"Why do people choose the substitute over God himself? Probably the most important reason is that it obviates accountability to God. We can meet idols on our own terms because they are our own creations. They are safe, predictable, and controllable; they are, in Jeremiah's colorful language, the 'scarecrows in a cornfield' (10:5). They are portable and completely under the user's control. They offer nothing like the threat of a God who thunders from Sinai and whose providence in this world so often appears to us to be incomprehensible and dangerous . . . [People] need face only themselves. That is the appeal of idolatry."
- David F. Wells
Thursday, April 7, 2011
If you are like me and wondering what is going on, read this article.
Silver Carp are an invasive species that are infesting midwestern waters. They are even now threatening the great lakes. They get spooked by boats and start jumping like that. So this video is quite funny, but in reality Silver Carp are bad news. (Some have taken to bowhunting them when they jump.)
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4. Shrode
- 04/10/2011 6:56 am CDT
You can eat them, but most Americans don't like them.
The Asian Carp are very dangerous. Just saw this news story.
Army Corps Activates Barrier to Stop Asian Carp
Published April 07, 2011
| Associated Press
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has fired up a new electric barrier designed to prevent Asian carp and other fish from migrating between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River watersheds.
The $19 million barrier is on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, part of a waterway network linking the two drainage basins.
It emits 15 electric pulses per second to repel fish and shock those that venture too close.
The device is one of three in the canal about 25 miles south of Lake Michigan. They're meant to keep huge, voracious Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes and starving out native fish.
With the new barrier activated, the Army Corps says one of the others will be taken down for maintenance within the next two months.
They are bad, bad, bad.
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You have given us another bring the family into the room to see the crazy video video. Good show.