Cannon makes finals in Houston
It wasn’t exactly the way Clint Cannon wanted things to go, but given the injuries he is recovering from, his eighth place finish in the barebacks at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo isn’t anything to complain about.
Cannon is a fierce competitor and I’m sure he’s disappointed in the way things went. Still, he can cry a river in his root beer with the five grand he earned. It’s only about $54,000 less than he made last year when he won it all in Houston, but it still beats what most of his competitors made.
Cannon’s friend and protégé, Steven Peebles of Redmond, Ore., won the finals with a score of 90, but his $12,000 in earnings was only good enough to rank fourth. Ryan Gray of Cheney, Wash., was the big money-winner and bareback champion with $55,350. Cannon still has them both beat with the records he set last year with a score of 92 and earnings of $59,500.
I had a lot of fun following Cannon around at the rodeo a couple weeks ago while working on last week’s story about what he goes through to get ready to ride. Of course, it goes to figure that the Houston Chronicle came out with a cover story about him in their Health section that same day. Oh well, such is life.
It’s been great getting to know Cannon and his brother Kirby. They’re good people. Waller County is fortunate to have the Cannon clan here.
Obamacare
It was a sad day in America on Sunday when the Senate finally passed the $938 billion health care bill, essentially beginning the transformation of the United States from a democratic republic into a socialist nation.
Apparently our president thinks that privilege of having health insurance should be a right of all the people and that hard-working citizens should foot the bill for those who don’t contribute their share. Obama has elevated the art of being a tax-and-spend liberal to that of a tax-and-give-it-away liberal. It falls into line with his bailouts and stimulus spending.
If we thought the bursting of the real estate and dot-com bubbles were bad, just wait until this debt he has us in catches up to us. I’m no economist, but I’m smart enough to know that when you spend a lot more than you make, there’s going to be trouble.
I’m all for helping those in need and making health care more affordable, but how much good will this so-called Obamacare do anyone when the economy is in shambles and no one can afford it?
Dino doom
I read something recently about how an international panel of scientists has “officially” determined that an asteroid smashing into the earth 65 million years ago caused the mass extinction of the dinosaurs.
OK, if you say so. I don’t agree with that. I think their timing is off by about 64,990,000 years. I have a theory that makes a lot more sense to me. If you take the biblical story of creation and compare it with the physical evidence of an asteroid strike, it lines up nicely with the events of Noah’s flood.
If you read Genesis 1:6-10, you see that on the second day, God separated the waters so that there was water above and below. The water below was parted to create land – one large land mass. I believe the waters above formed a kind of canopy around the earth, leaving everything under it in kind of a tropical utopia. I think that when God flooded the earth, he did it by sending an asteroid (or similar heavenly body) to crash through the water canopy and slam into the land. I think that caused the canopy to burst and start the 40 days of rain that flooded the planet. I also think that the impact of the object on land caused it to break up and the plates begin to drift apart.
To my untrained eye, the world’s mountain ranges look to me like they were formed as the result of those tectonic plates colliding and causing a rumpling, kind of like the hood of a car in a crash. That makes more sense to me than a lot of unexplained geologic uplift.
As for the flood, if you think about lesser-able forms of life being buried first, followed by those more “advanced” forms that could fend for themselves a little longer, you get a fairly good explanation for the fossil record.
That’s my story, anyway, and I’m sticking to it.
Cannon is a fierce competitor and I’m sure he’s disappointed in the way things went. Still, he can cry a river in his root beer with the five grand he earned. It’s only about $54,000 less than he made last year when he won it all in Houston, but it still beats what most of his competitors made.
Cannon’s friend and protégé, Steven Peebles of Redmond, Ore., won the finals with a score of 90, but his $12,000 in earnings was only good enough to rank fourth. Ryan Gray of Cheney, Wash., was the big money-winner and bareback champion with $55,350. Cannon still has them both beat with the records he set last year with a score of 92 and earnings of $59,500.
I had a lot of fun following Cannon around at the rodeo a couple weeks ago while working on last week’s story about what he goes through to get ready to ride. Of course, it goes to figure that the Houston Chronicle came out with a cover story about him in their Health section that same day. Oh well, such is life.
It’s been great getting to know Cannon and his brother Kirby. They’re good people. Waller County is fortunate to have the Cannon clan here.
Obamacare
It was a sad day in America on Sunday when the Senate finally passed the $938 billion health care bill, essentially beginning the transformation of the United States from a democratic republic into a socialist nation.
Apparently our president thinks that privilege of having health insurance should be a right of all the people and that hard-working citizens should foot the bill for those who don’t contribute their share. Obama has elevated the art of being a tax-and-spend liberal to that of a tax-and-give-it-away liberal. It falls into line with his bailouts and stimulus spending.
If we thought the bursting of the real estate and dot-com bubbles were bad, just wait until this debt he has us in catches up to us. I’m no economist, but I’m smart enough to know that when you spend a lot more than you make, there’s going to be trouble.
I’m all for helping those in need and making health care more affordable, but how much good will this so-called Obamacare do anyone when the economy is in shambles and no one can afford it?
Dino doom
I read something recently about how an international panel of scientists has “officially” determined that an asteroid smashing into the earth 65 million years ago caused the mass extinction of the dinosaurs.
OK, if you say so. I don’t agree with that. I think their timing is off by about 64,990,000 years. I have a theory that makes a lot more sense to me. If you take the biblical story of creation and compare it with the physical evidence of an asteroid strike, it lines up nicely with the events of Noah’s flood.
If you read Genesis 1:6-10, you see that on the second day, God separated the waters so that there was water above and below. The water below was parted to create land – one large land mass. I believe the waters above formed a kind of canopy around the earth, leaving everything under it in kind of a tropical utopia. I think that when God flooded the earth, he did it by sending an asteroid (or similar heavenly body) to crash through the water canopy and slam into the land. I think that caused the canopy to burst and start the 40 days of rain that flooded the planet. I also think that the impact of the object on land caused it to break up and the plates begin to drift apart.
To my untrained eye, the world’s mountain ranges look to me like they were formed as the result of those tectonic plates colliding and causing a rumpling, kind of like the hood of a car in a crash. That makes more sense to me than a lot of unexplained geologic uplift.
As for the flood, if you think about lesser-able forms of life being buried first, followed by those more “advanced” forms that could fend for themselves a little longer, you get a fairly good explanation for the fossil record.
That’s my story, anyway, and I’m sticking to it.
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