3D Samsung TV

Last night I stopped by BestBuy just to browse around and happened to notice that they had the new 3D Samsung TV as their featured home theater product. I decided to put the shades on and give it a try. I was drooling before the glasses were even settled on the bridge of my nose. The clarity was unbelievable and within ten seconds, I had completely forgotten I had glasses on. It truly looked 3D. I could tell were objects were in relational perspective to each other without feeling like I was looking at cardboard cutouts.
The package they had put together cost around $3,400.00, which is about $2,400.00 more than I'm willing to spend at this time. However, like HD before it, I'm sure 3D TV's will drop in price fairly quick, after the market is saturated with choices.

I'm scared....

I'm scared that the "sleeping giant" that was awakened December 7, 1941, has slowly been poisoned to death since the '60's!
I'm scared that our elected officials have forgotten that they were elected to SERVE as our representatives, not to tell us how to live our lives!
I'm scared that trying to please everyone, has made it great for no one!
I'm scared that we are witnessing the fall of the United States of America, at our own hands!

If you take the logic out, everything makes sense!

Charlotte-Mecklenburg is reporting that their budget is in worse shape than they originally reported and it is due to lower than expected income from the sales tax. One of the first areas they are considering cuts is the school system.
Help me understand this. Charlotte has an estimated 12% unemployment rate. If you are not working, you are not getting paid and if you are not getting paid, you are not buying! I think that pretty much explains why there is lower income from the sales tax.
So, Charlotte wants to make cuts to education. I thought education is how you improved yourself to get better jobs or higher paying jobs and if people are furthering their education, they find jobs? With jobs, they get paid. With money, they spend. With spending, there is sales tax.
I know the education cuts that Charlotte is looking at are with the elementary, middle and high schools, but why is education the first place we look to make our cuts? Education should be the last place we look to make our cuts.

Cry Baby Athletes

Recently, I saw an article asking who got the better deal, the Denver Broncos or the Chicago Bears, with the Kyle Orton-Jay Cutler trade? Being a fan of the Broncos and disgusted by the outrageous salaries professional athletes get paid, I couldn't resist offering my opinion.
By far, the Denver Broncos got the better deal and I would be saying this even if they were win less right now. I find it hard to believe that getting paid all those millions of dollars makes Cutler think he doesn't have to put his ego aside and take one for the team. According to the Broncos, they were only putting Cutler's name out there to see what kind of trade talks would open up.
The minute I heard Cutler was crying about possibly being traded, I didn't want him in Denver. I want someone that realizes it takes a team to win games, not a cry baby with a rocket arm.
Good bye, Jay Cutler. I hope you realize soon that you cannot cry your way to a better spot in life.
Welcome to Denver, Kyle Orton!

Woolly Mammoth Skeleton

This display is one of many that can be seen at the Museum Of The Middle Appalachians.

A victim of his environment

My son got me in trouble, but he was just a victim of his environment. The other day while at his day-care (Baptist affiliated) the kids were being served their lunch and were asked to say their blessing. My son bowed his innocent little head and proceeded with the following blessing, which is the chorus from the country song 'People Are Crazy'..... God is great, beer is good and people are crazy. Needless to say, after my waterboarding interrogation, I caved and admitted that I had been listening to that song while transporting this innocent child to his day-care. Thank goodness they don't know about John Boy and Billy, but I'm sure it's only a matter of time before my son implicates me again.

One of the upper falls at Tumbling Creek near Saltville, VA