Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Science - Evolution

I believe this is a bogus religion. This is something you have to believe in. There isn’t any proof evolution works, has existed, or exists now. If evolution had happened, when did it stop and why did it stop. If it is still going on, why do we have the Endangered Species Act? What do we care if some animal, fish, or plant becomes extinct? Isn’t that the process of survival of the fittest working? Again, so what. With evolution going on, isn’t something evolving right now that will be better and stronger than what went extinct? Then also, if evolution is going on (hasn’t stopped), shouldn’t we be able to observe it? Something slowly but surely changing over into something else that never existed before? Then how did cells decide to come together and create, strike that word create, and make an organ, then the organs decide to get together and make an organism - something new and unique. How did a cell ‘evolve’ into becoming a bone cell? Another into a muscle cell? Another into a cartilage cell? Another into a leaf cell?

Even Charles Darwin himself admitted that if an example of irreducible complexity were ever found, his theory of natural selection would crumble. Irreducible complexity asserts that certain biochemical systems in nature contain parts that are too well matched to be products of evolution.

Okay, I cut and pasted this last paragraph from LiveScience.com. Here is the link for that:
http://www.livescience.com/othernews/050923_ID_science.html Then for more reading on this, here is another link: http://www.livescience.com/othernews/051109_evolution_science.html

These links are where LiveScience is trying to debunk the arguments that evolution doesn't exist. But, in my estimation, they are too caught up with themselves to see the folly of their own arguments. IMHO.

I read LiveScience.com once in awhile for the outrageous things they say and believe. I will say that sometimes some of it makes sense and you can learn something from it. They also have a tab at the top of their website for SPACE.com. Enough of this for now. Later.

Science - Big Bang Theory

I believe the Big Bang theory is fact. That is just another way to say creation. This is one subject where science and scientists have really painted themselves into a corner. They've been searching the heavens trying to figure out where we came from and how we came into being. Where did all of this come from? They came up with the Big Bang theory. The big bang was a big explosion that expanded into being the universe. Hence, something and everything from nothing. That is Creation. Let me say that again. Something from nothing is the true definition of creation.

Okay, lets play with this for awhile. Lets pretend that this has happened before and will happen again. Let me explain. Supposedly the universe is expanding and eventually will stop expanding. Then it will start contracting and will collapse in on itself. Sounds like the makings of a huge black hole. You know, where matter falls into this thing and the gravity is so intense that not even light can escape from it. So let me carry this a little bit further. Now there is this huge black hole and everything is compressed into it. I mean the whole universe is compressed into this black hole. Now, there is so much pressure built up on the inside of this thing that KABOOM !!! A big bang explosion. Is this an ongoing event? How many times has this happened before? Will it happen again? My answers to my questions are no, zero, and no. Like Bill O'Reilly asks, what say you?

Sunday, February 25, 2007

Al Gore's Academy Award

This is the headline from DRUDGEREPORT.COM at 2:00 cst Sunday afternoon: DICAPRIO WILL PRESENT TO GORE, 'SUNSHINE' PRODUCERS ALLOWED ON STAGE... MORE...

You can start sending my donuts to me. I like chocolate old fashion donuts. I really like the chocolate old fashion donuts with chocolat frosting. This is soooo very sweet.

Saturday, February 24, 2007

Global Warming - Part 2

This is Saturday, the day before the Oscars presentations. I will bet $100 to your 1 donut that Al Gore receives 2 Oscars, not 1, but 2. Has anyone noticed that these so-called "climatologists" are now talking climate change instead of global warming. They're beginning to give themselves some wiggle room when their computer models don't match up with reality. I've been in the computer programming business. Bad programming and incorrect data equals GIGO, garbage in, garbage out. Sometime I'm going to vent about that sometime, too. The infighting in IT.

How old is the universe? How old is the earth? What I've learned over the years is the universe is somewheres around 15 billion years old. The earth is around 3 - 4 billion years old. Okay, I'll give you that number or any number you want. Now, I've also picked up this little piece of information: Ecclesiastes 1:7 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.

Like Glen Beck says, I've got blood shooting out of my eyes. You mean to tell me that this has been going on for billions of years? Glaciers breaking off and dropping into the oceans? I don't know the correct terminolgy for this, but we are living in a closed or open system. Thats what I don't know, if its open or closed. But we are in a system. Rising sea levels flooding coastlines and the cities that are there. People losing their lives. The horror! The horror!

Wait! This has happened in the past. But that time, some guy got a heads-up and built a boat. Yeah, got his family and some animals on board. Yeah, then it rained for 40 days and 40 nights. Yeah, it was all over in a matter of DAYS! Seems to me that there was a promise made that this wouldn't happen again, too.

Now, we have some people predicting that this is going to happen again and by god don't question their methods or data. I'm going to rant about scientists sometime, too.

I'm not watching that crap Sunday night. After hearing about the Goracle being nominated for best documentary, any interest that I might have had really nose-dived. I don't know what other "documentaries" have been made, but if you had worked real hard and produced a documentary on some worthwhile subject and were honest in your presentation of the facts that you had dug up and then this is your "reward" for your effort. A slam-dunk against you, no matter what? Gotta feel for those people. Gotta go, catch you later.

Friday, February 23, 2007

Anna Nicole Smith and Brittney Spears

The behaviour of these 2 women is downright awful. Not to say that it is only these 2 women that behave like alley cats, there are some men who are just as disgraceful. Unfortunately, ANS has died and this has caused a media storm covering her life and the ongoing trials. Now, there is a media storm on Brittney's checking in and out of rehab centers.


God, what are they looking for? Jesus Christ, what is missing in their lives?

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Minnesota

Was out of town yesterday and returned about 9:00 p.m. As I like to do, I turned on the computer and checked my favorite websites: DRUDGEREPORT.com and HOTAIR.com to see what was happening.

First, drudgereport had a headline that a university was going to bestow an honory doctorate degree on Al Gore for his work on global warming. The university had not been identified. Then I went to hotair and sure enough, they had it posted too and the commentators were a little upset, to say the least. Went back to drudgereport and read the article. Didn't identify the U but did mention the U president's name; Robert H. Bruininks. The name looked familiar. So I did a google search on him and lo and behold, the University of Minnesota came up. What can I say? Living in a blue state is very hard on a person's mental health. The article is gone from Drudgereport but is still on at Hotair.

Minnesota. Look at the natural resources and natural beauty of this state. Iron ore mining. Forestry and forestry products. Agriculture. Manufacturing. This is one of the few states that has it all. Look at some of the people that have come out of here. Sears of Sears, Roebuck, and Co. Curt Carlson of Gold Bond Stamps and then hotels and restaraunts. Mayo brothers of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester and now in the Phoenix, AZ area. Bert Gamble and Phil Skogmo of the Gamble-Skogomo hardware stores that were all over the midwest. General Mill - Cheerios. Medical devices firms Medtronic and St. Jude. 3M - scotch tape and many other products. I could go on and on about this. Like I said a unique state that has many talents.

Then the natural beauty of the north country. North shore of Lake Superior. The forests and the many lakes. These are not scum laden and green algea growing lakes. The water is so clean and clear that loons live on them. Yeah, that is another thing; the wildlife that thrives here. Then moving to the northwest and the Red River Valley (shared by ND). Fertile farmland that grows sugar beets. Then moving south of there you run into more farmland that is quite productive and then to southern MN where the rich black soil runs feet deep, not inches. Left from the glaciers. I need to mention the Lake Agizziz area of northern MN. Again, this is very fertile farmland. This is the very northern part up by Rouseau and Warroad.

But, the people in this state are so.... so.... insane. Is that the word? Look at the politicians that have come from here. Hubert Humphrey. Eugene McCarthy. Remember this guy, Wendell Anderson. These people were highly respected and put on the national stage. Mark Dayton. These guys? What state do you think that Taxachusetts used as their role model?

Now the U of MN wants to give an "honorary degree for his work in climatology" to Al Gore. How about our republican senator Norm Coleman voting with the democrats for this resolution condemning the president and the troops. That's what it is folks. Anyway, we won't have Norm Coleman to worry about after the next election cycle. We are going to have Senator Al Franken. Oh, and we already have congressman Keith Ellingson.

Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, and South Dakota are beginning to look pretty good.

Monday, February 19, 2007

Like Putting Steel to a Grindstone - Sparks

Flying Everywhere

Just read a couple of articles about global warming and extracting the remaining oil. OH MY GOD! That's a christian woman having sex. Here is an atheist woman having sex; oh my ..... Oh my? All right, enough of that, move along.

First global warming. Anyone who disagrees with this scenario is threatened with losing their jobs and labeled as lower than Holocaust Deniers and the unwashed masses. Remember in the 70's they were screeching about global cooling at that time. Could have convinced me. I remember those cold winters; but of course I live in Minnesota.

I have my own motive for seeing more of this global warming and the melting of the ice caps. I am especially interested in seeing Greenland lose all of their ice. My remembrance of history may not be exactly right, but here goes. Leif Erickson aka Eric the Red sailed west from Norway and landed on Iceland and Greenland. I believe (not know for sure) that he was the original explorer / settler of these 2 islands. Greenland for sure. But anyway, he named Iceland correctly, but Greenland? I remember in a grade school class this was being taught and the teacher asks, in a rhetorical way, why would he name Greenland green land? Get it? That has always stuck with me. Then last year or so the History Channel ran a program called the Little Ice Age. Don't know if you saw this or not. But, this happened in the 1400 - 1500's. Because the program talked about the settlers in this country where there was no summer at all to plant new crops to see them through the following winter. Now, this was all over the northern hemisphere. Very cold temperatures, crops did not thrive, and massive starvations because of this. This lasted for quite awhile. Back to Greenland. If all of the ice melts, then there should be proof of settlements on that island further inland.

Hasn't the earth always gone thru cooling and warming periods? Trying to put all of the 'blame' on humans just doesn't cut it. Hit by an asteroid once in a while, volcanoes, and don't forget about the sun figuring in on some of this.

Burning fossil fuels pumps all of this carbon dioxide into the atomsphere. Again, from my science classes, CO2 is supposed to be good for trees, grass, and other plants. Now I'm going to get ridiculous here. Yeah, I know, get ridiculous. If you wanted to commit suicide and put a rubber hose from you car's exhaust pipe into your mouth, you would die of carbon ??? posioning. How about this? You go to the hardware store and buy a carbon ??? detector to put in your utility room where your gas furnace and gas hot water heater are. If you said monoxide, you're the winner in this little exercise and you get a cigar. What? You said your name is Bill Clinton? Give me that cigar back!

All right, I'm not a chemist, so I don't know the whole makeup / composition of these exhaust gasses. Follow the money on this issue. Who is getting large grants ($) to study this phenomen?
Its also political to destroy the USA's large and successful capitalist system.


Oil reserves and alternative fuels.
Yes, oil will run out sometime. Hard to say when though because of oil reserves off shore and then there is oil shale. I've read some material on oil shale in China and they are developing ways to extract oil from this stuff. The same articles went on to say that there are huge oil shale deposits in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. I also heard many years ago that South Dakota has a huge amount of oil shale. Remains to be seen what the economies of developing this stuff is.

There is talk of alternative energy sources like ethanol and hydrogen. Production of ethanol is great for the farmers who grow corn. Then if they can produce ethanol from any green stuff like grasses or other plants that can be grown economically, great. An advantage to this is 2 fold. First, take all of the land in CRP and put back into production. Second, taxpayers don't pay to idle land. Oops, just got the farmers mad at me.

Now, the downside to producing ethanol is the huge amount of water that is used in the production process. Where is this coming from. Deep wells? Plant close to a river? The farmers around here do alot of irrigation with wells. Problems with that is people are concerned with the depletion of the water aquifer for human use and then such a deep draw down on the aquifer could bring nitrates into the environment. Someone please help me out with this.

Hydrogen fuel cells sound like the answer to this problem. But, here are a couple of gotcha's.
If someone can figure out how to burn water; problem solved. Water should be the most flammable material on the planet, but it isn't. Its composed of 2 parts of Hydrogen and 1 part oxygen. H2O. Again, I'm not a chemist, but it must be the way the molecules are attached to each other. I'm hearing it takes more energy to seperate the gasses than it is economically feasible to use the end products. Then the byproduct of hydrogen fuel cells is water. What is this? Perpetual motion? You can get more energy out of a machine than what it takes to run it. I don't believe this and neither does anyone else.

So the byproduct of these hybrids; hydrogen and electric, is water. Is this a good thing? I don't know what the quantity of water would be. In the summer maybe not so much a problem. Winter. That is an entirely different thing. And I'm not talking about just the northern latitudes.
If the water is running out a discharge pipe you have ice on your roadways. Look at the winter this year that went deep into Texas, Oklahoma, and California. Accidents all over the place.

Lets say that some chemical engineer and a mechanical engineer discovers a way to pump water into your tank and the engine in your vehicle can take the water and break it down into a usable fuel as you need it. Like some glorified carbureator / fuel injectors on our engines now. Do you think these guys (gals) would be rich? But, that is the least of our concerns. How is the government going to tax this? Sorry, I am not a tax and spend democrat, but we do need taxes to maintain and build roads. People hooked up to city water are already metered. But, how much is for fuel and how much is for cooking, bathing, cleaning, watering the lawn, etc? What about private wells?

Now, I'm bragging. The 2 Edge Sword cuts both ways.

President's Day

Happy Birthday to 3, yes 3, great presidents! ! !

Ronald Reagan - 2/06
Abe Lincoln - 2/12
George Washington - 2/22

I still want some organization to get the ball rolling on this. I want Ronald Reagan on Mt. Rushmore. If someone can get this going, I would be more than willing to contribute some $$$ to get this done.

Again, happy birthday guys. You did one heck of a job.

Hillary's Anti-War Stance and Election Prospects

She is in a real pickle. She would like to appease the anti-war far left wing of the party but can't. She had to vote for the Authorization to go to Baghdad. If she voted no back then, how would that stack up against Billy-boy's assessment of Saddam's WMD? He and all of his crew believed and said that Saddam had them.

But, not to worry. She will win the nomination.

Obama is too much of a light weight this go around. Not enough experience; state office and 2 years in the house isn't really showing his management experience where he can prove he can work with opposing view points, like a mayor or a governor. Also, if he is perceived as an "Oreo"; black on the outside and white on the inside, he is done. The guy has been to Harvard, so he is intelligent. Examples of "Oreo's" are Clarence Thomas, Colin Powell, Condi Rice, and Mike Steele. The left hate these people because they haven't played the victim card. But, Obama's wife wants to play the race / victim card; can't go to the gas station without fear of being shot. Boy, that can lead to another rant. Also, bigorty and prejudice are alive and well in this country. They would rather vote for anyone else than for a black person for this high of office. This guy won't make it. He is either an "Oreo" or else he comes off like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Not gonna fly.

John Edwards isn't going to the top of the ticket, either. The guy doesn't have the where-withal to even manage his own campaign team. Hires 2 bloggers that he never checked out their credentials and what they had done in the past. Then when it is called to his attention, doesn't know how to respond? Wonder where he would be now, if this happened in the corporate world. You know where he would be. But what am I getting worked up about? These are dems and that is life in the cesspool and septic tank. Their needles have fallen off their moral compasses.

Joe Biden? nah. Richardson of New Mexico. Could have a chance. Hispanic and a governor. Being a governor proves that you can govern somewhat. Dennis Kuchini (sic)? What a joke. Vilasak from Iowa? nah. Anyone else? nah.

Friday, February 16, 2007

God Does Exist and Does Answer Prayer

I can prove this.

Do you remember hundreds of thousands of Muslims taking to the streets and chanting Allah Akbar! Death to America!

Their prayers are being answered at this very minute. You can see their God in action in our congress. They are debating and signing this non-binding resolution to defund our troops. And its not only democrats signing on. So this is not a political rant.

Muslims around the world are strangely quiet. They can see this is happening and they are just patiently waiting for us to self-destruct.

If you have a different take on this, I would like to hear it.

Launching my Web Log - BLOG

I'm am totally fed up and cannot be sending out emails to everyone expressing my frustrations with current events, politicians, scientists, and religion.

I'm going to be talking about different subjects depending on what is grinding on me the most at the time. I will be touching upon all of the above mentioned subjects. When I say talk about them, expect nuclear waste topped off with some battery acid. When I say I'm going to touch upon some particular subject, it will be with the "touch" of a blacksmith. You know what they do. Put some piece of metal in a forge and get it red hot and then take it to an anvil and pound on it with a 5 pound hammer.

Another reason I'm starting a blog is because its a way for me to vent and anyone who doesn't agree with my position(s) on any subject(s) don't have to read them and they won't get their email boxes filled up. See, I'm looking out for you.

Another reason I'm getting into this is because, hopefully, I can enter into a dialogue and that will help me better understand my position. Either it will reinforce my position or maybe I need to change my position. After saying that, remember that I am a stubborn Norwegian and I am as flexible as an I-beam.

Now, after reading these few paragraphs, you can see that you are not dealing with an English major. All I can do is try to convey my thoughts in a way that is understood by the reader.

Anyway, good luck to all of us. We're going to need it.