Of all the Republican candidates who would gain the most votes from independent California voters, Ron Paul is the most likely champion. California Republicans are so opposed Ron Paul's ideas that they are willing to snub independent voters and lose votes in the general election as well. I'm continually amazed at the lengths the Republican Party will go to in order to preserve their "internal politics" by dis-enfranchising the independent voters. The Democrats have done a good job of being inclusive. I have been a registered Republican for several years, but I intend to be a registered Republican here in Arizona only until the after the primary when I will switch my affiliation to INDEPENDENT to show my disdain for the way the Republicans run things. Here in Arizona Senator Kolbe (R) endorsed the democratic candidate because he didn't like Randy Graff who was a strong conservative in the Republican Party. And the local GOP boys turned their back on Graff also. The Republican Party deserves to die a horrible death for their "internal politics" hard-headedness. I wish every closet independent who is registered Republican would send the same message by un-affiliating after the primary.
Our country has a deep need for a viable conservative third party. The Constitution Party is my choice for returning our country to the roots our forefathers planted. Getting the recognition they need is the hard part.
Sunday, February 3
Friday, May 25
Japan Biggest Victim of Global Warming
According to Reuters (May 15, 2007): "The ocean around
Could you throw us a bone here, Reuters? Let's have more information. Perchance the techniques used by the Japanese have evolved more so than the weather, after all Japanese embrace technology more than most of the world.
I'm speculating here, but isn't it entirely possible that the scientists in years past would measure the water temperature with a thermometer. You'd dip it in the water and bring it up to your eye to read and by then you might lose 1 degree Celsius. Isn't that possible? Whereas today they could use any of a myriad of accurate measuring devices. Infrared or thermocouple wires in the water. These devices wouldn't cool off by being pulled up from the water.
Just a theory here, but I'm no big fan of Al Gore or any of the other enviro-nazis here to save us all from ourselves. After all who better than a politician should rush for the reward of being the world's messiah? He who saves us all from global warming will indeed be the "savior of the world (quite literally – at least in their minds)". I think that crown has already been worn once and no one in their right mind would press those thorns into their brow except the rightful savior of the world.
Thursday, October 13
Name Badges
Ever notice the fascination in our society with name badges? Jackie, my daughter, was recounting how a group of teachers surrounded a kid on his way to a ‘pep rally’ and the kid was grabbed (hard enough to leave a bruise). The teachers told him quite forcefully that he could not go to the ‘pep rally’ because he didn’t have a name badge.
Is this incident a mere extreme example, or a passing fad of a continually escalating paranoia in our society? Not a chance, it’s laughable and predictable when you’ve read THE BOOK (aka the Bible). It all leads up to the “Mark of the Beast”.
All of society will have little patience and will hate anyone who doesn’t ‘just go along’ with the program. “Look, they’ll say, Just go down to the clinic and get your shot (the microchip injection) you’re just wasting our time, we can’t let you drive (open a bank account, check out a library book, receive mail, leave the country… etc. ad nauseam) without a mark.” “I’m sorry there’s nothing I can do for you, yes, I understand your baby is sick (starving, coughing, bleeding … etc.), but everyone who receives any service here has to be in the database.”
And you wonder why the world is replete with ‘hackers’. Databases won’t make us safer. They will just make us more trackable, traceable, and trustable. Why there's no need to develop personal character your trust is earned by being a member of the electronic 1’s and 0’s in a computer. What’s to keep that from being ‘hacked’? All one needs to do is go and buy a mark now and wait until later, hack into the system and enter their chip as whoever they want to be. And you won’t have to inject it, just tape it into your palm. And lose it when you need to be invisible and find it again when you need to “conform”. If of course the database could be ‘hacked’.
If indeed.
Is this incident a mere extreme example, or a passing fad of a continually escalating paranoia in our society? Not a chance, it’s laughable and predictable when you’ve read THE BOOK (aka the Bible). It all leads up to the “Mark of the Beast”.
All of society will have little patience and will hate anyone who doesn’t ‘just go along’ with the program. “Look, they’ll say, Just go down to the clinic and get your shot (the microchip injection) you’re just wasting our time, we can’t let you drive (open a bank account, check out a library book, receive mail, leave the country… etc. ad nauseam) without a mark.” “I’m sorry there’s nothing I can do for you, yes, I understand your baby is sick (starving, coughing, bleeding … etc.), but everyone who receives any service here has to be in the database.”
And you wonder why the world is replete with ‘hackers’. Databases won’t make us safer. They will just make us more trackable, traceable, and trustable. Why there's no need to develop personal character your trust is earned by being a member of the electronic 1’s and 0’s in a computer. What’s to keep that from being ‘hacked’? All one needs to do is go and buy a mark now and wait until later, hack into the system and enter their chip as whoever they want to be. And you won’t have to inject it, just tape it into your palm. And lose it when you need to be invisible and find it again when you need to “conform”. If of course the database could be ‘hacked’.
If indeed.
Monday, May 23
Shroud of Turin
While talking to a colleague about a show he watched on the Shroud of Turin, I thought it would make an interesting topic. I discovered the following website on the subject: http://www.shroudstory.com which had a page on frequently asked questions: http://www.shroudstory.com/shroud-of-turin-faq.htm. The 3rd question and answer brought up an interesting moral conundrum:
Q. 3) Didn't a forger confess to a bishop in the mid-1300s?
The actual details are that in 1389, Pierre d'Arcis, the Bishop of Troyes wrote a draft of a memorandum to the Avignon Pope Clement VII. The memorandum was never sent. The account is second hand. Pierre claimed that his predecessor, Bishop Henri de Poitiers of Troyes conducted an inquest in which a painter had confessed to painting the Shroud. The painter is unnamed. The inquest is not in the historical records. At least eight other documents of the period challenge the accuracy of the d'Arcis Memorandum.
If I were an acclaimed painter/forger living at that time who converted to christianity and believing that the shroud were the genuine article, then I might choose to lie (moral dilemma) and say that I had faked the shroud (not to deminish it's authenticity), but to try to get it out of the hands of a people who collect relics and artifacts for worship. The last thing the church needs is more icons and I would hope that I could get the shroud into the hands of true believers who would protect it as a symbol of the resurrection we christians all hope for in Christ.
So am skeptical even if the forger did confess since I know nothing about the forger's faith. And plenty of bishops have been lied to throughout the history of the Catholic church to protect true christian worship.
N'est-ce pas?
Q. 3) Didn't a forger confess to a bishop in the mid-1300s?
The actual details are that in 1389, Pierre d'Arcis, the Bishop of Troyes wrote a draft of a memorandum to the Avignon Pope Clement VII. The memorandum was never sent. The account is second hand. Pierre claimed that his predecessor, Bishop Henri de Poitiers of Troyes conducted an inquest in which a painter had confessed to painting the Shroud. The painter is unnamed. The inquest is not in the historical records. At least eight other documents of the period challenge the accuracy of the d'Arcis Memorandum.
If I were an acclaimed painter/forger living at that time who converted to christianity and believing that the shroud were the genuine article, then I might choose to lie (moral dilemma) and say that I had faked the shroud (not to deminish it's authenticity), but to try to get it out of the hands of a people who collect relics and artifacts for worship. The last thing the church needs is more icons and I would hope that I could get the shroud into the hands of true believers who would protect it as a symbol of the resurrection we christians all hope for in Christ.
So am skeptical even if the forger did confess since I know nothing about the forger's faith. And plenty of bishops have been lied to throughout the history of the Catholic church to protect true christian worship.
N'est-ce pas?
Wednesday, March 2
Political Morality
I suppose these days Politics and Morals are juxtaposed. How is it that the two could possibly co-exist? They co-exist in the fabric of fantasy or perhaps opportunity. Whatever is politically advantageous becomes a perceived reality.
At one time perhaps politics and morality were not mutually exclusive. When good people choose to avoid conflict by disengaging themselves from the political process then there is a breakdown in morals and ethics, because good ethics require good people to ensure their survival.
We live in a culture of fear that chains the hopes of the best among us to a poverty of inaction. Lesser people in more fearsome times have risen to the challenge and martyred themselves for self convictions - but only when those convictions were based on a purpose beyond their world.
Only G-d is able to pull us up beyond ourselves and choose convictions over comfort. This world of Blogs seems innocent and humble, but many have lost their lives en-scribing their thoughts in print. So perhaps I can manage to grasp the Hand of G-d and yours at the same time and He can pull us all up out of our easy chair to a seat of honor few can sit in.
There is a seat reserved in hallowed halls not for whisperers or backbiters, but for far superior beings with loud bellows of "repent", "take up your cross" and "encourage one another". When the sweat and the ilk is wiped from the garment of our own souls, then we can begin to clean the the filth off those around us so they can finally see the world around them without their tainted fecal goggles.
There is my brothers and sisters hope in a dying world. He is Jesus. Only by embracing Him can we begin the journey, and unfetter the shackles of the cruel correctness gestapo.
Let us be truthful in Love and not correct in complicitness.
At one time perhaps politics and morality were not mutually exclusive. When good people choose to avoid conflict by disengaging themselves from the political process then there is a breakdown in morals and ethics, because good ethics require good people to ensure their survival.
We live in a culture of fear that chains the hopes of the best among us to a poverty of inaction. Lesser people in more fearsome times have risen to the challenge and martyred themselves for self convictions - but only when those convictions were based on a purpose beyond their world.
Only G-d is able to pull us up beyond ourselves and choose convictions over comfort. This world of Blogs seems innocent and humble, but many have lost their lives en-scribing their thoughts in print. So perhaps I can manage to grasp the Hand of G-d and yours at the same time and He can pull us all up out of our easy chair to a seat of honor few can sit in.
There is a seat reserved in hallowed halls not for whisperers or backbiters, but for far superior beings with loud bellows of "repent", "take up your cross" and "encourage one another". When the sweat and the ilk is wiped from the garment of our own souls, then we can begin to clean the the filth off those around us so they can finally see the world around them without their tainted fecal goggles.
There is my brothers and sisters hope in a dying world. He is Jesus. Only by embracing Him can we begin the journey, and unfetter the shackles of the cruel correctness gestapo.
Let us be truthful in Love and not correct in complicitness.
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