Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Why I as a Christian support Jude Moore’s run for the Senate in Alabama


I would like to address my reasons as a Christan for supporting Jude Moore’s run for the Senate. Here is the link for Kurt Bardella reasons for dumping the Republican Party. I am not a Republican, rather I registered independent who vote for the Republicans because of their policies. That is the key for me, policies, i.e., taxes, regulations, trade, energy, global warming, etc..

“The GOP would rather elect a sexual predator who preys on teenagers than a prosecutor who happens to be a Democrat. That’s it, I’m switching parties.”

As a Christain, I pray every day that I am forgiven my trespasses (sins) as I forgive those who trespass against me, and I am reminded of David’s Psalm 51 where he says, “…For I know my transgressions, And my sin is ever before me. Against You, You only, I have sinned And done what is evil in Your sight, So that You are justified when You speak And blameless when You judge. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me.…” If it is true that David sinned only against God the same is true for the rest of us, including Jude Morre.

Whenever Christians condemn sinful actions the secular are quick to through up  Matthew 7:1-3, “Judge not, that ye be not judged.  For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.  And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?”, but they have no limit on condemning what they do not like, like Christians bakers. Here this meme sums it up:


So I ask all of these who so soundly condemn Jude Moore to let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
To vote for a Democrat is to vote against Trump’s agenda which, as you well know, I fully support. To vote for a Democrat is to vote for the eternal perpetuation of the welfare state. To vote for a Democrat is to vote against rebuilding our military being rebuilt (half our airplanes still cain’t fly). To vote for a Democrat is to vote for higher taxes for now on, on those who create the wealth. To vote for a Democrat is to vote for Common Core. To vote for a Democrat is to vote ________________ (you fill in the blank, for you know full well what the Progressive are for and against).

And not the last reason but the last two I will enumerate are abortion, to vote for a Democrat is to vote for the belief that abortion is a Constitutional right. And, do not forget the type of judges that the Democrats would appoint to the bench, and the type they would block if they could.

So yes, I forgive and support Jude Moore in spit of his pass picadillo and bigger transgressions that he may or may not have committed many years ago for it is now that I am concerned with. I would also remind you that all of those calling for Moore’s head today are the same ones who lauded Ted Kennedy as a lion of their party in spite of his having left Mary Jo Kopechne to drown, he left the scene and did not report the accident to authorities for ten hours. Ah, but that is nothing as compared to touching a 14 year old 30 years ago.

Thursday, December 7, 2017

Asteroid 16 Psyche $10,000 quadrillion at today’s prices?


I read that the US space agency has now fast-forwarded its plans to send a rocket to the asteroid – bringing it forward to 2022. Psyche is made up entirely of nickel and iron, which are the exact same materials at the Earth’s core. This – as well as its sheer size – had led experts to believe the asteroid is actually the remains of a planet.

But the value of just the iron alone if the asteroid was transported back to Earth, would be $10,000 quadrillion. This would be enough to cause the world’s economy – worth $73.7 trillion – to collapse altogether. Lindy Elkins-Tanton, the lead scientist on the NASA mission and the director of Arizona State University’s School of Earth and Space Exploration, said.

This Lindy Elkins-Tanton does not have a clue how the economy works, and the law of supply and demand. Its worth $73.7 trillion is true only under today’s supply and demand. If it was to be brought here the price of iron and nickel would drop to the price of transporting it. Anyone who has bought gravel for their driveway knows that the delivery costs more than the aggregate does.

The demand for seawater is limited to the use we can put it to but is free for the taking, desalination cost is the collection of the water and the process of converting it to fresh water. If nickel and iron were to become as common as seawater the drop in price would only hurt the nickel and iron miners, who, I hazard, would quickly go into the nickel and iron transport business.

Lindy goes on to say “Could you kind of sit on it and hide it and control the global resource — kind of like diamonds are controlled corporately — and protect your market?”

It is true that the DeBeers only release a small quantity of the diamonds that they mine to keep the prices high. If they were to put them all on the market the price would fall like a rock, but the only part of the economy that would be affected would be those who sold them for and made them into jewelry. The rest of the economy would buzz right along.

However, I will believe it when I see it.

A friend, Jimmy Barbour, told me, “She works in science so it is quite possible she has never heard of a supply curve or how a supply curve would shift.” Maybe, but if she is going to spout off about economics maybe she should brush up on it.