This week, a Texas jury awarded somebody over $250 million dollars in a wonrgful death lawsuit, claiming the manufacturers of the once-popular painkiler Vioxx were to blame. The argument was made that Vioxx was to blame for the victim's fatal heart attack. The victim took Vioxx for a period of time, then died.

Well, if I die from a heart attack, maybe my wife can collect a billion dollars from a pig farm somewhere. After all, I have used the product Bacon for a while. And although the risks of Bacon have been rumored, if it was such a dangerous product, it would have been pulled from the shelves long ago, right? Don't the makers of Bacon label their deadly product "the other white meat"? Millions of citizens have been mislead into believing that Bacon is safe and effective, due to the manipulative efforts of the greedy Pig Industry, that no doubt supported the Bush campaign. The addictive nature of Bacon has been known to the general public all too long, why hasn't the government stepped in yet to intervene?

Of course, I'm sure I might be found with traces of coffee in my system too. I think the Coffee Industry has also been killing me all along. They need to pay a quarter billion dollars, too. Their all-natural stimulant has been peddled to innocent consumers, kept in the dark about the rumored possible link between coffee consumption and heart disease. Not to mention, they exploit racist classist stereotypes, showing that Juan Valdez guy with his donkey, which is also a very demeaning donkeyist protrayal of donkeys, I might add.

Come to think of it, I might have serious traces of cow in my system, being both a beef lover and a pretty heavy consumer of milk products in the form of lattes and breves, which speak volumes to the secret conspiracy between the Coffee Industry and the Milk Industry. Big Milk must pay.

So many people need to pay. After all, it's not like people just have heart attacks, right?

 So this week the world watched as undersea drama unfolded. A Russian mini-sub snagged on a fishing net, and the sub's seven passangers were trapped 650 feet down in the ocean.

Turns out the sub was snagged on not only a fishing net, but an undersea antenna cable.

That antenna cable is part of a previously super-secret Russian undersea warfare project.

My my, what were the odds that a mini-sub would accidentially run into a secret undersea cable? You think maybe just mabye the sub was involved ina project involving the cable? Oh, no, of course not! The sub was engaged in a routine training mission! Mini-subs always fritter along the bottom of the sea!

Well, at least the Russians got out alive, amen. Might not be a bad idea to mark the gps coordinates and go back to take a look at the mystery cable, though.

 I just came back from seeing "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" along with my daughter. Having seen the original back in my childhood, I had forgotten so much of the existentialist philosophy that marked the story. Although the movie was quite entertaining, it did bring with it an emptiness, it was like expericing  a vacuum of godlessness; it was like living life without Jesus. Meaningless.

The Book of Ecclesiastes covers one man's quest to know the purpose behind Life, the Universe, and Everything. That purpose is Jesus. Of course, that phrase made famous by Doug Adams and his book series offers little to explain our true purpose here. Man apart from God cannot explain our purpose. How can the created explain the thoughts and heart of the creator?

My hope is in the Beloved. I cannot look at the world around me and see anything but the perfect work of God and the corrupted work of man. I just cannot see how one could come to any other conclusion.

I explained to my daughter, what if I died from a heart attack? What if as I died, there was somebody next to me who knew CPR? And what if it turned out that this person knew CPR, but decided to do nothing, because they didn't believe in the CPR that they knew? How tragic would that be? I told her so it is with those who have heard of Jesus, yet refuse to believe in Jesus. To possess the truth, and to let it slip away, that is true tragedy.

The movie? It was entertaining. But then, if I were to look at the movie as one who was truly seeking the meaning of life, and all I got was that, I'd be just as lost and empty as when I started.

Jesus is God. Jesus is life. Jesus is Lord. For me, that is the end of the quest for the purpose behind life, the universe, and everything. You want to believe otherwise, go for it. We'll see who wins in the end.

 Today on Slashdot I read a thread that started out by mocking Intelligent Design. Typical responses in the article were acrimonious at best, and openly hostile on average. The typical accusation was that Intelligent Design was cheap disguise for religion, with there being no way to scientifically prove Intelligent Design.

I did look at many of the smarmy replies from the armchair paleoentologists, and noticed that these folks regard themselves as being the vanguards of science. What a joke. I'm sure so many of those folks who mock Intelligent Design also believe in the possibility of extraterrestrial life. Could we be the only possible occurance of intelligent life in the universe? Many folks in the scientific community are very receptive to the possiblity of other intelligent lifeforms out there.

I too believein extraterrestrial life. I believe there is concrete evidence of at least two non-human beings; one of them actually taking on human form a couple thousand years ago. I believe that what most folks would call "God" does in fact fit the description that the exo-planetary life seekers are looking for. Should we believe that an alien race is not possible? Is it not possible that the alien race sought by so many is in fact a father and son? Perhaps this other race is so vastly beyond ours that the father actually created the universe we live in? Should we not believe that the possibility of extraterrestrial life exists, and that the life has left it's mark on the planet, the signs of intellignent design being present at the atomic level right up to the arrangement of the galaxies?

The so-called "scientific" minds out there are the ones that seem to be clutching to a religion, the religion of secular humanism. They just cannot accept the possibility that what they see around them is the result of an itelligent agent of some sort; they just cannot accept the idea that homo sapiens is not the perfection of existence.

Even if you want to spit at the God of the Bible, how can you ignore the world around you?

Terri Schiavo died yesterday, after being starved to death. In a shameful display of arrogance, the US Supreme Court refused to hear the pleas of her parents; and the court took this stand repeatedly.

What other business was the Court conducting that was so important that they could not stop to prevent this young woman from being murdered by starvation? They were hearing a case about internet piracy and Grokster. Yeah, that sounds soooo much more important.

The Supreme Court has become the monster that the Founding Fathers feared it would become. Held to no standard but their own, the Supreme Court has turned from the role of interpreting law and instead has mutated into the role of the creators of law, by way of interpretation. How does one conclude that anybody has the right to refuse water to somebody for two weeks? I noticed that the court ruled that enemy detainees in Guantanamo Bay cannot be moved to a foreign nation without a court order. Great; the court has time to hear the case of murders who actively fight for the destruction of our nation, and by their ruling, they manufacture laws and rights that did not exist a day prior. Enemy combatants are granted rights. Terri was ignored. Enemies are pampered. Terri was starved to death.

If the Supreme Court does not like a law, they rule it unconstitutional. Why do we never hear of Congress ruling a Supreme Court decision unconstitutional? Where is the safeguard against abuse? There is none.

The time has come to abolish the Supreme Court as it exists and replace it with a system that is just as accountable as the Legislative and Executive branches of government. We cannot have our nation held hostage by a gaggle of unaccountable pseudo-gods.

My wife read a newspaper headline to me, a police department somewhere is stopping their use of the Taser stun gun. The Taser might be dangerous.
Well, I suppose the cops could go back to using their 9mm; 9mm is a pretty weak round. Certainly not as dangerous as that Taser. Riiiiight.