One of the reasons this thing has been heating up and the reason the leftists are so desperate online when we point out the other side of this issue, encouraging people not to ‘fall’ for it, is what Bill points out here.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US lawmakers called for an end to American complacency over global warming as the new Democratic-controlled Congress weighed measures to reduce greenhouse gases.

After years of relegating climate change to the bottom of the legislative agenda, Democrats who wrested control of the House and the Senate from the Republicans in November elections, have vowed to make it a priority.

At a hearing of the Senate Environment Committee, Democratic Senator
Hillary Clinton said after years of delay, global warming was “an issue whose time has come.”

“If we look at where we are … we are not making progress. In fact, emissions are still going up,” she said.

Nancy Pelosi’s jackboots are trying to push this thing through, with Shrillary screaming at the forefront as their would-be presidential candidate. What Shrillary has over Obama is experience; what Obama has is not much of a record, and his smooth and pleasant star power like presence. Hillary should have a bag over her head, and she really needs to tone down the biting tonality of her voice. But those who worked with the Clintons in the Clinton Whitehouse know that the Clinton family is looney tunes, and quite prone to tantrums and rages. Bill is afraid of her, and rightly so; she’s a feminazi.

As I’ve pointed out at least a few times in the past, it’s kind of funny to see the lefties hopping around claiming that we’re in some kind of a catastrophic situation with global warming when it hasn’t been proven. Watch for the footnotes, I’m using my footnote plugin in this post.

At Answers in Genesis, we have an interesting article that points it out even more graphically. It’s called “Human-Caused Global Warming Slight So Far”. Read the whole article, but here are a few excerpts that I found particularly enlightening:

There are also a number of scientists who believe global warming, so far, has been slight. They believe that doomsayers have not proven their case for the expected huge temperature increase for a doubling of carbon dioxide, and that increased carbon dioxide may have a net beneficial effect. In fact, 20,000 scientists, of whom about 2,700 of them are physicists, geophysicists, climatologists, meteorologists, oceanographers or environmental scientists, who are in a position to understand the global warming issues, have signed the following statement:

There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.¹

But of course, the evolutionist green environmentalist cabal doesn’t recognize what it is these people are saying, apparently. 20,000 scientists don’t phase the proliferation of propaganda in order to enslave the industrialized nations and hamstring their populations with environmental restructions, based on the same junk science that outlawed DDT and is killing millions today from malaria.

Examples of misinformation and hysteria are not hard to find. One of the most recent examples of hysteria was a special report on global warming published in the April 3, 2006, issue of Time magazine.² The article flatly states without any qualifications, “The climate is crashing, and global warming is to blame.”³⁴ The article claims that serious debate has quietly ended (although this is untrue) and lists many devastating weather, climate and environmental occurrences. Serious debate has only ended because radical environmentalists now dominate the discussion and malign those who disagree. This is not unlike the creation/evolution debate.

That’s because the same totalitarian ideology is driving it.

There are many other examples of wrong information, half-truths and hysteria. In the January 22, 1996, issue of Time magazine, the front cover exclaimed, “The hot zone—blizzards, floods & hurricanes: blame global warming.”⁵ Believe it or not, even blizzards such as the powerful East Coast northeaster of January 1996 have been blamed on global warming by some advocates. It seems like some believe all bad weather is caused by global warming. One of the problems in countering such misinformation is that people have short memories or do not read weather history.

Yeah, they don’t seem all that bright to me, particularly the fallacious arguments the blind moonbats seem to bring up in comments.

Probably the most outrageous example of false information is a video produced in 1990 that claimed world temperatures would rise 55°F (30°C) by the year 2050!⁶

Well that falls in line with the allegation that President Bush has a weather control machine in the Whitehouse. That was the real reason for Katrina, dontcha know.

There is even a dramatic movie promoting an ice age rapidly caused by global warming.⁷ Although the movie was admitted to be a Hollywood exaggeration, many scientists see such an ice age, caused by global warming, developing more slowly, perhaps over of the course of several decades. This belief has been reinforced by what are believed to be indications of abrupt climate change shown by ice cores from the Greenland Ice Sheet.⁸ In the introduction to a special issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research on ice cores, Hammer and others stated:

These millennial-scale events represent quite large climate deviations: probably 20°C in central Greenland … . The events often begin or end rapidly: changes equal to most of the glacial-interglacial differences commonly occur over decades, and some indicators, more sensitive to shifts in the pattern of atmospheric circulation, change in as little as 1–3 years.⁹

Such temperature changes in Greenland are related to the atmospheric circulation and would affect much of the Northern Hemisphere. Such rapid changes are indeed scary, but their deductions are based on their wrong interpretations of ice cores as a result of their assumption that the ice sheets are millions of years old.¹⁰

Al Gore wrote a book on global warming in which he seemed to believe every dire prediction of the radical environmentalists.¹¹ Recently, he has produced a video documentary with an accompanying book, called An Inconvenient Truth. The video contains the same old misinformation. M. Bergen stated:

But Mr. Gore’s radical political agenda and tendency for half-truth have undergone no such makeover … Mr. Gore employs stage tricks, straw men, and well-rehearsed rhetoric to contend that opposition views on climate change are rooted in callous profiteering.¹²

Mr. Gore’s hysterical and ad hominem attacks are typical of doomsayers. It is common for these advocates to claim that those who disagree with them are working for the oil companies. But we should look at the agendas of the radical environmentalists, and the great economic benefit for them to keep the pot stirred. A new website examines this and is trying to calm some of this hysteria at www.fightglobalwarminghysteria.com.

1. Oregon Petition Project, http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p37.htm.[back]
2. Kluger, J., 2006. Global warming. Time 167(14):28–42.[back]
3. Kluger, J., 2006. Global warming. Time 167 Humans are blamed for global warming, and the potentially harmful effects are emphasized.[back]
4. ibid[back]
5. Anonymous, 1996. The hot zone. Time 127[back]
6. Anonymous, 1990. The Fragile Planet: Alterations in the Atmosphere. Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Princeton, New Jersey.[back]
7. Oard, M.J., 2004. The greenhouse warming hype of the movie The Day After Tomorrow. Acts and Facts Impact #373, Institute for Creation Research, El Cajon, CA.[back]
8. Oard, M.J., 2005. The Frozen Record: Examining the Ice Core History of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets. Institute for Creation Research, Santee, California, pp. 123–132.[back]
9. Hammer, C.U., P.A. Mayewski, D. Peel, and M. Stuiver, 1997. Preface. Journal of Geophysical Research 102 (C12), p. 26,315.[back]
10. Oard, M.J., 2005. The Frozen Record: Examining the Ice Core History of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets. Institute for Creation Research, Santee, California, pp. 1-199.[back]
11. Gore, A., 1992. Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit. Houghton Mifflin Company, New York.[back]
12. Bergin, M., 2006. Convenient spin. World 21(24):26[back]

Rock on, Jake!

Communist asshats are commonplace on college campuses, just like setups with literature with Mao Tse Tung’s face on it.

A great article “Ernest Haeckel, Evangelist for evolution and apostle of deceit over at Answers in Genesis exposes more of the hypocrisy of the alleged ’science’ that was invented to prop the theory of Evolution in the 1800’s. There are many more examples besides this one, demonstrating the lies that are being told to prop that the theory is ‘fact’, and which rules out any other form of rational debate on the subject of origins.

Haeckel’s drawings of the eating habit and reproductive cycle of an alleged Moneron to which he gave the scientific name, Protomyxa aurantiaca, as published in his book The History of Creation. The extent of the detail is the measure of his fraud, as the Monera did not then and do not now exist!

The Free Jack Idema Blogburst

One aspect in the case of illegally-imprisoned US Special Forces soldier Jack Idema that bears looking at in detail is the work he was doing in Afghanistan in the weeks prior to his arrest.

To listen to the media, Karzai and US State Department tell it, you could be forgiven for thinking that Jack and his men were just trawling Afghanistan for people they suspected of links to terrorism in a quite random fashion; that they were common bounty hunters and their operation was amateurish. In fact, Task Force Sabre 7 (Jack’s team) were highly-professional, and focussed on preventing a group of Islamofascists from carrying out a series of devastating attacks.

The following is from a press release Jack handed to the media at his August-September 2004 ‘trial’. Although it fully explains his team’s mission, and its importance, no one in MSM ran the story:

After contacting the Pentagon we acted, immediately deploying to Afghanistan, where, working with our former Northern Alliance allies, we captured first Ghulamsaki, the terrorist the FBI was informed of previously, and then subsequently captured 95% of the entire al-Qaida and Hezb-i-Islami terrorist operation cell behind the plot. In four different operations and raids, we captured terrorists, explosives, detonators, and vehicles that were to be used in the terrorist plot.

The plot involved the assassination of the Afghan President, Minister of Defense, Minister of Education, two ambassadors, and the leaders of Massoud’s Jamiat Party. Had any of them been successful it would have resulted in certain civil war and the deaths of untold Afghan and American lives.

Alongside these assassinations, the terrorist cell Idema was hunting also had big plans when it came to the US troops stationed at Bagram Airbase — Their intention was to turn one of the daily fuel deliveries (that is, four tankers laden with gasoline) into huge firebombs. Here’s Jack’s description of this planned-attack:

Think about this: Four fuel tankers driving into Bagram Air Base (fuel tankers are constantly daily arriving at Bagram) laden with gas and explosives as they passed through the gates. The explosives would never be discovered as the terrorists were using a combination of plastic explosives and incendiary explosives which American bomb dogs could not detect.

The result would have been flaming bodies of hundreds of American soldiers in a scene that would have dwarfed the Beirut Marine barracks bombing and brought back the vision of burning victims plunging to their deaths on 9/11.

My President said, in September 2001, that all Americans were now soldiers, in the war on terror.

He called upon each of us to do whatever we could to stop terror and save American lives. I have done that.

For his trouble, Jack Idema was falsely accused, arrested, tortured, show-trialed and illegally-imprisoned. We need to bring this man home. Now.

So what can we do? Well, anyone reading this with their own blog can sign up for the weekly Free Jack Idema Blogburst by emailing Cao or Rottweiler Puppy for details. I’d urge everyone to do this, as we’re still terribly short on takers. If you want to know more about the story, Cao’s Blog has a large section devoted to Jack Idema. There’s also a timeline here, and, of course, a huge amount of information is available over at SuperPatriots, without whose work none of us would have learned about Jack’s story.

You should also contact the following people and make your feelings known,
especially to write letters of complaint about this despicable situation:

Secret US EMBASSY Fax: - 301-560-5729
(Local US Fax: Goes RIGHT TO Ambassador)
c/o US Ambassador Ronald Neuman
US Embassy- Afghanistan
6180 Kabul Place
Dulles, VA 20189-6180

US Consul Russell Brown - 011-93-70201908 (Fired)
US Consul Addie Harchik- 011-93-70201908
(denied them water and mail at Thanksgiving- Gone)
US Consul Edward Birsner- number yet unknown
US Embassy Translator Wahid - 011-93-70201902
US Embassy Asst Consul Bashir Momman- 011-93-70201923
US Consul (friend) Dawn Schrepel- 011-93-70201908 (Fired)

Ambassador Massoud Khalili
(wounded with Massoud)
(Great and Kind man)
Islamic State of Afghanistan
Embassy of Afghanistan
Ankara, Turkey

H.E. Said Tayeb JAWAD (Afghan Ambassador- powerful in US)
(Northern Alliance Good Guy Fired- New Pro Taliban Ambassador)
Embassy of Afghanistan in Washington
2341 Wyoming Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20008
Tel: (202) 483-6414
Fax: (202) 483-9523

Mr. Jahed Hamrah, Consul General (pro-Taliban)
CONSULATE GENERAL OF
AFGHANISTAN IN NEW YORK
360 Lexington Avenue,
11th Floor New York,
New, York, NY 10017
Tel.: (212) 972-2276 or 972-2277
Fax: (212) 972-9046

Chairman Peter Hoekstra
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
H-405, U.S. Capitol
Washington, DC 20515-6415;
Office: 202-225-4121 / Fax: 202-225-1991
Toll Free: (877) 858-9040

M. Cherif BASSIOUNI
Independent Expert of the Commission on Human Rights
On the Situation of Human Rights in Afghanistan
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
UNOG-OHCHR
CH-1211 Geneva 10
Ph: +41(0)22 917 97 27 Fax: +41(0)22 917 90 18

Senator Steven Saland (Jack’s Rep and Neighbor)
9 Jonathan Lane
Poughkeepsie, NY 12603

Senator Elizabeth Dole (Jack’s Rep)
United States Senate
555 Dirksen Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Ph: 202-224.6342
Fax: 202-224.1100

Senator Richard Burr (Interested)
United States Senate
217 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-3154 / Fax: 202-228-2981

Senator Bill Nelson (in the fight on Jack’s Side)
United States Senate
Hart Senate Office Building
Room 716
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-5274 / Fax: 202-228-2183
FL Fax 407-872-7165

Senator Dianne Feinstein (Bennett’s Representative)
United States Senate
Hart Office Building, Room 331
Washington, D.C. 20510
202-224-3841

Representative Mike McIntyre (Jack’s Representative)
United States Congress
2437 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202-225-2731 / Fax 202-225-5773

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Reference Captain Bennett- CA citizen)
State Capitol Building
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: 916-445-2841 / Fax: 916-445-4633

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From Frontpage Magazine.

In a rational world, American universities would lead the way in exposing the noxious roots of Islamic terrorism. Instead of psychoanalyzing Rush Limbaugh or President Bush, they would devote their attentions to what makes terrorists tick. Readers of FrontPage Magazine are uniquely educated about the unholy alliance between academia and jihadists. Thus, we have launched the Terrorism Awareness Project — www.TerrorismAwareness.org — to educate college students directly.

In conjunction with the organization and website, we have produced the flash movie The Islamic Mein Kampf, as well as a scholarly pamphlet by the same name. Together, they provide a chilling and compelling testimony to the depths of bitter Islamic hatred and the threat a growing radical Muslim population poses to Europe, Israel, the United States, the Jewish people, and the world.

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Proof that we’ve morphed into an idiotcratic nation.

Brian Maloney gives us the lowdown of Air America’s near-demise, and the fact that there are more people willing to throw more money at this lost cause.

“I look with confidence to the future, to young and rising naturalists, who will be able to view both sides of the question with impartiality.” -Charles Darwin

I have been having an annoying, fascinating, and fun debate with a leftist who I attempted to ban, but found a way to come back. I was more fascinated by what I learned from the exchange than annoyed by the troll-like behavior of the individual, which was why I didn’t nuke the person completely from Cao’s Blog and TWA into the stratosphere. What’s been particularly annoying to me is contemplating where we are in the debate, and how leftists seem to negate what it is we’re talking about, in true authoritarian style. But how can it possibly be done with science? Isn’t science about postulating a theory, a hypothesis and then testing it to see if it’s true? No, that’s not the way it’s done in the natural humanist religion. They have found a way to lock us out of even bringing up our part of the argument. And here’s how it’s done. I found this at The Intelligent Design Network, where there is a collection of completely fascinating articles. It completely filled in the gaps for me on how someone can ridicule my ’superstitious’ belief system. Even though I recognize it as a communist attack on Christianity, I didn’t realize how much this philosophy has invaded other aspects of thinking.

From Design or Occurrences, John H. Calvert, BA (geology), JD, Managing Director of Intelligence Design network, inc. -draft dated 11-10-2203

This is an excerpt from a 32-page report. The question is, are we designs or occurrences? There is a moral and ethical reason why we should be asking these questions, because secular humanism, is in fact, a religion, much like Ann Coulter said in her book “Godless”. The question is, are we designs or occurrences? My lefty commenter said ‘we are designed by evolution’. Which is in itself contradictory; evolution doesn’t ‘design’, the entire premise of the theory is that we ‘happened’ by ‘accident’. When you examine all the different systems in the human body that work perfectly together and have a purpose of function, that assumption seems rather senseless, as though this individual knows nothing about the human anatomy. I am an advocate of ‘design’, because I see the perfect beauty in designs like a string of DNA, or if you look at a leaf close up, or watch a spider spinning its web with due glistening on it early on a spring morning. But there are more serious and far reaching reasons that we should be motivated in asking the question ‘are we designs or occurrences?’

If we are just occurrences, like the secular humanist Dr. Kirk claims, we have no reason to subscribe to traditional religion as a basis for our social systems. The alternative necessarily becomes human reason and science. Evolution then becomes the foundation for ethics. According to Michael Ruse that is now happening:

“Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion - a full-fledged alternative to Christianity, with meaning and morality.”

Ernst Mayr, one of the towering figures in the history of evolutionary biology, notes with pride that “Darwin provided a scientific foundation for ethics…to Borrow Darwin’s phrase, there is grandeur in this view of life. New modes of thinking have been, and are being, evolved. Almost every component in modern man’s belief system is somehow affected by Darwinian principles. Similarly, Michael Shermer explains that

“Scientism is courageously proffering naturalistic answers that supplant supernaturalistic ones and in the process is providing spiritual sustenance for those whose needs are not being met by these ancient cultural traditions.”

All of these ideas logically follow if we are occurrences. If life was not intended, then it has no inherent meaning. This creates an ethical vacuum to be filled by whatever can be rationally justified by human minds.

This is a frightening concept, when you think about it.

Formal anlysis of many apparently designed natural phenomena tentd to confirm rather than rebut the inference of design. Some of that analysis is very briefly summarized in Intelligent Design, the Scientific Alternative to Evolution. According to William Harris, Ph.D., a research biochemist, the strength of the design inference increases in proportion to our increase in knowledge about the genome. This is reflected in Gene Myer’s assessment of the “architecture” of life that is unfolding as the code is cracked.

I just love the idea that it’s so complex, that the ‘code’ needs to be ‘cracked’. The answers are still out there, we just need to find a way to study them.

The results of analysis that tend to confirm design include:

• Lack of natural explanation for the laws which appear to be designed to order certain aspects of the Universe.
• Lack of an adequate natural explanation for the “fine tuning” of a universe that is ncessary for our existence.
• Lack of a natural expalanation for the semantic character of biological information.
• Lack of natural expalanation for the origin of genetic code, the origin of the first cell and the origin of the ength set of genetic instructions necessary to sustain life int he most primitive cell. Chemical analysis shows that the sequence of message bearing symbols in DNA is not dictated by law and statistical calculations indicate that chance formation is not a scientifically reasonable hypothesis. If the weight of the evidence favors design for the origin of life itself, then Occam’s razor would seem to cut off any Darwinian hypothesis as an explanation for all the remainder of the diversity of life.
• The fossil record reflects long periods of stasis in biological complexity punctuated by sudden bursts of increased complexity, a pattern more consistent with technological development by design than the gradual increase in complexity postulated by the Darwinian theory.
• Lack of adequate natural expalanation for many biological systems that appear to be ‘irreducibly complex’.
• The lack of adequate evolutionary simulation.
• The fact that much of the evidence that supports evolutionary theory is also consistent with the competing design hypothesis and therefore proves neither.

In the case of the Martian Face, we have used further analysis to test the inference of design and have found natural explanations that show that it is not a face at all, but merely an illusion of design. However, in the case of the messages that we find in DNA, we have looked behind the messages and are not finding natural explanations, but rather deeper layers of design. Rigorous scientific analysis seems to be leading us toward confirmation of design rather than away from it.

The Use of Methodological Naturalism in origins science prejudges the question, and effectively ordains that life is an occurrence and not a design.

Now there is one of the things that has been bothering me about this debate: the religion of methodological; or secular humanism, or however you want to label it-precludes the question, eliminating any other answer.

The pursuit of an informed, scentifically literate society may be a valid goal. But a science policy that prejudges the most important characteristic of natural phenomena is inconsistent with that goal. The prejudgement occurs when methodological naturalism is applied to the question of origins.

Of course ‘prejudging’ it is inconsistent! But there is no relevant science that can prove it, so questions are ruled out, and any science that might point to an alternative is ruled out. This is what I have a problem with.

In practice, methodological naturalism is synonymous with philosophical naturalism and materialism. Philosophical naturalism is “the doctrine that cause-and-effect laws (as of physics and chemistry) are adequate to account for all phenomena and that teleological [design] conceptions of nature are invalid. Materialism also rejects design by allowing only material causes to explain natural phenomenon. Although it has been argued to the contrary, methodological naturalism and philosophical naturalism are synonymous, because a “method” that does not allow its fundamental assumption of no-design to be contradicted as a doctrine. The non-contradictory character of metholodolgical natrualism is seldom disclosed but commonly acknowledged. Its nature as a doctrine is evident in the statement of John Rennie, the Chief Editor of Scientific American, that “A central tenet of modern science is metholodolgical naturalism.” Any theoretical distinction is lost in practice where overt efforts are taken to officially suppress any contradition of the doctrine. The most recent evidence of suppression is found in a resolution adopted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science which urges a ban on any discussion of intelligent design in public schools.

They have their own religious doctrine, just as we have; they just don’t dare recognize it as a religion, because then it would have to be treated as such.

To effectively exclude design theory, one must also censor criticisms of evolutionary theory and its fundamental claim of no-design. Teachers who seek to teach evolution ‘honestly’ are reassigned. A bevy of censors recently turned out in force to oppose a statement placed in biology textbooks that would urge students to understand that evolution is a ‘theory’ that should be ‘approached with an open mind, studied carefully, and critically considered.’

That’s what these amazingly stupid attacks seem to be about; censoring the criticisms of the theory. And we must admit it’s an ancient theory that has very little scientific evidence to back it up. What I don’t understand is why they call it ’science’ at all. That little blurb they were suggesting to put into textbooks might have encouraged kids to look for alternative answers, and the totalitarians who are leading us with the carrots certainly don’t want them to do THAT.

This is not a case where we are excluding a falsified hypothesis that the earth is flat or a religious hypothesis that a literal interpretation of Genesis is true. In this case, an inference of design that arises from both intuition and analysis of the data per the scientific method is per se disallowed without any objective consideration of the evidence because it conflicts with a philosophical notion that looks very much like religion itself.

Ha! No, what the ID proponents are suggesting is not some crazy idea even taken out of the bible. Still, what they’re doing is guiding people to a godless religion of secular humanism, called methodological naturalism, which as we’ve seen in other nations whose proponents admired Darwin’s theory and whose societies threw out Christianity as a ’superstition’ resulted in utter catastrophes with millions of people being murdered by cruel and heartless regimes.

The use of methodological naturalism in origins science is scientifically problematic for a number of reasons. It converts origins science into a dogmatic religious belief system rather than a theoretical enterprise where all of its statements are open to contradiction. As discussed in note 9 and elsewhere, its materialistic hypothesis that all of nature can be reduced to physical and material causes flies in the face of many non-physical aspects of the natural world, including minds and biological information processing systems which have a semantic characteristic. It violates the scientific method by philosophically disallowing the very hypothesis that evolutionary biology seeks to rebut. This effectively exempts the no-design claim of evolution from any effective scientific test. Since testing of evolution cannot be performed experimentally, the only way to test its claims of no-design is with a forensics approach that requires one to find evidence that both rules out design and rules in natural sorting. Protecting evolutoin from the competition exempts it from a test that is ncessary for it to be a legitimate scientific theory, rather than an untested speculation.

In my opinion, it’s completely an untested speculation, and further than that; because it’s been promulgated and propagated so carefully in our schools in order to indoctrinate generations of children, it seems to be to be a MYTH, not even a ‘theory’ anymore, because it’s so apparent in areas such as genetics and biology where the systems are irreducibly complex, that the mathematical probability of these things occurring and resulting in all of these forms of inderdependent life is completely impossible by pure random occurrence alone.

Evolution has become an answer ordained by ‘the central tenet of modern science’. When that ‘central tenet’ banishes the idea of design from the realm of science, it also places it in limbo: a place where there are no qualified investigators to analyze and test its claims. It takes physicists, chemists, geologists, mathemeticians, information theorists, biochemists, biologists and others to formally analyze and test an inference of design. Theologians and philosophers don’t have the experience or training to do that job. Excluding scientists form the investigation effectively assigns the evidence of design to an intellectual black hole. Under this paradigm, the answer that is ordained - that we are occurrences and not designs - wholly lacks credibility. It is nothing more than a counter intuitive dogma. Instead of swapping lawyer jokes at parties we will shift to jokes about scientists who can’t be believed. According to a quote attributed to Thomas Huxley, “Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.” In origins science, the central tenet is nothing more than a creed.

John Kerry Still Suffering From Hoof and Mouth Disease

Not satisfied with calling US troops stupid, via his now infamous 2006 remarks, the European wannabee Sen. John Kerry has now blasted the entire United States of America. But, then he also did that in the 1970s. Speaking from one of the world’s stages, this time in Davos, Switzerland, Kerry firmly placed his horsy hoof in his mouth again when he referred to the United States as a sort of international pariah. Note: John Kerry is one of the few US citizens who actually is a pariah.

Kerry has actually made the announcement that he’s not going to run for president in 2008, but he is still a Senator and to my knowledge, even though he yearns for the Khmer Rouge to rule America, as Senator he still holds the public trust because *I think* we still have representative government. That is, even though Bush stole the election in 2000. *snark*

So, on this anniversary of Kerry’s promise to the American people that he would release his records, we’re still asking that he do it. And not to his biographer Kranish this time, but release the records that would clear up the questions about his ‘honorable discharge’ after he was MIA for somewhere around 6 years.

The image below was created by Linda Sog, who believes that even though he signed it, and even though he re-released what was out there already so he could say he did it, that his 180 is really in prison and needs to be freed. Free your 180, John Kerry, sign it properly so that we can all have our questions answered!

Also, see Musing Minds where we are reminded that today marks the 2-year landmark of the empty promise he made in front of the American people. (I was sent that link through email, but it doesn’t appear to be posted yet…but I will be away from the computer all day and most of the evening today, so I linked to it, anyway.)

Image: LindaSog.com

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Pelosi, Karzai Discuss Troop Increases

Afghan President Hamid Karzai shakes hands with US House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi before their meeting at the presidential palace in Kabul yesterday Photo Credit: Gulf Times

I think this explains some things….

We’ve seen this crap before, the most recent was with the LaCrosse players. But here it is with a Sharia twist.

The parents of three Guilford College football players charged with ethnic intimidation defended their sons Friday, nearly a week after an on-campus fight between the players and three Palestinian students.

The parents of Michael Bates, Michael Robert Six and Christopher Barnette issued a statement Friday, asking the public to withhold judgment until an investigation was completed. The statement said Six was attacked with a belt by one of the accusers but didn’t offer further details.

“Under our system of government, our sons are presumed innocent of these charges and we hope that the community and the media will let the system run its course in determining their innocence or guilt,” the statement said.

Five players face charges of assault and ethnic intimidation in connection with a fight Saturday. The charges do not reflect results of a police investigation.

The charges were approved by a magistrate judge after a complaint was filed by the accusers — Guilford College students Faris Khader and Osama Sabbah and North Carolina State student Omar Awartani, who was visiting Greensboro from Raleigh.

The Palestinian men said they were taunted with racial slurs and called “terrorists” as they were beaten and kicked, according to court documents.

Lawyer Seth Cohen said his clients didn’t do anything wrong and didn’t provoke the attack.

You have to hand it to the Palestinians; they have been well-briefed on how to manipulate our system to their advantage. Not to mention that everyone is calling them “Palestinians” when there really are no Palestinian people.

This is interesting, google plans to ’share revenue’ with the people who upload videos who actually generated or own their content.

Chief executive of YouTube, Chad Hurley, said at Davos this weekend that the company is working on a system to allow users to be paid for their content.

This would include a finger-pointing system to people who are uploading videos who do not own the copyrights to the work. There are some other points that don’t look quite so attractive, for example,

“I would bet that. . . at some point in the not-too-distant future, YouTube will demand an exclusive license in return for payment.

Nicholas Carr, former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, said on his blog Rough Type: “If we assume. . . that a relatively small number of videos and video producers will receive a disproportionate percentage of views and generate a disproportionate amount of ad revenues, then ‘locking up’ that content and those producers will become increasingly important in the years ahead.

“Controlling the ’stars’ will be as critical to YouTube as it is to any media business.”

“Controlling the ’stars’. Hmmmm.

I didn’t realize how many instances of this sort of thing there are.

A youth was found dead Sunday in the wheel well of a British Airways jet at Los Angeles International Airport, authorities said.

A British Airways pilot found the body during a routine preflight check and notified airport officials about 4:30 p.m. The 747-400 had arrived from London Heathrow Airport at 3:15 p.m. and was to depart for a return flight at 5:20 p.m.

Don’t people realize how dangerous it is to get into the unprotected wheel well of a plane when the temperatures are so cold and oxygen is at a minimum at high altitudes?

A body was found Jan. 12 in a plane that landed in Atlanta. The man, who carried no identification, was believed to have entered the compartment when the plane left Dakar, Senegal, for the nine-hour flight to Atlanta.

Extreme cold and a lack of oxygen in the wheel wells make the odds of survival slim. Stowaways also have fallen from the wheel wells or been crushed by the landing gear.

But there have been a few cases of stowaways surviving. In 2000, a man survived a flight from Papeete, French Polynesia, to Los Angeles. His core body temperature when he was found at LAX was 79 degrees, well below what is normally fatal. A Cuban man made it alive to Montreal in the wheel well of a plane in 2002. And in 1999, an 18-year-old Senegalese man survived a five-hour flight to France, but died after he stowed away on another flight later that year.

More typical are cases like Sunday’s discovery of the body at LAX. Authorities are uncertain, however, of the survival rate of wheel-well stowaways, because bodies that fall out of flying aircraft may not be recovered. Stowaways unable to secure themselves can fall more than 1,000 feet when landing gear doors open. Experts believe that many of those who fall out are already dead or unconscious.

Well this is a good thing:

About 40 counterprotesters lofted “Support our troops” signs in front of the Navy Memorial, a few blocks from the main demonstration. Among the participants were soldiers being treated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

Army Cpl. Joshua Sparling, who lost his leg to a roadside bomb in November 2005 in Ramadi, said the anti-war protesters, especially those who are veterans or who are currently on active duty, “need to remember the sacrifice we have made and what our fallen comrades would say if they are alive.” Sparling, 25, is based at Fort Bragg, N.C.

The counterdemonstration vilified Fonda’s appearance at the rally. They set up a fake Fonda doll hanging from a noose and taped a sign to it that read “Jane Fonda American Traitor.”

Later, I’m going to go through some of these reports, because yesterday when i was reading through the headlines and articles, I could have sworn they used Sparling as someone who was standing with Jane Fonda, Sean Penn, and the rest of the Anti-War Protesters brought to you by Leslie Cagan’s United for Peace and Justice. I gather that some of those anti-war people actually spit at him. What is it with these people? Have they no shame?