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Trainwreck waiting to happen?

TRAINWRECK WAITING TO HAPPEN?

I have never understood the notion of taking ordinary citizens and placing them in highly technological jobs, or to represent the U.S. to the world, or to account for billions of dollars in taxpayers fund when they have trouble balancing their personal checkbook, or to make effective, executive decisions on issues they may never have heard of before. The only qualification is that they are absolutely, unquestionably loyal to one man and that they be willing to break the rules...

When Éirinn first rose

WHEN ÉIRINN FIRST ROSE

This is the history of Ireland. When Éirinn first rose, the waves of the Iapetus Ocean1 tossed about to and fro in anxious anticipation.  This was ~420 million years ago according to paleogeologists.  Two continent-sized masses–Laurentia and Gondwana—neither of which exist today, collided and one was pushed over the other.2 This act of creation made cousins out of the mountains of Donegal and the Appalachian Range in the eastern U.S., each of which share a common ancestor and amazing similarities. This is how Ireland...

Approaching advent

APPROACHING ADVENT

We are privileged to live on a planet such as our Earth.  Of the several thousands of planets discovered over the past thirty years, most are gaseous and those few that have discernable hard surfaces appear to be rocky and barren, inhospitable for any one of a number of reasons.  Some scientists remain optimistic that there are still planets capable of sustaining life as we know it “out there” somewhere (to paraphrase Fox Mulder) but others wonder where they are if this...

Ubuntu--community

UBUNTU

I subscribe to Quora, and I receive daily posts in those areas that I find interesting.  Today, I received a post from a contributor named Sajeev Rajan that I found positively inspirational and of value to our society (and Church) today.  While I understand that Quora allows the literal reproduction of posts in their Terms of Use, I will paraphrase it out of an abundance of caution and with thanks to Sajeev for passing this on.  And nor can I vouch for the...

Under pressure

UNDER PRESSURE

Today, as never before in the last half century, people are under pressure, serious pressure. Those in Generation Z (born 1995-2012) or even older generations before this one, and the current Alpha generation, feel stressed and squeezed. A once-in-a-century pandemic interrupted the education and social development of Zoomers for several years and our society is still not back to normal. Zoomers may not have jobs, and if they do, their jobs may not provide a living wage for them and their...

Sailors take warning

SAILORS TAKE WARNING

Have you ever heard the old adage “Red skies in the morning, sailors take warning.  Red skies at night, sailors delight?” Perhaps you read it in the Bible (Matthew 16:2,3)? An adage, itself, is a short statement with an element of truth. For more than two millennia this bit of folksy wisdom has been passed down among mariners and their kin. And, there is actually science behind this. In the mid-latitudes, a red sunrise at sea can mean that a...

Black Swan Sighted!

WARNING! BLACK SWAN SIGHTED

If you Google the term “black swan,” you’ll likely be overwhelmed with references to a movie starring Natalie Portman. But you must keep scrolling. Those of you who have taken a course in statistics are familiar with the term “black swan,” because one black swan is all you need to overturn (falsify) the hypothesis that all swans in nature are white. This notion that all swans are white cannot be proven because one cannot observe all swans. Black swans are...

Roots

ROOTS

In his parable of the Sower (Matthew 13:1 ff.), Jesus explained to His audience the importance of roots in agronomy. Yet, this wasn’t a strictly practical scientific presentation but rather a spiritual one. Jesus saw a correlation between a healthy root system on a plant with a healthy spiritual life in a person. While Jesus knew much better than I what His point was, I wonder whether it might be possible to coax a bit more nuance from the parable,...

Send in the clowns

SEND IN THE CLOWNS

What an administration this will be!  In the past, most Democrat and Republican President-elects have chosen department heads on the basis of competency and experience.  Occasionally, department heads are chosen based primarily on ideology.  This President-elect is choosing them on the basis of idiocy in some instances. What a circus. Time to send in the clowns. Let’s see who we have.  We have Matthew Gaetz who, until yesterday when he resigned his seat in the House of Representatives, was facing Congressional ethic charges from...

HOUSE, SENATE SEEK UAP TRUTH

HOUSE, SENATE SEEK UAP TRUTH

IF YOU MISSED THE HEARING, YOU CAN SEE THE TAPED PROCEEDINGS HERE! Congressman Tim Burchett (R-TN) has announced a second round of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) hearings in the wanning days left in this session of Congress. The House of Representatives (and the Senate as well) will conduct separate hearings beginning this Wednesday. During these hearings, the House & Senate will seek the UAP truth. The exchange will be testy at times, because a number of people on the committee...

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