June 18, 2006
U.S. housing boom is biggest since 1890
Jun 16, 2006- CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- The recent housing boom is the biggest the United States has ever seen, economist Robert J. Shiller said on Friday. New data also suggest the market might be at the end of a cycle, he added.
The only time since 1890 that compares to the recent residential real estate market is just after World War II, the Yale University professor said during a presentation on U.S. home prices, held at Standard & Poor's in New York and broadcast to journalists on the Web…
http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/750RqBsVB9Jjnqplzr1rGp2?siteid=yhoo&dist=TNMostMailed
Dixie Chicks don't understand the necessity for patriotism (she still doesn't get it)
...The Chicks have traditionally been branded a country band, but clearly it's some time since their diet consisted of ribs, tacos and pancakes...
...when Maines made her comment about President Bush on March 10 2003, 10 days before Operation Iraqi Freedom unleashed "shock and awe" over Baghdad, the Dixie Chicks were probably the biggest act in country music. Yet within days, their music vanished from the charts and the airwaves, apoplectic rednecks crushed piles of their CDs with tractors...
...The Chicks can't hide their disgust at the lack of support they received from other country performers. ""A lot of pandering started going on, and you'd see soldiers and the American flag in every video. It became a sickening display of ultra-patriotism," says Robison.
"The entire country may disagree with me, but I don't understand the necessity for patriotism," Maines resumes, through gritted teeth. "Why do you have to be a patriot? About what? This land is our land? Why? You can like where you live and like your life, but as for loving the whole country… I don't see why people care about patriotism."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/06/15/bmdixie15.xml
Art school serves up breast milk cocktail
Jun. 16, 2006. Mother's milk may be the healthiest food for babies, but is it art?
Yes, according to Jess Dobkin, a lesbian mother and artist who will present her work Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar on July 13 at the Ontario College of Art and Design, the institution of higher learning that a few years ago brought you vomiting as performance art.
The audience will be invited to sip during cocktail hours (5 to 8 p.m.) small cups of pasteurized breast milk donated by six lactating new mothers in the community.
...Dobkin, who came to Toronto from New York, and has received grants from the Toronto Arts Council and the Ontario Arts Council, said in a news release she became interested in taboos surrounding breastfeeding...
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1150408210765&call_pageid=968867495754&col=969483191630
Iranian official says Tom and Jerry cartoon is conspiracy to improve image of mice, Jews
February 25, 2006- Tom and Jerry, the lovable cat and mouse locked in cartoon combat, is a Jewish conspiracy, according to an Iranian official.
Prof. Hasan Bolkhari, a cultural adviser to the Iranian Education Ministry, delivered the news last week on Iran's Channel 4 during a broadcast of film seminar where he was lecturing. An excerpt of the video was translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute.
"The Jewish Walt Disney Company gained international fame with this cartoon," said Bolkhari. "It is still shown throughout the world. This cartoon maintains its status because of the cute antics of the cat and mouse – especially the mouse.
"Some say that the main reason for making this very appealing cartoon was to erase a certain derogatory term that was prevalent ...Watch 'Schindler's List.' Every Jew was forced to wear yellow star on his clothing. The Jews were degraded and termed 'dirty mice.' 'Tom and Jerry' was made in order to change the Europeans' perception of mice. One of terms used was 'dirty mice' …It should be noted that mice are very cunning ... and dirty… If you happen to watch this cartoon tomorrow, bear in mind the points I have just raised," said Bolkhari, "and watch it from this perspective. The mouse is very clever and smart. Everything he does is so cute. He kicks the poor cat's a--. Yet this cruelty does not make you despise the mouse. He looks so nice, and he is so clever. ... This is exactly why some say it was meant to erase this image of mice from the minds of European children, and to show that the mouse is not dirty and has these traits. Unfortunately, we have many such cases in Hollywood shows."
The article points out: "Tom and Jerry," the creation of Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna, was created in 1939, the year World War II began and while the Holocaust was in full force, for the MGM cartoon studios, not Disney...
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48996
Hundreds rally against Iran's president
Jun. 17, 2006 -More than 700 people gathered Saturday to protest the Iranian president's denial of the Nazi Holocaust as Iran played its second match at the World Cup.
Demonstrators waved Israeli flags at the rally outside the Alt Oper opera house in Germany's financial capital. Some held up signs reading "Support Israel Now!" and "Israel has the right to exist."
They were joined by a small group of Iranian dissidents with their country's flags. Police said there were no incidents at the rally.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has caused international outrage by dismissing the Holocaust as a myth and questioning Israel's right to exist...
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1150355512336&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Ayatollah's grandson calls for U.S. overthrow of Iran
'My grandfather's revolution has devoured its children and has strayed from its course'
June 18, 2006
An Iranian Shia cleric – and grandson of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the father of the 1979 Iranian Revolution who dubbed the U.S. the "Great Satan" – has called on the President Bush to "come and occupy Iran" and "break the prison [doors open]."
…Khomeini's opposition is more hardline than that of Iranian exile groups who've called for the U.S. to back a domestic uprising while opposing foreign military intervention, noted the London Telegraph.
Another well-know dissident who also opposes Khomeini's desire for U.S. military action is Reza Pahlavi, son of the late shah. Pahlavi told Time Magazine he could not imagine the U.S. invading Iran.
"I cannot foresee any military action which could be feasible," he said. "The thought of foreign tanks rolling into Tehran is beyond imagination. No Iranian could tolerate an invasion. It would be an attack on our homeland. Even limited air strikes: If you want to alienate people, strike the first blow."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50691
Evangelism Low Priority for Episcopalians
COLUMBUS, OHIO (6/16/06)-The Episcopal Convention this week passed a resolution of "mission priorities" for the church's budget, identifying "Justice and Peace" as the top priority. A proposed amendment in the House of Deputies to make evangelism the first priority was defeated.
According to a recent Gallup survey, Episcopalians are the least likely Christians in America to attend church every week. As the average Sunday attendance of the Episcopal Church continues its rapid decline, and as the average age of Episcopalians continues its increase, both houses of the Episcopal Convention determined that "Justice and Peace" was the more important activity of the church.
"Justice and Peace" gives special attention to the eight Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations, which include the eradication of "extreme poverty and hunger," "universal primary education," the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women, and the reduction of child mortality.
Even as the Episcopal Church aims to reduce child mortality, it continues to endorse the practice of abortion. One proposed liturgy in the Committee on Prayer Book, Liturgy and Music includes a prayer entitled "Following the Termination of Pregnancy."
The Rev. Kevin Martin, a deputy from Texas and Executive Director of Vital Church Ministries, spoke to the House of Deputies on Thursday, criticizing the Episcopal Church for its failure to prioritize evangelism. "I can assure you that it is not easy to be an advocate for evangelism in the Episcopal Church," he said…
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=4252
Faithful will find it increasingly hard to remain in ECUSA after convention, Anderson says
6/17/2006 ...the president of the American Anglican Council (AAC) sees no turnaround in ECUSA's pursuit of the homosexual agenda, noting that nationally the denomination is now known as "the gay church."
"It is wearing on all of us being Episcopalians. The church is no longer tolerant, open or inclusive, because there is no room for you and me," he said at a midday briefing for those attending General Convention. "As long as any of us is...left in ECUSA, many feel they are not safe if your voice and mine are not silenced for our comfort," he added.
Anderson castigated revisionist bishops who have come down hard on fleeing orthodox priests
"In the last few years ECUSA has become more brutal to those who want to leave," he said. In times past could more easily transfer to an overseas province. Now if a priest cannot stay in ECUSA and wants to affiliate with an overseas province, the responhes of many liberal bishops is "you are inhibited." The priest is summarily deposed without trial.
In fact, he claimed that "There is a new tack (by liberal bishops) to get orthodox priests to renounce their orders" - to get the faithful clergy to remove themselves without bishops having to do so.
"I would urge clergy who are being demanded by their bishop to renounce their orders - don't do it...
Anderson said he had a "wall of honor" of clergy who have paid the price and who have put their lives and families on the line for the sake of the truth and the gospel.
Anderson predicted that following General Convention, some dioceses, parishes, priests and laity will stay in ECUSA for the foreseeable future, but it is going to be increasingly hard...
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=4272
A shrinking date for ‘Eve’
Q: Why would evolutionists be interested in Eve?
A: Over recent years, scientists have conducted a lot of research on DNA that is found in the mitochondria of a cell. This DNA is only inherited through females. By comparing mutations (or mistakes) in the DNA of people worldwide, scientists came to a startling conclusion—it looks as if all people living today are descended from one woman … and scientists have called her Eve!
Yet there’s a remarkable new twist.
Based upon mutation rates, scientists once claimed that this ancestral Eve lived hundreds of thousands of years ago. But a more recent study claims that the rate of mutations in man is actually twenty times higher than originally estimated. What does this mean? Using this new figure for mutation rates, the ancestral “mother of all,” as they call her, lived a mere 6,000 years ago!
Of course, the evolutionary scientists don’t accept this new figure, but it’s no surprise to creationists that this research supports the Bible’s teaching that there was a first woman, Eve, created about 6,000 years ago.
More at http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v12/i1/eve.asp
David Bennett<><
http://freewill-predestination.com
http://www.knology.net/~lonesomedove
Jun 16, 2006- CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- The recent housing boom is the biggest the United States has ever seen, economist Robert J. Shiller said on Friday. New data also suggest the market might be at the end of a cycle, he added.
The only time since 1890 that compares to the recent residential real estate market is just after World War II, the Yale University professor said during a presentation on U.S. home prices, held at Standard & Poor's in New York and broadcast to journalists on the Web…
http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/750RqBsVB9Jjnqplzr1rGp2?siteid=yhoo&dist=TNMostMailed
Dixie Chicks don't understand the necessity for patriotism (she still doesn't get it)
...The Chicks have traditionally been branded a country band, but clearly it's some time since their diet consisted of ribs, tacos and pancakes...
...when Maines made her comment about President Bush on March 10 2003, 10 days before Operation Iraqi Freedom unleashed "shock and awe" over Baghdad, the Dixie Chicks were probably the biggest act in country music. Yet within days, their music vanished from the charts and the airwaves, apoplectic rednecks crushed piles of their CDs with tractors...
...The Chicks can't hide their disgust at the lack of support they received from other country performers. ""A lot of pandering started going on, and you'd see soldiers and the American flag in every video. It became a sickening display of ultra-patriotism," says Robison.
"The entire country may disagree with me, but I don't understand the necessity for patriotism," Maines resumes, through gritted teeth. "Why do you have to be a patriot? About what? This land is our land? Why? You can like where you live and like your life, but as for loving the whole country… I don't see why people care about patriotism."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/06/15/bmdixie15.xml
Art school serves up breast milk cocktail
Jun. 16, 2006. Mother's milk may be the healthiest food for babies, but is it art?
Yes, according to Jess Dobkin, a lesbian mother and artist who will present her work Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar on July 13 at the Ontario College of Art and Design, the institution of higher learning that a few years ago brought you vomiting as performance art.
The audience will be invited to sip during cocktail hours (5 to 8 p.m.) small cups of pasteurized breast milk donated by six lactating new mothers in the community.
...Dobkin, who came to Toronto from New York, and has received grants from the Toronto Arts Council and the Ontario Arts Council, said in a news release she became interested in taboos surrounding breastfeeding...
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1150408210765&call_pageid=968867495754&col=969483191630
Iranian official says Tom and Jerry cartoon is conspiracy to improve image of mice, Jews
February 25, 2006- Tom and Jerry, the lovable cat and mouse locked in cartoon combat, is a Jewish conspiracy, according to an Iranian official.
Prof. Hasan Bolkhari, a cultural adviser to the Iranian Education Ministry, delivered the news last week on Iran's Channel 4 during a broadcast of film seminar where he was lecturing. An excerpt of the video was translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute.
"The Jewish Walt Disney Company gained international fame with this cartoon," said Bolkhari. "It is still shown throughout the world. This cartoon maintains its status because of the cute antics of the cat and mouse – especially the mouse.
"Some say that the main reason for making this very appealing cartoon was to erase a certain derogatory term that was prevalent ...Watch 'Schindler's List.' Every Jew was forced to wear yellow star on his clothing. The Jews were degraded and termed 'dirty mice.' 'Tom and Jerry' was made in order to change the Europeans' perception of mice. One of terms used was 'dirty mice' …It should be noted that mice are very cunning ... and dirty… If you happen to watch this cartoon tomorrow, bear in mind the points I have just raised," said Bolkhari, "and watch it from this perspective. The mouse is very clever and smart. Everything he does is so cute. He kicks the poor cat's a--. Yet this cruelty does not make you despise the mouse. He looks so nice, and he is so clever. ... This is exactly why some say it was meant to erase this image of mice from the minds of European children, and to show that the mouse is not dirty and has these traits. Unfortunately, we have many such cases in Hollywood shows."
The article points out: "Tom and Jerry," the creation of Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna, was created in 1939, the year World War II began and while the Holocaust was in full force, for the MGM cartoon studios, not Disney...
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48996
Hundreds rally against Iran's president
Jun. 17, 2006 -More than 700 people gathered Saturday to protest the Iranian president's denial of the Nazi Holocaust as Iran played its second match at the World Cup.
Demonstrators waved Israeli flags at the rally outside the Alt Oper opera house in Germany's financial capital. Some held up signs reading "Support Israel Now!" and "Israel has the right to exist."
They were joined by a small group of Iranian dissidents with their country's flags. Police said there were no incidents at the rally.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has caused international outrage by dismissing the Holocaust as a myth and questioning Israel's right to exist...
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1150355512336&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Ayatollah's grandson calls for U.S. overthrow of Iran
'My grandfather's revolution has devoured its children and has strayed from its course'
June 18, 2006
An Iranian Shia cleric – and grandson of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the father of the 1979 Iranian Revolution who dubbed the U.S. the "Great Satan" – has called on the President Bush to "come and occupy Iran" and "break the prison [doors open]."
…Khomeini's opposition is more hardline than that of Iranian exile groups who've called for the U.S. to back a domestic uprising while opposing foreign military intervention, noted the London Telegraph.
Another well-know dissident who also opposes Khomeini's desire for U.S. military action is Reza Pahlavi, son of the late shah. Pahlavi told Time Magazine he could not imagine the U.S. invading Iran.
"I cannot foresee any military action which could be feasible," he said. "The thought of foreign tanks rolling into Tehran is beyond imagination. No Iranian could tolerate an invasion. It would be an attack on our homeland. Even limited air strikes: If you want to alienate people, strike the first blow."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50691
Evangelism Low Priority for Episcopalians
COLUMBUS, OHIO (6/16/06)-The Episcopal Convention this week passed a resolution of "mission priorities" for the church's budget, identifying "Justice and Peace" as the top priority. A proposed amendment in the House of Deputies to make evangelism the first priority was defeated.
According to a recent Gallup survey, Episcopalians are the least likely Christians in America to attend church every week. As the average Sunday attendance of the Episcopal Church continues its rapid decline, and as the average age of Episcopalians continues its increase, both houses of the Episcopal Convention determined that "Justice and Peace" was the more important activity of the church.
"Justice and Peace" gives special attention to the eight Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations, which include the eradication of "extreme poverty and hunger," "universal primary education," the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women, and the reduction of child mortality.
Even as the Episcopal Church aims to reduce child mortality, it continues to endorse the practice of abortion. One proposed liturgy in the Committee on Prayer Book, Liturgy and Music includes a prayer entitled "Following the Termination of Pregnancy."
The Rev. Kevin Martin, a deputy from Texas and Executive Director of Vital Church Ministries, spoke to the House of Deputies on Thursday, criticizing the Episcopal Church for its failure to prioritize evangelism. "I can assure you that it is not easy to be an advocate for evangelism in the Episcopal Church," he said…
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=4252
Faithful will find it increasingly hard to remain in ECUSA after convention, Anderson says
6/17/2006 ...the president of the American Anglican Council (AAC) sees no turnaround in ECUSA's pursuit of the homosexual agenda, noting that nationally the denomination is now known as "the gay church."
"It is wearing on all of us being Episcopalians. The church is no longer tolerant, open or inclusive, because there is no room for you and me," he said at a midday briefing for those attending General Convention. "As long as any of us is...left in ECUSA, many feel they are not safe if your voice and mine are not silenced for our comfort," he added.
Anderson castigated revisionist bishops who have come down hard on fleeing orthodox priests
"In the last few years ECUSA has become more brutal to those who want to leave," he said. In times past could more easily transfer to an overseas province. Now if a priest cannot stay in ECUSA and wants to affiliate with an overseas province, the responhes of many liberal bishops is "you are inhibited." The priest is summarily deposed without trial.
In fact, he claimed that "There is a new tack (by liberal bishops) to get orthodox priests to renounce their orders" - to get the faithful clergy to remove themselves without bishops having to do so.
"I would urge clergy who are being demanded by their bishop to renounce their orders - don't do it...
Anderson said he had a "wall of honor" of clergy who have paid the price and who have put their lives and families on the line for the sake of the truth and the gospel.
Anderson predicted that following General Convention, some dioceses, parishes, priests and laity will stay in ECUSA for the foreseeable future, but it is going to be increasingly hard...
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=4272
A shrinking date for ‘Eve’
Q: Why would evolutionists be interested in Eve?
A: Over recent years, scientists have conducted a lot of research on DNA that is found in the mitochondria of a cell. This DNA is only inherited through females. By comparing mutations (or mistakes) in the DNA of people worldwide, scientists came to a startling conclusion—it looks as if all people living today are descended from one woman … and scientists have called her Eve!
Yet there’s a remarkable new twist.
Based upon mutation rates, scientists once claimed that this ancestral Eve lived hundreds of thousands of years ago. But a more recent study claims that the rate of mutations in man is actually twenty times higher than originally estimated. What does this mean? Using this new figure for mutation rates, the ancestral “mother of all,” as they call her, lived a mere 6,000 years ago!
Of course, the evolutionary scientists don’t accept this new figure, but it’s no surprise to creationists that this research supports the Bible’s teaching that there was a first woman, Eve, created about 6,000 years ago.
More at http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v12/i1/eve.asp
David Bennett<><
http://freewill-predestination.com
http://www.knology.net/~lonesomedove
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