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Month: November 2006

The Controversy over Creation

The Controversy over Creation

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Eighty one years ago, in July 1925, the Scopes trial or "monkey trial" as it was called – dominated the front pages of the nation’s newspapers. In 1859 Charles Darwin had published his work The Origin of Species and in 1871 published The Decent of Man. His assertion that man had descended from a "a hairy tailed quadruped" caused an uproar in scientific and religious circles. Religious groups insisted that Genesis accurately and, for some, literally described the process of…

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PAUL LUVERA, SR.

PAUL LUVERA, SR.

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My dad died on this day, November 4, 1990 in Anacortes, Washington at the age of 92. He was born March 25, 1898 in Reggio Calabria, Italy, the son of Niccola and Fillippa Luvera. In 1910 he emigrated to Coleman, Alberta where he and his father worked in coal mines until the family moved to Anacortes in 1918. In 1922 he and his father opened Luvera’s Fruit Store at 7th & Commerical in Anacortes – (Photo: Niccola, Paul Jr. &…

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Joseph Goebbels, George Orwell and Myth Busting

Joseph Goebbels, George Orwell and Myth Busting

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Joseph Goebbels taught: "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth…

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Sentator Kerry and Foot in the Mouth Problems

Sentator Kerry and Foot in the Mouth Problems

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I think it obvious that John Kerry was trying to be witty in his California speech, but once again flubbed his script lines as he did so many times when running for office. I think it equally obvious he would not plan to say something demeaning about the troops while helping Democractic candidates running for office, but rather said something that came out different then he intended. But, unfortunately, he unnecessarily became a huge distraction the Republicans seized upon to…

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Stem Cell Research & Morality

Stem Cell Research & Morality

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See the Editorial in the New England Journal of Medcine by physician Dr. Susan Okie "Stem-Cell Politics" New England Journal of Medicine Stem Cell Politics because it worth reading as a  rational argment to allow stem cell research. The Bush adminstration’s policy prohibits federal fudning for research using any human embryonic stem-cell except those established before August 2001.The issue is seen as religious moral issue dealing with human life by the Catholic Church and other religions As Dr. Okie’s editorial…

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Justice & the Law

Justice & the Law

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There are times when I read about a current events like the recent suspension of constitutional civil rights in this country that make me think of the 1989 movie, A Dry White Season. In the movie, Ben du Toit, played by Donald Sutherland, is an Afrikaner school teacher who goes to the offices of a human rights lawyer, Ian Mackenzie, played by Marlon Brando. He wants the lawyer’s help in demanding a formal inquest into the murder by the police…

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Wisdom Expressed in Poetry

Wisdom Expressed in Poetry

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An unknown poet has written these words of wisdom: "You’ve got to have the goods, my boy, if you would finish strong; A bluff may work a little while, but not for very long. A line of talk, all by itself, will seldom see you thru; You’ve got to have the goods, my boy, and nothing else will do. The fight is pretty stiff, my boy, I’d call it rather tough. And all along the routes are wrecks of those…

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