Global Warming is a Pagan Religion and the Earth is their god

I read a story by Robert Lee Hotz of the Los Angeles Times titled 'Arctic resists warming' it began, "An international team of scientists reported Thursday that rising temperatures are steadily transforming the Arctic -- warming millions of square miles of permafrost, promoting lush greenery on previously arid tundras and steadily shrinking the annual sea ice. " Then after refuting the title with the opening paragraph went on, "Yet the researchers also found new patterns of cooling ocean currents and prevailing winds that suggested the Arctic, long considered a bellwether of global warming, may be reverting in some ways to more normal conditions not seen since the 1970s." Perhaps we are back to that ice age I was taught about in high school?

The story went on to explain that this just might be a sign that the region is trying to keep its balance and quotes one researcher (notice how I don't call her a scientist) as saying, "This is a region that is fighting back," said lead author Jacqueline Richter-Menge, a civil engineer at the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover, N.H. "There are things that showed signs of going back to norms, trying to right themselves under very dire circumstances."

Fight little earth, fight! What rubbish this is, to speak about the earth as if it is sentient and capable of fighting back. That's when it hit me, right then, the earth is their god. No, I don't think they are aware of this or trying to organize a religion in the modern sense of the word, but in the very ancient way, where nature is turned into the sun god or the moon god or the solstice celebrated as a sacred time, yes, this is a religion and can be thought of as nothing else. It takes faith to believe in global warming. Al Gore will tell you the matter is decided, obviously it isn't. Some will accuse me of turning a blind eye, of ignoring the science. Nothing could be farther from the truth, It was the science that brought me to this point, it was turning a searching eye on the matter that taught me there was something wrong with the idea.

Ever since I was little I was taught about evolution, my kids are being taught the same thing, yet as I grew and examined the science I saw holes. I was not, at that time, a religious person, actual science was my main interest. I believed in God and Jesus, but that was the extent of my worship: passive, casual belief. With global warming It was the ice age that got me to thinking. I had not forgotten about the earth science class I took in high school. I remember thinking about what steps humanity would need to take in order to avoid the fate of ice and snow. I thought how we could make it through with heaters and whatnot, after all, we had new fabrics and building techniques that were far superior to the cave men that survived the last ice age. Then global warming came along and I was shocked. How do we go from one to the other? So I examined the issue. I actually feel the cooling of the earth is more likely than the warming.

I came across an interesting article about Mars. It explained how the polar ice caps on the red planet were melting. However, with no Martian factories and cars to blame it was said that the sun was in a high activity cycle and was causing this. So why is it so on Mars but not on Earth? Of course if we use logic, we can see that's what it is. When the scriptures say, "beware of false gods" I never thought it would be something we would have to worry about in this day and age, but the fact of the matter is, people are having a whole lot of faith is something that can't be proved and that most likely isn't happening after all.

Election Day Results - Yawn.

No surprises here. This is just what I felt would happen. Actually I would have been surprised if it had gone the other way. I thought it might for a moment, in a sort of 'what if we found a live bigfoot' sort of way but never really did I think the Republicans would get the votes.

After much thought I finally figured out what I have been feeling. I wrote in a previous entry that we conservatives knew something was wrong, even if we couldn't put our finger on it. One thing, the major thing, is that Bush is not a conservative. That's a big deal when you aren't so much concerned about party as much as ideology. Then also, the second thing came to mind from a quote by, of all people, Nancy Pelosi, "`Stay the course' is not a strategy, it's a slogan, and we need more than that." Truth of the matter is, there is more than that, there is a strategy. I'm not stupid, I know you don't go to war without an strategy. So the issue really isn't do we have once, but telling the citizens of this country what it is, or at least a strong idea of it without giving too much away to the enemy. Even if Bush just told us we are going to do this and that until the Iraqis can run the show, here's what we have done so far and here's what's left to do. He did do that in a manner that was convincing.

This entry isn't based on being indignant about the results of this election, they are what I expected them to be. Rather it is a follow up on my previous entry. Good luck to the Democrats...and good luck to my country!

Bigfoot Scientist an Outcast

This is a story about a scientist who, like Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer is made fun of by all the other little scientists. Visit HERE for the whole story.

The reason he is shunned is because he is researching Bigfoot. Nevermind that Jane Goodall has delved into this area and has been quoted as saying a North American ape is a big maybe. But this story isn't about Bigfoot for me, it's about global warming, and global cooling, and holes in the ozone, eggs will kill you, no they won't, salt is bad, you have to have salt, the magnetic field of the earth is weakening and we are all going to DIE!

See, when a scientist dares, oh how dare he, to go outside of the main and to challenge long held beliefs he or she becomes an outcast. That's why we hear so many stories on global warming, because when someone challenges it they get picked on by all the other bully scientists.

Here's an excerpt from the article, "On campus, Meldrum ... gets funny looks and the silent treatment from other scientists, and is not invited to share coffee with the other science professors." No reindeer games for you!

I found the real reason for their disdain hidden in the story though, between the lines as it were, “Do I cringe when I see the Discovery Channel and I see Idaho State University, Jeff Meldrum? Yes, I do,” Hackworth said. “He believes he’s taken up the cause of people who have been shut out by the scientific community. He’s lionized there. He’s worshipped. He walks on water. It’s embarrassing.”

And there it is...envy. Scientists, like journalists, it turns out, aren't all that objective after all. 30 of his colleagues have actually asked the university to review his work with the intent of getting him fired. He wonders how long he will have a job. The only thing he did wrong was be a real scientist actually looking at the evidence instead of just going with what has been said before.

Evangelical leader earlier denied man's claim that he paid for sex, drugs

Okay THIS makes me indignant. I don't know who this pastor is and I have not heard him though do recall seeing his face on the news a few times. I'm reading into the story I know, but I think the allegations he is saying are true is the drug use.

There's nothing liberals hate more than a hypocrite. There is nothing they relish more than pointing out what they see as hypocracy. Especially among Christians. This just goes to show how little they know about Christianity or at least how little they understand it.

This pastor went around preaching against gay marriage because that's what he knows from the bible to be what God wants. Lets say for the sake of this discussion that he did more than the drugs and actually had the affair. Does that mean everything else he said was wrong? Or does it just mean he is a weak man that has sinned? If sin makes the word of God null and void, well then nothing is left standing. It is a lack of understanding about the role of the Christ in Christianity that leads to such conclusions.

Wrong is wrong, drug use and affairs, all wrong, same sex attraction is an issue that has plauged mankind for a long time and one pastor's fall does not negate the opposition to it found in the Bible.

The timing of this story, of this November surprise, is what really gets me the most. Such things are all too obvious. Is it a wonder John Kerry thinks we're all stupid? It seems all his liberal friends do too. As if they can pull the wool over our eyes or sham us with a planted story and we will change our vote. Until they all, ALL, the D's and the R's stop trying to sell us and manipulate us they will never have our respect or real loyalty. I want to vote for someone I love, not the lesser of two evils. Where is our George Washington?

Tending a Fallen Marine

Tale a read of THIS STORY from the New York Times (The Times for the important liberal). It tells a little about a doctor or medic in Iraq. The narrative is stylisticly written, most likely to produce the effect of being some Sorkin TV show. It is one of those stories though that how you view it really depends on your world view. It's a great gage to determine how you really think. For me, I read it and hear about men turning to God in a time of need, or anger at those who won't fight fair and about the sort of brotherhood that warriors have always seemed to share. I see tragedy and sadness and the mood of the peice brought me down. What it didn't do was make me want all troops brought home from Iraq, nor did it cause me to question the effectiveness of our military because someone got shot.

On the flip side, if you are a liberal, you will see this story differently than I. Your anger won't be at the fact that such things are murderous, but will be pointed toward George Bush, who, as you want everyone to know, the "real" enemy. If you read my post based on Peggy Noonan's editorial you realize I'm not a blind yes man when it comes to the president, his policies and the choices he has made.

He's sadly, the most inarticulate president in my lifetime. I was young during the reagan years but wasn't all that normal a kid in my viewing habits, I watched a lot of news and Johnny Carson. Reagan was beautiful and expressed his heart in almost poetic words. His humor was down to earth, yet cleaver. He never spoke above people's heads, yet he never spoke down to them either. I loved that about him. I see none of that in our current President. I belive he is a good man, and that he really does know what he is doing. I think his greatest fault, and it is a bigger fault than Republicans would have us believe, is that he has no way of telling us what's inside. He needs to give more prepared speaches and less stumping. He doesn't work me into a frenzy, never has either. However, on occasion he has moved me, and convinced me on an issue.

If you are a liberal you will equate the story of the medic with all the failings of the Bush administration. As a conservative I equate it with the history of men, meaning males, in combat. I equate it with the tradition that courses in the veins of every wouldbe hero. I've risked my life for another human being on more than one occasion. Why? Not for the money, that's for sure. I did it because that's something bigger than me. A group of men in combat is a unit, a group of men protecting citizens in a squad and that's when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Liberals see this as a mob or gang.

So, the above story link will be a good litmus test for you...which side of the fence to you fall on? There's no sitting up there anymore, that simply won't do in this day and age.