stej.com

By “global-warming pollution,’’ Gore means carbon dioxide (CO2), which is a “pollutant’’ in roughly the way oxygen and water are pollutants: Human existence would be impossible without them. CO2 is essential to photosynthesis, the process that sustains plant life and generates the oxygen that human beings and animals inhale. Far from polluting the world, carbon dioxide enriches it. Higher levels of CO2 are associated with larger crop yields, increased forest growth, and longer growing seasons – in short, with a greener planet.

via Gore still hot on his doomsday rhetoric – The Boston Globe.

Well Said!

I received the following poem via email. I liked it and decided to post it here.

*T‘was the month before Christmas*
*When all through our land,*
*Not a Christian was praying*
*Nor taking a stand.*
*See the PC Police had taken away,*
*The reason for Christmas – no one could say.*
*The children were told by their schools not to sing,*
*About Shepherds and Wise Men and Angels and things.*
*It might hurt people’s feelings, the teachers would say*
*December 25th is just a “Holiday”.*
*Yet the shoppers were ready with cash, checks and credit*
*Pushing folks down to the floor just to get it!*
*CDs from Madonna, an X BOX, an iPod*
*Something was changing, something quite odd! *
*Retailers promoted Ramadan and Kwanzaa*
*In hopes to sell books by Franken & Fonda.*
*As Targets were hanging their trees upside down*
*At Lowe’s the word Christmas – was no where to be found.*
*At K-Mart and Staples and Penny’s and Sears*
*You won’t hear the word Christmas; it won’t touch your ears.*
*Inclusive, sensitive, Di-ver-si-ty*
*Are words that were used to intimidate me.*
*Now Daschle, Now Darden, Now Sharpton, Wolf Blitzen*
*On Boxer, on Rather, on Kerry, on Clinton !*
*At the top of the Senate, there arose such a clatter*
*To eliminate Jesus, in all public matter.*
*And we spoke not a word, as they took away our faith*
*Forbidden to speak of salvation and grace*
*The true Gift of Christmas was exchanged and discarded*
*The reason for the season, stopped before it started.*
*So as you celebrate “Winter Break” under your “Dream Tree”*
*Sipping your Starbucks, listen to me..*
*Choose your words carefully, choose what you say*
*Shout MERRY CHRISTMAS, not Happy Holiday !*

Please, all Christians join together and wish everyone you meet

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Christ is The Reason for the Christ-mas Season!
If you agree please PASS THIS ON, if not, simply delete.

Now I lay be down to sleep,
I pray the Government my health will keep
If I should die before I wake,
I know the Government my soul will take.

I’m going to start simple and easy. I’ve always loved Proverbs (I have a very analytical mind) and how it’s short pity passages speak volumes of truth. Sometimes they make sense; sometimes they are just cool to read. There are 31 Proverbs so I’ve always just read the one that matches the current day of the month. I wonder if God actually planed it that seeing as our current “day counting” scheme was invented by the Romans¹ or if it was a coincidence?

I guess 27.14 is the verse that most stands out to me today.

If you wake your friend in the early morning
by shouting “Rise and shine!”
It will sound to him
more like a curse than a blessing.

I’ve got three children and every morning I have to wake them up to get ready for school. They really don’t like being woken up; even after having 8+ hours of sleep. I can see it in their faces and hear it in the voices as I wake them up. They really see it as more of a curs than a blessing to be waking up. I’m sure they also just love going to school too.

But as I reread this verse I’m thinking that it’s not talking about the situation I just mentioned. It sounds more like where you’re fast asleep and your friend comes in a wakes you up with that ultra cheerful, almost unnatural cheerfulness. It’s not the fact that your friend woke you but how they did it; the fact that they used such emphases, such an enthusiasms thats not natural. This I have experienced at work.

Every now and then when I get to work I’m not really awake or the whole waking/getting ready experience with the kids was not pleasant and left me in a foul mood. Then comes in that coworker that seems to always been ultra cheerful and starts to smother you with “love” and “blessings”. All I can think is “Please go away, you’re not helping”. It’s true what the ultra cheerful person considers a blessing to give can sometimes be too much and actually be taken as a curse. It’s not that what the ultra cheerful person is doing is wrong it’s just too much at the wrong time. If you try to water your new law with a fire hose you’re going to wash all of the grass way. Sometimes a small trickle of water does more good than a blasting fire hose.