November 27, 2006

PETA Mistakenly Targets Alaska Church Over Nativity Scene

November 25, 2006 ANCHORAGE, Alaska — ...The Rev. Jason Armstrong was confused by an e-mail earlier this week from PETA. It admonished him for subjecting animals "to cruel treatment and danger," by forcing them into roles in the church's annual manger scene…

...Jackie Vergerio, PETA's captive animals in entertainment specialist, said her organization tracks churches nationwide that use real animals in "living nativity scenes."

Seems the confusion started with the church's choice of phrase. PETA flagged Free Methodist's display as a "living nativity," and indeed, that's how the church describes it on its Web site.

To PETA, that means animals...

[However, the facts is] … the congregation erects the stable… spread some straw and don costumes. Some may dress as manger animals.

"We have some puppet camel things we put out," Armstrong said...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0%2C2933%2C231925%2C00.html

Publisher nixes book over fears of Islamic sensitivity
November 25, 2006- Award-winning author John Dale's latest novel is a gripping, page-turner of a thriller by all accounts, but it won't be in stores soon because his publisher has dumped the novel after booksellers and librarians said they wouldn't carry it because the "baddie" was a Muslim terrorist…
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53102

Gee, we just keep discovering more and more oil...

Oil and gas discovered in Zambia

10/25/06 -Zambia has announced its first discoveries of oil and gas reserves...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6076636.stm

Let’s check the global warming experts score cards… Note the dates on these three articles:

• 'One in Six Americans Could be Directly Impacted by 2006 Hurricane Season'

May 15, 2006-The AccuWeather.com Hurricane Center, led by Chief Forecaster Joe Bastardi, today released its 2006 hurricane season forecast. An active hurricane season appears imminent, which could have major repercussions for the U.S. economy and the one in six Americans who live on the Eastern Seaboard or along the western Gulf of Mexico…

http://wwwa.accuweather.com/promo-ad.asp?dir=aw&page=hurr2006

• 'Northeast is staring down the barrel of a gun'...

March 20, 2006 - The northeast U.S. coast could be the target of a major hurricane, perhaps as early as this season, according to research announced today by the AccuWeather.com Hurricane Center. In terms of number of storms, the 2006 hurricane season will again be more active than normal, but less active than last summer's historic storm season...

..."The Northeast is staring down the barrel of a gun," said Joe Bastardi, Chief Forecaster of the AccuWeather.com Hurricane Center. "The Northeast coast is long overdue for a powerful hurricane, and with the weather patterns and hydrology we're seeing in the oceans, the likelihood of a major hurricane making landfall in the Northeast is not a question of if but when."

http://wwwa.accuweather.com/promotion.asp?dir=aw&page=nehurr

Meteorologists Are Unanimous, The 2006 Tropical Storm Season “To Be A Doozy”

Gore's 'Truth' splits hurricane scientists

May 29, 2006 Al Gore's new movie on global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth," opens with scenes from Hurricane Katrina slamming into New Orleans. The former vice president says unequivocally that because of global warming, it is all but certain that future hurricanes will be more violent and destructive than those in the past.

Inconvenient or not, the nation's top hurricane scientists are divided on whether it's the truth.

With the official start of hurricane season days away, meteorologists are unanimous that the 2006 tropical storm season, which runs from June 1 through November, is likely to be a doozy....

(Unanimous! Wow!! They were unanimously wrong... Another nail in the global warming experts “experts” coffins)

http://www.washtimes.com/world/20060529-124851-7254r.htm

…and the winner is:

2006 Hurricane Season Turns Out To Be The Most Tranquil Season In A Decade

Nov 27, 2006 It was not the hurricane season we expected, thank you.

With cataclysmic predictions that hurricanes would swarm from the tropics like termites, no one thought 2006 would be the most tranquil season in a decade...

...As they say about the stock market: Past results are no indication of future performance...

http://www.tbo.com/news/metro/MGBHKNBE0VE.html

Criminals get tips from forensic television shows
November 25, 2006

Nationwide, the number of rape cases going unsolved by police is increasing, and experts blame it on the "CSI effect," theorizing that rapists are gleaning clues from forensic television shows about how evidence left behind at crime scenes can lead to an arrest.

"These suspects are very cognizant about what they're doing and what evidence they're leaving behind," said Pittsburgh police Sgt. Paul McComb, a 26-year veteran who heads the bureau's mobile crime unit. "They know, because of all of these television shows, what can be tied to them. Most of them are already very cunning, but CSI and other shows show them how to be better. It's frustrating as an investigator.

"When the secrets get out about how we solve crimes, the criminals change their habits."

..."They're making their victims shower or bathe," said former FBI profiler Clint Van Zandt. "It gives the criminal with any common sense pause to think 'Hey, there's a way to cover my trail or conceal my DNA.' "

...One rape victim was forced to clean herself with bleach after the assault.

...Pittsburgh police Detective Richard Fox, who has spent the past 13 years in the sex assault unit, said even if evidence from a crime scene can be traced to a suspect, the "CSI effect" often unravels a criminal case after it gets to court.

"Juries are expecting to hear and see all this amazing forensic evidence laid out cleanly for them like it is on TV," Fox said. "It doesn't always work that way, and sometimes the case gets lost because of it."

Ann Emmerling echoed that sentiment.

"It's not just that they're leaving less evidence behind at scenes, it's that when you present that evidence to a jury, they think it should be clear-cut and easy, and wrapped with a bow within an hour, like they see on 'CSI, " said Emmerling, executive director of the Blackburn Center for Domestic Violence and Sexual Violence in Greensburg, Westmoreland County.

"Television is not reality," she said.

..."The evidence we used to see left behind at scenes isn't there as much anymore, and some of these suspects will tell you that they figured out how to avoid mistakes because of what they saw on television," McComb said. "They're covering their tracks, largely due to what Hollywood shows them."
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/mostread/s_481326.html

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