Just a wonderful warm start for the new year.
East Coast Faces Deep Freeze; Florida Oranges Threatened...
CHILL MAP...
Iowa temps 'a solid 30 degrees below normal'...
Peru's mountain people 'face extinction because of cold conditions'...
Beijing -- coldest in 40 years...
World copes with Arctic weather...
(From The Drudge Report)
President Hugo Chavez Frias was greeted with cheers in Copenhagen when he stood up and accused the United States of not doing enough to combat global warming. He further berated America and received a standing ovation. 
I wanted to start off the new year right just like those Texans like to do: get a large caliber handgun and fire it in celebration of the new year, but that idea was nixed as I live in the oppressive fiefdom of California. As I was going to try and take my trumpet outside and blare out a few minutes of celebratory notes, I was informed that I could not play the trumpet past 10 PM due to sound pollution regulations.
Erroll Southers, the still-to-be-approved head of the TSA has shown by his past and present actions he is unethical and should not be approved by the Senate. Let me try and teach you something about ethics.
Erroll Southers has been nominated by the Obama administration for the head of the Transportation Security Administration. Like a lot of other Obama nominees throughout the government, Erroll has done things in his past that would get you or me major fines and/or jail sentences.
The flower power children in the 1960’s were part of the “Peace, not War” movement sponsored by the Communist Party USA and the Communist Party in the USSR (now Russia). Out of this sprung the idea that it was easier to destroy the United States from within rather then through war, as the United States military always wins the wars. (Lyndon Johnson set us on a path to defeat with limiting the Vietnam war rather than just going in, actually winning the war victoriously, freeing the people from Communism and then set up them for self sufficiency.)
The Copenhagen Global Warming summit should have been held in Amsterdam. Amsterdam was warmer and the attendees could have smoked their pot, hash and whatever else they were smoking legally. Yes, it seems like they were partaking of some type of mind-altering substance with all of the goings-on.
I have in front of me a brightly-burning Yule log. I am watching a fireplace fire on TV-36 here in the San Francisco Bay area in California.
Do you think virtual fireplaces are a strange invention? I mean, they give out no heat and the snaps and crackles of water vapor exploding from the logs seem artificial.
I remember by school years quite well. I remember Mrs. Love, an art teacher that never gave up on me even though my stick figures were not recognizable as, well, stick figures. I remember detention hall for shooting spitballs.
I also remember Christmas Carols. No, not Frosty the Snowman or Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer. I remember O Little Town of Bethlehem, Hark the Herald Angles Sing, O Holy Night, O Come All Ye Faithful and other Christmas songs that actually mentioned Jesus, the Christ, our Savior.
