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Dawn at Artist Point, Yellowstone Canyon -- Yellowstone National Park

Photo taken by Mike Umscheide. He said of the photo

This was one of many memorable photographic moments during my Fall of 2006 trip to Yellowstone National Park. Artist Point is a famous photography spot at Yellowstone, and I was hoping for wonderful soft light just prior to sunrise. I was more than pleased with what I got, which was a few high cirrus clouds lit up in a vivid, saturated pink color to complement the extraordinary landscape of the Yellowstone canyon and Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River. Date: September 19, 2006. Exposure was f/9 at 1/5 seconds, ISO 200, shot with the Nikon D70 at a 24mm focal length.
Added: 10/06/2008

Global Warming Frozen In Bad Data

December 11, 2008 By Dr. Melissa Clouthier

From the Washington Times:

Environmental extremists and global warming alarmists are in denial and running for cover. Their rationale for continuing a lost cause is that weather events in the short term are not necessarily related to long-term climatic trends. But these are the same people who screamed at us each year that ordinary weather events such as high temperatures or hurricanes were undeniable evidence of imminent doom.

Now that global warming is over, politicians are finally ready to enact dubious solutions to a non-existent problem. In Britain, Parliament is intrepidly forging ahead with a bold new plan to cool the climate, even as London experienced its first October snowfall since 1934 and Ireland went through the coldest October in the last 70 years.

This is an absurd spectacle. Our advanced civilization is being systematically mismanaged by technologically illiterate lawyers responding to political pressures from irrational fanatics. Would someone please tell these people it is impossible to overturn the laws of thermodynamics?

We cannot improve our economy by artificially forcing people to use expensive, unreliable and inefficient energy sources.

From the U.S. Senate committee on Environment:

“I am a skeptic…Global warming has become a new religion.” - Nobel Prize Winner for Physics, Ivar Giaever.

(Link to rest of article here)

The Very First Thanksgiving Proclamation

The Very First Thanksgiving Proclamation
by Marcia Segelstein

The very first Thanksgiving proclamation was issued by the Continental Congress on November 1, 1777. It was a time of upheaval unimaginable to most of us. Only the year before, the signers of the Declaration of Independence had set in motion events which would change the course of history. At the time the proclamation was issued, the outcome of those events was yet to be determined, and a bitter war waged on with young men giving their lives for the cause of freedom. Uncertainly loomed, but faith suffused with gratitude prevailed, as is clear from the words of this remarkable document.

Here are portions of this first proclamation, which called for December 18th to be set apart…

“That at one Time and with one Voice, the good People may express the grateful Feelings of their Hearts, and consecrate themselves to the Service of their Divine Benefactor…That it may please him graciously to afford his Blessing on the Governments of these States respectively, and prosper the public Council of the whole; To inspire our Commanders, both by Land and Sea, and all under them, with that Wisdom and Fortitude which may render them fit Instruments, under the Providence of Almighty God, to secure for these United States, the greatest of all human Blessings, INDEPENDENCE and PEACE.”

Ee'n So Lord Jesus Quickly Come

Heard my brother's choir at Concordia St. Paul sing this twenty years ago. Beautiful.