Cold

Now it is cold. 22 when I left for work this morning at 6:30. I guess some of that "artic air" is pushing this far down from up Nawth!

Couple of idiotic, personally aggravating items to get off my chest.
First: how can 2 people out of a population of 20,000 cause city government to force a business to stop advertising a product? In SpringHill TN, outside of Nashville, a woman runs a salon and has a flashing sign to advertise some of her products. On item advertised is something with the word "sexy" in it. Two citizens of this fine town complained that the word "sexy" was offensive, so the town told the woman to stop advertising this product! How utterly and extremely stupid is this. The word sexy should not offend anyone, particularly since sex is used to market most every item sold in the US today, even MILK, and it is all over TV, Movies and in songs now! What is so offensive to me is that in American today, only a few folks have to voice a complaint about something and "officials" or others will jump to quell the storm. I don't get it.

Secondly: What is this mess I am hearing about changing Christmas? Drop it as a Federal Holiday? Lose the reference to Christ? The term Christmas tree is offensive to someone? What is happening to our society? Some folks must just sit around all day trying to find new issues to create problems or complain about. We should start calling it a "holiday tree" and refer to this time of hear as the "holiday season", not using the word Christmas because it might offend a few non-Christians! Well, I for one say to hell with 'em! I have never, ever thought to complain about beliefs and practices of religions different from my own. This country was founded in part on religious (Christian) principles and the motto of the U.S. is still "In God We Trust"! I have felt for years that this country was someday doomed and destined to utltimately fail (see Roman empire) and from my viewpoint, we are well on that tract already and when we finally do something so stupid as to remove "Christ" from Christmas and Christmas from our culture, we are finished! The holiday is a celebration of the BIRTH OF CHRIST for crying out loud! What this country desperately needs now more that ever is strong, honest, dependable leadership at the top! GW has destroyed so much of what past leaders have developed and protected, at home and abroad! US citizens need to wake up, realize we have made serious mistakes in how we have let political correctness and "touchy feely", hypersensitive folks have too much power! It is OK if we don't like on another, but we need to respect each other and know that some things you say or do may not sit well with me and visa versa, but having my "feelings" hurt is not a reason to make law or policy changes! This country was founded on a "melting pot" type of situation and we have been proud of that, but now, it seems that our differences are causing more and more problems. What the hell is wrong with Florida State using the nickname "seminoles"? What is offensive about the Atlanta "braves"? Soon, Notre Dame can't be called the "fighting Irish"? PETA or some group has complained about the USC teams being called the "fighting gamecocks". Will the Georgia "bulldogs" become offensive to dogs? There has got to be an end to all this PC crap. There are too many things wrong in the world that needs to be fixed for us to waste time on "cry babies" and politically correct garbage. We are polluting the environment, running out of fossil fuel, the earth is heating up, more Ozone is missing, our mineral deposits are depleting, we can't stop HIV nor the bird virus, millions of children wake up every morning hungry, without proper clothing and schooling..... there are so many serious problems that the human race needs to deal with that we can't continue to slide down this slippery slope that PC has created!

Well, I got a bit carried away there, but I feel better now.

Good day!