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Saturday, September 23, 2006

HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT OF BUILDING YOUR OWN CATHEDRAL?

Don Justo, a former monk, did…...and then he began.

Until recently, he did it by himself (some nephews provided a bit of manpower) and on his own dime. No help from community, church, or anyone else except contractors with extra materials to donate, and people who heard about him and came to volunteer.

This year, Coke came calling - as part of their campaign celebrating the human spirit (and, not incidentally, selling Coca-Cola) they have put Don Justo on TV spots all over Spain. He may even live to see it finished…..although that’s a long shot for the 80 year-old farmer.

You can read about it HERE in English, and HERE in Spanish.

Hat Tip: Brother Victor

Posted by Earl on 09/23 at 05:46 PM
Miscellany • Religion • Comments •

DID I MENTION THAT I’M A GRANDFATHER…...?

Less than 24 hours now, but it feels very good.

Welcome to Sophia Isabella Leslie Camacho, born 9/22/06 at 8:58 p.m., weighing 8.5 pounds and measuring 21 inches long. She’s a keeper.

Posted by Earl on 09/23 at 05:39 PM
Family Matters • Comments •

Monday, September 18, 2006

HOW ARE PORNOGRAPHIC IMAGES AND STOCK QUOTES ALIKE?

Well, they’re pretty much equivalent in the Milwaukee public school system, apparently.

An arbitration board, ruling on a teacher’s appeal of his firing after he was caught viewing a porn site on his school computer one Sunday, said it wasn’t legitimate to fire him because another teacher, who had been looking at stock quotes on a school computer, was only reprimanded.

Don’t believe it? Read the NEWSPAPER STORY

Then you can read the actual DECISION OF THE ARBITRATORS, and retch.

These days, in a lot of places, sending your children to public schools is a form of child abuse.

Hat Tip: My brother Victor

Posted by Earl on 09/18 at 08:04 PM
Miscellany • Education • Politics • Comments •

Thursday, September 14, 2006

WHAT MUST TERRI SCHIAVO’S PARENTS FEEL, AS THEY READ THIS…...

We have always been told there is no recovery from persistent vegetative state - doctors can only make a sufferer’s last days as painless as possible. But is that really the truth? Across three continents, severely brain-damaged patients are awake and talking after taking ... a sleeping pill. And no one is more baffled than the GP who made the breakthrough. Steve Boggan witnesses these ‘strange and wonderful’ rebirths

Louis Viljoen, a young man who had once been cruelly described by a doctor as “a cabbage”, greets me with a mischievous smile and a streetwise four-move handshake. Until he took the pill, he too was supposed to be in what doctors call a persistent vegetative state.

Was it Newton who said that he was like a child fiddling with shiny pebbles on the shores of a limitless sea of knowledge….? When I hear mere human beings “bragging” about the state of our knowledge, I always think of a couple of kids on the front lawn, bragging to each other “I can jump closer to the moon that you can!”

The story you’re about to read reminds me of that—of the limits of our knowledge, of the foolishness of rejecting what God has said because “we know better”, of the deep wisdom of modesty as we deal with the mystery known as “human life”.

Posted by Earl on 09/14 at 09:07 AM
Science • Politics • Healthcare • Life Issues • Comments •

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

JUST WHAT IS GOING ON INSIDE YOUR BODY RIGHT NOW?

We know a lot, of course…..and more every day. What has occurred in the last decade is that we have increasingly powerful ways to show visually what we are learning in the biology/biochemistry labs. And what we’re finding is that Bishop Paley was correct, and Hume wrong—at the smallest levels, it is perfectly realistic to compare biological organisms to machines like a watch.

In fact, despite the fact that the film you’re about to watch understates the complexity and “busyness” of the interior of the cell by orders of magnitude, it’s an awesome thought that this kind of activity - so plainly (if we look at it without preconceptions) the result of precision engineering - is occurring at this very moment in almost every cell in our bodies. Billions of billions of cells - each a tiny factory filled with machines doing their myriad jobs…......

CHECK IT OUT!

Posted by Earl on 09/13 at 12:25 PM
Science • Intelligent Design • News • Comments •

Wednesday, September 06, 2006

IT’S PEACH SEASON IN Southeast TENNESSEE

We’re buying really nice (Gail the valley girl says not as good as she remembers in Chico, California) freestone peaches for 79 cents/pound. They’re great in fruit salad, eaten over the sink, sliced on my breakfast bowl of cereal, and just FABULOUS in this very simple dish we call Gail’s Peach Cobbler.

Give it a try!

Posted by Earl on 09/06 at 10:15 PM
Miscellany • Food • Comments •

Sunday, September 03, 2006

SURPRISE, SURPRISE…..GLOBAL WARMING ISN’T GOING TO BE AS BAD AS WE EXPECTED…..

And no, it isn’t some “denialist group” saying it….it’s the INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE, the (normally very pessimistic) 900-pound gorilla in the field.

THE world’s top climate scientists have cut their worst-case forecast for global warming over the next 100 years….In 2001, the scientists predicted temperature rises of between 1.4C and 5.8C on current levels by 2100, but better science has led them to adjust this to a narrower band of between 2C and 4.5C. The new projections put paid to some of the more alarmist scenarios raised by previous modelling, which have suggested that sea levels could rise by almost 1m over the same period.

READ THE WHOLE THING

Hat Tip: Brother Victor

Posted by Earl on 09/03 at 11:26 AM
Science • Environment • News • Comments •

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