September 10, 2005
Charities Urge Donors to Keep on Giving
Sep 9 Less than two weeks after the storm hit the Gulf Coast, private gifts have soared to nearly $700 million, a pace exceeding the response to the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050909/ap_on_re_us/katrina_charities_2
FDA Panel Endorses New Diabetes Pill
Sep 10 2005 A day after recommending the first inhaled form of insulin to treat diabetes, a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel on Friday endorsed a new pill that helps control blood sugar levels as well as cholesterol in people with the most common form of the condition. The drug, muraglitazar, will be marketed under the name Pargluva. It was developed by Bristol-Myers Squibb and Merck & Co… The non-insulin treatment is designed for people with Type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the condition that occurs most often in adults who are overweight. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050910/ap_on_he_me/diabetes_treatment
I guess Canadians can’t even state their opinion in a letter to the editor of their local paper... Pastor faces hearing over 'anti-gay' letter
September 10, 2005 A Canadian pastor who works with at-risk youth is preparing to face his province's Human Rights Tribunal because of a letter to the editor he wrote calling homosexuality immoral and dangerous...The letter by the Rev. Stephen Boissoin of Alberta also called into question the province's new homosexual-rights curriculum… The complaint was filed by Darren Lund, an assistant professor at the University of Calgary, after Boissoin's letter was published in the Red Deer Advocate... In addition, Lund requests that Boissoin be forced to apologize to his readers in another letter in the Red Deer Advocate.
...In his letter, Boissoin wrote, "Children as young as 5 and 6 years of age are being subjected to psychologically and physiologically damaging pro-homosexual literature and guidance in the public school system; all under the fraudulent guise of equal rights."..."I was just writing a letter to the editor," he said, "saying this is something to be very, very concerned about." ...Boissoin told LifeSiteNews.com he expects to be found guilty, noting he met with an officer of the Human Rights Commission who said the letter went against the panel's "position." ..."I'm just going to trust God. I've been through a lot in my life … ," he said. "[God] may have me speaking just before the panel and judges and it may touch someone's heart and minister to them. I'm just going to go in humble, and leave the outcome to God." http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46257
Louisiana real estate booms after Katrina
Sept. 9, 2005 Hurricane Katrina has created a real estate boom in Louisiana's usually sedate state capital, now bursting at the seams as rescue workers arrive and evacuees scramble to get on with their lives…Baton Rouge, just 70 miles northwest of New Orleans and relatively untouched by Katrina, is believed to have doubled its 250,000 population in just over a week, local officials said…Demand for residential and commercial property is so strong that rental vacancy is an oxymoron and buyers are bidding against each other for places to live. As available housing dwindles, buyers waive inspections and pay cash for properties they may not have even seen… http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9267885/
The "Unreasonable" ACLU
September 9, 2005 … the New York affiliate of the ACLU filed suit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan to stop police from searching people entering the subways. Police thought the searches would be a good idea since less than a month earlier 52 people were killed and hundreds injured in explosions caused by terrorists’ bombs in London’s underground tube...But the ACLU claims random searches are a violation of the Constitution’s prohibition against “unreasonable searches.”…The ACLU also has opposed searches of people who match the profile of known terrorists [in other words non-random]…If authorities search based on a profile, the ACLU deems it to be unconstitutional discrimination. If authorities search randomly, the ACLU deems it to be unconstitutionally unreasonable. That doesn’t leave police many options. Clearly, something other than protecting “civil liberties” is going on here…It’s reasonable to believe that terrorists have selected New York City as a target, …So, how is it “unreasonable” for authorities to stop and search the bags and backpacks of people entering the New York subway? …It is this ACLU complaint about “racial profiling” that has kowtowed authorities into the absurdity of stopping every fifth or tenth person as they board airplanes, regardless of whether the person is a young child or an 88-year-old Scandinavian grandmother. This is more “reasonable”? READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE: http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19436
Fault Lines
9/8/2005 …Many have called for the head of FEMA Director Mike Brown. But Bill Clinton's choice to be Southwest Regional FEMA director in 1993 was even less qualified, earning his job handling disaster recovery of a different sort….Raymond "Buddy" Young, a former Arkansas state trooper, got his choice assignment after leading efforts to discredit other state troopers in the infamous Troopergate scandal. If a storm like Katrina struck the Big Easy back then, Young would've been in charge…
…Hillary Clinton says FEMA was more effective when her husband was president. The victims of Hurricane Floyd might venture a different opinion, and it wasn't FEMA that kept supplies from the Superdome…Does that mean Clinton's FEMA was the model of government efficiency and effectiveness? Or was it closer to the DMV and post office? Just ask the tens of thousands of people left stranded up and down the Eastern Seaboard by Hurricane Floyd in 1999… "We're starting to move the trailers in," said then-FEMA director and current Hillary favorite James Lee Witt, nearly a month after Floyd first hit. "It's been so wet, it's been difficult to get things in there" — an explanation that sounds familiar…?
http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=20&issue=20050908&view=1
Just the facts Ma’am
Despite Landrieu's complaints of budget cuts and paltry funding, the fact is that over the five years of the Bush administration, Louisiana has received more money — $1.9 billion — for Army Corps of Engineers civil works projects than any other state, and more than under any other administration over a similar period... http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=20&artnum=1&issue=20050909
Fewer Bodies Than Expected Found in N.O.
Authorities said the first street-by-street sweep of this swamped city revealed far fewer corpses than originally feared, a glimmer of encouraging news amid the toxic floodwaters....He declined to give a revised estimate, but said: "Numbers so far are relatively minor as compared to the dire projections of 10,000…" http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050910/ap_on_re_us/hurricane_katrina
Jewish Organizations directly helping the hurricane recovery effort
Subject: American Jewish Hurricane Responses
From: Herzl LocksSent: Friday, September 09, 2005 9:30 PMTo: David Bennett
Please add these to your Blog under Jewish Organizations directly helping the hurricane recovery effort. Unfortunately, I don't have any info concerning how soon after the hurricane hit that they mobilized.
Jewish Federation of St. Louis http://www.jewishinstlouis.org/ or send checks to:
Jewish Federation--Hurricane Relief
12 Milestone Campus Dr., St. Louis, MO 63146
United Jewish Communities is the umbrella group of the various Jewish Federations:
This site contains many facts and figures, but I haven't examined them in any detail.
http://www.ujc.org/ Apparently their response was timely, but I can't say with any certainty about the amounts and the specific ways they are dispensing the aid.
B'nai Brith- Their subsidiary group ADL is one of the organizations you often criticize.
http://bnaibrith.org/
United Synagogue The Conservative Umbrella http://www.uscj.org/index1.html
Union of American Hebrew Congregations http://urj.org/index.cfm?
Orthodox Union http://www.ou.org/
Of course, Chabad http://www.chabad.org/
I'm sure that this list is not comprehensive, but it indicates that American Jewry is responding generously. Note that the latter 2 organizations are those that hold many both religious and political views that often closely align with yours.
Hertz
"overtopping" the levees and "breaching" the levees are not the same thing…
http://brainster.blogspot.com/2005_09_04_brainster_archive.html#112622181693928854
Michigan bills would allow residents to fatally shoot intruders
Michigan residents could fatally shoot someone who breaks into their home or vehicle without facing criminal or civil prosecution under proposed legislation. … would assume that a person who forcibly enters or intrudes in a home or occupied vehicle intends to kill or hurt the owner or occupant…also would eliminate the requirement that people who are being attacked have to retreat before responding, as long as they're in a place they legally have a right to be.
http://www.detnews.com/2005/politics/0509/09/B08-308998.htm
http://www.freewill-predestination.com
Sep 9 Less than two weeks after the storm hit the Gulf Coast, private gifts have soared to nearly $700 million, a pace exceeding the response to the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050909/ap_on_re_us/katrina_charities_2
FDA Panel Endorses New Diabetes Pill
Sep 10 2005 A day after recommending the first inhaled form of insulin to treat diabetes, a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel on Friday endorsed a new pill that helps control blood sugar levels as well as cholesterol in people with the most common form of the condition. The drug, muraglitazar, will be marketed under the name Pargluva. It was developed by Bristol-Myers Squibb and Merck & Co… The non-insulin treatment is designed for people with Type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the condition that occurs most often in adults who are overweight. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050910/ap_on_he_me/diabetes_treatment
I guess Canadians can’t even state their opinion in a letter to the editor of their local paper... Pastor faces hearing over 'anti-gay' letter
September 10, 2005 A Canadian pastor who works with at-risk youth is preparing to face his province's Human Rights Tribunal because of a letter to the editor he wrote calling homosexuality immoral and dangerous...The letter by the Rev. Stephen Boissoin of Alberta also called into question the province's new homosexual-rights curriculum… The complaint was filed by Darren Lund, an assistant professor at the University of Calgary, after Boissoin's letter was published in the Red Deer Advocate... In addition, Lund requests that Boissoin be forced to apologize to his readers in another letter in the Red Deer Advocate.
...In his letter, Boissoin wrote, "Children as young as 5 and 6 years of age are being subjected to psychologically and physiologically damaging pro-homosexual literature and guidance in the public school system; all under the fraudulent guise of equal rights."..."I was just writing a letter to the editor," he said, "saying this is something to be very, very concerned about." ...Boissoin told LifeSiteNews.com he expects to be found guilty, noting he met with an officer of the Human Rights Commission who said the letter went against the panel's "position." ..."I'm just going to trust God. I've been through a lot in my life … ," he said. "[God] may have me speaking just before the panel and judges and it may touch someone's heart and minister to them. I'm just going to go in humble, and leave the outcome to God." http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46257
Louisiana real estate booms after Katrina
Sept. 9, 2005 Hurricane Katrina has created a real estate boom in Louisiana's usually sedate state capital, now bursting at the seams as rescue workers arrive and evacuees scramble to get on with their lives…Baton Rouge, just 70 miles northwest of New Orleans and relatively untouched by Katrina, is believed to have doubled its 250,000 population in just over a week, local officials said…Demand for residential and commercial property is so strong that rental vacancy is an oxymoron and buyers are bidding against each other for places to live. As available housing dwindles, buyers waive inspections and pay cash for properties they may not have even seen… http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9267885/
The "Unreasonable" ACLU
September 9, 2005 … the New York affiliate of the ACLU filed suit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan to stop police from searching people entering the subways. Police thought the searches would be a good idea since less than a month earlier 52 people were killed and hundreds injured in explosions caused by terrorists’ bombs in London’s underground tube...But the ACLU claims random searches are a violation of the Constitution’s prohibition against “unreasonable searches.”…The ACLU also has opposed searches of people who match the profile of known terrorists [in other words non-random]…If authorities search based on a profile, the ACLU deems it to be unconstitutional discrimination. If authorities search randomly, the ACLU deems it to be unconstitutionally unreasonable. That doesn’t leave police many options. Clearly, something other than protecting “civil liberties” is going on here…It’s reasonable to believe that terrorists have selected New York City as a target, …So, how is it “unreasonable” for authorities to stop and search the bags and backpacks of people entering the New York subway? …It is this ACLU complaint about “racial profiling” that has kowtowed authorities into the absurdity of stopping every fifth or tenth person as they board airplanes, regardless of whether the person is a young child or an 88-year-old Scandinavian grandmother. This is more “reasonable”? READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE: http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19436
Fault Lines
9/8/2005 …Many have called for the head of FEMA Director Mike Brown. But Bill Clinton's choice to be Southwest Regional FEMA director in 1993 was even less qualified, earning his job handling disaster recovery of a different sort….Raymond "Buddy" Young, a former Arkansas state trooper, got his choice assignment after leading efforts to discredit other state troopers in the infamous Troopergate scandal. If a storm like Katrina struck the Big Easy back then, Young would've been in charge…
…Hillary Clinton says FEMA was more effective when her husband was president. The victims of Hurricane Floyd might venture a different opinion, and it wasn't FEMA that kept supplies from the Superdome…Does that mean Clinton's FEMA was the model of government efficiency and effectiveness? Or was it closer to the DMV and post office? Just ask the tens of thousands of people left stranded up and down the Eastern Seaboard by Hurricane Floyd in 1999… "We're starting to move the trailers in," said then-FEMA director and current Hillary favorite James Lee Witt, nearly a month after Floyd first hit. "It's been so wet, it's been difficult to get things in there" — an explanation that sounds familiar…?
http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=20&issue=20050908&view=1
Just the facts Ma’am
Despite Landrieu's complaints of budget cuts and paltry funding, the fact is that over the five years of the Bush administration, Louisiana has received more money — $1.9 billion — for Army Corps of Engineers civil works projects than any other state, and more than under any other administration over a similar period... http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=20&artnum=1&issue=20050909
Fewer Bodies Than Expected Found in N.O.
Authorities said the first street-by-street sweep of this swamped city revealed far fewer corpses than originally feared, a glimmer of encouraging news amid the toxic floodwaters....He declined to give a revised estimate, but said: "Numbers so far are relatively minor as compared to the dire projections of 10,000…" http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050910/ap_on_re_us/hurricane_katrina
Jewish Organizations directly helping the hurricane recovery effort
Subject: American Jewish Hurricane Responses
From: Herzl LocksSent: Friday, September 09, 2005 9:30 PMTo: David Bennett
Please add these to your Blog under Jewish Organizations directly helping the hurricane recovery effort. Unfortunately, I don't have any info concerning how soon after the hurricane hit that they mobilized.
Jewish Federation of St. Louis http://www.jewishinstlouis.org/ or send checks to:
Jewish Federation--Hurricane Relief
12 Milestone Campus Dr., St. Louis, MO 63146
United Jewish Communities is the umbrella group of the various Jewish Federations:
This site contains many facts and figures, but I haven't examined them in any detail.
http://www.ujc.org/ Apparently their response was timely, but I can't say with any certainty about the amounts and the specific ways they are dispensing the aid.
B'nai Brith- Their subsidiary group ADL is one of the organizations you often criticize.
http://bnaibrith.org/
United Synagogue The Conservative Umbrella http://www.uscj.org/index1.html
Union of American Hebrew Congregations http://urj.org/index.cfm?
Orthodox Union http://www.ou.org/
Of course, Chabad http://www.chabad.org/
I'm sure that this list is not comprehensive, but it indicates that American Jewry is responding generously. Note that the latter 2 organizations are those that hold many both religious and political views that often closely align with yours.
Hertz
"overtopping" the levees and "breaching" the levees are not the same thing…
http://brainster.blogspot.com/2005_09_04_brainster_archive.html#112622181693928854
Michigan bills would allow residents to fatally shoot intruders
Michigan residents could fatally shoot someone who breaks into their home or vehicle without facing criminal or civil prosecution under proposed legislation. … would assume that a person who forcibly enters or intrudes in a home or occupied vehicle intends to kill or hurt the owner or occupant…also would eliminate the requirement that people who are being attacked have to retreat before responding, as long as they're in a place they legally have a right to be.
http://www.detnews.com/2005/politics/0509/09/B08-308998.htm
http://www.freewill-predestination.com
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