Time Machine: Destroyed
I didn't yomp yesterday, either. Ehhhh. I blame corporate bogsats that disrupted with my schedule. Anyway, here are some stories from yesterday.
GPS System Could Fail Next Year, Report Warns (Fox)
Parents Fuming as Texas Schools Let Gideons Provide Bibles to Students (Fox) - I remember in both high school and college, when the Gideons stood on the sidewalks and handed out New Testaments. Students could turn them down. The Gideons are a very passive group, and the fact that people are making a big deal out of this astonishes me.
For my big sister, Mighty Mo: Bacteria in Air So Numerous They Form Clouds
Following up on this post from last week: Lebanon: 2 Suspected Spies Cross Border, Flee to Israel (AP)
Somali Islamist thugs, chopping "thieves'" hands off (AP)
Missile shield 'won't protect Europe from Iran' - Sure it won't. Too bad tests of the system keep getting more and more accurate. Keep tryin', hippies!
FDR Got us Out of the Depression? Hardly.
I didn't even read this article, I'm just citing it to point out that ADM Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff, is wearing dress khakis - a uniform that basically hasn't been used in like, two or three decades. That's badass.
Following up on yesterday's post: US denies Iran accusation on Iraqi Kurds (AFP)
Guardians Council Approves 4 for Presidential Vote (Fars) - Worth checking out, these are the three people (plus Ahmedinejad) who are running against Ahmedinejad in the upcoming Iranian election.
Okay, so two brief rants about the news, then another couple of items, and I'm done.
First, all of the militant atheist whack jobs are screaming about a so-called "missing link." Their claim? That the "missing link" (as if there's only one) is a lemurish creature with opposable thumbs and fingernails, not claws. Sorry, I'm not quite convinced that this qualifies as a "missing link". I didn't read anything about the scientists who analyzed this thing actually extracting and analyzing DNA from this thing, but I get the impression that humans are much more closely related to chimpanzees, or even gorillas, than to this lemur thing. I mean, seriously, even opossums have opposable thumbs. I'm no militant creationist or anything - to be honest, I think the obsession with human origins is like one giant game of pseudo-scientific, quasi-religious masturbation. My point is, if they're going to claim a "missing link", they're going to have to do better than this.
I also want to comment briefly on this completely asinine story about former SecDef Rumsfeld and Bible quotes on the cover sheets of dossiers and reports to President Bush during the initial invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq (Rumsfeld 'Bible texts' criticised, BBC). Our current President has claimed, erroneously in my opinion, that America "isn't a Christian nation". I've been told for years by various academics and pseudo-academics that the Bible is nothing more than an important piece of world literature. So, even though I believe that many in the Department of Defense would use citations from the Bible for religious reasons, isn't it reasonable to write this off as a use of ancient literature in the Western tradition? No, because dirty hippies are too interested in painting President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Secretary Rumsfeld, and the rest of their team as evil and stupid.
The stock market's stagnant, things still aren't improving with the American economy, the exchange rate is sliding out of our favor, and oil is increasing in price. Way to go, Big O!
Yesterday, I finished reading The Time Machine by H.G. Wells. Very interesting - the last book I'd read from that general era was 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne. Knowing what we know now, I usually find it interesting to read books from other eras, particularly forward-looking books, to see how right or wrong the authors were. Given the pro-socialist sort of message in The Time Machine, I'm going to have to say that Jules Verne was a better forward-thinker with 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea than H.G. Wells was with The Time Machine. Still, interesting.
Today's satellite image is Mocha, Yemen, where coffee beans allegedly originated. Suck it, Colombia!
Okay, I've ranted enough for a while. Take it easy, ladies and gentlemen.
Okay, so two brief rants about the news, then another couple of items, and I'm done.
First, all of the militant atheist whack jobs are screaming about a so-called "missing link." Their claim? That the "missing link" (as if there's only one) is a lemurish creature with opposable thumbs and fingernails, not claws. Sorry, I'm not quite convinced that this qualifies as a "missing link". I didn't read anything about the scientists who analyzed this thing actually extracting and analyzing DNA from this thing, but I get the impression that humans are much more closely related to chimpanzees, or even gorillas, than to this lemur thing. I mean, seriously, even opossums have opposable thumbs. I'm no militant creationist or anything - to be honest, I think the obsession with human origins is like one giant game of pseudo-scientific, quasi-religious masturbation. My point is, if they're going to claim a "missing link", they're going to have to do better than this.
I also want to comment briefly on this completely asinine story about former SecDef Rumsfeld and Bible quotes on the cover sheets of dossiers and reports to President Bush during the initial invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq (Rumsfeld 'Bible texts' criticised, BBC). Our current President has claimed, erroneously in my opinion, that America "isn't a Christian nation". I've been told for years by various academics and pseudo-academics that the Bible is nothing more than an important piece of world literature. So, even though I believe that many in the Department of Defense would use citations from the Bible for religious reasons, isn't it reasonable to write this off as a use of ancient literature in the Western tradition? No, because dirty hippies are too interested in painting President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Secretary Rumsfeld, and the rest of their team as evil and stupid.
The stock market's stagnant, things still aren't improving with the American economy, the exchange rate is sliding out of our favor, and oil is increasing in price. Way to go, Big O!
Yesterday, I finished reading The Time Machine by H.G. Wells. Very interesting - the last book I'd read from that general era was 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne. Knowing what we know now, I usually find it interesting to read books from other eras, particularly forward-looking books, to see how right or wrong the authors were. Given the pro-socialist sort of message in The Time Machine, I'm going to have to say that Jules Verne was a better forward-thinker with 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea than H.G. Wells was with The Time Machine. Still, interesting.
Today's satellite image is Mocha, Yemen, where coffee beans allegedly originated. Suck it, Colombia!
Okay, I've ranted enough for a while. Take it easy, ladies and gentlemen.
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