Saturday, September 1, 2007

                                                    A nickel for your thoughts.

     A nickel can be made to be worth billions.  Suppose someone thinks to himself, "Nickel is a heavy metal.  Heavy metals are dangerous.  Therefore, we should make nickels out of plastic."  After coming to that conclusion, he goes to New York.

     Manhattan's experienced public relations specialists are hired to develop a series of lies and exaggerations about "nickel poisoning".   At the same time, big New York banks arrange financing.

     Public relations specialists churn out copy.  "Is your pocket change worth dying for?" becomes a headline.  It's followed by variations on the theme that miraculously appear on one TV show and press article after another. 

     "'Your life's not worth a plugged nickel!' takes on a new meaning."   Then, "Children not killed for their lunch money, but by their lunch money!"  Other groups are brought into the campaign.  "House fires can vaporize nickels: a great concern for firemen!"

     Those working in other parts of Gotham's Imaginary Problem Industry are quick to get a free ride on the bandwagon.  "Even tiny traces of nickel emissions may be contributing disproportionately to global warming."  "Nickels might be a proven source of deadly allergens."  "Carrying nickels in your pocket appears to cause reduced sperm counts."  "Touching a nickel with your fingers can carry the deadly nickel atoms directly into the bloodstream."  "Nickel mines may be the world's worst source of ground water pollution."

     The pitiful boobs who believe that the "news" has any credibility at all quickly absorb this sudden flood of new information.  The most credulous morons among them memorize a few key sentences, as they are meant to, and obediently pass them on, utilizing a process that they have been taught to think of as "thinking",   "I must warn people to watch out for those deadly nickels",  "Nickels are killing us!  Who would have thought?",   "Something must be done about nickels! " becomes part of millions of minds.

     Brighter people quickly know what's going on.  At the first appearance of the "Deadly Nickel" press releases, those in, for instance, the glass industries, will put their own public relations firms to work.  "We all agree that nickel is deadly, but we cannot agree that plastic is a scientifically reasonable substitute.  Tempered glass is the ideal material to replace nickel."

     From another field, it will be announced that:  "Nickels should be made out of fiber-reinforced ceramic so that they'll last longer and never break or wear out."

     Research labs at major universities will be retained to determine which material actually works the best.

     While that's going on, bribes, in the form of campaign contributions, are directed to politicians who have been given the power to legislate such things.  "We in Alabama, where the resin will be produced, have proven that the plastic nickels are far superior."  At the same time, senators with large glass industries in their states can push for "campaign contributions" from their constituents.  "New York State's glass companies have long been a vital part of America's industrial heritage.  Those companies are the ideal suppliers for this new, vital project of nickel replacement."

     Weeks or months later, whenever focus groups have found that the lies have penetrated the necessary percentage of simple minds, and the highest bidder has successfully purchased the necessary Congressional votes, a solution is announced:

     "Officials at The United States Mint, working together with concerned scientists, (on TV "news", there will be file footage of actors dressed up like scientists operating complicated-looking, shiny equipment cobbled together from expresso machines and old exercise equipment) have solved the deadly health problems that may occur if nickels are allowed to remain in the nation's money supply.  The nickel will stay, but will no longer be made from the deadly heavy metal.  The center of each new Safety Nickel will be made of glass, surrounded by a plastic disc which is rimmed by fiber-reinforced ceramics."

     A great sigh of relief will be exhaled from the entire boob community.  "Whew!  That was a close one!"  "News" lead-ins will proclaim, "Disaster narrowly averted by government program!"  And, "This private-public partnership has been a great benefit to every American."  The few people with the courage to report that each new nickel costs fifteen cents to produce and has absolutely no intrinsic value will be labeled "mean-spirited right wing extremists".

     When the profitability is fully understood, pennies, dimes, quarters, and half-dollars will also be replaced be with "Non-allergenic Coinage" after those campaigns have been successfully launched.

     As the process gathers headway, one or two companies will successfully lobby for the opportunity to be the authorized "safe exchange agents".  They will then sell the millions of tons of scrap metal.  The same news agencies will let us know that their vast profiteering is actually "environmentally sound recycling".

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

                                              Why no attempts at wind control?

     High winds cause death, damage, heartache, and grief.  No one ever tries to stop them.  It would seem reasonable that the highest winds form a vortex, the kind that we see when water runs down the drain.  We know from experience that such vortexes are easily deflected and destroyed by the judicious use of minimal force.

     Sticking our finger in the side of a drain-vortex is enough to disrupt it.  Vortexes being vortexes, similar disruptions would weaken larger, tornado-sized vortexes.  A controlled explosion of sufficient size could cause the vortex to collapse.

     It's a wonder that no one has tried this.  It's an obvious idea, and, with satellite tracking, one that would be easy to implement.  One can picture a missile from a military jet set to explode high above the ground just as it hits the edge of the vortex.  The explosions would cause the vortex to weaken, if not collapse. 

     It is so obvious that one wonders if those who profit from tornadoes do NOT want them to be stopped.  The occasional chance of a tornado forces all of us to pay far more for insurance than we'd pay if even half or two-thirds of all tornadoes could be stopped, or even weakened significantly.  So, we must consider that it is the powerful lobbying efforts of insurance companies, aided by hired shills in the environmental movement (aghast voices crying ,"It may make things worse!" and, "We mustn't fight with Mother Nature, but must learn to accept Her!") that keep the tornadoes spinning across the nations.

                                                    Can Hurricanes be slowed?                                          

     Explosions on the edges of hurricanes' eyes may have a slowing effect on them, as well.  It is inexplicable as to why we can't protect our oil fields, homes, and beachfront communities with something that should, at least, be tried.

     One also wonders why ice isn't used to slow hurricanes.   They gain energy from warm water.  Cold, fresh water would float on warmer salt water.  The same airplanes that cover thousands of acres of burning forests with cold, fresh water would also be able to spray a thin "blanket" of cold, fresh water in front of an approaching hurricane, depriving it of some energy.

     Similarly, huge sheets of bio-degradable films, laid or sprayed onto water, could be applied, likewise depriving hurricanes of the energy they get from warm water.

     Without experimentation, we cannot guarantee that powerful winds can be stopped, but it is reasonable to assume that they could be slowed down, averting needless death and damage.

     Instead of having a handful of people, already in the military, actually stop or reduce such disasters, many in government, media, construction, and insurance prefer to have countless hordes of "weather experts" who are kept busy with predicting, tracking, warning, reporting about hurricanes, talking about the problem, rather than doing anything about it.

     Just as tornadoes help convince people to pay their insurers big premiums for wind damage, others profit from hurricanes.  Middle-eastern oil producers like it when hurricanes destroy oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico.  "Their hurricanes are good for our business." is something they all understand so well that their bribes would likewise flow to keep hurricanes from being stopped.

                                                         Project Stormfury.

     In the 1950s and 60s, it was conjectured that planes dropping dry ice alongside the eye of a hurricane would slow it down.  "Project Stormfury" was begun, under the most unimaginably nitpicking government regulations.  The very few hurricanes that the government allowed them to "attack" did, as predicted, have greatly reduced winds.

     Very few hurricanes were found to be "suitable".  Despite its success, Project Stormfury was cancelled.  Insurance companies, construction unions, those in the building supplies businesses, and contractors all decided it was better to have stronger hurricanes, more death, and greater property damage.  Politicians dependent on their contributions voted accordingly.

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

                                                        The sins of omission.

     Our biggest problem is getting to Heaven.  It's hard.   We are sometimes reminded, "many are called, few are chosen", one of the most worrisome sentences ever written.   We work hard, we pray a lot, and we hope we'll make it.  

     Oh, how we hope we will. 

     But, we're aware of how little we did compared with what we could have done.  That thought haunts us.   The sins we commit by not doing as much good as we could are endless.  And, frightening.

     The sins we commit have, generally, a beginning and an end.  We commit them, and if we stop committing them, we can be forgiven by the Sacraments.

     Our sins of omission seem to go on forever.  Still, we shouldn't stop confessing them.  The Programmer has provided His priests with the power to forgive what we omitted to do as easily as they can forgive the bad things we actually do.

     It's humbling to compare our activities with that of any saint, or near saint.  They worked day and night to bring themselves closer to The Programmer and to bring Him closer to us.  Most of us don't do that.

     Their vast power to do good works can help us if we ask them to.  "Saint Anthony, let me find ways to be more like you." is a good start.

Thursday, September 6, 2007

                                                         Another soul lost?

     When I was young man, I ran for our local school board.  I lost the first election, won the next three, and was eventually voted out of office after making progress on reducing taxes and spending.

     In that time, I never got a single job for a friend or relative.  It was clear that many board members, with relatives who had, or wanted, jobs in public education, were not as firm about never using their elected position to help relatives get preferential treatment in the hiring process.  Those safe, high-paying jobs are often used as bribes by school administrators to get favorable votes from board members.

     Another board member served six or seven terms before, during, and after my own terms.  He pretended to be conservative, made many perfunctory statements about "keeping taxes down" but almost always voted to increase both taxes and spending.  Such votes were always accompanied by the word "reluctantly.", as in "I hate to raise taxes, but I am forced to do so, 'reluctantly'.  This is the last time I will do so." 

     He, and others, said that several times a year.  

     Votes that increased spending always provided a good show.  In that charade, obedient board members who said "We (I) have no other choice but to raise taxes." always thought they were fooling others as well as they were fooling themselves.  Needless to say, they were largely despised by the very administrators who used them so shamelessly.

     Near the end of his last term, one of his dependents was given a job in the district.  Such favoritism is frequently compounded by the oft-told lie:  "So-and-so's (wife, daughter, son, in-law, grandchild, old army buddy, creditor, next-door neighbor's child, etc.) was the best-qualified person for the job." 

     Complaints were often voiced by those passed over who were better qualified by experience, training, or intellectual ability.  Then, another lie followed as surely as the night the day: "After all, it's unfair to automatically disqualify the relatives of board members.  They may be the best qualified."  The odds of such statements being true are, judging from the number of applicants for some public school jobs, are about 800 to 1.

     Compounding sin with lies moves the soul into the area where The Judge may find it guilty of having participated in "complex fraud".  As Dante tells us, any "complex fraud" that involves taking money from taxpayers for personal or family gain sends those who participate to the 8th Circle.  That's an agonizing place to spend eternity.

     We should pray for those who trade their souls to get their proverbial "mess of pottage" by using fraud and favoritism. 

     Even more, we should pray for the strength to avoid falling into that agonizing pit, ourselves.

Friday, September 7, 2006

                                                               Recruiters.

     Homosexuals have few children, but always seem to be about 1-2% of most populations.  Liberals have fewer children than conservatives, but there are always more liberals than liberals' children.

     So, where do they come from?  

     Those who do not reproduce themselves must rely on recruitment.  To that end, recruiters are always on the prowl.  They are of intellectual, spiritual, and sexual variety.

     When children go to school, liberals ensure they are immersed in a cesspool of sin, corruption, and confusion that begins with the earliest "non-judgmental sex-ed classes".      Later, "higher education" facilities have "orientation" courses that glorify sexual activities of all kinds.  Impressionable children are affected by such courses.  Many go off the rails.

     Many parents are too busy, trusting, lazy, or distant to understand the onslaught their children will face.  "It's all part of growing up.", some say, hoping to be telling the truth but, actually hiding from it.

     Once children can be recruited into sexual activity, their self-esteem suffers.  So does their overall health.  Soon, many feel they "need" one or more of the many government programs that purport to "help" the lost, confused, and bewildered.  Once they can be made to feel dependant, they are easy prey for fear-mongering demagogues.

     Those who recruit people into sin always want them to disrespect themselves, their neighbors, and their neighbors' property.

Saturday, September 8, 2007

                                                     What does this mean?

     The statue, of course, is Diana, or Artemis, of Ephesus.  In the Bible, people fighting to preserve their lucrative trade in idols portraying Diana, cried out "Great is Diana of the Ephesians!"

     The many, many breasts symbolize that Diana was, among other things, the goddess of government.  Each breast represented a state job, or department, that would feed the family that had their prayers for that job answered.

     States that provide an excess of essentially non-productive government jobs are as doomed to collapse as her religion and the governments based upon them.   When worshipping at the public teat(s) becomes a religion, the nation falls.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

                                                       The culture of death.

     Those who love death gravitate toward different degrees of death.  First, there is the death of whole peoples.  Death camps, gulags, and those who ban DDT are responsible for the deaths of billions.  Those numbered among the Unborn Peoples are slaughtered by abortionists.

     Some want to cause the death of families.  Families are attacked by large welfare payments going only to single parents, vicious tax laws, no-fault divorce regulations, and the many, many "father-haters" and "mother-haters" who destroy traditional family structures.

     Of lesser importance are business deaths.  They are caused by punitive regulations, excessive taxes, vanity of over-extended owners, and a basic hatred of free enterprise.  Many livelihoods are intentionally destroyed by the culture of death.  Those people regularly destroy their neighbors' jobs by sending businesses to places with low labor rates. 

     The death of excellence is a vital part of the culture of death.  Excellence in education, finance, law, or any field of human endeavor, is always demeaned.

     All those who've joined the culture of death work hard for the death of truth, as well.  Anything that is not being destroyed is a threat to them, so each thing is attacked until it is destroyed.  Then, they look for something else to kill.

     What the culture of death never understands is that there are far more murderous people than they who are only waiting for a chance to destroy each one of them.

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

                                                            Golden Calves.

     All those in the culture of death spend a lot of time producing and worshipping Golden Calves.  The most dangerous Golden Calves are not calves, made out of gold.  They are destructive ideas.  "Global warming" is a typical golden calf.  It's imaginary, believable, and profitable, the three requisites for a successful Golden Calf.

     "Second-hand smoke" is another Golden Calf.  There are no actual health risks associated with it, but it's a wonderful excuse for taxing and regulating.  So is the Golden Calf made of cholesterol.

     "Salt intake" is a perennial Golden Calf.  It's one of the smaller golden calves, but it's perennially popular.

     "Environmentalism" is such a huge Golden Calf it's actually a "Golden Cow".  The "Pure Water", "Clean Air", and "Temperature Permanence" Golden Calves suckle at her swollen udder.

     "Fairness" is another Golden Calf.  It's twin, "Equality", walks solemnly with it.  Hand in hand, they have been false idols in the Culture of Death since they were first worshipped by jealous Cain.

Thursday, September 13, 2007

                                                       Fans of The Golden Calf.

     Scripture makes it clear that our primary aim in life is to serve God.  Catholic Fundamentalists familiarize ourselves with His Programming Instructions, and try to live our lives accordingly.  Moses, in The First Programming Log, is one of our most worthy role-models.

     Many of us decide that we will believe that His Operating Instructions, which we can download from both Church and Scripture, because they are more "believable" than alternative operating instructions that the Fans of the Golden Calf are always making up.

     Our greatest, and often our first, intellectual separation from our time's Fans of The Golden Calf involves the age of the world.  Golden Calf fans continually push back the age of the universe.  That gives them reasons to think they're "intelligent" while serving the purpose of making God seem less so.  "If it took him a trillion years to make the universe, how smart could he be?" is their ever-implied question.

     Catholic Fundamentalists think that the universe was programmed into existence within the last eight to twelve thousand years.  As soon as we see that "God can program in three dimensions", we understand that He can program particles, compile them into structures and beings, and have them move through time.

     Needless to say, the Fans of The Golden Calf do not like that line of thinking.   "Why, that would mean that God is more powerful than we want to believe.  That's dangerous to every tax-collecting and sin-justifying system we have.  Those who won't believe in The Golden Calf that we made must be eliminated."

Friday, September 14, 2007

                                                Where Golden Calves come from.

     Conspiracy theorists believe that some sort of "Central Committee" invents golden calves.  The Central Committee has enough control of the media to publicize their golden calves and make them both believable and profitable.

     That does not go far enough into their origin.  To explore that, we must ask "Why would anyone prefer their own work to God's?

     That answer is always the same, "Vanity."   Exalting oneself manifests pride.  The vain never see that "pride goeth before a fall".  If they could see that, they'd steer clear of golden calves.  Therefore, we can assume that their pride blinds them. 

     Pride blinds them so effectively that they cannot see that they are blind.  So, The Program, in perfect, loving, human form warned them.  "Their sin is not that they are blind, but that they say they see."

     Therefore, their underlying assumption is that they are too good to have to change, too perfect to have anything go wrong with them, so much better than virtually all of reality that they are, in fact, God.

     That overweening insolence has been carefully programmed to lead them to a punishment that will exactly fit their sins, and, in some way, make up for all the harm that they have done.

Friday, September 14, 2007

                                                       Barns full of golden calves.

     Each of us has a small herd of golden calves frolicking around in our minds.  We are very attached to our own, personal golden calves.

     Antiques are a common golden calf.  Those who prefer that breed of golden calf will travel long distances, incur great expenses, and pay large sums of money for an old something-or-other that they feel they need.  Each type of desirable antique is, of course, a different breed of golden calf.

     Some collectors have airplane hangers full of airplanes, safe deposit boxes full of jewels, bankbooks stuffed with deposits, portfolios full of stocks and bonds, safes full of guns, garages full of antique cars, boxes full of old China, walls covered with paintings, and the list goes on.

     Each of us prefers our own golden calves to the golden calves of others.  "We who collect 16th century manuscripts are an unusually enlightened group."  Those who collect racing cars think that they are among the most discriminating.  So do those who collect flintlock rifles.  Each golden calf has those who try to spread interest in it with a missionary zeal.  

     Golden calves run the gamut from old Mason jars to impressionist paintings.  There is a man in the cattle business who is trying to raise a specifically colored type of cow.  For nearly three decades, he has been carefully breeding, re-breeding, and cross-breeding a specific type of yellow-hued Charolais cow with an absolutely magnificent red Angus bull.

     His golden calf?  He is searching for a cow and bull that will produce one.

Monday, September 17, 2007

                                                     Simplify the complex.

     To Catholic Fundamentalists, the world is a simple place.  God, The Programmer, is able to program in multi-dimensions.  He can, for instance, program the particles that make the atoms that make the elements.  He can compile those elements into compounds, program compounds into structures.  He programs some structures into beings.

     He programmed us with free will.  To be sure we had it, He had to program the world so we could freely choose to believe how old it is.  So, He had to program layers of rock, seams of coal, carbon-14, distant stars, and all the other things men could look at and believe instead of believing in Him and His Word.

     Why did He go to all that trouble?  He loves us, and wants us to know the joy of knowing Him for all eternity.  All we have to do is choose to believe in Him.

                                                    Or, complicate the simple.

     Most government programs exist by over-complicating what could be simple things.  The simple McGuffey Readers taught generations to read.  Those teachers hadn't gone to college, but were students who'd just graduated from the same school their pupils attended.  The smartest girl to graduate usually became the teacher.

     Now, of course, reading is taught by endless specialists who have mucked things up so thoroughly that ever-fewer children read as well as their parents and grandparents.  They have made things so complicated that it's hard for most children to read at all.  Same with arithmetic.  Now, thanks to one over-complicated theory after another, hardly any high school student can do long division or find square roots, let alone do algebra and calculus.

     Everyone on the other side obtains income by making things more complicated than they are.  Simple things like salt and sugar become targets of regulation.

     Why is there such a difference?  The difference is between loving one's neighbor as oneself and not doing so.  In fact, those who profit from unnecessary confusion actually hate their neighbors.  Not a wise way to utilize their free will.

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

                                                          The big squeeze.

     "Seismic compression" is the phrase that describes how the earth compresses during an earthquake.  If we fill a bowl with flour and tap on the side, we will see the level of flour drop.  The same thing happens when the earth is vibrated. 

     If the earth was as old as the other side says it is, earthquakes would have "put a squeeze" on it.  Gravity's relentless downward pull, combined with the estimated 20,000 earthquakes a year, would have slowly compressed the earth so effectively that there would be no underground water.

     If we assume that an average earthquake will compress the earth by two thousandths of an inch, we can then project that a thousand earthquakes will compress the earth by two inches.  A billion years of earthquakes would compress the earth by two million inches, or thirty miles.  Most of the shrinkage is in the areas near the surface that are less dense. 

     Those who want to replace the idea that The Programmer's 10,000 year old earth with billions of years of natural processes do not consider seismic compression.  If the earth was as old as they say, its diameter would have shrunk more than four hundred miles.  In that time, both caverns, natural gas, and underground water would have been squeezed out.

     It's much easier to believe that The Loving Programmer programmed the earth and all its systems.  Why?  Because He loves us.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

                                                          Once we understand. . .

     Those who want to sin embrace one of four beliefs.  First, "there is no God and no judge."  Second," if there is a God, He doesn't care what we do."  Third, "if there is a God, He will forgive us, no matter what we do."  Fourth, "If there is a God, He wants me to do what I want."

     In the first case, the vain insist that there is no God.  In the other three, He is defined downward. "If there is a God, He is not as important as my personal vanity." 

     Every theory encouraged by the other side has those basic, often unspoken, premises woven into it.  Their flight from a judgmental Higher Power is painfully obvious. 

     As we grow in understanding His programming ability, we must tell others:  "God is a Loving Programmer.  He has programmed every structure and system to give mankind, His most complicated program, free will.  He programmed the world, and you, so perfectly that every person must be unable to prove it, thereby taking away free will."

     There can be but a few reactions.  First, "I do not choose to believe that."  Second, "That may be true, but I cannot prove it, therefore, I cannot take it seriously."  Third, "So what?  I don't want to be bothered thinking about such things."

     Our responses include, "Now, you are aware of a theory that explains every single thing there is. That theory covers all the bases, and cannot be disproved.  If you willfully act against His Programming Instructions without disproving His ability to have programmed everything, you will no longer be able to claim ignorance as an excuse for your sins."

     Another thing we may want to share:  "Usually, it is not that people do not believe in God.  Often, they have never even considered defining God as a Being Who is able to program in more than three dimensions and to hide His Programming so well that many of His human programs don't know about it."

Thursday, September 20, 2007

                                                           Weeding the garden.

     Good stewards get rid of the weeds in their yards and gardens.  They don't like pests, either.  People who care about their property often poison, trap, or shoot insects and rodents that cause damage.

     His Programming Instructions (Scripture) make it clear that God doesn't like weeds or pests in His garden.  He likes everyone in His garden to follow His Instruction Manual. 

     He punished Adam and Eve for disobeying Him.  He even punished Moses for not being totally obedient.  Saul, his personal choice for Israel's first king, was also punished for disobedience. 

     We, ourselves, have neither the status of the first humans, nor are we leaders of a vast people, nor do we rule vast realms.  If He would punish His own chosen, how can we lesser immortals hope to escape retribution for our own disobedience?

     Where does disobedience come from?  Just as the serpent led Eve into disobedience, we have living, spiritual beings in our own minds who try to lead us astray.  These demons are less powerful versions of the snake, and every bit as cold-blooded.  

     We have, generally, several decades to pray-up enough strength to keep the evil spirits from leading us to disobey.  All of us should be working far harder on that than we do so that we can stay in His garden forever.

Friday, September 21, 2007

                                                All things work together for good.

     Christianity is divided into Catholics and Protestants.  Islam, between Sunni and Shiite.  The United States, between Democrats and Republicans.  The Orthodox government centered in Constantinople was split between the Blues and the Greens.

     Communists were split between Stalin and Trotsky.  Though both men are dead, their movements live.  In the United States, Stalinists were quickest to see the perpetual funding and propaganda opportunities in Public Education.  They immediately understood that "We can get these Christian boobs to tax themselves if they think it means they love their neighbors!"  They continue to provide us with endless opportunities to show how much we care about 'the children'." 

     Stalinists quickly organized teachers of every grade, from elementary schools through universities, into the world's most powerful union.  Today, they continue to use their entrenched position to wage their endless war on taxpayers, truth, and fiscal sanity.

     Trotskyites tried, but failed, to take over some of the funding and the culture-destroying structures provided by public education.   After only the smallest successes, they got into new fields, and invented their own "moral causes". 

     They saw that virtually every human activity could be said to have an impact and realized they could say that many, or most, of those impacts were, or "might be" dangerous.  They raced to become "environmentalists".  The Stalinists, raking in countless billions from their secure position in Public Education, didn't care.  "Isn't it nice that the poor Trotskyites have some lies of their own?", they'd say, condescension dripping from their voices.

     Suddenly, however, the Trotskyites are closer to victory than ever.  They have piled lie upon lie, exaggeration upon exaggeration, and fear upon fear.  Now, a substantial number of credulous morons think that they and their neighbors are about to be destroyed by the "Global Warming" for which dangers they and their neighbors are personally responsible.

     In the past, Stalinists looked at the Trotskyites' amateurish fear-mongering the way an indulgent uncle looks at a spoiled child.  "Isn't that cute."

     No more.  Suddenly, the Trotskyite Environmentalists find themselves in a position so well-entrenched that they can use their vast cohort of pseudo-intellectual liars to sabotage the entire power grids of whole continents!

     The smarter Marxists are concerned.  "If these moronic environmentalists replace nuclear power, which makes electricity for 2 cents a kwh, with wind power, which costs over a dollar a kwh, people won't have the money to pay additional taxes for our upcoming raises.  Our funding might be cut!"

     Once enough Marxists understand that, and they are quick to comprehend any issue that may reduce their power, the environmentalists' energy lunacies will quickly be destroyed.

Monday, September 24, 2007

                                                   What's wrong with wind power?

     Belief in the efficacy of wind power is a measure of credulity.  Only the most credulous would risk, say, scheduling a medical operation on their heart with the risk that, in the middle of it, the wind might stop blowing.

     So, a back-up generating system has to be available to maintain electron flow through the power grid.  Wind power forces us to have two power systems, both running all the time.

     Wind generators are, obviously, high in the air.  They are exposed to far more damage from the elements.  Breakdowns are frequent. 

     Birds are slaughtered by the millions by windmill blades.  Most raptors have their eyeballs placed in their skulls so they can look downward.  The whirling blades are invisible to them.  Moving at two hundred miles an hour, the blades literally chop up the helpless birds.

                                                         There is a bigger problem.

     Windmills, singly or in wind farms, are vulnerable to the cheapest sorts of sabotage.  Imagine a small boat or car whose occupant has a tank of helium and a thousand balloons.  He fills the balloons with helium, ties a long, strong string or wire around them, and attaches it to a short, thick bolt.

    He goes downwind from the windmills, inflates the balloons, and releases them.  He can calibrate the necessary height to which they must rise by varying the size of the weight or the amount of helium.  The contraption, separated by a very long string or wire, drifts into the windmill.

     When the windmill blade hits the tough string or wire connecting the balloon to the bolt, the bolt is immediately flung around and around, wrapping itself around the blade before the heavy bolt smacks into it.   Both the balance and the structural integrity of the blades can be destroyed.

     A saboteur too lazy to go through all the work of balloon destruction could, with a bow and arrows, cobble up a similar way to have weight-carrying strings destroy windmills

     In one night, an entire wind farm could be destroyed effectively by an angry teenager, a bird lover, or an aggrieved property owner as easily as by a team of trained terrorists.

     Even a few kites, with long, tough tails carrying a ten-pound piece of iron at night could put an entire country's power grid out of commission.  For a few dollars in materials, hundreds of millions of dollars of wind generators could be destroyed. 

     The professional saboteur with the proper weapon could readily put the most vulnerable parts of any number of windfarms out of commission with a few dozen well places shots through a silenced firearm.

     Only the most naive think that terrorists don't already know these things.  Only the most foolish people would want their power supply to be so vulnerable, especially when safe, easily-secured nuclear reactors can produce power for a tiny fraction of the cost.

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

                                                                Basics.

     The problem is not that people don't believe in God.  The problem is that they do not define Him well enough to believe He's real.  Various emperors and Caesars, after all, were said to be "God".  So were lots of different animals.  While most Christians accept a definition of God like "Unmoved Mover", its unnecessarily hard for we who move electrons to relate to languages from the Iron Age.

     Catholic Fundamentalists, in an age where everyone moves electrons, define God as:  "The Programmer of Programmers."  By this, we mean that God can program particles and compile them into a universe.  He can also program spirits with free will.  Some choose to serve Him, some do not. 

     We immediately see that He, as "Programmer of Programmers", has sub-Programmers working for him.  One sub-Programmer, for instance, may be responsible for programming "sand".  He works with the sub-Programmers of coastlines, waves, and storms.

     How many sub-Programmers does The Programmer have?  The answer is in the old joke, "He has many as He wants." 

     He has also programmed us with the ability to do programming.  We use human-written programs every day, rarely thinking that they are programs programmed by beings who were programmed at the moment of conception.

     Catholic Fundamentalists define human beings as "Replicating programs with free will".  We, like the spirits, either choose to serve The Programmer or the virus.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

                                                  Getting closer to The Programmer.

     Every human being is programmed with a desire to seek God and truth.  Angels and saints will help us.   Destructive spirits want our lives and souls invested in The fads and fallacies propounded and pushed by the other side.  We are in a continual test.

     The Programmer arranged for our tests to last as long as our souls are in our bodies.  He "grades" us on how well we follow the Operating Instructions that Church and Scripture provide.  If we believe in false gods, we pay at Judgment Day.  That's what Judgment Day is all about.

     The falsity of fads and fallacies promoted by the other side is readily available for examination.  The Holy Wireless Connector is available 24/7 to provide the wisdom to spot a lie.  He has only to be asked.  

     Global Warming is such a lie.  So are the various "carbon schemes" that accompany it.  They are part of a larger lie that replaces worshipping The Programmer with the worship of things that He programmed. 

     Those who pay others to make up death-dealing lies are farthest from The Programmer.  Those who intentionally profit from lies are almost as far away.  The credulous souls who believe the lies are the big lump in the middle of the moral bell curve.  If you watch them as they watch the "news", you can see them nodding in agreement as one falsehood after another is injected into their minds.

     After they've spent decades believing in lies, they simply lose the ability to think.  It's almost impossible, for instance for someone who used to believe in "Global freezing" and was quickly convinced to believe in "Global warming" to admit that he is a credulous tool.  To preserve his intellectual self-respect, he stops thinking about getting closer to God.

     For such people, interests in business, sports, drinking, collecting, and traveling keeps them distracted from the pain involved in examining the mass of errors in most of the things they believe.

     It's wrong for us to think of them as brainless fools.  The fact is that they have a brain that they are afraid to use.

     The poor souls are lost.  Patiently explaining the basic tenets of Catholic Fundamentalism helps some of them.  "God, you see, is a Programmer.  He can program particles, compile them into systems and beings, and put them into motion.  You are one of his free-will programs, and He wants you to use your free will to save your soul.  You know He loves you because He doesn't tell you complicated lies." 

     We can encourage people to download the idea of God as The Programmer.  It helps many to overcome the separation between them and He Who programmed all.

Thursday, September 27, 2007

                                                          Watching the "news".

     The "news" is a fascinating parade of drivel and distractions.  Once we see that, it becomes enjoyable

     "Who benefits?" is the question that intelligent viewers ask during each "news" story.  After one practices doing that, it's apparent that there's very little "news" about those who steal the largest amounts from taxpayers.

     There's always "news" about tragic deaths on the roads.  Usually, such stories are barely disguised attempts to justify more funding and increasingly punitive fines.  "No cell phones while driving" is a great revenue enhancer for cash-strapped state and local governments. 

     There's always lots of "news" about teacher strikes.  There's never any "news" about how much money could be saved with a competitive educational system.  "Vouchers could cut your property taxes in half." is true, but never makes the "news".

     There's always lots of "news" about pollution.  There's never any "news" about how much cleaner the air and water is now than it was ten, twenty, thirty, forty, or fifty years ago.

     Each "news" show features telegenic readers whose only requirement is to have the intellectual ability to accompany each reading with the proper facial expressions.  It's fun to watch for that.  The more accomplished "news" readers have a repertoire of more than a dozen frowns, smirks, hearty chuckles, and brow-wrinkling to help show viewers how they should be reacting to each reading.

     There's never "news" about people who want to reduce taxes.  And, there's never any news about how empty, shallow, and self-serving "news" shows are.

Friday, September 28, 2007

                                                              Breaking free.

     "You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free." (John 8:32) would be far more palatable to unbelievers if it didn't connect truth and freedom with Jesus. 

     Sometimes, it's helpful to reverse passages in the Operating Instructions.  John could just as well have said, "You shall know the lies, and the lies will make you slaves."

     When we see how lies concerned with liberty, equality, and "helping" have been used to enslave and kill, Jesus may become a more reasonable alternative, even to the unbeliever.

Friday, September 28, 2007

                                                                Forks

     We can easily imagine an ant climbing up a sapling and coming to a fork.  For one reason or another, it will choose to go up either the right fork or the left fork.  On the left fork, there is a spider's web.  On the right, a flower full of sweetness.

     The ant's future depends on making the right decision and acting on it.