It's ALIVE!! IT'S ALIVE!!

We have created artificial life!!

I found this completely fascinating. Apparently the mainstream media didn't. You heard about it a couple of days and then nothing since. No debate, no outrage from the hard religious right no praise from the extreme secular left. Nothing. I personally think this is a fantastic accomplishment.
Really I'm psyched about this.

Before we even start talking about moral or ethical issues that could surround this I want to talk about the possibilities that me as your average layperson can see. The two big things that come to mind is the medical uses, and mind you this isn't going to be any time soon, is cancer and A.I.D.S. treatment. If you could create an artificial white blood cell that is immune to the A.I.D.S. virus yet will kill the A.I.D.S. virus you could cure it, or create a cell that will eat cancer cells, again a cure. I guess you could theoretically cure just about anything maybe mix it with nanotechnology the sky's the limit. Maybe create an organism that will eat toxic waste or oil use it to clean up a disaster or two.

Again like I said they've just now had success with a man made genome that will just replicate it self. I figure it'll be a decade or two before the have any success customizing the dna to do specific things. Like I said I'm excited about this, my little mind is taking this accomplishment and going all kinds of places with this.

Of course theirs always the downside to this type of thing. As well as I can see all the good things that could be done with this I can see all kinds of nasty things. We wouldn't have to modify existing diseases for weapons...we could make new ones. Terrible ones that don't respond to antibiotics or any known type of treatment. It's possible.

Lots of things are possible. Like I said this is something that hasn't gotten a lot of air play from either side. No religious right decrying this as an abomination, no secular left shouting that this is proof that we're just as good as God. I guess this story just isn't sexy enough to make the front page. I mean hey, it's not like Dr. Frankenstein created his monster, now THAT would make the front page. It's just a single celled organism that replicates on it's own created by humans in a lab.

Environmentalism and why I'm a fan

The "Green movement" has been co-opted and corrupted by the collectivist and communists... and I'm pissed. Environmentalism and conservation is necessary and positive things. I can't think of anybody who would say "Please may I have some water with a bit of diesel fuel floating on top" or "Gee I want to live in L.A. cause it's got the highest smog rate in the country" or another favorite " Oh my mercury adds so much more flavor to my fish sticks" so..
But oh no what we've got are these imitation hippies who have been duped into thinking that taxing our self's back the stone age will help and those who are duping them ((cough ) algore).
It's ludicrous. I so want to send the Russians a thank you note for "leaking " the "climate gate" e-mails proving that global warming is the fraud we've been saying it is.

Ok back on point. I love environmentalism. Real environmentalism and am disappointed in myself that I don't do more about it. Like buying all biodegradable all natural cleaning products, picking up litter, using reusable shopping bags just to name a few as opposed to fake environmentalism like buying carbon credits, ethanol, and endorsing a one child policy. The latter don't sound like anything that's going to clean up an oil spill to me how about you? Even the bible does instruct us to take care of the planet (Ezekiel 34:17-18,Jer. 2:7). This is our home and we should keep a clean house.

And before anybody freaks out I'm not at all suggesting that we lower our standard of living, stop progress or all become Amish. In fact I want to suggest the opposite. Look at the last 50 years or so as America has progressed and flurished contrary to what the eco-nazi's will have you believe we've actually bettered our environment, reduced smog, keep a tight watch on water quality (which still is questionable in some places) our cars get 10 miles to the gallon better gas milage helped several species come back from the brink of extinction... all through progress and technology. I think that this can continue as long as progress can continue. Nuclear power, Electric cars, zero landfill factories, solar power, and more...are all solutions that have seemingly been cast to the side by the current administration and past administrations in favor of...taxes and a push towards world government.

Well it's late and I think I've lost any coherent train of thought so I'll leave with some interesting tid bits...

CO2 is not a poisonous gas without it all the plants would die and thus we all would die.

Real studies have shown that the earth has been cooling for 9 of the last 10 years as the sun has headed towards a minimum in it's cycle.

Their are real ecological problems such as over fishing, supply short falls of corn and grain due to it's use in fuel and not for food.

As ice has more mass than liquid water the icecaps melting would not cause world wide flooding melting ice caps would actually cause receding waterlines.

Polar bears can swim and contrary to popular belief their numbers are currently increasing.

Global warming is actually the more beneficial of the two climate change scenarios, as it would cause an extended growing period and and increase in the global food supply global cooling would do the opposite.

In the end climate science is one of the newest of all sciences and I'm not convinced that we have any idea ,outside of our four natural seasons, why the climate does what it does when it does. Geological evidence shows wild swing in the climate over millions of years all of it with out any input from us. So to Al Gore and all of you other climate Nazi's...

I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal
food trough whopper!  I fart in your general direction!  You mother
was a hamster and your father smelt of eldeberries.

I am

I am man. I am soul of a god trapped in the body of a dieing animal. I am spirit having a human experience. I am of the Logos. I am the Logos. I am soaked in the water of life. I am seen through the same eye in which I see God.

I am free. I am sovereign. I am conscious . I am in the eternal now. I am a child of Sophia. I am one with the Pleroma.

Counterfeit Money

I'm not sure what even brought this topic to mind but I thought i might write some of my thoughts about counterfeit money. Simply Their is no such thing. ok let me explain. When somebody says counterfeit you generally think fake money. But what does that mean in respect to our monetary system?

Our paper, coin and electric money isn't based on or even a substitute of convenience for well any thing, not gold, not silver, land, corn, or any thing else you can think of. Our money has "value" because we're told it does. The only reason that the dollar in your pocket or in you checking account is usable to purchase anything is because the government say it is and actually says you have to use it, try using a euro to buy something and see what happens. Really the dollar you get from the bank isn't really any different then say one you print up on your computer at home other than the government says it is.

On your money it says "Backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government" So what does that mean? That means that if they felt like it tomorrow the commerce dept could pop up on t.v. and declare that the federal reserve note or "dollar" is completely worthless, just like that. and everybody would be broke and that dollar in your pocket would be little more than toilet paper. The money in your checking acct no more than numbers on a video game.

The only thing that gave any effectiveness to our "money" was limiting the amount. But now with the "Bailout" the money printers are going freaky crazy making it out of nothing and in fact because of this very quickly it's going to take a lot more of these little pieces of toilet paper to buy any thing at all.

So in conclusion the reason i say their is no such thing as counterfeit money is because it's all counterfeit

just some thoughts

Global cooling

If you're wondering why North America is starting to resemble nuclear winter, then you missed the news.

At December's U.N. Global Warming conference in Poznan, Poland, 650 of the world's top climatologists stood up and said man-made global warming is a media generated myth without basis. Said climatologist Dr. David Gee, Chairman of the International Geological Congress, "For how many years must the planet cool before we begin to understand that the planet is not warming?"

I asked myself, why would such obviously smart guy say such a ridiculous thing? But it turns out he's right.

The earth's temperature peaked in 1998. It's been falling ever since; it dropped dramatically in 2007 and got worse in 2008, when temperatures touched 1980 levels.

Meanwhile, the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center released conclusive satellite photos showing that Arctic ice is back to 1979 levels. What's more, measurements of Antarctic ice now show that its accumulation is up 5 percent since 1980.

In other words, during what was supposed to be massive global warming, the biggest chunks of ice on earth grew larger. Just as an aside, do you remember when the hole in the ozone layer was going to melt Antarctica? But don't worry, we're safe now, that was the nineties.

Dr. Kunihiko, Chancellor of Japan's Institute of Science and Technology said this: "CO2 emissions make absolutely no difference one way or the other ... every scientist knows this, but it doesn't pay to say so." Now why would a learned man say such a crazy thing?

This is where the looney left gets lost. Their mantra is atmospheric CO2 levels are escalating and this is unquestionably causing earth's temperature rise. But ask yourself -- if global temperatures are experiencing the biggest sustained drop in decades, while CO2 levels continue to rise -- how can it be true?

Ironically, in spite of being shown false, we must now pray for it. Because a massive study, just released by the Russian Government, contains overwhelming evidence that earth is on the verge of another Ice Age.

Based on core samples from Russia's Vostok Station in Antarctica, we now know earth's atmosphere and temperature for the last 420,000 years. This evidence suggests that the 12,000 years of warmth we call the Holocene period is over.

Apparently, we're headed into an ice age of about 100,000 years -- give or take. As for CO2 levels, core samples show conclusively they follow the earth's temperature rise, not lead it.

It turns out CO2 fluctuations follow the change in sea temperature. As water temperatures rise, oceans release additional dissolved CO2 -- like opening a warm brewsky.

To think, early last year, liberals suggested we spend 45 trillion dollars and give up five million jobs to fix global warming. But there is good news: now that we don't have to spend any of that money, we can give it all to the banks.

John Tomlinson is a local conservative columnist for The Flint Journal. He lives in the Genesee County area

From Mlive http://www.mlive.com/opinion/flint/index.ssf/2009/01/its_time_to_pray_for_global_wa.html

First snow of the year

Well, even thought the winter solstice is still several weeks a way I would have to say that with this first snow fall winter is officially here. With it getting such an early start what will the rest of the year bring, one is sure to wonder.

This year the persimmon seeds, from everybody I've talked to, seem to be a spoon. Which according to folk lore means that the snow will be heavy this year. According to the almanac, this year will be snowy, with alternating times of record highs and record lows with periods of heavy snow, depending on where you live in the "heartland". Specifically for December it is predicting snowy and very cold for the first half and mild the second.

Another point of interest the "Old farmers Almanac" is predicting that we may actually be going through a period cooling for the next 50 yrs.

Prop 8

I know I've said that I'm not gonna talk about politics for a while but I just thought I'd comment on this. I don't think Prop eight in Ca should have even been brought to vote, nor the one in Mo or one at the Federal level. In 50 years we'll look back at the idea to ban gay marriage the same way we look at slavery now or denying women the right to vote. We'll scratch our heads and try to remember what the big deal was about.

I mentioned in another blog that when it comes to a subject such as marriage I'm not sure the government should have an opinion at all. The marriage license is a contract used for tax purposes, custody issues, etc... The government shouldn't be able to deny any two people of legal age from signing that contract. Now churches, temples, mosques etc... can refuse to have the ceremonies all they want. That's their right. Actually I'm surprised that failed in california of all places to begin with.

Climate....

Wow it's been a long time since I've Blogged. I'm going to start this blog off with what I hope to be a series of posts concerning the climate and "Climate Change". Topics such as "What is it?" "Warming or Cooling?", "Is it man made ?" etc...

So let start with What is (insert scary music here) "Climate Change"? The Wikipedia definition of climate change is...

"...any long-term significant change in the “average weather” that a given region experiences. Average weather may include average temperature, precipitation and wind patterns. It involves changes in the variability or average state of the atmosphere over durations ranging from decades to millions of years"

The climate change that the media and Al Gore talk about non stop is "Global Climate change". The Change of the average weather around the entire world. To be more specific the most prolific idea about the climate is that we are undergoing "Man Made Global Warming",which is the idea that the average temperature in increasing around the world due to the activities of well...man. That our cars ,industries and energy production are creating an excess of pollution, especially carbon dioxide that is creating a "green house effect" trapping heat inside the earths atmosphere leading to the increase in temperature.

On the flip side of this their, are those that believe we are going into a period "Global Cooling". Where the average temperature of the planet is starting a downward trend. This climate model was first introduced in the mid to late 1960's. Though some studies are beginning to point that this model might still be viable or be a theory that should be reconsidered. Their are also some that believed that global warming and global cooling are link. That global warming could actually lead to a cooler planet or even a new ice age. Like the movie "Day after Tomorrow" the idea is that the melting of the ice caps will introduce cool freshwater into the atlantic and pacific "conveyor belt" currents . This will slow or even stop these warmth circulating currents leading to a major cool down.

So this is what the phrase "Climate Change " means. On my own personal opinion I think that its really shady to use a term like "Climate Change". It's completely ambiguous. If their is evidence to support global warning then say global warming. If not then well say so or say I don't know. One of the problems with the scientific community especially on this topic the the reluctance to say what the facts state or say that their are conflicting studies or simply say we don't know. If scientists currently had all the answers then we would really need them now would we. The point of science is to learn, investigate and understand in an objective way.