Copper Harbor 2007

Illegal Pic #1

Fred Thompson for President!

My gut instincts tell me this is the man. I have heard all the other 10 Republican candidates and they all sound like pretenders.

The top three pretenders all have major issues that dissqualify them from my vote. Fred is the only guys that isn't going to take any liberal manure from the left.

Sic em- Fred!

Islam - Religion of Peace

One in four younger U.S. Muslims say suicide bombings to defend their religion are acceptable at least in some circumstances...

Telephone interviews were conducted with 1,050 Muslim adults from January through April, including in Arabic, Urdu and Farsi. Subjects were chosen at random, from a separate list of households including some with Muslim-sounding names, and from Muslim households that had answered previous surveys.
The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 5 percentage points.

Treason!

trea·son /ˈtri zən/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[tree-zuh n] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1. the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign.

2. a violation of allegiance to one's sovereign or to one's state.

3. the betrayal of a trust or confidence; breach of faith; treachery.

—Synonyms 1. Treason, sedition mean disloyalty or treachery to one's country or its government. Treason is any attempt to overthrow the government or impair the well-being of a state to which one owes allegiance; the crime of giving aid or comfort to the enemies of one's government. Sedition is any act, writing, speech, etc., directed unlawfully against state authority, the government, or constitution, or calculated to bring it into contempt or to incite others to hostility, ill will or disaffection; it does not amount to treason and therefore is not a capital offense. 2. See disloyalty.

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

Pictorial Guide to Al Gores Energy Usage

Algore wants you to reduce your energy consumption. Here is how he leads by example.

Congrats Nick!

Maybe there is hope for the homeland!





Re'volution!

Photos May 2007

New Camera Coming!

Believe it or not I have never owned a digital camera.

Here it is 2007 and I am the last to jump on the bandwagon. The last time we got anything like this was back in 1995 when we got the Sony Hi-8 Camcorder for purt-ni $1000. That was right before Kellen was born and we have used it a bunch. That being said- we have been using the camcorder less and less and its become a hassle to get out and use anymore. That is all analog- so I need to figure out a way to transfer all that footage to DVD someday.

The camera is scheduled to arrive here this coming Thursday via FedEx. It is a Sony DSC-H2 that was last year's new release but is now being replaced by a newer version- but still this is a great camera from all the reviews I have read.

I didn't want an SLR because that is way too complex for what I will do with it. But I did want something a step up from a simple point and shoot. So this is the right model I think. It has a good rubber grip which is what I really wanted. So many of these silver flat cameras concern me because they appear to be to flat and slick- perfect for slipping out of my hand and breaking.

In the future, I will post more "home-made" photos here that are worthy of public consumption for the 3 people who read this blog.

Bernard McGuirk for President!

Open Letter of Admiration to Don Imus

It was a blast while it lasted. You entertained me for the last 14 years beginning with my first job when living back in Portage. I used to laugh so hard on my way to work in the morning. The bantering between all the funny guys and Bernard McGuirk was just awesome. My favorite thing was Bernard doing the Cardinal O' Connor impressions. Actually in those stressful days teaching at Vicksburg schools, you were the best part of my day.

Notably, the hardest I ever laughed while listening to your show came back around 1999 while living in Detroit. I had to pull my car off the freeway on I-275 because I was laughing hysterically. It was an exchange between you and Bernard and you called him a "bald headed Nazi". I can't remember exactly what the conversation was about, but when you called him that - I just lost it. Those were such fun days.

The other "funniest" moment that I will never forget was when Charles McCord went byzerk when you couldn't stop talking about some Neville Chamberlain book. Charles, being the "straight man" always had a way to surprise me by jumping out of character to mock you. It was always clear by your response how much you love and respect that man. Your loyalty to Charles was obvious and admirable.

Your ideology has always been different than mine in your expressed politics, but that didn't matter because you were entertaining. You pulled no crap with anybody. I especially loved your cynicism against all pretentious people everywhere. Any thinking person had to agree with your intolerance of pretense- which I have always appreciated.

One of the highlights of living in Metro Detroit in the late 90's was going to see you at the Southfield Theater when you came and did a radio appearance with WXYT 1270 AM which later became an all sports station (much to my chagrin).

You inspired me to have a better appreciation of classic country music, which I had not been exposed to previously. I also enjoyed the deep insights of guests you had on often like the God Squad and all the smart historians.

You also coined several phrases which I have used on occasion, all to your credit, such as: "this can't suck enough" and the words "hideous" and "weasle"- usually when referring to obnoxious politicians or bad musicians.

You have always had me as a fan CONTINUE to.

Your recent comments did not offend me in the slightest. It was a normal "rap" between you and Bernard which made the show so entertaining. Sure, when one parses every word slowly and disconnects it from context it may sound crude- but I knew it was just jive and has NOTHING to do with the way you really are on the race issue. It was cutting edge comedy - nowhere NEAR the racism and banter heard on the Chappelle Show.

All these pantie-wearing media types mainly Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson and all the other irrelevant wannabees are just out to get you for their own gain. It is wrong and I won't buy their crap. Harold Ford, Jr. is a backstabbing weasle and I hope you call him out.

What this all boils down to is just a few things.

1. Our feminized culture does NOT have a sense of humor
   
2. There are too many people out there just waiting to be offended

The only distressing thing I am observing now is watching you melt like a salted leech.

Fight the politically correct Gestapo.

Buck up and maybe you will be back on the air in some form soon.

Siriusly.

AL SHARPTON- NAPPY HEADED HYPOCRITE!

This is OUTRAGEOUS!

Don Imus, the king of sarcasm and syndicated radio genius is a funny man saying funny things which makes for great radio.

But I hope he's not caving, withering up like a salted leech.

People say he crossed the line with his “nappy headed hoes” comment referring the Rutgers Women’s basketball team. It was a funny comment in context. It was no different than what is done in comedy shows all across the country. Bernard McGuirk, Imus and his radio team are hilarious. That is why I listed to him – to laugh.

Don Imus makes fun of EVERYBODY especially the media that dominates the airwaves including Carville, Rush, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, his staff, himself, John Kerry, everyone else who becomes a media darling – especially the arrogant, pretentious drive-by-media.

So he offended some people.

GOOD.

We need more offended people in this world. He doesn't offend enough in my opinion. I think people get offended WAY too easily. I love to be made fun of in jest! This is because I do not take myself that seriously. Does that make me psychologically unhealthy? Maybe it's a view of my inadequacy before the Creator.

My real fear in all this is that Imus is going to cave and turn his show into a feminized lethargy of news and commentary with no zing. He is being chased into a corner by a bunch of politically correct thought police.

Right now I’m listening to Matt Lauer interview Imus berating him as “insensitive”.
Matt Lauer is a condescending pantie wearing feminized liberal wimp. He personifies the ca strati of NBC and all other networks for that matter.

The gargantuan hypocrisy of Al Sharpton pointing his finger at Don Imus is maddening. Here is Al Sharpton calling for Don Imus's resignation from radio. What about all the black rappers that degrade women in their music? Where is Al Sharpton calling on the record companies firing their black pimp rappers who make millions of dollars in the glorification of gang bangers and hoe makers? Huh? WHERE IS HE? Where is the public outrage and call for mass boycotts?

What about the Dave Chappelle Show and all the edginess that flows out of that black comedian’s mouth? By the way- I think Dave Chappelle is very funny.

Hey Sharpton- WHERE IS TAWANA BRAWLEY, YOU HYPOCRITE??!!

Al Sharpton was not even man enough to go on the Imus in the Morning radio show to discuss this. Imus, instead went to Al Sharpton’s show and sat there for two hours getting raked over the coals by that fat bloated nappy headed hypocrite.

Hey Sharpton- I'm calling for your resignation from all public organizations that you run because of your Tawana Brawley scam. Everyone knows that Imus is not a racist! He is just funny and pulls no punches including his own family and staff. He is funny- period! That is the kind of humor that I love- unpretentious, honest and biting.

Don't back down I-Man! Don’t roll up. Don’t cave.

NOTE TO IMUS:
Ditch the ca strati at NBC and head to satellite radio. I, for one, will be a new subscriber.

FISHING ON THE BRAIN

Protect Your Kids From Fear

Here is a worthy reprint about all the fear obsessed "fun Nazi" parents out there:

Four 11- and 12-year-old girls stood in front of my open pantry, mouths gaping wide. "Look! Fruit Roll-Ups!" "Oh, my God! Chocolate-chip cookies!" "You have regular potato chips? We only get the soy kind!"

After 14 years and four kids, I thought I'd feel comfortable as a mother. Instead, I'm increasingly aware of a prickly new sensation: that I'm some kind of renegade. Who knew that buying potato chips would become a radical act? Or that letting my daughters walk home from school alone would require administration approval? How did I, a middle-of-the-road mom, become a social deviant?

Fear is the new fuel of the American mom. If it's not fear of her child becoming obese, it's the fear of falling behind, missing out on a sports scholarship or winding up with a thin college-rejection envelope.

Apparently I'm not nervous enough. Last summer while I was loafing in front of the TV with my kids, the most benign things morphed into menaces. For example, the sun: long-sleeved, UV-protective swimsuits were all the rage at my neighborhood pool, while I could barely remember to bring the year-old sunscreen. The water wasn't safe either: at the beach I saw tots dressed in flotation belts and water wings—for shelling along the shore. And goodbye, cotton candy and hot dogs! At a major-league game I saw moms and dads nix the stuff as if they'd never eaten the occasional ballpark treat. As if their children would balloon into juvenile-diabetes statistics if a single swig of sugary soda passed their lips.

Half my kids' friends—who already make A's and B's—had summer tutors in order to "keep it fresh." I thought vacation was for relaxing and recharging. What would our pioneer foremoms think? (You want something to worry about, let me show you frostbite, typhoid and bears!) Heck, what must our own mothers think? (Snap out of it! Go worry about something truly scary, like how you're going to pay for retirement!)

I thought that once the kids were back in school, things would calm down. Instead, a fresh seasonal crop of anxiety sprouted, this time over corruptive candy fund-raisers and insufficient use of hand sanitizer. I know one mom who wants to change her son's schedule because he doesn't know anyone in his classes; she's worried he'll be "socially traumatized" all year. Another is afraid of a learning disability she just read about, though her child seems bright and charming to me.

And then there's playground panic. I had to laugh when an Australian study recently found that playground injuries continue to rise despite safety improvements. One of the suspected reasons: the safe new play structures are so boring that kids are taking more risks in order to have fun.
The fears are as irrational as they are rampant. Recently my children's elementary school failed to meet adequate yearly progress goals for a particular minority's reading progress under the No Child Left Behind Act and was placed on a warning list. This meant parents might gain the right to transfer their children to another school in the district. Never mind that this very same school sent more kids to the district's gifted program than any other, or that this entire district has the highest SAT scores in the state. The day the news broke, six different moms (none in the affected minority) asked me if I was planning to transfer my kids. From neighborhood pride and joy to threat to child's future overnight.

It's not that I think parents shouldn't worry about anything. I'm personally petrified of SUV drivers on cell phones. I fret as much as the next mom about how to pay for college. I pray my kids won't wander onto MySpace and post something dumb.

But you can't go around afraid of everything. It's too exhausting! No matter how careful you are, bad stuff happens (diaper rash, stitches, all your friends assigned to another class). And it's seldom the end of the world.

Watching my daughter's friends ogle my pantry, I realized there's one big, legitimate fear that I haven't heard anybody mention: what's the effect of our collective paranoia on the kids? Yes, these very kids we want to be so self-sufficient, responsible, confident, happy and creative (not to mention not food-obsessed). They're growing up thinking these weirdly weenie views are healthy and normal.

Walking out my front door that day, each girl happily clutched a plastic baggie stuffed with the exotic kid snacks that my daughter had doled out in pity. I may be a rebel mom, but at least I'm not afraid of a chocolate-chip cookie.

COMMON SENSE

My Carbon Footprint

Thanks be to God almighty. My carbon footprint is above the national average. That is my new year's resolution, to have to biggest footprint in Gaylord. Now if I can only figure a way to get that footprint up the backside of Algore.

Living in Fear – The Politics of Worry

So your child want to go to a friend’s house – this friend has parents who have a gun in the house or it might be a parent with a swimming pool.

Which is more dangerous?

FACT: Children are almost 3 times more likely to get killed by drowning at a house with a swimming pool.

2004 statistics for children ages 0-14 years old in the USA:

Firearm: 358
Drowning: 802

All my intuitions have been confirmed by a great show on ABC’s 20/20. John Stossel did a 2-hour special on February 23, 2007 entitled Scared Stiff – Worry in America. I have long believed that all the worriers I know, chiefly my mother were emotionally invested in worry than in facts. My mom just wants the best for us but generally speaking in our culture we are invested in fear and worry. Just watch the show lineup on the DirecTV menu:

Asteroids, terrorism, global warming, electrical storms, EMP, and almost every news expose on CBS, ABS, NBS, CNNBS, MSNBS et al. they all LOVE fear.

FEAR SELLS.

For you risk assessors out there- try this scientific formula showing actual risk likelihood.

Outright myths debunked scientifically in this 20/20 special:

• Bicycle helmets lower head injury
• Cell phone cancer
• Gun ownership
• Pollution is increasing
• Pesticides
• Global warming
• Bird flu
• Child abductions
• Shark attacks
• Diseases – new diseases

too many more to list here.

If you want to worry- try worrying about workers in the deadliest jobs by ACTUAL STATISTICS:

1. Crab fisherman
2. Loggers

Should we never take risks? What about the risks of the founding fathers of the U.S? Would people even take those kinds of risks in our culture?

I can't hel but think of all the PANSIES that I know as close friends and acquaintances right here in Gaylord afraid of just about everything fun.

For my guy friends, the worries of their worry obsessed wives rule the decisions they make. They would NEVER dare go on a wave runner, snowmobile, 4-wheeler and chiefly- the dreaded……..motorcycle.

Folks- lighten up. Don’t worry- be happy and LIVE!

Idiot of the Week

Liberal Logic

1.Avoid riding in automobiles because they are responsible for 20% of all fatal accidents.

2. Do not stay home because 17% of all accidents occur in the home.

3. Avoid walking on streets or sidewalks because 14% of all accidents occur to pedestrians.

4. Avoid traveling by air, rail, or water because 16% of all accidents involve these forms of transportation.

5. Of the remaining 33%, 32% of all deaths occur in Hospitals. So,... above all else, avoid hospitals.

excerpted from some baby boomer relative sending me forwarded spam

The Marketing Morph of the Weather Channel

Trivia Question:

What did Dr. Heidi Cullen of The Weather Channel get her Bachelor Degree is?

A. Meteorology
B. Broadcasting
C. Weather Forecasting
D. Near Eastern Religion

YOU GUESSED IT!

Near Eastern Religion

She is a New Age liberal and ideological leftist posing as “Doctor” Heidi Cullen, Climatologist at The Weather Channel.

Why do you think The Weather Channel has made this ideological turn toward the left?

Answer: Wonya Y. Lucas, Executive Vice President of the Weather Channel

Here is an excerpt from World Net Daily about Wonya Lucas:

Lucas admitted in a recent interview with Media Village that the reprogramming of The Weather Channel was influenced by her tenure at CNN when that network shifted from presenting straight news to personality-driven programming.

Lucas decided that what was good for CNN was good for The Weather Channel, and the objectivity and respectability of the network has now been thrown out the window. It doesn't matter that CNN's turn to the left has caused their ratings to plummet; The Weather Channel's embraced its model.

Check out this short and AWESOME article about this at World Net Daily. Link opens new window.

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53636
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So now you know. The Weather Channel has become the “CNN” of the weather broadcasting. Which begs the question- who will be number one?

Accuweather anyone?

Global Warming Nazi's Of the World -- UNITE!

The weather Nazi’s are at it again. Now they are suggesting that meteorologists who reject manmade global warming should have their licenses revoked. This is the latest from none other than THE WEATHER CHANNEL! Yes, the most innocent and neutral of all cable channels has now dropped trow for Al Gore and the Hollywood left.

Here is the exact quote from self-labeled Weather Channel “Climate Expert”, Dr. Heidi Cullen,

If a meteorologist can't speak to the fundamental science of climate change, then maybe the AMS shouldn't give them a Seal of Approval.
http://climate.weather.com/blog/9_11396.html

Heidi Cullen goes on to say:

Clearly, the AMS doesn't agree that global warming can be blamed on cyclical weather patterns. It's like allowing a meteorologist to go on-air and say that hurricanes rotate clockwise and tsunamis are caused by the weather.

Umm, Heidi- you IDIOT-- as the resident ‘climate expert’ at TWS, you should know that hurricanes in the Southern Hemisphere DO rotate clockwise.

And I’m just a candy salesman!

Junk science continues to steamroll through the media. No longer can there be any debate. It time for the Nuremberg Trials to begin. Shoot all dissenters on sight. Rid the world of these common sense heretics!

What is truly amazing is that no longer is it just a theory with these Nazi’s.

Now it’s “believe us or die.”

My Cousin Rosie

(Never react . Let time pass before responding. Think cautiously. OK- it’s been three weeks and I’ve calmed down. So here is the Christian version.)

When in the course of human events it becomes necessary to call a spade a spade. My cousin who shall remain unnamed--has become Rosie O’Donnell. A bloated moron, with a selfish meaningless life. Mired in anger and bitterness in her own unhappiness she decided to open her mouth and insert her foot.

She decided (unprovoked) to impart her snide, arrogant and condescending and totally inappropriate remarks about my parents –to my parents- right during Christmas party at grandma’s house. Not only was it an act of basic social stupidity, it reflected a very ugly picture.

If that is all it was – it would be a sad story. But it is a story of a lady who has been told her whole life how infallible and smart she is. Lifted to the highest stature of academic success, she traded any decency, virtue and grace to get there. Now – perched in elite academia, she is obviously, well-- miserable.

And that’s not all. Rosie's bad behavior is cottled by a mother who believes "she has the right to speak her mind” (as she said to my brother). To which it is then clear why the dysfunction exists in the first place. Like mother- like daughter – miserable, unhappy and angry.

Very unpleasant people.

Unable to find a boyfriend that could ever live up to her fantastic erudite expectations, she has been relegated to a life of sarcasm, condescension and arrogance. Her mucky personality is likely a result of seclusion from the company of good people. She has become like the people closest to her.

Let me say for the record, Rosie, I would NEVER trade my parents for yours. My parents are the inspiration behind two successful and happy sons and a daughter, not to mention their great families.

So when it comes right down to it, Rosie --the academically gifted purveyor of all things chemical- is really just a blithering mean and socially dyslexic punk.

Cauterize the Madness- Happy New Year 2007

More than ever before this holiday break was stressful and absurd with family infighting and bickering.

It is very good to be home. God bless the families that live by the good Book and think of others more than themselves. It is a rare quality indeed and one that we are blessed to observe here in our home town more than other places.

The specifics are many – the problem is singular:

Selfishness.

I have heard it said and do believe it is true that Greatest Generation gave up everything for their survival through the Great Depression and World War II. My grandparents (on both sides) came home from the war and built the greatest democracy in the world --all with a selfless spirit and focus on duty.
What came next was the Baby Boom which brought us the 60’s and the WIIFM generation (“What’s In It For Me”?) They had it so good from the sacrifice made by their parents that they got lazy and started expecting everything and expecting it now. Credit cards, lawyers, yoga, tofu and ADHD are what we have as a legacy.

It has run amuck.

The fruit of the selfishness is greed and the pursuit of money. Not that these things didn’t exist before, but I’m not sure it was as prevalent before. Now it seeks to separate families!

It shouldn’t have to be this way.

It won’t be this way.

God willing.

The Inconvenient Truth- Al Gore's Really Bad Movie

My oldest son (6th grade) came home one day last week and told me that they were watching Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" in school and would have to report on it. After my head lifted off my head and spun three times I took some Valium and decided to do some research with him so that we could put together a academically proper report. In my zeal I decided to write a report as though I was the student who was forced to listen liberal propaganda in the movie. What follows is MY report unedited with all the colorings that would SURELY get me kicked out of school. My son also wrote his report (based heavily on mine, I might add) without the sarcastic musings.

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I do not believe that global warming is caused by human beings. Global warming is part of a long term cycle caused by geo-climatic conditions occurring in hundred year cycles. I therefore believe that if humans cannot create global warming they cannot stop global warming. God made our wonderful earth to build glaciers, melt glaciers, spew billions of tons of toxic ash into the atmosphere from volcano’s and create hurricanes like Katrina. None of these were caused by people- they were caused by God. Although it takes faith to believe the way I do, in my opinion it takes a faith and arrogance to believe that global warming is caused by people.

Since 1895, the media has scared the public with global cooling and warming scares. From 1895 until the 1930's the media promoted a coming ice age. From the late 1920's until the 1960's they warned of global warming. From the 1950's until the 1970's they warned us again of a coming ice age. The present man-made global warming hype is just the latest scare.

The “hockey stick” was used in the movie to prove human caused global warming in the 20^th century. It is a hoax.

According to Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years a publication of the National Academy of Sciences published in 2006- the authors reaffirmed the existence of the Medieval Warm Period from about 900 AD to 1300 AD and the Little Ice Age from about 1500 to 1850. Both of these periods occurred long before the invention of the SUV or human industrial activity. In fact, scientists believe the Earth was warmer during the Medieval Warm Period when the Vikings grew crops in Greenland, than today. Maybe that is why they named it G R E E N land?

Alarmist politicians, Hollywood producers and teachers have been attempting to erase the Medieval Warm Period from the earth's climate history for at least a decade. David Deming, a professor at the University of Oklahoma's College of Geosciences, can testify to that. Dr. Deming was welcomed into the close-knit group of global warming believers after he published a paper in 1995 that noted some warming in the 20th century. Deming says he was then contacted by a global warming “scientists” who told him point blank "we have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period." When the "Hockey Stick" graph first appeared in 1998, it did just that.

Speaking of this Al Gore movie, a pile of liberal excrement vainly propagated on young formative minds, the government recently published his A Skeptics Guide to Debunking Global Warming. The pamphlet available at: http://epw.senate.gov/repwhitepapers/6341044%20Hot%20&%20Cold%20Media.pdf. What follows is an excerpt from a floor speech given by James Inhofe Chairman, U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works delivered Monday September 25, 2006.

What follows is a very brief summary of the science that the former Vice President promotes in either a wrong or misleading way:

· He promoted the now debunked “hockey stick” temperature chart in an attempt to prove man’s overwhelming impact on the climate

· He attempted to minimize the significance of Medieval Warm period and the Little Ice Age

· He insisted on a link between increased hurricane activity and global warming that most sciences believe does not exist.

· He asserted that today’s Arctic is experiencing unprecedented warmth while ignoring that temperatures in the 1930’s were as warm or warmer

· He claimed the Antarctic was warming and losing ice but failed to note, that is only true of a small region and the vast bulk has been cooling and gaining ice.

· He hyped unfounded fears that Greenland’s ice is in danger of disappearing

· He erroneously claimed that ice cap on Mt. Kilimanjaro is disappearing due to global warming, even while the region cools and researchers blame the ice loss on local land-use practices

· He made assertions of massive future sea level rise that is way out side of any supposed scientific “consensus” and is not supported in even the most alarmist literature.

· He incorrectly implied that a Peruvian glacier’s retreat is due to global warming, while ignoring the fact that the region has been cooling since the 1930s and other glaciers in South America are advancing

· He blamed global warming for water loss in Africa’s Lake Chad, despite NASA scientists concluding that local population and grazing factors are the more likely culprits

· He inaccurately claimed polar bears are drowning in significant numbers due to melting ice when in fact they are thriving

· He completely failed to inform viewers that the 48 scientists who accused President Bush of distorting science were part of a political advocacy group set up to support Democrat Presidential candidate John Kerry in 2004.

The movie we watched was nothing more than wild propaganda. It had a very one-sided point of view about global warming in saying that humans cause it. This movie is nothing more than an angry looser going insane in a desperate attempt to find legitimacy. He lost the presidential election in 2000 and has faded into obscurity. This movie was his attempt to find meaning in his life. He is a lost soul and a lost mind just as in the tradition established by his racist father who voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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ASSIGNEMENT QUESTIONS

List several harmful effect of global warming.

1. Bigger electric bill from running our air conditioner
2. More suntan lotion for when I go fishing and swimming
3. Having to listen to junk science being forced down our throat in school.

State some small changes we could make in our lives to be less harmful to our environment.

1. The premise is wrong. I don’t believe that we can affect the environment with individual changes in lifestyle

Conclude by stating the following:
What I will do to make a positive impact upon this problem?

1. The premise is wrong. Global warming is not a problem. It is a natural cycle that our earth goes through. We are not gods, we cannot control the path that this earth takes and to think so is arrogant. There is no impact whatsoever that I can make on global warming.

Summarize my stance on this sensitive issue.

My stance on global warming is that naturally occurs without human intervention. This movie is based on junk science and arrogance. It is junk science because global warming and cooling has happened naturally for thousands of years with and without industry pollution. The idea that humans created global warming is arrogant because we are not God. The idea that we can stop global warming morphs arrogance into clinical stupidity.

PayPal Goes Postal- In a Good Way

Leave it the United States Federal government to continue to demonstrate irrelevance. This time (or as always) with the postal system.

I do a LOT of shipping with FedEx Ground, USPS and least of all UPS. For years I struggled to efficiently ship out items sold on eBay or items sent to customers. I usually guess as to shipping fees to charge eBay customers- but finally bought digital postal scales.

For years I have used our FedEx Ground stickers to adhere to boxes and it has been great because we get billed later and can pay for everything once per month. But FedEx charges more than USPS and occasionally have screwed up deliveries I have sent or received. So I have searched for a way to use USPS as long as it lessens my hassle.

So USPS finally came out with stamps.com. Cool – right? Not. You have to PAY just to use that service in addition to your postage fees. How about the USPS web site? Well there is “Click-n-Ship” but you still have to type in the addressee to see the costs and print out the label to stick on your box. USPS’s address import feature is bug ridden as is their desktop software – Shipping Assistant 3.0.

So yesterday the sun came out and God shined down upon me. It was right there all along but was hidden.

PAYPAL!

I have seen their “Print Shipping Label” feature for months but upon selecting that option was taken to PayPal’s UPS portal. NOT. I don’t like UPS because of the complete hassle in dropping off my package to their Gaylord location which is a TOTAL hassle. And of course, they charge to come here to pick it up.

But- when I dug deeper in PayPal I found that I could select USPS as the default shipper and use that to ship all items. Bingo!

No importing of addressees, no package drop off hassles (my Post Office is just 2 miles away), no pick up hassles (our mailman will pick up anything), shipping fee hassles are gone – I can pay directly from PayPal when printing out the USPS label, AND THE COSTS ARE THE LOWEST!

The stars have aligned.