The World Still Turns

Here are the latest occurrences over the past week:





6/19: Charlotte schools to hire 250 employees after laying off 800 before Memorial Day


6/19: Hussein working on deal with pharmaceutical companies that would pay $80 BILLION into Obamacare

6/19: Hussein calls for Iran to "stop unjust actions"


6/20: Truck bomb kills 5 in northern Iraq

6/20: Pakistan reports 50 militants dead in fighting

6/20: Abortion clinic that was closed will be site of demonstrations today

6/20: State Department allows married names of gay couples on passports

6/20: Sotomayor quits all women's club

6/20: Farmers are worried about cow tax in cap-and-trade bill due to cows producing 1/4 of all U.S. methane production due to burping

6/20: U.S. accepts blame for killing 26 Afghan civilians

6/20: Iran protesters use cell phones & Twitter to get their message out to world. Most are using English!!!

6/20: Rockets hit US base in Bagran killing 2 soldiers

6/20: China blast at factory kills 16

6/20: US exports to Iran have doubled over the last year. The US exported $96 MILLION in goods to Iran

6/21: Ammonia leak in poultry processing plant in NC kills at least 1

6/21: Mousari calls for more protests in Iran and says he is ready to be a martyr

6/21: Hugo Chavez calls the Iranian elections fair and congratulates the president on his reelection

6/21: Germany & France call for Iran's elections to be nullified. Hussein says nothing.

6/21: Secretary Sebelius says health care is too expensive and needs to be revamped

6/21: Dems looking at reforming health care without Reps input

6/22: Hussein signs anti-smoking bill giving FDA more control regulating tobacco.
note: Hussein still smokes***

6/22: Iran says there was voter fraud in 50 precincts, but it did not affect the outcome of the election

6/22: Former Iranian president Mohammed Khatami says Iranians have the right to protest

6/22: Daughter of former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani is arrested in Iran

6/22: Iran calls for end to all protests or Iranian Republican guard will end it

6/22: Suicide bomber wounds President of southern Russia

6/22: Bombs hit Baghdad killing at least 13

6/22: Militants attack Pakistani military bases & Pakistan responds with air strikes that kill at least 21

6/22: Philippine's report their first Swine Flu death

6/22: Walgreen's 3rd quarter profits fall 9%

6/22: European stocks are down after the World Bank warns that the downturn will be deeper than predicted (will shrink by 2.9% not the 1.7% that was predicted)

6/22: Eastman Kodak announces it will stop making Kodachrome film after 74 years

6/22: The Eklund Hotel in Clayton, NM is closing after being open since 1892 due to money problems

6/22: DC subway collision between 2 trains kills at least 7

6/23: France's Sarkozy bans the Muslim burqa calling it "the debasement of women"

6/23: Taliban commander shot dead in Pakistan

6/23: Ford, Nissan, and Tesla get $5 BILLION in government loans

6/23: Iran's top electoral body upholds election results

6/23: Israel releases Palestinian parliament speaker

6/23: Intact ancient tomb found in Bethlehem found. Believed to be from 2200-1900 BC

6/23: SC Governor Mark Sanford goes missing for 4 days

6/23: 5.4 earthquake hits Anchorage Alaska

6/23: Toyota shareholders approve founder's grandson Akio Toyoda as new president

6/23: Nissan to mass produce electric cars by 2012

6/23: Federal Judge orders Gitmo detainee released

6/23: Prison rape commission says 60,000 inmates are sexually abused every year

6/23: Hussein is creating a White House council to assist the auto industry

6/23: MySpace is cutting 300 international jobs and will close at least 4 offices

6/23: Apple sold more than 1 MILLION new iphones

6/23: HIV rates are highest in the southern US and higher in black communities

6/23: VA hospital in Philadelphia botched 92 out of 116 cancer treatments

6/23: California finds pot smoke causes cancer

6/23: United Way of Central Carolinas distributions will be down 35% this year

6/23: Iran cracks down and mutes protests

6/23: British release secret planning manual for World War III from 1968

6/23: ACLU sues federal government over limits on Muslim group prayers in prison

6/23: Feds say 9-11 statues of 3 firefighters were financed by investor fraud and the sculptures are now up for sale

6/23: L.A. county police to stop using DNA for rape cases due to costs. Means rapists will not be tried.

6/23: Mortgage insurer United Guaranty is laying off 160 employees

6/23: GM to cut 4000 white collar jobs by end of the year

6/23: Hussein condemned the violence in Iran 10 days after its started, saying he is "appalled and outraged" by the deaths

6/23: Hussein says he needs to push money faster to initiate a recovery and says unemployment will rise above 10%. Wasn't the stimulus package that was passed so fast that no one read it supposed to initiate a recovery???

6/23: Hussein jabs at GOP and insurance industry over his health care plan

6/23: New York anti-terror official says that the Gitmo trials in the U.S. will weaken the FBI and other agencies to chase new cases by forcing investigators to be assigned to help prosecutors instead of being out in the field

6/23: Defense Secretary Robert Gates orders the creation of a cyber command to defend its networks and to conduct cyber warfare

6/23: Illegal immigrant working for a construction company injured on the job gets $5.2 MILLION and NYC will have to pay it

6/23: Hussein says government health care will not drive out private health insurance

6/23: July 4th activities with Iran at embassies are still on despite Hussein's "outrage" at the violence in Iran

6/24: July 4th activities that would have included Iranian ambassadors are now off

6/24: Kim's son takes over North Korean spy agency

6/24: Israel postpones meeting with top US envoy over settlement issue

6/24: Kosovo ex-Prime Minister arrested in Bulgaria

6/24: Boston Globe and union have a tentative deal that will save the newspaper $10 MILLION

6/24: NC Senator Kay Hagan writes "financial literacy" into bill that creates grants for states that teach financial literacy in grades 6-12. Congress needs alot of courses on financial literacy as well as economics!!!

6/24: OECD says the world recession is close to bottom but recovery will be weak

6/24: Gov. Sanford of SC says he was in Argentina during absence not in Appalachia. He later admits to having an affair with a woman in Argentina

6/24: Iran detains 70 professors

6/24: North Korea warns of "fire shower of nuclear attack" if provoked

6/24: Al-Jazeera TV says al-Qaida killed an American in Mauritania

6/25: US drone attack kills 80 in Pakistan

6/25: Bomb strikes Shiite market in Baghdada killing 69

6/25: Halton Ferry in Virginia to close July 1 after 130 years. Is the last pole driven ferry.

6/25: California to lose Poison Control centers to budget cuts

6/25: NC reports first Swine Flu death

6/25: Economy dropped 5.5% in first quarter

6/25: Homebuilder Lennar reports $125.2 MILLION loss in second quarter

6/25: ConAgra Foods 4th quarter profit down 13%

6/25: China accuses Google of spreading pornography

6/25: White House calls for China to scrap web-filtering

6/25: Hussein calls for release of Cuban political prisoners

6/25: Hussein open to taxing health care benefits

6/25: House Dems are close to passing a cap-and-trade bill (or as the distinguished Congressman from Texas calls it, the "crap-and-trade")

6/25: Daughter of actor Billy Bob Thorton is indicted in Florida on murder charges in the death of a 1 year old in her care

6/25: CDC says US Swine Flu cases has hit as many as 1 MILLION cases

6/25: Bernanke tells Congress he did not bully BofA into Merrill Lynch deal

6/25: Bomb kills 9 in Baghdad

6/25: Jobless claims rose to 6.74 MILLION last week

6/25: Unemployment expected to rise to 9.6% this month

6/25: Kimberly-Clark to cut 1600 jobs (makes household products such as Kleenex and Huggies)

6/25: Hussein says now is the time to pass climate change bill (crap-and-trade). Al Gore was supposed to go to DC but was a no-show. The House later this evening passes the bill

6/25: Hussein is searching for $20 BILLION to keep highway and transit projects going

6/25: Hussein to turn Congressional picnic into luau. Have brought in palm trees.

6/25: Rite Aid loses $98.4 MILLION in 1st quarter & is to close 117 stores this year

6/25: Red Roof Inns defaults on 4 loans of $361.4 MILLION

6/26: Iranian President calls for Hussein to apologize, but Hussein scoffs

6/26: Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson die

6/26: Some Iranian clerics call for executions of protesters

6/26: Motorcycle bomb kills 19 in Baghdad

6/26: Honduras President at odds with Congress and Supreme Court after trying to change the Constitution and failing to reinstate the military chief he fired.

6/26: Great 8 ministers call for end to violence in Iran and change Iran to reflect the will of the people

6/26: US will not use force to inspect North Korean ship

6/26: Qantas cancels orders for 15 Boeing 787s and delays orders for 15 other planes

6/26: Retail gas prices fell every day this week

6/26: GE to build $100 MILLION manufacturing plant in Michigan

6/26: Monica Conyers, a Detroit lawyer & wife of Congressman John Conyers, pleads guilty to bribery

6/26: The Fed closes 5 banks bringing to 45 the number of banks that have failed this year!!!

6/27: Protests erupt in Iran

6/28 Pitchman Billy Mays dies after hitting his head during a landing at Tampa's airport

Good-bye MJ, Hello Ecotistical Radicals

Michael Jackson is dead. Period. End of story. He was not some great American or world hero. He was a "man" who got his kicks with children. He was a pedophile. Period. End of story. Yes he had some great music (not all of it). But that was all there was. Now that he is gone, we will not have to worry so much about his children in his care and his "blindfold games" he has played with them (see Geraldo Rivera's interview with MJ). The children are now safer (I won't say safe, because I do not know who will be getting custody of them) than they were. I am already tired of the press and its massive coverage of this. We all knew he would not live to be old. Look at him (you look at him, I can't stand to see his morbid look). He was becoming so white, that I think he just wanted to "fade away."

Story over. Get on with what's really important (and I do not mean Governor Sanford's infidelity with "Miss Argentina"). All this provides a great smoke screen for the cap and trade that will be shoved down our throats to day by The House & Pungent Pelosi. A bow to the ecotistical radicals that feel humans are so important that we must not fail (if the dinosaurs had not failed, we would not be here). Maybe it is time for us to fail and new species take over. I am not condoning total destruction of the environment, but I am asking for common sense (Oh! I forgot that that went out the window when frivolous lawsuits and lawyers became the norm). Species have been going extinct for millions of years, and they will continue to do so far after man has gone. However, they are replaced by new species (do a google search on new species discovered every year and you will see). Maybe its time we were replaced by a creature less destructive with less animosity towards its fellow offspring.

I used to feel that we needed to save the environment at all costs, but that attitude has changed. I am not ecotistical enough to think that my existence must be preserved at all costs. We have 6 BILLION people living on this planet, and they should at least have enough to eat, drink, and have shelter to protect them. If we have the resources to provide this, then it should be provided. Period. Do other species worry that "if I eat too many of this minnow there won't be any more left?" Hell no! They eat, and when the minnows are gone they adapt to eating something else.

The ecotistical beings in government are trying to persuade us that the new cap-and-trade law is to help all of us and especially global warming. B.S.! It's all about money, power, and control. The more they control us, the more power and money they get. They don't give one red cent about the environment. Look at how much they fly around the country and the world for "fact finding" or "date nights". Does this help the environment? There is so much hot air and methane gas coming out of Washington, that if we shut them down, we could cut the world emissions by 90%.

It's time to stop worrying about people like Michael Jackson and Elvis, and start worrying about the real terrors in this world and you will find most of them in D.C.

May God help us!