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‘But if through my lie God’s truth abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner? And why not do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.’  ~ Romans 3:7, 8

Funny search engine terms used to find my blog:

- “heather ferguson” “daniel miller” [Patricia may not be the only one with a stalker!]

- the dancing question r.l. dabney [I prefer the Electric Slide. Next question.]

- presidents drinking beer [The country might be better off...]

- בירה [Any seminarians want to help with this one?]

- idaho intravenous vitamin c [It's better than the stuff you get from Wisconsin, anyway.]

- year 6 farewell party [Where did year 5 go?!]

• They seem to have discovered Charles Wesley’s ‘Secret Code’ and I say it’s about time!! 

• Army Dress Greens out—Dress Blues are in.

The olde Dress Greens, circa 1989.  (Dig the buzz cut!)

• ‘Question: Should Stephen be subject to civil or criminal liability for deserting his employers and violating the terms of his contract? That contract was certainly valid at the time of its execution. But it became defective when Stephen’s employer required him to commit crimes against innocent people. A contract requiring a party to commit a crime is not enforceable.’

• ‘Mogadishu has the closest thing to an Ayn Rand-style economy that the world has ever seen…’

This 1980’s Moment is brought to you by: Stevie Nicks 

‘Congress shall make no law … prohibiting … the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.’  ~ First Amendment to the united States Constitution

‘Right to assemble and petition. The people have the right peaceably to assemble for the common good, and to apply to those invested with the powers of government for redress of grievances, by petition or remonstrance.’  ~ Article II, Section 24 of the Constitution of the State of Colorado

Yeah, right.

No purpose for this video other than the fact that it is one of the best 25 rock songs…EVER.  I dare you–DARE–to watch this and not succumb to the urge to play air guitar.  (You CAN’T DO IT!)

‘My people— infants are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, your guides mislead you and they have swallowed up the course of your paths.’  ~ Isaiah 3:12b

‘For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.’  ~ Exodus 20:11

One of the most maddening things about Evolution apologists’ arguments is their tendency to draw enormous and unwarranted inductive conclusions from little—or no—evidence whatsoever.  My charitable side would like nothing more than to forgive their transgressions by chalking the errors up being overeager or excited by new ‘discoveries.’  However, a larger part of me can’t help but feel that a significant number of their ‘conclusions’ are the result of outright and orchestrated deceptions.  Coupled with the fawning and cooperative press who report the ‘findings’ as fact without so much as a whisper of opposing viewpoints, it is little wonder that Darwin’s grand deception is accepted as fact by the general public and is the expected presupposition for discussion about the world and universe around us.

For example, there are many troubling aspects in this article which describes what is purported to be an archeological find in Germany that provides definitive ‘proof’ of the evolutionary link between birds and dinosaurs:

-         Although Evolution is promulgated as proven ‘fact’ by the vast majority of scientists (the question arises then why it remains the ‘Theory’ of Evolution and not a Law), the article itself describes how previous evolutionary dogma is, apparently, errant: ‘Scientists previously believed that dinosaurs evolved from smaller reptilians around 235 million years ago.’  So, we must wonder, if previously declared air-tight conclusions were wrong, how reliable are the current ‘facts’ we are given? 

-         Further into the article we discover that the ‘amazing discovery’ of the supposed evolutionary link actually consists of mere ‘remnants’ of ‘bone fragments’.  There is no entire fossilised body, only ‘fragments.’  This is reminiscent of the Nebraska Man fossil which was supposed to prove the Missing Link Theory—only to be revealed as ONE TOOTH—one PIG’S tooth, actually.

-         A few lines later the article let’s the cat out of the bag.  What is reported as an important evolutionary discovery is yet to be confirmed.  It is presented as fact yet it has not yet been verified!

-         The article ends by presenting another piece of dubious information as if it were fact by referencing the Archaeopteryx as a proven link between birds and dinosaurs.  Thankfully, our friends over at Answers in Genesis long ago proved why that is not the case at all.

What can be taken away from this article (and others like it) is that Evolution is based upon hyper-inductive reasoning and extreme speculation, that it is stated as fact when that is simply not the case, and is believed with blind obedience by many folks who are either unwilling or unable to think about what is being shoved down our throats.

• How Woodrow Wilson lied us into World War I. 

• In the Land of the Free Report: If you leave your seat during the singing of ‘God Bless America’—a cop will forcibly escort you from Yankee Stadium. 

• ‘A baby’s first words are often “mama” and “dada,” much to the delight of parents. Now scientists think they know why.’   

• We hear how the Republican Party (and the Democrats, to some extent) has been subverted and taken over by neoconservatives.  What exactly is neoconservatism?  Lew Rockwell explains here in a short podcast. 

• Environmentalism has officially jumped the shark.  You can save the earth with reusable maxi-pads.  Yep, maxi-pads. 

• ‘Thus, over the fate of an Abyssinian slave empire, Britain drove her faithful World War I ally into the arms of a Nazi dictator Mussolini loathed and had wished to confront beside Britain. And Abyssinia was overrun. Are we making the same mistake in the Caucasus?’ 

• ‘The foreign policy team exerting chief influence over John McCain is truly more extremist — in a purer and more deranged form — than the foreign policy team of the Bush administration.’ 

• What we haven’t been told in the news: President Bush appears to be preparing the U.S. for war with Iran.  ‘Here is the basic story. Two aircraft carrier task forces, the Abraham Lincoln and the Peleliu, are already in the Persian Gulf. This is verifiable on the Websites of the carriers. A third task force, the Iwo Jima, was dispatched to the Gulf on August 22. This has been verified by a naval source. Two more – the Theodore Roosevelt and the Ronald Reagan – are said to be sailing to the Gulf, but I was unable to verify this from official sources. The Jerusalem Post reported this, as did at least one Egyptian newspaper cited by the Post. The Arab world is aware of all this. Western audiences are not.’