The Weekly Notes 2007
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Back to the Weekly Notes 2007 Archives Global Warming: These big shot
celebrities fly around in jets to spread their gospel. Reduce your carbon
footprint they say. Hah! Each of them creates more CO2 in one flight than I
will create in one year, but they want me to hunker down. In addition, my
wife and I have planted close to 6000 trees to soak up the CO2 we do
generate. Moreover, we are still planting when we can. Here is the skinny on
trees. Trees and other green leaved plants absorb CO2. They use it in a very
elaborate chemical process called photosynthesis. In that process, they use
the energy of sunlight to convert CO2 and water to glucose, C6H12O6. Glucose
is sugar, which is essential to plant growth. In that same process, the
plants release oxygen into the atmosphere. That’s a double win for all
of us. How many trees has Gore planted? How many trees has Edwards planted?
Hah again! Let’s get honest. A Good Thing: Nifong is no longer an
attorney. That is good, but it is not enough. He is getting preferential
treatment because he was a DA. If an ordinary person did what he did, he
would go to prison. Some scumbag DA would make sure of that. We can only hope
the civil suites will bankrupt him and put him in a financial hole from which
he will never escape. Posture: My oldest granddaughter
is somewhat tall for her age. Normally when a child finds she is looking down
on most of her peers, she will tend to crouch or stoop. M granddaughter does
not. She has excellent posture. That good posture is a direct result of her
love of dance. She takes dance lessons at Bohaty’s Politics: I’m beginning to
change my mind about Obama and about Giuliani. I am concluding they are both
much too shifty for the top job. They vote their conscience, if it’s
safe to do so — otherwise? I am starting to lean toward Joe Biden as
the most reasonable and firmly grounded candidate. He sure ain’t perfect,
but his discussions are well reasoned and thoughtful. He does not seem to be
a halfcocked fast-draw kind of guy. He is not at all like king George. Sunday School: The chairman of the
armed services committee, Lindsey Graham, was on the Stephanopoulos hot-seat.
I think he must have been a Sunday school teacher in some previous life. If
you want Sunday school platitudes, he is your man. He seems to think the
whole Iraqi problem can be resolved by us being nice to the Muslim madmen.
Like king George, he is in continuous denial of the fact of civil war in that
hellhole. He is willing to let them continue murdering our kids to give them
more time. They just need a little more time to get organized and start
behaving. Duh! Generally Accepted: That is a term that is
often used by bullcrap artists to propagate their bull. It is in the same
category as “common knowledge.” Bull artists will use both of
those to pretend they have hard facts when they have nothing of the sort. I
read this on the inside flap of the Triangle Books edition of “The
Razors Edge.” “Somerset Maugham is generally accepted as one of
the greatest novelists living today.” I guess this bull artist never
heard of Steinbeck and Hemmingway, or perhaps he thinks they were just hacks.
I am reading the book because it was recommended by a friend. So far, I have
found it typically mid century English. The style is stilted and tedious but
I am only on page 18 of some 300 pages. Perhaps it will get better. In
fairness, Shakespeare makes tedious reading too, but seeing it performed is
another thing altogether. I suspect Maugham’s books make great movies
just as do Steinbeck’s and Hemmingway’s. Vetoed Again: Are we terribly
surprised that the mad king has vetoed another stem cell research bill? He
stands firmly in the way of scientific achievement, not unlike The kindly
Pope Clement VIII. Stem cell research will have to wait, just like everything
else, until we have a rational president. This man who took us into an insane
war in Cops: I like to point out all
the things I learn about bad cops. I only learn of the bad things because
that is what the media likes to report, but it is a false picture. I wish
they would tell me when cops do good things, so I could comment on them. I
know it happens and I assume it happens a lot. The media does report on good
firemen quite often. In that fire in One-on-One: Some American
undersecretary or some such is in Back
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