AMERICA - The Right Way!! (Day 635) [Remember the Trade Center!!]

Various News Sources and FReepers | October 17, 2002 | All of Us

[nicollo]

Chairman, the article on the AAA withdrawing support of the red light cameras brings great news! The Washington Times has been stupendous in its fight on this issue.

As for the explanations for life by science, Stephen Hawking admits that science can only discover how, but not why. That's God's realm.

(Which may be why people pray, "Why, Lord, why?" rather than "How, Lord, how?"...)

[Miss Marple]

Rumsfeld press conference on now. Thank goodness...a respite from Chief Moose and the myriad "esperts."

[Miss Marple]

LOL! Discounting the NYT story about people not being told plans. Rumsfeld says that THIS is the world-class thumb-sucker story...the previous story is now a second-rate thumbsucker! LOL!

[ohioWfan]

Let me see if I can find the source. It might take a while.

[Chairman_December_19th_Society]

Chairman, the article on the AAA withdrawing support of the red light cameras brings great news! The Washington Times has been stupendous in its fight on this issue.

Yes, this is very good news. The Times has been extraordinary in their support, yes.

Folks have to come to terms with the technology being able to, at best, "arrest" a car, not a driver. Even then, it makes mistakes. Photos are not always clear, but that doesn't stop the DC traffic folks - they guess - REALLY! [That was covered in a previous Washington Times article.] So if the traffic bureau gets a photo that both they and the contractor cannot make out, they will guess what the plate number is and issue a ticket.

You could be receiving - anyone could be receiving - a ticket in the mail from the DC Police folks for a moving violation in the District.

[The only saving grace is DC does not have a reciprocity agreement on vehicle registration with any other state - and it is not hard to see why.]

[lodwick]

Breaking news from the Moose

[Miss Marple]

LOL!

Iraqi TV on now. Just what I need. Saddam accepting his election (gosh, what a surprise).

[Chairman_December_19th_Society]

Saddam accepting his election (gosh, what a surprise).

Seven years ago, he won only 99.97% of the vote.

Since that resulted in an individual being exiled to Florida shortly thereafter, this year they could report 100.00%.

[lodwick]

Sample Iraqui Ballot

[nicollo]

I find it especially repulsive that a private entity gets a cut from each ticket. A flat fee for a service rendered I can understand. But dishing out commissions on civil fines is stupid and corrupt. Whey'd it take 20,000 tickets and an outside party to find that bad light on H street? Hmm, something tells me it wasn't in the interest of the provider to know anything about it.

It's like giving plaintiffs and lawyers the fines imposed as punishment. That one makes me wrench.

[DallasGal]

That pic of Chief Moose and the van is hysterical. Thanks for the laugh.

[Chairman_December_19th_Society]

I'm living through this nightmare, but I will tell you that picture got me ROFLOL!!! Very good!

[Chairman_December_19th_Society]

It's like giving plaintiffs and lawyers the fines imposed as punishment. That one makes me wrench.

I agree. For me it is real simple - if you cannot arrest with certainty the individual who did the deed, there is no case.

Cameras cannot do that - they are corrupt and an abridgement of our freedom.

The goal is laudible, but it is too easily manipulated for greedy individuals, and is, in any event, more of a tax than a penalty. Worse, it is a lottery-driven tax.

Very scuzzy.

[Chairman_December_19th_Society]

I should have said "the use of the cameras is corrupt," sheez. Cameras are inanimate.

[lodwick]

As you can tell, I love the StrangeCosmosGuys who are at least lurkers here at FR - they've stolen borrowed so many of Registered's parodies that he now how his own featured section at StrangeCosmos.com. Chairman - I hope you know that are of us are lifting you and yours, and everyone in general in the DC area, up to the Lord for safe keeping until this assassin is taken out. JL

[lodwick]

That would be - that all of us are...

Chairman - watch out. It's catching. ;-)

[ohioWfan]

I have a reference in hand.....not the actual reference I was referring to, but one that refers to the position now taken by many evolutionists. As a geologist, you'll 'get it' much more than I do.

This is from Creation: Facts of Life, by Gary Parker who says, "because of the overwhelming weight of scientific evidence, many evolutionists are now calling themselves neo-catastrophists......they agree that most layers of fossil -bearing rock were produced rapidly and broadly by flooding on a catastrophic scale, what Derek Ager compared to 'short periods of terror' in the life of a soldiers.

It's these short periods of terror, it seems that caught plants and animals off guard, buried them too deeply and quickly for them to escape or be obliterated by scavengers, and turned them into fossils.....At Grand Canyon as around the world, the first and deepest layer to contain an abundance of fossil remains is called the Cambrian geologic system....."

This text goes on to say that the Cambrian level is seen at the Grand Canyon (evolution stage 1), but that the next level is Redwall, Mississipian or lower Carboniferous (are you getting all this? :o) .....or evolutionary stage 5.... Stages 2, 3 and 4 (Ordovician, Silurian and Devonian) are missing.

Evolutionists call these 'paraconformities'......meaning, as I understand it, that the other evidence in their view for evolution is so strong that these 'glitches' are nothing more than that......minor irregularities in their theory.

The author's point is that, while there is nothing wrong with drawing that conclusion, it is an act of faith to believe that millions of years of evolution can be seen in the Grand Canyon, because at least 1.5 million years are missing.

There's lots more.....but does that help? I can look for more references because I've heard it from several different scholarly sources (we have a number of books on the subject). These scientists all purport that a catastrophic, universal flood as described in Scripture was powerful enough to have caused the Grand Canyon, the Rocky Mountains, and the separation of continents. It's a theory, of course, but, in my view it jives more consistently with the Bible than evolution in any form.

Let me know if I should keep looking......

[lodwick]

Newsmax.com, ^


Posted on 10/17/2002 11:08 AM Central by Retired Chemist


Another – unnamed – federal law enforcement officer tells me the inside scuttlebutt in the FBI and other police agencies is that comments made by Ari Fleischer may have sparked a terrorist wave.


On Oct. 1, Fleischer told the White House press corps that "one bullet" into Saddam's head – "if Iraqi people take it on themselves" – would be an easy way to avoid a war with the U.S.


On Oct. 2, the day after Fleischer made this sensational comment advocating Saddam's assassination, the sniper first struck, killing James D. Martin as he crossed a supermarket parking lot in Wheaton, Md.


Since then, the shootings around Washington have had a terrorizing effect, paralyzing economic and social life around the Beltway.


Still, the police and government officials have been loath to mention the "T" word.

[Dog]

What no votes for Pat Buchanan by mistake?

[lodwick]

LOL - thanks.