February 21, 2006
Fla. Man Kills Roommate Over Toilet Paper
Feb 21 MOSS BLUFF, Fla. -A man accused of fatally beating his roommate with a sledgehammer and a claw hammer because there was no toilet paper in their home has been arrested.
...Crow told investigators that the men were fighting about the toilet paper over the weekend when Matthews pulled out a rifle (that at least is one side of the story). Crow said he then began beating Matthews with the sledgehammer and claw hammer, according to an affidavit. Matthews was beaten so badly he had to be identified through his fingerprints, detectives said... (obviously hammers need to be banned, especially the assault claw hammers, the man with the gun didn’t stand a chance!)
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/02/21/D8FTFE180.html
The good news about Islam
February 21, 2006- I thought you might be ready for some encouraging words about Islam and its deadly branch, radical Islamism. So here it is:
The whole religion is heading toward collapse.
Actually, it's crumbling already. Take, for example, two hardcore Muslim countries, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
Since 1997, by our count, 522,000 Bangladeshi Muslims have turned to Isa, the No. 2 Islamic prophet we know as Jesus. This is often a difficult step to take in a highly repressive Muslim culture. Currently, about 10,000 a month in Bangladesh are becoming Christians. That doesn't sound like a lot in a nation of 144 million, but it's a rising number, multiplying geometrically.
Also: Just in the last year, 500,000 Pakistani Muslims have recognized Isa as Lord and become His followers. Some 240,000 of them made decisions for Him in only three days of a crusade in Lahore, the capital, in November…. If you lack a reference point for these numbers, consider that until now, three or four Muslim converts a year was par for the course for most missionaries.
…I feel that in the long run, the spiritual salvation of large numbers of Muslims is our only hope. … The one-eighth of the Muslim world that accepts militant Islam must be stopped ... and then changed to the depth of their hearts.
Neither guns nor roses can do that – they can change the behavior of the peaceful seven-eighths to a great extent, but that doesn't get down to the root issue, which was prophesied so succinctly of Ishmael ("father of the Arabs") 3,900 years ago:
He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers. – Genesis 16:12
Entire article at http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48926
Muslim terrorists gun down 6 Christians
Victims 1st were asked if they believed in Christ, infant, teen among dead
February 21, 2006- At least six Christians have been gunned down at their homes by Muslim terrorists in the Philippines, reports the Voice of the Martyrs, a leading monitor of Christian persecution.
According to the report, at least five terrorists believed to be linked to al-Qaida murdered six or more Christians by gunfire after asking them if they believed in Christ on the front doorsteps of their homes.
The incident occurred on the morning of Feb. 2 in the village of Patikul on the small Philippine island of Jolo, which is predominantly Muslim. At least one witness said a baby girl was among the casualties. Five people were injured during the door-to-door questioning…
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48916
States Curbing Right to Seize Private Homes
February 21, 2006- In a rare display of unanimity that cuts across partisan and geographic lines, lawmakers in virtually every statehouse across the country are advancing bills and constitutional amendments to limit use of the government's power of eminent domain to seize private property for economic development purposes.
The measures are in direct response to the United States Supreme Court's 5-to-4 decision last June in a landmark property rights case from Connecticut, upholding the authority of the City of New London to condemn homes in an aging neighborhood to make way for a private development of offices, condominiums and a hotel. It was a decision that one justice, who had written for the majority, later all but apologized for… http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/21/national/21domain.html?ei=5065&en=8e1c224db19faa7b&ex=1141189200&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print
Lupus Patients Respond Well to (adult) Stem Cell-Based Treatment
February 20, 2006 - A researcher at a Chicago hospital says bone marrow stem cells are proving to be an effective tool for combating life-threatening lupus.
…Dr. Burt says his study shows the blood stem cells can induce remission of lupus. "And about eight years ago we started a trial using autologous -- that is, a patient's own blood stem cells, to try to regenerate a new immune system and see if that could put their disease, in this particular case lupus, into a remission," he explains.
Burt says the study found that 50 percent of the patients, all of whom had exhausted all other available treatment options, were disease-free after five years. He calls those results "very encouraging."
…The study, he says, will now move on the randomized tests and compare the stem-cell therapy with the normal course of treatment. It may be several years before this becomes a treatment option, he adds.
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/2/202006g.asp
Lithium battery could work in hybrid cars
-- U.S. researchers have developed a new type of lithium battery that could become a cheaper alternative to the batteries that power hybrid electric cars.Until now, lithium batteries have not had the rapid charging capability or safety level needed for use in cars, according to researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Hybrid cars run on nickel metal hydride batteries, which power an electric motor and can rapidly recharge while the car is decelerating or standing still.However, lithium nickel manganese oxide, could revolutionize the hybrid car industry -- a sector that has "enormous growth potential," says project leader Gerbrand Ceder.The new material is more stable -- and thus safer -- than lithium cobalt oxide batteries, which are used to power small electronic devices like cell phones and laptop computers.Scientists already knew that lithium nickel manganese oxide could store a lot of energy but the material took too long to charge to be commercially useful.
U.S. on Verge of Energy Breakthrough
Feb 20- Saying the nation is on the verge of technological breakthroughs that would "startle" most Americans, President Bush on Monday outlined his energy proposals to help wean the country off foreign oil.
...One of Bush's proposals would expand research into smaller, longer- lasting batteries for electric-gas hybrid cars, including plug-ins. He highlighted that initiative with a visit Monday to the battery center at Milwaukee-based auto-parts supplier Johnson Controls Inc.
Energy conservation groups and environmentalists say they're pleased that the president, a former oil man in Texas, is stressing alternative sources of energy…
...Later Monday, Bush was visiting the United Solar Ovonics Plant, which makes solar panels, in Auburn Hills, Mich., outside Detroit. The company also works on hydrogen fuel cells to power autos.
"Roof makers will one day be able to make a solar roof that protects you from the elements and at the same time, powers your house," Bush said. "The vision is this _ that technology will become so efficient that you'll become a little power generator in your home, and if you don't use the energy you generate you'll be able to feed it back into the electricity grid." http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/02/20/D8FT3GH02.html
Flush With Cash, States Make Pricey Plans
Feb 20 2006- Tax cuts, new cash to health care programs, blueprints for new roads and schools _ states have jumped into 2006 with ambitious plans to spend the money pouring into their coffers, a windfall that's just in time for governors and legislators as they start re-election campaigns.
The spending spree is the clearest proof yet that the gloomy days of cuts and budget-tightening that dominated the first half of the decade are over, even as some urge caution and others say states have yet to fully recover from the downturn.
Lawmakers are arguing for tax cuts in Alabama, Arizona, Hawaii and New York. California is looking at sweeping road improvements. Property taxes are being targeted in Maryland and Florida.
"It's a lot better having extra, let me tell you," said Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. "My first few weeks in office we had to find immediate savings to avoid a financial crisis ... The last two years have seen a billion dollar-plus surplus."
...Republicans and Democrats alike are embracing tax cuts, though Democrats this year mostly argue for targeted cuts while Republicans push for more sweeping changes. Thirty-six states choose governors this year, and all states but four will elect legislators...
http://www.townhall.com/news/ap/online/regional/us/D8FT0P880.html
How PETA twists religion to push animal "rights."
...This eye-opening report includes an inventory of scripture contradicting PETA's claim that only vegetarians can be observant Christians, Jews, and Muslims.
The report is at http://consumerfreedom.com/downloads/pro/docs/050801_PetaReligion.pdf and the entire article at: http://consumerfreedom.com/article_detail.cfm/article/174
More Good News From The Fish Wars
The science world is buzzing with the latest news from the Seychelles, a group of over 100 islands in the Indian Ocean whose inhabitants eat fish. Lots of fish. In fact, per capita they eat nearly ten times as much fish as Americans, and -- naturally -- the levels of mercury in their bodies are often higher than ours. But at this weekend's conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a University of Rochester professor of pediatrics announced that the children of Seychelles women who maintained high-fish diets during their pregnancies are perfectly healthy. Not only did they perform well on developmental tests, but they actually outperformed kids whose mothers had eaten less fish... more at: http://consumerfreedom.com/news_detail.cfm/headline/2975
Hansen's Hot Hype
2/21/2006 - NASA's Jim Hansen has gained a lot of attention for asserting that the Bush administration is suppressing his ideas on climate change. Most recently in the 8 February New York Times, Hansen accused his employer of destroying our democracy by censoring climate science, saying, "the foundation of democracy...is an honestly informed public."
But wait. Hansen has himself advocated the use of exaggeration and propaganda as political tools in the debate over global warming. In the March 2004 issue of Scientific American, Hansen wrote, "Emphasis on extreme scenarios may have been appropriate at one time, when the public and decision-makers were relatively unaware of the global warming issue....Now, however, the need is for demonstrably objective climate forcing scenarios..."
In other words, Hansen thought the public should be subjected to nightmare scenarios regardless of the scientific likelihood of catastrophe, simply in order to gain people's attention. And further, that the lurid pictures that have been painted aren't objective after all.
So now he says the time has come to tell the truth, and he is being censored.
Why should we believe him now? What evidence can he give us that his opinions and statements about climate change are suddenly true, when he admits to having misrepresented the facts in the past? The rest of the article at: http://spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=9433
500 doctoral scientists skeptical of Darwin
Growing list of signatories challenges claims about support for theory
February 21, 2006- More than 500 scientists with doctoral degrees have signed a statement expressing skepticism about Darwin's theory of evolution.
The statement, which includes endorsement by members of the prestigious U.S. National Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Sciences, was first published by the Seattle-based Discovery Institute in 2001 to challenge statements about Darwinian evolution made in promoting PBS's "Evolution" series.
"Darwinists continue to claim that no serious scientists doubt the theory and yet here are 500 scientists who are willing to make public their skepticism about the theory," said John G. West, associate director of Discovery Institute's Center for Science & Culture.
…Other prominent signatories include U.S. National Academy of Sciences member Philip Skell, American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow Lyle Jensen, evolutionary biologist and textbook author Stanley Salthe; Smithsonian Institution evolutionary biologist and researcher at the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Biotechnology Information Richard von Sternberg, editor of Rivista di Biologia/Biology Forum – the oldest still published biology journal in the world – Giuseppe Sermonti and Russian Academy of Natural Sciences embryologist Lev Beloussov.
The list include 154 biologists, 76 chemists and 63 physicists. They hold doctorates in biological sciences, physics, chemistry, mathematics, medicine, computer science and related disciplines.
Many are professors or researchers at major universities and research institutions such as MIT, The Smithsonian, Cambridge University, UCLA, University of California at Berkeley, Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, Ohio State University, University of Georgia and University of Washington.
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48911
David Bennett <><
http://home.hiwaay.net/~dbennett
http://www.freewill-predestination.com
Feb 21 MOSS BLUFF, Fla. -A man accused of fatally beating his roommate with a sledgehammer and a claw hammer because there was no toilet paper in their home has been arrested.
...Crow told investigators that the men were fighting about the toilet paper over the weekend when Matthews pulled out a rifle (that at least is one side of the story). Crow said he then began beating Matthews with the sledgehammer and claw hammer, according to an affidavit. Matthews was beaten so badly he had to be identified through his fingerprints, detectives said... (obviously hammers need to be banned, especially the assault claw hammers, the man with the gun didn’t stand a chance!)
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/02/21/D8FTFE180.html
The good news about Islam
February 21, 2006- I thought you might be ready for some encouraging words about Islam and its deadly branch, radical Islamism. So here it is:
The whole religion is heading toward collapse.
Actually, it's crumbling already. Take, for example, two hardcore Muslim countries, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
Since 1997, by our count, 522,000 Bangladeshi Muslims have turned to Isa, the No. 2 Islamic prophet we know as Jesus. This is often a difficult step to take in a highly repressive Muslim culture. Currently, about 10,000 a month in Bangladesh are becoming Christians. That doesn't sound like a lot in a nation of 144 million, but it's a rising number, multiplying geometrically.
Also: Just in the last year, 500,000 Pakistani Muslims have recognized Isa as Lord and become His followers. Some 240,000 of them made decisions for Him in only three days of a crusade in Lahore, the capital, in November…. If you lack a reference point for these numbers, consider that until now, three or four Muslim converts a year was par for the course for most missionaries.
…I feel that in the long run, the spiritual salvation of large numbers of Muslims is our only hope. … The one-eighth of the Muslim world that accepts militant Islam must be stopped ... and then changed to the depth of their hearts.
Neither guns nor roses can do that – they can change the behavior of the peaceful seven-eighths to a great extent, but that doesn't get down to the root issue, which was prophesied so succinctly of Ishmael ("father of the Arabs") 3,900 years ago:
He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers. – Genesis 16:12
Entire article at http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48926
Muslim terrorists gun down 6 Christians
Victims 1st were asked if they believed in Christ, infant, teen among dead
February 21, 2006- At least six Christians have been gunned down at their homes by Muslim terrorists in the Philippines, reports the Voice of the Martyrs, a leading monitor of Christian persecution.
According to the report, at least five terrorists believed to be linked to al-Qaida murdered six or more Christians by gunfire after asking them if they believed in Christ on the front doorsteps of their homes.
The incident occurred on the morning of Feb. 2 in the village of Patikul on the small Philippine island of Jolo, which is predominantly Muslim. At least one witness said a baby girl was among the casualties. Five people were injured during the door-to-door questioning…
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48916
States Curbing Right to Seize Private Homes
February 21, 2006- In a rare display of unanimity that cuts across partisan and geographic lines, lawmakers in virtually every statehouse across the country are advancing bills and constitutional amendments to limit use of the government's power of eminent domain to seize private property for economic development purposes.
The measures are in direct response to the United States Supreme Court's 5-to-4 decision last June in a landmark property rights case from Connecticut, upholding the authority of the City of New London to condemn homes in an aging neighborhood to make way for a private development of offices, condominiums and a hotel. It was a decision that one justice, who had written for the majority, later all but apologized for… http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/21/national/21domain.html?ei=5065&en=8e1c224db19faa7b&ex=1141189200&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print
Lupus Patients Respond Well to (adult) Stem Cell-Based Treatment
February 20, 2006 - A researcher at a Chicago hospital says bone marrow stem cells are proving to be an effective tool for combating life-threatening lupus.
…Dr. Burt says his study shows the blood stem cells can induce remission of lupus. "And about eight years ago we started a trial using autologous -- that is, a patient's own blood stem cells, to try to regenerate a new immune system and see if that could put their disease, in this particular case lupus, into a remission," he explains.
Burt says the study found that 50 percent of the patients, all of whom had exhausted all other available treatment options, were disease-free after five years. He calls those results "very encouraging."
…The study, he says, will now move on the randomized tests and compare the stem-cell therapy with the normal course of treatment. It may be several years before this becomes a treatment option, he adds.
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/2/202006g.asp
Lithium battery could work in hybrid cars
-- U.S. researchers have developed a new type of lithium battery that could become a cheaper alternative to the batteries that power hybrid electric cars.Until now, lithium batteries have not had the rapid charging capability or safety level needed for use in cars, according to researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Hybrid cars run on nickel metal hydride batteries, which power an electric motor and can rapidly recharge while the car is decelerating or standing still.However, lithium nickel manganese oxide, could revolutionize the hybrid car industry -- a sector that has "enormous growth potential," says project leader Gerbrand Ceder.The new material is more stable -- and thus safer -- than lithium cobalt oxide batteries, which are used to power small electronic devices like cell phones and laptop computers.Scientists already knew that lithium nickel manganese oxide could store a lot of energy but the material took too long to charge to be commercially useful.
U.S. on Verge of Energy Breakthrough
Feb 20- Saying the nation is on the verge of technological breakthroughs that would "startle" most Americans, President Bush on Monday outlined his energy proposals to help wean the country off foreign oil.
...One of Bush's proposals would expand research into smaller, longer- lasting batteries for electric-gas hybrid cars, including plug-ins. He highlighted that initiative with a visit Monday to the battery center at Milwaukee-based auto-parts supplier Johnson Controls Inc.
Energy conservation groups and environmentalists say they're pleased that the president, a former oil man in Texas, is stressing alternative sources of energy…
...Later Monday, Bush was visiting the United Solar Ovonics Plant, which makes solar panels, in Auburn Hills, Mich., outside Detroit. The company also works on hydrogen fuel cells to power autos.
"Roof makers will one day be able to make a solar roof that protects you from the elements and at the same time, powers your house," Bush said. "The vision is this _ that technology will become so efficient that you'll become a little power generator in your home, and if you don't use the energy you generate you'll be able to feed it back into the electricity grid." http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/02/20/D8FT3GH02.html
Flush With Cash, States Make Pricey Plans
Feb 20 2006- Tax cuts, new cash to health care programs, blueprints for new roads and schools _ states have jumped into 2006 with ambitious plans to spend the money pouring into their coffers, a windfall that's just in time for governors and legislators as they start re-election campaigns.
The spending spree is the clearest proof yet that the gloomy days of cuts and budget-tightening that dominated the first half of the decade are over, even as some urge caution and others say states have yet to fully recover from the downturn.
Lawmakers are arguing for tax cuts in Alabama, Arizona, Hawaii and New York. California is looking at sweeping road improvements. Property taxes are being targeted in Maryland and Florida.
"It's a lot better having extra, let me tell you," said Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. "My first few weeks in office we had to find immediate savings to avoid a financial crisis ... The last two years have seen a billion dollar-plus surplus."
...Republicans and Democrats alike are embracing tax cuts, though Democrats this year mostly argue for targeted cuts while Republicans push for more sweeping changes. Thirty-six states choose governors this year, and all states but four will elect legislators...
http://www.townhall.com/news/ap/online/regional/us/D8FT0P880.html
How PETA twists religion to push animal "rights."
...This eye-opening report includes an inventory of scripture contradicting PETA's claim that only vegetarians can be observant Christians, Jews, and Muslims.
The report is at http://consumerfreedom.com/downloads/pro/docs/050801_PetaReligion.pdf and the entire article at: http://consumerfreedom.com/article_detail.cfm/article/174
More Good News From The Fish Wars
The science world is buzzing with the latest news from the Seychelles, a group of over 100 islands in the Indian Ocean whose inhabitants eat fish. Lots of fish. In fact, per capita they eat nearly ten times as much fish as Americans, and -- naturally -- the levels of mercury in their bodies are often higher than ours. But at this weekend's conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a University of Rochester professor of pediatrics announced that the children of Seychelles women who maintained high-fish diets during their pregnancies are perfectly healthy. Not only did they perform well on developmental tests, but they actually outperformed kids whose mothers had eaten less fish... more at: http://consumerfreedom.com/news_detail.cfm/headline/2975
Hansen's Hot Hype
2/21/2006 - NASA's Jim Hansen has gained a lot of attention for asserting that the Bush administration is suppressing his ideas on climate change. Most recently in the 8 February New York Times, Hansen accused his employer of destroying our democracy by censoring climate science, saying, "the foundation of democracy...is an honestly informed public."
But wait. Hansen has himself advocated the use of exaggeration and propaganda as political tools in the debate over global warming. In the March 2004 issue of Scientific American, Hansen wrote, "Emphasis on extreme scenarios may have been appropriate at one time, when the public and decision-makers were relatively unaware of the global warming issue....Now, however, the need is for demonstrably objective climate forcing scenarios..."
In other words, Hansen thought the public should be subjected to nightmare scenarios regardless of the scientific likelihood of catastrophe, simply in order to gain people's attention. And further, that the lurid pictures that have been painted aren't objective after all.
So now he says the time has come to tell the truth, and he is being censored.
Why should we believe him now? What evidence can he give us that his opinions and statements about climate change are suddenly true, when he admits to having misrepresented the facts in the past? The rest of the article at: http://spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=9433
500 doctoral scientists skeptical of Darwin
Growing list of signatories challenges claims about support for theory
February 21, 2006- More than 500 scientists with doctoral degrees have signed a statement expressing skepticism about Darwin's theory of evolution.
The statement, which includes endorsement by members of the prestigious U.S. National Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Sciences, was first published by the Seattle-based Discovery Institute in 2001 to challenge statements about Darwinian evolution made in promoting PBS's "Evolution" series.
"Darwinists continue to claim that no serious scientists doubt the theory and yet here are 500 scientists who are willing to make public their skepticism about the theory," said John G. West, associate director of Discovery Institute's Center for Science & Culture.
…Other prominent signatories include U.S. National Academy of Sciences member Philip Skell, American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow Lyle Jensen, evolutionary biologist and textbook author Stanley Salthe; Smithsonian Institution evolutionary biologist and researcher at the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Biotechnology Information Richard von Sternberg, editor of Rivista di Biologia/Biology Forum – the oldest still published biology journal in the world – Giuseppe Sermonti and Russian Academy of Natural Sciences embryologist Lev Beloussov.
The list include 154 biologists, 76 chemists and 63 physicists. They hold doctorates in biological sciences, physics, chemistry, mathematics, medicine, computer science and related disciplines.
Many are professors or researchers at major universities and research institutions such as MIT, The Smithsonian, Cambridge University, UCLA, University of California at Berkeley, Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, Ohio State University, University of Georgia and University of Washington.
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48911
David Bennett <><
http://home.hiwaay.net/~dbennett
http://www.freewill-predestination.com
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