GLOBAL WARMING OR HOT AIR

I often wonder how much real science is behind some of the stuff you see in publications and television concerning why the earth is seemingly warmer. Do you? I have seen the images of miles of freeways congested with those carbon belching Detroit dragons. Creating a brown haze over ever increasingly larger areas. On and on with images of evil man and all his maniacal machines and sundry ignoble inventions.

Personally I am a bit more sceptical of these, for the most part, elitist egg-heads blaming every negative natural event in cosmological history on the hapless Homo Sapien.

For instance, I wonder just how much of those ghastly gasses purported to be the villian warmer have been produced by such things as volcanoes? One example found here of a volcano that has been constantly and continuously erupting since 1986! And that is just one!

Maybe if they just STFU it might just cool off a few degrees here and there.

HOW SPEAKETH THEE

I have become enamored with a publishing company called Penguin Group. They publish paper back books on a wide variety of subjects and are very reasonably priced. I have been on a bit of a reading sabatical lately but usually read a couple dozen or so books a year.

I recently came across an interesting book Wide as the Waters, the story of the Engilsh Bible and the Revolution it Inspired. The English Bible of course being known as the King James Version widely regarded by many as being the only accepted version, among all versions and translations, suitable for reading by any serious student of the Bible and or genuine Christian. I grew up being taught this and attended a local Church that staunchly believed using any other version was nearly akin to heresy. It is not my intention to trivialize the King James - God forbid. However, one has to ask ones' self, at the minumum, two questions:

1. Wasn't the King James Version actually a unification of various 17th century translations existing at the time and as pointed out by the book mentioned? (The answer is YES)
   
2. If in fact the King James is the only true translation, then when missionaries are sent to a foreign non-English speaking people, shouldn't the first order of business be to teach 17th century English? Seeing any translation to their native language would then become something other than the King James?

Does anyone beside me see the obvious contradiction here?

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Does anybody out there have any memory of the reason

given for the establishment of the DEPARTMENT OF 

ENERGY during the Carter Administration? Anybody? 

Anything? No? 

Didn't think so. Excuse me... I'm old... 

it was the high gas prices 

Bottom line . . we've spent several hundred billion 

dollars in support of an agency the reason for which 

not one person who reads this can remember. 

Ready? It was very simple, and at the time everybody 

thought it very appropriate. The Department of Energy

was instituted 8-04-1977 TO "LESSEN OUR 

DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL". HEY, PRETTY 

EFFICIENT - HUH? 

AND NOW IT'S 2008, 31 YEARS LATER, AND THE 

BUDGET FOR THIS NECESSARY DEPARTMENT

IS AT $24.2 BILLION A YEAR, THEY HAVE 16,000 

FEDERAL EMPLOYEES, AND APPROXIMATELY 

100,000 CONTRACT EMPLOYEES AND LOOK AT 

THE JOB THEY HAVE DONE! 

THIS IS WHERE YOU SLAP YOUR FOREHEAD AND 

SAY: 'WHAT WAS  I THINKING?' 

Ah yes, good ole bureaucracy. And now we are going to 

turn the Banking system over to them?

IN GOD WE TRUST

 In  Florida, an atheist created a case against the Easter & 

Passover holy days. He hired an attorney to bring a 

discrimination case against Christians, Jews & 

observances of their holy days. 

The argument was it was unfair that atheists had no such 

recognized day(s). The case was brought before a judge. 

After listening to the passionate presentation by the lawyer,

the judge banged his gavel declaring, 'Case dismissed.' 

The lawyer immediately stood objecting to the ruling saying, 

'Your honor, how can you possibly dismiss this case? 

The Christians have Christmas, Easter & others. The Jews 

have Passover, Yom Kippur & Hanukkah. Yet my client & 

all other atheists have no such holidays.

The judge leaned forward in his chair saying, 'But you do.  

Your client, counsel, is woefully ignorant.' The lawyer said, 

'Your Honor, we are unaware of any special observance 

or holiday for atheists.'

The judge said, 'The calendar says April 1st is 'April Fools 

Day. ' Psalm 14:1 states 'The fool says in his heart, there 

is no God.'  Thus, it is the opinion of this court, that if your 

client says there is no God, then he is a fool.  Therefore, 

April 1st is his day. Court is adjourned.

GUN POLITICS IN SWITZERLAND

Switzerland requires that every male over the age of 20 is 

required to own an assault rifle (specifically SIG 550 in 

5.56 cal.). In one study by David Kopel of seven countries,

including the United States and Japan, Switzerland is 

found to be one of the safest countries in the study. In 

recent times political opposition has expressed a desire for 

tighter gun regulations. Switzerland practices universal 

conscription, which requires that all able-bodied male 

citizens keep fully-automatic firearms at home in case of a 

call-up. Every male between the ages of 20 and 42 is con-

sidered a candidate for conscription into the military, and 

following a brief period of active duty will commonly be en-

rolled in the militia until age or an inability to serve ends his

service obligation. During their enrollment in the armed 

forces, these men are required to keep their government-

issued selective fire combat rifles and semi-automatic hand-

guns in their homes. Up until September 2007, soldiers 

also received 20 rounds of government-issued ammunition 

in a sealed box for storage at home. In addition to these 

official weapons, Swiss citizens are allowed to purchase sur-

plus-to-inventory combat rifles, and shooting is a popular 

sport in all the Swiss cantons. Ammunition (also MilSpec 

surplus) sold at rifle ranges is intended to be expended at 

the time of purchase, but target and sporting ammunition 

is widely available in gun and sporting goods stores.

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As it should be in all countries.

CLEARING THE AIR

A gal in my office was telling me about an event taking place Thanksgiving Day at her mother's house. Her parents, Doug and Lois, invited an aging couple in their late eighties for TDay. The elderly gentleman was blind so Doug escorted a suddenly urgent octogenarian to the bathroom. After strategic placement before the head, Doug excuses himself to the outer room. In due season a much relieved gent called for ready escort back to the family room.

Apparently, the air was of much less quality that when the 'Old Fart' left more than his namesake behind. Imagining the search for and discovery of the air freshener is a story in itself but nonetheless our hero succeeds and then proceeds to spray the musky mens room with a bit of freshness. 

Enter our guide to the blind and try to envision his surprise to see a completely random pattern of copious quantities of shaving cream hanging about like strings of popcorn on a Christmas tree...

PROGRESS v CONGRESS

If 'con' is the opposite of 'pro'. Then someone explain to me 'PROGRESS' v 'CONGRESS' - are they opposites? You be the judge. (It is the congress that passes laws not presidents or the people: Presidents are a talking heads.  Seemingly, people vote their uncontrolled appetites and not well thought out convictions.)

Why is it the rights afforded by the Bill of Rights only apply to the Criminal, Alien, Deadbeat and Perverted among us to the complete deprecation of the Law Abiding, Productive, God Fearing and Free-born?

While we're on the subject of contrasts, consider this: in any form of government or organization having a constitution as its basis for law, that document and its doctrine is considered conservative. Therefore, to be a political liberal within that order is to be by definition, anti-constitution. Have things really gotten better in this country with nearly 80 years of liberal left domination of congress and their long ago failed ideologies, insidious heresies, and blatant reformation of the US Constitution without the benefit of due process?