My cousin  recently  gave me a copy of The Case for a Creator by Lee Strobel at a family reunion. I am currently reading it. I am pretty well into the book and so far, everything in it is eloquently and devastatingly refuted by Ken Miller in the video lecture below.

Have you heard of Directive 51? It hasn't gotten much mainstream press. I found out about it from a friend, and looked into it. Here is some results of my brief research.

A worst-case scenario of what Directive 51 could mean.

Some YouTube perspectives on Directive 51:

What I didn't mention in my last blog is that Agriculture uses 81% of the water actually consumed in the U.S. See 2nd link in previous blog. This obviously means that agriculture dominates water usage and even a 10% savings could more than double the water available for domestic use.

What are some ways water can be conserved?

According to the USGS,  FORTY EIGHT PERCENT of our water  (39% of fresh water) withdrawals goes to thermoelectric (nuclear, coal, oil, natural gas) power plants. See http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/2004/circ1268/htdocs/text-total.html  and http://www.netl.doe.gov/technologies/coalpower/ewr/water/power-gen.html for details. According to the 1995 statistics (how about some more recent statistics, folks!), about 3% is actually consumed through evaporation, the rest is returned to the source. Domestic water use is about 6 percent of actual consumption. .

Synchronicity

I just finished a book entitled Synchronicity by F. David Peat. It explores Jungian psychology and philosophy, examines world views of different cultures, including a number of Eastern divination practices. He identifies synchronicity with meaning and explores some anecdotes of synchronicity. Synchronicity is a bringing together of events that have meaning without any mechanistic cause.

This past Saturday I was privileged to drive one of the Art Car Museum's art cars -- "Miss Vicky". It was fun honking at everyone as we drove the 3 or 4 miles to the Airport to display  the cars at the  Border  to Border Airshow. Thanks, Hunter Mann, for  letting me participate!

Check it out at Sites That Grow

SacredGardenSanctuary.org is now online. It is another addition to my rapidly growing website portfolio. Check it out!

Today I ran across a post quoting this Rolling Stone article. All I can say is it is a must read for anyone concerned with the continuance of human civilization. Read it and take action!

Global warming seems to be alive and well here in Douglas. Last Sunday broke the previous (recent) record by a few degrees. Yesterday the temperature soared to 81 degrees, beating the previous record by 2 degrees. It looks like today won't break the record, but still it will be within 2 or 3 degrees of the all time high.

Another amazing fact is that we didn't have our first hard frost here until Dec 10, 2007 this season! "Normally" our first hard frost is in late October.