RE: “LAKE FOREST, Calif. — Presidential contenders Barack Obama and John McCain differed sharply on abortion Saturday, with McCain saying a baby's human rights begin "at conception," while Obama restated his support for legalized abortion.”

On Saturday, August 16^th, at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest California, Barack Obama stated that trying to determine when civil rights begin for a child was “above his pay grade.” This comes after we learned Barack supported a bill that would allow children who survived an abortion procedure to have their lives terminated in the sink without charging medical personnel with homicide (or infanticide, depending on your interpretation of law).

Would somebody in the news media please do their job and ask Mr. Obama when civil rights for his two daughters began? If not at conception, then exactly when after their birth did their civil rights start? Was it when the head first left the birth canal or was it when the entire body left the canal? Or was it when the child took its first breath? 

If we really want to end the debate and put the politics of infanticide to rest once and for all, then put a partial birth abortion of live TV and let the people decide. Why not create a reality show on The Learning Channel along the lines of the one about the liposuction doctor and follow an abortion doctor around as he performs partial birth abortion procedures? The doctor in Kansas known as “Dr. Death” would be a great candidate for such a show. Just think of the ratings. 

RE: Archaeologists get a glimpse of life in a Sahara Eden

Scientists uncover skeletons thought to be as old as 10,000 years, when monsoon rains created a 'green Sahara.'

By Thomas H. Maugh II, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
August 15, 2008

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-sahara15-2008aug15,0,3774647.story

“The Sahara has been a desert for untold millenniums. But about 12,000 years ago, a faint wobble in Earth's orbit and some other factors caused Africa's seasonal monsoons to shift slightly north, bringing rains to the Sahara and greening it from Egypt in the east to Mauritania in the west.”

Opps! Looks like somebody didn’t get the memo about man made global warming. How can scientists keep a straight face when on one hand they blame man for the current global warming trend, and on the other blame it on a “faint wobble” in the Earth’s orbit? Isn’t it possible global warming is being caused by planet Earth passing closer to the gravitational pull of a black hole located just outside the Milky Way, thereby causing the axis to wobble a bit?

“One group of graves contained individuals who averaged more than 6 feet tall, with some as tall as 6 feet 8.”  

Could these be the giants referred to as the Nephilim in the Bible? 

Genesis 6:4-5 (NIV)  ⁴ The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.   ⁵ The LORD saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.

The Nephilim were considered people of great size and strength, and the Hebrew word means “fallen ones” meaning they were ripe for judgment.  

Numbers 13:32-33 (NIV) ³² And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said, "The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size. ³³ We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them."

Deuteronomy 1:28 (NIV) ²⁸ Where can we go? Our brothers have made us lose heart. They say, 'The people are stronger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the sky. We even saw the Anakites there.' "

Could the Sahara have once been the “land of milk and honey” referred to in Numbers 13:27-28?

“These individuals, the Kiffian, were folded in tight burial arrangements with their knees against their chests and arms at their sides, almost as though they had been buried in burlap bags.”

Perhaps they were buried in burlap bags after being killed in battle, which would explain the account in Joshua describing how the decendents of Anak, or the Anakites, were destroyed during the time of Joshua.

Joshua 11:21-23 (NIV)

 ²¹ At that time Joshua went and destroyed the Anakites from the hill country: from Hebron, Debir and Anab, from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua totally destroyed them and their towns. ²² No Anakites were left in Israelite territory; only in Gaza, Gath and Ashdod did any survive. ²³ So Joshua took the entire land, just as the LORD had directed Moses, and he gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal divisions.  Then the land had rest from war.

Makes for interesting contemplation, I must say.

References:

Ancient Cemetery Found; Brings "Green Sahara" to Life

Christine Dell'Amore
National Geographic News

August 14, 2008

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080814-sereno-sahara-missions.html

Remains of Cemetery Found in Sahara

Cemetery Remains Show That Now-Barren Sahara Desert Was Once Green And Populated

By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON August 15, 2008 (AP)

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=5585084

Ancient Sahara Graveyard Hints at Once-Green Desert

Friday, August 15, 2008

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,403921,00.html

Stone Age mass graves reveal green Sahara

• 18:00 14 August 2008
• NewScientist.com news service
• Nora Schultz

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/dn14536-stone-age-mass-graves-reveal-green-sahara.html?feedId=online-news_rss20

Remains of children found in 'green Sahara'

Are we witnessing the beginning of World War III in South Ossetia, a part of Georgia that was one of two countries that split off from the old Soviet Union and has since been reaching out to the West for support? 

Considering how history tends to repeat itself, Dick Morris had a great comparison to the events leading up to World War II. Yesterday he wrote, “On Oct. 3, 1938, Adolf Hitler's armies marched into Sudetenland, a part of Czechoslovakia. Germany said it was responding to separatist demands from the large German population that lived there and that she was merely honoring their desire for reunion with Germany.”

Mr. Morris rightly concludes, “If the United States appeases Russia now, it will pay the same price British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain paid in the 1930s.  This invasion must not be allowed to stand or, at the very least, it must be contained to south Ossetia and not allowed to lap over into the rest of Georgia.”

Problem is, the United States has stretched its military so thin trying to defend the middle east, NATO, South Korea, Japan and every other potential hotspot around the world, we don’t have the resources to do anything to stop Putin’s march on Georgia, and he knows it. 

If Putin is allowed to do as Hitler did, and then unites with Iran to turn its sights on Israel, is it possible we could be witnessing the biblical prophecy concerning Gog, of the land of Magog, coming to pass? 

Ezekiel 38:21-23  (A Prophecy Against Gog)

Random Thoughts:

91% + 87% + 88% = FAILED
New math tests overwhelm large percentage of Clark County high school students
By LISA KIM BACH
REVIEW-JOURNAL, Mar. 27, 2008
Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal

Duh! In math there is no consensus building on whether or not an equation is true of false, which is why Clark County school children get confused when they see a math problem on a test that requires logic skills to solve. All their lives they been told it is President Bush’s fault the world is getting warmer because a consensus of scientist say it is so. They’ve been told they can’t think for themselves because a consensus of civic leaders and history teachers have told them America is an evil empire and responsible for all that is wrong with the world. Math requires critical thinking skills, not platitudes about good citizenship and the importance of volunteering to help (enable) the poor to stay poor, which is why Clark County school children are failing so miserably. It’s really not their fault. Most “social studies” teachers couldn’t pass the math test either because there is no debate about the answer, or blaming President Bush if their answer differs from the correct answer, unlike history where they just make stuff up as they go along. 

Thomas Sowell: The Audacity of Rhetoric

“It is painful to watch defenders of Barack Obama tying themselves into knots trying to evade the obvious.” 

“Since all things are the same, except for the differences, and different except for the similarities, it is always possible to make things look similar verbally, however different they are in the real world.”

Amen to that, Brother Sowell. Can I get a Hallelujah?  If only the Republican Party had the foresight to put Dr. Condoleezza Rice and Dr. Thomas Sowell on the same ticket for President of the United States. By doing so, they’d win by a landslide, since both are far more intelligent, honest and sincerely progressive in their thinking than any of the leftward leaning loonies currently running for President, John McCain included.

Michelle Malkin: The Clintons' Truth Deficit Disorder

“Seeking to burnish her foreign policy leadership credentials, Sen. Clinton has repeatedly peddled a harrowing anecdote about dodging sniper fire during a trip to Tuzla, Bosnia.”

“Seinfeld's George Costanza famously quipped: "It's not a lie if you believe it." This is how a Clinton -- take your pick, Hillary, Bill or Chelsea -- makes it through the day. Better living through self-delusion.”

It’s only a lie if your name is Scooter Libby or Martha Stewart, in which case you don’t pass go or collect $200. Instead you go right to jail for perjury, otherwise known as having a faulty memory. All Republicans must realize that being Republican is a crime in the eyes of the Democrats and their willing accomplices in the justice system and mainstream media.  So all Republicans should take a lesson from Hillary and recite this phrase when asked any question under oath: “I don’t recall!” 

Perhaps the Clinton’s greatest legacy will be passing TDD (truth deficit disorder) on to an entire generation of school children. All children will have to say to their parents, teachers and juvenile court judges when they get caught being deceptive is, “I didn’t lie.  I simply misspoke from lack of sleep.” 

Ann Coulter: Hillary: Swiftboated!

“Hillary is being swiftboated due to her "misstatement" about coming under sniper fire in Bosnia.”

“In liberal-speak, only a Democrat can be swiftboated.  Democrats are "swiftboated"; Republicans are "guilty."  So as an honorary Republican, Hillary isn't being swiftboated; she's just lying.”

“I've always wondered how a Democrat would fare being treated like a Republican by the media. Now we know.”