Scientific Idolatry

Yes, idolatry. They are exchanging the truth for a lie.

As I've written before, yet another dinosaur has been found that has characteristics of being relatively young. The article even states the researchers are, and I quote, “gobsmacked.”

Fossil Hunters Uncover Rare Dinosaur Skin

Gobsmacked, meaning dumbfounded. They can't explain it! Meaning they are finding it real hard to force the facts to fit their preconceived assumptions. Huh, imagine that. We must find a way to make the evidence fit the "FACT" that this fossil is 66 million years old, even though it still contains soft tissue and we know that's impossible.

Refer to these other articles I've written:

More Scientific Backtracking

Same Story Different Day

Follow The Evidence

"Ida" Don't Know

Living Dinosaur?

Polyamory?

Polyamory, also known as ethical nonmonogamy, or a polyamorous cluster. No I'm not speaking of some far off new formation discovered in the universe or subatomic particles. It's the just the latest form the "family" is taking here in this darned old goofy world.

Read for yourself in this News Week article: Only You. And You. And You.

Everyone in this group is heterosexual, and they insist they never sleep with more than one person at a time ....traditionalists had better get used to it.

Like I've said in the past, once the definition of traditional marriage is changed to include same sex couples, there will be a queue forming to have any number of other so called non-traditional partnerships cry, "what about us"!

Be careful, the Ultimate Traditionalist isn't required to get used to anything.

What Happened to Teaching The 3 "R's"?

I just read this article from New York's Channel 2 website titled N.Y. High School To Provide Pregnancy, STD Testing. I would like to know your thoughts on it. As for me I have to wonder why would we want our public schools involved in this?

The article states that they hand out contraception and perform pregnancy and STD testing and are completely confidential - No discussing with the parents. The lone vote against having this at the school was the school board president. But those who voted for it said:

"..this is just the reality of taking care of students in today's world. I think this is progressive and I see this as a positive."

What? The reality of taking care of kids in today's world?! Yeah, a world created and promoted by these very same liberal thinkers and now costing tax payers to provide contraception and pregnancy testing...oh but lets not tell the parents! And the cost doesn't even account for the results; STD treatments, councelling, abortions, and on and on.

Honestly it really doesn't matter. From my point of view, American parents prefer that the state be in charge of raising their kids. These parents are lazy, uninformed, morons. They are only concerned with their own personal comfort and could care less about what their kids are actually learning about life, morality, truth, justice, mercy, hard work and equity. These are the same parents who want the government to provide for them.

And the public schools, who you have to admit are very liberal institutions, are more than happy to provide the service. They want to raise your kids. They want to teach them their liberal, progressive, atheistic ideology. It ensures future votes for their way.

At times I wonder how any parent who cares about their kids would ever subject them to public schools. But you know what? I've seen kids come out of public schools that know right from wrong, who can think for themselves and know about absolute truth. Why is this? IT'S BECAUSE THEIR PARENTS RAISED THEM!!!!!! They didn't leave it up to the schools, or the government, or the video game manufacturers, or the music industry, or any other corporation.

A Culture of Death

The more I see the more disappointed I get. My ultimate faith is in Jesus, so while our wayward path is upsetting to me and causes me to stand up for the things of God, our continued decent into this culture of death does not cause me to want to give up.

People who say they are Christian yet do everything they can to support and promote abortion may be fooling themselves and some of the people, but not everyone and certainly not God. I've asked this before; if you call yourself "Christian", what do you think God's attitude toward abortion is? Does He like it?

President Obama's answer to Pastor Rick Warren when asked about if abortion was wrong, answered that the answer was above his paygrade. Rick Warren's followup should have been something like, if it's above your paygrade then that means there is a 50/50 chance you believe in God's eyes abortion is wrong. Then why err on the side of death? Disappointingly the Pastor didn't go anywhere with that

I continue to point out that what counts is ones "walk" not just their talk that tells where a person stands. Mr. Obama has never once voted for any form of restriction to abortion. His record:

• Has voted for legalizing the late term procedure known as "Partial Birth Abortion"
• Is in favor of embryonic stem cell research
• Re-instituted funding for abortions in other countries (The Mexico City Accord)
• Promises to pass the Freedom of Choice Act which will in effect remove all States laws that restrict abortions such as parental notifications, late term, etc.
• Is against allowing doctors, nurses and pharmacists from not performing abortions or distributing oral contraceptives due to conscience.
• Looks to his massive health care overhaul bill to further expand the practise of abortion throughout our land

A few more tidbits to chew on:

• In a recent interview with the New York Times, Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg candidly shared: “Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”
• Hillary Clinton was recently given an award by Planned Parenthood (The largest for profit company in the abortion industry), in which Mrs. Clinton stated during her acceptance “The 20th-century reproductive-rights movement, really embodied in the life and leadership of Margaret Sanger, was one of the most transformational in the entire history of the human race.” In a 1921 article, Sanger explained: “The most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.”

Did you catch that! One of our Supreme Court justices said that when she voted in favor of Roe v. Wade, she thought she was voting for a way to reduce the amount of undesirables in our society. Don't believe me? Here is the article in the New York Times Magazine. Where was the outrage! And Mrs. Clinton is not ever phased by glorifying Margaret Sanger who, like Justice Ginsberg, is in favor of Eugenics. I am going on the record to say that our President is in the same camp, as is the speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (who's a professing Catholic) and Senate Majority leader Harry Reid (who states he is pro-life).

Their walk doesn't equal their talk. Their yes means no, and their no means yes.

California Knows How To Grow'm

I....ummmm..someone should say something.......

My Day of Team Building

I am providing this on my blog for people who do not follow me on Facebook, also because it’s just too many words. While on my blog read some of the articles I’ve written and comment!!!! Readers and comments motivate me.

Here is the saga of my work department’s day of “Team Building”

About a week ago my boss announced a half day of “team building”. No query of what we would be doing, the decision was made. We were going to play golf! Right away I thought to myself who would want to go back to work after a morning of golf? Silly me, we weren’t going to start first thing in the morning. Nooooo. Tee time? 1:00 pm in the afternoon….in July….in Texas. It’s been over 100 degrees practically every day for the last 3 weeks or so, and it aint a dry heat folks.

I raised my hand and said “I vote for bowling”. All the macho golfer blowhards looked at me like I just blasphemed. I didn’t know golf was so popular among my colleagues, so what could I do. I mean hey, being out of the office can’t be all that bad, right?

I’d like to pause to thank all those who followed my updates on Facebook, especially Sheri Coulter, you made it fun! Thanks.

So this morning I did some work from home and left the house at about 11:15. I needed to stop by Walmart and buy some golf balls and tees. I arrived at the course at about 12:00 noon. Some others were also just arriving so we milled around until everyone got there. I don’t have golf clubs so I had to rent them.

Doodaloo-doodaloo-doodaloo ----this is the going back in time sequence….In 1984 I played my last serious attempt at golf and ended up throwing my clubs in a pond. You might find them somewhere on the golf course in Portland, Maine.

Anyway, back to me going to get my club rentals which my boss graciously reserved for me. That is when I think the farce of this whole “team building” idea was revealed. Now my attempt at a Master Card commercial:

Golf balls and Tees at Walmart - $10.50
Club Rental - $27
Greens Fees and cart rental - $55
Finding out your cheap a$$ boss made you pay $92.50 for a mandatory day of “team building” in hell – PRICELESS.

Can you believe that? I thought this was a company sponsored day of “team building”!

The next big surprise was who I got teamed up with. One guy from our office, who I’ll call The Big-A (the A doesn’t stand for what you might be thinking. His name starts with A) and two other guys who work for one of our vendors. The Big-A happens to work daily with these guys so I was kinda the odd man out right from the start. But no biggie, right? Wrong. These guys are “serious” golfers, and the first thing they asked me after introductions was, “So, how often do you get out?” obviously meaning how often do I get out to play golf. I answered, “Well…on average….each month? I’d say zero point zero-zero-zero-zero-zero-zero-zero-zero-zero-zero [pause for thinking] zero-zero-zero-zero…..zero-two times per month.”

At the first hole The Big-A tees up at the “Pro” tee. You see there are different spots to tee up your ball on each hole. The black tee is the pro tee, the blue is the standard tee the white is the women’s tee (I may have gotten the other two colors wrong so I’m admitting that now for all you “serious” golfers out there). I get ready to tee off second so I tee up on the black tee. The Big-A and the two other “serious” golfers, start convincing me to tee off from the blue tee, not the precious black tee. When I ask why, the Big-A answers, “Well I shoot in the 70s.” Is that actually an answer? Whatever, I go to the blue tee, and shank it. I could hear them grumbling behind me.

Holes 2 through 9 are pretty much the same and the heat, oh my! I am slathered with sun block, and by hole #9 I have drunk 2 liters of water and have not had any hint of needing to go pee. It’s like 178 degrees out, but I am determined.

Now to a couple of things The Big-A did.

#1 - As we were approaching the 9th hole, The Big-A called the boss who was a few holes behind us. Now understand I’m IN the golf cart with The Big-A. Here is the exchange:

The Big-A: Hi boss, how’s your game?
The Boss: Oh not too bad. What’s up?
The Big-A: Uh-huh. Hey if you want to skip a few holes meet us at the 9th and you and Ed can swap teams.
The Boss: No that’s ok.
The Big-A: Ok see you in the bar. (hangs up phone) [pause] The Big-A says nothing.
Ed: (looking right at The Big-A) Yah, none taken.

#2 – The “serious” golfers are getting upset with me because I insist on playing every hole and taking as many shots as it takes to get the ball to go in that little hole. The Big-A, in a moment of obvious compassion, tells the other two “serious” golfers (again with me standing right there among them!) that at the 14th hole he’s going to swing by the clubhouse and drop me off because obviously I am tired. That actually made me slightly mad. I responded by telling The Big-A to keep his yap shut because he doesn’t speak for me. I’m playing every hole and taking as many shots as I can get for my $93 of hell golf. Now hit the ball.

Funny things that happened:

A squirrel tried to hump my golf ball.

On the 12th hole I hit a drive and it ricocheted off a tree and landed on the green….the green of the 13th hole.

I hit a 350 yard drive! It went 328 yards straight up and landed 22 yards in front of me.

While the Big-A was taking a shot I poured some water on his seat in the golf cart. He didn’t know and I kept chuckling at the wet spot on his rump.

I took 7 shots to try and get out of one of those sand things that the “serious” golfers call bunkers or sand traps. I took big whacks with sand flying all over the place. The funny thing about it was that the Big-A told me how I could break a club by hitting the sand so hard. That’s when I told him I was using HIS sand wedge because my rentals didn’t come with one.

That’s about it. Golf isn’t my game, but life is. I love life and I love God. Thank you God for my life.



The Big-A (left) and The Boss (right)

Religion and the First Amendment

I'm yelling at the TV again. On this mornings news they are talking about an atheist group who has filed a law suit to keep an engraving of the words In God We Trust off of the entrance to the new Washington DC Capitol Visitors Center. The news casters talked about how they think this type of thing is ridiculous, which I am glad to hear. They also interviewed people on the street whose opinion varied; some for and some against.

The issue I have are the reasons people gave for wanting or not wanting it there. Some of the reasons given were 1) It's our national motto, 2) It's on our money, 3) America's history was clearly built on Judeo-Christian principles. All ok reasons, but none authoritative.

It's funny that the name of the Atheist group that has filed this law suit, along with other law suits seeking to ban the word God from the pledge of allegiance and banning the national day of prayer, is called The Freedom From Religion Foundation, emphasis on the word From.

I yelled at the TV asking someone to please quote the first amendment to our US Constitution!!! The first amendment guarantees us freedom OF religion, not freedom from it. What is wrong with this country? I've written about this in my post I Want Freedom Of Religion.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America

The news station I was watching had a visit by Holywood actor David Arquette. He was on the show to raise awareness in battling hunger in America; nice. The show's host asked him what he thought about the law suit and he said "It doesn't matter to him. He'd be ok with it saying "In Rainbows We Trust".

The Pit of Redefinition

It is amazing how people think. If we don't like what something stands for we simply think we can change it and yet call it the same thing. Marriage is one of the things in hot debate these days that fall into that category. As I've written about in my articles, I believe marriage is defined as something and that something cannot change simply because people want it to be something else. Once you change the definition of something, in this case marriage, it becomes something else. It ceases to be what it was.

I just read an article in Newsweek that is yet another example of how people think that is what they can do. The article titled "Why Barack Obama Represents American Catholics Better Than The Pope Does" should, I hope, anger Catholics. If not anger them, then I hope it at least makes them take a step back and assess what that says about them.

Think about it; who is the head of the Church? Not the pope, it is in fact Jesus Christ Himself. But, for Catholics, the Pope is the representative of Jesus here on earth. That is why the Pope is called the Vicar of Christ; Vicar means representative. Thus Catholics believe the Pope speaks to us for Christ; or at least they are supposed to think that.

So when American Catholics say they don't agree with the Pope's position on pro-life issues such as abortion, embryonic stem cell research and birth control, on family issues such a same sex marriage, and on the various moral positions of the church, they are in fact defying the position of Christ Himself. (That is so long as the Pope's position aligns with Christ and is a very good reason all believers need to study the Bible. But that's another argument for another day.)

So what do people, in this case so-called Catholics, do? They redefine Catholicism to be what they want it to be, and at the same time keep calling themselves "catholic". Where is the Church leadership to say "No!". If the Pope says Catholicism mean standing up for A, B and C, and standing against X, Y and Z, then that is how it is. Anyone who does not profess to these things, as a majority of their belief system, at some point must cease to be a Catholic. It's not the other way around where right believing actual real Catholics have to put up with an altered version of the Truth! No!!

I completely understand if someone within the Church questions why the Church stands for some things and stands against other things. Constructive debate and education to determine the "why's and what for's" is reasonable and healthy. But to claim that Obama represents American Catholics better than the Pope, when the totality of Barack Obama's viewes stand in direct opposition to that of the Church is a heresy against Christ Himself! Church leaders should deny those who do not align themselves with the beliefs of the Church from taking part in the blessings of the Church.

Who is your Lord? Jesus Christ Himself or some idol who tickles your ears with what you want to hear? Do you love the things that Jesus loves or do you look to people like Barack Obama who make you feel less guilty for loving things that Christ Himself hates. Chose carefully because your decision has eternal consequences.

Sigh....Abortion Parties

I came across this article and honestly I am experiencing a range of emotions; disgust, sadness, a feeling of losing control of our senses. How far have we fallen? Can we ever recover from this?

The article was written to ask the question about what is the role of the male when deciding to have an abortion. But I read the article through the eyes of a person who values life and believes that abortion is the purposeful taking of a human life; in other words abortion is murder.

Below is a link to the entire article, but here is something to wet your whistle:

"What are you going to do?" Maggie, a 22-year-old college senior with no intention of bringing a child into the world yet, was going to have an abortion. She told us that she had already made up her mind; she had even determined the time, date and location. A better question might have been, "How are you going to pay for it?" She answered that one before we had a chance to ask. "We’re having a party Friday to raise money," Maggie said. "You guys are obviously invited."

Link to the article: My First Abortion Party

Dear God, Don't Let Us Divorce You.

As the systematic removal of God from our schools carries on, have the results been better schools or a worsening of the violence and death?

Now our country's military seems to be following in the same footsteps and I fear what the outcome will be on the battlefield and eventually in our own back yard.

Sorry I couldn't embed the video directly, but click here for the full story.

Happy Birthday America!