April 25, 2006
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LIPSTICK IN SCHOOL (oldie but goldie)
A certain school in faced with a unique problem. A number of 12-year-old girls were beginning to use lipstick and would put it on in the washroom. That was fine, but after they put on their lipstick they would press their lips to the mirror leaving dozens of little lip prints.
Every night, the custodian would remove them and the next day, the girls would put them back.
Finally the principal decided that something had to be done. He called all the girls to the washroom and met them there with the janitor. He explained that all these lip prints were causing a major problem for the custodian who had to clean the mirrors every night.
To demonstrate how difficult it had been to clean the mirrors, he asked the custodian to show the girls how much effort was required.
He took out a long-handled squeegee, dipped it in the toilet, and cleaned the mirror with it. Since then, there have been no lip prints on the mirror.
Earth Day Founder's Daughter Says Gas Prices Not Too High
April 22, 2006- MADSION, Wis. -- The daughter of the founder of Earth Day says she doesn't think gasoline prices are too high.
Tia Nelson, the daughter of former U.S. Sen. Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, said "we pay less for a gallon of gas than anywhere else in the world...http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/8904306/detail.html
Moussaoui jury denied use of a dictionary
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Jurors in the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui asked for but were denied a dictionary Tuesday for use during their deliberations on whether the Sept. 11 conspirator should receive a death sentence or life in prison.
...Judge Leonie Brinkema to told them that sending a dictionary in would be like adding additional evidence in the case (so she would rather the jury be confused and uncertain), but she invited them to come back if they had questions about specific definitions. And she warned them against doing their own research, including looking up definitions....
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060425/ap_on_re_us/moussaoui_28;_ylt=AtpZmR0EZerzv9.GdCmgpSMTv5UB;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
Lethal injection may cause agony: rights group (we sure don’t want those murderers to be discomforted…)
Article: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-04-24T041715Z_01_N21199074_RTRUKOC_0_US-CRIME-EXECUTION.xml
Remember, we were told last year when Terri Shiavo was starved to death that death by starvation produces euphoria and is a peaceful way to die so maybe that is an option...
So just who does the good Senator think really pays corporate taxes...? Ultimately the consumer does.
Sen. Specter: Tax Oil Co. Windfall Profits
April 23, 2006 The government should consider a tax on oil companies if they make excessive profits amid rising gasoline prices, a leading Republican senator said Sunday.
Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said a windfall profits tax, along with measures to stem concentration of market power among a few select oil companies, could offer eventual relief to consumers hurting at the gas pump.
"I believe that we have allowed too many companies to get together to reduce competition," Specter said.
"They get together, reduce the supply of oil, and that drives up prices," he said. (Actually it's almost always government intervention that reduces the supply of oil/gas. Just recall the price controls of the 70's, and all the flavors of gas EPA requires in different regions and the reduced refining capacity we have thanks to the extreme environmentalists.)http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/4/23/231739.shtml?s=ic
Hamas officials contradict selves in media
Advocate destruction of Israel to Arabic audiences,
April 24, 2006JERUSALEM – Since officially forming its government earlier this month, Hamas has been making a series of contradictory statements to the media, supporting terrorism and promoting the destruction of Israel in Arabic-language interviews while espousing moderate ideology and the possibility of coexistence when speaking to Western audiences, according to a recent study....
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49870
Court Tells Christian Club Its Mission Not Harmed by Non-Believing Leaders
April 24, 2006 -The University of California's Hastings College of the Law is located just off Market Street in the heart of San Francisco. Last week a federal judge ruled that the school can deny funding as well as official recognition to a Christian student club that requires its members and leadership to sign a statement of faith. Hastings claimed that statement violated the school's anti-discrimination policy. The club, in return, argued that the law school had violated its rights of free speech, free exercise, free association, due process, and equal protection.
The club also claimed it could not comply with the school's anti-discrimination policy without abandoning its Christian mission. But U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey White did not see it that way, finding instead that the club did "not demonstrate how admitting [as members] [unrepentant and/or practicing] lesbian, gay, bisexual, or non-orthodox Christian students would impair its mission."
Brian Fahling, senior trial attorney with the AFA Center for Law & Policy, says Judge White's ruling was astonishing and troubling.
"The court had said that there was no evidence that the Christian mission of the club would be impaired by the admission of voting members who were practicing homosexuals or members of different faiths," Fahling summarizes -- then offers this observation: "The court took upon itself the role of determining for a particular religion what is important to it in terms of those who subscribe to it or those who are in fact a part of that faith."
...According to Fahling, the club permitted anyone to attend meetings and to participate in club events -- but in order to preserve its "distinctly Christian mission and character," felt it necessary to limit membership and leadership roles to professed Christians....
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/4/242006a.asp
U.S. confidence hits 4-yr high in April (in case the media ignores it)
Defies expected downward pull of high gas pricesApr 25, 2006- U.S. consumer confidence confounded expectations and hit its highest level in almost four years in April, the Conference Board said Tuesday.
The consumer confidence index rose 2.1 points to 109.6 in April from a revised 107.5 in March.
The increase was unexpected. Economists forecast[ed] a decrease to about 106.3 in April from the initial estimate for March of 107.2, largely because of higher prices at the gasoline pump, according to a survey conducted by MarketWatch...
"Recent improvements in the labor market have been a major driver behind the rise in confidence in early 2006," said Lynn Franco, director of the Conference Board Consumer Research Center.
Consumers' overall assessment of the economy remains favorable...Consumers saying jobs are "plentiful" rose...while those claiming jobs are "hard to get" edged down...The outlook for the next six months also improved... the National Association of Realtors reported that existing home sales inched higher in March.
http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?siteid=mktw&guid={EABBACA3-15EE-454F-9B62-C5BDCFE1899E}&dist=bnb
Decalogue trumps ACLU again
6th Circuit rules 9-5 in favor of county's Commandments display
April 24, 2006- The American Civil Liberties Union suffered another defeat in its quest to bar the Ten Commandments from the public square today as the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled a display of the Decalogue in Kentucky is constitutional.
...The display includes the Ten Commandments, the Mayflower Compact, the Declaration of Independence, the Magna Charta, the Star-Spangled Banner, the National Motto, the Preamble to the Kentucky Constitution, the Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution, and a picture of Lady Justice.
...The original, three-judge panel of the appeals court upheld the display, saying the ACLU's "repeated reference to 'the separation of church and state' … [had] grown tiresome. The First Amendment does not demand a wall of separation between church and state."
The ACLU then requested the full 6th Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear the case, and the panel rejected the civil-liberties group's arguments once more.
Mathew D. Staver is president and general counsel of Liberty Counsel, "Whether the ACLU likes it or not, history is crystal clear that each one of the Ten Commandments played an important role in the founding of our system of law and government. Federal courts are beginning to rightfully reject extreme notions of 'separation of church and state.' It's about time that courts begin interpreting the Constitution consistent with its original purpose. With the changing of personnel at the U.S. Supreme Court, the trend toward a more historical approach to the First Amendment is well under way."
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49883
Pro-choice atheist Researcher: No Denying, Abortion Harms Women
April 24, 2006- A self-described pro-choice atheist and rationalist set out to prove that abortion does not have any psychological consequences. He found the opposite, and the results were so profound that they cannot be ignored in the scientific field or the political arena.
Professor David Fergusson, New Zealand researcher at Christchurch School of Medicine and Health, said, "[F]rom a personal point of view, I would have rather seen the results come out the other way -- but they didn't. And as a scientist you have to report the facts, not what you'd like to report."
..."Those having an abortion had elevated rates of subsequent mental health problems, including depression, anxiety, suicidal behaviors and substance use disorders," according to the research published in the Journal of Child Psychiatry and Psychology.
Numerous journals refused to publish the research, but Fergusson defended its relevance saying it would be "scientifically irresponsible" to overlook the findings. "To provide a parallel to this situation, if we were to find evidence of an adverse reaction to medication, we would be obligated ethically to publish that fact," he explained..."If we were talking about an antibiotic or an asthma risk, and someone reported adverse reactions, people would be advocating further research to evaluate risk," Fergusson explained. "I can see no good reason why the same rules don't apply to abortion."
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/4/242006e.asp
Freshman diversity education
Mandatory 'diversity seminar' at university where profs 'banned' 'Marketing of Evil'
April 24, 2006 ...the only "difference" not tolerated on campus is the belief that there is anything wrong with homosexuality...
Students at OSU-Mansfield are required to take a "diversity seminar" soon after they begin their freshman year.
To prepare for the seminar, students are invited to search online a "dictionary of terms related to diversity," to "Test your knowledge of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender (GLBT)" and to "Take a test at Project Implicit’s website."
"Even though we believe we see and treat people as equals, hidden biases may still influence our perceptions and actions," explains the OSU website. "Psychologists at Harvard, the University of Virginia and the University of Washington created 'Project Implicit' to develop Hidden Bias Tests. After taking a test, read Tolerance.org’s tutorial to learn more about stereotypes and prejudice and the societal effects of bias."
One current freshman, whose name is being withheld for privacy reasons, attended OSU-Mansfield's mandatory diversity seminar last fall. After he told his father about it, the father sat in as an observer for a subsequent seminar session.
"It is required that incoming freshman must attend a diversity seminar," he told WND, "where the homosexual lifestyle is celebrated, and the students are put on a 'guilt trip' for having negative feelings and/or moral judgments about the behavior of these people."
…"Sometimes if students are hanging out with two or three friends, they might feel their attitudes are not so readily challenged," MSOE Director of Student Activities Rick Gagliano told World. "This way they're in a different environment, forced to expose themselves to somebody else … This is done without parents around – sort of in a 'safer' environment." The strategy is not new: Mao Tse-Tung used it "re-educate" Chinese university students and pry them loose from their parents' political moorings....
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49877
Librarians debate Boy Scouts affiliation
Pending resolution would sever all ties with group due to 'discrimination'
April 25, 2006- The resurrection of on old issue in the American Library Association with respect to libraries' relationships with the Boy Scouts of America has set off a vigorous new debate among librarians about sexual politics, First Amendment rights and "discrimination" based on sexual preference.
…The fact that the primary mover behind this latest effort to censure the Scouts, ALA Council member Mark Rosenzweig, is a proponent of sexual liberation for children is likely to spark even more heated discussions.
In an internal e-mail published by WorldNetDaily in 2000, Rosenzweig wrote that "The worst thing in life, even for a kid, is NOT exposure to the image of naked people, or even people screwing, blowing, licking, humping (or) having sex with animals, etc. …"
...At the time of first ALA resolution, in 1999, the case of Boy Scouts v. Dale was still in the courts, but soon after that the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the First Amendment "right to associate with others in pursuit of a wide variety of political, social, economic, educational, religious and cultural ends."
...In a 1999 letter to the BSA, a copy of which was provided by the ALA, the group reaffirmed the "responsibility librarians have to provide library services equitably to all children regardless of their affiliation," but it also said that the "ALA considers homophobia and religious intolerance" to be among the "critical problems" the library group had a "social responsibility to help ameliorate."
...Stated Werner A. Lind, assistant library director at Virginia's Bluefield College: "Look, if 'discrimination' were really the issue, the ALA should also be demanding that American Atheists put theists in leadership positions, and that NAMBLA admit heterosexual critics of homosexual activity to membership."
"If those condemning the Boy Scouts for 'discrimination' have problems extending their supposed principle of 'openness' to people they themselves disagree with," he said, "perhaps it's time for them to re-evaluate the logic behind the principle."
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49886
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