Echoes in Eternity

Minnesota Public Radio has a survey on its website that allows you to answer a few questions on your political beliefs and then it shows you how you match up with all of the presidential candidates. My results? Not including Tom Tancredo or Duncan Hunter (since both don't have a chance of winning), the candidate that best matched my views is Fred Thompson.

Well, almost 6 months since I first put up the "Draft Fred Thompson" logo on this blog, Mr. Thompson has finally joined the Presidential race. And in that time, nothing about his past has surfaced to make me seriously reconsider voting for him if given the chance. If he wins the Republican nomination, I'll probably dissect some of his positions on here for those who might be interested.

Fred Thompson was on the Paul Harvey show last week and had this to say about the global warming craze:

Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. It seems scientists have noticed recently that quite a few planets in our solar system seem to be heating up a bit, including Pluto.
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This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists who run their air-conditioning at 60 degrees and refuse to recycle.

Silly, I know, but I wonder what all those planets, dwarf planets and moons in our SOLAR system have in common. Hmmmm. SOLAR system. Hmmmm. Solar? I wonder. Nah, I guess we shouldn’t even be talking about this. The science is absolutely decided. There’s a consensus.

Ask Galileo.