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Saturday, September 30, 2006

SO, HOW ARE WE GOING TO LIVE IN THE NEXT FEW DECADES…...?

Like Robert Redeker, perhaps? He’s the high school philosophy teacher in France, who has joined POPE BENEDICT....and AYAAN HIRSI ALI.....and THEO VAN GOGH.....and the DANISH CARTOONISTS....and SALMAN RUSHDIE......and a host of others. He wrote a column in a local paper offering criticism of Islam and its penchant for violence. A sample:

“Islam tries to dictate its rules to Europe: opening swimming pools at certain hours exclusively for women, forbidding the caricature of this religion, demanding a special diet for Muslim children in school cafeterias, fighting for wearing the veil in school, accusing free thinkers of Islamophobia.”

For which…...he has been subjected to death threats that have driven him and his family into hiding.

Posted by Earl on 09/30 at 11:24 PM
Politics • International • Iraq • (0) Comments •

HAVE I TOLD YOU RECENTLY HOW MUCH I MISS RONALD REAGAN, AMERICA’S GREATEST PRESIDENT?

Oh, well…..maybe that’s a little bit over the top. I’m willing to listen to arguments for someone else…..Lincoln springs to mind. But, Reagan was surely the greatest in my lifetime, and I think there’s a good case to be made for the greatest of the 20th Century - he certainly leads anyone we’ve had since he was in there.

Posted by Earl on 09/30 at 10:48 PM
Miscellany • Politics • International • (0) Comments •

WHAT DO YOU “KNOW” ABOUT THE PRISON AT GUANTANOMO BAY?

Just what you’ve seen, heard, and read in the major media, right? You’ve been mislead…..even shown prisoners occupying facilities that haven’t been in use for years.

RICH LOWRY has been down there, walked around, talked with guards, observed interrogation, eaten the food, etc.

Posted by Earl on 09/30 at 10:33 PM
Politics • International • Iraq • (0) Comments •

WHERE ARE YOU GETTING YOUR NEWS ABOUT IRAQ?

Have you seen photos like this one recently?

This little boy said, in English, “Thank you for making me safe”.

There’s more…........

Posted by Earl on 09/30 at 10:27 PM
Politics • Iraq • (2) Comments •

DID YOU HEAR ABOUT CLINTON’S APPEARANCE ON FOX NEWS SUNDAY WITH CHRIS MATTHEWS?

Hard to believe you could have escaped it…..but have you SEEN their exchange?

It’s been years since the man was President - almost long enough to forget the frat boy look as he stares in to your eyes and tells those lies…....

He really tried to intimidate Matthews - violating personal space, and wagging his finger (“I did not have…...“ Remember?). But, it didn’t work - Matthews held his ground.

Posted by Earl on 09/30 at 10:05 PM
Politics • (0) Comments •

THE MAJOR MEDIA CAN’T MAKE UP ITS MIND ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE…...

Are you aware that their story has changed at least four times over the last 100 years? I wasn’t.

And that every time, the hype was much the same? I could have guessed that, of course…....

Posted by Earl on 09/30 at 09:36 PM
Science • Environment • Politics • (0) Comments •

HOW BIG IS OUR UNIVERSE…....?

You can get a sense of it HERE

View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons.

You’ll be impressed!

Posted by Earl on 09/30 at 09:33 PM
Science • Intelligent Design • (0) Comments •

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