Random Thoughts 9/24/09

• I caught over an hour's worth of creepy Libyan nutjob Muammar al-Kaddafi the other day when he was speaking at the U.N. Wow. He wandered all over the place, with long pauses, as he meandered through a crack-pot's view of the history of the United States. This guy talked about Vietnam and the JFK assassination! What does that have to do with anything happening today? His main theme was America is evil. Thanks, Muammar. Go back to your failed socialist state, you creepy old weirdo.
• Speaking of the U.N., Kaddafi at one point seemed to suggest the U.N. might consider re-locating from New York to another country, like China or India (it was during his 10-minute rant about jet-lag). I hate to agree with a terrorist supporting loon, but…
• I'm going to upgrade my laptop in the next few days. So I'm cleaning up files, backing everything up, and then it's on to Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6). I don't expect to run into too many issues; it should be fairly straight-forward.
• Shannon was going to be gone to Oklahoma for three days but had to cancel her trip due to illness. I'm so glad they didn't go. I would have been working and busy most of that time anyway, but coming home to my lovely wife and crazy brood is the highlight of my day.
  
• I try not to agree with Gregg Easterbrook too often, but once again he nails a complicated issue: cloning. A clone is an identical twin. Period. After you get past this point, most criticisms are kind of vague and nebulous. My concern is when science takes an innocent life. And cloning doesn't necessarily involve any embryonic deaths whatsoever. This isn't harvesting stem cells from dead babies, it's causing a twin that one could raise from infancy.
  
• Impressive apps on my iPhone: the DirecTV app. It's crazy to be able to scroll through the television listings, hit one button and record on my DVR at home. I can even pick which DVR does the recording (master bedroom or living room). That's cool. I don't even use the television's onscreen program guide anymore, I check the listings on my phone even when I'm sitting in front of the TV. I'll never miss a World War 2 documentary on the History Channel now!
• I believe the President can't wait to get the heck out of Afghanistan and Iraq both, as soon as is humanly possible, i.e. without making him look bad.
• Speaking of the President, this idea that he has that we'll have a planet free of nuclear weapons is asinine. What kind of naïve, pie-in-the-sky, rainbows and unicorns sort of poppycock is that?! I'm not sure that we would even keep that promise, let alone all the lying, scheming, power-hungry, third-world nutjobs out there. Everyone will sign that treaty and then secretly keep/build their own arsenal, just in case. And what will stop terrorists or even corporations from having nukes? Signing a U.N. treaty? Really?! How stupid.