August 1, 2006
TITHING IN CHURCH
One Sunday, in counting the money in the weekly offering, the pastor of a small Florida church found a pink envelope containing $1000. It happened again the next week. The following Sunday, he watched as the offering was collected and saw a little old lady put the distinctive pink envelope in the plate.
This went on for weeks until the pastor, overcome by curiosity, approached her. "Ma'am, I couldn't help but notice that you put $1,000 a week in the collection plate," he stated.
"Why yes," she replied, "every week my son sends me money, and I give some of it to the church."
The pastor replied, "That's wonderful, how much does he send you?"
The old lady said, "$10,000 a week."
The pastor was amazed. "Your son is very successful; what does he do for a living?"
"He is a veterinarian," she answered.
"That is an honorable profession," the pastor said. "Where does he practice?"
The old lady said proudly, "In Nevada. He has two cat houses in Las Vegas and one in Reno."
Spoonerisms
A Spoonerism is the transposition of initial or other sounds of words, usually by accident, as in a blushing crow for a crushing blow.
The term Spoonerisms originates from the Reverend Spooner, who is well known in England because of a speech problem he is supposed to have had; it is said that he used to mix up the first couple of letters of words, sometimes creating strange sentences.
Go and shake a tower and a well-boiled icicle illustrate this well (go and take a shower, a well-oiled bicycle).
Some of Spooners more famous quotations include "It is kisstomary to cuss the bride," and "Mardon me padam, this pie is occupewed. Can I sew you to another sheet?" (Pardon me, madam, this pew is occupied. Can I show you to another seat?) The spoonerism is a now legendary 'tip of the slung'.
Other gaffes worth mentioning are his angry speech to a student, "You have hissed all my mystery lectures, and were caught fighting a liar in the quad. Having tasted two worms, you will leave by the next town drain," actually intending to say "missed history", "lighting fire", "wasted terms", and "down train", respectively.
During a college reception, he remarked to one lady "You'll soon be had, as a matter of course", when he meant to say "Mad as a Hatter, of course". A few more which you can probably work out for yourself include (making a toast) "Let us raise our glasses to the queer old Dean", "We'll have the hags flung out", "a half-warmed fish" and "Is the bean dizzy?"
Harry Von Zell once introduced Herbert Hoover, the President of the United States at that time as "Hoobert Heaver".
American comedian Archie Campbell, one of the stars of the long-running TV show Hee Haw, performed routines about "Rindercella and the Pransome Hince" and "Beeping Sleauty".
Peter Sellers in the Pink Panther sequel A Shot in the Dark goes for a three-fer with "killed him in a rit of fealous jage".
In one episode of The Simpsons, when Sideshow Bob tries to murder Bart, Chief Wiggum is trying to put him in prison and says "Bake him away, toys!"
Don Knotts, on his 1961 comedy album An Evening With Me, portrays a nervous sportscaster doing the play-by-play of his first big game. "It's a grand day in the great stands, and the solden gunshine is beaming on the fectators' spaces."
Iran Prez: Turning Pizzas Into 'Elastic Loaves'
July 29, 2006 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has ordered government and cultural bodies to use modified Persian words to replace foreign words that have crept into the language, such as "pizzas" which will now be known as "elastic loaves," state media reported Saturday.
The presidential decree, issued earlier this week, orders all governmental agencies, newspapers and publications to use words deemed more appropriate by the official language watchdog, the Farhangestan Zaban e Farsi, or Persian Academy, the Irna official news agency reported...
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/7/29/84700.shtml?s=ic
LOST & FOUND:
1. Homeless Man Returns Wallet With $900
4/18/2006 SANTA ANA, Calif. -A homeless man searching through garbage bins for recyclable cans found a missing wallet and had it returned to its owner.
Kim Bogue, who works as a janitor in the city's government buildings, realized that her wallet was missing last week and doubted she'd ever get back the $900 and credit cards inside, she said.
"I prayed that night and asked God to help me," said Bogue, who was saving the money for a trip to her native Thailand.
Days later, a homeless man found the wallet wrapped in a plastic bag in a trash bin, where Bogue had accidentally thrown it away with her lunch. He gave it to Sherry Wesley, who works in a nearby building.
...Workers at a nearby relief kitchen said the man, who didn't want to be identified, insists on paying for his food.
"He has a very good heart," said Bogue, who gave the man a $100 reward. "If someone else found it, the money would be gone." http://www.happynews.com/news/4182006/homeless-man-returns-wallet-with-$900.htm
2. Man Returns Purse With 1 Million in Jewelry
4/11/2006 SAN FRANCISCO -John Suhrhoff found a Louis Vuitton bag on a Sausalito park bench. Inside, police say, were a 12-carat diamond ring, pearl and emerald jewelry, a Cartier watch and roughly $500 in cash. The contents were worth $1 million. But the respiratory therapist didn't think of heading to a pawn shop, he took the bag to police Monday afternoon...
"You have to be a real man to return that bag," Ghannadian's son Ali told the paper. "Even the bag is expensive. We're really, really thankful to that guy." http://www.happynews.com/news/3292006/man-returns-purse-with-in-jewelry.htm
3. Man finds proper owner of $200,000
3/16/2006 PEMBROKEPINES, Fla. Carlos G. Rojas didn't know what to think when the military life insurance checks started showing up at his office. He didn't know anyone who would have named him a beneficiary, and the checks totaled $200,000.
He called Service members' Group Life Insurance, which pays death benefits to military families, and the customer service representatives insisted the money was his and he should cash the checks, he said. Rojas couldn't do it.
...Meanwhile, Carlos M. Rojas, 62, wondered why he had never received life insurance payments for his son, ArmyPfc. KennyRojas, killed by a land mine in October in Iraq.
Service members' Group assured him the checks were in the mail.
On Tuesday, after weeks of searching, the younger Rojas tracked down the grieving father.
''I believe this belongs to you,'' he said, handing him the checks...
...It took nine weeks, but Carlos G. Rojas was able to find a telephone number for the grieving father.
...Service members' Group has spoken with the elder Rojas and will be sending him a letter of apology, spokeswoman Laurita Warner said Wednesday. ''We are investigating this situation to find out what happened and will take steps to make sure this doesn't happen again,'' she said.http://www.happynews.com/news/3162006/man-finds-proper-owner-.htm
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The egg that will tell you when it's perfectly boiled
…"self-timing" eggs designed to overcome the perennial problem of how to avoid runny whites and overcooked yolks will appear on supermarket shelves in the coming months.
The eggs are marked with logos in "thermochromic" invisible ink, which turns dark when it reaches a certain temperature.
Inks have been created to appear after three minutes to indicate a soft-boiled egg, after four minutes for medium and after seven minutes for a hard-boiled egg.
Shoppers will be able to buy the eggs of their choice in cartons marked "soft", "medium" or "hard"…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/07/31/negg31.xml
Scientists say Erie mirage could be real
Jul 30 CLEVELAND - Scientists say it's a mirage, but others swear that when the weather is right, Clevelanders can see across Lake Erie and spot Canadian trees and buildings 50 miles away.
Eyewitness accounts have long been part of the city's history.
"The whole sweep of the Canadian shore stood out as if less than three miles away," a story in The Plain Dealer proclaimed in 1906. "The distant points across the lake stood out for nearly an hour and then faded away."
"I can see how this could be possible," said Lawrence Krauss, chairman of the Physics Department at Case Western Reserve University.
Krauss and Joe Prahl, chairman of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at Case, said mirages can occur during an atmospheric inversion, in which a layer of cold air blankets the lake, topped by layers of increasingly warm air. When this happens, it can cause the light that filters through these layers from across the lake to bend, forming a lens that can create the illusion of distant objects.
… Bob Boughner, a reporter for the Chatham Daily News in Ontario, said he's seen Cleveland from across Lake Erie twice, the first time four summers ago while driving along a road near the lake. He saw it again two summer ago while driving along the same road.
All of a sudden, there was Cleveland, just off the Canadian shore, as if it were just across a river, he said.
"I happened to look across the lake and, geez, I couldn't believe the sight," he said. "I could see the cars and the stoplights. I could even make out the different colors of the vehicles. It lasted a good two or three minutes."
Boughner said he remembers his aunt Melba Bates, who lived all her life on Lake Erie and recently died in her late 90s, talking about being able to see Cleveland, but he didn't believe her.
"I thought she was making up stories," he said. "But sure enough, I could see the same damned thing. When it shows up, it looks like you can touch it."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060730/ap_on_sc/lake_erie_mirage
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Psych Prof Advocates Human/Chimp Hybrids – But only to Offend Christians
July 28, 2006 WASHINGTON, July 28, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an op ed piece in the LA Times, David P. Barash, a professor of psychology at the University of Washington, says that reproductive facilities should work towards creating a race of human/chimpanzee hybrids, but, he admits, only because it would offend Christians...
...The psychology professor looks forward to the day when IVF facilities will create human/animal hybrids. He reveals, however, that his motivation is not a pure interest in advancing science, but his hatred for “know-nothing anti-evolutionism,” and “religious fundamentalists,” who hold human life to be sacred...
...Such shrill anti-religious polemics are increasingly being challenged from within the scientific community as bigotry, however, and recent revelations have indicated that Barash’s pure Darwinian faith may be going the way of the dodo.
In a new book, “The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief,” Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, asks scientific skeptics to approach religious belief God with a more open mind. Collins is among a growing movement in the science world that asserts there is no necess
ary rift between real science and religious belief. Collins is far from the stereotype religious “know-nothing” presented by anti-religious Darwinists. One of the world’s leading geneticists, he led the international Human Genome Project that mapped the 3.1 billion chemical base pairs in humanity's DNA. He now runs the government research foundation guiding work in the medical applications of this historic international project.
Collins attributed his rejection of the atheistic position to the writings of Christian apologist C.S. Lewis, the early 20th century English professor known and loved around the world for his ironclad logic in explaining Christian doctrines and debunking modern liberal atheism.
At a conference sponsored by the C.S. Lewis Foundation, Collins said, “For a scientist, it's uncomfortable to admit there are questions that your scientific method isn't going to be able to address.”
Collins refutes the Darwinists’ out-of-hand rejection of religion. An article in the Washington Post quotes him saying scientists are “not supposed to decide something is true until [they’ve] looked at the data. And yet I had become an atheist without ever looking at the evidence whether God exists or not."http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/jul/06072803.html
Heaven forbid we call a spade a spade…
"Hate crime" or domestic terrorism?
Yesterday, a self-proclaimed “Muslim American, angry at Israel” forced his way into a Jewish community center in Seattle, Washington, pulled out a gun, and opened fire. Six people were wounded, one fatally. The five others are hospitalized. The reaction by local authorities to this blatant act of domestic terrorism speaks volumes about America’s deeply misguided approach to Islamic terrorism.
According to the Associated Press (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14082298/),
the gunman was Naveed Afzal Haq (a Pakistani national), 30, who witnesses heard saying “I am a Muslim American, angry at Israel” before he started “randomly shooting at everyone.” When asked if the gunman was Muslim, however, Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske—obviously trying to downplay the connection between Islam and terror—only commented that “you could infer that that was his background.” Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels quickly added that “as far as we know” Haq was “acting on his own.”
In other words, even before an investigation has been started, local political and law enforcement authorities are signaling their intention to treat this incident as an individual “hate crime” rather than an act of domestic terrorism…
Yet… “Kerlikowske said police were protecting mosques “because there’s always the concern of retaliatory crime.”” Can you say “Double Standard”?
http://www.americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=5686
Iran's Repression an Energizer for Christian Conversions Among Muslims
July 25, 2006 (AgapePress) - The president of Voice of the Martyrs (VOM) says Iran is not only a hotbed for terrorist activity, but also hosts the fastest growing Muslim movement in the world -- Muslims converting to Christianity.
The government in Iran, says the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, "engages in systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom, including prolonged detention, torture, and executions based primarily or entirely upon the religion of the accused." The report continues, noting that Christians in Iran "continue to be subject to harassment, arrests, close surveillance, and imprisonment" and "many are reported to have fled the country."
In his new book Iran: Desperate for God, VOM president Tom White features seven Iranian Christian converts from Islam who tell their stories of life in a nation ranked among the top persecutors of Christians worldwide. White says one of the most oppressive terrorist nations on Earth cannot stop the gospel from spreading.
"We all talk about what's the answer for terrorism and problems. This is about one of the youngest nations in the world -- some 70 percent are under 30 years old -- and about their turning to Christ," he says. According to White, the numbers of conversions being reported are "massive."
"We've met with Iranians in several countries across Europe, we've met with Iranians in Iran, and when they encounter the love of Christ or forgiveness, which is alien to their beliefs -- especially the radical Islamic approach in Iran -- they are amazed and curious about Christ," the author shares.
The growth in Christian believers in the Muslim-dominated Middle Eastern country is occurring despite a hardline Muslim president and his close circle of terror-backing supporters. White calls attention to one particular group in Iran…
…It is estimated that 500 to 600 Muslims are converting to Christianity every month in Iran -- a country ranked among the top ten persecutors of Christians in the world.
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/7/252006f.asp
WMD Shipments to Syria Described
This is an unofficial translation of Document Number ISGQ-2005-00022470, released as part of Project Harmony. It is a memo dated July 13, probably 2003; the author is an Iraqi opposition source located in Syria.
Subject: we have information about the location of Mass Destruction Weapons
On Moharram 10th (Arabic calendar), prior to US/allied invasion to Iraq, fifty (50) Iraqi trucks entered Syria as convoys (or groups), I met some the drivers of those trucks, they got no idea about the content of their trucks.
The loads basically came from some where in Baghdad, Iraqi intelligence were escorting the loads. During their tripe, those truck drivers were stopped and asked frequently by the intelligence officers about whether or not they got any idea about the content of their loads, the divers replied “we have no idea," then the officers would say “thank you."
Upon their arrival to Deayr Ezoor city/ Syria, the drivers were ordered to get down, elements from Syrian intelligence got into the trucks, they took the trucks to big barracks for downloading.
After that; Iraqi drivers got their trucks back, they got $200 as a reward. The drivers told me that it was their second time to bring such secret shipment; the first shipment was Moharram 1st.
I have a friend in Syria working in Syrian company, the man has ½ of the company, and the other ½ belongs to a Syrian businessman.
This Iraqi person, a former counselor at Iraqi embassies, has strong connections with Iraqi embassy in Syria, he knows all Iraqi intelligence men there, and he has no idea that I am working with the Iraqi opposition in Syria.
I used to visit him daily during that period to listen to the important news. When the trucks arrived to Syria, I visited him, told him “Iraqi weapons got inside Syria," he replied “who told you." I said “I have my own resources," he replied “don’t tell any one about that because actually it is inside."
Based on this and a number of other reports, it seems likely that some, at least, of Iraq's WMDs were shipped to Syria shortly before the war started in 2003.
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/014835.php
More Americans too fat for X-rays, scans
Jul 25, 2006 More and more obese people are unable to get full medical care because they are either too big to fit into scanners, or their fat is too dense for X-rays or sound waves to penetrate, radiologists reported on Tuesday.
With 64 percent of the U.S. population either overweight or obese, the problem is worsening, but it represents a business opportunity for equipment makers and hospitals, said Dr. Raul Uppot, a radiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital.
..."This is affecting radiologists all over the country."
Ultrasounds are most affected, Uppot said.
"In an obese person because the ultrasound beam does not get to the organs or get to them adequately enough we cannot get a picture. It looks like a snowstorm -- I don't know if you have seen those televisions where it is just whiteout? It looks like that."
An MRI can get a good picture if the patient can fit into the tube or get onto the table, Uppot said. Some manufacturers have started to make MRI machines with larger bore holes, but with the cost in the millions of dollars per machine, only large groups or institutions can afford them...
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyid=2006-07-25T193345Z_01_N25202592_RTRUKOC_0_US-OBESITY.xml&src=rss&rpc=22
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One Sunday, in counting the money in the weekly offering, the pastor of a small Florida church found a pink envelope containing $1000. It happened again the next week. The following Sunday, he watched as the offering was collected and saw a little old lady put the distinctive pink envelope in the plate.
This went on for weeks until the pastor, overcome by curiosity, approached her. "Ma'am, I couldn't help but notice that you put $1,000 a week in the collection plate," he stated.
"Why yes," she replied, "every week my son sends me money, and I give some of it to the church."
The pastor replied, "That's wonderful, how much does he send you?"
The old lady said, "$10,000 a week."
The pastor was amazed. "Your son is very successful; what does he do for a living?"
"He is a veterinarian," she answered.
"That is an honorable profession," the pastor said. "Where does he practice?"
The old lady said proudly, "In Nevada. He has two cat houses in Las Vegas and one in Reno."
Spoonerisms
A Spoonerism is the transposition of initial or other sounds of words, usually by accident, as in a blushing crow for a crushing blow.
The term Spoonerisms originates from the Reverend Spooner, who is well known in England because of a speech problem he is supposed to have had; it is said that he used to mix up the first couple of letters of words, sometimes creating strange sentences.
Go and shake a tower and a well-boiled icicle illustrate this well (go and take a shower, a well-oiled bicycle).
Some of Spooners more famous quotations include "It is kisstomary to cuss the bride," and "Mardon me padam, this pie is occupewed. Can I sew you to another sheet?" (Pardon me, madam, this pew is occupied. Can I show you to another seat?) The spoonerism is a now legendary 'tip of the slung'.
Other gaffes worth mentioning are his angry speech to a student, "You have hissed all my mystery lectures, and were caught fighting a liar in the quad. Having tasted two worms, you will leave by the next town drain," actually intending to say "missed history", "lighting fire", "wasted terms", and "down train", respectively.
During a college reception, he remarked to one lady "You'll soon be had, as a matter of course", when he meant to say "Mad as a Hatter, of course". A few more which you can probably work out for yourself include (making a toast) "Let us raise our glasses to the queer old Dean", "We'll have the hags flung out", "a half-warmed fish" and "Is the bean dizzy?"
Harry Von Zell once introduced Herbert Hoover, the President of the United States at that time as "Hoobert Heaver".
American comedian Archie Campbell, one of the stars of the long-running TV show Hee Haw, performed routines about "Rindercella and the Pransome Hince" and "Beeping Sleauty".
Peter Sellers in the Pink Panther sequel A Shot in the Dark goes for a three-fer with "killed him in a rit of fealous jage".
In one episode of The Simpsons, when Sideshow Bob tries to murder Bart, Chief Wiggum is trying to put him in prison and says "Bake him away, toys!"
Don Knotts, on his 1961 comedy album An Evening With Me, portrays a nervous sportscaster doing the play-by-play of his first big game. "It's a grand day in the great stands, and the solden gunshine is beaming on the fectators' spaces."
Iran Prez: Turning Pizzas Into 'Elastic Loaves'
July 29, 2006 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has ordered government and cultural bodies to use modified Persian words to replace foreign words that have crept into the language, such as "pizzas" which will now be known as "elastic loaves," state media reported Saturday.
The presidential decree, issued earlier this week, orders all governmental agencies, newspapers and publications to use words deemed more appropriate by the official language watchdog, the Farhangestan Zaban e Farsi, or Persian Academy, the Irna official news agency reported...
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/7/29/84700.shtml?s=ic
LOST & FOUND:
1. Homeless Man Returns Wallet With $900
4/18/2006 SANTA ANA, Calif. -A homeless man searching through garbage bins for recyclable cans found a missing wallet and had it returned to its owner.
Kim Bogue, who works as a janitor in the city's government buildings, realized that her wallet was missing last week and doubted she'd ever get back the $900 and credit cards inside, she said.
"I prayed that night and asked God to help me," said Bogue, who was saving the money for a trip to her native Thailand.
Days later, a homeless man found the wallet wrapped in a plastic bag in a trash bin, where Bogue had accidentally thrown it away with her lunch. He gave it to Sherry Wesley, who works in a nearby building.
...Workers at a nearby relief kitchen said the man, who didn't want to be identified, insists on paying for his food.
"He has a very good heart," said Bogue, who gave the man a $100 reward. "If someone else found it, the money would be gone." http://www.happynews.com/news/4182006/homeless-man-returns-wallet-with-$900.htm
2. Man Returns Purse With 1 Million in Jewelry
4/11/2006 SAN FRANCISCO -John Suhrhoff found a Louis Vuitton bag on a Sausalito park bench. Inside, police say, were a 12-carat diamond ring, pearl and emerald jewelry, a Cartier watch and roughly $500 in cash. The contents were worth $1 million. But the respiratory therapist didn't think of heading to a pawn shop, he took the bag to police Monday afternoon...
"You have to be a real man to return that bag," Ghannadian's son Ali told the paper. "Even the bag is expensive. We're really, really thankful to that guy." http://www.happynews.com/news/3292006/man-returns-purse-with-in-jewelry.htm
3. Man finds proper owner of $200,000
3/16/2006 PEMBROKEPINES, Fla. Carlos G. Rojas didn't know what to think when the military life insurance checks started showing up at his office. He didn't know anyone who would have named him a beneficiary, and the checks totaled $200,000.
He called Service members' Group Life Insurance, which pays death benefits to military families, and the customer service representatives insisted the money was his and he should cash the checks, he said. Rojas couldn't do it.
...Meanwhile, Carlos M. Rojas, 62, wondered why he had never received life insurance payments for his son, ArmyPfc. KennyRojas, killed by a land mine in October in Iraq.
Service members' Group assured him the checks were in the mail.
On Tuesday, after weeks of searching, the younger Rojas tracked down the grieving father.
''I believe this belongs to you,'' he said, handing him the checks...
...It took nine weeks, but Carlos G. Rojas was able to find a telephone number for the grieving father.
...Service members' Group has spoken with the elder Rojas and will be sending him a letter of apology, spokeswoman Laurita Warner said Wednesday. ''We are investigating this situation to find out what happened and will take steps to make sure this doesn't happen again,'' she said.http://www.happynews.com/news/3162006/man-finds-proper-owner-.htm
Hmmm...no stories of women returning lost loot...?
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The egg that will tell you when it's perfectly boiled
…"self-timing" eggs designed to overcome the perennial problem of how to avoid runny whites and overcooked yolks will appear on supermarket shelves in the coming months.
The eggs are marked with logos in "thermochromic" invisible ink, which turns dark when it reaches a certain temperature.
Inks have been created to appear after three minutes to indicate a soft-boiled egg, after four minutes for medium and after seven minutes for a hard-boiled egg.
Shoppers will be able to buy the eggs of their choice in cartons marked "soft", "medium" or "hard"…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/07/31/negg31.xml
Scientists say Erie mirage could be real
Jul 30 CLEVELAND - Scientists say it's a mirage, but others swear that when the weather is right, Clevelanders can see across Lake Erie and spot Canadian trees and buildings 50 miles away.
Eyewitness accounts have long been part of the city's history.
"The whole sweep of the Canadian shore stood out as if less than three miles away," a story in The Plain Dealer proclaimed in 1906. "The distant points across the lake stood out for nearly an hour and then faded away."
"I can see how this could be possible," said Lawrence Krauss, chairman of the Physics Department at Case Western Reserve University.
Krauss and Joe Prahl, chairman of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at Case, said mirages can occur during an atmospheric inversion, in which a layer of cold air blankets the lake, topped by layers of increasingly warm air. When this happens, it can cause the light that filters through these layers from across the lake to bend, forming a lens that can create the illusion of distant objects.
… Bob Boughner, a reporter for the Chatham Daily News in Ontario, said he's seen Cleveland from across Lake Erie twice, the first time four summers ago while driving along a road near the lake. He saw it again two summer ago while driving along the same road.
All of a sudden, there was Cleveland, just off the Canadian shore, as if it were just across a river, he said.
"I happened to look across the lake and, geez, I couldn't believe the sight," he said. "I could see the cars and the stoplights. I could even make out the different colors of the vehicles. It lasted a good two or three minutes."
Boughner said he remembers his aunt Melba Bates, who lived all her life on Lake Erie and recently died in her late 90s, talking about being able to see Cleveland, but he didn't believe her.
"I thought she was making up stories," he said. "But sure enough, I could see the same damned thing. When it shows up, it looks like you can touch it."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060730/ap_on_sc/lake_erie_mirage
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A new weekly feature examining the news from a biblical viewpoint
http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2006/0729ntn.asp
Psych Prof Advocates Human/Chimp Hybrids – But only to Offend Christians
July 28, 2006 WASHINGTON, July 28, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an op ed piece in the LA Times, David P. Barash, a professor of psychology at the University of Washington, says that reproductive facilities should work towards creating a race of human/chimpanzee hybrids, but, he admits, only because it would offend Christians...
...The psychology professor looks forward to the day when IVF facilities will create human/animal hybrids. He reveals, however, that his motivation is not a pure interest in advancing science, but his hatred for “know-nothing anti-evolutionism,” and “religious fundamentalists,” who hold human life to be sacred...
...Such shrill anti-religious polemics are increasingly being challenged from within the scientific community as bigotry, however, and recent revelations have indicated that Barash’s pure Darwinian faith may be going the way of the dodo.
In a new book, “The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief,” Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, asks scientific skeptics to approach religious belief God with a more open mind. Collins is among a growing movement in the science world that asserts there is no necess
ary rift between real science and religious belief. Collins is far from the stereotype religious “know-nothing” presented by anti-religious Darwinists. One of the world’s leading geneticists, he led the international Human Genome Project that mapped the 3.1 billion chemical base pairs in humanity's DNA. He now runs the government research foundation guiding work in the medical applications of this historic international project.
Collins attributed his rejection of the atheistic position to the writings of Christian apologist C.S. Lewis, the early 20th century English professor known and loved around the world for his ironclad logic in explaining Christian doctrines and debunking modern liberal atheism.
At a conference sponsored by the C.S. Lewis Foundation, Collins said, “For a scientist, it's uncomfortable to admit there are questions that your scientific method isn't going to be able to address.”
Collins refutes the Darwinists’ out-of-hand rejection of religion. An article in the Washington Post quotes him saying scientists are “not supposed to decide something is true until [they’ve] looked at the data. And yet I had become an atheist without ever looking at the evidence whether God exists or not."http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/jul/06072803.html
Heaven forbid we call a spade a spade…
"Hate crime" or domestic terrorism?
Yesterday, a self-proclaimed “Muslim American, angry at Israel” forced his way into a Jewish community center in Seattle, Washington, pulled out a gun, and opened fire. Six people were wounded, one fatally. The five others are hospitalized. The reaction by local authorities to this blatant act of domestic terrorism speaks volumes about America’s deeply misguided approach to Islamic terrorism.
According to the Associated Press (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14082298/),
the gunman was Naveed Afzal Haq (a Pakistani national), 30, who witnesses heard saying “I am a Muslim American, angry at Israel” before he started “randomly shooting at everyone.” When asked if the gunman was Muslim, however, Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske—obviously trying to downplay the connection between Islam and terror—only commented that “you could infer that that was his background.” Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels quickly added that “as far as we know” Haq was “acting on his own.”
In other words, even before an investigation has been started, local political and law enforcement authorities are signaling their intention to treat this incident as an individual “hate crime” rather than an act of domestic terrorism…
Yet… “Kerlikowske said police were protecting mosques “because there’s always the concern of retaliatory crime.”” Can you say “Double Standard”?
http://www.americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=5686
Iran's Repression an Energizer for Christian Conversions Among Muslims
July 25, 2006 (AgapePress) - The president of Voice of the Martyrs (VOM) says Iran is not only a hotbed for terrorist activity, but also hosts the fastest growing Muslim movement in the world -- Muslims converting to Christianity.
The government in Iran, says the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, "engages in systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom, including prolonged detention, torture, and executions based primarily or entirely upon the religion of the accused." The report continues, noting that Christians in Iran "continue to be subject to harassment, arrests, close surveillance, and imprisonment" and "many are reported to have fled the country."
In his new book Iran: Desperate for God, VOM president Tom White features seven Iranian Christian converts from Islam who tell their stories of life in a nation ranked among the top persecutors of Christians worldwide. White says one of the most oppressive terrorist nations on Earth cannot stop the gospel from spreading.
"We all talk about what's the answer for terrorism and problems. This is about one of the youngest nations in the world -- some 70 percent are under 30 years old -- and about their turning to Christ," he says. According to White, the numbers of conversions being reported are "massive."
"We've met with Iranians in several countries across Europe, we've met with Iranians in Iran, and when they encounter the love of Christ or forgiveness, which is alien to their beliefs -- especially the radical Islamic approach in Iran -- they are amazed and curious about Christ," the author shares.
The growth in Christian believers in the Muslim-dominated Middle Eastern country is occurring despite a hardline Muslim president and his close circle of terror-backing supporters. White calls attention to one particular group in Iran…
…It is estimated that 500 to 600 Muslims are converting to Christianity every month in Iran -- a country ranked among the top ten persecutors of Christians in the world.
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/7/252006f.asp
WMD Shipments to Syria Described
This is an unofficial translation of Document Number ISGQ-2005-00022470, released as part of Project Harmony. It is a memo dated July 13, probably 2003; the author is an Iraqi opposition source located in Syria.
Subject: we have information about the location of Mass Destruction Weapons
On Moharram 10th (Arabic calendar), prior to US/allied invasion to Iraq, fifty (50) Iraqi trucks entered Syria as convoys (or groups), I met some the drivers of those trucks, they got no idea about the content of their trucks.
The loads basically came from some where in Baghdad, Iraqi intelligence were escorting the loads. During their tripe, those truck drivers were stopped and asked frequently by the intelligence officers about whether or not they got any idea about the content of their loads, the divers replied “we have no idea," then the officers would say “thank you."
Upon their arrival to Deayr Ezoor city/ Syria, the drivers were ordered to get down, elements from Syrian intelligence got into the trucks, they took the trucks to big barracks for downloading.
After that; Iraqi drivers got their trucks back, they got $200 as a reward. The drivers told me that it was their second time to bring such secret shipment; the first shipment was Moharram 1st.
I have a friend in Syria working in Syrian company, the man has ½ of the company, and the other ½ belongs to a Syrian businessman.
This Iraqi person, a former counselor at Iraqi embassies, has strong connections with Iraqi embassy in Syria, he knows all Iraqi intelligence men there, and he has no idea that I am working with the Iraqi opposition in Syria.
I used to visit him daily during that period to listen to the important news. When the trucks arrived to Syria, I visited him, told him “Iraqi weapons got inside Syria," he replied “who told you." I said “I have my own resources," he replied “don’t tell any one about that because actually it is inside."
Based on this and a number of other reports, it seems likely that some, at least, of Iraq's WMDs were shipped to Syria shortly before the war started in 2003.
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/014835.php
More Americans too fat for X-rays, scans
Jul 25, 2006 More and more obese people are unable to get full medical care because they are either too big to fit into scanners, or their fat is too dense for X-rays or sound waves to penetrate, radiologists reported on Tuesday.
With 64 percent of the U.S. population either overweight or obese, the problem is worsening, but it represents a business opportunity for equipment makers and hospitals, said Dr. Raul Uppot, a radiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital.
..."This is affecting radiologists all over the country."
Ultrasounds are most affected, Uppot said.
"In an obese person because the ultrasound beam does not get to the organs or get to them adequately enough we cannot get a picture. It looks like a snowstorm -- I don't know if you have seen those televisions where it is just whiteout? It looks like that."
An MRI can get a good picture if the patient can fit into the tube or get onto the table, Uppot said. Some manufacturers have started to make MRI machines with larger bore holes, but with the cost in the millions of dollars per machine, only large groups or institutions can afford them...
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyid=2006-07-25T193345Z_01_N25202592_RTRUKOC_0_US-OBESITY.xml&src=rss&rpc=22
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