April 26, 2011
BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND
The news as I see it and the views as I want them.
April 26 is … Richter Scale Day and National Pretzel Day
Nice combination. Look out Freeport, Illinois, the big one could be today.
GO BLACKHAWKS! GO BULLS!
My middle child, Ross, is graduating from Valparaiso Law School in a three weeks. He has a classmate, C. Nicholas Cronauer, who is the son of Charles Cronauer, an attorney in Sycamore, IL. These two young men did not know each other until they started Law School at Valparaiso University.
The Winter 2011 Volume 45 Number 2 Valparaiso University Law Review recently was published. This is a legal research treatise that is published by most Law Schools in two volumes each year. Some of the articles are written by Law School Professors but most6 are written by students on Law Review. It is an honor to make Law Review and a very high honor to have your article accepted for publication in the Law Review book. Every Law School Library has Every Law School’s Law Review Publications in their library. Of course, in this day and age, Law Reviews are available online also.
My son, Ross A. Brennan, had an article published in the most recent volume of the Valparaiso Law School Law Review. His article is a scholarly piece detailing and explaining civil commitment of a Sexually Violent Person. Charles Cronauer’s son, C. Nicholas Cronauer was also published. His article is an in depth look at the Livestock Management Facilities Act.
Both articles are timely in their subject matter and expertly written. Hundreds of hours were put in by both men in the research, drafting, editing and redrafting of these works. Congratulations to both young men DeKalb County has produced at least two of the next generation of lawyers that will uphold the fine legal profession.
Below is just a little fun from email wars.
The Haircut One day a florist went to a barber for a haircut. After the cut, he asked about his bill, and the barber replied, 'I cannot accept money from you. I'm doing community service this week.' The florist was pleased and left the shop. When the barber went to open his shop the next morning, there was a 'thank you' card and a dozen roses waiting for him at his door. Later, a cop comes in for a haircut, and when he tries to pay his bill, the barber again replied, 'I cannot accept money from you. I'm doing community service this week.' The cop was happy and left the shop. The next morning when the barber went to open up, there was a 'thank you' card and a dozen donuts waiting for him at his door. |
Then a Congressman came in for a haircut, and when he went to pay his bill, the barber again replied, 'I cannot accept money from you. I'm doing community service this week.' The Congressman was very happy and left the shop. The next morning, when the barber went to open up, there were a dozen Congressmen lined up waiting for a free haircut.
And that, my friends, illustrates the fundamental difference between the citizens of our country and the politicians who run it.
Last week, on April 22, 2011 some people celebrated Earth Day. Here are a few predictions from the first Earth Day in 1970 made by same-minded people making similarly outlandish predictions on Earth Day 2011.
“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.” — George Wald, Harvard Biologist
“Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.” — Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist
“By…1975 some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.” — Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist
“It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,” — Denis Hayes, chief organizer for Earth Day
“Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.” — Peter Gunter, professor, North Texas State University
“Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half….” — Life Magazine, January 1970
“At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.” — Kenneth Watt, Ecologist
“Air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.” — Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist
Ok, Ehrlich was sorta right on this, if you restrict his predictions to modern Communist China, where they are showing the typical communist/socialist contempt for the environment.
“By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won’t be any more crude oil. You’ll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill ‘er up, buddy,’ and he’ll say, `I am very sorry, there isn’t any.’” — Kenneth Watt, Ecologist
Now we get to my personal favorite, although probably not Al Gore‘s favorite.
“The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years,” he declared. “If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.” — Kenneth Watt, Ecologist
Who is Kenneth Watt and what does he sy now, if he is still living?
Remember kids, Environmentalism Good, Watermelons Bad!
FYI, Watermelon: Thin layer of Green on the outside, Red to the Core! NOT SURE WHAT THIS MEANS, Anonymous quote I found.
Just a couple of thoughts I had.
BRUCE A. BRENNAN
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