This Wouldn't Be A Good

place to spend a vacation.

Check Out The Ditzy Chicks

latest album here.

Has ET Phoned

us? SETI Institute will begin analyzing suspect signals this month. Maybe all that data crunching on my computers will pay off.

I'm Watching Nightline

right now. All the troops Ted Koppel interviews say waiting is the worst part. God, I can sympathize. My anxiety level has been over the top for weeks now. But on second thought, I'm not on the Iraq border, either. Guess my anxiety level is pretty insignificant after all.

Glenn Reynolds Thinks

terraforming Mars is the way to go. But there's always the pesky problem of keeping the atmosphere and beating the Chinese.

Houston Radio Stations

are dumping all Dixie Chicks air play. Natalie Maines stupidity is beyond belief. What did she think? That London is so far from Texas that no body would ever hear her badmouth George Bush. If she is ashamed of our president, she should just stay out of the state of Texas.

Looks Like Cockroaches

are the only things that could survive on Mars.

I Am Dismayed And Sickened

by the New York City Council's anti-war resolution. How quickly they have forgotten the horror of 9/11.

The Shuttle Investigators

have a bunch of different theories. Could be pilot error, could be foam insulation, could be ice, could be any of a dozen things. I think they should quit speculating and not comment until they have something concrete. But on the other hand, I suppose the public wants to keep hearing from the investigators.

Oh, Blogspot Where Art Thou?

I haven't been able to post all morning. Maybe I should have tried Googling my website.

Tennessee State Troopers

are experimenting with hayburning transportation methods.

The Devil Went Down To Hollywood

An Open Letter To The Hollywood Bunch

Ok, let’s just say for a moment you bunch of pampered, overpaid, unrealistic children had your way and the U.S.A. didn’t go into Iraq. Let’s say that you really get your way and we destroy all our nuclear weapons and stick daisies in our gun barrels and sit around with some white wine and cheese and pat ourselves on the back, so proud of what we’ve done for world peace.

Let’s say that we cut the military budget to just enough to keep the National Guard on hand to help out with floods and fires. Let’s say that we close down our military bases all over the world and bring the troops home, increase our foreign aid and drop all the trade sanctions against everybody. I suppose that in your fantasy world this would create a utopian world where everybody would live in peace. After all, the great monster, the United States of America, the cause of all the world’s trouble would have disbanded it’s horrible military and certainly all the other countries of the world would follow suit. After all, they only arm themselves to defend their countries from the mean old U.S.A.

Why you bunch of pitiful, hypocritical, idiotic, spoiled mugwumps. Get your head out of the sand and smell the Trade Towers burning. Do you think that a trip to Iraq by Sean Penn did anything but encourage a wanton murderer to think that the people of the U.S.A. didn’t have the nerve or the guts to fight him? Barbra Streisand’s fanatical and hateful rankings about George Bush makes about as much sense as Michael Jackson hanging a baby over a railing.

You people need to get out of Hollywood once in a while and get out into the real world. You’d be surprised at the hostility you would find out here. Stop in at a truck stop and tell an overworked, long-distance truck driver that you don’t think Saddam Hussein is doing anything wrong. Tell a farmer with a couple of sons in the military that you think the United States has no right to defend itself. Go down to Baxley, Georgia and hold an anti-war rally and see what the folks down there think about you.

You people are some of the most disgusting examples of a waste of protoplasm I’ve ever had the displeasure to hear about. Sean Penn, you’re a traitor to the United States of America. You gave aid and comfort to the enemy. How many American lives will your little “fact finding trip” to Iraq cost? You encouraged Saddam to think that we didn’t have the stomach for war. You people protect one of the most evil men on the face of this earth and won’t lift a finger to save the life of an unborn baby. Freedom of choice you say? Well I’m going to exercise some freedom of choice of my own. If I see any of your names on a marquee, I’m going to boycott the movie. I will completely stop going to movies if I have to. In most cases it certainly wouldn’t be much of a loss.

You scoff at our military who’s boots you’re not even worthy to shine. They go to battle and risk their lives so ingrates like you can live in luxury. The day of reckoning is coming when you will be faced with the undeniable truth that the war against Saddam Hussein is the war on terrorism. America is in imminent danger. You’re either for her or against her.

There is no middle ground.

I think we all know where you stand.

What do you think?

God Bless America.

Charlie Daniels

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WHAT? It's Been Ten Days

since my last blog entry? Unbelievable but true I'm afraid. Too many things to do and too little time to do them. And I've always got to give myself time for my passion in life, amateur astronomy.

I look at the content of many weblogs now and find nothing much personal from the authors. All we want to do is comment on politics or the problem with Iraq or the stupid French and Germans or the U.N. or Hans Blix latest incomplete report to the U.N. or Jimmy Carter's perfidious and bad behavior as an ex-president or...well, I could go on forever.

It's easy to see why we in Blogland are consumed with all of the above and more. The world is not an easy place now. We're days away from being in another war and, even though we maintain a facade of confidence about the outcome, there is--at least in my mind--a modicum of uncertainty about war of any kind.

So, to relieve a little of the tension, I will be posting more personal things in the future. Especially items about astronomy and space. Not that I am going to compete with Rand Simberg. God forbid, I couldn't even come close. Just some astro images and other stuff I find interesting in the realm of space.