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I call heaven and earth today to witness against you: I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live, by loving the Lord, your God, heeding his voice, and holding fast to him. (Deuteronomy 30:19-20a, New American Bible) Thursday, May 08, 2008 Early "Congratulations" to Mainstream Media The punditocracy is already declaring Hillary Rodham Clinton's coronation indefinitely postponed. Barack Hussein Obama, they say, has the Democratic nomination all wrapped up. The pundits' rush to pronounce the death of Clinton's presidential aspirations — it started the day after the Iowa caucuses — may be explained, in part, because they can't stand her and can't stomach the thought of the Clintons back in the White House again. But I think there's more to it than that. The comrades populating the Mainstream Media branch of the Democratic Establishment will get a double-dip of self-righteous, sanctimonious satisfaction in the general election. They will, secretly, be patting themselves on the back for having voted for the "African-American" candidate; and, not so secretly, they will be despising the great unwashed masses for putting the white candidate into office. Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 05/08/08 10:29:15 AM
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Thursday, May 01, 2008 Complete Entry.The Opium of the Intellectuals Communism, that is. A triple blog in honor of May Day. May Day was an important official holiday of the Soviet Union, celebrated with elaborate popular parade in the centre of the major cities. It was first openly celebrated on May 1, 1917. The biggest celebration was traditionally organized on the Red Square, where the General Secretary of the CPSU and other party and government leaders were greeting the crowds from the Lenin's Mausoleum. (Wikipedia) Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 05/01/08 02:43:59 PM
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Monday, April 28, 2008 Global Cooling Day 2008 Henceforth, April 28th will be known as Global Cooling Day at The Blog from the Core. For Earth Day this year, Washington Policy Center issued a press release quoting the outrageously alarmist, and outrageously wrong, predictions that accompanied the first Earth Day in 1970. + + + + + Earth Day 2008: Predictions of Environmental Disaster Were Wrong “By 1985... air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight Seattle – Another Earth Day is upon us. This is a good time to look back at predictions made on the original Earth Day about environmental disasters that were about to hit the planet. Most Earth Day predictions turned out to be stunningly wrong. In 1970, environmentalists said there would soon be a new ice age and massive deaths from air pollution. The New York Times foresaw the extinction of the human race. Widely-quoted biologist Paul Ehrlich predicted worldwide starvation by 1975. Documented examples are below. On this Earth Day 2008, new predictions will again be made about looming environmental disasters about to strike our planet. If past experience is any guide, most of these predictions are wrong. People concerned about our planet’s future should be wary of statements from activists and other interested groups, so we stay focused on real environmental concerns, and don’t waste time on fearsome predictions that will never happen.
Our purpose on Earth Day 2008 is not simply to point out how often environmental activists have been wrong, but to learn from the mistakes made during past Earth Days. Learning from the past will give us a better understanding of our world and the threats that face it. By being skeptical about routine portents of doom, we can stay focused on the real threats that face our planet, and on the reasonable and achievable actions we as a society can take to meet them. + + + + +
Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Mon. 04/28/08 09:58:47 AM
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008 Cardinal Newman To Be Beatified? If this CNA article is correct, yes! The Vatican has approved the beatification of Cardinal John Henry Newman, the English convert and theologian who has had immense influence upon English-speaking Catholicism, the Birmingham Mail reports. John Henry Newman was born in 1801. As an Anglican priest, he led the Oxford Movement that sought to return the Church of England to its Catholic roots. His conversion to Catholicism in 1845 rocked Victorian England. After becoming an Oratorian priest, he was involved in the establishment of the Birmingham Oratory. He died in 1890 and is buried at the oratory country house Rednall Hill. The Catholic Church has accepted as miraculous the cure of an American deacon’s crippling spinal disorder. The deacon, Jack Sullivan of Marshfield, Massachusetts, prayed for John Henry Newman’s intercession. At his beatification ceremony later this year, John Henry Newman will receive the title “Blessed.” He will need one more recognized miracle to be canonized. The case of a 17-year-old New Hampshire boy who survived serious head injuries from a car crash is being investigated as a possible second miracle. (Thanks, Jeff.) Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Wed. 04/23/08 10:53:22 PM
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008 Surfing the Web Started Fifteen Years Ago Today As recounted in this 5-year-old Cincinnati Enquirer article: .... On April 22, 1993, a group of University of Illinois students released a free piece of software to help people retrieve data more easily from computer networks: the first real Web browser. They called it, appropriately, Mosaic - for it put together the pieces of the online revolution. The Internet had been around since the 1970s, and Britain's Tim Berners-Lee had created the World Wide Web in 1990, but the software for accessing it was text-based, difficult to use and not terribly interesting. Online content was mostly technical and scholarly data, text and numbers, a resource for academia. But Mosaic, the first publicly available graphical browser, changed that. It combined text and graphics, making it easier, even fun, for the non-technical user to "surf" through a roiling ocean of data. About 10,000 people started using Mosaic in April 1993.... Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Tue. 04/22/08 09:13:38 AM
Pennsylvania Democrats' Choices Today In the primary election.
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Saturday, April 19, 2008 Happy Anniversary to Pope Benedict in America Elected pope three years ago today.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008 Happy Birthday to Pope Benedict in America
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Sunday, April 13, 2008 "Why Orwell Matters" I wanted to say something smart about Barry Obama's Here is what Sen. Obama said: "You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them... And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." Here is what Sen. Obama now says he said: "So I said, 'Well, you know, when you're bitter you turn to what you can count on,' " he continued. "So people they vote about guns, or they take comfort from their faith and their family and their community. And they get mad about illegal immigrants who are coming over to this country or they get frustrated about, you know, how things are changing. That's a natural response."
With Obama, the clarifications (cf. the Wright and Michelle contextualizations) are always more interesting than the original lapse. The allusion ("Why Orwell Matters") is to Politics and the English Language. P.S. See Dr. Sanity's post, including this remark with which I heartily agree: "Obama's original remarks are what he really thinks, told to an audience he could be sure thought the same way." BTW, take a look at Obama Visits Billionaires Row. P.P.S. Perhaps the most insightful observation about Obama's Well, I do go a-churchin’ every Sunday with a bunch of bitter folks who complain about how the government is evil and screws them over, and we yell an’ whoop it up when the preacher rails against them Italians and Jews, an’ then we… Oops, wait a minute, that’s not me, that’s Barack Obama. Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Sun. 04/13/08 09:35:39 PM
That Time of Year
Spring's Colors
Color E. L. Core to Keefer © 1988 ELC Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Sun. 04/13/08 07:31:35 PM
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 Rainbow Today 5:13 p.m. EDT.
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The Pope's April
Pope Benedict XVI will visit the United States, Tues. Apr. 15th through Sun. Apr. 20th. He will turn 81 on April 16th and begin the fourth year of his papacy on April 19th.
The USCCB has a papal visit website with a blog. And National Catholic Register has a (much more interesting) blog, too, by Tim Drake.
Viva il papa! Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Tue. 04/01/08 09:18:27 AM
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Sunday, March 30, 2008 Baptized 50 Years I was baptized Palm Sunday, March 30, 1958. Here is what the Catechism of the Catholic Church says about the Baptism of infants: 1250 Born with a fallen human nature and tainted by original sin, children also have need of the new birth in Baptism to be freed from the power of darkness and brought into the realm of the freedom of the children of God, to which all men are called. The sheer gratuitousness of the grace of salvation is particularly manifest in infant Baptism. The Church and the parents would deny a child the priceless grace of becoming a child of God were they not to confer Baptism shortly after birth. 1251 Christian parents will recognize that this practice also accords with their role as nurturers of the life that God has entrusted to them. 1252 The practice of infant Baptism is an immemorial tradition of the Church. There is explicit testimony to this practice from the second century on, and it is quite possible that, from the beginning of the apostolic preaching, when whole "households" received baptism, infants may also have been baptized. And here is the Latin version, Baptismus infantium: 1250 Cum natura lapsa et peccato originali maculata nati, etiam ipsi infantes nova egent in Baptismo nativitate ut liberentur a tenebrarum potestate et transferantur in dominium libertatis filiorum Dei, ad quam omnes homines vocantur. In Baptismo infantium peculiariter manifestatur pura gratuitas gratiae salutis. Ideo Ecclesia et parentes infantem inaestimabili privarent gratia deveniendi in filium Dei, si ei, paulo post nativitatem, Baptismum non conferrent. 1251 Parentes christiani agnoscent, hanc praxim etiam congruere cum suo munere nutritorum vitae a Deo illis concreditae. 1252 Praxis parvulos baptizandi infantes traditio Ecclesiae est immemorialis. A saeculo II explicita de illa habentur testimonia. Est tamen vere possibile, iam ab initiis praedicationis apostolicae, cum integrae «domus» Baptismum receperunt, etiam infantes esse baptizatos. Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Sun. 03/30/08 08:35:24 AM
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Thursday, March 27, 2008 Hillary Defiant Until the End? There's talk again about Clinton dropping out of the Democratic race because it has become so divisive. More specifically, talk about some Democrats wanting her to get out of the race and, perhaps, some behind-the-scenes attempts to get her to do so. Lately, though, I've heard her mention the credentialing of delegates at the convention, as if there will be, quite naturally and as a matter of course, a fight over the delegates from Michigan and Florida. (Never mind that the rules were established long before the primary season began, and everybody involved knew it.) Some folks — ah, the naiveté is almost refreshing — some folks say that Clinton wouldn't really hold out till the end. She wouldn't really fight it out at the convention. She wouldn't want to tear the party apart. Ha! If Hillary thought it would get her back in the White House, she'd tear apart her parents' graves. And if Bill thought it would get him back in the White House, he'd open the coffins and piss in them. Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 03/27/08 07:54:55 AM
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 Chelsea's Revealing Non Sequitur Chelsea Clinton was asked by a college student yesterday whether her mother's credibility had been hurt by the Lewinksy affair. Her reply? Wow, you're the first person actually that's ever asked me that question in the, I don't know maybe, 70 college campuses I've now been to, and I do not think that is any of your business. That is simply an irrational response to the question put. It may be that Chelsea never, ever expected to hear the infamous "L" word; thus, she was caught off guard. I think that's highly — O so highly — unlikely. What's more likely, I think, is this: Chelsea had been programmed by her handlers to respond to any Lewinsky question as if it were a shocking invasion of privacy. (Never mind that Daddy's adultery was committed in the Oval Office, which belongs to... you know... the American people.) Thus has Chelsea revealed that the Number One Most Dreaded Topic of the Clinton campaign is Monica Lewinsky. Think the Republicans will have nerve enough to go there? No? Neither do I. Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Wed. 03/26/08 10:28:46 PM
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008 The Annunciation of the Lord Nine months before Christmas Day. The story as told in the Gospel of Luke: "In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David, and the virgin's name was Mary. And coming to her, he said, 'Hail, favored one! The Lord is with you.' But she was greatly troubled at what was said and pondered what sort of greeting this might be. Then the angel said to her, 'Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name him Jesus. He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of David his father, and he will rule over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.' But Mary said to the angel, 'How can this be, since I have no relations with a man?' And the angel said to her in reply, 'The holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God. And behold, Elizabeth, your relative, has also conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month for her who was called barren; for nothing will be impossible for God.' Mary said, 'Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word.' Then the angel departed from her." (Luke 1:26-38 NAB) And the story as told by one of the great masters of art:
On The Annunciation Of Fra Angelico The silver carolling of Matins woke Manuel Machado (1874-1947) Note: the Annunciation was a frequent subject of Fra Angelico, and I am unsure whether this particular work is actually the painting Machado wrote about. (It is the central panel of an altar piece painted for the Convent of St. Dominic, in the Blessed's hometown of Fiesole, and now in the Museo Nacional de Prado, Madrid.) On the other hand, I don't know that Machado was thinking of one painting in particular, either. Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Tue. 03/25/08 10:46:43 AM
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Monday, March 24, 2008 Complete Entry."The Simplest and Most Explicit Christian Name" One of Europe's most prominent Moslems was baptized by the pope at the Easter Vigil. Here is an IHT article about the event: Pope Benedict XVI led prayers for peace on the holiest day of the Christian year at a rainy outdoor Mass here on Easter Sunday, exulting conversions to the faith hours after the Vatican highlighted the baptism of Italy's most prominent Muslim. In a prayer before thousands of soaked pilgrims and tourists in St. Peter's Square, the pope noted that the disciples had spread the message of Christ's resurrection — celebrated on Sunday — and as a result "thousands and thousands of persons converted to Christianity." "This is a miracle which renews itself even today," he said. Days after Osama bin Laden issued a threat against Europe that mentioned the pope specifically, Magdi Allam, an Egyptian-born writer protected by Italian bodyguards from death threats after his criticism of radical Islam, was baptized by the pope Saturday night and received his first communion. The news about Allam, a secular Muslim who is married to a Catholic, was accented by a Vatican press release about an hour before the baptism ceremony. "It was the most beautiful day of my life," Allam, 55, a deputy editor at Italy's largest daily newspaper, Corriere della Sera, wrote in a column on Sunday. "The miracle of the resurrection of Christ reverberated in my soul," he wrote, "freeing it from the shadows of a preaching where hate and intolerance toward he who is different, toward he who is condemned as an 'enemy,' prevailed over love and respect for your neighbor." Allam said that he would take the new middle name of "Cristiano." Easter Sunday culminates the busiest week of the year at the Vatican, with scores of Masses and ceremonies marking the days in which Jesus was arrested, crucified and resurrected. Along with Christmas, Easter is a day on which the pope delivers his "Urbi et Orbi" address, to "the city and the world." As is tradition, the 80-year-old pope prayed for peace in troubled parts of the world, singling out Darfur in Sudan and Somalia, "the tormented Middle East, especially the Holy Land, Iraq, Lebanon." He also mentioned Tibet, a sensitive issue for the Vatican, which is working to improve ties with China, amid unconfirmed reports of direct talks here last week between Chinese and Vatican officials. "How often relations between individuals, between groups and between peoples are marked not by love but by selfishness, injustice, hatred and violence," the pope said. "These are the scourges of humanity, open and festering in every corner of the planet, although they are often ignored and sometimes deliberately concealed; wounds that torture the souls and bodies of countless of our brothers and sisters." Though it was difficult to hear the pope as the rain thumped off umbrellas and cascaded down from Bernini's colonnades, the pontiff, who was kept dry under a canopy in front of St. Peter's Basilica, delivered Easter greetings in 63 languages, ranging from Italian to Thai, Esperanto to Latin.
Here follows an English version of a letter by Allam to the deputy director of the publication for which he works: Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Mon. 03/24/08 08:17:40 AM
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Sunday, March 23, 2008 Newman for Easter Easter Sunday 2008. Ven. John Henry Newman's Easter-related sermons. I continue the custom this year of blogging these on Easter Day. Easter
Ascension
Pentecost
Trinity Sunday
(Note, the text for a given day does not necessarily correspond to the text of modern lectionaries.) P.S. Thanks, Sean. Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Sun. 03/23/08 07:26:50 AM
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Thursday, March 20, 2008 A Spring Bouquet of Poetry IV In celebration of the first day of Spring. Nine poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay. New England Spring, 1942 The rush of rain against the glass The Goose-Girl Spring rides no horses down the hill, Song of a Second April April this year, not otherwise The Wood Road If I were to walk this way The Pear Tree In the squalid, dirty dooryard, Northern April O mind, beset by music never for a moment quiet,— The Road to Avrillé April again in Avrillé, Spring in the Garden Ah, cannot the curled shoots of the larkspur English Sparrows (Washington Square) How sweet the sound in the city an hour before sunrise, Collected Poems (1956), ed. Norma Millay, pp. 469f, 161, 80, 157, 399, 219, 217, 290, 323f. See also these: Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 03/20/08 08:37:47 AM
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Thursday, March 06, 2008 Earth and Moon as Seen from Mars By the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
(Thanks, Doug.) Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 03/06/08 10:13:14 AM
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Tuesday, March 04, 2008 Two Last Speeches Today is a big primary-election day. It is also the 143rd anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's second inauguration as President of the United States. Today, The Blog from the Core presents two "Last Speeches" (though neither is such, I suppose, very strictly speaking): Lincoln's famous "Second Inaugural Address", and "Remarks Prepared for Delivery at the Trade Mart in Dallas", a speech John F. Kennedy was scheduled to deliver on the day he was assassinated, Nov. 22, 1963. Here follows an extract from each. From Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address: .... The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!'' If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a Living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether.'' .... From Kennedy's Remarks Prepared for Delivery at the Trade Mart in Dallas: .... We in this country, in this generation, are — by destiny rather than choice — the watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may be worthy of our power and responsibility, that we may exercise our strength with wisdom and restraint, and that we may achieve in our time and for all time the ancient vision of "peace on earth, good will toward men." That must always be our goal, and the righteousness of our cause must always underlie our strength. For as was written long ago: "except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain." It needs hardly to be said that neither Lincoln nor Kennedy — obviously fanatical religious zealots, each quoting from the Bible twice in one paragraph, and thus bent on establishing a theocracy — it needs hardly to be said that neither could be elected President of the United States of America in the 21st century. Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Tue. 03/04/08 08:42:13 AM Complete Entry. Second Inaugural Address Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1865. "The Almighty has His own purposes." + + + + + At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement, somewhat in detail, of a course to be pursued, seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention, and engrosses the enerergies [sic] of the nation, little that is new could be presented. The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Tue. 03/04/08 08:25:57 AM Complete Entry. Remarks Prepared for Delivery at the Trade Mart in Dallas John F. Kennedy, November 22, 1963. "America's leadership must be guided by the lights of learning and reason or else those who confuse rhetoric with reality and the plausible with the possible will gain the popular ascendancy with their seemingly swift and simple solutions to every world problem." + + + + + I am honored to have this invitation to address the annual meeting of the Dallas Citizens Council, joined by the members of the Dallas Assembly — and pleased to have this opportunity to salute the Graduate Research Center of the Southwest. It is fitting that these two symbols of Dallas progress are united in the sponsorship of this meeting. For they represent the best qualities, I am told, of leadership and learning in this city — and leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. The advancement of learning depends on community leadership for financial and political support and the products of that learning, in turn, are essential to the leadership's hopes for continued progress and prosperity. It is not a coincidence that those communities possessing the best in research and graduate facilities — from MIT to Cal Tech — tend to attract the new and growing industries. I congratulate those of you here in Dallas who have recognized these basic facts through the creation of the unique and forward-looking Graduate Research Center. Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Tue. 03/04/08 08:17:30 AM
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Sunday, March 02, 2008 Sunset
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Friday, February 29, 2008 William F. Buckley, Jr., and Mater Si, Magistra No Buckley died on Wednesday, Feb. 27. Requiescat in pace. Since the controversy is, for the obvious reason, of current interest among Catholic bloggers, I will briefly recite some pertinent facts — known, demonstrable facts — which will probably only make sense to those who are already interested in the controversy:
Any claims contrary to the above are simply false. Having never watched Fireline, and having never read any of Buckley's books, I have no dog in this hunt but merely want to set the record straight. See "Mater si, Magistra no"? and "Mater si, Magistra no"? Revisited. See also Mater et magistra. Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Fri. 02/29/08 09:30:18 AM
Happy Bissextile Day Also known as Intercalary Day. Or even Leap Day. :-) Here are a few informative webpages: Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Fri. 02/29/08 09:00:17 AM
Thursday, February 28, 2008 Global Cooling Trend Already Underway? It's winter here in Pennsylvania. That means the furnaces are on and running. The thermostat gets set to, say, 70°F, and the temperature of the building will stay at precisely 70°F — right? Of course not! It fluctuates above and below the specified temperature. I don't remember — and I might never have known — enough high-school physics to say why, but that's just the way it works. And that's just the way the world works, too. There is no stasis in temperature, there is no stasis in weather, and there is no stasis in climate. Frankly, I don't know which idea is crazier: that we can do anything to cause climate change, or that we can do something to prevent climate change. From the mid-1970s through the late 1990s, the Earth experienced a warming trend, overall. For the past seven or eight years, the warming trend levelled off — until last year, when the average temperature worldwide plummeted:
Here's a longer, three-decade look at the average:
I think we now know why there has been maniacal We're All Going to Fry Unless We Drown First screaming the past year or two: the warming trend had already stopped, and tell-tale signs of a cooling trend were beginning to appear — including, particularly, a dearth of sun spots. The globalist crowd had to gin up some hysteria before the truth started to become apparent: the truth that human beings had nothing to do with global warming over the latter part of the 20th century. Of course, the truth will be very, very difficult to get out. After all, if the four measurements illustrated above had demonstrated a dramatic increase in average global temperature last year, it would have been front-page, above-the-fold news in every paper and top-of-the-hour news on every channel. But a dramatic decrease in average global temperature? You have to read the Internet, and especially blogs, to have heard about it. Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 02/28/08 08:59:59 AM
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Thursday, February 21, 2008 Ven. Dr. John Henry Cardinal Newman, C.O. Born this day, February 21, 1801.
Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 02/21/08 05:24:11 PM
Total Lunar Eclipse Last Night Digital photography and photoshopping by your Humble, Faithful Blogster.
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008 Twisting and Shouting Indeed My neighbor Stacy Wolford has an article in today's Valley Independent on the fiftieth-anniversary oldies dance, Saturday night: Tickets to the hottest dance in town: $10. Airfare to Pittsburgh from such locales as Iowa, Colorado and California: $500-plus. Reliving magical nights spent dancing at the Stockdale fire hall to the Five Satins, Fats Domino and the Shirelles: Priceless. They twisted, shouted, and traveled from near and far to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stockdale fire hall dances Saturday night — proving the oldies are still goodies. "We knew this was going to be something special, but we never expected it to be this huge," Stockdale Volunteer Fire Department Chief Al Marcy said. "It was just magical." With 1,066 in attendance, there were more people at the dance than live in Stockdale, a tiny riverside borough of about 660 residents. Eager ticket holders jammed Route 88, as traffic was backed up clear to the Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel mill in Allenport. The event was more than a sellout. Marcy said the waiting list for tickets comprised 500 people.... Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Tue. 02/19/08 12:03:30 PM |
