A short one.

Well, it won't be much as I'm not sitting up for too long at a time right now, but I thought I'd get something posted.

Tracy is walking. She had her back surgery at Mayo two weeks ago, and a day ago had her first physical therapy appointment. She actually spent most of the day yesterday on her feet -- because she wanted to be at my side when I got my diagnosis.

I have had coming and going fever for two weeks. I had pnumonia when I finally went, but plenty more symptoms. I have had a resting heart rate of 115-120, headaches every day, chest pain and more. It has taken a while to get answers, and I still have a CT scan on Friday, but while we're still awaiting the second set of bloodwork, the Dr's think they know.

I am the minority of the minority that manages to really get annihilated by Cocci, or as they call it here, Valley Fever. They put me on IV at yesterdays appointment and put two bags in me. It didn't make the difference that they hoped, but they couldn't dilute my blood anymore because they had to take more of that for more lab work.

Something, maybe just time, is making a difference - as I am sitting here at the computer - and thinking of making breakfast. I have good days and bad days, but this is shaping up to be one of the best days yet.

Today's Quote

There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.
-Cullen Hightower

Stop Global Warming.

As anyone that has ever read my blog will know, I'm not buying global warming.

Let me qualify that. Global warming is real.
It is absolutely just as real as global cooling.
It just happens that right now we're in the warming cycle.

So what I am not buying is Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW). It's utter nonsense.



Having been involved in brand & retail strategy for a while now, I find it pretty easy to see manipulation of facts, feelings, and the general public. And let me tell you... AGW is it. It is as political and economically calculated a movement as there has ever been... And I would hate to be the clown of a candidate to run on a "global warming platform" and have it in the history books. In a decade or less, that will be a legacy equal to a "santa clause and the easter bunny" platform. I wouldn't be the candidate trying to legislate the change of the worlds lightbulbs (incandescant to flourescent) if I were that guy...

So. I'm biting back. They can market, but I can too. In whatever small way I can, I am speaking my mind (based on facts, folks -- not manipulated half-truths), and the minds of those much wiser than me. I am creating a forum for scientific response - but with the aid of a strategic marketing spin.

There are a lot of scientists out there refuting AGW. Scientists from MIT. Scientists from NASA. Some of them are on the UN list. The problem is, they were buying it initially, before investigating further. But now that they have researched it, now that they have reversed their positions - they can't get their names off the list.

So I've created a forum. I am inviting experts to contribute, and I'm going to create a stir. I've shared it while in development with a few of you, but it's getting close enough to launch that I'm posting it. Help me spread the word, will you? When I launch and send out the announcement - or even now, if you want to - send a link along to your friends.

Help me cause a stir.

www.KilltheTrees.org

Let's stop worrying about being politically correct.
Let's just worry about being correct.

It begins with satire. It concludes with facts...and it's going to have a lot more of those before I'm done. Help me spread the word.

Let's counter agenda with some reality, shall we?

www.KilltheTrees.org