Looking at The Media continues
Just Another Primate?
In the London Zoo, eight scantily dressed people have been frolicking in an exhibit that bears an explanatory sign, “Warning: Humans in their natural environment.” I am sure the whole thing is funny and pretty harmless, but I am far surer the purpose behind the exhibit is defamatory to an excellent species. “Seeing people in a different environment, among other animals…teaches members of the public that the human is just another primate,” a zoo spokesman told the Associated Press. That’s about as wrong as it can be. Humans are not just another primate. They are beings with a capacity for awareness, knowing and calculating that leaves other primates so far back in the dust as to be laughable... Washington Times, 1 Sept. 2005
Scientists will dig deep for answers to life on Earth
Japanese scientists are preparing to dig deep inside the Earth for the first time to figure out how life developed and how to save it..."We may take a step to better understanding how life began..." ***my comment - here we go again; this too is vanity, it's simple "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Genesis 1:1 - end my comment*** The Washington Times - 29 July 2005
New warning ordered for abortion pill label
Federal health investigators have ordered a reworking of the warning label on the abortion pill commonly known as RU-486 after the baffling deaths of four California users from bloodstream infections... Reports of fatal sepis among the pill's users are rare, occuring in one in 100,000 cases...**my input** appears to be good odds unless you're that one. It's ever worst if you're the one getting aborted, read on...**end my entry.** The FDA calls for both pills to be swallowed, but the agence says it is aware that many abortion clinics and doctors recommend that the second pill be inserted vaginally based on studies that have shown its effectiveness in ending a pregnancy...The Washington Times - 25 July 2005
Evolution's Grass-Roots Defenders Grow in Va.
A grass-roots troubled by recent Republican triumphs and the influence of the Christian right is fighting back in Northern Virginia by defending the teaching of Darwinian evolution, a battleground in the national culture war...The group's bigger dream is a statwide repudiation of intelligent design, a movement positing that life is too complex to spring from chimistry and biology alone...The Washington Post - 20 July 2005
Same-sex marriage Advances In Canada
House of Commons Approves Measure
The house of Commons voted Tuesday to guarantee full marriage rights to same-sex couples, reaffirming Canada’s sharp difference with the United States over the issue of gay rights and promising an alternative destination for American gay men and lesbians to be married...The Washington Post - 29 June 2005
Christian group makes debut
Alliance opposes conservative political message
A new liberal Christian group announced its entry into the national political debate yesterday as a voice to "reclaim" Christainity, the latest in a line of Democrat-leaning organizations trying to fight conservative political message of prominent evangelical leaders...The group also specifically supports abortion rights and homosexual "marriage," arguing that the latter is part of a biblical call for equality and justice... The Washington Times - 23 June 2005
**fantastic! I can't wait to see the "biblical scripture" backing abortion and homosexuality... but they will prove scripture though; (paraphase) Christ will be preached in praise or contention...Amen *** B. Moss
Doctors embrace religion, study shows
Most doctors believe in God and an afterlife, according to a study released yesterday that contradicts earlier research showing people tend to become less religious as education and income levels rise... The Washington Times - 23 June 2005
Church cool to Graham crusade
Catholic stance warmer in '91
New York's massive Roman Catholic population will sit out this weekend's Billy Graham crusade in Queens because it parishes are too busy, spokesmen for the two closest dioceses say... The Washington Times - 23 June 2005
Romanian priest in exorcism is suspended
The Orthodox Church close a convent in Romania where a nun was crucified during an apperent exorcism, Bishop Corneliu Barladeanu said. He said the monk who headed the convent... was suspended...in the incident in which Maricica Irina Cornici, 23, died after she was allegedly bound to a cross and left without food for three days....he was trying to take the devils out of her and she was restrained because she was violent... USA Today - 22 June 2005
Hearts divide over marital therapy
New registry evaluates counselors' 'values'
Couples who are trying to patch up a troubled union often turn to couseling as a last-ditch effort to keep the marriage intact. Tha what marital therapy is all about, right? Not necessarily. Most couples probably don't know that there is a long-standing debate among practioners over whether therapists should actively try to save a marriage or whether they should remain neutral and treat the couple as two individuals for whom divorce possibly could be the best outcome... So this week, Doherty is launching a therapist-finder National Registry of Marriage Friendly Therapists (www.marriagefriendlytherapists.com)... USA Today - 22 June 2005
Soldiers' divorce rates up sharply
Separation, stress erode marriages
The number of active-duty soldiers getting divorced has been rising sharply with deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq. The trend is severest among officers. Last year, 3,325 Army officers' marriages ended in divorce - up 78% from 2003... USA Today - 8 June 2005
***** Divorce is never "the best outcome"********* B.Moss
Koreans Say They Cloned Embryos for Stem Cells
Scientists in South Korea reported making nearly a dozen cloned human embryos that are genetic twins of patients with various medical problems and have isolated from those embryos batches of stem cells with the potential to replace failing tissues in those patients...- The Washington Post - 20 May 2005
Gays in DC May Not File Joint Returns
Gandhi's Tax Ruling Could End Up in Court
Married same-sex couples may not file joint tax returns in the nation's capital, the District's top tax official ruled yesterday, sparing the city the wrath of a Republican Congress but raising the spector of a legal challenge from its sizable gay community...- The Washington Post - 4 May 2005
Gay 'marriage' bill approaches law in Spain
Spain's parliament gave initial approval to a law legalizing same-sex "marriage" yesterday in a move likely to rekindle conflict with a Catholic Church that has just elected a new, conservative pope... - The Washington Times - 22 April 2005
Universe May Have Begun as Liquid, Not Gas
Now results from particle collider suggest that the universe behaved like a liquid in its earliest moments, not the fiery gas that was thought to have pervaded the first microseconds of existence... - The Washington Post - 19 April 2005
*** Not! God try though, keep seeking***
Bible-reading jury's death ruling tossed out
The Colorado Supreme Court threw out the death sentence of a man convicted of raping and killing a coctail waitress because jurors consulted the Bible during deliberations. The court said Bible passages, including the verse the commands "an eye for and eye, a tooth for a tooth," could lead jurors to vote for death... USA Today - 29 March 2005
Judge faults Calif. gay-marriage ban
A judge ruled Monday that California's ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional — a legal milestone that, if upheld on appeal, would open the way for the most populous state to follow Massachusetts in allowing same-sex couples to wed. USA Today - 14 March 2005
U.N. urges ban on cloning
White House backs statement
A divided U.N. General Assembly, in a victory for the Bush administration, yesterday urged governments to ban all human cloning, including the cloning of human embryos for stem-cell research. Capping four years of contentious debate...- The Washington Times - 9 March 2005
British to Clone Human Embryos for Stem Cells
Ian Wilmut, who oversaw the creation of Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal, was granted a license yesterday by British regulators to create cloned human embryos for research...- The Washington Times - 9 February 2005
Church leaders support gay ties
Say marriage is a civil right
A group of more than 70 Maryland church leaders yesterday voiced support for same-sex "marriage" which would be banned under a state constitutional amendment that is expected to be introduced in the House... The church leaders, representing eight Christian denominations, signeda document supporting same-sex "marriage" during a press conference at Brown Memorial Park Avenue Presbyterian Church in Baltimore... - The Washington Times - 9 February 2005
Polygamist just can't say 'I don't'
After 58 wives, Saudi man still loves marriage
In 50 years, he says, he has married 58 women and forgotten the names of most of them. He knows he has 10 sons, but ask about daughters and he counts on his fingers: 22, No, no, 28. No, that's too many. He settles for 25....says his marital adventures have cost him more than $1.6 million in wedding expenses and settlements for divorced wives...he would do it a million times over... - The Washington Times - 2 February 2005
Billboard asserts that homosexuals can change
A national group has posted a billboard in Rockville that says homosexuals can become heterosexuals, a message critics say is misleading and only persecutes homosexuals...."We believe that no one is born with same-sex attractions," said Richard Cohen, a former homosexual who is the groups president.... - The Washington Times - 2 February 2005
Faithful Bush calls on God in speech
President Bush mixed images of the Almighty as a just ruler, as a judge,
and as a freedom-loving deity in a speech the surpassed his 2001 inaugural
address in references to God. Barely one minute in the 21-minute
discourse, he said, "every man and woman on this earth has rights, and
dignity, and matchless value, because they bear the image of the Maker of
heaven and earth." - The Washington Times - 21 January 2005
Extinction Tied to Global Warming
Greenhouse Effect Cited in Mass Decline 250 million Years Ago
Scientists call it "the Great Dying," a 250 million-year-old catastrophe the
wiped out 90 percent of ocean species and 70 percent of land species in the
biggest mass extinction in Earth's geologic history.
The Five Mass Extinction Periods:
- Late Ordovician: 440 million years ago. More than half of all marine
species die out.
- Late Devonian: 360 million years ago. More than half of all marine species
die out
- *Permian-Triassic: 250 million years ago. Ninety percent of ocean species
and 70 percent of land species die out.
- Late Triassic: 200 million years age. Thirty-five percent of all animal
families die out. Many early dinosaurs go extinct.
- Cretaceous-Tertiary: 65 million years ago. The dinosaurs go extinct, as do
many marine species.
* New research suggests global warming caused the worst mass
extinction ever...- The Washington Times - 21 January 2005
I must agree to disagree, I'm confident there was a flood that
was worst - Bill Moss
Morning-after pill access fails to cut pregnancy rate
Study's finding 'disappointing' to EC advocates
Women's health care advocates have been urging the federal government to allow easy access to "morning-after" pills as a way to dramatically reduce unintended pregnancies. However, a study released today undercuts that argument... - The Washington Times - 5 January 2005
Morning-After Pill Study Contradicts Claim by Foes
Easy Access Did Not Lead to Risker Behavior
Providing women with easy access to the emergency contraceptive Plan B did not lead them to engage in more risky sexual behavior, a study of more that 2,000 California women has concluded... - The Washington Post - 5 January 2005
In Angry Waves, the Devout See and Angry God
Aceh's highly influential Islamic clerics have explained the giant wave the devastated this overwhelmingly Muslim region as a warning to the faithful that they must more strictly observe their religion, including a ban on Muslims killing Muslims... - The Washington Post - 5 January 2005
No fairy tale life for lottery winner
Despite having millions, Jack Whittaker lost what he prized most: His granddaughter
...biggest lottery winner in US history, But after the latest espisode in a long, dazzling reversal of fortune, few of his neighbors would call him lucky...bought a $1 ticket...He chose a one-time payment: $114 million, after taxes...But last week, when his wife, Jewel, appealed for information about their missing grandaughter, she said she wished her husband never won the lottery...
On Dec. 9, the Whitakers reported Brandi missing. The family had last seen her alive on Dec. 4. Police found her body Monday under an old red van turning to rust in an overgrown, show-covered yard... Brandi died of an overdose. - USA TODAY -23 December 2004
Testimony Heard On Dismemberment
A Loudoun County man told authorities he strangled his wife, chopped off her arms and legs with a meat cleaver, packed her body in a suitcase and left it in a dumpster, and investigator testified yesterday... he said he killed his wife... as she was trying to leave him the morning of June 12,... - The Washington Post - 17 December 2004