M is for MILLERWORKS

How could I let this opportunity to vent about MYSELF pass?

What kind of businessman disparages himself in the company slogan!

Can you decipher this reflected image?

Or this larger version?

Can you read me now?

Almost your last chance!

Yeah, that's right!  My skills are most possibly, GOOD ENOUGH!

                                      I'll never make it in the business world!




By the way, MILLERVENTS copy is COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL Why cut and paste when you can simply copy my link?

L is for LINGONBERRY

Who could rant about LINGONBERRIES?  Not even MILLERVENTS could do such a thing.  Or could he?
Every Mother's Day since we moved back to Wisconsin in 1991, my wife and I have taken our kids up to the famous Door County to spend time enjoying our annual routine. A typical agenda went like this:

• Get a late start
• Drive like mad to make up for lost time
• Arrive at Sunset Park in Sturgeon Bay 
• Eat our cold cuts and stuff picnic in a rush because we're all STARVING by now
• Jump in the car quick and drive like mad to Fish Creek before the $37.00 per pound candy store closes at 3!
• Spend all the extra money we have on candy because everyone (read: Mom) keeps filling her their bags.
• Flee to the car and drive like mad to the farthest point of the peninsula to skip stones into the lake
• Freeze.  Or wear Mom's coat.  She loves to be cold and never feels what the rest of us I feel.
• Rush back down the highway (like mad of course) to Al Johnson's Swedish Restaurant in Sister Bay for our annual Swedish dinner; baked chicken and mashed potatoes, cause by now we are all starving again!
• While waiting for Al to kill and pluck a chicken (each) we sit and fill our maws with hard rock crackers covered with LINGONBERRY jam
• Eat a few loaves of Swedish Limpa bread covered with LINGONBERRY jam
• Take authentic Swedish baked chicken and Swedishly mashed potatoes in doggy bags cause we are all too full to eat dinner
• At checkout, buy more Swedish candy (made in Pittsburgh) and jars of LINGONBERRY jam to put on the potatoes tomorrow
• Now its 9 PM and we are 3 hours from home and I have to work tomorrow so...
• Drive like REALLY mad before I fall asleep at the wheel!

Like I said.  Who could rant about LINGONBERRIES?

By the way, MILLERVENTS copy is COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL Why cut and paste when you can simply copy my link?

K is for KIDDING

I am now going to cheat, but just a little.

I read this blog called "The Freedom of Nonbelief: K is for Kidding" today and I wrote a long comment.  I found myself thinking, this could be a whole post!  So now it is.  The 'nonbeliever' is Timothy Brannan, and here is my response to his A to Z post today.  (I used the same title, not just because he did, but because I so often find myself saying "You've got to be kidding!", and laughing uproariously, when I hear the latest 'scientific' claims made by supposedly scientific thinkers)

OK Tim, I'll bite.

I don't fit into the category of your typical follower (the comments above mine). I take issue with the kind of wide brush painting you did with this line:

People will argue about "teaching the controversy" but there is none. No one with any bit of scientific background that isn't blinded by faith thinks there is any other plausable theory other than evolution.

Of course there is great controversy, and it is created by those on both sides having much scientific background and mountains of facts. It is the interpretation of the facts that must be understood and judged well.

I have my BS in Geology from the U of Wisconsin. I know the strength of evidence for evolution that was 'forced down my throat' and it isn't very impressive. It consists of a few tidbits of facts ("a lot of animals have 5 bones in their forelimbs")and a whole series of assumptions connected by implausible guesses ("this means they evolved from each other")

The line-up of facts supporting a recent creation is much more scientifically supportable. For example, a sudden supernatural creation of life does not violate the long held LAW of biogenesis as evolutionary theory does.

Dianna Fielding, in her comment above, said; theories have evidence. Evidence by itself is only part of the issue. Evidence regarding something that is unrepeatable and was unobserved by man(like our beginnings)is far from proof. Every bit of real life evidence must fit into a worthy theory for it to stand. Contraindicating evidence must therefore demand that the theory be modified, and that without eliminating any other bit of evidence from the new theory.

I recommend this book that I reviewed on my blog for its feat of addressing just about every physical fact you can name in its theory (yes, just a theory). The scientific facts we all know (and love?) exclude the possibility of evolutionary, naturalistic origins. Some people of a different 'faith' seem to resent this factual claim, but they must deal with it as rationally as possible.

http://www.millerwrites.blogspot.com/2012/02/book-review-in-beginning-compelling.html

By the way, the whole book, in its 8th edition now, is available online. http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/index.html

Take a look, unless you really must not admit that there is credible science behind creationism.

J is for JAB; Rosen vs.Romney

Everyone has probably heard now about Hillary Rosen, a DNC consultant, who made disparaging remarks recently about Mitt Romney's wife Ann, saying that she "has actually never worked a day in her life.”  To put her statement in context, she was trying to disqualify Mrs. Romney's understanding of what women around the country were telling her they are concerned about.  Rosen's implication was that if Romney never earned a paycheck, then she was unqualified to comment on financial issues.

I would like to see the look on my Mom's face if someone made that suggestion about her fiscal skills, even though as a mother of 8, she also "never worked a day in her life!"

Rosen's JAB was untenable on a few fronts.  Of course a stay at home Mom understands financial matters as well as one who earns the paycheck.  It is the judicial budgeting and spending of money that requires the real skill.
Secondly, Romney claims that she was hearing from women.  Not a particular group of women, but all women no matter if their work was followed by a paycheck or just by more work, have been telling Romney they were concerned about the future debt load their children and grandchildren would have to bear.

Thirdly, and finally.  Men and women in this country can not be distinguished from one another in the dark haze of this clouded economy.  Under Obama's budget, which was voted down without a single vote in its favor, and his continued urgency to raise taxes first on the wealthy, and on everyone who has any 'capital gains', all of us will continue to suffer economically. The looming threat of unknowable and ever more stringent regulations keeps us all, men and women, paycheck earners and paycheck distributors, choking in the dark.

I is for INCREDIBLE

So now our President's team is sitting down with the Muslim Brotherhood, as they settle in to ruin Egypt.  Sharia Law will be the law of that land soon, and if you want to talk about a "war on women", you will there find plenty of food for thought.

H is for Holder's Vote

Eric Holder is our United States Attorney General.  His department of Justice is suing several states that have recently passed voter ID laws.  Simple legislation that requires voters to prove their identity with a photo ID before casting their ballot.  This would mean that only one vote could be cast by each American voter.  It means no one can go in and vote in YOUR name, and take your vote before you get there.

New Hampshire is too 'free' to inhibit voter freedom, as Project Veritas has proven by receiving ballots in the names of dead citizens.  The following video should open a few eyes.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/11/video-nh-poll-workers-shown-handing-out-ballots-in-dead-peoples-names/

Here in Minnesota we see a guy asking for dozens of blank voter registration forms, and being assured that he can take them home and fill them out with whatever (even famous) names he wants to use.  When the paperwork is processed (even through the mail without any ID needed at any time), he would be able to vote once for every name he submits!  Would he be negating your vote?

http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2012/02/07/breaking-video-tim-tebow-and-tom-brady-register-to-vote-in-minnesota/


Eric Holder claims there is no need to address voter fraud in this country, and pretends that it does not exist. He might want to watch the last video below.  A man walks into Holder's precinct voting station and asks if they have a ballot for Eric Holder.  The worker finds the name on the list, crosses it off, and tries to hand over a ballot.

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/04/09/Okeefe-Holder

Our voting rights are all we have, as a way of effecting this government.  When we let even that slip away, we will be done.

G is for GENESIS

Genesis means "beginnings".  Ta Da!  That was easy.  So you can probably work this cool word into your regular conversation tonight at dinner.

Mom:  "Tell me honey, what was the genesis of your idea to buy that rotten boat?"

Dad:  "So, Junior, when do you think you will make a genesis of cleaning the garage like I told you?"

Suzy:  "Why do we always have to pray at the genesis of our meals?"

Billy:  "The genesis of these beets must have been under a curse!"

Job's friend:  "Your genesis will seem humble, so prosperous will your future be."

OK, so you probably don't have a 'Job' at home, but I thought I'd throw that one in because it's the only time the word is used in the Bible except as title to its first book; GENESIS.

See how easy and fun that is?

But the book of Beginnings, or GENESIS is so very fascinating!  If you've ever wondered where you came from and how it all began, and why there is so much crummy stuff happening around us all the time, and why there are fossils of sea creatures found on top of all the highest mountains....and why in the world there are different languages spoken around the world, and what was the first major sport mentioned in the Bible, it's all right there!  GENESIS 1 verse 1:  In the big inning......  BASEBALL!

For thousands of years, people everywhere took the book at face value.  They had no problem with the idea that a supernatural God would act supernaturally, and it made perfect sense that He would have to do no more than to 'speak' things into existence.  Nor with the idea that He would use some kind of order and at the same time be creating a temporal template for the way we would live.  (Have you realized that our year is based on the earth's trip around the sun, the month is based on the moon's schedule around the earth, but that  the seven day week is based only on God's seven day plan of creation, which includes the one cherished day off!)  There is no 'natural' basis for a set of 7 days.

But in the last few centuries, when our scientists developed the theory of evolution, with its inherent requirement that it must have taken billions of years for the impossible to take place (we all know that anything impossible becomes possible given enough time right?), it became necessary to disparage the book of GENESIS with its outright and clear description of the....GENESIS, of everything we know.

Speaking as a trained geologist, knowing what they knew to tell me at the U of Wisconsin, I have still not seen any proof of evolution.  This mere theory, which stands only on the shaky legs of assumption and circular reasoning, and in total disregard of the known laws of bio-genesis, thermodynamics and probabilities, has only supplanted the clear revelation given us in GENESIS by its appeal to those who seek an excuse to deny God the credit and the glory He deserves.

[So if this post LOOKS like it should belong in MILLERWRITES study of the Bible's weird words...it does.  But after I wrote this, I remembered that I wanted to look at GLORY over there, so this one came here and besides, it does have an element of 'venting' attached doesn't it? ]