Cambrian Fossils Still a Dilemma for Darwinism 100 Years After Discovery of Burgess Shale
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Exactly one hundred years ago leading American paleontologist Charles Doolittle Walcott (right) was hiking along Burgess Pass in the Canadian Rockies when he stumbled upon a slab of shale containing fossil crustaceans. His interest piqued, Wolcott made return trips to the Burgess Shale in the following years where he ultimately collected tens of thousands of fossils. Many of these fossils were extraordinarily well-preserved, and they were mysterious. They included strange forms like Anomalocaris, Opabinia, Wiwaxia, and Hallucigenia. These fossils revealed a mystery: like other Cambrian fauna, these strange soft-bodied fossils appeared in the fossil record abruptly, without evolutionary precursors.
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That’s because Darwin was wrong and macro-evolution is pure baloney.
Illegals, terrorists, kidnapper-rapists, anarchists and traitors ok … yard sale folks a menace
Seller, beware: Feds cracking down on secondhand sales of some products
Abortion and Health Care Reform
By Chuck Colson:
It’s hard to figure out what’s in the various health care bills. But one thing has become alarmingly clear.
From having worked in the White House, I know how important it is for a President to get his facts clear when he is speaking to the American people.
Well, I’m sorry to say, it appears that President Obama has not done that regarding whether or not his health care plan would force Americans to pay for abortions.
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Always Israel’s fault (cont.)
Leo Rennert:
In its Aug. 31 edition, the Washington Post runs an article by Jerusalem correspondent Howard Schneider that accurately reports the indictment of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on corruption charges, but does him a grave injustice when it gets around to recapping his diplomatic efforts to reach a two-state peace deal with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. (“Olmert Indicted on Graft Charges — Israeli Is Accused of Double-Billing” page A6.)
Schneider writes that Olmert pushed for a peace deal almost to the end of his tenure as prime minister, “but the talks collapsed in December” of last year.
This doesn’t begin to tell the tale of the failure of the Olmert-Abbas negotiations. Schneider completely omits the fact that Olmert offered Abbas a Palestinian state on all of Gaza, 93 percent of the West Bank (with some 5 percent land compensation from within Israel), plus a land corridor linking Gaza and the West Bank, plus all Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem, plus internationalizaiton of Jerusalem’s holy sites under the control of an administrative directorate comprised of Saudi Araba, Jordan, the Paletinian Authority, Israel and the United States, plus absorption by Israel of some 50,000 Palestinian refugees under a family reunification plan.
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Glenn Beck Targets Pro-Marxist at FCC
By Cliff Kincaid, AIM:
At a 2008 “media reform” conference sponsored by the George Soros-funded Free Press organization, Lloyd declared that the Marxist revolution in Venezuela under Chavez was “incredible” and “dramatic” but that the “property owners and the folks who were then controlling the media in Venezuela rebelled” against the would-be dictator and supported a coup against him. However, Lloyd said that Chavez wised up and “then started to take the media seriously…”
The implication of these remarks is that Chavez dealt with his opponents in the media by trying to control or silence them, and that Lloyd supports that strategy when dealing with opponents of revolutionary Marxism here in the U.S.
Accuracy in Media, which published the book, The Death of Talk Radio?, has been warning for years that the liberal/left has a plan to silence conservative media voices. Lloyd appears to be the point man in this scheme.
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Why Americans are Up in Arms
By: Floyd and Mary Beth Brown, FrontPageMagazine.com:
Leftist elites are up in arms about Americans up in arms. At two recent Obama town hall meetings, men exercising their Second Amendment rights were spotted carrying firearms. While we do not condone threatening the president or anyone else for that matter, these citizens are well within their rights. It is legal to carry a firearm while demonstrating to protect your liberties.
In New Hampshire, William Kostric showed up near a town hall meeting carrying a pistol, and a placard proclaiming, “It is time to water the tree of liberty!” in reference to the famous Thomas Jefferson quotation, “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of tyrants and patriots.” Kostric had no intention of hurting the president; he was exercising his rights and making a political statement using the pistol as a visual reminder. When interviewed by Chris Matthews of MSNBC, Kostric said he went to the town hall because he “wanted people to remember the rights that we have, and how quickly we are losing them.” After making this statement, Chris Matthews verbally accosted him and compared him to John Wilkes Booth and other fanatics. Kostric clearly explained that he was not advocating violence, but was practicing his constitutional right to bear arms.
The second incident prompted the media to erroneously pronounce the opponents of Obamacare as racist rednecks.
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Ecumenical Blast Against Israel
By: Mark D. Tooley, FrontPageMagazine.com:
The departing chief of the Geneva-based World Council of Churches (WCC) slammed Israel’s “sin against God” in his August 26 good-bye to the world’s largest ecumenical group.
“Occupation along with the concomitant humiliation of a whole people for over six decades constitutes not just economic and political crimes but, like anti-Semitism, it is a sin against God,” declared Kenyan Methodist minister Samuel Kobia, during his farewell to the WCC’s governing central committee.
The WCC was founded after World War II and, in the wake of the Holocaust, robustly denounced anti-Semitism as a “sin against God.” Evidently equating the Holocaust on some level with the Israeli presence in the West Bank, Kobia asked his international church audience: “Are we ready to say that occupation is also a sin against God?”
On paper, the WCC is important, with 349 denominations as members, representing over 500 million Christians, or about 25 percent of global Christianity. But in truth, the WCC never fully recovered from its 1970’s alliances with Marxist liberation movements. Catholics and most evangelicals do not belong to the WCC, which friends and foes alike view primarily as the voice of declining Western left-wing Protestantism.
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Israel, Iran and Obama
WSJ:
The reality that Western leaders don’t want to admit is that preventing Iran from getting the bomb is an Israeli national imperative, not a mere policy choice. That’s a view shared across Israel’s political spectrum, from traditional hawks like Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to current Defense Minister and former Labor Prime Minister Ehud Barak. Israelis can see the relentless progress Iran is making toward enriching uranium, building a plutonium-breeding facility and improving on its ballistic missiles—all the while violating U.N. sanctions without consequence. Iran’s march to the bomb also alarms its Arab neighbors, but it represents an existential threat to an Israeli nation that Iran has promised to destroy and has waged decades of proxy war against.[...]
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Obama’s Unholy Attack
By Kathryn Jean Lopez, NRO:
The mix of politics and religion can be an intoxicating cocktail. Just now you can smell the incense everywhere, from Martha’s Vineyard to Washington, D.C. For a Left that obsesses over a wall of separation between church and state, when death comes and health-care bills need rallies, there is little hesitation to break out the devotional smells and bells. But the loss of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, one of the most prominent Catholic politicians in the United States, a leading proponent of the president’s health-care-reform push, should not obscure a pivotal fact: Barack Obama has put himself at war with the Catholic Church.
In one of the most overlooked news stories of the health-care debate, the president said, during a conference call organized by liberal religious activists: “I know there’s been a lot of misinformation in this debate. And there’s some folks out there who are, frankly, bearing false witness.”
The president probably doesn’t actually want to engage in a public examination of political conscience. Because bringing up this Commandment inevitably makes one meditate on an earlier one on the list, which deals with human life itself. Obama’s accusation was made in direct reference to the debate about abortion and the health-care bill. “You’ve heard this is all going to mean government funding of abortion,” the president said. “Not true.”
He added that the “fabrications” were “put out there in order to discourage people from meeting what I consider to be a core ethical and moral obligation.”
And with that, the president inadvertently began to pull away the vestments from the eyes of Catholics who had thought he was a perfectly acceptable representative of their views.
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Another Failed Presidency
By Geoffrey P. Hunt, AT:
Barack Obama is on track to have the most spectacularly failed presidency since Woodrow Wilson.In the modern era, we’ve seen several failed presidencies–led by Jimmy Carter and LBJ. Failed presidents have one strong common trait– they are repudiated, in the vernacular, spat out. Of course, LBJ wisely took the exit ramp early, avoiding a shove into oncoming traffic by his own party. Richard Nixon indeed resigned in disgrace, yet his reputation as a statesman has been partially restored by his triumphant overture to China.
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Fr. Pavone Mourns Passing of Robert Schindler, Sr.
Christian Newswire:
Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, today issued the following statement on the passing of Robert Schindler, Sr., father of Terri Schiavo.
“Bob Schindler remains an inspiration. In spite of enduring the heartbreaking, court ordered killing of his daughter, Terry Schiavo, Bob never stopped fighting for the rights of others who were disabled or medically vulnerable. His quiet strength in the face of persecution and his compassion for those who were too weak to defend themselves will forever serve as examples of how we should show Christ’s love.”
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I like trees, not tree-huggers
by Ed Morrissey, AT:
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The US should be on the side of self-determination and the rule of law. Instead, we’ve ended up on the side of power-grabbing future despots and potential ruling cliques of nepotism. How did this happen, and why hasn’t the national media shined its light on Arias’ interests in this dispute? Could it be that it would make Obama look like a bumbling fool on the international stage — or worse?
Politically correct mumbo-jumbo in our schools
By Glenn Cook, Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Monday was the first day of the new school year, and it proved to be more of a learning experience for me than it was for my fifth-grader. He brought home a pile of papers last week that included the 12-page school district booklet, “Elementary Students: Behaving Positively at School.”I opened it, wanting to make sure I was familiar with the guidelines regarding bullying, drugs, classroom disruptions and other legitimate school concerns. Instead, I was greeted by a full page of mind-numbing, politically correct mumbo-jumbo under the headline, “The Challenge of Excellence — Be Positive!”
The page highlights the “six qualities believed to be basic to positive human conduct”: integrity, respect, responsibility, courage, justice and empathy. Worthy enough — to a point.
Unfortunately, most of the 34 bullet points that follow have nothing to with those six qualities, and certainly have nothing to do with helping kids master their multiplication tables and learn how to spell. A sampling of the pap includes (keep in mind, this is for elementary students):
– “Working for peace in the global village”
– “Acknowledging prejudices and striving to overcome them”
– “Displaying the courage to be imperfect”
– “Practicing diligence”
– “Striving to change long standing habits and replace them with open, searching minds”
– Providing “opportunities that enable them to be fair to themselves and others”
– “Struggling with unsettled questions to gain understanding or insight”
– “Recognizing the interdependence among peoples”
– “Seeking social justice”
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As most of us know “Seeking social justice”is a euphemism for Marxism. Homeschool your children, parents. It’s not as difficult as you think and even failure is preferable to exposing your kids to the propaganda and moral relativism of the public school system.
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Obama as Leninoid
By James Lewis, AT:
The parallels between Barack Hussein Obama and Vladimir Ilyich Lenin are intriguing. To be sure, there are differences: Barack Obama is not the absolute ruler of a tyrannical state. Lenin was. We are not about to see a violent Bolshevik coup like Lenin’s. (At least, I’m fairly sure.) America in 2009 is not Russia in 1917. So we won’t equate them.And yet, without losing sight of those facts, the similarities are too strong for mere coincidence. So I’m going to make up the word “Leninoid,” as a reminder that Obama isn’t Lenin — but he must have hired the same Hollywood scriptwriters. I don’t know why. I’m just pointing to what I see.
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Obama throws Eastern Europe under the bus
Jeanette Colville,AT:
I knew and feared this was coming. Obama kissed Putin’s behind on his European campaign extravaganza and threw our Eastern Allies under the bus (back when that business with Georgia was blowing up) and now it’s all but official. From IBD:
The U.S. has abandoned plans to install a missile defense system in Europe, according to a report. If true, this is a major strategic error that will have serious consequences for our allies in Europe and for us.
Sarah Palin: One Year Later
by John Ziegler:
So, what have we learned from Sarah Palin’s remarkable year? Hopefully, we have learned a lot.
Among other things, we should have learned…
That surprise announcements can often create more long-term perception problems than they are worth (at least when they come from Republicans).
That to the media if you are a young, good looking, charismatic, non-white male without a long resume and are a conservative running for Vice-President, you are an embarrassment to the country. But if you are a young, good-looking, charismatic, non-white male without a long resume and are a socialist running for President, you are the Second Coming.
That the candidate who told the truth the most during the 2008 campaign was Sarah Palin.
That the media is perfectly willing and able to destroy someone’s character simply because it suits their political and economic agenda and will stop at nothing to do so.
That there are far too many high-profile “conservatives” willing to sell out their “cause” to gain favor with the news media and that there is almost no accountability for their treason.
That the left understands that this is a war where “assassinating” leaders of the other side is perfectly acceptable, while the right seems to still think that this is a picnic and that the Sarah Palins of the world grow on trees.
That the only people more threatened by a highly successful and good looking mom than liberal women, are Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, David Letterman and Bill Maher.
That the power of being a celebrity is far greater than the power of being Governor of Alaska.
That the ex-boyfriend of the daughter of the ex-Governor of Alaska can get treated as a media star if it is perceived to hurt a prominent conservative.
That more character was revealed in Sarah Palin over the past twelve months than America probably deserves in a politician.
That August 29th, 2008 was a seminal moment in our politics and media which has changed, perhaps forever, the rules of engagement in a way that may make it impossible for conservatives to ever fully recover and should truly frighten all fair-minded Americans.
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Having kids is the worthiest enterprise
Lorne Gunter, NP:
George Orwell once wrote that the pacifist was free to indulge his opposition to war only because someone else was prepared to take up arms to defend his rights.
Similarly, the advocate of childlessness relies on the willingness of others to produce children, not just to keep the species going, but also to produce the taxpayers the childless will need to fund his old-age health and pension benefits.
Those who could have children, but choose not to, are, of course, indulging in the ultimate self-centeredness. Were everyone to copy their preference, within a generation there would be no more human race.
By their action — or more accurately, their inaction — they are saying to the rest of society, “Alright, you unimaginative proles. You take care of the mundane business of keeping the species going — you do the heavy lifting — while we go about endlessly spoiling ourselves and indulging our personal interests. Just be sure you produce enough spawn to keep our retirement benefits coming when we turn old.”
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Robert Wright’s Bloggingheads.tv Censors Intelligent Design Interview
Posted by David Klinghoffer, ENV:
Now, you must go and watch the interview for yourself over at Uncommon Descent. Here’s the link where it used to be. You can disagree with Behe and McWhorter; think they’re both full of baloney if you like. But there’s no question that simply as an interview, a piece of casual, conversational journalism, the McWhorter exchange is exemplary. It’s fascinating. He admires the book, undoubtedly, even becoming passionate about it at points, but also poses challenging questions. There’s nothing to apologize for here. Yet clearly he was pressured into taking it down. By whom?
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The investigation isn’t about torture, but about transnationalism
By Andrew C. McCarthy, NRO:
Hue and cry followed Holder’s decision this week to have a prosecutor investigate CIA interrogators and contractors. The probe is a nakedly political, banana republic-style criminalizing of policy differences and political rivalry. The abuse allegations said to have stunned the attorney general into acting are outlined in a stale CIA inspector general’s report. Though only released this week — a disclosure timed to divert attention from reports that showed the CIA’s efforts yielded life-saving intelligence — the IG report is actually five years old. Its allegations not only have been long known to the leaders of both parties in Congress, they were thoroughly investigated by professional prosecutors — not political appointees. Those prosecutors decided not to file charges, except in one case that ended in an acquittal. As I outline here, the abuse in question falls woefully short of torture crimes under federal law.
Americans are scratching their heads: Why would Holder retrace this well-worn ground when intimidating our intelligence-gatherers so obviously damages national security? The political fallout, too, is palpable. Leon Panetta, the outraged CIA director, is reportedly pondering resignation. President Obama, laying low in the tall grass on his Martha’s Vineyard vacation, is having staffers try to put distance between himself and his attorney general. It is unlikely that many will be fooled: Both Obama and Holder promised their antiwar base just this sort of “reckoning” during the 2008 campaign. But the question remains, Why is Holder (or, rather, why are Holder and the White House) instigating this controversy?
I believe the explanation lies in the Obama administration’s fondness for transnationalism, a doctrine of post-sovereign globalism in which America is seen as owing its principal allegiance to the international legal order rather than to our own Constitution and national interests.
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ACLU: Spying for America’s Enemies
By: Michelle Malkin, FrontPageMagazine.com:
Savor the silence of America’s self-serving champions of privacy. For once, the American Civil Liberties Union has nothing bad to say about the latest case of secret domestic surveillance — because it is the ACLU that committed the spying.
Last week, The Washington Post reported on a new Justice Department inquiry into photographs of undercover CIA officials and other intelligence personnel taken by ACLU-sponsored researchers assisting the defense team of Guantanamo Bay detainees. According to the report, the pictures of covert American CIA officers — “in some cases surreptitiously taken outside their homes” — were shown to jihadi suspects tied to the 9/11 attacks in order to identify the interrogators.
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The Revelation of Rifqa
By: Faith J. H. McDonnell, FrontPageMagazine.com:
The most well publicized honor killing in America is one that did not take place. Seventeen year old Rifqa Bary disappeared from her home in New Albany, Ohio in mid July, and surfaced in Florida on August 10, 2009. The teenager, who comes from a Sri Lankan Muslim family, sought refuge in Orlando with a pastor and his wife whom she had met through a Facebook prayer group. At a jurisdiction hearing in an Orlando juvenile court on August 21, Rifqa testified that she had fled because her father threatened to kill her for shaming the family by leaving Islam and becoming a Christian. “My life is at stake,” Rifqa said in an earlier interview. “My dad threatened me. I was ready to die, these were my thoughts, that I’ll be a martyr for Christ, let it be so! But the Lord led me here somehow through His grace . . . . . it’s been God’s hand protecting me the entire time. But I’m fighting for my life.”Rifqa is far more fortunate than Amina and Sarah Said of Dallas, who were shot to death in an Islamic honor killing by their father, Yaser Abdel Said, an Egyptian-born cab driver. No one has had the opportunity to strangle Rifqa, as was done to Aqsa Parvez, a sixteen year old in Ontario whose father killed her for refusing to wear a hijab.
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The rigged game
By CAROLINE GLICK, J’Post:
On Tuesday the Guardian reported that the Obama administration is now making Israel an offer it can’t refuse: In exchange for a government order to freeze construction for Jews in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, the administration will adopt a “much tougher line with Iran over its alleged nuclear weapons program.”Israel should refuse this offer.
What the Guardian account shows is an Obama administration looking to blame Israel for the failure of its policy of attempting to appease the likes of Iranian dictator Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Come September, US President Barack Obama is going to have a difficult time of it. He set a September deadline for his strategy of diplomatically courting the mullahs. This policy involves deferring further sanctions against Teheran and all but openly renouncing the option of using military force to destroy Iran’s nuclear installations while waiting politely for the mullahs to sit down for tea with US officials.
Far from accepting Obama’s offer, the Iranians have spit on it.
Obama and the Thugs
By Kyle-Anne Shiver, AT:
Early last fall, an old friend of mine and long-time volunteer for Republican women’s associations, called me from her home in Orlando, Florida. She was quite shaken. She had just returned from what was intended to be a small, quiet McCain support outing, just like the ones she had been dutifully attending for 30 years. The small group of middle-aged homemakers took their little signs to an approved street corner, carried their small American flags and assembled to do their hour’s vote-for-our-guy walk before heading off to the nearest coffee shop to divvy up coming-week duties of stuffing envelopes and making phone calls.
But something had changed between the last election and 2008. My friend told of a morning from hell, in which the women were rudely accosted on the street by young male thugs (her word), who called them “c*nts,” “whitey whores” and “stupid bitches.” These young males got in their faces and jostled them with angry shoves. My friend said that in all the years she had been doing just this simple patriotic activity, she had never had such a frightening experience. It was to be the first of several, which have left her shaken to this day.
Later on into the fall campaign, I spoke with Dr. Lynette Long, a former Hillary supporter compiling data on what she deemed, “Caucus Fraud.” She referred me to a set of video testimonials, in which middle-aged women mostly, gave grizzly accounts of the same thuggery employed against them in caucus settings.
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Bill would give president emergency control of Internet
CNet:
Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.They’re not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed doors. CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft (excerpt), which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency.
The new version would allow the president to “declare a cybersecurity emergency” relating to “non-governmental” computer networks and do what’s necessary to respond to the threat. Other sections of the proposal include a federal certification program for “cybersecurity professionals,” and a requirement that certain computer systems and networks in the private sector be managed by people who have been awarded that license.
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