Directions

It appears that scientists will never be able to examine the raw data used to make determinations about earth warming. Here is a quote from the blogger in his post:

“Is this a cruel hoax?  Back in the 80's, when electronic storage was not so cheap and ubiquitous, the major British center for climate research moved to a new building.  In a brilliant, forward-looking space saving move they discarded the raw weather data collected from stations all over the world, electing to preserve only the scientifically adjusted "value-added" data.”

Apparently this has been known for sometime, just not covered in the news.

Seems like all of the girls in school are reading it and broke curfew to see the movie. Here is a list of the top twenty lessons that girls are getting from the book series and the films.

Obama has been compared with Lincoln over and over again. Is it fair? I guess it depends upon who is doing the comparing as seen in this post.

I am still amazed how the climate story has broke and I am reading weather stories as if though nothing has changed. My favorite quote: 

We have discovered that the warming in New Zealand over the past 156 years was indeed man-made, but it had nothing to do with emissions of CO2—it was created by man-made adjustments of the temperature. It’s a disgrace.

“Be sure your sin will find you out” is one of those promises we wish was not so consistently true.

Here is an interesting article that talks about the Nazi attempt to take Christ out of Christmas. The family has been collecting the ornaments for years and now they are on display at the National Socialism Documentation center. I couldn’t find a line specifically for it. 

I am enjoying Sarah Palin’s storming of the political scene. We are a society where the men are becoming like women and the women are becoming like men. Here is the latest from Huffington Post. The statement has been made: “There isn’t a man out there articulating conservative values like her”. Given that a man will not rise up and battle the system the way she has we might have her be our political standard bearer in the future. My dream combination would be General Petraeus teaming up with Sarah.

Pastor Robinson and I were driving around Sparta when we passed by a house at the East end of Main surrounded by cut wood for sale. Pastor Robinson, who has been known to sell a little Mesquite wood, couldn’t resist the opportunity to compare notes with a Mississippi Valley woodcutter. We started a conversation with Bill and Mike, Mike being the ramrod of the operation. They were working on their log splitting machine when we talked with them. We talked about wood and then we talked about Jesus and then we talked about church. We were blessed to have Mike and Bill come out two of the nights of revival. The second night they came, they brought two of their friends as well as Mike’s daughter. We had a good time of fellowship and we all enjoyed the pot luck.

We are getting ready for Pastor Dave Robinson coming and preaching for us this Sunday through Thursday. I had become a Christian in 1983 while traveling through the small town of Wickenburg on my way to Hobbs, New Mexico to sell a house and then onto Europe. It was on that trip that I met Jesus outside of Jim Kudkowski’s house overlooking the desert of Arizona. It would be three years later that Pastor Robinson would come to Wickenburg to be pastor. His is the pastor of the Wickenburg church today. Wickenburg is world famous for its dude ranches. In my days there it also was known to have more millionaires per capita than any other town in America. Pastor Robinson was a real cowboy. This was reinforced by the stream of cowboys that seemed to follow him into the church over the years. This past month of October he spent riding for a rancher bringing the cattle in to be transported to lower country over the winter. He has always been good to preach for me in Seattle and then three times in Zambia over the seven years that we were there. This will be his and Diane’s first trip to Sparta. We are looking forward to showing them the sights, introducing them to the Sparta folks and listening to his special style of preaching that speaks with living examples that most of us have forgotten or never knew.