Observations on the News

 

Some observations on the News.

First, the young man who was condemned to death for reportedly downloading information from the Internet on women’s rights in Islam had his sentence commuted to 20 years in prison. Oh, that was in the democracy of Afghanistan. His family is pleading with Harmid Karzai for a pardon.

Second, speaking of primitive, geologists working a site along the Arizona-Utah border have discovered what they call “a rich new set of clues” about dinosaurs that inhabited the area 190 million years ago. In a region that was once desert, with few oases, they found what they are calling a "dinosaur dance floor" because there are more than 1,000 tracks in a 3/4-acre site. One anthropomorphizing researcher said he thought the Early Jurassic dinosaurs were "happy to be at this place, having wandered up and down many a sand dune, exhausted from the heat and the blowing sand, relieved and happy to come to a place where there was water."

Third, the Republican vice presidential campaign announced that it couldn’t have been dinosaurs dancing in Utah because the Earth wasn’t created until 189,994,000 years later. They say everything earlier is just B.S. – Before Sarah. (Okay, I just made that one up. Mostly.)

Fourth, however, an investigation by the Associated Press raised other issues about Palin. Namely that in addition to filing padded expense forms for working at home, she also probably dinged the state of Alaska more than $21,000 she shouldn’t have for taking her children on the road with her. According to state records, which Palin altered after she was nominated, the governor brought some of her children with her on the taxpayers’ tab in violation of the rules.

Fifth, finally, we’re not into sports, but the AP had a story about the San Francisco 49ers firing head coach Mike Nolan, saying he was “the dapper coach whose teams never played as well as he dressed.”

 

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