Category: Personal

The Global Warming Scam

Many have doubted the claims on Global Warming.  There’s just too much information against it to simply believe it without investigating further.  And the simple fact that even questioning the truth of Global Warming brings out the critics from the woodwork causes concern.

The Global Warming pundits took a great hit recently when a server at the University of East Anglia was hacked containing emails and documents from well-known scientists supporting Global Warming.  The University has disclosed that the documents and emails that have been leaked were authentic.

Five points come out:

  1. Prominent environmental scientists organize a boycott of scientific journals if those journals publish scholarly material from global warming dissidents.
  2. The scientists then orchestrate attacks on the dissidents because of their lack of scholarly material published in scientific journals.
  3. The scientists block from the UN’s report on global warming evidence that is harmful to the anthropogenic global warming consensus.
  4. The scientists, when faced with a freedom of information act request for their correspondence and data, delete the correspondence and data lest it be used against them.
  5. The scientists fabricate data when their data fails to prove the earth is warming. In fact, in more than one case, scientists engaged in lengthy emails on how to insert additional made up data that would in turn cause their claims to stand out as legitimate.

Read the full story here.

Train Yourself For Godliness

1 Timothy 4:7-8 “Train yourself unto godliness; for while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way…”

Paul essentially tells Timothy to be at work in the spiritual gym. The word “train” is the Greek word “gumnaze” from where we get our word gymnasium. It is a mistake that we make to think that we can simply be spiritual without any effort or at least with minimal effort. A little 15 minute quiet time with prayer and reading the Word and we are invincible. Paul tells Timothy to TRAIN and makes as a comparison the physical training of the body. Timothy knew all too well the rigorous training that athletes went through and he would make the connection that Paul was saying, “In the same way athlete physically train, you need to spiritually train yourself.”

This is a slap in the face to the modern evangelical thinking of “I’ll just read my daily devotional from Oswald Chamber’s My Utmost for His Highest and I’ll be good to go–I’ll be close to Jesus and I’ll know His will.”

If only the Christian life were so simple and easy.

Top Ten NCAA College Basketball Home Winning Streaks

My quest was to find the longest home winning streaks for NCAA Division 1 College Basketball.  It took me so long to find the information that I figured I would post it on my blog and perhaps make someone else’s job a little easier.  Here are the Top 13:

#1 Kentucky – 129 games (1943-1955) (broken by Georgia Tech 59-58 in Memorial Coliseum on Jan. 8, 1955)

#2 St. Bonaventure – 99 games (1948-1961) (broken by Niagara 87-77)

#3 UCLA – 98 games (1970-1976) (broken by Oregon 65-45)

#4 Cincinnati – 86 games (1957-1964) (broken by Bradley 87-77)

#5 Arizona – 81 games (1945-1951) (broken by Kansas St. 76-57)

#5 Marquette – 81 games (1967-1973) (broken by Notre Dame 71-69)

#7 Lamar – 80 games (1978-1984) (broken by Louisiana Tech 68-65)

#8 Long Beach State – 75 games (1968-1974) (broken by San Francisco 94-84)

#9 UNLV – 72 games (1974-1978) (broken by New Mexico 102-98)

#10 Arizona – 71 games (1987-1992) (broken by UCLA 89-87)

#11 Kansas – 69 games (2008-2011) (broken by Texas 74-63)

#12 Cincinnati – 68 games (1972-1978) (broken by Georgia Tech 59-56)

#13 Western Kentucky – 67 games (1949-1955) (broken by Xavier 82-80 in overtime)

 

UPDATE: With KU’s win over UCLA (KU 77 – UCLA 76) the streak is now at 64.

UPDATE: With KU’s win over North Texas on 11-19-10, they have tied their team record of 62 consecutive home victories set back in the 90’s under Roy Williams.  The next home victory will break the record.  They have two challenging non-league home games–Memphis (currently ranked #19) and UCLA (I don’t care what their record is, UCLA is UCLA). NOTE: KU’s game with Memphis was at a neutral site not a home game.

UPDATE: Here are my thoughts on the Kansas Jayhawks getting into the Top 10 on this list.  Currently, they have a 59 game home winning streak.  They will not play another home game until next basketball season.  This year 2009-2010 they played 12 home games BEFORE league play began.  If they win all of those, and they should, they’d tie Arizona at #10.  As long as their non-league games don’t include some powerhouse (and it usually doesn’t) and they don’t play a high ranked team in league play the first few games, they have a legitimate shot at working their way up the Top 10 list.

They had 20 total home games this year.  If they have 20 more next season and won them all, they’d have a 79 home game winning streak.  My guess is that would place them in the top 5 or 6.  If they went unbeaten again the following season and played 20 home games, then they’d tie St. Bonaventure at #2.  That would be quite a feat in this day and age of basketball.