Saturday, July 28, 2007

Time for some more Religion of Peace truths...

"It is not a lack of freedom and democracy that produces terrorists. Neither North Koreans nor Cubans are busy blowing themselves up in cafes. The common denominator among all major terrorist producing states is Islam, as politically incorrect as it may be to say. It is this narrow and unbending theocratic civilization, which often provides education only in the form of uncompromising religious indoctrination, that actually supplies most of the fuel for world terror. However, it is the caustic sense of humiliation among many Muslims over Western ascendancy that actually lights the fuse. Muslims are raised on the belief that Islam, the perfect faith, is superior to all other religions and that the only reason that Islam is not ascendant is that the West is undermining it. Many Muslims simply find it impossible to attribute their current situation to their own civilization's failures."

Sunday, July 15, 2007

Well, I still haven't had time to try out my favorite games on Vista. Interestingly, I think the solitaire game on Vista is harder than the solitaire game on XP. I know, how can that be, you ask? I'm not sure, but I can usually win about 1 in every 10 games in XP, but that is definitely a rarity in Vista! Not sure why...

How about this heat? I have a creek that goes behind my property. When we moved in last October, I started working on clearing a path to the creek, since it was a nice, fast flowing creek that varied from several inches deep to about a foot deep in certain parts behind the house. I helped my little boy build a twig and stick dam, elevating the water level to about two feet. Great times! Now, with the current drought conditions here in eastern NC, that same creek has not had any water in it since April. It is bone dry, with plants and trees growing on the creek bed. It has been so dry - in fact - that we've had several serious gulley washers pass through the area in the past two weeks, and even those torrential downpours in the area have failed to put any water in the creek. To think that I was getting ready to go over to the creek by my parents' house and catch some minnows to release in my creek! Anyway, at least the mosquito population has been kept low. You can actually go outside in the evening and not need a blood transfusion when you come back inside.

I watched the season premiere of Dogfights on the History Channel last Friday. I had purchased the first season boxed set, and my little 6 year old has been running them like mad. He's the only 6 year old I know who can give you detailed specifications on the Bismark class battleships and various combat aircraft! I think it's great, because he doesn't realize that he is learning history, since it is just "fun stuff" to him.