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Last login: 2 hours agoCowboy77: Bruce is a married guy from Valencia, New Mexico, USA.; Likes 4,501 pages, 12 videos, 435 photos • 184 fans • Received 87 reviews; Member since Jul 24, 2006

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Math Art | 1.21 Jigga-watts: May 12, 7:33am 8 reviews complex-systems, humor, math
http://math-art.net/2008/03/26/121-jigga-watts/

Information Theory and DNA: The Origin of Life: May 11, 7:20pm 31 reviews evolution, science
http://www.cosmicfingerprints.com/iidb.htm; From the page: "Information Theory and DNA are the strongest argument against Atheism - because the laws of physics and chemistry do not explain the existence of information."

This is another good reference to the growing scientific basis for Intelligent Design. With some background in Information Technology, I have long wondered when that aspect would make its way into the debate.

We must still be careful not claim Intelligent Design as innately Christian. If true, it proves a Designer and really nothing more.

Interesting stuff.

The Kanzius Machine: A Cancer Cure? - Articles: May 10, 8:36am 6 reviews cancer, health-care
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/05/10/the-kanzius-mac...; A Cure For Cancer

From the page: "John Kanzius, a man with no background in science or medicine, has come up with what may be one of the most promising breakthroughs in cancer research in years. Whatâ€s more, he did it with his wife's pie pans.

Kanzius is a former businessman and radio technician who built a radio wave machine that has cancer researchers so enthusiastic about its potential that they're pouring money and effort into testing it out"

Obamas Tax Evasion - WSJ.com: May 7, 8:26pm 4 reviews politics
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120847505709424727.html?mod=djemEditorialPage; From the page: "We thought the debate was one of the best yet, precisely because it probed the evasive rhetoric we've heard from both Democratic candidates throughout the campaign. Nowhere was this more apparent than during the exchanges between Mr. Gibson and Mr. Obama over taxes."

Getting to Know John McCain - WSJ.com: May 7, 9:50am 1 review culture, politics, war
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120951606847454685.html?mod=relevancy; Getting to Know John McCain

From the page: "Another McCain story, somewhat better known, is about the Vietnamese practice of torturing him by tying his head between his ankles with his arms behind him, and then leaving him for hours. The torture so badly busted up his shoulders that to this day Mr. McCain can't raise his arms over his head.

One night, a Vietnamese guard loosened his bonds, returning at the end of his watch to tighten them again so no one would notice. Shortly after, on Christmas Day, the same guard stood beside Mr. McCain in the prison yard and drew a cross in the sand before erasing it. Mr. McCain later said that when he returned to Vietnam for the first time after the war, the only person he really wanted to meet was that guard.

Mr. Day recalls with pride Mr. McCain stubbornly refusing to accept special treatment or curry favor to be released early, even when gravely ill. Mr. McCain knew the Vietnamese wanted the propaganda victory of the son and grandson of Navy admirals accepting special treatment. "He wasn't corruptible then," Mr. Day says, "and he's not corruptible today.""

BreakPoint: �Crime� and Ethanol, 5/7/08 - 5/7/2008 11:01:10 AM: May 7, 9:44am 2 reviews alternative-energy, biofuel
http://www.informz.net/pfm/archives/archive_597908.html; "Crime" and Biofuel

From the page: "Biofuels are one of the major reasons you and I are paying more for groceries these days. For most of us, it is just an inconvenience. For many around the world, however, it is a catastrophe. Last week, United Nations Special Investigator Jean Ziegler called the use of biofuels, such as ethanol, a "crime against a great part of humanity."

In the past, global food crises were sparked by natural disasters and bad harvests. What makes this food crisis a crime against humanity is: We caused it. And like many man-made problems, this one can be traced to our false worldview.

But for the "great part of humanity" Ziegler talks about, it is a lot worse. In countries like Ethiopia and Bangladesh, people can spend 70 percent of their income on food; so even modest increases in food prices can impair their ability to feed their families. And price increases for the staples they depend on have not been modest: Wheat prices have doubled and corn prices quadrupled in the last year."

JPG Magazine: Photos: &The lights of faith...& by Daniel Hermann: May 7, 6:28am 0 review photography, faith
http://www.jpgmag.com/photos/617773

TEACHING ROCKET SCIENCE - New York Post: May 7, 5:24am 1 review politics, un, terroism
http://www.nypost.com/seven/05062008/postopinion/editorials/teaching_rocket_s...; UN Teacher by Day - Chief Terrorist Bomb Maker by Night

May 6, 2008 -- "United Nations officials say they're shocked - shocked! - to learn that the headmaster at one of their top prep schools in Gaza was also the chief rocket-maker for Islamic Jihad.

Thankfully, Awad al-Qiq, for the past eight years a science teacher at schools run by the UN's Relief and Works Agency, won't be assembling any more weapons: An Israeli airstrike last week took out his bomb-making operation - plus him.

Now the UN agency, which Israel has long accused of complicity with terrorists, must explain how it let a high-ranking terrorist take charge of its Rafah Prep Boys School.

He was guilty, of course: Islamic Jihad actually ID'd him as "chief leader of the engineering [i.e., bomb-making] unit." His home was bedecked with Islamic Jihad posters - and an Islamic Jihad flag was draped over his body at his funeral.

Indeed, Islamic Jihad gave him the ultimate sendoff tribute: firing a barrage of his rockets into Israel in mourning.

So much for UNRWA's self-proclaimed "zero-tolerance policy toward politics and militant activities."

http://www.caglepost.com/cartoon/Patrick+Chappatte/49863/World+FOOD+CRISIS.html: May 6, 4:41pm 0 review humor, alternative-energy, politics
http://www.caglepost.com/cartoon/Patrick+Chappatte/49863/World+FOOD+CRISIS.html

http://www.caglepost.com/column.aspx?c=6313: May 6, 4:38pm 1 review african-americans, culture, politics
http://www.caglepost.com/column.aspx?c=6313; Jeremiah, you're no Jeremiah!

"Although Barack Obama's controversial former pastor the Rev. Jeremiah Wright puts himself at the center of a prophetic tradition of the Afro-American church, he's not much of a prophet. The prophet in the Biblical mode often tells his people what they don't want to hear. Wright only mimics the prophet in his fiery condemnations of America. When it comes to the feelings of those who employ him, he's strictly on tiptoe.

Around the time Wright was fluffing his feathers before the national media, a genuine prophet appeared in Newark, N.J., to deliver a tough look-in-the-mirror message to fellow African-Americans. The visionary was entertainer Bill Cosby, and his theme encapsulated in the title of a book he wrote with Harvard professor of psychiatry Alvin Poussaint: "Come on, People! On the Path From Victims to Victors."

For his candor, Cosby has been tarred by black and white intellectuals as "blaming the victim." He's been accused of worse things, but that's the lot of the prophet. "A prophet is despised in his own country, and in his own house, and among his own kin," Jesus says in the Book of Mark."

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