Saturday, November 14, 2009

Expert Pediatrician Exposes Vaccine Myths

Expert Pediatrician Exposes Vaccine Myths

What most people don’t know is that a virus is not “alive,” per se.

It is simply a piece or strand of either RNA or DNA. And even of itself, a virus can’t “do” anything.

In addition it is so tiny that it can only be seen under an electron microscope. It is much smaller than bacteria, which can only be seen in the regular microscope. So viruses cannot be isolated when you make a viral vaccine. All that can be isolated is the tissue, whether it’s human tissue or animal tissue that is believed to have been infected by that specific virus that you’re trying to isolate.

So when a viral culture or a set of cultures are made including the specific virus, you’re going to have the DNA of people or animals who were already infected. Those cells are then taken and grown on animal cells, whether it's monkey kidney cells or chicken embryo cells.

When mixed together, these cells will splice and recombine, which means that DNA from animal cells are going to mix with DNA from the known infected cells with the virus.

So by definition, a viral vaccine contains foreign animal and, even possibly, foreign human DNA. That’s why if you have an egg allergy, you shouldn’t get certain vaccines because it is known that there’s going to be egg protein in the vaccine.

So the question is, how safe is it to inject viral material that is embedded into the DNA of foreign DNA cells?

What studies have been done to actually test whether foreign DNA is getting into your body; whether it stays in your DNA; whether it gets into your brain; and whether there are foreign animal viruses that are inherently present in animal DNA to begin with?

The Dangers of Adjuvants

Adjuvants are used in vaccines in order to create a sufficiently strong immunological response. Adjuvants augment your immunological response.

But there is clear evidence that adjuvants, like aluminum and squalene impair your immune system.

So while you may be getting the antibodies desired, you are, at the same time, damaging your immune system. Particularly in children, this can set them up to develop chronic illness.

180 Degree Health - Heart Disease and Cholesterol

180 Degree Health - Heart Disease and Cholesterol: "Cholesterol levels are a pitiful indicator of heart disease risk to the point where they are really no indication at all. Mean serum cholesterol levels in France for example are almost identical to that of Americans, yet their heart disease risk is but a fifth of what America endures. This is just one of literally dozens of striking contradictions."

Since cholesterol levels couldn’t predict much of anything, it was subdivided into two categories of cholesterol types, HDL cholesterol and LDL cholesterol. Now, we were told, there is good cholesterol and bad cholesterol. Getting a reading on your total cholesterol profile is just now becoming a common practice, and guess what? It’s already ancient history too.

Now we know that there are other subcategories of cholesterol that refine risk even further. There is pattern a and pattern b LDL, “bad” cholesterol. That’s right, there is bad, bad cholesterol, and good, bad cholesterol. Oh brother. Turns out our war on bad cholesterol was rife with friendly fire, destroying yet another type of cholesterol that supposedly protects us from heart disease.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Michelle Malkin � P.C. in the U.S.A.: A deadly, bipartisan infection

Michelle Malkin � P.C. in the U.S.A.: A deadly, bipartisan infection

Michelle Malkin

Michelle Malkin

PC, Muslim, US Military.

Mostly Cajun, All American and Opinionated � The world turned upside down

Mostly Cajun, All American and Opinionated � The world turned upside down

Shale Gas Blasts Open World Energy Market

From UK Times

A stretch of coastline on the Texas-Louisiana border provides a startling glimpse of Europe’s energy future. There, where Lake Sabine empties into the Gulf of Mexico, a giant port was completed last year. Built at a cost of $1.5 billion (£900m), it was meant to be a vital new part of America’s energy infrastructure.

Giant tankers from places such as Qatar and Sakhalin island in Russia’s far east were meant to dock there to inject their cargoes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) straight into the national pipeline network.

The Sabine Pass terminal was meant to take about one ship a day but since it opened for business 18 months ago only 10 ships have come in.

“This big shiny new terminal was one of the ones built as the answer to declining US gas production and increasing demand,” said Steve Johnson president of Waterborne Energy, a Texas energy consultancy. “Now it’s in mothballs.”

It is much the same story at America’s eight other LNG import terminals. They are running at only 10% of capacity.

“We have had so much new production come on stream that all of a sudden the role of these terminals has changed dramatically,” said Johnson. “They are getting the world’s leftovers.”

The reason is shale gas — a new and abundant source of natural gas, trapped in rock formations. Oil companies have known about it for decades but always dismissed it because it was too expensive and difficult to extract. In the past few years new technologies that pump water underground to fracture the rock and free the gas have been perfected. The breakthrough has opened a new frontier for the energy industry and turned long-held assumptions about the world’s dwindling supplies on their head.

Suddenly, America is awash with gas. Tony Hayward, chief executive of BP, said it had created a “a revolution in the gas fields of North America”. In a report this summer, the US potential gas committee increased its estimates of American reserves by a third. The Department of Energy now predicts that shale gas could meet half America’s demand within two decades and turn the country into a net exporter.

Barrick shuts hedge book as world gold supply runs out - Telegraph

Barrick shuts hedge book as world gold supply runs out - Telegraph

Gold peak gold.

Sunday, November 08, 2009

Emigre with a Digital Cluebat

Emigre with a Digital Cluebat: "Quote of the Day

“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery'- Sir Winston Churchill"

Friday, November 06, 2009

Sense of Events

Sense of Events

Saturday, November 7, 2009

When the White House wants your opinion, they'll give it to you

The White House is letting it be known to Democrat political strategists and consultants that if they ever want to work in Washington again they'd better not be seen anywhere near a FoxNews Channel reporter or camera, so says Tom Elia.

One Democratic strategist said that shortly after an appearance on Fox he got a phone call from a White House official telling him not to be a guest on the show again. The call had an intimidating tone, he said.

The message was, "We better not see you on again,'' said the strategist, who spoke on condition of anonymity so as not to run afoul of the White House. An implicit suggestion, he said, was that "clients might stop using you if you continue.'
Hope and Change!

Oh, BTW, for next year's mid-term elections, "Hope and Change" is out. "Wing and a Prayer" is in.

Update: Tom Elia's source was a piece in the Chicago Tribune. But the White House is saying that the story is false.

iowahawk

iowahawk

America Take Can Pride In This Historic, Inspirational Disaster

[ed. note: for what it's worth, a rerun of a post that appeared here one year ago today.]

Although I have not always been the most outspoken advocate of President-Elect Barack Obama, today I would like to congratulate him and add my voice to the millions of fellow citizens who are celebrating his historic and frightening election victory. I don't care whether you are a conservative or a liberal -- when you saw this inspiring young African-American rise to our nation's highest office I hope you felt the same sense of patriotic pride that I experienced, no matter how hard you were hyperventilating with deep existential dread.

Yes, I know there are probably other African-Americans much better qualified and prepared for the presidency. Much, much better qualified. Hundreds, easily, if not thousands, and without any troubling ties to radical lunatics and Chicago mobsters. Gary Coleman comes to mind. etc etc

Curmudgeonly & Skeptical�

Curmudgeonly & Skeptical�

THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF
A VERY SPECIAL COMPANION.

Marc Miller sent this yesterday ...


“ I, your ever-faithful companion because of my burden of my illness upon me, I realize the end of my life is near, so I hereby leave you my words for my Last Will and Testament. I have little to give you in a material way. So many of your human companions strive for material gain. You know how this divides families at the end. There is nothing that I have to bequeath except my love and faith. These I leave to all those who have loved me.

I ask for my owners to remember me always; but not to grieve for me too long. All my life I have tried to be a comfort to them in sorrow and in indeed joy in their life’s happiness. It is very painful for me to think that even in death, I am causing them pain.

Let them know that I have had a wonderful life but now I am growing ill and have much pain. I should not want my pride to sink to humiliation. It is time for me to say “Goodbye.” It will be very sorrowful to leave you but; not a sorrow for me to die. Animals do not fear death as humans do. We accept this as part of our lives. What will become of me after death? I will be in a place where I will always be young. A place that will be a paradise for me. Some people call that “Heaven” Yes, animals have souls. God has a special place in heaven just for us.

I have another request. Please find another animal to be at your side. I know no one can take my place, but I will feel better knowing you are taking special care of another pet. I will leave that pet my leash, or my collar. My favorite pillow, or the special place in the car. It would be a poor tribute to me, if no one ever followed me.

One last word of farewell dear ones…Whenever you think of me say to yourself that I was the one you loved; and how much you loved me. No matter how deep my sleep, I shall hear you and not all the power of death can keep my spirit from wagging a grateful tail. May the angels always watch over you as they watch over me. Remember…I will always be with you in love.

Seven perfectly legal ways to get Windows 7 cheap (or even free) | Ed Bott’s Microsoft Report | ZDNet.com

Seven perfectly legal ways to get Windows 7 cheap (or even free) | Ed Bott’s Microsoft Report | ZDNet.com

Wednesday, November 04, 2009

The Oil Drum | The Bakken Shale - Has it Moved the Oil Needle?

The Oil Drum | The Bakken Shale - Has it Moved the Oil Needle?

Bakken info. Excellent

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Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Love Worth Finding Ministries with Adrian Rogers: Daily Treasures

Love Worth Finding Ministries with Adrian Rogers: Daily Treasures

Dare Not Be Silent

November 3, 2009

We are to praise our country when it does right. We are to preach to our country when it does wrong. God’s people dare not be silent.

Let me be very frank with you about politics and Christian involvement. Christians should not identify the Christian faith with Democrats or Republicans. We need to be free to tell both parties to repent and get right with God.

Christians will be civil, but we will not be silent. Nathan warned David. Elijah preached to Ahab. Eleazer warned Jehosophat. Daniel preached to Nebuchadnezzar. Moses warned Pharaoh. John the Baptist preached to Herod.

We must declare to any government under which we live: Whatever is morally wrong is not politically right. And as long as I am talking on this subject, let me add that as long as abortionists kill babies and doctors practice infanticide I will not be silent.

Adrian Rogers

Monday, November 02, 2009

The GOP Establishment Must Be Purged as the GOP Loses in NY-23 - Erick’s blog - RedState

Quote of the day
Erick’s blog - RedState: "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!—Ben Franklin"

Why Keep Geithner? | The Big Picture

Why Keep Geithner? | The Big Picture

A year ago it was revealed to the American people that our banking system was a legalized Ponzi scheme in which bank and insurance CEOs paid themselves billions of dollars in personal compensation to lend and insure assets with money they didn’t have to customers who couldn’t pay back the loans.

In those dark days between the fall of Lehman Brothers and before the presidential election, we were often carried through that time by the small glimmer of hope in that at least we would soon have a new leader who would hopefully fix this mess and punish those responsible.

Yet in the past 9 months, not only has the administration not fixed anything, they have made things much worse for anyone who isn’t a Wall Street banker. Therefore, we are past the point where anyone in power still gets the benefit of the doubt and the process of taking back our country for all citizens must begin now.

This is why I think we must ask if U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is still the right person for the job. It has become clear recently that back in his previous role as New York Federal Reserve Governor, he unnecessarily gave billions of dollars of US tax money to banks and insurance companies with few strings attached. And it is now becoming clear that his lack of meaningful action is helping many of these same banks steal more by legalizing their most economically dangerous, socially destructive and self-enriching practices.

Yesterday on NBC’s Meet the Press, Secretary Geithner again endorsed House bank reform legislation that would allow, by my calculations, as much as 80%, or $475 trillion, of the bank’s $600 trillion in crooked insurance schemes to still be held in secret. It was and is the secret risks held in this very market that led to our collapse in the first place and continue to pose massive future risk to the global economy.

From Licensed investigator Susan Daniels to judge Carter � Count Us Out

From Licensed investigator Susan Daniels to judge Carter � Count Us Out

Dear Judge Carter:

I am the private investigator who contacted Dr. Orly Taitz when I found that Barack Obama has been using a bogus social security number for years, which is a felony. I have been a licensed investigator for almost fifteen years and recognized it immediately as fraudulent.

If you had allowed Discovery and required the SSA to release his alleged application for that number (and I do not believe such an application exists), you would have realized it, too. Numbers are issued to a person in the state where they are living. Between 1977-79 when it was issued, he was living in Hawaii not Connecticut.

I now realize that you always intended to dismiss the case, because that’s what you were ordered to do. You have bartered your integrity for a lofty position and a hefty pension. Shame on you.

The men and and women in the military will continue to die under the direction of someone who is not entitled to hold the position of Commander in Chief and who is nothing more than a Chicago thug with questionable loyalties.

Semper Fi? I think not.

Sunday, November 01, 2009

Livermores Seven Trading Lessons | The Big Picture

Livermores Seven Trading Lessons | The Big Picture

Via Minyanville, we get this good version of Jesse Livermore’s trading rules, considered to be one of the best traders of all time:

Lesson Number One: Cut your losses quickly.

As soon as a trade is contemplated, a trader must know at what point in time he’ll be proven wrong and exit a position. If a trader doesn’t know his exit before he takes the entry, he might as well go to the racetrack or casino where at least the odds can be quantified.

Lesson Number Two: Confirm your judgment before going all in.

Livermore was famous for throwing out a small position and waiting for his thesis to be confirmed. Once the stock was traveling in the direction he desired, Livermore would pile on rapidly to maximize the returns.

There are several ways to buy more in a winning position — pyramiding up, buying in thirds at predetermined prices, being 100% in no more than 5% above the initial entry — but the take home is to buy in the direction of your winning trade – never when it goes against you.

Lesson Number Three: Watch leading stocks for the best action.

Livermore knew that trending issues were where the big money would be made, and to fight this reality was a loser’s game.

Lesson Number Four: Let profits ride until price action dictates otherwise.

“It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.”

One method that satisfies the desire for profit and subdues the fear of a losing trade is to take one half of your profit off at a predetermined level, put a stop at breakeven on the rest, and let it play out without micromanaging the position.

Lesson Number Five: Buy all-time new highs.

The psychological merits of buying all-time or 52-week highs are immense and shouldn’t be discounted as a part of your overall strategy.

Lesson Number Six: Use pivot points to determine trends.

When going long, traders are continually looking for confirmation by assessing the strength of a move. Higher highs and higher lows are a solid indicator that a current uptrend is merely taking a slight pause, and the odds of higher prices are in their favor. These same pivot points are integral to drawing support and resistance lines to give traders their line in the sand. Taken together, trend lines and pivot points can enlighten a trader to a change in momentum, which may change the character of a trade.

Lesson Number Seven: Control your emotions.

Our goal as traders should be to also make a critical yet honest assessment of the areas we can improve so the bottom line will support our claims of truly being seasoned traders. Adhering to the time-tested rules of Jesse Livermore would be a great start for anyone.

The full article is here.

Sense of Events

Sense of Events: "Sunday, November 1, 2009
Quote of the day

'Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve.

'It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle--when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.'

Roger Bannister, first person to run a mile in under four minutes

By Donald Sensing"

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Book Review - 'Ayn Rand and the World She Made,' by Anne C.�Heller - Review - NYTimes.com

Book Review - 'Ayn Rand and the World She Made,' by Anne C.�Heller - Review - NYTimes.com

Story of Ayn Rand more or less

24-stage frac job planned for Sanish Three Forks well - Oil & Gas Journal

24-stage frac job planned for Sanish Three Forks well - Oil & Gas Journal: "24-stage frac job planned for Sanish Three Forks well

Oct 28, 2009

Guntis Moritis
OGJ Production Editor

HOUSTON, Oct. 28 -- Whiting Petroleum Corp. plans to use 24-stages for hydraulically fracture its Ogden 11-3 TFH horizontal well, completed in the Three Forks reservoir in the Sanish field, Mountrail County, ND."

Charles Krauthammer : The Three Envelopes - Townhall.com

Charles Krauthammer : The Three Envelopes - Townhall.com

Friday, October 30, 2009

Gold vs Silver..Why The Debate? (by Market Sniper) - Slope Of Hope with Tim Knight

Gold vs Silver..Why The Debate? (by Market Sniper) - Slope Of Hope with Tim Knight

Ratios

At one point it was even at 100:1. I now use 45:1 and 70:1 as switch points. See your tax accountant as to the benefits of such a program. Think 1031 Tax Deferred Exchange. For those who do not want to break the rear axle of your automobile moving your silver when it comes time to switch, think about using ETF’s that solely reflect the price of the two metals. There are a variety of ways to accomplish this. From being in just one or the other to being long one and short the other.

IF your objective is to accumulate the actual physical metals, do not use ETF’s as a substitute for physical ownership. Rather, take profits from your switching trades and purchase the actual metals themselves. Gold vs. Silver? No debate, accumulate both.

Big Government � Blog Archive � Pelosi Health Care Bill Blows a Kiss to Trial Lawyers

Big Government � Blog Archive � Pelosi Health Care Bill Blows a Kiss to Trial Lawyers
check out this juicy morsel to the trial lawyers (page 1431-1433 of the bill):

Section 2531, entitled “Medical Liability Alternatives,” establishes an incentive program for states to adopt and implement alternatives to medical liability litigation. [But]…… a state is not eligible for the incentive payments if that state puts a law on the books that limits attorneys’ fees or imposes caps on damages.

Lame Cherry: The Thirdworldness of Obama

Lame Cherry: The Thirdworldness of Obama

Judge Carter is a very bright justice and yet in all of this he has appeared being tainted by Mr. Obama associations to be nothing but 3rd World.
For starters, Robert Bauer as this blog reported is married to Anita Dunn who works under David Axelrod as the pictures reveal quite intimately. Mr. Bauer is also Mr. Obama's attorney who works for the international law firm, Perkins Coie.

The problem there starts in Judge Carter just hired a law clerk named Sid Velamoor who worked for Perkins Coie. In such a national case as this, Judge Carter is not that inept to have done this career ruining maneuver in hiring someone from a law firm who has had received most of the 2 million dollars Mr. Obama has spent on the Birther case.

This blog noted that something odd appeared to be going on, a feeling with Judge Carter, that it looks as if this was happening in Kenya, that it looked like a Judge with a stinking fish and was auctioning off to a high bidder in sometimes a Hillary Clinton was making pillow talk, and at other times, it was Bearick Obama.
The end result is the appearance looks like the most powerful man in America forced Judge Carter to hire a clerk to write a decision throwing out Obama's case, and the clerk worked for Obama's personal attorney.

Lame Cherry

Lame Cherry

I have always noted someone like Noel Sheppard of Newsbusters when gas was 4 dollars a gallon. He has children he can afford. He has his business. He has money to pay for college etc... So when it costs another thousand dollars a year for gas, he just pays it.
Poor people have to make decisions in buying gas to go to work or to not eat meat, fruit for that week, which weakens their physical condition, they get sick over time, then can't work, and then lose what home they have, and end up in government housing never able to get on their feet again.

Thursday, October 29, 2009

YouTube - The Truth about Facebook!

YouTube - The Truth about Facebook!

Trends I'm Watching

Trends I'm Watching

Presently, Ben Bernanke and Tim Geithner have become the quintessential short-term decision makers. They explicitly "do whatever it takes" to "solve one problem at a time" and deal with the unintended consequences later. It is too soon for history to evaluate their work, because there hasn't been time for the unintended consequences of the "do whatever it takes" decision-making to materialize.

In the context of the recent economic crisis, a highly motivated and organized banking lobby has demonstrated enormous influence. Bankers advance ideas like, "without banks, we would have no economy." Of course, there was a public interest in protecting the guts of the system, but the ATMs could have continued working, even with forced debt-to-equity conversions that would not have required any public funds. Instead, our leaders responded by handing over hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to protect the speculative investments of bank shareholders and creditors. This has been particularly remarkable, considering that most agree that these same banks had an enormous role in creating this mess which has thrown millions out of their homes and jobs.

...Americans understand that the Washington-Wall Street relationship has rewarded the least deserving people and institutions at the expense of the prudent. They don't know the particulars or how to argue against the "without banks, we have no economy" demagogues. So, they fight healthcare reform, where they have enough personal experience to equip them to argue with Congressmen at town hall meetings. As I see it, the revolt over healthcare isn't really about healthcare, but represents a broader upset at Washington. The lack of trust over the inability to deal seriously with the party goers feeds the lack of trust over healthcare.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

RealClearPolitics - Video - Frank: "We Are Trying On Every Front To Increase The Role Of Government"

RealClearPolitics - Video - Frank: "We Are Trying On Every Front To Increase The Role Of Government"

Mich. Democrat: Pelosi 'not happy with me' - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room

Mich. Democrat: Pelosi 'not happy with me' - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room: "Stupak wants a vote on the House floor to strike the language, and predicts he would have the votes to pass such an amendment.

'This has been federal law since 1976,' he said, noting that President Barack Obama has vowed not to allow healthcare reform to pay for abortions.

'We have to have a vote,' he said."

Monday, October 26, 2009

Ogre’s Politics and Views � Hate Crimes

Ogre’s Politics and Views � Hate Crimes: "Hate Crimes
Posted on October 23rd, 2009 by Ogre

There can be no freedom of speech where there are hate crimes law.

There is no freedom where thoughts can be punished."

Why I Believe in God | The Scriptorium Daily: Middlebrow

Why I Believe in God | The Scriptorium Daily: Middlebrow

So why do I know God exists?

Given the limits of a short essay, I will only be able to point in the direction of my favorite reasons, but there are many books that provide deeper justification and further explication of these reasons. On a popular level favorite books that were helpful to me include J.P. Moreland’s Scaling the Secular City and A.E. Taylor’s Does God Exist? Readers looking for something more difficult would do well to check out the work of Richard Swinburne of Oxford University.

Of course, I don’t believe in God at first because I sat and thought about Him. I believe in God, because I encountered Him. I prayed and had an experience of Him from a very early age. He has answered my prayers and forced me to change my behavior. This every day direct mental experience of His existence is fundamentally why I know God is real.

If I did not have it, I would have little motivation to wonder about Him, but I sought Him and I found Him . . . or better He found me! Of course, despite my apparent sanity (from my own biased point of view!), I might be mad or deceived. God might be an illusion in my head, despite the sense that there is a different mental texture to what His voice is saying.

Once challenged in his beliefs by reasonable questions, only a fool or a saint would be sure that he was not deluding himself. I know I am no saint and I hope not to be a fool, so I had to ask if my experiences were real and if I had correctly interpreted them.

It is important, therefore, that I have every day indirect experience of His existence. The community of believers around me matters. I am not alone in thinking God is real or speaks to people. This does not prove that God exist, but the billions of people over long periods of time who have believed in God does suggest that at the very least I am not the victim of some private delusion!

So I speak to God and He speaks to me and millions of living and otherwise rational human beings share this experience. It is what I would anticipate if God is out there. Why do some people fail to share that experience?

I don’t know, but absence of evidence in a few does not suggest the problem is in those who believe.

Third, there are philosophical arguments that suggest the existence of God is either necessary or reasonable. For example, the existence and nature of the cosmos suggests the existence of a rational God. The universe appears to have order and design and I am not persuaded that merely naturalistic processes can account for this order and design. Whatever the process God used to create, and only the arrogant believe they have this all worked out, the fundamental nature of that creation suggests a plan.

Fourth, morality persuades me that God exists. The long trajectory of human history demonstrates a common morality behind the blind spots of any particular culture. There is a common way that most people in most places and most times have followed. This law suggests a lawgiver.

Fifth, the existence of gratuitous beauty convinces me God exists. When I traveled above the clouds for the first time with my oldest son, he told me that it was beautiful and neither of us was surprised. Wherever we looked, we saw beauty and this was not a beauty that could have been hardwired into us by any natural process. Wherever we look as human even to the furthest reaches of the cosmos beauty is there waiting for us.

Sixth, the world of Ideas points in the direction of the existence of the Mind of God. As a Platonist, I am convinced that numbers and ideas are real. There is a metaphysical world that cannot be reduced to the material. This does not prove God exists, but makes His existence more plausible to me.

Finally, love suggests to me that God is real. As Plato points out in his masterful dialogue Symposium love is surely of something. Humanity possesses a love for the Good, the True, and the Beautiful that demands a proper object. Only God is great enough to be a sufficient end for all the longing in the human heart. It might be that the universe is perverse and has given us this great longing without any means of fulfilling it, but there is no good reason to take this withering view. The sensible, indeed the hopeful response, is to assume that like hunger or thirst this longing too can be find satisfaction in reality.

My friends who don’t believe in God might claim that I believe in God, partly, because I want to do so. This is true. The existence of a good God is such an awesome, exciting, and hopeful idea that I am rooting for it. There is nothing irrational with giving good news the benefit of the doubt, if you don’t sacrifice your mind to do so.

You ask me how I know He lives? He lives within my heart.

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Afghans Libel our Troops: Protest rumored desecration of Koran by U.S. troops - Atlas Shrugs

Afghans Libel our Troops: Protest rumored desecration of Koran by U.S. troops - Atlas Shrugs

BRING THEM HOME!!

• China’s boiling & eating babies! WARNING: very graphic photos � ASK THE ANIMALS and they will TEACH you… [Job 12:7-12]

• China’s boiling & eating babies! WARNING: very graphic photos � ASK THE ANIMALS and they will TEACH you… [Job 12:7-12]

• Ask The Animals (how far we’ve strayed) � ASK THE ANIMALS and they will TEACH you… [Job 12:7-12]

• Ask The Animals (how far we’ve strayed) � ASK THE ANIMALS and they will TEACH you… [Job 12:7-12]

For you have need of endurance, so that you may do the will of God and receive what is promised.

“For yet a little while, and the coming one shall come and shall not tarry; but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and keep their souls.

-Hebrews 10:36-39

The Case for Legalising All Drugs Is Unanswerable � Big Bear Observation Post

The Case for Legalising All Drugs Is Unanswerable � Big Bear Observation Post

Drug-Friendly Netherlans to close prisons for lack of criminals � Big Bear Observation Post

Drug-Friendly Netherlans to close prisons for lack of criminals � Big Bear Observation Post

Drugs in Portugal: Did Decriminalization Work? � Big Bear Observation Post

Drugs in Portugal: Did Decriminalization Work? � Big Bear Observation Post

Yes

Moin A. Yaha, Associate Professor of Law at U. Alberta: Why You Should Never Talk to the Police � Count Us Out

Moin A. Yaha, Associate Professor of Law at U. Alberta: Why You Should Never Talk to the Police � Count Us Out with videos

The Jawa Report: Because it never, ever gets old

The Jawa Report: Because it never, ever gets old



TOO Beautiful

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Lame Cherry

Lame Cherry: "Old Version has a number of fun programs that do things to entertain the mind of French interest like downloading things from other computers in emule. I have vast loads of fun in this Napster type program which seems to have Obama server sex on it's mind, but in finding an emule main server, one can usually find all sorts of things that should be free that others think should be Obama enslaved.
A great deal of the artwork found here comes from Paint Shop Pro, which opens all sorts of jpeg to gif files found online. One does not need to have the big new versions. Some of the small older ones do the job very well."

HIMknowledgey Ministry - Revive Us Again

HIMknowledgey Ministry - Revive Us Again: "329.......The Love Of God"

329.......The Love Of God

The Love of God, hymn #329, has three verses, the first two of which were written by Frederick Martin Lehman in 1917 in Pasadena, California. Verse number three, comes from a Jewish poem, Haddanut, written in Aramaic in 1050 by Meir Ben Isaac Nehorai, a cantor in Worms, Germany. The music was arranged by his daughter Claudia Faustina Lehman Mays. She was born July 15, 1892 in Griswold, Iowa. One of nine children, she harmonized many of the songs written by her father. She died February 19, 1973 in Medford, Oregon.

Lehman was working in a packing-house, lifting and moving as much as thirty tons of lemons and oranges a day which were then packed into crates for shipment. The previous Sunday, he had heard a heart-warming sermon on God's love. He could hardly contain himself. In fact, so much so, that he had found it hard to get to sleep. The next morning, the thrill of the previous evening had not left him and as he was eating breakfast, the first words to this song came to him. On the way to work, more followed. At work, during short intervals of inattention (break time), more words came which he jotted down until he had completed the first two verses. When he got home, he went to the old upright piano and composed the melody for the two verses and chorus. However, a hymn has to have three verses to be complete. As he tried to write the third, he found the words were not falling into place as had the first two. As he tried to figure out what to do, he remembered about the poem he had heard at a camp meeting. The profound depths of the lines moved him to preserve them for future use and it was not until coming to California that this urge was fulfilled. He knew that he had saved the card with the poem but where was it now? His search was soon rewarded because he had used it for a bookmark. As Lehman again read the words, his heart was thrilled just as had happened when he heard them originally. This time he noticed some smaller print that told this story, "These lines were found in translated form on the walls of a patient's room in an insane asylum after the patient's death." As he set the words to the third verse to the tune, he found they matched exactly. God knew when he had the poem, written in 1050, that it would be translated into English and brought to America at the exact time Lehman was going to need it to finish this hymn. That is 867 years from the time the words were written and they traveled half-way around the world to be joined with this song. Since then, this hymn has been translated into at least 18 languages. This hymn was first published in Songs That Are Different, Volume 2, 1919.

Frederick Martin Lehman was born August 7, 1868 in Mecklenburg, Schwerin, Germany. He came to America at the age of 4 with his family, settling in Iowa where he lived most of his childhood. He came to Christ at age 11, as he relates, "One glad morning about 11 o'clock while walking up the country lane, skirted by a wild crab-apple grove on the right and an Osage (American Indian from Missouri) fence, with an old white-elm gate in a gap at the left, suddenly Heaven let a cornucopia (abundant) of glory descend on this 11 year old lad. The wild crab-apple grove assumed a heavenly glow and the Osage fence, an unearthly luster. That old white-elm gate with its sun-warped boards, gleamed and glowed like silver bars to shut out the world and shut him in with the 'form of the forth,' just come into his heart. The weight of conviction was gone and the paeans (a song) of joy and praise fell from his lips." Lehman studied for the ministry at Northwestern College in Naperville, Illinois, and pastored at Audubon, Iowa; New London, Indiana; and Kansas City, Missouri. The majority of his life was devoted to writing sacred-songs. In 1911, he moved to Kansas City, where he helped found the Nazarene Publishing House. He died February 20, 1953 in Pasadena, California.

Vinegar and Honey

Vinegar and Honey: "'The Love of God,' because they are so true:

Could we with ink the ocean fill,
And were the skies of parchment made,
Were every stalk on earth a quill,
And every man a scribe by trade,
To write the love of God above,
Would drain the ocean dry.
Nor could the scroll contain the whole,
Though stretched from sky to sky.

This was written by Frederick M. Lehman in 1917, based on the Jewish poem, 'Haddamut,' written by Cantor Meir Ben Isaac Nehorai, in 1050, in Worms, Germany."

OGX makes Campos basin discovery - Offshore

OGX makes Campos basin discovery - Offshore

Published: Oct 15, 2009

Offshore staff

RIO DE JANEIRO -- The 1-OGX -1-RJS well in block BM-C-43, offshore Brazil, has hit pay, according to OGX. The well encountered an oil column of over 200 m (656 ft) and net pay of 57 m (187 ft). Based on well information and existing 3D seismic data interpretation, OGX estimates a recoverable oil volume of between 500 MMbbl and 1.5 Bbbl.

The well, in the southern part of the Campos basin, was drilled to a depth of 2,347 m (7,700 ft) in 140 m (459 ft) of water. The rig Ocean Ambassador will now be mobilized to the 1-OGX-2-RJS well in block BM-C-41.

Friday, October 23, 2009

Emigre with a Digital Cluebat

Emigre with a Digital Cluebat

America the Arrogant ?


Jeff S. of my Second Amendment group wrote the following; I concur with him 100%:


The American Cemetery at Ardennes , Belgium .. A total of 5329 of our dead.

The American Cemetery at Brittany, France . A total of 4410 of our military
dead.

Brookwood , England American Cemetery. A total of 468 of our dead.

Cambridge , England . 3812 of our military dead.

Epinal , France American Cemetery. A total of 5525 of our Military dead.

Flanders Field , Belgium . A total of 368 of our military.

Florence , Italy . A total of 4402 of our military dead.

Henri-Chapelle , Belgium . A total of 7992 of our military dead.

Lorraine , France . A total of 10,489 of our military dead.

Luxembourg , Luxembourg . A total of 5076 of our military dead.

Meuse-Argonne. A total of 14246 of our military dead.

Netherlands , Netherlands . A total of 8301 of our military dead.

Normandy , France . A total of 9387 of our military dead.

Oise-Aisne , France . A total of 6012 of our military dead.

Rhone , France . A total of 861 of our military dead.

Sicily , Italy . A total of 7861 of our military dead.

Somme , France . A total of 1844 of our military dead.

St. Mihiel , France . A total of 4153 of our military dead.

Suresnes , France . A total of 1541 of our military dead.

IF I ADDED CORRECTLY THE COUNT IS 104,366 BURIED ON FOREIGN SOIL

Apologize to no one.
Remind those of our sacrifice
And don't confuse Arrogance with Leadership.

As Americans, let's all look forward to the next elections-
To find a President who doesn't think we need to be ashamed.

Are we Arrogant ? I don't think so !

May God have mercy on us until this Presidential term is over !

Welcome To Co-Dependants Anonymous…For Obama Supporters � Autographed Letter Signed

Welcome To Co-Dependants Anonymous…For Obama Supporters � Autographed Letter Signed
codependency excellent

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Saturday, October 17, 2009

http://www.keeskennis.blogspot.com/

http://www.keeskennis.blogspot.com/

Torture?

Medal of Honor recipient Bud Day Speaks of Torture


n jail...as was John McCain...and we agree that McCain does
not speak for the POW group when he claims that Al Gharib was
torture...or that "water boarding" is torture.

Our president and those fools around him who keep bad mouthing
our great country are a disgrace to the United States . I hope Sean Hannity. He uses this to point out the stupidity of the claims that water boarding...which has no after effect...is torture.

If it got the Arab to cough up the story about how he planned the attack on the twin towers in NYC ... hurrah for the guy who poured the water.

2009 October 17 � Count Us Out

2009 October 17 � Count Us Out
Illegal Alien paper mill

Friday, October 16, 2009

Curmudgeonly & Skeptical�

Curmudgeonly & Skeptical�
A crusty old Marine Sergeant Major found himself at a gala event hosted by a local liberal arts college. There was no shortage of extremely young idealistic ladies in attendance, one of whom approached the Sergeant Major for conversation.

'Excuse me, sir, but you seem to be a very serious man. Is something bothering you?'
'Negative, ma'am. Just serious by nature.'

The young lady looked at his awards and decorations and said, 'It looks like you have seen a lot of action.'
'Yes, ma'am, a lot of action.'

The young lady, tiring of trying to start up a conversation, said, 'You know, you should lighten up a little. Relax and enjoy yourself.'
The Sergeant Major just stared at her in his serious manner.

Finally the young lady said, 'You know, I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but when is the last time you had sex?
"1955, ma'am."

"Well, there you are. No wonder you're so serious. You really need to chill out! I mean, no sex since 1955!"
She took his hand and led him to a private room where she proceeded to 'relax' him several times. Afterwards, panting for breath, she leaned against his bare chest and said, 'Wow, you sure didn't forget much since 1955.'

The Sergeant Major said in his serious voice, after glancing at his watch, 'I hope not; It's only 2130 now.'

Joke Humor

Thursday, October 15, 2009

The Oil Drum | Shale Gas Estimates Perhaps Optimistic - An Interesting and Worrying Talk at ASPO

The Oil Drum | Shale Gas Estimates Perhaps Optimistic - An Interesting and Worrying Talk at ASPO: "Shale Gas Estimates Perhaps Optimistic"

the U.S. today consumes about 63 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day - in energy BTU equivalency terms, that’s 10.5 million barrels of oil per day, or about half of the amount of oil that the U.S. consumes each day. Of that 63 bcf per day of natural gas consumption, we import about 1 bcf in the form of liquefied natural gas, or LNG, and we import about 8 bcf per day from Canada. This means that we are about 98.5% self-reliant on natural gas supply from North America and about 86% self-reliant on natural gas supply from the U.S. Contrast that with oil, where we are only about 41% North American self-reliant and only about 27% self-reliant from U.S. sources.

VIX Definition - What is VIX?

VIX Definition - What is VIX?

VIX is the CBOE Volatility Index, created by the Chicago Board Options Exchange as a measure of equity market volatility. The VIX was introduced in January 1986. Since January 1993, the VIX has been computed in real time throughout the trading day. The computation of the value of VIX is based on the implied volatility of eight option series on the S&P 100 index, or OEX. The VIX is quoted in percentage points per annum. For instance, a VIX value of 19.28 represents an annualized implied volatility of 19.28%. The VIX is sometimes called the investor fear index, since investor uncertainty can lead to high market volatility through drops in prices, such as happened on Black Monday in 1987. Options are traded on the VIX, enabling additional hedging and speculation positions on volatility. Closely related to the VIX are the VXD, or CBOE Dow Jones Industrial Average Volatility Index, and the VXN, or CBOE NASDAQ 100 Volatility Index.

LIBOR Definition - What is LIBOR?

LIBOR Definition - What is LIBOR?



LIBOR stands for London Interbank Offered Rate. The British Bankers’ Association calculates LIBOR in an open manner each business day. LIBOR rates are generally released around 11am London time. Many LIBOR rates exist, for various multiple short-term periods in a number of currencies. For example, each day LIBOR rates are released, there is a 1 week Japanese Yen LIBOR rate, a 1 month US dollar LIBOR rate, and 6 month Euro LIBOR rate. LIBOR is the primary benchmark for interest rates around the world. Interest rate contracts traded on many exchanges around the world, such as the Chicago Board of Trade, settle based on LIBOR. LIBOR affects consumers, too, as LIBOR is often used as a benchmark for ARMs and other credit products.

Joint Will Definition - What is Joint Will?

Joint Will Definition - What is Joint Will?

A joint will is a type of legal agreement, in which property is distributed according to a will without the right to survivorship. According to a joint will agreement, the distribution of assets is predetermined by a joint will regardless of who dies first. A joint will is common among married couples, though legally a joint will can apply to any two people who intend to become each other’s beneficiaries according to a stipulated will. Like other legal contracts, a joint will has its benefits and drawbacks. On the plus side, a joint will prevents the surviving person from using the estate in ways that contradict the terms of the joint will contract. Thus for example, should the surviving spouse decide to remarry, a joint will contract may block him or her from granting the estate to the new spouse or stepchildren. A negative of a joint will is its constricting nature and inability to accommodate changing life circumstances.

Lame Cherry: The English Language Program

Lame Cherry: The English Language Program

The English Language Program

For 13 months between 1967 and 1968, a Caucasian with a latino accent was in North Vietnam, at a place termed The Zoo.

He was joined by two other hispanics in what was overtly termed, "The English Language Program" to teach North Vietnamese communist guards in prison torture camps how to speak English.

No one knows for certain who these three animals were, but were nicknamed Fidel, Chico and Pancho who joined with a North Vietnamese officer named, The Lump, due to a large tumor on his forehead.

For 13 months, 19 American Heroes were isolated and brought into a program of advanced torture which went beyond the normal communist Vietnamese methods of tying the arms behind the back and legs with ropes, pulling them until the joints popped loose, bouncing them from a hook on the ceiling and beating the snot out of them, as John McCain endured.

Fidel would enact a Manchurian candidate psychological warfare program on these 19 Americans in demanding these men "surrender" to him. This psychotic was operating under full knowledge of the North Vietnamese, Cubans and therefore Moscow.
Fidel would demand that he would not be "cheated" in the Heroes not obeying his every command. It was ritual in mind control with the advent of the Soldiers were ordered to carve little objects to give to the Vietnamese people to prove they were sorry for their "crimes".

United States Air Force Major Earl Cobeil was beaten so savagely that he was incoherent. It was then that Major Cobeil began the tortuous last days of his life as Fidel demanded to be bowed to, but Cobeil who was completely incapacitated mentally would refuse.
To this Fidel would personally whip the Major with a whip made from a truck tire, until his skin was shredded from his back and legs.
The Heroes would force a stick into the Major's mouth to shove food down his throat to keep him alive.
Major Cobeil would be knocked down 20 to 40 times by brute force in a torture session which he was not even aware the reason for.
At the end of the English Language Program, Major Cobeil, disappeared into North Vietnam beaten to death.

The Cuban Connection into Vietnam was precise. Fidel Castro had armed troops murdering American Soldiers and allied Fighters in Laos.

It was believed the Cubans created a program where Americans would be so punished, that they would recite communist text on cue, be exported to a communist "trial" symposium for war crimes by Americans, about to be held in Cuba, as the propaganda event of the century.

There are thousands of still missing Americans from Southeast Asia, and while the door has been shut on the Moscow connection of imported American Servicemen, escapees from Cuba have spoken of American Soldiers who arrived there and were under Castro's brutal torture programs.

It is thought that Fidel was Fernando Vecino Alegret, a Cuban communist, but the reality is no one is certain.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Emigre with a Digital Cluebat

Emigre with a Digital Cluebat

These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read. This is one paragraph that should be in every book in every school room in every city in every state in our great Union ... Our educators should make a lesson plan on this one statement and instill these words in the minds of all students.

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.

2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

4. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation..

5. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.

Monday, October 12, 2009

Interview with Sadad al Husseini: Part 2—“A lot of Money = a Little Oil” | Energy Bulletin

Interview with Sadad al Husseini: Part 2—“A lot of Money = a Little Oil” | Energy Bulletin

Question: In the past you’ve mentioned that world oil reserves are overstated by as much as 300 billion barrels.

Sadad: It’s very important to adhere to proper reserve definitions when we’re talking about oil. Oil is money in the bank. If you are very loose in terms of how you define it, you can go off and make assumptions that are unsustainable. The current numbers published—I call them “declared reserves”—are something like 1,200 billion barrels. On top of that there are another 150 billion of extra-heavy crudes and 150 billion Canadian type of bitumens. So that would lead you to believe that we have roughly 1,500 billion barrels of proven oil reserves. In fact, those are hardly proven. There is a lot of speculation. If we go back to the SEC type of definitions, that number drops way back, maybe down to 900 billion. I think it’s important to be precise about the definitions if not the actual estimates, because that’s the only way we can decide how much can be delivered on a timely basis. So yes, I think I would say 900 billion proven, perhaps 1,200 billion probable and potential. But that’s about the limit.

Tycho Brahe

Tycho Brahe isn't as famous as Galileo or Copernicus, but in some circles he's considered the father of modern astronomy. He spent much of his life compiling the world's first truly accurate and complete set of astronomical tables -- all before the invention of the telescope. Brahe's assistant, Johannes Kepler, later used the tables to deduce the laws of planetary motion. In 1628 Kepler published the Rudolphine Tables, a list of remarkably accurate logarithmic astronomical tables based on Brahe's observations and Kepler's subsequent analysis.

In 1566 Brahe lost most of his nose in a duel, and wore a metal replacement the rest of his life.

Anti-Mullah


Anti-Mullah

Fredrick Bastat

If you haven't read or listened to it, you must must must must must. Maybe I am late to the game on this... but it is stunning in its verbal and moral clarity. And it was written by a french dude, Frederic Bastiat. And it was published, in the year of his death... in 1850. Eighteen. Fifty. And it could have been written this year and been just as relevant. It's only like 60 pages, and the free MP3's add up to two hours listening. Great for your commute.

A country full of people familiar with this work would resist socialism like an immovable object. It ought to be required reading by 8th grade. And again by 12th grade.

In private schools, of course ;-)

Please encourage others to read or listen.

http://www.fee.org/pdf/books/The_Law.pdf

http://www.freeaudio.org/fbastiat/thelaw.html

Thursday, October 08, 2009

Adrian


The Worst Form of Badness

October 9, 2009

I want you to tell you something big, plain and straight. Salvation is not a reward for the righteous. It is a gift for the guilty.

Many come to church and perhaps say, “You know, I need to change my way of living. I am going to change my lifestyle. I want to be right with God.” And so they begin to reform themselves.

I‘ve often wondered what a church full of Pharisees would be like. Number One, they would be the most faithful attendees. Number Two, all of them would tithe. Number Three, they would live outwardly clean, pure, moral lives. Number Four, they would be very busy doing church work. Sounds like a good church, doesn’t it?

Oh, did I forget to mention Number Five? They would all be going to hell. Why? Because they are ignorant of God’s righteous. They attempt to establish their own righteousness and have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

The worst form of badness is human goodness when human goodness becomes a substitute for the new birth.

Adrian Rogers

Tuesday, October 06, 2009

Delftsman: A Well-Planned Retirement

Delftsman: A Well-Planned Retirement: "A Well-Planned Retirement

From The London Times:


Outside England 's Bristol Zoo there is a parking lot
for 150 cars and 8 buses. For 25 years, its
parking fees were managed by a very pleasant
attendant. The fees were 1 for cars ($1.40),
5 for busses (about $7).


Then, one day, after 25 solid years of never missing
a day of work, he just didn't show up; so the Zoo
Management called the City Council and asked it
to send them another parking agent.


The Council did some research and replied that the
parking lot was the Zoo's own responsibility.
The Zoo advised the Council that the attendant was
a City employee.
The City Council responded that the lot attendant
had never been on the City payroll.


Meanwhile, sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain

(or some such scenario), is a man who'd apparently had a
ticket machine installed completely on his own; and then
had simply begun to show up every day, commencing
to collect and keep the parking fees, estimated at about
$560 per day -- for 25 years.
Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to just over
$7 million dollars!

......

And no one even knows his name."

Peter Hofer Jagdwaffen - Readily available

Peter Hofer Jagdwaffen - Readily available

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