Oil from Bug Poop

I really don't know what the big deal is about bacteria that give off "oil" as a waste product. Washington D. C. has been giving off hot gas for years!!

This cracks me up...

One Picture Every Day Spoof - Watch more free videos

I like creative photo's and videos. This one is pretty funny.

At least they are good hockey players....

Another side to the Global Warming Arguement.

This is a very interesting video and does show that there is another point of view and perhaps the debate is not over. I find it interesting that we can even suggest that a scientific debate to be over especially when the science is so uncertain. Dire enviromental predictions depend on models which depend on assumptions about complex planetary systems that no one fully understands. These models are based on linear mathmatics which try to describe chaotic systems. Which is why the models are inherently flawed and forever changing. With all these uncertainties built into the global warming arguements, the conclusions that they produce are at best speculative.

Universal Health Scare

For those who think that Univerisal Health care is going to cover everyone univerisally....well...just check out what goes on in Canada. Certainly this is an extreme case, but the rules that will be imposed on us under a Univerisal Health Care plan will leave many without medical benefits. I think a better way would be to create a system where individuals can purchase their own plans like they do auto insurance. Also, the government could give tax credit for health care expenditures, dollar for dollar, rather than waiting for some thresh hold to be obtained.

What Liberalism is About...

Finally, Democrats reveal their true colors and intentions. Oil, Health Care and who knows what else!

Global warming...My motives...

Joel responded to a post on Global warming I had written. Joel said...
"Read Peter Doran's clarification of one of the articles you posted. I bring this up because the essential part of the global warming arguement should be about facts and interpretation, not a shotgun blast of journal titles that seem to contradict other scientific findings. Also, anyone who has been involved in scientific research knows that the idea that scientists are a "team that goes along (with the 'popular' idea)" knows that statement to be far from the truth. Finally, I can say that personally, my environmentalism was caused by my learning and understanding of science. Many of you suggest that environmentalists become scientists to forward misleading theories based on previously-held beliefs. I think you are way off the mark here."

Joel suggests that I hold a belief that enviromenatalists become scientists to forward misleading theories. That is not true. What I do believe is that there is certainly a force to treat as absolute fact a cause for global warming and I have been saying that more research is needed to determine what the reasons are. Peter Doran acknowldeges that even in the Antartic that some areas show a warming trend while others show a cooling trend. He acknowledges that more needs to be studied in order to determine a actual trend. I know he believes that on a global scale, temperatures are rising. I am sure he believes it is cause by humans, but he does not know, just like I don't know that it is not.

Joel was critical of the "shot gun blast" of journal titles. That is not a shot gun blast, but a list of scholary articles, many published in refereed journals showing what other people are researching. This type of thing is essential in a scientific debate. It also shows that human caused global warming is not a fact. It is a hypothesis that still needs testing.

One of the main reason I feel strongly about showing the other side of the debate is because nothing ticks me off more than when I hear from a politician or read letter to the editor suggesting a solution to global warming is to raise taxes on gasoline. That is just idiotic. No matter how high the price of gas goes, the distance I drive to work will remain the same. I will still burn fuel. I still will put carbon dioxide into the air. And the earth will warm or cool as it pleases.

Sobering Video

Newt Gingritch offers some thoughts on the war on terror and how displaced from reality we are. I think he makes some good points regarding the nature of these Muslim terrorists and how our secular logic does not apply.

Happy? Groundhog Day!

According to reports, we are going to have 6 more weeks of winter. Thanks Phil....thanks!

The apology

Here is a link to a cartoon from the Mike Thompson Blog.

Taking a page from the James McGreevy play book, Kwame used his wife to gain sympathy from the people of Detroit.

Ultimately, he will have to answer to the real issue of lying under oath ultimately costing the city nearly 9 million dollars.

For the past week, this scandal has really taken the focus off the issues of the city and for that reason, this mayor should step down. His actions has called into question everything he has done in the past and what he may do in the future.


Below is the "apology" offered by the mayor:



And finally..here is some art work from a co-worker:

Giants over Green Bay predicted 20 years ago...

He is worthy...

Today was not a good day...by my own definitions. What I like about this song is it puts my mind back where it should be. Today is a great day

All Creatures Great and Small

I look at this cat and my heart wants him. My daughter sees him and she is instantly in love. Why? It is a defected feline. Crippled. Not perfect. Yet Em's heart and my heart are completely captured.

It is not because we feel sorry for the cat. Emily told me that Charlie seems more loving, more affectionate than a "normal" cat. She sees the cat, not for what he might lack in coordination, but what attributes he has that are unique to him. Perhaps he sees his "brokeness" (ok..I am reading more into a cat than what he thinks) and appreciates more.

My next thought was when our Heavenly Father sees our brokeness his heart does not close. Instead, it opens right up and he wants to draw us near. This is because he sees us not as we are, but as he has created us. I sometimes have to remember this, otherwise I can really get down on myself. I have to remember that I am fearfully and wonderfully made!!

How does God speak to you?

“No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.” (1 Corinthians 10:13)

That was todays scripture that appears on my blog. Frankly I am blown away. I am blown away because of the subjects I have written about here. Because of what others have revealed in their blogs...I think for the first time. Because of the subjects shared at my last recovery meeting. Because of stuff my accountabilty partner...oh heck...my best friend has shared with me.

I don't know how God talks to you or others. But this is how I hear God's voice in my life. Things pop up in the weirdest places..and usually in multiples. As is the case for me in the past few days. Oh...I do not delude myself in thinking I am special. I am absolutely sure that God speaks to us all. But we have to listen for him. I spent 42 solid years not listening for God, so I missed a lot of good conversation. But I am making up for it now.

So...before you go to bed....or eat that meal...or go off in your car. Turn off the radio, tv, and other noise...and listen. God has something cool to say today.

Hillary's Campaign Car

I have to thank my buddy Joe for sending this too me:



If Hillary were to design a car, based on the way she lays out her campaign message, this is what it may look like.

You figure out which way she's heading.

Universal Health Care

Frankly, universal health care frightens me. It amazes me that you hear from the media and people how the government can't be trusted and how evil the Bush administration is, yet they want a government run health care system. What am I missing?

Privacy is Dead....Long Live Privacy

Oh, just great!

This kind of idea will seriously jeopardize my googling and Youtubing!!

Save Me From Myself

"The amazing true story of an out-of-control rock star, his devastating addiction to drugs, and his miraculous redemption through Jesus Christ."

This is the true story of Brian "Head" Welch's, former lead guitarist and founding member of Korn, deliverance from the shackles of addiction. I picked this book up after hearing my pastor read some sections of it. Immediately I identified with Head in his struggle with addiction and the process of finding our Lord Jesus while in the midst of this insanity.

As addicts we take ourselves out of the whole context of what is right or wrong. We have lost control, no longer having the power of choice and are not free to stop. Eventually addicts die or they recover. There is no middle ground. And to recover we must find God. There, too, is no compromise. Step 2 in AA states: We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. This power is God and He will complete take away the obsession of our addictions if we are willing to surrender our lives for His will.

Save Me From Myself is a story of exactly this. It is honest and it is raw, but I have come away, so far, with the feeling of its authenticity. Like Head, I found Christ when I was a teen, and like Head, I turned away and lived an entirely different life than what God had intended. At the church I went too, I still felt disconnected. I felt a distant between me and my Savior and I certainly could not relate to the people I attended church with. I lived in this insanity for decades before coming to the church I now attend.

One of the programs they have is Celebrate Recovery. In CR I met other people like me. Finally, I found men and women that had real issues I could relate too and passionately sought God! The purpose of Celebrate Recovery’s ministry is to fellowship and celebrate God's healing power in our lives through the "8 Recovery Principles." This experience allows us to "be changed." By working and applying these Biblical principles, we begin to grow spiritually. We become free from our addictive, compulsive and dysfunctional behaviors. This freedom creates peace, serenity, joy and most importantly, a stronger personal relationship with God and others. As we progress through the program we discover our personal, loving and forgiving Higher Power - Jesus Christ, the one and only true Higher Power.

I would recommend this book to anyone that wants to see the first hand accounts of the devastating power of addiction and ultimately how God works in the trenches to heal what most may view as lost causes! Head's growing addiction to methamphetamines crippled his career and jeopardized his relationship with his young daughter. After a long battle, Head found God, quit the band, kicked drugs, and lived to tell. His confession holds little back. The bottom came when a tweaked-out Head hears his 5-year-old daughter, Jennea, sing the misogynistic lyrics to Korn's A.D.I.D.A.S. ''I was already in the gutter,'' he writes. ''I knew it was time for me to try and reach out for help.''

Thanks for reading.

Ok..it is sexist...but I am not screaming for anyone to iron my shirt!

I got these in an email from a female friend . The chemist part of me really appreciated the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS).

Citizenship

Both Huckabee and Ron Paul have suggested that the Constitution should be amended eliminating birthright to citizenship. At first I was completely against this idea, but after reading what the 14th Amendment really meant in historical terms, I am thinking that this should be considered.

The 14th Amendment was ratified on July 9, 1868 and it was intended to secure rights for former slaves, people who were brought here against their will. According to some Houston hospitals, administrators estimate that 70 or 80% of the babies born have parents who are in the country illegally. The birthright citizenship is being used fraudulently and is taxing the resources of the United States.