't want a president like Hillary Clinton. But it's certainly not chauvinism, a lot of folks who don't want Hillary wouldn't mind voting for Condoleezza Rice…
• I thought I found the deal of a lifetime on ebay the other day. A $300 item for only $15! I thought it had just slipped through the cracks and there was only six minutes left! But something told me to check the shipping charges and, sure enough, the extra charges in the fine print made the "great deal" not so great.
  
• I think I found a politician who feels the same way about immigration that I do: Sen. George Allen of Virginia. Allen has said in recent interviews that we need to protect the borders, not reward illegal behavior, and not continue to take advantage of these people either. If you catch anything by President Teddy Roosevelt about assimilating immigrants into our society as fast and unbiased a way as possible, it's worth reading more. Roosevelt made several famous speeches on the subject that are floating around in emails now.
• Kansas City's Arena League football team, the Brigade, is 2-9 now, the worst team in the league. Yuck. The Royals are 2-6, the worst team in the American League. That's how they say, "Thanks for the cash, Jackson County!"
  
• According to some sources, Iran wants to buy a large American made commercial aircraft. Why? To fly a crude nuclear weapon to the US by way of Venezuela. A 747 carrying a simple low yield nuke could fly from Iran to South America and take the place of a commerical flight heading to the United States, exploding over any one of several cities. Is this likely? No. Is it possible? Yes. And that ought to keep us up at night.