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NETGEAR®, Inc. (NASDAQGM: NTGR) (www.netgear.co.uk), a global networking company that delivers innovative products to consumers, businesses and service providers, today announced ReadyNAS® 716 (RN716X). A 10GE-ready addition to the award-winning ReadyNAS product family (www.netgear.com/readynas), ReadyNAS 716 is the world's fastest desktop network attached storage (NAS) device. With a maximum capacity of 24TB (up to 84TB with expansion chassis), the six-bay ReadyNAS 716 enables easy storage and extreme throughput for businesses and campus environments supporting up to 500 concurrent users. Providing up to 10GE throughput, ReadyNAS 716 is also the only NAS on the market today capable of simultaneously streaming multiple large uncompressed Blu-ray® files.
Earlier this spring, NETGEAR introduced a new portfolio of ReadyNAS devices, running on the revolutionary ReadyNAS operating system (OS) that delivers high value, high performance storage with enterprise-class features. The custom-built ReadyNAS OS not only protects stored data with X-RAID2® automatic expansion, but also features continuous data protection through unlimited snapshots, easy disaster recovery with cloud-managed replication and native threat protection with real-time anti-virus. Each NAS device was created with ease-of-use in mind, so business users can confidently centralise, share and back up all the data on their network.
Every member of the award-winning ReadyNAS product family combines industry-first innovations with unmatched ease-of-use. With the launch of ReadyNAS 716, NETGEAR once again takes features and capabilities previously available only from expensive, large-enterprise vendors and dramatically simplifies deployment and manageability to provide businesses with affordable, dynamic and reliable storage. With a 10GE line rate on the two built-in 10GBASE-T ports, this newest member of the NAS portfolio also showcases the latest in performance capability related to simultaneous HD video streams.
"When performance matters and you need storage made easy, there's no better product on the market than the new ReadyNAS 716," said Matt Pahnke, senior product marketing manager for NETGEAR Storage. "We designed ReadyNAS 716 to be the world's fastest desktop NAS, complete with unmatched data protection features and the ability to stream multiple HD 4K videos simultaneously. So whether you're streaming a business presentation to clients around the globe or a lecture across a college campus, the ReadyNAS 716 is the only NAS product that has you covered."
ReadyNAS 716 offers the highest performance in the desktop category with 16GB ECC memory — more than any desktop NAS on the market — and features cutting-edge ReadyCLOUD™ technology for cloud-based set-up, provisioning and full file management from any browser. What's more, the world's fastest NAS supports 10GE infrastructures, making it ideal for streaming multiple HD videos concurrently to different media clients – whether it's 85 streams for a college seminar, 25 streams to a kindergarten class, or three uncompressed Blu-ray files.
"Our goal is to provide our customers with an affordable, high performance, easy-to-use storage solution," said Moisés Izquierdo Blasco, a systems engineer with Ingeniería Informática Interactiva, S.L., headquartered in Barcelona, Spain. "NETGEAR ReadyNAS 716 not only delivers fast, reliable storage, but also makes it easy to stream multiple simultaneous HD video files from everywhere. With ReadyNAS, our customers get a compelling experience without having to invest a tonne of money on complex solutions and can rest easy knowing they have continuous data protection."
ReadyNAS family growing by leaps and bounds
With the addition of the RN716 model, NETGEAR now has seven innovative product lines in the ReadyNAS family all running on the revolutionary ReadyNAS OS:
- The ReadyNAS 700 Series (RN716X) is designed for campus and high performance business environments supporting up to 500 concurrent users. It is a six-bay device and is only offered diskless.
- The ReadyNAS 500 Series (RN516XX) is designed for small to medium-sized business networks supporting up to 250 concurrent users. It is a six-bay device offered as either diskless or populated with drives.
- The ReadyNAS 300 Series (RN312XX, RN314XX, RN316XX) is optimised for small business networks and remote or branch office needs. It offers two-bay, four-bay and six-bay desktop models that are either diskless or populated with drives.
- The entry level ReadyNAS 100 Series (RN102XX, RN104XX) is designed for home use. It comes in two-bay and four-bay desktop models that are offered as either diskless or populated with drives.
In the summer, NETGEAR launched three new ReadyNAS devices for easy rack-mounted deployment, all of which are offered as either diskless or populated with drives:
- The 12-bay ReadyNAS 4220 is designed for high performance business environments supporting 50 to 500 concurrent users.
- The 12-bay ReadyNAS 3220 is ideal for supporting 26 to 250 concurrent users.
- The four-bay ReadyNAS 2120 is perfect for small office environments from five to 25 simultaneous users.
Like other members of the ReadyNAS family, ReadyNAS 716 has a simple-to-use interface. It supports SATA (up to 4TB) and SSD drives and includes three eSATA expansion ports for scaling capacity as the storage needs of a business grows (up to 84TB). Additional advanced capabilities featured on the NETGEAR ReadyNAS 716 include:
- Two built-in 10GBASE-T ports
- VPN quality remote data transfer and management
- Encrypted remote access
- Thin or thick provisioned LUNs
- ReadyDROP™ file synchronization
- ReadyDLNA™ mobile clients for remote media streaming
Pankhe added: "At NETGEAR, we strive to meet our customers' needs and that means expanding opportunities for what they can do with their NAS devices to create the best user experience possible. With this in mind, the latest addition to the ReadyNAS family reinforces our commitment to delivering only the most secure, fastest, and innovative storage solutions. Only ReadyNAS combines data protection and performance into one product. That's the bottom line."


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U.S. Appeals Court Rules Americans Have a Right to Buy and Sell Firearms
May 16, 2016 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Anti-Americanism, California, Constitution, Courts, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Founders, Freedom, Government Corruption, Gun Control, Guns, Judges, Law, Liberals, PCism, Police State, Policy, Progressives, Regulation, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, Thomas Jefferson, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off on
U.S. Appeals Court Rules Americans Have a Right to Buy and Sell Firearms
-By Warner Todd Huston
In a new ruling the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit maintained that Americans have a Constitutional right to acquire and sell arms.
The Ninth Circuit Court remanded the case of Teixeira v. County of Alameda back to a lower court informing it the court that the Second Amendment and its history protects the rights of Americans to self-defense including the "right to acquire weapons" as well as own them.
This puts a dent in the city of Alameda's regulations that practically bans the opening of any gun store in the city.
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Watch: Dem Chair Gets Cornered On Fox News, Has To Admit Something BIG About Hillary She Didn't Want To
May 4, 2016 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Ethics, FBI, Foreign Policy, Government, Government Corruption, Hillary Clinton, Homeland Security, Liberals, Policy, President, Progressives, Security/Safety, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off on
Watch: Dem Chair Gets Cornered On Fox News, Has To Admit Something BIG About Hillary She Didn't Want To
-By Warner Todd Huston
Recently Democrat National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D, FL, was cornered on Fox News about the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's violations of national security and Schultz slipped up big time in her reply giving an admission that Hillary won't want to hear..
Schultz appeared on "Fox News Sunday" to defend Hillary Clinton but didn't do a very good job. Other than sounding a bit halting and confused with her delivery, the core of her argument was that with her email use Hillary didn't do anything differently than other high profile members of government. But Schultz defeated her own claims with one little line.
First off Schultz said it was "ludicrous" for the FBI to investigate Hillary's breach of national security laws for sending classified information over a private email server housed in her own home and then deleting tens of thousands of them so they could never be seen.
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Here is How Democrats Are Using Immigrants to Destroy This Country
February 1, 2016 | Filed Under Amnesty, Anti-Americanism, Congress, Constitution, Cuba, Democrats/Leftists, Education, Ethics, Government Corruption, Immigration/Immigrants, Liberals, Mexico, President, Progressives, Public School, Security/Safety, Socialism, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off on
Here is How Democrats Are Using Immigrants to Destroy This Country
-By Warner Todd Huston
It is a well worn adage that America is "made up of immigrants." But the "making" occurred in an era when people moved to the United States in order to become Americans. Democrats, though, have taken that original intent and upended it to create a means to destroy the country instead of growing it. And there is no better example of this than the words of a Mexican immigrant who was asked to remark on the candidacy of Marco Rubio.
Before we get to this immigrant's statements about the young Florida Senator vying for the GOP nomination for president, we must address this "made up of immigrants" claim. In truth we are not made up of "immigrants," but of citizens.
Immigrants don't "make" a country. Citizens do. Yes, immigrants coming here are important to our republic, but immigrants become a nation's citizens and it is its citizens that make a country work.
Since immigrants become most useful to the country when they do, indeed, become citizens, it is so disheartening to read the statements of Las Vegas resident Maria Herrera, the rather un-American "citizen" interviewed by The Washington Post on January 10.
This woman was asked by the Post what she thinks about Florida Senator Marco Rubio, a man whose family originally hailed from Cuba.
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Advance Preview of Obama's 'Terrorism' Address: 'America, We Must Become a Nation of Sheep Led to the ISIL Slaughter'
December 6, 2015 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Congress, Conservatives, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, France, Free Speech, Freedom, GOP, Government, Government Corruption, Gun Control, Guns, Humor, ISIS, Islam, Liberals, Police State, President, Progressives, Regulation, Religion, Republicans, Security/Safety, Sharia, Terrorism, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off on
Advance Preview of Obama's 'Terrorism' Address: 'America, We Must Become a Nation of Sheep Led to the ISIL Slaughter'
-By Warner Todd Huston
We here at PubliusForum.com have been fortunate enough to be afforded a sneak peek at Obama's "terror" address that he will be giving today. Without further ado, the president of the United States:
My fellow Americans, tonight I felt it was important to come before you so that you could hear what I think about these horrible attacks my country has suffered these last few weeks.
Certainly I grieve for those who fell victim to the gun violence my country is embroiled in. I am heart broken by the loss the victims' families feel and understand their pain. Sadly, with their lives filled with the pain caused by the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, they have little room in their minds to help me advance my ideas. Tonight I hope to put an end to that.
Many un-American people who don't understand who we are as a people want to continue this wretched gun culture that has made me embarrassed to visit other countries. To them I say "no more." No more will I sit idly by and allow them their Second Amendment rights. No more will I allow my people to stand armed against my policies. No more will I let my countrymen to have the last, best chance to answer back to terrorists by being armed with needless, dangerous, assault guns.
My country is suffering an occupation of sorts worse than any ISIL terrorist invasion. Republicans who cannot accept that I won are certainly more dangerous than any ISIL terrorist, especially since my policies have completely contained ISIL to a small and dwindling part of Iraq and portions of Syria.
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Facebook Can't Handle The Truth: Censors Image of Muslim Kids Playing With Human Head
November 21, 2015 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Children, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Facebook, Islam, Islamofascism, Liberals, President, Progressives, Security/Safety, Syria, Technology, Terrorism, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off on
Facebook Can't Handle The Truth: Censors Image of Muslim Kids Playing With Human Head
-By Warner Todd Huston
Amidst President Obama's dangerous campaign to import hundreds of thousands of Syrian "refugees" into the U.S.–any number of whom WILL be ISIS terrorists–Facebook revealed its desire to help Obama by censoring a photo of a group of Muslim kids joyously playing with a human head as a toy.
Last week I posted to my personal Facebook account a photo of a pack of Muslim boys playing with a human head.
Along with the photo I wrote that the image was "A reminder: Here's some of Obama's "orphans" so deserving of getting imported into the U.S."
This quip of mine was in reference to Obama's absurd jab at Republicans who oppose his ISIS member importation policy where he said that Republicans were afraid of "widows and orphans."
In any case, I posted the photo to show that we do, indeed, have something to worry about where it concerns Obama's "orphans." After all, these kids are raised to have no respect for "infidels," they are raised to think that non-Muslim lives are not worth anything. And that is what Obama wants to bring here!
Further, we have a great example of a "widow" and her "orphans" who were allowed to come here without restriction in the persons of the Tsnaraev brothers who later became notorious as the Boston marathon bombers. These two young men were Muslim "orphans" from Kyrgyzstan who ended up as imported terrorists.
Yet, Facebook refused to allow my legitimate politically poignant photo of Muslim boys playing with a human head to stay up.
Facebook can't handle the truth.
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Obama is Lying: U.S. Law DOES Ask Refugees for Religious Info and a Democrat Sponsored the Rule
November 21, 2015 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government Corruption, Immigration/Immigrants, Islam, Islamofascism, Law, Liberals, President, Progressives, Religion, Republicans, Security/Safety, Senate, Sharia, Syria, Terrorism, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off on
Obama is Lying: U.S. Law DOES Ask Refugees for Religious Info and a Democrat Sponsored the Rule
-By Warner Todd Huston
As President Obama continues his push to wildly expand his plans to bring in hundreds of thousands of Syrian "refugees" into the U.S. despite what happened in Paris only a week ago, he is attacking anyone who opposes his dangerous policy. In particular he said that requiring a "religious test" for refugees is "un-American." Yet, U.S. law does have a religious test in its refugee laws and in one case that test was put in place by a Democrat.
In a November 16 press conference held in Antalya, Turkey, Obama viciously attacked those opposing his desire to flood the U.S. with Muslims any number of whom will be–not might be–ISIS supporters. During his conference Obama called opponents "shameful" and "not American" for standing against him.
"When I hear folks say that, 'Maybe we should just admit the Christians but not the Muslims,' when I hear political leaders suggesting that there would be a religious test for which person who's fleeing from a war-torn country is admitted, when some of those folks themselves come from families who benefitted from protection when they were fleeing political persecution, that's shameful," Obama said.
"That's not American," Obama blurted out. "That's not who we are. We don't have religious tests to our compassion."
Continuing to push his dangerous expansion of his Syrian refugee policy, later in the week Obama outrageously said that Syrian refugees are no more dangerous than any other "tourist" who visits the U.S.
Obama's desire to warp our famed principle of freedom of religion as cover for his desire to flood the nation with dangerous Muslims is as galling as it is cynical because U.S. law really does have several instances of a "religious test" for refugees.
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Dem. Abandons House Bid After Saying 'ISIS Isn't Evil' In Act of PCism Gone to Logical End
November 16, 2015 | Filed Under al Qaeda, Anti-Americanism, Christianity, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, France, Government Corruption, Homeland Security, House of Representatives, ISIS, Islam, Islamofascism, Jihad, Liberals, Minnesota, PCism, Progressives, Religion, Security/Safety, Sharia, Society/Culture, Syria, Terrorism, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | Comments Off on
Dem. Abandons House Bid After Saying 'ISIS Isn't Evil' In Act of PCism Gone to Logical End
-By Warner Todd Huston
A Democrat candidate for the House in Minnesota has abandoned his campaign and fled his social media after saying that ISIS "isn't necessarily evil" prompting an avalanche of criticism. He said his Tweet was poorly worded and didn't relate what he actually meant, but his nonsense is a perfect encapsulation of the utter stupidity of left-wing, politically correct thinking taken to its logical end point.
Dan Kimmel, of Burnsville, Minnesota took to Twitter on Saturday to belch out the proper level of PCism as a response to Friday's terror attacks in Paris. But unbeknownst to him his Tweet was to become the end of his own campaign for office.
The foolish Tweet read as follows: "ISIS isn't necessarily evil. It is made up of people doing what they think is best for their community. Violence is not the answer, though."
In minutes the Democrat was heavily criticized and not long afterward he deleted the Tweet. But the recriminations continued and got so harsh that even the state Democrat Party called on him to quit the race. In short order he did end up quitting his campaign and retreated from the public eye.
Kimmel apologized on his campaign website saying the Tweet "was poorly worded and did not convey my intent." He also said, "the tweet was stupid."
But, while the Tweet was certainly very, very stupid and made Kimmel out to be a moron, it most certainly did convey exactly what he meant and he meant it in only the best PC style.
Let's parse his Tweet…
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Obama Again Refuses to Properly Blame Islam for Terrorism
November 15, 2015 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, France, Government, Government Corruption, Homeland Security, ISIS, Islam, Islamofascism, Liberals, Policy, President, Progressives, Religion, Security/Safety, Syria, Terrorism, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off on
Obama Again Refuses to Properly Blame Islam for Terrorism
-By Warner Todd Huston
Before the last act of terror was over in Paris, President Obama rushed out to make a short address to the nation to give America's response to the outrage. But the President somehow forgot to mention anything about just what caused these attacks: Islamic terrorism.
Obama began his short address saying, "We stand prepared and ready to provide whatever assistance that the government and the people of France need to respond."
The President told the nation and the people of France, "It's an attack not just on Paris, not just on the people of France, but on all of humanity. He added that "the bonds of liberté, egalité, and fraternité are not only values that the French people care so deeply about but they are values we share."
"Those who think that they can terrorize the people of France or the values that they stand for are wrong," Obama insisted.
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After Paris Terror, Liberals Attack Conservatives, Cry for Muslims, Worry Focus Taken Off Global Warming, Mizzou, Anti-Gun Agenda
November 14, 2015 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Christianity, CNN, Conservatives, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Foreign Policy, France, Government Corruption, ISIS, Islam, Islamofascism, Jihad, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, MSNBC, PCism, President, Progressives, Religion, Republicans, Salon.com, Security/Safety, Sharia, Socialism, Society/Culture, Syria, Terrorism, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | Comments Off on
After Paris Terror, Liberals Attack Conservatives, Cry for Muslims, Worry Focus Taken Off Global Warming, Mizzou, Anti-Gun Agenda
-By Warner Todd Huston
The Old Media and the liberal left's reaction to the terror attacks in Paris last night really do prove that in and of itself leftists occupy just another niche of enemies to modernity and western civilization.
Certainly leftists are not themselves terrorists–though this is quite unlike the charge leftists make against anyone who is center right. But their ideas, ideals, and their reaction to Islamist terrorism makes of leftists haters of the west with a hate just as deep, just as white hot as any ISIS murderer's hatred.
This we can see in the left's reaction to what happened in Paris on November 13, 2015.
As a writer for Breitbart News one of my charges has always been to keep an eye on the outrageous nonsense that goes on in the left-wing media both in the U.S. and Eurdope, and in my piece today I trace several of the key reactions to the Paris attacks that reveals the media's hatred for our own.
But the tone was set to absolve Islam by the president himself who reused to say Islam or Muslim in his short address to the nation on Friday evening (see a transcript of his comments at the end of this article).
In any case, the media worked hard to absolve Muslims and Islam only to blame conservatives and the west for the attacks.
Before the dust had settled and before even the extent of the damage and number of dead had been tallied from a string of terror attacks in Paris, France, liberals in the old media establishment were already writing pieces blaming conservatives, bemoaning that the attacks had taken the focus off pet liberal issues like Mizzou and global warming, and wringing hands for the safety of Muslims.
To name just a few of these liberals handwringing and blaming everything except Islam, Salon.com was early out of the gate with a story twisting the terror attacks into a weapon to use against conservatives.
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Obama Just Handed the U.N. Power Over Our Response to Terrorism
October 6, 2015 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Congress, Constitution, Courts, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Freedom, Government Corruption, Gun Control, Islamofascism, Law, Liberals, PCism, Policy, President, Progressives, Regulation, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, Tea Party, Terrorism, UN, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | Comments Off on
Obama Just Handed the U.N. Power Over Our Response to Terrorism
-By Warner Todd Huston
Our Constitution is supposed to take precedence over all foreign laws or any arrogant edicts from the fetid U.N. But now Obama has made a move that would put the mechanics of the response to terrorism in some of our biggest cities in the hands of foreigners. President Obama has essentially just signed away U.S. sovereignty.
In August U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced that the Obama administration signed onto what is essentially a new international police operation with an initiative called Strong Cities Network (SCN). Lynch reported that this new organization would be operating out of some of the country's largest cities.
Naturally, despite that this new policing initiative is essentially a U.N. treaty, Obama never presented the plan to Congress for approval. Bypassing our elected officials, Obama singed onto the U.N. effort on his own hook.
The new effort was announced in a press release last week with a statement headlined, "Launch of Strong Cities Network to Strengthen Community Resilience Against Violent Extremism."
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Now Obama Wants to Bring Back Deported People Who are Mentally Ill
September 27, 2015 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Budget, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government Corruption, Islam, Islamofascism, Liberals, Osama bin Ladden, Policy, President, Progressives, Rape, Security/Safety, Sex Offenders/Rape, Sharia, Society/Culture, Taxes, Terrorism, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off on
Now Obama Wants to Bring Back Deported People Who are Mentally Ill
-By Warner Todd Huston
Apparently getting rid of dangerous, mentally ill illegal immigrants wasn't good enough for the U.S. government because now a federal judge has decreed that every mentally ill illegal sent back to where they belonged should be brought back to the U.S. And guess who this idiot judge wants to pay for all this re-importing of dangerous, mentally ill illegals? Yeah, you guessed it on the first try.
A judge in (where else but) California has decreed that hundreds of mentally ill illegals who "represented themselves" at their deportation hearings were illicitly deported because they weren't mentally competent to do so and now deserve to be brought back to the US–at our expense–for yet another trial with a lawyer provided–yes, again at our expense–so that they can have another shot to stay in the US and get free mental help–aaaaand, yes, all at our expense.
As the Associated Press reported late last week:
Federal Judge Dolly M. Gee's ruling will let immigrants with serious mental disabilities request to have their cases reopened in hopes of returning to the U.S. The ruling covers immigrants deported from California, Arizona and Washington between Nov. 21, 2011 and Jan. 27 this year.
Naturally the ACLU loves this idiotic ruling.
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Maker of 'Airplane' Movies Destroys Obama's Horrid Iran Deal With Hilarious 'Iran Side Effects' VIDEO
September 12, 2015 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Anti-Semitism, Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Foreign Policy, Government Corruption, Iran, Islam, Islamofascism, Liberals, Middle East, President, Progressives, Religion, Security/Safety, Senate, Sharia, Terrorism, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off on
Maker of 'Airplane' Movies Destroys Obama's Horrid Iran Deal With Hilarious 'Iran Side Effects' VIDEO
-By Warner Todd Huston
Obama bows after giving the nuclear
store away to the Iranian terrorists.
David Zucker, the producer of the hilarious "Airplane" and "Naked Gun" series of movies has now spoken up against Obama's dangerous Iran nuke deal and he's done it the way he does best, with an hilarious video and this one skewers Obama's disastrous deal.
Zucker has created a new website called www.iransideeffects.com that you HAVE to see. The video is a pastiche of all those crazy drug commercials that tell potential customers about the horrible side effects of the drug.
Both hilarious and spot on right.
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As Jihadi Attacks Are Up Dramatically in USA, Obama Says Conservatives are 'Dangerous'
September 8, 2015 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, DHS, Ethics, FBI, Foreign Policy, Government Corruption, Liberals, President, Progressives, Rights, Security/Safety, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off on
As Jihadi Attacks Are Up Dramatically in USA, Obama Says Conservatives are 'Dangerous'
-By Warner Todd Huston
Since Barack Obama came to office, his security regime has repeatedly put out reports saying that conservatives, Republicans, patriots, white people, and our military veterans are "dangerous" and need to be watched, quite despite that NONE of these people have caused any troubles. On the other hand, not once has Obama put out a report saying that Muslims are dangerous. And now we get this report from Congress informing us that would-be jihadi attacks are up "dramatically" since 2010.
The new report from the House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee notes that there has been a sharp rise in jihadi terror attempts inside the USA going from the 38 that were identified in 2010 to 124 by 2015.
"The Islamist terror threat in the US homeland has escalated dramatically this year and remains high," committee chairman Michael McCaul said in the monthly "Terror Threat Snapshot" published Friday. "There have been more US-based jihadist terror cases in 2015 than in any full year since [September 11, 2001]."
Now, remember, this number represents the jihadi threats that the government has identified and cleared, so there are likely many more that they couldn't report because they are still part of ongoing investigations. So, there are likely many more not on this list.
With the number of jihadi threats growing at a steady rate-and with some of these threats becoming real murders of Americans–it is clear that Islam is the most dangerous problem in America today.
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Obama Admin. Again Warning That White 'Militias' are as Big a Threat as Islamists
August 25, 2015 | Filed Under 1st Amendment, 2nd Amendment, al Qaeda, Anti-Semitism, Barack Obama, Conservatives, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, FBI, Government, Government Corruption, Homeland Security, ISIS, Islam, Islamofascism, Jihad, Koran, Liberals, NSA, PCism, President, Progressives, Religion, Republicans, Security/Safety, Sharia, Society/Culture, Terrorism, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | Comments Off on
Obama Admin. Again Warning That White 'Militias' are as Big a Threat as Islamists
-By Warner Todd Huston
Since the day his regime took over in Washington, Barack Obama's blinkered "intelligence" agencies have been warning that it is white people, conservative groups, tea partiers, military veterans, and "militias" that are the real danger lurking in America and recently Obama's FBI did it again claiming that "militias" (read white male gun enthusiasts) are looking to attack Muslims inside the USA.
In a report issued in May only to police departments and other law enforcement agencies, the FBI's Counterterrorism Division insisted that "militia extremists" are looking to kill Muslims. The report goes on to cite two–yes only two–instances of "militia" leaders saying they are mad at Muslims and may want to target them.
No actual instances of this desire to attack Muslims has been seen, though. Only talk. Still, the FBI is all worried over Americans with guns.
An intelligence bulletin issued by the FBI's Counterterrorism Division in late May warns that so-called "militia extremists" are likely to begin targeting Muslim institutions, including mosques and other religious facilities. The bulletin titled "Militia Extremists Expand Target Sets To Include Muslims" was obtained by Public Intelligence after being released to law enforcement in late May, just days before a planned "freedom of speech" rally outside a Phoenix mosque which attracted numerous individuals dressed in camouflage, tactical gear and carrying loaded assault weapons.
Based primarily on a "large body of source reporting generated mainly since 2013," the bulletin states that militia extremists are "expanding their target sets to include Muslims and Islamic religious institutions in the United States." The recent targeting of Muslims augments prior FBI analysis, contained in a January 2015 report, which found that "established militia extremists target government personnel and law enforcement officers, perceived threats from abroad, and individuals or institutions that seek to constrain Second Amendment rights."
Obama Admin Decides Not to Force FBI to Get Warrants for Email Data
August 3, 2015 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Congress, Courts, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, DHS, Ethics, FBI, Free Speech, Freedom, Government Corruption, Judges, Liberals, Police State, President, Progressives, Regulation, Security/Safety, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off on
Obama Admin Decides Not to Force FBI to Get Warrants for Email Data
-By Warner Todd Huston
Despite the pressure brought to bear by the public and efforts by Congress, the Obama White House has announced that it will not demand that the FBI get warrants to access email data.
The current law for electronic communications is an ill-fitting scheme that forces law enforcement to get a warrant for emails and other electronic communications that are up to six months old. But for any data older than that the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) only requires a subpoena. But these rules don't take into account the fact that data can be stored on line for far longer than six months.
The original rules written back in 1986 assumed that such data would be harder and/or expensive to store and might be erased sooner than data is today.
Many Americans want these old, outdated rules changed so it is a bit harder for law enforcement to access American's electronic communications. Pursuant to that a petition demanding that law enforcement, particularly the FBI, get a warrant for any email data it wants had been turned in to the administration as far back as 2013. Last week the Obama administration finally responded to this petition saying that it won't require the FBI to change its process for accessing electronic data.
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Obama's Homeland Security Chief Says Terrorism is NOT Caused by Islam
July 30, 2015 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government Corruption, Homeland Security, ISIS, Islam, Islamofascism, Jihad, Koran, Liberals, PCism, President, Progressives, Religion, Security/Safety, Sharia, Society/Culture, Terrorism, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | Comments Off on
Obama's Homeland Security Chief Says Terrorism is NOT Caused by Islam
-By Warner Todd Huston
This is why we are failing to stop Muslim terrorists. If we can't identify who the enemy is, how can we fight him? The question is pertinent since this week Obama's Secretary of Homeland Security insisted that Islam is not the cause of any terrorism in the world today. How can he say that? Because he claims that terrorists aren't really Muslims. Oh, you heard that right, America.
DHS secretary Jeh Johnson was recently at a security forum where he flat out refused to identify terrorists as Muslims. Then he went even further to claim that anyone who says that terrorists are Muslims are insulting Islam.
Sec Johnson was asked why he and Obama steadfastly refuse to call the terrorists "radical Muslims" or identify terrorists as Islamists.
"I believe strongly – and I hear this over and over again from Muslim leaders in this country – that to refer to ISIL as 'Islamic extremism' concedes too much. It dignifies them as occupying some part of the Islamic faith, which is about peace. And so if you call it 'Islamic anything,' uh, we are dignifying this terrorist organization with occupying a part of the Islamic faith which Muslims in this country I know, push back very strongly on," Johnson said. "So If I went into these [Muslim] communities calling it 'Islamic extremism,' I'd get nowhere."
When the host of the event pointed out that most people feel this is just blatant political correctness, Sec. Johnson replied, "I could not disagree more."
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Obama's Answer to Terrorism Against Our Troops: Have Them Remove Their Uniforms
July 20, 2015 | Filed Under Air Force, Anti-Americanism, Army, Barack Obama, Coast Guard, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government, Government Corruption, ISIS, Islam, Islamofascism, Jihad, Liberals, Marines, Military, National Guard, Navy, Pentagon, President, Progressives, Religion, Security/Safety, Sharia, Tennessee, Terrorism, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off on
Obama's Answer to Terrorism Against Our Troops: Have Them Remove Their Uniforms
-By Warner Todd Huston
On the heels of a terrorist attack on two military recruiting offices in Tennessee by a Muslim immigrant, the Obama administration announced a policy change to help prevent future attacks. Was it to finally arm our soldiers? Nope. It was to have them take off their uniforms. No really!
According to the Military Times, Obama's weak-kneed Defense Secretary Ash Cater approved the decree that recruiters should take off their uniforms while performing their recruitment duties from now on.
So, now recruiters will be wearing…. what, shots and a t-shirt? Or better yet, maybe a burkah or maybe some turban-styled head covering. All in order to cringe in front of Islamic terrorists while pleading, "oh, please, please, Mr. terrorist, don't kill us."
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Chattanooga Shooter Identified as ISIS Terrorist and Not 'A White Guy'
July 16, 2015 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Homeland Security, Islamofascism, Jihad, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Security/Safety, Tennessee, Terrorism, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off on
Chattanooga Shooter Identified as ISIS Terrorist and Not 'A White Guy'
-By Warner Todd Huston
As the media rushed to report this morning's attack on two military offices in Chattanooga, Tennessee some reported that the shooter was "a white guy." But now we know that the shooter not only isn't "a white guy" but he is a Middle Easterner likely caught up with the ISIS terror outfit.
Still, some of the earlier reporting on the shootings at two Tennessee military centers identified the shooter as "a white guy." Many outlets rushed to report what a Muslim man in Chattanooga told the press–likely hoping that it really was a white guy who did the shooting.
The bad witness, one Mohamed Elbardissy–co-owner of the local Toscano Italian Grill–told the media that he saw the shooter and, "He was driving a silver, convertible Mustang" and was "a white guy."
But it turns out it wasn't "a white guy" at all. We now know it was a Muslim acting on behalf of the terror group ISIS or at the very least acting out his own little jihad.
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Donald Trump is Jeb Bush's Fault (Along with the REST Of the GOP Establishment)
July 13, 2015 | Filed Under Amnesty, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Business, Capitalism, Congress, Conservatives, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Donald Trump, Economy/Finances, Elections, Ethics, GOP, Government, Government Corruption, House of Representatives, Immigration/Immigrants, Jobs, John Boehner, Liberals, Mexico, Mitch McConnell, Policy, President, Progressives, Rape, Regulation, Security/Safety, Senate, Sex Offenders/Rape, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off on
Donald Trump is Jeb Bush's Fault (Along with the REST Of the GOP Establishment)
-By Warner Todd Huston
Let's face it, Donald Trump has tapped into a very serious concern that most Americans have and that is illegal immigration. But the fact that he's become a rising star in this GOP primary race at this time isn't because he's so great. It's because the GOP is so damn bad on the issue. For Trump's current success, the whole thing is Jeb Bush, John Boehner, and Mitch McConnell's fault.
First off, let's be frank. Donald Trump is not a conservative. He is a recent supporter of single payer healthcare, has claimed in the past that he supports blanket amnesty, and has been all over the map on such important topics as guns and abortion. So, please let's stop pretending he is a conservative. He absolutely has no such track record.
But his denunciation of Obama's failed–in fact dangerous–immigration policy is exactly what angers and frightens GOP voters along with a fair portion of Democrats.
Likely without doing the requisite research for statistics to prove the matter, Trump innately understands that what we have going on in immigration is a dangerous and wrong headed policy, one that seems to have a twin purpose: to destroy this country and to set up a permanent Democrat majority through creating automatic Democrat voters after a presidential amnesty.
Trump has been absolutely fearless in speaking out against this dangerous policy that is turning America into a third world nation. He has taken the fight straight to Obama on numerous occasions and that is exactly what Republican voters want to see.
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Frightening Poll: Large Number of American Muslims Believe Sharia Better Than US Constitution
June 24, 2015 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Bill of Rights, Civil Rights, Constitution, Courts, Democracy, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Ethics, Freedom, Government, Government Corruption, Islam, Islamofascism, Jihad, Koran, Law, Liberals, Liberty, PCism, Progressives, Regulation, Religion, Security/Safety, Sharia, Society/Culture, Terrorism, The Law, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | Comments Off on
Frightening Poll: Large Number of American Muslims Believe Sharia Better Than US Constitution
-By Warner Todd Huston
A new poll finds that a very large number of American Muslims feel that sharia law is better than US law. And most consider themselves to be a member of the Democrat Party–a party that not surprisingly also has little interest in the US Constitution.
The poll of American Muslims was taken this June for The Center for Security Policy and here are some of the Poll's findings:
When asked how they define "sharia," 71 percent essentially see sharia as a guide for all aspects of a Muslim's life, one more important than the US way of life or US law.
When asked if sharia should replace the Constitution only 43 percent said no and an astounding 33 percent said yes. So, when asked straight on a small majority shied from saying the want the Constitution replaced with sharia.
But American Muslims came closer to how they really feel when they were asked if they thought Muslims in the USA should be judged under US law. Only 30 percent said that US courts should be first and foremost as the place for adjudicating legal matters while 51 percent said that they should be allowed to ignore US law and be free to use their own sharia courts instead.
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Another Obama Agency Says Conservatives More Dangerous Than Islamic Terrorists
June 2, 2015 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Christianity, CIA, Conservatives, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, DHS, Ethics, FBI, Government, Government Corruption, Islam, Islamofascism, Jihad, Liberals, NSA, President, Progressives, Religion, Republicans, Security/Safety, Sharia, Terrorism, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off on
Another Obama Agency Says Conservatives More Dangerous Than Islamic Terrorists
-By Warner Todd Huston
Yet again President Obama and that coterie of anti-American cretins he calls his administration deems conservatives to be more dangerous and worth "watching" than Islamic terrorists. The newest attack on Americans unleashed by Obama is the announcement that the politicized Department of "Justice" is now investigating "far-right" activity on Twitter and other social media.
As The Washington Free Beacon reports, "The Justice Department's National Institute of Justice (NIJ) awarded Michigan State University $585,719 for the study, which was praised by Eric Holder, the former attorney general, earlier this year."
"There is currently limited knowledge of the role of technology and computer mediated communications (CMCs), such as Facebook and Twitter, in the dissemination of messages that promote extremist agendas and radicalize individuals to violence," the NIJ grant reads. "The proposed study will address this gap through a series of qualitative and quantitative analyses of posts from various forms of CMC used by members of both the far-right and Islamic extremist movements."
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Obama Preventing Our Air Force from Firing on ISIS Forces With Absurd 'Rules' of Engagement'
May 29, 2015 | Filed Under Air Force, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Foreign Countries, Government Corruption, Iraq, ISIS, Islam, Islamofascism, Koran, Liberals, Military, PCism, President, Progressives, Security/Safety, Sharia, Society/Culture, Syria, Terrorism, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | Comments Off on
Obama Preventing Our Air Force from Firing on ISIS Forces With Absurd 'Rules' of Engagement'
-By Warner Todd Huston
Our Air Force jet pilots are beginning to gripe about Obama's ISIS-supporting "rules of engagement" and saying that Obama is telling them they aren't allowed to fire on ISIS targets. That is right, Obama is preventing our military from killing ISIS terrorists.
Apparently ISIS has their own leader in Washington and it's Barack Obama who seems to be making sure that ISIS fighters are protected from American power.
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Why Does Liberal Rag Salon.com Hate Our Soldiers? Because They Take Money From Welfare Spending
May 25, 2015 | Filed Under Air Force, Anti-Americanism, Army, Budget, Coast Guard, Communism, Congress, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Ethics, Freedom, Government, Government Corruption, Journalism, Liberals, Marines, Media, Media Bias, Military, Money, National Guard, Pentagon, Progressives, Salon.com, Security/Safety, Taxes, Veterans, Warner Todd Huston, Welfare | Comments Off on
Why Does Liberal Rag Salon.com Hate Our Soldiers? Because They Take Money From Welfare Spending
-By Warner Todd Huston
On this Memorial Day, the anti-American cretins at Salon.com have proclaimed our soldiers to be "dangerous" to the nation. Why? Because spending money on our military takes money away from welfare budgets. And they are serious.
Before we even get to the stupidity in this Salon.com article, we should note that spending on the military is one of the few federal expenditures that is actually written right into the U.S. Constitution.
Welfare spending isn't in the Constitution. Spending on the environment isn't there. No money is specified for roads, internal improvements, or education. Neither is spending on "disaster aid." But spending on the military is in there.
In fact, little of the spending that goes on in Washington is actually directly Constitutional. By contrast spending on the military is one of the few things that the founders made sure to provide.
But let's give these anti-American socialists at Salon their say. Here is their argument for why "The U.S. military is a national security threat."
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Obama Claims Anti-Semitic Iranians are Just Being 'Rational'
May 21, 2015 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Anti-Semitism, Barack Obama, Christianity, Democracy, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, Government, Government Corruption, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Islam, Islamofascism, Israel, Jews, Jihad, Judaism, Koran, Liberals, Muslim Brotherhood, PCism, President, Progressives, Religion, Security/Safety, Sharia, Society/Culture, Terrorism, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | Comments Off on
Obama Claims Anti-Semitic Iranians are Just Being 'Rational'
-By Warner Todd Huston
Obama has now decided that being a wild-eyed hater of Jews is a "rational" action and that the Iranian's hate for Jews doesn't make them bad people. How can Jews still support Obama?
In discussing his foreign policy ideas concerning Iran getting a nuke, Obama once again had harsher things to say about Israel than he does about Iran despite that Iran has actually helped kill thousands of American soldiers.
Obama complained that there are "political forces" in the US that want to help give Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli government a rubber stamp to do what ever it wants to do and Obama thinks that is a bad idea.
In particular, Obama wants the Israelis to end its settlement efforts. In fact, Obama insists that standing against Israel's policy doesn't make him anti-Jew.
On the other hand, it doesn't seem that Obama cares too much if anyone else is anti-Jew if his next set of comments are any indication.
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Disastrous Commie Pope Now Calling Murderous Palestinians 'Angels of Peace'
May 16, 2015 | Filed Under Anti-Semitism, Bible, Catholicism, Christianity, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government, Government Corruption, Islam, Islamofascism, Israel, Italy, Jews, Jihad, Judaism, Koran, Liberals, Middle East, Palestinians, PCism, Progressives, Religion, Security/Safety, Sharia, Society/Culture, Terrorism, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | Comments Off on
Disastrous Commie Pope Now Calling Murderous Palestinians 'Angels of Peace'
-By Warner Todd Huston
Every day this disastrous commie Pope gets worse for Catholics in particular and the west in general. This time this foolish man is lauding the so-called "Palestinians" a "angels of peace." Nothing–absolutely NOTHING–could be farther from truth than calling Palestinians "angels of peace" unless you are referring to the relative peace of death because death merchants is all they are.
This weekend Pope Francis praised murderer Mahmoud Abbas calling him an "angel of peace" in a meeting held at the Vatican on Saturday.
Abbas presented the red pope with a medallion that supposedly represents the "angel of peace destroying the bad spirit of war."
In reply this Marxist pope told Abbas that the gift was appropriate because Abbas is "an angel of peace."
Add this weekend's foolishness to this pope's decision to confer statehood on the non-existent "country" of Palestine by signing a treaty recognizing the Palestinians as a state. The announcement for the treaty was made last week, but has been neither officially drawn up, released to the church nor signed.
All this glad handing for a man who represents a terror outfit that is based on murder and genocide. This pope is calling a terrorist state an "angel of peace."
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58% of US Muslims Want Free Speech to be Illegal, So Can you Be Muslim AND American?
May 6, 2015 | Filed Under 1st Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Foreign Policy, Free Speech, Freedom, Government, Government Corruption, Human Rights, Islam, Islamofascism, Koran, Liberals, PCism, President, Progressives, Regulation, Religion, Rights, Security/Safety, Sharia, Society/Culture, Terrorism, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | Comments Off on
58% of US Muslims Want Free Speech to be Illegal, So Can you Be Muslim AND American?
-By Warner Todd Huston
A recent poll seems to suggest that Muslims living in the USA want to outlaw our god-given right to free speech and a large number even agree that blasphemers of the Muslim god should be executed… not "over there," but HERE in the USA! It makes one wonder if it is possible to be both a Muslim and a true American?
For years during the invasion of Iraq under George W. Bush some doubters of Bush's tactics said that Muslims cannot be made to understand western freedoms and constitutional government. In those heady days of nation building in the 1990s, many warned that Islam is incompatible with freedom and modernity.
For his part, President Bush insisted that Iraqis and other Muslims were "just like everyone else" and yearned to be free. Bush moved forward with his foreign policy based on the idea that this normal human yearning would make them understand and welcome our efforts there to help them throw off Islamist tyranny and begin to self govern.
While we've certainly had mixed and usually disappointing results from our efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere in the Middle East, we have certainly seen that Islam is often a stumbling block to our idea of freedom and self government.
But what about American Muslims? We care constantly told that they are "just like every other American" and are peaceful, loyal Americans who love our system.
But, do they?
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It's Time So Much of This 'Free Speech' is Shut Down for Inciting Violence
May 4, 2015 | Filed Under 1st Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Christianity, Civil Rights, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Free Speech, Freedom, Gay Marriage, Gays, Government, Government Corruption, Hate Crimes, Humor, ISIS, Islam, Islamofascism, Jews, Journalism, Koran, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, PCism, President, Progressives, Race, Racism, Religion, Satire, Security/Safety, Sex Offenders/Rape, Sharia, Society/Culture, Terrorism, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | Comments Off on
It's Time So Much of This 'Free Speech' is Shut Down for Inciting Violence
-By Warner Todd Huston
The First Amendment of the United States is one of the keystone principles in our founding, certainly. And it is about time that as a nation we put an end to its abuse. Not only does this key amendment give us free speech but it also assures freedom of the press, so it's time for government to step in and stop people from abusing it.
Over the last two days we've seen such abuses of the First Amendment that should infuriate every true American. We have seen, for instance, a group in Texas holding an event that was meant as a means to incite Muslims to kill people. The Federal government should have stepped in to prevent this event.
After all, what happened when they held an event soliciting graven images of the Prophet Mohammad, peace be upon him? That's right, good and true Muslims came out to kill the infidel, just as they are instructed to do by the Quran.
The simple fact is that these Muslims would not have taken up arms if not for this event.
The guardian of a free press and the First Amendment, Rukmini Callimachi of The New York Times, had it right when she Tweeted, "Free speech aside, why would anyone do something as provocative as hosting a 'Muhammad drawing contest'?"
Callimachi is exactly right. Free speech must be put aside if it attacks the Prophet.
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Muslims Drown 12 Christians in the Sea on the Way to Italy Because they Would Not Pray to Allah
April 19, 2015 | Filed Under Africa, Anti-Americanism, Christianity, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Europe, Islam, Islamofascism, Italy, Jihad, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Progressives, Religion, Security/Safety, Terrorism, Time Magazine, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off on
Muslims Drown 12 Christians in the Sea on the Way to Italy Because they Would Not Pray to Allah
-By Warner Todd Huston
A rubber boat full of refugees from Nigeria were floating across the ocean to try and get to Italy when the Muslims on board began to throw Christians off the boat and into the sea simply because they weren't Muslims. 12 Christians drowned due to this disgusting act of hate.
This is Islam, folks. Islam IS terrorism. It is endemic to the faith. Many westerners like to pretend that Islamic terror is only something that terrorists perpetrate and that "normal" Muslims don't act like this. This is a serious mistake to make. Foolish westerners who think like this come by it honestly, at least. It is based on the experiences of westerners who generally don't see religion as a justification to commit murder.
But, this story makes the lie to the claim that Islam is essentially a peaceful religion built on love. It just isn't.
The murders began when those on the boat began to fear that the rubber craft was starting to lose air and might sink. One Christian made the mistake of praying the Jesus out loud. This set the Muslims aboard into a frenzy of murderous hate.
One of the Muslims on board the rickety craft ordered him to stop, saying: 'Here, we only pray to Allah.'
When he refused, a violent fight ensued and 12 Christians drowned when they were thrown overboard by the Muslim refugees.
This is the soul of Islam. It was neither "terrorists" nor radicals on the boat from Nigeria to Italy. They were all refugees who were trying to escape a war-prone nation.
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Army 'Diversity Training' Badgers Soldiers About 'White Privilege'
April 6, 2015 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Army, Barack Obama, Budget, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Government Corruption, Liberals, Military, Pentagon, President, Progressives, Security/Safety, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off on
Army 'Diversity Training' Badgers Soldiers About 'White Privilege'
-By Warner Todd Huston
Hey, you evil white solders, don't you know that you are bad people? Well, that was the message that the US Army had with its "diversity training" session, anyway. Apparently Obama is trying to gut our military in every way possible, not just with the budget.
Images of one of the slides in this absurd "class" has emerged:
So, now even the Army is falling to this false "white privilege" agenda.
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Former British Spy Chief Says Security Policies Jeopardize Free Speech
February 1, 2015 | Filed Under Britain, Democracy, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Europe, Government Corruption, Islam, Islamofascism, Jihad, Koran, Liberals, Middle East, Nanny State, Religion, Security/Safety, Sharia, Terrorism, Transparency, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off on
Former British Spy Chief Says Security Policies Jeopardize Free Speech
-By Warner Todd Huston
The former head of one of Britain's two main security services has admitted that some of her nation's security polices are jeopardizing free speech in Britain.
Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller, former head of Britain's spy agency MI5 has come out to say that she does not support new anti-terror measures which will force universities to restrict the speech and actions of radical Muslims on campus.
Lady Manningham-Buller, director general of the Security Service until her retirement eight years ago, said the government's proposals could "jeopardise" the Government's anti-terror programme, known as Prevent.
The former spy chief said: "This is potentially in conflict with the university's existing obligations to protect free speech, something we are all concerned about.
"My instincts are very often in support of the Government on these sort of subjects, knowing that countering terrorism is not straightforward.
"However, the doubts that I expressed … about putting Prevent, whatever its importance, on a statutory footing, in particular with regard to universities, have not been assuaged by anything that I have heard."
Under Mrs May's plans universities will have a statutory duty to prevent extremism taking place on their property.
It is a fine line between security and free speech, for sure, one that western nations need to come to grips with to stay in keeping with having a free and open society.
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The last few months have been a rollercoaster for the film and entertainment industry in Louisiana, but today the ride ended
.At 6pm this evening, the 2013 Regular (Fiscal) Session of the Louisiana Legislature drew to a close. The motion picture tax credit program has survived mostly unchanged, with just minor amendments relating to audit guidelines (SB165) available for enactment upon the Governor's signature.
Over the last six months, LFEA's membership has increased more than ten-fold. We have become better funded, better informed, and better represented. We have found a unified voice and our members have spoken with it loud and clear. We have, together, educated the uninformed, challenged government, and advocated for the continued growth of an industry that is creating jobs faster than any other sector of our economy, changing the perception of Louisiana, and reversing the brain drain. We are a better organization, a better industry, and a better state as a result! Some thanks are in order. First to our lobbyist, David Tatman, and his colleagues at the Tatman Group who worked so hard to help us get our message to the Administration and the Legislature. Second, to the LFEA board members who stepped away from their jobs and businesses and who contributed an enormous amount of time and funds to further our cause. And most importantly, to you, our fellow members. There is strength in numbers, sure, but our members are especially strong, unbreakably committed and highly motivated to continue to grow the film and entertainment industry in Louisiana. You made this happen, and I, for one, am proud to serve alongside you.
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Skip to comments.Defending science education against intelligent design: a call to action
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We review here the current political landscape and our own efforts to address the attempts to undermine science education in Wisconsin. To mount an effective response, expertise in evolutionary biology and in the history of the public controversy is useful but not essential. However, entering the fray requires a minimal tool kit of information. Here, we summarize some of the scientific and legal history of this issue and list a series of actions that scientists can take to help facilitate good science education and an improved atmosphere for the scientific enterprise nationally. Finally, we provide some model legislation that has been introduced in Wisconsin to strengthen the teaching of science.
The past decade has seen breathtaking progress in evolutionary biology, thanks largely to the fruits of genome sequencing projects. The molecular footprints linking all life on the planet are now fleshed out in rich detail, and we possess a chronometer of molecular evolution going all the way back to early bacteria. This has sparked a renaissance of interest in speciation, development, and evolutionary aspects of disease susceptibility and resistance. The importance of evolution to biology was properly summarized by White House Science Adviser John Marburger when he said, "Evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology. Period. What else can you say?" (1).
In a parallel universe, a majority of Americans, 54%, do not believe human beings evolved, according to one poll (2). Only 38% agree with the statement, "human beings evolved from an earlier species" (3). Opposition to evolutionary theory has existed since Darwin. Efforts to eradicate or dilute the teaching of evolution persist throughout the nation despite consistent rejection in the courts. Conservative think tanks, religious fundamentalists, and influential magazines such as National Review continue their attempts to introduce pseudo-science into science classrooms. This movement has gained the support of such prominent politicians as President George W. Bush, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, and Senator John McCain. Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, a onetime biology major, said, "our school systems teach the children they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud" (4). Even the definition of science itself has fallen victim to political attack; the state board of education in Kansas decided that the supernatural may now be taught as science in the classroom. Some have claimed that the challenge to evolution is symptomatic of a broader, more generic attack on science itself (5).
Scientists can no longer afford to let these challenges go unopposed. The wide gap between established facts accepted by scientists and the sentiments sampled in the polls reflects a failure of science education. For this, scientists, particularly those in academia, must take some responsibility. The remedies are educational and political and must involve scientists and non-scientists. Instituting an effective response does not require large blocks of time, nor need it involve debates with creationists: small actions can have large effects.
The road to Dover.
In 1968, the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled that an Arkansas law banning the teaching of evolution violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution. The Court ruled that the Arkansas law had a religious purpose namely, to oppose teachings perceived to conflict with the biblical story of creation. Following this defeat, opponents of evolution adopted two strategies. First, they advocated the teaching of creationism as an alternative scientific explanation, along with evolution. Second, they began to adopt scientific jargon to give creationism a veneer of science. Two states, Arkansas and Louisiana, passed laws mandating this "balanced" treatment of evolution and creationism.
This set the stage for the Arkansas trial of 1982 (McLean v. Arkansas Board of Education), which was almost entirely focused on the question "Is creationism science?" Judge William R. Overton stated in his opinion (6) that creationism fails to be a science because it fails to satisfy the following requirements: "(a) it is guided by natural law; (b) it has to be explanatory by reference to natural law; (c) it is testable against the empirical world; (d) its conclusions are tentative, i.e. are not necessarily the final word; and (e) it is falsifiable."
The issue returned to the Supreme Court in 19861987. The Court ruled 72 in Edwards v. Aguillard that Louisianas law calling for the balanced treatment of evolution ("evolution-science" and "creation-science") violated the First Amendment "because it lacks a clear secular purpose" and it "impermissibly endorses religion by advancing the religious belief that a supernatural being created humankind" (7).
The creationists once again mutated and adapted. After the Edwards ruling, they set about removing references to God and creationism from their tracts. For example, as revealed at the Dover trial (8), the authors of the intelligent design (ID) text Of pandas and people: the central question of biological origins stripped the direct mentions of creationism present in early drafts of the text and systematically substituted the novel term "intelligent design" (9).
The evolution of creationism.
ID is the contemporary version of an argument that has a long history. It was given a succinct formulation by William Paley in the early 19th century. Modern defenders of the design argument contend that living things are too complex to have evolved by the process of natural selection; rather, their "irreducible complexity" is convincing evidence of the hand of an intelligent designer. ID theorys contemporary advocates, who include Lehigh University biochemistry professor Michael Behe, cite complex systems such as the blood-clotting cascade, the flagellar motor, and the human eye to argue that because these systems would be nonfunctional if even a single component part were excised, they could not have evolved by mutation/natural selection and therefore must have been "intelligently designed." The argument can be boiled down to this: complexity is itself evidence of a designer. In its current version, ID conveniently omits mention of God.
However, ID is not a scientific theory. The premise for the arguments of Behe and other ID proponents is deeply flawed, scientifically and philosophically. Behe assumes that the component parts of irreducibly complex systems never had other functions in older organisms. This is contradicted by scientific evidence. The Dover trial transcripts are illuminating (see "The Dover trial") (8). Under oath, Behe was forced to concede that there are organisms that lack some of the mammalian clotting proteins. Proteins that are present in the flagellar motor have orthologs that are involved in unrelated functions. A recent elegant example of proteins acquiring a new function within a complex system can be seen in a structure that functioned in respiration in fish and later evolved to be part of the mammalian inner ear (10).
ID makes no testable predictions. There is nothing in this concept that allows for scientific investigation of the "designer." It is simply an argument by default; the failure to explain something is said to lend credence to a supernatural explanation. The attempt to promote this as science is deeply misguided. In spite of uncounted hundreds of thousands of scientific studies published in the last 50 years, there are still demonstrable gaps in what we know about the evolution of life on this planet. However, those studies tell us a great deal about how life came to be as it is and now form the foundation of modern biology. ID, by contrast, has produced nothing.
The Discovery Institute.
The engine behind the ID movement is the Discovery Institute, founded in 1990 by Bruce K. Chapman. Today, the institute receives more than $4 million per year from numerous foundations, most with religious missions. The centers objectives are outlined in its "Wedge Strategy," which was leaked and posted on the Internet (11). The document states that the Discovery Institute "seeks nothing less than the overthrow of materialism and its cultural legacies" and "to replace materialistic explanations with theistic understanding that nature and human beings are created by God." Its goals are to see ID theory as the dominant perspective in science; to see design theory applied in specific fields, including molecular biology, biochemistry, paleontology, physics, and cosmology in the natural sciences and ethics, politics, theology, and philosophy in the humanities; to see its influence in the fine arts; and to see design theory permeate our religious, cultural, moral, and political life.
The Dover decision.
In Dover, Pennsylvania, 2005, 11 parents sued to reverse a school board requirement that the following statement be read to students: "because Darwins Theory is a theory, it continues to be tested as new evidence is discovered. The Theory is not a fact. Gaps in the Theory exist for which there is no evidence. A theory is defined as a well-tested explanation that unifies a broad range of observations" (Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District) (12). The required statement referred only to evolution. The third paragraph in the statement read: "Intelligent design is an explanation of the origin of life that differs from Darwins view. The reference book, Of pandas and people (9), is available for students who might be interested in gaining an understanding of what intelligent design actually involves."
In his decision, Judge John E. Jones stated that ID is essentially Paleys argument for the existence of God, with God left unmentioned. In short, ID is a religious doctrine. He noted that Behe "claims that the plausibility argument for ID depends upon the extent to which one believes in the existence of God"; thus, "ID is a religious and not a scientific proposition." He characterized ID as "nothing less than the progeny of creationism." Jones stated that the Dover school statement forces a "false duality" on students by making them choose between God/ID and atheism/science and "singles out the theory of evolution for special treatment, misrepresents its status in the scientific community, causes students to doubt its validity without scientific justification, presents students with a religious alternative masquerading as a scientific theory, directs them to consult a creationist text as though it were a science resource, and instructs students to forego scientific inquiry in the public school classroom and instead to seek out religious instruction elsewhere."
The Dover case was an important victory for science education. Judge Jones wrote a strongly worded, carefully crafted opinion that should guide future litigation (12). The transcripts of the Dover trial constitute an excellent educational resource, rich in testimony about the nature of science, the evidence for evolution, and the history of deceit in the creationism/ID movement.
The "teach the controversy" hoax.
The ID movement employs a tactic that appeals to the American tradition of "fairness and balance." ID advocates argue that since there is a controversy over evolution, we should "teach the controversy" in public school science classrooms.
The "controversy" is manufactured. Evolutionary biology draws strength from a supporting scientific literature extending across 150 years that includes literally hundreds of thousands of individual papers. Creationists offer no science. In some cases, they have misrepresented science in their efforts to debunk it. For example, in Of pandas and people (9), evolutionary lineages are presented as straight lines linking species, rather than as parts of a tree structure. The incorrect linear model is then used to argue that cytochrome c homology patterns do not conform to evolutionary predictions.
The "just a theory" hoax.
Creationists purposefully confuse the two meanings of the word "theory." In common usage, a theory connotes a statement that is tentative or hypothetical. This is the meaning implied in the frequent claim of ID advocates that evolution is "just a theory." However, science uses the term "theory" differently. When substantiated to the degree that evolutionary theory has been, a theory is regarded as a fact. Practicing biologists operate within the rich context of evolutionary theory, and no part of modern biology, including medicine (13), is completely understandable without it. Scientific arguments are not qualified with clauses that allow for a nonevolutionary scenario.
The "fair and balanced" hoax.
In the name of "fairness and balance," the media have decided to present "two sides" of this story. For example, a day after the Dover decision, National Public Radio aired a commentary by a Heritage Foundation fellow comparing ID to the Big Bang Theory, predicting that eventually it will be widely accepted by scientists (14). By giving uncritical treatment to "both sides," the media convey to the public the false impression that this is a genuine scientific controversy and that each has a substantial body of evidence and convincing argumentation. Journalists should be mindful of the fact that no science supports creationism/ID; 150 years of biological, geological, and physical science supports the modern synthesis of Darwins theory. The individuals with scientific credentials who support ideas such as ID actually constitute a rather small group, as recently described in a New York Times article (15).
The "persecuted scientist against the establishment" hoax.
Another plea often articulated by ID proponents is the idea that there is a community of ID scientists undergoing persecution by the science establishment for their revolutionary scientific ideas. A search through PubMed fails to find evidence of their scholarship within the peer-reviewed scientific literature. In the original Wedge document, a key part of the plan to displace evolutionary biology was a program of experimental science and publication of the results. That step has evidently been skipped.
The constant, unanswered assault on evolution is harmful to science and science education. ID and its progeny rely on supernatural explanations of natural phenomena. Yet all of science education and practice rests on the principle that phenomena can be explained only by natural, reproducible, testable forces. Teaching our students otherwise disables the very critical thinking they must have in order to be scientists and is a fundamental distortion of the scientific process. ID is therefore not simply an assault on evolution: it is an assault on science itself.
ID groups have threatened and isolated high school science teachers. Well-organized curricular challenges to local school boards place teachers in the difficult position of arguing against their employers. We have spoken with high school science teachers who feel censored in their efforts to teach the basic principles of science. The legal challenges to local school districts are costly and divert scarce funds away from education into court battles. Although these court battles result in the defeat of ID, they are draining and divisive to local schools.
Finally, the assault on evolution and science threatens our nations scientific and technological leadership. Political and economic agendas are interfering with the free flow of scientific information. For example, political appointees have ordered scientists at NASA to eliminate references to the Big Bang Theory and to cease to mention the eventual death of the sun billions of years from now in their comments and publications. Other scientists have been cautioned about speaking out on global warming. These actions disrupt the long-standing tradition of public policy based on the consensus of the scientific community.
There is a wide range of actions that each scientist can take to facilitate good science education. Our experience has shown repeatedly that every action carries weight and represents a very productive use of time. Some of these require little time; some require a more substantial commitment.
Educate yourself.
A few hours with publications available on the websites of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, or the National Center for Science Education can help clarify the issues and provide the preparation needed for an effective scientific response to challenges (see Table 1). The decision rendered by Judge Jones in the Dover decision is a particularly excellent resource and is well worth reading in its entirety.
Write letters.
Write to legislators and newspapers. Write to school boards considering actions that might undermine science education. Write to government leaders. Respond to comments made by ID proponents wherever they might appear. The letters need not be long, and even one letter every few months will have a large effect. This is an activity that can and should fit into the schedule of every working scientist. Similarly, call in to talk shows featuring pro- or antiscience guests. Every letter written by authors of this paper has elicited a positive response. The ID program consists entirely of public relations efforts. They have had this playing field to themselves for too long.
Organize campus evolution groups.
This provides an informal way to husband campus resources in evolutionary biology. Seminar series are useful. Regular meetings to plan special events such as Darwin Day celebrations can serve as outreach exercises.
Organize educational support teams.
Scientists can be a compelling resource for teachers in K12 science programs who are facing pressure from school boards or parents to alter good science curricula in ways that harm students. If a group of such scientists can be organized, individuals need not face unreasonable demands on time, and the group as a whole can provide valuable assistance to educators within the scientists state.
Participate in outreach activities.
Go to local schools and talk to classes about science in general and evolution in particular. Go to school board meetings when appropriate and talk to school board members. Talk to local business groups.
Organize educational sessions at national and international meetings.
Major scientific professional societies should embark on a concerted educational effort, directed both at educating scientists about the problem and arming them for an effective response. Resources also must be made available for science teachers at the K12 levels. Travel grants, where available, should be concentrated on K12 teachers to make attendance possible.
Revise textbooks.
Scientists engaged in textbook writing should be more cognizant of the need to educate future scientists and science teachers about evolutionary biology. Additional education is required to explain what science is, what defines a scientist, and how the various forms of the scientific method constitute a consistent whole.
Become more effective lobbyists for legislation that improves the atmosphere for science and science funding.
We urge scientists in all 50 states to work with their respective legislatures to enact legislation similar to the bill just introduced in the Wisconsin Legislature. This movement should appeal to a widely shared interest to uphold the standards of science education and should transcend political ideology.
Make yourself available at least occasionally as a local resource.
Creationists are not deterred by the Dover case. There are troubling situations brewing in almost every state. Scientists should use these new cases as teaching opportunities in their own classrooms and should be willing to testify and support the cause of science education in the courtroom.
For academic scientists, there is no greater responsibility than the education of our citizenry, and there is no activity that has a greater impact. For too long, educational programs in biology at the college level have neglected to provide a solid grounding in evolutionary biology, despite its central importance. This background has been left to unstandardized mentions in core courses and to upper-level specialized courses that are often not required. A nationwide overhaul of these programs is essential. New introductory courses are needed to provide a background in evolutionary biology at the very beginning of all programs leading to science or science education degrees, and the courses should be required. New lower-level courses for nonmajors, pitched at a level appropriate for students with minimal science background, are needed to expose as many citizens as possible to evolutionary theory and to introduce them to science.
Work with your legislators.
Identify legislators who are friends of science and work with them, as we have in Wisconsin, to introduce legislation that supports and strengthens science education.
Work with clergy.
As Judge Jones indicated, the creationists have fostered a false duality between science and religion. A majority of people do not hold a literal young-earth interpretation of the Bible. The clerical community has a shared interest in keeping science and religion apart. They do not want religion to be presented as science and, like a large block of religious scientists, do not see any conflict between religious belief and evolutionary theory.
Whether in crafting a tax code, making health care decisions, evaluating the economy, exploring the resolution of world conflicts, evidence-based thinking is the best intellectual tool in our possession. In science, controversies are usually temporary. When scientists have divergent hypotheses, they usually agree on the key experiments that will favor one hypothesis over others. This is because there is a consensus that framing questions in a way that is subject to the test of evidence is the most progressive way to advance knowledge and understanding. In an ideal world, such principles ought to be widely embraced. Students should learn the difference between hard evidence and speculation. They should understand the elements of logic and clear, critical thinking. They need to understand how to suspend belief while gathering and evaluating evidence.
As George Orwell observed, "a mere training in . . . sciences . . . is no guarantee of a humane or skeptical outlook." Yet Orwell advocated universal science education if such an education was structured to focus on "acquiring a method a method that can be used on any problem that one meets and not simply piling up a lot of facts" (18).
Within universities, the cultural gap between the sciences and the humanities needs to be bridged. A useful approach is to create courses in critical thinking that combine science and the humanities. Ideally, such courses would include an exploration of contemporary problems from the combined perspectives of the sciences and the humanities, united in the common theme of evidence-based, critical thinking. Given that our universities play a large role in the training of the next generation of government and corporate leadership, investing in a future better guided by evidence-based, critical thinking is the most important investment we can make.
Have you thought of boiling oil?
Reporting for duty sir! Thanks for a bookmark posting!
Obviously, you have never tasted how sweet the Lord can be.
"Obviously, you have never tasted how sweet the Lord can be."
ID is about God? But, but... ID proponents say it isn't; they weren't lying to us, were they?
Well thanks for telling all of us that ID is religious based. Hope you do not mind if I use your post to point that out to others.
The "teach the controversy" hoax.This is an excellent article.
The "just a theory" hoax.
The "fair and balanced" hoax.
The "persecuted scientist against the establishment" hoax.
Evolution is the BIGGEST lie EVER perpetrated on the human race! By the devil himself!
Good read but wordy and not likely to get as much attention from practicing scientists as it should.
In addition there's not nearly as much money in recognizing evolution as in opposing it. Makes it hard to fund a strong defense.
Anyone know who, if anyone, is doing what to fix the Kansas science definition?
Darwin was the devil (or was it Wallace)?
Maybe they took turns or something. Alternate days?
I would've described it as "tangy, with a hint of garlic."
Where in the Bible does it say that? Why exactly do you think that? Did Satan "bury" those bones in the ground to fool us? Did God tell you this or did someone feed you that line?
Oh was that sarcasm?... sheesh... Sarcasm is best when it is actually believable...
A very nice summation. Let the dung get flung.
PH you are the Great Satan - pass the collection plate.
Tastes like chicken?
"If you haven't read the entire article yet, check out the sections titled:
The "teach the controversy" hoax.
The "just a theory" hoax.
The "fair and balanced" hoax.
The "persecuted scientist against the establishment" hoax."
All 4 appear on these threads just about every day. Sometimes in the same post. It's an uphill battle, that's for sure.
And sometimes you get Mamma Mia who got that way by partaking of too much pasta.
Yes, but it's good to see them correctly labeled as hoaxes.
Defending? Why the call to battle? What is really "under assault"? Why the fear over children hearing all theories? (Because now and probably forevermore, the origin of life as we know it is all theory)
When (at least since the Enlightenment) has religion seriously threatened or impeded science? In fact, it has provided a great impetus to the urgency of scientific exploration. Believers seek scientific explanations to affirm...disbelievers seek science to disavow the Believers.
So disbelievers, without religion, think of how much interest and funding would dry up..... so many skeptics lost to the fervor of proving what no body knows or can prove via science either way.
Besides, another thing history has shown is that...denying access to all theories (even at penalty of death such as faced by Galileo)) ...has not quashed human curiousity, skepticism, doubt, fear, wonder, and the search and the ultimate individual decision by every seeker as to what he believes.
The FSM will never let you die of anorexia unless you turn away from Him.
We are talking about the FSM, right?
I am curious exactly why THIS is happening. It seems outside of the ID realm, does it not? Now... I can speculate but I am curious what others think. Are the politicians we appointed trying to slowly tear down science?
You mean, like fighting back?
My favorite part of these threads are the pictures of dinosaurs and men living together, i.e. Jesus riding a brontosaurus. But hey, my needs are simple.
Of course not!
Well, if it contradicts fundamentalist beliefs, maybe science should be more careful.
In other words:
Geology: All those rocks and old layers. Gone!
Paleontology: All those fossils. Gone!
Biology: The worst of them all. Gone!
Archaeology: Can't find evidence of the global flood. Gone!
Sedimentology: Same. Gone!
Cosmology: That Big Bang stuff. Gone!
Nuclear physics: Supporting radiometric dating. Gone!
[Paging Nehemiah Scudder. Pick up the white courtesy telephone please.]
Politically purging references to the Big Bang would be directed at scienctific revisionism of evidence for the purpose of discrediting Creationism (which depends on a moment of everything coming into existence)...not the other way around, as you suggest. Perhaps the political appointees who redline the term "Big Bang" do not want "science" to seem to be supporting or insensitive or exclusionary toward Buddhism et al.
Now THAT's "pure" science at work in the best interest of our education system. Right?
Do you say such ignorant things on other threads? Civil War threads? Tech threads? DUmmie FUnnies?
This article and the posting thereof says nothing of PH (or anyone else's) relationship (or lack thereof) with God, Jesus or anyone else.
Do you think God has handed you the ability to peer into souls? To divine relationships with Him? The height of your presumptuous arrogance is amazing.
I will pray for your soul today. I suggest you do the same.
Darwinism is a simple shift in emphasis from studying the things of the universe to studying the processes of the universe. That there are processes is obvious.
Like campaigning for Darwin.
'Nuff said, really
Because historically people like ID'ers have a tendency to burn, torch and completely attempt to erase from history anything that goes against their beliefs. We don't want history to repeat itself.
They're switching to political mode, issuing tips for how to combat people who don't buy Darwinism. They're launching into campaign mode. Waging a PR war. Cranking up the propaganda.
Oooh that IS a funny statement coming from someone who has been attempting to push religious beliefs into public schools using politica means... isn't that what you and your kind at the Discovery Institute have been doing for years?
All those things that you really don't expect cold, hard, objective science to be doing. Fascinating
That too is a funny statement, because I would not expect "warm, fuzzy, God fearing folks" to be attempting to silence the search for truth.
You propaganda is oooooh so believable...
Linguistics: no Tower of Babel -- gone!
History: no end of inconvenient stuff --but the liberals have already finished this one off.
Oh please.
To demand no consideration of God when studying His creation is to insist that everything be taken out of context. If He is the author of all that exists, it is absurd to leave Him out of the discussion.
Darwin is standing for parliament? Good news -- he was a life-long and stalwart supporter of the Conservative Party.
Here is one fact (a really cute one, too):
Discovered By: R. Broom & J. Robinson 1947 (1)
Estimated Age of Fossil: 2.5 mya * determined by Stratigraphic, floral & faunal data (1, 4)
Species Name: Australopithecus africanus (1, 2)
Gender: Male (based on CAT scan of wisdom teeth roots) (1, 30) Female (original interpretation) (4)
Cranial Capacity: 485 cc (2, 4)
Information: No tools found in same layer (4)
Interpretation: Erect posture (based on forward facing foramen magnum) (8)
Nickname: Mrs. Ples (1)
See original source for notes:
But how, in a science class, could you possibly include all the thousands of different beliefs held about God? Why not keep all that in philosophy and theology classes--surely it's already covered?
I would be fascinated to see someone show what a lesson plan and course outline would look like for an 'ID' based biology class--it is impossible to imagine.
"It takes more faith for someone to believe that, given enough time hydrogen will turn into a man, than for me to believe that GOD created everything."
Not as much faith as it takes me to believe that someone can make such a silly statement as you made and still be capable of using a computer to type what you typed. Now THAT'S unbelievable. :)
""Only a fool says in his heart, there is no GOD"
Most people who accept evolution in the USA are Christians.
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