A Green Shoots nominee, without a doubt. A wonderful contrast to the darkness visited upon the culture by WeimarBen, Timmy, the ECB, and the ClownCircus.
Steve Saint, the son of a missionary doctor, one of that group of four murdered by tribesmen in South America in the late fifties (another story, another day--or look up 'Jim Elliott), has created what appears to be a workable drive/fly auto.
This promotional video was produced about his drive from Florida to Oshkosh, Wisconsin, about 1500 miles. It's street-legal, with Florida tags. 0-60 in under four seconds, about 25 mpg, and with the wing deployed, and its push-prop enganged, it flies about 40 mph. Wouldn't want to run into a thunderstorm with it, but hey!--look at this thing, ya'll! It really could have a lot of uses. It can be fitted with pontoons, and run over water. It can drive over ice. There are a lot of hard-to-reach places in this country, and this could reach them, especially when roads are closed.
Not an Obama recovery sign to be seen on it. Wonder why....wonder why....
And his real reason to develop and market it? To be able to fund production of this sort of aircraft for missionary pilots in the bush and jungles--for humanitarian relief.
A big cheer for these folks. Let's just hope the soulless beings who run our guv'mint don't take too much notice.
We wouldn't want both entreprenurial spirit and Christian Charity to have a chance to flourish in the open now, would we? Folks might get all ambitious and uppity, decide they can do without Himself, Ben, Timmy and Big Sis.
They might (OMG!!) succeed.
Jest sayin'...
In the meantime, the boys at Top Gear could have a ball with this! Imagine The Stig behind the wheel...or perhaps Captain Slow!
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Sunday, November 21, 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
A Transposition of Good and Evil: Thoughts From Malcolm Muggeridge
Yesterday's browse through the local antique shop yielded a real treasure, a copy of A Twentieth Century Testimony, published in 1978 by Thomas Nelson (ISBN 0-8407-5143-5). Intended more as a 'coffee-table' pictorial book than a real literary work, it features the words and images of Malcom Muggeridge, the prolific British journalist and author. He passed from this earth in 1990, but in his day, never failed to stir the cultural pot with his command of the written and spoken word.
Muggeridge, to the surprise of many, embraced Christianity as his only hope, and the world's only hope, in the late 1960's. He introduced much of the West to Mother Teresa, and championed Solzhenitsyn when he was shunned on both sides of the Iron Curtain.
OldSouth keeps a copy of Muggeridge's little masterpiece The End of Christendom close by, and revisits it annually. (The link takes you to Amazon, so you can order your own copy...hint, hint...)
He wrote prolifically for over sixty years, yet these words taken from yesterday's purchase are amongst his most luminous and pithy:
Good and evil provide the theme of the drama of our mortal existence. In this sense, they may be compared with the positive and negative points which generate an electric current. Transpose the points and the current fails, the light go out, darkness falls, and all is confusion.
The darkness falling on our civilization is likewise due to a transposition of good and evil. In other words, what we are suffering from is not an energy crisis, nor an overpopulation crisis, nor a monetary crisis—from none of these ills that are commonly pointed out—but from a loss of a sense of moral order in the universe. Without that, no order whatsoever—economic, social, or political—is attainable.
For Christians, order is derived from that terrific moment, when, while all things were in quiet silence and that night was in the midst of her swift course, thine almighty Word leaped down from heaven out of thy royal throne, leaped down to dwell among us, full of grace and truth. It was thus that Christendom came into existence, and to abandon or repudiate the almighty Word from which it is derived would be infallibly to wind up two thousand years of history and ourselves with it.
Have a good rest of the month, and keep your chin-straps on.
Muggeridge, to the surprise of many, embraced Christianity as his only hope, and the world's only hope, in the late 1960's. He introduced much of the West to Mother Teresa, and championed Solzhenitsyn when he was shunned on both sides of the Iron Curtain.
OldSouth keeps a copy of Muggeridge's little masterpiece The End of Christendom close by, and revisits it annually. (The link takes you to Amazon, so you can order your own copy...hint, hint...)
He wrote prolifically for over sixty years, yet these words taken from yesterday's purchase are amongst his most luminous and pithy:
Good and evil provide the theme of the drama of our mortal existence. In this sense, they may be compared with the positive and negative points which generate an electric current. Transpose the points and the current fails, the light go out, darkness falls, and all is confusion.
The darkness falling on our civilization is likewise due to a transposition of good and evil. In other words, what we are suffering from is not an energy crisis, nor an overpopulation crisis, nor a monetary crisis—from none of these ills that are commonly pointed out—but from a loss of a sense of moral order in the universe. Without that, no order whatsoever—economic, social, or political—is attainable.
For Christians, order is derived from that terrific moment, when, while all things were in quiet silence and that night was in the midst of her swift course, thine almighty Word leaped down from heaven out of thy royal throne, leaped down to dwell among us, full of grace and truth. It was thus that Christendom came into existence, and to abandon or repudiate the almighty Word from which it is derived would be infallibly to wind up two thousand years of history and ourselves with it.
Have a good rest of the month, and keep your chin-straps on.
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