Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is coming to town

Being an open and hospitable country can sometimes be a gut-wrenching thing. Case in point: the president of Iran is coming to visit. What's the right way to handle this situation? Some would argue that he should be turned back at his port of entry. However, his status as country VIP grants him undeniable access to the U.N., which is here in the U.S. And the rules also allow him access to anything else within a 25 mile radius, which includes Ground Zero.

What irony, that this man, one of the three legs of the "Axis Of Evil," will be able to stand on the edge of that sacred site, and feign his condolences to it victims, with cameras clicking and the images spread world wide. For the enemies of this country, those images will be grand trophies, and a great inspiration in their causes.

What's more, Columbia Univ has extended an invitation for M.A. to speak, risking even further the inflation of his status, and risking the outward appearance that anyone in the U.S. cares one wit what this fool has to say. ...C.U. also risks the reducing of their own status by this invitation.

But on further reflection, I've come to see C.U.'s way of thinking. Not that M.A. deserves any more microphone than he'll already have at the U.N., mind you. But if he is going to speak, why not give him all the rope he wants. Has this man ever said anything that can be rationalized or justified? Does he not always put his bloody foot in his mouth, without hesitation? Does he not always say things that are simply outrageous and undeniably mad?

So, let him come. Let him speak of the annihilation of Israel. Let him deny the Holocaust. Let him deny having any hand in Iraq. Let him deny any pursuit of nuclear weapons. Let the fool open his mouth and remove all doubt. ...But only if he must come anyway.

Abortion is "Safe"

The FDA today released details of a study that concludes the "Abortion Pill" (mifepristone) is "safe". ...In other words, the pill safely kills. Let us all rejoice in this astounding oxymoron.

Evolved from Africa

An article published at Nature.com settles a long-standing debate, concluding that the entire human race comes from a single, common ancestral home: Sub-Saharan Africa.

...I wonder how the NAACP will take this news --that all Americans are conclusively of African descent, and thereby qualify for recognition and representation by that organization.

Waste Water?

A dear (late) friend of mine had a favorite notion that he liked to mention, at opportune times, to invoke a debate that he was fascinated with. His notion was, "Businesses don't pay taxes." Inspired by his spirit, and in spite of every childhood scolding to the contrary, I've come up with my own controversy:

Water can't really be wasted.

The premise is: water, eventually, always finds its way back into the world supply, ready to be re-used.

So, kids, the next time mom or dad hollers at you to "turn off that garden hose, you're wasting water!", just tell 'em wasting water isn't really possible. ...And then RUN...like water off a duck's back!

Creation

Biology is the science of discovering how life functions, while evolution is the religion of explaining why.

Democrat Fruits

So what has come of the Democrats securing congress in the previous elections? Well, they've pushed forward an attempt to "de-authorize" the war in Iraq, a move for which there appears not only to be little support, but more importantly has no constitutional foundation. They pushed forward a non-binding resolution to withdraw from Iraq. They're proposing a no-confidence vote on AG Gonzales. They've unashamedly attempted war funding bills that presume to take over responsibilities to prosecute war which are exclusively granted to the President as Commander-in-Chief --unconstitutional. And now they're preparing an Immigration Bill that Speaker Pelosi says she won't bring forward unless she has supporting commitment by 70 members from the other side of the isle --far more than is necessary to exceed opposition.

So, what have the Dems done with their hard-fought return to power? A lot of things that are unconstitutional, or mean nothing, and one thing that would only count if it's something the opposition agrees to. Now that's leadership.

Weather Isn't Climate...

...unless the tempurature is going up, apparently.

Whenever anyone suggests that unusual snows and/or cold temps support an argument against global warming, members of the pro-GW crowd will quickly chastise that weather is not the same thing as climate. They'll explain that global warming doesn't mean we won't have harsh winters or unusual cold spells. They'll explain that it's the Earth's climates that are at risk of being changed, not the weather, per se. ...That is, unless the weather turns decidedly hot, to which these same will be the first to cite the weather as further evidence that GW is true.