Kubed: Please Don't Feed the Humans™

Yes, according to the latest bit of “global warming / climate change” propaganda, obese people are causing the planet to heat up.  I’ll be happy when this farce is exposed for what it is:  a massive hoax.

Never mind the fact that the planet has been cooler the past few years than before, or the fact that Europe in the 13th Century was far warmer than it is today, or the fact that the global climate undergoes periodic changes, or the fact that the warming of the 20th Century is attributable to the end of the Little Ice Age; no, fat people, cows, and cars are sending the planet over a catastrophic precipice that will destroy human civilization as we know it.  Yeah right.

Oh yeah, and Antarctic ice is growing, not shrinking!

Earth’s climate changes yes, but we are not the cause of it.  It’s a natural cyclical event.  Human civilization will survive, animals will survive, and no impossible catastrophic weather anomalies will occur.

We’re going to be okay, even if we don’t stop using oil.  Deal with it.

This weekend, I bought myself a 16GB iPhone.  I had actually been eyeing a 16GB iPod Touch at the PX the past couple of weeks (to replace my stolen 8GB Touch), but the additional functionality of the iPhone is what convinced me to go ahead and get one.  You can get my new number off my Facebook profile if we’re friends.

It’s a lot nicer than I’d expected, and creating free ringtones turned out to be ridiculously simple.

Yeah, I’m an Apple whore.  :-)

Taking a Texas-sized stand

Governor Perry of Texas has taken a stand against the expansion of the Federal government in support of States’ rights and less interference by Washington.

We could use more leaders like him.

It’s funny how one thing can lead to something else entirely unrelated.  Such an occurrence happened to me today.  I was watching YouTube when I found this video.  It got me to thinking about putting together a memorial video for my grandfather, Klaus Hohmann.

Back in the summer of 1987, I traveled to Wiesbaden, Germany to spend a couple of months with my grandparents there.  I was very close to them, especially to my grandfather.  Over the course of the summer, he and I took day trips to different places in the country and took quite a few photos.  Near the end of my stay, Klaus and I put together a scrapbook of all the photos, postcards, and miscellanea that we picked up.  Nearly twenty-two years later, I still have this scrapbook.

This evening, I dug it out intending to scan the photos; but I changed my mind when I realized that after nearly 22 years, they were still attached to the pages.  I couldn’t bring myself to break the adhesive that’s held them after this much time has passed.  Instead, I started to rearrange the pages back to the way they originally were (they’d gotten mixed up over the years).  During this process, two postcards fell from their pages.  Imagine my surprise when I saw that I’d written on them back in 1987!  These are probably the only surviving bits of my handwriting from back then.  It certainly has changed quite a bit.

One of them, I had intended to mail to my friend Ricky Moore and the other was meant for my parents. As I did with some other correspondence that I’ve received over the years, I transcribed these two postcards into the blog. Now the archive dates back to the late 80’s!

Doctors in Russia removed a small tree growing inside a man’s lung last week, according to a Russian news website.

A five-centimeter fir tree has been found in the lung of a man who complained he had a strong pain in his chest and was coughing blood.

The 28-year-old patient, Artyom Sidorkin, came to a hospital in the city of Izhevsk in Central Russia last week, Komsomolskaya Pravda daily reports.

Doctors x-rayed his chest and found a tumor in one of the lungs. Suspecting cancer, they made a decision to perform biopsy, but when they cut the tissue, they were amazed to see green needles in the cut.