If Red could see them now…

he’d be lighting up a celebratory stogie…

Congrats, C’s!  Keep the Celtic pride proud…bring home banner #17! 

American Idol

Although I have not watched one second of this year’s American Idol competition, I can still tell you this much:  I know the winner’s name will be David

It’s official!

A gallon of milk is now cheaper than a gallon of gas…if only we could all buy cows

It’s about time…

the government of Myanmar has woken up.  Finally they are allowing aid into the country to assist the survivors of the cyclone.

This is an awful tragedy that once again Mother Nature has bestowed upon the Earth.  A meteorologist in Guam saw the track and states “it was like Katrina going into New Orleans”.  Unfortunately, many of these people didn’t have a chance.

As stated on CNN.com: 

The Irrawaddy delta “is huge and the interaction of water and land lying right at sea level allowed the tidal surge to deliver maximum penetration of sea water over land,” Reeves said. “Storms like this do most of their killing through floods, with salt water being even more dangerous than fresh water.”

The delta had lost most of its mangrove forests along the coast to shrimp farms and rice paddies over the past decade. That removed what scientists say is one of nature’s best defenses against violent storms.

“If you look at the path of the (cyclone) that hit Myanmar, it hit exactly where it was going to do the most damage, and it’s doing the most damage because much of the protective vegetation was cleared,” said Jeff NcNeely, chief scientist for the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

“It’s an expensive lesson, but it has been one taught repeatedly,” he said. “You just wonder why governments don’t get on this.”

It really makes you think.