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I’ve been watching this excellent show on Discovery chronicling the NASA space flight missions.  It sparked my interest in the Mercury 7 and subsequent Apollo missions and compelled me to do a bit of reading.  I quickly began to see parallels between the ill-fated Everest climb of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine and the fatal Apollo 1 tragedy that took the lives of astronauts Roger Chaffee, Ed White, and Gus Grissom.

I further drew more distinct parallels between Gus Grissom and George Mallory.  I’ve written about the Mallory and Irvine tragedy in detail but I’ll summarize again here.  George Mallory died in 1924, along with his young climbing partner Andrew Irvine, attempting to be the first to reach the peak of Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world.  There is much speculation they made it to the top but died on the descent; however, the generally acknowledged opinion is that they died on the ascent, having never reached the top.  Part of why their story is famous is because of the possibility they might have actually reached the top first (a missing camera might hold photographic proof).  The pair, particularly George Mallory …read more »

Looks like James Dobson is the only one “qualified” to cherry pick the Bible for his own agenda…

I found some dope shit on GodTube…check it!

I don’t know about you but this kinda reminds me of the Legend of Bilbo Baggins.

I’m done with YouTube…I’m all about GodTube now!

Traci’s going to this one but, alas, I’m a man and I can’t go.  Maybe next year!

This is one of the main reasons why I’m voting for Obama.  A return to a secular America at last…

As I start out at the beginning of the Old Testament I feel it’s worth noting that I’m approaching this book as the irrefutable and infallible Word of God, and nothing short of that. The claim has been made by many fundamentalists, including the IBS, Falwell, and more that this book is the real deal. There is no in between. For example, Falwell said:

The Bible is the inerrant…word of the living God. It is absolutely infallible, without error in all matters pertaining to faith and practice, as well as in areas such as geography, science, history, etc.

This theme is repeated again and again among the Christian faithful. So from this point on know that I am not reporting on this so much with the mindset of a person learning how a people completely alien to our culture used to believe, I’m reporting on this more as a true reference of history and of God’s Word to us. I’m told this book is dependable and I can trust it completely so that’s how I’m going to play it.

That said, let’s jump into it.

We start out with the creation of the sun, the earth, the stars, and the entire universe. If I were looking at this from the perspective of a person who lived three or four thousand years ago it might be believable. But I’m alive now in 2008 with far more knowledge than these people had and this story is total bullshit. This should in no way ever be used by anyone, anytime to represent the actual process in which the Earth, the solar system, or the universe itself actually formed. This text was obviously …read more »

Looks like it’s official; Obama will be going head to head with McCain for the White House. According to this article he’s picked up the Democratic nomination.

Obama will be crowned the Democratic nominee at the convention in August and will face McCain in November’s election to choose a successor to President George W. Bush.

“Tonight, we mark the end of one historic journey with the beginning of another,” Obama told a victory celebration in St. Paul, Minnesota, at the site of the Republican convention in September.

“Tonight, I can stand before you and say that I will be the Democratic nominee for president of the United States,” he told 17,000 cheering supporters. Another 15,000 gathered outside the arena.

I can’t say that I’m not just a little bit excited about this.