Taking the Scenic Route

We think we know why Zane has been a chewing maniac of late.  His bottom tooth is loose and wiggly.  We have noticed that his teeth were growing apart on his lower jaw over the last months, but I didn’t think kids started losing teeth this early.  Of course, he got his teeth abnormally early too and I know I had my two front teeth out the Chrith-muth when I wath thix. (6) (yeah, thanks mom.  lol.  my front teeth were marginally loose and mom ‘helped them along’ so I could sing “All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth” for everybody.  *shaking head* )  It looks like he will be starting to lose his baby teeth soon.  To fast for this mama.  He needs his baby teeth, he is still my baby!

Ok, so I probably shouldn’t write about politics, but hey, it’s my blog and I can write what I want.

I bet you think you could guess my opinion of “In Inconvenient Truth” since I definitely lean liberal.  You would be wrong.  I really didn’t like it at all, for several reasons. 

1. I am less sold on ‘global warming’ after the film than I was before the film.  I found a lot of room for the statistics to be manipulated and interpreted.  I totally agree that there is a shift, but I am more in the camp of a polar shift causing climate change than global warming.  I am also not buying a total doomsday scenario.
2. It made some basic assumptions (like the measurement of temperature was as accurate in the past as it is now) that I just am not comfortable hanging an entire theory over.
3. The voice-overs.  ugh.  After a while I felt like the movie was more about manipulating my emotions than presenting me with actual science.  The science in the film could have been put in 10 minutes or so.  I would rather see that and then a discussion of how they arrived at the statistics (methods used, exact descriptions, the science stuff…how the studies were done precisely).  I felt like I was wasting my time listening to sentimental bs about a scientific issue.  It actually made me more angry when I looked back on it than it did at the time because it seemed purposeless.  Granted, my version would have been over the head of a lot of people and would have garnered criticism for being to dry, but that is what *I* would have liked to have seen.  Plus, I felt like if the science were totally sound, like they kept insisting it was, they would have spent time defending the science instead of that halting beatnik style voice and swelling music over nature cinematography.  And why did he put the thing in about the elections in Florida.  Why?!?  I think the election was stolen from him and despise Bush, but I don’t understand the purpose of putting it in the film, unless, of course, the film was more about him than the issue.

I rarely debate the issue with anybody though because the RESULT of people believing in global warming is totally in line with my belief system.  If people need to believe that global warming exists and the only solution is to be better stewards of our earth, leave a smaller ecologic footprint and find alternative fuel sources, then I will gladly push the global warming agenda.  I think that as Christians we should be doing this.  Jesus talks more about being stewards of earth than He does about almost all other issues, with the exception of being loving and kind to people.  Finding alternate fuels serves both of these….better use of resources and less violence and war trying to get to the fossil fuels.  win-win situation there.

In other politics –

I am still a big fan of Obama.  Everything I hear about him makes me like him even more.  I love his idealism, his energy and his vision.  I am also growing tired of the spam and false information I keep finding in my email.  It is like there is no REAL reason to dislike him, so people are making stuff up to attack his character.  I can respect disagreeing, but I just find it infuriating when I get a bunch of lies disguised as ‘information’.  I am sure there are people stupid enough to believe it too.

On the other hand, I am less than enchanted with Hilary.  I liked Bill for the most part.  I didn’t agree with some of his legislation, but overall, I liked him.  I think the only way I would vote for Hillary is if she was the lesser of two evils.  It wouldn’t be hard for a Republican to be a greater evil, but I imagine that there are a few I wouldn’t have a problem with since I am fairly moderate.  About the only motivation for seeing Hillary as president is seeing Bill as the first man (or whatever that would be called).