Most annoying commercial on TV: That Honda commercial with "Mr. Opportunity". Everytime that comes on I want to scream and put my foot through the TV.

THE RULE OF 3'S IS STILL IN EFFECT: Ingmar Bergman, Tom Snyder, and Bill Walsh, all died within the past few days.

When I read news stories like this I think that all religion should be banned in this country and other countries as well. It has been the cause of more strife, wars, hate, etc. It has not bettered the human race one iota.

Wondering about the next Olympics and where they are to be held? Well, here is the schedule:

2008 (summer) Beijing, China
2010 (winter) Vancouver, B.C., Canada
2012 (summer) London, U.K.
2014 (winter) Sochi, Russia

Now where the heck is Sochi, Russia? Is it near Moscow?
Well, I had to research that also. This paragraph is from Wikipedia.org...

"Sochi (Russian: Сочи, IPA: ['soʨɪ]) is a Russian resort city, situated in Krasnodar Krai just north of the southern Russian border. It sprawls along the shores of the Black Sea against the background of the snow-capped peaks of the Caucasus Mountains. At 145 km (90 mi), Greater Sochi is claimed to be the longest city in Europe.^[1] As of the 2002 Census, it had a population of 328,809, down from 336,514 recorded in the 1989 Census. The city has been selected to host the XXII Olympic Winter Games in 2014.^[2]"

If one doubts that there is anything wrong with this world, they only need to look at this sickening story of gross cruelty to an animal that occurred recently in the small town of Cotati, California. This news is revolting to say the least. Even the relative lack of concern and outrage for the killing of a 16 year old boy in the same area a year ago is troubling.

Of course, what can you expect in a country that spends trillions of dollars to fight an enemy that cannot be defeated on the battle field? Bush & Co says we must stay the course and win but win what? He says he will stay until the mission is accomplished. What mission? To overthrow Saddam Hussein? Well, we did that and we should have gotten out right after that but no, he had to make sure the oil fields were ours for the taking and in the meantime we have created a whole bunch of new enemies and even now the powers-that-be in Iraq are saying we should leave. Then there is the matter of trying to set up a democracy where democratic principles never existed. To try to do so at the end of a gun barrel is futile but that cowboy from Texas knows no better.

Message to NASA: When you launch the first manned mission to Mars, I would like to volunteer and if it should be a one-way mission, oh well, c'est la vie.

Will this project be a preview of Central Subway construction? Ha! Actually, I wonder why San Francisco streets get torn up so much and also wonder why they are never repaved properly. I have never seen such a mess in Paris and wonder why especially since that is an older city. What are they doing wrong here? Why are they continually digging something up and replacing it? Won't they ever get it right?

On another matter I was shocked this morning to find that there are now only about 30 THB to one U.S. Dollar. When I started going to Thailand in the late nineties, it was abot 42 Baht to the U.S. Dollar. Is this a weak dollar, a strong Baht, or some combination of both?

I can't believe that I did NOT read this in the National Enquirer. Perhaps there is some scientific basis for this but belching cows was the furthest thing from my mind when it comes to global warming.

Correction

If Cindy Sheehan wants to run for the House of Representatives, I don't care. It was her suggestion recently that Speaker Nancy Pelosi should start impeachments proceedings against Bush that bothered me but in my befuddled state in my previous posting, I made it sound it like she should not run for office. If Cheney were not Vice-President then impeachment and conviction of Bush would not bother me but going from a Bush presidency to a Cheney presidency would be like going from the frying pan into the fire. Yikes!

George W. Bush is a bumbling idiot but the alternative is a scary and bad idea, one which Cindy Sheehan should reconsider. We need to impeach and convict Dick Cheney first and then find a way to get Karl Rove out of the U.S. Government.

I have a code in the node. In other words, all stuffed up. I guess there have been too many parties lately and I wore myself down so last weekend I picked up a bug of some sort, the first in several years. Yesterday in the warm air in Marin County (85F) I improved but now back into the San Francisco cool air off the ocean I am right back where I was on Tuesday. That brief one day excursion out of town proved me to once again that I need to move to a warmer climate - but where? Arizona? Forget it! Las Vegas? Forget it! Hawaii? I don't think so!! San Diego? Ah, that would be a possibility if I could afford to move which is the other part of the equation. Hmm...

On other matters, the world seems to continue to spin out of control faster and faster. If it isn't terrorism, it is the idiots in Washington D.C. who think they are above the law. Or San Francisco members of the Board of Supervisors who think they do not have to play by the rules. It is all very depressing. Maybe I should just move out of the country. Ha! I can't even find any humorous news stories these days on Reuters which is my usual source for such things. Maybe I should post a humorous e-mail or some such thing, once I find something that will work. Just tried to copy and paste something here but it did not work for some weird reason. Oh well, back to the drawing board.