What the ... ?

How did he get in there? Pit Bulls are everywhere! That's actually pretty funny. It's a good thing he chewed things up a bit or he would have been toast.

Don't Get In Her Way!

No, not Hillary, Danica! She ran over a pit crew member. He'll be OK. Check the video.

How Can These Things Be?

--John 3:9

"The first steps may be taken in the dark without seeing a reason, but take them, and you begin to see the wisdom, and tenderness, and compassion, and love of God." --G. Campbell Morgan

Flying Cars

No. That's one of those ideas that sounds so cool, but on second thought would actually be quite a nightmare. Seriously, do you see the way people drive? You want that up in the air and falling on your house? I don't want flying cars. Stop trying to make them.

Life's Simple Pleasures

Instant Rimshot

3rd Kid In 5 Days?

Time to kill some coyotes.

The coyote attacked the girl around noon Tuesday when her mother, Melissa Rowley, went inside the home for a moment to put away a camera, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said in an incident report.

Rowley came out of the house and saw the coyote dragging her daughter towards a street. She ran towards her daughter, and the animal released the girl and ran away, said sheriff's spokeswoman Arden Wiltshire.

Rowley took her daughter to a hospital where the toddler was treated for several punctures to the head and neck area, and a laceration on her mouth. She was then flown to Loma Linda University Hospital for further treatment, although her injuries were not life-threatening.

Better yet, move them to Berkeley.

Shocking!

Teen Survives 25,000-Volt Shock That Burned Off His Clothes

The shock sent Sam Cunningham, 16, 25 feet off a railway bridge and onto the tracks below. He had been retrieving a rugby ball on a bridge near his home in Wigan, England, last Thursday when the current jumped from the electric railway lines to his steel-toe boots, according to the report.

Rugby is such a dangerous game.

Inflation? There's Inflation?

The shocking truth about inflation

"the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in August 2007 a remarkably low inflation rate of only 1.7 percent.

Solving this riddle – that is, why everything costs so much when the government tells us inflation rates are low – is simple:

The Bureau of Labor Statistics lies.

Inflation numbers are intentionally manipulated to keep cost-of-living numbers low.

If the average chief executive officer cooked balance sheet numbers the way the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics calculates the Consumer Price Index, the CEO would be in jail, even without Sarbanes-Oxley reporting standards."

Tragedy Unfolding

Aid workers fear Burma cyclone deaths will top 50,000

This is a horrible tragedy and my heart and prayers go out to the victims.

And speaking of horrible things, how dare Al Gore use this tragedy to further his ridiculous claims of global warming.

Gore claimed global warming is forcing ocean temperatures to rise, which is causing storms, including cyclones and hurricanes, to intensify.

From what I am reading, including in the first article above, this cyclone (hurricane) had wind speeds of about 120 mph. That makes it a category 3 storm. Bad, yes, but hardly unprecedented. The high death toll is no doubt due to the primitive living conditions and lack of preparedness on the part of the government and people of Burma (Myanmar). They are still refusing aid.

The people’s plight is not helped by the disposition of their Government. Running the country on a combination of internal repression and xenophobia, the junta seems not to have made up its mind that this is a tragedy that it cannot remedy on its own.

New York, New York

Two pictures of the New York skyline taken from the same point 47 years apart. The top picture was taken in 1930 and the bottom picture in 1883.

Here's one from 2000.

Thanks to Modern Mechanix Blog

Clear As Crystal!

Get ready for 'plant rights.'

What is clear, however, is that Switzerland's enshrining of "plant dignity" is a symptom of a cultural disease that has infected Western civilization, causing us to lose the ability to think critically and distinguish serious from frivolous ethical concerns. It also reflects the triumph of a radical anthropomorphism that views elements of the natural world as morally equivalent to people.

Got that right.

Do We Love Our Freedoms as Much as They Hate Them?

Chirpiness that'll be the death of us

"Multiculturalism" is a unicultural phenomenon. It exists only as a Western fetish, and we don't believe in it, not really. Most people, given the choice, want to live in an advanced Western society. That's why even impeccably PC lefties refer carelessly to other cultures as "developing nations": the phrase assumes they're "developing" into something closer to ours, because that's the direction of progress. Even hard-core multiculturalists only want to live in a Western society. For one thing, that's the only place you can make a living as a multiculturalist.

We are encouraging of certain forms of assertiveness: I am woman, hear me roar! Say it loud, I'm black and proud! We're here, we're queer, get used to it! But the one identity we're enjoined not to trumpet is the one that enables us to trumpet all the others: our identity as citizens of a very specific kind of society with a very particular inheritance, built on the rule of law, property rights, and freedom of speech. Heaven forbid we should assert any of that: I am Western, hear me apologize! Say it loud, I'm Dutch and cowed! We're Brits, we're s--ts, awf'lly sorry about that!

If you no longer know what you stand for, how can you know what you stand against?

Breathe

Breathe ... and call His name.

Lesbians Stole the Name "Lesbians" From Lesbians

Allegedly.

"Residents of the Greek island of Lesbos launched a legal action yesterday against a homosexual group, insisting that only islanders had the right to call themselves lesbians."

"Residents of Lesbos now suffer "psychological and moral rape" from the "seizure" of their island's name by gays,"

The last sentence is sort of unclear:

The resort of Eressos is a popular tourist destination for lesbians.

Lesbians the islanders or lesbians the women? Maybe both.

If all lesbians moved to Lesbos they could eliminate the problem entirely and make funny inside jokes about being Lesbians when they leave the island.

Or they could just agree that Lesbians from Lesbos are Lesbians and lesbians the women are lesbians - thus avoiding all confusion.

Dumbest Criminal Ever?

"A man has been accused of attempting to pass a $360 billion check, which he claims was given to him by his girlfriend’s mother to start a record business,"

Dude!

Putting Off Global Warming

Ocean Cooling to Briefly Halt Global Warming

"Parts of North America and Europe may cool naturally over the next decade, as shifting ocean currents temporarily blunt the global-warming effect caused by mankind,"

"Those natural climate variations could be stronger than the global-warming trend over the next 10-year period," Wood said in an interview. "Without knowing that, you might erroneously think there's no global warming going on."

"Natural variations over the next 10 years might be heading in the cold direction," Wood said. "If you run the model long enough, eventually global warming will win."

There's always an excuse, isn't there. Cooling is a natural variation, but warming isn't?

Human beings, in their inventiveness, think they can master the earth. But the very solutions they work out become the bigger problems that they can no longer manage. The whole vast scheme of things eludes them; they are not able to put them all together.

The very forces they think they can manipulate to accomplish their aims are forces that are part of their own lives that they did not make and upon which they continually depend. Therefore, human beings are incapable of being the gods they attempt to be. -- Ray Stedman

Listen to Controlling God, this is a really good one.

BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM

I think Ron Dart has nailed it: Reflections on the Wright/Obama clash

I think I have a handle on what has happened to the relationship between these two men. I began to see it when it first broke, but it didn't come into sharp relief until the latest clash. It is a phenomenon in human relationships that is not at all uncommon. In fact, it has a name, it is called a "BOOM" process—Becoming One's Own Man. It has been called a mid life explosion, and it comes about when a man decides to become his own man and begins to distance himself from a mentor. This is not a major event if the mentor is willing to let go. If he is not, you get what you are now seeing from Dr. Jeremiah Wright.

Sorry there is no link directly to this post, as he posts new material this one will move down the page.

Black and White and God

This is long but he has a lot good things to say. It's worth it.

Black & White on the Grey Matters (Jeremiah Wright)

Don't Worry

African lion on the loose near Ottawa

said by its owner to be harmless

Funny, that's what pitbull owners always say after their dog viscously attacks someone.

Let's Put Them In Charge Of Healthcare

Orange County Jail Makes Another Mistake In Release Of Suspect

They sent him a letter telling him to come back on Friday, May 3rd. May 3rd is Saturday.

It's almost comical but someone can get killed because of mistakes like this.

The sister-in-law says, "The jail let him go, that's their mistake."

And this kind of stuff goes on across the country.