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Some Good News!

Biggest news you’ve never heard:

Earth isn’t warming

How do you reconcile the early snow in Minneapolis, ski resorts already opening in Nevada, and that August chill in North Dakota with expert warnings about a warming climate?
You don’t. Why? The Earth isn’t warming right now, is why. It may even be cooling down somewhat.
Five major climate centers around the world agree that average global temperatures have not risen in the past 11 years, according to the BBC. In fact, in eight of those years, global average temperatures dipped a tad.
Yes, there have been several record heat spikes during that time period. The Southern Hemisphere this summer saw the highest land and water temperatures ever recorded, for instance. But overall? Steady as she goes.
Reasons cited range from a slightly cooling Pacific — a major global heat trap — as well as renewed questions about the sun’s role in warming (about which there is much debate). Also, it’s possible, some say, that warming itself causes CO2 levels — which are associated with warming — instead of the other way around.

My source is:
http://features.csmonitor.com/discoveries/2009/10/10/biggest-news-youve-never-heard-earth-isnt-warming/

D.M.V. (?)

Yes, I borrowed this carton from Bro. Ensey.
To good to let go by.

Mervi

More Pictures flying!

Its just a seed.
OK, but a seed to or for what?
Would you allow yourself for a few fleeting moments to think about seeds!

These two pictures of seeds have a vast differance.

Can you persive me point?

You can see a very deep differance in these two types of seeds!

One can and is carried about with just a gentail breeze. It will land a do what seeds do, just on a breeze.

The other seed is far to heavy for a gentail breeze.

So it will require time to prep the ground, water and then YOU

must carry it to the field, which you perpered.

Then to cast it where you hope for it to fall and grow.

Its just a seed!

Who cares?

Some of m y travel pictures.

Just some sayings

Whenever a man is ready to uncover his sins,

God is always ready to cover them.

People that wake up and find they are a success,

find they haven't been asleep.

Not doing more than average

is what keeps the average down.

Holy Ground

For we are standing on Holy Ground
And I know that there are angels all around
Let us praise Jesus now
For we are standing in His presents on Holy Ground

Trip to Indianapols.

A Seagull

One lone seagull standing in the sand, I looked at him / her that morning and was interested in the three things which I saw. It is very intriguing to me that all we really see is the reflection of light on an object. Think about that for just a moment! If there was NO light source how could we see or perceive anything around us? Would we even have a need for eyes? That morning I saw three parts to or of the seagull. First his shadow, second the seagull its self, last a reflection in the sand. I have pondered this picture several times before I put on my blog and these are my thoughts about what I saw.
The shadow is not even a good representation of the gull. No color, no real exact detail, you can’t tell where the wings, eyes or beak start and end. Just a very loose outline of what is there.
The reflection is a lot better. We can see some of the color, we can tell things about the wings, the eyes and the beak. Yet it has a little more detail of the seagull than the shadow.
Last is the real thing! All the real colors, we can easily see the eyes, the beak and the wings. The colors are so much brighter and easier to see. There is an abundance of detail for us to see and appreciate.
In my day to day life which of these three do I portray the most?

Just my thought as I pass this way today.

The cross in the Mojave

At one point late in the arguments in Salazar v. Buono, American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Peter Eliasberg, in challenging the placement of the cross on public land, suggested the cross honored "just Christians." Justice Antonin Scalia, who is Catholic, angrily interjected, "The cross doesn't honor non-Christians who fought in the war?" He added, "I assume it is erected in honor of all of the war dead. The cross is the most common symbol of the resting place of the dead."
To which Eliasberg replied, "The cross is the most common symbol of the resting place of Christians. I have been in Jewish cemeteries. There is never a cross on a tombstone of a Jew."
Scalia's quick retort was, "I don't think you can leap from that to the conclusion that the only war dead that cross honors are the Christian war dead. I think that's an outrageous conclusion."
One lawyer in the audience said that when Scalia asserted that the cross was the most common symbol of a resting place, "You could audibly hear people breathing in." Jeffrey Pasek of Cozen O'Connor, who authored a brief against the constitutionality of the cross for the Jewish Social Policy Action Network, added, "A lot of people were surprised at the insensitivity of that comment."

I lifted these comments from: http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202434373566&rss=newswire

Thank you Judge Scalia!

Attitudes ?

The older I get,

the more I learn to tolerate

human shortcomings--

and the less

I tolerate bad attitudes.

The words of Thomas Stowell.

"Freedom"

The following was copied from the following site:

http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/welcome.html


· Freedom is a basic human right recognized by the United Nations and international treaties, and is the heart of social justice.
· Freedom is an engine of economic and human development, and scientific and technological advancement.
· Freedom ameliorates the problem of mass poverty.
· Free people do not suffer from and never have had famines, and by theory, should not. Freedom is therefore a solution to hunger and famine.
· Free people have the least internal violence, turmoil, and political instability.
· Free people have virtually no government genocide and mass murder, and for good theoretical reasons. Freedom is therefore a solution to genocide and mass murder; the only practical means of making sure that "Never again"
· Free people do not make war on each other, and the greater the freedom within two nations, the less violence between them.
· Freedom is a method of nonviolence--the most peaceful nations are those whose people are free.

Just a random thought as I pass this way today;

Mervi

What is really important today?

A short story from the tragic sinking of that great ocean liner the Titanic, a lady had a seat in one of the life boats. She begged to be allowed to return to her stateroom, she was given three minutes. As she entered her stateroom, she walked right passed the jewels laying on her nightstand and reached into a box to acquire three oranges and returned to her place in the life boat.

How many times, in my short life, when there has been an alteration of a situation or its surroundings has had such a dynamic effect on my outlook as to what is important?

Here is a thought for the weekend.

How old would you be if

you didn’t know how old you are?

Leroy Satchell Page

Seek Knock Ask

We were privileged to have Bro. Doug Wright preach for our congregation last night. His text was, knock and it shall be opened, seek and you will find, ask and it shall be given. As Bro Wright was preaching, I could not help me think if this old man almost fifty, yes I said 50, years ago. How that desire / drive to knock, seek and ask was so strong in me to receive the Baptism of the Holy Ghost. The great desire that I had to find a better style of live than the one I was living.

Thank you JESUS for the drive that was placed in me to seek, knock and ask for the blessing of You in my live.

It is still about first things first

A short story from the tragic sinking of that great ocean liner the Titanic, a lady had a seat in one of the life boats. She begged to be allowed to return to her stateroom, she was given three minutes. As she entered her stateroom, she walked right passed the jewels laying on her nightstand and reached into a box to acquire three oranges and returned to her place in the life boat.

How many times, in my short life, when there has been an alteration of a situation or its surroundings has had such a dynamic effect on my outlook as to what is important?