The Truth about Lemmings and Man

I want to talk about a "fascinating" subarctic creature known as a lemming.  Lemmings look like colorful, fat prairie dogs and live within the arctic circle (such as Norway) where food is not exactly at a premium.  There is a lot of controversy over lemmings due to a 1960's era documentary by Walt Disney Studios that staged a mass lemming suicide.  They did show an actual behavior, but staged it for the cameras and did not thoroughly explain it.  That staged documentary (which won an award by the way), has made many think that the mass lemming suicide is not real, but sadly it is.  They aren't actually trying to kill themselves however, but the result is the same.

Lemmings in fact are very good at two activities.  Eating and breeding lots and lots of more lemmings.  An average female can have between 9 to 11 offspring yearly.  On a good-weather year, they can literally breed all year round.  They usually have small migrations in search for food in most years, and they have a lot of natural predators that keep the populations down somewhat.   But their numbers still outgrow the level where there is sufficient food and resources.  And every four years or so, a very bizarre thing occurs that scientists still are at a loss to fully explain.

A small group of lemmings suddenly leaves the crowd and starts a migration... a mass migration!  The bulk (but not all or the species would die out) of the rest sees the leaders who "seem to know" where they are going and follows.  And follow they do, over land devouring plants and roots as they go.   When the group hits some barrier such as a stream or a log or some other roadblock, a mild panic-fear reaction sets in as they crowd gathers behind the leaders and they leap or swim through or over the obstacle.  Lemmings are actually very good swimmers.  This continues until they hit the end of the ice pack.  The leaders who have led the bulk of their kind up until now are put on the edge of a great precipice as the numbers of lemmings that have followed them gather and push at them slowly pushing them over the edge.  

The same mild panic-fear reaction that has served to get them through obstacles to get them this far kicks in again.  This time however, the leaders lead the others to an icy, watery death.  By the thousands, lemmings follow their leaders in jumping over the edge of the ice pack into the freezing waters below.  Being such good swimmers, they start swimming.  But there is no land to swim to.  The ice pack is far above them, and all that they can do is swim until hypothermia and exhaustion kills them one by one... and then hundred by hundred... and then thousand by thousand.  The lemmings commit mass suicide, though that was not their goal.  They thought that they were going where they could have more food to eat and make more baby lemmings.  They followed someone who acted like they knew the answer, but was just as clueless as the bulk of them... they just acted like they had some special knowledge of where to go and what to do.  Ignorance is not bliss, but instead usually leads to some disaster.  This is the truth behind the arctic lemmings.

People many times act like lemmings.  As a preacher of the gospel, I have pointed out in times past the foolishness of taking the advice from the world... who is heading in a direction of total destruction anyway.  How wise can they be?  I have pointed out scriptures that show us that we are to follow Christ an the Holy Spirit, and not the world.  In fact, we should not yoke ourselves our join our directions together with those who are of the darkness if we are truly of the light (2 Corinthians 6:14-17).


The news media machine has been used as a propaganda tool by some to make us think that some have the answers.  Some really interesting examples are Former Vice President Al Gore and his very imaginative film on Global Warming which uses a kind of science that I have never heard of before.  It sounds so very much like he knows what he is talking about that scientists have been caught jumping on board with him (their government grants probably had nothing to do with it, huh?  Right...) and has so misrepresented the data to the United Nations in such as way as they now call it Climategate (thank you President Nixon and Watergate for inspiring all the "...gates" that we have seen since your day).  The truth about climatic change is not nearly as many connected to the government have claimed, and the causes of changes certainly are not (the sun being the #1 factor which has been on the most part ignored in the debate).


Another flaming example that comes to mind was the way that the media portrayed our current President Obama as a super hero or savior of the world (serious Messiah Complex Issues), and it has become PAINFULLY clear that he is not the savior, or a messiah, or any kind of super hero.  He is a flawed human being, and not all-knowing.  He has an agenda (that was predictable if anyone had bothered to check up on his Socialist past and his voting record in politics) that has rubbed the majority of this country the wrong way.  The majority of this country has felt betrayed by much of its leadership as they totally ignored our will and pleas, and did what they wanted to do totally in opposition to the people's will.  We ignored the signs as a country, and elected them.  The media said that we needed them for a change, and the people swallowed it without considering just what kind of change was really coming.  People are more like lemmings than we like to admit.  I wonder how far ahead that final cliff is for the USA?


It seems that what you need is a time of stress for someone... anyone... to rise up and say I know the way to the promised land and the way where we can all prosper.  You see that in some Christian Television Evangelists who no longer preach the gospel of Jesus, but the gospel of Greed.  You are seeing that in politics.  And now, you are now seeing it within the scientific community who needs those grants to continue... and are willing to arrange the data in new and creative ways to get what someone who wants to mislead the public wants.

Lemmings and mankind have some very interesting points of kinship when you explore it.  The majority seems to be just running along after those who claim to be leading us to our salvation... but there is a precipice ahead.  Just how close are we to it?  We have a leadership that tells the world that you can attack us with WMD and we will not retaliate in like manner anymore... and trust to the terrorists' and the countries' (who despises us) good nature that they will not attack the United States.  Lemmings... the Lemming Leaders say that "we know the way!"  The way to what is the question!


I became a Christian because it made sense to believe... and there was a reality in God that was revealed to and in me.  Some people have a dead religion instead of a living Lord.  Some people's faith is blind, and they cannot answer why they believe what they do.  That is dangerous.  I believe what I do politically because it makes sense with the facts to believe it.  I don't because my mom and dad was affiliated with some party, or CNN and MSNBC tells me that some person or party has the answers.  If we are going to have some real answers, they won't come through any political party folks.  I don't want to be an unthinking lemming that just follows someone because they sound good or have good press.   The fall of nations historically have followed exactly that pattern.  


I am not a lemming.  I admit, I am a sheep.  Sheep are not overly intelligent, either.  But I know enough to listen to the Good Shepherd (read St. John 10), and follow His voice.  I have found that this works... men will lead you to ruin, God will lead you where you can rest, be healed, eat and drink and have goodness and mercy follow you.  I refuse to be a lemming and just follow the crowd until we all get pushed off of the cliff!  I am going in these troubled times, to follow my Good Shepherd.  Hey, he calls us by name and has already given His life for us in love.  That is the Good Shepherd.  Try following Him instead of some other lemming.  How close are you to the edge?  Who have you been following?  Do they really know what is best, or do they have a hidden agenda.  I don't like hidden agendas.  Or are they just talented at sounding like they know what they are doing?  Are you a sheep or a lemming?  Mankind will wind up acting like one or the other.


Jim Coldiron

Sunspot Activity NIL, Earth Weather calmest in 10 Years

Our weather is according to NOAA Storm Prediction Center, about the lowest that we have had in 10 years.  Even Matt Drudge made a point of pointing this out.  This is interesting after the claims of "some" that we would have a horrific Spring Weather due to global warming... ahem.  


I would like to point out that we are on our ninth day without sunspots, and that our sun is running cooler than normal with very little extra activity.  There is a gentle solar wind causing some upper latitude auroras.  But they are the gentle, wispy type.  Take a look at http://www.spaceweather.com for some beautiful pictures of what it is doing at the pole.  


There is becoming more and more of an obvious connection to strong solar activity with global warming, and quiet solar activity leading to global cooling.  I think that there is probably a connection to coronal holes and their streams to certain tectonic events as well with the excitation of the Earth's core through the magnetic field.  I think that it does not take a lot to see that there are connections to the solar activity and interactions with the Earth and its magnetic field system to both weather and tectonic events.


But for now, its quieter than normal.  So, enjoy a Spring with fewer hailstorms and tornadoes this year, and be thankful for it because this too shall pass eventually.  Take the family out on a picnic if you can and take some time to enjoy nature.  Take time to live, and try to forget the worries and stresses.  Enjoy the season while you can and be thankful.


James

Anyone ever notice Blog It's

tendency to post multiple blogs when you try to publish a blog from Facebook?  I just had to delete 4 extra blogs... as if I am not long-winded enough, but to post it 5 times was kind of extreme.  At least I think it is.  I just started this blog on Blogger, and to see that I had that many blogs online kind of blew my mind until I saw that they were just copies of the one I tried to import from Facebook.  Think I will just come here next time.

Funny...

FireStorm

The Sun: the real culprit in both Global Warming and Cooling

The Sun... the real culprit in both Global Warming and Global Cooling.

Anyone who thinks and has had anything past an entry-level class in Environmental Sciences, probably understands that we have been had by both governments and by scientists who depend upon government grants. I can still remember (and have somewhere still in my possession) charts showing CO2 emissions and their effect on the climate throughout history. Do you realize that the past 5000 years has been so stable climatically that it is an aberration when you compare it to the rest of the Earth's history according to fossil records. The past 5000 years (basically since the Great Flood) has been stable, and what you see is an up and down pattern in temperatures that are controlled primarily by the sun, and to a far lesser degree by volcanic activity.

Understand that I believe that we need to be good stewards of the Earth. I believe in keeping our water and air as clean as possible, and that we need to be smart about what we are doing. But I also know that the reality of the studies (the ones that aren't politically motivated) shows that mankind's most massive CO2 emissions do not even compare to what the Earth puts out in volcanic eruptions. And the worst ones that we have seen as a race has not changed climate majorly more than 10 to 50 years at the most. The Earth has a system that regulates it back into balance after a while. And our emissions aren't enough to make a dent in that system.  Pollutions do cause a lot of damage to the Earth and its ecosystems, but not on that much to climate.

BUT THE SUN IN THAT SYSTEM IS MORE THAN ABLE TO BRING EITHER GLOBAL WARMING AND MELTING, OR AN ICE AGE DEPENDING ON ITS OUTPUT!

Some quick points (check me out, its true): the atmosphere is cleaner now in the past 10 years than it had been in decades. In fact, around 2004 or 2005, it was remarked how bright and clear the Earth's atmosphere looked to satellite pictures compared to the past going back to the 1960's because frankly, the atmosphere was a lot cleaner from pollutions than it had been since then. If the air is cleaner the past decade, then why the higher temps in many places?

Around the year 2000, the sun entered a time or instability and became hotter. We had greater solar flares (both in size and in sheer numbers), and every planet in the solar system with a climate became hotter and its weather destabilized. Mars had a year long sand storm where you could not see the planet's surface. Jupiter's great storm (the Red Spot) had a new friend join it in the form of a new superstorm or red spot that had never existed before.

Note that our CO2 emissions had absolutely no effect on Mars or Jupiter. I know, it was our Mars Rovers polluting its atmosphere, right?  Well, reality check:  our CO2 emissions had nothing to do with Mars or Jupiter, and yet they had greater climatic changes than the Earth had. I wonder why? Duh... could it be solar emissions?

New technology was patented to put a layer of aluminum oxide scattered in jet fuel to shield the atmosphere from excessive solar radiation. If the alarmists were correct about the "chemtrails" of jets in the last 1990's through the mid-2000's, then I would say that their efforts was wasted. It still got hotter in most places, even with the ugly white chemtrails over head every single day. I got to where I missed seeing just a blue sky in that time. Something was going on. But it did not work.

A genius gave the idea recently of putting up gas powered hoses into the upper atmosphere and pumping particles into the upper atmosphere to deflect the solar radiation at a bare fraction of the price the United Nations are promoting. It would not make us do without electricity or cars or industry, but keep the extra solar radiation out on a budget even a small nation could afford. OF COURSE HE WAS IGNORED BECAUSE IT BOTH MADE SENSE AND IT UNDID WHAT THEY ARE REALLY TRYING TO DO.

Last point before we go to the conclusion. In the last year or year an a half, the sun has gone quiet on the most part. It cooled down and the solar storms diminished in frequency and LO AND BEHOLD: WE HAD A COOLER SUMMER AND A NORMAL WINTER IN MOST PARTS OF THE WORLD!

Al Gore claims the bad Winter storms are a sign that we are going through Global Warming (as even Bill Clinton poked fun at). Okay doc, the thing is... the sun is quieter, so the weather is cooler. IT DOES NOT TAKE A GENIUS TO FIGURE IT OUT. IT JUST TAKES SOMEONE WHO DOES NOT HAVE A VESTED INTEREST IN PROMOTING THE IDEA OF GLOBAL WARMING (or someone who has not swallowed the brainwashing on the topic). Have you noticed that most people are afraid to buck the official stance of Global Warming? That is not science.

Look at the patterns over the centuries... it is normal to have ups and downs. It is solar mostly in nature that brings those changes. WE CANNOT CONTROL THE SUN, THAT IS GOD'S BUSINESS.

I just read about a new book coming out this week on this very topic. Brian Sussman is releasing a book on Earth Day (Thursday) called Climategate! I believe I shall buy me a copy. We have been hoodwinked, folks! We have been conned, and some of us who knew a little bit about the Environment already knew that we were being lied to. I watched Mr. Gore's film and felt like yelling at it because I felt betrayed. WHY BETRAYED? Because I have always caught flak for being something of an Environmentalist myself, and here these guys are lying about the Earth and using fear to manipulate people according to their own agenda in the name of the Environment.

How do you think that people are going to react when they figure out that they have been lied to? How protective of the environment will they be then? Its wrong.... pure and simple. They want to shut down power grids and make people totally reliant on government... make slaves (more than they are already that is) of the people out of FEAR.

There is a hidden agenda here, and we need to expose it as quickly and as completely as possible so that the people of the land can see the truth before they get the hood all the way over our heads.

Jim Coldiron

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

SEDITION? REALLY? A Worrisome Historical Parallel

Sedition? Really? I want to talk about the: “Parallels with the time before the American Revolution and today.”

TIME Magazine’s columnist Joe Klein accused Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck of coming lose to committing sedition against the United States Government. This is especially asinine when you try to apply this to Sarah Palin. The right that we have to protest when we see government doing things that are unconstitutional is being taken away. If we complain, then we become guilty of sedition. Free speech is taken away. The right to “peaceful protest” is being taken away.

It reminded me of the way that the British Crown was treating American Colonists just before the American Revolution. Laws were made to make certain British Wealth wealthier, while it made life harder on the colonists. The British officials who found it easy to break their own rules when it suited them, but enforce unfair ones on colonists became insufferable to the people who were carving a life out of the wilderness. And when they dared to say that the authorities were being unfair, that word, “sedition” was often used to shut them up in fear. Fear soon turned to frustration, and frustration turned to anger, and anger turned into a revolution.

A series of acts such as The Proclamation of 1763 and the Currency Act made life more difficult and destabilized the colonies. A series of Taxes from the Sugar Tax to the Stamp Tax to the infamous Tea Tax made hard colonial life many, many times harder than it already was. It was like taking from the poor in order to pay for the forces that were oppressing them (as the Quartering Tax directly did).

There are a number of incidents as the British fail to understand the temperament, attitudes, feelings, and lives of the colonists. They would not listen. British Rule became more and more oppressive and the colonists were pushed more and more into a corner. Laws and taxes were enacted without any regard of what it was doing to the colonies or what they thought at all. Does this sound familiar at all?

Think about the recent American Health Care Reform Law, and how the majority of Americans asked and even begged Congress and the President NOT to make it into law in its present form. Oh, we need health care reform, but not this! Think about the anger and frustration that has arisen. Think about how anyone from the middle to the Conservative Right has been polarized into a single group because their government is no longer working for the people, but is acting more and more like some other kind of government than the Republic we know and love.

See, people who are connected to the TEA PARTY on the most part are good people who are frustrated with not being represented by their Representatives and for out of control government and spending, and our Constitution being trampled on. They are not just the ultra-conservative Right and white middle class, but you will find all races and many social groups represented. This is becoming quickly a grassroots movement that is threatening to become a majority in this country. It certainly isn't some little isolated group. They represent a large portion of our country.

The liberal news propaganda machine is fighting tooth and toenail trying to make it look like some reactionary dangerous movement. The truth is that the current administration has birthed the Tea Party in protest. Our President and the majority of a liberal Congress, through their actions, have brought “the people” together to oppose their arrogance and stubbornness. They are to blame for the Tea Party. Oppression has always rallied the people in a desire for liberty. It is only now beginning to be understood that it is our liberty that is being attacked.

Not only does the majority already want a change in most of Congress and our President, but a new poll shows that 4 out of 5 Americans do not trust their government. Things certainly have changed in a year's time, hasn't it?

It isn’t sedition. It is reality. Many of us do not trust our government because they have shown themselves capable of moving in ways totally against the will of the people. That is not their function or place.

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S : "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."?

When the people rise up and say, “NO, do not make this law!”, and you use every dirty political trick to see pass it into law anyway, what has happened? When the checks and balances of Congress and the President does not work and laws totally against what the people are calling for are brought into being in the midst of great protest, what has happened? When people who dare to question a government that has taken on the traits of an oppressive state are said to be seditious, then what has happened?

This is not the same United States of America that I grew up in. This is not the same USA of the American Constitution. This is not Lincoln’s Union. Something dark has occurred and people are now waking up to it, and they are not pleased.

When someone DARES to SPEAK THE TRUTH, then are they indeed guilty of sedition? If it is sedition, then sedition against who? It is certainly not sedition against this country which is built upon the Constitution of the United States. There are no calls for armed revolt or attacking the government. But an administration that uses disinformation and propaganda and lies is afraid of those who speak truth.

Truth is only the enemy of someone who clothes themselves and their actions in lies.

There are heartbreaking parallels to the way that the people of the United States are coming together and the way that the colonists did in Pre-Revolutionary America. When the people recognize that they are being lied to, and they are attacked by both government and media when they dare to speak their minds, then they will not stand for it. This country has a long history of the people shaking themselves off and making stands for good causes in the face of tyranny. Is it tyranny yet? Hmmmm… I shall let the reader decide for themselves. But it does not look good if things continue as they are going now. The sheer amount of U.N. troops on U.S. soil, and the arrogant way that the administration treats the common citizen who disagrees with them is reminiscent of the British Empire in Colonial America.

Those who live in lies will hate the bringer of truth. And they will cry “sedition” when someone dares to expose them. It would seem that America has become a place where you can get away with such attacks against people who point out truth. THIS IS NOT SEDITION. There is no armed revolt being called for… but there is a call back to sanity. I love my country. I love what the United States was founded on… liberty! Where is it today?

Is it sedition to ask for our country back?

-James Dale Coldiron

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

First Blog

I have a number of blogs on my YUKU account at Warriors of God, and on my Myspace account. But I needed a central place where I could blog and enter the actual blogosphere. I added a comment to one the other day on a Blogger account and liked the format, so I have decided that this is the new home of the Voice of the Watchman blog.

Some of these will be random thoughts by me... personal stuff. And some will be Christian messages that I want to share outside of the Warriors of God Forums or the Voice of the Watchman website. Some will be political concerning current events and/or historical events. I needed a place where I could express myself freely on politics outside of the ministry websites. There is a difference in Christian ministry and getting on your soapbox talking about politics.

The Voice of the Watchman is a strictly Christian website with only Bible Study materials. And although there is a Current Events Forum and a Commentary forum on Warriors of God, there are limits that you can go on that because it is still a Christian Forum. Here, I can just tell you what is on my mind even in politics. It is neutral ground.

So... expect some meanderings. Some will be larger, and some just a paragraph or two... but I will try my best to daily leave something here.

I am new to Blogger, but I would like to post the links on the page to both VOTW and WOG here. I will be linking back to here from there for sure.

So, to whomever shall read this... feel free to respond back. Give me feedback. I have been doing this on forums for a long, long time and I enjoy feedback of all kinds.

Jim