Global sinking? I'm against it. Global cooling? Against.

Global Sinking

"How and Why Earth Will End?" – The Washington Post, Sunday, March 23, 1913

On the question, of global sinking? I'm against it. Global cooling? Against. Global widening? Against. Global plunging? Against. Global warming? Against.

Here are some "global scaremongering" WaPo reports from 1913 I dug up:

1. Plain Global Plunging: "SCIENTISTS BELIEVE OUR UNIVERSE WILL SOME DAY PLUNGE INTO THE SUN."

2. Global Terminating: "SCIENCE in the course of the ages has evolved a number of different theories as to the final end of our present stable appearing, comfortable old world. That it must terminate no one disputes."

3. Stellar Global Plunging: "There is one theory which claims that we will some day plunge into the sun . . . The claim is based on recent stellar discoveries . . .."

4. Global Sinking: ". . . we are told that the crust of the earth is a falling structure bound to sink beneath the weight of its mountains and continents and peoples into a seething liquid mass at the center."

5. Global Cooling: "A third possibility is the extinction of heat in the sun in which case everything on the face of the earth would become cold and all life extinct."

6. Global Contracting: "Still a fourth is the gradual cooling and contracting on the earth's surface until it becomes a dead, scarred thing like our not distant moon."

7. Global Colliding: "The fifth theory is considered by most scientists as the least likely and yet it is by no means impossible. The collision of our earth with some other rapidly moving body is not at all impossible. In such a case the end will not be slow in arriving after the first start has begun. Extinction will be immediate."

My thoughts on "global (place catastrophic verb here)" stories are available on the American Thinker Blog, but you get the drift. 

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Rick Warrenism

I still wonder if Saddleback Church's Rick Warren believes in "global warming" and if Pastor Billy Graham still believes in "global cooling." Providentially, they are not frozen or burnt. And – surprise! – looking back over the last ten years, 2008 appears to be the coldest year on record.

Pass me a beer.

Unbeknownst to many conservatives too, Warren enjoys signing politically correct confessions. Here's one to the "poor" Muslim world from the left-wing fundamentalist Yale Center for Faith and Culture (published in the anti-military New York Times, of course):

Muslims and Christians have not always shaken hands in friendship; their relations have sometimes been tense, even characterized by outright hostility. Since Jesus Christ says, "First take the log out your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbor's eye" (Matthew 7:5), we want to begin by acknowledging that in the past (e.g. in the Crusades) and in the present (e.g. in excesses of the "war on terror") many Christians have been guilty of sinning against our Muslim neighbors.[i] 

I just wonder – Osama forgive me – how our Christian soldiers and unborn babies feel about this propaganda.

In other words, Saddleback's leader is happy to sign pro-Islamosorry statements, and now you know why King "B. Hussein Obama" Herod is massaging his ego.

I also wonder what historians make of this.

And, yes, history tells us that (a) the Muslim world invaded Christian Europe first and (b) many Muslims enslaved Christian Europeans and blacks. But, more importantly, the Christian Bible instructs Christians not to say sorry for the real and/or imaginary sins of past generations.

Forgiveness is not a stage — and twisting scriptures is terribly unscriptural.

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Fraternities

Confession box time: As a nosey Australian, I enjoy reading reports about America's most controversial fraternities and sororities. Clearly, these arrangements seem to bring out the best in women (in the movies), and the worst in men (in the movies, again).

Well, sometimes Hollywood is right.

Here's one fascinating example from September 17, 1959:

Fraternity Hazing Fatal to USC Student  

Los Angeles (AP) – A University of Southern Californian student choked to death on a piece of raw meat during a predawn fraternity hazing today, police reported.

Dr. Melvin Godly, summoned to Kappa Sigma fraternity house, said he had to extract a thick piece of liver from the gullet of Richard Swanson, 21. Swanson was pronounced dead on arrival at Central Receiving Hospital.  

Dr. Goldy said the meat was nearly 4 inches long and nearly an inch thick.

America's sorority culture, to be sure, is also intriguing and I recall watching a chick flick with a number of salivating guys on this very subject, one night.

Remember Reese Witherspoon in Legally Blonde? Her performance, after all, made a joke of dear Harvard's career-climbing busybodies.

Uh-oh, and don't worry about the beer. I have enough bottles in my fridge. I'm 100 percent infidel.

[i] http://www.yale.edu/faith/acw/acw.htm (accessed 29 December, 2008)