Scientists against AGW

Scientists united against man-made global warming

On changing the paradigm

I must say. When I read such thoughtful arguments against AGW, I'm heartened that there are so many smart people speaking out against the so called consensus.

On Convincing Others

Places I've been in my life and how I've tried to influence others. I think it's only natural that we want to influence others, for we're passionate about what we believe.

When I was 19 I became a "born-again" Christian. It was my goal to bring as many people to Jesus Christ as I could. During that time, I probably led over 100 people in prayer to ask Jesus into their life and to be born-again.

Then I got into Amway. I wanted everyone I met to join Amway. I'm not much of a salesman, I even bought an Amway kit to try and get somebody to join my organization.

Now my passion is showing compassion for animals and political conservatism. I hope with all my years, I've gained a little bit of wisdom. Or maybe just enough wisdom to know that maybe I shouldn't push my views on anyone. Perhaps I could be wrong.

And maybe that's all the wisdom I need. Maybe I'm right. Maybe I'm wrong. Time will either vindicate or prove me a fool.

Coming Home

My nephew is in Kabul. He will be coming home in March to his 2 wonderful children.

Years ago visiting my son while he was in Kindergarten class. To see the joy in his face and the pride: "That's my Dad". One of the most precious moments of my life.

Single Payer Health Care

Safest Country in World

Christian bad, Islam good

A general, an honorable Christian, is removed from the military.
A muslim terrorist, is allowed to stay-to give counsel to returning troops.

Slow Blogging

Here is an article on "Slow Blogging". It's something I never thought about consciously, but understood subconsciously.

Blogs, truly are the way to read news. I find that I go back to some of my posts, re-edit by adding/removing words, and by adding another link or video that is germane to the post.

A blog is not under deadline. I can go back to a post I wrote a year ago, and change it. Even delete it.

When once I thought blogs were a curious fancy, now I realize how life changing they can be. Most of my time spent on the computer is reading blogs.

About Job Creation

From Donald Boudreaux: (Letter to the New York Times)

RE Thursday’s White House “Jobs Summit” (”Obama Turns to Job Creation, but Warns of Limited Funds,” Dec. 4): the language is misleading.

Jobs themselves do not need to be created, for they are among the most abundant opportunities in our midst. You can paint my house, serve as my personal masseuse, cook my dinners and clean my kitchen every evening. You’re hired! But you refuse, because I won’t pay you enough to do so.

It’s obviously not jobs that people ultimately want; it’s opportunities to earn income – and in a market economy people earn more income the more value they produce for others. If the word “job” were replaced with “value-producing opportunity,” the added clumsiness of expression might be more than made up for by greater clarity of thought, namely, the recognition that what matters is each worker’s access to opportunities to produce value so that he or she receives in return as much spending power as possible.

Jobs are super-abundant; access to consumable goods and services is not. It is widespread access to the latter that ultimately matters. But this access is diminished by policies that create or protect “jobs” by taxing and regulating in ways that reduce the economy’s capacity to grow and produce the valuable goods and services that are the ultimate motivation for people to work.

Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux

Safe School Czar

Wow! Please take a look at this:

Obama's Safe School Czar

He won't be fired because of the content. He'll be fired for being exposed. Otherwise Obama would keep him in this position.

America is waking up from its huge mistake. Thank God we are a free people and have elections. Obama will do as much damage as he can to the country, but we, the American People, can fight back.

Viva the United States of America

(Someone tried to shut down the website to the post I link you to. For some reason, they don't want the truth exposed.)

War is Good

From Canada, AGW

Then this is what Glenn Reynolds from Instapundit says:

Kind of sad when you’re getting more coverage from the literally state-controlled Canadian media than from some outlets in the United States.

It's going to be interesting when we really find out why they purposely are not reporting on such a huge issue. It's almost as though a nuclear bomb exploded, their butts are still smoking, and they pretend nothing has happened. Yet, how bout that Tiger Woods?

What to be thankful for

How about everything?

When I was 19, I read a book by Merlin Carothers, From Prison to Praise. To this day, his words still come back. In all things give praise. I'm going to get his book, it belongs in my library.

Took Da Bugsters for our early morning walk. I look at the sky. I give thanks. The road I walk on. I give thanks. The air I breathe. I give thanks.

That I can breathe. That I'm alive. That I live in the greatest country on the earth. That this universe is here, and I get to be a part of it.

I find it odd when I hear someone say, "Find something that you can be thankful for". Everything we see, what we hear, taste, it's all worthy of our gratitude.

Visiting my son in prison, it may have sounded odd, but I told him: "Be thankful". And I meant it. He tells me he has a job working in the prison cafeteria now. He says that he is able to make others around him laugh. With all the pain, suffering and indignities that he sees, he is still able to tell me funny stories. Stories where he laughs so hard that he's rolling on the floor laughing.

He's always had the gift of comedy. One time we were on a train coming back from the Santa Anita race track. Our car was filled with adults. Tim, my son around 10, starting doing imitations of Jim Carrey, from the movie, Pet Detective. He had people busting up laughing.

We really have so much to be thankful for. And it should not be taken for granted. I wish that every day I could make it a point to give thanks for being a participant in this grand creation. God, or no God, we're all here together, and this world is a better place if you smile at me, and I do the same.

Da Bugster's Birthday

This is my dog "Da Bugsters". She is 7 years old today. We have already sang her "Happy Birthday", and later she gets to open her presents.

Da Bugsters must have known it was her birthday, for last night she slept with me sharing my pillow. When she decided to get off the bed, she made sure to come over to me and rub her body against my hand. She'll even wake me up just to get her back scratched.

Yes, this animal is a dear friend. I know I communicate with her, and when she looks in my eyes, I think she communicates with me.

Lady's worst day, will be better than the best day of all factory farm animals. The millions and billions that are raised for consumption. I make the choice that I don't want to be a part of that brutality. And brutality it is.

We have not always had these killing machines as part of our culture. And just because that is the way things are now, doesn't mean that's the way it's always going to be. We can make a choice and live according to our conscience. Today I will not eat an animal that has suffered untold sufferings for my own gustatory pleasure.

I wish I could be as well spoken as this fellow. When someone tells me, "Vegetarians are assholes", I just nod my head and say, "You're absolutely right".

I'll never forget an HBO story about an undercover investigation at a factory pig farm. It was so brutal. When the undercover video was shown in the courtroom, the audience was deeply disturbed by what it witnessed.

Anyone, and I believe most anyone, cannot look at the way animals are raised on factory farms and not feel deep anguish. To deny is to negate our humanity.

The Wedding Gown

Written by: Helen Zegerman Schwimmer

The Wedding Gown That Made History

Lilly Friedman doesn't remember the last name of the woman who designed and sewed the wedding gown she wore when she walked down the aisle over 60 years ago. But the grandmother of seven does recall that when she first told her fiancé Ludwig that she had always dreamed of being married in a white gown he realized he had his work cut out for him.


For the tall, lanky 21-year-old who had survived hunger, disease and torture this was a different kind of challenge. How was he ever going to find such a dress in the Bergen Belsen Displaced Person's camp where they felt grateful for the clothes on their backs?

Fate would intervene in the guise of a former German pilot who walked into the food distribution center where Ludwig worked, eager to make a trade for his worthless parachute. In exchange for two pounds of coffee beans and a couple of packs of cigarettes Lilly would have her wedding gown.

For two weeks Miriam the seamstress worked under the curious eyes of her fellow DPs, carefully fashioning the six parachute panels into a simple, long sleeved gown with a rolled collar and a fitted waist that tied in the back with a bow. When the dress was completed she sewed the leftover material into a matching shirt for the groom.

A white wedding gown may have seemed like a frivolous request in the surreal environment of the camps, but for Lilly the dress symbolized the innocent, normal life she and her family had once led before the world descended into madness. Lilly and her siblings were raised in a Torah observant home in the small town of Zarica, Czechoslovakia where her father was a melamed, respected and well liked by the young yeshiva students he taught in nearby Irsheva.


He and his two sons were marked for extermination immediately upon arriving at Auschwitz . For Lilly and her sisters it was only their first stop on their long journey of persecution, which included Plashof, Neustadt, Gross Rosen and finally Bergen Belsen

Lilly Friedman and her parachute dress on display in the Bergen Belsen Museum

Four hundred people marched 15 miles in the snow to the town of Celle on January 27, 1946 to attend Lilly and Ludwig's wedding. The town synagogue, damaged and desecrated, had been lovingly renovated by the DPs with the meager materials available to them. When a Sefer Torah arrived from England they converted an old kitchen cabinet into a makeshift Aron Kodesh.
"My sisters and I lost everything - our parents, our two brothers, our homes. The most important thing was to build a new home." Six months later, Lilly's sister Ilona wore the dress when she married Max Traeger. After that came Cousin Rosie. How many brides wore Lilly's dress? "I stopped counting after 17." With the camps experiencing the highest marriage rate in the world, Lilly's gown was in great demand.

In 1948 when President Harry Truman finally permitted the 100,000 Jews who had been languishing in DP camps since the end of the war to emigrate, the gown accompanied Lilly across the ocean to America Unable to part with her dress, it lay at the bottom of her bedroom closet for the next 50 years, "not even good enough for a garage sale. I was happy when it found such a good home."
Home was the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington , D.C. When Lily's niece, a volunteer, told museum officials about her aunt's dress, they immediately recognized its historical significance and displayed the gown in a specially designed showcase, guaranteed to preserve it for 500 years.

But Lilly Friedman's dress had one more journey to make. Bergen Belsen , the museum, opened its doors on October 28, 2007. The German government invited Lilly and her sisters to be their guests for the grand opening. They initially declined, but finally traveled to Hanover the following year with their children, their grandchildren and extended families to view the extraordinary exhibit created for the wedding dress made from a parachute.
Lilly's family, who were all familiar with the stories about the wedding in Celle , were eager to visit the synagogue. They found the building had been completely renovated and modernized. But when they pulled aside the handsome curtain they were astounded to find that the Aron Kodesh, made from a kitchen cabinet, had remained untouched as a testament to the profound faith of the survivors. As Lilly stood on the bimah once again she beckoned to her granddaughter, Jackie, to stand beside her where she was once a kallah. "It was an emotional trip. We cried a lot."
Two weeks later, the woman who had once stood trembling before the selective eyes of the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele returned home and witnessed the marriage of her granddaughter.

The three Lax sisters - Lilly, Ilona and Eva, who together survived Auschwitz, a forced labor camp, a death march and Bergen Belsen - have remained close and today live within walking distance of each other in Brooklyn. As mere teenagers, they managed to outwit and outlive a monstrous killing machine, then went on to marry, have children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren and were ultimately honored by the country that had earmarked them for extinction.
As young brides, they had stood underneath the chuppah and recited the blessings that their ancestors had been saying for thousands of years. In doing so, they chose to honor the legacy of those who had perished by choosing life.

Hinda
In Memoriam

In MEMORIAM - 63 YEARS LATER
It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the six million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians and 1,900 Catholic priests who were murdered, massacred, raped, burned, starved and humiliated with the German and Russian peoples looking the other way!

Now, more than ever, with Iraq, Iran, and others, claiming the Holocaust to be 'a myth,' it's imperative to make sure the world never forgets, because there are others who would like to do it again.

Helen Zegerman Schwimmer

Tiger's Christmas Picture

I will say this again. Tiger's story is infinitesimally small compared to the global warming hoax. I find it unbelievable that our thirst for news is unabated when it comes to Tiger, but deeply lacking when it comes to this.