Praise the Lord! Rod goes home from the hospital today!

Please renew your prayers for Rod as he is back in surgery for more tumors.

I guess even the most ‘peace loving’ people really loose it sometimes. Here’s the scoop from Yahoo Asia News.

(Kyodo) _ At least two Buddhist monks were injured Friday in a street clash in Cambodia’s capital between two opposing groups of monks during a protest against Vietnam, which some monks accuse of suppressing religious freedom.

The demonstration march was made by some 40 monks, most of whom identified themselves as Khmer Krom, an ethnic Khmer minority people of Vietnam who inhabited the Mekong Delta area prior to the colonization of that area by Vietnamese settlers.

The marchers were demanding relief from alleged religious suppression of Khmer Krom by Vietnamese authorities, and had hoped to deliver a protest letter to the Vietnamese Embassy but were dispersed by some 150 riot police.

They then walked to the Royal Palace, where the clash occurred, and to the U.S. Embassy.

Marcher Lim Yuth, 23, his face bloody from a cut above his eye, said he was injured by an object thrown by a small group of Buddhist monks, still unidentified, during his group’s peaceful march.

It was unclear whether the Buddhist monks who clashed with the marchers acted on their own or under orders from above. Read the rest of this entry »

MADISON - Roy Spencer is speaking up about his belief that Earth is not headed toward a global warming disaster.

Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and former NASA scientist, Read the rest of this entry »

This article is quite long but well worth the read.

Posted: 04/17/2007

What Would Jesus Have Us Do?
He’d Protect the Innocent
By Andrew Longman

Communists are very upset with a column I wrote insisting teachers should be allowed to defend their students against raving lunatic foreigners armed with illegal weapons. Our foreign friend had filed the serial numbers off of his guns, which, if we pass new laws against it, will fail to happen in the future.

One doesn’t care what communists think. They are irrelevant. But what did concern me was a caller, Charles from Florida, to Janet Folger’s Faith2Action radio show. He identified himself as an ex-Christian, and his arguments seem confused, I respond to the gentleman because his points could not be rebutted in the time available and because many Christians share his views. Where the conscientious Christian goes, there goes the nation because, on earth, the people of Godly conscience are those who set our moral benchmarks. Whether or not they are agreed with is beside the point – the moral reference, the high water mark, is established in this country by what God fearing people will accept or reject.

The caller’s concern was common. Doesn’t Jesus, who advocated turning the other cheek, inherently oppose Christians carrying firearms? Read the rest of this entry »

Two stories spaced less than five minutes apart on Yahoo News page. The stupidity of the global warmists knows no bounds.

First story:
SYDNEY (AFP) - An Australian scientist called Wednesday for an end to the age-old tradition of cremation, saying the practice contributed to global warming.

Professor Roger Short said people could instead choose to help the environment after death by being buried in a cardboard box under a tree.

The decomposing bodies would provide the tree with nutrients, and the tree would convert carbon dioxide into life-giving oxygen for decades, he said.

“The important thing is, what a shame to be cremated when you go up in a big bubble of carbon dioxide,” Short told AFP.

“Why waste all that carbon dioxide on your death?”

Short said the cremation of the average male in Australia, during which the body is heated to 850 degrees Celsius (1,562 degrees Fahrenheit) for 90 minutes, produced more than 50 kilograms (110 pounds) of carbon dioxide.

And that doesn’t include the carbon cost of fuel, or the cost of the emissions released during the production and burning of the wooden casket.

Short, a reproductive biologist at the University of Melbourne, said the contribution of cremation to harmful greenhouse gases was small, and he did not wish to prevent people from choosing how their body was disposed of according to their religion.

But to bury the hatchet with environmentalists, he suggested it would not be a bad idea to bequeath one’s body as food for a forest.

“You can actually do, after your death, an enormous amount of good for the planet,” he said. “The more forests you plant, the better.”

And Next:

By Karin Strohecker
Wed Apr 18, 10:07 AM ET

VIENNA (Reuters) - Ski resort operators in the snow-deprived Alps should rethink the use of artificial snow as it saps water reserves and could leave an impact well beyond the region, scientists say.

After a very mild winter, they warned laying on artificial snow to satisfy skiers and snowboarders could change seasonal water cycles, hit water supplies and affect fragile ecosystems.

“To make artificial snow all day long and during the whole season is just completely irresponsible for our climate, especially on such a large scale,” said Carmen de Jong, professor and research manager at the Mountain Institute at the University of Savoie in France.

“That is insane, you cannot continue like this,” de Jong told reporters during the annual meeting this week of the European Geosciences Union in Vienna.

Artificial snow is used on around 23,800 hectares — the equivalent of some 35,000 soccer pitches or nearly 30 percent of all Alpine skiing slopes.

Some 95 million cubic meters of water — the annual water consumption of a city of 1.5 million people — are needed to produce one season’s artificial snow for skiers and snowboarders in Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Slovenia.

Water used for the snow comes from surface streams, artificial reservoirs and increasingly from ground reserves.

De Jong said by keeping water in surface reservoirs instead of in the ground and by spraying it through the air to create the snow, around one third of the water evaporated, forming clouds that often traveled to other regions.

RIVERS RUNNING DRY?

Effects were already visible in some areas, like in parts of French skiing region Les Trois Vallees where water levels of some mountain rivers had dropped by 70 percent, she said.

Some Alpine villages, which previously got most of their drinking water from mountain streams, now needed to pump water out of the ground to ensure drinking supplies. Water taken out of the Alps would be missing for people and industry down the line

“This could also have an enormous impact on the Mediterranean Sea if river discharges continue to fall,” she said.

Ski resort operators argue there is no ecological impact from producing artificial snow.

“The water is not really used up, we simply extend the water cycle,” said Albert Baier, managing director of the Planai ski lift operator in the Austrian resort of Schladming, where nearly all slopes are fitted with snow cannons.

“Everything comes from nature, and if I make snow now and then give it back to nature there is no problem with that,” said Astrid Petri from the marketing department of Tyrolean ski resort Wilder Kaiser-Brixental.

De Jong recognized the economic role winter sports played for the region, but said snow sport enthusiasts and the tourism industry needed to come up with alternatives, like snow-shoe hiking.

“The tourism industry needs to realize that they cannot produce snow and have a skiing season at all costs,” she said.

From Tabletalk, 1626 AD:

“Idolatry is all manner of seeming holiness and worshipping, let these counterfeit spiritualities shine outwardly as glorious and fair as they may; in a word, all manner of devotion in those that we would serve God without Christ the Mediator, his Word and command. In popedom it was held a work of the greatest sanctity for the monks to sit in their cells and meditate of God, [solitude] and of his wonderful works; to be kindled with zeal, kneeling on their knees, praying, and having their imaginary contemplations of celestial objects, with such supposed devotion, that they wept for joy. In these their conceits, they banished all desires and thoughts of women, and what else is temporal and evanescent. They seemed to meditate only of God, and of his wonderful works.
Yet all these seeming holy actions of devotion, which the wit and wisdom of man holds to be angelical sanctity, are nothing else but works of the flesh. All manner of religion, where people serve God without his Word and command, is simply idolatry, and the more holy and spiritual such a religion seems, the more hurtful and venomous it is; for it leads people away from the faith of Christ, and makes them rely and depend upon their own strength, works, and righteousness. In like manner, all kinds of orders of monks, fasts, prayers, hairy shirts, the austerities of the Capuchins, who in popedome are held to be the most holy of all, are mere works of the flesh; for the monks hold they are holy, and shall be saved, not through Christ, whom they view as a severe and angry judge, but through the rules of their order.”

But then, what did he know?

Venture capitalist John Doerr, who grew rich by placing bets on the future of high technology, is not optimistic about the future of the planet, said Jessi Hempel in Business Week Online. Doerr Last week addressed an audience at the Annual Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) Conference in San Fransicso - a gathering usually known for “Blissfully big ideas bouyed by unrelenting optimisn.” But Doerr, who helped launch Sun Microsystems, Google, and amazon, says he fears that global climate change is irreversible, and that the planet is doomed. He exhorted his fellow financiers to invest heavily in alternative energy and other green technologies. Many already have; venture capitalists invested $727 million in 39 alternative energy start-ups last year, up from $195 million in 18 start-ups in 2005. But Doerr says such efforts aren’t enough, and that the world’s economy must make a radical shift away from greenhouse-gas-producing follis fuels. He worries, though, that the shift may come too late. “I’m really scared,” he said. “I don’t think we’re going to make it.”

source: “The Week” April 1, 2007

The sun is just beginning to peek over the Sierra Nevada Mountains and again, I am reminded that today is Resurrection Day! I’m reminded that no matter how crazy this world gets or how I feel; I am free and get to live forever with my King. King Jesus. It is because of His unimaginable sacrifice for me and you that there is hope for tomorrow. His death, burial and resurrection paid the price for me and my debt is marked “paid in full”. How can I help but rejoice?

Hallelujah!