Really Smart People

"The British parliament's first avowedly atheist member, Charles Bradlaugh, would stride into public meetings in the 1880s, take out his pocket watch, and challenge God to strike him dead in 60 seconds. God bided his time, but got Bradlaugh in the end. "   .....Theodore Dalyrymple (Anthony Daniels)

There are some really really smart people writing in the world today. Anthony Daniels is one of them. He can be found online at city-journal.com. Another one of my talents is finding people who are smarter than I am and listening to what they have to say. Here is my list of the smartest people in the world today:
                            1. Robert Bork "Slouching Toward Gomorrah" - a must read
                            2. Anthony Daniels
                            3. David Berlinsky
                            4. George Will
                            5. Ravi Zacharias
                            6. R.C. Sproul
                            7. Ann Coulter
                            8. Michelle Malkin
                            9. Justice Clarence Thomas
                          10. David McCullough
Who am I missing? Tell me.

   

                FALL

It’s my favorite time of year.  Somehow it’s connected with food. PUMPKIN. One of my favorite treats of autumn. As my friend Holly said on facebook – Pumpkin spice lattes have arrived at Dunkin Donuts! And suddenly the world is a nicer place. There is something about the smell of pumpkin and spices mixed with coffee and the warmth of the cup in a cold hand that screams contentment. I had to give up caffeine otherwise it would scream fulfillment. I read about a guy who said that caffeine made him kill someone. Any coffee addict will tell you caffeine would not do that. The LACk of caffeine, however, could make you kill a bunch of people if they stood between you and your fix. Back when I was addicted we had an ice storm. No power for days. I drove three towns over, through downed power lines and tree limbs in a landscape that looked like a war zone to find a Dunkin Donuts that had power. In the book “Angela’s Ashes” (highly recommended- a must read!) Angela’s children are dying left and right and she becomes inured to it, but she really has a fit when she can’t buy coffee!

HOT APPLE CRISP with melty ice cream. Hey KLB, do you remember the Fryeburg Fair and the delicious Apple Crisp? You can’t really enjoy warm foods as much in the summer as in Fall and Winter. Of course there are good cold pumpkin foods too – Pumpkin Pie Blizzard at DQ. Pumpkin Chiffon Pie at Thanksgiving (secret recipe from S. Burns)

This year will be even better because we moved to a townhouse and will not have to rake leaves. YAY. We may have been one of the few families left who used no power equipment to get up the leaves. We also shoveled our own very long driveway. Better winter this year, too.

Evolution

Well, obviously I do not believe in evolution. I have proof, though, that it is a false theory. The proof is: cats and dogs. Cats and dogs did not come from a common ancestor - ask anyone who has ever had both. Ask a cat! Don't ask a dog. a dog might look at you and say, " hmmm...four legs, two eyes, fur...could be possible." Ask a cat. He will tell you there is no way EVER that he shared anything in common with a dog. He would tell you that a billion trillion years would not be enough for a dog to evolve into a cat.

We all know that back in the 1700's before microorganisms were known that some scientists believed in spontaneous generation when maggots suddenly appeared in rotten meat. They weren't stupid men, there were just things that existed that they couldn't see and had no knowledge of.

Today, scientists see an entire WORLD, for heaven's sake, and have decided that is just suddenly appeared out of nothing and that LIFE just suddenly appeared. The basis of the theory of evolution is the  mother of all spontaneous generation. Today's scientists believe in evolution  because they can't see God( just as scientists of old couldn't see microbes) and they're just as ridiculously wrong.

By Popular Demand

I am changing the name of my blog already." Loosely Connected Thoughts" seems to be more descriptive of the content 

Nature

We have about 700 acres of timber land in maine. We were there this past week-end to cut down a few trees for firewood for this winter. When we started to look for a tree to cut, suddenly they all looked so nice and pleasant where they were. Each seemed to have it's own personality and place in the world. I realized as I was walking and walking and saying , "no not that one" and my husband was beginning to look peeved - even then I realized I was being a lunatic - there are 700 acres of trees for crying out loud-but I couldn't help myself. This is actually a real talent I have - i am able to step outside myself and realize that I am being nuts. It doesn't usually stop me, but I do have the realization of it. We did find a couple to cut down. I yelled timber. my husband got the testosterone flowing as he used the chain saw.
We stayed overnight in a tent. When you get to be over 50 it is no longer possible to sleep comfortably on the ground. I heard coyotes yipping in the night. I peed behind a tree and wished I had a gun just in case a coyote jumped me. We also have bears on the land. i wouldn't even let myself think about that
When we got back to our house we turned on the TV. We only get two stations CBS and PBS. They have a lot in common- BS. I can't stand the CBS news. It is pure propaganda. I can't stand Katie Couric. I watched a hummingbird program on PBS even though it was the dreaded pledge week - the only time all year they put on the good shows. Anyway, it was interesting, but they had a YALE PROFESSOR on who had been the scientific resource person for the show (also married to the producer- how convenient) He was an evolutionary ornithologist. One of the things he actually said in explaining the evolution of coloring was   - "Fruit wants to be eaten" This is why I would never send any of my children to Yale. Once you start believing in evolution you can believe any darn thing - like that vegetation can have desires. The only other option would be the unthinkable notion that there was some kind of a plan for how things would work together- much easier to think fruit is colorful because it wants to be eaten.
My favorite Bible passages of all are at the end of Job when God speaks and tells him, "Stand up like a man!" and tells Job about His creation

All of the Good Blog Titles Were Taken

So here I am with the blog Teri Marie the name I absolutely loathed being called when I was a kid. My Mom had a friend who called me Teri Marie all of the time. She was a nice lady but I hated being called that. I hate it when people call their kids by their first and middle name when they are mad at them. Usually it is people who can't control their kids no matter waht they do and are grasping at straws with the two names. A lot of people say the first and last name of their kid when they are mad at said kid (note my phrasing Kyle Spangler!) Anyway, when my daughter was little we had a neighbor who did this a lot - "Frank Shaughnessy you stop hitting your sister with that stick!" So my daughter said to her sister one day, "Leslie Shaughnessy you stop that!" .ie. she thought that if a kid was bad you called them Shaughnessy.
Anyway, that's my name and That's my title. People think blogging is new, but actually, people have blogged for quite awhile, only they used to call it writing an essay. The difference is that the writing had to be better and it had to be really good to be published for someone else to read it. Case in point - E. B. White. Yes, he wrote Charlotte's Web, but he also wrote a bunch of essays (for the New Yorker, I think). his essays are just wonderful. If you want to make a new friend of a really interesting and thoughtful man, who unfortunately is already dead,  read the essays of EB White. I always cry when I read the one about going fishing with his son. Now that I have blogged a little bit I think I should change the title to "thoughts loosely connected" If you read this blog and start to notice that my thoughts aren't connected at all anymore please notify my husband so he can shoot me - speaking of which I'm going to learn how to shoot a 22 next week so i can kill coyotes if necessary.