It’s funny how you learn things and how things change.
Take for instance Pluto. The “scientists” now are saying that Pluto is not a planet. Oh yeah? Pluto is too a planet! Just ask any school kid and they will recite - My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas. It’s the planet roll call: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
When I was homeschooling my 2 boys I taught them the names of Great Lakes by the song, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. I guess now I will have to worry that some scientist will say that one of those really isn’t a “great” lake for some stupid reason.
These scientists love to make wild claims and try to make a theory a fact. Like the one about how they can tell what a planet is composed of by it’s color. B.S. They have never been there and it could be that there are other things in the universe that are red, yellow or blue that haven’t been discovered yet. But to hear them tell it - it is fact.
And global warming. Now it is all in the news that we are going to burn up. I say B.S. to that too. You see, I have lived long enough to remember when they were saying just the opposite - that we were all going to freeze with global cooling. Come on guys, you can’t have it both ways. We all even gave up our hairspray for it! (and that was when we had those hairdos that needed it)
I saw a program the other day where they are trying to prove that the Loch Ness Monster does not exist. Durn it, leave Nessie alone. Is nothing sacred? We need to have things like that in our lives. Things that maybe can’t be proven but we kinda want to believe it is there. A faith in something wonderful.
You can read where huge grants are given to scientists to find out why a bull frog croaks when it rains. Who cares? Is it going to change the world? Couldn’t the money be used for something more productive?
I am tired of scientists. In my world there is a Nessie and a planet Pluto and the earth heating and cooling is just nature and the way things have always been - not some global catastrophe. Frankly I wish the scientists would just give it a rest with all their theories on what is and what isn’t!
Why don’t they put their efforts into something good - something that will help us. You know, like Tang, lol. Use your science to find cures to heal and quit worrying about why a bullfrog croaks at night!
hums to herself….
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee…
Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
In the ruins of her ice water mansion
Old Michigan steams like a young man’s dreams,
The islands and bays are for sportsmen.
And farther below Lake Ontario
Takes in what Lake Erie can send her
And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
With the gales of November remembered.
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T-shirts about current events.
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