While Iowa State University denied tenure this spring to gifted pro-ID astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez, it turns out that it decided at the same time to promote to full professor outspoken atheist Hector Avalos, religious studies professor and faculty adviser to the ISU Atheist and Agnostic Society. Avalos has led the charge against Gonzalez and intelligent design on ISU's campus, helping to draft a 2005 petition denouncing intelligent design that ultimately was signed by more than 120 ISU faculty.
Congressman Paul also has twice as many YouTube subscribers as Barack Obama who has 5,988, and nearly four times as many as Hillary Clinton who has 3,517 subscribers.
I just watched last week's TNA Wrestling. Sure it's boring and all, but in that episode some really cool happened. Something unbelievable. Something I never thought I'd see on a wrestling show in this life or the next.
During the Steiners/Dudleys confontation, Rick Steiner pulled out a list of tag-teams that he and his brother had defeated in the past. Yes, wrestling fans you know what that means...
The letter of the week at WND is actually a reader's endorsement of Ron Paul. He says all the things about Dr. Paul that you won't hear on FoxNews or CNN.
"...And then sometime in 2002, I woke up. I noticed the Patriot Act and really didn't like it. I realized I couldn't support any government that would perpetrate and try to cover up Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo Bay. It occurred to me that despite several years of Republican control of Congress, I couldn't point to a single federal law or act of Congress that represented my interests. The federal debt was skyrocketing under a Republican government. I saw an increasing burden of government, horrifying fiscal policy, an evil man in the White House masquerading as a conservative and a Christian, and my fellow Christians and conservatives just blindly following the GOP. ... Now, Ron Paul is running for president, and I can, with relief, switch parties back again. Paul is a genuine conservative with a back-to-basics message for disenfranchised conservatives like me. He's getting grass-roots support from the Republican base, and Independents and Democrats are registering Republican just to vote for him in the primaries. I haven't seen that since Ronald Reagan.
He's against the war, he's pro-life, he's against the U.N. and North American Union. He wants to abolish the IRS and Department of Education, and he's a 10-term congressman with a consistent voting record that is absolutely rock-solid conservative. Oh, and the mainstream media networks hate him."
According to this person the reason to establish the S.I.V. was the meeting with an Alien delegation at Muroc Air Field Base in February 1954 in presence of President Dwight Eisenhower and James Francis McIntyre, Bishop of Los Angeles. After the incredible event McIntyre flew to Rome to refer with Pope Pius XII who decided to found the S.I.V with the aim to gather all possible information about Aliens and how they interact with the American Government.
(Italian journalist Luca) Scantamburlo has written extensively about an interview conducted between Cristoforo Barbato and an unnamed Vatican Jesuit priest who has confidentially disclosed inside information about a clandestine meeting in 1954 at California’s Muroc Air Force Base (later named Edwards AFB) involving President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Los Angeles Bishop James Francis McIntyre and an extraterrestrial delegation.
Everyone knows about the Edwards AFB meeting, but I never knew that and L.A. Bishop was present.
Bret Hart whines about how misused he was durin his last year or two in the WWF, but I think he was used perfectly. He played a MUCH larger role in the WWF's comeback against WCW than he is ever given credit for.
"When Ron Paul said the 9-11 killers were "over here because we are over there," he was not excusing the mass murderers of 3,000 Americans. He was explaining the roots of hatred out of which the suicide-killers came."
"Osama bin Laden in his declaration of war in the 1990s said it was U.S. troops on the sacred soil of Saudi Arabia, U.S. bombing and sanctions of a crushed Iraqi people, and U.S. support of Israel's persecution of the Palestinians that were the reasons he and his mujahedeen were declaring war on us."
...so of course the Phelp's wacko Westboro Baptist church needs to protest it.
I'm all for the first amendment and everything, but can't anyone do something about these people?
From their website: "Falwell warmly praised Christ-rejecting Jews, pedophile-condoning Catholics, money-grubbing compromisers, practicing f**s like Mel White, and backsliders like Billy Graham and Robert Schuler, etc."
Also, click here to watch their new video, "God Hates the World."
Do you remember when George Bush let Ted Kennedy write our nation's education policy? What a great idea that was... Find me ONE teacher who thinks that "No Child Left Behind" is a good idea. It can't be done.
Now Bush is letting that drunken murderer write our immigration (amnesty) policy.
Immigration does affect our country in a positive way. Illegal immigration does not. We need to make it easier for the good guys to come here and harder for the bad guys. This bill does neither.
It's a slap to every hard-working legal immigrant in this country who came in through the proper channels.
Bush and Kennedy should both be impeached and tried for treason.
After getting set up for failure at the Fox News debate, Congressman Paul got into it with Sean Hannity. Now, I usually like Hannity, but he completely ignored the fact that Paul had told Alan that he is PRO-LIFE. Instead he attacked Paul's Iraq stance and tried to paint him in the same light as Rosie O'Donnell.
Ron Paul is NOT blaming the United States for September 11. But of course, by presenting him that way they had the opportunity to let Rudy play Mr. Tough Guy.
I support the mission in Iraq, btw, but Ron Paul is correct when he says that congress should have voted to declare war there instead of voting to give the president the power to invade.
And... Why didn't any of the moderators ask Ron Paul about his proposed bills to pull the U.S. out of the U.N. or abolish the federal income tax?
Last night, Fox News showed that it is no different than NPR. What is the MSM so afraid of?
Here's a column by Ron Paul from a couple of years ago right after John Paul II death.
Click the link to read the whole thing.
Good luck in the debates tonight Dr. Paul!!!!
"Just two years ago conservatives were busy scolding the Pope for his refusal to back our invasion of Iraq. One conservative media favorite even made the sickening suggestion that the Pope was the enemy of the United States because he would not support our aggression in the Middle East. The Pontiff would not ignore the inherent contradiction in being pro-life and pro-war, nor distort just war doctrine to endorse attacking a nation that clearly posed no threat to America – and conservatives resented it. September 11th did not change everything, and the Pope understood that killing is still killing. The hypocritical pro-war conservatives lauding him today have very short memories."
"Historically, religion always represented a threat to government because it competes for the loyalties of the people. In modern America, however, most religious institutions abandoned their independence long ago, and now serve as cheerleaders for state policies like social services, faith-based welfare, and military aggression in the name of democracy. Few American churches challenge state actions at all, provided their tax-exempt status is maintained. This is why Washington politicians ostensibly celebrate religion – it no longer threatens their supremacy. Government has co-opted religion and family as the primary organizing principle of our society. The federal government is boss, and everybody knows it. But no politician will ever produce even a tiny fraction of the legacy left by Pope John Paul II."
Jim Ross's blog is always worth a read. Plus he made this hillarious comment:
"I am totally against women competing against men in a wrestling ring. Call me old fashioned, but it makes no sense to me. I never liked Chyna competing against men either."
Looks like I'll have to start watching SmackDown! again...
From wwe.com: "The Rated-R Superstar cashed in his newly acquired Money in the Bank title opportunity tonight and knocked the sports-entertainment world off its axis by becoming the new World Heavyweight Champion. Following a beastly, relentless attack from a returning Mark Henry, Edge picked the bones of a bloodied Undertaker to win the first World Heavyweight Championship of his career."
Last week, the House of Representatives acted with disdain for the Constitution and individual liberty by passing HR 1592, a bill creating new federal programs to combat so-called “hate crimes.” The legislation defines a hate crime as an act of violence committed against an individual because of the victim’s race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. Federal hate crime laws violate the Tenth Amendment’s limitations on federal power. Hate crime laws may also violate the First Amendment guaranteed freedom of speech and religion by criminalizing speech federal bureaucrats define as “hateful.”
There is no evidence that local governments are failing to apprehend and prosecute criminals motivated by prejudice, in comparison to the apprehension and conviction rates of other crimes. Therefore, new hate crime laws will not significantly reduce crime. Instead of increasing the effectiveness of law enforcement, hate crime laws undermine equal justice under the law by requiring law enforcement and judicial system officers to give priority to investigating and prosecuting hate crimes. Of course, all decent people should condemn criminal acts motivated by prejudice. But why should an assault victim be treated by the legal system as a second-class citizen because his assailant was motivated by greed instead of hate?
HR 1592, like all hate crime laws, imposes a longer sentence on a criminal motivated by hate than on someone who commits the same crime with a different motivation. Increasing sentences because of motivation goes beyond criminalizing acts; it makes it a crime to think certain thoughts. Criminalizing even the vilest hateful thoughts--as opposed to willful criminal acts--is inconsistent with a free society.
HR 1592 could lead to federal censorship of religious or political speech on the grounds that the speech incites hate. Hate crime laws have been used to silence free speech and even the free exercise of religion. For example, a Pennsylvania hate crime law has been used to prosecute peaceful religious demonstrators on the grounds that their public Bible readings could incite violence. One of HR 1592’s supporters admitted that this legislation could allow the government to silence a preacher if one of the preacher’s parishioners commits a hate crime. More evidence that hate crime laws lead to censorship came recently when one member of Congress suggested that the Federal Communications Commission ban hate speech from the airwaves.
Hate crime laws not only violate the First Amendment, they also violate the Tenth Amendment. Under the United States Constitution, there are only three federal crimes: piracy, treason, and counterfeiting. All other criminal matters are left to the individual states. Any federal legislation dealing with criminal matters not related to these three issues usurps state authority over criminal law and takes a step toward turning the states into mere administrative units of the federal government.
Because federal hate crime laws criminalize thoughts, they are incompatible with a free society. Fortunately, President Bush has pledged to veto HR 1592. Of course, I would vote to uphold the president’s veto.
The best thing about Ron Paul is that only he can unite the crazies on the far right with the crazies on the far left :)
In all seriousness, I think it's great that he's getting a little bit of coverage now. He may have zero shot at winning the Republican nomination, but if he can get his message out maybe some of the Republican candidates will open up their eyes and see what their party has become.
Here's a clip of the Iron Sheik freaking out an autograph signing. The F-Bombs are directed at The Ultimate Warrior. Not sure who caused the scuffle, but I think we can all agree that the Warrior is very lucky he didn't get "humbled" by the Sheik.
