December 14, 2005
Ashland Christimas
http://www.ashland.edu/ecard
The First Christmas Gift (scroll down)
http://www.andiesisle.com/thefirstchristmasgift.html
British advisers say Santa 'too terrifying' for students
England says children should be protected from Father Christmas
THE highlight of any Christmas party for generations of children has been the moment when the lights dim, voices hush and the sound of sleigh bells signals the imminent arrival of Santa Claus.
But that magic moment has come under threat from government advisers who have told teachers that children should be protected from the "terrifying" appearance of Santa at school Christmas parties.
...The advice, on the website teachernet.gov.uk , run by the communications unit of the Department for Education and Skills (DfES)...
..."For very young children, Father Christmas can be terrifying, and if you are planning a visit from Santa, you'll need to make sure that fearful children are near an exit...
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=2387532005
Library Just Says No To Baby Jesus But Pornography and Bestiality O.K.
Recently Brandi Chambless was told by a Bartlett, Tennessee branch library staff member that she could not use a public shelf to display a Nativity scene along with an announcement about a Christmas concert at Broadmoor Baptist Church. The shelf is open to the public for advertising upcoming community activities.
The library official told Brandi that a donkey, sheep and other farm animals, along with a Shepherd boy, could be displayed but the Wise men; Joseph, Mary and the Baby Jesus were inappropriate “religious figures” and must be removed.
The library official sited a written policy that does not allow any display in the library that was religious. This policy of the Memphis-Shelby County Libraries deems “any item which promotes a particular religion or sectarian religious belief” to be unacceptable for display in the library.
If this is truly the policy of the Memphis-Shelby County Library then they need to remove every book and resource from every shelf and leave them completely and totally empty. Why? Because Webster’s dictionary defines a religion as a collection of beliefs, therefore, every book in the Memphis Library system is promoting someone’s religious belief.
We can thank the wise man that is the Mayor of Bartlett for over-ruling the Memphis-Shelby County library’s ridiculous policy. However, this incident brings to light the need for our local libraries to be influenced by the community and not the liberal American Library Association of which the Memphis libraries are members.
The American Library Association has a long history of being hostile to Christian values including suing to stop the enforcement of a federal law that would withhold federal funds from any library or school that does not filter internet pornography from children.
Judith Krug, of the American Library Association, bemoaned internet filtering software for libraries saying, “blocking material leads to censorship. That goes for pornography and bestiality too. If you don’t like it, don’t look at it.”
Well, two can play that game; if the Nativity scene at the library offends you then don’t look at it. I'm Brannon Howse (used by permission)
http://www.worldviewweekend.com/secure/cwnetwork/article.php?ArticleID=366
Happy News web site
Web Site Serves News with a Smile
…Carrie Rodgers turns to a Web site called www.HappyNews.com ... "There's so much going on in the world that is so sad," Rodgers said. "You can go anywhere and find depressing news. I'm glad somebody has stepped up and shown there are still good people in the world."
HappyNews is the brainchild of Byron Reese, chief executive of Austin, Texas-based PageWise Inc., which publishes several how-to and advice Web sites. He decided the world needed a refuge from all the unpleasantness served up by newspapers and television news shows, so he launched HappyNews in July.
"This is asking the question, what is news?" Reese said. "News is supposed to give you a view of the world. The news media, the way it has evolved, gives you a distorted view of the world by exaggerating bad news, misery and despair. We're trying to balance out the scale."
...Almost all political stories are rejected. Coverage of the war in Iraq has been limited to things such as Marines celebrating Thanksgiving and volunteers sending teddy bears to Iraqi children.
...The staff favors stories about health, science, the arts and heroes. A new section called HappyLiving offers tips on everything from barbecuing to finding a baby sitter.
...Surveys have shown that many readers want more good news, and newspapers and television have responded by offering more entertainment and celebrity coverage, said Tommy Thomason, director of the journalism school at Texas Christian University.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/12/11/174925.shtml
see http://www.happynews.com/
http://www.happynews.com/category/heroes.htm
Abandoned oil wells uncapped
Restarting of Southern California sites defies domestic shortage theory
November 29, 2005- Oil wells in California that were capped are now being opened because rising petroleum demand and new technology are permitting oil companies to profitably extract oil in the Golden State.
Wells that are 45 years old are being put back into production, with many wells in Los Angeles having been shut down after only 20 or 25 percent of the oil was extracted, reported the Associated Press. Current technology permits up to 50 percent of the reserves in a well to be drained before the well is capped. While California has some 3,000 abandoned wells, oil experts are predicting that all of them may soon be operating again.
…Craig R. Smith of "Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil" said "Much oil in the U.S. has been kept in the ground awaiting new technology and higher prices. Truly, we do not know how much oil we have in the U.S. because environmental objections have consistently blocked efforts to explore for oil and natural gas offshore and in Alaska."
Corsi also points to the "Deep Trek" project, which has been launched by the U.S. Department of Energy to encourage U.S. domestic exploration in the United States. It utilizes ultra-deep drilling technology that permits oil companies to explore for oil at levels as deep as 3 miles underground. The Department of Energy reports that today 7 percent of the natural gas produced in the United States comes from formations below 15,000 feet. The agency estimates, however, that 125 trillion cubic feet of natural gas are trapped at depths 3 miles underground or more throughout the continental U.S. The "Deep Trek" project was kicked off in 2002 to develop the high-tech drilling tools the oil industry needs to tackle these deeper deposits…
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47618
Economy Grows at Robust Pace Despite Storms
The economy grew at a lively 4.3 percent pace in the third quarter, the best showing in more than a year. The performance offered fresh testimony that the country's overall economic health managed to improve despite the destructive force of Gulf Coast hurricanes. The new snapshot of economic activity, released by the Commerce Department on Wednesday, showed the growth at an even faster pace than the 3.8 percent annual rate first reported for the July-to-September quarter a month ago…
"In anybody's book this is an outstanding performance for the economy," said Ken Mayland, president of ClearView Economics.
...The 4.3 percent growth rate matched the performance posted in the first quarter of 2004. The last time economic activity was higher was in the third quarter of 2003, when the GDP soared at a blistering 7.2 percent pace.
The upwardly revised reading for GDP in the third quarter also exceeded the expectations of business analysts. Before the report was released, they were forecasting the economy to clock in at a 4 percent pace…
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/30/D8E6R0409.html
This article says it's "surprising" how Iraqis view things. Well it may be to them but not to a lot of other folks!
ABCNEWS POLL: 71% Of Iraqis Say Life Is Going Good...
Despite the daily violence there, most living conditions are rated positively, seven in 10 Iraqis say their own lives are going well, and nearly two-thirds expect things to improve in the year ahead.
Surprisingly, given the insurgents' attacks on Iraqi civilians, more than six in 10 Iraqis feel very safe in their own neighborhoods, up sharply from just 40 percent in a poll in June 2004. And 61 percent say local security is good — up from 49 percent in the first ABC News poll in Iraq in February 2004... Economic improvements are helping the public mood...
...Average household incomes have soared by 60 percent in the last 20 months (to $263 a month), 70 percent of Iraqis rate their own economic situation positively, and consumer goods are sweeping the country. In early 2004, 6 percent of Iraqi households had cell phones; now it's 62 percent. Ownership of satellite dishes has nearly tripled, and many more families now own air conditioners (58 percent, up from 44 percent), cars, washing machines and kitchen appliances.
...There are positive political signs as well. Three-quarters of Iraqis express confidence in the national elections being held this week, 70 percent approve of the new constitution, and 70 percent — including most people in Sunni and Shiite areas alike — want Iraq to remain a unified country...69 percent of Iraqis expect things for the country overall to improve in the next year — a remarkable level of optimism in light of the continuing violence there...
http://abcnews.go.com/International/PollVault/story?id=1389228
Palestinian Authority Claims Western Wall is Moslem Property
Dec 12, 2005 / 11 Kislev 5766
The Palestinian Authority’s Office for Religious Affairs claims that the Western Wall, revered by Jews for generations as the last structural remnant of the Second Holy Temple, is Moslem property...
…Rabbi Chaim Richman, Director of the International Department of the of the Temple Institute in Jerusalem… said that the PA’s denial of the Jewish Temple's existence “is part of a campaign to totally eradicate, erase, and destroy all Jewish connection to the Temple Mount, Jerusalem, and the land of Israel.”
…Richman said that “Islam has for many years been waging a campaign to destroy any evidence of a Jewish presence on the Temple Mount.” He cited efforts by the PA and the Moslem Wakf (religious trust) to carry out excavations on the Temple Mount for the purpose of destroying artifacts relating to the First and Second Temples. He said that thousands of tons of archeological material has already been deliberately destroyed by the wakf...
…Today, Jews are allowed to visit the Temple Mount only at very specific hours and in small numbers, and must be accompanied by Israeli Police as well as a representative of the Wakf, the Moslem body currently responsible for activity on the Temple Mount. In addition, Jewish visitors are not allowed to bow or pray anywhere on the Mount itself, and may not even bring books with Hebrew writing.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=94610
ACLU Blasts TASERs
Law enforcement supporters defended the electronic immobilization device known as the "TASER" Thursday, dismissing a claim that it was responsible for nearly 150 deaths since 1999. The Law Enforcement Alliance of America called a report by the American Civil Liberties Union "junk science (that) puts cops' lives at risk."
...The Northern California affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) published a report in September, claiming that as the number of TASERs in the hands of police has increased, "the number of deaths associated with their use has also skyrocketed…
…But the Law Enforcement Alliance of America (LEAA) - a coalition of current and former law enforcement officers, crime victims and others …"The ACLU's sensationalist anti-cop attack on the TASER would not get much attention if they admitted that they could cite only four coroner reports over five years that list police use of TASER as 'a cause of death,'" LEAA charged. "So they settle instead for the intellectually-challenged logic that suggests if a TASER device is used and the (often) drug-deranged and/or violent suspect later dies, it must be the police officer's use of a TASER that caused the death, as opposed to the suspect's use of lethal amounts of illegal drugs, a preexisting medical condition or physiological stress resulting from violent resistance."
A rebuttal report by the LEAA, released Thursday, noted that the ACLU relied on published reports from the Arizona Republic as "evidence" in 144 of the 148 cases of allegedly TASER-related deaths it claimed.
"Yet the ACLU fails to mention that the very same newspaper admits that only four coroner reports have listed the police use of TASER technology as a 'cause of death,'" the LEAA countered, "ten as a 'contributing factor' and four where the TASER's role 'could not be ruled out.'"
The TASER was not considered a factor by medical examiners in the other 130 cases studied.
...In a prepared statement, Jim Fotis, executive director of LEAA, called the ACLU report a "hit piece on cops and TASERs."[It] is nothing more than a recycled version of their anti-cop rhetoric about pepper spray," Fotis charged. "Their wild claims went unchallenged ten years ago, but our report will set the record straight."
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=\Nation\archive\200512\NAT20051209a.html
The Panic Over Iraq What they're really afraid of is American success.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110007661
Katrina Death Stats Contradict Racial Complaints
The popular perception that African-Americans living in New Orleans were disproportionately victimized by the government's botched Hurricane Katrina rescue effort turns out not to be true - at least according to preliminary death statistics released by the state of Louisiana.
...But preliminary figures compiled by the morgue in St. Gabriel, Louisiana, which is the primary facility handling the bodies of Katrina deceased, show that a majority of the dead in New Orleans and surrounding parishes were actually not black.
Of the 883 bodies processed so far by medical examiners at St. Gabriel..slightly less than half that number - 48 percent - are African-American. Forty-one percent are white, 8 percent unknown and 2 percent Hispanic.
...The surprisingly low death rate for black Katrina victims comes despite the fact that New Orleans itself was more than two-thirds black [67 percent] when the storm hit.
...St. Bernard parish is 88 percent white, but the total population before the storm was just 65,554 people. The city of New Orleans, on the other hand, had 484,674 people before the storm, 67 percent of whom were black.
The two populations combined were still over 60 percent black - twelve points higher than the percentage of black residents killed by Katrina.
To view the statistics on Katrina dead released by the state of Louisiana, go to: http://www.dhh.louisiana.gov/offices/publications/pubs-145/DECEASED%20Victims%20released_11-14-2005_publication.pdf
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/12/12/103853.shtml
The Media's War By Thomas Sowell
December 13, 2005- The media seem to have come up with a formula that would make any war in history unwinnable and unbearable: They simply emphasize the enemy's victories and our losses.
Losses suffered by the enemy are not news, no matter how large, how persistent, or how clearly they indicate the enemy's declining strength.
What are the enemy's victories in Iraq? The killing of Americans and the killing of Iraqi civilians. Both are big news in the mainstream media…
see complete article at: http://townhall.com/opinion/columns/thomassowell/2005/12/13/178822.html
Basic economics by Walter E. Williams
Dec 7, 2005
With all the recent hype and demagoguery about gasoline price-gouging, maybe it's time to talk about the basics of exchange. First, what is exchange?
see complete article at: http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/walterwilliams/2005/12/07/178043.html
Dr. Williams has served on the faculty of George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, as John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics, since 1980.
Do Some Soul Searching' BY DONALD RUMSFELD
Why aren't the media telling the whole story about Iraq?
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110007644
http://www.ashland.edu/ecard
The First Christmas Gift (scroll down)
http://www.andiesisle.com/thefirstchristmasgift.html
British advisers say Santa 'too terrifying' for students
England says children should be protected from Father Christmas
THE highlight of any Christmas party for generations of children has been the moment when the lights dim, voices hush and the sound of sleigh bells signals the imminent arrival of Santa Claus.
But that magic moment has come under threat from government advisers who have told teachers that children should be protected from the "terrifying" appearance of Santa at school Christmas parties.
...The advice, on the website teachernet.gov.uk , run by the communications unit of the Department for Education and Skills (DfES)...
..."For very young children, Father Christmas can be terrifying, and if you are planning a visit from Santa, you'll need to make sure that fearful children are near an exit...
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=2387532005
Library Just Says No To Baby Jesus But Pornography and Bestiality O.K.
Recently Brandi Chambless was told by a Bartlett, Tennessee branch library staff member that she could not use a public shelf to display a Nativity scene along with an announcement about a Christmas concert at Broadmoor Baptist Church. The shelf is open to the public for advertising upcoming community activities.
The library official told Brandi that a donkey, sheep and other farm animals, along with a Shepherd boy, could be displayed but the Wise men; Joseph, Mary and the Baby Jesus were inappropriate “religious figures” and must be removed.
The library official sited a written policy that does not allow any display in the library that was religious. This policy of the Memphis-Shelby County Libraries deems “any item which promotes a particular religion or sectarian religious belief” to be unacceptable for display in the library.
If this is truly the policy of the Memphis-Shelby County Library then they need to remove every book and resource from every shelf and leave them completely and totally empty. Why? Because Webster’s dictionary defines a religion as a collection of beliefs, therefore, every book in the Memphis Library system is promoting someone’s religious belief.
We can thank the wise man that is the Mayor of Bartlett for over-ruling the Memphis-Shelby County library’s ridiculous policy. However, this incident brings to light the need for our local libraries to be influenced by the community and not the liberal American Library Association of which the Memphis libraries are members.
The American Library Association has a long history of being hostile to Christian values including suing to stop the enforcement of a federal law that would withhold federal funds from any library or school that does not filter internet pornography from children.
Judith Krug, of the American Library Association, bemoaned internet filtering software for libraries saying, “blocking material leads to censorship. That goes for pornography and bestiality too. If you don’t like it, don’t look at it.”
Well, two can play that game; if the Nativity scene at the library offends you then don’t look at it. I'm Brannon Howse (used by permission)
http://www.worldviewweekend.com/secure/cwnetwork/article.php?ArticleID=366
Happy News web site
Web Site Serves News with a Smile
…Carrie Rodgers turns to a Web site called www.HappyNews.com ... "There's so much going on in the world that is so sad," Rodgers said. "You can go anywhere and find depressing news. I'm glad somebody has stepped up and shown there are still good people in the world."
HappyNews is the brainchild of Byron Reese, chief executive of Austin, Texas-based PageWise Inc., which publishes several how-to and advice Web sites. He decided the world needed a refuge from all the unpleasantness served up by newspapers and television news shows, so he launched HappyNews in July.
"This is asking the question, what is news?" Reese said. "News is supposed to give you a view of the world. The news media, the way it has evolved, gives you a distorted view of the world by exaggerating bad news, misery and despair. We're trying to balance out the scale."
...Almost all political stories are rejected. Coverage of the war in Iraq has been limited to things such as Marines celebrating Thanksgiving and volunteers sending teddy bears to Iraqi children.
...The staff favors stories about health, science, the arts and heroes. A new section called HappyLiving offers tips on everything from barbecuing to finding a baby sitter.
...Surveys have shown that many readers want more good news, and newspapers and television have responded by offering more entertainment and celebrity coverage, said Tommy Thomason, director of the journalism school at Texas Christian University.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/12/11/174925.shtml
see http://www.happynews.com/
http://www.happynews.com/category/heroes.htm
Abandoned oil wells uncapped
Restarting of Southern California sites defies domestic shortage theory
November 29, 2005- Oil wells in California that were capped are now being opened because rising petroleum demand and new technology are permitting oil companies to profitably extract oil in the Golden State.
Wells that are 45 years old are being put back into production, with many wells in Los Angeles having been shut down after only 20 or 25 percent of the oil was extracted, reported the Associated Press. Current technology permits up to 50 percent of the reserves in a well to be drained before the well is capped. While California has some 3,000 abandoned wells, oil experts are predicting that all of them may soon be operating again.
…Craig R. Smith of "Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil" said "Much oil in the U.S. has been kept in the ground awaiting new technology and higher prices. Truly, we do not know how much oil we have in the U.S. because environmental objections have consistently blocked efforts to explore for oil and natural gas offshore and in Alaska."
Corsi also points to the "Deep Trek" project, which has been launched by the U.S. Department of Energy to encourage U.S. domestic exploration in the United States. It utilizes ultra-deep drilling technology that permits oil companies to explore for oil at levels as deep as 3 miles underground. The Department of Energy reports that today 7 percent of the natural gas produced in the United States comes from formations below 15,000 feet. The agency estimates, however, that 125 trillion cubic feet of natural gas are trapped at depths 3 miles underground or more throughout the continental U.S. The "Deep Trek" project was kicked off in 2002 to develop the high-tech drilling tools the oil industry needs to tackle these deeper deposits…
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47618
Economy Grows at Robust Pace Despite Storms
The economy grew at a lively 4.3 percent pace in the third quarter, the best showing in more than a year. The performance offered fresh testimony that the country's overall economic health managed to improve despite the destructive force of Gulf Coast hurricanes. The new snapshot of economic activity, released by the Commerce Department on Wednesday, showed the growth at an even faster pace than the 3.8 percent annual rate first reported for the July-to-September quarter a month ago…
"In anybody's book this is an outstanding performance for the economy," said Ken Mayland, president of ClearView Economics.
...The 4.3 percent growth rate matched the performance posted in the first quarter of 2004. The last time economic activity was higher was in the third quarter of 2003, when the GDP soared at a blistering 7.2 percent pace.
The upwardly revised reading for GDP in the third quarter also exceeded the expectations of business analysts. Before the report was released, they were forecasting the economy to clock in at a 4 percent pace…
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/30/D8E6R0409.html
This article says it's "surprising" how Iraqis view things. Well it may be to them but not to a lot of other folks!
ABCNEWS POLL: 71% Of Iraqis Say Life Is Going Good...
Despite the daily violence there, most living conditions are rated positively, seven in 10 Iraqis say their own lives are going well, and nearly two-thirds expect things to improve in the year ahead.
Surprisingly, given the insurgents' attacks on Iraqi civilians, more than six in 10 Iraqis feel very safe in their own neighborhoods, up sharply from just 40 percent in a poll in June 2004. And 61 percent say local security is good — up from 49 percent in the first ABC News poll in Iraq in February 2004... Economic improvements are helping the public mood...
...Average household incomes have soared by 60 percent in the last 20 months (to $263 a month), 70 percent of Iraqis rate their own economic situation positively, and consumer goods are sweeping the country. In early 2004, 6 percent of Iraqi households had cell phones; now it's 62 percent. Ownership of satellite dishes has nearly tripled, and many more families now own air conditioners (58 percent, up from 44 percent), cars, washing machines and kitchen appliances.
...There are positive political signs as well. Three-quarters of Iraqis express confidence in the national elections being held this week, 70 percent approve of the new constitution, and 70 percent — including most people in Sunni and Shiite areas alike — want Iraq to remain a unified country...69 percent of Iraqis expect things for the country overall to improve in the next year — a remarkable level of optimism in light of the continuing violence there...
http://abcnews.go.com/International/PollVault/story?id=1389228
Palestinian Authority Claims Western Wall is Moslem Property
Dec 12, 2005 / 11 Kislev 5766
The Palestinian Authority’s Office for Religious Affairs claims that the Western Wall, revered by Jews for generations as the last structural remnant of the Second Holy Temple, is Moslem property...
…Rabbi Chaim Richman, Director of the International Department of the of the Temple Institute in Jerusalem… said that the PA’s denial of the Jewish Temple's existence “is part of a campaign to totally eradicate, erase, and destroy all Jewish connection to the Temple Mount, Jerusalem, and the land of Israel.”
…Richman said that “Islam has for many years been waging a campaign to destroy any evidence of a Jewish presence on the Temple Mount.” He cited efforts by the PA and the Moslem Wakf (religious trust) to carry out excavations on the Temple Mount for the purpose of destroying artifacts relating to the First and Second Temples. He said that thousands of tons of archeological material has already been deliberately destroyed by the wakf...
…Today, Jews are allowed to visit the Temple Mount only at very specific hours and in small numbers, and must be accompanied by Israeli Police as well as a representative of the Wakf, the Moslem body currently responsible for activity on the Temple Mount. In addition, Jewish visitors are not allowed to bow or pray anywhere on the Mount itself, and may not even bring books with Hebrew writing.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=94610
ACLU Blasts TASERs
Law enforcement supporters defended the electronic immobilization device known as the "TASER" Thursday, dismissing a claim that it was responsible for nearly 150 deaths since 1999. The Law Enforcement Alliance of America called a report by the American Civil Liberties Union "junk science (that) puts cops' lives at risk."
...The Northern California affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) published a report in September, claiming that as the number of TASERs in the hands of police has increased, "the number of deaths associated with their use has also skyrocketed…
…But the Law Enforcement Alliance of America (LEAA) - a coalition of current and former law enforcement officers, crime victims and others …"The ACLU's sensationalist anti-cop attack on the TASER would not get much attention if they admitted that they could cite only four coroner reports over five years that list police use of TASER as 'a cause of death,'" LEAA charged. "So they settle instead for the intellectually-challenged logic that suggests if a TASER device is used and the (often) drug-deranged and/or violent suspect later dies, it must be the police officer's use of a TASER that caused the death, as opposed to the suspect's use of lethal amounts of illegal drugs, a preexisting medical condition or physiological stress resulting from violent resistance."
A rebuttal report by the LEAA, released Thursday, noted that the ACLU relied on published reports from the Arizona Republic as "evidence" in 144 of the 148 cases of allegedly TASER-related deaths it claimed.
"Yet the ACLU fails to mention that the very same newspaper admits that only four coroner reports have listed the police use of TASER technology as a 'cause of death,'" the LEAA countered, "ten as a 'contributing factor' and four where the TASER's role 'could not be ruled out.'"
The TASER was not considered a factor by medical examiners in the other 130 cases studied.
...In a prepared statement, Jim Fotis, executive director of LEAA, called the ACLU report a "hit piece on cops and TASERs."[It] is nothing more than a recycled version of their anti-cop rhetoric about pepper spray," Fotis charged. "Their wild claims went unchallenged ten years ago, but our report will set the record straight."
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=\Nation\archive\200512\NAT20051209a.html
The Panic Over Iraq What they're really afraid of is American success.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110007661
Katrina Death Stats Contradict Racial Complaints
The popular perception that African-Americans living in New Orleans were disproportionately victimized by the government's botched Hurricane Katrina rescue effort turns out not to be true - at least according to preliminary death statistics released by the state of Louisiana.
...But preliminary figures compiled by the morgue in St. Gabriel, Louisiana, which is the primary facility handling the bodies of Katrina deceased, show that a majority of the dead in New Orleans and surrounding parishes were actually not black.
Of the 883 bodies processed so far by medical examiners at St. Gabriel..slightly less than half that number - 48 percent - are African-American. Forty-one percent are white, 8 percent unknown and 2 percent Hispanic.
...The surprisingly low death rate for black Katrina victims comes despite the fact that New Orleans itself was more than two-thirds black [67 percent] when the storm hit.
...St. Bernard parish is 88 percent white, but the total population before the storm was just 65,554 people. The city of New Orleans, on the other hand, had 484,674 people before the storm, 67 percent of whom were black.
The two populations combined were still over 60 percent black - twelve points higher than the percentage of black residents killed by Katrina.
To view the statistics on Katrina dead released by the state of Louisiana, go to: http://www.dhh.louisiana.gov/offices/publications/pubs-145/DECEASED%20Victims%20released_11-14-2005_publication.pdf
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/12/12/103853.shtml
The Media's War By Thomas Sowell
December 13, 2005- The media seem to have come up with a formula that would make any war in history unwinnable and unbearable: They simply emphasize the enemy's victories and our losses.
Losses suffered by the enemy are not news, no matter how large, how persistent, or how clearly they indicate the enemy's declining strength.
What are the enemy's victories in Iraq? The killing of Americans and the killing of Iraqi civilians. Both are big news in the mainstream media…
see complete article at: http://townhall.com/opinion/columns/thomassowell/2005/12/13/178822.html
Basic economics by Walter E. Williams
Dec 7, 2005
With all the recent hype and demagoguery about gasoline price-gouging, maybe it's time to talk about the basics of exchange. First, what is exchange?
see complete article at: http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/walterwilliams/2005/12/07/178043.html
Dr. Williams has served on the faculty of George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, as John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics, since 1980.
Do Some Soul Searching' BY DONALD RUMSFELD
Why aren't the media telling the whole story about Iraq?
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110007644
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