Breakfast with Bob was created by Bob Orem, one of the founders of Community Lutheran Church in Omar.  Bob is now deceased, but the Breakfast carries on in his name.  Weekly on Thursday morning at 8 am, a group seeking Christian fellowship and discussion meet at the Country Kitchen Family Restaurant in Millsboro, DE.  It is located on Washington St. in the Royce Mini Mall.  Come break your fast with us.

Discussed global warming - is it killing the polar bears.

California homes falling off mountains in mud slides.

Jan. 26th:  We had no main topic.  We started by discussing the large number of dead and dying soldiers left on the field followint the Battle of Gettysburg, how the South had to abondon these men, how long it took to establish field hospitals.  After that we touched on a number of different comments. You'd be amazed how we moved from one subject to another.

Jan. 19th:  We got into a discussion of alternate energy sources to take the place of fossil fuels for electric power generation and to take the place of gasoline for automobiles.  The discussion got into numerous areas.  Many people want to propose windmills.  But none wants them within sight from their home or, if offshore, within sight from the beaches.  They they also worry about the birds.  They worry about fishing when proposals are presented for water turbines at the Indian River Inlet.  Dick Kauffman told us of a presentation being made at the Bethany Library concerning emissions from the Indian River power plant.

Jan. 12th: This week we discussed another article from The Economist magaizine entitled "The Long March of Everyman"  It discussed the work of geneticist Allan Wilson and his associates who used a specific technique to test  DNA cells of people throughout today's world.  The article states that our ancestors originated in africa at least 200,000 years ago.  Some of them migrated across the southern end of the Red Sea into southern Asis about 60,000 years ago.  Some also migrated into eastern Europe about 40,000 years ago. The article went on to describe reasons for the change in skin color in the ancestor that migrated into the temporate regions of the world.  It also explained how "grunts and groans" used to obtain "wants and desires" and how they eventually evolved into languages.  Of interest to us was a discussion of why Man has inherently rejected people of different skin color and languages.  To read more  go to: http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5327621#top

Jan. 5th:  This week we discussed an article from "The Economist" magazine entitled "Ears of Plenty".  The story of wheat-man's most successful crop.  Wheat orginated from a wild grass some 10,000 years ago in South-Eastern Turkey.  The article went through the genetic variations of wheat as it changed, culminating in the genetic improvements made in the last century.  This greatly improved its yield, along with the many improvements in farming it. 

On a parallel note, the article discussed changes in the world population over the same period of time.  An interesting conclusion was that the world's population is expected to stabilize in the middle of this century.  That is, the number of births will equal the number of deaths.  The article concludes that we won't have a general starvation problem in the world.  We discussed that the main concern, now and probably then, will be the fair distribution of food throughout the world.