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Global Warming?

Do you believe in the Greenhouse Effect? Do you believe in Global Warming? How about this information, found on Accuweather’s website today, how do you parse it?: High temperatures will soar to near record levels across the Upper Midwest and the northern Plains Saturday. Sunshine along with southerly winds on the backside of high pressure…

February 5, 2005
3 responses to “Global Warming?”
1. Chad
  
  Saturday, February 5, 2005
  
  Quite right. You might like this lecture from Dr. Robinson, if you haven’t seen it already.
  
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2. Maisy
  
  Sunday, February 6, 2005
  
  Thank you Chad, for the link. No, I had’t seen it before. I appreciate others linking to things. I don’t “drudge” up my own stuff usually 😉 I really appreciate collaborative efforts and sharing, you know, community stuff, the ribs of Agrarianism 🙂
  
  You’ve posted on my other site, or sent an email through a page or something, before, about some Christian Agrarian articles I have posted. I never got back to you, so sorry!
  
  I’m in the slow process of changing things over to:
  
  Agrarianlife.com. Which is a project I’ve not had as much time to work on as I’d like. 🙁
  
  In any case, it’s now intended to be a “group blog” about living the agrarian life, actually doing it, or working towards it in the future, and have articles like the ones I have from Howard King, and any other things that crop up as useful, needful, and such.
  
  We need to have multiple agrarian sites out there and my Agrarianlife site has been waiting for me to really put it into action. I did have a message board set up last year and had no activity at all, of course I did no promotion, except in some of Howard King’s email newsletters.
  
  I work in bursts, getting deeply into topics when they rear up, and I’m feeling the agrarian topic rearing up again, and hope to kick out some good work and read up some more on it. I have a daily living of it and desire to do much more with it in real life, but haven’t beefed up on my reading, in other words.
  
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3. bob
  
  Tuesday, February 8, 2005
  
  I find it amusing that so many lectures are offered on the supposed departure from climatic norms, especially considering that here in the midwest few communities have been keeping records for over 100 years. I read a climatology report on the 20th century and found that in northern IL, a few of the ten warmest winters were in the first decade. A few of the coldest winters were observed in the 7th, 8th, and 9th decade. I am pretty sure the glaciers are coming back!
  
  I often wondered upon hearing the old folks boast of the monster winters they were used to observing.”When we was kids the snow was so deep and the winters so cold all you could see was the tallest trees and an occasional chimney. Fact was, snowed so hard the roads weren’t plowed out for weeks!” Of course, back then they were plowing with horses versus the hundreds of trucks currently on the county roster, but I don’t suppose that made much of a difference. Looking at the record book, I was not surprised to observe that the snowfall reports were not much different than what I have observed in my lifetime!
  
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Three movies on DVD

Last night, with Dh out of town, I watched two movies we’d rented from Blockbuster. Movies that ONLY I would ever watch. Not him, no way. Girl movies? Right? WRONG! So both of them were alright, but fully flawed movies that I cannot recommend at all. I’ll give overviews of them and critique as well.…

February 5, 2005
Will Terror ever be vanquished from the face of the Earth?

Here is an excerpt from George Grant’s 1991 book “The Blood Of The Moon”. From pages 73-74/second section:The Past And Prophecy/Chapter:5 Ji’had: The Unending War of Conquest/ The Lessons of History During the days of mobilization for World War I, when it looked for a time that American troops would be deployed in the Middle…

February 4, 2005
One response to “Will Terror ever be vanquished from the face of the Earth?”
1. Hyperthinking
  
  Monday, February 7, 2005
  
  Can True Peace come at the point of the sword?
  Here is an excerpt from George Grantâ€™s 1991 book â€œThe Blood Of The Moon”.
  
  From pages 88-90/second section:The Past And Prophecy/Chapter:6 Loose Ends: The Peace to End All Peace/
  
  True Peace
  
  The prophen Isaiah brough a message to those who …
  
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Gray Day Ends

Today it has been chilly out and in still. I’ve kept space heater upstairs running and so upstairs is kind of nice. But see, I don’t live there in the daytime 🙁 So it’ll be fine now that it’s nearly bedtime. In any case, the main floor has been just too chilly. I had a…

February 3, 2005
The 50-Star Flag

Monday, January 31 2005 Genocideâ€¦ Itâ€™s worth a little disrespect Bret McAtee @ 10:15 pm The first thing you have to envision is a mid size gymnasium in a Christian School. At one end of the Basketball court, about 20 feet high, tacked or stapled to a white stucco background, is a normally sized Christian…

February 2, 2005
Rapunzel Milk Chocolate and Cheesey C/A Parables

Today I ate most of my Rapunzel Milk Chocolate bar. I have one piece left of that former 3-ounce bar. [I usually get the Semi-Sweet version, which uses real Rapadura, this one though uses Cristallino, which is refined once… so not as strongly flavoured. I use Rapadura in my kitchen. It’s better than “sugar”. 🙂…

February 1, 2005
Drudge Oscars Poll

I voted for Finding Neverland. Here are the numbers from when I voted … well, actually, a few minutes after voting. Close enough. That was just a few minutes ago, btw. Look on the drudgereport site, on the right sidebar, while it lasts. (((DRUDGE POLL))) YOUR VOTE FOR NOMINATED BEST PICTURE AVIATOR ====36%====1,781 FINDING NEVERLAND…

January 25, 2005
One response to “Drudge Oscars Poll”
1. Marysue (Maisy)
  
  Thursday, January 27, 2005
  
  Here’s the
  Final Results link
  
  It’s interesting, but also means absolutely NOTHING, of course 😉
  
  See how much the poll had for Finding Neverland above when I voted? 264 votes then. At the end it had 6,156. That’s a heck of a lot of people voting for it, even if they voted twice, or played games clearing their web cache … to vote again and again and again … which I did not do. I did vote twice 😉 With my two different browsers. So assume that 50% of everyone voted twice, on the whole poll, then throw in a bunch of other statistical possibilities. See …? Who cares 😆
  
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The Great Hal

Bored on a chilly, wet Saturday afternoon, I took a stroll on the drudgereport page. I looked at a few of the articles listed as important … nah. So I then look down the list of links to column writers. One must know at this point: I go to the drudge site less than five…

January 22, 2005
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1. Frank
  
  Saturday, January 22, 2005
  
  For all his writing it would help if he would learn comprehension!
  
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Spanglish

We saw the movie Spanglish the other night. It was a good story. It did have some “adult stuff” in it, though rated PG-13 … maybe should have been R. In any case, it wasn’t super apparent, what some of the stuff meant — to younger folks maybe. Those not schooled in the “world” that…

January 21, 2005
Mission: Save the World

I didn’t watch the Inauguration Ceremonies on TV yesterday. All I did was see a bit of the poof-poof on Fox & Friends early in the morning, and then again this very morning, the morning after. The article I have below is from backwaterreport.com. Posted yesterday. And it firstly has the right quote. The sort…

January 21, 2005
3 responses to “Mission: Save the World”
1. Tamara (AK)
  
  Friday, January 21, 2005
  
  Oh, I know! This infuriates me to no end! (Can I call this “righteous indignation”?!? 😉 ) I’m right there with you… Who appointed us as “big brother” of the world??? We’ve often discussed the same things here in our house and I say, too, if they want freedom – let them fight for it just as we did! They’ll certainly appreciate it more…as it’s clearly seen, they aren’t appreciating it from our hands that’s for sure! And, you know, I don’t blame them one bit. “Busibodies” (and worse!) that’s what the USA is now. Bleh!!!
  
  I was the only one in my family to vote for Perutka (oop, might have spelled it wrong). That’s why I didn’t put any supportive “stuff” up on our blog. Anyway, dh and I discussed and discussed before the election and we *had* to vote seperately. 🙁 He said he understood the “pragmatist” arguements but still felt he had no choice – ugh! (That’s also why I didn’t join in the discussion on the PW list…this is just one area I couldn’t “submit” in.) So, dh is on the same page as I (and you) and the more evidences that come up I’m trying reeeaaally hard not to say, “I told you so.”, “You’re only getting what you voted for.”, etc., etc.
  
  You really shouldn’t have gotten me started on this… 😉 My parents will be here in a couple of hours and I’m sure they won’t want to listen to me rant! LOL
  
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2. Marysue
  
  Saturday, January 22, 2005
  
  Tamara, Glad you voted for Peroutka (this is the right spelling, I learned it on purpose so as not to look foolish to all the Bush Supporters in 2004 😉 )
  
  I’m so sorry your DH didn’t vote the same as you, even though he knew the pragmatic stuff then … On a particular reformed message board there were pragmatists and they didn’t even come as far as your DH, but well then they might not have been honestly talking about what they thought. 🙁
  
  It is SOOO hard not to say “I told you so” to others, so I know how THAT feels, but feel deeply for you in the hardship it is in your case, much harder I bet!!!!
  
  I’m sorry 😉 to have gotten you started on this. I suddenly just had words to say. I found that post on backwater report and that coupled with Fox & Friends show stuff I’d heard/seen … I just couldn’t not say anything. 🙂
  
  Hope all goes well in your household with these type of discussions! 🙂
  
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3. Tamara (AK)
  
  Sunday, January 23, 2005
  
  That’s perfectly alright! Yes, all is fun in these types of discussions at home. 🙂 Most of the time we are on the same page and turning at the same time! 😉 This time, we just couldn’t agree. And, he would have been terribly disappointed in me if I voted just to please him. So, all in all, everything was fine. He really sees “our” side…is on “our” side…but… Don’t ask me. He’s fed up and dislikes/distrusts Bush… I couldn’t understand why he couldn’t vote otherwise. [shaking head in bewilderment] Ah well. Really, really has me curious about what will happen at the polls next time. 😉
  
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