The amazon.com sale of the ebook edition of Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8 ended as of midnight, December 31, Pacific time.
Update: Once again, I want to thank all of those who have purchased the book. Enjoy it, and please feel free to post a review on amazon.com, telling everyone else what you think!
Link here.
He lists the innumerable examples in 2014 of blatant liberal hypocrisy, and then notes what to me has become the obvious:
What looks like inexplicably staggering hypocrisy from the conservative perspective is actually remarkably consistent from the liberal perspective.
Well, “perspective” is probably the wrong word because it implies a conscious, deliberate, philosophical point of view. What is really at work is better understood as bias, even bigotry.
If you work from the dogmatic assumption that liberalism is morally infallible and that liberals are, by definition, pitted against sinister and — more importantly — powerful forces, then it’s easy to explain away what seem like double standards. Any lapse, error, or transgression by conservatives is evidence of their real nature, while similar lapses, errors, and transgressions by liberals are trivial when balanced against the fact that their hearts are in the right place.
Link here. The author nails it, noting that many of the arrests the cops have stopped doing were probably nothing more than the harassment of citizens and did nothing to improve the city’s quality of life. The cops were doing it under orders of the government, which they are now defying.
The sad part is the police are not defying these orders because they object to the policies, but because they object to the mayor.
An evening pause: For a good new year.
Fascists: The Supreme Court of Rhode Island has ruled that it was proper for the government to order two Catholic firefighters to participate in a gay pride parade, even though it was against their religious beliefs.
The competition heats up: 2014 saw the highest number of rocket launches in two decades.
Russia led the way with the most launches, as has been typical.
Early Wednesday morning I will be undergoing eye surgery for a detached retina in my right eye. The doctors are very confident all will go well, but because of this I do not know if I will be able to post for the rest of the next few days. All will depend on my recovery proceeds. Stay tuned.
Regardless, I would like to once again extend my thanks to all my readers for their support this past year. It is deeply appreciated.
Update: the surgery went well, though whether it was a success or not will not be known for several days.
Link here.
It is frightening that 6 of the 8 resolutions begin with the words “Stop lying…” while the other two begin “Stop tampering…” and “Stop making up…” In fact, the last is probably the most disgusting, as the data shown at the link demonstrates the fraud in the climate field in as clear-cut a manner as possible.
Link here.
The most absurd is probably #3, where a kindergarten program was cancelled to give the kids more time for college prep.
Read it all. It will help convince you to home school your kids.
An evening pause: I like how they had recorded it over a period of months, and had an element of silliness in how they taped different sections. And the music is grand as well!
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Link here.
Despite these events, the Sun’s activity in 2014, right in the middle of the high second peak of its solar maximum, continues to be relatively mild when compared with almost all previous solar maximums going back to the early 1700s.
Comet Lovejoy has brightened faster and more quickly than expected, and has now become just visible to the naked eye.
The webpage gives good instructions for finding it, visible each evening now below the constellation of Orion.
