Guess what? God is dead. Wanna know who killed Him? It was that Hubble guy. Some misguided folks took a look at a couple snaps from the HubbleScope and decided that it proved that if God wasn’t dead He was at least very much unwell. Boy, is He going to be surprised when He finds out.
If anything, the pictures from the Hubble and other space observatories serve to show the glory of God, rather than disprove it. His word says, “The heavens declare the glory of GOD; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.” (Psalm 19:1)
He is not mocked, nor frightened by those who refuse to see Him.
Sometimes it seems that our greatest desire is to run from God and to pretend that He’s not who He says He is.
By way of Brussels Journal:
The controversial imam Raed Hlayhel, who was very active one year ago stirring up hatred against Denmark in the Arab world, has announced that he is leaving Denmark and will never come back:
“I have always said that if the Danish courts do not punish the newspaper Jyllands-Posten [for publishing the Muhammad cartoons] I will leave this country. And I will never come back.”
As far as I know nobody has asked him to come back yet…
I’m continually amazed at the lengths people will go to avoid seeing the hand of God. Here’s a tidbit from the UK Telegraph:
Smoggy skies ‘created life on Earth’
By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
Last Updated: 2:00am GMT 11/11/2006
Hazy, smoggy skies on baby Earth could have provided the chemical building blocks of the very first life on our planet, according to a study of one of Saturn’s moons.
Primordial Earth likely had a layer of atmospheric haze, similar to the one currently on the moon Titan, that may have served as the principal reservoir of life’s building blocks, according to the study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The researcher [sic] calculate that Earth could have produced more than 100 million tons of aerosols each year, and thus these organic chemicals in the haze could have served as the primary ingredients for primitive life.
According to co-author Melissa Trainer “As these particles settled out of the skies, they would have provided a global source of food for living organisms. We found that you can make a lot of organic material virtually out of thin air.“
Oh yeah? Let’s see you try. Maybe they stumbled onto the mechanism that God used to create life and maybe they’re whistling in the dark.
My favorite economist defines democracy as “two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner.”
Once upon a time, the wolves sent an embassy to the sheep, desiring that there might be peace between them for the time to come.
“Why,” said they, “should we be forever waging this deadly strife? Those wicked dogs are the cause of all; they are incessantly barking at us and provoking us. Send them away, and there will be no longer any obstacle to our eternal friendship and peace.”
The silly sheep listened, the dogs were dismissed, and the flock, thus deprived of their best protectors, became an easy prey to their treacherous enemy.
- Aesop, Fables.
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From the Navy Safety Center:
Seems the barrier system at a main gate had been down for a year. A contractor fixed it, and it had been working for several weeks. The security staff tested it every day when there wasn’t much traffic.
This wasn’t one of the tests.
An alarm had sounded in the main security building, which triggered a radio message to the gate guards telling them to stop traffic but not to activate the barriers. A guard at this gate activated them anyway, and not only that, he did it via the emergency-override system. This bypassed the traffic signals that warn drivers that the barriers are going up. When the usual barrier controls are used, one or more of the four barriers pops up in between three and fifteen seconds. The emergency override sends them all up in between one and three seconds.
A driver who had just had her ID checked had accelerated to about 25 mph when she found out how fast that barrier rises, how effective it was at stopping a car, and how a one-second warning at 25 miles per hour isn’t quite enough.
At one time I thought George Bush was a man of honor and conviction. He’s spent six years telling us (rightly so) that we must stay the course in Iraq and in the War on Terror. Last week he responded directly to a reporter’s question, stating that Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney were staying on their jobs for the next two years.
Two years have passed quickly for the president.
I respect the president for what he’s done in the past, but pushing Secretary Rumsfeld out of the boat at the request of the Democrats was an act of absolute cowardice. Who’s next? Michael Bolton? Condaleeza Rice? Laura?
From Scrappleface:
(2006-11-08) - President George Bush, in an effort to lift the spirits of dejected Republicans after Democrats yesterday took the House and perhaps the Senate, this morning issued his Top Ten list of Positive Outcomes from the Election.
10. New York Times and CNN will carry much less negative news about Congress.
9. Rhode Island Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee lost and Connecticut Democrat Sen. Joe Lieberman won, a net gain of two for the GOP.
8. We may finally get to see the Democrat plan for victory in Iraq.
7. Taxpayers will be relieved of the burden of making so many investment decisions.
6. Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum is now available for Supreme Court appointment.
5. Possible reduction in attacks on our troops in Iraq, since terrorists fear attorneys.
4. NSA agents could soon be freed from having to listen to annoying terrorist chatter.
3. Lynn Swann will be remembered as a great wide receiver during the Pittsburgh Steelers 1970s dynasty.
2. Since a lot of the polling places are in church buildings, millions of Democrats actually went to church yesterday.
1. C-Span could get a ratings boost for new reality show: Impeachment 2007
I’m not much concerned about European labor laws except as an indicator of the direction we may be heading - particulary as the Dems seek to pay back their union faithful. IHT posts a piece about Britain’s efforts to fend off the EuroUnion’s intrusive attempts to dictate working conditions among member nations.
BRUSSELS: Britain managed Tuesday to fend off efforts to shorten its workweek but deepened a rift with countries like France that are pushing for stronger worker protections.
Britain declined to set a date to end its “opt-out” from the maximum 48- hour workweek, favoring the system that gives employers and workers freedom to determine the length of time it takes to do a job. In many European workplaces, little will change because of the failure to adopt an agreement. Many countries already exempt members of certain professions, like lawyers, from the provisions. In addition, Britain will be able to maintain its rules under which workers can agree with employers to work longer than a 48-hour week.
The British position prompted France, Cyprus, Greece, Italy and Spain to block efforts to agree on a new, Europe-wide labor law - prolonging one of the most divisive struggles besetting European policy makers.
But the failure to reach consensus does mean continued headaches for some governments trying to manage their fire stations and hospitals, where workers generally remain on call, or even sleep at the workplace. Some governments in smaller EU countries said that they could not afford to fully staff their emergency services since the European Court of Justice ruled that time asleep counts as time at work.
A compromise could have provided these governments with more flexibility while still respecting EU law.
But as matters stand, nearly all EU member states are in breach of the current rules and face costly legal action. Vladimir Spidla, the EU commissioner for employment, warned that he would file more lawsuits as a way to force countries to comply with the current rules.
That’s it — if you don’t get your way, sue the pants off them.
