Splain this

Just a few questions and observations:

--I have seen the new sign of the apocalypse.  It is the Oreo Triple Threat; no, it's not enough to simply have double-stuff cookies.  Now, two of those are melded together, an inspired thumb in the eye of all the nannies out there whining about the "epidemic" of obesity.  Nothing says American excess quite like taking a single cookie packed with sugar and doubling it.  Besides, an "epidemic" is not caused by self-inflicted activity.  

--On the eve of the 10th anniversay of 9/11, I heard New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg justify the omission of clergy from tomorrow's ceremony by referring to the "separation" clause in the Constitution.   Just one problem; there is no such clause in the Constitution and shouldn't the chief executive of the nation's largest city know that?  I get the rationale for Bloomberg's decision; if you let in one priest, rabbi, or imam, you have to let in all of them.  The Baptists, Methodists, Hindus, Buddhists, and quite possibly the atheists, will want their voice represented, too.  Besides, it is a memorial service, not a prayer meeting. 

--The new govt talking point is infrastructure..it's falling apart, we need to fix it, blah blah blah.  What has happened to revenue from the gas tax, which goes to every state plus the feds and is suppposed to be a dedicated source of funding for street and road projects?  We don't have an infrastructure problem, we have a how-govt-spends-money problem.  Last I checked, gas prices are not going down and people are not driving less.  So, the money should be there.  Well, is it? 

--Where I live, the weather folks recorded record or near-record highs about a month ago, and now the forecast mentions record or near-record lows.  The scaremongers will say "climate change" since global warming cannot apply to low temperatures.  Of course, that same crowd will point to man as the cause, something NO bit of science has been able to accomplish.  That climate changes is a given; that man causes it is a belief and the mere repetition of opinion does not turn it into fact.