I was hoping to eat out tonight, but heard that there was a big ice storm coming, so we cancelled our plans. The bad weather has started, so I guess it was the smart thing to do. I’m glad I had re-stocked the pantry with food, and put studded snow tires on the car, and gassed up the chain saw. I think we’re going to need it! Thank goodness for our generator and our wood stove; I’m sure they will come in handy. I’m anticipating that if the power goes out, several of our neighbors will be coming over and staying with us, so I’ve made sure to have all of the guest accommodations ready - just in case. I hope we don’t lose the Internet connection!
Well, I guess the guy’s not made out of Teflon after all - he finally got jail time for one of his crimes! I was never convinced of his innocence in the murder of his wife - I thought that case was badly bungled. So I have to say that I was pleased that he finally got jail time for SOMETHING! I hope they don’t put him in one of those prisons that are really “cushy” prisons, and that he actually does some real soul-searching while he is in there.
I read on the news today from Amnesty International’s website that Iran has announced that it will stop executing children. That kind of surprised me because I did not realize that Iran executed children the first place! The article continues to explain that this may not apply to children who are convicted of murder, but that in most cases where a child has already been sentenced to execution their sentences will be commuted to life in prison instead.
I don’t know what other crimes a child would have/could have committed to get a death sentence other than murder! I have to say that the customs of other countries when it comes to legal issues sometimes really amaze me!
I’ve been hearing on CNN that there has been some controversy in Michigan about a high ranked Republican official who was mis-quoted as saying that he was going to try to prevent people who lost their homes to foreclosure from voting. That has caused quite an uproar, as you can imagine! When I heard the news at first I missed part of the story, so I wasn’t sure where this was happening. But today I heard more of the story and apparently it was in Michigan. After all of the brouhaha had settled down, the gist of the story is that if someone has lost their home to foreclosure and no longer lives in the same precinct as he did when he registered, then he can’t vote. But that really has nothing to do with foreclosure, it has to do with voting in the precinct in which you actually live!
So this is one story that may have been blown out of proportion (imagine that!)
I was reading on the Time.com website that scientists have discovered an area in Utah where there is a concentration of dinosaur footprints (and possibly tail drag marks) that are so closely concentrated together that they have decided to call it a “dinosaur dance floor.” The theory is that the area was an oasis in a desert so many dinosaurs went there for water. The scientists say that many of the footprints were originally thought to be simply “potholes” but were recently discovered to have toe and heel prints. The site is along the Arizona-Utah border, in a protected wilderness area. Good thing it’s in a protected wilderness area! They should have plenty of time to research that area without worrying about commercialism paving it over!