Volvo Ocean Race

A Volvo Ocean Race começou à cerca de 18 dias. Neste momento, o lider está a 4 dias da Cidade do Cabo. O Ericsson 4 bateu o recorde mundial de milhas percorridas em 24 horas, acima de 600! Isto quer dizer que não estão propriamente a velejar no rio Tejo durante o fim de semana!!! E-mail do Ericsson 3:

"The worst watch of my life." It takes quite a lot to hear those words from a guy like Richard Mason who has done two Volvo Ocean Races before and a huge amount of other yachting. But this morning, when he stumbled down the hatch at eight, he said it. "We were in a squall for four hours and it was pitch black, absolutely no visibility at all. I couldn't see the waves and no horizon and we had everything from 19 to 46 knots of wind, he says, catches his breath and continues:

"Going with the chute up in that much breeze on one of these boats, when you can't see a thing, is as terrifying as it gets. It is usually pretty easy when the breeze is steady but it just doesn't get any harder than it was tonight. The guys did a great job to get the boat and ourselves through it in one piece."

Was there an option to take the gennaker down?

"To be honest we were caught with our pants down. There was never a chance to get the damn thing off! It was pretty much survive or die! And, we survived."

Quero realçar a última frase! Eu tenho mais ou menos a noção do que isso é, mas para quem não tem, aqui vai um vídeo!!! E aqui o que o Ericsson 4 achas do seu recorde! E ainda não chegaram o Oceano do Sul!!!

Ideologia VII

E ainda perguntam porque é que eu detesto ideologias...

Ideologia VI

"So many children are lost because people do not see that abortion is wrong. However, there are cases of children surviving and they have an amazing story to tell. Many of the great people of today could have been aborted. What would we be missing from today's society if we had aborted the great people of this nation? Abortion is wrong because of how much the Lord reveres life in the Bible. He sees this subject with the utmost disgust and disrespect for what He has created. If a mother was to think about how incredible the formation of a baby through her body really is, she might have a different perspective on whether or not to terminate the pregnancy."

Ideologia V

"When we turn our skeptical eye toward the Philippines, we see Greenpeace activists wearing full biohazard spacesuits cutting down GMO crops and disposing of them in sealed containers. By inviting reporters and photographers to document these demonstrations, they very effectively spread terror among the undereducated poor Filipino public. Now, I think any reasonable person agrees that you wouldn't do such a drastic thing without very good reason; so there must indeed be very good evidence that GMO crops are only safely handled by hazmat disposal teams — wouldn't you think? Let's look at Greenpeace's website and see what frightening information they've uncovered."


Porque é que os OGM são maus?

"Because genetic engineering crosses species boundaries and interferes in nature to create new living organisms that would never naturally occur, many people hold moral and spiritual objections to the genetic engineering of living things. Speaking last Nov. 12 2000 to an estimated 50,000 farmers from Italy and elsewhere at a special outdoor mass dedicated to farmers, the Pope expressed his opposition to genetically modified crops."

Aaahhh, ok...

Ideologia IV

"Japan has staunchly defended its annual killing of more than 1,000 whales, conducted under a clause in International Whaling Commission rules that allows killing for scientific purposes. It says that whaling is part of Japanese culture and accuses Western countries of insensitivity. Australia and other critics dismiss the Japanese programme as a disguise for commercial whaling, which is banned, and claim that whale meat ends up in supermarkets and restaurants."


"Scientists in Japan claim that their country's controversial whaling programme, which has killed thousands of minke whales since the late 1980s, has established that the animals have lost significant amounts of blubber. Measurements taken from more than 4,500 slaughtered minkes show they are getting thinner at a worrying speed, the researchers say. The team from the Institute of Cetacean Research in Tokyo, set up to analyse the results of the scientific whaling programme, says its study offers the first evidence that global warming could be harming whales, because it restricts food supplies. They say the discovery could only have been made by killing the animals."

Ideologia III

Crocoduck

Ideologia II

"Há quem diga ainda que o Mesonychidea era um cão gigante ou um lobo. A alegada evolução da baleia é mais um capítulo do conto de fadas evolucionista. Reparem que eles falam de coisas impossíveis, do ponto de vista naturalista, com uma naturalidade descomunal."

Ideologia I

Porque é que detesto ideologias?!

"London, UK, Oct. 8—Eight anti-animal-research activists have been implicated in the coordination of an international, six-year blackmail campaign in an attempt to shut down Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), in a trial now being heard in a U.K. court. The Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) group branded company managers as pedophiles, sent hoax bomb parcels, vandalized buildings, and made threatening telephone calls to force HLS’s suppliers to cut ties with the research laboratory."