Reuters Saturday, 08 December 2007
A Christian biologist is suing the prestigious Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, claiming he was fired for refusing to accept evolution, lawyers involved in the case said.
Nathaniel Abraham, an Indian national who describes himself as a “Bible-believing Christian,” said in the suit filed on Monday in US District Court in Boston that he was fired in 2004 because he would not accept evolution as scientific fact.
The latest US academic spat over science and religion was first reported in The Boston Globe newspaper on Friday. Gibbs …

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4315830a11.html
A Nelson father charged with assaulting his son, in one of the region’s first prosecutions under a controversial new child discipline law, says he is prepared to go to jail for his right as a parent and a Christian to hit his child.
Rowan Flynn has been charged with two counts of assaulting his 11-year-old son under the new legislation, which came into effect in June and removed a parent’s right to use “reasonable force” when discipling a child.
The 52-year-old denied the charges when he appeared in the …

Quote: “It just defies logic that such a remarkable specimen could preserve.” Story here.
Fossil May Shed New Light on the Creatures
A high school student hunting fossils in the badlands of his native North Dakota discovered an extremely rare mummified dinosaur that includes not just bones but also seldom seen fossilized soft tissue such as skin and muscles, scientists will announce today.
The 25-foot-long hadrosaur found by Tyler Lyson in an ancient river flood plain in the dinosaur-rich Hell Creek Formation is apparently the most complete and best preserved of the …

‘Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as: Knowing when to come in out of the rain; why the early bird gets the worm; Life isn’t always fair; and maybe it was my fault.
Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don’t spend more than you …

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Who has not suspected the legacy media of playing with the facts? Check out the following for some great examples.

Source: http://video.google.com/videoplay…pallywood

KHARTOUM, Sudan —  Thousands of Sudanese, many armed with clubs and knives, rallied Friday in a central square and demanded the execution of a British teacher convicted of insulting Islam for allowing her students to name a teddy bear “Muhammad.”
More: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,314111,00.html

PRESS RELEASE — By John Boscawen — 30 November 2007
I am organising a final Protest March against the Electoral Finance Bill, this Saturday 1 December marching down Queen Street.
The timetable will be as follows:
From 2.00pm: Assemble outside Auckland Town Hall Queen Street 2.30pm: March off from the Town Hall to QEII Square/Britomart 3.00pm: Rally and speeches at QEII Square

I have organized this march for a number of reasons:

The Government closure of Sunday Schools
The Government has closed the creches in 10 gyms because they did not comply with licensing requirements.
The axe now moves to Sunday Schools unless “the law of common sense prevails”.
Sunday schools breach the Education Act as well because they have unlicensed people supervising more than three children.
Gymn creches and Sunday schools are baby sitting services. They are not, and were never intended to be, licensed early childhood education centres
Dr Richard Worth, National Party MP, NEWSWORTHY 30 November 2007 – No 234

Brian Edwards, a man whose outspokenness I have enjoyed at times over the years, has been on National Radio promoting his views on smacking. No surprise, Brian and I do not agree.
Brain says he doesn’t believe in ANY form of violence against children and does not remember ‘hitting’ his own children. Well, I don’t like the emotive use of language by Brian (or Sue Bradford or David Lange); I’m not violent toward my children either — but they are disciplined occasionally with a loving smack.
Or course, a loving smack is …

Family First NZ is calling on National leader John Key to commit to changing the anti-smacking law after a father was the first parent convicted of assault for smacking his 8-year old on the bottom.
“John Key said that the law should not criminalise good parents for lightly smacking their children,” says Bob McCoskrie, National Director of Family First NZ. “Here we have a young family, an expectant mother, a father attempting to do his very best, and a law which treats him as a criminal rather than a system …

A father who spanked his eight-year-old son on the bottom three times for misbehaving at school is one of the first to be convicted of assault under the law against smacking.
The Masterton man was sentenced to nine months’ supervision yesterday after admitting he had grabbed his son by the shoulder, held him on his knee and hit him with an open hand.
Green MP Sue Bradford has welcomed the conviction, saying the case is a good example of the May law change working as intended.
The controversial legislation removed the defence of …

22/11/2007 7:56:04
A Masterton father who reportedly admitting losing his temper and smacking his eight year old son has been convicted of assault.
There are reports the boy had been misbehaving at school, and a confrontation between the pair ended when the father grabbed the boy by the shoulder, and spanked him three times.
The boy’s mother apparently took a photo of a bruise on the boy’s shoulder, and showed a relative who contacted police.
The father reportedly admitted to the court that he lost his temper and lashed out. He was charged under …

This looks great, if you can get to Melbourne. Check the website here:
http://www.summit.org/conference/international/australia/
Dates: January 13 – 19, 2008

Stephen Franks – Labour’s continued assault on freedom

Right to Life is disappointed that the Anglican Bishops have in a reply to this Society declined to make a public statement in defence of the lives of innocent and defenceless unborn children. They stated;”The Archbishops have asked that I assure you that they believe strongly in the sanctity of life and that the Church has well developed pastoral ethics in this area. They would however prefer to communicate those ethics in our own Churches and in our own ways and not through media statements.”
On the15th September 2007, …

The American Consumer Union (ACU) has declared Cheryl Crowe’s Single Sheet Really Really Clean Toilet Paper unsafe.  This follows the ACU declaration of the Slow Down Slide unsafe for children.
The toilet paper was designed by the the Evolution Revosoft Company in Nanjing, China, the same company responsible for design of the Slow Down Slide.  
“We used the same genetic algorithm program to synthesize the design,” said Chuck Cheung Leung, spokesman for the Evolution Revosoft Company.  “Computer simulations showed the product to be surprisingly effective even when only a single sheet was …

Please forward on so that other parents can be warned. CLICK HERE to download the petitions demanding a Referendum on this important issue

An increasing number of schools in Sweden have begun installing surveillance cameras to monitor pupils’ behaviour.Ten years ago, Tensta Gymnasium in Stockholm was the only school in the country with security cameras. This year alone, however, 104 schools schools have received permission to begin using the technology.
More here.