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Sunday, December 2, 2007 Infinity and density. If we assume that numbers go on forever, we have an example of infinity. But, odd numbers go on forever, though there are half as many odd numbers as there are numbers. Numbers divisible by three also go on forever, but there only a third as many numbers that are divisible by three. Similarly, numbers divisible by five go on forever, but there are even fewer of them. Catholic Fundamentalists see infinity in terms of "density". Even the largest prime number known will have an infinite number of numbers into which it may be divided, but it will be a very "undense" infinity. One way to determine "density" is to divide a number into a million, or a billion, or a trillion, or a quadrillion. The number of times it occurs gives an indication of its density. The larger the number into which it is divided, the more accurate an approximation of "density" we have to apply to infinity.
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 Lies have increased wonderfully in speed and quantity. It used to be that lies were disseminated at a slow, leisurely, even dignified, pace. The New York Times, Associated Press, and network news would solemnly broadcast lies that would be absorbed at a measured pace. The lies would only slowly contradicted by a handful of magazines, columns, and never by any national media. We may remember, for instance, the Ozone Lies from the good old days of totally leftist media monopoly. The Ozone Lies were a near-perfect campaign that resulted in legislation allowing freon prices to go from .99 cents a can to over $20.00. Profit margins swelled so much that whole new regulatory agencies, taxing authorities, and various special interest groups received massive funding and encouragement for more lies. The Global Warming Lies have hit rockier ground. Now, every time a Global Warming lie is told, someone who knows the truth is able to get it on the internet with lightning speed. Each truth must be met quickly with more lies. Lies have to be invented faster than ever. The Other Side is now forced to spew lies at a record rate. Each, when met by expert analysis, is immediately shot down in flames by knowledgeable people on the internet. So, more lies are told with amazing speed. Invariably, the lies contradict each other. Global Warming, for instance, is said to cause both rising and falling sea levels, temperatures, and rainfall. The overall credibility of the Other Side has never been lower. Now, at this very moment, 15,000 professional Global Warming Liars have flown to far-off Bali, many in private jets. They are preparing new generations of lies for dissemination. At the same time, they are inventing new ways to stop, or punish, those who expose their prevarications. They are blind to their own spiritual danger. The poor, lost souls are digging themselves ever more deeply into the ongoing agony of the painful afterlife to which they will be sentenced by the Judge Who clearly instructed them, "Thou shalt not bear false witness". We, on the other hand, who, even in some small way, are bearing witness to the truth, are helping ourselves with that Selfsame Judge. Our eternal joys will increase with each truth we tell. Those joys will be increased further if, while we are telling the truth, we are praying for those who lie so often and so obviously.
Wednesday, December 5, 2007 When lies were slow and ponderous. In the old days (50s and 60s and 70's and 80s), lies couldn't be told much faster than Walter Cronkite could talk. He would spend several minutes each evening, broadcasting the assigned lies in a profound, avuncular manner. On other networks, similarly credible old white men read the very same lies from early teleprompters in the same slow, sincere way. Most viewers would nod wisely as they absorbed each lie. Ideally, they would hear the same lie from two or three other sources, memorize it, and pass it on. "Opinion makers" is how the junior grades of liars were taught to view themselves. Back then, when more people could read, "news" magazines were popular. They would elucidate and expand the latest lies in whatever section of society they were assigned to manipulate. Some sections specialized in "education" lies. Those in sections labeled "politics" specialized in political lies. Lying then was so slow and ponderous that it might take the dimmer Americans months to fully understand the "dangers" of the latest, life-threatening problems. In order to speed up the lies, while giving the vainest people on the planet a way to demonstrate that vanity, "talk" shows were invented. Staffed with key, reliable members of The Culture of Death, endless hours of "concerned" talk destroyed marriages, encouraged abortions, made life-shortening sexual practices seem "good for everyone involved", and made belief in God seem to be a primitive superstition. There was little contradiction to popular lies, and few ways to contradict them. When the internet became popular, lies could be compared to truth very quickly. Lying had to be accelerated. The flood of lies necessary to prop up a fraud as blatant as Global Warming contained many contradictions and errors. Each contradiction and mistake prompted more truths to be told, which prompted more lies. Now, many countries have outlawed any internet content concerning political issues. That's easier for them to do than just tell the truth.
Thursday, December 6, 2007 Lies, death, and free money go hand in hand. Those who make a living with lies like "Global Warming" are near-universally in favor of abortion. Those in the Culture of Death especially enjoy telling lies to keep brown and black people from using DDT to protect themselves from the suffering and death caused by malaria-spreading mosquitoes. The Culture of Death, since the snake in the Garden, has provided its followers with excuses to kill or impoverish their neighbors while they, themselves, stay alive and prosperous. It would appear that about half of the people in the United States are allied with the Culture of Death. In the last two Presidential elections, the Pro-Life forces eked out victory, but only by the slimmest of margins. Most people, if they actually saw the unborn baby trying to escape the abortionists' forceps, would be against abortion. But, such things are not allowed to be shown on TV. Those who keep the visual truth about these awful murders out of sight will be especially punished. What of we who do not do more to protect the unborn? We believe in God, Scripture, and try to love our neighbors. But, only a few saints-to-be, like Father Marx and similarly dedicated pro-life people, do as much as they can to protect the unborn. By the Grace of God, we may have escaped participating in the lies and funding that the latest devotees of Baal provide, but we should do more. We can begin with prayer. Each of those lost souls in the Culture of Death has, somewhere, a Guardian Angel that hates what the poor soul to whom they've been assigned is doing. Prayers, begging for the intercession of powerful spirits, may help turn them toward life and love. Standing up for any truth can help. If a Global Warming profiteer can be shown that the sun causes most of the earth's temperature changes, he may see he has been involved with lies. He may then begin to see that abortion destroys the souls not outraged by the murder of innocents. He may move away from the Culture of Death to embrace life and love. God is not far away from any of us. Even the most hardened destroyer of innocent life can rearrange the tiny electrical charges in his mind from supporting lies and death to loving truth and life. Reminding them of how close salvation can be is, in itself, a powerful inducement to seeking that salvation.
Friday, December 7, 2007 Simplifying. In the Middle Ages, scholars taught that "Science is the handmaiden of theology." One of the first things that the Culture of Death did was sully that notion. Now, many academics believe that religious people are actually deranged, often dangerously so. God's truth hasn't changed. Even an atheistic scientist who values truth more than funding is, essentially, a religious person. He may be an atheist, but at least believes in something more profound than a larger bank balance. Few ideas can help simplify as much as Catholic Fundamentalism's definition of God as "Unprogrammed Programmer". As we grow in considering His ability to program Sub-Programmers who, in turn, can program more Sub-Programmers, some with the ability to program and organize what we are programmed to see as particles, the universe becomes a vastly simpler place. Those who make a living from needless complexity are not amused.
Saturday, December 8, 2007 Racism. When we get to the point of believing that we are all children of God (to Catholic Fundamentalists, we are the "Beloved free-will programs of The Loving Programmer"), racism is impossible. We do know that various groups of people have different characteristics. Some are better at running long distances, some at short distance dashes. Others are better at thinking, others are better at doing. Some have an affinity for music, others, literature. These differences, like separate parts of the body, all work together for good if we love our neighbors as much as our hands love our feet. Racism is worse than being aware of racial differences. Racism is, at heart, a manifestation of selfishness. Those who loot and plunder hate those whom they plunder. We who are plundered must be "de-humanized" so that the plunderer does not have to feel guilty about the way they treat us. In the public sector, for instance, those sworn to serve the public often despise taxpayers for not giving them enough money. "Those fools don't understand how important it is to stop the ozone hole, clean up PCBs, teach new math, reduce carbon footprints, etc., etc., etc. The selfish bastards have to be made to support our cause." It's interesting to watch how many groups of people make a point of denigrating their neighbors. There's a deplorable tendency to separate all of our neighbors into "us" and "them". There are many words that do this in a reasonable way. "Jew, gentile, oriental, caucasian" make divisions without insult. "Honkey, goyim, wogs," etc. are words that separate and denigrate. We should avoid them and the kind of "We are better than 'those people', they are worse than us." thinking that leads to their usage. Racism is seeking and finding flaws in our neighbors, and using those flaws as an excuse to treat them badly. As we grow in understanding that failing to love our neighbor is one of the greatest flaws of all, we can replace those feelings with love. We have to join the human race if we are to spend eternity with Love, rather than hate.
Sunday, December 9, 2007 Gene ration. Each one of us has been given a specific ration of genes. Some came from our mothers' ancestors, some from our fathers'. At the moment of conception, our Guardian Angel put the genes from our mothers and fathers together to make us what The Programmer wanted us to be. They did a good job. Each of us is so well made that we can choose between loving our neighbor and hating our neighbor. Many of us get overly interested in our ration of genes. "If I am descended from someone whose ration of genes allowed him to be rich and famous, then I am better than those without such an illustrious ancestor." Naturally, everyone who studies their own genes has some desire to find illustrious ancestors. Others wish to claim famous groups of which their ration of genes entitles them to feel good about themselves. Many are proud to be descended from William the Conqueror. Others, from a U.S. President. Some, from someone who came over on the Mayflower. The Daughters of Magna Carta are quite pleased to have an ancestor who signed that document. This sort of thing distracts us from the important work of saving our soul. Our soul will not be judged by what its ancestors did. It can only be saved by what we do with the gifts we've been given. Each gene ration's job is ever the same. Save our soul. That can only be done by loving God and neighbor.
Monday, December 10, 2007 Equal treatment under the law. Most of us live in areas controlled by tax-addicts. They are highly organized, and have been able to subvert supposedly democratic processes in order to enrich themselves. Tax-addicts are in control of public sector unions. We see their desperation for more money every time they threaten, or go on, strikes. Public service immediately takes a back seat to personal gain. It doesn't take many tax-addicts to swing elections to their candidates. They are able to influence media coverage of issues that affect them, and can swing a largely unconcerned electorate to support them. We who are pillaged are not organized, and are not often aware of how individual groups of people are being hurt. When, for instance, a "drink tax" is legislated, adding ten percent onto the price of every drink to "support mass transit", waiters, waitresses, cooks, and bartenders will lose jobs and income so that unionized bus drivers can get more money. By some obscene sleight-of-hand, the politicians responsible for impoverishing tens of thousands of restaurant workers to enrich a few hundred bus drivers will get most of the restaurant workers to vote for them in the next election. "I care, and I want to make things better." they will say. Their minds dulled by hope, the now-poorer restaurant workers will often vote for the same person who destroyed many of their jobs.
Where do we go from here? Catholic Fundamentalists understand that any human being can only move in two directions, toward God or away from Him. Every choice we make moves us, even if ever-so-slightly, in one direction or the other. As we realize this, we become more careful. It is true that God loves us, and wants the best for us, and will forgive us our sins (if we ask), but that's no reason to get into bad habits. Bad habits move us away from Him. If we get too far away, we may not be able to get back in time.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007 Isaac Newton and Revelations. Isaac Newton invented calculus. The Laws of Thermodynamics. The Theory of Gravity. He was a brilliant, brilliant man. Eventually, he got a job managing the Mint. His mathematical ability allowed him to be a great help to the English economy. At the same time, Newton studied both history and religion. He was a sincere believer in Holy Scripture and in a peculiar strain of Protestantism. Since he worked for Protestant Royalty, he utilized his amazing intellect to justify Protestantism and denigrate the Catholic Church. In reading his extensive journals, which are available online, Newton spent a lot of time analyzing the Book of Revelations. He theorized that "the woman who went to the wilderness was given two wings, one of which was the Roman Catholic Church, the other the Greek Orthodox." But, one obeyed the successor of Peter, and the other didn't. Hard to imagine someone flying into the wilderness with one good wing, no matter which wing one thinks is faulty.
Thursday, September 13, 2007 The Mark of the Beast. The Book of Revelations is a record of vision(s) that John received when exiled to the Roman prison camp on the island of Patmos. Every Bible scholar has read and reread that Book, and many have tried to place the events it records into time. As mentioned above, Newton thought he had a grasp of the Book. Revelations 13;16-18 tells us "He (the second beast) compelled everyone-small and great, rich and poor, slave and citizen-to be branded on the right hand or on the forehead, and made it illegal for anyone to buy or sell anything unless he had been branded with the name of the beast or with the number of its name. There is need for shrewdness here; if anyone is clever enough, he may interpret the number of the beast; it is the number of a man, the number 666." (some translate it to be '616') Some Hindus place marks on their foreheads, and many who prostrate themselves facing east have a mark on their foreheads from rubbing against their prayer rugs several times a day, but I know of none who have forced markings on the right hand, which may indicate that this event is still to take place. But, this "branding" might be something completely different. One must wonder if the "branding" on the right hand is some sort of secret handshake. Musicians, for example, tend to have few vertical wrinkles on their foreheads. If they have forehead-wrinkles, they're generally horizontal. Those who think a lot tend to have deeper vertical lines, usually extending upwards from the nose, between the eyes. Some have vertical wrinkles that extend halfway up the forehead. If an evil leader wanted his people to be more easily controlled, he would do everything possible, starting with pre-school, to keep them from thinking. So, Catholic Fundamentalists think that the "branding" may be taking place now, resulting in the wrinkle-free foreheads of those who never learn to concentrate enough on anything to leave any kind of a mark. It is true that no one who's remarkably intelligent or innovative can get a job in most public agencies. That may explain the "and made it illegal for anyone to buy or sell anything (in public or quasi-public organizations) unless he had been branded (with the smooth, wrinkle-free forehead of the non-thinker)." If that is a reasonable supposition, then we may now be living in "the days of the beast".
Friday, September 14, 2007 Mortgage meltdown! Bill Dunkleberger, at the Wynnewood Institute, sent out an absolutely fascinating post: "One third of all foreclosures in the housing market are in Florida and California. 96 percent of all mortgages are being paid on time. 30% of American home owners have no mortgage. Delinquency rates were higher in the 1980s than they are today. Only 2 percent of all mortgages are in foreclosure, and a bunch of these were speculative investments, not homes that were ordered by real home owners. Indeed, most of the mortgage problems are confined to Southern California, Las Vegas and Florida where speculative building was rampant. Problems in the mid-West are due more to the weak economy there, not overbuilding." Mr. Dunkleberger seems to know what he's talking about. Too bad that our government is in such a hurry to help. There are people who are anxiously awaiting any opportunity to get a government job in a new department. The upcoming "Department of Mortgage Security" will materialize as fast as the airline security popped up after 9/11. At that time, there were complete plans in place, just waiting for an excuse to add tens of thousands of hundred thousand dollar jobs to supplicants. The Department of Mortgage Security will make as much a mess of home financing as the new security procedures have made of air travel.
Saturday, December 15, 2007 Players in the Energy Game 1. The Fossil Fuel League OILERS: They provide energy from liquid petroleum products. Their oilfields are able to tap into liquefied hydrocarbons that are continually produced far beneath the surface of the earth. They fight the other teams and leagues, as well as supporting environmental movements, to keep new wells from being drilled. Victory in providing transportation energy has gone to them. They battle with the COALERS: This team provides power from solidified hydrocarbons. They have defeated the OILERS in the wars to generate generate electricity, but still battle with the GASSERS: Using gaseous hydrocarbons, GASSERS have won a few games in providing electricity, but have largely victorious over the COALERS and OILERS in taking over the Heating Battlefield. 2. The Atom ReArrangers NUKIES: Have taken over about 20% of the Electric Battlefield. Unable to cope with the huge bribes and campaign contributions of OILERS (mostly Arabian players wearing the most distinctive costumes in the League), NUKIES are unable to bribe large numbers of Western legislators, and have lost ground in the game. FUSERS: So far, the least successful team in this league. Demonized as "crackpots" by all other teams in every league, those who work on getting energy from fusion have made no progress except in being ridiculed. That leads many to believe that this team has a real future. 3. The Energy Wannabes BLOWHARDS: Simpletons, often from the lunatic fringe, largely subsidized by OILERS and COALERS to distract the dumber taxpayers from the NUKIES, BLOWHARDS believe that windmills are, for totally imaginary reasons, better alternatives than the far cheaper power from the NUKIES. Team goes into long huddle every time someone asks, "And, what are we to do when the wind isn't blowing?" BIOFREAKS: Using primitive stills to make ethanol and biodiesel which cost, before taxes, six or seven dollars a gallon, those who pretend that Newton's Laws of Thermodynamics don't apply to them, the BIOFREAKS are able to get (bribe) legislators to obtain vast subsidies to pretend to be doing something useful. TIDERS: They differ from the more popular BLOWHARDS in that they use moving tidal water instead of moving air to obtain power. They have never come up with anything that works, but are still able to obtain subsidies to distract people from the overall superiority of the NUKIES' power sources. BLOWHARDS, BIOFREAKS, and TIDERS are all subsidized by the OILERS' huge profit margins. They are the best, but not the biggest, liars in The Energy Game. All Teams in all Leagues specialize in bribing legislators, politicians, and anyone who can help pass laws against other forms of energy. Most news broadcasts have a great deal of misinformation about what the teams in The Energy Game are doing. Best lies so far: 1. Polar bears are being wiped out by Global Warming. This lie is infectively countered by ice core analysis showing that polar bears have lived through much warmer periods of time in the past. And, of course, we may want to remind them that there are more polar bears than ever, despite increased hunting of them. 2. Penguins are being driven into extinction by Global Warming. So far, this lie has been unaffected by fact that there is more Antarctic ice than ever. 3. Penguins are being blinded by sunlight streaming through the ozone hole. That's a wonderful lie that has not been meaningfully contradicted by the facts that the ozone hole has been around forever and penguins are still able to see. Part II One reason the Global Warming lies are immensely popular is that they provide an opportunity for those who like to meddle in every single human activity. There's nothing that can't be said to "cause global warming". Therefore, Global Warming is, finally, the huge, pseudo-intellectual umbrella, the "unholy grail", with which a state-gone-mad can justify taxing and controlling virtually every human activity, inactivity, and endeavor. The "unholy grail" of Global Warming holds within it the entirety of every Babylonian dream, the power to mandate Lies, Death, and Suffering upon us all. For our own good.
Sunday, December 16, 2007 Race and IQ Variations of the following chart often appear. They seem to imply that Asians are far smarter than anyone and that Blacks are less so. But, the Asians and Blacks who take the test live in Western countries where the tests are given. The Asians who were tested were self-selected from two billion other Asians. Out of those teeming billions, they were the ones smart enough to escape the grinding poverty of Asia, leaving their less able neighbors behind. These are the test results of the very cream of two billion Asian IQs. The disparity is made worse by the fact that few of them have been here beyond the two or three generations that it takes for "reversion to the norm" to kick in. Blacks, on the other hand, were not "self-selected" to be here. Captured by Moslem slave traders and sold to Whites, they were not among those able to escape. Once enslaved, forced selection of the strongest replaced the natural selection that produces the usual bell curve with the usual levels of intellect. Reversion to the norm may raise those scores over time.
When we adjust for the "cream of the crop" Asians who made it to freedom, and add to that the lack of time for reversion to the norm to take place, and take into account the "reverse selection" on the other end of the chart, we may conclude that Asian intellectual superiority is as much a myth as is Black inferiority. The worst thing about such charts is the shallowness of what is measured. To Catholic Fundamentalists, mental ability is a poor second to both spiritual depth, integrity, and closeness to God. On that measurement, one could make a valid case that the positions of Blacks and Asians would be reversed on the chart. Another evil that comes from this sort of "census" (and David, it will be remembered, was punished by God for trying to quantify people) is that it becomes an excuse for genocide. When genocide was instituted by tyrants, it was obvious. When the less obvious genocide by malaria and infanticide is encouraged by environmentalists and abortionists, these sorts of charts provide handy excuses to paralyse opposition from those who do not allow loving their neighbor to trump their monetary interests. Another consideration of race and IQ. There has been a recent flurry of internet opining on race and IQ. Some of it centers on the inability of African countries to run themselves efficiently and humanely. Few such critics ask themselves if the situation in Zimbabwe under Mugabe is any worse than Cuba under Castro, China under Mao, or Russia under Stalin. No one wonders if the corruption in Nigeria, or any other sub-Saharan country in Africa, is worse than in the European Union, whose people are being systematically stripped of their rights while an unelected bureaucracy uses the power of a police state to ride roughshod over them. No leftist will ever criticize another leftist for anything but not being far enough to the left, or, in Catholic Fundamentalism terms, to be filled enough with hate. And, governments always like to have other countries to point to and say, "See how much better we have it, here. That proves we're doing a good job." So, western governments have, for centuries, developed systems that allow them to appoint obedient leaders in African, or other foreign countries who can be counted on to loot, plunder, and otherwise destroy their people.
Sunday, December 16, 2007 The Seven Spirits of God. The Seven Spirits of God are mentioned in Revelations. John says they are near The Throne, but they are not defined, and are one of those things given to us to ponder. We do know that there are Seven Deadly Sins; Pride, Envy, Anger, Sloth, Greed, Gluttony, and Lust. (We can remember them with the handy, Catholic Fundamentalism mnemonic, "PEAS, Green, Good, and Little.") It does not seem unreasonable that the Seven Spirits of God may be the opposite of the Seven Deadly Sins that are the hallmark of the fallen. If so: The demons of Pride are opposed by the Spiritual Gift of Fearing the Lord, (Humility). The demons of Envy, by the Spiritual Gift of Charity. The demons of Anger, by the Spiritual Gift of Justice. The demons of Sloth, by the Spiritual Gift of Fortitude. The demons of Greed, by the Spiritual Gift of Temperance. The demons of Gluttony, by the Spiritual Gift of Prudence. The demons of Lust, by the Spiritual Gift of Chastity. These spiritual forces for good are selected from the Seven Gifts of the Spirit (Wisdom, Understanding, Knowledge, Counsel, Fortitude, Piety, and Fear of the Lord) as well as from the Three Theological Virtues, (Faith, Hope, and Charity) and the Four Cardinal Virtues, (Prudence, Justice, Temperance, and Fortitude). While "Chastity", the spiritual force that fights lust, is not one of these gifts, it seems to fit so well that it should be in there, somewhere. Catholic Fundamentalists think it reasonable to see these Gifts and Virtues as living beings, which, we think, is why one of the choirs of angels is called "Virtues", and assume that is a level of Spiritual Being on whom we may safely call for help. On asking angels for help: Many Christians, especially of the non-Catholic persuasion, prefer to "deal direct" with God. That is analagous to trying to get help installing your new Microsoft program by calling Bill Gates directly. We think it's more efficient to go through the "help desk". What with the four animals around the Throne, the twenty four elders praying endlessly, lightning, thunder, incense burning, and all the other things going on up there getting ready for Armageddon, we probably get through to The Programmer more quickly by respectfully going through the channels He has provided for our use. So, Catholic Fundamentalists think it's more prudent to go through Saints and Angels, rather than "marching right upstairs to give Him a piece of my mind".
Monday, December 18, 2007 Carbon silliness. Those who use Global Warming as an opportunity to take over the world are very worried about "carbon footprints". If we leave "too big" a carbon footprint, we are sure to condemn future generations to some unspecified horror or another. In actual fact, each of us breathes out 2.2 pounds of carbon dioxide every day. That's 803 pounds a year. That doesn't come close to Al Gore's jet output. But, when multiplied by billions of people, those who embrace carbon silliness have an excuse for birth control, abortion, and euthanasia. The Culture of Death, by waving the flag of "Carbon Reduction", now has an excuse to get rid of all of us. "For our own good". Not a single environmentalist has ever left a suicide note saying, "I could not bear to go on living, knowing that I was destroying the planet by breathing nearly a half-ton of carbon dioxide into the air every year."
Tuesday, December 19, 2007 Burnout among Truth-seeking Bloggers. There is frequent burnout among Truth-seeking Bloggers. They begin blogging with the thought that, by exposing leftist lies, they will help the leftist move toward truth. Exposing leftist lies is as easy as shooting fish in a barrel. Leftists are immersed in lies every minute of their lives. They swim in a sea of lies and spawn them, endlessly. Some of the poor things actually become lies in human form. The most shameless among them become rich and famous. Each truth that they are told is followed by a new flock of lies. Leftist lies, like the plague of locusts that swarms out of the abyss in Revelations, destroy all they are able to infect. It's fun, at first, to show how wrong their lies are. The Truth-seeking Blogger sees the swarm of lies, identifies several, and exposes them for the frauds they are. "See how wrong this is?", he asks, never getting an answer. After awhile, he begins to notice that the number of lies only increases. He grows weary. The Truthful Blogger is like Hercules fighting the Hyrda. Each time he cuts off one head, two others spring up. The problem? The Truthful Blogger, in his innocence, believes that he is fighting an enemy that wants to be good, that wants to find and tell the truth, that wants to help, that wants to be right. The hardened leftists who spawn the swarm of lies do not want to be good, do not want to find or tell the truth, want to hurt, not help, and they embrace wrongness. They have actually chosen evil. They prefer death and destruction to life and help. To maintain the fight, we must "put on the armor of faith". Until Truth-seeking Bloggers understand that the enemy has chosen to be evil, wants to be evil, and makes a living by participating in evil, the Truth-seeking Blogger is at a disadvantage. Once we see the enormity of the evil, and understand that we are battling the offspring of the Father of Lies, we understand that our eternal allies are saints and angels. We understand that we are fighting for God and He is fighting for us. Be glad, for that is the way of eternal salvation.
Wednesday, December 20, 2007 How many mistakes can a leftist make before losing credibility? Those who embrace lies are altered by those lies. Their minds and souls are warped, twisted, stretched, and distorted to incorporate those lies within themselves. We, who watch, are amazed that they can switch from old lies to new lies without seeming to notice. Paul Ehrlich, who predicted global famine and destruction by 1990, is now happily spewing clouds of lies about the "catastrophe of climate change". His amazing and unceasing regurgitation of lies goes on. When we see someone who has made mistake after mistake, we find it amazing that no one on the left notices. When asking, "What kind of credibility can be given a person who's been so wrong so often?, we are given answers like "He's passionate. Concerned. Worried about the future." "So what?" is one response. "Who cares what a person who's always wrong thinks about anything?" Believing a leftist is like perpetually going to a dentist who always extracts the wrong tooth. "It wasn't really the 'wrong' tooth. I was worried that it might have gone bad, later on." would be the perpetual excuse. With enough favorable publicity, the dentist could be called "far-sighted and concerned" and stay in practice until he died. Excusing lies. Many, whose Global Warming lies are being exposed as misleading shams are now saying, "It doesn't matter if we were right or wrong about Global Warming. Using less energy is still the best thing to do. Therefore, even though we were wrong, the greater good was being served." The same lies were told about Stalin's slaughters in The Ukraine. "Well, it's too bad that we had to machine gun ten or fifteen million farm families, but it was for the greater good." Leftists all come to the same conclusion, "Our lies must go on. Our goals are more important than telling the truth." This is another form of idol worship. "The desire that I have conceived, though it has no life of its own, must be made real, no matter how many lives, and how much money, must be spent to make it so. Beneath every leftist is the same perverse spirit that possessed Jim Jones, Mao, and Stalin. Behind their furrowed brows is Babylon and all its idols.
Thursday, December 21, 2007 From Dr. John Ray's Greenie Watch Year of global cooling It's wonderful to see truth emerging from the sea of lies. While we may be grateful that we are not among the horde of climate prevaricators, we mustn't forget to pray for those wililng to exchange their souls for material gain.
Friday, December 22, 2007 They hate us, and they want us dead. It's easy to minimize the efforts of the Other Side. We see their desperate silliness manifested in everything they say and do, and conclude that "People that stupid aren't worth bothering about." The thinking behind their words is not profound, but it is consistent. The unalloyed hatred that motivates them does not change until they die, and their poor souls go off to eternal punishment. They rejoice in every bad thing that happens to anyone. We, on the other hand, are rarely single-minded. We hate evil and try to do good, but we do it sporadically. Some days, we're very concerned about abortion, for instance, and another day, we are focused on the abysmal state of public education in America. But, there are lawns to mow, work to do, and cars to wash. And, we are distracted by the blatant stupidity behind their endless lies. The Other Side stays more focused. The sins we avoid are their sacraments, so they serve evil, no matter what they do. We, however, do not always do good, but often do nothing, allowing ourselves to be distracted by television and material concerns. So, we should work a little harder. Pray a little more. Be a little better. If we don't continually move toward truth and goodness, we run the risk of ending up like them; thinking, telling, and living lies.
Friday, December 21, 2007 This, from Junk Science.com 11/13/07, appears to be the tip of a VERY BIG iceberg, IF TRUE:
Saturday, December 22, 2007 Envirocession Out-of-work, impoverished people are more easily convinced they have a right to take money from their neighbors. So, the Other Side does everything it can to make people poorer: Environmentalists have embraced bio-fuels. That's taken grain from agriculture, so Food prices have gone up. Environmentalists have embraced solar heat, so. Energy prices have gone up. Environmentalists love windmills, so Energy prices have gone up. Environmentalists have stopped atomic power, so Energy prices have gone up. Environmentalists stop new oil wells, so Fuel prices keep going up. Environmentalists love to get people off septic tanks and onto public sewers, so It costs more to flush. Environmentalists love to get people unhooked from their own wells and onto public water, so It costs more to drink water. Environmentalists turn mud puddles into "precious wetlands", so Housing costs more. Environmentalists make it impossible for many to cut down trees or clear brush, so Fire, wind insurance costs more. Environmentalists mandate more expensive light bulbs that don't work as well, so It costs more for light, disposal of bulbs. Environmentalists add "climate help" to gasoline, so it Costs more to drive. Environmentalists turn freon into "cause of deadly ozone hole". Now, .99 cent can of freon costs over twenty dollars, so It costs more to keep cool, keep food from spoiling, run factories. Environmentalists have eliminated asbestos in insulation, brake pads, etc. So, World Trade Centers collapse because asbestos insulation prohibited. Auto brakes more expensive, not as good. Environmentalists mandate catalytic converters, all sorts of "cleaning" doodads on vehicles. Costs more to buy and maintain cars, buses, and trucks. Environmentalists legislate "scrubbers" to take the last, tiny percentages of particles and "harmful" gases out of smokestacks. Electricity costs more. Environmentalists institute huge bureaucracies to "protect the environment". Everything costs more. Environmentalists decide to clean up old mines, industrial sites better left alone. Huge contracts awarded to politically active supporters. Taxes are raised. Various species said to be "endangered" when construction, mining, or logging has to be stopped to protect the politically connected. Land and other costs increased.
Each thing they do intentionally puts more of the proverbial straws put on the proverbial camel. They eagerly await the breaking of the camel's back, knowing well that crippling burdens destroy families, governments, and businesses. That is exactly why they are being imposed. Environmentalists would rather crucify us to "protect the future" than let us have any money when we get there. It's obvious that they're usually wrong, that they have chosen to be wrong, and that they revel in being wrong. Their clear, consistent desire is to make their neighbors suffer. As such, they are our enemies, and we are clearly commanded "do good to them that hurt you." We have a duty to ask God to help them love their neighbors. As we do so, we must realize that the economic recessions that have already damaged many of our neighbors are directly caused by environmentalists and their dislike of virtually everything.
Additional note: It's interesting that birds, a few years ago, were used as an excuse to stop spraying DDT, which was falsely alleged to damage their eggs. Today, the only thing that windmills produce efficiently is piles of chopped-up birds (most hawks and eagles can't see straight ahead, but can only see down when they're flying, so they're prone to fly right into windmills), but there's nary a word of complaint from the same environmentalists who used to worry so mightily about their eggs being damaged when the imaginarily thinning eggshells could be used as an excuse to get rid of DDT, thereby condemning more people to deathand suffering. They love to lie, especially when the lie causes death.
Monday, December 24, 2007 In the sky. Last night, Mars, ex-planet Pluto, Jupiter, the Earth, and moon were all in alignment. Some astrologers report that alignment to be the beginning of the long-awaited "Age of Aquarius". Very high winds blew over much of the country, which was predicted by some who study planetary alignment. Also noticeable were changes in the sun. It has been, for the past month, nearly devoid of sunspots, indicating the beginning of a new solar cycle. Revelations indicates that at some point, the sun will be like "black sackcloth". That describes what it would look like when covered with sunspots. Sunspots indicate increased solar radiation. When the sun is like "black sackcloth", its output will cause great changes to earth, its magnetic shields, the atmosphere and everything beneath. Merry Christmas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRobryliBLQ
Tuesday, December 25, 2007 Now and Then. "Then", among the most interesting of words, transcends time. We can say "Then, it happened." It can also be said, "Then, it will happen." "Now", on the other hand, is concerned with the present. "Nows" are the result of prior "thens" and determine future "thens". The Bible, Programming Logs to Catholic Fundamentalists, is very concerned with "then". It begins with the first "thens", in Genesis, the beginning of the Old Programming Log. It tells us what was programmed, "then". "(Then, it rained for forty days and nights." Or, "(Then) the sea parted before the Israelites." Interspersed with the past "thens" are glimpses of future downloads in The Program. Those able to get those glimpses are called "prophets". "(Then), a virgin will give birth", "(Then) they shall look upon Him Whom they pierced." Just as Genesis is concerned with recording past downloads, Revelations is concerned with future downloads. "(Then) the beast will emerge." "(Then) the seven trumpets will blow.) Obviously, when John saw and heard these things, he was at a place where the future was as visible as the present. We can only pray for a tiny bit of that enlightenment. "(Then) where will my soul go? Will my name (then) be found to have been written in the book of life?" "Now" is disappearing with blinding speed. "Thens" are eternal. "Then" is only an "e" and a "d" away from being "The end".
Thursday, December 27, 2007 Nicotine addiction. Of all the addictions, nicotine is both the most harmful and the most harmless. Buying cigarettes costs the average nicotine addict about five dollars a day. The most harmful aspect of that is that each smoker gives the state a few dollars a day in the form of cigarette taxes. There are about 70,000,000 smokers. At three dollars a pack/day in taxes, $210,000,000.00 a day goes straight into the belly of the beast. That's about 75 billion dollars a year that smokers contribute to U.S. taxing authorities. More and more people are avoiding that tax by buying little, hand-cranked cigarette making machines for less than the cost of a carton of cigarettes. Some even grow their own tobacco. Only a few tobacco few plants are necessary to provide the leaves for a year's supply of cigarettes. As more smokers are driven to this alternative, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms will hire the usual shills to come up with "environmentally sound" reasons to make the growing of tobacco illegal. But, there are "environmentally sound" reasons for smokers to grow their own tobacco. Most cigarette manufacturers put all kinds of chemicals into their cigarettes. These may include ammonia, menthol, licorice, molasses, and any of 600 other chemicals. When these chemicals are burned, they produce all kinds of complicated molecules that go straight to the lungs. These molecules may be what causes the various medical ailments to the respiratory and circulatory systems that are found in long-time smokers. At the very least, nicotine addicts should smoke only cigarettes that do not contain any chemical additives. Winston makes such cigarettes. And, those who "roll their own" may specify pure tobacco when purchasing it in bulk. Most who "roll their own" give up on it after awhile. It's messy and inconvenient. But, it's possible to buy small cigarette machines, about the size of a refrigerator laid on its side, that will produce as many as 2,500 cigarettes an hour, all in neat packages indistinguishable from those purchased in retail outlets. These machines cost over fifty thousand dollars. A few dozen smokers who contributed to the purchase of such a machine could "rent" it from the leasing corporation that would own it, and in a matter of a couple of hours, make and package a year's supply of cigarettes for less than a dollar a pack, getting their investment back in a year.
Friday, December 28, 2007 The ship is sinking. There's a life boat. It's hard to give up a lot that we've learned in the past. We've all been encouraged to invest a lot of time in learning about evolution, global warming, and similar fads. It's especially hard to give up beliefs if we think they prove that we're "enlightened" or "educated". The idea that The Programmer simply had Sub-Programmers (angels) who were given the direction and power to program life forms that looked like they evolved, simply as an aide to provide us with free will, can disturb our sense of what's "right". When we consider that He had the programming power to get most of this done in a week, we may see ourselves as passengers on a huge ocean liner headed at top speed toward an iceberg. We either go down with that ship, or jump into the sea of faith, braving the waves on a tiny life boat. The Bark of Peter, of course, is a miraculously well-built life boat. Many fundamentalists, once they understand more about the Church Fathers, understand that the earliest Church was the Catholic Church. They may discover that it was the Roman Catholic Church Who compiled the Bible. When they try to be Christian and Fundamentalist (and, many do an exemplary job) with "Sola Scriptura", while ignoring that Church Councils, ordered by the Pope and consisting of Catholic bishops, are the source of Scripture, they are rowing with one oar. The Catholic Fundamentalist has both an idea of God's programming power and the sacred nature of The Church as source of Scripture, so has both oars in the water. Its passengers thereby making better progress toward He Who programmed all Creation.
Saturday, December 29, 2007 Taxing the internet. In the early days of automobiles, many legislators complained about them. "Why should we encourage them?", they asked. "Because you can tax them. You can tax gasoline, oil, and tires. You can make them pay and pay and pay." So, roads were built, many still charging tolls for roads whose costs have long been repaid, but which now support whole hosts of those who choose to be so supported. Today, traveling on the internet has not yet been taxed, but every tax-addict wants to do so. "It's for their own good. We have to pay for more programs to help them. We need to tax the internet." Many proposals are huge, complicated schemes to collect sales tax on anything sold through the internet. Others just "want a penny tax, just one penny," on every email. Unlike automobiles, internet users have the ability to affect the thinking of some legislators, so its unlikely that anything will be passed soon. But, when tax-addicts fail to get more money through legislation, they usually find success by turning to the courts. "It's only fair that they should pay.", they will say to judge after judge. Eventually, some "enlightened" jurist will agree. And, we will be taxed.
Sunday, December 30, 2007 Types of cannibalism. Governmental Cannibalism. The most popular type of cannibalism is taxation. It involves draining money from all those who can be drained. The money is then given to those who will promptly waste it and ask for more. Sexual cannibalism. More and more protections are removed from the most helpless, who are allowed to be used by those whose souls have no greater joy. Educational cannibalism. The cry for "smaller classes" and "new buildings" echoes across the land. Taxpayers are impoverished "for the children", who are no longer taught to read, write, and do arithmetic. Transportation cannibalism. Those needing to get from point A to B are make to go from point A to point C to be taken to point D before being allowed to get to B. The more intermediate stops, the more tolls, and the more tickets that can be issued, the better the system is said to be. Energy cannibalism. The safest, cheapest, most reliable nuclear energy plants are closed down. No new ones are allowed to be built. Windmills and biofuel plants are erected. The world is said to be "better". Environmental cannibalism. Once environmentalists found that they could measure "parts per billion", pollutants were found to "be everywhere". Great efforts have been made to remove them from the environment. Taxpayer savings are cheerfully devoured to "protect" them from "deadly pollutants". Monetary cannibalism. Inflation, once instituted, squeezes out the value of the little bits of money that the thrifty have been able to put aside. Entertainment cannibalism. As cultures become cannibalistic, entertainment drops ever closer to the level once found in the Coliseum. Perversions and distraction become focused on death and destruction, rather than live and protecting it. Fairness. The fairness cannibal takes from those who have something he wants and keeps as much of it as he can. This process is said to be "fairer" than what went before.
Monday, December 31, 2007 Amish transportation. Most Amish will not buy, or drive, automobiles. Since they live in rural areas, they often pay their non-Amish neighbors to take them places. That has outraged the State of Pennsylvania. "Every driver who takes a person anyplace for hire has to specially licensed, and each one must pay us almost four hundred dollars a year. Many who drive the Amish to stores and hospitals don't pay our fees. So, we're going to arrest any driver who doesn't give us four hundred dollars a year." The reason? Metropolitan transportation "authorities". Big city bus drivers are in powerful unions. They do not want to compete with jitney drivers who are mostly black, poor, and otherwise unemployed. These heroic citizens provide safe, door-to-door transportation in some of metropolitan Pennsylvania's most dangerous neighborhoods. To stop that, the State has instituted fees and regulations to make it impossible for most jitney drivers to compete with "public" transportation. And, those same unions would like to operate in rural areas to increase the number of dues-paying members. So, the Pennsylvania Utility Commission is sending undercover officers around to spy on those who drive the Amish where they want to go, bring them and their purchases home again, and charge them a few dollars. When these drivers are found, they are arrested and heavily fined. In Pennsylvania, this is called "justice". To date, no one is known to have been killed or injured while riding in an "Amish jitney". Thousands have had their lives made better by them. All the more reason for the state to put them out of business. |
