News Snippets From All Beats

Last week Amy Bishop, a biology professor at University of Alabama, was arrested for the fatal shootings of three other professors.  Reports are now surfacing that indicate Bishop also killed her brother in 1986 by shooting him.  While not diminishing the scope of this tragedy, the question has been put as to why the above headline is not being used in the media for reporting on this story.¹  If it were a Baptist, Fundamentalist, or Christian, who was involved; some are of the opinion that these appellations would have been included ad nauseam in the news.  Yet, perhaps there is a slight compliment in this disparity.  Absent a faith in the Creator, Evolutionists may not be held to a very high standard of morality in the public mind.  One random chance life-form randomly took another out of the evolutionary soup.  There is nothing sacred about the life-forms, in the evolutionary scheme of things, and nothing wrong with chance; which is to be celebrated as the acceptable explanation for all things.

^1. “Why Don’t They Call ‘Professor’ in Alabama Shooting an ‘Evolutionist’?” Fundamental Baptist News. February 13, 2010. http://www.fundamentalnews.com.php5-15.websitetestlink.com/why-dont-they-call-professor-in-alabama-shooting-an-evolutionist/

The costs of enacting restrictions on energy use to combat humans in order to prevent the theory of global warming are about to run into the very real costs of finding food to feed them in the reality of global cooling.

A farmer and his tractor in Denshaw near Oldham, as heavy snowfall continues across most parts of the UK. Photograph: John Giles/PA Archive/Press Association Ima

Read it: Food costs to soar as big freeze deepens

Superman: Man has thought he has become powerful enough to destroy the world in his own time; man must become powerful enough to save it in his own eyes.

Several articles have appeared here chronicling the global warming hoax and the motivations for perpetuating that hoax. Many developments in the scandal have made the news lately, and the unraveling of the fraudulent science and associated conspiracies has been rapid fire.  The following link is provided here for a concise topical overview:

Copenhagen and “ClimateGate“

Leaders of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church (EOC) claim to have the Ark of the Covenant, in which were kept the tablets of the law, Aaron’s rod that budded, and manna God feed the Israelites on in the wilderness.  There was even talk this week of displaying the Ark in a museum, but it appears that the EOC is going to fail to deliver on its promise.  And for good reason; they don’t have it.  The EOC does not, nor does anybody else, for that matter, have the Ark of the Covenant for the same reason that the Shroud of Turin was not used in Christ’s burial.

The Lord demonstrated what would happen when the Ark was handled contrary to His instructions, and what would befall people who would illegally possess it.  If it were being kept in Ethiopia for the last 3000 years, then by now all of Africa would not only have been incapacitated with hemorrhoids, they would all have died of AIDS or some other plague.  The Ark is God’s design for the purpose of foreshadowing the redemptive work of Christ Jesus.  As such, it is holy; set aside for His use, and would not be carelessly left to be bandied about by the unconverted.  Neither is there a need for it to remain on earth after the crucifixion and resurrection of the Christ Jesus, the Lord.

The only way anyone is going to see the Ark today is: 1) to be saved by the blood of the Lamb of God, 2) to die.  Unless the Rapture of the Church happens first, these are the only ways one is going  get to heaven, and that’s where the Ark is, and here is how we know: “And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament [covenant]: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail” (Rev 11:19).  This scene was revealed to the Apostle John in AD 96.  The accompanying revelation revealed events that would transpire, during the time of Jacob’s Trouble, or the Tribulation Period lasting seven years.  The Ark is there now.

And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

(Mat 19;4-5; emphasis added)

It has been said that competition brings out the best in people.  Of course, it also brings out the worst, or else what, sometimes, would there be to compete against? For Carrie Prejean, Miss California, It was the best.  Poised to be crowned the next Miss USA, Prejean was instead destined for a far greater victory.  Asked by Perez Hilton, one of the judges in the contest and also a homosexual, her views on same-sex marriage, Prejean pulled the gold ring and told the truth.

In what may be the end of here competitive career for earthly beauty crowns, Prejean was pitted against the worst.  The jackboot of the homosexual lobby is a temporal front for Satan’s spiritual attack on God’s word and design for humanity, and he controls the kingdoms of this world.  Prejean held here head high, blinked once as she watched the title slip by, and fixed her gaze:

To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. (1Pe 1:4-5)

The cause for the creation of male and female by God has never altered.  There is no ambiguity on this point throughout scripture, or deviation from it except by unrepentant sinners. The truth is beautiful.  Let not the redeemed of the Lord waiver; let them be able to say:

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. (2Ti 4:7-8; emphasis added)

Rick Warren apologized for supporting California’s Proposition 8 and announced his new position is to take no position on the subject of homosexuality.  Appearing on Larry King Live, Warren explained that he had written a message in support of the traditional marriage definition, but that afterwards he wrote apologies to all his homosexual friends.  His back peddling is still in high gear.

When asked by King if he would not comment on or criticize the Iowa court decision permitting homosexual marriage , Warren answered: “Yes. I’m — I’m totally oblivious to — to what — that’s not even my agenda.”¹ To make it on to Warren’s agenda you have to commit genocide, or be on the festivities list of celebrating his church’s upcoming thirtieth anniversary.

What prompted Warren’s turnaround was the response his members had to his comments in support of the biblical definition of marriage. “And then all of a sudden out of it,” complained Warren, “they made me, you know, something that I really wasn’t.”²  That’s right, they mistakenly made Warren out to be a Christian pastor.  Hopefully, the day will soon come when no one will ever make that mistake again.

Notes:

^{1 - 2.} Rick Warren, interview by Larry King, Larry King Live, Transcripts, CNN.com, April 6, 2009.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0904/06/lkl.01.html

Legislation is in the making to give the White House the power to flip a switch and close down the Internet.  The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 would give authority to Obama to shut down all or part of the internet after declaring a cybersecurity emergency.  Furthermore, all aspects of connectivity, file transfers, and database storage would be completely open to government investigation and confiscation without a court order.  Once this is tied to Hate Crimes law the security of the internet can be said to be in danger by select websites running articles and commentary on certain political or religious views.  This is the latest tactic of the Obama regime to nationalize the print media, and then take control of all public communication everywhere.

While the Church may not see the fruition of this rapacious seizure of the First Amendment, Christians should be preparing for the inevitable encroachments along the way.  Those with technical skills might look into developing stand-alone servers, and perhaps wireless delivery, and alternative hypertext protocols and URL’s.   In the long run, shortwave radio may be the last bastion of a free press.  The advantages of broadcasting by shortwave include no traceability of listeners receiving the broadcasts, world wide range, portability of receivers and low costs.  Because of its low technological profile, it will probably be the last thing the government targets for complete censor.  Roger that?

So far, Obamanomics has cornered the world’s supply of red ink in throwing away taxpayer trillions in calculated bailouts.  What’s gone unsuspected by many pundits thus far, however, is what Obama and crew were actually calculating.  Here’s the twenty-twenty hindsight to check figures and make projections.  First,  AIG was set-up by giving it Billions with no accountability attached and allowed to let human nature take its course.  It did, and that produced the predictable furor over bonuses so that the government could feign being pushed to step in and regulate private salaries under just cause; the cause it conveniently provided (AIG is already 80% owned by the government for bailouts totaling $150 billion thus far). Next, using a similar modus operandi, the same incursions into the free market were justified for taking control of all American financial institutions in like manner.

With other large industries, such as the auto industry, now virtually in the government portfolio, everyone is being lined up for Communist wage-setting as determined by the state.  What follows is career-setting where the state chooses which job a person must take according to the needs of the state.

The big goal to shore all this up is the collapse of the dollar, and Obama has been so wildly successful towards that end that he is beside himself with glee.  China, who can recognize a fellow Marxists, is responding to this never before seen opportunity to conquer the US for Communism by joining with Russia in calling for a one world currency.  That would be the death knell to American sovereignty and the end of civil rights and the Constitution.  So joyous is Obama at our demise that when being interviewed on “60 Minutes” about the dollar problems Obama experienced almost uncontrollable laughter.  It went like this with interviewer Steve Kroft:

“You’re sitting here. And you’re- you are laughing. You are laughing about some of these problems. Are people going to look at this and say, ‘I mean, he’s sitting there just making jokes about money-’ How do you deal with- I mean: explain. . .” Kroft asked at one point.

“Are you punch-drunk?” Kroft said.¹

It is that glaringly obvious that Obama is drunk with his success thus far at annihilating America.  His answer to Kroft’s question is very revealing.  Obama continued laughing when he said: “No, no. There’s gotta be a little gallows humor to get you through the day.”²  That was Obama’s plan all along, to give everyone enough rope to hang themselves.  But even when there’s not enough people left who are resistant to this change to matter anymore, tyrants still don’t like being grilled on it.  Look out media, here comes the rope.

The latest in bailout-turned-government-takeover in Obamanomics is looking like it’s going to be the newspapers.  It will be the first time Obama gets his budget into some black ink. The print media has been folding as the market continues to select online sources for news.  Many newspapers have already established an online presence in response, but some just aren’t going to make it.  While there is a danger in having all news electronically controlled (it could be changed or jammed, or deleted after the fact), that is nothing compared to what is about to  happen.  U.S. Senator Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.) has introduced the Newspaper Revitalization Act proposing tax breaks for struggling newspapers, and even non-profit (government controlled) status.³  Obama and crew are using the same AIG strategy to take over newsprint, and television and online news will follow.  Without a government license, even blogs will be prohibited from running commentary; they will be illegal.

Notes:

^{1 - 2.} Aig Gordon and Jonathan Martin, “Kroft to Obama: Are you punch-drunk?” Politico, March 22, 2009.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20339.html

^3. Thomas Ferraro, “U.S. bill seeks to rescue faltering newspapers,” Reuters, March 24, 2009.

http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE52N67F20090324

A Pastor was gunned down Sunday during his sermon in Maryville, Illinois.  Some parishioners reported that they at first thought it was a drama skit when a man walked down the aisle and subsequently pulled out a pistol and began firing.  The pastor deflected the first shot with his Bible which emitted a burst of confetti into the air when it was struck.  Several rounds followed which struck the pastor who eventually died from his wounds. “We just sat there waiting for what comes next,” said an assistant pastor’s wife in reference to the confetti burst, “not realizing that he had wounded the pastor.”¹ Several congregants bravely restrained the assailant until police arrived, and two were stabbed by the gunman who produced a knife in the struggle.  In addition to the obvious, this tragedy has a subtext for pastors who make it a practice to include arts and entertainment in their sermons.  it might desensitize people the point that they do not recognize a real emergency.

^1. Jim Suhr, “Police: Ill. pastor deflected gunshot with Bible,” Breitbart.com. March 8, 2009.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D96Q5BJ00&show_article=1&catnum=0

Bishop T.D. Jakes is charging that the media is unfairly characterizing the African-American church. The media, though, is only doing what it has finally been forced to do in examining one Rev. Jeremiah Wright and his obvious racists and Marxist leanings. Had Wright not been the twenty-year spiritual advisor of Barack Obama, he could have continued making his caustic speeches denouncing America, Caucasians, and hardworking people who obtained success, and gone completely unnoticed.

The media would have ignored Wright precisely because it fears a T.D. Jakes, or some other personality, would accuse the press of maligning the whole African-American church by exposing Wright’s racial intolerance and subtle calls for anarchy. Not to mention the media’s love affair with Democratic presidential candidates. What’s on the radar screen now is the important question as to either Obama’s deceitfulness (secretly agreeing with Wright), or his inability to make necessary character assessments of people who have an influential relationship with him, and who stand over him as a respected counselor, on intimate and moral matters, for two decades.

Jakes, however, would not have it get a hearing. “I implore you to not take the words of a few and depict the thoughts, hearts and motives of many,” Jakes wrote in his CNN piece.¹ But did he craft this to mean the few in the media who got the story out? There was, after all, no condemnation of Wright in Jakes’ commentary.

Notes:

¹ T.D. Jakes, “Commentary: Negative press distracts churches from mission,” CNN Politics.com, May 5, 2008.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/05/jakes

The British Humanists Association is championing new regulations set to go into effect next month in England which will contain stricter regulations for psychics and other spiritualists, including faith healers. The new regulations are designed to reflect European Union directives on fair trading and consumer protection against fraud. The affected spiritualists are complaining that the burden of proof will be shifted by the laws from prosecutors proving guilt to the accused proving innocence.

The Humanists occupy themselves with “campaigns against religion and supernatural beliefs,”¹ and one could wonder what future EU compliances will dictate further regulations on faith claims from churches where the Christian gospel is preached. There are, after all, some very impressive claims made that might prove hard to support in an EU court.

Exactly how would one prove, to the satisfaction of Humanists judges, that they are innocent of fraud when they claim to have a message that can save a human soul from Hell? The psychics in England are taking some ribbing about whether they should have seen this coming. One is tempted to ask: does the Church see what’s coming?

Notes:

^1. Steve Addison and Paul Casciato, “Psychics see big trouble over new laws,” Yahoo! News, April 18, 2008.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080418/od_nm/britain_psychic_

dc;_ylt=AifYpnlUnZ_nQoyPTmTuTeCs0NUE

An Ohio school teacher ordered to remove a tapestry of the Ten Commandments from his classroom complied, but refuses to obey an order to remove his Bible from off his desk. Science teacher John Freshwater has taught for 20 years, but has never taught from, or preached out of, his Bible to students. He contends that he is being unfairly discriminated against in what amounts to viewpoint discrimination and infringement on his sincerely held religious beliefs.

Dave Daubenmire of Pass The Salt Ministries is a spokesman for Freshwater, and he made this timely observation:

Please notice that the attack on religious freedom in America is on Christianity. No one is trying to silence the religious freedom of Muslims or atheists or humanists. Quite the contrary. We are told to ‘understand’ Muslims, to be sensitive to the atheists and to tolerate the humanists and their various denominations of ‘isms’ (environmentalism, feminism, secularism, socialism, communism), which we teach openly in our schools. ¹

Students at the school are responding to the religious persecution by supporting the popular teacher. They are using cell phones, the internet, and other means to organize a “take-your-Bible-to-school day.”²

Notes:

^1. World Net Daily, “Students proclaim ‘take-your-Bible’ day Rally in support of teacher ordered to hide Good Book,“

April 18, 2008. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=61903

^2. Alexander J. Sheffrin, “Ohio Teacher Refuses to Remove Bible From Classroom,” Christian Post,April 18, 2008.

http://www.christianpost.com/article/20080418/32015_Ohio_Teacher_

Refuses_to_Remove_Bible_From_Classroom.htm

Ben Stein’s film “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed,” set for release April 18, is not a case made for the creation of man, or even for intelligent design. Its focus is the persecution educators and scientists are subjected to for challenging the theory of evolution. The film is the result of interviews conducted over a period of two years with more than 150 educators and scientists who doubt the theory is an explanation for the origin of life. The film also contains interviews with leading proponents of the theory that include Richard Dawkins. As the title of the film implies, rigorous and open examination of the evidence used to support natural selection is considered unacceptable, and in many instances it brings retaliation and ruined careers.

Nevertheless, the number of scientists who have weighed the evidence and found it wanting, and are willing to go public, continues to grow. Since 2001, over 700 scientists have singed the “Scientific Dissent from Darwinism” list proclaiming they are “skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural selection to account for the complexity of life.”¹

As the Darwinian Evolution unravels under scientific scrutiny, Walt Ruloff, Executive Producer of “Expelled,” observes that the only thing holding it together is “politics”.² In the world of research grants, text book publishers, and careers that’s easy to appreciate, but there is another aspect of Darwinian Evolution that has become a gigantic leap of blind faith exhibiting something on the order of a religious adherence. And that places the theory where it belongs, and where it is most easily dispatched. Take for example how it is addressed in this section from the feature article “Immediate Man” running on The Bible Beats; which shows various ways the Bible defeats the theory:

Evolving Inanimate Objects: A Standard the Theory Cannot Meet

The foregoing verse [Gen. 1:26] presenting the creation of man as man is not an anomaly. There are no less than eight verses in the first two chapters of Genesis that demand immediate man in order to be intelligible to the text (i.e. Gen. 1:26, 27; 2:3, 7, 8, 15, 16), and if only one of them should be chosen for memories sake it would have to be this one:

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul (Gen 2:7).

At one time, and in one instance, man was fully formed up to his nostrils before he had any life in him at all-no living cells struggling for survival, no grotesque mutating and mindless devouring as protoplasm. God completely formed him out to the dust of the ground and then breathed into him the breath of life, and by miraculous means man became a living soul; not an intermediate soul, not half a soul, but a living human soul in its entirety starting life in the image of God. The scriptures give us an unmistakable assurance of a straight forward and literal account of creation for fowl, animals, and man; and they may even provide us with something more.³

The article does provide more by use of unique illustrations, and seemingly unrelated characters like Jonah, to show God’s creation of mankind is a literal account in Genesis. The treatment is both good study for the faithful, and particularly useful to dispel the idea that the Bible is harmonious with evolution as the mechanism God used in creating life.

Notes:

^1. Troy Anderson, “Ben Stein Makes His Case for Doubting Darwin,” Daily News, April 5, 2008.

^2. Ibid.

^3. David Dansker, “Immediate Man,” The Bible Beats.com, February 16, 2008.

The first jackboot of Global Warming fanaticism hit the floor down under when Australian professor Barry Walters revealed plans for penalizing people who refused to circumscribe their lives by the doomsday theory of global warming. As is usually the case when political factions can’t win the day with facts, they campaign to force their views through punitive taxation coupled with special exemptions for extraordinary compliance. Thus Walter’s $800 annual carbon tax per child for families who surpassed the states two-child limit could be offset by carbon credits earned from voluntary sterilization.¹

Since the Walters leak last December global warming faithful have been scrambling for a microphone and an outrageous new proposal to make. While the competition has been fierce, it appears that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has pulled ahead of the pack by renewing his call for global carbon taxation, and adding new penalties for suspected global warmers.

The mayor pitched his worldwide carbon tax plan at the UN’s “Addressing Climate Change: the United Nations and the world at Work” conference. There were few surprises in his call for the UN to punitively tax countries, including America, to create an incentive for them to tow the global warming party line (he wants Americans to levy the tax on themselves, and then turn the revenues over to the UN). The other boot dropped, however, when Bloomberg began drawing parallels between suspected global warmers and terrorists.

Bloomberg likened suspected global warmers to terrorists as having “the same potentials of destroying the planet we live on.”² While the mayor used the tactic of place card switching, substituting the verb of global warming for the people actually in his cross hairs, his vociferous call to action against those who fail to subscribe to the theory of global warming must have been unmistakable to the crowd at the UN. Then Bloomberg got to the point in his discursive sophistry which was to declare hunting season on these enemies of the UN State. “We should go after terrorists every place in this world, find them and kill them, plain and simple,” said the rising master of double entendre.³ To make sure his double meaning was not lost, Bloomberg artfully avoided mentioning that the real terrorists are Muslim, and this no doubt gave the UN despots some villains they could finally draw sabers against.

Quick to lace up and jump on board with Bloomberg in the hunt for suspected warmers was airline mogul Richard Branson, owner of Virgin Atlantic Airways. Branson pledged the financial might of his Luftwaffe, to the tune of $25 million, for scientists to find a “solution” for heading off the impending environmental catastrophe.⁴

This search for a final solution seems to be an eerily recurring theme in the Green Reich, and Branson might be letting slip that he is poised for military maneuvers, of sorts. In what may be an effort to unleash his air force by official UN sanction, Branson hinted at the formation of a global UN situation room form where, presumably, targets could be assessed and air strikes could be launched. “We need a war room,” Branson told the UN attendees, who by that time must have set in rapt euphoria, listening to celebrities and members in United States government competing to find out who could click their heels the loudest. It will be interesting to see in the next round of fanaticism how heil they can go.

Notes:

^1. David Dansker, “‘Final Solution’ looms in Global Warming Madness,”TheNewsBeats.com, New Snippets FAB, December 20, 2007. http://www.laodiceannewsbeat.com/news/?p=70

^2. Benny Avni, “Mayor Compares Threat of Global Warming to Terrorism,” New York Sun, February 13, 2008.

http://www.nysun.com/article/71103

^3. Ibid.

^4. Ibid.

Briton’s Environmental Agency has issued guidelines for what to do in an emergency arising from exposure to toxic mercury. This threat is deemed immanent due to British environmental laws forcing the replacement of tungsten bulbs with Compact Fluorescent Light bulbs, or CFL’s, by 2014.¹ Exposure could result when a CFL is broken, releasing 6 to 8 micrograms of mercury.

Mercury exposure from CLF’s will pose a risk to existing medical conditions such as skin and repertory ailments, and can also cause migraine headaches. Health officials are concerned over mercury because repeated and long-term exposure can cause damage to the nervous system, the kidneys, and eventually result in birth defects. A level considered hazardous starts at about 2.8 micrograms in blood test results (2.8 ug/dL).²

This warning from across the pond is of interest to Americans where similar legislation enacted last month virtually replaces the incandescent light bulb with CFL’s in all American households by 2020.

Interestingly, a study published in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons in 2006 showed that an increase in mercury-containing vaccines administered in the 1990’s increased neurological disorders in children, including autism which “skyrocketed.”³

Precautions to mercury toxicity include evacuating a broken CFL site for at least 15 minutes, using rubber gloves and sealable plastic bags for cleanup, and avoiding any activity that might contribute to the toxin remaining airborne, such as using a vacuum cleaner. After cleanup, all residues must be taken to an official recycling station.

The mandated death to the incandescent bulb is another example of how Environmentalists continue to profit by the Global Warming message of doom at the expense of the public’s health. The cost of special handling for disposed CFL’s in Briton currently hovers at $1,300 per recycling bin.

Notes:

^1. WorldNetDaily, January 8, 2008.

^2. New Jersey Department of Health

^3. WorldNetDaily, March 3, 2006.