Perhaps it's time to just say "OH well," raise our hands and figure out how much time we have left on as this planet starts to die a slow death.  It's going to happen even if you say it's not.  And the president is fond of saying that it's not really happening, just like he's fond of saying we're making progress in Iraq.  He lies to our faces on both counts, and we believe him.  At least most of us do.  But reality is smacking us in the face right now.  The Earth is changing, in ways we can't even predict.  But will that move this president, the oil companies, the car companies, and everyone who lives here to start taking measures to assure our very survival?  No, it's not enough to know that the ice caps are melting at an alarming rate.  It's not enough because this president says that the scientific data doesn't show those conclusions to be true.  But when it came to Iraq he was willing to use known faulty intelligence to justify a preemptive war.

But in the face of now growing evidence showing that our plant's climate is changing, and not for the better, this president sits down and says, "There's not enough data."  He's willing to accept any specious data pertaining to Iraq, while ignoring the mountain of data supporting global climate changes.

One of my biggest pet peeves is a situation that could be made better if a little thought at gone into it.  Corrections is going to be a collection of problems and possible solutions.  As I walk around this town I see little things that could work better if logic were applied to the problem.  I'm not going to say that my solutions are the only ones.  Rather I will offer my solutions as an alternative to the problems I encounter on a daily basis.