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Friday, August 1, 2008

                                                    The Global Warming lies are winding down.

     When Democrats in the House of Representatives adjourned for vacation without coming to grips with the need to drill more oil wells, they left in defeat.  The minute they were out of town, their presidential nominee, Mr. Obama, decided that "it may be okay to drill oil wells offshore if we're 'careful'."  The Democrats return home to growing criticism accompanied by the fact that their anointed one just stabbed them in the back.  The voters they will meet can be divided into three groups, The Dumb and The Dumber and those capable of some independent thought.

     The Dumb think their Congressman cares about them.  The Dumb believe their Congressman worries about the fact they have to pay four dollars a gallon to get to work.  They think their Congressman cares about how they'll pay for the doubling and quadrupling of electric bills.

     The Dumber think their Congressman cares about the planet.  They think he's more concerned about the endangered species of the day, or with "climate change" than with such "working class concerns" as paying their bills. 

     Neither The Dumb nor The Dumber understands that their Congressman only cares about getting re-elected.

Those who are able to do some independent thinking understand that their own, individual economic well-being depends on drilling more wells, and will understand that the Democrats do not want to do that, and will only talk about it under great pressure.

Saturday, August 2, 2008

                                               Only a professional liar could look at this chart:

and believe that global warming is real or that it is affected by carbon dioxide levels.  Yet another month has gone by, and temperatures are still dropping while carbon dioxide, that "dangerous greenhouse gas" is increasing consistently.  Still, temperatures are dropping.

     Frankly, few human beings are benighted enough to look at that chart and believe in either global warming or in the pernicious effect of carbon dioxide on temperatures.  It's hard for an honest person to actually study this chart and continue to believe that the world is getting warmer because carbon dioxide levels are increasing.

     We know why liars lie;  it's the only way the poor, lost souls can make the high salaries they do.  As Catholic Fundamentalists understand, some people tell lies for money, and their souls are at great risk. 

     Rather than laugh at them, or call them names, we should pray for them to have more respect for truth.  It is the only chance their souls have of being saved.

Monday, August 4, 2008

                                            As we learn the basics, it's important to share them.

     As readers know, Catholic Fundamentalists work to make God more relevant by using words from our own, Electronic Age, to describe Him.  The old, Iron Age words simply don't work any more.

     This is a deceptively simple change. 

     As soon as a modern person, familiar with how speedily computers work, even begins to think of God as The Unprogrammed Programmer with the ability to program particles, compile them into systems and beings with amazing speed, and have them move through time, a door through which a soul may move to Heaven is opened that, for many, might otherwise remain closed.

     For many, we have but to point to a computer animation of startling realness, and say, "God can do that in three dimensions.  He has fish programs swimming through water programs that are caught by human programs with hooks and nets that humans have the ability to re-program from His basic programs."

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

                                                                  Making choices.

     The world was programmed so that each of us individual human programs would have to make many, many choices.  Every day we freely choose to make countless decisions of varying importance.

     Most of our choices are concerned with our many worldly activities.  We make many decisions about the best ways for us to deal with others, how we should look to others, what we should say to others, and how we should react to the ways that others treat us.

     A great deal of what we do is concerned with how we appear to other people.  Most of us spend a great part of our lives working so that our position is re-affirmed, enhanced, and validated.

     Each of us knows that our body will eventually die.  From the Epicureans of Greece and Rome to the humanists of today, many choose to believe that their spirits will die with their bodies.  They may be right.  The Programmer may have set it up so that some souls who freely chose not to believe in Him simply disappear when they die.  If He were more concerened with justice than mercy, that may be the case.  On the other hand, having a soul disappear, rather than going to eternal punishment, may be merciful.

     When we consider the teaching of The Church, and of those people who are so close to God that they have chosen to suffer, and even die, rather than recant their beliefs in Him, it is hard not to simultaneously contemplate the existence of our own soul.

     Would an intelligent, learned person be willing to give up all his earthly possessions, including his own body, to save a soul that wasn't there?

     The other side has always had a clever answer; "Yes, if he was sufficiently deluded."  The more difficult such answers make our own choice, the greater our reward for making the right decision. 

     One of our responses to that is, "It is programmed to be hard to tell which side the delusion is on.  The martyr may be deluded into believing that there is a soul, judgment, and a world beyond.  On the other hand, those who choose not to believe in that may be deluded by their own vanity.    Disbelief merely indicates that a person has replaced God with his own vanity, the greatest delusion of all."

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

                                                   The left loves lies more than money.

     It's amazing how many Americans don't know, as of this date, that recent Presidential candidate John Edwards, whose wife is dying of terminal cancer, has a girlfriend who recently had their baby.  Similarly, most don't know that he talked a supporter into claiming paternity of the child.  We are kept ignorant of the fact that he visits the girlfriend frequently.  And, that money is being funneled both to her and to the pretend father.  To see her, he leaves his wife, who campaigned with him and for him during the recent Primary, and who worked tirelessly for his election despite her terminal cancer, at home.   Mainstream Media has steadfastly ignored this story.

     During this period, the only national news media to mention John Edwards and his mistress and their child was The National Enquirer.  A few days ago, it's reporters tracked John Edwards to a hotel rendezvous with the young mother of what is thought to be his youngest child.  He hid in a bathroom until hotel security got him out of the building.

     No other major media reported a story that would, if it involved a Republican, provide front page, lead news items for weeks.  If only he had been a Republican, the recent Father of the Year's hypocrisy would be endlessly exposed by "disappointed" media personalities.

     At the very same time, the left ignores scientific, as well as political, realities.  it is apparent that Global Warming stopped in 2002, and that global temperatures have been dropping since then.  The charts posted here and on other sites are indisputable.  The world is growing cooler, mostly because the sun is putting out less energy than in recent decades. 

     The very same Media that decides to ignore John Edwards' adultery also chooses to ignore dropping temperatures.  Daily stories of horrors (yesterday, a girl stung by a jellyfish had her painful interlude blamed on Global Warming) caused by an utterly nonexistent Global Warming fill up space in the print media and time on TV and radio. 

     At the very same time, many major media outlets are going broke.  "News" has been around long before the Emperor's publicists would send announcers throughout Rome to tell people what to think.  News has generally been a profitable business.  But, when lies and favoritism become as blatant as the above two items uncontrovertibly illustrate, fewer people will invest time and money in them.

     The interesting thing is that the owners of the increasingly impoverished media don't care enough to start telling the truth and making money.  They would rather go broke and keep lying than make money by telling the truth.

Thursday, August 7, 2008

                                                              Power to the people.  Hah.

     England has long been an example of leftist failure.  Nothing its government does works, and it continues working hard to fail at more things.

     Recently, angry leftists there demonized a couple of new coal-fired generators.  They have also stopped the building of new nuclear generators. 

     At the same time, they say they believe in "empowering the people".  In fact, they do not want people to have any kind of power, either political, electrical, or mechanical.  They actually hate the thought of people gaining in power.  When the people of Ireland voted to stay out of the European Union, which, according to the Union's Pretend Constitution, would cancel it, bureaucrats simply ignored them, while refusing to let other countries have similar votes.

     No professional leftists complained about taking any kind of power from the people.

Thursday, August 7, 2008

                                                    What's really wrong with the housing market?

     Back in the 1930s and 40s, Stalinists took control of the teachers' unions in the United States.  They knew that tenured teachers, under their control, would provide a near-eternal funding mechanism for their endless depredations on every host culture into which they could insert themselves.  At the same time, those unions would be able to provide good, safe, secure jobs for Party hacks and loyalists. 

     Having just gone through a depression in which incomes were drastically reduced, the Party did not want their new branch funded by an income tax.  "It's safer to fund public education with property taxes.  The fools have to live somewhere, and we'll be able to tax them all, regardless of how much, or how little, money they make."

     Every year, property taxes go up in lockstep with teachers' salaries.  Houses are worth, adjusted for inflation, far less than they have been, but taxes still go up.  As it becomes more apparent that each house is merely another opportunity for the vast public education empire to enslave home-owners, houses drop in value while taxes go endlessly up.

     As a result of excessive taxation, the housing market in most places shows declining values, with dozens of millions of homes standing vacant.   But, no mainstream media ever lets people know that value is disappearing largely because of teachers' unions successfully raising property taxes.

Friday, August 8, 2008

                                                                  Pilgram?

     Catholic Fundamentalists understand that each of us is a unique, individual, multi-dimensional, free-will program written at the very moment of our conception by the Angelic Sub-Programmers who cheerfully took on the job.  Our individual program was compiled by selecting from all the available material from our ancestors, adding in whatever The Programmer wanted, and was lovingly and carefully downloaded by those following The Programmer's directions.

     When we see other people, we should recognize that all of them, like us, were just as lovingly compiled by The Programmer with the attributes He wanted them to have.  The universal reality is that each of us was programmed in all the dimensions we live so we could choose to love, or not love, both God and our neighbors.

     During the French Revolution, free-will programs were addressed as "Citizen", and "Reason" was enthroned.  In the early days of the Communist Revolution, people called each other "Comrade" and "Fraternity" was widely pretended to rule. 

     Things were different on our side of the Atlantic.  In the John Wayne westerns, many were addressed as "Pilgrim", recognizing that all were on their way to a promised land, either in this world or the next.  That's a far more meaningful term that recognizes both the specific and universal characteristics whose common programming and goals we all may share.

     Since we are both "Program" and "Pilgrim, we may see ourselves as "Pilgram".  It's better than "Progrim".

Monday, August 11, 2008

         How many lies in:  "Using fossil fuels produces greenhouse gases that cause global warming."?   

     We are like fish, swimming in an ocean of lies.  One of the most pervasive lies that we are told from a very young age is that "Oil is a fossil fuel."  Most of us have heard that lie, accompanied by "Coal is a fossil fuel." and "Natural gas is a fossil fuel." since we were in elementary school.

     At the same time we hear those lies, we also find out that oil is found far, far below any sedimentary rock formations.  Some wells are several miles deep, far into igneous rock.  How did "fossil fuels" leak miles below the deepest depth at which plants and animals were ever found?

     In fact, oil is produced from naturally occurring hydrocarbons by the continual nuclear reaction that takes place in the earth's core.  The planet has many places where underground pressures force continual streams of natural gas and oil to bubble up at the surface.  

     Despite geological reality, we are still fed a steady stream of lies that tell us about "fossil fuels". 

     The "fossil fuel" lies are very instructive.  Their universality shows that powerful interests are working hard to be sure that this deeply entrenched lie is firmly rooted in all minds.   The "fossil fuels" lie has been told for generations, is told today, and will be told as long as those who profit from artificial scarcities are able to tell it.  It is analogous to teaching that "The earth is flat".

     Those who control existing underground fuel sources do not want competition.  They combine lies to successfully convince people that "Using 'fossil fuels' produces 'greenhouse gases' that cause 'global warming'."  Three lies in one sentence, and that's just counting the nouns! 

     When we add the verbs, we get six lies!  There are no significant amounts of "fossil fuels", so we cannot "use" them; "greenhouse gases" are not produced or increased significantly by them; and there is no global warming, only cyclical ups and downs caused by solar cycles that emit more and less energy.

     Such lies are so heavily supported by propaganda, beginning in the earliest grades, that they are widely believed.  Many, in fact, will become angry when told that all six of the lies in "Using fossil fuels produces greenhouse gases that cause global warming." are lies, and that only the most credulous dullards will believe them.

     That's because all the lies appeal to human vanity, the importance of which is yet another lie.   We are told, again from grade school, that it is "intellectual" to believe that "Using fossil fuels produces greenhouse gases that cause global warming."   We are also told that it's good to be "intellectual", and that all "intellectuals" and "scientists" agree that "Using fossil fuels produces greenhouse gases that cause global warming."

     This lie is accompanied by another lie, the implication that those who do not believe that "Using fossil fuels produces greenhouse gases that cause global warming." are primitive, superstitious savages.   They are comparable to "religious extremists" and "dangerous radicals".  People with another view of truth than that propounded by approved "intellectuals" and "scientists" are burned at the modern equivalent of the stake by being fired, not hired, or denied tenure and promotion.  

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

                                            Surprising information in the coal/nuclear battle:

"A 1,000 MW coal-burning power plant could release as much as 5.2 tons/year of uranium (containing 74 pounds (34 kg) of uranium-235) and 12.8 tons/year of thorium. The radioactive emission from this coal power plant is 100 times greater than a comparable nuclear power plant with the same electrical output; including processing output, the coal power plant’s radiation output is over 3 times greater."

     It's a surprise to most of us that a coal-fired plant puts more radioactive material into the atmosphere than a similar sized nuclear power plant.  Coal plants burn a trainload of coal every few days, all of which contains traces of uranium and thorium that add up to surprising sums.

     More than ever, it seems like those fighting against clean, cheap, reliable nuclear power are simply so wrong they appear to be operating without common sense.

Wonderfully alarming headline that precedes a story that's far less alarming  (from Bloomberg.com Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2008):

One-Third of U.S. Homeowners Owe More Than Houses Are Worth, Zillow Says

The story under the headline shows different, far less frightening facts: 

"Aug. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Almost one-third of U.S. homeowners who bought in the last five years now owe more on their mortgages than their properties are worth, according to Zillow.com, an Internet provider of home valuations."

(Italics added.)

This sort of distortion is a perfect example of what most in the media do;  twist and exaggerate facts in order to frighten as many as possible.

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

                   Once, he was known as Dis.  Today, we may better relate by seeing that he's a virus.

     The Roman's God of the underworld was Dis, a tradition that carried through to Dante and on to us, today.  His goal is to spread confusion and destruction.  We see clearly that Dis always supported any person or group who wanted to undermine or destroy existing organizations, whether in religion, families, businesses, or governments.  Today, Dis works through Communists, environmentalists, and members of religions that have embraced hatred and murder as a way of life.

     Dis, whom we may now understand better as a corrupting virus of The Programmer's Programs, still hates the same things he's always hated.  He works to destroy faith, family, and any sort of independent units. 

     Just as the Romans found it helpful to understand the forces of destruction by personifying them in Dis, we can now see that those working to destroy us are viruses, attacking every single program, including their own. 

     When Jesus was on earth, He never encouraged His followers to eradicate the those who carried Dis's viruses.  He drove some of them out of people, but focused more on loving neighbors, whether they were infected with the viruses of Dis, or not.

     We may infer that some of these bad viruses may be changed, or driven away, by loving the soul, mind, and body they've infected.  They are only full of hate because no one loved them.

Thursday, August 14, 2008

                                                    Hot wars, cold wars, energy wars.

     Countries always try to take advantage of other countries.  Several nations have a growing monopoly in energy production.  Russia, for instance, supplies most of the natural gas that Europeans needs to stay warm in the winter.  Russian agents support environmentals candidates in those countries who will not allow those peoples to tap the vast supplies of natural gas under Europe.  That way, the Russians keep their profitable near-monopoly on energy, and they subsidize hordes of "greens" to keep it that way.

     Much of North America's oil comes from overseas producers.  They, like the Russians in Europe, subsidize the elections of "green candidates" in the United States and Canada who pretend to be concerned about "the environment" while working diligently to ensure that overseas energy producers maintain their monopoly.

     Only a handful of Americans and Europeans are able to figure this out.  Most of us are creatures of trust.  It's hard for trusting people to comprehend that so many people would risk their souls telling lies about frauds like global warming, climate change, and greenhouse gases.

Friday, August 15, 2008

                                          First, irrationality.  Then, lunacy.  Then, perdition.

     Catholic Fundamentalists have greatly enjoyed watching the lies that sprang up after President Bush and the Republicans began to focus on solving America's energy shortage by drilling more oil wells.  The first, and most persistent lie, was that "It will take ten years to get those wells producing."

     In actual fact, the Brazilians began extracting oil from their offshore oil fields within a year or two after their discovery.  The wells that should be drilled in ANWAR are shallow, and could be producing in one or two years.  Shorter time frames exist for wells that could be drilled anywhere in coastal waters.

     But, those who are on the Left are unable to let themselves understand that.  Their commitment to the lie, "It will take ten years to get those wells producing." keeps them from truth.  This irrationality is mentally confusing.  It keeps them from thinking straight about this issue, and thereby makes them more open to accepting other lies from the Left.

     After a while, the lies in their poor minds utterly overwhelm their innate affinity for truth.  Then, they not only have a hard time understanding truth, they have difficulty even believing that truth exists. 

     When their lies get piled high enough, their own souls are crushed beneath them.

Saturday, August 16, 2008

                                      Understanding the reason for environmentalism:

     Recently, officials of several cities on the West Coast professed themselves to be mightily concerned about "the environment".  "The environment must be protected from plastic bags.", they announced.  "Therefore, we are putting a twenty to twenty-five cent tax on each and every plastic bag."

     Nationwide, this tax will raise billions of dollars to feed the same "public servants" who are most concerned about "the environment".

     From their point of view, it's ideal.  We can easily project this tax spreading.  Three hundred million Americans, standing obediently in line each week with enough money in their pockets to buy food, can be more easily separated from another couple of dollars than at any other time. 

     "The fools won't even notice!", the tax-addicts tell each other.  "And, if they do, what can they do about it?"

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

                                                            The energy wars.

     What used to be called "Christendom" now weakly identifies itself as "The West".  It has always been the most intellectual and inventive part of the world, providing everything from antibiotics to electricity.

     While the West was strong, it was rich.  As it weakens, its intellectual prowess diminishes, and its vast store of less-well defended wealth is being transferred to those areas of the world where tyranny has always been stronger than freedom.

     The most tyrannical areas are under Moslem and Communist (MosCom) domination.  Since the MosCom areas have, for generations, wiped out anyone smart enough to make trouble, they lack the intellectuals who can think of new ideas.  Those in tyrannies can only steal from the West.

     The West is still militarily superior, so western politicians have to be bribed to let the MosCom sections of the globe loot the Americans and Europeans.  The only thing that such limited intellects can do to make money is to bribe their way into monopoly status as energy providers.

     Because of bribed legislators, using environmentalism as a cover, the West cannot build nuclear reactors, coal-fired generators, drill oil wells, provide themselves with natural gas, or provide themselves with any real energy that doesn't come from the Tyranny Section. 

     The MosComs have utterly corrupted the Western Democracies by bribing their officials, using environmentalism as the excuse, so that a vast flow of money ever moves their way in return for a tiny trickle of bribes to well-connected Westerners. 

     As we watch helplessly, the well-bribed officials of the West are winning an increasingly brutal war on their own people.