Fifth Anniversary of Bush's War on Iraq

The is the fifth anniversary of Bush’s War on Iraq. Watching Bush talk about it today, he was obviously very proud of starting the war. He said every penny (now at $12,000,000 hour and $4 Trillion before it is over) and every death/injury (3,990 and 40,000 plus) was worth it.

His heir apparent, John McCain, had another senile moment today. For the previous two days he has given speeches about Iran training and funding Al Qaeda. When he said it the second day, Senator Liebermann whispered in his ear that this was not true - Iran (Shiite) would never fund Al Qaeda (Sunni), McCain corrected himself. Then he went and said it again today! Duh! Are all our leaders this stupid? And War is his strong suit. Something about being a POW for six years makes you an expert on war.

If he is going to be the next George W. Bush, it is too bad he doesn’t know much about the economy - his words not mine. The stock market dropped another 300 points today. Could spending all this money and fuel used for tanks, ships, bombers, etc. have anything to do with Bush’s tanking economy and high gas prices? And a new economic reports says we have not yet felt the full impact of Bush’s War. Since virtually all the money is borrowed, we have to pay interest. Bush’s low estimates assume there will be zero interest payments and no medical bills for injured soldiers. But maybe Bush has no intentions helping the injured soldiers. He hasn’t been much help to the “little people.”

We are getting pounded by this storm - flood warnings all day. Storms knocked out power at our University for much of morning and early afternoon (not all campus but several buildings including mine). Fortunately, I had planned an experimental on-line class today. So, we held class over the Internet and I didn’t even have to go to school. It went a bit better than I imagined. Students actually discussed more on-line than they do in class. Some did it from school and computer labs but at least two did it from home and one would have been able to attend class as her car broke down this morning.

It has been an interesting couple of weeks in the Education and Society class. We read the book, Monkey Girl, about the Dover Intelligent Design case. We also watched most of the PBS NOW 12 chapters on the trial. If you have not seen them you can view them here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/id/program.html

All 12 chapters are interesting but I think #5 and especially #6 are most impressive from a science perspective. And if you enjoyed that you will like Ape Genius http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/apegenius/program.html

Students said today they learn not only a lot about both evolution and intelligent design theory.