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I don’t usually write this kind of post, but I’m a little infuriated at the moment.
As a response to the recent anti-gay bullying movement Focus on the Family has launched a new website to promote what they call “true tolerance”. I heard about this site and visited it hoping that I’d find that FOTF has finally come to their senses and joined the fight to stop gay bullying within the Christian community.
I guess I live in a fantasy-land.
I find this website, and especially it’s content, to be repulsive and tasteless. The long and short of their message is this: evil homosexuals are trying to sneak pro-homo messages into the minds of your precious innocent children through sneaky anti-bullying programs. Somehow, their warped sense of morality has led them to believe that THEY are the ones being hurt (???). They have the nerve to suggest that pro-gay activists are the ones who are intolerant by taking away their god-given freedom to bully kids to the point of suicide. The video on the front page states their focus is to “protect the most vulnerable members of our society: and that’s our children”. One has to assume that at least a small percentage of the kids within the Christian community are gay, yet hiding it from their parents. Do these children not fall under their wing of protection? No. Protecting their innocence and purity is more important to them than protecting their mental, emotional and physical well-being.
The focus of the anti-bullying movement is not to promote homosexuality, but to educate kids on acceptance and respect for others no matter what their race, religious affiliation or sexuality. But I guess being a bigoted homophobic Christian parent means abandoning human morality so you can enforce your ”god-given and constitutional parental rights” to judge others.
Marc
I can’t think of any one mission that embodies the spirit of exploration more than the Cassini mission to the Saturn system. Day after day the probe sends stunning HD images of Saturn and it’s moons.
Cinematographer Stephen Van Vuuren just released an HD fly-through video compiled from hundreds of these images. It’s simply awe-inspiring.
Looks like the evil Sun God is taking out its frustrations on us again … in the form of a massive, beautiful solar eruption! NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured the action yesterday as an area about the size of Earth flared up into one of the most spectacular solar events I’ve seen … ever.
If you aren’t already tuned into NASA TV online for the last flight of the Space Shuttle Discovery, you have about 5 minutes.
‘But, where do I find the video feed, Marc?” you ask? Well, I happen to have it right here in my pocket.
You’re welcome.
While NASA’s continues to focus it’s efforts on the search for extra-terrestrial life and the unmanned probing of the solar system , someone in their Technology Applications Assessment team has been dreaming a little bigger. The project has been called the 100 Year Starship and it’s aim is to build a manned interplanetary multi-mission starship. While they’ve received $1mill from DARPA to start working on how to make it happen, someone still needs to fork out the big bucks to build the ship. Thankfully the happy little engin-gnomes on the TAA team have drafted up a proposal.
Yesterday afternoon (Feb 13) the sun unleashed the largest solar flare of the year, creating a unique opportunity for those of us in the northern hemisphere to see some better-than-average aurora tomorrow night (Feb15). This particular MSE (mass solar ejection) is the result of sunspot 1158 throwing a solar temper tantrum (see video). The 2 day time delay is due to the 150,000,000 km (aka. 1 Astronomical Unit) the solar radiation must travel before it bombards our magnetic field here on Earth.
So put on your tin-foil hat and flee the city! Or just look up and enjoy the dance of charged particles in flowing through our magnetosphere.
Marc
