April 18, 2006
What's for dinner Grandpa? From one of the people in Hollywood that wants to lecture us on politics, the War on Terror, gun control, mental health, and religion...
Mission Impossible star Tom Cruise vows to eat placenta after birth
Tom Cruise yesterday revealed his latest bizarre mission..to eat his new baby's placenta.
Cruise vowed he would tuck in straight after girlfriend Katie Holmes gives birth, saying he thought it would be "very nutritious".
The Mission Impossible star, 43, said: "I'm gonna eat the placenta. I thought that would be good. Very nutritious. I'm gonna eat the cord and the placenta right there." It is the latest in a series of increasingly strange outbursts from Cruise in the run-up to the birth.
He has claimed the baby, due any day, will be delivered in total silence.
...Silent birth is one of the rules of the cult of Scientology, which Cruise is devoted to.
...Cruise, who has two adopted children with ex-wife Nicole Kidman, will not be the first star to make a meal out of his baby's placenta.
Rod Stewart and girlfriend Penny Lancaster took home their baby's placenta, sprinkled it with tee tree oil and buried it in the garden.
In 1998, Channel 4 chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall fried a placenta with shallots and garlic and served it up to 20 guests, including the baby's mum and dad.
...But placenta-eating is considered normal in some cultures. Various recipes include one for placenta lasagne. Some say eating it helps avoid post-natal depression...
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16958010%26method=full%26siteid=94762%26headline=exclusive--tom-chews-name_page.html
I guess that's what makes Scientology so apeppetizing...
Texas School District Caves to Parents' Call to Shut Down Bible Club
April 17, 2006- (AgapePress) - ...The Grapevine/Colleyville Independent School District (GCISD) recently told Students Standing Strong, a student-led Bible study club, that it would have to pay fees to hold a previously approved club meeting on school grounds, sign a rental agreement, and obtain a one-million-dollar insurance policy. Administrators also informed the club it would be banned as a non-curricular student group. Notice of these requirements was given to the club on the Friday before a Monday meeting (April 10) of the club...
...According to the Liberty Legal spokesman, the district does not impose fees and rental agreements on other student clubs. But because Students Standing Strong is a religious group, he says, the district is "just hunting and looking for some way to throw hurdles in their way."
Shackelford ...noting that the group became an issue with administrators after several parents complained about the Christian club.
"The small group of parents is complaining because this group is so successful and it's a Christian group," he explains. "And they're asking the school district to stop them, which is against the law."
...Shackelford says it is unfortunate, but apparently district officials are more worried about a small group of parents than they are about protecting the rights of the student-led club.
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/4/172006a.asp
Black business owners on rise
April 18, 2006--Black Americans are becoming entrepreneurs at a rapidly increasing rate and Pittsburgh is following the trend, a new report issued by the Census Bureau suggests.
...Doris Carson Williams, president of the African American Chamber of Commerce of Western Pennsylvania, found the Census Bureau figures encouraging but not surprising.
As blacks join the numbers of those being downsized by corporations, she said, "more and more have found that entrepreneurship is a viable option for them. They don't want to go through the corporate menagerie again."
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06108/682889-28.stm
US, Polish troops did not damage Babylonian site: Iraq minister
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2005/January/focusoniraq_January169.xml§ion=focusoniraq&col=
Overselling Climate Change
20 April 2006 -Simon Cox reports on how scientists are becoming worried by the quality of research used to back up the most extreme climate predictions.
Every week we are assailed by scare stories about the climate. Malaria in Africa, hurricanes in Florida, even the death of frogs in Latin America - all are being linked to global warming. But does the science behind these claims really stand up, or are the risks of climate change being oversold to win the battle for influence?http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/thebattleforinfluence/pip/abkim/
Old panic now stories
The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970's and 1980's hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now.
- Paul Ehrlich in the beginning of his 1968 ``The Population Bomb''
This vast tragedy, however, is nothing compared to the nutritional disaster that seems likely to overtake humanity in the 1970s (or, at the latest, the 1980s) ... A situation has been created that could lead to a billion or more people starving to death.- Paul Ehrlich, "The End of Affluence" (1974), p.21
Hundreds of millions of people will soon perish in smog disasters in New York and Los Angeles...the oceans will die of DDT poisoning by 1979...the U.S. life expectancy will drop to 42 years by 1980 due to cancer epidemics.- Paul Ehrlich, 1969 in Ramparts.
Ex-professor pleads guilty in Florida Jihad case
4/17/06- Former Florida university professor Sami al-Arian has pleaded guilty to aiding the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad and agreed to be deported, U.S. officials said on Monday...
...Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed nine people and wounded 60 outside a restaurant in Tel Aviv on Monday...
The former University of South Florida professor admitted that he "... conspired to make and receive contributions of funds, goods and services to or for the benefit of specially designated terrorists," according to court documents.
...He was born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents and grew up in Egypt before coming to the United States. He is married with five children, who were all born in the United States, making them American citizens...
...The case against al-Arian and the others was based largely on thousands of hours of wiretapped phone calls, intercepted e-mails, faxes and bank records gathered over a decade. It was considered a key test of the government's surveillance powers, which were strengthened by the USA Patriot Act...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060417/ts_nm/security_professor_dc
Peres to new Knesset: Don't push Palestinians towards extremism
Apr. 17, 2006- The 17th parliament in Israel's history was sworn in Monday at the Knesset in Jerusalem. The ceremony took place several hours after a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up in Tel Aviv, killing nine people.
In his opening speech, President Moshe Katsav sent his condolences to the families of those killed in the attack. He called on the government to fight for equality for Israeli Arab citizens and advance the peace process, while at the same time continuing the fight against terror and secure Israel's borders...
"We bear no responsibility for the division on the Palestinian side, but we must refrain from pushing the Palestinian people towards extremism. The times of terror are not eternal and negotiations will not fail to arrive. We must arrive at an agreement between both sides because the alternative is a unilateral move." He added that "the well-being of the Palestinian population is an Israeli security interest." (did someone clone Neville Chamberlain?)http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/706825.html
Palestinians: Tel Aviv Bombing Justified
A Palestinian suicide bomber struck a packed fast-food restaurant during Passover on Monday, killing nine other people and wounding dozens in the deadliest attack in more than a year.
In a sharp departure from the previous Palestinian government's condemnations of bombings, the Hamas-led administration said the attack resulted from Israel's "brutal aggression." The bloodshed and the hard-line stance could set the stage for harsh Israeli reprisals and endanger Palestinian efforts to secure desperately needed international aid.
...The attack occurred just two hours before Israel's newly elected parliament was sworn into office, and Prime Minister-designate Ehud Olmert said Israel would react to the bombing with appropriate means...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060417/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_palestinians;_ylt=Atz9bPNukCM4vH3vmAzh9F.s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ
Iran to Give Hamas $50 Million in Aid
Iran said Sunday it would give the Palestinian Authority $50 million in aid, moving in for the first time with money after the United States and Europe cut off funding to the Hamas-led government.
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/4/16/214039.shtml?s=lh
Who said this?
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5414
Media Darling on 'Global Warming' Assailed by Colleagues
April 17, 2006- NASA scientist James Hansen, profiled by the New York Times, "60 Minutes" and other media titans as a renowned scientist with unassailable credibility on the issue of "global warming" and a victim of White House censorship, is actually a loose cannon at NASA who lied about the alleged censorship, according to one of Hansen's former colleagues as well as a current co-worker.
George Deutsch, a former NASA public relations employee... provided Cybercast News Service with agency internal documents and e-mails detailing the frustration among NASA public affairs officials over Hansen's refusal to follow protocol when it came to granting media interviews.
On Dec. 14, 2005, Hansen released to ABC News a letter to the editor, which he had originally sent to the research journal Science. Hansen was also featured in an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America," during which he declared that 2005 had tied 1998 as the warmest year on record...Hansen, director of the agency's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, told ABC News his scientific conclusions before he told his fellow NASA scientists and the NASA public affairs department, according to a memo dated Dec. 15, 2005, and entitled "PAO (Public Affairs Officer) Point Paper."
...Hansen's appearance on ABC News and his release of unapproved data caused internal anxiety at NASA, Deutsch said. "None of his [scientific] peers had agreed with [2005] being the warmest year on record yet, and knew about the findings saying that it was.
"Why don't you tell the rest of NASA it is the warmest year on record before you tell ABC?" Deutsch asked. "This is one of those things that really, if you do it enough, it is a fire-able offense."
It was the subsequent effort by the NASA public affairs office to require Hansen to follow proper protocol when talking to the media that led the scientist to tell the New York Times in January that he was being "censored," according to Deutsch. .http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=/SpecialReports/archive/200604/SPE20060417a.html
Ex-Joint Chiefs Gen. Myers Defends Rumsfeld
April 16, 2006 - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld did not intimidate members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during planning of the Iraq war as some retired generals have charged, a former chairman said Sunday.
With Rumsfeld described by his critics as a micromanager who did not listen to military leaders, the Pentagon circulated a one-page memo late last week detailing the defense secretary's frequent contacts with numerous military and civilian advisers.
Richard B. Myers, the Air Force general who was chairman of the Joint Chiefs from 2001 until last fall, dismissed criticism that military leaders failed to stand up to Rumsfeld and President Bush when they disagreed with those civilian officials.
"We gave him our best military advice and I think that's what we're obligated to do," Myers said on "This Week" on ABC. "If we don't do that, we should be shot...You'd have to believe that everybody in the chain of command is intimidated, and I don't believe that," Myers said. He added that Rumsfeld allowed "tremendous access" for presenting arguments.
"In our system, when it's all said and done ... the civilians make the decisions," he said. "And we live by those decisions."
...The Pentagon memo [said] ...Senior military leaders "are involved to an unprecedented degree in every decision-making process" in the Defense Department, according to the memo. Rumsfeld, it said, had met 139 times with members of the joint chiefs and 208 times with combat commanders from 2005 to the present....
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/4/16/205527.shtml?s=ic
Gen. Richard Myers: Criticizing Rumsfeld Wrong
April 16, 2006- Former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Richard Myers is blasting the six ex-military men who have called in recent days on Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to resign...
...Gen. Myers rejected complaints that Rumsfeld was arrogant an imperious, taking particular issue with retired Maj. Gen. John Batiste, who said last week that the defense chief was someone who "was abusive, who was arrogant and who didn't build a strong team."
...the former joint chiefs chair said, Rumsfeld bent over backwards to take into account the advice of his military team
"I don't think people understand how collaborative he is when we are working tough issues and trying to come to how we feel about this," Myers explained. "Most of the meetings he comes to he does not have a preconceived notion of what the answer is. He is very collaborative, I think almost to a fault."
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/4/16/110951.shtml?s=ic
David Bennett <><
http://www.freewill-predestination.com
http://www.knology.net/~lonesomedove
Mission Impossible star Tom Cruise vows to eat placenta after birth
Tom Cruise yesterday revealed his latest bizarre mission..to eat his new baby's placenta.
Cruise vowed he would tuck in straight after girlfriend Katie Holmes gives birth, saying he thought it would be "very nutritious".
The Mission Impossible star, 43, said: "I'm gonna eat the placenta. I thought that would be good. Very nutritious. I'm gonna eat the cord and the placenta right there." It is the latest in a series of increasingly strange outbursts from Cruise in the run-up to the birth.
He has claimed the baby, due any day, will be delivered in total silence.
...Silent birth is one of the rules of the cult of Scientology, which Cruise is devoted to.
...Cruise, who has two adopted children with ex-wife Nicole Kidman, will not be the first star to make a meal out of his baby's placenta.
Rod Stewart and girlfriend Penny Lancaster took home their baby's placenta, sprinkled it with tee tree oil and buried it in the garden.
In 1998, Channel 4 chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall fried a placenta with shallots and garlic and served it up to 20 guests, including the baby's mum and dad.
...But placenta-eating is considered normal in some cultures. Various recipes include one for placenta lasagne. Some say eating it helps avoid post-natal depression...
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16958010%26method=full%26siteid=94762%26headline=exclusive--tom-chews-name_page.html
I guess that's what makes Scientology so apeppetizing...
Texas School District Caves to Parents' Call to Shut Down Bible Club
April 17, 2006- (AgapePress) - ...The Grapevine/Colleyville Independent School District (GCISD) recently told Students Standing Strong, a student-led Bible study club, that it would have to pay fees to hold a previously approved club meeting on school grounds, sign a rental agreement, and obtain a one-million-dollar insurance policy. Administrators also informed the club it would be banned as a non-curricular student group. Notice of these requirements was given to the club on the Friday before a Monday meeting (April 10) of the club...
...According to the Liberty Legal spokesman, the district does not impose fees and rental agreements on other student clubs. But because Students Standing Strong is a religious group, he says, the district is "just hunting and looking for some way to throw hurdles in their way."
Shackelford ...noting that the group became an issue with administrators after several parents complained about the Christian club.
"The small group of parents is complaining because this group is so successful and it's a Christian group," he explains. "And they're asking the school district to stop them, which is against the law."
...Shackelford says it is unfortunate, but apparently district officials are more worried about a small group of parents than they are about protecting the rights of the student-led club.
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/4/172006a.asp
Black business owners on rise
April 18, 2006--Black Americans are becoming entrepreneurs at a rapidly increasing rate and Pittsburgh is following the trend, a new report issued by the Census Bureau suggests.
...Doris Carson Williams, president of the African American Chamber of Commerce of Western Pennsylvania, found the Census Bureau figures encouraging but not surprising.
As blacks join the numbers of those being downsized by corporations, she said, "more and more have found that entrepreneurship is a viable option for them. They don't want to go through the corporate menagerie again."
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06108/682889-28.stm
US, Polish troops did not damage Babylonian site: Iraq minister
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2005/January/focusoniraq_January169.xml§ion=focusoniraq&col=
Overselling Climate Change
20 April 2006 -Simon Cox reports on how scientists are becoming worried by the quality of research used to back up the most extreme climate predictions.
Every week we are assailed by scare stories about the climate. Malaria in Africa, hurricanes in Florida, even the death of frogs in Latin America - all are being linked to global warming. But does the science behind these claims really stand up, or are the risks of climate change being oversold to win the battle for influence?http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/thebattleforinfluence/pip/abkim/
Old panic now stories
The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970's and 1980's hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now.
- Paul Ehrlich in the beginning of his 1968 ``The Population Bomb''
This vast tragedy, however, is nothing compared to the nutritional disaster that seems likely to overtake humanity in the 1970s (or, at the latest, the 1980s) ... A situation has been created that could lead to a billion or more people starving to death.- Paul Ehrlich, "The End of Affluence" (1974), p.21
Hundreds of millions of people will soon perish in smog disasters in New York and Los Angeles...the oceans will die of DDT poisoning by 1979...the U.S. life expectancy will drop to 42 years by 1980 due to cancer epidemics.- Paul Ehrlich, 1969 in Ramparts.
Ex-professor pleads guilty in Florida Jihad case
4/17/06- Former Florida university professor Sami al-Arian has pleaded guilty to aiding the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad and agreed to be deported, U.S. officials said on Monday...
...Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed nine people and wounded 60 outside a restaurant in Tel Aviv on Monday...
The former University of South Florida professor admitted that he "... conspired to make and receive contributions of funds, goods and services to or for the benefit of specially designated terrorists," according to court documents.
...He was born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents and grew up in Egypt before coming to the United States. He is married with five children, who were all born in the United States, making them American citizens...
...The case against al-Arian and the others was based largely on thousands of hours of wiretapped phone calls, intercepted e-mails, faxes and bank records gathered over a decade. It was considered a key test of the government's surveillance powers, which were strengthened by the USA Patriot Act...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060417/ts_nm/security_professor_dc
Peres to new Knesset: Don't push Palestinians towards extremism
Apr. 17, 2006- The 17th parliament in Israel's history was sworn in Monday at the Knesset in Jerusalem. The ceremony took place several hours after a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up in Tel Aviv, killing nine people.
In his opening speech, President Moshe Katsav sent his condolences to the families of those killed in the attack. He called on the government to fight for equality for Israeli Arab citizens and advance the peace process, while at the same time continuing the fight against terror and secure Israel's borders...
"We bear no responsibility for the division on the Palestinian side, but we must refrain from pushing the Palestinian people towards extremism. The times of terror are not eternal and negotiations will not fail to arrive. We must arrive at an agreement between both sides because the alternative is a unilateral move." He added that "the well-being of the Palestinian population is an Israeli security interest." (did someone clone Neville Chamberlain?)http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/706825.html
Palestinians: Tel Aviv Bombing Justified
A Palestinian suicide bomber struck a packed fast-food restaurant during Passover on Monday, killing nine other people and wounding dozens in the deadliest attack in more than a year.
In a sharp departure from the previous Palestinian government's condemnations of bombings, the Hamas-led administration said the attack resulted from Israel's "brutal aggression." The bloodshed and the hard-line stance could set the stage for harsh Israeli reprisals and endanger Palestinian efforts to secure desperately needed international aid.
...The attack occurred just two hours before Israel's newly elected parliament was sworn into office, and Prime Minister-designate Ehud Olmert said Israel would react to the bombing with appropriate means...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060417/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_palestinians;_ylt=Atz9bPNukCM4vH3vmAzh9F.s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ
Iran to Give Hamas $50 Million in Aid
Iran said Sunday it would give the Palestinian Authority $50 million in aid, moving in for the first time with money after the United States and Europe cut off funding to the Hamas-led government.
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/4/16/214039.shtml?s=lh
Who said this?
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5414
Media Darling on 'Global Warming' Assailed by Colleagues
April 17, 2006- NASA scientist James Hansen, profiled by the New York Times, "60 Minutes" and other media titans as a renowned scientist with unassailable credibility on the issue of "global warming" and a victim of White House censorship, is actually a loose cannon at NASA who lied about the alleged censorship, according to one of Hansen's former colleagues as well as a current co-worker.
George Deutsch, a former NASA public relations employee... provided Cybercast News Service with agency internal documents and e-mails detailing the frustration among NASA public affairs officials over Hansen's refusal to follow protocol when it came to granting media interviews.
On Dec. 14, 2005, Hansen released to ABC News a letter to the editor, which he had originally sent to the research journal Science. Hansen was also featured in an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America," during which he declared that 2005 had tied 1998 as the warmest year on record...Hansen, director of the agency's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, told ABC News his scientific conclusions before he told his fellow NASA scientists and the NASA public affairs department, according to a memo dated Dec. 15, 2005, and entitled "PAO (Public Affairs Officer) Point Paper."
...Hansen's appearance on ABC News and his release of unapproved data caused internal anxiety at NASA, Deutsch said. "None of his [scientific] peers had agreed with [2005] being the warmest year on record yet, and knew about the findings saying that it was.
"Why don't you tell the rest of NASA it is the warmest year on record before you tell ABC?" Deutsch asked. "This is one of those things that really, if you do it enough, it is a fire-able offense."
It was the subsequent effort by the NASA public affairs office to require Hansen to follow proper protocol when talking to the media that led the scientist to tell the New York Times in January that he was being "censored," according to Deutsch. .http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=/SpecialReports/archive/200604/SPE20060417a.html
Ex-Joint Chiefs Gen. Myers Defends Rumsfeld
April 16, 2006 - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld did not intimidate members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during planning of the Iraq war as some retired generals have charged, a former chairman said Sunday.
With Rumsfeld described by his critics as a micromanager who did not listen to military leaders, the Pentagon circulated a one-page memo late last week detailing the defense secretary's frequent contacts with numerous military and civilian advisers.
Richard B. Myers, the Air Force general who was chairman of the Joint Chiefs from 2001 until last fall, dismissed criticism that military leaders failed to stand up to Rumsfeld and President Bush when they disagreed with those civilian officials.
"We gave him our best military advice and I think that's what we're obligated to do," Myers said on "This Week" on ABC. "If we don't do that, we should be shot...You'd have to believe that everybody in the chain of command is intimidated, and I don't believe that," Myers said. He added that Rumsfeld allowed "tremendous access" for presenting arguments.
"In our system, when it's all said and done ... the civilians make the decisions," he said. "And we live by those decisions."
...The Pentagon memo [said] ...Senior military leaders "are involved to an unprecedented degree in every decision-making process" in the Defense Department, according to the memo. Rumsfeld, it said, had met 139 times with members of the joint chiefs and 208 times with combat commanders from 2005 to the present....
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/4/16/205527.shtml?s=ic
Gen. Richard Myers: Criticizing Rumsfeld Wrong
April 16, 2006- Former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Richard Myers is blasting the six ex-military men who have called in recent days on Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to resign...
...Gen. Myers rejected complaints that Rumsfeld was arrogant an imperious, taking particular issue with retired Maj. Gen. John Batiste, who said last week that the defense chief was someone who "was abusive, who was arrogant and who didn't build a strong team."
...the former joint chiefs chair said, Rumsfeld bent over backwards to take into account the advice of his military team
"I don't think people understand how collaborative he is when we are working tough issues and trying to come to how we feel about this," Myers explained. "Most of the meetings he comes to he does not have a preconceived notion of what the answer is. He is very collaborative, I think almost to a fault."
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/4/16/110951.shtml?s=ic
David Bennett <><
http://www.freewill-predestination.com
http://www.knology.net/~lonesomedove
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