Intelligent Thoughts and Other Insightful Comments

As you probably know climate change has been a hot topic (pun intended) as of late. From Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth, which has been almost as big as Al's waistline and Nancy Pelosi's proposals to make the Congress "green" to name the first two that came to my mind.

Sounds good to me, imagine a barbecue with Polar Bears! The second benefit of global warming is it will curb the Earth's burgeoning population. (yeah!) The melting of the ice caps means the oceans will rise and every coastal area will be flooded. But don't worry America with are financial resources we will be able to build dikes, damns, and levys to protect places of importance like New York or San Fransisco, just the Dutch do to protect their country now.

See Al Gore should support global warming because with its help he could make a successful bid for the presidency. Which may or may not be the third benefit of global warming depending on your political views. I hope this interesting and uplifting not to mention unbiased and factual article helps you better understand the allegedly bad phenomenon that is global warming.

If you have watched any television in the last year, you have probably seen a Burger King commercial. Not that I have anything against Burger King, but their commercials are just plain creepy. In one of the commercials "The King appears by your bedroom window and is staring in on you. (note Exhibit A)

Exhibit A: The King Staring in your Bedroom Window

As if this wasn't scary enough. I am pretty sure I would be bothered if a giant plastic humanoid was peeping into my bedroom, but then "the King actually enters the room and positions himself next to you on the bed. (note Exhibit B)

Exhibit B: "the King" on your bed

Its not bad enough that "the King" is a peeping Tom, but he is also a sexual predator. I am not sure if this is conducive to selling burgers, but obvious I am not a marketing rep. for Burger King. Just to show that is not just my weird distorted view of the world ruining Burger King I will present the view point of a third party:

In the blogsphere and at barbeques around the U.S., the debate over the Burger King goes something like this:

“He’s cool. He’s there when you need him,” says the guy.“He’s creepy. He’s a stalker. He freaks me out,” says the girl.

-The Burger King Stalks Us

Actually, the main reason for adding that was I thought that the dialogue between "guy" and "girl" was funny not really necessary.

As I was perusing my favorite web-based media source, which is jihadwatch.org, of course I stumbled across this quote:

"Meanwhile, corrupt Iraqi officials are pocketing the pay of thousands of ghost' policemen and soldiers who exist only on paper, a senior US officer claimed yesterday."

This got me thinking just a little bit about similar situations a bit closer to home. Such as at my high school, which has long since adopted a "ghost" policy. The only difference between the Iraqis and my school is that we pay janitors that are essentially ghosts, or at least that's what their quality of work would suggest. Unlike most workers our janitors do not clean the floors that responsibility is left up to students looking to "suck up" to the faculty. Well, you might be thinking that the janitors are busy with other kinds of work like emptying trash or cleaning bathrooms. Its true the janitors do empty the trash once its overflowing anyways. A for the bathrooms I am not sure they realize that Highland has bathrooms its got to be that or possibly they do not realize its their responsibility to keep the lavatories sanitary. This reminds me of Iraq too. Apparently in Iraq it is not common practice for police officers to refrain from partaking in sectarian violence (sort of like the janitors who also disregard their duties).

Why should be surprised by such antics (or antigonics) in Iraq, since we do the same things right here in the US of A.

Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, at the Tory party conference in the UK: “We have 35 million blogs, doubling every six months. The average blog has exactly one reader: the blogger.

Unlike many other blogs that have an average readership of one person, which according to Mr. Schmidt is the blogger himself. At Intelligent-Thoughts we beat that average by at least 200% because we have picked up a second reader in addition to the publisher who occasionally reads the blog. Upon further reflection, I feel blogs are not supposed to be read (unless you later kill a bunch of people and commit suicide, in which case the FBI reads it to profile you) because raving techno-nerds have very little worth writing. Since I realize this sad fact, I am infinitely superior to the rest because I know my blog does not matter. Intelligent-Thoughts just provides me a place to write opinionated rants (since Wikipedia kicked me out) and the occasionally witty comment on life.

These are Intelligent-Thoughts visitor statistics since we began tracking them last July. Note the downward trend. (Red is unique visitors and blue is page views.)

It used to be that you could only buy, sell, and trade stocks of public held companies. Then somebody decided that wasn't enough so then you could buy and sell the likelihood of so and so celebrities next visit to jail or death. Then the weather was added in case you couldn't your capitalist fix from all these other markets. Today you can trade political futures as though they were stocks, not just place bets on Al Gore running, but actually trade him like a Fortune 500 company (He is, physically, big enough to be traded like a Fortune 500 stock). Crazy huh?

I am not against doing this since its quite addictive (I would know), often more accurate than polls of any kind (including exit), and you can make money doing it. The last of these reasons I think is the best because what is more American than trying to make money? If George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and of course Alexander Hamilton were around today they'd open brokerage firms. I throughly recommend it for anyone who is a political junky. To find some just google "political markets" because there are too many websites to list.

As I write this exciting document I am killing time in my 6th hour class. Rather than actually teach the class through lectures, readings, or discussions my teacher has chosen to give the class another day to "prepare" for our skits, songs, or poems. These creative pieces will detail America's struggles with the civil rights movement, Latino rights, American Indian rights, and last, but certainly not least gay rights.

Naturally, the gay rightgs movement should be explained through a fabolously creative skit or song, but some of these other movements probably do not require such exotic portrayals. So as my classmates "diligently" work on their presentations I will continue to lament the wasted time in my school year, which is rapidly coming to amend.

To my non-existent readers I apologize for not posting anything for the last several months, which probably led to me losing what few if any readers that I had.