Month: August 2013
Alaskan Smoked Porter Ice Cream with Brownie Chunks!!
Some Funny Tweets About Affleck Getting the Batman Role
`We Have Gone From Martin Luther King to Al Sharpton-That Is Very Dispiriting` ~ Margaret Carlson
Dr. Mark McCartney, Talks Science, God and Evidence
This Serious Saturday is with thanks to Pastor Matt and comes from Saints & Sceptics:
Dr. Mark McCartney, co-editor Kelvin: Life, Labours and Legacy (Oxford University Press, 2008). Dr. McCartney lectures in the School of Computing and Mathematics at the University of Ulster. Along with his research in applied mathematics, he has an interest the history of physics, co-editing “Kelvin: Life, Labours and Legacy” (with Raymond Flood and Andrew Whitaker) and “Physicists of Ireland” (with Andrew Whitaker). His PhD is in theoretical physics. (All views expressed here are those of“Saints and Sceptics”).
Dr. McCartney explains the limits of science, responds to the claim that science and Christianity have always been in conflict, and sums up the evidence for God in three words: “There are laws.”
Dr. McCartney develops his thoughts on atheism, science and morality, explains the “Fine-Tuning” argument, and discusses multiverses.
More at Saints & Sceptics site… highly recommended.
I Called Dennis Prager To Share Some “Insider Information” ~ Prager In Return Blesses Me with Some Rabbinic Wisdom
Firstly, my prayers and deepest thoughts go to the Lane family.
The three gang youth that killed Christopher Lane in Oklahoma used some language in their tweets that on a previous show Dennis showed some ignorance in — rightfully so. So I called into the show today (8-23-2013) to offer some clarification to what he read on the air. After my story of incarceration [many years ago], Dennis blessed me with a Rabbinic proverb:
- The talmudic dictum, “In the place where penitents stand, the wholly righteous do not stand” (Ber. 34a) was popularly revised into the clearer dictum, “In the place where penitents stand, the wholly righteous are unable to stand,” stressing the superiority of the penitent more clearly than in the original. (http://tinyurl.com/ke65eve)
Near the end I didn’t fully understand his question, but yes, religion (Christianity) is the best influence on people changing their lives. (Posted by: https://religiopoliticaltalk.com/)
For more clear thinking like this from Dennis Prager… I invite you to visit: http://www.dennisprager.com/
`I Do Not Live in Paris Because of the New 75% Tax Rate` ~ Serena Williams
Friday Fodder [Updated] (8-23-2013)
“Um, Yes, 911? Some People Are Steeling my Pool Water
Q. Whats worse than being caught in a flood?
A. Being drunk and caught in a flood.
Lessons Learned
WEAK!
Skateboarder Feels Mom’s Pain
Convocation Speech 101
Wasp Beheads Bee ~ narrated by Bill and Ted
The Lady of the Lake is a Vegitarian
Some Freerunning Excellence
Beastie Librarians
Driving Test Status: FAIL!
(Rough translation to above)
Driving Instructor: “Brake, brake, brake, brake. Oh s**t.”
(Car stops, starts turning on its side.)
Woman taking driving test: “What do I do? What do I do.”
Driving Instructor: “Goddamn it! I said ‘press the brakes’. What are you doing not even knowing which pedal you are pressing? I am going to go crazy. Get out of this car.”
Jumping Brought to Another Level
“My Way” ~ by, Breaking Bad
The Royals (Music Video)
Unnecessary Censorship (Jimmy Kimmel)
Worst Taekwondo Martial Arts Demo Eva
Estupido
DHS Employee Ramping-Up for the Coming Race War?
Is This What All the Ammo Was For?
“warfare is eminent, and in order for Black people to survive the 21st century, we are going to have to kill a lot of whites — more than our christian hearts can possibly count.” ~ DHS Employee (Via MoonBat)
Enumerated Rights (1st Amendment) vs. `Special Rights`
This is with a h/t to Pastor Matt, and it is found at Alliance Defending Freedom:
…one of the justices wrote that the photographer and her husband, Elaine and Jonathan Huguenin, “now are compelled by law to compromise the very religious beliefs that inspire their lives,” adding “it is the price of citizenship.”Citizenship vs. Enumerated Rights
- Description: In 2006, Vanessa Willock asked Elaine Huguenin—co-owner with her husband, Jonathan, of Elane Photography in Albuquerque—to photograph a “commitment ceremony” that Willock and another woman wanted to hold in the town of Taos. Neither marriage nor civil unions are legal between members of the same sex in New Mexico. Huguenin declined because her and her husband’s Christian beliefs are in conflict with the message communicated by the ceremony, which Willock asked Huguenin to help her “celebrate.” Willock found another photographer for her ceremony, but nevertheless filed a complaint with the New Mexico Human Rights Commission accusing Elane Photography of discrimination based on “sexual orientation.” The commission held a one-day trial in January 2008 and then issued an order several months later finding that Elane Photography engaged in “sexual orientation” discrimination prohibited under state law. The commission ordered Elane Photography to pay $6,637.94 in attorneys’ fees to the two women who filed the complaint. Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys took the case to the New Mexico court system to appeal the commission’s ruling. The state’s Court of Appeals upheld the commission’s ruling, and Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys appealed it to the New Mexico Supreme Court.
SANTA FE, N.M. — The New Mexico Supreme Court ruled Thursday against a photographer who declined to use her artistic expression to communicate the story of a same-sex ceremony. In a concurrence accompanying the opinion, one of the justices wrote that the photographer and her husband, Elaine and Jonathan Huguenin, “now are compelled by law to compromise the very religious beliefs that inspire their lives,” adding “it is the price of citizenship.”
“The idea that free people can be ‘compelled by law to compromise the very religious beliefs that inspire their lives’ as the ‘price of citizenship’ is a chilling and unprecedented attack on freedom,” said Senior Counsel Jordan Lorence. “Americans are now on notice that the price of doing business is their freedom. We are considering our next steps, including asking the U.S. Supreme Court to right this wrong.”
A Rasmussen poll last month found that “If a Christian wedding photographer who has deeply held religious beliefs opposing same-sex marriage is asked to work a same-sex wedding ceremony, 85% of American adults believe he has the right to say no.”
The “price of citizenship” is enumerated well in the Constitution, and in the First Amendment! Does this justice (well, many today, even the President) think they (he or she) are above the law of the land? Apparently.
HotAir makes the point that this seems a bit unfair:
….How about when Hooters refuses to serve anyone who is a Mayor who is a serial sexually inappropriate actor? How do eateries refuse service to people with no shirt or no shoes if it’s not illegal to go barefoot or without a top? (For men, at least.) For a less silly example, how about when many cemeteries refused to bury the body of the Boston Marathon bomber? Funeral homes tend to frequently be smaller, family run operations just like photography studios, often run out of people’s homes. Could they be sued for refusing service? If so, I never heard of anyone suggesting it. But in this case, because the photographer turned down the job for a gay wedding, they have now lost in court at every level and will pay for it in cash.
This may be the wrong side of the law here, but I’m left pondering one comment I saw on Twitter shortly after this news came out.
There is a simple answer to the “Tweet” above: it’s not about photos, it’s about forcing a view onto the populace by undermining both the Constitution and religion (the Judeo-Christian ethic).
Peer Reviewed Study of Non-Fossilized Triceratops Horn Gets Dr. Mark Armitage fired from CSUN
(h/t, ARN) Mark Armitage possibly the latest victim of the Darwinist inquisition
Question:
What happens when you publish a peer-reviewed paper that states inconvenient facts against Darwinism? Better yet, photos (see near bottom, click to enlarge) that cast doubt on prevailing paradigms.
Answer:
You get fired.
Here is the Abstract
Mark Hollis Armitage
Kevin Lee Anderson
Department of Biology, California State University, 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA 91330-8303, USA
Soft fibrillar bone tissues were obtained from a supraorbital horn of Triceratops horridus collected at the Hell Creek Formation in Montana, USA. Soft material was present in pre and post-decalcified bone. Horn material yielded numerous small sheets of lamellar bone matrix. This matrix possessed visible microstructures consistent with lamellar bone osteocytes. Some sheets of soft tissue had multiple layers of intact tissues with osteocyte-like structures featuring filipodial-like interconnections and secondary branching. Both oblate and stellate types of osteocyte-like cells were present in sheets of soft tissues and exhibited organelle-like microstructures. SEM analysis yielded osteocyte-like cells featuring filipodial extensions of 18–20 μm in length. Filipodial extensions were delicate and showed no evidence of any permineralization or crystallization artifact and therefore were interpreted to be soft. This is the first report of sheets of soft tissues from Triceratops horn bearing layers of osteocytes, and extends the range and type of dinosaur specimens known to contain non-fossilized material in bone matrix.
From Logos Research Associates
….In 2005, Dr. Mary Schweitzer of North Carolina State University published a ground breaking discovery (see article 1). She and her team of researchers dissected a fossilized Tyrannosaurus rex femur to find inexplicably preserved bone marrow. Two things made this unearthing astounding. First, if the fossils are really millions of years old, they should be completely fossilized by now. Fossilization is the process in which original boney material is replaced by hard minerals. However, in this case, the soft inner parts of the bone were found unfossilized with intact bone marrow. The marrow consisted of soft tissues and intact blood vessels that maintained their elasticity. This is incredible! How could soft, stretchy tissues be preserved in dinosaur remains that evolutionists claim are no younger than 65 million years old? Even in the best state of bone preservation, the soft inner parts should have completely rotted away long ago.
Dr. Schweitzer’s breakthrough publication almost a decade ago has set the stage for additional investigations by many other scientists (see article 2, 3, 4). Since then, the discovery of soft tissues in dinosaur bones has become fairly common (even among different dinosaur species) demonstrating these are not just rare exceptions or anomalies. The latest dinosaur soft tissue finding was a Triceratops specimen found at the Hell Creek formation of Montana by well-published microscopist and former instructor at California State University, Mark Armitage and his colleague Dr. Kevin Anderson of Arkansas State University (see article 5). Their analysis of a Triceratops’ horn showed that it contained original bone, soft tissue, and even complete and exquisitely preserved “bone-building” cells called osteocytes.
As in the case of Schweitzer’s T. rex fossil (see article 1) and other dinosaur soft tissue discoveries like it (see article 2, 3, 4), all the original tissue, both hard and soft, should have wholly disappeared, due either to decay, or to mineral replacement if these bones were millions of years old. The original bone has, however, been preserved down to the most minute detail, as has the soft tissue running through it, including intact blood vessels. As with Dr. Schweitzer’s findings, these tissues were elastic and flexible. Armitage’s research produced breath-taking high resolution micrographs of osteocytes—the tiny cells which, when living, repair and maintain the bone. These detailed micrographs are comparable to those taken of modern bones. (Permission to display published photographs is pending).
Regrettably, those whose worldview requires that dinosaurs lived millions of years are very eager to dismiss the evidence of soft dinosaur tissue (see article 6), but the evidence is now coming from many different scientists (see above links), who are studying a diversity of dinosaurs bones, and publishing in numerous, prestigious scientific journals. Even more disturbing than the attempts to dismiss or discredit the work of these researchers, some of these people are lashing out at the scientists who are making these discoveries. We are very saddened and disturbed to report that Mark Armitage was fired from his position at California State University just days after his paper was published on line. Please pray for Mr. Armitage….
Photos w/ descriptions (click to enlarge):
See Also Cocktails! C14, DNA, collagen in dinosaurs indicates geological timescales are false
Besides the above, a portion of a T-Rex fossil was found to be unmineralized as well:
