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What Does Barack Obama Really Believe -
Obama
By John R. Taylor
We have all heard about
Barack Obama’s association with the unrepentant domestic
terrorist Bill Ayers. Obama has said that Ayers was just a guy
in the neighborhood and even though this has proven to be
unlikely, this association is not the undeniable,
incontrovertible proof that the American people should be afraid
of Barack Obama, no matter how much John McCain wants it to be.
Even if Obama’s excuses are improbable or implausible, those who
otherwise would support Obama seem to think that they are good
enough. What is baffling is that there is proof that Barack
Obama is dangerous to this country but either McCain does not
realize it or is afraid to use it.
CNN,
Fox News and every other talking-head in the media is trying
to tell you what you should think, but you don’t need them. You
can make up your own mind. Apply simple reason and you can see
for yourself if Obama has motives which he is hiding. Do this
behind a vale of ignorance. No I don’t mean for you to be
stupid, (there are enough people betting on that,) but simply
remove your preconceived opinions and don’t try to defend your
position. Use your intelligence to follow reason to its true
conclusion. Don’t take my word for it or certainly not the
biased, condescending media experts.
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or How the United States Can Become Independent of Petroleum
Products in Three Years
On the other end of the spectrum from the "all we have to do
is pull hydrogen
out of the water with wind generators and solar stills and use it in
our automobiles" crowd is a group of people equally ignorant:
the naysayers. There are always people who will tell you that,
"it can’t be done" or "it isn’t practical."
David Pimentel, a professor of ecology and agricultural
science at Cornell University, is one of these characters.
Professor Pimentel has published a report that says producing
ethanol is more trouble than it’s worth: 129,600 British thermal
units of energy are required to produce one gallon of ethanol,
but a gallon will only give you 76,000 Btus of fuel energy. In
other words, producing ethanol results in a net loss of energy.
The report can be found in the newsletter of the M. King Hubbert
Center for Petroleum Supply Studies #98/2. Notice he isn’t
"shilling" for the Center for Ethanol Research.
There are a couple of problems with this line of reasoning.
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By John R. Taylor
[From Dec 2004]
To those who feel it was a mistake to
invade Iraq: you have failed to learn a
very important lessen in logic. As a
teaching tool, let me tell you how my
daughter learned this lesson.
As a new sixteen year old driver, she
was parking in a shopping center parking
lot. The space she decided to park in
was an angle type and it was angled in
the other direction. As she started
entering the space, my niece, who was
setting in the front passenger side,
said she didn’t think they could make
it. Well, my daughter thought she could.
She kept going. When she felt the car
stop and saw the white Toyota in front
of her rock, she knew she had been
wrong.
The lesson in logic she learned that
day, and the one I hope my disgruntle
countryman will soon learn, is that the
consequences of being wrong is a factor
of paramount importance in
any decision. What was my daughter’s
down side. If she was wrong but
continued on her course, she would cause
an accident, damage property and
possible cause injury, a relatively
catastrophic loss. If she was right and
could have made it, but stopped anyway,
she would have to stop and back up, a
relatively small loss.
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Media bias dilutes faith and the role of religion -
Opinion
Saturday, February
4, 2006
By Eugene Cullen Kennedy
Americans don't need separation of church and state nearly as
much as we need to have separation of church from television,
movies and the chronically superficial way that the
entertainment media deals with religion.
The latest example is a movie soon to arrive at a theater
near you called September Dawn. It tells the story of the 1857
massacre of 137 pioneers in a Utah meadow - with the implication
that the slaughter was ordered by Brigham Young, then the head
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as well as
the territorial governor.
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We fund terrorist every time we turn the key -
War & Terrorism
By John R. Taylor
You have heard all those who want to mind everybody else’s
business scream about your SUV. How you should feel guilty about
driving one because you are aiding terrorist and destroying the
environment. Well maybe you are, but isn’t it going a bit far
when we don’t have even the freedom to choose what we drive? If
are willing to pay $50 for a tank of fuel that will take you 200
miles, I think you should have that right. I like paying $16 for
a tank that will take me 400 miles better; of course I’d like it
better were it four or five dollars.
The problem is that we should be able to drive what we want
and can afford, and not dirty up all our air, and help those who
wish us dead. And we can. We may not do it, but it is completely
in our power to do it. What we all together must realize is that
it is not so important what we pour our fuel into, but rather
what the fuel is we are putting in it. The gasoline we now use
is distilled from petroleum crude oil, a resource we have in
great supply, but not nearly so great as our colossal appetite
for it. Because we can’t supply it domestically we have no
choice but to import it. The United Kingdom has a vast North Sea
reserve and we import enormous quantities form them. This adds
to our trade deficit and is therefore damaging to our economy,
however the UK is our ally and doing business with them is much
more favorable than doing business with counties and peoples who
are trying to destroy us. But we require so much oil that we
must get it from everywhere. OPEC, the Oil Producing and
Exporting Countries, is a cartel of mostly Middle Eastern
countries; Venezuela being the notable exception. That their
anti-competitive practice of suppliers banning together to
control the price of a commodity is unethical and would be
illegal in this country, should be enough for us not to trade
with them to say nothing of the fact that of every dollar we
Americans spend on their oil much of it goes to sponsor
terrorism and acts of violence against us and our allies. We are
most literally trading with the enemy. The attacks of 9/11 were
funded by American dollars paid to Saudi Arabia for oil.
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Is This Cosmetic Breakthrough Better than Botox®? -
Wellness
“Who would have thought a stretch mark cream would turn
out to be the anti-wrinkle
breakthrough of the decade!” In a remarkable turn of events,
arguably one of the strangest in the history of cosmetics,
women across the country are putting a stretch-mark cream
called
StriVectin-SD® on their face to diminish the appearance of
fine lines, wrinkles and crows' feet. And, if consumer sales are
any
indication of a product's effectiveness,
StriVectin-SD is nothing short of a miracle.
Women, as well as a growing number of “Boomer” men, are
buying so much
StriVectin-SD that finding a tube at your local cosmetic
counter has become just about impossible.
Has everyone gone mad? Well...not really. Scientific
Breakthrough or Dumb Luck? Although
StriVectin-SD's™ functional components were already backed
by clinical trials documenting their ability to visibly reduce
the appearance of existing stretch marks (prominent because of
their depth, length, discoloration and texture)... the success
of
StriVectin-SD as an anti-wrinkle
cream was “dumb luck,” says Gina Gay, spokesperson for
Klein-Becker®,
StriVectin-SD’s™ exclusive distributor. When we first handed
out samples of the
StriVectin® formula to employees and customers as part of
our market research, the sample tubes were simply marked
“topical cream” with the lot number underneath,” Ms. Gay
explains. “As the samples were passed to friends and family, the
message became a little muddled and some people used this
“topical cream” as a facial moisturizer. ...
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By John R. Taylor
Once again my cousins have questioned my memory. Because they
have puny memories they are awed by my great recollection. I
guess I should say that they are ‘recall challenged”, not
possessors of puny memories; you know, political correctness and
everything. But they do have puny memories. After much brilliant
debate on my part I have finally got them to concede that I do
have a superior memory. In fact, they now say my memory is so
mighty that I can actually remember things which did not even
happen. It’s about time they came around.
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We Can’t Drive And it’s Killing Us!
By John R. Taylor
On the German autobahn there is no legal speed limit for most
of its course. Drivers routinely drive 120 miles per hour and
occasionally a high powered sports car will fly at more than
250. This is not news to most of us. What might be news to you
is that you are much more likely to be killed on U.S.
interstates while traveling at 70 or 80 mph than is a German
driver on the autobahn. The death rate on the autobahn is .71
deaths per million drivers. On U.S. interstates the rate is .83
deaths per million.
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Lancing Boils and Working Medicine
or Physician Heal Thyself
By John R. Taylor
Watching my children raise their
families, I have noticed that they carry
their children to the doctor much more
frequently than I did them. And as I
think back, my parents used physicians
much less than even I did. Now I, in no
way, am implying or suggesting that my
children use doctors too much or that my
parents use them too little. But this
has made me think about my childhood,
and how things were way back then.
Growing up I was cursed with chronic
lesions or boils. The things old folks
back then called risens. More often than
not, I had one of these painful and
embarrassing sores someplace on my body.
Daddy took me to the doctor a time or
two about them, but all we ever got from
him was a bill, so Daddy and Mama
treated me themselves.
Mama’s idea about the cause of my
affliction was that I had poison in my
system and it needed to come
out. I just needed a “good working”.
Her approach to getting it
out was straight forward enough. She
give me large doses of an archaic
laxative called Syrup of Black Drouph;
I, nor my computer can spell it, and it
may have been drought, or something
else, but this black, sweet tasting
liquid had an effect I remember all too
well. I think this stuff must have been
invented back during the Spanish
Inquisition for torturing heretics. I
have read about some of the instruments
used for that purpose and this tonic
would have fit right in.
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The Impact of Teachers
By John R. Taylor
The following story is true. The
names have been changed to protect the
innocent.
Teachers are the absolute most
important people in
any society and teaching the most
important task. Those who go to a
classroom everyday are not the only
teachers. Parents are the primary
teachers in all the history of our
civilization. They have not all always
been good teachers, many were not, and
that fact is always reflected in the
kind of society that results. Formal
teachers play a very important role, be
it in school, church, at work or where
have you. Because of this they deserve
much more from us than they are now
getting, more respect, more money, more
of a voice. It is not the direct point
of this story, but we should never miss
an opportunity to speak
out for teachers, and we should
commit our time, finances, influences
and energy to making it a fairer world
for teachers.
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Choose to lead, Covey says
Ex-BYU professor visits with students, future leaders
By Jared Page
Deseret Morning News
PROVO — As a professor of business at Brigham Young
University in the 1970s, Stephen R. Covey made time to teach one
religion class per semester.
In those classes, Covey regularly would ask
students to take out
a blank piece of paper and list down the left side of the
page the way they believe others see them.
That's called the "social mirror," he said.Covey
would then ask them to write down the right side of the page
the way they feel God sees them, what he calls the "divine
mirror."
Then at the bottom of the page, Covey would ask the
students to write how they see themselves.
It's very interesting because usually about two-thirds of
the people got their concept of themselves through the
social mirror," he said.
That means only one-third of those people are on the path
to becoming a leader, the best-selling author and |
motivational speaker told an audience of more than 1,000 packing the
auditorium of the Joseph Smith Building at BYU on Monday.
Most people get their value system and even their sense of
identity from the social mirror — that is, from other people's
opinions of them," Covey said.
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Stop the Beheadings!
[from Dec. 2004]
by
Adam Armstrong
Although I have not watch the gruesome
video of the murder of the Americans and
other westerners by what has come to
called Islamic fundamentalist, I have
seen the pictures of the poor victims
and their captors, and my blood has
boiled. It is perhaps a very good thing
that I am not the one with the authority
and power to decide what this nation is
going to do about it, far if I were my
first gut reaction would be to announce
that we would retaliate at a ratio of
7000 to one. If you kill an American we
will kill 7000 of you. If our Joint
Chiefs or our so‑called Muslim allies
could present an alternate plan which
would assure that the murders would stop
we would consider it, but otherwise we
would have bombers in the air the day of
the murders.
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A Common Man's View on Gun Control
by David Hewitt
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India,
history will
look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as
the blackest." -- Mahatma Gandhi
Why then does the vocal media seem to leave the impression
everyone is in favor of a gun ban? The only people you hear on
the news to support anti-gun control is the survivalist militias
and diverse Hollywood types like Charlton Heston and Ted Nugent.
It is my intention to give a common man's view of this issue and
what I think we can do. I'll also give a wide variety of quotes
in support of my position.
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The Names Have Been Left the Same
by John R. Taylor
You often read stories or see movies
that tell you the names have been
changed to protect the innocent. Well
this story has no innocents. I know all
the characters and they are none of them
even close to innocent. Now I am telling
this tail for the truth, though I can’t
really testify that I actually remember
the events themselves, but I do remember
telling the story many times. In the
telling over the years some of the facts
have gotten fuzzy around the edges and
some more have been completely lost, and
I think maybe I have made up a few to
take their place.
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