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Deletion-Free Zone 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/... Actually, science is not in the "condemning" business. Science quite rightly *EXCLUDES* god as irrelevant. Now, the book I'm currently half-way through, "God: The Failed Hypothesis" makes the case that we have enough information to create several scientific "test cases" for the existence or nonexistence of god, and the evidence is on the "nonexistence" side in every one of them. But "mutually exclusive"? No. And you can strap snowskis on top of a car, but they're not equally useful in the same venues. (Though too many people still strap the skis on before hitting the freeway...) If it's Chinese in origin, you might want to think twice before eating it. Another melamine scare involving Cadbury's. Deletion-Free Zone Scientists are starting a 3 year study called AWARE. It is a collaboration among 25 hospitals in the US, Canada, and Europe and it will interview 1,500 cardiac patients with near death experience. It should be interesting. Ever wonder why the only yard signs you see on Proposition 8 (the Hate Amendment), even in Bakersfield, are those opposing the measure? It's not because folks around here suddenly got less intolerant. The signs kinda got lost. On the way here from China. http://www.calitics.com/sho... Couldn'ta happened to a nicer bunch... A historical look at how the US economy came to be so screwed up, summed up by a world-renowned financier (and would-be bomber of Fort Knox): "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is Enemy Action." http://www.dailykos.com/sto... Is Enemy Action too strong? Consider how much damage Osama bin Laden did to the US on 9/11. That would be a fraction of a percent of the damage done by the financial shenanigans described here. And yes, it's from DailyKos. Live with it. Two different researchers announce possible breakthrough in biofuels processing, starting with biomass and ending with gasoline/diesel/jet fuel: (Supposedly cost-effective with $60-per-barrel crude. No net global warming impact because the co2 released by burning it is the same co2 taken in by the original plants, minus whatever goes into the sludge.) Ye know what to do, ye scurvy knaves! The *LAST* time the banking system came crashing around our ears, McBush was in the thick of it--trying to be the only lobster to escape the boiling water. He almost made it... You're John McCain, clearly the guiltiest, most culpable and reprehensible of the Keating Five. But you know the power of television and you realize this is the only way you can possibly save your political career. Forget redstate/bluestate. The Christian Science Monitor shows how ten different colors piece together at a roughly county level to create Patchwork Nation. Kern County and the Central Valley are part of Evangelical Epicenters. Which explains such electoral errors as Chad Vegas on the KHSD board. No longer is accelerator experimentation limited to the physicists. Behold, the Squirrel Smasher! (Of course, there are some detractors who warn that the squirrel-smasher could inadvertently create a Black Platypus which will end all life on Earth As We Know It...) Deletion-Free Zone Actually, nobody gives a fig what four bishops in a minuscule schismatic sect of an irrelevant and shrinking fraction of the religious landscape has to say. Here's what the Human Rights Campaign had to say on Proposition 8: Please read the ballot argument here, and circulate it to your friends and family: OUR CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION -- the law of our land -- SHOULD GUARANTEE THE SAME FREEDOMS AND RIGHTS TO EVERYONE -- NO ONE group SHOULD be singled out to BE TREATED DIFFERENTLY. In fact, our nation was founded on the principle that all people should be treated equally. EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER THE LAW IS THE FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN SOCIETY. That's what this election is about -- equality, freedom and fairness, for all. Marriage is the institution that conveys dignity and respect to the lifetime commitment of any couple. PROPOSITION 8 WOULD DENY LESBIAN AND GAY COUPLES that same DIGNITY AND RESPECT. That's why Proposition 8 is wrong for California. Regardless of how you feel about this issue, the freedom to marry is fundamental to our society, just like the freedoms of religion and speech. PROPOSITION 8 MANDATES ONE SET OF RULES FOR GAY AND LESBIAN COUPLES AND ANOTHER SET FOR EVERYONE ELSE. That's just not fair. OUR LAWS SHOULD TREAT EVERYONE EQUALLY. In fact, the government has no business telling people who can and cannot get married. Just like government has no business telling us what to read, watch on TV or do in our private lives. We don't need Prop 8; we don't need more government in our lives. REGARDLESS OF HOW ANYONE FEELS ABOUT MARRIAGE FOR GAY AND LESBIAN COUPLES, PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE SINGLED OUT FOR UNFAIR TREATMENT UNDER THE LAWS OF OUR STATE. Those committed and loving couples who want to accept the responsibility that comes with marriage should be treated like everyone else. DOMESTIC PARTNERSHIPS are NOT MARRIAGE. When you're married and your spouse is sick or hurt, there is no confusion: you get into the ambulance or hospital room with no questions asked. IN EVERYDAY LIFE AND ESPECIALLY IN EMERGENCY SITUATIONS, DOMESTIC PARTNERSHIPS ARE SIMPLY NOT ENOUGH. Only marriage provides the certainty and the security that people know they can count on in their times of greatest need. EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW IS A FUNDAMENTAL CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTEE. Prop 8 separates one group of Californians from another and excludes them from enjoying the same rights as other loving couples. Forty-six years ago I married my college sweetheart, Julia. We raised three children -- two boys and one girl. The boys are married, with children of their own. Our daughter, Liz, a lesbian, can now also be married -- if she so chooses. All we have ever wanted for our daughter is that she be treated with the same dignity and respect as her brothers -- with the same freedoms and responsibilities as every other Californian. My wife and I never treated our children differently, we never loved them any differently and now the law doesn't treat them differently, either. Each of our children now has the same rights as the others, to choose the person to love, commit to and to marry. Don't take away the equality, freedom and fairness that everyone in California -- straight, gay or lesbian -- deserves. Please join us in voting NO on Prop 8. http://www.hrc.org/10459.ht... And you can donate to help preserve marriage in California the way it *IS*, and stop a small minority of Californians from changing it to suit their own agenda by going here: Deletion-Free Zone 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. Are 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? |
