"Controversial" Survey (as seen on myspace)

Do you have the guts to answer these Q's and re-post as The Controversial Survey? YES

Would you do meth if it was legalized? NO

Abortion: for or against? CATEGORICALLY AGAINST

Would our country fall with a woman president? NO.  THOUGH I AM AGAINST THE IDEA OF A FEMALE PUBLIC SERVANT/OFFICER, OUR NATION MORE THAN LIKELY WOULD NOT FALL BECAUSE OF A SINGLE FEMALE PRESIDENT

Do you believe in the death penalty? YES

Do you wish marijuana would be legalized already? YES BUT ONLY FOR MEDICAL PRESCRIPTIONS

Do you believe in God? YES AS EXPLAINED BY THE ORIGINAL WESTMINSTER STANDARDS

Do you think same sex marriages should be legalized? NO

Do you think its wrong that so many Hispanics are moving to the USA? NO AS LONG AS THEY ARE LEGAL IMMIGRANTS/TRANSPLANTS

A 12 year old girl has a baby..should she keep it? YES BUT ONLY UNDER THE CLOSE SUPERVISION OF A MATURE ADULT

Should the alcohol age be lowered to 18? YES

Should the war in Iraq be called off? NO

Assisted suicide is illegal...do you agree? YES (IT IS ALSO NON-BIBLICAL.)

Do you believe in spanking your children? I DON'T HAVE CHILDREN YET, BUT YES, I WILL SPANK THEM IF CIRCUMSTANCES WARRANT.

Would you burn an American flag for a million dollars? NO UNLESS IT WAS A DIGNIFIED, SOLEMN, PRIVATE DISPOSAL OF A WORN, TATTERED FLAG

A mother is declared innocent after murdering her 5 children in a temporary insanity case? NO. I BELIEVE THIS PARTICULAR CASE WARRANTS THE DEATH PENALTY. IN ANY CASE, THE PERSON (JUST AS THE REST OF US) WILL EVENTUALLY HAVE TO APPEAR BEFORE THE PERFECT, SUPREME JUDGE OF THE UNIVERSE (GOD) WHO CANNOT BE DECIEVED AND WHO WILL JUDGE RIGHTEOUSLY AND WITH PERFECT JUSTICE.

Are you afraid others will judge you from reading some of your answers? NOT REALLY. I FEAR GOD MORE THAN MAN.

The deplorable spiritual state of the world

A man put his very soul on web auction:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080702/ap_on_fe_st/odd_soul_auction

Thankfully, the auction site cancelled the auction.  However, it among people actually selling their lives and now souls to other humans who can't save them is quite unbiblical.    If you want to sell your soul, sell it to Jesus Christ who is God, who is the Lamb without blemish, who already paid the enormous debt for your sin, and who alone can ransom your soul from Hell (Rom. 6:23, Rom. 5, Eph. 2:1-8).

In the meantime....

TCA Charter #1 (30/Dec/2005)

Commemorating Event: My Sister's Wedding in VA and Honeymoon in Costa Rica

Aircraft: Airbus 320-200

SJO-HSE (San Jose, Costa Rica - Hatteras, NC)    3.5 hours, 33000 feet

HSE-RDU (Hatteras, NC - Raleigh-Durham, NC)  0.7 hours, 16000 feet

RDU-CUR (Raleigh-Durham, NC - Curacao, Netherlands Antilles)  3.1 hours, 33000 feet

TCA Charter #2 (Jun/2007)

Commemorating Event:  Closest CLC Friend's Wedding, Jamaican Honeymoon, and Argentine Reception

Aircraft:  Boeing 747-400

RIC-BWI  (Richmond, VA - Baltimore, MD)    0.7 hours, 15000 feet

BWI-MBJ (Baltimore, MD - Montego Bay, Jamaica)     3.2 hours, 34000 feet

MBJ - EZE (Montego Bay, Jamaica - Buenos Aires, Argentina)    7.4 hours, 33000 feet

EZE - BWI (Buenos Aires, Argentina - Baltimore, MD)    10.0 hours, 34000 feet

BWI - RIC (Baltimore, MD - Richmond, VA)   0.8 hours, 15000 feet

NOTE:   The Flight Simulator (MS Flight Sim 2004 and MS Flight Sim X) used real world weather downloaded from Jeppesen.

Tradewind Caribbean Airlines (TCA) Charter #3

My symbolic flight from the LDS cult to Protestant Reformed Christainity in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004.   It uses my Virtual Airline Tradewind Caribbean Airlines, and the aircraft is a Boeing 767-300ER.  I'll display flight times after I complete the charter.

CUR-SLC (Curacao, Netherlands Antilles - Salt Lake, UT) - Ferry flight

SLC-GVA (Salt Lake, UT - Geneva, Switzerland) - Fleeing the cult

GVA-EDI (Geneva, Switzerland - Edinburgh, Scotland)

EDI - AMS (Edinburgh, Scotland - Amsterdam, Netherlands)

AMS - AUA (Amsterdam, Netherlands - Aruba, Netherlands Antilles) - Ferry flight

Weekend Dreams

It seems that if I think about something deeply or have a conversation on it during the day, it forms the substance of some of my dreams.   When I and Christian friend visited an older Christian friend in the hospital, the older friend (also keen on aviation) asked me how a wing makes an airplane fly.   So, I explained wind speed, angle of attack, and Total Pressure as it relates to an airfoil shape (the wing cross-section shape) and how those 3 things provide lift to the wing.   Fighter planes (F-14, F-15, F-18, F-35, and F-4) entered the conversation later in addition to the reconnoissance plane SR-71.   After the hospital visit, my friend and I left and went to his home for fellowship.   His niece is very interested in aviation and showed my styrofoam and balsa wood planes she had, and we played with the planes and discussed how they fly (in children's terms).  She also shared about their visit to the Air & Space Museum at Dulles, VA.   The museum as a real SR-71 in addition to Space Shuttle, Concorde, and other planes.

I had a dream about flight on Saturday night:

1.  I was flying in an SR-71 (the fastest plane in the world at an unclassified speed of Mach 3) at the perfect vertical perpendicular to the Earth's surface.   I don't remember it landing or crashing.

2.  I was flying in an F-15 Eagle fighter jet (the fastest American fighter) as a tourist in a sightseeing flight.  The pilot weaved through very steep and very narrow canyons and passed an SR-71 heading the opposite direction within the same canyon and at the same altitude.    The pilot was too high on the final approach, landed at the runway's mid-length (overshoot), and had to veer right into the short grass to avoid running into a highway and nearby spectators.