Friday, January 19th, 2007
More comet!
McNaught is putting on quite a show.
Seen from New Zealand:
photo by Jamie Newman
Archive for January, 2007
Friday, January 19th, 2007
Comet!
There doesn’t seem to be much point in my copying articles you can read just by clicking on the URLs I have provided beneath the photos. I think comets are marvels and like all marvels — are to be marveled at!
From http://www.smh.com.au/news/science/comet-to-brighten-sunset/2007/01/12/1168105180973.html
Thursday, January 18th, 2007
Air Force colonel reports lights ‘not of this world’
Mysterious yellow lights in triangular formation seen Jan. 9 near Van Buren, Ark. The red lights at right are from a local radio tower (photo: Col. Brian Fields)
From http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53820
Air Force colonel reports lights ‘not of this world’
Snaps images above Arkansas: ‘I have no idea what they were’
Posted: January 17, 2007
By Joe Kovacs
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
In the wake of reports of unidentified objects flying over Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, a retired Air Force pilot has his own mystery with a rash of bright, colorful lights he photographed hovering in skies over western Arkansas last week.
“I believe these lights were not of this world, and I feel a duty and responsibility to come forward,” Col. Brian Fields told WND. “I have no idea what they were.”
Thursday, January 18th, 2007
The Warming of Greenland
From the ever-fascinating Schwartzreport, this on Greenland, which is really this on US! Stephan says in his intro paragraph: “The computer projections that saw rising sea levels in a 1,000 years, became 500, then 200, then 100 and, now, we are looking at decades.
This is very true, but not as obvious as it ought to be because the deluge of input in our time has overwhelmed our ability to absorb it and fit it into context. If you are always thinking about the latest thing, it’s harder to remember that what is urgent is not necessarily what is important, and it is harder to remember that today’s facts are buried in yesterday’s facts.
I have a friend who often cites news stories like this and says, in their name, “We never dreamed… ” We see it with scientists, with politicians, with damn near everybody who gets too cock-sure about their assumptions. (Not us, of course. Other people.)
Note this quotation: ‘This phenomenon - of an island all of a sudden appearing out of nowhere and the ice melting around it - is a real common phenomenon now.’
The Warming of Greenland
JOHN COLLINS RUDOLF - The New York Times
The computer projections that saw rising sea levels in a 1,000 years, became 500, then 200, then 100 and, now, we are looking at decades. The coastlines of the world, where the vast majority of the world’s population live, are about to undergo massive change. Thanks to Judy Tart and Ronlyn Osmond, both of whom alerted me to this story.
LIVERPOOL LAND, Greenland — Flying over snow-capped peaks and into a thick fog, the helicopter set down on a barren strip of rocks between two glaciers. A dozen bags of supplies, a rifle and a can of cooking gas were tossed out onto the cold ground. Then, with engines whining, the helicopter lifted off, snow and fog swirling in the rotor wash.
When it had disappeared over the horizon, no sound remained but the howling of the Arctic wind.
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Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
Apologize? Tangled issues
Del. David Englin, left, angrily criticized Del. Frank Hargrove, right, on the House floor. STEVE HELBER/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
You may have read about the Virginia delegate who said that blacks should “get over” slavery, and then in a newspaper interview asked, rhetorically, where the trend toward apologizing for the past should end. “Are we going to force the Jews to apologize for killing Christ? Nobody living today had anything to do with it.”
Living as I do in a state of splendid isolation from most of the news media, I hadn’t heard about this until a friend who is not a Virginian (it’s not his fault, he’s just unlucky) sent me an email saying “You must be so proud! - not.” I winced and replied, “Don’t forget, I am also ‘represented’ on the federal level by Virgil Goode.” But as I read the story, my reaction is a lot more mixed, because it raises — and tangles — several issues.
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
Bringing Solar Energy to Peru
from http://www.livinginperu.com/blogs/features/246
This article isn’t quite in English ! That is, it was written in German and translated by somebody whose native tongue clearly isn’t ours. Nonetheless the meaning comes through. It is an interesting thought, that so many things like this are probably happening all around the world, under the radar of mainstream media.
Increasing life quality in Peru with Solar Energy
(written in German by Rosmarie Kayser, published at Bethlehem Mission Immensee, Switzerland)
translated by Wolfy Becker
http://filer.livinginperu.com/features/img/simon_rueegsegger.jpg200301
Simon Rüegsegger, solar energy expert from Switzerland
© livinginperu
At the beginning of January, Swiss solar energy engineer is flying to Peru and stay there for the next three years. On behalf of the Bethlehem Mission Immensee (-link-) he will participate in a project that will introduce simple solar energy techniques to the population high up in the Andes.
Monday, January 15th, 2007
Alan Dershowitz Claims ‘Arab money bought’ Jimmy Carter
From a site I just discovered called BBSNews, whose masthead says this:
Your true conservative news source.
Human Rights, Science, Fact, all are under threat…
Don’t let it happen. Stay Informed. Ask Questions.
http://bbsnews.net/staticpages/index.php/20060117015424263
I fully concur that the demonization of Jimmy Carter for speaking a few plain truths is an outrage. DeMarco’s Law (one of them, anyway) says “they always go too far.” In this case, it is the Israeli lobby in the United States that operates just like the China Lobby (Taiwan, not Peking, of course) that distorted our politics for decades, buying our politicians, corrupting our journalists, stifling any reasoned debate. And, just like the China Lobby, they’re doing it with American taxpayers’ money — some of the money that was sent to Israel (as, previously, to Chiang Kai-Shek) for “defense.” It’s a sickening phenomenon to watch. However, perhaps now they are going too far and will reap the whirlwind.
Alan Dershowitz Claims ‘Arab money bought’ Jimmy Carter
Saturday, January 13 2007 @ 11:45 PM EST
Dershowitz will attend Carter Appearance at Brandeis to question Israeli Apartheid
BBSNews Editorial 2007-01-13 — Jimmy Carter is under fire again in the right wing press due to the resignations of seven percent of the advisory board to the Carter Center. Arutz Sheva is reporting that Alan Dershowitz will be asking questions of Carter during the Brandeis University talk Carter will give on January 23rd (if the current scheduled date holds) and that Dershowitz makes a stunning allegation against Carter in the article:
Monday, January 15th, 2007
The ultimate weakness of violence
I found this quotation from Martin Luther King in an email from PEERS: WantToKnow.info List. Their contact information:
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“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr., quote from his 1967 book Where Do We Go From Here?
Monday, January 15th, 2007
Idaho Governor Calls for Gray Wolf Kill
One wonders why so many people are murderous lunatics. This story forwarded by Truthout http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/011207EC.shtml.
Idaho Governor Calls for Gray Wolf Kill
By Jesse Harlan Alderman
The Associated Press
Friday 12 January 2007
Boise, Idaho - Idaho’s governor said Thursday he will support public hunts to kill all but 100 of the state’s gray wolves after the federal government strips them of protection under the Endangered Species Act.
Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter told The Associated Press that he wants hunters to kill about 550 gray wolves. That would leave about 100 wolves, or 10 packs, according to a population estimate by state wildlife officials.
The 100 surviving wolves would be the minimum before the animals could again be considered endangered.
Sunday, January 14th, 2007
The battle for souls in Poland
An interesting article from the German magazine der Spiegel. http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,458358,00.html
Growing up Catholic, as I did, in a country with a long anti-Catholic tradition (though that tradition is unknown to most of my Protestant, Jewish and non-religious friends) I became aware decades ago that the media doesn’t have to be careful in what it says about the church, because anti-Catholicism is always in style among intellectuals. Yet the Catholic Church as an institution is no more to be automatically trusted than any other institution. As in all things, it becomes a matter of discerning the writer’s bias and allowing for it, without refusing to hear anything at all.
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN POLAND
The Battle for Souls
By Jan Puhl
The Roman Catholic Church sees itself as the custodian of Polish culture. Even today, it still carries weight in the nation’s politics. But fewer and fewer people are obeying its commandments.