Here are a few more tid-bits to round out VMs for the week.
I'm Having A Mack Attack...
My Congressman, Connie Mack, finally announced his Plan to reduce the federal deficit.
Mack wants to eliminate the Davis-Bacon Act, cut all funding for National Public Radio, do away with the National Endowment for the Arts, and finally, de-fund Obama Care.
I have a suggestion ...
Let's ask Connie Mack to take a trip up to the Northeast for a few weeks. Most states north of the Mason-Dixon Line have spent every nickle they had set aside for snow removal, so all of Connie's hot air would be pretty handy in melting all the snow and ice up there.
Connie makes me yearn for the Good Old Days of the Warren G. Harding Administration.
Another Shoot-Out in Tampa ...
A mother of two teenagers is in police custody after shooting and killing her two kids with a .38 Special.
Seems she wanted to get back at them for sassing her, not keeping their rooms clean, and otherwise showing disrespect.
The police spokesman told reporters that the kids -- a 16-year old high schooler and her 13-year old brother -- "never saw it coming." Sadly, the father, an Army colonel, was in Qatar at the time.
What a mess!
Perhaps this latest shooting incident will compel the FL Legislature to revisit the "Open Carry" bill being touted by the NRA and other Conservatives. I know, I know: guns don't kill. Deranged people do.
But when a .38 Special gets into the hands of the deranged, what would you expect?
Cosmology & Carol
My wife downloaded a beautiful photo from the Hubble Telescope mid-week depicting numerous stars, galaxies and neublae in Deep Space.
Seems a group of professional star-gazers wanted to take a peek at a rarely-visited part of the sky, between New Zealand and Antarctica, just to see what's out there.
The science community has been trying to account for all matter in the known Universe -- for some reason, what they think they know about the Mass of all of the stars and galaxies doesn't add up in their Great Equation.
So they scour the sky with their telescopes, especially peering in places they termed "The Intergalactic Void" in order to see new things, if they exist:
They got their opportunity on New Year's Day, a time when demand for Hubble Time is extremely low.
What they saw is absolutely astounding: millions of stars -- many in early stages of formation, gaseous clouds, and out in the farthest region, galaxies almot too numerous to count. The Dopplar Shift in the starlight indicated that the scientists were seeing things Eight Billion Light Years away from our Earth.
(Note to the religious sensitives: I know, I know. The Bible tells you that the World is 6,000 years old. Get Over It!)
As I shared some of my opinions and observations about this photo with Carol, she asked me an extremely interesting question.
"If one is standing at the South Poll, is one standing upside-down?"
Answer: "Depends on one's perspective."
Peace & Love & Go Steelers & Packers!
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