Lech Kaczynski

The President of Poland, Lech Kaczynski, and his wife perished in a plane crash early this morning. The accident didn't need to happen. It seems the pilot disregarded instructions from the control tower at Smolensk (Russia) which advised him to land at the Minsk or Moscow airports, which are not all that far from Smolensk. The military airstrip where he was to land was shrouded in fog and visibility was near zero. Why did he take such a big risk? Was he trying to show off? On January 10, 2010, a similar fate befell Moises Saba Masri because his helicopter pilot was flying in dense fog near Mexico City. Of course we don't want to always be scared of what might happen but taking unnecessary risks is not a good thing, especially if your passengers include the President of a country.

Construction business

As you know - I'm sure you do - many businesses sometimes benefit from the urgent needs of others. Doctors do, nurses, paramedics, ambulance services, funeral homes - you get the picture. A business that is sure to be in demand is construction and all construction suppliers. Why? It seems to me that destructive earthquakes and floods are becoming more and more numerous. The more they destroy, the more rebuilding needs to be done. Food suppliers also make extra money after disasters, especially when crops are destroyed. A word to the wise as they say.

Fairy tale

It has been a while - perhaps a month since I last came by here. I read a short article the other day about some anthropologist who has been doing research for a long, long time into how monkeys live. The purpose of all the studying is supposedly to figure out how the knowledge gained can be applied to human behavior. I think the real purpose is to earn a paycheck so that the anthropologist can buy groceries. This person - it is to be expected - is a believer in the fairy tale called evolution. The human race has been carrying this albatross around its neck long enough. I am not God's advocate - He does not need one - but if you just think about how every species - whether animal, plant, or human - procreates, the existence of a Supreme Being is entirely undeniable. If anyone has faith in the falsehood we call evolution, it is only because they want to - there is truly no evidence to support it. It is all conjecture. One cannot believe that the Jupiter Symphony exists and then say that Mozart didn't write it. Please.