9 May 2007
can understand charging everyone the same price but the last sentence is interesting…
Gas station owner told to raise prices by the government
5/9/2007
MERRILL, Wis.
But the state Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection says those deals violate Wisconsin's Unfair Sales Act, which requires stations to sell gas for about 9.2 percent more than the wholesale price.
AP Revised Headline: Hamas Mouse Preaches “Resistance”
May 8, 2007
We noted the Associated Press’ unusual coverage and even more unusual honest headline earlier:
Hamas ‘Mickey Mouse’ wants Islam takeover...
...the latest edition of this story has a very different message indeed:
Hamas ‘Mickey Mouse’ preaches resistance.
Hamas TV drops militant Mickey Mouse
May. 9, 2007
A program using a Mickey Mouse-like character to urge Palestinian children to fight Israel
...You and I are laying the foundation for a world led by Islamists," the cartoon character squeaked on a recent episode of the show, which is titled "Tomorrow's Pioneers."
"We will return the Islamic community to its former greatness, and liberate Jerusalem , God willing, liberate Iraq
[Note: "to liberate all the countries of the Muslims invaded by the murderers" means any country that Muslims once held, for however long after they invading them, like Spain and parts of Europe ]
CNN Yanks Hamas ‘Militant Mouse’ Video in Translation Furor
Host Glenn Beck gives blow-by-blow of how the volatile video was pulled from his show because of a single word -- that turned out to be correct in the first place.
CAIR Applauds FBI Efforts to Thwart Fort Dix
(and I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell ya)
May 8
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today applauded efforts by federal law enforcement authorities that apparently thwarted a planned attack on Fort Dix in New Jersey
In a statement, the Washington-based Islamic civil rights and advocacy group said:
"Based on the information gathered in this case, it seems clear that a potentially deadly attack has been averted. We applaud the FBI for its efforts and repeat the American Muslim community's condemnation and repudiation of all those who would plan or carry out acts of terror while falsely claiming their actions have religious justification.
"We continue to urge American Muslims to be vigilant in reporting any suspected criminal activities that could harm the safety and security of our nation."
CAIR also requested that media outlets and public officials refrain from linking this case to the faith of Islam. The council asked mosques and Islamic institutions in New Jersey
A quote from the Chairman of the Boars of CAIR in
“Islam isn’t in America America
—Omar Ahmed, Chairman of the Board of CAIR (Council of American Islamic Relations),
Threatened by the Jihad
By Steven Emerson
FrontPageMagazine.com | March 14, 2007
...On February 16, 2007, MPAC’s lawyer sent me a letter demanding an apology for my allegedly “[f]alse statements about the Muslim Public Affairs Council on Hannity and Colmes.”
And what are the allegedly “false statements” MPAC is claiming I made? That “MPAC told its ‘members not to cooperate with the FBI,’” and that MPAC “are the ones radicalizing their community.” Now let’s analyze those charges by looking at MPAC’s own words.
First, that MPAC has instructed American Muslims not to cooperate with the FBI:
MPAC and its lawyers claim this to be untrue. But at a July 1, 2005 ISNA conference in Dallas, MPAC Executive Director Salam Al-Marayati did just that. Al-Marayati, speaking of the FBI’s terrorism investigation in Lodi and the use of Muslim informants in that case, California, told the assembled crowd of Muslim-Americans, “[c]ounter-terrorism and counter-violence should be defined by us. We should define how an effective counter-terrorism policy should be pursued in this country. So, number one, we reject any effort, notion, suggestion that Muslims should start spying on one another.” Right there, Al-Marayati is instructing Muslim Americans to not even attempt to observe any extremism or terrorist activity in their community, and even if they should observe something troubling, to not inform law enforcement authorities, that the duty owed to the Muslim community by the government is greater than to society at large...
...Al-Marayati is instructing Muslim Americans not to cooperate with the FBI’s preferred methods of investigation, and that, as he stated earlier, it is the Muslim community, and its so-called leaders, that should define the terms of the FBI’s investigation. That approach can hardly be described as full-fledged cooperation with law enforcement...
“The council (CAIR), asked mosques and Islamic institutions in New Jersey
Carbon credits may reduce only guilt
May 6, 2007
Even some environmentalists oppose carbon credits because, they say, offsets tend to give the impression that global warming is being solved.
Worse, reports of fraud and abuse are piling up. Most recently, an investigation by The Financial Times found that companies and individuals "rushing to go green have been spending millions on 'carbon credit' projects that yield few if any environmental benefits."
The London
Bees mass death stings scientists
A small German scientific study looking at a specific type of cordless phones and homing systems of bees exploded over the Internet and late-night television shows.
It morphed into erroneous reports blaming cell phones for the honeybee die-off, which scientists are calling Colony Collapse Disorder.
The scientist who wrote the paper, Stefan Kimmel, e-mailed The Associated Press to say that there is “no link between our tiny little study and the CCD-phenomenon ... anything else said or written is a lie.”
And the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s top bee researcher Jeff Pettis laughs at the idea, because whenever he goes out to investigate dead bees, he cannot get
House GOP hits shift of spy funds to study climate
May 4, 2007
Senior House Republicans are complaining about Democrats' plans to divert "scarce" intelligence funds to study global warming.
The House next week will consider the Democrat-crafted Intelligence Authorization bill, which includes a provision directing an assessment of the effects that climate change has on national security.
"Our job is to steal secrets," said Rep. Peter Hoekstra of Michigan
"There are all kinds of people analyzing global warming, the Democrats even have a special committee on this," he told The Washington Times. "There's no value added by the intelligence community here; they have no special expertise, and this takes money and resources away from other threats."
Democrats, who outnumber Republicans on the committee, blocked the minority from stripping the warming language from the bill.
Intelligence panel Chairman Silvestre Reyes, Texas Democrat, said the climate-change study is one of several shifts his party has made to intelligence policy...
...The staffer added that the U.S.
"There are other parts of the government better suited to doing this type of study," agreed Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican. "Our government should not commit expensive spy satellites and human intelligence sources to target something as undefined as the environment."
...Several Republicans trotted out the statistic that the government already spends $6.5 billion annually on global-warming related issues through several agencies, including NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency...
GLOBAL WARMING: Not the End of the World as We Know It
DER SPIEGEL May 7, 2007
How bad is climate change really? Are catastrophic floods and terrible droughts headed our way? Despite widespread fears of a greenhouse hell, the latest computer simulations are delivering far less dramatic predictions about tomorrow's climate.
Svante Arrhenius, the father of the greenhouse effect, would be called a heretic today. Far from issuing the sort of dire predictions about climate change which are common nowadays, the Swedish physicist dared to predict a paradise on earth for humans when he announced, in April 1896, that temperatures were rising -- and that it would be a blessing for all.
Arrhenius, who later won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, calculated that the release of carbon dioxide -- or carbonic acid as it was then known -- through burning coal, oil and natural gas would lead to a significant rise in temperatures worldwide. But, he argued, "by the influence of the increasing percentage of carbonic acid in the atmosphere, we may hope to enjoy ages with more equable and better climates," potentially making poor harvests and famine a thing of the past...
...During the so-called Medieval Warm Period between about 900 and 1300 A.D., for example, the Vikings raised livestock on Greenland and sailed to North America . New cities were built all across Europe , and the continent's population grew from 30 million to 80 million.
The consequences of the colder temperatures that plunged civilization into the so-called Little Ice Age for several centuries after 1300 were devastating. Summers were rainy, winters cold, and in many places temperatures were too low for grain crops to mature. Famines and epidemics raged, and average life expectancy dropped by 10 years. In Germany
The shock produced by the cold was as deep-seated it was long-lasting. When temperatures plunged unexpectedly once again in the 1960s, many meteorologists were quick to warn people about the coming of a new ice age -- supposedly triggered by man-made air pollution. Hardly anyone at the time believed a warming trend could pose a threat.
It was not until the rise of the environmental movement in the 1980s that everything suddenly changed. From then on it was almost a foregone conclusion that global warming could only be perceived as a disaster for the earth's climate...
This is a good but long article, more at
Plot Illustrates Balkans' Role As Islamist Foothold
May 9, 2007
Pg. 16
The six foreign-born Muslims accused of planning a shooting attack at the U.S. military base included four ethnic Albanians, and U.S.
Prosecutors described the men as "radical Islamists," with four coming from the province of Kosovo in the former Yugoslavia , where the ethnic Albanian population of Muslims fought one of the several wars that grew out of the breakup of Yugoslavia
U.S. officials said the Islamists were motivated by al Qaeda sympathies and that ringleader Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer, who was born in Jordan, had copies of the wills of two September 11 terrorists on his laptop computer.
...U.S. officials said intelligence reports from the Balkans have identified a support structure for several terrorist groups, including al Qaeda, among the Muslim communities in Albania and in the former Yugoslavia , including Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo and Macedonia
...a Congressional Research Service report produced in 2005 said instability in Albania
...Balkan Muslims also have been targets of al Qaeda recruitment efforts because they have an easier time blending in or evading U.S.
...Bosnia Bosnia
...European intelligence agencies estimate that as many as 750 Muslim former fighters remain hidden in Bosnia
...Officials also said the nongovernmental organization Revival of Islamic Heritage Society remains active in the region and spreads the radical Wahhabi form of Islam that animates al Qaeda...
Story #2: Big Oil Steers Money to...
RUSH: All right: a little lesson here in Drive-By Media coverage as it relates to the way they cover news about Republicans and Democrats. Story here from the Houston Chronicle, written by Bennett Roth of the Houston Chronicle Washington
The headline: "Houston-area firms steering PAC money to Democrats -- PAC money is steered toward party that heads key committees."
Well, pretty boring, right? This is standard day-by-day stuff in politics, is it not? Let's read further.
"Several large Houston-area companies in the Republican-leaning energy industry..." hmm "...and other sectors have been shifting federal campaign contributions to Democrats, who are flexing their new power in Congress as they draft legislation on energy and the environment. Political action committees for companies including..." whoa! "...ConocoPhillips, BP Corp. and Continental Airlines gave a significantly higher percentage of their contributions to Democrats in the first quarter of 2007."
Well, now, wait just a second here! Are we to now believe that Conoco, Phillips, British Petroleum, and other Big Oil companies are companies in the energy industry? Why, I guess so! Why, when Big Oil gives money to Democrats, they are "Houston-area firms," leading energy industry firms steering PAC money to Democrats.
Now, can you imagine if this story was about these Big Oil companies giving money to Republicans? Do you know how this story would be rewritten? Do you know how the headline would be different? "Big Oil Firms Continue to Enrich Republicans," whatever, whatever. It would be an entirely different thing! So now that Big Oil is lavishing cash on the Democrats, they're just "firms" and "energy industries;" they're not Big Oil...
RI Students Must Watch 'Inconvenient Truth' to Graduate
May 09, 2007
To receive a degree from Roger Williams University in Rhode Island
The controversy at Roger Williams University (RWU) in Bristol , R.I.
The course is one of 12 that students at the university must take in order to graduate.
However, Dana Peloso, an RWU junior and president of the school's chapter of the College Republicans, sent a letter questioning the course requirement to Jeffrey Hughes, assistant dean of marine and natural sciences.
"With the issue of global warming being such a highly politicized topic, with the scientific community unsure if global warming is man-induced or part of the natural cycle of the earth, do you think that it is intellectually honest to only show the alarmist viewpoint?" Peloso asked.
"If the movie is still shown, what plans are there to incorporate the ideas of leading global warming skeptics into class discussion?" he added...
Website offers Christian alternative to 'MySpace' and 'Facebook'
May 9, 2007
HisHolySpace.com, a Christian alternative to online communities such as MySpace and Facebook, is now up and running.
Earlier this month, www.HisHolySpace.com was unveiled as an online Christian community structured on the essentials of the Christian faith. The website allows users to register then post profiles listing their interests, ministries they are involved with, and other information. Jeff Broderick, founder of the website, says while there is a huge need for such an Internet site, the primary purpose of HisHolySpace.com is that God be glorified...
...HisHolySpace.com has already attracted more than 11,000 members. Broderick says HisHolySpace will provide free evangelism tools and other resources for Christians.
The World is Coming to an End
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
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