Bloggin’ Al

I had to write this.  So here is a brief portion of the story with all the Gore:

“…the death count in Myanmar from the cyclone that hit there yesterday has been rising from 15,000 to way on up there to much higher numbers now being speculated. And last year a catastrophic storm from last fall hit Bangladesh. The year before, the strongest cyclone in more than 50 years hit China – and we’re seeing consequences that scientists have long predicted might be associated with continued global warming”

taken from  Citizen Sugar

1. Cyclones and other storms are caused by large temperature differences.  IF the world is warming by greenhouse gases, the temperature differences would be LESS because of the green house effect (temperature is distributed evenly).  Therefore, the storms should be less and less severe.


2.  Did he say something about a storm in China over 50 years ago that rivaled one that happened last year?  If the world is warming and if warming causes stronger storms, a similar storm should not have happened 50 years ago when the world was cold.

So, time to get off my soap box and get to making money off of the government policies requiring new technologies because Gore has convinced them man is the cause of global warming.

(Disclaimer:  I can not prove global warming or not, however, I can poke a lot of holes in global warming “facts”.  However, if there is global warming, there is some very good science that shows that it is next to impossible to for man to effect it the way Gore and others claim we do.  Another caveat: we must take care of our world so looking for ways not to pollute is smart.)

Joyce and I were going through some emails from years past and came across many memories.  The following was sent out exactly ten years ago.  Boy, does time fly.  I sent this email out just weeks into our time in Swaziland and there was so much to learn and experience.

Today, I was out taking pictures and was working under a tree, when what should fall, but a SNAKE.  It was not any wimpy little snake, it was a a LARGE FAT CHUBBY one and kinda had brown and yellowing brown markings with maybe a hint of green in there.  I am sure it was about 3 YARDS LONG and maybe 5 INCHES IN DIAMETER.  Not only did it fall, but it FELL ON ME and knocked me over (those things are heavy).  It must have thought that I was some NICE SWEET MORSEL TO SWALLOW.  After a BIG STRUGGLE and it had WRAPPED itself AROUND ME 3 TIMES, I finally got it around its neck and struggling to get my swiss army knife I was able to SUBDUE IT.  While it was bewildered, I was able to CUT ITS HEAD OFF. Its body then kinda wiggled around like a CHICKEN WITH ITS HEAD CUT OFF. Well we survived that near encounter.  And the rest of the day went without any mishaps.  Just had the reflective power on the Continental 100 kW a little high and the alarms went off.  Luckily, it was before the broadcasts started.  I hope that your first day of the fourth month was just as fun as mine.

Just wanted to let everyone know that I have been very busy.

Along with VAST Power Systems, I have been involved in:

1. Music City Coffee Co. – this is a coffee shop that I own.  The web site is still under much construction (so don’t look too hard yet).  And, by the way, I am trying to sell it.


2. Hazara Traditions – a recent, more volunteer, work distributing very high quality Persian carpets made by the Hazara people.  Yes, these are the same people from The Kite Runner book and movie.  Most of the proceeds go directly to the workers.


3. Wise Fox IP – this is my latest endeavour to drum up some further income and create more variety into my life (like I really need it).  Basically, a friend and I are working together to help people improve their intellectual property stand (read Patents).

Hopefully, we can sell the coffee shop so that I can focus on other tasks.

Here is a very neat video that has photos of the soldiers in Iraq. The song is also very impressive. It was written and performed by Major Mike Corrado of the United States Marines.

Download link

Thanks you Marine Staff Sargent Micheal Fay for the link.

This is an update from a post that I did a while back which was a follow-up on an earlier post.

Ran across the blog of Marine Staff Sargent Micheal Fay. He is one of three war artists in the service. Pretty interesting art and posts!

“If women didn`t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.”

Aristotle Onassis

I was looking for a book online and found this interesting piece. From the Delaware constitution of 1776:

Art. 22. Every person who shall be chosen a member of either house, or appointed to any office or place of trust . . . shall . . . make and subscribe the following declaration, to wit: “I ____, do profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ His only Son, and in the Holy Ghost, one God, Blessed for evermore; and I do acknowledge the holy scripture of the Old and New Testaments to be given by divine inspiration.”

25 “But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and he will stand upon the earth at last.
26 And after my body has decayed, yet in my body I will see God!
27 I will see him for myself.  Yes, I will see him with my own eyes.  I am overwhelmed at the thought!”

- Job (From Job chapter 19)

For those of you who recently looked at Marine Staff Sargent Micheal Fay, I appologize if it was offensive.  It was recently hijacked and the good and proper stuff was removed.  Thus, I have removed the link.  I will be sure the post a link to the site if he can get back on.

I had an interesting conversation a few weeks ago about how God works in the world and in our lives (thanks Dave for the great discussion). It actually started with a discussion on “stuff”, how we like to collect stuff and collect stuff and collect more stuff. This often, if not always, gets in the way of relationship with Christ and with others. Then it is so hard to let go of it. I want to keep it in our box and not let go.