The Aquatic Life of Cozumel

Turtles, Turtles, Turtles, Shark!

Saw many turtles this very rainy Friday./  Rained all day due to tropical storm Alex.  New experience . . . diving in an all-day rain.  The turtles came out.  We saw six turtles, two large ones on the first dive, four on the second dive.  Good stuff!  The video is outstanding.  Oh yes, a nurse shark and lobster were also in our visual in-take.  Look what you are missing.

All the best to you!

Death ... Almost

We almost died ... eaten alive by this towel animal!  Wish you weren't here.  Perhaps you won't be here next year.  More diving today.  The internet only works in the morning and around noon.  Brandon made it down fine and dove three times today.  Good stuff!  Talk to you when I can.

The Breakfast Tree

Well, here I am once again in Cozumel.  Using Aqua Safari as my dive shop and Casa Mexicana as the Hotel.  Not a bad combo.  I like the bold architecture of the Mayan people and the influence upon the Mexican construction.  Cut your heart out and let it beat before your eyes.  I sit next to this pillar as I eat wonderful tasty eggs and bacon.  Not much worthless fruit, yet the OJ is out of this world.  I will show your eyes some towel animals soon.  Everyday a new animal.  By for now!  More diving tomorrow!  Here's a look at a barracuda, eel, and crab!  No, that's me, the crab is on the right.  Da!

David Crockett, Charity, and Congress

"Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have."

"It is not the amount, Colonel, that I complain of; it is the principle. In the first place, the Government ought to have in the Treasury no more than enough for its legitimate purposes. But that has nothing to do with the question. The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be entrusted to man, particularly under our system of collecting revenue by a tariff, which reaches every man in the country, no matter how poor he may be, and the poorer he is the more he pays in proportion to his means. What is worse, it presses upon him without his knowledge where the weight centers, for there is not a man in the United States who can ever guess how much he pays to the Government. So you see, that while you are contributing to relieve one, you are drawing it from thousands who are even worse off than he. If you had the right to give anything, the amount was simply a matter of discretion with you, and you had as much right to give $20,000,000 as $20,000. If you have the right: to give to one, you have the right to give to all; and, as the Constitution neither defines charity nor stipulates the amount, you are at liberty to give to any and everything which you may believe, or profess to believe, is a charity, and to any amount you may think proper. You will very easily perceive, what a wide door this would open for fraud and corruption and favoritism, on the one hand, and for robbing the people on the other. No, Colonel, Congress has no right to give charity. Individual members may give as much of their own money as they please, but they have no right to touch a dollar of the public money for that purpose. If twice as many houses had been burned in this county as in Georgetown, neither you nor any other member of Congress would have thought of appropriating a dollar for our relief. There are about two hundred and forty members of Congress. If they had shown their sympathy for the sufferers by contributing each one week's pay, it would have made over $13,000. There are plenty of wealthy men in and around Washington who could have given $20,000 without depriving themselves of even a luxury of life. The Congressmen chose to keep their own money, which, if reports be true, some of them spend not very creditably; and the people about Washington, no doubt, applauded you for relieving them from the necessity of giving by giving what was not yours to give. The people have delegated to Congress, by the Constitution, the power to do certain things. To do these, it is authorized to collect and pay moneys, and for nothing else. Everything beyond this is usurpation, and a violation of the Constitution."

See the entire work as found at:

http://www.theadvocates.org/library/christian-crockett.html

Battered Old Brontosaurus

If you are able to sleep this Christmas eve, I'm happy for you. After playing Nintendo Wii with some good friends, saying good bye, cleaning up, brushing my teeth (I want to stop Mr. Gingivitis), and trying to fall asleep for 30 plus minutes I had to cure my restlessness and search for answers. My mind is racing about the new country we live in. I can hear the wind forcing the rain against my house. If you live near me you may feel it too. Will my home withstand the windswept rain? I'm confident that it will, yet this new country we live in may not withstand the new changes. When you wake up on the 25th of December, smile, drink your coffee, kiss someone, let out the dog (not near me), and realize that have a new socialistic nation. 

Ron Bruno, a faithful man of God, introduced me to Malcom Muggeridge (a humble, prophetic...genius Christian manhttp://thewords.com/articles/mugger4.htm) such a short time ago (the early 1980's). His quotes cut deep and pierce our messed up thinking noodles. One quote rings so loudly for this moment that I can barely perceive my deafening tinnitus:

"So the final conclusion would seem to be that whereas other civilizations had been brought down by attacks of barbarians from without. Ours had the unique distinction of training its own destroyers at its own educational institutions. And providing them with the facilities for propagating their destructive ideologies far and wide, all at the public expense. Thus did western man decide to abolish himself. Creating his own boredom out of his own effluence. His own vulnerability out of his own strength. His own impotence out of his own erotomania. Himself blowing the trumpet that brought the walls of his own city tumbling down. Having convinced himself that he was too numerous, labored with pill and scalpel and syringe to make himself fewer, until at last educating himself into imbecility and polluting and drugging himself into stupefaction he kneeled over a weary, battered old brontosaurus and became extinct."

Our nation is an endangered species. The Constitution, 1776, Liberty, and Freedom will soon join the folklore and tales we share with our children unless we stand and choose to do otherwise.

“…for such a time as this.” Ester 4:14

The Value Of Blogging?

Cavitation

Cavitation...interesting...essentially a gas and a possible dangerous gas! Wow. It is the formation of vapour bubbles of a flowing liquid in a region where the pressure of the liquid falls below its vapor pressure. Cavitation is usually divided into two classes of behavior: inertial (or transient) cavitation, and noninertial cavitation. Inertial cavitation is the process where a void or bubble in a liquid rapidly collapses, producing a shock wave.

When Does The New Decade Begin?

Happy New Year!