Intelligence Expelled

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In the middle of "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed," Ben Stein's movie about the assault on Intelligent Design by the intellectual "gatekeepers" in the nation, a prominent evolutionist tries to explain just how mud might have turned into the first cell.

"One popular theory is that it might have started on the back of crystals," says Michael Ruse.

I laughed out loud, but Stein, unflappable, keeps a poker face.

"I don't get," he deadpans, "how you get from mud to a living organism."

"I've already told you," Ruse continues, apparently unaware of just how silly he sounds.

Such is one of the telling moments in the movie, which came out last year, and is now available in video stores.

As the second half of the school year is starting across New Jersey and the nation, it is worth visiting this movie just to see one perspective on how the battle of evolution versus intelligent design is being waged.

(It also serves as a lead-in to some of the fun we're going to have on this blog debating that issue.)

Ben Stein makes three telling points:

George Berkin has done a great job on his blog Intelligent Design.  Click below to read the rest of this excellent post

 

Ben Stein Movie: "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" - NJVoices: George Berkin

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Celebrating One Family Under God

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Merry Christmas ,

Brothers and Sisters.

Something very special is remembered at this time. 

The genealogy of Jesus the Christ shows that Mary,  Tamar and others,  made a breakthrough for Human History. These women  made great effort, at the risk of their lives, to stand with God's will providing for the pure lineage of Jesus. 

Jesus called God, Father.  He taught us to pray saying, "Our Father . . . "

His birth and life opened the way for us to live as brothers and sisters. Let's celebrate.

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What makes Mint.com stand out is how easy it is to use. Unlike other sites, you don't have to download your bank account activity.—Orlando Sentinel

 

Simple, one-time set up

Create your anonymous Mint account, then add your bank, credit card and investment accounts. This set up takes only five minutes – and that’s all the data entry Mint ever asks of you.

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'Twas the Night Before Christmas

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Did you ever feel bad because you forgot a birthday?  Don't feel bad.  Did you know that just celebrating birthdays has been a problem for some, even if it is Christ's?  Origen, an early father of the Christian community felt so.  As the popularity of Santa Claus increased from 1823 some wanted to do away with the celebration of Christmas altogether.  Read about it in Joshua King's 'The Examination and Trial of Father Christmas' (1868) which was written shortly after Christmas was reinstated as a holy day in England. 

Isn't it interesting that storytelling, poems, songs and the like can catch the spirit and imagination of a society and carry it to places it had never imagined before.  Such can be the power of word and image at the service of inspiration.

"'Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse..." So begins one of the best-known and best-loved tales of Christmas, "A Visit From St. Nicholas." Published on this date in 1823, most sources attribute authorship of the poem to Clement Clarke Moore, a professor of Oriental and Greek Literature in New York. The poem's description of Santa Claus, his sleigh and slide down the chimney and other aspects of Christmas influenced the way in which Americans came to celebrate the holiday.
Quote: "Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!" — "A Visit From St. Nicholas"

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A New Era is Coming

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A NEW TIME IS COMING According to Reverend Moon, this present materialistic age will soon yield to a new age of spirituality, one based on the universal principle of unselfish service to others and a culture of God-centered families where people of all nations, cultures, races and religions will rejoice together. In the following sections, learn about Reverend Moon's life, The Divine Principle and work of eight decades to bring about this new era.

Source: Rev. Sun Myung Moon Official Website

 

In 1982 my wife and I were blessed in marriage at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York USA with 2075 other couples, 

Participating in ushering in a new age based on the universal principle of unselfish service to others and a culture of God-centered families where people of all nations, cultures, races and religions will rejoice together.

We know that, as we prepare for this and as we move towards it with one heart and one mind, we will bring this to pass. We will see the day where thousands and tens of thousands of Christians and Catholics and Buddhists and other religions can honor and worship together with us, as a Unification family.

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The Tree of Life

Artist Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) was a forerunner of Modernism and the Art Deco movements, helping to pioneer the Viennese Secession and Art Nouveau movements.

Bob Franken: Modern-Day Pyramids and Ponzi Schemes :Huffington Post

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"As we're discovering, almost the entire economy is the moral equivalent of a Ponzi scheme."  Think about it.  Our currency is base on Trust.  People trusted Madoff but when he had to payoff, it became clear he really Mad(e)off with their money. 

Interestingly similar, people trust the United States with their tax money and the printing of currency.  With the creation of 7 to 8 trillion in new money are we approaching a "Madoff" point where the trust just isn't there?

When so many of our citizens and institutions are expecting a payoff (bail-out) from the government . . .we move further away from the democratic experiment the founders of our American democracy envisioned.  A democracy  for moral, responsible people.  A people whose payoff comes through moral living, creative enterprise, and respect of each other as one family under the creator from whom life, liberty and this pursuit of happiness are freely bestowed.

I'm a conservative and yet I'm glad Obama is president.  He is the only one with enough charisma to move forward . . . as long as the grime sooooooo near him . . . doesn't tarnish his image is the eyes of the people. On this point I'll bet even the Democrats are learning to pray.  ME?! I'm already praying and working on plan B.

I don't really understand why we're paying so much attention to Bernard Madoff.

Oh sure sure, if the charges are accurate, the collapse of his Ponzi scheme might just put him in the Fraud Hall of Fame.

But he'll have plenty of company. In the world of finance, however, it's probably more accurate to say he will achieve new heights in the realm of illegal fraud.

As we're discovering, almost the entire economy is the moral equivalent of a Ponzi scheme.

Hyperbole? Well, let's see:

While the operating details may be different... somewhat anyway...it's undeniable that much of our financial and industrial structure is a Pyramid based on a phantom foundation.

It has been constructed by opportunists who were such con artists they didn't care whether it ultimately imploded, as long as they got theirs.

Or so inept they had no business around the building.

Or worst, the people who adopted the "Get along-go along" approach to success...never going against the grain, no matter what.

Those may be the most corrupt of all, since their expedient "make no waves" mentality was at the very least amoral, which is another way of saying immoral.

By the way, that would include the politicians who looked the other way so they could either get the crumbs in the form of campaign contributions, or because raising a stink was simply too much of a hassle.

Now that the chickens have come home to roost the home has caved in.

There are important differences between Madoff and the others:

First of all, he has not had the chutzpah to ask for a multi billion dollar loan to bail him out. At least so far.

Secondly, a sizable chunk of those who have been harmed by his enterprise are the prosperous, or soon-to-be former prosperous.

The rest of the financial schemes have damaged or destroyed the well-being of nearly everyone..rich, poor and somewhere in between, including those who believe that Ponzi was a character on "Happy Days"

During these UNhappy days, as we clean up this mess, we need to go beyond oversight regulation. It is essential that we write into the law prohibitions that drag a lot of these shady dealings and their dealers across that narrow line that separates barely legal and illegal.

In other words we need to call all this larcenous conduct what it is: A crime.

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Guard yourself against identity theft on social networks | Dallas Morning News | Pamela Yip

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Yes, we have freedom in America. But . . .

 

Guard yourself against identity theft on social networks

08:14 AM CST on Monday, December 8, 2008

By PAMELA YIP / The Dallas Morning News
pyip@dallasnews.com

The next source of identity theft may be social networking Web sites.

And social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook are becoming a "growing pool of valuable information that at some point thieves may consider more valuable than a credit report," Mr. Mitic said.

For example, most of us use facts associated with our lives as user words or passwords, and thieves are learning they can mine these facts from social networking sites.

"I know most Americans who, if they have pets, that's usually their password," Mr. Mitic said. "The information that may seem innocuous to share may have real value to individuals with criminal minds."

Social networking sites enable people to freely express themselves in a way that may cause them to unwittingly drop morsels of information that criminals can extract to steal their identity.

Here's how it might work:

Your profile says that you live in Texas, you were born in Dallas, your beloved pet's name is Max and that you like to spend time with your parents, Dick and Jane.

It also says that today you're venting your anger at your bank – Bank XYZ – because it's been slow to resolve a problem with your account.

Now criminals know the name of your bank, the name of your pet and your mother's name. They will seek to learn your mother's maiden name, which is often used as a security question on bank Web sites.

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1971 December 15th

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Lest we forget.  These documents show the founders of America understood that the creator and the people, not the government, is the source of the power for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

• Bill of Rights: Amendments I-X of the US Constitution, granting substantial individual liberties, became law (1791)

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World Vision - Microenterprise Development Program: How Microloan Works

 

Much thanks to Ant_L.Xanga.com for this insight.

Microenterprise Development Program: How Microloan Works

1. The entrepreneurial poor apply for loans:
A traditional bank loan is unattainable for most of the world’s poor. They have no credit, they may own no property, and if they have a business, it’s likely struggling despite long hours of hard work. Through a variety of strategies like group lending through community banks, and cross-guarantees, loans can effectively and efficiently be provided to people who lack collateral but who demonstrate an entrepreneurial spirit, trustworthiness, a good work ethic, and sound business ideas. The proof it works: 96% of loans are repaid on time!
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2. World Vision disburses microloans:
Loan sizes vary from $50 to $5,000, most typically in the $100 to $2,000 range. Usually loans are given to groups of five to 30 microbusiness operators who band together for self-administration, mutual encouragement, and accountability. This ensures that even the poorest of the poor can have access to credit because these entrepreneurs cross-guarantee each other’s loans and support each other’s businesses. Most World Vision loan recipients are women, who consistently use their extra income to benefit their children.
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3. Credit officers coach loan recipients:
Credit officers begin coaching clients before they receive their first loan, and continue with regular follow-up throughout the term of the loan. Business coaching includes assistance with accounting, marketing, and managing—all based on biblical and ethical business principles.
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4. Growing businesses thrive:
With a loan, entrepreneurs start carpentry shops, improve farming, operate flower businesses, purchase livestock, run food services, and weaving businesses, to name a few. These businesses create jobs and generate additional goods and services, thereby enhancing the entire community. Last year, over 185,000 jobs were created or sustained through our clients’ business successes.
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5. Loans are repaid:
The poor are a good credit risk, repaying their loans more than 96 percent of the time. As loans are repaid, borrowers become eligible for larger loans. The reasonable interest rate sustains the loan program, while maintaining low arrears and efficient operations.
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6. Families gain self-sufficiency:
Families who receive small loans report better family health, an increase in their business earnings, and the ability to spend more on food, medicine, and education. According to a study by George Washington University of microloan recipients in World Vision projects:

• More than 90 percent reported improved business skills.
• 75 percent reported an increased sense of empowerment.
• 80 percent reported improved family health in East Africa.

Happy Health Machine: Picture for 1000 words

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"Happy health, happy family and happy world" is the motto of the company which represents the respect for our customers.

We have a confidence that our representative product, "Happy Health" will greatly contribute to improving customer's health. Exerting our best efforts to create healthy society, we promise to satisfy customers' expectation through the pioneer sprit and development of advanced technology.

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Intelligent Design, Creationism and Darwinism are buzzing and alive on the Internet

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Charles Darwin's 1837 sketch, his first diagram of an evolutionary tree from his First Notebook on Transmutation of Species (1837) on view at the the Museum of Natural History in Manhattan.

As long as Darwinists degrade those who question and hold up other possible explanations for life, as long as they hold their theory as a Dogma of Faith for the Scientific Community, as long as they hold life as an evolutionary accident and Science Fact the controversy will not die . . .

Below is a one day sample of Internet activity on this subject.

 

 Charles Darwin Bicentenary
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The controversy between ‘Evolution’ and ‘Creation’ has raged very strongly at times in the 150 years since Darwin’s book was published, and recently another contender, ‘Intelligent Design’, has entered the fray. ...
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Darwinism and Wikipedia
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It’s interesting that Martin Luther still receives more attention in the entry than Darwin does given that the Nazis themselves said that their beliefs had more to do with Darwin than Martin Luther. Their entry on Intelligent Design ...
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Darwin Worship Material
By Matthew Angle
James McGrath over at Exploring Our Matrix has a fun post here, about material that is meant to be used in churches to celebrate Darwin and evolution. The PDF even has a great little quip about the dangers of Intelligent Design. ...
Analytic Angles - http://analyticangles.wordpress.com/

 

This one looks really interesting, however, I feel the title and the overall gist of the article is positioned on evolution as . . . advancement of complexity over time and therefore at odds with creationists.  BUT.  The main point in this article is : Designer vs Atheism (Accident).  Muslim scientists are pro designer and anti accident.  So am I.  Anyway . . . let the debate rage on.

Muslim Scientists Prepare for Battle With Creationists
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A Harris poll conducted in November found 47 percent of Americans accept Darwin’s theory of evolution while 40 percent believe instead in creationism. ...
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History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today. Henry Ford

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Academic Freedom Essay Contest

Academic Freedom on Evolution Student Video and Essay Contest

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What this Is
A student video and essay contest inspired by Charles Darwin’s comment that “A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question.” The contest seeks the best student-created videos and essays that  communicate support for academic freedom to explore the evidence for and against Darwinian evolution  (for example, an entry might defend the right of teachers to present scientific evidence that challenges Darwinian evolution, or the right of scientists to conduct research about the theory of intelligent design). Entries will be judged based on their creativity, their accuracy, and their persuasiveness. The contest is sponsored by the Center for Science and Culture at Discovery Institute.

Entry Rules
Essays submitted should be authored by a single student and should be no longer than 2,000 words. They should be formatted as a MS Word file, double-spaced, and in a 12-point font. Essays must be submitted electronically along with the official entry form to contest@discovery.org by no later than 5:00 pm Pacific Coast time on January 23, 2009. Additional contest rules are posted below.

Videos submitted can be authored by up to 5 students and should be no longer than 5 minutes. Videos can use drama, comedy, satire, animation, and other methods to communicates their message.

How to submit videos:
Via Youtube: Contestants can join the YouTube Group “Academic Freedom Day Video Contest” by going to http://www.youtube.com/group/academicfreedomday.  Once there you can join the group to upload a video.  Videos will appear on the YouTube  Group “Academic Freedom Day Video Contest” page if they meet the contest requirements.  Additional contest rules are posted below.

Who Is Eligible
Students currently enrolled in high school (grades 9-12) or as a college undergraduate may enter the contest. (High school students include those attending private, public, or home schools.) Essays must be submitted by an individual student, but videos may be submitted by a group of up to 5 students.

 

Glenn Beck's ‘The Christmas Sweater’

From our family to yours. . .  If you give only one gift to you family this year . . . give them THE  CHRISTMAS SWEATER  Dec 18th Wednesday.   

The Christmas Sweater is a new Christmas Memory Play with Music, based on Glenn Beck's soon-to-be-released novel of the same name. It is an exciting and compelling piece of theatre, featuring national television/radio personality Glenn Beck, a 10-piece orchestra and a Broadway gospel singer. Filled with warmth and humor, The Christmas Sweater tells the story of real people as they come to terms with tragedy, family, redemption, love and the power of faith.

The production will be presented as a “Living Movie,” including impressive cinematic animation projections created expressly for this production. The vibrant musical score, which includes traditional Christmas carols, gospel hymns and original songs, underscores Glenn's telling of the tale, sets the various scenes and punctuates dramatic moments throughout.

The Christmas Sweater is, quite simply, a good story well told.

Don't miss your chance to see Glenn Beck like you’ve never seen him before - and from the comfort of your neighborhood movie theatre. Limited seats available – buy your tickets now!

Please note: The December 17th show will be broadcast LIVE. The December 18th show will be an encore prerecorded broadcast of the previous night's show.

Fathom and Mercury Radio Arts present Glenn Beck’s The Christmas Sweater Live from The Charleston Performing Arts Center on Wednesday, December 17th at 8:00pm ET / 7:00pm CT / 6:00pm MT and 8:00pm PT (tape delay) followed by an Encore at select theatres the following night Thursday, December 18th. Please check the theatre lists posted on this page for participating theatres.

PARTICIPATING THEATRES

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The Prophet: Speak To Us Of Work

By Khalil Kibran

As the building of the Peace Palace in Seoul, Korea begins I recall these words . . .

Then a ploughman said, "Speak to us of Work." And he answered, saying: You work that you may keep pace with the earth and the soul of the earth. For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life's procession, that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite. When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison? Always you have been told that work is a curse and labour a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfil a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born, And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life's inmost secret. But if you in your pain call birth an affliction and the support of the flesh a curse written upon your brow, then I answer that naught but the sweat of your brow shall wash away that which is written. You have been told also life is darkness, and in your weariness you echo what was said by the weary. And I say that life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, And all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, And all work is empty save when there is love; And when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God. And what is it to work with love?

Glenn Beck - The Argument Against Idiots: Separation of Church and State

Hey church goers.  Ever wonder why your pastor doesn't speak from the pulpit about issues of the day . . . like the issues swilling around the 2008 Presidential candidates.  Read and weep.  The go further to see Glenn Beck's responses.

11/25/08 update   There is a group in California which wants to take the Mormon Church to Court for their involvement in Amendment #8 Marriage is a Man and a Woman victory. 

The inquisition is here again.  Don’t just watch.  The next thing they will be doing is walling ‘Religious’ communities off from the rest of society.  Sound familiar.

 

The issue: 'Separation of Church and State' What the liberal whiners say: Thank GOODNESS for the Reverend Barry Lynn and Americans United for Separation of Church and State calling for the IRS to investigate that Catholic Bishop Arthur Serratelli, for jumping into this Presidential race...there is NO place for that in American politics...he needs to have his 501c status revoked!' 'Just as the Rev. Barry Lynn said: 'it's a HIDDEN AGENDA to sway votes!' 'Why do you hate CIVIL LIBERTIES...which is what the "C" and "L" in ACLU stand for...and why do you hate the U.S. Constitution? Like it or not religious zealots, there is a Constitutional separation of church and state in this country!

I couldn't stand the suspense.  Here are Glenn's suggested responses to such fear mongering.

Unificationists building One Family Peace Palace for All Faith Communities

November 2008  finds America going beyond race and with the building of the Peace Palace announcement we find an opportunity to go join together with all  religious traditions to celebrate, WE ARE ONE FAMILY.

Gratitude to True Parents who have opened the way for the greatest celebration in Human History: WE ARE ONE FAMILY.

Family Party Blog now turns from looking for what is wrong.  Now, more effort will be made to find and encourage what is good and right;  promoting the building a better future for mankind. 

The Family Party blog promotes building the 210,000 capacity Peace Palace by 2013 in Seoul, Korea.

 

 

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What do you think? The L.A. Times-Sen. Obama-Rashid Khalidi Tape Controversy « GretaWire

Click on the source link below and let them know what you think.  They mare read it on the air. 

 

What do you think? The L.A. Times-Sen. Obama-Rashid Khalidi Tape Controversy by Greta Van Susteren Weigh in! We want to hear from you!

Here's what I have to say:

When Obama was running for the Illinois senate, he had no problems with his camp insisting his opponent's private records, which his opponent wanted kept private for family reasons, be released to the public. The records were released under pressure from Obama and his opponent lost the election. Obama should allow the same principles of transparency which he has applied in the past. Obama should call on LA Times to release the video and audio. Obama should release his birth certificate. Obama should release his college papers from his days as a student at Columbia while under the tutelage of Kalid al Mansour.

Obama is hiding his past behind a MASK. Why? Because Obama's finely honed Saul Alinsky MASK of goodness, kindness and righteousness for socialist revolutionaries is hiding an Obama who is really a figurehead for Michael-Ayers-like revolutionary-social communists;  . . . hiding an Obama who is the Liberator of Jeremiah Weight's Theology of (racial hatred/class envy) Liberation; . . . hiding the Obama of Farrakhan's Messiah/Community Organizer for lost youths and hiding the Obama who is inspirer, protector and funder of Acorn's squirrels who gather nuts for the ballot box in hopes of spoiling an election suitable for fomenting division, mistrust, threatened riots and a contrived electoral result.

The mass media is insuring this charade extends to the desired conclusion: THE INAUGURATION OF THE MASK of goodness, kindness and righteousness.

After the inauguration . . . America will be left with what is behind the MASK: Obama the socialist communist distributor of wealth and class equalizer; Obama the Racial Messiah; Obama the the controller. Hello Weimar Republic, hello post-revolution Cuba.

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NewsMax: Obama Most Secretive

Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign says his campaign will bring a new level of honesty and transparency to the White House. Obama proudly touts that he and Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla, passed a law requiring more transparency via a public database of all federal spending.

But when it comes to offering the public documents about his own public and private activities, Obama’s record for openness gets an "F" grade.

During the heated Democratic primary, Obama complained of the Bush White House being “one of the most secretive administrations in our history” and chided Sen. Hillary Clinton for not releasing her White House schedules.

Ironically, Obama, just days away from possibly being elected president, continues to stonewall a growing chorus of information requests for documents about his legislative, personal health, education, financing, and background -- leaving many voters to cast ballots based on incomplete information.

And serious questions about his past continue to swirl as Election Day looms, fueled in part by his own campaign’s refusal to make relevant documents available.

And the press, usually banging at the door for candidates to make “full disclosure” is strangely quiet about Obama’s stonewalling.

A Newsmax survey of key Obama aspects of Obama’s public and private life continued to be shielded from the public.

Among the examples:

• Obama has released just one brief document detailing his personal health. McCain, on the other hands, released what he said was his complete medical file totaling more than 1500 pages. After criticism on the matter, last week the Obama campaign also released some routine lab-test results and electrocardiograms for Obama. All test results appeared normal, but many details about his health remain a mystery.
• Obama has refused to offer his official papers as a state legislator in Illinois, and has been unable to produce correspondence, such as letters from lobbyists and other correspondence from his days in the Illinois state senate. There are also no appointment calendars available of his official activities. “It could have been thrown out,” Obama said while on the campaign trail during the Democratic primary. “I haven’t been in the state Senate now for quite some time.”
• Obama has not released his client list as an attorney or his billing records. Obama has maintained that he only performed a few hours of legal work for a nonprofit organization with ties to Tony Rezko, the Chicago businessman convicted of fraud in June. But he has not released billing records that would prove this assertion.
• Obama won’t release his college records from Occidental College where he studied for two years before transferring to Columbia.
• Obama’s campaign refuses to give Columbia University, where he earned an undergraduate degree in political science, permission to release his transcripts. Such transcripts would list the courses Obama took, and his grades. President George W. Bush, and presidential contenders Al Gore and John Kerry, all released their college transcripts. (McCain has refused to release his Naval Academy transcript.)
• Obama’s college dissertation has simply disappeared from Columbia Universities archives. In July, in response to a flurry of requests to review Obama’s senior thesis at the Ivy League school, reportedly titled “Soviet Nuclear Disarmament,” Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt told NBC News “We do not have a copy of the course paper you requested and neither does Columbia University.”
• The senator has not agreed to the release of his application to the Illinois state bar, which would clear up intermittent allegations that his application to the bar may have been inaccurate.
• Jim Geraghty of the National Review has written extensively about Obama’s unwillingness to release records related to clients he represented while he was an attorney with the Chicago law firm of Davis, Miner, Barnhill, and Gallard. Obama was required to list his clients during his years in the Illinois senate. “Obama listed every client of the firm,” Geraghty reported, making it impossible to discern which clients he represented.
• Obama has never released records from his time at Harvard Law School.
• Obama also has not disclosed the names of small donors giving $200 or less to his campaign. An exception to the finance-reporting laws exempts the campaign from reporting those who donate less than $200, but that law never envisioned the more than $300 million that has been raised by Obama in small amounts. The Republican National Committee has released its small donors, as well as McCain’s, on a public database.

 

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Post-Darwinist: Intelligent design and popular culture: Spore game site dupes atheists

This lady is an enjoyable read.  After this you may want to visit  This youtube site and lol as Will Wright explains Spore and Frank Drake, founder of SETI, displays his own 'intelligently improved human' on his tie.  Intelligent design!?! You bet.  Try intelligent designing yourself at Spore.com

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The Wall Street Journal appears to have noticed Spore, the "design your own universe" game which subtly mocks the Darwinian fairy tale - if we go by Robert Costa's story, "Creation Simulation" (September 19, 2008):
Apparently, a horde of professional and amateur atheists noticed it also:

One site, AntiSpore.com, appeared to be set up to counter what one poster, a self-described concerned Christian parent, called the game's "propaganda aimed directly at our children to teach them evolution instead of creationism." But after thousands of postings on AntiSpore, mostly by angst-filled atheist gamers bewildered and angry that someone could actually question evolution, the anonymous creator of the site announced last week that AntiSpore was in fact a hoax.
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But while many proponents of evolutionary theory, and fans of Spore, were spoiling for a fight, their opponents have never really showed up to do battle -- there were no Spore-inspired creationist rallies, no talk-show specials, no railing sermons. The Spore debate has not devolved into a modern-day Scopes Monkey Trial. What happened?

The story essentially insults traditional Christians by assuming that they should have been as stupid as the atheists whose creating story is Darwinism - to which any magical result can be credited. So the big question is, why aren't the Christians so stupid? Why didn't they generally fall for gimmicks, like they are supposed to do in the script - and did not in fact do in the Scopes Monkey Trial either?

Source: Post-Darwinist: Intelligent design and popular culture: Spore game site dupes atheists

Harvard's propaganda for Obama

I liked this article by Washington Ellis of the WorldNetDaily.  However, I ' Reader Digested' his work so you might visit his site and look for more from Mr. Ellis.

Let me give you a few examples of this Pravdaesque technique from professor Sunstein's article:

• Throughout the article, Sunstein defines Obama with such words as "empiricist" (acquisition of knowledge through experience), "progressive" (code word for "liberal" or "liberalism" which since President Ronald Reagan, has become an infamous epithet), "independent thinker," "visionary minimalist" (advocating minimal [small] forms of government). Honestly, Sen. Obama possesses none of these qualities.
• Professor Sunstein writes: Obama believes in an individual right to own guns. Not so. Obama changed his view to support the Second Amendment and conventional conservatism because he saw the handwriting on the wall regarding the groundbreaking, pro-Second Amendment case, D.C. v. Heller (2008) where the Supreme Court majority overturned a 33-year handgun ban in Washington, D.C.

Other issues Obama has been forced to move to the right on – thus angering his liberal base – include:

• Obama's backtracking on his strong and early opposition to the Iraq war;
• Obama has said the death penalty may be appropriate for child rape;
• Obama has voted for wiretapping reform that includes retroactive immunity for telephone companies;
• Obama recently said that he does not want to reopen NAFTA negotiations unilaterally.

As a professor of constitutional law at Harvard, Sustain's should be ashamed of himself for presenting such fawning propaganda as a reasoned critique, as if his only readership were brainwashed cultists. I am not one such person.

There is more . . . click on the link below

Source: Harvard's propaganda for Obama

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Moldy Mattress Nets Inmate $295k - September 19, 2008

If you go to the link noted below, you will see the actual document making $295,000 the amount paid to the inmate for this oversight.  I wonder what % of the jury is married with children? 

Moldy Mattress Nets Inmate $295k Jury: Lousy bedding violated Wisconsin felon's constitutional rights SEPTEMBER 19--A Wisconsin man serving time for reckless homicide yesterday was awarded $295,000 by a federal jury that found the inmate's constitutional rights were violated when he was forced to spend two months sleeping on a moldy, waterlogged mattress. Reggie Townsend, 29, scored the six-figure windfall after a U.S. District Court panel decided that he was improperly treated while locked up in late-2004 at the New Lisbon Correctional Institution.

Source: Moldy Mattress Nets Inmate $295k - September 19, 2008

 

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FOXNews.com - 'Big Bang Machine' Successfully Completes First Test -

 This should be interesting.  The ultimate spin on the origin of the universe.

The world's largest particle collider successfully completed its first major test by firing a beam of protons all the way around a 17-mile tunnel Wednesday in what scientists hope is the next great step to understanding the makeup of the universe.

Source: FOXNews.com - 'Big Bang Machine' Successfully Completes First Test - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News

 

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Toastmasters International - What is Toastmasters?

I encourage anyone who is seriously interested in participation in their community, at any level, to join Toastmasters.  

What is Toastmasters? No, we don't make toasters! From a humble beginning in 1924 at the YMCA in Santa Ana, California, Toastmasters International has grown to become a world leader in helping people become more competent and comfortable in front of an audience. The nonprofit organization now has nearly 235,000 members in 11,700 clubs in 92 countries, offering a proven and enjoyable way to practice and hone communication and leadership skills. Most Toastmasters meetings are comprised of approximately 20 people who meet weekly for an hour or two. Participants practice and learn skills by filling a meeting role, ranging from giving a prepared speech or an impromptu one to serving as timer, evaluator or grammarian. There is no instructor; instead, each speech and meeting is critiqued by a member in a positive manner, focusing on what was done right and what could be improved. Good communicators tend to be good leaders.

Source: Toastmasters International - What is Toastmasters?

 

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Palin is going to do more for education than Piltdown Man. Inspired by an article from - The York Daily Record

 Palin is going to do more for education than Piltdown Man.

The Piltdown Man was 'discovered' and offered up to the public at the turn of the 20th century. For a generation Piltdown was the ' missing link', the affirmation of the true scientific fact of evolution.  However, analysis and time revealed Piltdown was a fabrication of a Darwinist zealot who joined a human skull with an ape jaw. Piltdown turned out to be a fabrication.  Many students in Universities during heydays of Piltdown were being taught 'evolution' as scientific fact.  They have grown needing to affirm the validity of their evolutionary science rather than engaging the scientific debate. The educated prodigy of the Piltdown era now insist that evolution is scientific fact.

I believe Palin's approach will stand much better because it allows people to decide based on the best information/science available.  Simply forcing students to drink evolution or creationism 'kool aid' is not science. 

Yeah Palin!  I agree with Palin's Stance.  Now the article that percolated this posting from yours truly.

Responding to a request for clarification of Palin's stance, a spokesman sent a list of news stories from when she was governor. Based on quotes in those stories, it appears Palin believes children should be allowed to talk about alternatives to evolution in class, but does not believe creationism or intelligent design should be part of a mandatory curriculum.

Source: Palin unlikely to push evolution issue - The York Daily Record

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Palin unlikely to push evolution issue - The York Daily Record

 The Piltdown Man, discovered and offered up at the turn of the 20th century was, for a generation, the ' missing link', the affirmation of the true scientific fact of evolution.  However, analysis and time Piltdown was revealed as fabrication of a Darwinist zealot who joined an ape skull and a human jaw turned out to be a fabrication of an .  Many youths in Universities at that time were being taught 'evolution' as scientific fact.  They have grown now to teach our children the same 'evolutionary science'. 

I believe Palin's approach will stand much better because it allows people to decide based on the best information available.  Simply forcing students to drink the evolution or creationism 'kool aid' of one theory or another is not science. 

Yeah Palin!  I agree with Palin's Stance.  Now the article that percolated this posting from yours truly.

Responding to a request for clarification of Palin's stance, a spokesman sent a list of news stories from when she was governor. Based on quotes in those stories, it appears Palin believes children should be allowed to talk about alternatives to evolution in class, but does not believe creationism or intelligent design should be part of a mandatory curriculum.

Source: Palin unlikely to push evolution issue - The York Daily Record

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