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Conservapedia celebrates its 3rd year

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

Conservapedia, launched on November 21, 2006. The Conservative Bible Project aims to rewrite parts of the Bible to suit conservative needs. According to an Associated Press story reported December 4 there is good news in right wing Bible land.

Andy Schlafly, son of longtime right wing matriarch Phyllis, is the founder of Conservapedia.com, the Conservative Bible Project’s online home.  The project’s authors argue that contemporary scholars have turned the words of Jesus into little more than a well meaning social worker uttering platitudes

According to the Conservative Bible Project there is maneuvering room for translation in the wake of long quoted New Testament passages such as that of the Gospel of Luke of Jesus Christ showing boundless mercy for his killers:  “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.”
Experts who have devoted their lives to the unraveling of the Scriptures are skeptical of the current efforts of Schlafly and his amateur rightist Bible sleuths.

Schlafly and his crew have a long and arduous climb ahead of them.  After all, consider the frequently recited biblical parable of “It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.”

Beast of Kandahar

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

The US Air Force on Tuesday confirmed for the first time that it is flying a stealth unmanned aircraft known as the “Beast of Kandahar,” a drone spotted in photos and shrouded in secrecy.

Aviation experts dubbed the drone the “Beast of Kandahar” after photographs emerged earlier this year showing the mysterious aircraft in southern Afghanistan in 2007. The image suggested a drone with a radar-evading stealth-like design, resembling a smaller version of a B-2 bomber.
The air force said the aircraft came out of Lockheed Martin’s “Skunk Works,” also known as Advanced Development Programs, in California – the home of sophisticated and often secret defense projects including the U-2 spy plane, the F-22 fighter jet and the F-117 Nighthawk.

Robots or “unmanned systems” in the air and on the ground are now deployed by the thousands in Iraq and Afghanistan, spying from the sky for hours on end, searching for booby-traps and firing lethal missiles without putting US soldiers at risk.

World’s tallest bullding: Burj Dubai Tower

Friday, December 4th, 2009

A 2,700 feet 160-story skyscraper in Dubai opens on January 4, 2010, the fourth anniversary of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashed al-Maktoum’s rule in Dubai, a month delayed for its expected opening.  It will be the tallest building in the world which acquires impressive technologies of today like the fastest elevator in the world, traveling at 10 meters per second and double-decker elevators that can accommodate 21 people. To keep out the desert heat, 10,000 tons of coolant with flow through the tower every hour. There are 230,000 cubic meters of concrete form the building’s core, enough to pave 1,180 miles of sidewalk.

The largest shopping center is also located there, with space for 1,200 shops nestled among 30,000 apartments. ith Dubai announcing it financial mess last week, 400 projects are now stalling, including the Burj Dubai — the world’s tallest tower.

As the AP wrote this week:

“Most other of the unfinished super-projects announced in recent years, such as a second palm-shaped island or a tower to surpass the Burj Dubai, are either recession roadkill or being considered on a far smaller scale, if they are still considered at all.”

Global Warming Hoax

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

Is Global warming a hoax? Twenty-six researchers concluded that sea ice was disappearing at a huge pace, and the sea level rise would be much high than anticipated in the part. These scientists feared a global backlash against their dire warnings and discussed this over email. They had opinions about those who doubt that climate change exists. What’s missing is the hoax. From Real Climate, a group of the scientists involved, comes this true confession: they had no plan to pull the wool over the eyes of the world.

There is no real evidence of any worldwide conspiracy. Emails and documents from Climate Research Unit (CRU) , at UK’s East University of East Anglia where the world’s leading scientist work, have been leaked. The truth is, it was all falsified studies and intimidated studies.

On the other hand, if global warming is really a hoax or not, it has benefits to agriculture, animal husbandry and industry.

Inflammatory Breast Cancer: Silent killer

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

It strikes younger women and it’s a form of breast cancer that you probably never heard of. It’s called inflammatory breast cancer (IBC). It’s hard to detect by self-examination because there’s no sign of “lump” or swelling until it’s too late. It looks like a rash or an infection at first.

It grows very rapidly and is more deadly than any other forms. It’s called the “silent” breast cancer killer because it quietly masquerades as something else. Self-examination is useless and sometimes, even mammogram missed to detect it.

These are the symptoms to watch out for: swelling that comes on suddenly, ridges, and pink or dark colored areas of skin. And a breast that is painful and warm to the touch. Wheezing or shortness of breath, chronic cough or chest pain, frequent fevers or infections, difficulty swallowing,

swollen lymp nodes or lumps on the neck, underarm, or groin, excessive bruising or bleeding that doesn’t stop, weakness and fatigue, bloating, unable to eat, abdominal pain, weght loss, stomachache, nipple changes, and pain in the back or lower right side are also some of the symptoms you should not take for granted.

Inflammatory breast cancer only accounts for about 5% of all breast cancers but doctors say they are seeing more of it. They say it’s more common in younger women, and it’s especially aggressive, and fast growing.

When it comes to the chances of survival, only 30% of women with IBC are ever cured of it.