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This is a clash of world views and if there is any benefit to come from it, one will be to make bare the nature, orientation and agendas of people who have appointed themselves as "caring" for the rights of others. It should be more obvious than ever that the left makes these claims not on the basis of timeless principles, but as a means to other ends, that being power.

An example of this came to my inbox yesterday in the "Weekly Feminist News Digest", published by the "Feminist Majority Foundation", devoted to advancing the wellbeing of women. Not a single mention of Terri, but you can see what really conserns them:

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Weekly Feminist News Digest - 3/18/2005 - 3/25/2005

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Top Feminist News - 3/18/2005 - 3/25/2005

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Mar 24 2005
Bush Seeks to Lessen Scope of FMLA
The Bush administration has sided with businesses in considering the overhaul of 76 regulations, claiming that the changes will help ease the burden on US manufacturing firms...
http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=8967

Mar 23 2005
Dept. of Education Weakens Title IX Compliance Standards for College Athletics
Late last Friday afternoon, the Department of Education released a letter weakening the requirements of Part Three of the three-part test by which colleges and universities measure their compliance with Title IX, the 1972 federal law prohibiting sex discrimination at institutions receiving federal financial assistance for education programs and activities...
http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=8964

Mar 21 2005
Supreme Court Hears Restraining Order Case
The US Supreme Court heard arguments in a case today that will determine whether police departments and local governments can be held accountable for failing to enforce restraining orders...
http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=8960

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Other Feminist News This Week

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Mar 24 2005 - Brazil’s New Family Planning Program Angers Catholic Church
http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=8968

Mar 23 2005 - Kofi Annan Calls For Sustained International Support for Afghanistan
http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=8965

Mar 23 2005 - SD: Governor Signs into Law the Nation's Toughest Anti-Abortion Bills
http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=8966

Mar 22 2005 - Indiana: Planned Parenthood Fights AG's Attempt to Obtain Records
http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=8961

Mar 22 2005 - Virginity Pledges Do Not Curb STD Rates, Study Shows
http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=8962

Mar 22 2005 - Hundreds of Germans Protest Honor Killings in Their Communities
http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=8963

Mar 21 2005 - Funeral Held for Feminist, LGBT Activist
http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=8958

Mar 21 2005 - One in Seven Attending Military Academies Report Being Sexually Assaulted
http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=8959

The only power left to restrain judges is a fully informed jury, especially one that knows it has the obligation to not only judge the facts, but the law as well.

see: http://www.fija.org and http://www.caught.net/juror.htm

In their smug elite coverage of the right to keep and bear arms (which is to never cover the issue favorably), this Post reporter blindly steps in a big pile of excrement, for a "38 mm" weapon would be a destructive device, long since strictly reguluated by the feds and a felony to possess. He must really mean a 38 *caliber* handgun.

That not the only mistake in this article. The second being that since the one year old Missouri law recognizes permits issued by any other states, literally thousands of Missourians are not getting a Missouri permit at all-- they are getting Florida permits, which cost less and are issued for 5 years instead of Missouri's 3 years.

I hate to bring this news to the Post. They probably think that St. Louis is one big gun-free zone, which just proves how successful concealed carry is and distictly disproves the predictions this law would cause blood in the streets, predictions the Post found it so easy to run during the
law's debate.

We are north of 15,000 permits issued and not a single reported violation of the law in a year.

We are seeing slow-motion tyranny, where the wheels of government justice grind so slowly to produce a lawful result that is the opposite of justice.

As horrible as this event is, contrast how the media and even Freepers approach the story as compared to how they compared the mass murder of members or the Living Church of God.

At the very least, will anyone call for a close examination of the religious doctrines of this closed in society of racially-oriented people?

Will anyone worry that something might be wrong with a group that discourages its members to select a mate from within the group?

Will the also delve into the background of this society and examine decades-old literature about what they teach their members?

To all three questions I would hope not. But I only raise them to illustrate the absurdity of the reaction to Ratzmann's murdering of 7 fellow members of the LCG.

Observe how much enthusiasm the MSM gives to their coverage of this exciting development.

This "wealth", which is really loot, was once thought to only be a "mere" few hundred million dollars, but that didn't stop the MSM and socialist sycophants from blaming Israel or the US for the poverty and living conditions of the average Palestinian.

Neither will it stop now that that the accounting is up to $4 billion. I wonder how much that is per capita?

But this money came from somewhere, mostly from the Europeans, which kept giving even when they knew it was only going into someone's pocket. Given how the UN/Saddam Oil-for-Scandal Food Program found willing takers in France and Germany, we now see that France and Germany also play the game in reverse. What does this prove they are?

There another issue here: is it in the best interests of the country to allow tax-advantaged foundations to have eternal life?

This is the effect of the present law, which requires foundations, in order to maintain their status, to give away 5 percent of their assets every year.

This is all well and good, except for the last several decades, foundations have been making a return of over 7% in their investments. In other words, if they were funded sufficiently at the beginning, a funding that was probably a tax deduction for the founder, their assets will not be consumed, but instead will grow.

The simple answer to this is for Congress to raise this minimum annual payout to at least 8%.

History shows as these foundations become more detached from the real world, they appoint more and more lefties to their boards and this perpetuates the leftist grant funding engines these foundations operate.

I suggested this to my Congresscritter in person, and strangely it fell on deaf ears. I can only imagine how the very charitable Pew Trust would suddenly turn visciously un-charitable for anyone so foolish to propose this.

There another issue here: is it in the best interests of the country to allow tax-advantaged foundations to have eternal life?

This is the effect of the present law, which requires foundations, in order to maintain their status, to give away 5 percent of their assets every year.

This is all well and good, except for the last several decades, foundations have been making a return of over 7% in their investments. In other words, if they were funded sufficiently at the beginning, a funding that was probably a tax deduction for the founder, their assets will not be consumed, but instead will grow.

The simple answer to this is for Congress to raise this minimum annual payout to at least 8%.

History shows as these foundations become more detached from the real world, they appoint more and more lefties to their boards and this perpetuates the leftist grant funding engines these foundations operate.

I suggested this to my Congresscritter in person, and strangely it fell on deaf ears. I can only imagine how the very charitable Pew Trust would suddenly turn visciously un-charitable for anyone so foolish to propose this.

When I travel, I often find 1 liter bottles of Fiji Water in the coolers at convience stores. These bottles typically sell for $1.50 or so.

see: http://www.fijiwater.com/site/index.html

You can have as much water from Fiji as you are willing to pay for. Further, you can go on Federal Express' web site and look up what it costs to ship 1 liter of bottled water to just about anywhere in the world. The most remote village in the Middle East that Fedex delivers to costs about $75 for next day air freight.

For less than $80, you can put a liter of bottled water from Fiji in the hands of water starved Middle Eastern citizens, the very next day.

There is no shortage of water, just a shortage of water they can afford.

My domestic water costs about 1/2 cent per gallon. The Israelies are desanlinizingsea water for less than that. One of their new plants (Ashkelon) is projected to produce potable water for a cost of 0.50 US$/cubic meter. That is amazingly inexpensive.

http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:0J4AsbCezSAJ:www.pwcglobal.com/uk/eng/about/svcs/pfp/Case%2520Study%2520Ashkelon.doc+Israel+desalination+sea+water+cost++contract&hl=en

The question is not that there is a "shortage" of the stuff the oceans are still full of, it is why most people around this world have been kept in such poverty by their governments they cannot afford to buy what should be the least expensive and most readily available of life's necessities.

Religion is ok, as long as it doesn't actually require you to *do* anything, and especially if it implies some higher power exists who will be 'judgemental' and might have some ultimate punishment for those who fail the test.

Perfect religion by this crowd's standards is entirely external: to help the poor and seek "social justice". That this is done through big-and-bigger government is not mentioned. The Ten Commandments, which define God's idea of justice (as compared to justice that is "social"), is a relic that must not contaminate any public square, lest anyone be offended.

Thus have a curiousity: in the very same month that the MSM worries and frets that a little known 'cult' might actually believe what the Bible says in many places will really come to pass (in their coverage of the Ratzmann-Living Church murders), they have already filmed, and now set out to advertise, a mini-series based on that very basis!

Both my father and my grandmother rode horses to school. It may be "quaint" now, but wait until the PC nanny-state child "protection" authorities conclude this is "abuse" because it "endangers" the child.

>>they may have been snake handlers? I<<

The Living Church of God, which I used to attend, does not teach, nor practice snake handling.

Please, this is sad enough w/o having irresponsible speculation about the church being posted. If anything the LCG is somewhat pacifist, in that it teaches members should not enlist in the military, and that Christians must show the love of Christ in how they live their lives. They teach the Commandments, and that there is a day of judgement for all who have lived.

I say this to indicate that the entire orientation of teachings as well as the traditions and practices of the church (both ministry and members) was distinctly opposite of what should lead to such a horrible event.

You asked: >>What version are you using?????<<

That was from David Stern's Jewish New Testament. He has the honesty to translate what others would not. The Greek word is simply translated "dog", but in the Jewish culture (and the John, the scribe of Revelation, was raised a Jew, as was Jesus who dictated the words), that is a reference to a male homosexual prostitute, as can be seen in Deut 28:18-19- "You are not to bring the wages of a female prostitute nor the wages of a dog (kelev) into the house of Adonai your God in payment of any vow; both of them are an abomination..."

See Stern's Jewish New Testament Commentary entry on Rev 22:15.

A similar contemporary analogue would be that the simple definition of the word 'faggot' is a bundle of sticks, while most modern contexts imply a offensive term for an openly homosexual man.

I wonder if she will want to "reclaim" Christianity from

- "Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money?" (Matt 20:15)

- "If you will enter into life, keep the Commandments." (Matt 19:17)

- "The weeds are the sons of the evil one, and the enemy who sows them is the devil... The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. They will throw them into the fiery furnace..." (Matthew 13:28-43)

- "...outside are the homosexuals, those who misuse drugs in connection with the occult, the sexually immoral, murderers, idol-worshippers, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood." (Rev 22:15)

Based on the article, I would guess she would rather reclaim Christianity from the founder of that faith.

Crazy Drunken Sailors spending money that is not theirs news: China has several hundred billion dollars of foreign reserves, which they have used to buy US sovereign debt such as T-bills. Let me get this straight: We are financing their project????

I assume this is the same crowd who like to lecture the US on the federal budget deficit??

Taxation on income destroys financial privacy. Taxation based on the sales of the merchant allows citizens to keep their personal financial details private. For this reason alone the Fair Tax must be passed.

Yet another reason to stop using credit cards for net purchases and for consumers to insist on e-gold, pecunix or an of the several other digital gold currencies.

Hutchins testified yesterday that 43,729 casings have been entered into IBIS, and the database has been used 208 times. Six "hits" have resulted from those inquiries, but none resulted in criminal prosecutions. In four years, $2.5 million has been spent on IBIS, Hutchins said.

$2.5 million / 43,729 = $57.17 per casing

Yet again proving that liberalism is dangerous to liberty and prosperity.