Lunatic Jimmy Carter

Obama's new car...

There's going to be a change in direction...

You On A Diet, by Dr Oz

I'm reading "You on a Diet" by Dr Oz. It's actually very good and I'm learning some stuff I never knew. For example, I thought all fat was just under the skin. I had no idea it floats around in your blood and accumulates around your internal organs, under your muscle (see picture).

I also thought this was interesting: "Every pound of muscle burns 40 to 120 calories per day just to sustain itself, while every pound of fat feeds on only 1 to 3 calories. Day after day, that's a huge difference in your metabolic rate and your daily calorie burn... If you don't intentionally rebuild muscle through exercise, every 10 years you'll need to eat 120 to 420 fewer calories each day to maintain your current weight."

How funny.... I got this in the Inbox.. "Be nice to others... Time will make a difference! One day, you may not be the "BIG DOG" ~ just the old dog . . . !"

Mountain Lion

Proverbs 8:34
Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at my doorway.

Isaiah 40:21-23:

"21 Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
Has it not been told you from the beginning?
Have you not understood since the earth was founded?

22 He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth,
and its people are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like a canopy,
and spreads them out like a tent to live in.

23 He brings princes to naught
and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing."

To the Edge of the Sky

This is an excellent inside view of Mao's China, and the "Cultural Revolution", written by a woman who grew up in China and finally escaped. I can't remember who recommended it, but it's very good.

In 1972 Mao initiated yet another one of his paranoid purges of individuals he thought were enemies of China (notice the left is always highly paranoid?). Anyhow, books were banned, except those by Mao, Marx, Lenin and Engels. One day the author ran into a "Stinking Old Number Nine", which was the name used for an intellectual "enemy of the state", who was interpreting a English trade journal. They became friends, and he shared some classic English novels with her. One was "A Tale of Two Cities". She had to return it in 2 weeks, but loved it so much, she COPIED the entire thing into note books!!! Now that's something to think about the next time I go to a Barnes and Noble!

Here's a good quote from her book: "My new friend allowed me to borrow that one, 'The Gadfly' by Voynech, 'The Quadroon' by Thackeray and a small dictionary. He told me I must return 'A Tale of Two Cities' within two weeks because it wasn't his. The other books I could keep longer. It was then that I realized Mao was right: there was indeed a secret society! However, the aim of this society was not the destruction of Communism but the improvement of the mind. Looking back, perhaps it came to the same thing."

.... "By 1975 China was one huge torture chamber with thousands dying every week. In fact, we became so used to it that news of the death of someone we knew, perhaps even liked, caused little or no comment. There was nothing we could do to stop what was going on."

According to "Mao: The Unknown Story", "Mao Ze-Dong, who for decades held absolute power over the lives of one-quarter of the world's population, was responsible for well over 70 million deaths in peacetime, more than any other twentieth century leader."

In the meantime, I'm sure the idiotarian Hanoi Jane was yapping away about the glories of Mao's China.

The N44 Complex

FJ left a comment on the previous post which reminded me of this song by Mercy Me:

"I can only imagine what it will be like
When I walk by your side
I can only imagine what my eyes will see
When your face is before me
I can only imagine
I can only imagine

Surrounded by your glory
What will my heart feel?
Will I dance for you Jesus,
Or in awe of you be still?
Will I stand in your presence,
Or to my knees will I fall?
Will I sing Halelluja,
Will I be able to speak at all?
I can only imagine
I can only imagine

I can only imagine when that day comes
And I find myself standing in the Son
I can only imagine when all I will do
Is forever, forever worship you
I can only imagine
I can only imagine

Surrounded by your glory,
What will my heart feel?
Will I dance for you Jesus,
Or in awe of you be still?
Will I stand in your presence,
Or to my knees will I fall?
Will I sing Halelluja,
Will I be able to speak at all?
I can only imagine, yeah
I can only imagine
I can only imagine, yeah, yeah, yeah

Surrounded by your glory,
What will my heart feel?
Will I dance for you Jesus,
Or in awe of you be still?
Will I stand in your presence,
Or to my knees will I fall?
Will I sing Halelluja,
Will I be able to speak at all?
I can only imagine, yeah

I can only imagine, yeah, yeah
I can only imagine, Yeah
I can only imagine
I can only imagine, Ohh yeah
I can only imagine

I can only imagine when all I will do
is forever, forever worship you
I can only imagine"

You can listen here: I Can Only Imagine

Wisps Surrounding the Horsehead Nebula

Job 9:7-9 (New International Version)

7 He speaks to the sun and it does not shine;
he seals off the light of the stars.

8 He alone stretches out the heavens
and treads on the waves of the sea.

9 He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion,
the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.