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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December 18, 2007
America is not a democracy.
NPR and one of Sotheby's vice presidents, David Redding, get it wrong: America is not a democracy; no matter what wikipedia might say. (Sotheby's also here.)
"There are new laws and then there are old ones, really old ones: say, the Magna Carta, for example...It's considered one of the most important legal documents in the history of democracy."
(Host, NPR, "All things Considered," December 18, 2007.)
So far, so good. But then:
"In return for their allegiance, the king ceded to the barons various rights. All kinds of ideas in the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution owe a debt to the Magna Carta."
(Margot Adler--or here; Show: IBID.)
Hmmm...Maybe that's how Americans gained freedom! We ceded our allegiance in return for rights.
David Redding continues:
"I still believe the most important thing about Magna Carta is it's mythic significance: we can point to a time, we can say this is where freedom and liberty began, this is the antecedent, the progenitor of the great documents of freedom of our country."
(Redding; Show: IBID.)
Let's hope that, considering his accent, NPR merely took what he said out of context; as they do with so many other things. Let's hope Mr. Redding meant "this is where British freedom began." What Mr. Redding said? It agrees not with our own Declaration.
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
(Text here)
Our "separate and equal station," our being "created equal," our "unalienable rights"; , we are given entitlement to these, and they all are derived from"the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God."
He said so himself.
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."
(Gen 1:1.)
"God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."
(Gen. 1:27.)
Even the "atheist" Thomas Paine understood that the "rights" of mankind originally came from God, declaring that we were "originally equals in the order of creation." (Paine, Common Sense, 1776.)
But the Constitution itself denies the lie of democracy, declaring:
"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government..."
Can someone please explain for me, then, why these people, and so many other learned people, persist in referring to America as a democracy?
It just ain't so.
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March 26, 2007
The Story of Mr. Sheffield, Part I.
"So whaddya think, doc?"
I sat nervously biting my fingernails. The doctor, no doubt making use of his training, sat austere, and calmly reviewed my file. His white coat stood in stark contrast to the black mood which enveloped my mind.
When a car rattles for a mile or two, some people take notice. When a car pings and knocks for a month, a few more are likely to observe it. But when a car smokes and knocks, only a fool ignores it.
With shame I admit I acted the fool. For too long I ignored the warning signs that told of the breakdown of this human machine.
"Your case is quite singular, Mr. Sheffield."
The doctor's voice sounded distant through the clouds of confusion that darkened my reason.
"I have never," he continued, "seen an actual case like yours. Oh don't get me wrong. During my training we studied textbook cases which described symptoms that were similar to yours. Our professors told us, in theory, what we should do if ever a patient of ours should have just such an affliction. And yet," He paused, chuckled mirthlessly, and then continued. "And yet, I must confess their theories seem trivial froth when I see an actual case of what was, before, purely theoretical."
I laughed nervously.
"Which brings me back to my original question, doc: Whaddya think?"
"I think," he said, closing my file with somewhat more of a finality than I would have liked. "I think..."
But this was as far as he got. He leaned back in his great, squeaky leather chair, pulled the rectangular glasses off his face, and rubbed the bridged of his nose, slowly. After a few minutes, a sigh escaped him.
That single, solitary answered my questions far better than words ever could.
I smiled, weakly, physically straining with the effort.
"There's no hope then, eh?"
His eyes were still closed. With a grim, sorrowful expression etched in his face, he sadly shook his head from side to side.
For a few minutes we sat in silence. Outside his office, the afternoon sun persistently strove to pierce the gloom that enveloped his office and my mind. I could see the birds, but couldn't hear them, twittering, full of glee, in the branches of a dogwood that was rooted near his window.
A single, bitter tear rolled down my ashen cheek. Opening his eyes, the doctor looked at me and offered a compassionate smile.
"You could," he said, but I stopped him.
"No. I couldn't. And even if I could, I wouldn't." He nodded, knowingly. "I'm not dead yet." I said with more persuasion than I actually felt. "I'm not dead yet." I repeated again.
He nodded. "That's true, Mr. Sheffield. That's very true."
"There may yet be hope." I cried suddenly, in paroxysm of euphoria. My eyes shone with emotion. "I've heard...I've heard that in France scientists have developed a new, albeit untested," I admitted...he stopped me short with a look.
"Mr. Sheffield, I have practiced medicine for nearly thirty years. There has never been--heed me, Mr. Sheffield--there has never been a single case to unfolded as you now hope."
I frowned slightly as he continued.
"You would do well to make the best use of the time that is remaining to you. The only cure for you is that from which no man ever returns."
Continued...
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