"FOEs"of Alternative Fuels

Friends of the Earth- an environmental group is afraid that the increased use of bio-fuels will destroy the rainforests. To raise corn and sugar cane to make the fuels takes land and so they are afraid we will have to destroy forests to create these fuels. Amazing! These people obviously have not thought the implications of their ideas when they first promote them. All we have been hearing is how we need to force companies to create bio-fuels. So Britain is about to mandate it and they cry out against it. I think it must be true that their actual agenda is to return us all to the idyllic days of outhouses and horses. Maybe like medieval Japan we could outlaw the wheel. That would go far in destroying our economy and thereby saving the earth!

Who Would Jesus Kill?

Panned Parenthood has their own chaplain who makes the religious argument for abortion for them. Here is a sample:

"The closer Jesus got to the cross, the smaller the crowds got," the chaplain said. "This is pretty close to the cross because [pro-abortion] people have to take derision, ostracism, all that."

You and I both know that many men have faced ostracism and derision but that hasn't meant they are close to God. And yet I find it fascinating that PP knows they need to find a way to "reach" the religious fundamentalists. We are their target group and so this chaplain is here to "pitch" their product to us in what they hope are terms we will understand and come to accept.

ID Cards

Microsoft is against ID cards that use personal things like fingerprints and biometric data. Their contention is that if these are ever compromised, you will not be able to get new ones. Makes sense. The UK is considering this right now.

Ministers propose putting 13 personal identifiers, such as iris scans, fingerprints and facial imprints, on to a central database, along with personal details such as names and addresses. But the technology expert warns that holding these details in one place "is something that no technologist would ever recommend" and could leave individuals helpless if their details were compromised.

Why Men Hate Going to Church

I think I would like to read this book. Here is an excerpt from the critique.

Interestingly, Mr. Murrow notes that, among the major Christian denominations, it is the mainline churches that suffer the largest gender gaps in church attendance. These churches, still pilloried by feminists for their patriarchal pretensions, have in fact become spiritual sorority houses. It is the more conservative denominations, such as the Southern Baptists, that have the most even ratios. In these more traditional churches, many of which do not have female clergy, parishioners hear less about cooperation and feel-good spirituality and more about spiritual rigor and the competition to win souls.

I didn't appreciate her idea though that women like church because it is domesticating and that is the reason men hate it. That doesn't account for the attendance figures for conservative denominations

99 Cent Video On Demand

CBS and NBC are going to allow viewers to download programs for the low price of 99 cents. Isn't this what we were talking about the other day?