My father was the youngest of four brothers. The oldest died at Normandy, on D-Day. The second oldest died at Guadalcanal. The third oldest died in Korea. My father served in Korea in the U.S. Coast Guard, and survived. Both my brother and I attended military schools, and we were both prepared to enter the [...]
I don’t think I have ever been to a birthday party for a one-year-old child in America. I can’t even ever remember having heard of one before. It’s not that I have declined to attend, or that I’ve never been invited (for I haven’t), but I’ve never even heard of one. Here in The Philippines [...]
This is a question that had me thinking most of the time this week. I find it so controversial in the sense that the two subjects are virtually involved in every action that we take on a daily basis. Such a simple question to ask yet it’s something that most people do not even care [...]
Will the real Michael Turner please stand up? MOND and CDM CDM (Cold Dark Matter) is, in my opinion, a scientific misconception, a lot like the Theory of the Luminescent Aether (or “ether”).  Years ago, and I mean well over 100 years ago, people knew that light was a wave. Light was originally thought to [...]
On a recent visit to an expat American’s nipa hut residence, I witnessed what appreared to be a termite “bloom”. The local resident expert, another expat American, Jil Wrinkle, told us that what we were witnessing was a “termite bloom” and that it would only last about an hour, and then the termites would lose [...]
Another client came to town last week to visit our Philippines SEO Outsourcing business operations in Cagayan de Oro, and that meant a 2nd trip down the “advanced” course of the Cagayan de Oro River. We took four rafts for 20 people, plus we had two Filipino visitors from Sacramento, California, close to where my [...]
The devastation of The Earth by the pursuit for renewable energy sources, namely biofuel. I can’t help but notice there is a rice shortage in The Philippines and the government is having to import a shortfall of 2.7 million metric tons of foreign grown rice. But there is no shortage of biofuel. I do not [...]
If you don’t know who John Wheeler is, you should. He worked on the Manhattan Project, to create the atomic bomb. He coined the term “black hole” to describe the gravitation collapse of a dead star into a singularity, and the term “worm hole” to describe how matter might escape a black hole and reappear [...]
State of Fear, by Michael Crichton I have just finished the first novel I have read in…in I don’t know how long. In ten years or so. I generally just stick to non-fiction. Good books are hard to come by in The Philippines. Sure there are some good book stores in Manila, but there is [...]
In every single case where scripture has offered up some explanation about the real World that we live in and science also has something to say about the same issue, The Church has lost and science has provided us with a better, more suitable explanation. In the realm of nature, in the realm of explaining [...]