Was Jesus Political? Why Such a Hard Time with Miracles? Right on the money I think on the current state of the middle east war and terrorism - watch this Al-Jazeera TV clip with Arab-American Psychologist Wafa Sultan from Feb,...
HOUSTON -- Houston's police chief on Wednesday proposed placing surveillance cameras in apartment complexes, downtown streets, shopping malls and even private homes to fight crime during a shortage of police officers.
Education will get a portion of the money that the poor and middle class invests into the lottery but that certainly doesn’t sound like a “good cause” and it’s certainly not a good effect?
“Katrina is comparable in intensity to Hurricane Camille of 1969, only larger,” warned the National Hurricane Center on Sunday, August 28, 2005. Moderate Resolution Spectroradiometer (MODIS) captured this image from NASA’s Terra satellite at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Savings...
I’m really fed up with Pat Robertson at this point. First he is calling for the assassination of a world leader on national television and now he is lying about it.
Russian President Vladimir Putin cautioned against going too far and putting more restrictions on democracy. In doing that, "We would be giving a great gift to the terrorists themselves because they are aiming exactly for that," Putin told reporters. "They want to use the instruments of democratic society to destroy democracy."
WASHINGTON - The federal agency in charge of aviation security collected extensive personal information about airline passengers even though Congress forbade it and officials said they wouldn't do it, according to documents obtained Monday by The Associated Press
I don’t use studios much anymore because I can take just as good shots myself. If I do there is a good chance I won’t find someone to print them. I want to be able to take photos upload them to Wal-Mart and get them printed in an hour and go pick them up. I want to be able to take photos for friends and family to save them money on professional studio shots.
The Onion - I was pretty worried a year or so ago when the news came out that thousands of people had been indiscriminately slaughtered in Darfur. It was unsettling to hear that citizens of one ethnicity (Arab, maybe?) were...
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Since when did Americans have to register for our freedom? Since the U.S. Senate passed 100-0 an $82 billion Iraq Supplemental Spending Bill which just happens to include the Real ID act driver's license "reform".
Donald Herbert sat unmoving in a wheelchair, drooling and barely aware. For the once robust firefighter, 10 minutes without oxygen had turned into nearly 10 years without seeing or speaking.
His wife refused to give up.
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"Thousands of teachers are saddled with error-filled physical science textbooks," wrote John Hubisz, a physics professor at North Carolina State University at Raleigh and the author of the report. "Political correctness is often more important than scientific accuracy. Middle-school text publishers now employ more people to censor books than they do to check facts."
An 11 year old kid from Tulsa started saveourlooneytunes.com to protest the new Warner Brothers cartoon "loonatics" which is a sad rework of the classic looney tunes cartoon characters where they battle evil in the year 2772. Nope I am not making this up. ( I ranted about these dark looking anime-styled versions of Bugs and friends in an earlier post when I first heard about it. )
Adobe buys Macromedia? I hadn’t expected this particular merger. I have always joked what a powerhouse it would be if Adobe did buy Macromedia but I was really hoping Microsoft would by Adobe and offer some massive competition to Macromedia.
Last month, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a group that represents farm workers in southern Florida, announced that it was ending a four-year boycott of Taco Bell. The most remarkable thing about the announcement was the reason behind it: Taco Bell had acceded to all of the coalition's demands. But its still Nasty.
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LAtimes.com Article - For the first time in 14 years, the American workforce has in effect gotten an across-the-board pay cut. The growth in wages in 2004 and the first two months of this year trailed inflation, compounding the squeeze...
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Kansas 9-year-old tries to swap gun for Xbox, but the trade never went through, and it didnt, and wasnt to happen on school property. But the school wields it's power anway.
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We've taken this well-designed, highly popular advanced vehicle and souped it up -- or more accurately, "green-tuned" it! We've added batteries and grid-charging, and you get PRIUS+, a "gas-optional or plug-in" hybrid (PHEV). That means no gas when you do your errands on local streets at 35mph. On the highway, it runs just like any other Prius, with the gasoline engine doing most of the work -- and the extra batteries kicking in to improve performance at ALL speeds.
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Karwoski's teachers grade papers by giving examples of better answers for those students who make mistakes. But that approach meant the kids often found their work covered in red, the color that teachers long have used to grade work.
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Precinct 333 has a post about hate speech laws in Canada. Turns out that writing a letter to the editor saying homosexuality is immoral: Hate Speech. Saying on a television talk show that all adult Israelis are "legitimate targets" for Palestinian terrorists: Not Hate Speech
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This is a new Warner Brothers series called “Loonatics” which is set in 2772, features descendants of Bugs and his Looney Tunes pals. However they are “Endowed with individual super powers and unique abilities.” I think this idea must...
Michael Bates from the blog BatesLine which specializes in coverage of the Tulsa, Oklahoma, has received a letter from the Tulsa World demanding that he cease and desist from quoting "in whole or in part" any content, and even linking to material from the Tulsa world, the cities newspaper giant.
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I wanted to update every one on my earlier post about young children being allowed to watch very extreme violence and gore at the new Bricktown Harkin Theatre.
I received a reply from Mike Bowers, Vice President of Harkins who has taken the time to address the issues we have raised.
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President Bush released his administration's proposed 2006 federal budget. Budgets are moral documents. This administration's proposed budget reflects a set of priorities that stand in clear opposition to biblical values. Paying attention to the poorest among us is arguably the most central biblical imperative-not increased spending on nuclear warheads and tax cuts for the rich.
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The last weeks of 2004 saw several explicit warnings from the antiwar Right about the coming of an American fascism. Paul Craig Roberts in these pages wrote of the “brownshirting” of American conservatism—a word that might not have surprised had it come from Michael Moore or Michael Lerner. But from a Hoover Institution senior fellow, former assistant secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration, and one-time Wall Street Journal editor, it was striking.
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CNN Experts Agree: Al Qaeda leader is dead or alive.
Nice to see they came to an agreement on that. "Experts" indeed...way to go CNN and they say mainstream media has problems.
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This is a great thing for Oklahoma. zdnet.com article- In another example of U.S. tech companies seeking to offer low-cost alternatives to offshoring, systems integrator Ciber has opened a facility in Oklahoma City. Greenwood Village, Colo.-based Ciber said the Oklahoma...
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It's easy to focus on all the bad things that have happened this year and in previous years because bad news is just about all the media likes to report on. Bad news is dramatic and sensational and much easier a manipulation tool than good uplifting news.
Christmas is the Holiday in which we celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus the Christ. We don't know the exact day of his birth, but this is the time in which we celebrate, and acknowledge publicly, this miraculous event in history.
Yes, Christmas is a religious holiday as well as Easter. I can’t even begin to imagine how celebrating them offends someone, or why someone should be “protected” from viewing these events being celebrated.
We were able to go to a special screening of Blade last wed. (Dec 1st) at the new Downtown Harkin Theatre in Bricktown. While the movie was good what we saw going down at the theatre was not.
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GRAND ISLAND, N.Y. -- Just before her afternoon run, school bus driver Julianne Thompson was reading an interview with Mel Gibson, in which the actor spoke out against stem cell research. When her elementary school passengers hopped aboard for the ride home, Thompson decided to share what was still fresh in her mind.
Back in October I about this woman who wouldn’t let her privates get fondled at the Denver International Airport and was banned from boarding the plane because of it. Well looks like this could be happening at an airport near you.
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Trial Begins Over Georgia School Evolution Disclaimer ... ATLANTA - A trial opened Monday over whether a warning sticker in suburban Atlanta biology textbooks that says evolution is "a theory, not a fact" violates the separation of church and state by promoting religion.
The kids in Mr. Reister's first grade class at Raleigh Park Elementary School in Beaverton, Oregon were given a class project to re-write the Pledge of Allegiance. Mr. Reister's class removed all of the references to religion, nationalism, democracy and basically all allegiance and replaced the very heart of our pledge with bland political correctness.
928,303 people in oklahoma like the idea of taking advantage of desperate people. They also dont mind keeping the middle class down, weakening economic conditions, and raising the abortion rate.
Man... just what I needed to validate my thoughts on the recent intellect of society. This just irks me and depresses me all at the same time. Why don't our differences make it a beautiful world?
The Supreme Court said Tuesday it will take up the constitutionality of Ten Commandments displays on government land and buildings, a surprise announcement that puts justices in the middle of a politically sensitive issue.
In an effort to keep myself abreast of all things involving so called “homeland security” and the ridiculous oppression that has grown out of it I came across this little gem. And it just happens to involve a breast or two.
