March 16, 2007
10 low-cost locales where jobs are plenty
If you're looking for areas with a low cost of living, good job prospects and a high quality of life, here are 10 best bets to research.
1. Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, Ark.-Mo.
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Complete article at http://realestate.msn.com/Buying/Article2.aspx?cp-documentid=3863709
Can't say 'Christian' at
Guides at
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54712
District gags 14-year-olds after homosexual indoctrination
March 14, 2007
Officials at Deerfield High School in Deerfield, Ill., have ordered their 14-year-old freshman class into a homosexual indoctrination seminar, after having them sign a confidentiality agreement promising not to tell their parents.
"This is unbelievable," said Matt Barber, policy director for cultural issues for Concerned Women for
In what CWA called a "shocking and brazen act of government abuse of parental rights," the school's officials required the 14-year-olds to attend a "Gay Straight Alliance Network" panel discussion led by allegedly homosexual upperclassmen during a "freshman advisory" class which "secretively featured inappropriate discussions of a sexual nature in promotion of high-risk homosexual behaviors."
http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/03/district_gags_14yearolds_after.php
2007-03-12
Sources within the GMB told ZimOnline yesterday that most silos around the country were virtually empty describing the food security situation in the southern African country as “critical.”
...Maize-meal is the staple food for the majority of Zimbabweans.
...“Unless the country imports more maize in larger quantities, we will soon run out of maize-meal,” said a senior official...
http://www.zimonline.co.za/Article.aspx?ArticleId=985
...and in a related story, ethanol production up!
Why 'green' lightbulbs aren't the answer to global warming
13th March 2007
They have to be left on all the time, they're made from banned toxins and they won't work in half your household fittings. Yet
...Because they do not produce light in a steady stream, like an incandescent bulb, but flicker 50 times a second, some who use them for reading eventually find their eyes beginning to swim - and they can make fast-moving machine parts look stationary, posing a serious safety problem...
...More seriously, because CFLs need much more ventilation than a standard bulb, they cannot be used in any enclosed light fitting which is not open at both bottom and top - the implications of which for homeowners are horrendous...
...lowenergy bulbs are much more complex to make than standard bulbs, requiring up to ten times as much energy to manufacture. Unlike standard bulbs, they use toxic materials, including mercury vapour, which the EU itself last year banned from landfill sites ...
...But if they keep their lights on all the time to maximise their life, CFLs can end up using almost as much electricity from power stations (creating CO2 emissions) as incandescent bulbs - thus cancelling out their one supposed advantage…
In other words, in every possible way this looks like a classic example of kneejerk politics...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=441881&in_page_id=1770
Lawmakers Don't Rule Out Legislation in Bid to Promote Efficient Light Bulbs
March 15, 2007
A Republican congressman on Wednesday wouldn't rule out legislation as a way to prod American consumers to switch from traditional incandescent light bulbs to more efficient modern bulbs…
… Even a major player in the lighting industry is supporting the push for legislative action on light bulb efficiency. Philips Electronics, which calls itself a pioneer of compact fluorescent technology, is "advocating an industry-wide initiative" that would phase out the inefficient bulbs.
Brian Darling, director of Senate relations at the conservative Heritage Foundation, said it is "unfortunate that a company would ever be asking the federal government to mandate the use of a certain technology."
"If they really believe in what they're advocating, they should cease to produce these so-called inefficient light bulbs," Darling said, adding he is skeptical that the new bulbs would save as much money as manufacturers suggest.
Darling said it is "unusual" for a company to ask for federal regulation of their product unless it will benefit them financially. In this case, a federal standard would ensure that incandescent bulbs would not be available from any manufacturer, so if Philips stopped producing the bulbs, it would not lose business.
"This company conceivably could be using environmentalism as a pretext to market their more expensive and more energy efficient bulbs to the detriment of their competition, who produce cheaper bulbs," he said…
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200703/POL20070315a.html
Eco-warrior Trudie prefers helicopter to an 80-mile train ride
15.03.07
It's one rule for them, and another for the rest of us.
Trudie Styler, wife of Sting and self-styled eco-warrior, recently took a helicopter to travel 80 miles from Wiltshire to
The actress and film producer is forever harping on about saving the environment, having set up the Rainforest Campaign in the late 1980s with her pop star husband.
The Stings are known for eating only organic food, supposedly grown on their land, although one member of staff recently admitted to serving up nonorganic salad from the supermarket.
So what was Styler thinking as she clambered into her gas-guzzling chopper, off to stay with friend and fellow greenie Zac Goldsmith on his organic farm in Devon?
Her own home,
...But this isn't the first time the Stings have been caught out. In 2000 the couple threatened the Ministry of Defence with legal action if a nearby airfield were to be expanded.
It later emerged Sting had twice used the airfield in question from which to roar off in his private jet...
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23389069-details/Eco-warrior+Trudie+prefers+helicopter+to+an+80-mile+train+ride/article.do
Prius Outdoes Hummer in Environmental Damage
March 7, 2007
The
...Building a Toyota Prius causes more environmental damage than a Hummer that is on the road for three times longer than a Prius. As already noted, the Prius is partly driven by a battery which contains nickel. The nickel is mined and smelted at a plant in
...The nickel produced by this disastrous plant is shipped via massive container ship to the largest nickel refinery in
...When you pool together all the combined energy it takes to drive and build a Toyota Prius, the flagship car of energy fanatics, it takes almost 50 percent more energy than a Hummer - the Prius’s arch nemesis.
Through a study by CNW Marketing called “Dust to Dust,” the total combined energy is taken from all the electrical, fuel, transportation, materials (metal, plastic, etc) and hundreds of other factors over the expected lifetime of a vehicle. The Prius costs an average of $3.25 per mile driven over a lifetime of 100,000 miles - the expected lifespan of the Hybrid.
The Hummer, on the other hand, costs a more fiscal $1.95 per mile to put on the road over an expected lifetime of 300,000 miles. That means the Hummer will last three times longer than a Prius and use less combined energy doing it...
...it takes five years to offset the premium price of a Prius. Meaning, you have to wait 60 months to save any money over a non-hybrid car because of lower gas expenses.
http://clubs.ccsu.edu/recorder/editorial/editorial_item.asp?NewsID=188
Creators of carbon credit scheme cashing in on it
March 13, 2007
There's an elephant in global warming's living room that few in the mainstream media want to talk about: the creators of the carbon credit scheme are the ones cashing in on it.
The two cherub like choirboys singing loudest in the Holier Than Thou Global Warming Cathedral are Maurice Strong and Al Gore...
...With little media monitoring, both Strong and Gore are cashing in on the lucrative cottage industry known as man-made global warming.
Strong is on the board of directors of the Chicago Climate Exchange, Wikipedia-described as "the world's first and North America's only legally binding greenhouse gas emission registry reduction system for emission sources and offset projects in North America and Brazil."
Gore buys his carbon off-sets from himself--the Generation Investment Management LLP, "an independent, private, owner-managed partnership established in 2004 with offices in
...the Canadian born Strong is little known in the Unites States. That's because he spends most of his time in
...Strong, currently president of the Earth Council, has been boasting of replacing the Ten Commandments with the Earth Charter, a golden rule guide for how the masses should treat the environment.
Gore, who has given sermons at the United Nations sponsored Cathedral of St. John the
But the conduct of Al Gore and Maurice Strong in the capitalist world is one for the books. It's a side of them that may have remained unknown had it not been for the investigative talent of the Executive Intelligence Review (EIR)...
...all the way back to Earth Day, April 17, 1995 when the future author of An Inconvenient Truth traveled to Fall River, Massachusetts, to deliver a green sermon at the headquarters of Molten Metal Technology Inc. (MMTI). MMTI was a firm that proclaimed to have invented a process for recycling metals from waste.Gore praised the Molten Metal firm as a pioneer in the kind of innovative technology that can save the environment, and make money for investors at the same time.
"Gore left a few facts out of his speech that day. First, the firm was run by Strong and a group of Gore intimates, including Peter Knight, the firm's registered lobbyist, and Gore's former top Senate aide," wrote EIR.
"Second, the company had received more than $25 million in U.S. Department of energy (DOE) research and development grants, but had failed to prove that the technology worked on a commercial scale. The company would go on to receive another $8 million in federal taxpayers' cash, at that point, its only source of revenue.
"With Al Gore's Earth Day as a Wall Street calling card, Molten Metal's stock value soared to $35 a share, a range it maintained through October 1996. But along the way, DOE scientists had balked at further funding. When, in March 1996, corporate officers concluded that the federal cash cow was about to run dry, they took action: Between that date and October 1996, seven corporate officers--including Maurice Strong--sold off $15.3 million in personal shares in the company, at top market value. On Oct. 20, 1996--a Sunday--the company issued a press release, announcing for the first time, that DOE funding would be vastly scaled back, and reported the bad news on a conference call with stockbrokers.
"On Monday, the stock plunged by 49%, soon landing at $5 a share.By early 1997, furious stockholders had filed a class action suit against the company and its directors. Ironically, one of the class action lawyers had tangled with Maurice Strong in another insider trading case, involving a Swiss company called AZL Resources, chaired by Strong, who was also a lead shareholder. The AZL case closely mirrored Molten Metal, and in the end, Strong and the other AZL partners agreed to pay $5 million to dodge a jury verdict, when eyewitness evidence surfaced of Strong's role in scamming the value of the company stock up into the stratosphere, before selling it off.
In 1997, Strong went on to accept from
Canada Free Press founding editor Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media.
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/cover031307.htm
If They're Wrong About Gore-bal Warming, So What?
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LarryElder/2007/03/15/if_theyre_wrong_about_gore-bal_warming,_so_what
"Homosexuality Is Not Hardwired," Dr. Francis S. Collins, Head Of The Human Genome Project
March 12, 2007
...sexual orientation is genetically influenced but not hardwired by DNA, and that whatever genes are involved represent predispositions, not predeterminations...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1801869/posts
Just as some people have predispositions to obesity, cancer or alcoholism, having a predisposition doesn't mean that it's natural or desirable and doesn't mean it can't be resisted or mitigated...
OUTRAGE: Rosie O'Donnell Feels Bad for 9/11 Mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
Today [on "The View"], O'Donnell said she feels bad for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM). She doesn't believe he's responsible for anything in 9/11 or any of the 26 plots which he volunteered to American authorities. Among the worst of her comments, O'Donnell derided airhead pseudo-conservative Elisabeth Hasselbeck for calling KSM a "terrorist," saying, "So, calling him a terrorist robs him of all of his humanity?"
WHAT?!!!!! This man planned the 9/11 attacks that murdered 3,000 Americans. And Rosie O'Donnell is worried we will "rob him of all humanity" because we call him a "terrorist." Hello . . . ?!
O'Donnell's comments were not only outrageous, they showed her utter stupidity about the entire Khalid Sheikh Mohammed history and situation. O'Donnell showed the well-known photo of a haggard KSG in a white undershirt. She remarked that he doesn't look very healthy after three years in captivity under
But, as anyone with a clue knows, that picture has been around for three years for a reason. It was taken when he was found hiding in
...Then, there are O'Donnell's comments about KSM admitting to planning the 9/11 attacks. She yelled, "So we finally got the guy. He just so happened to admit to all of these things. And it's not Bin Laden? It's this guy?" She then said that she doesn't believe he's responsible for any of it, and that we Americans tortured him and got him to admit to it. She shrieked on and on that we Americans torture these poor people.
...Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is the uncle of Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993
Then, there's the fact that KSM worked for Bin Laden. Just because KSM organized the 9/11 attacks, doesn't mean Bin Laden didn't have a thing to do with it. He approved KSM's plan and work (and in fact overruled KSM's plan to hijack 12 planes on that day, as unworkable)...
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http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2007/03/outrage_rosie_o.html
Is the Earth still recovering from the "Little Ice Age"? A possible cause of global warming.
03/16/2007
"Abstract: There seems to be a roughly linear increase of the temperature from about 1800, or even much earlier, to the present. This warming trend is likely to be a natural change; a rapid increase of CO2 began in about 1940. This trend should be subtracted from the temperature data during the last 100 years. Thus, there is a possibility that only a fraction of the present warming trend may be attributed to the greenhouse effect resulting from human activities. This conclusion is contrary to the IPCC (2007) Report, which states that “most” of the present warming is due to the greenhouse effect. One possible cause of the linear increase may be that the Earth is still recovering from the Little Ice Age. It is urgent that natural changes be correctly identified and removed accurately from the presently on-going changes in order to find the contribution of the greenhouse effect." complete dopcument at
http://www.iarc.uaf.edu/highlights/2007/akasofu_3_07/Earth_recovering_from_LIA.pdf
Glaciers' disappearance not related to global warming
Ocean heat blamed for the mysterious disappearance of glaciers
16 March 2007
A mysterious phenomenon is causing four major glaciers in the Antarctic to shrink in unison, causing a significant increase in sea levels, scientists have found.
The rise in atmospheric temperatures caused by global warming cannot account for the relatively rapid movement of the glaciers into the sea, but scientists suspect that warmer oceans may be playing a role.
"There is a possibility that heat from the ocean is somehow flowing in underneath these glaciers, but it is not related to global warming," said glaciologist Duncan Wingham of University College London. "Something has changed that is causing these glaciers to shrink...
...Air temperatures over
...While the retreat of the Greenland ice sheet can be linked to melting of the glaciers' surface, the same it not true of the four major glaciers in the Antarctic identified by Wingham and Shepherd...
...it would take about 200 years for extra heat from the ocean to reach the underside of the glaciers, which makes it difficult to believe that the present shrinkage is due to global warming, Dr Wingham said.
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/climate_change/article2362745.ece
Hairspray and global warming
March 16, 2007
...A new NASA study has found that an important counter-balance to the warming of our planet by greenhouse gases...appears to have lost ground.
The thinning of Earth's "sunscreen" of aerosols since the early 1990s could have given an extra push to the rise in global surface temperatures. The finding, published in the March 16 issue of Science, may lead to an improved understanding of recent climate change. In a related study published last week, scientists found that the opposing forces of global warming and the cooling from aerosol-induced "global dimming" can occur at the same time.
"When more sunlight can get through the atmosphere and warm Earth's surface, you're going to have an effect on climate and temperature," said lead author Michael Mishchenko of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS),
Remember when hairsprary's were refmormulated to avoid damaging the "ozone hole"? Seems to have done more harm than good....Which tells us that prescriptions from Al Gore could well make matters worse. Nothing is more dangerous than a little knowledge.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/03/hairspray_and_global_warming.html
Outrageous imams
March 16, 2007
In a move of breath-taking impudence, the flying imams now intend to extend their lawsuit against the United Airlines to an elderly couple who reported their suspicious behavior on the plane...
...This makes for a truly bizarre situation: On one hand, Muslims are committing terrorist acts against our country and people while at the same time they are suing us for reporting their suspicious behavior...
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/03/outrageous_imams.html
CULTURE WARS: Clashes in Workplace Over Handling Pork
Huntington News ^ | mar 15, 2007
"She made me scan the bacon. Then she opened the bag and made me put it in the bag," said Dsouza, 53, of
...some Muslims in the Twin Cities are adhering to a strict interpretation of the Koran that prohibits the handling of pork products.
Instead of swiping the items themselves, they are asking non-Muslim employees or shoppers to do it for them.
...Last year, Somali cabdrivers at the
...Some legal experts said cashiers who avoid pork in a checkout line are different from taxi drivers at the airport who refuse customers carrying alcohol. "I think in general we expect taxi drivers to pick up all fares," said Eric Janus, the vice dean of William Mitchell College of Law. "That's part of what it means to be a taxi driver." (I'm not sure I see the logic in that)
http://www.huntingtonnews.net/national/070315-shns-pork.html
Political correctness run amok... and it's not the Muslims fault!
Church school renames Three Little Pigs to avoid offending Muslims
15th March 2007
The story of the Three Little Pigs' battle with the Big Bad Wolf has delighted children since it was written more than 150 years ago.
But the tale highlighting the merits of hardwork and practicality has become the latest to fall victim to political correctness.
A junior school production of the children's story has been renamed the Three Little Puppies for fear of offending Muslims...
Organisers of a children's music festival have altered the popular characters and lyrics because of the multi-cultural nature of the youngsters involved and their parents in the audience.
But yesterday Islamic leaders condemned the politically correct move as misguided and said decisions like this were turning Muslims into 'misfits' in society...
...Committee member Gill Goodswen, head teacher of
She said: "We have to be sensitive if we want to be multi-cultural. It was felt it would be more responsible not to use the three little pigs.
"We feared that some Muslim children wouldn't sing along to the words about pigs,' she said...
...But Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra from the Muslim Council of Britain branded the move 'bizarre'.
He said: "The vast majority of Muslims have no problem whatsoever with the Three Little Pigs. It's always been the traditional way of telling the story and I don't see why that should be changed.
"There's an issue about the eating of pork, which is forbidden, but there is no prohibition about reading stories about pigs. This is an unnecessary step."
Other recent rows have involved 'Baa Baa Black Sheep' being changed to 'Baa Baa rainbow sheep' and Christmas events called 'winter' festivities.
Mr Mogra said: "How far are we going to go? Are we going to change the seven dwarves because it's discriminatory towards people who are physically less able? Where do you draw the line?
...Mohammed Imran, of the Hanfia Mosque and Educational Institute said: "According to the Koran it's forbidden to eat pork or touch a pig, but there's no ruling about talking about them or singing about them."
The New Dean Political Plan
March 15, 2007
Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean has been meeting with world leaders ..."I am trying to build relationships with other governments in preparation for a Democratic takeover... I want to make clear that there is an opposition in
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0307/3142.html
Sounds like Dean is attempting to undermine the current government.
In 1798, a Quaker from
The resulting
Howard Dean, while he is Chairman of the DNC, is not an elected leader, has no official authority, and is not authorized to represent the United States Government. Senator Lehey is out there willy-nilly handing out supoenas to investigate things. Why not investgate Howard Dean, Pat?
The Logan Act http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL33265.pdf "Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
This section shall not abridge the right of a citizen to apply, himself or his agent, to any foreign government or the agents thereof for redress of any injury which he may have."
No one has ever been prosecuted under the
Gonzales [Andy McCarthy]
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OTQxZjQ0YjQ1OGRiMjg0OWQ2MzMzZTE2MTQyMTUwNmQ=
Danish scientist: Global warming is a myth
March 15, 2007
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Science/danish_scientist_global_warming_is_a_myth/20070315-012154-7403r/
Global-Warming Swindle, Hysterics exposed...(Thomas Sowell)
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NzA5YjM2MzY0ZGI1OWIyNGI4NTdmY2QxZGU3NzM5NjE=
Network News Has 'Prescription for Bias,' Study Says
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200703/NAT20070315c.html
Scientist Calls Global Warming Theories 'Bunk,' Cites Errors of Logic
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200703/NAT20070315b.html
Animated polar bear scene in Al Gorebal-warming’s movie
RUSH:: By the way, the polar bear scene in Algore's stupid propaganda movie? They couldn't even find a real polar bear suffering. It's animated! It's a step up from a cartoon.
Global Warming Hoax: Animated Polar Bear!
That episode took place after a severe storm, he noted, but Gore makes no reference to a storm during the film's animated polar bear sequence...
One point of contention in Gore's movie is animated footage of a polar bear struggling to find stable sea ice...John Berlau, author of a new book on the environmental movement entitled "Eco-Freaks," claims the polar bear scene alone should disqualify Gore's film from consideration for best documentary, because it departs from reality.
Berlau noted that while the movie's companion book says the bears were drowning in "significant numbers," the study Gore is most likely referring to only found four polar bear carcasses in the sea off
That episode took place after a severe storm, he noted, but Gore makes no reference to a storm during the film's animated polar bear sequence.
http://newsbusters.org/node/11022
Violence down amid
March 15, 2007
The numbers of deadly attacks, assassination attempts, bombings, mortar strikes and kidnappings have dropped since the operation's mid-February launch, said Iraqi Brig. Gen. Qassim Atta.
The number of civilians killed in
Atta also reported that 94 terrorists were killed in the February-March period, compared with 19 in the January-February time frame...
...Atta offered the statistics as key indications that the security crackdown is bearing fruit.
...At a separate news conference Wednesday,
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/03/14/iraq.main/index.html
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