21 April 2007
Farewell to “Lucy”
by Dr. David Menton
April 18, 2007
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2007/04/18/farewell-lucy
82-Year-Old Ex-Beauty Queen Stops Intruder by Shooting Out Tires
April 21, 2007
Venus Ramsey was crowned Miss America in 1944. Photo at http://www.foxnews.com/images/278400/1_61_042007_VenusRamey1944.jpg
WAYNESBURG, Ky. — Miss America 1944 has a talent that likely has never appeared on a beauty pageant stage: She fired a handgun to shoot out a vehicle's tires and stop an intruder.
Venus Ramey, 82, confronted a man on her farm in south-central Kentucky last week after she saw her dog run into a storage building where thieves had previously made off with old farm equipment.
Ramey said the man told her he would leave. "I said, 'Oh, no you won't,' and I shot their tires so they couldn't leave," Ramey said.
She had to balance on her walker as she pulled out a snub-nosed .38-caliber handgun.
"I didn't even think twice. I just went and did it," she said. "If they'd even dared come close to me, they'd be 6 feet under by now."
Ramey then flagged down a passing motorist, who called 911...
...After winning the pageant with her singing, dancing and comedic talents, Ramey sold war bonds and her picture was adorned on a B-17 that made missions over Germany in World War II, according to the Miss America Web site…
"I'm trying to live a quiet, peaceful life and stay out of trouble, and all it is, is one thing after another," she said.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,267540,00.html
$5000 Fine Sought For Christian Marriage Commissioner Who Declined Gay Couple
SASKATOON, April 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Canadian Christian civil marriage commissioner in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Orville Nichols, could face up to $5000 in fines for having referred a homosexual couple to a different commissioner.
Human Rights Commission lawyer Janice Gingell asked the tribunal to find that Nichols contravened the code and order him to pay $5,000 in compensation to the complainant.
The 70 year-old Mr. Nichols used a clearly religious-based conscience argument for his refusal, saying his faith guides his daily life, that he prays and reads the Bible every day. He told the Saskatchewan Human Rights Tribunal that his faith “takes first place” in his life. He said, “I couldn't sleep or live with myself if I were to perform same-sex marriages.”
The other commissioner to whom the two men were referred performed the ceremony on the same date they requested of Mr. Nichols...
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/apr/07041905.html
25 years murder-free in 'Gun Town USA'
Crime rate plummeted after law required firearms for residents
April 19, 2007
As the nation debates whether more guns or fewer can prevent tragedies like the Virginia Tech Massacre, a notable anniversary passed last month in a Georgia town that witnessed a dramatic plunge in crime and violence after mandating residents to own firearms.
In March 1982, 25 years ago, the small town of Kennesaw – responding to a handgun ban in Morton Grove, Ill. – unanimously passed an ordinance requiring each head of household to own and maintain a gun. Since then, despite dire predictions of "Wild West" showdowns and increased violence and accidents, not a single resident has been involved in a fatal shooting – as a victim, attacker or defender.
The crime rate initially plummeted for several years after the passage of the ordinance, with the 2005 per capita crime rate actually significantly lower than it was in 1981, the year before passage of the law.
Prior to enactment of the law, Kennesaw had a population of just 5,242 but a crime rate significantly higher (4,332 per 100,000) than the national average (3,899 per 100,000). The latest statistics available – for the year 2005 – show the rate at 2,027 per 100,000. Meanwhile, the population has skyrocketed to 28,189.
By comparison, the population of Morton Grove, the first city in Illinois to adopt a gun ban for anyone other than police officers, has actually dropped slightly and stands at 22,202, according to 2005 statistics. More significantly, perhaps, the city's crime rate increased by 15.7 percent immediately after the gun ban, even though the overall crime rate in Cook County rose only 3 percent. Today, by comparison, the township's crime rate stands at 2,268 per 100,000.
This was not what some predicted.
In a column titled "Gun Town USA," Art Buchwald suggested Kennesaw would soon become a place where routine disagreements between neighbors would be settled in shootouts. The Washington Post mocked Kennesaw as "the brave little city … soon to be pistol-packing capital of the world." Phil Donahue invited the mayor on his show...
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55288
(Tenn) House vote permits guns in more places
April 19, 2007
NASHVILLE - In a surprise move, a House panel voted Wednesday to repeal a state law that forbids the carrying of handguns on property and buildings owned by state, county and city governments - including parks and playgrounds.
"I think the recent Virginia disaster - or catastrophe or nightmare or whatever you want to call it - has woken up a lot of people to the need for having guns available to law-abiding citizens," said Rep. Frank Niceley, R-Strawberry Plains. "I hope that is what this vote reflects."
As amended, the legislation still wouldn't allow guns on school property, however.
Niceley's bill aimed to let people holding handgun carry permits take their weapons onto state park property, which is now forbidden.
Tennessee's handgun carry law includes a listing of places where permit holders are forbidden to take their weapons. Briley has proposed an amendment that repeals a provision prohibiting guns "in or on the grounds of any public park, playground, civic center or other building facility, area or property owned, used or operated by any municipal, county or state government, or instrumentality thereof."
With very little debate, the amendment was quickly approved on a voice vote with only Rep. Janis Sontany, D-Nashville, chairman of the subcommittee, audibly shouting, "No!"
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/state/article/0%2C1406%2CKNS_348_5492294%2C00.html
"Defeat" featured in Iranian newspaper...Iranian eyes are smiling...
US has lost war in Iraq: US Democrat
Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:12:57
Leader of the Democratic majority in the US Congress, Harry Reid, has said the US has lost the Iraq war, and Bush's troop surge has failed.
"I believe ... that this war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything, as is shown by the extreme violence in Iraq this week," Reid stated...
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=6705§ionid=3510202
Yeah, this'll help...
we're bending over backwards for these people... preferential treatment for Muslims over Christians
Minn. college under fire over tax-funded Muslim foot baths
April 19, 2007…Columnist Katherine Kersten of the Star Tribune in Minneapolis reports that the Minneapolis Community and Technical College "is making plans to use taxpayer funds to install facilities for ritual foot-washing" since many Muslim students have been using restroom sinks to wash their feet before prayer. However, Kersten says the same school that is going out of its way to accommodate Muslim students has in the past banned various religious practices related to Christmas, including Christmas music.
Bill Otis, director of legal affairs at the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) and a former special counsel to President George H.W. Bush, says if the school is going to respect the rituals of one religion, it should at least be tolerating Christmas music.
…The ACRU spokesman says he finds it "terribly inconsistent and wrong-headed" to permit Muslims to use the school facilities for their religious rituals while at the same time prohibiting Christians to use those same facilities for such things as prayer.
"If we're going to have one, let's have the other; if we can't both, then have neither," he states. "But it's wrong to have one and not the other."
http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/04/minn_college_under_fire_over_t.php
One-Third of Religious Visas Fraudulent
4/21/2007
Homeland Security Department officials have discovered widespread fraud in a religious worker visa program that allows thousands of foreigners a year to enter the U.S. and remain here.
Last year, the officials found that 33 percent of the visas that investigators examined were granted based on fraudulent information, USA Today reports.
"We found that the program had been compromised and the fraud rate was excessively high," Emilio Gonzalez, head of Citizen and Immigration Services at Homeland Security, told USA Today.
The visa program was established in 1990 to allow churches, synagogues and mosques to hire qualified foreigners to fill open jobs. Applicants for a religious visa must have a sponsor in the U.S.
Now Homeland Security plans to implement new regulations in an effort to prevent radical groups from using the visa program to get terrorists into the U.S...
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/4/20/150945.shtml
Turkish media report torture of Christian murder victims
April 20, 2007
Three Christian murder victims were brutally tortured for hours before their death, Turkish media reports reveal.
The Islamic zealots who attacked a Christian publishing house in the city of Malatya on April 18 prolonged the suffering of their victims by stabbing them repeatedly with dull knives, the media report. A Sabah newspaper story notes that one victim, the German missionary Tilman Geske, suffered 156 knife wounds...
The leading Islamic figure in Turkey-- who met with Pope Benedict XVI (bio - news) during his visit there last November-- condemned the killings. "Murder cannot be justified by religion," said Grand Mufti Ali Bardakoglu. "Such heinous murders are a most grave sin. This is a betrayal of Islam." (Actually not according to the Koran...)
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=50641
Accuracy of study on abstinence-only programs questionedhttp://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/04/accuracy_of_study_on_abstinenc.php
Police 'disappointed' campus killer's message broadcastApril 19,2007Police Thursday lamented the fact that a university killer's hate-filled video manifesto was aired by US media. "I was disappointed in the editorial decision to broadcast these disturbing images," said Virginia police superintendent Steve Flaherty, noting that until recently, only law enforcement professionals would have seen such footage…
...After first informing the police about package, NBC later aired it ensuring Cho's disturbing diatribe was immediately shown on evening news broadcasts across the country...http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070419141759.npldayrd&show_article=1
Grandad's anger at uni murderer
20/04/2007
…Kim Hyang-Sik, 82, said he had a doom-laden dream of Cho's parents the night of his murderous rampage - and woke to hear the news of the massacre and his grandson's death...
...repeatedly referred to the killer as "son of a bitch" or "a***hole" and said his mother Kim Hyang-Yim had problems with him from infancy...
...ang-Sun revealed the eight-year-old was diagnosed as autistic soon after his family emigrated to the US.
She said: "He was very quiet and only followed his mother and father around and when others called his name he just answered yes or no but never showed any feelings or motions.
"We started to worry that he was autistic - that was the big concern of his mother. He was even a loner as a child.
"Soon after they got to America his mother was so worried about his inability to talk she took him to hospital and he was diagnosed as autistic."
Yang-Sun spoke at her tiny one roomed shack inside a vinyl farm shelter in the Gohyang area of South Korea's capital Seoul...
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/tm_headline%3Dwe-are-glad-he-is-dead-by-cho-s-family--&method%3Dfull&objectid%3D18931479&siteid%3D89520-name_page.html
Copycat: Killer Re-Enacted Violent Film
April 19, 2007
Police investigating the Virginia Tech killings are looking at whether Cho Seung-Hui was copying parts of a violent film when he murdered 32 people. Officers believe he repeatedly watched Oldboy as part of his preparation for the killing spree.
The film, which won the Grand Prix award at the 2004 Cannes film festival, has been described as "an ultra-violent movie of obsession and revenge"...
...The video, which Cho posted to an American TV network while carrying out his murderous rampage, appears to include photographs of Cho re-enacting scenes from the film.
He is shown holding a gun to his head and wielding a hammer, images that appear in the movie...
...Cho's video diary, along with his collection of movies, writings and that fact that he bought a gun last month reveal that, rather than the killing spree being a spontaneous event, he had planned the massacre in advance.http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1261563,00.html
Scientist: Warming not caused by humans
April 19, 2007MADISON - Roy Spencer is speaking up about his belief that Earth is not headed toward a global warming disaster.
Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and former NASA scientist, said he knows he's in the minority with his opinions, but he doesn't believe manmade influences are causing catastrophic climate changes...
...Developing new energy technology is the only way to know for sure, he said, because he believes the existing climate models are too sensitive.
He said everything about the climate is tied to precipitation systems. But the climate models don't consider precipitation efficiency. However, he said the little evidence that exists shows precipitation systems act as a natural thermostat to reduce warming.
"The air you're breathing right now was, in the last few days, part of a precipitation system," he said.
Spencer said the fears about global warming have people wondering whether something should be done now to stop it.
"That's the precautionary principle, and it makes no sense because we don't live our lives that way," Spencer said. "Everything in life has risks and benefits; we could die from eating food."
Energy is needed by humanity, Spencer said while poking fun at Al Gore and other environmentalists who talk about conservation.
"Most of us are already doing what we can to conserve, but it won't have any impact on global warming," Spencer said.
Two weeks ago, he testified in a congressional hearing on global warming. Next month, he'll make presentations at the White House and to top evangelical leaders on his research.
"It's a busy field and keeps me awake," Spencer said. http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1176974192195090.xml&coll=1
Mexican archeologists discover evidence of child sacrificehttp://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2007/04/17/4055151-ap.html
Europe Shariatized: Wife-Beating Legitimized by German Court
March 26, 2007
The husband routinely beat his 26-year-old German-born wife, mother of their two young children, and threatened to kill her when the court ordered him to move out of their apartment in Hamburg. The police were called repeatedly to intervene. The wife wanted a quick divorce—without waiting a year after separation, as mandated by German law—arguing that that the abuse and death threats she suffered easily fulfilled the “hardship” criteria required for an accelerated decree absolute. The judge—a woman by the name of Christa Datz-Winter—refused, however, arguing that the Kuran allows the husband to beat his wife and that the couple’s Moroccan origin must be taken into account in the case. ..
http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/cgi-bin/newsviews.cgi/Islam/Europe_Shariatized_.html?seemore=y
The Virginia Tech shooter’s problem with America
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JerryBowyer/2007/04/19/the_virginia_tech_shooter%e2%80%99s_problem_with_americ a
False Lessons from an Atrocity
By Steve Chapman
Thursday, April 19, 2007
the first error is taking a freakishly horrible event as a basis for anything except mourning. The carnage at Virginia Tech was as bad as gun crimes get, but it was also as rare as they get...
...Nationally, your chance of being a murder victim has plunged by 44 percent since 1991. University students, as a rule, have even less cause for worry. All the colleges in the country have some 17 million students, but in an average year, they suffer fewer than 20 on-campus homicides...
...In the aftermath of the killing spree in Blacksburg, the Violence Policy Center rushed to ascribe it to "the easy access to increasingly lethal firearms that make most killings possible." But when auto fatalities occur, we don't take them as evidence of the need to cut down on the number of people allowed to drive, or on the horsepower of cars...
...These weapons are not getting more lethal but less -- because an increasing proportion are handguns, which are typically not as powerful as rifles and shotguns. In this case, the shooter used one of the least deadly firearms in existence, a .22-caliber pistol...Cho Seung-Hui's other pistol was a 9mm, an established weapon that is far from being the most powerful handgun around. "Increasingly lethal firearms" had nothing to do with this crime.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SteveChapman/2007/04/19/false_lessons_from_an_atrocity
You can reach out to persecuted Christians
Program allows letters of encouragement to those in prison
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55297
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http://www.freewill-predestination.com
by Dr. David Menton
April 18, 2007
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2007/04/18/farewell-lucy
82-Year-Old Ex-Beauty Queen Stops Intruder by Shooting Out Tires
April 21, 2007
Venus Ramsey was crowned Miss America in 1944. Photo at http://www.foxnews.com/images/278400/1_61_042007_VenusRamey1944.jpg
WAYNESBURG, Ky. — Miss America 1944 has a talent that likely has never appeared on a beauty pageant stage: She fired a handgun to shoot out a vehicle's tires and stop an intruder.
Venus Ramey, 82, confronted a man on her farm in south-central Kentucky last week after she saw her dog run into a storage building where thieves had previously made off with old farm equipment.
Ramey said the man told her he would leave. "I said, 'Oh, no you won't,' and I shot their tires so they couldn't leave," Ramey said.
She had to balance on her walker as she pulled out a snub-nosed .38-caliber handgun.
"I didn't even think twice. I just went and did it," she said. "If they'd even dared come close to me, they'd be 6 feet under by now."
Ramey then flagged down a passing motorist, who called 911...
...After winning the pageant with her singing, dancing and comedic talents, Ramey sold war bonds and her picture was adorned on a B-17 that made missions over Germany in World War II, according to the Miss America Web site…
"I'm trying to live a quiet, peaceful life and stay out of trouble, and all it is, is one thing after another," she said.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,267540,00.html
$5000 Fine Sought For Christian Marriage Commissioner Who Declined Gay Couple
SASKATOON, April 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Canadian Christian civil marriage commissioner in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Orville Nichols, could face up to $5000 in fines for having referred a homosexual couple to a different commissioner.
Human Rights Commission lawyer Janice Gingell asked the tribunal to find that Nichols contravened the code and order him to pay $5,000 in compensation to the complainant.
The 70 year-old Mr. Nichols used a clearly religious-based conscience argument for his refusal, saying his faith guides his daily life, that he prays and reads the Bible every day. He told the Saskatchewan Human Rights Tribunal that his faith “takes first place” in his life. He said, “I couldn't sleep or live with myself if I were to perform same-sex marriages.”
The other commissioner to whom the two men were referred performed the ceremony on the same date they requested of Mr. Nichols...
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/apr/07041905.html
25 years murder-free in 'Gun Town USA'
Crime rate plummeted after law required firearms for residents
April 19, 2007
As the nation debates whether more guns or fewer can prevent tragedies like the Virginia Tech Massacre, a notable anniversary passed last month in a Georgia town that witnessed a dramatic plunge in crime and violence after mandating residents to own firearms.
In March 1982, 25 years ago, the small town of Kennesaw – responding to a handgun ban in Morton Grove, Ill. – unanimously passed an ordinance requiring each head of household to own and maintain a gun. Since then, despite dire predictions of "Wild West" showdowns and increased violence and accidents, not a single resident has been involved in a fatal shooting – as a victim, attacker or defender.
The crime rate initially plummeted for several years after the passage of the ordinance, with the 2005 per capita crime rate actually significantly lower than it was in 1981, the year before passage of the law.
Prior to enactment of the law, Kennesaw had a population of just 5,242 but a crime rate significantly higher (4,332 per 100,000) than the national average (3,899 per 100,000). The latest statistics available – for the year 2005 – show the rate at 2,027 per 100,000. Meanwhile, the population has skyrocketed to 28,189.
By comparison, the population of Morton Grove, the first city in Illinois to adopt a gun ban for anyone other than police officers, has actually dropped slightly and stands at 22,202, according to 2005 statistics. More significantly, perhaps, the city's crime rate increased by 15.7 percent immediately after the gun ban, even though the overall crime rate in Cook County rose only 3 percent. Today, by comparison, the township's crime rate stands at 2,268 per 100,000.
This was not what some predicted.
In a column titled "Gun Town USA," Art Buchwald suggested Kennesaw would soon become a place where routine disagreements between neighbors would be settled in shootouts. The Washington Post mocked Kennesaw as "the brave little city … soon to be pistol-packing capital of the world." Phil Donahue invited the mayor on his show...
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55288
(Tenn) House vote permits guns in more places
April 19, 2007
NASHVILLE - In a surprise move, a House panel voted Wednesday to repeal a state law that forbids the carrying of handguns on property and buildings owned by state, county and city governments - including parks and playgrounds.
"I think the recent Virginia disaster - or catastrophe or nightmare or whatever you want to call it - has woken up a lot of people to the need for having guns available to law-abiding citizens," said Rep. Frank Niceley, R-Strawberry Plains. "I hope that is what this vote reflects."
As amended, the legislation still wouldn't allow guns on school property, however.
Niceley's bill aimed to let people holding handgun carry permits take their weapons onto state park property, which is now forbidden.
Tennessee's handgun carry law includes a listing of places where permit holders are forbidden to take their weapons. Briley has proposed an amendment that repeals a provision prohibiting guns "in or on the grounds of any public park, playground, civic center or other building facility, area or property owned, used or operated by any municipal, county or state government, or instrumentality thereof."
With very little debate, the amendment was quickly approved on a voice vote with only Rep. Janis Sontany, D-Nashville, chairman of the subcommittee, audibly shouting, "No!"
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/state/article/0%2C1406%2CKNS_348_5492294%2C00.html
"Defeat" featured in Iranian newspaper...Iranian eyes are smiling...
US has lost war in Iraq: US Democrat
Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:12:57
Leader of the Democratic majority in the US Congress, Harry Reid, has said the US has lost the Iraq war, and Bush's troop surge has failed.
"I believe ... that this war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything, as is shown by the extreme violence in Iraq this week," Reid stated...
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=6705§ionid=3510202
Yeah, this'll help...
we're bending over backwards for these people... preferential treatment for Muslims over Christians
Minn. college under fire over tax-funded Muslim foot baths
April 19, 2007…Columnist Katherine Kersten of the Star Tribune in Minneapolis reports that the Minneapolis Community and Technical College "is making plans to use taxpayer funds to install facilities for ritual foot-washing" since many Muslim students have been using restroom sinks to wash their feet before prayer. However, Kersten says the same school that is going out of its way to accommodate Muslim students has in the past banned various religious practices related to Christmas, including Christmas music.
Bill Otis, director of legal affairs at the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) and a former special counsel to President George H.W. Bush, says if the school is going to respect the rituals of one religion, it should at least be tolerating Christmas music.
…The ACRU spokesman says he finds it "terribly inconsistent and wrong-headed" to permit Muslims to use the school facilities for their religious rituals while at the same time prohibiting Christians to use those same facilities for such things as prayer.
"If we're going to have one, let's have the other; if we can't both, then have neither," he states. "But it's wrong to have one and not the other."
http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/04/minn_college_under_fire_over_t.php
One-Third of Religious Visas Fraudulent
4/21/2007
Homeland Security Department officials have discovered widespread fraud in a religious worker visa program that allows thousands of foreigners a year to enter the U.S. and remain here.
Last year, the officials found that 33 percent of the visas that investigators examined were granted based on fraudulent information, USA Today reports.
"We found that the program had been compromised and the fraud rate was excessively high," Emilio Gonzalez, head of Citizen and Immigration Services at Homeland Security, told USA Today.
The visa program was established in 1990 to allow churches, synagogues and mosques to hire qualified foreigners to fill open jobs. Applicants for a religious visa must have a sponsor in the U.S.
Now Homeland Security plans to implement new regulations in an effort to prevent radical groups from using the visa program to get terrorists into the U.S...
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/4/20/150945.shtml
Turkish media report torture of Christian murder victims
April 20, 2007
Three Christian murder victims were brutally tortured for hours before their death, Turkish media reports reveal.
The Islamic zealots who attacked a Christian publishing house in the city of Malatya on April 18 prolonged the suffering of their victims by stabbing them repeatedly with dull knives, the media report. A Sabah newspaper story notes that one victim, the German missionary Tilman Geske, suffered 156 knife wounds...
The leading Islamic figure in Turkey-- who met with Pope Benedict XVI (bio - news) during his visit there last November-- condemned the killings. "Murder cannot be justified by religion," said Grand Mufti Ali Bardakoglu. "Such heinous murders are a most grave sin. This is a betrayal of Islam." (Actually not according to the Koran...)
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=50641
Accuracy of study on abstinence-only programs questionedhttp://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/04/accuracy_of_study_on_abstinenc.php
Police 'disappointed' campus killer's message broadcastApril 19,2007Police Thursday lamented the fact that a university killer's hate-filled video manifesto was aired by US media. "I was disappointed in the editorial decision to broadcast these disturbing images," said Virginia police superintendent Steve Flaherty, noting that until recently, only law enforcement professionals would have seen such footage…
...After first informing the police about package, NBC later aired it ensuring Cho's disturbing diatribe was immediately shown on evening news broadcasts across the country...http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070419141759.npldayrd&show_article=1
Grandad's anger at uni murderer
20/04/2007
…Kim Hyang-Sik, 82, said he had a doom-laden dream of Cho's parents the night of his murderous rampage - and woke to hear the news of the massacre and his grandson's death...
...repeatedly referred to the killer as "son of a bitch" or "a***hole" and said his mother Kim Hyang-Yim had problems with him from infancy...
...ang-Sun revealed the eight-year-old was diagnosed as autistic soon after his family emigrated to the US.
She said: "He was very quiet and only followed his mother and father around and when others called his name he just answered yes or no but never showed any feelings or motions.
"We started to worry that he was autistic - that was the big concern of his mother. He was even a loner as a child.
"Soon after they got to America his mother was so worried about his inability to talk she took him to hospital and he was diagnosed as autistic."
Yang-Sun spoke at her tiny one roomed shack inside a vinyl farm shelter in the Gohyang area of South Korea's capital Seoul...
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/tm_headline%3Dwe-are-glad-he-is-dead-by-cho-s-family--&method%3Dfull&objectid%3D18931479&siteid%3D89520-name_page.html
Copycat: Killer Re-Enacted Violent Film
April 19, 2007
Police investigating the Virginia Tech killings are looking at whether Cho Seung-Hui was copying parts of a violent film when he murdered 32 people. Officers believe he repeatedly watched Oldboy as part of his preparation for the killing spree.
The film, which won the Grand Prix award at the 2004 Cannes film festival, has been described as "an ultra-violent movie of obsession and revenge"...
...The video, which Cho posted to an American TV network while carrying out his murderous rampage, appears to include photographs of Cho re-enacting scenes from the film.
He is shown holding a gun to his head and wielding a hammer, images that appear in the movie...
...Cho's video diary, along with his collection of movies, writings and that fact that he bought a gun last month reveal that, rather than the killing spree being a spontaneous event, he had planned the massacre in advance.http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1261563,00.html
Scientist: Warming not caused by humans
April 19, 2007MADISON - Roy Spencer is speaking up about his belief that Earth is not headed toward a global warming disaster.
Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and former NASA scientist, said he knows he's in the minority with his opinions, but he doesn't believe manmade influences are causing catastrophic climate changes...
...Developing new energy technology is the only way to know for sure, he said, because he believes the existing climate models are too sensitive.
He said everything about the climate is tied to precipitation systems. But the climate models don't consider precipitation efficiency. However, he said the little evidence that exists shows precipitation systems act as a natural thermostat to reduce warming.
"The air you're breathing right now was, in the last few days, part of a precipitation system," he said.
Spencer said the fears about global warming have people wondering whether something should be done now to stop it.
"That's the precautionary principle, and it makes no sense because we don't live our lives that way," Spencer said. "Everything in life has risks and benefits; we could die from eating food."
Energy is needed by humanity, Spencer said while poking fun at Al Gore and other environmentalists who talk about conservation.
"Most of us are already doing what we can to conserve, but it won't have any impact on global warming," Spencer said.
Two weeks ago, he testified in a congressional hearing on global warming. Next month, he'll make presentations at the White House and to top evangelical leaders on his research.
"It's a busy field and keeps me awake," Spencer said. http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1176974192195090.xml&coll=1
Mexican archeologists discover evidence of child sacrificehttp://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2007/04/17/4055151-ap.html
Europe Shariatized: Wife-Beating Legitimized by German Court
March 26, 2007
The husband routinely beat his 26-year-old German-born wife, mother of their two young children, and threatened to kill her when the court ordered him to move out of their apartment in Hamburg. The police were called repeatedly to intervene. The wife wanted a quick divorce—without waiting a year after separation, as mandated by German law—arguing that that the abuse and death threats she suffered easily fulfilled the “hardship” criteria required for an accelerated decree absolute. The judge—a woman by the name of Christa Datz-Winter—refused, however, arguing that the Kuran allows the husband to beat his wife and that the couple’s Moroccan origin must be taken into account in the case. ..
http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/cgi-bin/newsviews.cgi/Islam/Europe_Shariatized_.html?seemore=y
The Virginia Tech shooter’s problem with America
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JerryBowyer/2007/04/19/the_virginia_tech_shooter%e2%80%99s_problem_with_americ a
False Lessons from an Atrocity
By Steve Chapman
Thursday, April 19, 2007
the first error is taking a freakishly horrible event as a basis for anything except mourning. The carnage at Virginia Tech was as bad as gun crimes get, but it was also as rare as they get...
...Nationally, your chance of being a murder victim has plunged by 44 percent since 1991. University students, as a rule, have even less cause for worry. All the colleges in the country have some 17 million students, but in an average year, they suffer fewer than 20 on-campus homicides...
...In the aftermath of the killing spree in Blacksburg, the Violence Policy Center rushed to ascribe it to "the easy access to increasingly lethal firearms that make most killings possible." But when auto fatalities occur, we don't take them as evidence of the need to cut down on the number of people allowed to drive, or on the horsepower of cars...
...These weapons are not getting more lethal but less -- because an increasing proportion are handguns, which are typically not as powerful as rifles and shotguns. In this case, the shooter used one of the least deadly firearms in existence, a .22-caliber pistol...Cho Seung-Hui's other pistol was a 9mm, an established weapon that is far from being the most powerful handgun around. "Increasingly lethal firearms" had nothing to do with this crime.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SteveChapman/2007/04/19/false_lessons_from_an_atrocity
You can reach out to persecuted Christians
Program allows letters of encouragement to those in prison
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55297
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