Its FRIDAY

Yep, last workday of the week and a 3 day weekend to boot.

Remember those who gave their lives so we can live free this weekend. They paid the highest price doing their duty and deserve to be honored and remembered.

Class was "interesting" last night, watched a movie which I couldn't see the point or the point could have been made in a simple paragraph instead of 90 minutes of stuff. If the scientists really believe what they were saying in the movie, I do pity them because they see nothing after this life which begs the question, why be good if this is all there is? Maybe I'm just too dense to understand the deeper meaning of the movie, but what in the heck did it have to do with Business Negotiations I just don't get.

In the news today:

There has been a Christian community in Iraq since the Church started all those years ago. They have been the special target of the terrorists because they are not Muslim. Hat tip Lucianne.

I do hope these folks have considered all the costs to their decision to be Australia's nuclear waste site. Hat tip Lucianne and Lucianne, the comments are interesting in both posts.

This sounds like a potential Darwin Award. Woman run over by her own SUV. She put it in neutral, set the parking brake and the brake failed, when she tried to get back in the car, fell under the front tires and was run over. The story doesn't say if the engine was running or if the keys were in the ignition. Most newer cars will not allow you to get the keys out of the car unless the car is in PARK. Leaving a car to run into a store is stupid. If a car starts rolling, trying to jump in it is stupid. If she had just followed what was taught in drivers training she would be safe and not being ridiculed on the net. Hat tip Lucianne, and some of the comments are harsh.

Will Al Gore run for President in 2008? Peter Coster of the Herald Sun [Melbourne, AU] says yes, but his sources say no. They say Al is too fat to run and no one that fat could ever be elected president. While Al has put on a few pounds since 2000 (most people do as they get older), he is not nearly as fat as Taft was back in 1912 when he weighed over 300 pounds. We've had fat presidents before and even in this age of television, its not a given that only the pretty face will win (or we will be learning to say President Edwards).

Finally, Victor David Hanson has comments on surviving another month of war.

Sorry for the length of this, lots in the news today. Have a fun and safe weekend and holiday, I'll be doing homework. Remember our fallen heroes.

See you Monday.