Lock your car..take the keys...
Seems like simple advice but car and truck and motorcycle thieves are a busy bunch. Figures show almost 22 hundred vehicles were swiped across Ohio in the first three months of this year.
69 were taken in Mahoning County.. 39 in Trumbull County..
The most stolen vehicles here are the Trailblazer and and Buick LeSabre..
State troopers say most times the vehicles are sold to raise drug money.
That's gotta be a sick feeling in the pit of your stomach when you come outside to find your ride has been taken.
And the figures don't offer alot of hope. Of some 21-hundred stolen.. the patrol recovered 188.
So..take your keys..lock the door but realize if someone really wants your car..they'll find a way to take it.
I'm about to burn my copy of "An Inconvenient Truth". You may recall that's the Al Gore tome on global warming.
Hard to convince us in Northeast Ohio after having just lived through the snowiest winter ever recorded here with a snowfall of just over 102 inches. The year before the winter hit 90-some inches.
Like I told Mangino the other morning..I'm going to get a bigger snowblower next season. I'll be shopping for the Union Pacific Donner Pass model. That should do it.
But reports persist of how this "warming" is screwing everything up. Cherry trees in Japan are blooming earlier each year...other plants are flowering earlier and earlier in the U-S and Europe.
I f that's so then why can't I after 30 years still not manage to coax some grass to grow in one bare spot area of my lawn?
Years ago we had an East Ohio Gas Company weather card in the newsroom and it posted a six inch snowfall on one date in early June 1966. To the best of my memory that hasn't happened since.
Now was that because of...global warming...or because the goofy weather in the Mahoning Valley hasn't cycled that way for a while??
Do you really want to know?
There was a report recenty of several emerging companies that will..for a fee..review your DNA and tell you what ails you. Or what will.
It takes about a half teaspoon of saliva you gather at home to be sent away to be tested. Then in a few weeks you get a report back that supposedly tells you what might be in your future such as heart disease or alzheimer's.
One company reportedly was charging $999 for the procedure.
Doesn't that open a pandora's box of possibilities?
If you're told you have Alzheimer's in your genes...what can you do about it? When should you start doing anything about it? What's next? A pre-screen from an insurance company or a nursing home offering coverage or a place to stay when you mind finally goes? Or a rejection notice from the health coverage plan at work because you're apt to get sick?
Right now the tests are just about unregulated and who knows whether they're really accurate...
Maybe somethings are best left unsaid..or unkown.
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