Random Thoughts 5/15/09

• Today is the 20th anniversary of my decision for Christ and baptism.
• The NBA draft has 74 underclassmen who left school early to enter this year's draft. There are only 60 draft slots to be shared among these underclassmen as well as 29 foreign players and a few hundred college seniors who are eligible. Somebody got some bad advice. Last year saw less then 30 underclassmen get drafted, which was higher than usual but still less than half of those that declared.
• I'm starting a new sermon series on Daniel this Sunday.
  
• Nickelodeon is ordering 26 episodes of a Kung-Fu Panda television series. They've also produced the recent series "The Penguins of Madagascar," which my boys like alright.
• The FN SCAR assault rifle is being given to an operational unit (75th Rangers) to deploy to Afghanistan. The SCAR, or Mk 16, is a possible candidate to replace the M16 family of weapons, notably the M4 carbine. I was always a fan of the XM8.
• How does President Obama explain to his fans that he's not going to stop the military tribunals like he said he would? He's had a couple of serious reversals recently that smack of: "Oh, now I have to be a responsible grown up instead of a idealistic, devil-may-care liberal." Welcome to the real world and its realities Mr. President.
• Retorical Question: If inflation smacks us hard in the next 12-18 months, is that going to punish hard-working people who saved their money (now worth less) and reward those irresponsible people who went into into debt (also worth less now), assuming the latter keep their jobs? Inflation in general hurts the lender (saver) and helps the borrower (debtor). That said, it's not like inflation is a good thing.