Global warming and clouds

Clouds act like a blanket. During the day they block the sun and therefore the earth doesn't heat up as much. During the night they reflect the heat back to the earth and therefore the earth doesn't loose as much heat. So would they prevent global warming? NASA wonders that too:

For example, if Earth's climate should warm due to the greenhouse effect , the weather patterns and the associated clouds would change; but it is not known whether the resulting cloud changes would diminish the warming (a negative feedback) or enhance the warming (a positive feedback). Moreover, it is not known whether these cloud changes would involve increased or decreased precipitation and water supplies in particular regions. http://isccp.giss.nasa.gov/role.html

Anna quote

"Please me have ... (pause, thinking) ... What I talking about?"

Mass media news is pathetic

I get most of my news through websites, blogs, etc -- not through mass media outlets such as T.V. and radio. When I do listen to the news on T.V. or radio I am absolutely astounded by how pathetic it is. It sounds like it is intended for children.

Examples from a 1/2 hour T.V. news program of which I listened to only about 15 minutes:

• There was a T.V. news story about some new new circles on the highway to help motorists follow at safe distances. That's nice. And it wasn't just 30 seconds mentioning an explaining. It was 3 minutes getting opinion, showing the circles, and other useless stuff.
• There was a T.V. news story about a hit and run accident. It was reported on the scene of the accident (like there is anything to see so why does that matter) and the reporter said the driver could have been distracted by a cell phone (but he could have been distracted by a million other things also so why make conjecture).
• Another T.V. news story about a group of rich people who took out an ad to request that taxes on the rich be increased to give more money to education. They reported that after the ad came out other rich people called them to give their support (so what -- So now you have 200 people out of the whole state who support you, which is insignificant). They did a few interviews with people on the street (the opinions of 3 people in the whole state are useless). They ended the useless report saying that it could happen in the future (well really, I didn't know that taxes might change in the future). They never even attempted to address real issues such as the potential impact of the tax increase and how the extra money would affect schools.
  

All of those stories were a few minutes long (not just a few seconds to mention it). Isn't there anything else more important than that happening in the world or even state? With commericals they spent at least 1/3 of the news on those stories. There is just too much junk to make it useful.

Cable Choice

Citizen Link supports the FCC mandating Cable Choice (http://www.family.org/cforum/briefs/a0041214.cfm) but why should the government mandate that? AFAIK cable companies are free to offer cable choice and customers are free to not choose cable if cable choice isn't offered. Smells like big government.

Pig Rodeo

In England they have rodeos but because of space constraints they use large pigs instead of horses. They even have a national championship held at Buckingham Palace.

The UN is not for freedom and fair representation of people

The UN recently compplained about the US not supporting the UN.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5057684.stm

Well, I for one do not support the UN because it does not fairly represent the people of the world -- it represents nations and in many of those nations the people are not free and not fairly represented. Therefore the UN is unable to take any freedom or moral high ground.

Scientists have long known ... but they've had precious little fossil evidence

From
http://www.irishexaminer.com/pport/web/Full_Story/did-sgQF80kQJV09-.asp:

"Scientists have long known that fish evolved into the first creatures on land with four legs and backbones more than 365 million years ago, but they've had precious little fossil evidence to document how it happened."

Change that last "how" to "that" and then the statement is more accurate. :-) You can't know that it happened unless you can prove that it happened, much less show transitional fossils. This is like the old pictures that arranged horse fossil in order of height and showed that they evolved that way. Just because a group of fossils show a transition doesn't mean that they were related, much less in that order!

What really gets my goat is when people present something as scientific when it really just a belief -- and that damages true science! Until we invent some type of time machine, there will probably be no way to scientifically prove anything about the past (that is not accurately recorded).

Vote

I will be voting today so don't forget to vote if you also have that opportunity!

My 3 Angels

My sister-in-law, Priscilla (John's wife) started a blog:
My 3 Angels

Eating supper together as a family is the best way to prevent descructive behaviours

From Breakpoint with Chuck Colson on November 22, 2005:

Weinstein tells us that when the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse studied ways to keep kids from destructive behaviors, family dinners were "more important than church attendance, more important even than grades at school." The Center has repeated that study several times since then, "and every year, eating supper together regularly as a family tops the list of variables that are within our control."

http://www.pfm.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=BreakPoint1&Template=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=17369