Well, the Academy Awards are over, and we can go back to being normal for another year. I saw most of the movies nominated on airplanes. It was a low year if you ask me, but there were a few bright spots. "Bubba" Forrest Whitaker deserved his "best actor" statue for his role in the Last King of Scotland; he scared me more than Idi did while he was one of the world's most brutal dictators. And the low point of the evening was Al Gore's movie on global warming. Hollywood jumped to their feet and all jumped on the hybrid bandwagon, then got out and left in gas guzzling exhaust prone limos! I think that any omissions they can come up with in the next six months will be canceled out by the amount of smoke they blew up Al Gore's shorts! He was just so un-presidential. He looked like a nine-year-old at his first birthday party. He really played the part, even gained about thirty pounds for the role. He accepted the Oscar and let the director, producer and writers of the movie, stand behind him like they had nothing to do with it. At least he got rid of the beard. Man that thing was UGLY. He looked like an armpit with eyes! Tipper must have dressed him this time, because he at least looked presentable. The last time I saw him he looked like he was standing next to a garage sale and it blew up all over him.

I think Al Gore is in the Secret Service. Because if he has done anything of significance in the last fifteen years, it's a secret! He won the popular vote and lost the election, one of two men to ever do that, but even in defeat he could not be gracious. He still ain't over it!

The man has the worst luck; it's almost funny. One of the top newspaper headlines this year for me was in Feb. when Al was to do a Global Warming Conference in New York, and the day of the event the national headlines were, "Global warming conference cancelled due to extreme freezing temperatures." That area in New York has 110 inches of snow in the worst storm they had had in 50 years! Man, even God is laughing at Al Gore! Oh well, carry on Al, you got a new cause now. Bless your heart!

The earth IS warming up. Most intelligent folks will admit to that. BUT, it is not because of what mankind is doing to Mother Earth. She has endured the Ice Age, the Meteorite that hit and caused the Cosmic Atomic Storm that killed all the dinosaurs and formed the Gulf of Mexico, the Big Bang, thousands of oil tankers that were sunk in WWII in our oceans, and every other form of horror that was much worse than anything man can do with plastic bags and some emissions. The simple fact is that we have been coming out of an Ice Age for about 5,000 years, and we will continue to do this until the planet is not inhabitable, as we live on it today. By then, mankind will have to have learned how to cope with the heat or discovered another planet to live on. It's going to be a very long time before this happens and I'm convinced that when the time comes man will have come up with another place or way to survive. We always have, so have an ice cream cone and relax Al; the Polar Bears are going to like Florida just fine.

Just thought you'd like to know...