November 17, 2006

Thanksgiving

http://www.cpmsglife.org/tg/2006tdm1.html

Core Inflation Drops by Record Amount
Nov 14 Inflation at the wholesale level plunged at a record pace in October...Wholesale prices fell 1.6 percent last month, tying the record decline set in October 2001, the Labor Department reported Tuesday. It was the second consecutive big decrease, following a 1.3 percent fall in September.

...underlying inflation pressures were held at bay last month as well. Core inflation, which excludes energy and food, dropped by 0.9 percent, the biggest one-month fall in 13 years...
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/11/14/D8LCSCI02.html

Using The Body's Own Stem Cells To Grow New Arteries

Once again it’s adult stem cells and not embryonic stem cells that are used…. Hmmm…

Nov. 12 - Blocked arteries are dangerous wherever they occur and if you get a blockage in your legs, the can cause such excruciating pain walking can be difficult.

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Now there's a new treatment that allows patients to grow new healthy blood vessels to improve circulation...

...Doctors told tom there was nothing they could do for him, and he had visions of life in a wheelchair...

...But then Tom found out about a study on a new option -- a growth factor called GMCSF. When injected into patients, it stimulates bone marrow to release stem cells -- helping the body form new arteries.

...That means fewer heart attacks, strokes, and amputations...

...Study results showed patients' blood vessel function improved by up to 60 percent. They were also able to exercise longer without pain...

...Doctors say this concept could potentially be applied for blocked arteries carrying blood to both the heart and the brain.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=edell&id=4754901

Google: Veterans Day 'too solemn' for logo

In response to e-mail generated by a WND story noting Google didn't mark Veterans Day for an eighth straight year, the search engine giant created a form letter explaining the non-commemoration of the holiday was deliberate and out of reverence…

…Despite the claim, Google honored Remembrance Day, the Canadian version of the U.S. Veterans Day last Saturday with a stylized logo featuring three poppies…

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52947

Study: Television, Filmmaking Industries Are Big Polluters

November 14, 2006 LOS ANGELES -- ... The film and television industry and associated activities make a larger contribution to air pollution in the five-county Los Angeles region than almost all five other sectors researched, according to a two-year study released Tuesday by the University of California, Los Angeles.

Although Hollywood seems environmentally conscious thanks to celebrities who lend their names to various causes, the industry created more pollution than individually produced by aerospace manufacturing, apparel, hotels and semiconductor manufacturing, the study found...

...Movie production tops hotels, aerospace, and apparel and semiconductor manufacturing in traditional air pollutant emissions in Southern California, according to the UCLA study, initially prepared for the Integrated Waste Management Board. The industry is probably second only to petroleum refineries, for which comparable data were not available.

In greenhouse gas emissions, the entertainment industry ranks third, The Times reported...

http://www.nbc4.tv/news/10315943/detail.html

Remember Ross Perot’s “giant sucking sound” ?
The Texas billionaire and one-time presidential candidate railed against the North American Free Trade Agreement in the early 1990 s, arguing that it would create a “giant sucking sound” of American jobs pulled to low-wage Mexico.

But things change. Last week, Perot’s Texas company announced that it was hiring — in Mexico.

Perot Systems Corp., which manages information technology for companies, is setting up a technology center in Guadalajara, where it expects to employ 270 engineers by the middle of next year.

Neither Perot, who is now chairman emeritus of the company he founded in 1988, nor his son, Ross Perot Jr., the company’s chairman, was on hand for the announcement in Guadalajara on Thursday. But a company spokesman, Joe McNamara, said that lower pay for engineers was only one of several reasons Perot Systems decided to set up in Mexico.
http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Business/173021/

Don’t know that I have any problem with this, it just seemed a little ironic… I’ll bet you didn’t know there are more manufacturing jobs today than there were ten years ago! Also foreign investments in the US are growing by leaps and bounds too.

Many Nations’ Forests Regrow, Study Finds
November 14, 2006- A large and growing number of countries are reversing the longstanding trend toward destruction of their forests, a surprising new analysis has found. (there's that word again "surprising")

...“From the new data it seems possible that we could reverse a global trend that many people thought was irreversible,” said Pekka Kauppi of the University of Helsinki in Finland, a lead author of the study, which appears today in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

...Twenty years ago most scientists believed that deforestation was an inexorable result of industrialization and that the earth would soon be virtually denuded of trees.

“This is the first time we have documented that many countries have turned the corner, that gradually forests are coming back,” said one of the authors, Jesse Ausubel of Rockefeller University in New York, who added that he personally had expected to live in a “skinhead” earth by 2050...

...Yet the researchers, using new analytical techniques, calculated that in the last 15 years forests had actually expanded in 22 of the 50 countries with the most forest, and that many others were poised to make the transition from deforestation to reforestation in the coming decades.

...A vast majority of the richer and more developed countries had more forest area and denser forests in 2005 than in 1990. In the United States and Western Europe the transition began decades ago, but it has increased rapidly in the last 15 years, the researchers found...
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/14/world/14forest.html?_r=1&ref=americas&oref=slogin
Don't forget, trees cause global warming!

Historian says peak oil production is still a quarter-century away
Nov. 14, 2006

WASHINGTON - Far from being a nearly exhausted resource, the world's oil reserves are three times bigger than what some popular estimates state, and peak global oil production is still about a quarter-century away, according to a new study by Pulitzer Prize-winning oil historian Daniel Yergin.

The remaining oil resource base is about 3.74 trillion barrels, according to a report released Tuesday by Cambridge Energy Research Associates, which Yergin runs. That's more than three times the 1.2 trillion barrels that "peak-oil" theorists suggest....

more at http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington//16012061.htm

They have been saying it’s a “quarter of a century away” since the 1800’s. My guess (since the earth is continually producing oil and technology is improving) that that date will be push back indefinitely…

San Francisco School Board Dumps JROTC Program
Dozens of JROTC cadets burst into tears or covered their faces after the San Francisco school board voted 4-2 to eliminate the popular program, the San Francisco Chronicle reported...

...The board's decision was loudly applauded by opponents of the program.

Their position was summed up by a former teacher, Nancy Mancias, who said, "We need to teach a curriculum of peace."

...About 1,600 San Francisco students participate in JROTC at seven high schools across the district.

Opponents said the armed forces should have no place in public schools, and the military's discriminatory stance on gays makes the presence of JROTC unacceptable.

"We don't want the military ruining our civilian institutions," said Sandra Schwartz of the American Friends Service Committee, an organization actively opposing JROTC nationwide. "In a healthy democracy ... you contain the military. You must contain the military."
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/15/BAG2HMD46B1.DTL

AMA Rejects Proposal to Tax Soft Drinks
LAS VEGAS ( The American Medical Association on Tuesday decided against a proposal to call for taxes on soft drinks as a way to curb consumption of the sugar-laden beverages blamed for contributing to obesity.

"We don't want sugared soft drinks in schools. But a federal tax made a lot of people uncomfortable," said Dr. William Hamilton, a Salt Lake City anesthesiologist who attended the group's meeting at a Las Vegas Strip hotel.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/thrive/2006/nov/14/111409359.html

The food Nazi’s at the UN and the World Health Organization are still trying to impose a worldwide tax on soft drinks and other foods they decided they don’t like…

Jesus dolls rejected from Toys for Tots program

Bible-quoting toymaker surprised its offer of 4,000 dolls was turned down

...LOS ANGELES - A company that sells Bible-quoting Jesus dolls said it was surprised and disappointed that the Marine Reserves’ Toys for Tots program turned down its offer to donate 4,000 of the talking dolls...

...Bill Grein, vice president of Marine Toys for Tots Foundation, in Quantico, Va., said the offer was turned down because Toys for Tots doesn’t know anything about the religious affiliations of the children who receive its gifts.

“We can’t take a chance on sending a talking Jesus doll to a Jewish family or a Muslim family,” Grein said Tuesday. “Kids want a gift for the holiday season that is fun.”...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15717485/

Never mind the fact that JESUS IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON!

Personally, if they are Holiday presents now instead if Christmas presents then I'm no longer interested in supporting any group that is worried about political correctness. I'll contribute to the Alabama Baptist Children's Home or something similar that sill gives Christmas Presents. Besides Christmas is a Christian observance.

Christianity being wiped from tales of U.S. history

Tour guides at Jamestown, Monticello don't include Jesus'name in explanations

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52896

Ten Commandments stunner: Feds lying at Supreme Court

Government tells modern visitors it's Bill of Rights being honored

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52895

Report: Liberal Professors Engage in "Groupthink"

Oct 20 2006- A report released on Wednesday on the political views of faculty members accuses professors of liberal "groupthink," a stance that the report says puts them at odds with the beliefs of most Americans on national and international issues.

The report, by the Institute for Jewish & Community Research, was based on an online, nationally representative survey of 1,259 professors at four-year colleges and universities in the spring of 2005. It found that, in general, professors are critical of American business and foreign policy and are skeptical of capitalism...

...The report labels the faculty's overall stance as liberal "groupthink," and says it is dangerous because faculty members "are supposed to provide a broad range of ... approaches to addressing problems in American society and around the world." Professors are role models for students and frequently are called upon to act as "pundits" by the media and as experts on foreign policy, it adds.

"The fact that there are more liberals than conservatives on campus is not the key issue," Gary A. Tobin, president of the institute, said during a teleconference on Wednesday. "We argue that were the political ideology reversed -- that three of every four identified themselves as conservatives rather than liberals -- the problem would be exactly the same. The presence of a dominant ideology has the potential to interfere with unbiased, honest, and creative scholarship and teaching..."

http://www.robkamphausen.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Number/780988

Judge Gives Injunction Over University of North Dakota Nickname

Nov 12

A district judge has granted a preliminary injunction to stop the NCAA from banning the University of North Dakota from hosting a postseason game because of its "Fighting Sioux" nickname, state Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem said...

...UND is among a handful of schools with American Indian nicknames and logos that the NCAA considers hostile and abusive. Those schools are barred from holding postseason tournaments, or from using their nicknames during road playoff games.

...North Dakota officials sued the NCAA last month, saying the ban is a breach of contract and violates antitrust laws. The NCAA argued that an exemption for UND would deprive the association of authority over its own championships..

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/11/12/D8LBKEVO1.html

NY Times Report Questions Wisdom of Immediate Troop Withdrawal
Get Out Now? Not So Fast, Experts Say
- A report in Wednesday's New York Times cautions that an immediate withdrawal from Iraq -- as some Democrats are advocating -- may not be the way to go, after all.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/15/washington/15military.html?ei=5094&en=24984d8667d017f9&hp=&ex=1163653200&adxnnl=1&partner=homepage&adxnnlx=1163595829-5+k63t98iTuZ2h7+zFIPGw

CBS' 'No plan in Iraq' allegation not true

Network's own tape shows Marine chief was taken out of context

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52952

Best Buy Bans Use of Merry Christmas In Advertising
Forbes.com 11/11/06
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s Christmas cheer seems to be a hot trend this season as several other retailers including Kohl's Corp. and Macy's, a division of Federated Department Stores Inc., are also stepping up their Christmas marketing. The moves respond to mounting criticism from religious groups that staged boycotts against Wal-Mart and other merchants after they eliminated or de-emphasized "Christmas" in their advertising.

"We learned a lesson from that. Merry Christmas is now part of the vocabulary here at Wal-Mart," said Linda Blakley, a Wal-Mart spokeswoman.

Still, not everyone is following suit.

"We are going to continue to use the term holiday because there are several holidays throughout that time period, and we certainly need to be respectful of all of them," said Dawn Bryant, a spokeswoman at Best Buy Co. Inc., whose advertising omits any reference to Christmas. (Then why not use Christmas and the "other" holidays...)

http://www.forbes.com/business/services/feeds/ap/2006/11/09/ap3161404.html

...While many other retailers have decided to return to the traditional "Merry Christmas", Best Buy will not be among them. Best Buy considers the use of "Merry Christmas" to be disrespectful.
http://www.afa.net/petitions/bestbuy_christmas.html

Send a webform message to Best Buy http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?type=page&id=cat12104

You can also e-mail dawn.bryant@bestbuy.com Best Buy spokesman

Here is what I sent them: I understand that Best Buy will not be saying "Merry Christmas" this year but instead will be using the politically correct "Happy Holidays". That being the case Best Buy will not be getting any of my cash this year as I am buying Christmas presents, not holiday presents.

THE AGENDA OF ISLAM - A WAR BETWEEN CIVILIZATIONS

Long but good overview putting historical facts in todays context

http://www.tzemach.org/articles/agenda_islam.htm

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http://www.freewill-predestination.com

http://www.knology.net/~lonesomedove