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A little info about one of the three main sects I started to talk about on the vherf.

The basic doctrine of the Khārijites was that a person or a group who committed a grave error or sin and did not sincerely repent ceased to be Muslim. Mere profession of the faith—“there is no god but God; Muhammad is the prophet of God”—did not make a person a Muslim unless this faith was accompanied by righteous deeds. In other words, good works were an integral part of faith and not extraneous to it. The second principle that flowed from their aggressive idealism was militancy, or jihad, which the Khārijites considered to be among the cardinal principles, or pillars, of Islam. Contrary to the orthodox view, they interpreted the Qurʾānic command about “enjoining good and forbidding evil” to mean the vindication of truth through the sword. The placing of these two principles together made the Khārijites highly inflammable fanatics, intolerant of almost any established political authority.

My son’s engine decided to play a knock knock joke.

Here’s what it should look like.

How it looks now!

Early picture of HotLips?

@TRayB said:

@edz said:
Could be worse but here in N.W.Pa we don't have a lot of our garden in and it is going down to 39 tonight. Seems like things are looking better starting tomorrow .

Don't count on it. Global Warming is flopping right now.

Probably right. Just going off the animals . If a storm is coming they seem to drink like crazy. Cold weather , they back off drinking water, and right now they are drinking water at a decent pace. Anyway, not a scientist, just an old redneck hoping for the best.

@ShawnOL said:
Why doesn't doppler radar pick up planes? Hmm.

The answer is that it can and it does! In fact, it was first used to do exactly that, detect airplanes. They found that it was so sensitive that it would pick up cloud cover, making airplane detection useless on cloudy days. They turned it into a weather radar.

Because Doppler measures changing velocity as much as anything, it's great for weather but high grade military stuff still uses it also.

When you're looking at the giant regional map that the weather guy is showing, an airplane would be represented by a Dot that is so tiny That you couldn't see on the superimposed map.

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