October 20, 2006
High School in Wisconsin cancels Diversity Day because it was Becoming Too Diverse
…It was called off, not by angry parents, but by a simple request to allow former homosexuals speak to students along with gay activists. Diversity Day was supposed to represent all races, faiths and ideas but when Christians and ex-gays demanded a voice the district canceled the whole thing…http://www.pfox.org/asp/newsman/templates/newstemplate.asp?articleid=258&zoneid=2
2nd warning for Muslims to leave U.S. before attack
(I’m niether anti Muslim, provided they live by the golden rule, nor anti immigrant, however, people shouldn't be here that refuse to accept American culture and values and who refuse to assimilate. To these types I say let them all go and don't let 'em back in!)October 16, 2006 WASHINGTON – Another Pakistani journalist is reporting receiving another threat – this one from a senior Taliban leader – warning all Muslims to leave the U.S. in anticipation of a major terrorist attack before the end of Ramadan....
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52460
Scientists use grammar to fight nasty bacteria
Oct. 18 2006 WASHINGTON -- Using grammar rules alongside test tubes, biologists may have found a promising new way to fight nasty bacteria, including drug-resistant microbes and anthrax.
Studying a potent type of bacteria-fighters found in nature, called antimicrobial peptides, biologists found that they seemed to follow rules of order and placement that are similar to simple grammar laws. Using those new grammar-like rules for how these antimicrobial peptides work, scientists created 40 new artificial bacteria-fighters.
Nearly half of those new germ-fighters vanquished a variety of bacteria and two of them beat anthrax, according to a paper in Thursday's journal Nature...
...The key turns out to be in the way the peptides are made, which is by stringing together amino acid molecules, which scientists represent with letters. And that's when researchers saw a pattern that would make an English teacher beam."
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20061018/bacteria_grammar_061018/20061018?hub=SciTech
1994 Report of Ice store at Moon's South Pole incorrect
Oct 18- PARIS (AFP) - Hopes that the Moon's South Pole has a vast hoard of ice that could be used to establish a lunar colony are sadly unfounded, a new study says...
...In 1994, radar echoes sent back in an experiment involving a US orbiter called Clementine appeared to show that a treasure trove of frozen water lay below the dust in craters near the lunar South Pole that were permanently shaded from the Sun.
If so, such a find would be an invaluable boost to colonisation, as the ice could be used to provide water as well as hydrogen as fuel. NASA is looking closely at the South Pole as a potential site for the United States' return mission to the Moon, scheduled to take place by 2020.
But a paper published in the British science journal Nature on Thursday by a US team says the Clementine data most probably was misinterpreted...
...The team found that a particular radar signature called the circular polarization ratio -- which in the Clementine experiment was taken to indicate thick deposits of ice -- could also be created by echoes from the rough terrain and walls of impact craters.
The signature was found in both sunny and permanently shady areas of crater, which suggests that the reflection comes from rocky debris, not thick ice deposits...
...The research involved sending a radar signal from the Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico. The signal hit the southern lunar region and the reflection was picked up by the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061018/sc_afp/spaceastronomymoonx_061018171251
September 2006 U.S. temperature 0.7 degrees BELOW 20th century average
... The September 2006 temperature for the contiguous United States (based on preliminary data) was 0.7 degrees F (0.4 degrees C) below the 20th century average of 65.4 degrees F (18.6 degrees C). http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2006/s2720.htm
Airline bans woman from wearing cross
LONDON, England – British Airways has banned a Christian woman from wearing a cross on a necklace to work, a British newspaper reports.
The Daily Mail reports that Heathrow check-in worker Nadia Eweida, who is a Coptic Christian and whose father is Egyptian and mother English, was sent home after refusing to remove the crucifix that breached British Airways' dress code...
..Eweida, 55, from Twickenham, told the paper: "I will not hide my belief in the Lord Jesus. British Airways permits Muslims to wear a headscarf, Sikhs to wear a turban and other faiths religious apparel...only Christians are forbidden to express their faith..."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52447
Muslim stabs wife when daughter becomes Christian
'If children fail, the mother is at fault and will bear the brunt of the blame'
Australia- A devout Muslim woman was attacked and stabbed to death, allegedly by her husband, after their 17-year-old daughter announced she was embracing Christianity, according to police and news reports...
..."From what we understand the daughter decided to tell her father of her radical plan to convert to Christianity which, in the eyes of most Muslims, is totally unacceptable and to be honest, sadly, many would react as he has done," a Muslim source told "The Gold Coast Bulletin."
...The mother and daughter apparently had arrived in the popular East Australia region only a few days earlier. The doctor (the father) apparently had been there for several weeks, establishing his medical practice...
...Neighbor Caitlin Dalton told The Australian that many people heard the screams as the girl fled the luxury apartment...
...The Quran does instruct the faithful to kill those who leave the faith but Muslim leaders have said that is not to be taken literally...
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52437
Networks Distort Good Economy, Study Says
October 17, 2006...The Business and Media Institute (BMI) http://www.businessandmedia.org/specialreports/2006/badnewsbears/badnewsbears_execsum.asp report "Bad News Bears: How Networks Distort a Good Economy and Batter President Bush" is the result of an analysis of all stories referring to the "economy" or "economic" news on the evening news shows of all three broadcast networks between Aug. 1, 2005, and July 31, 2006...
...The United States continues to enjoy solid job growth," the BMI director noted. "In the last year, 1.7 million new jobs were added, and nearly 6 million have been created since August 2003 -- a streak of more than three years of positive growth.
"Unemployment is a low 4.7 percent. Gas prices have declined once again -- more than 75 cents from their recent highs," Gainor stated. "And though the economy actually grew just 2.6 percent in the second quarter of 2006, that followed the rapid expansion of the first quarter -- revised upward to 5.6 percent."
...The BMI study resulted in several significant findings, including:
Reports negatively charged: More than twice as many stories and briefs focused on negative aspects of the economy (62 percent), compared to good news (31 percent). News broadcasts dwelled on one prospective cataclysm after another, yet each time, the economy continued unfazed.
Negative stories given more air time: Bad news was emphasized on all three networks. Negative news appeared in full-length stories twice as often as it appeared in shorter, brief items. Good news was relegated to briefs. More good news appeared in brief form than as full-length stories.
Man-on-the-street interviews spin stories: Reporters used ordinary people to underscore negative stories by roughly a 3-to-1 ratio over positive. Since these are interviews chosen entirely by the reporter, this shows particular bias.
...To improve coverage, BMI recommends that the networks carefully select a range of economists and analysts to balance negative reporting and cover stories that reflect the economic data, not the reporter's opinion.
The network news should "educate the public about what the economic data really mean," Gainor added. "Don't just report changing numbers like sports scores."
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200610/NAT20061017b.html
Senator Reid used campaign money for bonuses at the Ritz-Carlton where he lives
Oct 17 Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid has been using campaign donations instead of his personal money to pay Christmas bonuses for the support staff at the Ritz-Carlton where he lives in an upscale condominium. Federal election law bars candidates from converting political donations for personal use.
Questioned about the campaign expenditures by The Associated Press, Reid's office said Monday his lawyers had approved them but he nonetheless was personally reimbursing his campaign for the $3,300 he had directed to the staff holiday fund at his residence.
Reid also announced he was amending his ethics reports to Congress to more fully account for a Las Vegas land deal, highlighted in an AP story last week, that allowed him to collect $1.1 million in 2004 for property he hadn't personally owned in three years.
In that matter, the senator hadn't disclosed to Congress that he first sold land to a friend's limited liability company back in 2001 and took an ownership stake in the company. He collected the seven-figure payout when the company sold the land again in 2004 to others...
...Reid labeled the AP story as the "latest attempt" by Republicans to affect the election. AP reported last week that it learned of the land deal from a former Reid adviser who had concerns about the way the deal was reported to Congress.
...Larry Noble, the Federal Election Commission's former chief enforcement lawyer, said "What makes this harder for the senator is that this is his personal residence and this looks like an event that everybody else at the residence is taking out of their personal money as they're living there."
...in 2000, Congress rebuked powerful House Transportation Committee Chairman Bud Shuster, R-Pa., for among other things creating the appearance, through poor record-keeping, that campaign committee expenditures were for personal rather than bona fide campaign uses...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061017/ap_on_go_co/reid_land_windfall_14
Murderer says he's too obese for execution
October 18, 2006 COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A federal judge on Tuesday delayed next week's execution of cult leader Jeffrey Lundgren to allow him to join a lawsuit by five other death row inmates challenging the state's use of lethal injection.
In his request to join the lawsuit, Lundgren, 56, said he is at even greater risk of experiencing pain and suffering during the procedure than other inmates because he is overweight and diabetic...
...Lundgren's sentence stems from a conviction for the fatal shooting of a family of five in 1989. The family, which included three children, were killed while they stood in a pit dug inside his barn in northeast Ohio...
...Frost's decision allows Lundgren to join a 2004 lawsuit brought by death row inmate Richard Cooey, convicted of the rape and murder of two University of Akron students in 1986.
Cooey argues that the way chemicals used in lethal injection are administered makes the process painful enough to amount to cruel and unusual punishment, in violation of the constitution... (as oppose to say "murder" which isn't a violation...?)
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/10/18/bc.na.gen.us.cultleader.ap/index.html
To the Blame America crowd:
"We feed the planet, we repair the planet, we have liberated over a billion oppressed people, we rebuilt Europe after World War II, and whenever there are disasters around the world, we are first on the scene. The standard of living for the world has improved dramatically because of us." Rush Limbaugh www.rushlimbaugh.com
Hillary comes clean about Sir Edmund : Admits she was not named for famous mountain climber
10/17/2006- Years after alternative media pointed out the virtual impossibility, Sen. Hillary Clinton finally has admitted she was not named for the famous conqueror of Mount Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary.
The New York Times, which repeated the claim as fact in a story just one week ago, reported Sen. Clinton's campaign issued a correction yesterday...
...For more than a decade, Sen. Clinton's informal biography repeated the story, and it was recounted in former President Bill Clinton's 2004 autobiography, "My Life."
The problem with the tale, however, is one of timing. Sir Edmund and his Sherpa guide, Tenzing Norgay, became known to the world only in 1953, after becoming the first men to reach Everest's summit. Sen. Clinton was born in 1947.
Nevertheless, Clinton recounted to the press her meeting with Sir Edmund in 1995, during an Asian tour, in which she told the mountain climber how her mother had named her...
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52477
David Bennett <><
http://www.freewill-predestination.com
http://www.knology.net/~lonesomedove
…It was called off, not by angry parents, but by a simple request to allow former homosexuals speak to students along with gay activists. Diversity Day was supposed to represent all races, faiths and ideas but when Christians and ex-gays demanded a voice the district canceled the whole thing…http://www.pfox.org/asp/newsman/templates/newstemplate.asp?articleid=258&zoneid=2
2nd warning for Muslims to leave U.S. before attack
(I’m niether anti Muslim, provided they live by the golden rule, nor anti immigrant, however, people shouldn't be here that refuse to accept American culture and values and who refuse to assimilate. To these types I say let them all go and don't let 'em back in!)October 16, 2006 WASHINGTON – Another Pakistani journalist is reporting receiving another threat – this one from a senior Taliban leader – warning all Muslims to leave the U.S. in anticipation of a major terrorist attack before the end of Ramadan....
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52460
Scientists use grammar to fight nasty bacteria
Oct. 18 2006 WASHINGTON -- Using grammar rules alongside test tubes, biologists may have found a promising new way to fight nasty bacteria, including drug-resistant microbes and anthrax.
Studying a potent type of bacteria-fighters found in nature, called antimicrobial peptides, biologists found that they seemed to follow rules of order and placement that are similar to simple grammar laws. Using those new grammar-like rules for how these antimicrobial peptides work, scientists created 40 new artificial bacteria-fighters.
Nearly half of those new germ-fighters vanquished a variety of bacteria and two of them beat anthrax, according to a paper in Thursday's journal Nature...
...The key turns out to be in the way the peptides are made, which is by stringing together amino acid molecules, which scientists represent with letters. And that's when researchers saw a pattern that would make an English teacher beam."
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20061018/bacteria_grammar_061018/20061018?hub=SciTech
1994 Report of Ice store at Moon's South Pole incorrect
Oct 18- PARIS (AFP) - Hopes that the Moon's South Pole has a vast hoard of ice that could be used to establish a lunar colony are sadly unfounded, a new study says...
...In 1994, radar echoes sent back in an experiment involving a US orbiter called Clementine appeared to show that a treasure trove of frozen water lay below the dust in craters near the lunar South Pole that were permanently shaded from the Sun.
If so, such a find would be an invaluable boost to colonisation, as the ice could be used to provide water as well as hydrogen as fuel. NASA is looking closely at the South Pole as a potential site for the United States' return mission to the Moon, scheduled to take place by 2020.
But a paper published in the British science journal Nature on Thursday by a US team says the Clementine data most probably was misinterpreted...
...The team found that a particular radar signature called the circular polarization ratio -- which in the Clementine experiment was taken to indicate thick deposits of ice -- could also be created by echoes from the rough terrain and walls of impact craters.
The signature was found in both sunny and permanently shady areas of crater, which suggests that the reflection comes from rocky debris, not thick ice deposits...
...The research involved sending a radar signal from the Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico. The signal hit the southern lunar region and the reflection was picked up by the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061018/sc_afp/spaceastronomymoonx_061018171251
September 2006 U.S. temperature 0.7 degrees BELOW 20th century average
... The September 2006 temperature for the contiguous United States (based on preliminary data) was 0.7 degrees F (0.4 degrees C) below the 20th century average of 65.4 degrees F (18.6 degrees C). http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2006/s2720.htm
Airline bans woman from wearing cross
LONDON, England – British Airways has banned a Christian woman from wearing a cross on a necklace to work, a British newspaper reports.
The Daily Mail reports that Heathrow check-in worker Nadia Eweida, who is a Coptic Christian and whose father is Egyptian and mother English, was sent home after refusing to remove the crucifix that breached British Airways' dress code...
..Eweida, 55, from Twickenham, told the paper: "I will not hide my belief in the Lord Jesus. British Airways permits Muslims to wear a headscarf, Sikhs to wear a turban and other faiths religious apparel...only Christians are forbidden to express their faith..."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52447
Muslim stabs wife when daughter becomes Christian
'If children fail, the mother is at fault and will bear the brunt of the blame'
Australia- A devout Muslim woman was attacked and stabbed to death, allegedly by her husband, after their 17-year-old daughter announced she was embracing Christianity, according to police and news reports...
..."From what we understand the daughter decided to tell her father of her radical plan to convert to Christianity which, in the eyes of most Muslims, is totally unacceptable and to be honest, sadly, many would react as he has done," a Muslim source told "The Gold Coast Bulletin."
...The mother and daughter apparently had arrived in the popular East Australia region only a few days earlier. The doctor (the father) apparently had been there for several weeks, establishing his medical practice...
...Neighbor Caitlin Dalton told The Australian that many people heard the screams as the girl fled the luxury apartment...
...The Quran does instruct the faithful to kill those who leave the faith but Muslim leaders have said that is not to be taken literally...
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52437
Networks Distort Good Economy, Study Says
October 17, 2006...The Business and Media Institute (BMI) http://www.businessandmedia.org/specialreports/2006/badnewsbears/badnewsbears_execsum.asp report "Bad News Bears: How Networks Distort a Good Economy and Batter President Bush" is the result of an analysis of all stories referring to the "economy" or "economic" news on the evening news shows of all three broadcast networks between Aug. 1, 2005, and July 31, 2006...
...The United States continues to enjoy solid job growth," the BMI director noted. "In the last year, 1.7 million new jobs were added, and nearly 6 million have been created since August 2003 -- a streak of more than three years of positive growth.
"Unemployment is a low 4.7 percent. Gas prices have declined once again -- more than 75 cents from their recent highs," Gainor stated. "And though the economy actually grew just 2.6 percent in the second quarter of 2006, that followed the rapid expansion of the first quarter -- revised upward to 5.6 percent."
...The BMI study resulted in several significant findings, including:
Reports negatively charged: More than twice as many stories and briefs focused on negative aspects of the economy (62 percent), compared to good news (31 percent). News broadcasts dwelled on one prospective cataclysm after another, yet each time, the economy continued unfazed.
Negative stories given more air time: Bad news was emphasized on all three networks. Negative news appeared in full-length stories twice as often as it appeared in shorter, brief items. Good news was relegated to briefs. More good news appeared in brief form than as full-length stories.
Man-on-the-street interviews spin stories: Reporters used ordinary people to underscore negative stories by roughly a 3-to-1 ratio over positive. Since these are interviews chosen entirely by the reporter, this shows particular bias.
...To improve coverage, BMI recommends that the networks carefully select a range of economists and analysts to balance negative reporting and cover stories that reflect the economic data, not the reporter's opinion.
The network news should "educate the public about what the economic data really mean," Gainor added. "Don't just report changing numbers like sports scores."
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200610/NAT20061017b.html
Senator Reid used campaign money for bonuses at the Ritz-Carlton where he lives
Oct 17 Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid has been using campaign donations instead of his personal money to pay Christmas bonuses for the support staff at the Ritz-Carlton where he lives in an upscale condominium. Federal election law bars candidates from converting political donations for personal use.
Questioned about the campaign expenditures by The Associated Press, Reid's office said Monday his lawyers had approved them but he nonetheless was personally reimbursing his campaign for the $3,300 he had directed to the staff holiday fund at his residence.
Reid also announced he was amending his ethics reports to Congress to more fully account for a Las Vegas land deal, highlighted in an AP story last week, that allowed him to collect $1.1 million in 2004 for property he hadn't personally owned in three years.
In that matter, the senator hadn't disclosed to Congress that he first sold land to a friend's limited liability company back in 2001 and took an ownership stake in the company. He collected the seven-figure payout when the company sold the land again in 2004 to others...
...Reid labeled the AP story as the "latest attempt" by Republicans to affect the election. AP reported last week that it learned of the land deal from a former Reid adviser who had concerns about the way the deal was reported to Congress.
...Larry Noble, the Federal Election Commission's former chief enforcement lawyer, said "What makes this harder for the senator is that this is his personal residence and this looks like an event that everybody else at the residence is taking out of their personal money as they're living there."
...in 2000, Congress rebuked powerful House Transportation Committee Chairman Bud Shuster, R-Pa., for among other things creating the appearance, through poor record-keeping, that campaign committee expenditures were for personal rather than bona fide campaign uses...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061017/ap_on_go_co/reid_land_windfall_14
Murderer says he's too obese for execution
October 18, 2006 COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A federal judge on Tuesday delayed next week's execution of cult leader Jeffrey Lundgren to allow him to join a lawsuit by five other death row inmates challenging the state's use of lethal injection.
In his request to join the lawsuit, Lundgren, 56, said he is at even greater risk of experiencing pain and suffering during the procedure than other inmates because he is overweight and diabetic...
...Lundgren's sentence stems from a conviction for the fatal shooting of a family of five in 1989. The family, which included three children, were killed while they stood in a pit dug inside his barn in northeast Ohio...
...Frost's decision allows Lundgren to join a 2004 lawsuit brought by death row inmate Richard Cooey, convicted of the rape and murder of two University of Akron students in 1986.
Cooey argues that the way chemicals used in lethal injection are administered makes the process painful enough to amount to cruel and unusual punishment, in violation of the constitution... (as oppose to say "murder" which isn't a violation...?)
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/10/18/bc.na.gen.us.cultleader.ap/index.html
To the Blame America crowd:
"We feed the planet, we repair the planet, we have liberated over a billion oppressed people, we rebuilt Europe after World War II, and whenever there are disasters around the world, we are first on the scene. The standard of living for the world has improved dramatically because of us." Rush Limbaugh www.rushlimbaugh.com
Hillary comes clean about Sir Edmund : Admits she was not named for famous mountain climber
10/17/2006- Years after alternative media pointed out the virtual impossibility, Sen. Hillary Clinton finally has admitted she was not named for the famous conqueror of Mount Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary.
The New York Times, which repeated the claim as fact in a story just one week ago, reported Sen. Clinton's campaign issued a correction yesterday...
...For more than a decade, Sen. Clinton's informal biography repeated the story, and it was recounted in former President Bill Clinton's 2004 autobiography, "My Life."
The problem with the tale, however, is one of timing. Sir Edmund and his Sherpa guide, Tenzing Norgay, became known to the world only in 1953, after becoming the first men to reach Everest's summit. Sen. Clinton was born in 1947.
Nevertheless, Clinton recounted to the press her meeting with Sir Edmund in 1995, during an Asian tour, in which she told the mountain climber how her mother had named her...
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52477
David Bennett <><
http://www.freewill-predestination.com
http://www.knology.net/~lonesomedove
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