How about a little humor, huh?
Good News: Pork-oline
- Next thing you know, we’ll all be fussing about the price of bacon and the AntiSomethings will be fuming about Big Pig!
- Zhang predicts the process could get 3.6 gallons of crude oil a day out of each pig.
- And what, pray tell, is that all about?
- They say you can’t turn a sow’s ear into a silk purse, but University of Illinois researchers are working some interesting magic at the other end of the animal.
- “We are the first to actually do this,” professor Yuanhui Zhang says proudly of his team’s ability to turn swine manure into crude oil. He’s a bio-environmental engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who has led the 10-year research project that recently announced a breakthrough in porcine petroleum.
- That neat trick may sound crude.
- But it also sounds good to a pork industry swamped with oceans of swine manure, and it sounds like the national anthem to those looking to reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil.
- A typical pig produces about 6 gallons of waste a day.
- “We are the first to actually do this,” professor Yuanhui Zhang says proudly of his team’s ability to turn swine manure into crude oil. He’s a bio-environmental engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who has led the 10-year research project that recently announced a breakthrough in porcine petroleum.
Now, go do the right thing.
(I know, I know — that’s someone else’s line.)
Allies?
If your best ally didn’t allow you to take a short cut across your front yard every once in a great while, would he still be your ally?
Yeah, I suppose so.
But would you wonder if he would really and truly defend you against the big bully next door, in the bully’s backyard, when he was so afraid of the big bully that he wouldn’t let you cross his front yard once in a while?
Yeah, I suppose so.
- With things like this going on, I think this US ally ought to have anti-bully contigency plans that exclude its faraway and fearful ally:
- Taiwan’s President Chen Shui-bian has decided to avoid the United States on his journey home from a Latin American visit, as officials played down the fall-out of the diplomatic spat between the island and its closest ally.
- Taiwan has been upset that the United States would only permit Chen transit via Alaska, instead of a preferred stopover in New York en route to the region.
- [Red] Chinese officials…chafe whenever leaders from the island get U.S. approval to transit or visit.
- Taiwan has been upset that the United States would only permit Chen transit via Alaska, instead of a preferred stopover in New York en route to the region.
Good News: Rescued at Last!
- From down under Down Under, this wonderful news:
- Two Australian miners trapped a kilometer underground for 14 days walked out of the mine on Tuesday defiantly thrusting their arms into the air after rescuers reached them shortly before dawn.
- Miners Brant Webb, 37, and Todd Russell, 34, wearing mining helmets with their lamps shining brightly and yellow jackets walked confidently to a large board and removed their name cards — declaring they had ended their shift underground.
- Their wives quickly rushed to hug them before scores of rescuers descended on them hugging and shaking hands.
- “This is the great escape. This is the biggest escape from the biggest prison we have, the planet,” said Australian Workers Union national secretary Bill Shorten.
- Miners Brant Webb, 37, and Todd Russell, 34, wearing mining helmets with their lamps shining brightly and yellow jackets walked confidently to a large board and removed their name cards — declaring they had ended their shift underground.
Hurrah for the rescuers!
Hurrah for the resilience of the rescued ones!
And praise God!
Middle East: Oh, No!
- I call this a huge step in the wrong direction — Israel reveals plan to divide Jerusalem:
- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s Kadima Party is drafting a plan to divide Jerusalem by unilaterally withdrawing from some of the city’s neighborhoods and making special arrangements for key holy sites, a top party official announced in an interview yesterday.
- “We will not divide Jerusalem, we will share it,” Kadima lawmaker Otniel Schneller told the Associated Press.
- Most Jerusalem neighborhoods with large Arab populations would be given to the Palestinians, he said.
- “We will not divide Jerusalem, we will share it,” Kadima lawmaker Otniel Schneller told the Associated Press.
More Time for Redemption?
- I’m sure you’ve already read/heard:
- September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui should spend his life in prison instead of being executed for his role in the hijacked airliner attacks, a U.S. jury decided on Wednesday.
I’m left amazed and wondering.
I wonder if his (potentially) longer life will result in his spiritual redemption.
I wonder if that was a jury of his peers (and if it wasn’t, will a mistrial be declared).
I wonder if this is how the war on terror(ism) is to be fought.
I wonder why I thought he should get the death penalty.
I wonder how his case was so much stronger than Timothy McVeigh’s.
I wonder if this means McVeigh got a bum rap (or if McVeigh’s jury would have “hung” Moussauoi).
I wonder how many Christians will (still?) pray for his salvation.
I wonder how many Christians will (still?) wish for his death.
I wonder what the just sentence would be.
I wonder how many people are genuinely happy with the verdict.
I wonder what kind of comments his Al-Qaeda pals will make.
I wonder what Moussaoui truly thinks.
I wonder what I’m supposed to think.
I wonder what you think.
I wonder what God thinks.
Mom, Do You Work?
- From Reuters via Yahoo! News: Study: US mothers deserve $134,121 in salary — but I agree with Kristen:
- “You can’t put a dollar value on it. It’s worth a lot more,” said Kristen Krauss, 35, as she hurriedly packed her four children, all aged under 8, into a minivan in New York while searching frantically for her keys. “Just look at me.”
- Employed mothers reported spending on average 44 hours a week at their outside job and 49.8 hours at their home job, while the stay-at-home mother worked 91.6 hours a week, it showed.
- An estimated 5.6 million women in the United States are stay-at-home mothers with children under age 15, according to the most recent U.S. Census Bureau data.
- Employed mothers reported spending on average 44 hours a week at their outside job and 49.8 hours at their home job, while the stay-at-home mother worked 91.6 hours a week, it showed.
God bless them all!
And may their children and husbands honor, bless, respect, love, and help them all.