April 17, 2006
Eilat Mazar: Uncovering King David's Palace
http://www.momentmag.com/olam/Apr06/MOM-2006-04_mazar.html
Vatican reopens debate over Crusades
March 25, 2006 excellent article:
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49432
Local cat nearly triples nine lives Feline turns 26, isn't slowing down
Friday, April 14, 2006 -If someone told Cathy May 10 years ago that her cat, Dinker, would be alive today, she would have thought he was crazy.
…Dinker turns 26 this month… and he has most of the spunk and energy he always had.
The oldest living cat is a 36-year-old Tabby in Texas, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
…Ron Kruczek, a veterinarian at High Country Veterinary Clinic, said for a cat to live to 26 is similar to a person living to be about 105.
…In 1999, May thought Dinker had cancer and wouldn't survive….A veterinarian pulled an abscessed tooth from Dinker and told May that the cat might have oral cancer.
At 19, May figured the cat had lived a good life, and she was ready to put him down if he had the disease… The vet told her to bring Dinker in when he stopped eating and that the cat would be put to sleep. Now, seven years after the only medical scare in the cat's life, Dinker is still eating.
…Once in a blue moon, Dinker still will sprint around the house and jump on the furniture, May said.
Even in his old age, the cat isn't scared to tussle with other animals. Dinker plays with May's 5-month-old pit bull, Rocky, and isn't scared to fight with the puppy if he has to.
The cat isn't scared to rumble with neighborhood cats, either, May said. "He cannot stand the strays," she said.
http://www.craigdailypress.com/section/frontpage_lead/story/21451
Kyoto is pointless, say 60 leading scientists
09/04/2006- Canada's new Conservative prime minister, Stephen Harper, has been urged by more than 60 leading international climate change experts to review the global warming policies he inherited from his centre-Left predecessor.
In an open letter that includes five British scientists among the signatories, the experts praise his recent commitment to review the controversial Kyoto protocol on reducing emissions harmful to the environment.
"Much of the billions of dollars earmarked for implementation of the protocol in Canada will be squandered without a proper assessment of recent developments in climate science," they wrote in the Canadian Financial Post last week.
They emphasised that the study of global climate change is, in Mr Harper's own words, an "emerging science" and added: "If, back in the mid 1990s, we knew what we know today about climate, Kyoto would almost certainly not exist, because we would have concluded it was not necessary." Despite claims to the contrary, there is no consensus among climate scientists on the relative importance of the various causes of global climate change, they wrote.
"'Climate change is real' is a meaningless phrase used repeatedly by activists to convince the public that a climate catastrophe is looming and humanity is the cause. Neither of these fears is justified.
"Global climate changes all the time due to natural causes and the human impact still remains impossible to distinguish from this natural 'noise'."
The letter is the latest effort by climate change sceptics to counter claims that there is a consensus that human activity is causing global warming.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2006/04/11/ecnkyoto11.xml&sSheet=/connected/2006/04/11/ixconn.html
Ten Years of Junk Science
April 7, 2006 http://junkscience.com/fox/milloy040706.htm
Mexico's Immigration Law: Let's Try it Here at Home
http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/Mexicos_Immigration_Law.pdf#search='Mexico%27s%20Immigration%20Law%3A%20Let%27s%20Try%20it%20Here%20at%20Home'
In Mexico, 'nothing gringo on May 1'
Activists plan one-day boycott of U.S. businesses
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/04/14/mexico.boycott.ap/index.html
Not that I think one day boycotts do anything, maybe, just to make a point, we should reciprocate on Cinco de Mayo?
In order to make better laws maybe lawmakers should be required to prepare their own taxes...
Tax Law Authors Have Pros Do Their Returns
WASHINGTON - Many lawmakers who sit on the tax-writing committees in Congress hire professional preparers to fill out their tax returns, rather than try to decipher by themselves the laws they've written.
Three of the four senior lawmakers on the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means committees, the panels in charge of writing tax laws, turn to paid professionals to file their annual returns.
...According to IRS statistics, that makes these members of Congress much like the rest of the nation. More than 60 percent of taxpayers use professionals to have their returns prepared and filed. The number typically increases a little each year.
...a few prepare their tax returns themselves, including Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., who said he does it "just so I can go through the process." Ryan, however, does ask an accountant to check the return for accuracy.
...Rep. Jim Ramstad, R-Minn., doesn't, but he agreed it might be a good idea to try. "I think it is important that we operate in the real world," Ramstad said...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060416/ap_on_go_co/tax_writers_returns
Librarian attacked by profs for promoting 'Marketing of Evil'
College employee accused of 'sexual harassment' for recommending Kupelian's best-selling book
April 15, 2006- In what is being called an "astonishing" and "shameful" case of campus persecution, Ohio State University's head librarian is being formally accused of "sexual harassment." His crime? Recommending that the school's freshman class be required to read WND Managing Editor David Kupelian's controversial best seller, "The Marketing of Evil."
Scott Savage is head of Reference and Instructional Services at the Bromfield Library on Ohio State University's Mansfield campus.
The school's Office of Human Resources put Savage under "investigation" after three professors – Hannibal Hamlin, Norman Jones and J.K. Buckley – filed a complaint of discrimination and harassment, saying Kupelian's book made them feel "unsafe."
In his role as a member of OSU Mansfield's First Year Reading Experience Committee, Savage had suggested new students read "The Marketing of Evil," as well as three other books – "The Professors" by David Horowitz, "Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis" by Bat Ye'or, and "It Takes a Family" by Sen. Rick Santorum. Savage made the recommendations after other committee members had suggested a series of books with a left-wing perspective, by authors such as Jimmy Carter and Maria Shriver.
The attacks on Savage stem directly from faculty members' reaction to "The Marketing of Evil," according to the Arizona-based public-interest group Alliance Defense Fund, which is defending the librarian.
"Universities are one of the most hostile places for Christians and conservatives in America," said ADF Senior Legal Counsel David French, who heads the group's Center for Academic Freedom. "It's shameful that OSU would investigate a Christian librarian for simply recommending books that are at odds with the prevailing politics of the university."
more at:
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49761
Anthony Zinni Flashback: Saddam the Biggest Threat
April 15, 2006 - Retired Gen. Anthony Zinni, who now complains that President Bush cherry-picked pre-war Iraq weapons intelligence and misled the country into going to war, warned six years ago that Saddam Hussein's WMD program was the biggest threat to U.S. interests in the Middle East.
"Iraq remains the most significant near-term threat to U.S. interests in the Arabian Gulf region," Zinni told Congress on March 15, 2000.
"Despite claims that WMD efforts have ceased," the general-turned-war critic said, "Iraq probably is continuing clandestine nuclear research, retains stocks of chemical and biological munitions, and is concealing extended-range SCUD missiles, possibly equipped with CBW [chem-bio-weapons] payloads," Zinni said, in quotes unearthed Friday by the American Thinker blog.
Gen. Zinni is currently leading to charge to get Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to resign - a campaign he began two weeks ago on NBC's "Meet the Press."
… Zinni's flip-flop was so acute he should be suffering from a case of rhetorical whiplash. Here's more from the old Zinni - here telling Congress that Saddam would remain a threat even if he gave up his WMDs:
"Even if Baghdad reversed its course and surrendered all WMD capabilities, it retains the scientific, technical, and industrial infrastructure to replace agents and munitions within weeks or months."
The old Zinni even warned of a potential collaboration between Osama bin Laden and Iraq, telling Congress:
"Extremists like Osama bin Laden and his World Islamic Front network benefit from the global nature of communications that permits recruitment, fund raising, and direct connections to sub-elements worldwide . . .
"Terrorists are seeking more lethal weaponry to include: chemical, biological, radiological, and even nuclear components with which to perpetrate more sensational attacks . . . Three [Iraq, Iran and Sudan] of the seven recognized state-sponsors of terrorism are within this potentially volatile area, and the Taliban regime in Afghanistan has been sanctioned by the UN Security Council for its harboring of Osama bin Laden."
Now Zinni wants Bush to apologize and Rumsfeld to resign for taking his advice in the first place. http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/4/15/115347.shtml?s=ic
There goes my idea for a bean mobile…
Problems Plague Natural Gas Police Cruisers
http://www.nbc5i.com/news/8693171/detail.html
Bill Clinton gave Iran bomb planN.Y. Times reporter says
harebrained scheme to foil Tehran likely helped advance program
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49744
David Bennett <><
http://www.freewill-predestination.com
http://www.knology.net/~lonesomedove
http://www.momentmag.com/olam/Apr06/MOM-2006-04_mazar.html
Vatican reopens debate over Crusades
March 25, 2006 excellent article:
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49432
Local cat nearly triples nine lives Feline turns 26, isn't slowing down
Friday, April 14, 2006 -If someone told Cathy May 10 years ago that her cat, Dinker, would be alive today, she would have thought he was crazy.
…Dinker turns 26 this month… and he has most of the spunk and energy he always had.
The oldest living cat is a 36-year-old Tabby in Texas, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
…Ron Kruczek, a veterinarian at High Country Veterinary Clinic, said for a cat to live to 26 is similar to a person living to be about 105.
…In 1999, May thought Dinker had cancer and wouldn't survive….A veterinarian pulled an abscessed tooth from Dinker and told May that the cat might have oral cancer.
At 19, May figured the cat had lived a good life, and she was ready to put him down if he had the disease… The vet told her to bring Dinker in when he stopped eating and that the cat would be put to sleep. Now, seven years after the only medical scare in the cat's life, Dinker is still eating.
…Once in a blue moon, Dinker still will sprint around the house and jump on the furniture, May said.
Even in his old age, the cat isn't scared to tussle with other animals. Dinker plays with May's 5-month-old pit bull, Rocky, and isn't scared to fight with the puppy if he has to.
The cat isn't scared to rumble with neighborhood cats, either, May said. "He cannot stand the strays," she said.
http://www.craigdailypress.com/section/frontpage_lead/story/21451
Kyoto is pointless, say 60 leading scientists
09/04/2006- Canada's new Conservative prime minister, Stephen Harper, has been urged by more than 60 leading international climate change experts to review the global warming policies he inherited from his centre-Left predecessor.
In an open letter that includes five British scientists among the signatories, the experts praise his recent commitment to review the controversial Kyoto protocol on reducing emissions harmful to the environment.
"Much of the billions of dollars earmarked for implementation of the protocol in Canada will be squandered without a proper assessment of recent developments in climate science," they wrote in the Canadian Financial Post last week.
They emphasised that the study of global climate change is, in Mr Harper's own words, an "emerging science" and added: "If, back in the mid 1990s, we knew what we know today about climate, Kyoto would almost certainly not exist, because we would have concluded it was not necessary." Despite claims to the contrary, there is no consensus among climate scientists on the relative importance of the various causes of global climate change, they wrote.
"'Climate change is real' is a meaningless phrase used repeatedly by activists to convince the public that a climate catastrophe is looming and humanity is the cause. Neither of these fears is justified.
"Global climate changes all the time due to natural causes and the human impact still remains impossible to distinguish from this natural 'noise'."
The letter is the latest effort by climate change sceptics to counter claims that there is a consensus that human activity is causing global warming.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2006/04/11/ecnkyoto11.xml&sSheet=/connected/2006/04/11/ixconn.html
Ten Years of Junk Science
April 7, 2006 http://junkscience.com/fox/milloy040706.htm
Mexico's Immigration Law: Let's Try it Here at Home
http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/Mexicos_Immigration_Law.pdf#search='Mexico%27s%20Immigration%20Law%3A%20Let%27s%20Try%20it%20Here%20at%20Home'
In Mexico, 'nothing gringo on May 1'
Activists plan one-day boycott of U.S. businesses
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/04/14/mexico.boycott.ap/index.html
Not that I think one day boycotts do anything, maybe, just to make a point, we should reciprocate on Cinco de Mayo?
In order to make better laws maybe lawmakers should be required to prepare their own taxes...
Tax Law Authors Have Pros Do Their Returns
WASHINGTON - Many lawmakers who sit on the tax-writing committees in Congress hire professional preparers to fill out their tax returns, rather than try to decipher by themselves the laws they've written.
Three of the four senior lawmakers on the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means committees, the panels in charge of writing tax laws, turn to paid professionals to file their annual returns.
...According to IRS statistics, that makes these members of Congress much like the rest of the nation. More than 60 percent of taxpayers use professionals to have their returns prepared and filed. The number typically increases a little each year.
...a few prepare their tax returns themselves, including Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., who said he does it "just so I can go through the process." Ryan, however, does ask an accountant to check the return for accuracy.
...Rep. Jim Ramstad, R-Minn., doesn't, but he agreed it might be a good idea to try. "I think it is important that we operate in the real world," Ramstad said...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060416/ap_on_go_co/tax_writers_returns
Librarian attacked by profs for promoting 'Marketing of Evil'
College employee accused of 'sexual harassment' for recommending Kupelian's best-selling book
April 15, 2006- In what is being called an "astonishing" and "shameful" case of campus persecution, Ohio State University's head librarian is being formally accused of "sexual harassment." His crime? Recommending that the school's freshman class be required to read WND Managing Editor David Kupelian's controversial best seller, "The Marketing of Evil."
Scott Savage is head of Reference and Instructional Services at the Bromfield Library on Ohio State University's Mansfield campus.
The school's Office of Human Resources put Savage under "investigation" after three professors – Hannibal Hamlin, Norman Jones and J.K. Buckley – filed a complaint of discrimination and harassment, saying Kupelian's book made them feel "unsafe."
In his role as a member of OSU Mansfield's First Year Reading Experience Committee, Savage had suggested new students read "The Marketing of Evil," as well as three other books – "The Professors" by David Horowitz, "Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis" by Bat Ye'or, and "It Takes a Family" by Sen. Rick Santorum. Savage made the recommendations after other committee members had suggested a series of books with a left-wing perspective, by authors such as Jimmy Carter and Maria Shriver.
The attacks on Savage stem directly from faculty members' reaction to "The Marketing of Evil," according to the Arizona-based public-interest group Alliance Defense Fund, which is defending the librarian.
"Universities are one of the most hostile places for Christians and conservatives in America," said ADF Senior Legal Counsel David French, who heads the group's Center for Academic Freedom. "It's shameful that OSU would investigate a Christian librarian for simply recommending books that are at odds with the prevailing politics of the university."
more at:
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49761
Anthony Zinni Flashback: Saddam the Biggest Threat
April 15, 2006 - Retired Gen. Anthony Zinni, who now complains that President Bush cherry-picked pre-war Iraq weapons intelligence and misled the country into going to war, warned six years ago that Saddam Hussein's WMD program was the biggest threat to U.S. interests in the Middle East.
"Iraq remains the most significant near-term threat to U.S. interests in the Arabian Gulf region," Zinni told Congress on March 15, 2000.
"Despite claims that WMD efforts have ceased," the general-turned-war critic said, "Iraq probably is continuing clandestine nuclear research, retains stocks of chemical and biological munitions, and is concealing extended-range SCUD missiles, possibly equipped with CBW [chem-bio-weapons] payloads," Zinni said, in quotes unearthed Friday by the American Thinker blog.
Gen. Zinni is currently leading to charge to get Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to resign - a campaign he began two weeks ago on NBC's "Meet the Press."
… Zinni's flip-flop was so acute he should be suffering from a case of rhetorical whiplash. Here's more from the old Zinni - here telling Congress that Saddam would remain a threat even if he gave up his WMDs:
"Even if Baghdad reversed its course and surrendered all WMD capabilities, it retains the scientific, technical, and industrial infrastructure to replace agents and munitions within weeks or months."
The old Zinni even warned of a potential collaboration between Osama bin Laden and Iraq, telling Congress:
"Extremists like Osama bin Laden and his World Islamic Front network benefit from the global nature of communications that permits recruitment, fund raising, and direct connections to sub-elements worldwide . . .
"Terrorists are seeking more lethal weaponry to include: chemical, biological, radiological, and even nuclear components with which to perpetrate more sensational attacks . . . Three [Iraq, Iran and Sudan] of the seven recognized state-sponsors of terrorism are within this potentially volatile area, and the Taliban regime in Afghanistan has been sanctioned by the UN Security Council for its harboring of Osama bin Laden."
Now Zinni wants Bush to apologize and Rumsfeld to resign for taking his advice in the first place. http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/4/15/115347.shtml?s=ic
There goes my idea for a bean mobile…
Problems Plague Natural Gas Police Cruisers
http://www.nbc5i.com/news/8693171/detail.html
Bill Clinton gave Iran bomb planN.Y. Times reporter says
harebrained scheme to foil Tehran likely helped advance program
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49744
David Bennett <><
http://www.freewill-predestination.com
http://www.knology.net/~lonesomedove
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