Global warming is a myth. But according to some scientists, global cooling or the appearance of an ice age is more likely than not. They identified about 40 possible super volcanoes sites. Some of the sites lie 20 miles beneath the oceans and some are under major land mass. A super volcano eruption could plunge Earth into an ice age and end life as we know it.
Unlike regular volcanoes, which are shaped like mammoth cones, supervolcanoes spring from massive canyons — calderas — that measure hundreds of miles across. Underneath their surface is a vast lake of lava. When the underground liquid rock — magma — bursts forth to the surface, a series of violent, massive explosions could occur in a wide-ranging eruption that could last several days. It would incinerate anyone within a hundred miles, and layers of ash would blanket much of the earth.
"These eruptions are so big that you couldn't really see them, because you couldn't be close enough to the volcano, watching it and survive. You could watch it from a satellite and you could see the volcano erupt and see the ash cloud begin to spread," said Michael Rampino, geologist and professor of earth sciences at New York University. (ABC News)
The scientists have identified Yellowstone National Park as one of the supervolcanoes sites within the continental United States.
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Global warming is causing glaciers to grow?
According to a recent study published in the American Meteorological Society's Journal of Climate, warmer temperatures are causing glaciers to grow.
The political correct scientist will blame any changes in the environment on the global warming myth. Even though they claim warmer temperatures and increase rainfall and snowfall in the Himalayan Mountain region, the glaciers continue to grow. But you would think increased temperatures would decrease the size of the glaciers.
Researchers at Newcastle University looked at temperature trends in the western Himalaya over the past century.
They found warmer winters and cooler summers, combined with more snow and rainfall, could be causing some mountain glaciers to increase in size. (News.BBC.co.uk)
So what does it take to increase the glaciers' size, cooler temperatures?
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The recent demotion of Pluto's planet status has taken the world and many scientist by surprise. Some scientists are calling the decision very embarrassing.
At the recent International Astronomical Union's (IAU) 10-day General Assembly in Prague, there was a proposal to add three new planets in our solar system. The IAU has been the official astronomy naming naming body since 1919. And the proposal to add the three planets caused quite a ruckus and lively debate.
Dr Alan Stern, who leads the US space agency's New Horizons mission to Pluto and did not vote in Prague, told BBC News: "It's an awful definition; it's sloppy science and it would never pass peer review - for two reasons.
"Firstly, it is impossible and contrived to put a dividing line between dwarf planets and planets. It's as if we declared people not people for some arbitrary reason, like 'they tend to live in groups'.
"Secondly, the actual definition is even worse, because it's inconsistent."
Pluto was disqualified because its orbit passed through Neptune's orbit.
One of the three criteria for planethood states that a planet must have "cleared the neighborhood around its orbit". The largest objects in the Solar System will either aggregate material in their path or fling it out of the way with a gravitational swipe.
Pluto was disqualified because its highly elliptical orbit overlaps with that of Neptune.
But Dr Stern pointed out that Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Neptune have also not fully cleared their orbital zones. Earth orbits with 10,000 near-Earth asteroids. Jupiter, meanwhile, is accompanied by 100,000 Trojan asteroids on its orbital path.
"If Neptune had cleared its zone, Pluto wouldn't be there," he added.
Article source: BBC News
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A devout Scottish Christian grandmother was banned from flying to Edinburgh from the Stansted airport on the carrier Easyjet, because she asked an airline employee to please stop using God's name in vain. The employee of Indian origin kept repeating "Oh my God" after a child fell.
She said she politely asked them to stop taking God's name in vain. She was then approached by a security official and she claims she was called a "racist" for remarking that her complaint would have been taken more seriously had she been Islamic. . .
. . . The grandmother, from Burntisland, Fife, who worships at the independent Vine Church in Dunfermline, said: "There was absolutely nothing at all that I said to the airport staff which could have been interpreted as racist. "I was very polite and non aggressive, but one of the ladies angrily asked me if I expected everyone to follow my religion and do as I did.
"A member of the security staff then appeared and started arguing with me." (Telegragh.co.uk)
Her boarding pass was voided and her luggage was removed from the plane. She had to find alternative transportation home as all the flights from Stansted to her home were on Easyjet.
She was just returning from Israel where she was assisting war victims from the recent attacks by Hezbollah.
When speech is offensive to a Christian, it may be considered not politically correct to say anything to the non-Christian offender. But if a Muslim passenger was questioning the same "blasphemous" outburst, I am sure it would have resulted in completely different outcome.
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First posted on Aug 14, 2006 in The View from 1776
by Thomas E. Brewton
The View from 1776
British MI-5’s success in thwarting the plot to blow up a large number of transatlantic airliners reminds us that hamstringing our own intelligence forces by the ACLU and its sympathizers has a long history.
The op-ed page of today’s Wall Street Journal carries an article by David B. Rivkin, Jr., and Lee A. Casey. The authors describe the important differences between British and American legal doctrine that enabled British intelligence forces to work more effectively than can our own intelligence and law-enforcement community. Great Britain is the home of personal liberty and limitations on arbitrary government power, but the British, in the area of surveillance and apprehension of terrorists, have been considerably more realistic than have we.
There is a long pedigree for the liberal mindset that leads to assiduously blocking effective methods of surveillance and detention of enemies of the United States, the same mindset that produced repeated, putatively criminal revelations of top-secret national security programs by the New York Times.
It goes all the way back to the late 1800s, when socialist and anarchist agitators began to make their presence felt in the United States. On Manhattan’s Lower East Side and in Union Square, with Greenwich Village intellectuals’ propaganda support after World War I, anarchists and socialists staged protest rallies that blocked traffic and interfered with ordinary business. Police often had to stop violence, which usually involved mass arrests of demonstrators.
Those socialist and anarchist activists, in effect, demanded that the First Amendment’s freedom of speech be interpreted as a suicide pact that would allow them to carry out their openly avowed aim to destroy formal government under the Constitution (in the anarchists’ case), or to replace the Constitution with a collectivized socialist system that would seize private property and redistribute it to the masses.
Socialist and anarchist leaders were involved in, and openly advocated, assassination of political and business leaders. Emma Goldman, the most widely-heard oratorical voice of anarcho-socialism, was the leftist version of Timothy McVeigh, the radical right-winger who in 1995 bombed a Federal office building in Oklahoma City killing 166 people.
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SB 1437 passes California State Assembly, outraging parents and grandparents who demand that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger veto raft of sexual indoctrination bills
RESPOND RIGHT NOW: Call Governor Schwarzenegger immediately to urge him to veto SB 1437 and SB 1441. Sacramento (916) 445-2841, Los Angeles (213) 897-0322, San Diego (619) 525-4641. Visit the CCF Action Center for more steps.
Sacramento, California – The Democrat-controlled California State Assembly today passed SB 1437, one of four bills that would sexually indoctrinate schoolchildren and college students. SB 1437 would alter K-12 public education textbooks, instructional materials, and school-sponsored activities to positively reference transsexuality, transvestitism, bisexuality, and homosexuality, including homosexual “marriage.” The Assembly floor vote was 46-31 (five more than needed to achieve a 41-vote majority). SB 1437 now goes to the state Senate for a concurrence vote.
Immediately before the debate, a Republican-offered amendment requiring schools to acquire parental permission before sexual curriculum was taught to their own children failed on a 26-48 vote. During the 36-minute debate on SB 1437, seven Republican spoke against the bill (Haynes, DeVore, La Suer, Huff, La Malfa, Spitzer, and Mountjoy), while six Democrats spoke in favor it (Nunez, Goldberg, Frommer, Saldana, Ruskin, and Levine).
In his opening remarks, Democrat Fabian Nunez, the Assembly Speaker and the bill’s floor jockey, openly said the real purpose of SB 1437 is to outlaw traditional perspectives on marriage and family in the state school system. “The way that you correct a wrong is by outlawing. ‘Cause if you don’t outlaw it, then people’s biases tend to take over and dominate the perspective and the point of view,” Nunez said.
And, in his close, Nunez admitted that SB 1437 will promote lesbianism to young girls. “If somebody wants to teach kids in kindergarten that Jack and Jill ran up a hill, this bill doesn’t prohibit that. But it does say that if somebody wants to say that if Jill and Jill ran up the hill and somehow that’s wrong — then this bill says that that is not acceptable,” said Nunez.
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Two versions of the Constitution Restoration Act of 2005 continue to languish in Congress. The purpose of the act is to exercise powers granted to Congress by Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution by limiting the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and all jurisdictions of inferior federal courts to hear and decide certain cases. The act deprives federal courts of jurisdiction to adjudicate cases involving “any matter to the extent that relief is sought against an entity of Federal, State or local government, or against an officer or agent [thereof] … concerning … [the] acknowledgment of God as the sovereign source of law, liberty or government.”
It also provides that “in interpreting … the Constitution … a [federal] court may not rely upon … [foreign law] … or international organization or agency other than English constitutional and common law.”
Too many times our federal courts have used foreign law as precedent when making their decisions.
Finally, it provides that if a federal judge engages in any activity which exceeds these limitations of jurisdiction or the respective court on which he sits, “it shall be deemed to constitute the commission of (1) an offense for which the judge may be removed upon impeachment and conviction, and (2) a breach of the standard of good behavior required by Article I, Section 1 of the Constitution.”
H.R. 1070 was introduced in the House of Representatives and referred to the Judiciary Committee. It has 25 cosponsors: Aderholt, Bachus, Bartlett (S.C.), Bishop (Utah), Cannon, Cantor, Davis (Va.), Everett, Foxx, Goode, Hall, Lewis (Ky.), Herger, Jones (N.C.), McCotter, McIntyre, Pence, Pitts, Price (Ga.), Ryun (Kan.), Rogers (Ala.), Souder, Wamp, Weldon (Fla.) and Wilson (S.C.). No action on the bill has been taken by the House since it was referred to committee.
S. 520, a companion bill, was introduced in the Senate and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. It has three cosponsors: Brownback, Burr, and Shelby. As with H.R.1070, no action on the bill has been taken since it was referred to committee.
Although there are several members of Congress interested in the bills, at least interested enough to be a cosponsor, there does not seem to be sufficient interest in the House and Senate leadership to move them along to passage. That interest will not develop unless people — members of The John Birch Society and others — become squeaky wheels and let the lawmakers know that there is support for the bills.
It is time to make a noise in the ears of both of your senators and your congressman. Tell them that you expect their energetic support for passage of the bills. Federal courts have operated for decades as independent fiefdoms showing no accountability for their actions and their decisions. The Constitution Restoration Act will get their attention and make them responsible, but only if we act and respectfully demand passage.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Aug. 21 /Christian Newswire/ — Author and Christian broadcaster Dr. D. James Kennedy connects the dots between Charles Darwin and Adolf Hitler in Darwin’s Deadly Legacy, a groundbreaking inquiry into Darwin’s chilling social impact. The new television documentary airs nationwide on August 26 and 27 on The Coral Ridge Hour. For station listings, go to http://www.coralridge.org/darwin/.
What: New TV documentary, Darwin’s Deadly Legacy
When: August 26, 27, 2006
Where: Nationwide; details at http://www.coralridge.org/darwin/
The program features 14 scholars, scientists, and authors who outline the grim consequences of Darwin’s theory of evolution and show how his theory fueled Hitler’s ovens.
“To put it simply, no Darwin, no Hitler,” said Dr. Kennedy, the host of Darwin’s Deadly Legacy. “Hitler tried to speed up evolution, to help it along, and millions suffered and died in unspeakable ways because of it.”
The one-hour program features Ann Coulter, author of Godless; Richard Weikart, author of From Darwin to Hitler; Lee Strobel, author of The Case for a Creator; Jonathan Wells, author of Icons of Evolution; Phillip Johnson, author of Darwin on Trial; Michael Behe, author of Darwin’s Black Box; Ian Taylor, author of In the Minds of Men, and Francis Collins, Director of the Human Genome Project.
“Among German historians, there’s really not much debate about whether or not Hitler was a social Darwinist. He clearly was drawing on Darwinian ideas,” said Weikart, a professor of modern European history at California State University, Stanislaus.
Ann Coulter, a bestselling author and popular conservative columnist, said Hitler “was applying Darwinism. He thought the Aryans were the fittest and he was just hurrying natural selection along.”
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The perception of a child's innocence may be politically correct. But in today's society many children are proving themselves without innocence.
Children today are participating in increasing numbers, cruel, pre-meditated crimes, and sometimes deadly crimes at an alarming increasing rate.
Children can kill, steal, humiliate and lie. Nobody needs to be reminded of the Bugler case in Britain a few years back when two kids battered a toddler to death with bricks and an iron rod. Another more recent example is the brutal killing of a young girl in Yorkshire by a group of boys and girls roughly her own age. She was willfully set upon, beaten and kicked to death. (The Conservative Voice)
And what is the cause of this anti-social behaviors? The lack of parental discipline and the absence of moral guidance in the schools.
The big bureaucrats in brother Brussels have equated spanking with torture and have empowered one of its watchdogs, the World Organization Against Torture, to peer into the last domain of privacy and autonomy of our society namely, the family home. The mechanisms of power have finally succeeded in usurping the authority vested in the family unit, the cornerstone of our civilization. Children are now at liberty – and are encouraged - to call the authorities if their parents so much as lay a hand on them.
The line between slapping, spanking, shaking, pinching, etc. is all but academic now because any forceful action directed at children by their parents can henceforth be classed as 'torture'. What is the difference between a light smack on the bottom and the visible bruise that is left after a father has, in the last moment, managed to grab his small daughter by the arm just before she ran into the path of an oncoming bus? Do children have the ability to distinguish between actions, on the part of the parents, to harm them and actions intended to protect them? In other words, do they have the moral ability to discern the parameters separating good and bad, right from wrong? (The Conservative Voice)
Since the sixties, the baby boom generation was being taught that kids left to their own will discover what is right and wrong. They may know what is wrong, but they do not see the consequences of their action. Therefore, they take no responsibility. And their source of learning these anti-social skills are coming from watching TV and playing violent games on the computer with no restrictions.
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Is gay marriage really polically correct in our permissive society?
Thomas Sowell's recent article, Gay 'marriage', illustrates the absurdity that same-sex proponents will go to legalize an 'action' when trying to redefine marriage. For centuries marriage has been defined as a union between one man and one woman. But today, in some states same-sex marriage is considered political correct.
The "equal protection of the laws" provided by the Constitution of the United States applies to people, not actions. Laws exist precisely in order to discriminate between different kinds of actions.
When the law permits automobiles to drive on highways but forbids bicycles from doing the same, that is not discrimination against people. A cyclist who gets off his bicycle and gets into a car can drive on the highway just like anyone else.
In a free society, vast numbers of things are neither forbidden nor facilitated. They are considered to be none of the law's business. (TownHall.com)
Mr Sowell continues with the point why same-sex unions is becoming unfavorable in many states, such as Massachusetts, the first state to legalize same-sex marriages. That law will de addressed in Novembers election as the majority of voters in Massachusetts want the law repealed.
Homosexuals were on their strongest ground when they said that the law had no business interfering with relations between consenting adults. Now they want the law to put a seal of approval on their behavior. But no one is entitled to anyone else's approval. . .
. . . In other words, marriage imposes legal restrictions, taking away rights that individuals might otherwise have. Yet "gay marriage" advocates depict marriage as an expansion of rights to which they are entitled.
They argue against a "ban on gay marriage" but marriage has for centuries meant a union of a man and a woman. There is no gay marriage to ban. (TownHall.com)
Read the rest of the article, and see the self-evident truth that argues against same-sex unions. It is no wonder why many sates are reversing their stance on same-sex unions or establishing laws defining marriage as a union between one man and one women only, with no exceptions.
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