Conservative Papa

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Wow, he really is going into business! I just found out by clicking an ad on the local newspaper site. Too bad I don’t have the $200,000+ needed to open a franchise.

There was another one of those annoying “scary” forwarded email messages in the inbox this morning. However, this one turns out to be true, according to snopes.com: Urban Legends Reference Pages: Hand Sanitizer Alcohol Poisoning.

After thinking it through, it makes perfect sense that an alcohol-based sanitizer could give a small child a dangerous blood-alcohol level if ingested. Some time ago, we found Esther Joy with the travel-size bottle of hand sanitizer that we keep in the diaper bag. Carolyn was sure that the half-empty bottle had been full and made me call poison control. (Memorize the number: 1-800-222-1222. The crazy jingle helps.) They said to give her juice to raise her blood-sugar level and keep an eye on her for signs of intoxication. No signs developed. I suspect the bottle had not been as full as Carolyn imagined. However, this email made me think more seriously about the potential danger helpful hand sanitizers can pose. I post it here for my faithful readers, rather than clog up your inboxes with stuff you’re likely to delete anyway!

Wishing all a thoughtful and thankful Memorial Day.

Never Forgotten video from www.af.mil.

The stars were dim, and thick the night,
The steerman’s face by his lamp gleamed white;
From the sails the dew did drip–
Till clomb above the eastern bar
The hornéd Moon, with one bright star
Within the nether tip.
— from the The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Well, it wasn’t quite within the nether tip, but Venus appeared close to the Moon on Saturday evening. I was busy making sawdust when my mother pointed out the lovely lunar spectacle.

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Here’s the latest picture of the new baby.  You can see his face with his eyes at the right thusly: |-:

We’re still not settled on the name.  Isaac Robert seems to be the most likely candidate.  Does he look like an Isaac?  Any further name suggestions are welcome, but they do no good if Carolyn and I can’t agree on them!

OK, so you can’t thrown your aluminum cans into the car of the future to make it go; but aluminum may be a crucial component:

New process generates hydrogen from aluminum alloy to run engines, fuel cells
Hydrogen is generated spontaneously when water is added to pellets of the alloy, which is made of aluminum and a metal called gallium. The researchers have shown how hydrogen is produced when water is added to a small tank containing the pellets. Hydrogen produced in such a system could be fed directly to an engine, such as those on lawn mowers.

“When water is added to the pellets, the aluminum in the solid alloy reacts because it has a strong attraction to the oxygen in the water,” Woodall said.

This reaction splits the oxygen and hydrogen contained in water, releasing hydrogen in the process.

The entire article is a very interesting read!

Professor David Bellamy is being excommunicated as president of two wildlife organizations for blaspheming the sacred cannon of man-made global warming. The entire article is worth a read.

From The Sunday Times
May 15, 2005
Wildlife groups axe Bellamy as global warming ‘heretic’
Jonathan Leake, Environment Editor

Bellamy, 72, a former botany lecturer at Durham University, endeared himself to generations of youngsters with a series of popular wildlife programmes that ran from the 1970s through to 1999. He has also written many wildlife books.He won respect from hardline environmentalists with his campaigns to save Britain’s peat bogs and other endangered habitats. In Tasmania he was arrested when he tried to prevent loggers cutting down a rainforest.

In January he gave a keynote speech at the Royal Institution in London which was hosting Apocalypse No, a conference organised by the Scientific Alliance.

“Global warming is a largely natural phenomenon. The world is wasting stupendous amounts of money on trying to fix something that can’t be fixed,” he said.

Last month he made similar assertions in New Scientist magazine when he claimed that glaciers were expanding because the world was getting cooler rather than warmer. The claim contradicted recent scientific studies that found 85% of the world’s glaciers are in retreat.

In a previous post, I highlighted an attempt in the Senate to require reporting of political activities designed to prompt voters to contact their representatives in Congress. The Senate voted this legislation down. Now, there is another attempt to pass it in the House of Representatives. Call your representative and tell him to vote against H. R. 2093. See? That little sentence could get me into big trouble if H. R. 2093 becomes law and I fail to file the proper paper work!

The issue is so important that organizations from the Right and Left have united to write this letter to the House. It feels strange to be on the same side of an issue as the ACLU!

H. R. 2093 is yet another attempt by beltway insiders to disregard and limit the efforts of the voters to have a say in government. The elitists would rather sip the wine of big-money lobbies than sweat along side the voters and do the will of the people.

Salary.com has a special salary wizard for mothers. I threw in some numbers and calculated an annual salary of about $250,000 for Carolyn. Since she often does more than one job at once, I didn’t bother making sure the number of hours worked only added up to the amount of time that she is awake. Hey, she’s on duty when she’s sleeping, anyway! I think the number of hours I threw into the wizard added up to just about 24/7. Here’s the data:

Oh, and there is a “Dad” calculator. I threw in some numbers for me and came up with over $160,000.

A lady is upset because of the quote on her recent cup of joe:

Telegraph Forum - www.bucyrustelegraphforum.com - Bucyrus, OH
Printed on the cup was: “Why in moments of crisis do we ask God for strength and help? As cognitive beings, why would we ask something that may well be a figment of our imaginations for guidance? Why not search inside ourselves for the power to overcome? After all, we are strong enough to cause most of the catastrophes we need to endure.”

Here are a few quotes from God’s Word:

Psalms 70:5 But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.

Psalms 53:1a The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.

Proverbs 18:2 A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.

Psalms 103:14 For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.

So much can be said, but who can say it better than God did?  I’ll just say this:  in addition to outrageous prices, this is another reason for me to think twice before handing over my mammon to these caffeine connoisseurs.