Not a good day to be Joe Wilson (or the MSM) July 8, 2008
Posted by reformedville in : culture, Government , add a commentI almost have to laugh when I hear the term conspiracy theory anymore.
Saddam’s Nukes
By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Monday, July 07, 2008 4:20 PM PT
WMD: Hear about the 550 metric tons of yellowcake uranium found in Iraq? No? Why should you? It doesn’t fit the media’s neat story line that Saddam Hussein’s Iraq posed no nuclear threat when we invaded in 2003.
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It’s a little known fact that, after invading Iraq in 2003, the U.S. found massive amounts of uranium yellowcake, the stuff that can be refined into nuclear weapons or nuclear fuel, at a facility in Tuwaitha outside of Baghdad.
In recent weeks, the U.S. secretly has helped the Iraqi government ship it all to Canada, where it was bought by a Canadian company for further processing into nuclear fuel — thus keeping it from potential use by terrorists or unsavory regimes in the region.
This has been virtually ignored by the mainstream media. Yet, as the AP reported, this marks a “significant step toward closing the books on Saddam’s nuclear legacy.”
Seems to us this should be big news.
After all, much of the early opposition to the war in Iraq involved claims that President Bush “lied” about weapons of mass destruction and that Saddam posed little if any nuclear threat to the U.S.
This more or less proves Saddam in 2003 had a program on hold for building WMD and that he planned to boot it up again soon.
This is clear, since Saddam acquired most of his uranium before 1991, but still had it in 2003, when invading U.S. troops found the stuff. (The International Atomic Energy Agency seems to have known about the yellowcake in the 1990s, but did nothing to force Saddam to get rid of it. It’s duplicating its error today with Iran and North Korea).
That means Saddam held onto it for more than a decade. Why? He hoped to wait out U.N. sanctions on Iraq and start his WMD program anew. This would seem to vindicate Bush’s decision to invade.
The American Thinker Web site reported four years ago on the scary math behind Saddam’s uranium hoard: 500 tons of yellowcake, once refined, could make 142 nuclear weapons.
But yellowcake wasn’t all they found at Tuwaitha. According to the AP, the military also discovered “four devices for controlled radiation exposure . . . that could potentially be used in a weapon.”
By the way, this should put to rest the canard peddled by the American left and by former Ambassador Joseph Wilson that “Bush lied” about Iraq seeking yellowcake from the African country of Niger.
Given what we know, including comments by officials in Niger’s government, Iraq did make overtures to buy uranium. And it’s quite possible all or part of the 550 tons came from there.
What’s more, if Bush hadn’t acted, we might today see a nuclear Iraq, an Iran on the way to having a weapon, Libya with an expanded nuclear program, and Syria — with its close ties to Saddam — on the way to having a nuke.
Of equal concern is why the media ignored this good news coming from Iraq. It seems to be of a piece with how they’ve treated other recent positive developments in Iraq (see editorial below).
We ask again — why aren’t you seeing and hearing more about this? The reason is simple: The mainstream media find it inconveniently contradicts the story they have been telling you for years.
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Derek Webb’s New Video
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1p00ASxejlE
The Abortion President July 7, 2008
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Christian group launches new effort in their campaign to educate American voters on the radical and extremist abortion policies of Senator Obama. (More)
Obama denies protection for infants of botched abortions
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A pro-life activist in Illinois says Barack Obama has repeatedly mischaracterized his opposition to the Illinois Born Alive Infants Protection Act while he was a state senator.
The Federal Born Alive Infants Protection Act was signed into law in 2002 after receiving unanimous support from the U.S. Senate. The measure that forces hospitals to give medical care to abortion survivors — if warranted — even received the backing of liberal senators Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts ), Barbara Boxer (D-California), and Hillary Clinton (D-New York).
Obama now says he did not support the Illinois measure because it “lacked the Federal language clarifying the act would not be used to undermine Roe vs. Wade.”
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Do you find inconsistency in Barack Obama’s professed Christian faith
and his support for abortion on demand?
Pro-life blogger Jill Stanek recently wrote a column for WorldNetDaily.com titled “Obama’s biggest lie about supporting infanticide.” She points out Obama actively opposed the Born Alive Infants Protection Act for three years in the Illinois senate.
“He voted against it. He was the sole senator speaking against it on the [Illinois] senate floor [for] two years. And the third year, he held the bill from being considered altogether in committee and killed the bill,” Stanek contends.
She says Obama’s explanation for opposing the Illinois bill does not pass the straight-face test because, as a committee chairman, he blocked the measure’s sponsor from adding the federal language protecting Roe vs. Wade. That federal provision says the bill does not deny or add rights to the species Homo sapiens before birth.
Stanek fought to stop “live-birth abortion” after holding a live aborted baby at a Chicago-area hospital where she worked as a registered nurse.
“Barack Obama is now saying that, had that provision been in the Illinois bill he would have voted for it, which is absolutely false – because in 2003, the senate sponsor tried to add that provision and Barack Obama, as the chairman of the committee where the bill was being held, disallowed him from adding that provision, disallowed me from testifying, disallowed the committee from even voting on it. So, it sat in committee for 22 months,” Stanek explains.
She reveals it was not until Obama left the Illinois Senate that the Illinois Born Alive Infants Protection Act passed in August of 2005.
Creation Festival 2008 July 3, 2008
Posted by reformedville in : culture , add a commentWhat an awesome time at Creation Festival! It was by far one of the most memorable events I have ever been to.
I started out Wednesday with full intentions of photographing all aspects of the festival and provided camping accomodations. I even found a use for one of those old fold-out foam sofas that has been tucked away in the attic.
I was in Campground K row 49
At the end of our row they had water wagons with drinking water
And portable toilets that were cleaned twice a day
Bands
Leeland on Big Screen
Parachute Band on the big screen
Day Crowd
Pillar
Worship Tent
Worship tent-Parachute Band- New Zealand
By Thursday afternoon I began to realize that the camera could not capture the entire event or just how big the campgrounds were or just how large the crowd was and so I took the shuttle back to the campground and dropped my camera and recorder and backpack off so I could walk around without luggage and enjoy the festival! Best adjustment of the festival!
In many ways even blogging about it all at once would not do it justice. Some highlights. Awesome music. Awesome preaching.
Met some up and coming artists one on one-one to watch for Joel Auge from Canada. He does some vocal dubs for Paul Baloche, and this guy has an excellent voice and writes his own songs.
I also met and was interviewed by Rob Schenck of National Pro-Life Radio . He also runs Faith and Action in the Nation’s Capital.
I also had the opportunity to meet some of the folks in the upcoming businesses Starve The Flesh and Live Offensively as well.
If you want to see video or overview of the festival go to Video Rocket and check out some of the recaps.
I understand why people make this a yearly event in their schedules. It was well worth every dollar . I left both refreshed and wiped out.
Comcast disses MSNBC June 23, 2008
Posted by reformedville in : culture , 1 comment so farI knew MSNBC had dropped in the ratings but now Comcast plans to put it along side the vegetable channel. Effective July 17 it moves from channel 39 to channel 266, meaning you must have a digital package and access to Channel One on demand to get it.
A $10.00 investment recoups memories June 23, 2008
Posted by reformedville in : culture, Uncategorized , add a commentWe were at a friends moving sale a couple weeks ago and I bought one of their old computers for 10.00, mainly because it had an “a” drive for floppy disks.
When we first moved to Estes Park, almost all my pix were on 35mm and we had them put on floppys, so we have been enjoying some of the lost photo series
Above the treeline, about 13, 200 ft.
Slip and its sudden death
Near Rainbow Curve
Tundra in Summer
Two Miles High
Money fuels global warming alarmism June 18, 2008
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Are Christians subject to different political standards ? June 18, 2008
Posted by reformedville in : culture, Government, Theology , add a commentShould Christians give politicians the benefit of the doubt when it comes to their truthfulness or should they test the veracity of their statements?
Are Christians subject to different standards than others when supporting a particular candidate?
Why or why not?
True? June 18, 2008
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I found this video last week entitled True.Now I am always skeptical when I see a political advertisement entitled True, thinking of the relative nature the truth is presented in. Especially, when ex post facto explanation is required. So the question is, was it true then? If so , is it still true? |
Calculated manipulation June 17, 2008
Posted by reformedville in : culture, Government , add a commentI have watched the primaries with sheer amazement, even try to lend some advice to those caught up in a trance to stop and think about what they are doing, as those of us with any memory (from our own memory bank, not what the media tells us to remember and what to disregard). These video links go to prove a fact that the majority of people make their decision based on a entralling speech and are gullable sheep. “D the facts, we want change!”
I have heard comment after comment about hillbillies, rednecks and the evangelicals (people who cared enough about the political process to participate without prodding) and those old people. I have heard how factory workers who are white and don’t have a college education just aren’t with it enough to make a good decision and keep pulling the progressive movement off track. I have heard people whine about how the man is trying to keep Obama down.
Instead of launching into a rant, at least today (and I can leave that up to you to fire away with yours!) I think David over at The Political Junction nails it dead on.
Intellectuals, Zombies and the Stupid
“Historically, about one-half of the eligible voters have never bothered to show up at the polls. Evidently this segment of society has never related the success or failure of the economy to their lives.
Maybe the nation should be thankful. Anyone unable to see the relationship between voting and protecting the nation’s self-interests doesn’t have a clue about the consequences of bad government policy. So it is just as well that they have stayed home for generations upon generations.
But the times are a changing!
The current presidential campaign is trumpeted by the press as opening the eyes of millions of these people to the power of voting. Based on the poll numbers, quoted ad nauseam by the media, little, if any, of this enthusiasm is based on political knowledge.
These are the country’s dumbest voters. They are sleep walkers who head to the polls to vote for candidates because of their gender and/or ethnicity. They are joined and encouraged by the intellectuals who want to demonstrate their racial tolerance, and the zombies who automatically vote Democratic.
The vast majority of these Americans, if aware, would protest against any bill that brought the cost of gasoline to $8 a gallon, or doubled the cost of heating and cooling their homes, or tripled the cost of groceries.
They would come unglued if the US Congress promised the United Nations .75% of the US Gross National Product ($845 billion annually) for worldwide charitable causes, and knew America’s poor would never see a penny of this money.
So what if the Democrats want to protect the environment by confiscating the money used to grow the economy? They don’t see the personal relevance. And how could they?
They are blinded by the color of Senator Obama’s skin. That’s enough information for them. And they heard he’s about change. So what if he has no international experience, is pro-terrorist, an economic neophyte, and has demonstrated common sense shallower than the morning dew. No one is perfect.
These voters are in an ethnic trance. They don’t know that Obama introduced the bill (The Global Poverty ACT, S.2433) which automatically deeds nearly 1% of the US’s wealth to those conniving thieves running the UN.
They don’t know he supports the bill pending in Congress that will drive energy prices through the roof to “save the planet.” They don’t know that scientists are uncertain about the root cause of global warming.
They don’t know Obama plans on ransacking the retirement accounts of Americans by doubling the capital gains tax. They probably don’t know what an earmark is, or for that matter, the government’s source of revenue.
They don’t know that Obama supports the Boxer-Warner-Lieberman bill pending in Congress that will cost $6 trillion to reduce global warming 1%. They don’t know China and India’s growth could offset this expenditure.
They don’t know Obama will open the borders and encourage millions of illegal aliens to take their jobs. They don’t know he has promised to gut the US missile defense network. They just know he is black.
Senator Obama’s success confirms that most intellectuals lack common sense, and that political zombies and the stupid are the gravest threat our democracy faces.” (The Political Junction)
Now watch these two videos:
Gullible sheep.
Globalization and the World’s Rising Living Standards June 17, 2008
Posted by reformedville in : culture, Government , add a commentDespite the conclusions one might draw from the constant barrage of media negativity, never before have people lived longer, healthier, and wealthier lives with lower risks of malnourishment, illiteracy, or death by war or natural disaster. In a recent report for the Swedish government, Cato senior fellow Johan Norberg has documented the largest, most rapid rise in human living standards ever, which occurred over the last four decades. He reviews the factors that generated these advances and explain how even more economic liberty, free trade, and globalization are necessary to sustain them.
In many ways this is going to be a core contrast in this election and a major difference between the candidates-protectionism or free trade? How you vote in November may well determine our economic future in the world market place. Or then again, are we only led to believe that democratic are in fact protectionist and not rhetoric to appease union labor voters?
What say you?