September 1, 2005
Blondes solve gas shortage problem:
Two blondes were filling up at a gas station and the first blonde says to the second, "I bet these awful gas prices are going to go even higher."
The second blonde replies, "It won't affect me, I always put in just $10 worth."
Storm economic impact seen modest
Aug 31 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hurricane Katrina is likely to have only a modest impact on the U.S. economy as long as the hit to the energy sector proves transitory, White House economic adviser Ben Bernanke said on Wednesday..."Looking forward ... reconstruction is going to add jobs and growth to the economy," he added. http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/08/31/MTFH14870_2005-08-31_16-05-39_ROB152866.html
'Southern Decadence' festival prevented by hurricane
August 31, 2005-- Hurricane Katrina walloped New Orleans just two days before the annual homosexual "Southern Decadence" festival was to begin in the town... Southern Decadence has a history of "filling the French Quarters section of the city with drunken homosexuals engaging in sex acts in the public streets and bars," says a statement from the Philadelphia Christian organization Repent America. This year's 34th annual Southern Decadence festival, which drew 125,000 revelers last year, was set to begin today… and run through Monday.... three former and current mayors of New Orleans have issued official proclamations welcoming visitors to Southern Decadence..."Let us pray for those ravaged by this disaster. However, we must not forget that the citizens of New Orleans tolerated and welcomed the wickedness in their city for so long," Marcavage said. "May this act of God cause us all to think about what we tolerate in our city limits, and bring us trembling before the throne of Almighty God." http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46076
A man from West Virginia (scanning the headlines):
“This is terrible -'17 BRAZILIAN SOLDIERS KILLED DURING BORDER SKIRMISH.'"
Another man, from Oklahoma (puzzling over a comic strip):
"That does sound bad. How many is a brazilian?"
Most scientific papers are probably wrong
August 2005 Most published scientific research papers are wrong, according to a new analysis. Assuming that the new paper is itself correct, problems with experimental and statistical methods mean that there is less than a 50% chance that the results of any randomly chosen scientific paper are true.
John Ioannidis, an epidemiologist at the University of Ioannina School of Medicine in Greece, says that small sample sizes, poor study design, researcher bias, and selective reporting and other problems combine to make most research findings false. But even large, well-designed studies are not always right, meaning that scientists and the public have to be wary of reported findings..."We should accept that most research findings will be refuted. Some will be replicated and validated. The replication process is more important than the first discovery," Ioannidis says... http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7915
U.S. eases air pollution rule to boost fuel supply
Aug 31, 2005
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - To make more fuel available in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the Bush administration said on Wednesday it will waive certain air pollution regulations for gasoline and diesel in all 50 states…
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2005-08-31T185118Z_01_HAR164947_RTRIDST_0_SCIENCE-WEATHER-KATRINA-GASOLINE-DC.XML
Lets play pretend
August 5, 2005 MISSOURI- Things looked bad for Jan Helder of Mission Hills when a federal jury convicted the lawyer Tuesday of using the Internet to try to entice a child into sex. He faced a sentence of five to 30 years — but for only a few minutes....Helder’s attorney successfully argued that breaking federal law required actually enticing a minor — not enticing a Platte County deputy pretending to be a minor...Todd Graves, U.S. district attorney in Kansas City, said Helder’s defense had not been used before in Kansas City federal court. The defense lawyer filed the motion seeking acquittal before jurors began deliberations, but the ruling was not announced until after the jurors reached a guilty verdict...“We will appeal this,” Graves said of the ruling by U.S. District Judge Dean Whipple. “Our program is going forward”...Defense lawyer J.R. Hobbs argued to the judge, however, that some cases had suggested that the undercover officers cannot be used. Hobbs declined to comment Tuesday other than to say he was pleased with the ruling. http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/12288360.htm
US refining capacity bottleneck boosts oil prices
By Finfacts Team Aug 29, 2005
There hasn't been a new oil refinery built in America since 1976 and with existing plants working close to capacity, even a minor outage in a plant can impact the price of oil...A combination of tight environmental restrictions, not-in-my-back-yard community opposition, and the high cost of new construction has been an impediment to additional capacity....A new refinery would cost about $3 billion and refining margins have traditionally been much tighter than on the crude production side...The combination of limited spare crude production capacity and oil refining capacity will continue to bolster prices....Broadly speaking, refining developed in consuming areas, because it was cheaper to move crude oil than to move product… while the Mideast is the largest producing region, the bulk of refining takes place in the United States, Europe or Asia. http://www.finfacts.com/irelandbusinessnews/publish/printer_10003036.shtml
Pro-Life Activist: U.S. Needs to Cut Off Rich Abortion Mill's Taxpayer Funding
By Mary Rettig August 31, 2005 (AgapePress) - The head of Stop Planned Parenthood (STOPP) says it's time to call for a halt to U.S. government funding for Planned Parenthood ... the supposed non-profit agency has made a deal with Barr Pharmaceuticals, producer of the "Plan B" morning-after pill... the arrangement between the Planned Parenthood and Barr Pharmaceuticals means that the nation's largest abortion provider will be making $20 in profit for every Plan B kit it sells. "…last year," he notes, "Planned Parenthood says they sold 774,000 kits, which means they made a profit of over $15 million."...Any organization that can turn over that kind of money no longer needs or deserves federal funding, Sedlak contends. He says people should call their federal, state, and local governments to cut taxpayer support for Planned Parenthood, whose recent business would seem to ensure a healthy bottom line without the subsidy... Planned Parenthood gets the Plan B kits at $4.25 a kit...sells this kit currently for $25... the retail price is $32, so Planned Parenthood is already undercutting the retail price...Planned Parenthood receives a third of its budget from U.S. taxpayers...Sedlak asserts. He says it is time for Americans to tell their legislators that Planned Parenthood makes quite enough money on its own, and that hardworking citizens do not need to fund it any longer. http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/8/312005c.asp
Census: Uninsured Can Afford It
Aug. 31, 2005 …the Census Bureau reports that nearly one-third of those without insurance live in households with an annual income of $50,000 or more…About 16 million Americans in $50,000-plus households – more than 13 percent of the total – lack insurance, as do 8 million earning more than $75,000 a year. The number of uninsured people in $75,000-plus households actually went up by 114 percent over a recent 9-year period, while those in households with incomes under $25,000 fell by 17 percent.… 75 percent are without it for less than a year....11.8 million of the uninsured are foreign-born, and 9.5 million of those are non-citizens. http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/8/31/164557.shtml
Forbes: Coming Oil Bust Will Dwarf Dot-Com Disaster
Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine, predicts that skyrocketing oil prices are just temporary -- and a massive price collapse will dwarf the Dot-Com crash that began in 2000…. saying that the price of oil (which rose above $70 this week) had been inflated by speculators and would soon begin a rapid slide…Forbes said that speculation on oil hitting $100 a barrel was misplaced…"I'll make a bold prediction: I think in 12 months, you're going to see oil down to $35, $40 a barrel," Forbes said. "In the meantime, it's a huge drain, more a psychological drain (on the economy), but it's not forever. This thing is not going to last." Editor's Note: Financial Intelligence Report predicted in April 2004 that oil would exceed $60 per barrel. The same report agrees with Forbes that oil will drop to $40 a barrel in the next 12 months. http://newsmax.com/mail/moneynews.cfm
... a new weather-resistant Bible, soon to be available, promises to endure water, sand, heat, snow and general outdoor wear… The Outdoor Bible resembles the size, format, and flexibility of a road or trail map, but instead of trail and road markings, it contains the New American Standard translation of the New Testament…The rugged, waterproof, wear-and-tear-resistant Outdoor Bible will go on sale September 12 and will be available exclusively online at TheOutdoorBible.com. [Jenni Parker] http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/12005h.asp
How often do Americans use guns for defensive purposes?
Larry Elder September 1, 2005
…in 2003, 12,548 people died through non-suicide gun violence, including homicides, accidents and cases of undetermined intent.
UCLA professor emeritus James Q. Wilson, a respected expert on crime, police practices and guns, says, "We know from Census Bureau surveys that something beyond a hundred thousand uses of guns for self-defense occur every year. We know from smaller surveys of a commercial nature that the number may be as high as two-and-a-half or three million…”
Criminologist and researcher Gary Kleck, using his own commissioned phone surveys and number extrapolation, estimates that 2.5 million Americans use guns for defensive purposes each year... Kleck points out that if only one-tenth of the people were right about saving a life, the number of people saved annually by guns would still be at least 40,000.
The Department of Justice's own National Institute of Justice (NIJ) study titled "Guns in America: National Survey on Private Ownership and Use of Firearms," estimated that 1.5 million Americans use guns for defensive purposes every year…
Former assistant district attorney and firearms expert David Kopel writes, ". . . [W]hen a robbery victim does not defend himself, the robber succeeds 88 percent of the time, and the victim is injured 25 percent of the time. When a victim resists with a gun, the robbery success rate falls to 30 percent, and the victim injury rate falls to 17 percent. No other response to a robbery -- from drawing a knife to shouting for help to fleeing -- produces such low rates of victim injury and robbery success."
…The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence's website states: "The risk of homicide in the home is three times greater in households with guns." Their web site fails to mention that Dr. Arthur Kellermann, the "expert" who came up with that figure, later backpedaled after others discredited his studies for failing to follow standard scientific procedures. According to The Wall Street Journal, Dr. Kellermann now concedes, "A gun can be used to scare away an intruder without a shot being fired," admitting that he failed to include such events in his original study. "Simply keeping a gun in the home," Kellermann says, "may deter some criminals who fear confronting an armed homeowner…" http://www.townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/le20050901.shtml
Two blondes were filling up at a gas station and the first blonde says to the second, "I bet these awful gas prices are going to go even higher."
The second blonde replies, "It won't affect me, I always put in just $10 worth."
Storm economic impact seen modest
Aug 31 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hurricane Katrina is likely to have only a modest impact on the U.S. economy as long as the hit to the energy sector proves transitory, White House economic adviser Ben Bernanke said on Wednesday..."Looking forward ... reconstruction is going to add jobs and growth to the economy," he added. http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/08/31/MTFH14870_2005-08-31_16-05-39_ROB152866.html
'Southern Decadence' festival prevented by hurricane
August 31, 2005-- Hurricane Katrina walloped New Orleans just two days before the annual homosexual "Southern Decadence" festival was to begin in the town... Southern Decadence has a history of "filling the French Quarters section of the city with drunken homosexuals engaging in sex acts in the public streets and bars," says a statement from the Philadelphia Christian organization Repent America. This year's 34th annual Southern Decadence festival, which drew 125,000 revelers last year, was set to begin today… and run through Monday.... three former and current mayors of New Orleans have issued official proclamations welcoming visitors to Southern Decadence..."Let us pray for those ravaged by this disaster. However, we must not forget that the citizens of New Orleans tolerated and welcomed the wickedness in their city for so long," Marcavage said. "May this act of God cause us all to think about what we tolerate in our city limits, and bring us trembling before the throne of Almighty God." http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46076
A man from West Virginia (scanning the headlines):
“This is terrible -'17 BRAZILIAN SOLDIERS KILLED DURING BORDER SKIRMISH.'"
Another man, from Oklahoma (puzzling over a comic strip):
"That does sound bad. How many is a brazilian?"
Most scientific papers are probably wrong
August 2005 Most published scientific research papers are wrong, according to a new analysis. Assuming that the new paper is itself correct, problems with experimental and statistical methods mean that there is less than a 50% chance that the results of any randomly chosen scientific paper are true.
John Ioannidis, an epidemiologist at the University of Ioannina School of Medicine in Greece, says that small sample sizes, poor study design, researcher bias, and selective reporting and other problems combine to make most research findings false. But even large, well-designed studies are not always right, meaning that scientists and the public have to be wary of reported findings..."We should accept that most research findings will be refuted. Some will be replicated and validated. The replication process is more important than the first discovery," Ioannidis says... http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7915
U.S. eases air pollution rule to boost fuel supply
Aug 31, 2005
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - To make more fuel available in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the Bush administration said on Wednesday it will waive certain air pollution regulations for gasoline and diesel in all 50 states…
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2005-08-31T185118Z_01_HAR164947_RTRIDST_0_SCIENCE-WEATHER-KATRINA-GASOLINE-DC.XML
Lets play pretend
August 5, 2005 MISSOURI- Things looked bad for Jan Helder of Mission Hills when a federal jury convicted the lawyer Tuesday of using the Internet to try to entice a child into sex. He faced a sentence of five to 30 years — but for only a few minutes....Helder’s attorney successfully argued that breaking federal law required actually enticing a minor — not enticing a Platte County deputy pretending to be a minor...Todd Graves, U.S. district attorney in Kansas City, said Helder’s defense had not been used before in Kansas City federal court. The defense lawyer filed the motion seeking acquittal before jurors began deliberations, but the ruling was not announced until after the jurors reached a guilty verdict...“We will appeal this,” Graves said of the ruling by U.S. District Judge Dean Whipple. “Our program is going forward”...Defense lawyer J.R. Hobbs argued to the judge, however, that some cases had suggested that the undercover officers cannot be used. Hobbs declined to comment Tuesday other than to say he was pleased with the ruling. http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/12288360.htm
US refining capacity bottleneck boosts oil prices
By Finfacts Team Aug 29, 2005
There hasn't been a new oil refinery built in America since 1976 and with existing plants working close to capacity, even a minor outage in a plant can impact the price of oil...A combination of tight environmental restrictions, not-in-my-back-yard community opposition, and the high cost of new construction has been an impediment to additional capacity....A new refinery would cost about $3 billion and refining margins have traditionally been much tighter than on the crude production side...The combination of limited spare crude production capacity and oil refining capacity will continue to bolster prices....Broadly speaking, refining developed in consuming areas, because it was cheaper to move crude oil than to move product… while the Mideast is the largest producing region, the bulk of refining takes place in the United States, Europe or Asia. http://www.finfacts.com/irelandbusinessnews/publish/printer_10003036.shtml
Pro-Life Activist: U.S. Needs to Cut Off Rich Abortion Mill's Taxpayer Funding
By Mary Rettig August 31, 2005 (AgapePress) - The head of Stop Planned Parenthood (STOPP) says it's time to call for a halt to U.S. government funding for Planned Parenthood ... the supposed non-profit agency has made a deal with Barr Pharmaceuticals, producer of the "Plan B" morning-after pill... the arrangement between the Planned Parenthood and Barr Pharmaceuticals means that the nation's largest abortion provider will be making $20 in profit for every Plan B kit it sells. "…last year," he notes, "Planned Parenthood says they sold 774,000 kits, which means they made a profit of over $15 million."...Any organization that can turn over that kind of money no longer needs or deserves federal funding, Sedlak contends. He says people should call their federal, state, and local governments to cut taxpayer support for Planned Parenthood, whose recent business would seem to ensure a healthy bottom line without the subsidy... Planned Parenthood gets the Plan B kits at $4.25 a kit...sells this kit currently for $25... the retail price is $32, so Planned Parenthood is already undercutting the retail price...Planned Parenthood receives a third of its budget from U.S. taxpayers...Sedlak asserts. He says it is time for Americans to tell their legislators that Planned Parenthood makes quite enough money on its own, and that hardworking citizens do not need to fund it any longer. http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/8/312005c.asp
Census: Uninsured Can Afford It
Aug. 31, 2005 …the Census Bureau reports that nearly one-third of those without insurance live in households with an annual income of $50,000 or more…About 16 million Americans in $50,000-plus households – more than 13 percent of the total – lack insurance, as do 8 million earning more than $75,000 a year. The number of uninsured people in $75,000-plus households actually went up by 114 percent over a recent 9-year period, while those in households with incomes under $25,000 fell by 17 percent.… 75 percent are without it for less than a year....11.8 million of the uninsured are foreign-born, and 9.5 million of those are non-citizens. http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/8/31/164557.shtml
Forbes: Coming Oil Bust Will Dwarf Dot-Com Disaster
Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine, predicts that skyrocketing oil prices are just temporary -- and a massive price collapse will dwarf the Dot-Com crash that began in 2000…. saying that the price of oil (which rose above $70 this week) had been inflated by speculators and would soon begin a rapid slide…Forbes said that speculation on oil hitting $100 a barrel was misplaced…"I'll make a bold prediction: I think in 12 months, you're going to see oil down to $35, $40 a barrel," Forbes said. "In the meantime, it's a huge drain, more a psychological drain (on the economy), but it's not forever. This thing is not going to last." Editor's Note: Financial Intelligence Report predicted in April 2004 that oil would exceed $60 per barrel. The same report agrees with Forbes that oil will drop to $40 a barrel in the next 12 months. http://newsmax.com/mail/moneynews.cfm
... a new weather-resistant Bible, soon to be available, promises to endure water, sand, heat, snow and general outdoor wear… The Outdoor Bible resembles the size, format, and flexibility of a road or trail map, but instead of trail and road markings, it contains the New American Standard translation of the New Testament…The rugged, waterproof, wear-and-tear-resistant Outdoor Bible will go on sale September 12 and will be available exclusively online at TheOutdoorBible.com. [Jenni Parker] http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/12005h.asp
How often do Americans use guns for defensive purposes?
Larry Elder September 1, 2005
…in 2003, 12,548 people died through non-suicide gun violence, including homicides, accidents and cases of undetermined intent.
UCLA professor emeritus James Q. Wilson, a respected expert on crime, police practices and guns, says, "We know from Census Bureau surveys that something beyond a hundred thousand uses of guns for self-defense occur every year. We know from smaller surveys of a commercial nature that the number may be as high as two-and-a-half or three million…”
Criminologist and researcher Gary Kleck, using his own commissioned phone surveys and number extrapolation, estimates that 2.5 million Americans use guns for defensive purposes each year... Kleck points out that if only one-tenth of the people were right about saving a life, the number of people saved annually by guns would still be at least 40,000.
The Department of Justice's own National Institute of Justice (NIJ) study titled "Guns in America: National Survey on Private Ownership and Use of Firearms," estimated that 1.5 million Americans use guns for defensive purposes every year…
Former assistant district attorney and firearms expert David Kopel writes, ". . . [W]hen a robbery victim does not defend himself, the robber succeeds 88 percent of the time, and the victim is injured 25 percent of the time. When a victim resists with a gun, the robbery success rate falls to 30 percent, and the victim injury rate falls to 17 percent. No other response to a robbery -- from drawing a knife to shouting for help to fleeing -- produces such low rates of victim injury and robbery success."
…The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence's website states: "The risk of homicide in the home is three times greater in households with guns." Their web site fails to mention that Dr. Arthur Kellermann, the "expert" who came up with that figure, later backpedaled after others discredited his studies for failing to follow standard scientific procedures. According to The Wall Street Journal, Dr. Kellermann now concedes, "A gun can be used to scare away an intruder without a shot being fired," admitting that he failed to include such events in his original study. "Simply keeping a gun in the home," Kellermann says, "may deter some criminals who fear confronting an armed homeowner…" http://www.townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/le20050901.shtml
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