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Are there out-of-sequence fossils that are problematic for evolution? by Gary Bates and Lita Cosner Published: 17 April 2014 (GMT+10) In his debate with Ken Ham, (the ‘science guy’) Bill Nye dogmatically claimed, and asked Ham, to cite any out of order fossils in the geologic record, because if there were any, it would be problematic for the evolutionary model. Due to the seeming confidence of Nye’s assertion (and that it was not answered during the debate), many have contacted us for an answer on this single question. In addition, while out on ministry our speakers have mentioned how this...

<p>Haven’t you heard? Lindsey Graham is going back to the US Senate!</p> <p>If you read tales from the New York Times and watched MSNBC lately that is what you may assume.</p> <p>However, here on the ground in South Carolina, reality for the senior senator is very different. Recently, public polls have shown Lindsey Graham with less than 50% support from members in his own party, and all of his high priced campaign ads are falling on deaf ears with conservative voters who know the truth about Senator Graham.</p>

No, Putin isn't re-building the third Reich: Chamberlain isn't a historic villain because he did nothing after Hitler seized neighboring German-speaking territories. He's a historic villain because he did nothing after Hitler blamed Christianity for poisoning Europe with weakness, swore to destroy the Jews, build a master race, set fire to the Reichstag, seized all police powers, built concentration camps and THEN invaded German-speaking lands. No, Putin isn't re-building the Soviet Union: He has implemented a flat, low tax rate, struck the authority of local commissars to impose taxes, decriminalized tax disputes, decentralized agriculture and industry, seen the numbers of...

I may be wrong, but I think I just heard Sean Hannity say on his show that the TSA searches are okay. It happened just as I came across his show - so I must say up front I may have heard it wrong, or perhaps out of context. If anyone can correct this, please do so. BUT, I think he said something to the effect of he's happy to go thru the process, that if it will keep us all safer, we should all just do it. Now I hope this was out of context, because there's about three...

This morning Michael Bloomberg announced he was starting a $50 million fund to go against the NRA, alongside him on the Today show was a "stay at home mother", Shannon Watts. Shannon, go to YouTube, and punch in the search engine 'brutal attack Milburn, NJ". Watch the video and you will know why guns were invented.

Stocks have taken a beating this week, with major market averages looking to end in the red by about 2% as growth stocks sink.

Cult of Death at its best. 5.56 mm

So I'm watching this whole "Firefox" uninstall effort going on, with some amusement. Y'all should understand that Google and Firefox have ways of winning even if you uninstall Firefox. I'll cover that in the body of my thread below

I can't post the article but somebody gets it Norway. The Council of the Church of Norway has voted down a proposal to allow same-sex marriages to be performed by Norwegian priests. They Council also said they would'nt even allow 'blessings'. Praise G-d but I am sure this is just round 1 of a long fight.

Estonia is a little nation of 1.3 million people, which was made a member of NATO in 2004. Estonia was once a province of the Soviet Union. It has a Russian minority that is 25 percent of the population, and Russia has vowed to protect ethnic Russians if they are subjected to mass violence by the Estonian majority. Did NATO make a wise decision to bring in itty-bitty baltic nations that were once part of the Soviet Union? I can understand the importance of preventing the Soviet Union from being brought back into existence. But the lives of American troops...

Scott Brown is on track to "Pease" the 2nd Amendment

Coincident with ratification of the 1913 amendments to the constitution, New York Senator Elihu Root expressed his concerns in a series of lectures at the alma mater of James Madison, and Woodrow Wilson, Princeton University. He was one of the most respected and influential politicians of the early 20th century. Senator Root spoke freely, without hesitation, the language of our framing generation. As a tidal wave of progressivism swept across America, he clearly feared our overnight transformation from a federal, to a democratic republic. Senator Elihu Root: The Proper Pace of Political Change. (Excerpts): In this country we have set...

I don't claim to be able to peer into Putin's soul. I don't even claim to be an expert on Russia or the Ukraine. But if we're to have a chance of dealing intelligently in Eastern Europe, we should at least have a mastery of the basic facts. And that's where media sources, left, right and center have made complete fools of themselves. So without wanting to in any way defend the indefensible Yanukovich: If the Russians hadn't been in Crimea, there's no way the Crimeans would've voted to join Russia. Crimea has pretty much always been Russia since its...

I'm getting old and my memory is failing so please correct me where my memory is wrong or if I'm making up memories. Also, please expand where I fall miserably short. It's my recollection that Reagan was so successful because he was a leader with a vision who promoted strength, freedom, optimism, patriotism and righteousness. And he could communicate his vision with commonsense, humility and good humor. He did not succeed by pandering, evolving and adapting. He brought various factions together by promoting the ideas that freedom was much better than socialism, strength better than weakness, fiscal restraint better than...

Hasn't the lead up to, the firing and subsequent press release made Mozilla a hostile workplace not only for those who financially supported Prop. 8 or similar laws, but anyone who does not fully support same sex marriage? Can a Mormon, Evangelical or other conservative Christian, Muslim, religious Jew have a career at Mozilla? Do they have to live in fear if their actual views or suspected views don't comply with Mozilla' s idea of diversity (agree with same sex marriage or be forced out?) Are those news organizations supporting Mozilla' s decision also making their business a hostile work...

I was wondering which software companies and developers were pushing for the CEO' s scalp. I know Rarebit is one, but I do not use dating websites. I have already deleted Firefox and Thuderbird, but I want to get rid of any software from the petty tyrants that are on a jihad to enforce there point of view. If we do not stop this in the bud what's next? If you agree pro-life, a small government supporter, conservative or libertarian, support Israel, etc do you lose your job or have to wear some other scarlet letter? Some both here and...

Let them know you've made you sad.

I was thinking about what really drives liberals to make the decisions they make. You could easily say that liberals are more emotional or that they don't think enough about what their positions mean or what consequences could come of them. You could say that they are too idealistic or too immature or too self-centered. Now all this may be true to a degree to but none of this really goes to the root what drives a liberal. What really drives a liberal is a feeling and a reaction to that feeling. Liberals feel inadequate to deal with the world...

I just received a request for an exit interview because I left the Republican Party, which was news to me. I wrote that the party left me not the other way around and that as long as the leadership was m,ore concerned with illegal aliens than enforcing the Constitution and working for actual Americans they could go to H*ll. They asked when the last time I contributed money was and I responded that it was the last time the leadership was Conservative, so Reagan's term. I let them have a good piece of my mind so I know it will...

Unfortunately, we have a President who is literally ignorant of how and what is responsible for the United States of America becoming the greatest, most admired power in the history of our world. Since there is nothing in his upbringing or personal associations that would make him aware of these facts, he was led to the conclusion by his Marxist/Socialist friends that America had to be fundamentally changed. So now he is President. Since he is totally ignorant as to how a republic works, and his goal is to "get rid" of any opposition, he must get his "orders" from...

Is it possible that our president, Barack H. Obama, is actually a HOLOGRAM? I don't know of any human being that can day after day, week after week, year after year lie to the American people, PERIOD. If he is a hologram, we must initiate a nationwide alert to find the people responsible and put them out of business. PERIOD.

Anthony Watts Posted a link to this poll. We need to get it to 97% no to be really symbolic

Now that Obama is such a huge success, every state needs to immediately stop Free ER services. One of the Obama-DNC cares selling points was the states costs of offering free Emergency Room Services. No doubt the DNC will be fine with now removing those free services. Right?

Don't know if it's already been stated, but every day that the Marxist/fascist Obama squats in the White House is America's April Fools Day to the (formerly) free world. Nothing follows.

I was just thinking about Enron and all those guys we put in jail… So, the Ukraine buys almost all its energy (natural gas) from Russia. Revenues from natural gas sales are a primary source of income for Russia. Because of the recent disagreement between Ukraine and Russia, Russia is raising the price of natural gas it sells to Ukraine. Ukraine is almost broke and can't afford the increase in the natural gas price because it would be forced into bankruptcy. Obama just announced the United States is giving Ukraine $1 billion to assist in paying for the higher priced...

This stinks to Heaven ... Please explain the Flip-flop in light of Matt Kilbbe’s previous words ... FreedomWorks: Sasse “Supports The Basic Principles Of Obamacare”: “But there’s a problem. Mr. Sasse, a wealthy former business management consultant with a long list of health industry clients, is positioning himself as a staunchly ‘anti-Obamacare’ candidate; but that doesn’t square with his past record, a careful review of which reveals four things: 1. He supports the basic principles of Obamacare, if not all the details. 2. While Obamacare was being drafted, he offered its authors advice on how to improve it. 3. After...

... Please give us some history.

The limousine liberals of New Castle, NY (aka "Chappaqua", or Clinton H.Q.) continue to fight a mosque in "their backyard". Wonder how many of them strongly supported the mosque @ Ground Zero. (update reported in NY Journal News, lohud.com: "New Castle criticized over Islamic center's review" on 3/30/14)

Amazing screen performance: "God's Not Dead" Looks like God is doing his thing with a bit of help from film viewers, the Duck Commander, Willie Robertson, his great wife, Corie and the magnificent cast and production group led by Actor Kevin Sorbo, etc.!!! As Winston Churchill proclaimed to Herr Hitler after the Battle of Britain..."We are coming for you!!!" and then began sustained, night & day bombing of German Factories & Cities by the RAF & the AAF....we, the people, proclaim to anti-religion, Christian hater, POTUS, Obama, his Godless Academia lap dogs and his media Obamabots: "We, the God believers,...

Today in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Joe Carr, candidate for U.S. Senate against incumbent moderate Republican Lamar Alexander, opened his campaign headquarters. I am from east Tennessee, not central Tennessee, and having some other things going on, I missed the first hour; but I arrived just in time to hear the introduction for Congressman Carr and to hear him speak. He did an excellent job, and the crowd was excited and energized. One thing that I found interesting was Mr. Carr’s report about polling that a firm had done. (I think that it is an internal polling firm.) I am not vouching...

Politics and Obama are wearing me down. So, I'm thinking of one of my favorite subjects and looking for some comments on remembering "the first time".

For some odd reason, they seem as rare as public pay phones and customer services. If someone can find one or two, I appreciate it if they could provide a couple. Thank you.

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The troublesome fish currently known as Asian carp may get a new name in Minnesota over concern that the current one casts people from Asian cultures in a negative light. Proposals advancing in the Legislature would require the Department of Natural Resources to refer to the fish as "invasive carp," a reference to the threat the non-native fish pose to Mississippi River-area ecosystems. ...

March 25, 2014 Between Two Americas D'Nesh D'Souza Click on the picture below for the video↓↓↓

<p>Just wanted to say thanks, Michelle. On behalf of all Americans, thanks SO much for your representation of us to China and the world - AS First Lady.</p>

So now when I log on to FreeRepublic, I get this really annoying "bent corner" in the upper right hand corner of the window. It kind of pulsates, and if I hover the mouse over it, it suddenly expands to takes over half the screen. Most annoying is that even when it is in the upper corner, it covers whatever is on the screen under it. Then I get this cancer advertisement. And also I get a "Search with Bing" search window. And if I am on FR, and click on a post to open it in a new tab,...

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Debt Ceiling I hear reference to the number of debt ceiling increases as the main factor when comparing presidents. I usually hear that Reagan raised the debt 18 timed. A little research at the Office of Management and Budget web site reveals this is true. The debt ceiling spreadsheet data is from 1940 to the present. I did infer the following from Table 7.3, Statutory Limits on Federal Debt 1940-Current. President Reaganapproved of increasing the debt ceiling 18 times for a total increase of $684.4 Billion, $684,400,000, $684.4 thousand million. President George H.W. Bush approved of increasing the debt ceiling...

Chinese Navy (PLAN) Commissions 1st Type 052D DestroyerDDG-172, Kunming March 21, 2014 The Chinese Navy commissioned the first of class, Type 052D, destroyer, DDG-172, Kunming, on March 21, 2014. This is a new class of destroyer that is a significant upgrade over the Type 052C, Lanzhou Class, destroyers that the Chinese have finished building six of. The Lanzho Class was Chinas first true multi-rile, wide area defense destroyer employing a sophisticated battle management system, Phased Array Radars, and Vertical Launch missile systems. That earlier class had 48 cells for surface to air missile to defend a large group ships...

This video is an interesting dramatization. May help a few people understand what happens in the heat of the moment. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLN5D4lOlos

Actual photograph of shocked woman speaking to ObamaCare "navigator" as posted on the front page The Hill (thehill.com). The front page links to its top story today by reporter Elise Viebeck: O-Care premiums to skyrocket Freeper Liz has posted a thread on the story that links to the front page headline on The Hill: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3134822/posts

I just found out some information today that enlightened me as to why Rand Paul has endorsed Mitch McConnell. McConnell's Campaign Manger, Jesse Benton, is part of the Paul family. He is married to Ron Paul's grand daughter and Rand Paul's niece. I wonder if Mitch hiring Rand's nephew-in-law was part of the deal for Rand's endorsement? This is what Benton told the Huffington Post: "I believe in Senator McConnell and am 100 percent committed to his re-election. Being selected to lead his campaign is one of the great honors of my life and I look forward to victory in...

I am so old I recall the gay movement starting off with it's no one's business what occurs in the bedroom. And they did not want to be an in your face movement. Well , we now see that what occurs in the bedroom is now demanding to occur in public and they are very much an in everyone's face movement. Time for push back. Christians need to enter all gay parades to represent Christ's views. Have a prayer float. And IF denied entry use the same tactics gays use : pressure corporations and use the courts.

US Navy reveals plot to beam power from SPACE using giant orbiting solar panels System could capture power in space and beam to Earth Arrays of panels 1km wide could be assembled by robots in orbit Could power military installations and even cities Would be nine times larger than the International Space Station

So watching Obama's ineptitude in dealing with Russia's aggression to the Ukraine and Crimea, I keep asking myself - is this the flexibility Obama promised Putin once he got re-elected?

I have just emerged from a 12 hour suspension of my Face Book posting privileges. My suspension was prompted by the FB PC/Tolerance/Diversity Police for what they indicated were hateful comments about Muslims and Islamic terrorists. I should like to take this opportunity to apologize to any Islamic terrorists offended by those remarks – but most especially To the Islamic terrorists in Nigeria who, having nothing better to do one night several days ago, strolled into a village housing a Christian school and slit the throats, beheaded and burned alive 15 children and nuns. I have great difficulty reconciling your...

Several videos dealing with the leaked phone conversation between Estonian foreign minister Paet and Catherine Ashton have been going viral on youtube over the past three or four days, e.g. at about location 8:20 of this item: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZEgJ0oo3OA8 A few other takes: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/03/06/russian-un-ambassador-comes-out-swinging-on-leaked-call/# http://www.globalresearch.ca/ukraines-democratic-coup-detat-killing-civilians-as-a-pretext-for-regime-change/5370705 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2573923/Estonian-Foreign-Ministry-confirms-authenticity-leaked-phone-call-discussing-Kiev-snipers-shot-protesters-possibly-hired-Ukraines-new-leaders.html http://www.storyleak.com/us-directed-regime-change-ukraine-guaranteed-provoke-russian-fury/ http://www.dailypaul.com/314078/cui-bono-ukrainian-false-flag http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/17804-same-ukraine-snipers-shot-cops-and-protesters-eu-call-suggests One question which nobody is asking is this: To what extent is the sniping episode and the presumed legitimacy of blaming it on Yanukovich and/or Russians serving as a pretext for American attempts at involvement at this point? SHOULD the US government be going forward with ANYTHING here before the question is...

Warming oceans aren’t just shifting the migration patterns of some of our favorite fish; scientists say climate change may be stunting fish sizes too. Widely consumed North Sea species, including haddock, whiting, herring, and others, have shrunk in size by as much as 29 percent over nearly 40 years, as water temperatures have increased between one and two degrees Celsius, researchers from the University of Aberdeen in Aberdeen, Scotland, revealed in a study published in the April issue of Global Change Biology.