Title: The Patriot Post Vol. 07 No. 15 Digest | 13 April 2007 Post by: nChrist on June 04, 2007, 03:18:10 PM The Patriot Post Patriot Vol. 07 No. 15 Digest | 13 April 2007 THE FOUNDATION "Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that National morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." George Washington PATRIOT PERSPECTIVE A banner week for the "Gender Challenged" Sometimes bad news travels in a pack. This was a week of trials, trickery and triumphs for three percent of the population who self-identify as "gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered" the small but vociferous "gender-bender" subculture. First up, the trial. Child psychiatrist Dr. William Ayres, former president of the prestigious American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry from 1993-1995, was arrested in California and charged with 14 felony counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14 adolescent boys to be more specific. According to prosecutor Melissa McKowan, 21 men accused Ayres of molesting them when they were children under his care, but because of the state's ten-year statute of limitations, only three cases could be prosecuted. One of Ayres' patients, Greg Hogue, now 37, said, "It's like a stain that doesn't wash off. He is trained to know exactly what kind of damage he is causing and is doing it anyway." Margaret Kemp, a San Mateo County judge who referred troubled youth to Ayres between 1978 until 2004, said, "I never had reason to question him... When we had kids who were charged with sex offenses, we would send them to him for evaluation." Kemp referenced the irony of her words about Ayres, noting, "Every time we saw someone charged with child molestation, family and friends would stand up in court even after the person had pleaded guilty and say there had to be a mistake, he wouldn't do such a thing." Kemp added, "I hear echoes of that in what I'm saying to you. Oftentimes, child molesters, particularly middle-class, educated people, are completely unsuspected by people who live with them or work with them." Certainly, not all homosexuals are pedophiles, but same-sex pedophilia is a pathological extension of homosexuality. However, despite abundant evidence to the contrary, the American Psychiatric Association no longer classifies homosexuality as "pathology." Dr. Ronald Bayer, author of the book, Homosexuality and American Psychiatry, writes that the reclassification violated "the most basic expectations about how questions of science should be resolved. Instead of being engaged in sober discussion of data, psychiatrists were swept up in a political controversy. The result was not a conclusion based on an approximation of the scientific truth as dictated by reason, but was instead an action demanded by the ideological temper of the times." Second up, the trickery. The Soulfarce, er, uhh, Soulforce Equality Ride is on the road again. The 2007 tour features 50 young gender-challenged college students traveling to 32 Christian colleges and universities "in creative pursuit of social justice... empowered to change countless lives." In a contemptible and disingenuous mockery of the 1960s Freedom Riders, who supported Martin Luther King's pursuit of social justice for blacks, Soulforce's objective is to "liberate the oppressed" from "spiritual violence" by asserting that there is no Christian prohibition on homosexuality. Their stated purpose is to confront religious leaders whose "rhetoric" "leads to the suffering and death of God's lesbian and gay children." Their modus operandi: Even if Soulforce miscreants have been offered a forum to meet with students on the targeted campuses, they reject those meetings and force the colleges and universities to have them arrested for trespassing, thus making sure they get the desired media coverage. Title: Re: The Patriot Post Vol. 07 No. 15 Digest | 13 April 2007 Post by: nChrist on June 04, 2007, 03:19:47 PM The Patriot Post Patriot Vol. 07 No. 15 Digest | 13 April 2007 Soulforce is the brainchild of Rev. Dr. Mel White and his "partner" Gary Nixon, who proclaim, "We should be open to new truth from Scripture." (Especially if the "old truth" does not comport with the deviant behavior of certain out groups.) According to the White-Nixon translation of Scripture, "The Biblical authors are silent about homosexual orientation [and] neither approve it nor condemn it." On that note, I have invited White and Nixon to review and rebut the most relevant essay on homosexuality on the Internet: "Gender Identity, The Homosexual Agenda and The Christian Response." http://PatriotPost.US/papers/03-32.asp As of yet, no reply. And last, a sordid triumph. In time for the annual "Gay Days at Disney" festival (29 May - 4 June this year), that special week when hordes of gender-confused disciples descend on the Disney theme park in Orlando, Florida, Walt Disney Company has announced that it will offer its Fairy Tale Wedding packages to same-sex couples. These Fairy Tail "marriages" start at $4,000 and include nuptial celebrations at one of the park's marriage pavilions. In addition, they feature Disney-costumed characters for the reception and a horse-drawn, glass-enclosed carriage to escort the happy couple through Disney property for all to see. Leslie Goodman, a senior VP for Disney Parks and Resorts, said, "This is the very logical extension of a business we are already in." Disney Parks spokesman Donn Walker added, "We believe this change is consistent with Disney's longstanding policy of welcoming all guests in an inclusive environment." Joe Solmonese, president of the Human (read: Homosexual) Rights Campaign, notes, "When an iconic company like the Walt Disney Company recognizes the value of treating all customers fairly, gay or straight, it reaps the benefits." And, I might add, the consequences. There is nothing "gay" about gender disorientation pathology http://PatriotPost.US/alexander/edition.asp?id=482 , despite all the Soulforce and Disney fanfare. Just ask the former patients of Dr. William Ayres. (The Christian family is under assault from many quarters, one of the most ominous being the secular challenges to traditional sexual morality as outlined in the basic canons of Christian foundational guidance, Holy Scripture. Quote of the week "This new orthodoxy claims that it is impossible for an individual who was predominantly homosexual for many years to change his sexual orientation... Science progresses by asking interesting questions, not by avoiding questions whose answers might not be helpful in achieving a political agenda." Dr. Robert Spitzer, Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University GOVERNMENT & POLITICS Nancy Pelosi's Excellent Middle East Adventure House Speaker Nancy Pelosi http://PatriotPost.US/news/alpelosi.asp traveled to Syria last week to meet with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and to establish a liberal alternative to America's stated policy in dealing with the terrorism-sponsoring state. After bread-breaking and photo-ops that served to legitimize Assad's thugocracy on the international stage, Pelosi displayed her utter naivetι by opining, "We came in friendship, hope and determined that the road to Damascus is a road to peace." Peace, indeed. Syria's reputation as a state sponsor of terrorism is no longer debated by rational minds. They have long supported Hamas and Hizballah and were a willing base of operations for Hizballah's war on Israel last summer. The Syrian government, also complicit in the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, seeks to overthrow the democratic government in Lebanon and has allowed jihadi warriors to slip across its border into Iraq to kill American soldiers and Iraqi civilians. Title: Re: The Patriot Post Vol. 07 No. 15 Digest | 13 April 2007 Post by: nChrist on June 04, 2007, 03:21:49 PM The Patriot Post Patriot Vol. 07 No. 15 Digest | 13 April 2007 Pelosi's embarrassment didn't stop with her playing the role of Assad's useful idiot. She also proudly carried a message from her earlier visit with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that Israel was ready to talk peace with its antagonistic northern neighbor. Unfortunately, Olmert gave her no such message. What he did say was that Syria must renounce its support of terrorism and stop acting to destabilize Lebanon. Thanks to her not-ready-for-prime-time performance, Pelosi is now the butt of jokes in Israel as well as the United States. Pelosi's fellow stooge, House Foreign Affairs Chairman Tom Lantos, said, "We have an alternative Democratic foreign policy. I view my job as beginning with restoring overseas credibility and respect for the United States." (And all this time we thought Dr. Condoleezza Rice was our Secretary of State.) Rather than be simply annoyed with this dual foreign policy and its threat to our nation's standing, the Executive or an intrepid member of Congress should move to prosecute Pelosi and Lantos for violating the Logan Act. This law, which has been on the books since 1799 and is quoted in the Annals of Congress, punishes as a crime any act which arises from an "interference of individual citizens in the negotiations of our executive with foreign governments." Until someone steps forward to charge Pelosi with a crime, liberals will continue to operate their shadow government. Lantos, for his part, is even mulling a trip to Iran, a theocracy whose Holocaust-denying head of state is bent on possessing nuclear weapons and using them against this nation and its allies. This week's 'Alpha Jackass' award "We Democrats should've been unapologetic last week defending Speaker Pelosi because the truth was on our side: She had a right to go and she was right to go. The coordinated attack on her trip to Syria was as inappropriate as it was irresponsible. And when that happens to one of our leaders, we should all damn well stand up and be counted in our support, or else we hand partisan operatives on the other side a dangerous victory." John Kerry, who also "represented" the U.S. to the North Vietnamese in Paris in 1970 House Committee subpoenas Gonzales The House Judiciary Committee is not about to let the firing of eight U.S. attorneys fade away into memory. The committee issued a subpoena this week to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, ordering him to turn over hundreds of pages in records regarding the firings. Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) wrote Gonzales, sounding more like a marriage counselor than government bigwig: "Unfortunately, the [Justice] Department has not indicated any meaningful willingness to find a way to meet our legitimate needs." Gonzales is also scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee (AKA the "Show-Trial Committee") next week. This whole episode is nothing but another concocted non-scandal scandal to pummel the Bush administration at a time when our nation's interests lie elsewhere than with prosecutorial renegade Carol Lam's employment. If Congress cannot quit beating this dead horse, the Justice Department's firing practices may well end up before the Supreme Court. Who really won the Democrat fundraising battle? Much ink was spilled in reporting that Hillary Clinton raised more money in the first quarter of 2007 than any other Democrat or Republican in the presidential race. $26 million is quite a chunk of change, and the $10 million she moved over from her Senate war chest won't hurt either. However, upstart Barack Obama reported raising $25 million, and he did it with 100,000 donors while Clinton tapped only 50,000. This means that Clinton's donors obviously wrote bigger checks, but it also means that a fair portion of those donors are also close to reaching the $2,300 maximum established by campaign-finance laws. Obama can keep going back to his present crop of donors as the longest presidential primary in American history drones on. Clinton, on the other hand, will have to look for fresh meat. Sen. Feinstein's ethics flap California Senator Dianne Feinstein abruptly stepped down from the Military Construction Appropriations Subcommittee this week, hoping to stem the tide of questions surfacing about the role she has played in defense contracts won by her husband, Richard Blum. An investigation pursued by the liberal California press and funded by The Nation magazine's investigative fund revealed that a number of defense contracts awarded to Blum's companies have interesting links to appropriations actions made during Feinstein's term on the committee. There are some noteworthy nuggets in the reporting that cannot simply be shrugged off. In March 2003, after she asked the Pentagon about anti-terrorism protection on Army bases, Blum's company, URS, won a $600-million contract to provide Army bases with anti-terror-protection services. Additionally Feinstein inquired as to when money would be spent on a maintenance facility for the C-17 Globemasters at Hickam Air Base in Hawaii. URS later announced a $42-million contract to build it. In 2005, the committee approved funds to reinforce roofs at military stations in Iraq, and in October of that year, another Blum company got a $185-million contract to perform the work. Title: Re: The Patriot Post Vol. 07 No. 15 Digest | 13 April 2007 Post by: nChrist on June 04, 2007, 03:23:15 PM The Patriot Post Patriot Vol. 07 No. 15 Digest | 13 April 2007 Feinstein's office, which at first refused to comment, has now predictably stated that she did not leave the committee because of the inquiry. Her spokesman Scott Gerber went so far as to say that Congress has no role in the awarding of military contracts, which is true; that is the job of the Pentagon. However, the Pentagon gets its approval from Congress, specifically from committees such as the one Feinstein chaired. Behold the Democrats' new era of accountability. Elizabeth Edwards hates her neighbor John Edwards has based his whole campaign on two Americas, and this week his wife Elizabeth made clear which one her family lives in. She told reporters that she was afraid of her "rabid, rabid Republican" neighbor, Monty Johnson, and wanted her children to steer clear of him and his "slummy" property. Johnson drew Edwards' sharp words after he approached two uninvited men on his property with a gun. Apparently, they were investigating a right of way, but Johnson could not have known that at the time. His 42-acre spread, which has belonged to his family since the Great Depression, is more land than he can take care of, and it has been on the market since before Mrs. Edwards' elitist comments. She is most likely annoyed by the "Go Giuliani 2008" sign on his fence and the possibility that his overgrown property has brought down the value of her family's multi-million-dollar mansion, paid for with money earned during her husband's ambulance-chasing days. Johnson is not interested in taking the matter to court; he just wants to sell the property and move on. An apology would be nice, though, he admits. "I won't feel right until I get it," Johnson told reporters. "If this is how they treat people in the White House, America is in for a helluva time." Fred Thompson reveals cancer Former senator and possible presidential candidate Fred Thompson http://PatriotPost.US/alexander/edition.asp?id=524 announced this week that he has had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma since 2004, but that the cancer is in remission. "I have had no illness from it or even any symptoms," he said. "My life expectancy should not be affected. I am in remission, and it is very treatable with drugs if treatment is needed in the future and with no debilitating side effects." Thompson remains coy about a White House run, saying, "I will not be affected in any way by it." He added, "Of course nobody knows the future." Speculation has it that Thompson is testing public reaction to his illness in preparation for his presidential bid. Indeed, this is the sort of thing that is best aired before a candidacy. Best wishes, Fred, and anytime you're ready, jump in there. New & notable legislation Rep. Scott Garrett (R-NJ) is seeking original co-sponsors for the AMT Middle Class Fairness Act, which would index the insidious Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) for inflation and allow those who would still be subject to it to deduct their state and local taxes from the AMT. Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-GA) introduced the Fairness in Firearms Testing Act (H.R. 1791), which would give U.S. gun manufacturers access to video documentation of their products' testing at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and ultimately improve consistency and accountability in firearm testing. NATIONAL SECURITY Democrats play games; Pentagon out of money When Harry Reid said the Democrats would not stop funding the troops in Iraq shortly after the 2006 elections, we really had no reason to believe him. We knew that the day would come when he would move to do exactly that, and this week, he proved us right. Along with fellow liberals Russ Feingold and John Kerry, Reid is supporting a bill that would end U.S. combat operations in Iraq and most military spending there by 31 March 2008. Reid's latest move comes as President Bush urged the Democrats to get their doomed Iraq spending bill to his desk so that he can veto it and Congress can get serious about funding American troops without making misguided political statements. Reid is hoping to take the steam out of the veto before it happens by placing the withdrawal deadline in a new piece of legislation. This time around, however, some of Reid's fellow Demos are not going along. Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said, "We're not going to vote to cut funding, period." Charles Schumer made a similar declaration. However, these two have flip-flopped before on similarly important issues. Title: Re: The Patriot Post Vol. 07 No. 15 Digest | 13 April 2007 Post by: nChrist on June 04, 2007, 03:24:46 PM The Patriot Post Patriot Vol. 07 No. 15 Digest | 13 April 2007 While Demos play games and show their lack of unity on the issue, the military is dangerously close to running out of money. In a letter to congressional leaders, the Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff urged action before the coffers run dry. Defense Secretary Robert Gates noted that the Pentagon can continue operations at their current pace until 15 May. After that, cuts would have to be made that will shortchange combat-team training and depot repair and result in a civilian-hiring freeze. Democrats don't seem bothered by this, but do they really want to be responsible for leaving our troops high and dry in the desert? Time will tell. Call it what you want, it's still a war In the lower chamber, the House Armed Services Committee has arbitrarily decided to stop using terms like "global war on terror" and "the long war." http://PatriotPost.US/papers/primer03.asp These phrases, which were coined by President Bush and have entered the military and media lexicon, have been removed because, the Demos claim, they inaccurately reflect the true scope and intent of overseas military actions. In reality, they want to distinguish operations in Iraq from other military endeavors, because they never have believed that Iraq is a major front in the broader war against radical Islamic fundamentalism. In truth, they are also trying to remove any stamp that President Bush has made on commanding our response to terrorism. Liberals may change the catch phrases we use here at home, but one catch phrase that remains popular in Jihadistan http://PatriotPost.US/papers/primer01.asp won't go away: Death to America. Bush tweaks immigration proposal President Bush gave a rare speech on immigration this week, outlining a "new proposal" that looks a lot like many previous proposals with a few tweaks to make it tougher. It is more stringent that the STRIVE Act, which we outlined two weeks ago http://archive.PatriotPost.US/pub/07-13_Digest/page-3.php . Saying that the status of millions of illegals must be resolved, the President said, "People who entered the country illegally should not be given amnesty. Amnesty is the forgiveness of an offense without penalty." To that end, a three-year work visa now requires that illegals return home, apply at a U.S. embassy or consulate and pay a $10,000 fine. A guest-worker program is still a central piece of the President's proposal, as it should be, given our economic needs. As for increased border security also a must more Border Patrol agents have been added in recent months and more are on the way. The numbers indicate that stepped-up enforcement is working. For example, apprehensions are down 68 percent along the Yuma Sector Border, a 125-mile stretch across parts of the Arizona and California borders with Mexico, where the President gave his speech. Ironically, for all their promises of immigration legislation similar to the President's, the Democrats' victory in November has done little to improve the administration's chances of passing any comprehensive-reform package. That's because most of November's freshman Democrats occupy seats in conservative districts opposed to guest-worker programs and streamlined immigration processes, leaving them with no intention of handling this election-losing hot potato. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, reticent to alienate this freshman bloc or give the administration a political victory, has indicated that she will not enforce party discipline to ensure passage, leaving the President to come up with about 70 Republican votes an unlikely prospect. Iran releases hostages on its own terms After illegally capturing 15 British sailors and marines in Iraqi waters on 23 March, Iran continues to stick its finger into every Western eye it can find. Yet Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadi-Nejad somehow managed to look like the good guy when he released them on 5 April as an "Easter gift" to the British people. The 15 smiling Britons, goody bags in hand, appeared with Ahmadi-Nejad prior to their release, with one of them expressing gratitude for his "forgiveness" of their alleged trespass. While the Brits were no doubt under duress during their capture, their actions and demeanor won't make the highlight reel of Her Majesty's Royal Navy. Nor will their headlong rush to sell their stories to the tabloids. Perhaps it's also worth mentioning that, while the world was distracted by the Britons' capture and release, Iran announced on 9 April that 3,000 centrifuges were in operation for enriching uranium on an industrial scale. While many experts doubted Iran's claim, noting that no physical evidence was offered as in the past, the fact that Iran made this claim is further evidence that Tehran couldn't care less what the world thinks about its nuclear program. In December, the United Nations Security Council imposed a series of relatively mild financial restrictions on Tehran, and it has threatened additional measures if Iran's nuclear work is not halted by late May. Unbowed, Iran this week renewed its pledge to have 50,000 centrifuges in operation. Combined with additional evidence from U.S. intelligence this week that Iran is helping the Iraqi insurgency Shi'ite as well as Sunni Iran is confident it can win this game of nuclear "chicken" against the West. Title: Re: The Patriot Post Vol. 07 No. 15 Digest | 13 April 2007 Post by: nChrist on June 04, 2007, 03:26:10 PM The Patriot Post Patriot Vol. 07 No. 15 Digest | 13 April 2007 Punishing people for protecting themselves Remember the flying imams? They were the six Islamic clerics kicked off a U.S. flight after their strange actions justifiably alarmed passengers and flight crew that a martyr action was about to go down. They have since sued the airline and are now seeking to sue the other passengers for discrimination. They have the full support of CAIR, the Council on American Islamic Relations, which blindly defends all American Muslims, no matter how harmful their intentions might be. House Republicans moved to prevent similar lawsuits from going forward by drafting legislation that would provide legal protection for people who report suspicious activities to law enforcement officials. Think of it as a whistleblower law for people who don't want to get blown up. Regrettably, laws like this are needed, because people need to know they have the freedom to speak out in the interest of their own safety. It's a sad byproduct of our overly litigious society. What is even sadder, though, is the fact that 121 Democrats voted against this legislation. By casting their vote, they have resoundingly stated that they do not believe we should follow our instincts to speak up about suspicious activity. Not only do these liberals desire our military to stand down in the face of conflict overseas, they are now calling for Americans here at home to remain silent in the face of potential dangers. BUSINESS & ECONOMY Regarding the redistribution of your income As America marks Income Redistribution Day on 17 April, we offer tax tidings of this yearly tradition in the form of the good, the bad, and the ugly. The Good... The Bush tax cuts have spurred the economy, increased personal wealth and steadily created jobs. Since 2001 productivity has grown at 2.8 percent per year, and per-person after-tax incomes have increased by $2,900. In addition, since 2003 America has witnessed 43 consecutive months of job growth, and unemployment stands at an historically low 4.4 percent. This while lower taxes have actually led to increased federal revenue. The Bad... Lest applause sound too soon, the Democrats' recent budget proposal would slash the per-capita income increase by raising taxes to the tune of $2,641 per household over the next ten years. All the while, the overall state and local tax burden on Americans stands at an historic high of 11 percent. While the National Priorities Project reports that nearly 40 percent of federal tax dollars goes to past and present military spending, the Tax Foundation uncovers the "rest of the story" of the government's income redistribution. In 2006, Americans earning more than $100,000 paid 82 percent of federal income taxes. In 2004, the lowest-earning one-fifth of American households received approximately $8.21 in government spending for every $1.00 paid in taxes, while the highest-earning households received 41 cents and those in the middle received $1.30. Given these statistics, the best financial option for greatest return on investment is to remain in the bottom 20 percent. The Ugly... To make matters worse, lurking in the bureaucratic shadows is the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT). This stealth robber originally intended to affect fewer than 200 of the wealthiest Americans will raid the pocketbooks of more than 23 million in 2007. Unless Congress acts, by 2017, 39 million will be hit. OMB, AMT, GDP, Oh, my! Fear not if the alphabetical maze of Income Redistribution Day leaves you dazed and confused. Simply refer to the 67,204-page Federal Tax Code for clarification. If you are still befuddled, take comfort in knowing that your tax information rests securely in the hands of the IRS, either in Washington or on any one of the 490 agency computers that the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration reports has been lost or stolen since 2003. Happy Income Redistribution Day! Supreme Court climatologists The Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 that the EPA must regulate automobile emissions of carbon dioxide as an air pollutant, making five despots the final arbiters of science debates. Wow, where does the Constitution say that? As a brief review, we really do not know much about global warming. We know that CO2 is a greenhouse gas; that human activities contribute about four percent of the atmospheric CO2; and that H2O (that's "water" for our five bench-bound scientists) is by far a more important greenhouse gas. We know that nuclear power could help reduce the human "carbon footprint," but many of the proponents of global warming object to building such power plants. It would cost trillions to try to reduce the human contribution, all while not knowing whether it would make any difference. Title: Re: The Patriot Post Vol. 07 No. 15 Digest | 13 April 2007 Post by: nChrist on June 04, 2007, 03:27:22 PM The Patriot Post Patriot Vol. 07 No. 15 Digest | 13 April 2007 Which brings us back to the High Court's decision to incorporate the global warming religion into the U.S. Code. There are two serious legal problems with the decision. The first is that of standing; that is, the plaintiffs did not have proper standing to bring suit, and thus the suit should have been dismissed. The Supremes ignored decades of their own opinions to dodge that roadblock. The second involves statutory construction. The definition of "air pollutant" under the statute has two parts, but the Supreme Five only relied upon the second part. As Justice Antonin Scalia stated: "The Court simply pretends [one] half of the definition does not exist." Apparently our Supreme Scientists do not realize that under their reasoning, if CO2 is an "air pollutant" under the statute, so is H2O. Will the EPA now be required to reduce the amount of water in the air? Everybody talks about the weather now the Supremes are demanding the EPA do something about it. IPCC releases report on global warming Over at the United Nations, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change finally got around to releasing its much-ballyhooed 1,572-page report, "Climate Change 2007: Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability." In short, we're doomed. "We're no longer arm-waving with models," said co-chairman Martin Parry. "This is empirical information on the ground." The IPCC has followed research on global warming since 1988, when it was created by the United Nations. In February, the panel's summary concluded with "90 percent certainty" that humans have caused the bulk of warming since 1950. Nightly newscasts dutifully sounded the alarm: ABC's Charlie Gibson called the report "the clearest, most comprehensive statement yet on how industrial and motor-vehicle emission are affecting the planet. It is a gloomy picture." Next month, the panel will publish recommendations for, predictably, more heavy-handed government regulation. A final "synthesis" is due later in the year. We can hardly wait. Meanwhile, it should be noted that Mars has experienced warming of one degree Fahrenheit from the 1970s to the 1990s, caused by solar radiation, which in turn has caused wind to blow dust around, warming the red planet. We don't yet know how, but George Bush and SUVs are clearly to blame. Another look at trade with China What happens when government meddles with a free-market economy? Just ask Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt, whose interventionist policies according to most modern economists resulted in the Great Depression. Fast forward to today. Unhappy with a $232-billion trade deficit with China, the U.S. is set to seek redress before the World Trade Organization for unfair trade practices and piracy. Ostensibly, the action centers on Chinese subsidies and exorbitant import duties, as well as piracy of intellectual property. However, a good part of the actual reason for this derives more from an attempt by Secretaries Paulson (Treasury) and Gutierrez (Commerce) to pre-empt more draconian moves against China by certain Democrats in Congress, the so-called "trade hawks." While the concept of "Demos-as-hawks" on virtually anything save abortion and flag burning is a full-on knee-slapper, the thought of these yahoos meddling with the economy under any label should be sobering. For its part, China is no help, of course. Chinese officials have been slow to respond to U.S. demands to maintain a level economic playing field, and they have long thumbed their noses at the concept of intellectual property. Still, as history has time and again borne out, the answer does not lie in trade-war strategies, which inevitably hurt both nations more than they help either. Rather, the answer lies in an adherence to time-tested free-market principles, whose relentless pressures eventually drive efficiencies to the benefit of all. CULTURE Senate passes embryonic stem cell bill Undeterred by President Bush's first-ever veto last year, the Senate once again passed a bill to expand federal funding of embryonic stem cell (ESC) research. The vote was 63-34, still short of overriding another promised veto. "This bill crosses a moral line that I and many others find troubling," the President said after the vote. "If it advances all the way through Congress to my desk, I will veto it." The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act would authorize taxpayer funding for research on stem cells from embryos scheduled for disposal at fertility clinics another can of worms in itself. A compromise bill, the Hope Act, which passed 70-28, allows funds for retrieving stem cells from "naturally dead embryos" terminology with a nebulous definition at best. As for total cures discovered using ESCs... well, let's just say you don't need any fingers to count them. Title: Re: The Patriot Post Vol. 07 No. 15 Digest | 13 April 2007 Post by: nChrist on June 04, 2007, 03:28:39 PM The Patriot Post Patriot Vol. 07 No. 15 Digest | 13 April 2007 Oh and did we mention that adult stem cells, which have made progress on 70 disease cures, recently were found to stop, and possibly reverse, the effects of Type I diabetes in 13 patients? The fall of Don Imus Radio "shock jock" Don Imus got an early start on retirement after calling the Rutgers women's basketball team "nappy-headed hos" on the air recently. Because most of the team members are black, the media and professional race hustlers (but we repeat ourselves) immediately ran with the case. CBS Radio fired Imus for his botched joke a day after MSNBC dropped its simulcast of the program. In an effort to atone for his tongue, Imus even went so far as to submit to an on-air verbal lynching on the racist Rev. Al $harpton's radio show. $harpton has since commissioned the thought police, saying, "It is our feeling that this is only the beginning. We must have a broad discussion on what is permitted and not permitted in terms of the airwaves." Tawana Brawley was not available for comment. $harpton and Je$$e Jack$on, famous for his "Hymietown" remark about New York City, met with CBS executives and orchestrated another successful shakedown to get Imus fired. Media chatter didn't stop with Imus. When asked how the kerfuffle related to the overall discussion about race, Newsweek's Jonathan Alter replied, "There has been such a negative reaction against President Bush's failure to apologize, failure to seem like he is being accountable to where the people are, that we've got more of a thirst for people apologizing when they screw up, and then changing their behavior as a result of having been called to account." Aha we knew it! The whole thing was President Bush's fault! http://PatriotPost.US/humor/blamebush.asp Duke rape charges dropped Speaking of race baiting, bogus rape charges against three Duke University lacrosse players were dropped this week after a months-long legal fiasco. Durham D. A. Mike Nifong may have been criminally overzealous in pursuing the case, and thus did irreparable harm to these three men, based on a story from the accuser that was never the same twice. Nifong's zeal eventually got him fired from the case, though not nearly soon enough. Je$$e Jack$on couldn't stay away from this "white on black crime" either, offering the "victim" a scholarship. No word on an apology to the exonerated students. And what of the 88 Duke professors who signed a letter condemning the three young men? Will they apologize? We doubt it. Fact is, the accused, who may now sue, were convicted in the court of public opinion and deserve far more than a mere apology. New Jersey school hates Christians In a blatant act of anti-Christian hostility, Burlington Township High School in New Jersey recently carried out a mock terror drill in which the "terrorists" were "members of a right-wing fundamentalist group... who don't believe in the separation of church and state." The prepared scenario had armed men entering the school, shooting several students and taking hostages after the daughter of one of the gunmen was expelled for praying before class. The school superintendent explained, "We need to practice under conditions as real as possible in order to evaluate our procedures and plans so that they are as effective as possible." Uhh, right. The school erroneously and falsely conveyed both that student prayer before school is prohibited and that opposition to the false doctrine of separation of church and state constitutes a radical terrorist belief. If it is reality school officials are after, perhaps they should consult with school administrators in Beslan, Russia, to create a drill in which the perpetrators represent actual terrorist groups. As for the real religious affiliation of these groups, here's a clue: http://PatriotPost.US/alexander/edition.asp?id=494 They face Mecca when they pray before class. Statue of hero in Littleton criticized Navy Seal Danny Dietz, killed two years ago in Afghanistan while defending our freedom, is being honored with a statue in his hometown of Littleton, Colorado, to be placed in the neighborhood where he grew up, across from the elementary school he attended. Dietz was also awarded the prestigious Navy Cross for "extraordinary heroism in actions against the enemy." Title: Re: The Patriot Post Vol. 07 No. 15 Digest | 13 April 2007 Post by: nChrist on June 04, 2007, 03:30:38 PM The Patriot Post Patriot Vol. 07 No. 15 Digest | 13 April 2007 All is not well, however, as "concerned citizens" object to placement of the monument because it depicts gasp a soldier with a gun. After all, in the eyes of children, "it's just a nine-foot guy with a gun." The town is also the site of the infamous Columbine High School shootings in 1999, a "stigma" for Littleton "whether they like it or not," said one parent who objects to the statue. Fortunately, most Littleton citizens are more reasonable than the naysayers. "If they object to children seeing guns, they better object to every TV in the house. They'll see more guns there than anywhere else," said one local supporter. Would that all gun dissenters remember the words of Darrell Scott, father of Columbine High victim Rachel Scott, who, testifying before a House Judiciary subcommittee on crime, said: "What has happened to us as a nation? We have refused to honor God, and in so doing, we open the doors to hatred and violence and when something as terrible as Columbine's tragedy occurs politicians immediately look for a scapegoat such as the NRA... We do not need more restrictive laws... No amount of gun laws can stop someone who spends months planning this type of massacre. The real villain lies within our own hearts." Suit against Boy Scouts thrown out The grotesquely misnamed American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against the Defense Department for allowing the Boy Scouts to hold their National Jamboree at Fort A.P. Hill in Fredericksburg, Virginia, every four years. The ACLU wants freedom from religion, and they argued that the Boy Scouts' oath to "do my duty to God and my country" meant that the government was "unconstitutionally establishing a religion" by allowing access for the Scouts. We can't begin to say how absurd this is. Thank goodness the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals tossed the suit out, saying the ACLU did not show the plaintiffs had standing narrow grounds, to be sure, but a small victory nonetheless. The Boy Scouts have been under attack from the tolerance goons at the ACLU for years, to the point that two years ago the Scouts voluntarily dropped charters of thousands of public schools to avoid expensive legal battles with their unholy tormentors. And last... Ever lie awake wondering just what you could make with 200 tons of panda poop? Well, Chinese researchers have your answer: paper. According to Huang Xiangming, head of a Chinese panda-breeding center, "Pandas' excretion is a perfect raw material to make paper due to pandas' high fiber diet." Making the paper, according to the Associated Press, "involves a daylong process of cleaning the feces, boiling it in a soda solution, bleaching it with chlorine and drying it under the sun." Thailand was already ahead of the curve, making paper with elephant dung years ago a gift of such was even given to President Bush. Rush Limbaugh offered this analysis: "[M]y hope one day is The New York Times decides to print its daily edition on paper made of panda poop, and then I can run around saying, 'I don't need to read that crap'." Then again, Rush, why wait? Veritas vos Liberabit Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus, et Fidelis! Mark Alexander, Publisher, for The Patriot's editors and staff. (Please pray for our Patriot Armed Forces standing in harm's way around the world, and for their families especially families of those fallen Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen, who have died in defense of American liberty, while prosecuting the war with Jihadistan.) ____________________ From The Federalist Patriot FREE E-mail Subscription: http://FederalistPatriot.US/subscribe/ ____________________ |