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Surfing around the net this morning, trying desperately to find something amusing, I am so tired of the negative vibes that seem to be reverberating around this world we all live in. My efforts produced nothing, although there was some mention of George W. Bush making a showing on “Deal or No Deal” but that is not funny, that is just plain sad.

The highest office in the land has been reduced to this? I wonder what the rest of the planet thinks about us now.

Colorado police answering a public disturbance call found a couple fighting over which street gang their 4 year old should join. The father, 19 year old Joseph Manzanares, was charged with disorderly conduct after the altercation in a Commerce City video store. Police said the child’s teenage mother, who is black, has her heart set on the toddler joining the nationwide Crips organization (which is mildly amusing, they used to be called “gangs” in my day). Whereas Manzanares wants his son to follow him into the largely Hispanic Westside Ballers. “they have different ideas on how the baby should be raised,” said police Sgt. Joe Sandoval.

Now isn’t that patriotic? Arguing in public no less, about which gang your child will be a member of when they grow up, every parents dream. What the hell is the matter with this country, have we all gone insane. My parents did not have that particular problem. Early in life, my teachers at school would send notes home with me that said that I was going to be an astronaut! My mother would ask my dad, what does it say?

And he would reply, “it says the boy is taking up space.”

Our government says that we should be vigilant for terrorist activity and that our borders should be secure. When in reality, quite a lot of it, is home grown, right here in the USA under our collective nose. Crips and Bloods are nationwide now, the Mexican Mafia (MS13), was last reported to be active in 42 states. You can die 4 miles north of downtown Chicago for a couple of lousy bucks and a pack of Marlboro’s.

Gangs are not only prevalent in our society, but very well organized and doing business. So active in fact, the department of justice and the FBI are now actively involved in operations to rid us of this plague upon society. Good luck. These people extend all the way to South America and deal specifically in terrorism that is purely nothing more than genocide on your family.

Remember the good old days, when all you worried about was an occasional visit from the Hell’s Angels or something like that.

Brazil announced this week that they have developed a way to manufacture condoms from trees. Now before you start hooting and guffawing at that last statement let me tell you that they are being “made from the rubber extract of the trees” and not the actual bark or cellulose.

The condoms will help the Brazilian health ministry, preserve the rain forest and lessen dependence on imported condoms into that country. In the time it takes to read this, some 15 acres of the Brazilian Rain Forest will disappear forever. Believe it or not, Brazil is one of the largest consumers of condoms in the world.

Gives a totally new meaning to the words “Woody” … and ….”Timber!” Now all that is left for me to do is stick a “SEX” tag on this post, and I will exceed my all time high record of viewings in one post. All web-people are basically into some form of voyeurism. I suppose someone who is into all this cybersex stuff will have a baby and its first words will be …. You’ve Got Mail!

Best I move on before I get myself into some serious trouble with someone (there is always someone trust me).

Now they are saying that the Titanic most likely sank because of cheap inferior quality failed rivets in her hull. The ship was recently discovered to have been manufactured with “cheap rivets” and this is now believed to have been the cause of the failure of her outer hull and subsequent sinking of the luxury vessel.

It kind of makes you stop and think about it doesn’t it. Funny how things stay the same and do not change. Take airliners for example: You drive to the TERMINAL and the attendant then asks you if Oakland, California will be your FINAL destination and then you board and load onto a 737 or 747 with some 8,000,000 working parts all of them supplied by “the lowest bidder.”

Have a nice flight.

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This week I happened to come across this photo while surfing the net:

http://geochristian.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/the-heavens-declare-the-glory-of-god/

There were two sites that are displaying it, but I didn’t mark the second one, and cannot locate it. Flagstaff, Arizona has recently celebrated the anniversary of their “dark sky policy” which is now fifty years old. They have an observatory there for serious study of the universe. The picture is incredible. If you add it to your favorite’s files or bookmark it, the site is updated and displays different shots or images of the Universe on a daily basis.

Living in Oklahoma City has its definite disadvantages, and the night sky light pollution is one of them. The only stars that are visible in my area of the country are the ones that are the most powerful and are able to penetrate the haze. When you click on the photo and expand it, sit back and stare upon the majesty of his works, it kind of touches home with you about how really small we are in the grand scale of things. When you take time to sit back and take it all in, the greatness of it all, comes home.

It has been awhile since I have been anywhere where I could observe the Milky Way or the Galaxies of space. A long time, far too long, but that is what happens, time has a way of disappearing on you when you are not looking. Today my world slipped away, and I just forgot to notice.

My Grandfather and I were out one hot August night, and he asked me, “What scares you?” and I thought about it a little bit and then I said, “Walking a freight train at four in the morning. The sound of the wind moaning thru those old telegraph wires, the moaning and the darkness. That bothers me. You?” He looked up, and he said, “That.” Pointing to the Oklahoma night sky, “look at it, and it goes on and on, forever. What is up there? That bothers me.”

I have heard it said, that if you were able to travel at the speed of light, you could leave the earth and be standing on the moon, some three seconds later or something like that. (I don’t remember the exact quote) It is that fast.

Now stop and consider this, “traveling to the closest star in our galaxy, at the speed of light, is about 1,500 light years away!”

Now if you don’t believe you are special, think about this, God travels that far every day just to check up on you.

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