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		<title>Article: The Meltdown of Global Warming Alarmism</title>
		<link>http://politics.mainechristianblogs.com/2010/03/11/the-meltdown-of-global-warming-alarmism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob S.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maine suffers from a large number of academics, politicians, professional environmentalists, religious leaders, and other leaders of dubious qualifications, who trumpet the constant doomsday alarms about global warming. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maine suffers from a large number of academics, politicians, professional environmentalists, religious leaders, and other leaders of dubious qualifications, who trumpet the constant doomsday alarms about global warming.  They have hamstrung economic development and thus damaged the economy, education, and families.  They also infringe upon the free market and individual liberties.</p>
<p>Unsurprisingly, the whole foundation of these alarms is built upon incompetence and deceit, as is made clear in this excellent article.</p>
<p>This article is authored by Dr. E. Calvin Beisner, National Spokesman of The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of  Creation (www.CornwallAlliance.org).  He formerly was a professor on the faculties of Knox Theological Seminary [FL], and Covenant College {GA].</p>
<p>Excerpt:</p>
<blockquote><p>When even the Times of London, long a promoter of DAGW, forthrightly  reports, in the midst of all the news of the collapse of credibility of  data purported to support DAGW, that other serious scientists say the  world is not warming, you know the gig is up. The Times quotes Dr. John  Christy, professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama  at Huntsville and a former lead author for the IPCC, as saying, &#8220;The  temperature records cannot be relied on as indicators of global change&#8221;  and then goes on to explain Christy&#8217;s and others&#8217; criticisms at length.  &#8220;The story is the same for each&#8221; region he has analyzed, Christy said.  &#8220;The popular data sets show a lot of warming but the apparent  temperature rise was actually caused by local factors affecting the  weather stations, such as land development.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.bpnews.net/BPFirstPerson.asp?ID=32470">Baptist Press &#8211; FIRST-PERSON: The meltdown of Global Warming alarmism &#8211; News with a Christian Perspective</a>.</p>
<p>For more information, see <a title="The Cornwall Alliance" href="http://www.cornwallalliance.org/">http://www.cornwallalliance.org/</a> .</p>
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		<title>Hyphenated Americans? No, We Are Americans!</title>
		<link>http://politics.mainechristianblogs.com/2010/03/09/hyphenated-americans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob S.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christian Citizen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So remember: Question 9 on the census form, choose “Some other race” and enter “American”. Pass it on!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Former President Theodore Roosevelt in speaking to the largely Irish Catholic Knights of Columbus at Carnegie Hall on Columbus Day 1915, asserted that,</p>
<blockquote><p><em>There is no room in this country for <span style="text-decoration: underline">hyphenated Americanism</span>. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, <span style="text-decoration: underline">I do not refer to naturalized Americans.</span> Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all&#8230; The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian- Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic&#8230; T<span style="text-decoration: underline">here is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American.</span> <strong>The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.</strong></em></p></blockquote>
<p>Mark Krikorian is fighting back against <a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NDAzNTgyZTM4NGRiMzUxNDk2MzljMDBlMDdlYTQxMzU">Census  form race politics</a> and urging you to do the same:</p>
<blockquote><p>Fully one-quarter of the space on this year’s form is taken up with    questions of race and ethnicity, which are clearly illegitimate and none of    the government’s business (despite the New York Times’ assurances to the    contrary on today’s editorial page). So until we succeed in building the    needed wall of separation between race and state, I have a proposal. Question    9 on the census form asks “What is Person 1’s race?” (and so on, for other    members of the household). My initial impulse was simply to misidentify my    race so as to throw a monkey wrench into the statistics; I had fun doing this    on the personal-information form my college required every semester, where I    was a Puerto Rican Muslim one semester, and a Samoan Buddhist the next. But    lying in this constitutionally mandated process is wrong. Really — don’t do    it.</p>
<p>Instead, we should answer Question 9 by checking the last option — “Some    other race” — and writing in “American.” It’s a truthful answer but at the    same time is a way for ordinary citizens to express their rejection of    unconstitutional racial classification schemes. In fact, “American” was the    plurality ancestry selection for respondents to the 2000 census in four states    and several hundred counties.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline"><strong>So remember: Question 9 — “Some other race” — “American”. Pass it  on.</strong></span></p></blockquote>
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		<title>What We&#8217;ve Learned from the Obama Administration</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob S.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excerpts:
-We've learned that "change you can believe in" is not necessarily a good thing.
-We've learned that "yes we can" is only good when it applies to something that is not stupid.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>Mar 3, 2010, What We&#8217;ve Learned from the Obama Administration</h3>
<p>A few excerpts:</p>
<p>-We&#8217;ve learned that spending a Trillion dollars does not make  unemployment better.</p>
<p>-We&#8217;ve learned that bailing out banks does not  improve the behavior of the people who run them.</p>
<p>-We&#8217;ve learned  that Eric Holder is an idiot.</p>
<p>-We&#8217;ve learned that &#8220;change you can  believe in&#8221; is not necessarily a good thing.</p>
<p>-We&#8217;ve learned that &#8220;yes  we can&#8221; is only good when it applies to something that is not stupid.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s been a truly educational year.</p>
<p>Taken from: <a href="http://www.christiangunowner.com/christian-blog.html#What-We%27ve-Learned-from-the-Obama-Administration">CGO NewsBlog</a>.</p>
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		<title>End of Day Report- Call Mike Michaud Today!</title>
		<link>http://politics.mainechristianblogs.com/2010/03/05/end-of-day-report-call-mike-michaud-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob S.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great Quote from Rep. Boren of Oklahoma, Democrat- “…there is no chance I am voting for this [healthcare reform] bill because it raises taxes on businesses, creates job-killing mandates, grows the size of government, and cuts services to seniors.”  Will Maine's Mike Michaud be this smart and this brave and vote NO? Or is he a pawn of Obama and Pelosi?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.cwfpac.com/eod/">End of Day Report</a>.</p>
<p>Gary Bauer neatly summarizes what we need to do as Christian citizens to oppose the SO CALLED healthcare reform bill in the U.S. House.</p>
<p>Excerpt:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Setting The Record Straight</strong></p>
<p>There has been a lot of hot air in Washington over healthcare “reform” in recent days, most of it doing little more than contributing to global warming. So I thought it might be helpful to clarify a few statements you may have heard lately.</p>
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<li>VOTE NOW — Yesterday, President Obama said the debate is over, “Every argument has been made. Everything there is to say about health care has been said.” I can appreciate why Barack Obama does not want this debate to continue. He and his party are getting hammered in the polls, and all his talking (nearly three dozen speeches and statements on healthcare) has done nothing to rally public support for his socialized medicine scheme. But now we’re dealing with a new set of proposals and a different set of rules.</li>
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<li>FEAR — I’ve heard administration officials and politicians talking about the “politics of fear.” The president and other liberals aren’t talking about a fear of Islamofascist terrorism – they are referring to you. <span style="text-decoration: underline"><strong>Just like he did with the stimulus bill (we know how well that has worked out!), the president wants to rush this “reform” through Congress with little time to fully analyze the final product</strong></span>. Why? Because he and his liberal allies fear the American people will be outraged. And, judging from the polls, they’re right.The folks most afraid of Obama’s “reform” plan today are members of his own party. The only thing bi-partisan about this bill is opposition to it. For example, a handful of House Democrats (and all House Republicans) <span style="text-decoration: underline"><strong>oppose the bill because it uses taxpayer money to <a title="http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/HealthCare/abortion-issue-derail-obama-democrats-health-care-efforts/story?id=10006591" href="http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/HealthCare/abortion-issue-derail-obama-democrats-health-care-efforts/story?id=10006591">subsidize abortion.</a></strong></span></li>
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<p>Great Quote from Rep. Boren of Oklahoma, Democrat-</p>
<blockquote><p>“They can break my arms. They can do whatever they want to. They’ll never get my vote — ever. They’ll have to walk across my dead body if they want my vote on this issue.” In a separate statement, Boren blasted ObamaCare, writing, “…there is no chance I am voting for this bill because it <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline">raises taxes on businesses, creates job-killing mandates, grows the size of government, and cuts services to seniors.</span></strong>”</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Maine Jeremiah Project message &#8211; February 27, 2010</title>
		<link>http://politics.mainechristianblogs.com/2010/02/27/maine-jeremiah-project-message-february-27-2010-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob S.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["As the Director of the Maine Jeremiah Project, I want to say that we object to the proposed guidelines. They contain factual errors and misleading opinions. The very existence of these guidelines demonstrate the absurdity of Maine's "sexual orientation" laws."]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From Pastor Bob Emrich, Director of the Maine Jeremiah Project&#8211;</p>
<p>We have received many questions about the March 1st meeting of the Maine Human Rights Commission. The Commission&#8217;s agenda includes a review and possible vote on &#8220;Proposed Guidance, Sexual Orientation in Educational Institutions&#8221;. (If you would like to see a copy of the proposed guidelines, I can email them to you.) The proposed guidelines are focused on accommodations for &#8220;transgendered&#8221; students. People are naturally troubled by the topic and the proposed guidelines.</p>
<p>Many have asked if the Maine Jeremiah Project is urging people to attend the meeting and if I will be speaking at the meeting. I do not plan to attend and we are not calling upon others to do so.</p>
<p>Here is why:</p>
<p>1. Contrary to other reports you may have received, the March 1st meeting is NOT a public hearing. The agenda includes the following statement: Discussion of the proposed guidance will be in a work session. Discussion will be limited to Commissioners and staff at this time. The public is welcome to attend. There is no opportunity for public testimony to be given.</p>
<p>2. The guidelines being proposed are terrible, but they are not new nor are they binding for anyone. These guidelines are NOT laws and the HRC does not have authority to make law.</p>
<p>3.  Some reports have stated that these guidelines will be mandatory for all schools, public and private. Some have claimed that even Christian schools will not be exempt. This is inaccurate as stated above. It should also be noted that Christian Schools are exempt by statute from sexual orientation laws.</p>
<p>As the Director of the Maine Jeremiah Project, I want to say that we object to the proposed guidelines. They contain factual errors and misleading opinions. The very existence of these guidelines demonstrates the absurdity of Maine&#8217;s &#8220;sexual orientation&#8221; laws.</p>
<p>If we expect to improve Maine&#8217;s culture and to promote good policy, we must strive for accuracy and avoid the temptation to sound careless alarms. There are proper ways to influence public policy. We are most effective when we understand the process. Please feel free to email any questions you may have.</p>
<p>God bless,<br />
Bob Emrich</p>
<p>The Maine Jeremiah Project supports the sanctity of life, traditional family values and religious freedom in Maine. The Maine Jeremiah Project is a nonprofit ministry with 501(c)(3) status. Your financial help is encouraged. If you would like to make a contribution, please make checks payable to: the Maine Jeremiah Project, PO Box 62, Plymouth, Maine 04969.</p>
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