Well, actually my comment is about another comment. Here is that comment:

On 2/3/10 at 06:35 AM, Deja_View wrote:

Mr. Myers can stand in defiance of history and say what he wants (which, just happens to be guaranteed by a long list of CHRISTIAN founders and leaders). His buddies, the godless communists who have murdered hundreds of millions in the name of atheism during the 20th century alone, are pleased to see this fool get an audience in one of taxpayer supported institutions of "learning".

Mr. Myers, who apparently believes everyone ELSE is wrong, is nothing but a hate-filled, attention-seeking, anarchist. Mr. Myers is asking others to break laws, violently disrespect the property and beliefs of millions of good citizens, and show his brand of ignorant hatred for what HE doesn't understand. No one should be fooled by this kind of elitist naziism. Mr Myers is exactly the same person who convinced Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Pol Pot, and others that the world should either believe like him or be destroyed. Yes, he has inside him just what he denies exists --- the soul of Satan.

First Example, Gambling in Ohio:
There have been a number of issues on the ballot here in Ohio over the last few years about legalizing gambling. Personally I think this is a fine idea, put in something resembling the liquor control board: license it, tax it, police it. The people that want to gamble can and they can do so legally, fairly and the state can get some revenue out of it. Everyone wins.

Well the versions of the bills that have been on the ballot are nowhere near that simple. One of the first ones would have setup a monopoly. The latest one (that did finally pass) specifies only a few specific places that a specific type of casino can be built.

We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.

The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturing, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

How do I feel about it? I think it a bit facetious but the Nobel Board always goes their own way. Not like I dis-agree with the choice, but I'm not sure President Obama was the number one person on the planet promoting peace, definitely in the top ten though. Perhaps they thought he was was the number one unappreciated peace worker? Most needing of an "atta-boy"?

I do like the fact it will piss off the far right, so that has massive chuckle points there!

Some of the best quotes I've seen so far:

P.Z. Myers on Pharyngula:
"...but I guess all you have to do is follow after Bush and not blow anything up for a year, and presto, you look like Gandhi."

Seen on Facebook:
"Reason for President Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize? They couldn't award his predecessor Nobel War Prize."

Jeff Fecke on Alas, a blog:
"I don’t know if Barack Obama deserves the Nobel Peace Prize quite yet, and I’m actually serious when I say he won it in no small part for simply not being George W. Bush — for seeking to reengage with the world in the sort of way that decent, non-rogue countries do. That said, who cares? What’s fun is that this sets up the sort of massive, overwhelming, out-of-control right-wing freakout that money can’t buy."

It's a bit too long as well as a bit too academic for you to send to your average far-right friend or confused moderate. But it does give you a concise education on the actual meaning of the word "socialism", it's historical uses (& mis-uses).

Mo and I logged about 4,000 miles in 10 days on our trusty Honda steeds!

I will try to get pictures from the other cameras soon (or links to them).

Even more so as of late.

Yes, GM and Chrysler have done some Less-Than-Smart things. But their down turns have been pretty much on par with all the other auto manufacturers out there.