Free-For-All Friday

Summer Sister Bash + Facing Illness + Puppy Chow + Brilliant Einstein

Sister Bash 2018

According to my calculations, there are 78 days left until the Summer 2018 Hill Sister Bash. We understand that when The Sisters get together for their Bash, it is the wishes of The Sisters that rule. Those of us who are camp followers must meekly bow to their inclinations. I would like to remind them, however, that I am a Hill by virtue of my relation to the Handel's. Carmen (Handel) Hill & David have 3 children & 3 grand-children. My relation to the Hills via Carmen thereby renders me a Hill. I am a cousin to both their kids & grandkids. Although I don't rank as high as brother David, I should fall into the next tier of honor.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY:  FACING PHYSICAL ILLNESS

“We rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance.”  Rom. 5:3

“This does not mean that we are happy about being hurt or ill. But when physical illness strikes us, we can still find joy in the anticipation of God’s work within & through us in those difficult circumstances.”  At the Crossroads: Devotions for Lent, by David Kehret, Creative Communications for the Parish, 2016.

There Is No Place Like . . . Colorado

From USA Today State-by-State (4/13):  "Colorado State University unveiled its new campus craft brewery, Ramskeller. The 264-gallon brewing system is the largest housed at any 4-year university in the country.

Michigan

Ditto (4/13):  "World War II veteran Ralph Taylor received his high school diploma from Greenville High School at age 90. He graduated from the school in 1945 but was called to serve in the U.S. Navy 2 days before his commencement ceremony.

Food for Thought

From Omaha World Herald (4/23):  "Man's best friend shouldn't become a meal, lawmaker says. Yes, you can eat dog or cat for lunch in most states. Or dinner. Or anytime. Unless Congress acts on a new plan that would subject anyone who kills those animals for human consumption to a jail term & up to a $2,500." COMMENT:  This bill is facing sharp criticism & intense lobbying from P.E.T.C.C. *
* People for the Ethical Treatment of Canine Connoisseurs

Cornhusker Climatology

From Norfolk Daily News (4/10):  "A skeptic or a believer? Princeton professor makes argument Einstein would have had serious doubts about global warming . . . Will Happer, a professor of physics at Princeton University, weighed in on that question recently. His answer is that, yes, Einstein would have been a skeptic based on a rich legacy of quotes from the scientist himself that reveals insight into his thinking. Consider the oft-repeated claim that 97% of scientists support global-warming alarmism. 'Einstein would have remembered the famous attack on himself--A Hundred Scientists against Einstein, published in Germany in 1931.' His response was, 'If I were wrong, one would have been enough.'

"Or take the oft repeated statement by climate alarmists:  'The science is settled.' Science, & especially a scientific topic as complicated as the Earth's climate is never settled. No astronomer, for example, would ever say the world knows everything about the universe. As Einstein put it, 'We still do not know 1,000th of 1% of what nature has revealed to us."  COMMENT:  I have just made Albert Einstein a posthumous member of the CBCT. *
* Cornhusker Blog Consultation Team.