December 31, 2005
SNOOPY'S FLYING (remote controlled) DOGHOUSE (turn on speakers)
Two different videos:
With Snoopy & the Red Barron song (2.8MB): http://raymondstacy.com/snoopy.wmv
With Who Let The Dogs Out? song (5.08MB): http://www.3d-nut.com/videos/doghouse.wmv
Huge new oil discovery in Brazil
Brazil's state-owned oil company, Petrobras, says it has discovered a huge new offshore oil field off the coast of Rio de Janeiro state.
…The new field is expected to help Petrobras achieve its goal of making Brazil self-sufficient in oil. Since 2003, the company has been meeting 91% of the country's needs…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4563896.stm
Regarding the next story I once said this is the type of thing you get when a man can marry a man because of “love.” I pointed out if a person can marry anything he “loves” he could marry his pet (or pet rock). I was told I was being absurd. When I provided examples of people marry dogs I was told that those were young, eastern, uneducated, poor people who were doing it as a part of their religion and who just didn’t know any better. So here’s a rich, educated western woman…
British woman marries her beloved dolphin
An unusual wedding ceremony was held in the southern resort town of Eilat on Wednesday, as Sharon Tendler, a 41-years-old Jewish millionaire from London married her beloved Cindy, a 35-years-old dolphin, Israel's leading newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported Thursday.
...After a years-long romance, Tendler decided to embark on the highly unusual path of tying the knot with her beloved dolphin. Last week, she approached Cindy's trainer Maya Zilber with the extraordinary request.
...And so on Wednesday afternoon, the thrilled bride, wearing a white dress, walked down the dock before hundreds of astounded visitors and kneeled down before her groom, who was waiting in the water.
..."I'm the happiest girl on earth," the bride said as she chocked back tears of emotion. "I made a dream come true, and I am not a pervert," she stressed...
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0%2C7340%2CL-3191923%2C00.html
New NBC Show Called Anti-Christian Bigotry
Dec. 28, 2005- The American Family Association (AFA) says NBC’s new show "The Book of Daniel” is an example of that network’s anti-Christian bigotry.
AFA reported that NBC has received over 400,000 emails complaining about the program, scheduled to begin in January. In addition, local affiliates are being pounded with hundreds of phone calls asking them not to carry the program.
NBC touts the show as a serious drama about Christian people and the Christian faith. The main character is Daniel Webster, a drug-addicted Episcopal priest whose wife depends heavily on her mid-day martinis…The Webster family is rounded out by a 23-year-old homosexual Republican son, a 16-year-old drug- dealing daughter and a 16-year-old adopted son who is having sex with the bishop’s daughter. Webster’s lesbian secretary is sleeping with his sister-in-law.
According to an article by Religion News Service, the series is written by Jack Kenny, a practicing homosexual, who describes himself as being "in Catholic recovery,” interested in Buddhist teachings about reincarnation, and unsure exactly how he defines God and/or Jesus...
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/12/28/114017.shtml
This next story is brought to you by the same people who think the Constitution doesn't mean what it says and means things it doesn't say... (You know, a living constitution)
Religious leaders rally for gay rights
...The group also met "to counter the very loud voices by a very few fundamentalist religious leaders" who oppose the bill, which was narrowly defeated in the 2005 Legislature and is expected to be reintroduced in the upcoming session, said Robert Jacobs, Northwest regional director of the Anti-Defamation League...
"They speak so often ... as if they represent the word of God," Jacobs said…
The Rev. Monica Corsaro, ecumenical campus minister at the University of Washington, said, "We can't be literalists when it comes to interpreting scripture...It's not the perfect word of God..." Corsaro, is co-chairwoman of the Religious Coalition for Equality.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/253817_bill29.html?source=mypi
Court rules GM program not discriminatory
Diversity plan does not allow Christian employee groups
Dec. 30, 2005- A General Motors Corp. program that lets Hispanics, blacks or lesbians _ but not Christians _ organize in employee groups does not commit religious discrimination, a federal court ruled.
The company's Affinity Group diversity program treats all religions equally because no groups are allowed to promote religious positions, the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago ruled.
The claim arose after John Moranski, a born-again Christian who works at GM's Allison Transmission plant in Indianapolis, applied in December 2002 to start an interdenominational Christian employees group as part of the diversity program, according to court documents.
GM rejected the application because program guidelines do not allow the groups to promote religious positions, the documents say. Moranski filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and then filed a federal lawsuit claiming religious discrimination.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10651146/
Mars rovers find evidence of past hostile environment, but not life
December 6, 2005- Nearly two years after NASA's twin rovers parachuted to Mars, a Jekyll-and-Hyde picture is emerging about the planet's past and whether it could have supported life.
Both Spirit and Opportunity uncovered geologic evidence of a wet past, a sign that ancient Mars may have been hospitable to life. But new findings reveal the Red Planet was also once such a hostile place that the environment may have prevented life from developing...
The new analyses were presented on Monday at an American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco.
Since landing on opposite sides of Mars in January 2004, the six-wheel rovers found conclusive evidence, based on examination of water-altered bedrock at their respective sites, that the planet once had water.
But the sedimentary rocks in the Martian plains where Opportunity landed also painted a picture of a past environment…that fluctuated between being very acidic and arid - conditions that were probably unfavourable to life...
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1565910%2C00040005.htm
Bill Clinton Authorized Extralegal Interrogations
Dec. 30, 2005- The man who ran the Central Intelligence Agency's Bin Laden desk during the 1990s is accusing President Clinton of giving the CIA carte blanche to circumvent U.S. law and interrogate terrorist suspects in any way the agency saw fit - a directive that led to the establishment of secret CIA prisons on foreign soil.
According to an Agence France Press summary of the Die Zeit interview, Scheuer explained that the Clinton administration "had been looking in the mid-1990s for a way to combat the terrorist threat and circumvent the cumbersome US legal system."
...The secret CIA interrogation process became known as "renditioning," Scheuer said, explaining that it included moving prisoners without due legal process to countries without strict human rights protections.
...Scheuer's revelations contradict a much ballyhooed Nov. 2, 2005 report in the Washington Post, which insisted that "the secret detention system was conceived in the chaotic and anxious first months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks..."
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/12/30/104637.shtml
L.A. Times Falls for 'Federal Dog' Quote
Dec. 28, 2005- A quote in a fake news release that was intended as an April Fool's joke ended up in a front-page story in the Los Angeles Times.
The story in Tuesday's editions of the Times noted how successful the reintroduction of wolves had been 10 years ago, but said the predators remained controversial.
"In Wyoming, for example, Gov. Dave Freudenthal last April decreed that the Endangered Species Act is no longer in force and that the state 'now considers the wolf as a federal dog,' unworthy of protection," the story read.
..."The reporter saw it on the Internet and had talked with the governor in the past, so she was familiar enough with the way he talks and writes that she thought it sounded authentic, and she didn't check, which she should have," Times Deputy Metro Editor David Lauter told the Casper Star Tribune...
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/12/28/191732.shtml
Two different videos:
With Snoopy & the Red Barron song (2.8MB): http://raymondstacy.com/snoopy.wmv
With Who Let The Dogs Out? song (5.08MB): http://www.3d-nut.com/videos/doghouse.wmv
Huge new oil discovery in Brazil
Brazil's state-owned oil company, Petrobras, says it has discovered a huge new offshore oil field off the coast of Rio de Janeiro state.
…The new field is expected to help Petrobras achieve its goal of making Brazil self-sufficient in oil. Since 2003, the company has been meeting 91% of the country's needs…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4563896.stm
Regarding the next story I once said this is the type of thing you get when a man can marry a man because of “love.” I pointed out if a person can marry anything he “loves” he could marry his pet (or pet rock). I was told I was being absurd. When I provided examples of people marry dogs I was told that those were young, eastern, uneducated, poor people who were doing it as a part of their religion and who just didn’t know any better. So here’s a rich, educated western woman…
British woman marries her beloved dolphin
An unusual wedding ceremony was held in the southern resort town of Eilat on Wednesday, as Sharon Tendler, a 41-years-old Jewish millionaire from London married her beloved Cindy, a 35-years-old dolphin, Israel's leading newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported Thursday.
...After a years-long romance, Tendler decided to embark on the highly unusual path of tying the knot with her beloved dolphin. Last week, she approached Cindy's trainer Maya Zilber with the extraordinary request.
...And so on Wednesday afternoon, the thrilled bride, wearing a white dress, walked down the dock before hundreds of astounded visitors and kneeled down before her groom, who was waiting in the water.
..."I'm the happiest girl on earth," the bride said as she chocked back tears of emotion. "I made a dream come true, and I am not a pervert," she stressed...
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0%2C7340%2CL-3191923%2C00.html
New NBC Show Called Anti-Christian Bigotry
Dec. 28, 2005- The American Family Association (AFA) says NBC’s new show "The Book of Daniel” is an example of that network’s anti-Christian bigotry.
AFA reported that NBC has received over 400,000 emails complaining about the program, scheduled to begin in January. In addition, local affiliates are being pounded with hundreds of phone calls asking them not to carry the program.
NBC touts the show as a serious drama about Christian people and the Christian faith. The main character is Daniel Webster, a drug-addicted Episcopal priest whose wife depends heavily on her mid-day martinis…The Webster family is rounded out by a 23-year-old homosexual Republican son, a 16-year-old drug- dealing daughter and a 16-year-old adopted son who is having sex with the bishop’s daughter. Webster’s lesbian secretary is sleeping with his sister-in-law.
According to an article by Religion News Service, the series is written by Jack Kenny, a practicing homosexual, who describes himself as being "in Catholic recovery,” interested in Buddhist teachings about reincarnation, and unsure exactly how he defines God and/or Jesus...
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/12/28/114017.shtml
This next story is brought to you by the same people who think the Constitution doesn't mean what it says and means things it doesn't say... (You know, a living constitution)
Religious leaders rally for gay rights
...The group also met "to counter the very loud voices by a very few fundamentalist religious leaders" who oppose the bill, which was narrowly defeated in the 2005 Legislature and is expected to be reintroduced in the upcoming session, said Robert Jacobs, Northwest regional director of the Anti-Defamation League...
"They speak so often ... as if they represent the word of God," Jacobs said…
The Rev. Monica Corsaro, ecumenical campus minister at the University of Washington, said, "We can't be literalists when it comes to interpreting scripture...It's not the perfect word of God..." Corsaro, is co-chairwoman of the Religious Coalition for Equality.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/253817_bill29.html?source=mypi
Court rules GM program not discriminatory
Diversity plan does not allow Christian employee groups
Dec. 30, 2005- A General Motors Corp. program that lets Hispanics, blacks or lesbians _ but not Christians _ organize in employee groups does not commit religious discrimination, a federal court ruled.
The company's Affinity Group diversity program treats all religions equally because no groups are allowed to promote religious positions, the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago ruled.
The claim arose after John Moranski, a born-again Christian who works at GM's Allison Transmission plant in Indianapolis, applied in December 2002 to start an interdenominational Christian employees group as part of the diversity program, according to court documents.
GM rejected the application because program guidelines do not allow the groups to promote religious positions, the documents say. Moranski filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and then filed a federal lawsuit claiming religious discrimination.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10651146/
Mars rovers find evidence of past hostile environment, but not life
December 6, 2005- Nearly two years after NASA's twin rovers parachuted to Mars, a Jekyll-and-Hyde picture is emerging about the planet's past and whether it could have supported life.
Both Spirit and Opportunity uncovered geologic evidence of a wet past, a sign that ancient Mars may have been hospitable to life. But new findings reveal the Red Planet was also once such a hostile place that the environment may have prevented life from developing...
The new analyses were presented on Monday at an American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco.
Since landing on opposite sides of Mars in January 2004, the six-wheel rovers found conclusive evidence, based on examination of water-altered bedrock at their respective sites, that the planet once had water.
But the sedimentary rocks in the Martian plains where Opportunity landed also painted a picture of a past environment…that fluctuated between being very acidic and arid - conditions that were probably unfavourable to life...
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1565910%2C00040005.htm
Bill Clinton Authorized Extralegal Interrogations
Dec. 30, 2005- The man who ran the Central Intelligence Agency's Bin Laden desk during the 1990s is accusing President Clinton of giving the CIA carte blanche to circumvent U.S. law and interrogate terrorist suspects in any way the agency saw fit - a directive that led to the establishment of secret CIA prisons on foreign soil.
According to an Agence France Press summary of the Die Zeit interview, Scheuer explained that the Clinton administration "had been looking in the mid-1990s for a way to combat the terrorist threat and circumvent the cumbersome US legal system."
...The secret CIA interrogation process became known as "renditioning," Scheuer said, explaining that it included moving prisoners without due legal process to countries without strict human rights protections.
...Scheuer's revelations contradict a much ballyhooed Nov. 2, 2005 report in the Washington Post, which insisted that "the secret detention system was conceived in the chaotic and anxious first months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks..."
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/12/30/104637.shtml
L.A. Times Falls for 'Federal Dog' Quote
Dec. 28, 2005- A quote in a fake news release that was intended as an April Fool's joke ended up in a front-page story in the Los Angeles Times.
The story in Tuesday's editions of the Times noted how successful the reintroduction of wolves had been 10 years ago, but said the predators remained controversial.
"In Wyoming, for example, Gov. Dave Freudenthal last April decreed that the Endangered Species Act is no longer in force and that the state 'now considers the wolf as a federal dog,' unworthy of protection," the story read.
..."The reporter saw it on the Internet and had talked with the governor in the past, so she was familiar enough with the way he talks and writes that she thought it sounded authentic, and she didn't check, which she should have," Times Deputy Metro Editor David Lauter told the Casper Star Tribune...
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/12/28/191732.shtml
posted by David Bennett | 4:26 AM
<< Home