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Is today the day?

Anne made us a nice little pork chop supper, which was tasty. We’re up out of here at 10:30am to be at the Royal Alex Hospital at 11:30am. Hopefully this will be the last time I will need to go there.

Also, Anne got an update on the ID and they issued it out in the mail, Thursday. We think they sent it out Thursday. I have a feeling, the yag will be successful tomorrow and that the ID will come in. Anne will go to the bank, book the appointment and maybe see someone on Thursday. With any luck at all my vision will be cleared up today and the ID in and my computer up and running Saturday night or at least next week. The big hopeful I’m looking at us finally having my vision restored. I hope to have a progress report this afternoon one way or another.

Some great shows coming up this week on Coast 1tonight: 30p-11p PT: Tribute t Don Herbert a.k.a. 'Mr. Wizard' who passed away today. Then, 11p-1a PT: Veteran journalist Howard Riell will discuss his experiences with the Ouija board and how it led him to his work writing about coincidence and supernatural experiences 1-2a PT Star gate and moon power. Wednesday: Mind control. Thursday: Alien Abduction & UFO Disclosure. Friday: Ray Bradbury. Looks like a couple of great shows coming up.

Have Zombies invaded Edmonton>

Add to this I found a great article on “Global Warming.” By John Brignell “Global Warming as Religion and not Science.” I agree with everything he is saying here: The Royal Society, as a major part of the flowering of the tradition, was founded on the basis of scepticism. Its motto “On the word of no one” was a stout affirmation. Now suddenly, following their successful coup, the Greens have changed this motto of centuries to one that manages to be both banal and sinister – “Respect the facts.” When people start talking about “the facts” it is time to start looking for the fictions. Real science does not talk about facts; it talks about observations, which might turn out to be inaccurate or even irrelevant.

The global warmers like to use the name of science, but they do not like its methods. They promote slogans such a “The science is settled” when real scientists know that science is never settled. They were not, however, always so wise. In 1900, for example, the great Lord Kelvin famously stated, "There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement." Within a few years classical physics was shattered by Einstein and his contemporaries. Since then, in science, the debate is never closed.

Underlines are mine. Thanks to Neal Asher for posting it on his Blog yesterday, here‘s the link to the rest of the article

That’s all for now.

 

e. Jim


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