Christmas season

The Advent season (leading up to Christmas) is most people's favorite time of the year. It is also the time of the year when people give the most. You would think people would put these two things together...

Climate change cover-up

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100017393/climategate-the-final-nail-in-the-coffin-of-anthropogenic-global-warming/

For years, I have been trying to tell people how "global warming (or climate change as it is more popularly called now because the earth is in fact cooling)" is less scientifically based and more a means of controlling production and socializing citizens.

This article chronicles great evidence to this claim. Apparently many prominent "scientists" have been covering up data and changing their data to confirm their hyped up false theories. They tried to delete their corrupt emails but a hacker found them and published them. This is what happens when governments and private funds need certain theories to be true. They give these "scientists" money and say, "here is millions of dollars, prove this theory or we won't give you any more money." And if you think this is an exaggeration, ask any climate scientist or soil scientist, or anyone who gets government funds regarding climate (or many other fields that can be remotely linked to global climate change). Ask them where their money comes from. Then you'll see where their motivation lies. Or, ask yourself how much money Al Gore has made off of his lies. Hundreds of millions is the answer, and that does not even include the hundreds of millions in investments he has in "green" companies that will soon become leviathan cash cows because of government mandated climate laws.

There is a river of dirty money running through this place, as Red would say in Shawshank Redemption. Watch the money, and you'll see why this is not a legitimate science.

Beers by HTNL: part 5 Fresh hop ales.

For as much as craft brewers drone on and on about the quality of their products in relation to the gruesome twosome (Bud/Inbev and Miller) their products largely draw from the same ingredients and utilize relatively the same methods. Same hops, same grains with some exceptions, and the same methods. Craft brewers brew smaller lots though with more attention and more concentrated ingredients.

One rare exception to this generality is the fresh hop ale/wet hope ale/harvest hop ale. The fresh hop ale takes the hops directly from the fields and goes into tank immediately. Normally, hops are mechanically pelletized which greatly compromises their taste and their dignity, like pantsing a portly slow kid and running his drawers up the flag pole outside Mrs. Baker's math class. It just isn't right. But fresh hop ales are beer the way beer should be done, old school. No machines and dies, no fraud.

Last year out in the People's Republic of Oregon, I experienced the full fury of the fresh hop ale season. My favorite was Bridgeport's fresh hop ale. Sold in a larger 2 pint bottle with a golden and green foil colsure, this beer is the shining jewel of the year, in my view. Typically fresh hop ales are strictly a season ale because they do not keep for as long as other beers (which I do not fully understand and am skeptical about). Sierra Nevada (of California) though, brews a southern hemisphere fresh hop ale after the harvest in New Zealand in what is our spring. Rogue also does an excellent fresh hop ale.

I wish breweries in the midwest would get serious about growing their own hop plots like many of the best quality beers in the West. And I wish breweries in the midwest would get serious about brewing in general, like those in the West. But that is for another day.

Today, I got a gilmpse of how this might happen. The "Fresh hop harvest ale" from Founders brewery in Grand Rapids, MI (Grand Crapids). This reminded me, in a way, of the glory of Oregon and Washington hop season. 70 IBUs leaks out of the top of the bottle upon opening. After pouring, you might as well have cut a grapefruit in half, because they will smell about the same. Bitter, sharp and crisp, the foretaste on the pallate is a sharp lemon flopping down like a shirtless portly man into a flannel lazyboy stained with cheeto dust into an orangy caramel flavour. I'm not sure where they got their hops from or how they were able to do a fresh hop ale. So I can only hope it was genuine and not pelletized rabbit turd hops. But the resins were powerful and the pallate satisfied.


HTNL rating of 8.3/10

Cheers.

Craftsman automatic hammer.

Possible catch phrases for this new invention:

"The Autohammer. Just in time, I've lost the ability to use my arms due to laziness."

"The Autohammer. Might work for longer than a day."

"The Autohammer. The best China made product for automatically driving nails. Until it breaks."

"The Autohammer. You might get about a half hour out of it."

"The Autohammer. You'll be surprised how efficient 34,000 light taps can partially drive in a nail."

"The Autohammer. Hope you kept your real hammer because this piece probably won't work at all. Sorry."

"The Autohammer. Why aren't I just using a screw gun?"

The future of ambulance chasers in America

I first heard this point made by Dr. Janet Smith in a lecture she gave about 10 years ago. The argument can be summed up like this: birth control is the new tobacco. In the same way tobacco companies have been sued countless times due to the harmful effects of their products, we are now beginning to see this trend with the birth control industry.

This afternoon I saw a commercial, a lawyer commercial like you see with asbestos or water pollution. It was advertising the bevy of law suits being brought against Yaz due to the rapid increase of damages caused by Yaz being brought to the public attention. Yaz is the most popular and widely used form of contraceptive birth control. Yaz is a product of Bayer, the German pharmaceutical company. Bayer innovated Aspirin as it now exists today. You may also remember them from such atrocities as being a financial core of the Nazi drive to power, or as the producer of the gas that killed the Jews at Auschwitz, or as the perpetrator of a variety of other crimes against humanity, including killing of the unborn. I suppose patterns of killing the innocent are hard to shake off for this company. Unfortunately there are no Allies coming to military aide for the innocent unborn. What a difference half a century makes. But, back to the point at hand.

Recently, it has come to wide public attention that Yaz, used by millions of women across the U.S., causes among other things; blood clots, pulmonary embolism, heart attacks, kidney issues, stroke, and death. During my time of unemployment, I got a chance to watch a lot of daytime T.V. TBS, TNT, and other stations would run Yaz advertisements 2-3 times every hour. It's no wonder Yaz stirred up over half a billion dollars for Bayer last year. Much like the "industry" the company engaged in during World War two, they have managed to make money in the most atrocious ways imaginable.

This should really not come as a surprise to anyone familiar to the history of the oral contraceptive. All of these side effects, now surprisingly sprung upon our society, have been side effects of the oral contraceptive since its creation. In fact, during the development of the pill, several women died, and many others suffered side effects such as these. But, undeterred companies like Bayer have continued to pioneer in the killing of the innocent while manipulating and poisoning our mothers.

This is my point: the pill, the oral contraceptive, is poison. It does freakishly unnatural things to a woman's body, wreaks havoc on marriages, contributes to the attitude that propagates abortion, leads to abuse of women including objectification of women, and contributes to general societal chaos. I find it increasingly ironic and tragic that in an age that is so concerned with going green, organic this and Prius that, we continue to ignore the unnatural chemical abuse of women's bodies as a result of taking birth control.

And, what's more ironic, the greatest argument I hear from feminists is that birth control is liberating for women, giving them freedoms do do as they please as they have never seen before. But at what cost? Is the goal of this freedom to be more respected, more valued, have safer and stabler families or be treated as a fully dignified human person. Because, if you look at the general moral trend of our country and dominant culture, women are markedly less respected and less valued as is evident by many movies, popular music (particularly rap, but also rock), style and fashion, etc. For true freedom is not to do simply as you please, but to be free is to live in a natural order or for the Christian, in the order as ordained by Christ, to be in the light of Christ.

I would bet a shiny new dime that this trend is only just beginning. Because physically, psychologically, and especially spiritually, the pill is bad for women. And, we've known that for a very long time.

V for Victory, great post to check out.

Great post on V for Victory blog today. Made me laugh in a very very sad kind of way.

Check it out: here