16 April 2007
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Virtual Hip Replacement
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Military Divorce Rate Same As In Peacetime
April 13, 2007
Military families are not breaking up at a rate any higher after four years of war than in peacetime a decade earlier, a Pentagon-sponsored research and development center reported. The Rand Corp. National Defense Research Institute found that divorce, separation and annulments across all branches of service was 3% in 2005, the same annual rate as in 1996 when servicemembers did not routinely face the battlefield deployments that are common today.
"We are not seeing what everyone thought we were going to see," said lead researcher Benjamin Karney. "The genuine stress isn't necessarily leading to elevations in divorce," he said.
Karney said the study showed that troops that had been deployed longer had a lower risk of divorce, an unexpected finding that he couldn't explain.
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/04/12/ap3607897.html
Jesus Tomb Film Scholars Backtrack (Discovery's "Lost Tomb of Jesus")
The Jerusalem Post
4/11/07
Several prominent scholars who were interviewed in a bitterly contested documentary that suggests that Jesus and his family members were buried in a nondescript ancient Jerusalem burial cave have now revised their conclusions, including the statistician who claimed that the odds were 600:1 in favor of the tomb being the family burial cave of Jesus of Nazareth, a new study on the fallout from the popular documentary shows.
The dramatic clarifications, compiled by epigrapher Stephen Pfann of the University of the Holy Land in Jerusalem in a paper titled "Cracks in the Foundation: How the Lost Tomb of Jesus story is losing its scholarly support," come two months after the screening of The Lost Tomb of Christ that attracted widespread public interest, despite the concomitant scholarly ridicule.
The film, made by Oscar-winning director James Cameron and Emmy-winning Canadian filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici, prompted major criticism from both a leading Israeli archeologist involved in the original dig at the site as well as Christian leaders, who were angered over the documentary's contradictions of main tenets of Christianity.
But now, even some of the scholars who were interviewed for and appeared in the film are questioning some of its basic claims.
The most startling change of opinion featured in the 16-page paper is that of University of Toronto statistician Professor Andrey Feuerverger, who stated those 600 to one odds in the film. Feuerverger now says that these referred to the probability of a cluster of such names appearing together….
More at http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1176152766396&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
Of course now that Easter is over this can come out and Discovery updates their web page...
New dog food promises 1-poop-a-week
13 Apr 2007
IT IS the invention which could virtually consign the poop scoop to the dustbin of history.
A firm in Holland claim to have invented a dog food which dramatically reduces the number of times the animals have to defecate...
...Jos van der Linden, and his partner Nanette Waldorp invented the revolutionary food and claim it reduces the amount of times a dog needs to defecate from up to three times a day to just once a week.
But yesterday, dog experts expressed their concerns about the food, which they said could prove extremely harmful to the animals' digestive system...
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=565122007
'Pagan morality' on way to becoming law
State aims to 'eliminate attitudes' that oppose homosexuality
April 11, 2007
A legislative plan to "eliminate attitudes" opposing homosexuality is moving forward in Oregon, even though opponents claim it threatens churches and establishes pagan morality as a benchmark for their operations...
...In the House Rules Committee, an amendment was offered that would have provided an exemption for Christian churches and Christian groups in the proposal to grant broad new powers to the homosexual community by designating them as members of a protected minority class.
However, the amendment was rejected in favor of a plan to continue to allow homosexuals to demand Christian churches hire them when there are job openings – among other issues.
"This is still an intrusion of the state into religious liberty, and makes [Christian organizations] subject to state control," David Crowe, of Restore America, told WND.
"It favors the homosexual community and puts the church in a defensive posture, having to defend itself and its beliefs, policies, doctrines and employment," he said...
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55145
U.N. Disarmament Body Taps Iran as Vice Chairman
April 11, 2007
This week, the U.N. Disarmament Commission re-elected Iran as its vice-chair, reports the U.S. Senate's Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, and International Security on its official web site.
A majority of U.N. member states decided to allow Iran to remain in this position despite the fact the U.N. Security Council declared Iran has violated the non-proliferation resolutions the Commission is charged to promote, laments the subcommittee.
At the same time, another state sponsor of terrorism, Syria, was selected to be the Commission’s rapporteur to record and document the Commission’s work..
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/4/11/220623.shtml?s=ic
Federal Deficit Down 14.8 Percent from Last Year
The federal budget deficit is running at a lower rate through the first six months of this budget year even though spending in March hit an all-time high.
http://newsmax.com/money/signup.cfm?goto=/money/archives/articles/2007/4/11/144006.cfm&PROMO_CODE=0&s=lh
More Trees, Less Global Warming, Right? -- Not Exactly
A 150-year simulation of worldwide deforestation finds that tropical forests are carbon sinks and boreal forests contribute to warming
Scientific American, April 10, 2007
A new study, however, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports that forests' other climatic effects can cancel out their carbon cleaning advantage in some parts of the world. Using a three-dimensional climate model, the research team mimicked full global deforestation and also studied the effects of clear-cutting in different regions of latitude, such as the tropics and boreal zones. Apparently, these natural carbon sinks only do their job effectively in tropical regions; in other areas, they have either no impact or actually contribute to warming the planet. In fact, according to this model, by the year 2100, if all the forests were cut and left to rot, the annual global mean temperature would decrease by more than 0.5 degree Fahrenheit....
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanId=sa013&articleID=DCA231BA-E7F2-99DF-3105874539B83ECB&modsrc=most_popular
Music lyrics take spotlight following Imus controversy
April 13, 2007
ORANGEBURG, SC - If people found radio host Don Imus' comments about the Rutger's women's basketball team offensive, why are people at South Carolina State University lining up to hear similar words from rap artists?
In one song from a performer at Friday's concert, the n-word is used more than 100 times...
...WIS asked students at on campus about the concert and the lyrics. One student, Kendra Johnson, says, "The radio host was out of line when he said it. Some rap artists may be out of line, but they don't mean no harm." (Apparently you ain’t got to speak good English fer college)
...Students tell us, "It's just music. It's all how you take it."
http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=6368690&nav=menu36_3
Consumers in dark over risks of new light bulbs
April 16, 2007
Brandy Bridges heard the claims of government officials, environmentalists and retailers like Wal-Mart all pushing the idea of replacing incandescent light bulbs with energy-saving and money-saving compact fluorescent lamps.
So, last month, the Prospect, Maine, resident went out and bought two dozen CFLs and began installing them in her home. One broke. A month later, her daughter's bedroom remains sealed off with plastic like the site of a hazardous materials accident, while Bridges works on a way to pay off a $2,000 estimate by a company specializing in environmentally sound cleanups of the mercury inside the bulb...
...Elizabeth Doermann of Vanderbilt, Tenn., had a similar experience. After her CFL bulb broke – because the cat knocked over a lamp – she didn't call Home Depot. Instead, she did what she had always done when old-fashioned incandescent bulbs had broken. She vacuumed up the mess.
Only then did she learn about the mercury hazard.
"If I had known it had mercury in it, I would have been a lot more careful," she told the Tennessean. "I wouldn't have vacuumed it up. That blew the mercury probably all through the house."
...Charmain Miles of Toronto, Canada, had another frightening experience with a CFL bulb.
Last month she smelled smoke on the second floor of her home, only to discover it was emanating from a new energy-efficient bulb.
"I was horrified," she told a local TV station. "I went through every place upstairs and took out every bulb."
The bulb had been placed in a track-lighting fixture. Though the bulb contained no warning about such fixtures, it turns out CFLs are not for use in track, recessed or dimmer fixtures...
...practically the whole world – fearing global warming – is getting ready to ban the incandescent light bulb. It started in Cuba, moved to Venezuela, then Australia, Canada and the European Union. Now individual states in the U.S., including California, Connecticut, North Carolina and Rhode Island, are all in the process of legislating an end to Edison's greatest invention. Even local towns and cities are getting into the act. ..
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55213
Politicians' Power Bills Spark Debate on Global Warming Integrity
April 16, 2007
As Sen. John Kerry promotes his new book on the dangers of global warming, he's been running up an average electric bill of $1,100 a month at his federal-style red-brick townhouse on Louisburg Square in the Beacon Hill area of Boston... (I think he has something like 5 homes so his usage is actually much higher)
...Other members of Congress who have made a point of speaking out about climate change -- either for or against taking drastic action -- have also run up sizeable power bills...
...By contrast, global warming skeptic Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) -- the ranking minority member of the House energy and commerce committee -- appears to be a relatively light electricity consumer.
Barton released his electric bill for February at a March 20 hearing -- he paid $79.47 in total for both his Texas Utilities bill in Ennis, Texas, home and his Dominion Electric bill for his Arlington, Va., apartment...
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200704/POL20070416a.html
And Kerry is the one who worked with Ed Kennedy to kill a wind farm because it might spoil their view...
Here’s a candidate the common man can relate to...
The Hair's Still Perfect
April 16, 2007
...John Edwards' campaign for president spent $400 on February 20, and another $400 on (2 weeks later) March 7, at a top Beverly Hills men's stylist, Torrenueva Hair Designs...
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0407/The_Hairs_Still_Perfect.html
Maybe he buys haircut credits
DNC stands by Christ-less Easter statement
April 16, 2007
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is defending an Easter statement it released that made no mention of Jesus Christ or His resurrection.
Some evangelicals are calling on DNC chairman Howard Dean to apologize for issuing a press release that described Easter Sunday as a "holiday [that] represents peace, redemption and renewal, a theme which brings hope to people of all faiths." They say Dean's politically correct definition of Easter is an affront to Christians... (Especially since all other faiths deny the the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ)
...Mississippi Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Arthur Eaves says "the failure of the DNC to put Jesus at the center of the Easter statement was a mistake." And Democrats, he adds, "need to stop allowing fringe groups to cow us into a fear of openly proclaiming what we believe and where our beliefs come from."
According to Eaves, "the DNC needs to recognize that for most Democrats there are no sweeter words than 'He is Risen!'" (Then quit letting the freaks run the party! That’s why good people like Zell Miller have left.)
http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/04/dnc_stands_by_christless_easte.php
Radical Environmentalism Revealed: Ending Sovereignty and Private Property
04/16/2007
Scratch a radical environmentalist, find a radical, full stop. Case in point: Boston Globe columnist James Carroll. In his New thinking to save the earth [is that all?], Carroll calls for nothing less than the end of the United States as we know it, and a yours-is-mine socialism.
Carroll claims that "if the earth is to survive as a human habitat," the meaning of four subjects "must be transformed." Among the things Carroll wants to redefine are "nation" and "property." Ominous enough, but getting down into the details is even more chilling…
…Thanks go to Carroll for his candor. He confirms what so many have suspected: that radical environmentalism is little more than a cloak for socialism and not mere anti-Americanism but quite literally the abolition of the United States of America….
Read the entire article at http://newsbusters.org/node/12058
Fuzzy Climate Math
George Will April 12, 2007
In a campaign without peacetime precedent, the media-entertainment-environmental complex is warning about global warming. Never, other than during the two world wars, has there been such a concerted effort by opinion-forming institutions to indoctrinate Americans, 83 percent of whom now call global warming a " serious problem." Indoctrination is supposed to be a predicate for action commensurate with professions of seriousness.
For example, Democrats could demand that the president send the Kyoto Protocol to the Senate so they can embrace it. In 1997, the Senate voted 95 to 0 in opposition to any agreement that would, like the protocol, require significant reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in America and some other developed nations but that would involve no "specific scheduled commitments" for 129 "developing" countries, including the second-, fourth-, 10th-, 11th-, 13th- and 15th-largest economies (China, India, Brazil, South Korea, Mexico and Indonesia). Forty-two of the senators serving in 1997 are gone. Let's find out if the new senators disagree with the 1997 vote.
Do they also disagree with Bjorn Lomborg, author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist"? He says: Compliance with Kyoto would reduce global warming by an amount too small to measure. But the cost of compliance just to the United States would be higher than the cost of providing the entire world with clean drinking water and sanitation, which would prevent 2 million deaths (from diseases such as infant diarrhea) a year and prevent half a billion people from becoming seriously ill each year… more at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/11/AR2007041102109.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
UK: Don't punish bad pupils or they will feel left out, schools told
Schools should not “over discipline” persistently unruly pupils for fear of alienating them and should instead hand out praise five times more often than punishments, the Government has said...
New guidance on school discipline published … suggesting that rewards also be given to persistent miscreants who show an improvement in behaviour, however small. It cites research recommending a “rewards/sanctions ratio of at least 5:1”. Rewards might include “good news” postcards sent home, “special privileges” or “prizes”.
...It also advises teachers to take account of pupils’ race and culture when telling them off, suggesting that they go easy on those insubordinate youngsters for whom being “loud” or “overfamiliar” may be a cultural norm or “social style”. (so if they come from an Islamic country it's ok for a student to strike off the head of an infidel...)
Teachers should understand the importance of showing respect to children from racial or religious backgrounds for whom public humiliation is seen as particularly shameful...
...critics described the guidance as “soft”, stating that most teachers already knew how to use positive reinforcement techniques.
...David Willetts, the Shadow Education Secretary, said that the new guidance could be resented by pupils if it implied that bad behaviour brought rewards. He said that if school children could see badly behaved pupils being praised “then the school’s policy would lose all credibility”.
Alan Smithers, Professor of Education at the University of Buckingham, said the move could encourage perverse behaviour. “Children and parents will be quick to pick up on false praise. That simply devalues the use of encouraging words. The key thing is that it has to be honest feedback. As a soft approach it won’t work because children and their parents will soon pick up that it’s false.
“If you reward the children who have been poorly behaved for behaving well you might actually be getting children who have been perfectly happy behaving well to behave badly in order to pick up the rewards.”
Robert Whelan, deputy director of the thinktank Civitas, said: “The idea that teachers have to take account of a child’s ethnicity when disciplining them is racist. It’s telling teachers they have to treat children differently according to their skin colour.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article1637532.ece
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Military Divorce Rate Same As In Peacetime
April 13, 2007
Military families are not breaking up at a rate any higher after four years of war than in peacetime a decade earlier, a Pentagon-sponsored research and development center reported. The Rand Corp. National Defense Research Institute found that divorce, separation and annulments across all branches of service was 3% in 2005, the same annual rate as in 1996 when servicemembers did not routinely face the battlefield deployments that are common today.
"We are not seeing what everyone thought we were going to see," said lead researcher Benjamin Karney. "The genuine stress isn't necessarily leading to elevations in divorce," he said.
Karney said the study showed that troops that had been deployed longer had a lower risk of divorce, an unexpected finding that he couldn't explain.
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/04/12/ap3607897.html
Jesus Tomb Film Scholars Backtrack (Discovery's "Lost Tomb of Jesus")
The Jerusalem Post
4/11/07
Several prominent scholars who were interviewed in a bitterly contested documentary that suggests that Jesus and his family members were buried in a nondescript ancient Jerusalem burial cave have now revised their conclusions, including the statistician who claimed that the odds were 600:1 in favor of the tomb being the family burial cave of Jesus of Nazareth, a new study on the fallout from the popular documentary shows.
The dramatic clarifications, compiled by epigrapher Stephen Pfann of the University of the Holy Land in Jerusalem in a paper titled "Cracks in the Foundation: How the Lost Tomb of Jesus story is losing its scholarly support," come two months after the screening of The Lost Tomb of Christ that attracted widespread public interest, despite the concomitant scholarly ridicule.
The film, made by Oscar-winning director James Cameron and Emmy-winning Canadian filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici, prompted major criticism from both a leading Israeli archeologist involved in the original dig at the site as well as Christian leaders, who were angered over the documentary's contradictions of main tenets of Christianity.
But now, even some of the scholars who were interviewed for and appeared in the film are questioning some of its basic claims.
The most startling change of opinion featured in the 16-page paper is that of University of Toronto statistician Professor Andrey Feuerverger, who stated those 600 to one odds in the film. Feuerverger now says that these referred to the probability of a cluster of such names appearing together….
More at http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1176152766396&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
Of course now that Easter is over this can come out and Discovery updates their web page...
New dog food promises 1-poop-a-week
13 Apr 2007
IT IS the invention which could virtually consign the poop scoop to the dustbin of history.
A firm in Holland claim to have invented a dog food which dramatically reduces the number of times the animals have to defecate...
...Jos van der Linden, and his partner Nanette Waldorp invented the revolutionary food and claim it reduces the amount of times a dog needs to defecate from up to three times a day to just once a week.
But yesterday, dog experts expressed their concerns about the food, which they said could prove extremely harmful to the animals' digestive system...
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=565122007
'Pagan morality' on way to becoming law
State aims to 'eliminate attitudes' that oppose homosexuality
April 11, 2007
A legislative plan to "eliminate attitudes" opposing homosexuality is moving forward in Oregon, even though opponents claim it threatens churches and establishes pagan morality as a benchmark for their operations...
...In the House Rules Committee, an amendment was offered that would have provided an exemption for Christian churches and Christian groups in the proposal to grant broad new powers to the homosexual community by designating them as members of a protected minority class.
However, the amendment was rejected in favor of a plan to continue to allow homosexuals to demand Christian churches hire them when there are job openings – among other issues.
"This is still an intrusion of the state into religious liberty, and makes [Christian organizations] subject to state control," David Crowe, of Restore America, told WND.
"It favors the homosexual community and puts the church in a defensive posture, having to defend itself and its beliefs, policies, doctrines and employment," he said...
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55145
U.N. Disarmament Body Taps Iran as Vice Chairman
April 11, 2007
This week, the U.N. Disarmament Commission re-elected Iran as its vice-chair, reports the U.S. Senate's Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, and International Security on its official web site.
A majority of U.N. member states decided to allow Iran to remain in this position despite the fact the U.N. Security Council declared Iran has violated the non-proliferation resolutions the Commission is charged to promote, laments the subcommittee.
At the same time, another state sponsor of terrorism, Syria, was selected to be the Commission’s rapporteur to record and document the Commission’s work..
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/4/11/220623.shtml?s=ic
Federal Deficit Down 14.8 Percent from Last Year
The federal budget deficit is running at a lower rate through the first six months of this budget year even though spending in March hit an all-time high.
http://newsmax.com/money/signup.cfm?goto=/money/archives/articles/2007/4/11/144006.cfm&PROMO_CODE=0&s=lh
More Trees, Less Global Warming, Right? -- Not Exactly
A 150-year simulation of worldwide deforestation finds that tropical forests are carbon sinks and boreal forests contribute to warming
Scientific American, April 10, 2007
A new study, however, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports that forests' other climatic effects can cancel out their carbon cleaning advantage in some parts of the world. Using a three-dimensional climate model, the research team mimicked full global deforestation and also studied the effects of clear-cutting in different regions of latitude, such as the tropics and boreal zones. Apparently, these natural carbon sinks only do their job effectively in tropical regions; in other areas, they have either no impact or actually contribute to warming the planet. In fact, according to this model, by the year 2100, if all the forests were cut and left to rot, the annual global mean temperature would decrease by more than 0.5 degree Fahrenheit....
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanId=sa013&articleID=DCA231BA-E7F2-99DF-3105874539B83ECB&modsrc=most_popular
Music lyrics take spotlight following Imus controversy
April 13, 2007
ORANGEBURG, SC - If people found radio host Don Imus' comments about the Rutger's women's basketball team offensive, why are people at South Carolina State University lining up to hear similar words from rap artists?
In one song from a performer at Friday's concert, the n-word is used more than 100 times...
...WIS asked students at on campus about the concert and the lyrics. One student, Kendra Johnson, says, "The radio host was out of line when he said it. Some rap artists may be out of line, but they don't mean no harm." (Apparently you ain’t got to speak good English fer college)
...Students tell us, "It's just music. It's all how you take it."
http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=6368690&nav=menu36_3
Consumers in dark over risks of new light bulbs
April 16, 2007
Brandy Bridges heard the claims of government officials, environmentalists and retailers like Wal-Mart all pushing the idea of replacing incandescent light bulbs with energy-saving and money-saving compact fluorescent lamps.
So, last month, the Prospect, Maine, resident went out and bought two dozen CFLs and began installing them in her home. One broke. A month later, her daughter's bedroom remains sealed off with plastic like the site of a hazardous materials accident, while Bridges works on a way to pay off a $2,000 estimate by a company specializing in environmentally sound cleanups of the mercury inside the bulb...
...Elizabeth Doermann of Vanderbilt, Tenn., had a similar experience. After her CFL bulb broke – because the cat knocked over a lamp – she didn't call Home Depot. Instead, she did what she had always done when old-fashioned incandescent bulbs had broken. She vacuumed up the mess.
Only then did she learn about the mercury hazard.
"If I had known it had mercury in it, I would have been a lot more careful," she told the Tennessean. "I wouldn't have vacuumed it up. That blew the mercury probably all through the house."
...Charmain Miles of Toronto, Canada, had another frightening experience with a CFL bulb.
Last month she smelled smoke on the second floor of her home, only to discover it was emanating from a new energy-efficient bulb.
"I was horrified," she told a local TV station. "I went through every place upstairs and took out every bulb."
The bulb had been placed in a track-lighting fixture. Though the bulb contained no warning about such fixtures, it turns out CFLs are not for use in track, recessed or dimmer fixtures...
...practically the whole world – fearing global warming – is getting ready to ban the incandescent light bulb. It started in Cuba, moved to Venezuela, then Australia, Canada and the European Union. Now individual states in the U.S., including California, Connecticut, North Carolina and Rhode Island, are all in the process of legislating an end to Edison's greatest invention. Even local towns and cities are getting into the act. ..
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55213
Politicians' Power Bills Spark Debate on Global Warming Integrity
April 16, 2007
As Sen. John Kerry promotes his new book on the dangers of global warming, he's been running up an average electric bill of $1,100 a month at his federal-style red-brick townhouse on Louisburg Square in the Beacon Hill area of Boston... (I think he has something like 5 homes so his usage is actually much higher)
...Other members of Congress who have made a point of speaking out about climate change -- either for or against taking drastic action -- have also run up sizeable power bills...
...By contrast, global warming skeptic Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) -- the ranking minority member of the House energy and commerce committee -- appears to be a relatively light electricity consumer.
Barton released his electric bill for February at a March 20 hearing -- he paid $79.47 in total for both his Texas Utilities bill in Ennis, Texas, home and his Dominion Electric bill for his Arlington, Va., apartment...
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200704/POL20070416a.html
And Kerry is the one who worked with Ed Kennedy to kill a wind farm because it might spoil their view...
Here’s a candidate the common man can relate to...
The Hair's Still Perfect
April 16, 2007
...John Edwards' campaign for president spent $400 on February 20, and another $400 on (2 weeks later) March 7, at a top Beverly Hills men's stylist, Torrenueva Hair Designs...
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0407/The_Hairs_Still_Perfect.html
Maybe he buys haircut credits
DNC stands by Christ-less Easter statement
April 16, 2007
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is defending an Easter statement it released that made no mention of Jesus Christ or His resurrection.
Some evangelicals are calling on DNC chairman Howard Dean to apologize for issuing a press release that described Easter Sunday as a "holiday [that] represents peace, redemption and renewal, a theme which brings hope to people of all faiths." They say Dean's politically correct definition of Easter is an affront to Christians... (Especially since all other faiths deny the the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ)
...Mississippi Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Arthur Eaves says "the failure of the DNC to put Jesus at the center of the Easter statement was a mistake." And Democrats, he adds, "need to stop allowing fringe groups to cow us into a fear of openly proclaiming what we believe and where our beliefs come from."
According to Eaves, "the DNC needs to recognize that for most Democrats there are no sweeter words than 'He is Risen!'" (Then quit letting the freaks run the party! That’s why good people like Zell Miller have left.)
http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/04/dnc_stands_by_christless_easte.php
Radical Environmentalism Revealed: Ending Sovereignty and Private Property
04/16/2007
Scratch a radical environmentalist, find a radical, full stop. Case in point: Boston Globe columnist James Carroll. In his New thinking to save the earth [is that all?], Carroll calls for nothing less than the end of the United States as we know it, and a yours-is-mine socialism.
Carroll claims that "if the earth is to survive as a human habitat," the meaning of four subjects "must be transformed." Among the things Carroll wants to redefine are "nation" and "property." Ominous enough, but getting down into the details is even more chilling…
…Thanks go to Carroll for his candor. He confirms what so many have suspected: that radical environmentalism is little more than a cloak for socialism and not mere anti-Americanism but quite literally the abolition of the United States of America….
Read the entire article at http://newsbusters.org/node/12058
Fuzzy Climate Math
George Will April 12, 2007
In a campaign without peacetime precedent, the media-entertainment-environmental complex is warning about global warming. Never, other than during the two world wars, has there been such a concerted effort by opinion-forming institutions to indoctrinate Americans, 83 percent of whom now call global warming a " serious problem." Indoctrination is supposed to be a predicate for action commensurate with professions of seriousness.
For example, Democrats could demand that the president send the Kyoto Protocol to the Senate so they can embrace it. In 1997, the Senate voted 95 to 0 in opposition to any agreement that would, like the protocol, require significant reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in America and some other developed nations but that would involve no "specific scheduled commitments" for 129 "developing" countries, including the second-, fourth-, 10th-, 11th-, 13th- and 15th-largest economies (China, India, Brazil, South Korea, Mexico and Indonesia). Forty-two of the senators serving in 1997 are gone. Let's find out if the new senators disagree with the 1997 vote.
Do they also disagree with Bjorn Lomborg, author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist"? He says: Compliance with Kyoto would reduce global warming by an amount too small to measure. But the cost of compliance just to the United States would be higher than the cost of providing the entire world with clean drinking water and sanitation, which would prevent 2 million deaths (from diseases such as infant diarrhea) a year and prevent half a billion people from becoming seriously ill each year… more at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/11/AR2007041102109.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
UK: Don't punish bad pupils or they will feel left out, schools told
Schools should not “over discipline” persistently unruly pupils for fear of alienating them and should instead hand out praise five times more often than punishments, the Government has said...
New guidance on school discipline published … suggesting that rewards also be given to persistent miscreants who show an improvement in behaviour, however small. It cites research recommending a “rewards/sanctions ratio of at least 5:1”. Rewards might include “good news” postcards sent home, “special privileges” or “prizes”.
...It also advises teachers to take account of pupils’ race and culture when telling them off, suggesting that they go easy on those insubordinate youngsters for whom being “loud” or “overfamiliar” may be a cultural norm or “social style”. (so if they come from an Islamic country it's ok for a student to strike off the head of an infidel...)
Teachers should understand the importance of showing respect to children from racial or religious backgrounds for whom public humiliation is seen as particularly shameful...
...critics described the guidance as “soft”, stating that most teachers already knew how to use positive reinforcement techniques.
...David Willetts, the Shadow Education Secretary, said that the new guidance could be resented by pupils if it implied that bad behaviour brought rewards. He said that if school children could see badly behaved pupils being praised “then the school’s policy would lose all credibility”.
Alan Smithers, Professor of Education at the University of Buckingham, said the move could encourage perverse behaviour. “Children and parents will be quick to pick up on false praise. That simply devalues the use of encouraging words. The key thing is that it has to be honest feedback. As a soft approach it won’t work because children and their parents will soon pick up that it’s false.
“If you reward the children who have been poorly behaved for behaving well you might actually be getting children who have been perfectly happy behaving well to behave badly in order to pick up the rewards.”
Robert Whelan, deputy director of the thinktank Civitas, said: “The idea that teachers have to take account of a child’s ethnicity when disciplining them is racist. It’s telling teachers they have to treat children differently according to their skin colour.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article1637532.ece
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