More American Follies!

There were three items I read this morning that made me wonder.....

* Emergency Officials for the State of Virginia have requested $200,000 from the Department of Homeland Security, for assistance in developing evacuation plans - for pets - in case of a catastrophe in that state.

( Hmmmm: The "practice drills" for this should be interesting! I can hear the announcement now...."Please leave the State immediately for your alternative destinations! DO NOT bring your pets! They have separate alternative routes! )

* Legislation has been introduced in California by pro-environmental legislators, that would ban incandescent light bulbs in favor of the "more efficient, spiral shaped" fluorescent light bulbs.

(That underground rumbling/spinning sound you may have heard near West Orange, NJ ... that was Thomas Edison.)

* Jermaine Jackson told the BBC recently that Michael Jackson is considering a conversion to Islam! Jermaine, a Muslim who lives in Bahrain, had his brother living with him for a while after Michael fled the United States. "Michael, I feel needs to become a Muslim because I think it's a great protection for him from all the things that he's been attacked for - which are false. There's a strength and protection there," Jermaine told the BBC Asian reporter from his home.)

(I'm torn on this one.... On the one hand I worry about Michael's fair skin in that dry arid place! On the other hand I'm thinking about what's running through the minds of the mullah's in Bahrain ...."Oh great - a gloved pedophile, just what Islam needs!)

Quem Deus vult perdere, prius dementat