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Jesus and Muhammad: Major Differences (1) May 20th, 2006 Aggressive Islam is on the march. Terror attacks; violent protests over cartoons; many pushes to establish Islamic courts in Europe and Canada; demands to silence free speech, to criminalize criticism of the messenger of Allah; the President of Islam threatening to wipe Israel off the map, and writing a long and confused rant, inviting the President of the US to accept Islam; the election of Hamas. These actions are easy to detect and decipher. Islam wants its way, and no one should resist. It is the best religion, after all. But...

WASHINGTON - A nagging difference in temperature readings that had raised questions about global warming has been resolved, a panel of scientists reported Tuesday. "This significant discrepancy no longer exists because errors in the satellite and radiosonde data have been identified and corrected," researchers said in the first of 21 assessment reports planned by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program. The findings show clear evidence of human influences on climate due to changes in greenhouse gases, aerosols and stratospheric ozone. There has been increasing concern about global climate change being caused by human activity, in particular the release of gases...

SACRAMENTO (AP) - Members of a two-house conference committee outlined sharply different priorities Thursday as they began working over Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's $222.6 billion public works spending plan. "We're all going to have to give up some things" to get an agreement, the chairman, Sen. Kevin Murray, D-Culver City, said after a two-hour hearing during which Republicans and Democrats expressed concerns about Schwarzenegger's proposals. "We're all going to have to give a little and get a little," he said. The Republican governor wants the state to spend $222.6 billion over the next 10 years to upgrade highways, expand intercity rail,...

GREEN VALLEY — Speaking in Green Valley Thursday, Maj. Gen. Barbara Fast, commander of the U.S. Army’s intelligence center at Fort Huachuca., said that troops on the ground in Iraq “believe they are making a difference.” Members of the Iraqi security forces are due to arrive at Fort Huachuca for training in late February, she said. Fast served for a year in Iraq, most notably as senior intelligence officer for the coalition ground forces. The major general spoke during a lunch meeting of the Green Valley Lion’s Club to a crowd, the majority of which had served in the military....

There are two digital images identical to each other (click above link); you have to find three differences. If you can find three differences, then you are part of an elite group. This has been tested on many people (in Holland), and hardly anyone found the three differences. After 45 seconds, 75% of those tested can only manage to find two differences, 24% see 1 difference.

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Kent D. Padmore From Trinidad to Iraq: Marine Bridges Cultural Differences By U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Mike Escobar 2nd Marine Division FALLUJAH, Iraq, Oct. 5, 2005 -- It is said that experience is the best teacher, the common denominator that unites people of different backgrounds who have lived under similar conditions and tackled similar challenges. For U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Kent D. Padmore, a childhood spent in poverty on the island nation of Trinidad prepared him for the monumental task he would undertake decades later."I came to the United States in my mid-twenties, already having...

NEW YORK, JULY 9, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Boys and girls have marked physical and psychological differences and hence they have to be educated differently. This is the thesis of a book published earlier this year by psychologist and family doctor Leonard Sax. In "Why Gender Matters" (Random House), he takes issue with the modern tendency toward gender-neutral child-rearing. According to this theory boys and girls behave differently because of the way they are educated, or because of cultural factors. Sax describes how in the mid-1990s he began to see more and more young boys arrive at his office with requests for...

SACRAMENTO (AP) - A key player in the state's powerful education lobby on Friday criticized a Democratic compromise proposal on the state budget, throwing a last-minute curve into talks that both sides said were progressing toward a possible deal. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Legislature's Democratic majority have been separated for weeks on spending differences that total less than 1 percent of an estimated $116 billion annual spending plan. The divide, however small, is as much philosophical as fiscal, illustrating the Republicans' desire to pass a budget that doesn't add a single dollar in deficit spending. At issue is money...

WASHINGTON - The new-generation nuclear reactors being talked about after a pause of three decades are not much different from those of the past, though the designs should make them safer, more efficient and easier to build. Two designs likely to be pursued adopt a passive safety system requiring less involvement by operators to shut the system down and ensure that the reactor core doesn't overheat. A third design would have more redundant and isolated safety systems than current reactors plus a double-walled concrete containment dome better able to withstand an airplane crash. Still awaiting Nuclear Regulatory Commission approval, all...

This must be an issue in "200 8." Please! Keep it going. ---------------------------------- SOCIAL SECURITY: (This is worth reading. It is short and to the point.) Perhaps we are asking the wrong questions during election years. Our Senators and Congresswomen do not pay into Social Security and, of course, they do not collect from it. You see, Social Security benefits were not suitable for persons of their rare elevation in society . They felt they should have a special plan for themselves. So, many years ago they voted in their own benefit plan . In more recent years, no congressperson...

A few years ago, I wrote an article discussing the ways in which libertarians and conservatives have common cause on a number of policy issues -- and how the Blogosphere can work to bring libertarians and conservatives closer together. Along somewhat similar lines, we have seen articles by people like Kenneth Silber who have discussed the fusion between libertarian and conservative ideas, and Stephen Stanton, whose analysis of "South Park Republicans" helps further identify people who are comfortable as libertarian-conservatives -- people like me. My status as a libertarian-conservative is why I took interest in a recent debate concerning whether...

The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - The European Union and the United States recommitted themselves to a smooth trans-Atlantic relationship Friday and hoped the second term of President Bush would no longer be marred by nasty political and trade disputes. But French President Jacques Chirac, wary of Washington's global economic and political clout, said it was imperative for Europe to boost its standing so that the world can become "multi-polar." "It is evident that Europe, now more than ever, must strengthen its unity and dynamism when faced with this great world power," Chirac said at the end of a two-day summit. "More...

WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ORTHODOXY AND ROMAN CATHOLICISM? By Father Michael Azkoul St. Catherine Mission, St. Louis, MO Copyright, 1994 St. Nectarios American Orthodox Church Reproduced with permission from The Orthodox Christian Witness, Vol. XXVII (48), Vol. XXVIII (6) and (8), 1994. May not be reproduced without permission

SOPHISTICATED INVESTOR Pocketbook issues Candidates' policy differences and their affect on finances By Thomas Kostigen, CBS.MarketWatch.com Last Update: 9:19 PM ET Oct. 4, 2004 SANTA MONICA, Calif. (CBS.MW) -- You should know the policy effect of your vote for president. And to that end, a Washington law and lobbying firm has compiled a short list of expected changes that a vote for President George W. Bush or Senator John Kerry will mean. From energy to health care to financial services and tax and trade, Williams and Jensen looked side by side at the differences between the candidates. In some cases,...

On a first meeting in his office here at the University of Cambridge, Simon Baron-Cohen comes off as a poster boy for the empathetic scholar. He pulls a chair close, looks directly into his visitor's eyes with a steady gaze, and pays close attention to the ensuing conversation, not only to the actual words spoken but also to the body language that can reveal so much. His own voice is soft and easy, conveying a deep understanding that has helped make him one of his country's most listened-to autism researchers over the past 20 years. Last summer Mr. Baron-Cohen's words...

I'd like to know how many of us, here, know about the differences of Islamic branches like Shiites, Sunni and Wahhabis.Any one knows?

<p>WASHINGTON -- The job market is considered the biggest indicator of the health of any economy and one of the most important determinants of economic policymaking.</p> <p>What do you do when it's unclear how the job market is doing?</p> <p>That's a question U.S. economists are asking as data and anecdotal information on the labor market increasingly tell different stories.</p>

<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) - Arnold Schwarzenegger is often compared to Ronald Reagan, another movie star-turned-politician who blazed California's gubernatorial trail decades ago.</p> <p>But Reagan actually had more relevant experience than Schwarzenegger, having spent years as head of the Screen Actors Guild and as a corporate spokesman for General Electric. And unlike Schwarzenegger, he also was a social conservative. Indeed, in the view of most, there are as many differences as similarities between California's two premier actor-politicians.</p>

Shyness linked to brain differences 19:00 19 June 03 NewScientist.com news service A new neuroimaging study provides the strongest evidence to date that unusual shyness in children may result from differences in their brains. Researchers at Harvard Medical School used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine adults who had been unusually shy in childhood. When these people were shown pictures of unfamiliar faces, they displayed significantly higher activity in the amygdala than people who had been unusually outgoing as children. The amygdala is a brain structure involved in vigilance and fear. It has long been hypothesised that extreme shyness,...