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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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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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