Off The Record

Do the members of the City Council and the mayor act in the best interest of our small town or are they using their elected positions to further their personal agendas?

Here's a very interesting article for all the critics of this blog to consider. A quote from the article, "The world is changing, and blogging is now a big part of it, with all of its good sides as well as its bad ones. Live and learn. The sooner you get the hang of social media, the more you'll see the opportunities in there rather than the threats."

We authors of this blog have been amazed and appalled by how our content can be misconstrued and manipulated by readers. The learning curve for blogs will be around for a long time to come.

Sir Richard Branson does it again! Today is the unveiling of Virgin Atlantics SpaceShipTwo composite. The ship will require two pilots and will carry six passengers. Those six potential galactic travelers will have to fork over $200,000 a piece for the trip into space. Branson is hoping to corner the public spaceflight maket with his Virgin Galactic firm.

"Climate-Gate" is indeed heating up. Type in "climategate" in google and you'll get back over 26,000,000 hits. (The number grows exponentially daily.) The leak from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit exposing a conspiracy to distort global warming data for political gain is definitely a hot topic. The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) relies on this research unit for most of its data. If fraudulent statistics were used to claim that man made CO2 was instrumental in global warming, how can the evidence still be overwhelming that global warming is in part man made?

What a coincidence! Al Gore, The King of Global Warming, Mr. Nobel Prize winner himself, has now canceled his lecture on climate change that was to be delivered in Copenhagen December 16 at the UN Climate Change Conference. How many people forked over the $1200+ for a VIP ticket to shake hands with the former vice president, have a picture taken with him, and get a copy of his new book? We're sure they are very disappointed. Well, at least they will get a refund.

Why are there parents who send their severely ill children to school? Keep them home. It's not the school's job to care for them.

Is there anything going on in Dogtown today?