EFFORT TO OUST SHERIFF JOE FAILS
'After months of name calling, disparaging effigies and theatrics'
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/05/do-sheriff-joes-enemies-have-enough-signatures-to-oust-him/#TgfGjdfDdujdohYe.99
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Friday, May 31, 2013
EFFORT TO OUST SHERIFF JOE FAILS
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/05/do-sheriff-joes-enemies-have-enough-signatures-to-oust-him/#TgfGjdfDdujdohYe.99
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association Conventio - Featured Speaker Mike Zullo, lead investigator Obama Fraud case
Mike Zullo, lead investigator, for the Sheriff Arpaio Cold Case Posse Obama Fraud case has revealed to PPSIMMONS News that he will be a featured speaker at the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association Convention St. Charles, Missouri – this coming weekend, May 31-June 1. Hundreds of Constitutional law enforcement officers from around the country will be in attendance as well as U.S. Congressmen.
This event is open to the public but will also contain breakout sessions designed only for sworn constitutional law enforcement officials. Mike Zullo will be a featured speaker at the public session where he says he will do a full public presentation of the CCP Obama Fraud case.
Zullo said, “This presentation will contain no new information concerning the case. However, the presentation will be monumentally important because of the overall main stream media news blackout there will be many there who will hear this important information and criminal evidence for the very first time. We are certain that once they hear the information they will be deeply concerned.”
However, Mike Zullo informed us that he also will be the featured speaker at two different 2-hour breakout sessions designed for law enforcement and congressmen only. Concerning these breakout sessions Mike Zullo said, “We will have official credential checks at the door. No one will be admitted except duly credentialed law enforcement officials and U.S. Congressmen. At this session, I will, upon the authority of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, be presenting the entire criminal case that we have in this matter. Never-before-seen evidence and information will be presented to these in attendance. We will be asking these attendees to support our efforts to move this entire matter forward to a full congressional investigation.”
Ultra short history lesson on slavery in America
Of all 1,515,605 families in the 15 slave states in 1860, nearly 400,000 held slaves (roughly one in four),[3] amounting to 8% of all American families. So at the apex of slavery in the United States only 8% of American families owned staves and some of those slaves were owned by black Americans.
So why do modern day blacks blame the entire white race for slavery when in fact it was white Americans who stopped slavery? Gee, maybe they have been brainwashed by liberal politicians for political advantage.
Black chieftains sold black slaves to Arabs. Arabs sold those slaves to slave traders. Slavery was a fact of life. Even free black Americans owned black slaves. Black Africans and Arabs made slavery possible. White Americans stopped slavery. Where is the gratitude on the part of blacks toward white abolitionists?
Editors note: I received email challenging the fact that black Americans owned black slaves. Here is a research source:
The historian James Oakes in 1982 notes that, “The evidence is overwhelming that the vast majority of black slaveholders were free men who purchased members of their families or who acted out of benevolence.”[149] After 1810 southern states made it increasingly difficult for any slaveholders to free slaves. Often the purchasers of family members were left with no choice but to maintain, on paper, the owner-slave relationship. In the 1850s “there were increasing efforts to restrict the right to hold bondsmen on the grounds that slaves should be kept ‘as far as possible under the control of white men only.”[150]
In his 1985 statewide study of black slaveholders in South Carolina, Larry Koger challenged the benevolent view. He found that the majority of black slaveholders appeared to hold slaves as a commercial decision. For instance, he noted that in 1850 more than 80% of black slaveholders were of mixed race, but nearly 90% of their slaves were classified as black.[151] He also noted the number of small artisans in Charleston who held slaves to help with their businesses.
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White slaves, Black slave owners in America
So why do modern day blacks blame the entire white race for slavery when in fact it was white Americans who stopped slavery? Gee, maybe they have been brainwashed by liberal politicians for political advantage.
Black chieftains sold black slaves to Arabs. Arabs sold those slaves to slave traders. Slavery was a fact of life. Even free black Americans owned black slaves. Black Africans and Arabs made slavery possible. White Americans stopped slavery. Where is the gratitude on the part of blacks toward white abolitionists?
Editors note: I received email challenging the fact that black Americans owned black slaves. Here is a research source:
Black slaveholders
Some slaveholders were black or had some black ancestry. In 1830 there were 3,775 such slaveholders in the South who owned 12,760 slaves,[142] with 80% of them located in Louisiana, South Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland. There were economic differences between free blacks of the Upper South and Deep South, with the latter fewer in number, but wealthier and typically of mixed race. Half of the black slaveholders lived in cities rather than the countryside, with most in New Orleans and Charleston. Especially New Orleans had a large, relatively wealthy free black population (gens de couleur) composed of people of mixed race, who had become a third class between whites and enslaved blacks under French and Spanish rule. Relatively few slaveholders were “substantial planters.” Of those who were, most were of mixed race, often endowed by white fathers with some property and social capital.[143] For example, Andrew Durnford of New Orleans was listed as owning seventy-seven slaves.[142] According to Rachel Kranz: "Durnford was known as a stern master who worked his slaves hard and punished them often in his efforts to make his Louisiana sugar plantation a success."[144] The historians John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger wrote:The historian Ira Berlin wrote:A large majority of profit-oriented free black slaveholders resided in the Lower South. For the most part, they were persons of mixed racial origin, often women who cohabited or were mistresses of white men, or mulatto men ... . Provided land and slaves by whites, they owned farms and plantations, worked their hands in the rice, cotton, and sugar fields, and like their white contemporaries were troubled with runaways.[145]
Free blacks were perceived “as a continual symbolic threat to slaveholders, challenging the idea that ‘black’ and ‘slave’ were synonymous.” Free blacks were seen as potential allies of fugitive slaves and “slaveholders bore witness to their fear and loathing of free blacks in no uncertain terms."[147] For free blacks, who had only a precarious hold on freedom, “slave ownership was not simply an economic convenience but indispensable evidence of the free blacks' determination to break with their slave past and their silent acceptance – if not approval – of slavery.”[148]In slave societies, nearly everyone – free and slave – aspired to enter the slaveholding class, and upon occasion some former slaves rose into slaveholders’ ranks. Their acceptance was grudging, as they carried the stigma of bondage in their lineage and, in the case of American slavery, color in their skin.[146]
The historian James Oakes in 1982 notes that, “The evidence is overwhelming that the vast majority of black slaveholders were free men who purchased members of their families or who acted out of benevolence.”[149] After 1810 southern states made it increasingly difficult for any slaveholders to free slaves. Often the purchasers of family members were left with no choice but to maintain, on paper, the owner-slave relationship. In the 1850s “there were increasing efforts to restrict the right to hold bondsmen on the grounds that slaves should be kept ‘as far as possible under the control of white men only.”[150]
In his 1985 statewide study of black slaveholders in South Carolina, Larry Koger challenged the benevolent view. He found that the majority of black slaveholders appeared to hold slaves as a commercial decision. For instance, he noted that in 1850 more than 80% of black slaveholders were of mixed race, but nearly 90% of their slaves were classified as black.[151] He also noted the number of small artisans in Charleston who held slaves to help with their businesses.
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Robert M. Grooms, in "The Johnson Family: African-American Owners of White and Black Slaves", has revealed the fact that Blacks owned White slaves in America. He also notes that a legal precedent for life-long slavery in America was established by a Black slave owner with regard to one of his Black slaves.
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
MAYBE IT'S NOT AN ACCIDENT - The government is out to get you, on purpose!
MAYBE IT'S NOT AN ACCIDENT
http://www.wham1180.com/pages/boblonsberry.html
If you're playing basketball and the guy elbows you under the net, it's an accident.
The first time.
After that, you've got to figure he's doing it on purpose.
That's how life is. Once is a fluke, twice is a pattern. When somebody does something over and over, it's pretty hard to believe that it's not on purpose.
It's pretty hard to believe that he's not gunning for you.
Like the federal government.
At this stage, it's pretty hard to believe that its incompetence isn't on purpose. It's pretty hard to avoid the conclusion that somebody has decided to put the ship on the rocks.
I don't believe in conspiracies.
But I do believe in selfishness, egomania, venality, avarice, covetousness and stupidity. In short, I do believe in evil. And I do believe that evil has destroyed more governments than one, annihilated more civilizations than one.
And I'm suspicious.
I'm suspicious of an uninterrupted string of policies and laws which do nothing but chain and bankrupt the American people and the American economy. Our freedom, our culture, our territory, our prosperity and our future are all in legitimate peril and in each instance it is the direct consequence of government policies.
The politicians claim that the government will solve our problems, but in actuality it has created them. Its power has been perverted and misdirected in such a fashion as to hemorrhage our stability and vitality.
It is an ongoing act of national suicide, committed by the government and borne by the people. The lust for power is so great among the pygmies who have appointed themselves our leaders that they would gladly destroy the nation if they could secure for themselves the opportunity to preside over its ruins.
Jackals gnaw the bones of gazelles, but first they have to kill them.
Or, as the Bible says, “When the wicked rule, the people mourn.”
The government chose to ignore our border and immigration laws. Historic and potentially incurable damage has been done as a result.
The government chose to accumulate incomprehensible debt. We will live with the threat of bankruptcy for at least a generation as a result.
The government has prevented the development of domestic energy resources, from coal to nuclear to gas to oil. That has enriched our enemies, enfeebled our economy, endangered our security and encumbered our prosperity.
The government has weakened our population with massive socialist programs, raiding the family budgets of those who pay for them and destroying the family responsibility of those who receive them.
The government has strangled our farm production, with the intoxication of subsidy and the lunacy of food-based fuel. This will, in the first instance, make people go broke. It will, in the second instance, make people go hungry.
The government has destroyed the benefit of education, hobbling what were once the world's best schools in favor of creating an activist- and union-driven industry of indoctrination. Students learn neither their culture nor their livelihood and are taught nothing of citizenship except resentment, rebellion and arrogant entitlement.
The government has transformed free trade into a rape of our economy, subsidizing massive trade deficits and the consequent collapse of our currency. The result is a destruction of our industry – essential to both prosperity and security – and a situation in which foreigners with solid currencies are gobbling up American businesses and American land, making us sharecroppers and tenants in our own country.
The government has conducted two wars in such a fashion as to cripple our armies, empty our treasury, destroy our reputation and bleed a generation. Our demonstrated weakness has bolstered rivals and invited insolence.
The government has given us Medicare and Medicaid and predatory liability laws and free medical care for illegal aliens and the horrible butchery they have together forced on our medical system. In less than a generation we have gutterized what many remember as the best medical system in the world.
The government is kneeling before the altar of man-made global warming, forcing this cult of de-industrialization upon our lifestyles and our family budgets.
Our freedom is diminished, our currency is devalued, our fuel is expensive, our food is scarce, our borders are meaningless, our security is weak, our future is mortgaged, our prospects are bleak.
And the government did it all.
Each and every one of these woes is the direct and unavoidable consequence of governmental policies advocated and enacted by one or both of the two major political parties.
We are on our knees, our strength is gone, and the government did it.
And it's beginning to be hard to believe that this much incompetence is an accident.
When somebody does something over and over, it's pretty hard to believe it's not on purpose.
- by Bob Lonsberry © 2013
I am Resigning From the Order of the Arrow Scouting’s National Honor Society
The Order of the Arrow (OA) is the national honor society of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). It uses American Indian-styled traditions and ceremonies to bestow recognition on scouts selected by their peers as best exemplifying the ideals of Scouting. The society was created by E. Urner Goodman, with the assistance of Carroll A. Edson, in 1915 as a means of reinforcing the Scout Oath and the Scout Law. The goal was to establish these as lifelong guidelines, and to encourage continued participation in Scouting and camping. Influenced in part by camp traditions, and Indian folklore, the OA uses "safeguarded" symbols, handshakes, and ceremonies to impart a sense of community.
As a Presbyterian (PCUSA) I have differences with my Baptist friends but they made the right decision on this issue.
Leave Boy Scouts, pastor advises parents
MARIETTA, Ga. (BP) -- Parents of Boy Scouts should remove their children from the organization, Atlanta-area pastor Ernest Easley advised in his Sunday sermon.
Troop 204's affiliation with Roswell Street Baptist Church also will end, Easley said.
"I never dreamed I'd have to stand up publicly and say to parents: Pull your kids out of the Boy Scouts," Easley told Baptist Press May 28.
"If you would have asked me that five years ago, 10 years ago, I would have laughed," Easley said. "And even as I was saying it Sunday morning, I thought, I cannot believe I'm having to address this and encourage parents to pull their children out of the Boy Scouts of America.
"Unbelievable."
The tie between Roswell Street Baptist Church and Troop 204 dates back to 1945.
Now, however, children are at risk, said Easley, now in his 12th year as senior pastor of the Marietta, Ga., church. He also is chairman of the Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee. Easley, the church and Troop 204 were the focus of a Baptist Press article May 7 exploring the potential impact of a vote to permit openly homosexual boys in Scouting. On May 23, the BSA's 1,400-member National Council voted to adopt the membership policy, 61-39 percent, as proposed by BSA national leaders.
"My greatest concern is the protection of boys," Easley said. "This decision opens the floodgate for a potential increase in sexual abuse of children."
And openly homosexual men will become Scout leaders, Easley predicted.
"Having made this decision, the Boy Scouts will face all kinds of pressure and litigation to accept openly gay leadership in troops across America. I can't see now how the Boy Scouts legally can prevent homosexual leadership from invading the ranks of the Boy Scouts of America," Easley said. The Scouts, he noted, have now abandoned the tradition that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld in 2000 in permitting the Scouts to decline membership to openly gay leaders and members.
"As far as our church family, they're sad about it, but it's an easy decision to make when a congregation affirms God's Word," Easley said of the end of Roswell Street Baptist Church's relationship with Troop 204 -- a possibility he had been discussing with church leaders in view of the scheduled BSA vote on gay membership. The break likely will come when the Scouts implement their new policy on Jan. 1, 2014.
"If we're a church that affirms God's Word as the inerrant Word of God that we're going to live by, that we're going to raise our families by, that we're going to do church by, then it may be sad, but it's a simple decision.
"We are not going to put our arms around organizations that openly oppose the moral guidelines taught in God's Word," Easley said.
"I think most boys at age 8, 9, 10, 11 -– they're all vulnerable. And all the more reason to stand firm and to affirm God's Word to protect them. That's our responsibility as adults to protect them. If we let the guard down and not protect them -- they're going to have a hard enough time living for God in this world. And for us not to do everything we can to protect them, shame on us."
Easley, in his sermon, encouraged parents to enroll their boys in the Royal Ambassador program at Roswell Street or another church that has an RA program.
Royal Ambassadors is the Southern Baptist missions organization for boys in grades 1-6; Challengers, a tandem program, engages young men in grades 7-12 in missions education. The RA program was established by WMU, an auxiliary of the SBC, in 1908.
“I grew up an RA,” Easley reflected. “We had a very strong RA program in my home church in Dallas, Texas. I was a Cub Scout and an RA at the same time, and when it got to the point of moving up to Boy Scouts, I had to decide RAs or Boy Scouts.
“And I went RAs.”
Easley said Southern Baptists “really have an opportunity here to strengthen our RA programs and to get the boys in a program where they’re going to be protected, where there’s a high moral standard and where they will have an opportunity to learn about camping, missions, evangelism in the local church.”
The RA pledge states: "As a Royal Ambassador I will do my best to become a well-informed, responsible follower of Christ; to have a Christlike concern for all people; to learn how to carry the message of Christ around the world; to work with others in sharing Christ; and to keep myself clean and healthy in mind and body."
Steve Heartsill, managing editor for Royal Ambassadors, told Baptist Press, "Since the vote last week, we have received more than 25 requests via Facebook and email from churches and individuals interested in beginning an RA program. This is an increase from the typical number we receive on a weekly basis.
"Most of the inquiries are in regard to whether or not there are RA programs in their area, how to begin an RA program, and if RA materials can be used by churches that are not Southern Baptist," Heartsill said.
"We encourage those interested in learning more about RA to go to our website, www.wmu.com/ra, and go towmu.com/getstarted to download a free starter kit that includes a sample unit," Heartsill said. "To find existing RA organizations in your area, people may contact their local Baptist association or state WMU office."
At the SBC annual meeting in Houston, WMU will be prepared to answer inquiries about various facets of the Royal Ambassadors program, said Julie Walters, WMU corporate communications team leader, who noted that the overarching theme of the WMU booth in the SBC Exhibit Hall, however, will be on the 125th anniversary of WMU and missions discipleship in general.
Easley was among numerous Southern Baptist leaders who expressed dismay over the Boy Scouts' move to open its ranks to openly gay participants in the weeks before the vote.
SBC Executive Committee President Frank Page, who had met with Scouting leaders and urged them to maintain the current policy, said he was "deeply saddened" that the BSA overturned its "constitutionally protected expressive message that homosexual behavior is incompatible with the principles enshrined in the Scout Oath and Scout Law.
"We know that the pressures exerted against the voting members of the 1,400 chartered organizations by homosexual activist groups have been unrelenting," Page said. "We are grateful for each voting member who voted in the minority, but our sadness for the Scouting organization as a whole cannot be overstated."
Page said the vote "ushers in a sea-change in the credibility of the Boy Scouts of America as a viable boys' organization for millions of Americans who believe strongly in the principles of biblical morality. To claim that the Boys Scouts is the nation's foremost youth program of character development and values-based leadership training suddenly rings hollow."
"We continue to pray for our country. We believe we are in desperate need of a genuine spiritual awakening that will transform lives through the power of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ," Page said.
Southern Baptist Convention President Fred Luter called it "a sad day in the history of an organization that for years stood on Christian principles, particularly for the thousands of Southern Baptists who grew up as Boy Scouts like myself."
"My prayers," Luter said, "go out to the parents and churches who have been forced to make decisions about being a part of the Boy Scouts organization. As Southern Baptists, our commitment to the Word of God and Christian values must take priority over what is 'politically correct.'"
Troop 204's affiliation with Roswell Street Baptist Church also will end, Easley said.
"I never dreamed I'd have to stand up publicly and say to parents: Pull your kids out of the Boy Scouts," Easley told Baptist Press May 28.
"If you would have asked me that five years ago, 10 years ago, I would have laughed," Easley said. "And even as I was saying it Sunday morning, I thought, I cannot believe I'm having to address this and encourage parents to pull their children out of the Boy Scouts of America.
"Unbelievable."
The tie between Roswell Street Baptist Church and Troop 204 dates back to 1945.
Now, however, children are at risk, said Easley, now in his 12th year as senior pastor of the Marietta, Ga., church. He also is chairman of the Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee. Easley, the church and Troop 204 were the focus of a Baptist Press article May 7 exploring the potential impact of a vote to permit openly homosexual boys in Scouting. On May 23, the BSA's 1,400-member National Council voted to adopt the membership policy, 61-39 percent, as proposed by BSA national leaders.
"My greatest concern is the protection of boys," Easley said. "This decision opens the floodgate for a potential increase in sexual abuse of children."
And openly homosexual men will become Scout leaders, Easley predicted.
"Having made this decision, the Boy Scouts will face all kinds of pressure and litigation to accept openly gay leadership in troops across America. I can't see now how the Boy Scouts legally can prevent homosexual leadership from invading the ranks of the Boy Scouts of America," Easley said. The Scouts, he noted, have now abandoned the tradition that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld in 2000 in permitting the Scouts to decline membership to openly gay leaders and members.
"As far as our church family, they're sad about it, but it's an easy decision to make when a congregation affirms God's Word," Easley said of the end of Roswell Street Baptist Church's relationship with Troop 204 -- a possibility he had been discussing with church leaders in view of the scheduled BSA vote on gay membership. The break likely will come when the Scouts implement their new policy on Jan. 1, 2014.
"If we're a church that affirms God's Word as the inerrant Word of God that we're going to live by, that we're going to raise our families by, that we're going to do church by, then it may be sad, but it's a simple decision.
"We are not going to put our arms around organizations that openly oppose the moral guidelines taught in God's Word," Easley said.
"I think most boys at age 8, 9, 10, 11 -– they're all vulnerable. And all the more reason to stand firm and to affirm God's Word to protect them. That's our responsibility as adults to protect them. If we let the guard down and not protect them -- they're going to have a hard enough time living for God in this world. And for us not to do everything we can to protect them, shame on us."
Easley, in his sermon, encouraged parents to enroll their boys in the Royal Ambassador program at Roswell Street or another church that has an RA program.
Royal Ambassadors is the Southern Baptist missions organization for boys in grades 1-6; Challengers, a tandem program, engages young men in grades 7-12 in missions education. The RA program was established by WMU, an auxiliary of the SBC, in 1908.
“I grew up an RA,” Easley reflected. “We had a very strong RA program in my home church in Dallas, Texas. I was a Cub Scout and an RA at the same time, and when it got to the point of moving up to Boy Scouts, I had to decide RAs or Boy Scouts.
“And I went RAs.”
Easley said Southern Baptists “really have an opportunity here to strengthen our RA programs and to get the boys in a program where they’re going to be protected, where there’s a high moral standard and where they will have an opportunity to learn about camping, missions, evangelism in the local church.”
The RA pledge states: "As a Royal Ambassador I will do my best to become a well-informed, responsible follower of Christ; to have a Christlike concern for all people; to learn how to carry the message of Christ around the world; to work with others in sharing Christ; and to keep myself clean and healthy in mind and body."
Steve Heartsill, managing editor for Royal Ambassadors, told Baptist Press, "Since the vote last week, we have received more than 25 requests via Facebook and email from churches and individuals interested in beginning an RA program. This is an increase from the typical number we receive on a weekly basis.
"Most of the inquiries are in regard to whether or not there are RA programs in their area, how to begin an RA program, and if RA materials can be used by churches that are not Southern Baptist," Heartsill said.
"We encourage those interested in learning more about RA to go to our website, www.wmu.com/ra, and go towmu.com/getstarted to download a free starter kit that includes a sample unit," Heartsill said. "To find existing RA organizations in your area, people may contact their local Baptist association or state WMU office."
At the SBC annual meeting in Houston, WMU will be prepared to answer inquiries about various facets of the Royal Ambassadors program, said Julie Walters, WMU corporate communications team leader, who noted that the overarching theme of the WMU booth in the SBC Exhibit Hall, however, will be on the 125th anniversary of WMU and missions discipleship in general.
Easley was among numerous Southern Baptist leaders who expressed dismay over the Boy Scouts' move to open its ranks to openly gay participants in the weeks before the vote.
SBC Executive Committee President Frank Page, who had met with Scouting leaders and urged them to maintain the current policy, said he was "deeply saddened" that the BSA overturned its "constitutionally protected expressive message that homosexual behavior is incompatible with the principles enshrined in the Scout Oath and Scout Law.
"We know that the pressures exerted against the voting members of the 1,400 chartered organizations by homosexual activist groups have been unrelenting," Page said. "We are grateful for each voting member who voted in the minority, but our sadness for the Scouting organization as a whole cannot be overstated."
Page said the vote "ushers in a sea-change in the credibility of the Boy Scouts of America as a viable boys' organization for millions of Americans who believe strongly in the principles of biblical morality. To claim that the Boys Scouts is the nation's foremost youth program of character development and values-based leadership training suddenly rings hollow."
"We continue to pray for our country. We believe we are in desperate need of a genuine spiritual awakening that will transform lives through the power of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ," Page said.
Southern Baptist Convention President Fred Luter called it "a sad day in the history of an organization that for years stood on Christian principles, particularly for the thousands of Southern Baptists who grew up as Boy Scouts like myself."
"My prayers," Luter said, "go out to the parents and churches who have been forced to make decisions about being a part of the Boy Scouts organization. As Southern Baptists, our commitment to the Word of God and Christian values must take priority over what is 'politically correct.'"
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Slowdown in Climate Change
(Reuters) - Scientists are struggling to explain a slowdown in climate change that has exposed gaps in their understanding and defies a rise in global greenhouse gas emissions.
Often focused on century-long trends, most climate models failed to predict that the temperature rise would slow, starting around 2000. Scientists are now intent on figuring out the causes and determining whether the respite will be brief or a more lasting phenomenon.
Getting this right is essential for the short and long-term planning of governments and businesses ranging from energy to construction, from agriculture to insurance. Many scientists say they expect a revival of warming in coming years.
Theories for the pause include that deep oceans have taken up more heat with the result that the surface is cooler than expected, that industrial pollution in Asia or clouds are blocking the sun, or that greenhouse gases trap less heat than previously believed.
The change may be a result of an observed decline in heat-trapping water vapor in the high atmosphere, for unknown reasons. It could be a combination of factors or some as yet unknown natural variations, scientists say.
Weak economic growth and the pause in warming is undermining governments' willingness to make a rapid billion-dollar shift from fossil fuels. Almost 200 governments have agreed to work out a plan by the end of 2015 to combat global warming.
"The climate system is not quite so simple as people thought," said Bjorn Lomborg, a Danish statistician and author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist" who estimates that moderate warming will be beneficial for crop growth and human health.
Some experts say their trust in climate science has declined because of the many uncertainties. The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had to correct a 2007 report that exaggerated the pace of melt of the Himalayan glaciers and wrongly said they could all vanish by 2035.
"My own confidence in the data has gone down in the past five years," said Richard Tol, an expert in climate change and professor of economics at the University of Sussex in England.
Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius first showed in the 1890s how man-made carbon dioxide, fromcoal for instance, traps heat in the atmosphere. Many of the exact effects are still unknown.
Greenhouse gas emissions have hit repeated record highs with annual growth of about 3 percent in most of the decade to 2010, partly powered by rises in China and India. World emissions were 75 percent higher in 2010 than in 1970, UN data show.
UN PANEL SEEKS EXPLANATION
A rapid rise in global temperatures in the 1980s and 1990s - when clean air laws in developed nations cut pollution and made sunshine stronger at the earth's surface - made for a compelling argument that human emissions were to blame.
The IPCC will seek to explain the current pause in a report to be released in three parts from late 2013 as the main scientific roadmap for governments in shifting from fossil fuels towards renewable energies such as solar or wind power, the panel's chairman Rajendra Pachauri said.
According to Pachauri, temperature records since 1850 "show there are fluctuations. They are 10, 15 years in duration. But the trend is unmistakable."
The IPCC has consistently said that fluctuations in the weather, perhaps caused by variations in sunspots or a La Nina cooling of the Pacific, can mask any warming trend and the panel has never predicted a year-by-year rise in temperatures.
Experts say short-term climate forecasts are vital to help governments, insurers and energy companies to plan.
Governments will find little point in reinforcing road bridges over rivers, for instance, if a prediction of more floods by 2100 doesn't apply to the 2020s.
A section of a draft IPCC report, looking at short-term trends, says temperatures are likely to be 0.4 to 1.0 degree Celsius (0.7-1.8F) warmer from 2016-35 than in the two decades to 2005. Rain and snow may increase in areas that already have high precipitation and decline in areas with scarcity, it says.
EXCEPTIONS AND CHALLENGES
Pachauri said climate change can have counter-intuitive effects, like more snowfall in winter that some people find hard to accept as side-effects of a warming trend. An IPCC report last year said warmer air can absorb more moisture, leading to heavier snowfall in some areas.
A study by Dutch experts this month sought to explain why there is now more sea ice in winter. It concluded melted ice from Antarctica was refreezing on the ocean surface - this fresh water freezes more easily than dense salt water.
Some experts challenged the findings.
"The hypothesis is plausible I just don't believe the study proves it to be true," said Paul Holland, an ice expert at the British Antarctic Survey.
Concern about climate change is rising in some nations, however, opinion polls show. Extreme events, such as Superstorm Sandy that hit the U.S. east coast last year, may be the cause. A record heatwave in Australia this summer forced weather forecasters to add a new dark magenta color to the map for temperatures up to 54 degrees Celsius (129F).efies a rise in global greenhouse gas emissions.
Often focused on century-long trends, most climate models failed to predict that the temperature rise would slow, starting around 2000. Scientists are now intent on figuring out the causes and determining whether the respite will be brief or a more lasting phenomenon.
Getting this right is essential for the short and long-term planning of governments and businesses ranging from energy to construction, from agriculture to insurance. Many scientists say they expect a revival of warming in coming years.
Theories for the pause include that deep oceans have taken up more heat with the result that the surface is cooler than expected, that industrial pollution in Asia or clouds are blocking the sun, or that greenhouse gases trap less heat than previously believed.
The change may be a result of an observed decline in heat-trapping water vapor in the high atmosphere, for unknown reasons. It could be a combination of factors or some as yet unknown natural variations, scientists say.
Weak economic growth and the pause in warming is undermining governments' willingness to make a rapid billion-dollar shift from fossil fuels. Almost 200 governments have agreed to work out a plan by the end of 2015 to combat global warming.
"The climate system is not quite so simple as people thought," said Bjorn Lomborg, a Danish statistician and author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist" who estimates that moderate warming will be beneficial for crop growth and human health.
Some experts say their trust in climate science has declined because of the many uncertainties. The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had to correct a 2007 report that exaggerated the pace of melt of the Himalayan glaciers and wrongly said they could all vanish by 2035.
"My own confidence in the data has gone down in the past five years," said Richard Tol, an expert in climate change and professor of economics at the University of Sussex in England.
Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius first showed in the 1890s how man-made carbon dioxide, fromcoal for instance, traps heat in the atmosphere. Many of the exact effects are still unknown.
Greenhouse gas emissions have hit repeated record highs with annual growth of about 3 percent in most of the decade to 2010, partly powered by rises in China and India. World emissions were 75 percent higher in 2010 than in 1970, UN data show.
UN PANEL SEEKS EXPLANATION
A rapid rise in global temperatures in the 1980s and 1990s - when clean air laws in developed nations cut pollution and made sunshine stronger at the earth's surface - made for a compelling argument that human emissions were to blame.
The IPCC will seek to explain the current pause in a report to be released in three parts from late 2013 as the main scientific roadmap for governments in shifting from fossil fuels towards renewable energies such as solar or wind power, the panel's chairman Rajendra Pachauri said.
According to Pachauri, temperature records since 1850 "show there are fluctuations. They are 10, 15 years in duration. But the trend is unmistakable."
The IPCC has consistently said that fluctuations in the weather, perhaps caused by variations in sunspots or a La Nina cooling of the Pacific, can mask any warming trend and the panel has never predicted a year-by-year rise in temperatures.
Experts say short-term climate forecasts are vital to help governments, insurers and energy companies to plan.
Governments will find little point in reinforcing road bridges over rivers, for instance, if a prediction of more floods by 2100 doesn't apply to the 2020s.
A section of a draft IPCC report, looking at short-term trends, says temperatures are likely to be 0.4 to 1.0 degree Celsius (0.7-1.8F) warmer from 2016-35 than in the two decades to 2005. Rain and snow may increase in areas that already have high precipitation and decline in areas with scarcity, it says.
EXCEPTIONS AND CHALLENGES
Pachauri said climate change can have counter-intuitive effects, like more snowfall in winter that some people find hard to accept as side-effects of a warming trend. An IPCC report last year said warmer air can absorb more moisture, leading to heavier snowfall in some areas.
A study by Dutch experts this month sought to explain why there is now more sea ice in winter. It concluded melted ice from Antarctica was refreezing on the ocean surface - this fresh water freezes more easily than dense salt water.
Some experts challenged the findings.
"The hypothesis is plausible I just don't believe the study proves it to be true," said Paul Holland, an ice expert at the British Antarctic Survey.
Concern about climate change is rising in some nations, however, opinion polls show. Extreme events, such as Superstorm Sandy that hit the U.S. east coast last year, may be the cause. A record heatwave in Australia this summer forced weather forecasters to add a new dark magenta color to the map for temperatures up to 54 degrees Celsius (129F).
Monday, May 27, 2013
No end to scandals in sight for embattled Obama White House
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/301973-no-end-to-scandals-in-sight-for-embattled-obama-white-house
Batten down the hatches and wait for the storm to clear.
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That’s the advice veteran Washington Democrats are urging on a White House that has been embattled for a full two weeks by the triad of controversies revolving around the IRS, Benghazi and the Justice Department’s seizure of reporters’ phone records. No-one expects the pressure to let up anytime soon.
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Batten down the hatches and wait for the storm to clear.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/301973-no-end-to-scandals-in-sight-for-embattled-obama-white-house#ixzz2UYSvvzRr
That’s the advice veteran Washington Democrats are urging on a White House that has been embattled for a full two weeks by the triad of controversies revolving around the IRS, Benghazi and the Justice Department’s seizure of reporters’ phone records. No-one expects the pressure to let up anytime soon.
“There is blood in the water and the sharks are circling,” said Jim Manley, who spent years as the top communications aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) before moving on to a career at a lobbying firm.
“The last thing the White House needs to do is to make any unnecessary quick moves — by making dramatic personnel changes, for example.”
Mike McCurry, who labored as White House Press Secretary for President Bill Clinton during the feverish early days of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, opted for a different marine metaphor.
“The temptation, when you have some variety of these feeding frenzies, is only to worry about the churning water and not the longer-term horizon,” he said. “The critical thing is to not lose sight of the larger agenda that the president got elected to execute.”
The advice from the likes of Manley and McCurry is finding a receptive audience at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. McCurry recently spoke with White House chief of staff Denis McDonough, and came away impressed with the discipline McDonough was instilling in the rest of the staff.
McDonough, as has been widely reported, wants to cap at 10 percent the amount of White House time that gets spent responding to the furors of the moment rather than advancing the president’s broader agenda.
Among other White House staff, solace is taken from a number of factors.
First, they believe that there is no direct link between the president and any of the misbehavior that is being probed.
Second, they contend that the only thing that could truly jeopardize him, or his top aides, is inappropriate meddling in future investigations or those currently underway.
Third, they say that maintaining a steady focus on the large issues of national importance will pay off in the long run.
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Israel Asks for a King and is warned by Samuel
1 Samuel 8
New International Version (NIV)
Israel Asks for a King
8 When Samuel grew old, he appointed his sons as Israel’s leaders.[a] 2 The name of his firstborn was Joel and the name of his second was Abijah, and they served at Beersheba.3 But his sons did not follow his ways. They turned asideafter dishonest gain and accepted bribes and pervertedjustice.
4 So all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah. 5 They said to him, “You are old, and your sons do not follow your ways; now appoint a king to lead[b]us, such as all the other nations have.”6 But when they said, “Give us a king to lead us,” this displeased Samuel; so he prayed to the Lord. 7 And the Lordtold him: “Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king. 8 As they have done from the day I brought them up out of Egypt until this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are doing to you. 9 Now listen to them; but warn them solemnly and let them know what the king who will reign over them will claim as his rights.”
10 Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a king. 11 He said, “This is what the king who will reign over you will claim as his rights: He will takeyour sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots. 12 Some he will assign to be commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and others to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and still others to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. 13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. 14 He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants. 15 He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants. 16 Your male and female servants and the best of your cattle[c] and donkeys he will take for his own use. 17 He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves.18 When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, but the Lord will not answer you in that day.”
19 But the people refused to listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We want a king over us. 20 Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles.”
21 When Samuel heard all that the people said, he repeatedit before the Lord. 22 The Lord answered, “Listen to them and give them a king.”
Then Samuel said to the Israelites, “Everyone go back to your own town.”
“Dew Drop Warriors” - http://dewdropwarriors.blogspot.com/
“Dew Drop Warriors” is a coded reference to the 300 warriors
picked by Gideon to reestablish the rule of God in Israel. Israel had been
invaded by foreign peoples and foreign gods.
Judges 6:2 And the hand of Mid'ian prevailed over Israel; and because of Mid'ian the people of Israel made for themselves the dens which are in the mountains, and the caves and the strongholds. 3 For whenever the Israelites put in seed the Mid'ianites and the Amal'ekites and the people of the East would come up and attack them; 4 they would encamp against them and destroy the produce of the land, as far as the neighborhood of Gaza, and leave no sustenance in Israel, and no sheep or ox or ass. 5 For they would come up with their cattle and their tents, coming like locusts for number; both they and their camels could not be counted; so that they wasted the land as they came in.
Judges 6:36 Then Gideon said to God, "If thou wilt deliver Israel by my hand, as thou hast said, 37 behold, I am laying a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if there is dew on the fleece alone, and it is dry on all the ground, then I shall know that thou wilt deliver Israel by my hand, as thou hast said." 38 And it was so. When he rose early next morning and squeezed the fleece, he wrung enough dew from the fleece to fill a bowl with water.
Judges 6:2 And the hand of Mid'ian prevailed over Israel; and because of Mid'ian the people of Israel made for themselves the dens which are in the mountains, and the caves and the strongholds. 3 For whenever the Israelites put in seed the Mid'ianites and the Amal'ekites and the people of the East would come up and attack them; 4 they would encamp against them and destroy the produce of the land, as far as the neighborhood of Gaza, and leave no sustenance in Israel, and no sheep or ox or ass. 5 For they would come up with their cattle and their tents, coming like locusts for number; both they and their camels could not be counted; so that they wasted the land as they came in.
Judges 6:36 Then Gideon said to God, "If thou wilt deliver Israel by my hand, as thou hast said, 37 behold, I am laying a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if there is dew on the fleece alone, and it is dry on all the ground, then I shall know that thou wilt deliver Israel by my hand, as thou hast said." 38 And it was so. When he rose early next morning and squeezed the fleece, he wrung enough dew from the fleece to fill a bowl with water.
Sam's 4th Saturday Stag - Examining the Dynamics Behind the Destruction of Civilizations
Sam's 4th
Saturday Stag – June 22 - 2 PM
Examining
the Dynamics Behind the Destruction of Civilizations
Open also
to non-Mensa men
In our first Sam’s Stag Seminar Series on The
Decline of Civilization on May 25th the group defined risk factors of
cultures in decline, and the strengths present in cultures that flourish.
We quickly became aware that we had opened a complex subject with many
aspects. We anticipate that we will need more than one Saturday session
to adequately address this issue.
We listed and briefly touched on some of these
contributing factors:
1.
Demasculinization of America
and Western Civilization
Most anthropologists hold that there are no known
societies that are unambiguously matriarchal.
Steven Goldberg, The Inevitability of Patriarchy,
(William Morrow & Company, 1973).
Joan Bamberger, 'The Myth of Matriarchy: Why Men
Rule in Primitive Society', in M Rosaldo and L Lamphere, Women, Culture,
and Society, (Stanford, California: Stanford University
Press, 1974), pp. 263–280.
Cynthia Eller, The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory: Why an Invented
Past Won't Give Women a Future, (Boston: Beacon Press, 2001).
Encyclopaedia Britannica describes
this view as "consensus," listing matriarchy as a hypothetical social
system.
'Matriarchy' Encyclopædia Britannica,
2007."
Ergo: Since there are no successful matriarchies throughout history, the
significant weakening of the male influence is a risk factor for any culture.
Keep in mind that many females exhibit “male consciousness,” i.e. Maggie
Thatcher or Golda Meir. Likewise, many males exhibit “female consciousness”
i.e. Barney Frank, Richard Simmons, Barack Obama.
Solutions:
Greater emphasis on male consciousness building experiences and learning for
young men and women, ie sports, hunting, fishing, outdoor adventure, martial
arts, firearm training, mechanical and engineering training. Also necessary are
courses in critical thinking, history, logic and philosophy.
Most
people with a dominant female consciousness vote for liberal agendas. Most
people with dominant male consciousness vote for conservative agendas. Voter
education programs that show the comparative efficacy of the two paradigms are
needed.
2.
Demographics: birth rate – weakening of the gene pool
through negative eugenics – toxins in the environment that emasculate.
3.
Medical practices: abortion – over prescribing – lack of life
style education - Doctors are the third leading cause of death in the US,
killing 225,000 people every year.
4.
Secularism: a faith-based value system is essential to
sustain a culture; thus secular values are a risk factor for any culture.
5.
Moral and political corruption: a serious risk
factor.
6.
Academia: has become a serious risk factor because
secularism has polluted our education system.
7.
Idealistic but unsustainable economic systems are a risk factor.
Please research these and other risk factors you see as
contributing to the decline of civilization, be prepared to add your comments
to the risk factors already mentioned, and suggest additional risk factors.
Our June 22
discussion will be led by William Hutchins, MD
(The July 27th
discussion will be led by Dr Jake Hester.)
Please
be prepared to suggest topics for future meetings.
RSVP is required,
(limited seating.) Give Sam a call at 239-591-4565, or email: sams@bestselfusa.com
Refreshments &
snacks are not provided; participants are encouraged to bring
enough to share.
There is no fee to
attend. Contributions to the Southwest
Florida MENSA scholarship fund for gifted
youth are encouraged.
Sam
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