Pic of the day: The largest dog in the world

Meet George, a Great Dane, and the largest dog on the planet:

He's 7 feet nose to tip of tail, and weighs about 250 pounds. Via the UK Daily Mail. A YouTube video of George:

Exit question: how does one pick up after an animal that large?

Pic of the day: Naked female scientist swims with belugas in the freezing 30oF Arctic

Is this extreme environmentalism?:

From the UK Daily Mail:

Braving sub-zero temperatures, she has thrown caution — and her clothes — to the wind to tame two beluga whales in a unique and controversial experiment.

Natalia Avseenko, 36, was persuaded to strip naked as marine experts believe belugas do not like to be touched by artificial materials such as diving suits.

The skilled Russian diver took the plunge as the water temperature hit minus 1.5 degrees Centigrade.

It's a good thing they put a woman in that freezing water. Men don't react quite as well:

HT: Instapundit

Result of DUMB decision: SMART bus driver, dispatcher suspended for denying ride to breast-feeding mom

I guess this really worked: Video Report: MI breastfeeding moms stage protest in response to mom being kicked off bus

From The Detroit Free Press, the consequences of an ironically dumb decision: SMART bus driver, dispatcher suspended for denying ride to breast-feeding mom

The SMART bus driver who told a Taylor mom she couldn’t breastfeed on a bus in late June was suspended for five days without pay, and her dispatcher was suspended for three, company officials said today.

The two employees were punished for not following company policy and for using profanity after Afrykayn Moon, 32, said the driver tried to keep her from boarding the bus while her then two-week-old son was nursing.

She said the driver refused to drive the bus until the child was done breastfeeding, and had security guards try to remove her.

You know, those two bumps do have a real purpose other than looking good.

Video: 50-Mile Wide Dust Storm Devours Phoenix, AZ

That big fictitious dust/sand storm wall in the Stargate motion picture has nothing on this one in real life:

Plus this pic:

And many more at this link.

Video Report: MI breastfeeding moms stage protest in response to mom being kicked off bus

Let me cut to the chase: anyone offended by public breastfeeding is a boob. They are there for a reason. Primarily to feed a baby (secondarily to keep a hubby happy).WXYZ Detroit reports:

Exit question: did Jim Carrey show up for the sit-in?

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UPDATE: Breast milk sprayer fired from teaching job

The woman who sprayed Delaware County sheriff's deputies with breast milk while resisting arrest last weekend has been fired from her teaching job, according to documents obtained by The Dispatch today after a public-records request.

So let me get this straight: the Wisconsin teacher that threatened Governor Scott Walker and his family with death is still on the loose and teaching (The 'New Civility' (Cont'd): WI Teacher Charged With Sending Death Threats to GOP Lawmakers), but this woman in an episode that would be laughed at if it were to be repeated in a sitcom gets fired?

Paradox

It would be good for us to rest in the uncertainty of the supernatural; a realm that is beyond our comprehension at times, but strangely rises in us as welcoming and constant, and all the while, resting in the resounding truth that our God is a God of order, not disorder. A God of certainty, not confusion. (1 Corinthians 14:33)

It is true that we cannot see God, hold Him, touch Him, verbally dialogue with Him, or smell His sweet aroma. But in a divine paradox, He is the most tangible thing that our human souls can witness in this journey of life. Beyond time and space, God moves in a reality that almost seems to be non-existent, yet exists more clearly than ourselves. Closer than the air we breathe, He is within us, enveloping us and transcending us.

But in a feeble attempt, our natural tendency seems to want to put God into a box, that neatly fits into our realm of comprehension. Attempting to do this is like trying to capture the entire ocean in a cup, or counting every last grain of sand on the earth. To do so would be impossible, and yet we continue to live under the false impression that we can completely comprehend that which almost seems to have no comprehension.

To say all this is to also agree that despite the far reaching arms of the supernatural, we also have a very tangible hold on God's existence. As nature revolves around us and we witness the incredible beauty and miracles of creation, it cries out to us that God exists in a very real way. (Romans 1:20) The universe cries out to us, "Hear this! In the same manner that you cannot comprehend me, you cannot comprehend that which made me! But His existence is all the more real because you behold my existence!" (Psalm 19:1)

So I rest in the fact that although I cannot always comprehend God and how He works in this world or in my life, I am sure of His existence because the supernatural breaks through the realms of the natural, screams to me, grabs hold of me and pulls me under until I am drowning in truth. A paradox, yes; but still with no contradiction or defiance to intuition.