Random Thoughts 3/21/07

• It's the first day of Spring, did you get your free cup of iced coffee from Dunkin' Donuts? I'm not sure what iced coffee has to do with Spring, but I'm still wrestling with why one would want iced coffee to begin with. I was also surprised to find that there are only two Dunkin' Donuts stores within 100 miles of Kansas City (one in St. Joe and one in Lawrence); this is Krispy Kreme country!
• True colors shining through? "Peace protesters" in Portland, Oregon burned American soldiers in effigy and burned upside down American flags. I thought everyone supported the troops? But now that recruiting stations are being vandalized and masked protesters are turning violent, their anarchist, anti-American bent is on display for all to see. They have the right to peacefully assemble but that doesn't cure their ignorance or their hatred. What a noble thing it is that our troops would fight and die for people like this.
  
  
  
• Tanner had to go the dentist today because of his run in with Kelby at Graham's birthday party. The dentist will determine whether those teeth need to be pulled… I'll keep you updated as soon as we find out more information.
• Professor emeritus of biogeography at the University of London, Philip Scott, said recently, "Climate is governed by everything from the tilt of the earth, to volcanoes, ocean currents, sun spots, cosmic rays, solar sunspots, meteors and reflection from the land. So to put it all down to one factor - human CO2 emissions - is just not credible and the idea that politicians can control the climate is nonsense." Al Gore disagreed in a hearing for Congress' Energy Committee where one Democrat on the committee declared him "a prophet" in this religion of climate change. Gore pleaded for repentance as he stubbornly clung to his dogma, in spite of the evidence. Czech president Vaclav Klaus told congress today that global warming has "turned into a religion" that has replaced communism as the greatest threat to personal freedoms. I wonder who they'll listen to?
• It's going to time to mow the yard soon. Yuck. Winter just isn't long enough when it comes this topic. Oh well…