Just Said It

I don't think we have seen anything yet when it comes to the total digital integration of our society. Ford is now releasing a new line of cars with a unique WIFI integration hotspot. And yes, you guessed it, there will be an App For That.

Please comment, where will integration invade next?

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Summer 2010 is winding down and I am watching the kids swim in the pool on a cool August day. The weather is fun too say the least. On one day you would swear that Global Warming is real and the next you would think it a silly notion with many parts of the world enduring record lows.

Who is right? Can it be so simple a fact that the earth goes through constant change in cycles that are impossible to predict with the degree of accuracy required to claim that the world has warmed one degree over hundreds of years?

Let's assume it is true. How can you reconcile the fact that it is man made with the fact that much of the country was under a glacier of ice long before man created the first campfire to cook the meat of a prehistoric Mastodon.

That is not to say that reducing pollution is a not a good thing. Strike that. It's a great thing. No doubt about it.

How about we go back to a simple goal which no one will debate and stop wasting energy debating an unprovable theory. Do we really need anything more than . . . Give a hoot, don't pollute.

Just said that

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I must be extra inspired by the Boy Scouts right now.   I just found myself watching several videos on YouTube that talked about Boy Scouts.  There is a lot of traffic on the subject right now with everyone following up on the 2010 National Boy Scout Jamboree.

Unfortunately, there are also a lot of comments from those that have to call names and make negative  judgments.  I don't think that Sir Isaacc Newton would have thought that his third law of physics would apply as much to politics as it does to physics.  You know the one I am talking about.  "Every action has an equal and opposite reaction."   It would seem that for every person who made a positive comment about the Boy Scouts supporting their country and talking about what it means to be a scout that some other idot  would find a negative in it.

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How can so many people look at a 12 year old boy doing something he enjoys and find a negative in it?   What in the hell is wrong with these people that they can't just listen to another point of view and shut up about it.  How can someone judge that the Boy Scouts have a negative influence when they have done so much to build character and to help people?

Well, forget those people.   Don't bother reading their few comments.  My mother always said, " If you don't have anything good to say then don't say anything at all."

Well . . . I just said that again today.

Until next time.

My 13 year old son came home from the Boy Scout National Jamboree today. This is the 100th anniversary of the Boy Scouts In the US so this event, held only every four years, was special and I am ecstatic he was able to be there. There were 45,000 boys there and I highly recommend you check out there website at www.bsajamboree.org for great pictures and video.

I have a lot of reasons to be proud of him. At 13 he raised about 1/3 of the $1,500 cost himself by collecting aluminum cans. He learned to deal with adversity by having to share a tent for 10 days with a boy that he only just met. He met and traded patches with boys from Puerto Rico, Malaysia, and many parts of the US. He has already reached the rank of Life scout and will likely complete his Eagle rank well before he turns 15.

By coincidence I also had a Facebook chat last night with a friend who I shared my Boy Scout experience with from age 7 until I left the Scouts at age 16 to pursue different opportunities . . . aka girls.

In our chat we both agreed that we owe a lot about who we are today to the Boy Scouts and to the men who were our leaders. The leader I owe everything to just happened to be my friend's dad. He passed away several years ago and we all miss him, but I will never forget what he taught me.

The moral of the story is . . .

The Boy Scouts teaches teamwork and leadership. If you can't get involved directly then please take a moment to support them with a donation at www.scoutingfriends.org.