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OPINION
Citizens’ Adforate • March 17, 2006 PAGE 2
Another View
------- by Jean Murph
44
The number or rather the age 44 kept popping up at me this week from the
newspaper. Enough so that it made an impression.
Barack Obama, 44, was featured in USA Today as an upcoming bright
leader in the U.S. Senate who is leading reform efforts. For example, he gave
up the perk of flying on corporate jets to work-related events, as many politi-
cians do, even though he had reimbursed the plane's owner at first class rates.
"This is an example where appearances matter. Very few of my constitu-
ents have a chance to travel on a corporate jet," he said.
Andrew Fastow, 44, former chief financial officer at Enron before its col-
lapse, is testifying in a trial in Houston, already having confessed to creating
schemes that resulted in millions of dollars to him. He agreed to serve at least
10 years in prison and testify in the case as part of a plea bargain. Who knows
if he is to be trusted now. Meanwhile, his kids will be college age when he
finally returns.
Dana Reeve, 44, wife of actor Christopher Reeve, who cared for her
husband after his spinal cord injury until his death a year ago, died March 8
from lung cancer that had been diagnosed only seven months before. She had
never smoked. Reeve had actively championed efforts to promote spinal cord
injury research, in addition to being an actress and vocalist.
A member of our own Coppell community died last week at 44.
Forty-four years. It's simply not a very long life.
You can succeed, you can fail, and, unfortunately, you can die.
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(Dog) Gone.
But Not
Forgotten!
O By McKinsey
In 1898, the USS Kentucky became
the first American battleship to
make extensive use of electricity and
provide ventilation below decks.
In 1933, a woman named Ruth
Wakefield invented the chocolate
chip cookie.
In 1938, public health specialist
Morton Levin reported the results
of a ten-year study in which he
concluded among those who
Yeah, yeah...I like mookies"
better, too. But his daddy
owns the company. We’ll
have to live with "vitamins.
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In 1911, the word “vitamins” was first used to describe
chemicals needed in a human’s everyday diet.
smoked a pack of cigarettes a day,
the relative risk of lung cancer was
ten times as high as among those
who did not smoke.
By Roger S. Kellett, Coppell
Global warming? It’s more like “Glo-
bal Swarming:” around our wallets. I’ll
get to that in a little bit.
But first let us spend a moment on
the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection
Agreement. I am almost certain that the
Mayors of 150 cities across the country
have only the best interests of their elec-
torate at the core of their agendas. Just
like all of our politicians, right?
Just for a moment, lose all touch with
your senses and assume this reality.
With no valid scientific input and moun-
tains of fanfare, the Mayors have agreed
to do what, exactly? Through implemen-
tation of the Kyoto protocols, they have
agreed to reduce emissions of green-
house gasses (read: use of energy) by
30 to 45 percent in their respective mu-
nicipalities. Details to follow.
Practically, what Kyoto calls for is
all governments to constrain energy use...
and of course our paltry 5 percent of the
world’s population in the U.S. is supposed
to respond with 98 percent of the world’s
i guilt for being (the) wealthiest and duti-
fully sign on. The U.S. federal govern-
ment rightly refused to participate in this
agreement and the economically non-
competitive socialists in Europe were all
atwitter at our guiltless, immoral behav-
ior. America didn’t sign on for three
simple reasons: Kyoto solves a non-
problem, it runs counter to our market
economy and it would make us less com-
petitive in the global economy, i.e. more
like France and Germany.
Global warming it turns out doesn’t
Opinion
Disbelief on Global Warming
that change couldn’t have been due to a
greenhouse effect; the U.S. industrial base
could not have pumped enough additive
carbon dioxide in the air by then. Even
more staggering, current planetary tem-
peratures as measured by satellites and
weather balloons are considerably below
their average for the last two decades.
It’s time for Chicken Little to clam up and
take a reality check.
True, in DFW we have an ozone
“problem.” When I was a kid it was called
“haze.” It is nothing new; it lasts about
eight to 10 hours on about 20 days a year.
Mathematically that’s about two tenths of
one percent of a year. What is new is
that it’s on the local news. “Hide the chil-
dren and the aged, the ozone is coming,
the ozone is coming...” We could salve
this “problem” in DFW, but then DFW
would be a rather inconvenient and ex-
pensive place to live after we figure out
how to suspend all commerce and traffic
on “ozone days,” basically shutting the
place down.
Just stop and think for a minute. What
are we, the lowly laity, supposed to think
when highly credentialed people warn of
peril and the need to spare our children
from a dark, unbearably cataclysmic fu-
ture. Ask yourself other than just high
moral goodness, what could possibly mo-
tivate them? Answer: They need you to
pay their freight.
Problems in the world? You bet?
Nothing new there. What is new is that
over the course of unwritten and written
history, there has never ever, ever been a
better time to be a human. So for just a
few minutes each day: enjoy your wine,
really exist. What is real is that there is
no warming trend in the U.S. over the
last 80 years. Summer temperatures did
warm a little bit from 1900 to 1930, but
tell your kids you love them, and for cry-
ing out loud, stop all the hand-wringing.
All you get is today and whatever the good
Lord gives after that.
CORRECTION: Last week’s March 10, 2006 article on Coppell’s sales tax
rebate inadvertently listed the sales tax rebate for the City of Dallas. The correct
amount is in a reprinted article on page 5. We regret the error.
A gymnast included in a March 10 photo was incorrectly identified. Her
correct name is Jessica Wallander and is pictured along with Anna Goldblatt.
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