I got gas while I was out this morning. The person who used that pump before me bought $10 worth. Did he make it home?
At the pump in front of me was a MazdaSpeed3. I was a little surprised at the noise it didn’t make when he started it up. A low note, but pretty quiet. Needs some good aftermarket pipes to improve both sound and performance.
I’ve put that on my list of upgrades for when I get mine.
What can be said about the situation in Japan? So sad. They’re now talking about whole villages that may have disappeared.
The Arab league voted unanimously to ask NATO to implement a no-fly zone over Libya. That’s remarkable. I can’t imagine how they’ll eliminate flies over a whole country when we can’t manage to keep our house free of the little pests.
Michelle’s parents are in town for a visit and will attend Pathway tomorrow. They attend a traditional Christian Reformed Church in Michigan so culture shock may be an issue. I didn’t think about their presence when I picked the music for the morning. Perhaps I should have, because now when I look at them....
In the “who would have guessed?!” department, the first results of the 2010 U.S. census were released this week and believe it or not, it shows that builders put up too many homes here in the last decade. The state’s population rose 25% from 2000 to 2010 while the number of homes increased 30%. And it’s worse than those figures make it look. The average American home, including houses, condos and apartments, serves as the primary resident for three people. So that 25% population increase warrants only an 8% increase in housing units. Some of those units are second homes used only part of the year and that mitigates the imbalance some but they still overbuilt by a huge margin. And that explains why some metro-Phoenix neighborhoods have home vacancy rates of 20%. Think about driving down a neighborhood street where one of every five homes is empty, and almost certainly bank owned.
How ‘bout a virtual art museum? Here’s Google’s new Art Project, offering images from some of the finest museum’s in the world with zoom capabilities.
If there’s time after we talk about the 10th Commandment in Foundations tomorrow we’ll tackle the following:
Agree/Disagree: It’s appropriate for Christians to press for biblical values (viz. the 10 Commandments) in American society.
Anyone who lived during the Holy Roman Empire (I was born three years after its end) knows the trouble that comes with the merging of church and state. Think the Crusades and the Inquisition, never mind the profane wealth of the church. So does legislating morality amount to legislating religion in the form of religious values and principles and inappropriately blend church and state?
Discuss.
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