18 April 2007
Aspirin reduces overall cancer and mortality rates
Apr 17
The regular use of aspirin, but not other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), is associated with a reduced incidence of cancer and cancer-related death, particularly among former smokers and those who never smoked…
The findings were reported Monday at the 100th annual gathering of the American Association for Cancer Research in Los Angeles by Dr. Aditya Bardia of Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota.
"The take-home message is that aspirin might have anti-cancer effects, but can also have adverse effects such as gastric bleeding. One should speak to his or her doctor about the risks and benefits of aspirin use," Bardia told Reuters Health...
...The inverse association between aspirin use and the risk of cancer and cancer-related death was strongest among former smokers and those who never smoked compared with current smokers, although this fell short of statistical significance.
Aspirin use also appeared to protect patients against coronary heart disease and the overall mortality rate...
This study provides "provocative evidence that regular aspirin use may play a role in preventing the most common chronic diseases in western countries, namely cancer and heart disease," Bardia said in a statement.
Complete article at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070417/hl_nm/aspirin_cancer_dc
Warning is sounded on ethanol use
LATimes April 18, 2007
The fuel would create more ground-level ozone than gasoline if used heavily, a study finds. Critics disagree on the overall risk.
Ethanol, widely touted as a greenhouse-gas-cutting fuel, would have serious health effects if heavily used in cars, producing more ground-level ozone than gasoline, particularly in the Los Angeles Basin, according to a Stanford University study out today.
"Ethanol is being promoted as a clean and renewable fuel that will reduce global warming and air pollution," said Mark Z. Jacobson, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and author of the study in the online edition of Environmental Science and Technology. "But our results show that a high blend of ethanol poses an equal or greater risk to public health than gasoline, which already causes significant health damage."
Ozone is a key ingredient in smog, and when inhaled even at low levels it can harm lungs, aggravate asthma and impair immune systems.
The health effects from ethanol use are the same whether it is made from corn or other plant products, Jacobson found.
The study determined that a 9% increase in ozone-related deaths would occur in Greater Los Angeles, and a 4% increase nationally, by 2020 if a form of ethanol called E85, were used instead of gasoline. In the Southeast, by contrast, mortality rates would decrease slightly.
The type of fuel used in the study — 85% ethanol, 15% gasoline — emits less greenhouse gases than other types, some researchers say.
"Today, there is a lot of investment in ethanol," Jacobson said. "The question is, if we're not getting any health benefits, then why continue to promote ethanol?"
more at
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ethanol18apr18,0,7852828.story?coll=la-home-headlines
'Jail grandma' hate speech debate begins
April 17, 2007
Debate is to begin today in a congressional subcommittee on a federal "hate speech" proposal similar to a state law that already has been used to send grandmothers to jail for their "crime" of sharing the Gospel of Jesus on a Philadelphia public sidewalk......
The proposal, on its face, purports to create bans on "hate crimes," but Rev. Louis Sheldon of the Traditional Values Coalition said it more accurately is "an attempt by the ultra liberals and the homosexuals to force Americans to accept homosexuality and gender disturbance as equal to God's Created Order of heterosexuality."
..."This bill says that hordes of homosexuals are being forced to flee their home states because they are routinely denied access to goods, services and employment," he said. "This explains the mystery of the crowded highways and airports in San Francisco and New York.
… The reasons for the bill are completely unsupported."He said states already have the resources to deal with crimes of bodily harm or assault, and the plan is simply not needed. Worse yet, he said, it creates a crime of "thought."
..."The 'Hate Crimes' bill is better named 'Hate Grandma' or "hate Free Speech' bill as it poses a serious threat to the freedom of speech for every American," Folger said. "We must stop it before they send your grandma, your pastor, or you to jail for sharing your faith or speaking the truth about an agenda that seeks to silence us."
The television ad campaign by Faith2Action will feature Philadelphia grandmothers who already were thrown in jail in Pennsylvania under that state's "hate crimes" law – and faced the possibility of 47 years in jail – for testifying in public about their Christian faith.
see ad at http://www.stophatecrimesnow.com/?host_id=WND
That ads can be viewed at www.StopHateCrimesNow.com ...
...in Canada pastors are fearful of reading biblical injunctions against homosexuality, and in Australia where two pastors were convicted of "vilifying" Islam...
..in Canada and France both, legislators have been fined for publicly criticizing homosexuality.
....a Swedish hate crimes law was used to put Pastor Ake Green, who preached that homosexuality is a sin, in jail for a month..
..a British couple told how they were denied the chance to adopt because it was determined that their Christian faith might 'prejudice' them against a homosexual child put in their care...
...in the United States, Catholic Charities of Boston halted all adoption operations in the state after being told under Massachusetts' pro-'gay' nondiscrimination law, only agencies that placed children in homosexual-led households would get licensed by the state...http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55240
VA Tech convocation told of Allah, Buddha and Dalai Lama, but not Jesus
April 17, 2007
Speakers at the Virginia Tech convocation yesterday called on Allah and Buddha in their efforts to minister to the survivors, family and friends of victims of the shooting massacre at the school – but Jesus wasn't mentioned by name... [a] WND reader cited the speakers, in order:
* "1st Speaker: A Muslim cleric invoking the name of Allah and quoting the Quran."
* "2nd Speaker: A Buddhist Community Leader preaching that mankind is basically 'good.'"
* "3rd Speaker: A Female speaker from the Jewish Community quoting Ecclesiastes: 'There is a time for everything.'"
* "4th Speaker: A Liberal Lutheran Minister talking about 'healing,' etc. and how everyone needs to come together (blah, blah, blah…)."
"BUT NOT ONE EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN PASTOR/PREACHER. NO INVOCATION OF THE NAME OF CHRIST JESUS," the reader said...
...t was up to the president to deliver references to Christianity.
"People who have never met you are praying for you," Bush said. "They're praying for your friends who have fallen and who are injured. There's a power in these prayers, a real power. In times like this, we can find comfort in the grace and the guidance of a loving God."
Most of the other official statements of condolence released also ignored the savior of the Christian faith...
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55252
Prof warned officials about Cho Seung-Hui
April 17, 2007
A professor warned authorities about Virginia Tech mass murderer Cho Seung-Hui after the student turned in violent creative writing pieces and exhibited troubling behavior, but she was told intervention would require overcoming too many legal hurdles...
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55255
State quashed bill allowing handguns on campuses and at VA Tech VA Tech College spokesman celebrated the 2006 defeat because it would help make campus safe
April 16, 2007
More than one year before today's unprecedented shooting rampage at Virginia Tech, the state's General Assembly quashed a bill that would have given qualified college students and employees the right to carry handguns on campus.
At the time, Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker said he was happy to hear of the bill's defeat, according to the Roanoke Times.
"I'm sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly's actions because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus," the Virginia Tech spokesman said......
Backers of the bill wanted to prohibit public universities from making "rules or regulations limiting or abridging the ability of a student who possesses a valid concealed handgun permit ... from lawfully carrying a concealed handgun."
...While advocates of gun control often believe they are improving safety, they are depriving law-abiding citizens from defending themselves in dangerous situations, he contended."Had I been on campus today, and otherwise been entitled to carry firearms for protection and been deprived of that, I don't think words can describe how I would have felt, knowing I could have stopped something like this," Gilbert said...
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55226
WARNING CAME TOO LATE TO SAVE LIVES
April 17, 2007
A single question stands out from the massacre at Virginia Tech: Would more students be alive if the university in Blacksburg, Va., had not allowed them to go to class after a shooting had occurred in a campus dorm?
The nation's deadliest campus shooting rampage began at 7:15 a.m. in West Ambler Johnston, a coed dormitory, where police found two people fatally shot. But the first e-mail message to students from the Virginia Tech administration did not go out until more than two hours later, at 9:26 a.m., stating that a shooting had occurred but with no mention of staying indoors or staying off-campus or canceling classes.
Sometime after 9:30 a.m., a second round of shooting began in Norris Hall, an engineering building on the other end of the sprawling 2,600-acre campus. Police said the gunman killed 30 people at Norris and wounded 15 before killing himself...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/17/MNGFCP9UL21.DTL
Va. Tech gunman writings raised concerns
BLACKSBURG, Va. - The gunman in the Virginia Tech massacre was a sullen loner who alarmed professors and classmates with his twisted, violence-drenched creative writing and left a rambling note in his dorm room raging against women and rich kids. A chilling picture emerged Tuesday of Cho Seung-Hui — a 23-year-old senior majoring in English — a day after the bloodbath that left 33 people dead...
"When we read Cho's plays, it was like something out of a nightmare. The plays had really twisted, macabre violence that used weapons I wouldn't have even thought of," former classmate Ian McFarlane, now an AOL employee, wrote in a blog posted on an AOL Web site. He said he and other students "were talking to each other with serious worry about whether he could be a school shooter."
"We always joked we were just waiting for him to do something, waiting to hear about something he did," said another classmate, Stephanie Derry...
...Citing unidentified sources, the Tribune also said Cho had recently set a fire in a dorm room and had stalked some women...
...Some said that on the first day of a British literature class last year, the 30 or so students went around and introduced themselves. When it was Cho's turn, he didn't speak.
On the sign-in sheet where everyone else had written their names, Cho had written a question mark. "Is your name, `Question mark?'" classmate Julie Poole recalled the professor asking. The young man offered little response...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070417/ap_on_re_us/virginia_tech_shooting
Ever notice how these things always seem to happen in “gun free zones”? More gun laws will do nothing to stop evil like this.
Also, how could someone stay in college with an attitude like this? How could you pass with nonparticipation? Oh, yeah, "Pay your fee, get your B."
Rush made a good point today. He noted how after there is a mass-shooting like at Va Tech or Columbine everyone rushes to have prayer services. We turn to God after the fact. Even the politicians and press get into the act and separation of church and state take a back seat to the liberals normal fear of God. As Rush points out maybe we should let God into the classroom before there is a massacre, not after. Maybe some of these people who go off the deep end wouldn't feel so hopeless or pent up with anger...
Could We Blame Lack of Religion?
April 17, 2007
[Rush Limbaugh] “...I want to throw a little thought out there, folks. We're all talking now about -- well, some people are -- we need more gun control laws. We need make sure that people can't get guns and so forth. There's going to be a convocation at two o'clock, 46 minutes from now, and there will be prayers, and there have been prayers ever since the first word of this was reported yesterday morning and all through the day...perhaps we could have done a little of that prior to the incident as well. The [Liberal Media] want to go back and take a look at the gun control laws and say, "Well, that's where the problem exists."
...Maybe there needs to be more religion and prayer at our universities, folks. Maybe there needs to be a sense on college campuses that there's something bigger than the individual. Maybe there's something larger than the professor. Maybe they're not too young to learn that there are many things in life larger than self, and maybe being able to take comfort in a relationship with that which is larger than self ( i.e., God) would have a calming effect on some of these people who go absolutely nuts and lose their sanity. But that's even arguable. But can you imagine the leftists hearing me say this now: More prayer, more religion at our university? "Separation of church and state!" would be the template there. "What are you trying to do? You're trying to force a religion on people!" No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no! You don't understand. You can't possibly because you're irreligious. But it's no different than going out and saying, "Hey, we need gun control," after the fact...”
more at
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_041707/content/01125107.guest.html
Monday Morning Quarterbacking
David Bennett
What this tragedy at VA Tech illustrates is when the gov't takes away you right & ability to protect yourself the gov't is then responsible for protecting you. But it can't.
The police officers I know all tell me that with very few exceptions the only thing the police can do is show up after the fact and right up the police report...
If some of the instructors had been armed...
If some of the students had been armed (many of whom are in the National Guard and reserves and ex-military)...
If the school hadn't failed to notify the students for two hours after the first incident...
If the school hadn't failed to lock down the campus at the beginning...
If the school hadn't assumed the gunman had finished and fled the scene when he wasn't and hadn't...
The gov't should never be allowed to be the sole source of your God given right of self preservation.
The other thing that our society must change is the idea of being helpless victims. This gunman at VA Tech lined some of the people up and shot them. They stood there. If at the first people gang tackled this guy and beat the snot out of him only one or two, if any, would have died. We must take a lesson from the folks from Flight 93 on September 11, 2001 and stop these evil people before more damage is done. If you're going to die, go down fighting, like a man.
I know it's easy for me to say that after the fact and not being there. I pray that if I'm ever in a similar situation that I'll do the right thing and not spend my last moments cowering in fear...
When the police don't come
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55249
The grave danger of 'gun-free zones'
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55246
Why You Should Own a Gun
By Alan Caruba
CNSNews.com Commentary from the National Anxiety Center April 17, 2007
read the article at
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=/Commentary/archive/200704/COM20070417a.html
David Bennett <><
http://www.freewill-predestination.com
Apr 17
The regular use of aspirin, but not other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), is associated with a reduced incidence of cancer and cancer-related death, particularly among former smokers and those who never smoked…
The findings were reported Monday at the 100th annual gathering of the American Association for Cancer Research in Los Angeles by Dr. Aditya Bardia of Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota.
"The take-home message is that aspirin might have anti-cancer effects, but can also have adverse effects such as gastric bleeding. One should speak to his or her doctor about the risks and benefits of aspirin use," Bardia told Reuters Health...
...The inverse association between aspirin use and the risk of cancer and cancer-related death was strongest among former smokers and those who never smoked compared with current smokers, although this fell short of statistical significance.
Aspirin use also appeared to protect patients against coronary heart disease and the overall mortality rate...
This study provides "provocative evidence that regular aspirin use may play a role in preventing the most common chronic diseases in western countries, namely cancer and heart disease," Bardia said in a statement.
Complete article at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070417/hl_nm/aspirin_cancer_dc
Warning is sounded on ethanol use
LATimes April 18, 2007
The fuel would create more ground-level ozone than gasoline if used heavily, a study finds. Critics disagree on the overall risk.
Ethanol, widely touted as a greenhouse-gas-cutting fuel, would have serious health effects if heavily used in cars, producing more ground-level ozone than gasoline, particularly in the Los Angeles Basin, according to a Stanford University study out today.
"Ethanol is being promoted as a clean and renewable fuel that will reduce global warming and air pollution," said Mark Z. Jacobson, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and author of the study in the online edition of Environmental Science and Technology. "But our results show that a high blend of ethanol poses an equal or greater risk to public health than gasoline, which already causes significant health damage."
Ozone is a key ingredient in smog, and when inhaled even at low levels it can harm lungs, aggravate asthma and impair immune systems.
The health effects from ethanol use are the same whether it is made from corn or other plant products, Jacobson found.
The study determined that a 9% increase in ozone-related deaths would occur in Greater Los Angeles, and a 4% increase nationally, by 2020 if a form of ethanol called E85, were used instead of gasoline. In the Southeast, by contrast, mortality rates would decrease slightly.
The type of fuel used in the study — 85% ethanol, 15% gasoline — emits less greenhouse gases than other types, some researchers say.
"Today, there is a lot of investment in ethanol," Jacobson said. "The question is, if we're not getting any health benefits, then why continue to promote ethanol?"
more at
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ethanol18apr18,0,7852828.story?coll=la-home-headlines
'Jail grandma' hate speech debate begins
April 17, 2007
Debate is to begin today in a congressional subcommittee on a federal "hate speech" proposal similar to a state law that already has been used to send grandmothers to jail for their "crime" of sharing the Gospel of Jesus on a Philadelphia public sidewalk......
The proposal, on its face, purports to create bans on "hate crimes," but Rev. Louis Sheldon of the Traditional Values Coalition said it more accurately is "an attempt by the ultra liberals and the homosexuals to force Americans to accept homosexuality and gender disturbance as equal to God's Created Order of heterosexuality."
..."This bill says that hordes of homosexuals are being forced to flee their home states because they are routinely denied access to goods, services and employment," he said. "This explains the mystery of the crowded highways and airports in San Francisco and New York.
… The reasons for the bill are completely unsupported."He said states already have the resources to deal with crimes of bodily harm or assault, and the plan is simply not needed. Worse yet, he said, it creates a crime of "thought."
..."The 'Hate Crimes' bill is better named 'Hate Grandma' or "hate Free Speech' bill as it poses a serious threat to the freedom of speech for every American," Folger said. "We must stop it before they send your grandma, your pastor, or you to jail for sharing your faith or speaking the truth about an agenda that seeks to silence us."
The television ad campaign by Faith2Action will feature Philadelphia grandmothers who already were thrown in jail in Pennsylvania under that state's "hate crimes" law – and faced the possibility of 47 years in jail – for testifying in public about their Christian faith.
see ad at http://www.stophatecrimesnow.com/?host_id=WND
That ads can be viewed at www.StopHateCrimesNow.com ...
...in Canada pastors are fearful of reading biblical injunctions against homosexuality, and in Australia where two pastors were convicted of "vilifying" Islam...
..in Canada and France both, legislators have been fined for publicly criticizing homosexuality.
....a Swedish hate crimes law was used to put Pastor Ake Green, who preached that homosexuality is a sin, in jail for a month..
..a British couple told how they were denied the chance to adopt because it was determined that their Christian faith might 'prejudice' them against a homosexual child put in their care...
...in the United States, Catholic Charities of Boston halted all adoption operations in the state after being told under Massachusetts' pro-'gay' nondiscrimination law, only agencies that placed children in homosexual-led households would get licensed by the state...http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55240
VA Tech convocation told of Allah, Buddha and Dalai Lama, but not Jesus
April 17, 2007
Speakers at the Virginia Tech convocation yesterday called on Allah and Buddha in their efforts to minister to the survivors, family and friends of victims of the shooting massacre at the school – but Jesus wasn't mentioned by name... [a] WND reader cited the speakers, in order:
* "1st Speaker: A Muslim cleric invoking the name of Allah and quoting the Quran."
* "2nd Speaker: A Buddhist Community Leader preaching that mankind is basically 'good.'"
* "3rd Speaker: A Female speaker from the Jewish Community quoting Ecclesiastes: 'There is a time for everything.'"
* "4th Speaker: A Liberal Lutheran Minister talking about 'healing,' etc. and how everyone needs to come together (blah, blah, blah…)."
"BUT NOT ONE EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN PASTOR/PREACHER. NO INVOCATION OF THE NAME OF CHRIST JESUS," the reader said...
...t was up to the president to deliver references to Christianity.
"People who have never met you are praying for you," Bush said. "They're praying for your friends who have fallen and who are injured. There's a power in these prayers, a real power. In times like this, we can find comfort in the grace and the guidance of a loving God."
Most of the other official statements of condolence released also ignored the savior of the Christian faith...
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55252
Prof warned officials about Cho Seung-Hui
April 17, 2007
A professor warned authorities about Virginia Tech mass murderer Cho Seung-Hui after the student turned in violent creative writing pieces and exhibited troubling behavior, but she was told intervention would require overcoming too many legal hurdles...
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55255
State quashed bill allowing handguns on campuses and at VA Tech VA Tech College spokesman celebrated the 2006 defeat because it would help make campus safe
April 16, 2007
More than one year before today's unprecedented shooting rampage at Virginia Tech, the state's General Assembly quashed a bill that would have given qualified college students and employees the right to carry handguns on campus.
At the time, Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker said he was happy to hear of the bill's defeat, according to the Roanoke Times.
"I'm sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly's actions because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus," the Virginia Tech spokesman said......
Backers of the bill wanted to prohibit public universities from making "rules or regulations limiting or abridging the ability of a student who possesses a valid concealed handgun permit ... from lawfully carrying a concealed handgun."
...While advocates of gun control often believe they are improving safety, they are depriving law-abiding citizens from defending themselves in dangerous situations, he contended."Had I been on campus today, and otherwise been entitled to carry firearms for protection and been deprived of that, I don't think words can describe how I would have felt, knowing I could have stopped something like this," Gilbert said...
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55226
WARNING CAME TOO LATE TO SAVE LIVES
April 17, 2007
A single question stands out from the massacre at Virginia Tech: Would more students be alive if the university in Blacksburg, Va., had not allowed them to go to class after a shooting had occurred in a campus dorm?
The nation's deadliest campus shooting rampage began at 7:15 a.m. in West Ambler Johnston, a coed dormitory, where police found two people fatally shot. But the first e-mail message to students from the Virginia Tech administration did not go out until more than two hours later, at 9:26 a.m., stating that a shooting had occurred but with no mention of staying indoors or staying off-campus or canceling classes.
Sometime after 9:30 a.m., a second round of shooting began in Norris Hall, an engineering building on the other end of the sprawling 2,600-acre campus. Police said the gunman killed 30 people at Norris and wounded 15 before killing himself...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/17/MNGFCP9UL21.DTL
Va. Tech gunman writings raised concerns
BLACKSBURG, Va. - The gunman in the Virginia Tech massacre was a sullen loner who alarmed professors and classmates with his twisted, violence-drenched creative writing and left a rambling note in his dorm room raging against women and rich kids. A chilling picture emerged Tuesday of Cho Seung-Hui — a 23-year-old senior majoring in English — a day after the bloodbath that left 33 people dead...
"When we read Cho's plays, it was like something out of a nightmare. The plays had really twisted, macabre violence that used weapons I wouldn't have even thought of," former classmate Ian McFarlane, now an AOL employee, wrote in a blog posted on an AOL Web site. He said he and other students "were talking to each other with serious worry about whether he could be a school shooter."
"We always joked we were just waiting for him to do something, waiting to hear about something he did," said another classmate, Stephanie Derry...
...Citing unidentified sources, the Tribune also said Cho had recently set a fire in a dorm room and had stalked some women...
...Some said that on the first day of a British literature class last year, the 30 or so students went around and introduced themselves. When it was Cho's turn, he didn't speak.
On the sign-in sheet where everyone else had written their names, Cho had written a question mark. "Is your name, `Question mark?'" classmate Julie Poole recalled the professor asking. The young man offered little response...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070417/ap_on_re_us/virginia_tech_shooting
Ever notice how these things always seem to happen in “gun free zones”? More gun laws will do nothing to stop evil like this.
Also, how could someone stay in college with an attitude like this? How could you pass with nonparticipation? Oh, yeah, "Pay your fee, get your B."
Rush made a good point today. He noted how after there is a mass-shooting like at Va Tech or Columbine everyone rushes to have prayer services. We turn to God after the fact. Even the politicians and press get into the act and separation of church and state take a back seat to the liberals normal fear of God. As Rush points out maybe we should let God into the classroom before there is a massacre, not after. Maybe some of these people who go off the deep end wouldn't feel so hopeless or pent up with anger...
Could We Blame Lack of Religion?
April 17, 2007
[Rush Limbaugh] “...I want to throw a little thought out there, folks. We're all talking now about -- well, some people are -- we need more gun control laws. We need make sure that people can't get guns and so forth. There's going to be a convocation at two o'clock, 46 minutes from now, and there will be prayers, and there have been prayers ever since the first word of this was reported yesterday morning and all through the day...perhaps we could have done a little of that prior to the incident as well. The [Liberal Media] want to go back and take a look at the gun control laws and say, "Well, that's where the problem exists."
...Maybe there needs to be more religion and prayer at our universities, folks. Maybe there needs to be a sense on college campuses that there's something bigger than the individual. Maybe there's something larger than the professor. Maybe they're not too young to learn that there are many things in life larger than self, and maybe being able to take comfort in a relationship with that which is larger than self ( i.e., God) would have a calming effect on some of these people who go absolutely nuts and lose their sanity. But that's even arguable. But can you imagine the leftists hearing me say this now: More prayer, more religion at our university? "Separation of church and state!" would be the template there. "What are you trying to do? You're trying to force a religion on people!" No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no! You don't understand. You can't possibly because you're irreligious. But it's no different than going out and saying, "Hey, we need gun control," after the fact...”
more at
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_041707/content/01125107.guest.html
Monday Morning Quarterbacking
David Bennett
What this tragedy at VA Tech illustrates is when the gov't takes away you right & ability to protect yourself the gov't is then responsible for protecting you. But it can't.
The police officers I know all tell me that with very few exceptions the only thing the police can do is show up after the fact and right up the police report...
If some of the instructors had been armed...
If some of the students had been armed (many of whom are in the National Guard and reserves and ex-military)...
If the school hadn't failed to notify the students for two hours after the first incident...
If the school hadn't failed to lock down the campus at the beginning...
If the school hadn't assumed the gunman had finished and fled the scene when he wasn't and hadn't...
The gov't should never be allowed to be the sole source of your God given right of self preservation.
The other thing that our society must change is the idea of being helpless victims. This gunman at VA Tech lined some of the people up and shot them. They stood there. If at the first people gang tackled this guy and beat the snot out of him only one or two, if any, would have died. We must take a lesson from the folks from Flight 93 on September 11, 2001 and stop these evil people before more damage is done. If you're going to die, go down fighting, like a man.
I know it's easy for me to say that after the fact and not being there. I pray that if I'm ever in a similar situation that I'll do the right thing and not spend my last moments cowering in fear...
When the police don't come
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55249
The grave danger of 'gun-free zones'
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55246
Why You Should Own a Gun
By Alan Caruba
CNSNews.com Commentary from the National Anxiety Center April 17, 2007
read the article at
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=/Commentary/archive/200704/COM20070417a.html
David Bennett <><
http://www.freewill-predestination.com
posted by David Bennett | 4:47 AM
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