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  • Open Letter to Scientists

    An Open Letter to Scientists

    It’s about time for scientists to admit the existence of The Supreme Being.  ”The heavens declare the glory of God.”  Recent worldwide dialog has rather certainly concluded that the Theory of Evolution is not in any way opposed to, or incompatible with, the Universe as Creation, and God, as Creator – evolution being merely one of the many sub-systems of Creation.

    When Isaac Newton was displaying for the first time the mechanical model of the solar system, which he had built, an amazed onlooker asked, “Who built this?” to which Newton replied with sublime irony: “Nobody.”  Obviously, so very obviously now, the Universe had to have an an Omniscient and Omnipotent Creator because it, like Newton’s orrery, is an evident construct.

    Albert Einstein marveled at how the Universe is ever more intelligible.  Certainly, “random variation” would not result in a system that is hierarchically intelligible, and patterned, to the nth level of investigation.  Even Chaos is not chaotic, but is intelligible and patterned, and mathematically proscribed by laws that seem to have applications to systems throughout Creation.  Laws of Nature are discoveries of the human mind, but such discoveries could not be made unless Nature had embedded in its matter the operation of these laws.  The Laws of Nature are not created by the human mind, they pre-exist humans to be discovered and formulated by us in the process of Scientific investigation.

     
    It is always possible to do mental gymnastics to avoid the, frankly, Common Sensical conclusion that there is a God.  Steven Hawking goes to such extremes in his latest pronouncements that the Universe does not need a Creator.  Hawking may be living in radical denial of God due to the peculiar nexus of his personal psychology, physical deterioration, and celebrity status within the largely atheist scientific community.  His view is curious, but, not at all compelling.

    It’s high time Science let God in the room.  Prejudicially, God is being excluded based on the alleged fact that He is supposedly not subject to direct scientific examination. If God were subject to direct scientific investigation, He wouldn’t be God, by definition. So, Science needs be more circumspect when trying to deal with “God.”   But that doesn’t mean that God can exist without evidence of His existence being scientifically demonstrable.

    Miracles are not necessarily direct examples of the existence of God.  They may add to the body of indirect evidence, and should probably be considered among other phenomena that may, or may not, give evidence of the existence of an Omnipotent Being.  Miracles may merely demonstrate physical laws that we are not yet aware of.  Or they may not be miracles at all, but a sleight of hand.  After all, things tend to get done by one means or another, no matter Whom performs them, but events always leave the imprint of the “hand” that made them.  If criminals can be convicted based on a superfluity of circumstantial evidence, cannot the action of God be deduced from similarly abundant circumstantial evidence, like miracles?

    The Catholic Eucharist is a good place to start to look for scientific evidence of God’s existence.  Obviously, cutting a consecrated Host open and looking at It with an electronmicroscope isn’t expected to yield the result we are looking for BECAUSE, by definition,the Consecrated Host is not Jesus in appearance, but only in substance, whatever THAT term refers to…. 500 million people, or 42% of Catholics according to a recent poll, believe that the Eucharist is absolutely congruent to God. These, otherwise evidently sane people, treat the Consecrated Host as if it were God.  Now THAT testimony can be pretty compelling, indirect, evidence of the existence of God that needs to be considered from all angles scientifically – psychological profiles of fully believing Catholics contrasted with those of atheists might reveal a difference attributable to the existence of God, or, behavioral studies of fully believing Catholics might reveal events that could only find its explanation by the existence of divine power.   Historians, in their attempt to reframe history according to radical new schema, might try looking at the flow of history for the evidence of God.  The Bible, purportedly authored by God, heavily invests in recording “history”.  This Book needs to be analyzed scientifically more than it has been to see how “God” principles work themselves out in political events – with many applications to world history since the conclusion of the writing of the Biblical books.

    So, there you have it.  God has much to contribute to the modern arena.  There’s an elephant in the room, or there might be, and I think it’s time to recognize that fact, or at least seriously attempt to find out if there is, or isn’t.  Science should stop its prejudice against God just because they can’t dissect Him, and begin to take a more tactful, but no less rigorous, approach to finding He Who IS.  ”Seek and you shall find.” 
     

  • Nuclear War’s greatest danger is

    Nuclear War’s greatest danger is loss of knowledge which is currently stored electronically.

    It will throw us back to the Dark Ages, without the basic skills sets, or availability of natural resources, to 

    make possible a reconstruction of society.  We – humans – would be permanently plunged to the level

    of weak animals.

    Oh, they have a Doomsday Project which stores the Earth’s seeds against destruction by nuclear war.

    That is a good thing. (I have always wondered how, after a nuclear war, people are going to be able to

    gain access to the Doomsday Vault where the seeds are stored.  Their plan is to have three people with

    keys converge from various parts of the world to open in.  But I think that will be impossible.  Bad plan.)

     

    But we don’t have a Doomsday Project for KNOWLEDGE !!  duh.  Is that ever dumb or what?

    All these freaking stupid BILLIONAIRES ought to be doing something about that, instead of funding population 

    control programs and genetic engineering projects.

    IN the Dark Ages after the fall of the Roman Empire, that’s what the Church did in its monasteries.  They had the books.

    But who is going to do it now…. I think the OPEN ACCESS program ought to look at this issue and do something

    to preserve ELECTRONIC KNOWLEDGE from destruction by nuclear war.  Are you with me on this?  YAR !!!

  • fastest pitch in baseball

    105 on the radar gun is really fast.  A.Chapman is definitely hot.

    I looked the list over and Nolan Ryan wasn’t even on it!  I remember Ryan being clocked on a radar gun at 97 pmh, and he was over 40 years old at the time.

    I remember three Mets pitchers on the cover of a sports newspaper: the headline was Fast, Faster, and Fastest. the three pitchers were Jerry Koosman, Tom Seaver, and Nolan Ryan.  So it was clearly evident that Ryan was faster than Seaver, and Seaver was clocked by radar gun at 100 mph during an All Star game.

    I think Nolan Ryan also hit 105 mph.  In fact that’s the figure that I’ve always thought was Ryan’s fastball’s upper range.  Could he have hit 106? I don’t know.

    But I swear I saw during an Angels-Yankee game in New York, Ryan’s fastball SLOWED DOWN after leaving his hand due to compression of the air in front of it, AND THEN, due to the rotation of the ball, the seams cut through the air, and the ball rapidly accelerated, and climbed a little bit too.  Pretty incredible!  But no one used to believe a curve ball really curved until early Wynn hit a sports journalist standing behind a tree by curving the ball around the tree.  There are skeptics who say a fastball does not “rise” – but I think it does.

    Ryan was awesome.  Ryan represents the fastest of the past. Rube Waddel back in the old days was supposed to be faster than Walter Johnson, and so was Addie Joss before he hurt his arm.  Koufax was a 100, as fast as Seaver (but with a much better curve).  I don’t know about Satchel Paige, never heard he claimed to be the fastest.  But old video clips of Walter Johnson and Satchel Paige both show them winding up their arms backwards before pitching.  I think this is an important secret.  Muscles are aligned in pairs – opposing pairs – and pitchers and other athletes need to develop both pairs of muscles to be truly effective.  I wrote a letter to Yankee pitcher, Joba Chamberlain, who has been clocked at 100 mph., because I noticed his muscles were tightening up.  He was losing velocity, and seeming to push the ball.  I told him to practice the REVERSE WINDUP, like Johnson and Paige.  But he never got the letter.  And ripped his arm out. When Chamberlain comes back I bet he can’t hit more than 93 mph.

    One thing I noticed about Walter Johnson and Sandy Koufax was they both jolted the ball at the instant of release.  I say “jolted” because that’s what Joe Dimaggio and Lou Gehrig also did at the moment of hitting the ball.  It is a violent sudden snap right at the point of impact, or, with pitchers, with release.  I saw a grizzly bear do the same thing when killing a caribou on Youtube.  A mighty flex.  Koufax did it just at the last very moment of his release.  Johnson’s snap was more pronounced and easier to see on Youtube.  

    maybe this kid Chapman will even get a little faster as he gets stronger.  Throwing the slider has really weakened most pitchers arms.  Pitchers that throw exclusively fastballs have stronger arms.

  • Natural Everything; Artificial Sex?

    oh they want Natural….natural food, nature cosmetics, natural clothing, get close to Nature,

    but they still practice artificial sex!

    what’s that all about?  well, it’s just plain HYPOCRITICAL !!!

    and that means you, honey…. are a FRAUD, a FAKE!

    because your mind has been manipulated by high priced propaganda that was developed 

    by elite think tanks to serve THEIR OWN INTERESTS!

    The Catholic Church teaches DIVORCE is not permitted by the nature of matrimonial bond.

    LOVE IS NOT MEANT TO DIE!  If you are a Protestant reading this, I think you should repent and return to the 

    religion Jesus founded, and which still carries forward the entirety of His teaching.  DIVORCE is wrong because

    it denies the permanence of the love-bond that marriage implies.  How many people marry, buy their gowns, and plan 

    their weddings, all the while in the back of their heads (hearts too) thinking we can TANK THIS IF IT DOESN’T WORK OUT?

    People don’t do that.  they marry committed to total success, not failure.  Why?  Because they know that LOVE wasn’t

    meant to die. Their hearts know.  ALL FOR LOVE, so that problems that destroy marriages must be overcome. at all costs.

    But, if DIVORCE is allowed, then people cop out – for the tiniest excuses, they bail out.  GOD DOESN’T BAIL OUT ON US.

    and neither should we accept that.

    So, that’s one thing the Church is right on, and you are not.

    Birth Control is another.  By choosing to go against NATURE, by choosing artificial birth control, ONCE AGAIN, you stray from 

    the Catholic Church which shows the way Nature intended….the Billings method, teaching women how to read the natural

    signs of their own fertility.  learn it yourself.  http://www.woomb.org or call your local Couple-to-Couple League.

    Or else, suffer the consequences of diminished sexual desire, inadequate bonding with your mate, reduced intimacy,

    tendency to promiscuity, etc. etc. 

     

     

  • Apology to All

    Hi xanga readers….I’d like to apologize for offending you.  It’s really your thoughts I find repulsive.  NOT YOU.  Well, I do find you repulsive too, but I try to work around that as much as I can.  I am old, and cranky, and don’t like much of anything.  I love everybody, until I begin to interact with them.  Then I can barely tolerate anybody.

    So don’t feel bad.  If you are queer, very probably I don’t like you.  I don’t dislike you because you are queer.  I don’t like you because you are probably not dealing with being queer in an honest way: I dislike you because you are dishonest.  It’s very understandable…if a kid gets caught stealing he will tend to deny it.  Denial is a big hurdle to get over. But you are called to get over it.  That’s the path to real spiritual maturity.

    Same Sex Attraction is such a profound personality disorder that Denial is …normal.  However, eventually, you have to deal with it.  It’s the same with all the Catholic Church’s teachings on sexuality, and probably even the Ten Commandments.  There’s ALWAYS going to be something that hangs up your spiritual development.  

    The Church’s prohibition of Divorce is a big hurdle for many, many, married people.  So the GAY ISSUE is not unique by any stretch of the imagination.   

    Really you should love your Mother Church.  She wants you to grow up to be real men, like Jesus.

  • Xangans are hideously corrupt

    the blogs here are a joke.  First they are pathetically corrupt and stupid.  Most Asians don’t even know there is a GOOD GOD in heaven.  They are lost in their egos and their flesh, and the blogs here show it.  (That’s a generalization that stands up.)

    Second, the blogs here are so trivial and self-centered, it’s a waste of time and effort reading the crap.  Totally worthless and contemptible.  Insane really.  The thing is the thought processes of most Asians are not “catholic” in the sense of the small letter “c” – because they are IGNORANT of the thought processes that are truly Catholic, with the big “C.”

    The Catholic Faith really never has had the chance, yet, to dig in to Asia.  A significant minority in So. Korea, and Taiwan (along with baseball!).  A lot in the Phillipines (but no baseball), almost none in Japan and mainland China.  some in Hong Kong, and a wee bit in Viet Nam.

    Imagine not knowing there is a GOD?  Is that dumb or what?  It’s like when Isaac Newton was showing off the first mechanical model of the solar system (which he built).  Someone asked him, “Who built this?” and Newton answered: “Nobody.”  made the questioner feel like a fool.  But MOST ASIANS are just like that.  duh.  GOD made the Universe.

    The Universe is totally intelligible…the more you look, the more you learn.  WHY?  Because a truly amazing GOD made it.  Of course, because humans have sinned and are NOT like we were made to be, when we look out at the Universe and encounter Nature, we see it as we are, damaged goods, and NOT like Nature was intended to be, because WE as a generic entity are horribly distorted.  

    Xanga reflects that corruption. 

    So, when are Asians  going to wake up?  Never.  Unless they take their heads OUT of their assholes, look around, and begin to realize what the CRUCIFIX is all about.  Try figuring that out for once will ya?  burdens of the earth.  

  • Our Lady of Las Lajas

    Our Lady of Las Lajas, September 16 

    Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira

    In Spanish las lajas means “the rocks.” This image was imprinted on the rocks of a gorge above the Guaitara River in Colombia near the border of Ecuador. It has the singular characteristic of having been painted by Angels. The image is situated inside a cave very high in the mountains, and was completely unknown until it was discovered in the mid-18th century by an Indian (see the history below).

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    Our Lady of Las Lajas
    The picture penetrates the rock miraculously

    It is not painted, but mysteriously imprinted in the rock. The colors are not applied in a surface layer of paint or other material, but penetrate deep into the rock. No one knows how the work was done. Certainly it has no natural geological cause. I have never heard of any case where nature reproduced human faces with such perfection. 

    The image represents a noble Lady from an uncertain period, most probably 16th- or 17th- century Spain. How such a picture came to be in that cave unnoticed by anyone remains a mystery. These circumstances seem to indicate that it is anakeropita image – akeropita in Greek means not made by human hands, id est, painted by the Angels. 

    How can the beauty of this image be described? I will comment on two aspects: the colors and the persons. 

    The ensemble of colors in the picture gives an undeniable idea of majesty. The colors behind Our Lady’s head create a splendorous background. The burgundy of her dress is a warm, rich red embroidered with a golden flower pattern, giving the impression of the garment of a Queen. Her long hair flows freely in such a way that it appears to be a royal mantle. In my opinion, there is extraordinary good taste in the way the hair is arranged, which reinforces the notion of majesty. 

    The two crowns are very beautiful, rich and royal, but I think they are a little too large for the proportion of the heads. They were added by the faithful later in thanksgiving for graces received. 

    Now, we can look at Our Lady’s face and observe how she watches us from on high with a serious probing gaze. She is not smiling. She has the royal physiognomy of a person who imposes respect with confident strength.

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    Our Lady of Las Lajas

    In contrast, the Divine Infant is very amiable and is turned toward the supplicant. Thus, instead of having the classic picture of a serious Child and a smiling Mother, here we have the opposite. One could say that He is distributing the gifts while she appears as a Queen. 

    In reality, there is something profound in this contrast. It is the idea that He is merciful because He is seated in Our Lady’s arm. He communicates to the person who prays a little of His happiness to be with her. 

    Is there some thing strange about the Child? It seems to me that He is very small in size. His face and attitude are those of an older boy, notwithstanding the small size. Is this a mistake or is meant to express something? It appears that it expresses His wisdom at each stage of His life. He did not have the weaknesses or lack of reason of a normal child. His wisdom was perfect at every age of His life. So, what the image expresses is that even when He was very small, He was already conscious of everything He did, as an older boy would be. 

    After having considered the Child, if we return our eyes to Our Lady we can see how the image expresses motherhood. She is not looking at Him directly, but she has an enormous intimacy with Him. She extends this maternity to the sinner who kneels before her. She is also his Mother. 

    This image is a masterpiece reflecting both the majesty and the maternity of Our Lady. 

    History 

    A bit of history taken from the Colombian website ipitimes.com

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    The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Las Lajas was built high in mountains of Colombia.

    Below, the Sanctuary entrance, which leads to the cave with the miraculous image of Our Lady of Las Lajas.
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    Historians and scientists are at a loss to explain this fabulous image on the wall of a South American cave. It may forever remain an enigma. 

    Back in the 18th century, Maria Mueses de Quinones, an Indian woman from the village of Potosi, Colombia, often walked the six miles between her village and the neighboring one of Ipiales. One day in 1754 as she was making the journey, she approached the place called Las Lajas (the Rocks), where the trail passes through a deep gorge of the Guaitara River. Maria never liked this part of the trail. There were rumors that a cave in Las Lajas was haunted. Such superstitions lingered amongst the converted Christian Indians.

    She was carrying her daughter Rosa, a deaf-mute, on her back in the Indian fashion. By the time she had climbed to Las Lajas, she was weary and sat on a rock to rest. The child got down from her back to play.

    After a while, Rosa emerged from the cave shouting: “Mama, there is a woman in here with a boy in her arms!” Maria was beside herself with the fright since this was the first time she had heard her daughter speak. She did not see the figures the girl was talking about, nor did she want to. She grabbed the child and hastened on to Ipiales. 

    When she recounted what had happened, no one took her seriously at first. However, as the news spread, some asked if perhaps it were true. After all, the child was now able to speak. 

    A few days later, the child Rosa disappeared from her home. After looking everywhere, the anguished Maria guessed that her daughter must have gone to the cave. The child had often said that the Lady was calling her. Maria ran to Las Lajas and found her daughter in front of a noble Lady and playing affectionately with a Child who had come down from His mother’s arms to let the girl enjoy His divine tenderness. Maria fell to her knees before this beautiful spectacle; she had seen the Blessed Virgin and the Divine Infant. 

    Fearful of ridicule, Maria kept quiet about the episode. But she and Rosa frequently went to the cave to place wild flowers and candles in the cracks of the rocks. 

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    The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Las Lajas 
    at night

    Months went by, with Maria and Rosa keeping their secret. Finally, one day the girl fell gravely ill and died. A distraught Maria decided to take her daughter’s body to Las Lajas to ask the Lady to restore Rosa to life. 

    Moved by the sadness of Maria’s unrelenting supplications, the Blessed Virgin obtained Rosa’s resurrection from her Divine Son. Overflowing with joy, Maria returned home. It was not long before a crowd had gathered to hear what had happened. Early the next morning everyone went to Las Lajas, each one wanting to check the details for themselves. 

    That was when the marvelous picture of Our Lady on the wall of the grotto was discovered. Maria Muese de Quinones could not recall noticing it until then. The Child Jesus is in Our Lady’s arms. On one side of Our Lady is St. Francis; on the other is St. Dominic. Her delicate and regal features are those of a Latin American, perhaps an Indian. Her abundant black hair covers her like a mantle (The two-dimensional crown is metal and was added by devotees much later on). The Indians had no doubt: this was their Queen.

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    Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira  

    The Saint of the Day features highlights from the lives of saints based on comments made by the late Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira. Following the example of St. John Bosco who used to make similar talks for the boys of his College, each evening it was Prof. Plinio’s custom to make a short commentary on the lives of the next day’s saint in a meeting for youth in order to encourage them in the practice of virtue and love for the Catholic Church. TIA thought that its readers could profit from these valuable commentaries. 

    The texts of both the biographical data and the comments come from personal notes taken by Atila S. Guimarães from 1964 to 1995. Given the fact that the source is a personal notebook, it is possible that at times the biographic notes transcribed here will not rigorously follow the original text read by Prof. Plinio. The commentaries have also been adapted and translated for TIA’s site. 

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  • Las Lajas Basilica holds picture

    there is a miraculous picture of Virgin and Child at the back wall of the Basilica which is the bare rock of the cliff that it’s built up against.  The stone itself is colored to a depth of several feet, and is one of the most beautiful of Mary and Baby Jesus.

  • Screwed Up Europe/Sweden/Germany

    attached is an article about a new Education Law in Sweden.

    TOTALITARIAN STATE !!   what total idiots those European nations are that

    derive their political raison d’etre from MONARCHY.

     

    Reading this should be worth it.  ONE STATE ONE WAY – and ELANA KAGAN supports this stuff

    because the Harvard model of Education comes from Europe/Monarchical model like Oxford.

    Just dumb.  Political power resides not in the MONARCH, but in the PEOPLE.   “Government OF the People, By the People, and FOR the People, must not perish form the Earth” – Abe Lincoln

    so, read it and weep, then get mad as hell, and say: I won’t let it happen here.  Then try to convince your asshole senator(s)

    and head-in-a-dark-place Congressman/woman to see the light.

    here it is…

    Sweden Bans Home-schooling, Religious Instruction | Print |  E-mail
    WRITTEN BY ALEX NEWMAN   
    MONDAY, 28 JUNE 2010 21:00

    Swedish RiksdagThe Kingdom of Sweden took a dramatic turn toward totalitarianism with the adoption of a sweeping new education “reform” package that essentially prohibits home schooling and forces all schools to teach the same government curriculum.

    The draconian 1,500-page law — deceptively referred to by the Swedish government as “The new Education Act – for knowledge, choice and security” — was approved by Parliament last week amidst strong criticism and opposition. When it goes into effect next year, the entire educational system will be transformed, and alternative education abolished. 

    So-called “independent schools,” already financed and largely controlled by government, will now have to submit to the same regulatory framework as regular government schools. They will also be required to follow state-issued syllabi and curricula.

    “[Religious schools] can’t make any children to pray or confess to the God, but they will still be allowed [to exist],” Education Ministry press secretary Anna Neuman told The New American in a telephone interview. Essentially, there will no longer be any difference between “private” schools and government schools, she explained. And there will be no other option.   

    In addition to abolishing any remaining distinctions among schools, the new education act also prohibits home schooling for religious or philosophical reasons. Home education can be allowed only in “exceptional circumstances” like extreme bullying, Neuman explained. Lawyers have said the new condition basically means never.  

    Regulation of home schooling was already impossibly strict in Sweden, where, as reported recently byThe New American, social service workers took a seven-year-old boy from his parents because he was being educated at home — even when it was technically legal. But under the new rules, home education will be all but done away with. 

    “It’s a fear that [home schooling] doesn’t work appropriate[ly],” press secretary Neuman explained, though she admitted there was no report or evidence to back up the fear. 

    But Swedish home schoolers (and indeed, home schoolers around the world) disagree with the notion that home schooling doesn‘t work, and they have fought a valiant battle against the new ban. “[The Swedish Association of Home Education] ROHUS has vigorously, with its limited resources, worked to stop this new law since it was suggested,” ROHUS President Jonas Himmelstrand told The New American in an e-mail. 

    The group wrote a 228-page report for the Ministry of Education, lobbied members of Parliament, worked with the media, and tried unsuccessfully to meet with the Education Minister. “In the last week before the vote I, as the President of ROHUS, wrote one e-mail a day, each with a new argument, to all 349 members of parliament,” Himmelstrand explained. Unfortunately, the bill passed anyway.

    “Basically, it seems that the 50-100 Swedish homeschooling families are too few to matter politically — human rights notwithstanding,” he said, noting that the group had tried to educate officials on the benefits of home education using solid evidence. 

    But the battle is not over. For one, there is a Parliamentary election coming up in September. Even though the new law is not expected to be changed much, there is hope that the draconian restriction on home schooling could be loosened if enough pressure is applied. But even if the prohibition remains in place, the fight will go on.

    “The Swedish political authorities have deeply underestimated the convictions of Swedish homeschoolers,” Himmelstrand said. “Most will not accept the new law. They will respond with civil disobedience, or political exile.” 

    When asked about the thought of Swedish home-schooling families fleeing from government persecution (like German home schoolers granted asylum as refugees in the United States), Education Ministry spokesperson Neuman dismissed the idea. “Right now there are only about 200 children that have home schooling, so it doesn’t concern a lot of families,” she said.  

    But for the families involved, it’s a big deal. They plan to take the issue all the way to the Swedish Supreme Court and even the European Court of Human Rights if necessary. And there is still hope. 

    “The situation may be brighter than it looks, as this year long struggle has shown that there is a small, but strong and intelligent, opposition to restricting home schooling in Sweden, and that this opposition has many international friends,” said Himmelstrand.

    The international friends are already getting involved, too. “We’re consulting with various organizations to determine how to move forward,” explained Mike Donnelly, the director for international relations and a staff attorney with the U.S.-based Home School Legal Defense Association. “Of course we’re disappointed that the Swedish Parliament would do this … but we’ll be supporting the home schoolers however we can,” he told The New American in a telephone interview.

    In an analysis of the new law on ROHUS’ website, an even greater matter is also raised that supporters hope could become a catalyst for serious change in Sweden. “The new school law has brought into the open a much bigger issue than the question of home schooling. No democratic Government should have the possibility to abolish a human right through law. There needs to be rules to what a Government can do. In other countries this is called a constitution. Sweden lacks a true constitution and an elected Swedish Government has great freedom to do whatever it wishes,” Himmelstrand explained in the piece. 

    “Human rights do not have strong support in Sweden,” he added. “In Sweden it is possible for a human right to be abolished in Parliament based on prejudices and ignorance – this is exactly what we witnessed just now. This is the ultimate reason for home schooling being restricted as close to being fully illegal as can be. The worst part is that the present Swedish Government actually used this democratic weakness. It is hard to write in a civilized way what Swedish homeschoolers feel about this.”

    The law has been fiercely criticized in Sweden far beyond the small community of home schoolers. Even the Swedish Supreme Court’s advisory council, which examines proposed laws, attacked the new education act with 77 pages of “devastating” criticism, saying the “exceptional circumstances” requirement for home schooling was too vague, among other problems. 

    Media commentators also blasted the new law on several fronts. “The new Education Act poses a threat to educational diversity,” wrote Jim Whiteford on a Swedish political news website in an article entitled ‘New school law a step backward.’ “The state will exert more and more power over the pupil, and an outdated view of knowledge learning is increasingly prioritized and systematic…. We stand in dark times.” 

    Whiteford said the law “reduces both the students’ and their parents’ choice, increasing state control,” adding that he hoped voters would question the welfare state at the next election. “When looking at Sweden’s constitutional laws for the defense of individual rights against state power eager pursuit, there is nothing at all,” he said. “Once upon a time someone said that the Swedish Constitution is to protect the state rather than to ensure its citizens’ rights.” And that seems to be an accurate description, to the extent that it can even be considered a “constitution” in the true sense.  

    Even a member of the political party sponsoring the new education act refused to support it because of the restrictions on home schooling and fears that it could be a prelude to mandatory day-care and pre-school. The opposition parties in Parliament voted against the law for several reasons. Among them: It was rushed, and the Supreme Court’s advisory council criticism was not properly taken into account. 

    Other changes in the new law include tougher standards for becoming a teacher, and the idea that government day-care (for children as young as one year old) should be considered “school.” The act will also give the “Swedish Schools Inspectorate” the authority to shut down educational institutions that do not bow down to the government’s rules.     

    Regimes that have banned home schooling in the past include the National Socialists (Nazis) in Germany, since Hitler feared it could lead to “parallel societies,” and the Soviet communist dictatorship, where government was the sole arbiter of what children would learn. 

    Most Western nations still allow home schooling, including other Scandinavian countries. It is to be hoped that the Swedish government will reconsider violating such a fundamental human right, lest home schoolers be forced to flee their home country in search of educational freedom.

     

  • Hurricanes + GULF Oil Spill

    The Gulf Oil Spill – or as the Obama Administration insists on calling it “The BP Oil Spill” – is already the worst environemntal disaster the United Sttes has ever suffered.  But it may become something wildly worse if a hurricane passes over it.  It may become the worst HUMAN disaster the United States has ever suffered.  

     

    Don’t bother reading NOAA reports – they are dissembling about the gravity of the situation.  NOAA is a government agency and are putting forth government propaganda.For example: NOAA states that the oil spill may actually reduce the force of a hurricane by preventing the hurricane from sucking up water.  No kidding.  How utterly ridiculous.  Another example:  NOAA says that a hurricane, by dispersing the oil, will assist in the biodegredation of the oil.  GIMME A BREAK!   NOAA also is reporting that if a hurricane is in the Eastern Gulf waters it will push the oil AWAY from the coast.  Is that really believable??
    NOAA goes even further astray by minimizing the possible effects in various ways.  

     

    First, NOAA tries to minimize the effect of a hurricane passing over the OIL SLICK by saying that in previous hurricanes boats have been sunk and their fuel dispersed by the hurricane and the effects were neglegible.

     

    Second, NOAA points out that a hurricane covers a much larger area than the OIL SPILL and is drawing water from a wide source, thus minimizing the concentration of OIL in the rainfall.  DUH.  The OIL is still going to get sucked up and sprayed all over the place…that’s what I want to look at in this blog post.

     

    But NOAA covers its ass by adding that it is too difficult to accurately (computer) model where the oil will go, so the reality of a hurricane passing over the OIL SPILL is unknown.
    Well, let me say that the OIL will go where the rain throws it, and the waves push it.  Let’s take a look at that.

     

    First, just let me say that there is something down there called THE UNIFIED COMMAND which is SUPPOSED to be in charge of the situation.  The UNIFIED COMMAND is a branch of NOAA, and is the government disaster management team.  It consists of the Coast Guard commander, aka.Uncle Sam himself, aka. OBAMA (hey have you ever seen an Unlce Sam that looked like OBAMA?  wow…get to work artists!  they’r both slim!)oh okay, the Coast Guard Commander, Coastal Command from each state affected, and….British Petroleum Representatives…

     

    Already we have seen that the UNIFIED COMMAND is NOT at all unified.  Last week The Coast Guard blocked the State of Louisiana from deploying boats to suck up the OIL.  British Petrolem wants THAT OIL to resell…they are saying KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF OUR OIL!!…not only that, but it turns out that OBAMA absolutely HATES Repupublican governor of Louisana Bobby Jindal.  Obama won’t even say his name!!! or get photographed with him…I doubt they even talk or communicate electronically (which is really weird – almost a demonic fear of Jindal who is a convert to Catholicism, and a man of color himself – India.  So the Coast Guard stopped the Louisana boats because the registry of some of the boats could not be verified.  WOW.  If you live in Louisana, folks, you better not look for much help from D.C.  Uncle Sam HATES YOU !
    So the Unified Command has been strongarmed by the Commander-in-Chief, like NOAA entirely.   SO DON’T TELL ME OBAMA ISN’T RUNNING THE RESPONSE !!!!!!!!

     

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    So, WHEN a hurricane will come it will succk up the OIL and spray it all over the place.  What will that look like?  Well, it IS DIFFICULT to predict because it is basically unprecedented.  It is also difficult to predict because research into AEROSOL dispersement is still underdeveloped….THere are scientists out there working on AEROSOL dispersement, mmostly at the South Pole working on the OZONE depletion.  But not too much on AEROSOL dispersement due to hurricanes.  BUT IT IS STILL NOT IMPOSSIBLE TO PREDICT using other data about AEROSOLS than the plethora of data that satellites are currently providing.

     

    EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS, folks.  Start with mine….
    I was in a category 5 hurricane that hit the Gulf – and I am not talking about RITA.  More powerful winds than RITA, but a smaller, and therefore less wet hurricane than RITA…that’s right, “CAMILLE” in 1968.
    I saw trees well inland that were coated with salt.  They looked like crystal candy.  The fire trucks came out and hosed down certain historically significant oaks that managed to survive the 8 hours of 200+ mph winds that Camille packed.

     

    Now the OIL SPILL has already vented approximately -according to low estimates – 100 million gallons of oil.   By the time a hurricane gets to the Gulf, it could be near a BILLION gallons… IMAGINE spraying even 1/10th of that over land….100 million gallons turned into a FINE SPRAY!!!!!!!

     

    The roads will be too slick to drive on….SO NOBODY COULD LEAVE!The air will be permeated with the spray…AND PERHAPS BECOME UNBREATHABLE in areas, during the storm.  Afterward, the oil coating the plants may strangle large amounts of plant life, creating a DEAD ZONE of rotting vegetation.
    What about fires breaking out randomly within 2-3 days after the storm?

     

    THE FINAL RESULT:  unmitigated DISASTER.   In fact, right now, OBAMA attempting to put a price tag on it is CRUDE AND OFFENSIVE, demonic almost.Once a hurricane passes through, and death by suffocation is widespread to man and beast, within a relatively large range of DEAD ZONE…will the President still attempt to hold BP responsible for that?