March 18, 2007
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VANCOUVER, Washington, March 6, 2007 - A number of students who formed an interdenominational prayer group at a Washington state high school were expelled by the administration last week over their refusal to hold a morning prayer session in a closed room, The Columbian reported March 2.
Twelve students at
Several students had complained about the quiet prayer circle--one student who objected was described as "pagan" [who is actually a Satanist].
... Bill Bentley said. Administrators had offered a classroom for the students' use, to ensure other students were not offended and the group did not obstruct traffic...
...The students attempted to start a prayer club several weeks ago, Liberty Counsel reported in a statement to the press, but were denied permission by the school's vice principal Alex Otoupal…
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/mar/07030609.html
(the possibility of blocking a hallway is one thing, a double standard is another)
What would Jesus think? Ask John Edwards
3/7/2007
John Edwards thinks Jesus would be "appalled" at the selfishness of Americans these days and their lack of concern for the poor and less fortunate. Speaking to the Christian Web site Beliefnet.com, Edwards said:
"I think that Jesus would be disappointed in our ignoring the plight of those around us who are suffering and our focus on our own selfish short-term needs," Edwards told the site. "I think he would be appalled, actually."
Edwards thinks these deep thoughts as he lounges in his 2,800-square-foot beach house (latest tax value $2,649,317) on exclusive and gated Figure Eight Island near
Here's the beach house, which, by the way, the "suffering" poor cannot get near, thanks to the guard and the gate that keep the hoi polloi off the entire island (go to http://www.johnlocke.org/lockerroom/lockerroom.html?id=11854 to view Edwards beach house and main home).
Let he who is without a private-island 2,800 sq. ft. beach house throw the first stone, huh?
Climate Summary February 2007
NOAA March 6, 2007
The average temperature in February 2007 was 32.9 F. This was -1.8 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average…
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cag3/na.html
Organic food 'can add to allergies'
3/8/2007
...Jonathan O'B Hourihane, a professor of paediatrics, told peers yesterday that nearly half the population is now prone to allergies. But while many follow the accepted advice to eat a varied and fresh diet, it is the sheer variety of fresh foods now available that may be to blame for the prevalence of allergies.
"The impression that organic or exotic fresh food is better for children may by linked to the appearance of allergies to foods that would have appeared bizarre to previous generations," Prof O'B Hourihane said...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/08/norganic08.xml
Celebration' banned for
Use of the word "celebration" is being banned at this year's special events ordered by Congress to mark the 400th anniversary of the arrival of settlers in
"You can't celebrate an invasion," Mary Wade, a member of Jamestown 2007 organizing committee, has stated. After all, Indian tribes "were pushed back off of their land, even killed. Whole tribes were annihilated. A lot of people carry that oral history with them, and that's why they use the word 'invasion,' because it truly was an invasion, and I'm sure some of the Indian people will probably want to tell that as a part of the story of 400 years."
And that has some experts in history upset, since the advent of
Wade's comments came in an interview with Voice of America, and highlighted the revisions that are going on regarding the history of
"I believe this is one of the most significant battles of our day," said Doug Phillips, president of Vision Forum Ministries and the founder of the Jamestown Quadricentennial: A Celebration of America's Providential History, Vision Forum's own series of events to celebrate the quadracentennial. "It is the battle for our history."
He cited the fact that the Jamestown settlers arrived with not only an economic commission from England, but orders to spread the Good News of Jesus, noting one of the founders of Jamestown, Richard Hakluyt, wrote, "Wee shall by plantinge there inlarge the glory of the gospel, and from England plante sincere religion, and provide a safe and a sure place to receave people from all partes of the worlds that are forced to flee for the truthe of Gods worde."
And he said the Bible, in Psalm 78, tells readers, "If we don't tell the great deeds of God, our children will lose hope." But he said the secular perspectives that are the focal point of the contemporary events miss that Christian perspective, and that will end up being costly.
"We are destroying our children's generation by robbing them of history. They don't know who they are or where they came from," he told WND in an interview.
...now, for the first time ever, the nation is ashamed of itself, so ashamed, he noted, Jamestown 2007 officials have banned the use of the word "celebration" in their materials.
On the other hand, they still are interested in attracting paying visitors to the region to fund their various activities, so they have turned this year's acknowledgment of the history into a bashfest.
"For
...The reality is that the
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54603
Confessions of a former Girl Scout
Jane Chastain shares how she now responds to cookie-selling kids
March 8, 2007
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54591
Beating of white teen becomes 'community issue' in Rifle
Rocky Mountain News 08 Mar 07
The beating of a white 14-year- old
...The girl who was attacked suffered multiple injuries, including a broken nose, two black eyes, separation between two of her vertebrae, a bruised collarbone and scratches over her face in the Feb. 23 incident, said her father, John Kuersten. He said his daughter is recovering after surgery but will not return to the school...
more at http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5402725,00.html..
So this comes under the heading of "ethnic tensions," were it the other way round, it would be a hate crime.
Oil: Protecting the Earth from Renewable Energy for 148 Years
3/6/7 (Great article!)
In the environmental Dark Ages before the discovery of oil, man’s energy needs had to be extracted from the living world. Whole continents were deforested in the quest for firewood. Priceless wetlands were strip-mined for peat. Bees were robbed of their wax to make candles. Even when millions were starving, valuable animal fats and plant oils were rendered into fuel to illuminate the homes of the rich. Alas, it appears those times may soon return as environmentalists, politicians, and the media push for man’s energy needs to be met once more by the limited capacity of field and fjord. But for one brief moment in man’s planet-killing history, oil was there to carry the burden that man would have otherwise hoisted upon the bowed back of nature. Just look at what oil did for the whales....
...Together with coal, oil opened up an unimaginable quantity of energy that came from outside the contemporary natural productivity of the Earth. For the first time, societies could grow far beyond the biological energy limits of their landmass. Wealth skyrocketed. Food supplies were no longer diverted to energy needs. Populations blossomed, and yet man’s energy-motivated environmental depredations fell significantly.
Fossil fuels have provided freedom from the constraints of biology and agriculture to such an extent that most of us have forgotten exactly how energy-poor a world powered by biofuels can be. Consider that the
So if the U.S. can cut energy use by 77 percent, find a 100-percent efficient means of converting corn into fuel, and corner all of Earth’s annual corn crop, we can just get by without oil (assuming coal, nuclear, and gas are still OK). And of course, we’ll need to ignore that corn is plowed, planted, fertilized, harvested, and transported with petroleum energy. Factor that in, and I’m sure we could still squeak by at the equivalent of 20 percent of current petroleum capacity, if we also consumed the world’s entire rice crop. What we (and the Chinese) would eat under this scenario is a little unclear (perhaps we could eat the whales), and I suppose the Europeans would be reduced to living off wind power and pine nuts...
...The
More at http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=405
Former Navy Sailor (Muslim convert) Arrested for Allegedly Passing Classified Secrets to Terror Financier
FNC ^ | March 7, 2007
Hassan Abujihaad, 31, of
Abujihaad, who is also known as Paul R. Hall, is charged in the same case as Babar Ahmad, a British computer specialist accused of running Web sites to raise money for terrorism. He is schedule be extradited to the
Abujihaad was arrested in
...Abujihaad, a former enlisted man, exchanged e-mails with Ahmad while on active duty on the USS Benfold, a guided-missile destroyer, in 2000 and 2001, according to an affidavit released Wednesday. He allegedly purchased videos promoting violent jihad.
In those e-mails, Abujihaad discussed naval military briefings and praised those who attacked the USS Cole in 2000, according to the affidavit by FBI Agent David Dillon.
...Ahmad was arrested in 2004 but the case against Abujihaad apparently received a boost in December following the arrest of Derrick Shareef, 22, of
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,257619,00.html
It’s funny how if conservatives object to books images of NAZI book-burnings are invoke, yet when liberals object for some reason they are not abridging freedom of speech issues…
Librarian sues 'gay' profs over 'Marketing of Evil'
Christian accused of sexual harassment for recommending best-selling book.
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54606
9th Circuit endorses censoring Christians
Ruling says 'family values' is hate speech that scares city workers
March 8, 2007
A ruling from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has concluded that municipal employers have the right to censor the words "natural family," "marriage" and "family values" because that is hate speech and could scare workers...
...said Richard D. Ackerman, who along with Scott Lively argued the case for the Pro-Family Law Center..."We are simply unwilling to accept that Christians can be completely silenced on the issues of the day – especially on issues such as same-sex marriage, parental rights, and free speech rights," he said...
...The decision came in an unpublished "memorandum" from the court, and was in a dispute over the promotion of the homosexual lifestyle within the city offices of
It found that municipalities have a right to dictate what form an employee's speech may take, even if it is in regard to controversial public issues.
"Public employers are permitted to curtail employee speech as long as their 'legitimate administrative interests' outweigh the employee's interest in freedom of speech," said the court's opinion by judges B. Fletcher,
"The district court appropriately described [the Christians' speech rights] as 'vanishingly small,'" the opinion continued.
However, as the Pro-Family Law Center noted, the court "completely failed to address the concerns of the appellants with respect to the fact that the City of
The case had developed when two city employees who wanted to launch a group of people who shared their interests posted a notice on a city bulletin board – after a series of notices from homosexual activists were delivered to them via the city's e-mail system, bulletin boards and memo distribution system.
The notice said: "Good News Employee Associations is a forum for people of Faith to express their views on the contemporary issues of the day. With respect for the Natural Family, Marriage and Family values.
If you would like to be a part of preserving integrity in the Workplace call Regina Rederford @xxx- xxxx or Robin Christy @xxx-xxxx"
...city manager and ...deputy director of the Community and Economic Development Agency, ordered their notice removed, because it contained "statements of a homophobic nature" and promoted "sexual-orientation-based harassment."
U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker had ruled in 2005 that
That decision was made even though homosexuals already had been using the city's e-mail, bulletin board, and written communications systems for promoting their views. In fact, one city official even used the e-mail system to declare the Bible "needs updating," but no actions were taken against those individuals...
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54587
“Jesus’ tomb found” claim as empty as Jesus’ [real] tomb
A review of Sunday evening’s television attack on the Resurrection
http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2007/0305lost-tomb-review.asp
Scientists discover cause of global warming: The Sun
http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/03/scientists_discover_cause_of_g.php
Senator says public not getting real 'truth' about global warming
http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/03/senator_says_public_not_gettin.php
Global warming called 'biggest scam of modern times'
http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/03/global_warming_called_biggest.php
General fired over conditions at Walter Reed Medical Center may be a scapegoat for political decisions of an entrenched, unmovable bureaucracy in Washington
http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/03/general_fired_over_conditions.php
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