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March 30, 2008
An exercise in futility.
Here.
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March 28, 2008
Just one more proof to reprove "Global Warming" zealotry.
"Global warming 55 million years ago suggests a high climate sensitivity to carbon dioxide, according to research led by Mark Pagani, associate professor of geology and geophysics at Yale and published in the December 8 issue of Science."
(Emphasis Mine, Source.)
Why don't you believe in "global warming?" you ask. Here's why. What cannot have happened 55 million years ago, cannot suggest anything.
Oh, I believe in factual global warming. I'm dang certain the earth is gonna get hotter. Nearly hot as hell. And soon.
It just ain't gonna happen how or why everybody thinks it is.
*HT to True Anomaly for making me remember.
UPDATE:
LOL! Apparently I must still believe the earth is flat. I am part of a "tiny, tiny minority." It's irrelevant, I suppose, that a minority like this hasn't existed since about 3 B.C.**
**My apologies to readers outside of Tennessee; if any. We are not all as confused as our former Vice President.
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March 26, 2008
Wealth, Sewage, and Sewerage.
"Wealth brings affluence; sewage is effluence."
(Source)
Just thought you'd like to know. Although, being a plumber, I do have one further thought to add:
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March 20, 2008
Trial of the Witnesses of the Ressurection of Jesus.
Thomas Sherlock wrote a great book. Here's an excerpt.
"The alterations which have happened in the doctrines and practices of churches, since the Christian religion was settled by those who had an authentick commission to settle it, are quite out of the question, when the inquiry is about the truth of the Christian religion.
Christ and his Apostles did not vouch for the truth of all that should be taught in the church in future times; nay, they foretold and fore warned the world against such corrupt teachers.
It is therefore absurd to challenge the religion of Christ, because of the corruptions which have spread among Christians. The gospel has no more concern with them, and ought no more to be charged with them, than with the doctrines of the Alcoran."
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March 17, 2008
Of politicians and plumbers.
"Hath not a plumber eyes? Hath not a politician hands? Is not a financier warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you tickle a psycho-analyst, does he not laugh? If you poison reviewers, do they not die?"
Great questions, all.
(Source : "On Haberdashers," an essay from "I for one," by J.B. Priestly; an interesting author I was introduced to by a gentleman I met while performing a plumbing repair.)
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Seattle billboards are making some people mad.
They each read:
"When you cast your vote, remember September 11, 2001."
"If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free. --P.J. O'Rourke."
"Universal Healthcare=Socialized Medicine. Universal Healthcare will be compulsory 'There ain't no free lunch'."
"I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. --Winston Churchill."
The small print at the bottom reads:
"Paid for by Concerned Citizens for a better America."
But according to Robert Colaco, national chairman of Citizens for a better America, "...it's not us, and I'm not a happy camper about it."
More information here. Originally found here.
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March 16, 2008
Is anyone else having a problem with Firefox when they try to access Chattablogs?
Just curious. 'Cause I am.
I can only access Chattablogs with IE--which I dislike--and then can only do so every once and a while.
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Blogging from the Waffle House on my new laptop.
That's right. I've got signal again. But it might be because my new laptop has a better wifi card.
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March 14, 2008
News Items: Pacemakers; Al-Qaeda; Liberia and Cannibalism; Obama's Pastor.
First up, pacemakers: apparently they can be hacked.
Next, Al-Qaeda gives an ultimatum:
"Al-Qaeda's North African wing has given Austria three days to secure the release of some of its members held in Algeria and Tunisia in return for two Austrian hostages it is holding. The group said in a statement posted on an Islamist website that it had informed the Austrian government of the ultimatum, which will start at midnight on Thursday, without giving a time zone. 'Austria would be responsible for the lives of the two hostages should the deadline come and our demands are not met," it said, adding that the demands and a list of the names of the prisoners were sent to Vienna through unidentified mediators."
There is only one proper response to a threat like this: swift and violent deadly force.
Next, "Former Liberian President Charles Taylor ordered his militias to eat the flesh of captured enemies and UN soldiers..." (Source.)
Yikes.
Finally, a look at Obama's pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. He is quoted as saying, among other things, "God damn America."
"In addition to damning America, he told his congregation on the Sunday after Sept. 11, 2001 that the United States had brought on al Qaeda's attacks because of its own terrorism. 'We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye,' Rev. Wright said in a sermon on Sept. 16, 2001."
(Source.)
I didn't know about the absurdity of that man until I watched a video of him over at Anthony's, which can be found here. The man is obviously clinically insane.
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March 12, 2008
Chesterton Thursdays, VII.
"What I venture to criticize in certain men, whom some call scientists and I call materialists, is their perpetual use of Mythology. One half of what they say is so true as to be trite; the other half of what they say is so untrue as to be transparent. But they cover both their platitudes and their pretenses by an elaborate parade of legendary and allegorical images. I read this in some remarks on Darwinism by one of the last surviving Darwinians:
"Among the individuals of every species there goes on, as Malthus had realised, a competition of struggle for the means of life, and Nature selects the individuals which vary in the most successful direction."
Now when men of the old religions said that God chose a people and raised up a prophet, at least they meant something; and they meant what they said. They meant that a being with a mind and a will used them in an act of selection. But who is Nature, and how does she, or he, or it, manage to select anything or anybody? All that the writer actually has to say is that some individuals do emerge when other individuals are extinguished.
It hardly needed either Darwin or Darwinians to tell us that.
But Nature selecting those that vary in the most successful direction means nothing whatever, except that the successful succeed...this tautological truism is wrapped up in clouds of mythology, by the introduction of a mythical being whom even the writer regards as a myth."
(Myths and Metaphors, by G. K. Chesterton. Originally published in The Illustrated London News, 26th January 1929.)
I couldn't agree more.
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Governor Eliot Spitzer.
Insightful commentary on the current tragedy in the life of Governor Spitzer:
"The encounter lasted only a short time, but could forever change Gov. Spitzer's political career."
(Found here.)
Kinda reminds me of the perfectly practical nature of the Bible.
"But a man who commits adultery doesn't have any sense. He is just destroying himself. He will be dishonored and beaten up; he will be permanently disgraced. "
Proverbs 6:32, 33. (GNB)
"A prostitute is a dangerous trap; a promiscuous woman is as dangerous as falling into a narrow well.
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