I am a meteorologist and a former youth leader at church…I have a lot to say on both subjects…and then some
Created by Train Horns
Neil DeGrasse Tyson is an astronomer that is approaching Carl Sagan status, at least in my mind. He is a great communicator. He is on a book tour and received the question about the Republican war on science. I always felt that it was a misdirection. While two big science areas of debate were politicized, were embryonic stem cells and the environment. However, as Dr. Tyson points out, budgets for science went up during the Bush years and down during the Clinton years. Also to point out that Dr. Tyson is a liberal, by his own admission.
Watch the clip from Fora.tv in fact if you have the time, watch the whole hour and change of his talk and the Q/A session after. Fascinating.
Every once i awhile I see things that seem pretty cool. Here is one, although I admit, I missed the better picture about 15 seconds earlier as I was driving home this morning. In this case the smoke from a chimney is going up until the gases and particles cool. The light wind just above the surface then push the particles downstream. At this point the temperature was -17 degrees F.
From Jesus Creed
Perhaps we need to be reminded that Christmas is not about us; it is about Jesus Christ.
Perhaps we need to be reminded that Christmas is not about what we get out of it; it is about what we give to God in adoration.
Perhaps we need to pause to see just how Jesus-centered Christmas is.
My Bro-in-law asked some questions on my wife’s blog the other day. I’m going to try to answer some of these bit by bit as I have time.
As a first point as I have learned more about in vitro the more I am against it. Simply because of the reason you state. Although, the extra embryos don’t have to be discarded. There have been successful adoptions of the “snowflake babies.” I feel that it is under utilized. I feel for people that want a baby, but I would much rather see children adopted than the use of in vitro. I put my feelings out about the stem cell issue in a previous post.
Next he asks,
To be up front about the vote, I voted for the medical marijuana prop. One of the local politicians who was against it said that we can’t keep other drugs from being abused so we shouldn’t do it with this. I think that’s an awful answer. With that logic, we should get rid of most of our prescription drugs.
Mary said that she had a big post in response, but the post was lost in the transfer. She got her statistics the Michigan Family forum voter’s guide. I had to dig out the cached version to find the pdf. I have to say that one point is from anecdotal evidence. Which is that it leads to more crime. I saw an article from the LA Times prior to the election that would imply that, part of which was letting people grow their own, and when word gets out then people begin breaking into homes looking for it. To me that is anecdotal evidence, if the state regulates it strictly, then you just have to worry about prescription abuse. Here is one quote from the forum about “pot shops” in malls:
That will have to be monitored and regulated by the legislature or by proposition. They were a little low on siting statistics to research, so I can’t vouch for the veracity of them.
But like I said, I voted for it, on the grounds that if it is a drug that helps and it can be regulated, then there shouldn’t be a block on the medicinal use.
I’ll try to do some more tomorrow. I have a couple more days off coming up.
