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It donned on me quite early this morning that this HAD to be a day for “Random Thoughts and Comments”.

It was a long weekend, or that’s what it is called. I’m not sure what was so long about it. It seemed very short to me. I hope your “long” weekend was a good one. What did you do? Me? Not much. I spent far too much time working but then in this business you have to make hay when the sun shines.

I did go down to the beach yesterday around noon. There was just a slight milky white sky but all in all the sun was quite bright. The weather is amazing and something scientists can’t understand. Even though we think we can - we do talk a lot about it - I think it is better to just shut up about it and enjoy.

I’m no different than anyone else. I like to bitch about it - like it does any good.

It was hot at the beach and for the Gulf of Mexico, the water was riled up with some decent waves for the surfers and boogie-boarders to enjoy, all a result of Mr. Gustav. Everyone was out it seemed and most were in the water.

We set up our chairs and I threw up an umbrella to get out of the direct sunlight. After a short stroll down the beach, wading in the warm surf, I was pretty much drenched from the sweat and so we headed home to jump in the pool. (BBQed up a nice steak last night to end the weekend.)

I’ve been trying to get a good handle on this V.P. pick of McCain’s - this Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Is she the girl next door? How far removed from the mainstream political, good ole boy, do it my way Washington is she? This obviously is scary to some. I like it.

My thought that Palin was a pretty good pick became immediately reinforced by the reactions of the left and the Obama worshipers. They hate her and everything she stands for.

You know sometimes I choose to escape to a bit of a “La-La Land”. I’m sure we all do to some degree. Unless we are immersed into some aspect of our society, isn’t it safe to say that we form general opinions about how people think and why?

In my “La-La Land”, I puzzle over things like “Pro Choice”, “Feminism”, “Equal Rights”, “Environmentalism”, “Conservation” and any other “ism” you want to toss in the ring. We all have our thoughts on all of these issues and I would be willing to wager that if 100 people were put in a room, there would be 100 different opinions about each one of the topics listed.

If I talk to a friend or a neighbor about any of these subjects, they may not get into their true, gut feelings and only scratch the surface. I think this is kind of where my “La-La Land” takes me and it’s a safe place to be at that moment.

But what happens in the heat of battle, if that be the correct way to describe it. You see, I see the announcement of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as Sen. John McCain’s running mate as launching a missile into the Democrats’ camp, the Dem camp being all those supporting Barack Obama.

This has prompted a response of which we begin to see the true colors of that side, a side that has readily been described as far left. In this latest skirmish, here is what any observer would have learned in regards to some of the topics I listed above.

Pro Choice - We have all come to learn that pro choice means a woman is thought to have the right to choose whether or not to keep a baby when she learns she is pregnant. Pro life means you don’t kill the baby through abortion. What we have learned from the left is that pro choice means your only choice is to abort. When someone chooses to keep a baby, that’s wrong. So for the left, the only choice is kill the baby.

We can also learn that supporting and promoting women in all walks of life is a wonderful thing, unless you come from the right. If so, only liberal thinking women deserve a chance at positions of power.

What else? Oh, yeah! Barack Obama and his supporters get angry when anyone, mostly from the right, questions his experience as being adequate enough to lead the greatest nation on earth. But it is acceptable to question the experience of someone who would be a vice president. Huh? I wonder if it really does matter that the pick is a woman?

As this war heats up, other issues begin to rear their head. Palin supports wildlife management that animal rights and the anti-hunting crowd don’t approve of. This of course has sparked some debate about her being a choice for V.P. I have spent a great deal more time discussing this subject than most and have learned that “science” is a cherry-picker’s tool. Depending on the position at the moment, science is not reliable in making decisions to determine things like removing wolves from the endangered list but science is pretty good if the same crowd can suggest that killing wolves from an airplane or helicopter isn’t scientific. This portion of the left has really been sent into a tail spin over the Palin pick.

Bear and human encounters in New Jersey are escalating out of control. One report I read said encounters were up nearly 90% from over a year ago and yet the anti-hunting government is still telling people hunting only increases bear populations.

How can that be? Have you ever noticed this avenue used by the antis? The only times bear numbers in New Jersey decreased and human encounters dropped was the year after a hunt, yet the government lies to its people about facts.

I’ve always wondered how that hunters have always been blamed for the extinction of some animals. I’m not completely stupid. I know and admit that many years ago without any regulations and game management, things weren’t looking real good and yes, hunting was blamed for drastic reductions of certain game animals in certain places. So why are we also blamed for population increases when we hunt them?

It’s true. Coyote lovers say that if we begin hunting the little varmints we’ll only make the population go up but if we begin hunting the wolf, the population will be wiped out again. Does this make sense to you?

I was just reading about a study that Dr. Charles Kay, a professor at Utah State University, did on the abundance or lack thereof, of wildlife during the Lewis and Clark Expedition. To keep it brief, it was all quite interesting. Using the journal kept by Lewis and Clark, Kay discovered that in places where the natives lived, game animals and other wildlife, were quite sparse, due to over hunting. In places, he called buffer zones, where natives didn’t live, wildlife was quite abundant.

Anti-hunting groups will quickly cite such instances as proof that hunting is bad for the ecosystems and will turn around in the next sentence and say that hunting only increases populations. Give me a break!

Did you hear about the turkey buzzards in one Florida park that are pecking the rubber gaskets off cars left in the parking lot? Medard Park, not too far from where I live and a place I’ve been to a few times, is the site of where these buzzards land on you car when you aren’t around and peck and chew the rubber gaskets around your windows and doors. Biologists think the rubber looks like dead and decayed carcasses so they go after it. Animals do weird things, sometimes just because they can.

Kind of like me!

Tom Remington

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Posted on Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Under: Endangered Species, Predators, Random Thoughts, Wildlife Science | 7 Comments »

Random Thoughts And Comments


These days it seems most of my thoughts are random. So much going on in the world and with this age of instant communication, people want to know…….right now! As a reader, do you simply read from one, two or three sources and accept what you have read as fact? Do you look into things that interest you to learn more or verify it’s authenticity? Most don’t!

I do both but more times than not I come away with more questions than I had before I began reading anything. I suppose this is good, at least for me, as it tells me I’m not totally convinced that what I read is the gospel.

Here’s a question for you. We as humans develop thoughts and ideas from a very early age. As we grow, oftentimes our thoughts, ideas and ideals change too. Are you the same today as your were when you were say 15? Many have said that when we reach adulthood, we should have become who we are going to be. I guess from that they mean that our ideals and beliefs are pretty much etched in stone. If this is true, what is that magical age in which we can no longer change? Or can we change?

Examine yourself for a moment. Using your current age, do you still adjust your thoughts and beliefs according to what you learn on a daily basis, providing of course you are still learning?

It appears an evil sin as a politician that you change your mind about something. Today that is called flip-flopping. Yes, we see flip-flopping a lot by candidates in order to pander for votes but I’m talking mostly about real change. Is this bad or good? Does this mean you are an indecisive, wishy-washy person too fickle to lead or does it mean you are willing to adjust your thinking with more knowledge?

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If Michael Phelps doesn’t win 8 gold medals in the Beijing Olympics, will he be a failure?

Why did Meredith Viera on the Today Show, in talking with the women’s gymnastics team, focus on how the girls felt about losing?

What is the real age of the “children” representing China in women’s gymnastics?

Will the Tampa Bay Rays win the AL pennant? Does anybody really care?

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What does it say about our society now that the National Inquirer magazine is considered a legitimate and respected media source for breaking the John Edwards scandalous affair? Everyday, the New York Times seems to shrink in readership and the National Inquirer goes up. Hmmmmmmm?

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I heard that the head of the FCC is saying that next year a new and different version of the “Fairness Doctrine” will be introduced. For those who don’t know, the Fairness Doctrine began and then was overturned, to guarantee that in talk radio anybody who expressed a thought had to give equal time to someone with an opposing view.

This new and improved act won’t be called the Fairness Doctrine but will more than likely be hidden in some sheep’s wool and disguised as something like “The Freedom of Speech Act” or some such foolishness.

For those who may also not be aware, the FCC guy said the new “Fairness Doctrine” will extend to the Internet, to get rid of guys like me and the millions of other people in this country wanting to share their thoughts and ideas.

If such a law should pass and I would be required to present opposing views, there would be hell to pay and I hope that millions of other Americans will stand up and say they aren’t going to take it anymore. Most will just say, “Oh, that won’t happen here.”

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Is the Tenth Amendment dead? Is it now null and void because the states have been bought off with federal money? If, as some say, once any state accepts federal money, they give up their rights and powers to the federal government, then do people on welfare and/or receiving any kind of federal assistance also give up their rights? Does anyone know what the Tenth Amendment is?

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And the final question of the day: Is it closer to New York or by car?

Tom Remington

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Posted on Thursday, August 14th, 2008
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Traveling The Highways Of The U.S.


I’ve done my share of driving over the years and this year has been no exception, except for the ridiculous amount I’ve had to cough up for gasoline but it was my choice to travel and my choice to keep pumping the gas. There is much to be observed while driving for hours on end and with those observations come seemingly countless hours to think.

My return trip to Florida was less than relaxing because I’ve come to the conclusion I’m driving a lemon. If it’s not a lemon, it is demon possessed. I’ve dumped way too much money into this piece of junk, enough so that now I have more money invested in it than I’ll ever get out of it, I’m afraid. You’ve heard much of my complaining about that so I’ll leave it alone - at least for the most part.

My wife and I finished loading up the lemon van at around 7:00 a.m. on Thursday and first headed west into New Hampshire to hook up with Interstate 91 going south in Wells River, Vermont. Tragedy struck in New Hampshire!

My wife had already succumbed to the overpowering feelings of getting sleepy while riding. I have always said it is mind over matter and I don’t have much of a mind so it doesn’t matter. I just keep on driving and sucking up everything around me that I can and still manage to keep a car in the road.

Thursday was no different than most travels. Of course it had been raining all night, something we saw a lot of this summer. I heard one unofficial report that portions of Western Maine had received over 20 inches of rain in June and July. I think my camp received at least 12 feet of the stuff.

I was driving along and thinking about some of the things I had done this summer. One of the thoughts that entered my head was how that often on this trip through New Hampshire, headed for Vermont, I have been blessed with seeing wildlife.

Just then, I looked to my left and spotted a lone deer, perhaps a doe, standing tall in the unmowed grasses of the hillside. She was beautiful. The sun was trying to burn its way through a stubborn cloud cover and mist hung heavy everywhere. Prior to this, I had witnessed several wild turkeys coming out into the openings trying to dry themselves and scratching for a meal.

The deer lazily loped up the hillside, acting as though she didn’t want to get her new shoes and slacks wet, although I think only that that’s how I would feel trying to maneuver through that tall, wet grass.

A smile swept over my face and a warm feeling filled my guts. I quickly gave a thanks to God above for blessing me with an opportunity to see one of His great creations.

Within less than a quarter mile, the road narrowed. To my right there were steel guard rails creating a barrier from a steep bank that dropped quickly to an old railroad bed. The hillside again dropped sharply from the railroad bed down to the edge of a field that ran out to the bank of the river.

Happening faster than any human could react, I saw a baby deer stick his head out under the guard rail. It was so tiny, it was mostly hidden behind the rail. As soon as I saw his head, he moved to cross the road and that’s when I hit him.

I felt like crap! My wife quickly sat up asking what happened. There was a place on the opposite side of the road where I could pull over and did. I examined the car and as I suspected there was no damage. I immediately hustled back down the road to find the little deer.

God did I feel awful. It was settled when I looked up and lying motionless directly under the guard rail was the tiniest little deer, weighing no more than 20 or 25 pounds I would guess. There was nothing I could do.

As I returned to the highway, it took several miles to get that image out of my head. During this time, I did some thinking.

I have had a driver’s license for 41 years come this January. I tried to calculate out how many miles I’ve logged in those 41 years and needless to say it was difficult. I would guess it would be conservative to say I’ve averaged between 10,000 and 12,000 miles each of those 41 years bringing me close to a half-million miles of driving. The vast majority of those miles have occurred in deer country and this is the first deer I’ve hit and/or killed with a vehicle.

Other things that I took note of during my return trip to Florida had mostly to do with gasoline and driving related events. The highest price of gas I saw was $4.09 a gallon. I did not pay that much. The most I paid was on the Massachusetts Turnpike in Lee, around North Adams. I paid $3.94. The lowest I saw and paid for gas was in South Carolina. I paid $3.53 a gallon.

Road barges were nearly non existent on the highways. A road barge is what I call the big RV’s, campers, oftentimes rigs pulling a car behind. I call them this because too often when you get behind one you are there for miles on end trying to get around them.

I would say traffic appeared to be normal or perhaps a bit lighter than normal but what I did notice was the vacancies in the motels and hotels. We decided to stop in Winchester, Virginia the first night. It was just after 10 p.m.. I was worried we would not find a vacancy. Usually in summer, that late at night, you end up sleeping in the car.

I don’t know for sure but I would estimate the Travellodge we stayed at was half full. The second night was no different. The Sleep Inn in Savannah, Georgia, was very quiet and the rates we paid for the rooms both nights, were considerably less than I would have expected to pay.

The high price of gas may be keeping some people off the highways but I can attest to the fact that those out there still driving, surely haven’t slowed down any. I’m a conservative driver. I hate speed and enjoy being relaxed and comfortable when I drive. I can’t do this traveling over 70 miles per hour.

I would move to the far right lane, set my cruise control at about 3-5 miles over the speed limit and I am without a doubt the slowest vehicle on the highway.

This got me further thinking. Nobody pays attention to speed limit signs anymore. In all honesty, I find it frightening. Millions of drivers, of poor ability, chasing others down the Interstate, traveling in excess of the speed limit easily by 10, 15 or 20 m.p.h., talking on cell phones, watching movies, weaving in and out of traffic and basically having little or no thought as to what they are doing or whose lives behind, beside and in front of them they are endangering.

I hear talk once again of instituting a 55 m.p.h. national speed limit. Why? Nobody will pay it much mind and even if the highway patrol could enforce it, they won’t.

But think about this. If the government decided to lower the speed limit, how many millions of speed limit signs in this country would have to be changed……..again, and who’s going to foot the bill?

I am back home in Florida now adjusting to the warmth of the sun. I’ve washed the weeks of mud build-up off the lemon van and am beginning to go through the motions of returning to “normal”.

Tom Remington

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Posted on Sunday, August 10th, 2008
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It’s Time For Random Thoughts And Comments Again


I pick up my granddaughter each day after school during the school year, take her home, cook her supper and help her with homework. Somewhere during that time span she tunes in the television to a show called, “I Carley”. The show is about two friends, ages around 11 or 12?, and they do an Internet show called, you guessed it, I Carley. Part of the show is when bells and whistles sound and a loud, booming voice says, “Time for Random Dancing”, at which point the hosts and the IT geek begin doing gyrations considered to be dancing. I suppose this can be considered filler space.

On the same token, I guess my random thoughts and comments can also be considered filler space yet I seem to get pretty good responses from readers to my random thoughts and comments. Maybe I should change it to random thoughts, comments and questions, as I more often than not ask more questions than I try to answer, which makes my job easier. After all, anyone can ask a question. They only risk looking stupid, which I’ve done more times than I care to mention.

President Bush has agreed in principle with many other world leaders, with exceptions, to reduce the carbon emissions in the world by 50% by 2050. 50% of what? Is that 50% of the current emission rate or 50% of projected emissions? Does this mean everyone will cut back 50% or that the U.S. can cut back 75% and leave others to grow and prosper as they will?

And what will reducing carbon emissions accomplish? The truth is nobody knows, no more than they know what growing emissions will do. Has it gotten to the point now that an exiting U.S. president has nothing left for valid accomplishments to achieve before leaving office, that they have to tackle something like global warming? At least other presidents thought trying to get a worthless treaty signed between Israel and Palestine was a big accomplishment. How about being the first president to invite a polar bear to the White House and as him what he thinks about the high price of gas?

What happens if we rid the world of all man-made carbon emissions? Will we then all freeze to death?

Ever ask yourself why, in the high-tech world we live in, we can create and accomplish so many remarkable things, yet some things are laughable? Here’s an example: I just got my van back from the garage - yes they had it for one week! It cost me $600.00 because of one rubberized belt that wraps around a system of pulleys that make things work.

Think about it a minute. This basic concept has not changed since the auto was put together well over a century ago. Granted the belts have gotten better and they last longer and the pulleys themselves are made better but this is basically a hunk of rubber, sometimes more than one, that without it, nothing else would work.

The mechanic said it was a fluke, what happened to my car. Evidently a strip of the rubber belt peeled off and “flukily’ got wrapped around a pulley, which in turn caused tension which resulted in the timing belt skipping about 4 notches.

I wonder if the space shuttle uses rubber belts? Does Air Force One? How about Al Gore’s brain? Does he even have a brain? We know most politicians don’t……have a brain that is. Maybe their brain is a belt. Oh, man! I’m being so random.

And to go along with the mechanics of an automobile, the mechanic was telling me that my spark plugs should have been changed 50,000 miles ago. “What happened to the 100,000 mile change?” I asked.

Of course there are exceptions to everything and I own them all. No, you can’t have any. They’re all mine! It seems Chrysler doesn’t want to use the good plugs, so the mechanic says, “Hey, every 25,000 you should yank them out and replace them! They are easy to get at and takes no time at all!”

“That’s great!” I said. “But I was looking the other day and I couldn’t see any easy way to get at the back 3 plugs.”

“Oh, yeah!” he said. “It’s easy when it’s up on a lift.”

Enough of the car! Well, not quite yet. I have a confession. Since I owned a 1965 Dodge Coronet 440 back in the early 70s, I have owned mostly Toyota cars, with the exception of a short time I owned another Chrysler product.

For the most part my Toyotas (I still own and drive a 1993 Corolla I bought new) have been remarkable vehicles. Not for the only reason, but this time I thought I would try American again - you know? Buy American! Since then, my American-made car has cost me $3,700.00 in about 8 months time. Hmmmm! Should I stick with American?

Since being at camp this summer, I have been perhaps a “green’s” worst nightmare. I burn an open fire in my outdoor fireplace nearly everyday. I got an old refrigerator I run in the shed to keep drinks cold in - probably the gaskets are bad. I have used about 30 ounces of bug spray from an aerosol can and I eat a lot of foods that make me gassy. What say you, Mr. Green Weenie?

Under someone’s idea of life the way it should be, I’d have to go shopping for some carbon credits so I could roast my next hot dog! Excuse me. I’ll be right back. Got to toss another log on the fire. One that I sawed up with my gas powered chainsaw - one that I read contributes more “pollution” than several automobiles.

I got to go finish getting ready for a seminar I’m conducting tomorrow for members of the local chamber of commerce on how to maximize your website. Sounds fancy doesn’t it. What it really means is I’m going to help them understand that you can’t create a website and then look at it once a month waiting for it to do something for you. This should be fun!

Tom Remington

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Posted on Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
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Random Thoughts And Comments


It has to be time for random thoughts again as it seems that’s all I have right now with little time or energy left to do a lot of research into creating not so random thoughts.

I heard today at one of the local auto garages here near my summer camp that the owner has never had so many high cost repairs to automobiles. I shared with him about my brother-in-law who just laid out $2,800.00 for repairs on a 2007 Ford F-150 truck with little more than 30,000 miles on it.

The Ford dealership where my brother-in-law went said the same thing as the local guy that it was because of the state of Maine now using just calcium chloride to clear the roads in winter. The local guy told me, of which I cannot verify, that environmentalists say the negative effects of calcium chloride are less than that of pulverized sand (after it has been spread and run over by several thousand cars and trucks). Save the damned environment, right?

At what expense! Ever looked around an auto garage at the leftover and used car parts taken out of vehicles? Where to they go? What impact do junk piles and junk yards have on the environment? How much more of the earth do we need to dig up to manufacture more parts? These are parts that normally may last the life of the automobile. They’re being replaced after 2 years.

The local mechanic also told me of trucks and SUVs of 2-5 years of age having to be junked because the calcium chloride has destroyed the frames. What happens to that mass of junk? As they say here in Maine, “Ain’t too friggin smaht if ya ask me!”

Anyone else hearing anything about “excessive consuming”? I’m hearing that in parts of the country - Arizona seems to ring a bell - communities or members of such, are pushing to pass measures that would restrict how much you can “consume”. It seems the Nazis…er, I mean those who act like Nazis, don’t think you and I have a right to buy and use what we will. We’re talking houses, cars, TVs, etc.

One method called for a cap and trade program that would be much like those of our communist politicians who want to control our carbon expenditures. Each person will have consuming credits issued. If they are used up and want more, they can negotiate the purchase of credits from some schmuck who ain’t got a pot to go to the bathroom in.

Comrades! This is good for the Mother Land?

But hang on! I heard a term yesterday I have never heard before - Imputed Income! Obama says, perhaps not directly, that we will have a tax increase if he is elected prime minister. It could be the biggest one ever. It’s slimy enough that those idiots in Congress, who actually could give a rats behind about your bank account, the price of gas, the cost of food, or the amount of taxes you pay, but this slime ball plans on instituting something called “Imputed Income”.

From what I understand, if you make over $75,000.00, you can, come April 15th, write Obamessiah a check for about $50,000.00 for your share of taxes. He vows to steal from the rich and dole out unearned cash to the lazy SOBs who refuse to contribute to our economy. (There is a growing number of believers in distribution of wealth in this country which is a good indication that we have created a bunch of lazy, good for nothing, slobs.)

So what’s this imputed income thing? Well, say for instance you make $50,000.00, you might think, according to the lies of the Obamaman, that your tax load will be less than that of the guy who made $75,000.00 and gave it all to the government. Wrong! Your “imputed income”, which according to the Kremlin-like Congress, has a perceived value much higher than $50,000.00 and therefore you owe the same tax as the guy who earned $75,000.00. Hang on folks! We’re in for a bumpy ride.

So, the U.S. Supreme Court made a ruling in which it defined the Second Amendment. Why are there people who are like Hatey Smurf who all they can offer up in response is that it ain’t nothing, it means nothing and won’t change anything? Dunno? Then why are there people who think happy days are here again and everything is looking brighter everyday? If you figure it out, write a book!

Why is Justice Scalia an idiot in some people’s eyes and Justice Stevens the most intelligent being on the planet? Or vice versa?

Why are all the leaders of the communists, dictatorships and terrorist-sponsoring nations lining up to endorse Sen. Obama? Why do conservatives hate McCain? Why does Bob Barr (libertarian candidate) dislike American troops?

I heard about a high school student who couldn’t or didn’t want to complete his essay as part of his in class work. He simply wrote, “Fu*% You” on his paper and passed it in. The teacher gave him a grade of 7.5 for what he wrote because he spelled it correctly. Evidently, the teacher made comment that had the student included an exclamation point, he would have received a grade of 12.5 percentage points.

Tom Remington

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Posted on Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
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Random Thoughts And Questions…..For The Simple Minded


Here we go again. The last time I did this it seemed to be somewhat of a success and readers felt comfortable enough to leave a comment or two. Let’s go!

1). If crude oil is $130 a barrel today and economic “experts” claim that crude oil prices if they went to $150 a barrel would translate into $6-8 a gallon gas. If tomorrow crude dropped to $80 a barrel would that translate into $2 or less per gallon of gas?

2). Scientists (we don’t know which ones. It could be the “smart ones” who say global warming is real or the “dumb ones” who say science isn’t settled.) have discovered that there is climate change on Mars and Saturn. It also happens that the climate change is warming. It has been reported that one scientist has come up with a “controversial” scientific theory. His theory is that the warming of the planets might not be caused by man-made carbon dioxide emissions. He further theorizes that the warming might be directly related to solar activity. Why is that a “controversial” scientific theory?

3). Vice President Dan Quayle for all intent and purposes destroyed his political career, for whatever that was worth, because he couldn’t spell potatoe….er, uh, potato….hmmmm. Presidential hopeful Barack Obama said he’d been to 57 states campaigning; he was in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and said Sioux City, which is in Iowa; he referred to states near to Arkansas as “those states in the middle” and wasn’t aware that Kentucky was a boarder state of Illinois; he says he was born as a result of his parents getting “together” during the civil rights march in Selma, Alabama in 1965. Obama was born in 1961; he didn’t know what language was spoken in Afghanistan; he views countries like Iran, North Korea and Cuba as tiny, not posing any threat; he claims his uncle was with the Americans when they liberated Auschwitz - the Russians did that; and the most recent one was him claiming to see dead people in the audience during a Memorial Day speech. The media declares Obama the front runner and is sure to win in November. Does any of this matter? I guess things change.

4). A report out recently says that in April Americans drove 11 billion fewer miles than they did in March. Wow! Right? There are around 200,000,000 licensed drivers in the U.S.A. That means each licensed driver drove 55 miles less in April. That’s 1.8 miles less per day. How much is the price of gas getting us to change driving habits?

If the average vehicle were to get 20 miles per gallon (I don’t know the exact figure) then we saved 550,000 gallons of gas. Will that affect supply?

Tom Remington

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Posted on Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Under: Random Thoughts | 16 Comments »