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It doesn't take a rocket scientist A recent survey shows nine out of 10 drivers think text messaging while driving should be banned. Apparently, 66 percent of those drivers admit they have text messaged while driving even though they think it should be against the law. For the uninformed, text messaging is the act of sending a written rather than spoken message on a cell phone. It requires typing in the message using the numeric key pad. It appears on the receiver's cell phone screen in text. Has anyone ever considered that doing stupid things can be stopped without legal action? Do we have to have a law to prevent every lame-brained action that people might commit? If we do, our society is in one sorry state. Al Gore is at it again, this time in Singapore. He blames Exxon Mobile for underwriting a huge propaganda campaign aimed at undermining some scientists' views on global warming. Apparently, Gore believes that scientists who don't buy into his global warming theory are paid for by big carbon producers. I love a good conspiracy theory. They always turn up when someone isn't getting their way. Everyone isn't jumping on Al Gore's bandwagon, so there must be a conspiracy afoot that is keeping everyone off. Perhaps Gore would be a better spokesperson if he shaved back his own carbon production. He could be a better role model. It isn't just industry that is producing emissions. If individuals changed their lifestyles, we could see oil consumption drop drastically and air quality improve. We need to stop putting the blame for all that is wrong or perceived wrong at the door of business and industry and start being a little more accountable on a personal level. I don't know about you, but I don't want business and industry to be so overwhelmed with trying to satisfy every politically correct thought that we find our economy struggling to survive. Business and industry make this country tick. They provide the jobs. Sometimes I think we forget that and look at them instead as bottomless pits of money to spread around to those who don't deserve it and to use as fodder in the great political machine. And now we have something else to worry about. Yet another bunch of scientists has concluded that laser printers emit invisible particles and that those particles are probably dangerous. They don't really know that to be true, but just the fact that invisible particles exist is surely cause for alarm. Or is it the alarmists we should be worrying about? Yet more research time was spent proving that children will eat just about anything if it's wrapped in McDonald's paper. The study revealed that children preferred hamburgers, carrots and other food items presented in McDonald's packaging than the same exact food presented in other wrapping. McDonald's gives kids toys. How hard is that to figure out?
And that's the way it is. Sort of.
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