Pelosi caught telling lies

Faith News Network – According to a CNSNews.com article, in her Earth Day news release, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) attributed this quote to the Old Testament: “To minister to the needs of God’s creation is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us.” However, many biblical scholars cite a problem with that quotation: it doesn’t exist in the Bible.

It was not the first time Pelosi has used this alleged biblical passage. The California Democrat has used it on several different occasions, and has even attributed the passage to the Old Testament Book of Isaiah. Dr. Raymond Bohlin is president of Probe Ministries, a non-profit apologetics ministry. He offers his findings.

Time to take out the trash

CBS News – A Georgia board Monday denied condemned killer William Earl Lynd’s clemency bid, paving the way for him to likely become the nation’s first inmate put to death since the U.S. Supreme Court held that lethal injection is constitutional. He was convicted of fatally shooting his live-in girlfriend, Ginger Moore, two days before Christmas in 1988. Prosecutors at Lynd’s trial said Moore suffered a slow agonizing death, regaining consciousness twice after successive gunshot wounds to the head at the home she and Lynd shared in Berrien County, in south Georgia.

The medical examiner testified that Moore was still alive when Lynd stuffed her into the trunk of her car and took a drive. Lynd confessed to authorities that when he heard her thumping around in the trunk, he opened it and fired the final lethal shot. The allegation that Lynd kidnapped Moore before she died was an essential “aggravating” circumstance that made him eligible for the death penalty. It also helped prosecutors show the slaying was premeditated.

Meanwhile, a Mexican-born Texas prisoner whose death sentence set off an international dispute and a U.S. Supreme Court rebuke of the White House, also received an execution date Monday. Texas State District Judge Caprice Cosper set the Aug. 5 lethal injection for 33-year-old Jose Medellin for his participation in the gang rape and strangulation deaths of two teenage girls 15 years ago in Houston when they stumbled upon a gang initiation rite.

Consider yourself blessed

IHT – Myanmar struggled Monday to recover from a cyclone that killed thousands of people, while its military leaders were moving ahead with a constitutional referendum on Saturday that would cement their grip on power. Foreign Minister Noppadol Pattama of Thailand met with Myanmar’s ambassador on Tuesday according to Reuters. Following the meeting, Noppadol said that 15,000 people had been killed and another 30,000 were still missing.

If those numbers are accurate, the death toll would be the highest from a natural disaster in Asia since the tsunami of December 2004, which devastated coastlines along Indonesia, Thailand and other parts of south Asia and claimed 181,000 lives. Tens of thousands of people were homeless after the cyclone, and food and water were running short.

“Stories get worse by the hour,” one Yangon resident, who did not want to be identified for fear of government retribution, said in an e-mail message. “No drinking water in many areas, still no power. Houses completely disappeared. Refugees scavenging for food in poorer areas. Roofing, building supplies, tools — all are scarce and prices skyrocketing on everything.”

Not only are they suffering at the hands of nature but they also have to deal with those Junta parasites. When you stop and think about their lot, we are truly blessed.

And so go the taxcuts..

SMH – THE Government has shelved plans for a second round of deeper tax cuts because of the increasingly uncertain economic outlook. Under an “aspirational” tax plan announced before the election, Labor wanted to reduce the number of personal income tax rates from four to three. But the Finance Minister, Lindsay Tanner, confirmed in an interview with the Herald that no action would be taken in this budget, leaving 2011-12 void of any new personal income tax cuts. “It’s simply responsible and prudent not to be making locked-in, specific promises about these kinds of things when it’s so far down the track,” he said. The changes remained an aspiration but any final decision would be made much later, he said.

Yeah whatever you parasite, this is our money we’re talking here. This is money that we bloody worked for, money that we earned, not money that Santa dropped off at Christmas. This gasbag is sitting there waffling about responsibility and prudence with the money that we have earned, as if we need to be obliged to pay this gasbag part of our wages or something, as if we should consider ourselves lucky for getting to keep most of it. In this year the government is looking at a 10-20 billion dollar surplus, a surplus that we earned and this pile of waste thinks that stealing a bit less of our wages in the future, putting aside all the extra that’s already been gouged out of us, is irresponsible.

Rudd And The Natural Government

By AR – Retiring Federal Labor Senator Robert Ray told Laurie Oakes on Sunday that Rudd, compared with Hawke and Keating, was the best-briefed leader – ever – he had dealt with…

That report jars just ever-so-slightly with the response Rudd gave Neil Mitchell on 3AW on Friday:

MITCHELL: Why have you decided to suppress documents on the inflationary effects of workplace reform? Isn’t it reasonable that we know that?
PM: I’m unaware of the details of that. I saw a report on it this morning. FOI decisions are made by our FOI decision markers within individual departments. But I’m really uncertain of the details in that particular case. I wish I could help you, but I can’t.