The Child Labor Law Blues

I figured everyone would want to know that an 8 year old musical prodigy is being banned from playing in bars and taverns because someone complained about Child Labor Laws. He can play at festivals. This kid apparently plays with some big musicians now and is phenomenal on guitar, drums, harmonica, and piano.

Aren’t Child Labor Laws in place for work places like McDonalds and Walmart? I mean, if this kid wants to play guitar in front of people, why is that a problem? It’s like destroying some childs Lemonade stand because of Child Labor Laws. This seems to be taking it way too far. But, it at least gives the kid something to write about.

He’ll definitely have the Child Labor Law blues.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080812/ap_on_en_mu/blues_kid

Ninja’s Could Be Looking for Work Soon

According to a recent article on CNN, Scientists have gotten one step closer to achieving a full body

This could be us one day....or maybe not.

invisbility cloak. While details are scarce on the technology, they have said that it is mostly done by metamaterials that refract light, radar, or other materials. Metameterials are made of metal and circuit board materials such as teflon or ceramic. The technology is being heavily funded by the US Army.

I don’t know about you, but this makes me excited and freaked out simeltaneously. I’m assuming this technology is going to have to be heavily restricted. Can you imagine the damage it could do if it was mass produced?

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/08/11/invisibility.cloak.ap/index.html

The Dark Knight Reaches 400 Million

The Dark Knight is number one for the fourth week in a row at the box office. It also has reached above 400 Million in Gross sales. It is currently number three in the all time Box Office sales right under Star Wars and Titanic. Most producers and executives for the film believe it will cap out at about 510 million. If this is true, it won’t beat Titanic, but it will make the number two mark on all time Box Office sales. For a Batman flick, that’s pretty amazing.

But it’s obviously more than just a Batman film.

Endangered Species Act

http://http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/08/11/bush.endangered.species.ap/index.html

Wow is all I can say.  When I first read this it was the number one story on CNN.com.  Probably because nothing else big is going on in the world.  Luckily WWIII isn’t starting in Georgia (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,402043,00.html), and a certain former democratic presidential candidate didn’t just get caught for cheating on his cancer ridden wife (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,401462,00.html).  Thankfully a soldier didn’t just die in Afghanistan (http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/), and I’m very glad that a little boy was not just murdered by his step dad while his mother watched because he didn’t say amen (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,402004,00.html). And too bad gas prices aren’t falling like crazy all across the country (http://www.foxbusiness.com/furl/story/markets/industries/energy/gas-prices-fall-nationwide/).  If only any of those things were happening so the beloved CNN folks would have something to report on other than the President deciding to give federal animal protection decisions to individual federal agencies rather than congress.  Forget about how much easier this will make it for us to get things accomplished, such as bridges that stand up, oil to keep gas prices dropping, etc.

Seriously, sometimes I just do not understand human beings.  We freak out because of a possible change to something that might or might not harm some animals, but Georgian’s are dying by the thousands, and our soldiers are dying, and our citizens are being murdered at the Olympics, and all we can talk about is a stupid animal Act.  It’s disgusting.

I love the headline of that article about the animals too. “BUSH COULD WEAKEN”…. my gosh, let’s all cry because a polar bear has to move a litte further north to find ice.  Last time I checked there is plenty of it left.  Also, I love how they use the example of the polar bear.  Losing it’s ice has absolutely nothing to do with the Endangered Species Act or anything it has ever done, they blame it on “Global Warming,” which doesn’t exist and is now called Global Climate Change by most scientists.  But hey… Al Gore thinks he invented the internet, so he obviously is someone we should believe has scientific knowledge none of us can understand, right?

Finally, I have to say… if a freaking cat goes extinct to keep our countries economy afloat (which by the way is still the best in the world regardless of how many people freak out about it) I think I’m ok with that.  Now, I believe these federal agencies should, and would still be careful to keep animals as safe as possible, but seriously, I’m more worried about humans dying than an animal.

Just remember everyone, the dodo bird died off and we all survived.

God bless,

kingdaved

War! The Russian-Georgian Conflict

No doubt many of you may have heard about the recent news. What started out as a small conflict ended up becoming a full on war between Russia and Georgia, and no doubt Russia is winning. Initially Russia came in stating that they were keeping the peace between Georgia and South Ossetia. Putin is even quoted saying that he hopes the bloodshed will stop immediately. Unfortunately, Georgia asked for a cease-fire and to start negotations. Russia refused and continued to attack.

The results have been catastrophic and it doesn’t seem as if it is going to stop anytime soon. Bush has made comments stating that Russia may intend to overthrow the Georgian governement. If that is so, then there will be a full on international crisis.

Georgia sought independence in the 1990’s from Russia and gained it, but all it brought about was civil war. South Ossetia is a by-product of that, and their intentions have always been to unite to Russia. Georgia, naturally, has not been too keen on that happening. These tensions have led to the current war going on right now.