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SCIENCE VS. RELIGION
by Burt Prelutsky
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Monday Top Headlines
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Taxpayer funded PBS airs anti-Pruitt documentary funded by environmentalist group Backer (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Policy: President Trump makes right call on Iran strategy (The Heritage Foundation) ~The Patriot Post
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19 Congressmen Request Judicial
Committees Hearings Into Mueller Witch Hunt
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ As time goes by President Trump is learning who his friends are and so are the American people. Undoubtedly there are more... but nineteen of them have acted in his interest and that of America in attempting to rein in the rogue “investigation of everything based upon evidence of nothing,” the Mueller Russia witch hunt. On Friday, nineteen members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to the chairmen of both the House and Senate Judiciary Committees asking for hearings into the Mueller probe. They cited its lack of oversight, ever-expanding scope and conflicts of interest as just some of the serious problems that justify such an action. The letter, sent to Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) and Rep Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), seeks congressional hearings to keep special counsel Robert Mueller and his team of ravenous anti-Trump, political hack lawyers accountable. Some might argue to make them accountable or remind them of and restricting them to their supposed mission would be a more accurate, albeit less politically friendly way of putting it... https://rickwells.us/19-congressmen-hearings-mueller/.
What is Really Uniting the Palestinians?
In the new "reconciliation" agreement between Hamas and Fatah,
all that Hamas is being asked to do is to allow the Palestinian
Authority government to manage civilian affairs in the Gaza Strip
by Bassam Tawil
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Ted Cruz warns Republicans: Lack of
accomplishments could cause a 'bloodbath'
by Katie Leach
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, warned that Republicans could face a "bloodbath" in the upcoming midterm elections if they don't follow through on promises with tax reform and healthcare... "If tax reform crashes and burns, if liar-nObamacare, nothing happens, we could face a bloodbath," Cruz said Friday to a crowd at a Koch brothers-aligned donor summit in New York. The senator said a lack of legislative accomplishments by the GOP-controlled Congress on these key issues could create a "Watergate-level blowout" in the 2018 midterm elections... Cruz is so right. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ted-cruz-warns-republicans-lack-of-accomplishments-could-cause-a-bloodbath/article/2637488.
Trump made 'very brave decision'
to disavow Iran nuclear deal
by Josh Siegel
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday credited President Trump with making a "very brave decision" by decertifying the Iran nuclear deal... "Right now the deal as it stands guarantees that Iran will have not a single nuclear bomb, but an entire nuclear arsenal within ten years," Netanyahu said on CBS' "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson. "The president was very courageous in saying, I'm not going to kick this can down the road, I'm not going to say, ‘well it's going to be on somebody else's watch. I'm going to stop this from happening.' It's a very brave decision. It's the right decision for the world."... http://www.{/benjamin-netanyahu-trump-made-very-brave-decision-to-disavow-iran-nuclear-deal/article/2637574?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert%20-%2010/15/17&utm_medium=emailVIDEO: http://studio.ndnmediaservices.com/washingtonexaminer?ndn.trackingGroup=91212&ndn.siteSection=91212_pp&ndn.videoId=33113733
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liar-nObama Was Devastated
When Trump Pulled Off One Shocking Move
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SCIENCE VS. RELIGION
by Burt Prelutsky
In a speech delivered by Michael Ward, a professor at Houston Baptist University, he made some salient points in the ongoing feud between science and religion.
He said: “Religion tends to get a bad rap these days, and from two directions. On the one hand, we hear people say that they’re spiritual, not religious; meaning they’re not interested in religiosity, by which they mean ritualism, the externals of faith. On the other hand, some people take ‘religion’ to mean superstition, even fanaticism, as when Richard Dawkins said that ‘religion flies planes into buildings, but science flies rockets to the moon.’
“That is one of the most fatuous things I’ve ever heard said by an Oxford professor,” Professor Ward reported. “Why is it fatuous? Firstly, because religion and science -- being abstract nouns, not people -- don’t actually do anything, good or bad; they’re not agents. And secondly because, if we’re going to play that game of assigning agency to abstract nouns, one might just as well say ‘Religion gives us Mother Teresa, but science gives us mustard gas.’”
● On a similar note, it has been said that Heaven has a gate, a wall and very extreme vetting. Does that make God a racist?
● I have often suggested that college is America’s biggest con game. Partly that’s because it is terribly expensive, although there’s no reason for it to be. After all, the only essential elements are rooms with chairs, textbooks, notebooks and teachers. All are relatively cheap items; it’s only the absurd markup done solely at the discretion of interested parties that prices the four years beyond the means of the middleclass.
It is the college, itself, that adds the unnecessary costs, rather like politicians determining their own salaries. For openers, there are the sports programs. Although it is argued that football and basketball not only pay for themselves and the enormous salaries doled out to coaches, but also cover, at least in some cases, the other athletic activities. The question is why such activities need to be subsidized by the college.
Young people have plenty of public parks and swimming pools accessible to those who wish to play golf, volleyball, baseball, etc., when they’re not in class or doing homework.
There is also no reason for the colleges to keep an army of gardeners on hand to maintain the landscape. These same young people have attended grade schools, middle schools and high schools for a dozen years, and never complained about their surroundings. Suddenly, at the age of 18, they require expansive lawns, shade trees and picnic areas? What’s that all about?
Also, why do professors require six-figure salaries. Most of them only teach a few classes for a few hours a week, spending the rest of their time working on research and writing books that will augment their income. Why are they being paid three or four or five times what middle school teachers are making. At least in middle school, the students are learning something that, ideally, provides a stepping stone to the next level of education.
That brings me to the biggest con of all. Colleges force parents and students to go into debt, but they offer a plethora of classes that will not prepare the graduates to make a living, which, in turn, would allow them to repay their debts.
Academics pretend that college is an end in itself, and that a college degree provides an Open Sesame to the wonders and riches of the world. What it actually provides is a bunch of brainless, gutless, college administrators, and professors who are better suited to be crossing guards than educators, with large salaries and fat pensions.
If you graduate from college and go on to become a lawyer, a doctor, an accountant, a physicist, an engineer or a computer programmer, there is a good chance, you will be able to find a job. However, if after four years and a mountain of debt, you majored in Black Studies, Hispanic Studies, Lesbian Studies, Sociology, Sexology or Literature, you are no more employable than you were when you left grammar school.
There’s no law that says you can’t study all that other stuff on your own. That’s why there are libraries and computers.
But, if nothing else is learned during those pricey four years, if the young graduate hasn’t grasped that the only diversity that really matters isn’t that of race, religion, class or gender, but ideas, he is even more ignorant than he used to be; and if he doesn’t understand that with equal rights come equal responsibilities, it’s safe to say his career opportunities are limited to politics, social work and show biz.
You may have noticed I didn’t mention that after four years, the youngster would not only be unemployable, but will have been propagandized in leftwing ideology to such a degree he will almost certainly despise America, the Founding Fathers, Christianity, Judaism, capitalism, Israel, his conservative parents and relatives, and will have had his critical judgment, along with his sense of humor, surgically removed.
The reason I didn’t mention any of that stuff was because I didn’t wish to appear to be piling on. But, as you see, I changed my mind.
● Why do I still have to keep remembering various passwords in order to use my computer? If the State Department, the Pentagon, YouTube and Equifax, can’t protect their data, what chance do I have with my silly six-letter two-number code?
● Because my wife and I have done it, I fully understand the desire to donate money to hurricane victims to help them rebuild their homes and their lives. However, I’m a little vague on the motivation to send money to the victims of major massacres.
I mean, why were millions of dollars sent to the survivors of 9/11 and the recent rampage in Vegas? Every day, your local newspaper reports that one or more families in your own town has lost a loved one to a murderer, but nobody, I’m willing to wager, sits down and writes a check to the family of strangers.
It’s not that I objected to people sending money to the survivors of 9/11, even though most of them collected on life insurance policies, it’s just that it struck me as odd. Particularly as there hadn’t been a similar outpouring of money to the survivors of Timothy McVeigh’s Oklahoma City bombing.
On the other hand, I think that it behooves those of us who spent eight years resenting Barack liar-nObama, Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, for, among many other things, showing such obvious contempt for law enforcement, to send a letter or card to the local police department, expressing our gratitude for the job they do.
We all know cops don’t get paid nearly as much as those generally useless academic twerps residing in their well-furnished ivory towers, but it would help if they at least understood that most of us who are not affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement, Antifa and the Democratic Party, appreciate them.
● Frankly, I hope Homeland Security is doing a better job of vetting the immigrants than Trump has done vetting the members of his administration.
Speaking of which, I recently expressed the wish that Donald Trump would replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions with Rudy Giuliani. Just in case, the President is paying attention, I would also like to see him replace Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with Newt Gingrich, John Bolton, Steve Bannon or possibly even a coatrack.
● An editor named George Lorimer once wisely observed: “It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy; but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.”
● I have no doubt that some of you have noticed that I will often refer in articles to thoughts I’ve shared with you in our email exchanges. In a way, you all served as collaborators because it was something you brought up that triggered a response in me. If I decide that particular something might be of general interest, I’ll generally find a place for it in a future article. I just wanted to express my thanks for your contribution to my content.
● As you’re well aware, thanks to the little notices that have lately been appearing at the bottom of my articles, I am due to give a talk on the 19th of October. The one thing I can predict is that my favorite part of the evening will be the Q & A session that will conclude the event. For one thing, once a question is asked, I know that at least one person in the room is interested in what I have to say. For another, it’s the one time all evening I’m likely to surprise myself by saying something I hadn’t anticipated.
Unfortunately, I can also predict that most people won’t ask their question during the allotted time. Instead, no matter how much I coax them to ask me anything that might be preying on their minds, the majority will just sit there, staring blankly as if waiting for a bus, just waiting for me to descend from the podium. At which point, a dozen or more will get between me and the exit, eager to ply me with questions, the answers to which they believe only they will be privy.
Little do they realize that if I come up with anything even slightly interesting, I will be sharing it with the world.
Waste not, want not, is more than an expression for a writer. It’s a way of life.
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