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Count Basie
I can not say enough great things about Count Basie. He was the one that got me interested in jazz. I met him in an elevator in New York. I was 13 years old. He was fabulous. I saw him 4 or 5 times in person before he died in 1984. When you talk about the greatest jazz bands of all time you have to include his band in the top 5.
Science and God not mutually exclusive
I have taken my own spiritual journey as should everyone. Everyone should doubt. Everyone should find their own path. My journey started with the logic of religion. Why is it that I can not comprehend the majesty of God? If you have never heard of Jesus, can you be saved? If humans rarely change religions is it possible for a Jew to be saved if he doesn’t believe in Jesus? What about a Muslim or Buddhist? If you are a good person (use whatever definition that you would like) and don’t believe in God can you still be saved? After sometime I was able to believe in God and understand the truths of science. This is an excellent article from Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., is the director of the Human Genome Project. His most recent book is “The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief.”
From CNN.com:
I am a scientist and a believer, and I find no conflict between those world views.
As the director of the Human Genome Project, I have led a consortium of scientists to read out the 3.1 billion letters of the human genome, our own DNA instruction book. As a believer, I see DNA, the information molecule of all living things, as God’s language, and the elegance and complexity of our own bodies and the rest of nature as a reflection of God’s plan.
I did not always embrace these perspectives. As a graduate student in physical chemistry in the 1970s, I was an atheist, finding no reason to postulate the existence of any truths outside of mathematics, physics and chemistry. But then I went to medical school, and encountered life and death issues at the bedsides of my patients. Challenged by one of those patients, who asked “What do you believe, doctor?”, I began searching for answers.
I had to admit that the science I loved so much was powerless to answer questions such as “What is the meaning of life?” “Why am I here?” “Why does mathematics work, anyway?” “If the universe had a beginning, who created it?” “Why are the physical constants in the universe so finely tuned to allow the possibility of complex life forms?” “Why do humans have a moral sense?” “What happens after we die?” (more…)
NJ Gov. Corzine in MVC
Last night the motor vehicle crash (these are crashes NOT accidents!!!!) was described as minor. Well, it seems that it wasn’t minor for the governor. He was severely injured but all trauma definitions. He is at an excellent medical center with great Trauma Surgeons. He will be well cared for. Please pray for his speedy recovery (this will not be something that he will hop up from. He should be in the 7 - 14 days from what I have read. He will not be back to “normal” for a couple of months if there are no complications.) This is significant trauma. He is 60 years old. He is not a young man. It will take some time for him to heal.
From CNN.com:
Gov. Jon S. Corzine was apparently not wearing his seat belt as required by law when his official SUV crashed into a guardrail, leaving the governor hospitalized in critical condition, a spokesman said Friday.
A state trooper was driving Corzine to a meeting between Don Imus and the Rutgers women’s basketball team Thursday night when another vehicle, swerving to avoid a pickup truck, hit the governor’s SUV and sent it into the guard rail on the Garden State Parkway.
The crash broke the governor’s leg, six ribs, his sternum and a vertebra. Authorities were searching for the pickup truck driver blamed for causing it. (more…)
Missing White House e-mails
Remember when President Bush made that tasteless video where he is looking for the missing weapons of mass destruction around the White House. He is looking under chairs. “No WMD’s here,” he said. It seems that WMD’s aren’t the only thing that’s missing. As many as 5 million e-mails appear to be missing. Of course, they include many of the e-mails that the Congress would like to see in regard to the fired US Attorneys.
I’m sure there will be more on this. I’ll post it when I find it.
So What’s next for Imus
Keith Olbermann and Sam Seder discuss what’s next.
I’m more interested in what happened and what does it mean. I’m convinced that if Imus would have said the exact same thing 2 years ago, no one would have said anything. Yes, Al Sharpton and some other liberals would have been outraged but it would not have been picked up by the MSM. What has changed in America over the last 2 years? That is the question.
Has America really changed? Or is this just a little superfical but of morality and Sean Hannity, Rush limbaugh, Michael Savage and the rest will be spewing their brand of hate tomorrow. Maybe, just maybe, we are seeing the continuing power of the blogs. This maybe a situation in which the media plays something. The blogs pick up the slur. Hundreds of thousands of folks read the slur. The MSM then picks up the story and keeps it alive. The fuel for this cycle are the blogs. Maybe that’s what’s different.
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Errington C. Thompson, MD, is a surgeon, scholar, fulltime sports fan and part-time political activist. He is active in a number of community projects and initiatives. Through medicine, he strives to improve the physical health of all he treats...
