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This is a pod cast from Live Science that discusses the idea that some people seem to have that science and faith are mutually exclusive.

http://www.livescience.com/...

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Here is an interview with Larry Schwiekart who is a professor of History at the University of Dayton.  His book "48 Liberal Lies about American History." is a survey of US History text books and some of the untruths that he found there.http://www.frontpagemagazin...

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Finally, a definition of globalization that I can understand and to which I now can relate:

German
car

with a
Dutch engine,

driven
by a Belgian

who was
drunk

on
Scottish whisky,

(check the bottle before you
change the spelling),

followed
closely by

Italian
Paparazzi,

on
Japanese motorcycles;

treated
by an American doctor,
using

Brazilian
medicines.

This is
sent to you by

an
American,

using
Bill Gates' technology,

and
you're probably reading
this on your computer,

that
uses Taiwanese chips,
and

a

Korean
monitor,

assembled
by

Bangladeshi
workers

in a
Singapore plant,

transported
by Indian

lorry-drivers,

hijacked
by Indonesians,

unloaded by
Sicilian longshoremen,

and
trucked to you by Mexican illegals.... .

..

..

..

..

..

That, my friends,
is Globalization!

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Scientist are starting a 3 year study called AWARE.  It is a collaboration between 25 hospitals in the US, Canada, and Europe and it will interview 1,500 cardiac patients with near death experience.  It should be interesting.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/tim...

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  1. I can't reach my license unless you hold my beer.
      2. Sorry, Officer, I didn't realize my radar detector wasn't plugged in..
      3. Aren't you the guy from the Village People?
      4. Hey, you must've been doin' about 125 mph to keep up with me! Good job!
      5. You're not gonna check the trunk, are you?
      6. I pay your salary!
      7. So, uh, you on the take, or what?
      8. Gee, Officer! That's terrific. The last officer only gave me a warning, too!
      9. Do you know why you pulled me over? Okay, just so one of us does.
      10. I was trying to keep up with traffic. Yes, I know there is no other car around-that's how far ahead of me they are.
      11. Well, when I reached down to pick up my bag of money from the bank robbery, my gun fell off my lap and got lodged between the brake pedal and the gas pedal, forcing me to speed out of control.
      12. Hey, is that a 9 mm? That's nothing compared to this .44 magnum.

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If sky diving wasn't a dangerous enough sport; some have taken it even futher.  Now there is the sport called swooping wich envolves jumping out of a plane at half the normal skydiving altitude.  With a parachute that is smaller than normal and skimming a pond at 90 miles per hour before coming to a stop on good ole' mother earth.  Watch for yourself: http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.co...

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We often sit here and argue endlessly about the rightouness of sacrifacing human lives on the altar of individualism.  But those human lifes are not just regurgitated idealogies or mere cyphers on a computer screen.  Those human lifes are just that; they are people like you and me.  Gianna Jensen is one such.  Her mother was convinced by Planned Parenthood that it was the right thing to kill her.  But God had other plans for her.  She survived to be an aborted baby who speaks for her own right to life.  She is an amazing women I am sure you will agree.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

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A seaman meets a pirate in a bar. The pirate has a peg-leg, a hook and an eye patch. "How'd you end up with a peg-leg?" asks the sailor. "I was swept overboard in a storm," says the pirate.
"A shark bit off me whole leg."

"Wow!" said the seaman. "What about the hook?"

"We were boarding an enemy ship, battling the other sailors with swords. One of them cut me

"Incredible!" remarked the seaman. "And the eye patch?" "A seagull dropping fell in me eye," replied the pirate.

"You lost your eye to a seagull dropping?" the sailor asked incredulously.

Said the pirate. "It was the first day with the hook."

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Father Thomas Hopko of St. Vladimir's Seminary in this Sep 11 broadcast; examines the existence of evil in the world and what is a Christians responsibility and response should be. http://audio.ancientfaith.c...

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Here is a very interesting interview with philosopher Noam Chomsky concerning the NATO/US attacks on Serbia over the Kosovo situation.  In this interview Noam accuses the Clinton administration of committing war crimes and parallels them with Iraq.  The Kosovo situation also has far reaching affects in that it has set precedent for the Russian invasion of Georgia.  Noam also criticizes western intellectuals as being "a herd of independent minds" who practices self censorship that allows no real criticism of western secular culture.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

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Yep the title is a pun.  This article and video links are about a Serbian artist completing 12 years of labor painting the traditional Christian Iconography at St. Savas, Jackson, Ca.  Enjoy;)  http://www.recordnet.com/ap...

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A Statement of four

A State Constitutional Amendment to Restore the Definition of Marriage

The decision of the California Supreme Court on May 15, 2008, unilaterally redefines the sacred institution of marriage in a manner unprecedented in human history — and alien to our Christian tradition. We, the Orthodox Christian bishops of California, were saddened by this decision which constitutes a direct attack upon the longstanding role and freedom of religion in American life. A majority of the justices declared not only that same-sex couplings must be allowed to exist at those couples' discretion as "marriages," but that the state of California is forbidden to refer to these couplings as anything but "marriages."

Orthodox Christianity holds in high regard the God-ordained institution of marriage and the family. The Orthodox Church must and shall remain true to its faith and tradition, and affirm that marriage is the union of one man and one woman, given by God to one another for salvation, mutual support, encouragement, love and the ability to bear children.

As members of the Church and as citizens of this great land, we cannot withdraw from the society in which we live. Our parishes and our faithful are called upon to be "salt and light," to paraphrase Christ, and as such, they engage with their neighbors in acts of charity and love. We will continue our charitable works, and our engagement with society — including to faithfully teach the truth about Christian principles of living.

The Orthodox Church in the United States thrives and grows, in many respects, because of the enduring principles upon which this great country was founded. Our definitions of basic institutions such as marriage, shaped by the unfathomable forces of love and nature coupled with the experience of all recorded human history, rightly derive from what the Founders of our country knew as the "natural law" of "nature and nature's God".

It is in this light that the Orthodox Christian bishops of California reject the decision of the California Supreme Court in In re Marriage Cases. The institution of marriage emanates from something transcending our passing political institutions, and cannot be unilaterally altered in this way. We therefore must act when that promulgation directly contradicts our faith — and threatens the very foundation of Orthodoxy's flourishing in America.

Therefore, we, the Orthodox bishops of California, call upon the faithful, as responsible and concerned citizens of California, to overturn this ruling by the California Supreme Court by voting in favor of Proposition 8 this coming November. This proposition is a regrettably necessary measure to restore the true definition of marriage in the eyes of our state. A state that believes same-sex couplings constitute "marriage" implicitly — and sooner or later, explicitly — denies the role of the Church and all faiths that adhere to traditional values in public life. Please exercise your citizenship and vote in November.

The passage of Proposition 8 is an imperative.

With Archpastoral Blessings,

Metropolitan GERASIMOS

Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco

Bishop JOSEPH

Diocese of Los Angeles and the West, Antiochian Archdiocese of North America

Bishop MAXIM

Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Western America

Bishop BENJAMIN

Orthodox Church in America, Diocese of the West

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Here is a podcast revisting the life of the recently reposed  Alexander Solzhenitsyn.  Enjoy;0

http://audio.ancientfaith.c...

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I have noticed there are two types of people in the world.  Those who hoard everything no matter how useless in case they need it someday and those who automatically start chucking things when they clean.  Our Church last year had a community clean up.  Volunteers came in on a Saturday to clean the junk out of our community hall.  We found lots of stuff that we had no use for; like cash registers from the 1950's and I think parts of the original Trojan Horse.  All that was deemed useless was diligently deposited in the dumpster.  That evening I returned to find that a friend had gone back into the dumpster and was pulling back the junk we had just cleaned out.  Saying "Can you believe the stuff people threw away?"  So the question is are you a hoarder or a chucker?

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Here is something interesting.  French-Columbine freed Hostage Ingrad Betancourt tells the Pope how his broadcast helped her when she was a hostage and how God answered her prayers.http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/...