Weather is a funny thing, everyone has an opinion.  What continues to tick me off is the constant reference to “Global Warming” on the Weather Channel or from the bobble heads on the news channels as the root cause of everything from higher temps to colder temps and rain!

There have been many more respected scientists who have come out and either recanted their previous comments about ”manmade global climate change” and who are being listened to about their evidence of an actual global cooling!!!  As I have posted in the past it is to me a stretch to think man can have an effect on the climate as much as was being proposed. The loonies out there will believe anything if it can be used to cripple the USA. The country can not afford the “Cap and Trade” Bill being proposed in the Senate, especially when India and China won’t be a part of the program.

After all the rain this past month in the Northeast folks are a little edgy. I can remember a summer about 30 years ago very similar to this year and that was when we were concerned about global cooling! The sun is out this morning and we will be drying out a little and it will be a good day. Hope you had a good July 4th (even though it wasn’t feeling like a holiday since so many stores were open and people were working).

It is about nine months away till the election campaigning begins for 2010.  Have you thought about what it will take in energy for you to make a difference?   It isn’t too early for you to think about running for a local election. It isn’t too early to see about working for someone who is going to run against a Democrat for Congress or the Senate or for Governor.  If you want to change things for the better as contrasted to Obama change, which is shaping up as a disaster, then get off your duff and get out and work for it.

Well it is either a brilliant move or the end of a career in public life for Sarah Palin.  Did the pressure from the left with personal attack after personal attack finally get to her or is she regrouping for a run for the White house in 2012?  My guess is she  is out of politics for the forseeable future, too bad. 

The manipulation of the truth and the out right lies that come out of the mainstream left these days is over the top. Sarah Palin did not deserve the treatment she has received.  I am sorry to see this day come but maybe we can have an honest debate about policy and  find more than Mitt as a spokesman for the GOP. I still believe that “The Annointed One” will be  and already is a one term failure and the Donkeys will be thrown out in 2010 too.  The ballots will be check for ”anyone but a D” and the  dems will be out! 

The media has been a buzz with many stories of celebrities who have died recently.  In death these folks take on even bigger roles than they enjoyed in life. From David Carradine to Farah, Carl and Michael we have been exposed to stories and accomplishments that are supposed to honor them.  In fact it is just about selling air time and news print.  Death is the great equalizer and only God knows who is special and who is not.

The over the top coverage of Jackson is obscene.  He was a talented but troubled and perverted soul. Many will mourn and attend in person or through TV his funeral on Tuesday and much will be said of his “greatness”.  The fact is he should not be the example for our youth or for anyone. Even his songs and videos have contributed, in my opinion, to the decline in moral values in this country and that is what he will be remembered for by me.

On the East coast this week will be another funeral/memorial for a man who isn’t as famous as Jackson or Carradine or Faucett but who will be mourned with as much passion as any of them by his family and friends. There will be no media coverage.  Ken Bova was a high school classmate and he and his HS sweetheart and spouse of four plus decades lived on Cape Cod.  I hadn’t seen him for many years but renewed our friendship at our 45th HS reunion in 2007. We traveled different paths over the 45 years but remembering our youthful exploits was a nice time for both of us.  Shortly after that reunion he was diagnosed with lung cancer.  It is a tough battle to fight and unfortunately it is one not usually won. 

Ken can be discribed as hard working, honest, loving husband, good friend and a patriot.  Ken will be missed by me and all his friends but his passing will not get the notice from the media and coverage like they will give Jackson because Ken was just another regular guy. Ken  and others  like him should be covered more - they are what is America, just your average kind of person who work hard,pay their taxes and make a difference everyday in ways that may not be newsworthy but are  still special.

God bless you Ken and I know you have a special place in heaven.

I was recently sent a quotation ascribed to the late Adrian Rogers.He who was the founder of the conservaive movement of the Southern Baptist that enrolled many into the political process. He died in 2005. Here is what he is supposed to have said on several occasions and in this “Age of Obama” should be read and pondered  upon by all Americans:

You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”

 ~ Adrian Rogers