Random Thoughts 8/12/08

• Russia is attacking another country, which began with internet attacks weeks ago, and they're apparently going to get away with it. The democratically-elected government of the country of Georgia is being destroyed by the naked aggression of Russia and the West is doing little or nothing about it. As the president of Georgia said, "This is the cold-blooded… murder of small country." [Late developing news, the Russians appear to be backing off. We'll see.]
• Hamster update: We lost one of the babies. The tiny little all-white runt of the litter is missing. I cleaned the cage today and there is no trace of it. Presumably the mother ate it. Eww. On the bright side, the four surviving babies are running around the cage full speed, eyes open and stuffing seeds into their cheeks. We'll have to separate the males and females within the next week or two.
  
• You can get your Olympic medal count here or here (with links to the medal counts of past Olympics). I'm not big on the Olympics but it can be rather interesting. NBC packages the human-interest story really well and some of the sports are fun to watch (once every four years).
• Even though there has been no global warming for a decade, the nutjobs cannot be contained. They're stark raving mad and here's one of their rants. "Runaway warming… beginning of our extinction… rising sea levels of 80 meters…" But do you notice that their "solutions" always include the government seizing control of all industry, stunting progress and development, and controlling the smallest details of human behavior. Hmmm… I think that's called "communism."
• This was my one day off this week, so naturally I was up at the church twice and took a half dozen business calls on my cell phone. Ministry is funny like that.
  
• Some of the opening ceremonies at the Olympics this year were faked by the Chinese. Pre-recorded, lip-synced, and digitally altered, the jaw-dropping opening ceremony was improved with computer-generated fireworks and prettier little girl to lip-sync instead of the actual buck-toothed little girl that party-officials felt was unfit to be seen on TV. Nice.
• Don't make any disparaging remarks about Obama or the Colorado Democratic party will shut you up! How democratic of them!