Apparently I think it’s okay. However, do others feel we should take today off and not blog?

Plus, what exactly is Memorial Day & when did it start? Hold on to your hats and glasses it’s wikipedia quotin’ time:

“Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday that is observed on the last Monday of May (observed this year on 2007-05-28). It was formerly known as Decoration Day. This holiday commemorates U.S. men and women who have died in military service to their country. It began first to honor Union soldiers who died during the American Civil War. After World War I, it expanded to include those who died in any war or military action. One of the longest standing traditions is the running of the Indianapolis 500, which has been held in conjunction with Memorial Day since 1911.”

Yay, nascar & dead soldiers. Just my kind of holiday *cough sarcasm*.

I took a little political questionaire at this website & low and behold I’m more liberal than Gandhi. What?! Now, I must admit the questions were basically black and white – you answered in the format of strongly agree, agree, disagree & strongly disagree. It’s kind of interesting to see where you fall. I’m on the left / libertarian – along with the Dalai Lama & Nelson Mandela. My husband is even more liberal than me – no wonder he has a political cartoon website called liberal angst.

Where do you fall? I hope you can keep Dalai, Nelson and me complany in our little square. I’ll take Tony Blair in the upper right to block. Hee.

Well, I promised I wouldn’t get political, but bear with me. Last night my husband and I watched the nightly news (ABC with Charles Gibson) from bed thanks to our DVR and at the end of the broad cast there was a story about the wind turbines near Palm Springs CA. I’ve actually seen those turbines many times because my grandfather used to live in Palm Springs, and I’ve always thought they were a great invention. Wind into energy – brilliant!

Anyway, the whole story was slanted in such as way as to portray these glorious features of wind energy to be eyesores and not worth a hill of beans. Basically a ‘hill of beans’ would look better to some citizens of Palm Springs than those white whirling wind turbines. One man said that the wind turbines destroy the beautiful hills and landscape that surround his house. Wait a sec. Those wind turbines which produce clean energy in the form of wind are destroying the nature that surrounds him? Sure they are big and white, but in a few years all the haze and smog from our C02 emissions will surly block out their view. Just ponder that conundrum for a minute if you will.