THE WORLD IS CHANGING

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus and the world is already changing from the bleak one we faced the last eight years. Today on BBC, the news included Odd Box...the week's weirdest videos. It has been a long time since I have seen such silliness on the front page of the BBC News.

AOL even had offered weird news.
The first story is about a man who attacked a Christmas Tree.
One of the pictures shows men volunteers
making kimchi for disaster victims.










Maybe some of the world is trying,unable to change.



Lastly, Bush, perhaps for fear he will be forgotten as our worst President, is making sure he will be remembered by this last environmental, midnight, stamp on Appalachia. "The Washington Post confirmed today that a ruling was approved to make it easier for coal companies to dump the rock and dirt waste that is blown off the tops of mountains in "mountaintop removal" (or MTR) coal mining into streams and valleys:

The rule is one of the most contentious of all the regulations emerging from the White House in President Bush's last weeks in office ...

A coalition of environmental groups said the rule would accelerate "the destruction of mountains, forests and streams throughout Appalachia."

Edward C. Hopkins, a policy analyst at the Sierra Club, said: "The E.P.A.'s own scientists have concluded that dumping mining waste into streams devastates downstream water quality. By signing off on this rule, the agency has abdicated its responsibility." "

Clearly, there are good and bad changes happening. The majority of the country who voted Obama in are hoping for the pendulum to swing to most of the changes being good ones and sliding us further away from the slope of the same simple-minded behavior the Taliban showed when it blasted the irreplaceable Buddha statues in Afghanistan to bits. Bush will soon be replaced, but the lives he has cost and the environmental chaos he has allowed, cannot. How sad that so many people see green only in currency rather than appreciating what Nature has for us to survive on. Without it, we will all die, wealthy or poor. Bush's legacy will be the toxicity he has fostered in relationship to the rest of the world, divisiveness within our own country, a two class system, destruction to so many of our resources, and many more insults to the world he was given when he took office.