Monday, July 1, 2013

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PZ Myers is not holding up well in his fight against the two leading biblical creation organizations. He is getting weaker and weaker and weaker.[1]

Evolutionists, why not quit now and save yourselves some embarrassment? See: Creationists win the debates

The academic journal Sociology of Religion shows secularism losing momentum and beginning to decline in both Europe and America by 2050. Other academic research shows it may begin to happen much earlier.[2]

August 2012: A summer of triumph for biblical creation belief. Will August 2013 be a watershed month as well?[3]

Media-promoted Tiger Woods "shot his worst nine-hole score as a professional" but afterward his comments were again self-serving: "I'm sure I'm not the only one who struggled out there." [4] Actually, Woods' score is worse than 69 other players.

The number of adherents of liberal Christianity who will be spit out of Jesus's mouth will be many.[5]

The country with the world's biggest atheist population is very interested in information debunking Darwinism.[6]

The first review of the Question evolution! campaign book for middle school students is in! Rachel finds the book "very interesting". Sarah is "very interested" in reading the book.[7]

Evolutionists, learning science is exciting. The force feeding of stale, evolutionary bunkum is not.[8][9]

New Jersey voters! This Tuesday is Primary Day. Herewith a voter guide. [10]

The IRS and the White House definitely worked together. The visitor logs show how often IRS Commissioner Shulman visited – and how rarely anyone else did with whom he would have had meetings, of not with Barack Obama. [11]

A Tea Party activist withdraws his earlier call for a temporary criminal registry, in wake of the scandals surrounding the Internal Revenue Service. This is the same agency that will police Obamacare. [12]

Liberal double standard: when undefeated Michele Bachmann declined to run for reelection, there was liberal claptrap galore by the media. Then her Dem opponent pulled out of the race too, and the media are nearly speechless. [13]

Eric Holder gave a private party for his friends in the Mainstream Media, and less than half of them showed up. What does that say about those who did? [14]

After cutting Tim Tebow, the New York Jets now try to stop the building of a family amusement park. [15] Why should the increasingly anti-Christian NFL receive favoritism??

Associated Press reports that Americans may lose the health plan they like under Obamacare.[16]

Student Loan money profits are being siphoned off to pay for ObamaCare.[17]

An activist advises people to elect a sheriff who remembers his Constitutional duty to those who elect him. [18]

"Memorial Day 2013: How it was. What it will be" by Bishop Bert [19]

1960s liberalism is not only financially unsustainable, but its champions are a dying breed.[20]

Understanding gold market dynamics.[21]

Evolutionary racism directed towards an accomplished footballer puts a sour note on a football game.[22] Why are so many liberals racists?

When a republic turns into a democracy, it will surely fail. [23]

Remembering a fallen police officer in Phoenix, Arizona. [24]

Media bullying alert: the lamestream media spend all day picking on undefeated conservative Michele Bachmann, who repeatedly won in a liberal district. Rather their cheap criticism, the media should be asking why they could never defeat her.

Wikipedia continues to lose influence in the world in 2013.[25] Also, interest in Project 200 plus keeps expanding.

Undefeated five-term congressman Michele Bachmann announces that she will retire from her position, and may run for higher office. [26] The liberal machine was never able to defeat her in a Dem state.

22 - 29 young people reading the second draft of the Question evolution! campaign book for middle school students. Also, more creationist groups are interested in joining Project 200 plus.[27]

Professor attacked by liberals. His "crime"? Teaching students to think for themselves. [28]

Judge-Shopping, or, How Eric Holder Got Away With Spying On A Reporter's Emails: [29]

The liberal nanny mayor of New York City doesn't like street cafes now. [30]

The IRS scandal that the news is not covering, because it's tied in with Obamacare: [31]

Eric Holder now faces investigation for perjury before Congress. Is Barack Hussein Obama paying attention? [32]

France struggles to find a strategy to turn around their economy even though it is right under their nose.[33] The Bible, Adam Smith and Friedrich Hayek

Many things happen in life that cannot be explained by science or philosophy. Atheists and agnostics self intellectually cripple themselves and are clueless about much of reality.[34]

Example of how modern conservatism is more conservative than Republicans from yesteryear: Bob Dole, Republican nominee in 1996, admits that "Reagan couldn't have made it. Certainly, Nixon couldn't have made it .... We might've made it, but I doubt it." [35]

A United States Senator finally says it: Barack H. Obama is throwing away his moral authority to lead. But in fact he never had legal authority to lead, either. [36]

Conservapedia pauses in prayer (not a liberal "moment of silence") in honor of Memorial Day.

RichardDawkins.net keeps getting smited! Has a plague of locusts eaten Richard Dawkins' daily website visitors?[37]

How long will you refuse to humble yourself before the Lord, Richard Dawkins?

Vox Day and a supporter of the Question evolution! campaign agree: The speed at which the secular left is collapsing is happening at an unexpectedly fast rate. [38]

6 bellwethers showing liberal know it all-ism is unravelling. This will seriously affect Darwinism.[39]

Google USA estimates 101,000,000 search results for the search "Evolution and just so stories".[40]

Question #12 of the Question evolution! campaign has a LOT of potential when it is spread widely in 2013.[41][42]

A Middle East voice calls Barack Hussein Obama one of the weakest presidents in U.S history.[43] It doesn't look like the "liberal chosen one" is going to bring peace to the Middle East during his presidency.

The website of the American Atheists has been smited.[44]

Do you see what happens when you gnaw on the trouser legs of Christianity? Like an unruly drunkard and glutton, you get tasered and laughed at. See: American Atheists and their challenges with overweight leadership personnel and Decline of atheism

"President Obama forgets to salute," but the lamestream media downplay gaffes by liberals. [45]

A Tea Party activist urges Congress to seize the moment, now that Obama's luck seems to have run out. [46]

Another study finds that obesity may decrease brain function.[47] See also: Atheism and obesity and Lesbianism and obesity

Have liberal policies destroyed Sweden? "Stockholm rioting continues for fifth night." [48]

The inventor of the concept "Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder" admitted, before he died, that he made the whole thing up. Think about that when the school district tells you to drug your kids. [49]

Dems admit they lack the votes to pass their amnesty-for-illegal-aliens bill, where 60 votes are the minimum needed in the U.S. Senate. [50]

The cold temperatures this spring have even hurt the sale of sporting goods. [51] Yet liberal denial about the cold weather persists, in order to perpetrate a fictional global warming.

World's most popular site devoted to atheism/agnosticism sees a massive loss of global market share according to Alexa. Also, new Question evolution! campaign group leader expected to be installed in June of 2013.[52]

Obama's paternalistic, sexist reference Thursday to a heckler as a "young lady" is no problem for the liberal media, [53] but an Hispanic golfer's offhand racial quip about Tiger Woods is unforgivable.

7 creationist groups have now joined Project 200 plus. Also, 7 ways the Question evolution! campaign is strengthening itself.[54]

An IRS official takes the Fifth Amendment. Or does she? Besides botching her plea, she shows hypocrisy in claiming a freedom she does not grant to others. [55]

Liberal double standard: racist remarks by Joe Biden are no problem, but the lamestream media and Tiger Woods make a big deal about an offhand joke by an Hispanic golfer. [56] Will media bullying enable Tiger Woods to end nearly 5 years without his winning a major?

The BBC News opened a story with this nonsense: “A study of Neanderthal skulls suggests that they became extinct because they had larger eyes than our species.”[57] Why does Darwinism spawn such lame just so stories?

Thomas Sowell recommends parents having their children read the book The New Leviathan which has a number of essays which debunk various liberal sacred cows.[58]

Barack Hussein Obama's "I am an idiot" defense about his recent scandals undermines his "cult of expertise" and statist redemption fantasies that he has been peddling.[59]

Ask yourselves right now: is this still America? Representative Mike Kelly asked that of IRS Acting Commissioner Miller. We should ask it of ourselves. [60]

Contrast the regal behavior of Barack Hussein Obama with the humble behavior of George Washington. [61]

Expert says that the discovery of a 20-year long rainfall in Ireland points to the Great Flood of the Bible being historical.[62]

Why do so many faux Christians deny the Great Flood and try to turn it into a non-Great Flood?[63] Did Jesus, Peter and Moses lie?[64]

Animals are where they are today, not because they evolved there, nor yet because of continental drift, but because they went there after the Great Flood. [65]

A description of "Common Core Education," the harm it can do, and a list of New Jersey primary candidates pledged to stop it. [66]

15 young people are volunteering to read the second draft of the Question evolution! campaign book for middle school students. Also, a Christian is going into full time creation vs. evolution ministry in June of 2013 and is interesting in volunteering for the campaign.[67]

Outspokenly Christian Kevin Durant gives $1 million to the tornado victims. Durant uaually outscores LeBron, but the liberal media do not promote outspoken Christians.

Why does Glenn Beck, who loves to chart conspiracies on his famous chalkboards, ignore a conspiracy right under his nose? [68]

28 million Americans will be caught in a "massive game of health coverage pingpong" under ObamaCare, and even the liberal media are beginning to panic about this. [69]

Classic communist tactic by the Obama Administration: it files a document in court alleging that a reporter at Fox News is a possible co-conspirator in the "crime" of informing the public. [70] In fact this goes back further – to Henry II. Are we all Thomas Becket now? [71]

Teen awarded for improved capacitor - Intel gave a $50,000 scholarship to a girl whose titanium dioxide capacitor can store almost three times as much electrical energy as previous capacitors and is intended as a battery alternative. [72]

Most mainstream media got the story wrong, claiming incorrectly that her invention can charge a cell phone battery in 30 seconds. (Charging a battery too quickly reduces its life, which is why Motorola and Samsung and the rest keep the amperage low.)

Franklin Graham, one of America's most prominent evangelical Christians, says the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service included two of his ministries.[73]

Are many evangelical Christian churches primarily growing in America due to birth rates or due to evangelism?[74]

"Quiverfull" evangelical Christianity, which does not believe in contraception, is now spreading in the UK.[75] In the past 30 years, the number of Anabaptists in North America, including the Amish, has grown significantly, from 313,000 baptized members in 1978 to more than 535,000 in 2010. [76]

Unfortunately for militant atheists, secularist philosophy breeds sub-replacement levels of fertility. See: Decline of atheism

Obama says black men cannot use racism to explain away their failures. [77]

CDC says the number of children being diagnosed with mental disorders has been steadily growing. [78]

Reuters reports: "Europe is in the midst of its longest recession since it began keeping records in 1995 — even surpassing the calamity that hit the region in the financial crisis of 2008-2009."[79]

Biblical creationism is growing in Europe and its growth rate will accelerate amidst Europe's economic woes.[80]

The UK has experienced one lost economic decade, and it's about to enter a second. [81] When is the UK going to remove Charles Darwin off its currency?[82]

Turkey, a world leader in anti-evolutionism, had its Moody’s credit rating upgraded to investment-grade quality. [83][84]

Imagine how it would be doing if it adopted Christian creationism over Islamic creationism.[85] See: Protestant work ethic

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More Question evolution! campaign news from Canada. The stomachs of Darwinists are going to be tied into knots in 2013. [86]

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Question evolution! campaign book draft is off to California student readers tonight. Also, new proof and evidence that 2013 is a better year for creationism.[87]

In addition, an atheist wiki still appeals to atheist nerds.

What is the real IRS scandal? It's the tax code itself. [88]

Government-promoted "powerball" gambling exploits and takes millions from the poor, but does not fool conservatives.

A video was recently produced on the topic "Why Christianity and the Bible are true." [89]

Abortion: an indispensable right or violence against women?[90]

A New Jersey activist promotes the primarying of a RINO State Senator. See his side-by-side of a typical RINO and his challenger. [91]

The first rule of grassroots anti-evolution social movements: What's behind us in inane evolutionist commentary is NOT important![92]

Is the Question evolution! campaign entering a new phase? If so, what new tactics are being employed by a Question evolution campaign group?

Bradlee Dean has this scathing commentary on Minnesota's gay "marriage" law. [93]

The Great Flood gained an astronomical fix today. A veteran creation scientist teams up with a veteran CP administrator to use comets to vindicate the Bible – and settle the Biblical chronology dispute. [94]

One reason why Darwinism loving liberal Christianity and the agnosticism/atheism population are headed towards a collapse of their own doing.[95]

The Obama IRS problem just keeps getting bigger.

The director of the tax-exempt determinations office is an Obama donor: [96] IRS agents did what the bosses ordered: [97] IRS denied tax-exempt status of pro-life group on behalf of Planned Parenthood: [98] IRS refused tax-exempt status for pro-Israel and Christian groups; approved it for Muslim organizations: [99] IRS agents illegally seized 60 million medical records: [100] Did the IRS give Mitt Romney's tax returns to Harry Reid? [101]

New amber fossil finds further debunk evolution.[102] "They’re dead ringers for (modern) gall mites" — researcher David Grimaldi

Overrated Sports Star David Beckham was not even good enough to play on Britain's pathetic Olympic soccer team, yet he insists that he is "playing at the highest level" as he announces his retirement. [103] Now he can devote full time to being promoted by the lamestream media.

News update from a Question evolution! campaign blog: "May 15, 2013 was a very BAD day for Darwinism!"[104]

Also, as of today, a Question evolution! blog received 427,864 page views.

A major supply line to Darwinism just suffered a major reversal - college bubble is finally bursting. The infrastructure of Darwinism, atheism, agnosticism and liberalism is crumbling.[105]

Like many second term presidents, Barack Hussein Obama is having scandals arise and he is losing control of events.[106]

A new theory of why secularization occurs.[107]

Liberal politics = massive financial disaster for many California cities, with more bankruptcies expected. [108]

When you have RINOs in the way of real reform, primary them! [109]

The IRS scandal now includes nine Senators, and a liberal outfit that got sensitive information from the IRS on 31 conservative groups. Time for a serious look at tax reform: why do we even need an IRS? [110]

Al Gore still hypes his liberal alarmism: "Our very way of life" is at stake, he insists, "now more than ever before." [111] So why did he sell his TV station for big profits to Big Oil??

The "creationist blogspot squint" repeatedly defeats a timid agnostic and evolutionist who is afraid of debating the creationist biology student VivaYehshua. [112]

An evolutionist has been wildly swinging his rhetorical punches into the air, but he has been hitting thin air. Why is he so afraid of debating VivaYehshua?

Obama, Tyranny, and the Tax Man [113]

Drunken atheist Trekkie makes a bigger fool of himself. Yes, there is something lamer than an atheist who threatens a Bible believer with hellfire.[114]

5 things that will give atheists ulcers.[115]

What "Dr." Kermit Gosnell did in his house-of-horrors clinic is not an anomaly in the abortion industry; it is practice. [116]

A Tea Party activist writes an open letter to State legislators who vote away Second Amendment rights. [117]

PZ Myers, how will we know when atheism has a full-blown nerd crisis? [118]

Myers recently said that atheism is on the "cusp of crisis." Is there a full-blown atheist nerd crisis?

Atheist wiki continues to lose global market share. Also, many of their atheist nerd editors still lose ladies to creationist men![119]

The media already in bed with Obama simply cannot ignore this new scandal: The Obama Administration secretly seized phone records from the Associated Press just prior to the 2012 election. [120][121]

The chilly spring continues to prove the hoax of global warming: "Protect those plants, widespread chance of frost and freeze in N.J. tonight." [122]

Kermit Gosnell stands convicted. But how many others share his guilt? Mainstream Media, maybe? [123]

The scandal at the IRS gets wider every time. This could be the biggest scandal of all. [124]

"Orde Wingate and the Night Raiders: Bring 'em He...Heaven" by Bishop Bert [125]

Another amazing breakthrough for Adult stem cells: Growing Teeth. [126] Still no breakthroughs for immoral Embryonic stem cells.

The IRS is now caught red-handed, in targeting conservative, Tea Party, and pro-Israel groups – and lying about it. But did the Obama administration throw out this chum to distract people from the Benghazi affair? [127]

The homosexual agenda is being pushed into the immigration bill, and it is likely that Dems will cave to the gay demands. [128]

"Sergio Garcia rips Tiger Woods," observing that "he's not the nicest guy on tour." Yet the liberal media continue to cover for Woods, and even lash into Garcia for criticizing him. [129]

Talking animals in the Old Testament. Also, does Leviticus mention dinosaurs?[130]

5 truths that cause evolutionists and atheists to fly into uncontrollable bursts of rage. [131]

Is their anything more lame than an atheist threatening a Bible believer with hellfire?

5 reasons why Christian evangelism is more thoughtful and effective than Darwinist and atheist evangelism efforts. [132]

7 reasons why the growth prospects of the egotistical, socially challenged, atheist nerd population is bleak.[133]

We knew it all along, and now the Internal Revenue Service admits: the IRS plays favorites among applicants for tax exemptions. And a few "un-favorites" besides. [134]

A Tea Party activist asks: did Barack Obama and his administration commit manslaughter and obstruction of justice in the Benghazi affair? [135]

Sociologists say that the American Christian Right are the potters and American atheists are the clay. Also, get three coffins ready. [136]

The families of several Navy SEALs killed in action reveal some stunning – and criminal – acts by the Obama administration. [137]

The Benghazi affair blows up in the Obama administration's collective face. ABC News admits: the State Department sanitized what the CIA told them about it. The White House squirms. [138]

Andrew Schlafly speaks out against ObamaCare.[139]

Is the unborn child a person? What do the obstetricians think?[140]

Atheist wiki hit the socially challenged, atheist nerd ceiling! Their global market share has fallen in 2013.[141]

Christian winners vs. atheist losers. Who is going to win? [142]

The latest in ultrasound technology will benefit the Pro-life cause: 3-D holograms of children in the womb. [143]

A two front war on atheism? [144]

Are biblical creationists picking up the pace of their evangelism?[145]

Is a pack of ravenous biblical creation dire wolves on the prowl ripping big chunks of meat out of their Darwinist bunkum prey?

CBS News doesn't like one of its own making a thorough investigation into the Benghazi affair: [146]

Let's see how liberal pro-choicers spin this absolute insanity: [147]

Cal Thomas writes about the taxation of internet sales and the Marketplace Fairness Act bill being proposed. [148]

Violent video games, which liberal websites defend and promote despite the games' obvious connection with the Newtown massacre, continue to rack up billion-dollar profits. [149]

Ruth Bell Graham once said that if God does not judge America, He must apologize to Sodom. Apart from whether a man (or woman) can judge God, Mrs. Graham had a point. [150]

3 humorous creation vs. evolution events. [151]

Liberal "psychic" Sylvia Browne, the perennial guest of the Montel Williams Show, predicted in 2004 that Amanda Berry was dead. Yet she clams up after Amanda is rescued from a house of horror a couple days ago. [152]

Uh oh, liberal claptrap at HuffPost is not so great after all for AOL: "AOL Inc. (AOL), the digital publisher that owns the Huffington Post and TechCrunch, fell the most in five months after reporting first-quarter profit that missed estimates." [153]

The biblical creation attack dog is metamorphosizing into a fierce and tenacious dire wolf predator. Darwinism will be ripped to shreds. [154]

WHat does "honoring the office" of President of the United States mean, when the current officeholder behaves dishonorably? Theodore Roosevelt had an answer. [155]

Does Barack Obama love being a "divider-in-chief"? Or has he laid a deeper plan? A Tea Party activist examines all the actions of this de facto President and sees an ominous parallel. [156]

Will the Benghazi attack hearings change the game for Barack Obama? Or for Hillary Clinton? [157]

Liberal double standard, as they held Mitt Romney to a different standard than Al Gore, despite how the global warming alarmist Gore is now richer than Romney.[158]

Thomas Paine once made a ringing call to leadership. Where are the conservative leaders of today? [159]

"The 'House of David': Don't be quick to fault the Bible!" by Bishop Bert [160]

Tamerlan Tsarnaev died from "blunt trauma to his head and torso," presumably by being driven over by his own fleeing brother. [161] Yet still no word about drugs that were likely found in pot-smoker Dzhokhar's system.

Is school choice impossible in some States? Only if the voters let it stay that way. [162]

If you are not a biblical creationist, you are behaving illogically.[163]

"Even if all the data point to an intelligent designer, such an hypothesis is excluded from science because it is not naturalistic". - Evolutionist Dr. Scott Todd [164]

Naturalistic/atheistic thinkers, no matter how much they would like to think that it has lasted forever, inevitably come up against the fact that the very laws of the universe point to a supernatural beginning.[165]

Notice that the arguments for evolution amount to logical fallacy—and censorship, not true science. [166]

RINO Backer "Paul Ryan flip-flops, now supports gay adoption." [167] The Republican House leadership moves closer to quietly accepting same-sex marriage.

A Tea Party activist does some sober stock-taking on the battle for American liberty. [168]

Liberals will continue making billions by invading people's privacy, and block a California bill that would have protected the public: "Silicon Valley uses growing clout to kill a digital privacy bill." [169]

Traitors among us, in the United States Senate, who voted for the UN Arms Trade Treaty (which failed – so far). [170]

Overrated Sports Star "Kobe Bryant in court battle with mother over memorabilia." [171] His mother has been paying $1,500/mth to store it, but now the liberal-promoted player tries to stop his own mom from cashing in!

Record-setting May snowstorm blankets several states, further disproving the liberal hoax that there is a crisis of global warming. [172]

Free speech for Christianity wins, and Mikey Weinstein loses. The Pentagon announced today that service members will not be punished for sharing their religious faith. "Members of our military should not be denied the very freedoms they fight to defend. Freedom of religion and speech are paramount among those freedoms," said ADF Legal Counsel Joseph La Rue. [173]

"How to Not stone a Rebellious Son: Reforming according to the Word of God" by Bishop Bert [174]

After Barack Hussein Obama invoked God at a Planned Parenthood event, an activist sharply reminds him: had Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, had her way, he would not exist. [175]

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The Ides of May 2013 is definitely going to be nightmare for evolutionists.[176]

British Darwinists, brace yourselves for the grand announcement of May 15, 2013 to be given at 5:00pm Greenwich Mean Time. You will not want to miss it!

A hate-filled atheist wants Christians stopped from sharing the Gospel in the military, under penalty of court-martial for "sedition and treason". [177] Could this be what Obama wants done? [178]

Theistic evolutionists are sleeping with the enemy and getting "fleas of doubt".[179] Leading theistic evolutionist says: "My belief in God is tinged with doubts...".

The New York Times says that the pro-evolution website Wikipedia has a sexism problem. Is there a nerd crisis at Wikipedia?[180]

Compare Sarah Palin and Michelle Obama side by side. Who is the elitist? [181]

Return of the Twinkies - No, they're not the flying monkeys from "The Wizard of Oz." The Hostess company is going back in business, after union demands forced them into bankruptcy last year. (WashTimes)

Which country was among those which tied for last place as being among the most corrupt countries in the world? An atheism and evolution loving country of course - North Korea.[182]

Give it up, liberals: "Arizona lawmakers pass bill making silver, gold legal tender." [183]

Young people love anti-evolution and pro-creation tracts, magazines and books. Darwinism indoctrination is stale and boring. [184]

The NFL has become just another politically correct, liberal organization, as it ostracizes the outspokenly Christian Tim Tebow. Why should the public approve paying for NFL stadiums, as in the upcoming vote in Miami?

Is the soul of America in jeopardy? Why is the military cleaning itself of Judeo-Christian influence? [185]

Obama administration threatening Benghazi whistleblowers (Washington Times, April 30, 2013)

Three of the Doolittle Raiders hold their last reunion on the base where they trained. [186]

Olé! Olé! Olé! Hispanic American creationism is winning mucho battles over Hispanic American Darwinism.[187]

Evolutionists, you will have a lot of splainin' to do on why you can't answer the 15 questions for evolutionists satisfactorily.

Time magazine reports that theological liberalism gained ground during sexual revolution, but conservative Christians are winning now through higher procreation and re-evangelization of West.[188]

Victory! Liberals are now openly admitting defeat! And they have no plan to turn things around!

China's atheist leaders are still panicking and trying to use heavy-handed measures to stop the explosive growth of Chinese Christianity.[189]

A fascinating look at an area in China with 70,000 hills from a global flood perspective.[190]

Liberal global warming scam is proven false, again: "more than 1,100 snowfall records and 3,400 cold records have been set across the nation so far in April." [191] That's not the global warming crisis that Al Gore and other liberals claimed.

Why won't the Republican Party of New Jersey even adopt the national Republican platform? A Tea Party activists sounds a RINO alert. [192]

Volunteers spent thousands of dollars on a successful Question evolution! campaign event and pro-biblical creation outreach. [193]

Kermit Gosnell's trial may go to the jury this week. But does he really do anything that abortion advocates would not want to see done? [194]

"Man stabs 4 choir members during Sunday mass at Albuquerque Catholic church." [195] It's unfortunate that parishioners did not have loaded guns to stop the stranger.

More bad news for liberals, pro-aborts and Darwinists - religioustolerance.org has lost a LOT of web traffic![196]

Why do people still believe what Barack Obama says? [197]

The ricin letters case has taken a strange new twist. Previous suspect (a Democrat) cleared; current suspect (a Republican) charged. Is there a personal feud between the two? [198]

Give it up, liberals: Kansas has the most conservative legislature in its history, and it's not going back to its "moderate", less successful past. [199]

A call back to God for Christians of every stripe, after the Boston Marathon Bombings. [200]

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Secular Belgium is crumbling. A golden age of Belgium creationism is dawning.[201]

Also, North American creationism will continue to expand. Will the Harvard University evolutionary biology department, which was disgraced in 2011, be able to stop this?

Conservative trouncing of the liberal incumbents in Iceland in early election returns, pointing to a landslide repudiation of the ruling party and an end to plans to join the EU. [202]

An apologetic for Genesis 1-11, based on the best scientific models available. [203]

God's intelligent design is on display in the sky this weekend: "Saturn at its biggest and brightest Saturday." Many people cannot believe it when they see Saturn's rings for the first time through a telescope. [204]

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky showed how abysmally stupid politicians often are. Here's the latest evidence on Barack Hussein Obama's true identity, the significance of which McConnell totally missed. [205]

Why is there only one God? [206]

"Comprehensive immigration reform" is a tool of fundamental change of America – a thing Barack Obama wants. [207]

Earth's core is proven to be as hot as the Sun, contradicting atheistic theories. [208] Biblical scientific foreknowledge predicted this, as Earth and heat were created prior to the Sun.

A new Black Robed Regiment forms in New Jersey, as pastors re-create a previously un-sung influence in the American Revolution. [209]

Lamestream media proven wrong again: "Economic growth, at 2.5%, falls below expectations." [210]

One more chapter to go before the newly revised Question evolution! campaign book for middle school students is sent to a second group of student reviewers. [211]

"In Turkey, a Muslim Lady fights for the Rights of Israel" (the Scientific Creationist Pro-Jewish movement and Al Qaeda in Collision) by Bishop Bert: [212]

Quickly, the Obama Administration and the liberal media try to change the subject from the Boston Marathon bombing to what Syria is allegedly doing halfway around the world. [213] Isn't Boston more important to America than Damascus??

"Yeah, I wanted to kill the people in the building and then smear a Chicken-fil-A sandwich on their face." It's the liberal Southern Poverty Law Center that's been credited by a liberal terrorist for providing the information for his attack on the Family Research Council. [214]

Education reform: a do-it-yourself guide. [215]

Liberals gotta love this one: Tamerlan Tsarnaev had trained himself to be an American-killing terrorist while getting welfare benefits at the same time. [216]

A Tea Party activist lays it on the line: Executive Orders are unconstitutional. [217]

Dem #6 announces his retirement from the U.S. Senate, rather than face reelection. [218] If liberal ideology is so great, then why are so many like Max Baucus quitting its political efforts?

A home schooling family from Germany will defend their rights to home school — in a United States court. The case of Romeike v. Holder comes before the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals today. [219]

The sometimes conservative Koch Brothers cause angst on the Left by considering buying liberal newspaper failures like the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times. [220]

The Boston Marathon bombers were firm believers in liberalism ... meaning that the gun laws so championed by the left wing don't apply to them. [221]

Does that Saudi national know more about the Boston Marathon Bombing than he's telling? Why is the government spiriting him out of this country like a carrier of typhoid fever? Congress wants answers. Glenn Beck threatens to drop a bombshell today or tomorrow. [222] UPDATE: Glenn Beck drops the bombshell, and he's not the only one. Details: [223]

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev drove over his brother Tamerlan, which was possibly the real cause of his death. [224] Was Dzhokhar on drugs?

Evil does exist: alleged Young Mass Murderer Dzhokhar Tsarnaev tweeted after the bombing, "Ain't no love in the heart of the city, stay safe people." [225]

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Pro-evolution UK government is producing many second-rate secondary school graduates. [226]

Also, a 2012 study found that more and more U.S. liberal arts colleges are reforming themselves or are closing. See: Worst college majors

"The Binding of Isaac, the 'Akedah', and Jesus Christ" by Bishop Bert [227]

Two geneticists admit: life could never have become as complex as it is today, even in a long age of the earth. So they say life began before the earth! Why don't they just accept creation? [228]

College enrollment shows signs of slowing which means less post high school evolutionary indoctrination. Also, the ever shrinking role of tenured evolutionist professors and evolutionary biologists.[229] See also: Professor values

Secular humanist Paul Kurtz vs. the Christian Francis Schaeffer - Schaeffer wins hands down in the legacy department.[230]

Atheist Paul Kurtz's book The Turbulent Universe - a zero Amazon rating. The book Atheism for Dummies has a 4.5 Amazon star rating.[231] Are atheists smarter?

Also, another reason the so-called expansion of atheism is merely bluster and a mirage. See: Global atheism

More and more American public officials want creationism and/or anti-evolution material in schools. 7 reasons why 2014 will see an increase in anti-evolution legislation.[232]

Attended class and partied on Wednesday: the 19-year-old Boston bombing suspect fit right in on the atheistic, public college campus. [233]

The Obama Administration was informed at least two years ago about the danger posed by Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the leader of the Boston Marathon bombing, and supposedly had him under surveillance. "They knew what my son was doing," says his mother. [234]

Ancient astronomers kept a 360 day calendar for thousands of years. Why? Could it be because the earth did have a 360 day year once? Find out how. [235]

The atheist and evolutionist PZ Myers throws out Darwin. [236]

The intelligentsia know that an atheist wiki is vastly inferior to Creation.com.[237]

Fitch Ratings has downgraded the United Kingdom's long-term foreign and local currency issuer default ratings (IDR) to 'AA+' from 'AAA'.[238] How long will the British keep Charles Darwin on their currency?

Heavy metal conservative Bradlee Dean warns: governments often use terrorism to their own advantage. [239]

Violent video games likely played a key role in the development of the Boston Young Mass Murderers, but liberal censorship is working overtime to avoid mentioning it.
Meanwhile, video game companies announce profit increases. [240]

Boston Marathon Bombing: 1 suspect dead, another on the run, and yet another casualty. And the Obama administration has some explaining to do. [241]

The sister of the two young Boston bombing suspects stated that she has "no idea what's gotten into them." [242] Perhaps it was submersion into violent video games by the young men?

Leading website analyzer thinks atheist wiki editors produce low quality work.[243] It's time to renew your library cards atheists!

How many Americans are shot and killed each year by government agents?

The same 1994 law that temporarily banned the sale of assault weapons also required the federal government to compile data on police shootings nationwide. However, neither the Justice Department nor most local police departments have bothered to tally such occurrences. Jim Bovard, Washington Times

RINOs rule in New Jersey, and now the Tea Party will make New Jersey their test case. [244]

Impressive animated Christian children's tracts. Are animated dinosaur biblical creation tracts next?[245]

More shocking, unusual violence in Boston: an MIT campus police officer "was shot multiple times" and killed, and the murderer escaped. [246] We pray for the victim.
Yet Massachusetts has strict gun control and very harsh penalties for violations.
UPDATE: The two suspects in the Boston Marathon Bombings did that deed. One is dead; the other is still at large.

The agenda is more important to liberals than saving lives. It's why a monster named Gosnell was allowed to operate an abortion factory where born babies were murdered, and why the media chose to ignore it. [247]

How to reform education in this country: think outside the box. Meaning: don't let the government box you in to their schools. [248]

"US Senate Rejects Expanding Gun Background Checks." Defeated, sore loser Obama responds with liberal style by calling his opponents liars. [249] Hint: he is the liar, not they. [250]

Liberal media headline: "Let’s hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American" [251] If the bomber turns out to be part of some international terrorist conspiracy, then the USA might respond appropriately, and the article would rather blame white Americans. Separately: are they going to arrest someone or aren't they? [252]

America, will you follow the Nazi route? Remembering Martin Niemöller, John Adams, and Noah Webster as the attack on American values continues. [253]

British socialism drops to a new low: "Protesters along the funeral route turned their backs on Baroness Thatcher's coffin as it passed on its way to St Paul's Cathedral." [254]

LIBERAL DENIAL: an eyewitness reportedly tackled the suspect and turned him over to the police, but officials and the media now pretend they have no idea who committed the heinous crime at the Boston Marathon. [255] The public may never be told the truth, and certainly not soon, in order to avoid political embarrassment.

Was God's finished creation perfect? What did Augustine say about man's ability not to sin before the fall of man?[256]

Barack Obama's plan to destroy America was hatched at Columbia University. [257]

Evil is real, and tragic: 3 were killed, including an 8-year-old boy, and more than 130 hurt, many severely, in the Boston Marathon bombing. [258] Investigators are searching for a foreign-accented suspect seen in the vicinity of the crime.

May God help the victims. [259]

Once again, the leftists infesting the liberal media couldn't wait for the victims to be taken to hospitals before they blame the Boston bombing on the "right wing." [260][261]

Gold bubble bursts - After rising exponentially for a dozen years from $200 to nearly $1,800, the price for a troy ounce of gold dropped to $1,400 this month. [262] [263] [264]

The discovery of fossilized cells in north-west Scotland has forced a dramatic rewrite of the supposed evolutionary history of life on Earth.[265]

All those evolutionists who claimed to know how old life is on earth, must now admit they were very wrong. There are at least 101 reasons why the earth is young.[266]

The third Noah's Ark replica is being built by Hispanics near Miami, who hope the Pope will attend the inauguration. [267] Evidently the falsehoods of atheism continue to be rejected by many.

The National Secular Society says that aggressive French religious lobbies are in a sustained attack on French secularism.[268]

Message to the captain of the SS Secularism: Your ship is taking on more and more water and the waves are going to be bigger and more frequent.[269]

Are liberals going to go after marijuana smoke with the same gusto they have with tobacco smoke? [270]

Liberal teacher in a public school tells fourth-graders to give up Constitutional rights. [271]

Who wants Sheriff Joe dead? [272]

Statutory rape: the missing legal problem in abortion that now has the attention of a bunch of lawyers. [273]

"A Turkish delight: they think so in Israel too!" by Bishop Bert [274]

Russia calls American politicians "Russophobic", in apparent mockery of how liberals push their homosexual agenda on "homophobic" Russia. [275] Try "Biblophobic", a Best New Conservative Word.

Nanny State update: a busybody calls 911 to report a jogger who was running backwards, and the cops in Democrat Miami give him a ticket ... even though he's jogged backwards safely for six years. [276]

Congressman Chris Smith on liberal censorship: "Why the censorship" of the Philadelphia abortionist's "Jeffrey Dahmer-like murder trial?" [277]

Looking for things to see and do? See a beautiful landscape which Questions Evolution! Also, public library science books with Question evolution! campaign tracts placed inside them.[278]

A Tea Party activist sends an open letter to Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania: Your bill looks good, but could be better. He suggests seven specific "fixes." [279]

The liberal media continue their attempt to drive conservative athlete Tim Tebow out of New York City, even for a voluntary off-season practice. "Get rid of Tim Tebow," shouts the headline. [280] Many liberals would rather lose than win with a conservative leader.

Message to PZ Myers and friends: Re-positioning the decades long "atheist nerd brand" is going to be close to impossible. Also, "golden age of internet atheism" is coming to an end. [281]

Without Darwin, some of the atrocities connected with evolution might not have been. But people of faith might have grown complacent, too. [282]

Liberal double standard: when Republicans tape-record Democrats (e.g., Watergate), there is media outrage, but not when Democrats tape-record Republicans, despite a Dem statement that a liberal group probably taped a GOP meeting. [283]

News from the land of atheism: "Margaret Thatcher death celebrations" sweep the faithless Great Britain. [284]

An article on the possible relationship between school shootings and violent video games was censored by the Huffington Post. [285]

The most famous "heavy metal conservative activist" warns: the Homosexual Agenda is real, and is destructive. He offers some explicit examples. [286]

Liberal logic: Hugo Chavez's successor promises, if elected, to hold a special investigation into whether Chavez was "inoculated with cancer cells," and hints that he suspects the "American Empire" was responsible. [287] The liberal media played into this accusation by promoting the fake claims and photo of Chavez's purported good health.

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Vive la French Creationnisme! Long live French creationism! French creationists are coming aboard the Question Evolution! Campaign.[288]

"Texas student stabs at least 14 at Lone Star College." [289] Because of gun control, students were unarmed and unable to stop the attack sooner.

A Question evolution! campaign blog is rapidly approaching 400,000 page views. Christian blogosphere will soon be turbocharged via blog marketing expertise.[290]

Biola University posts the Christian apologist William Lane Craig vs. atheist philosopher Alex Rosenburg debate. [291]

Why did the atheist Alex Rosenburg appear to drink so much water in the debate relative to Dr. Craig? Dry mouth nervousness?

Margaret Thatcher, RIP. [292]

Dr. William Lane Craig beats the atheist philosopher Alex Rosenburg in a landslide debate victory.[293]

Why does Duke University still employ this atheist, nutjob professor? See: Professor values

An analysis of Walt Brown’s Flood model (hydroplate model of Noah's Flood). [294]

States are moving in very different directions politically on abortion and other fundamental issues. [295] But people are migrating to the conservative states and away from the liberal ones.

How the hockey stick crumbled. Like it or not, liberals, global warming is a proven farce: [296]

More bad news for liberal public schools: "Virtual learning bills gain momentum in Florida Legislature." [297]

Hollywood actress Drew Barrymore rejects liberal advice for women not to raise their own children: "Unfortunately, I was raised in this, like, generation of, like, 'Women can have it all,' and I don't think you can. I think some things fall off the table, the good news is, what does stay on the table becomes much more important" [raising children]. [298] Will Drew become a homeschooler?

Barack Hussein Obama tosses some pork to Florida with plans to capture an asteroid and bring it to orbit around the Moon. If the de facto President wants to worry about a big natural disaster, let him look closer to home. Details: [299]

"Le flop!" Overrated Sports Star David Beckham is "given 3/10 rating" by a candid French press, observing that the Brit "left fellow holding midfielder ... 'to fight for both of them.'" [300]

Massive cable ratings for "The Bible" miniseries on the History channel - much higher than CNN and the Fox News Channel. [301] So why does the lamestream media ignore the Good Book so much?

Can liberty win under seemingly long odds? It did before. A modern activists asks Americans to remember their history, and compare their strength now to their strength during the American Revolution. [302]

A Tea Party activist asks: are politicians really as stupid as they seem concerning the Second Amendment? Or do they have an agenda to deprive us of our rights under it? [303]

Jobs report is below expectations by more than 100,000, and "the participation rate in the workforce is the lowest since May 1979." [304] This is what the liberals told us would be an economic recovery???

How creation was reborn: the three lines of counterattack. [305]

When the American Civil Liberties Union says a new law by a Democrat threatens privacy, the Democrats know they have problems. The ACLU raises strong concerns about the latest gun control law in the Senate. [306]

Overrated Sports Star -- and longtime favorite of the liberal media -- Lance Armstrong is forced out of a swimming meet because of his past conduct. [307]

Self-centered liberals cannot let go of what they think is power: "Obama presses donors to help return Pelosi to speakership." [308]

How the long age view of the age of the earth gained credence. Offers clues to how to reverse that misconception. [309]

Liberal double standard: "Conservatives Shouldn't Own Newspapers?" [310]

The Department of Defense victimizes our fallen heroes, in the name of political correctness. [311]

Oh dear, it appears about 5-7% of American evolutionists believe that "shape-shifting alien reptilian people control our world by taking on human form".[312]

A 15 year-old girl leaves an anti-gun legislature speechless: [313]

"Guns are not the problem; people are." Gun control will not remove guns from society but rather make it harder for people to protect their lives.

What we get as as teachers when liberals control the education: A Weather Underground radical who once served two decades for an armed robbery that killed two cops and a guard is now a professor at Columbia University. [314]

The global warming hoax continued. In fact, it's entirely groundless: [315]

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UPDATE 2-Ziopharm cancer drug fails in trial; shares plunge 66 pct

* Company to halt drug development for soft tissue sarcoma

* Says will focus on synthetic biology drugs

(Adds CEO comment from conference call, analyst comment)

By Vrinda Manocha

March 26 (Reuters) - Ziopharm Oncology Inc will stop developing its drug to treat soft tissue sarcoma after it failed to improve patients' survival without the cancer worsening, wiping out nearly two-thirds of its market value.

The drug, palifosfamide, was being tested in a late-stage trial as a treatment for metastatic soft tissue sarcoma - a type of cancer of the bone, cartilage, fat or muscles.

"We know that based on progression-free survival, there is no way the drug will get approval anywhere in the world," Chief Executive Jonathan Lewis said.

The company will now evaluate all its palifosfamide programs and convert its late-stage study of the drug in small cell lung cancer to a mid-stage trial, he said.

Ziopharm said it would now focus on its synthetic biology program, which creates DNA-based drugs that enable controlled delivery of genes that produce proteins to treat cancer.

The palifosfamide sarcoma trial involved 447 patients with metastatic soft tissue sarcoma across 150 centers.

The patients received either palifosfamide along with doxirubicin - an approved cancer drug - or doxirubicin alone.

An independent committee recommended that the patients be followed to test the improvement in their overall survival, but the company said it does not expect to continue the follow-up.

Brinson Patrick Securities analyst Vernon Bernardino said the company's decision to stop the drug's development was "drastic" but noted that the company had "burned" a lot of money on the project.

"They obviously need to restructure expenses to meet the needs of what has the best chances of success and they believe more in the synthetic biologic program," Bernardino said.

Ziopharm is testing its lead drug in this program in two mid-stage trials for the treatment of melanoma and breast cancer.

However, Bernardino said he ascribed a very low value to the synthetic biology program and that it accounted for only 3 percent of his share-price target of $7.

The company's shares fell 66 percent to $1.76 in early trading -- their lowest in more than three years.

(Reporting by Esha Dey and Vrinda Manocha in Bangalore; Editing by Maju Samuel)

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POLL: Californians Regret Passing Proposition 8

From San Francisco's rally last night.

As the Supreme Court hears oral arguments today on California’s Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriage, a new SurveyUSA poll shows that 67 percent of Californians believe same-sex couples deserve the legal benefits of marriage. Only 30 percent believe those benefits should be limited to “a man and a woman.”

Conservatives have argued that if the Court rules against Prop 8, it will somehow invalidate the will of the voters who supported the ballot initiative. Not only do voters not have the power to undermine the freedoms enshrined in the Constitution, but it’s clear that the anti-gay animus that motivated Prop 8's passage no longer represents the majority of California values.

Further proof of this today comes from 25 California mayors, who have urged the Supreme Court to rule Prop 8 unconstitutional. Thousands also rallied Monday night in San Francisco showing their support for marriage equality. Here’s a video of some scenes from the march and rally:


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(Difference between revisions):::I think my dad's WFF n' Proof set had blue or bluish-gray foam rubber, but yes, that was my introduction to PC. I still use the "Polish notation" when doing proofs, as I prefer it to [[infix notation]]. C-w-Klb (where w = write well, l = like logic, b = buy a copy ;-) --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] [[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]] 00:02, 15 April 2011 (EDT):::I think my dad's WFF n' Proof set had blue or bluish-gray foam rubber, but yes, that was my introduction to PC. I still use the "Polish notation" when doing proofs, as I prefer it to [[infix notation]]. C-w-Klb (where w = write well, l = like logic, b = buy a copy ;-) --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] [[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]] 00:02, 15 April 2011 (EDT)Goodness gracious, has it really been 2 years? How did I ever forget you as a potential collaborator? --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] [[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]] 22:13, 1 June 2013 (EDT)==Both sides of the Ada Lovelace story====Both sides of the Ada Lovelace story==

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I was thinking of working on lecture 3 tonight and I noticed some oddities in the order of topics. For example, I had planned to cover tangent planes in a lecture or two after the gradient and extrema? I don't know what I was thinking, but I just wanted to say, if you find you would like to refer in a lecture piece to info not yet presented, or if you think one topic naturally flows into another which is for some reason in a different lecture or something, please, feel free to switch up the course order. It may well be necessary, actually! Just remember to change the order both on the pages and on the outline given in lecture 1. JacobB 01:07, 7 January 2010 (EST)

PS: have you considered archiving your talk page? just a suggestion JacobB 01:08, 7 January 2010 (EST)

Earlier you asked about arching your page. I do it just by cutting and pasting everything to User talk:SamHB/Archive 1, and then putting at the top of my talk page For older discussions, see the archives:<1>. JacobB 18:20, 7 January 2010 (EST)

Done. Great minds think alike. I had believed there was some complicated procedure involving renaming files, that one had to do in order to get the history correct. But I looked around at how existing sysops do it, and they don't bother with any of that. Good enough for me. SamHB 19:55, 7 January 2010 (EST)

A rambling philosophical comment: While reading your wave equation stuff, I was appalled at the way you were approaching it, fiddling around (get it?) with the physics, in advance of doing the mathematics. Then I had an epiphany: You and I have very different ways of approaching these problems. We are each very good at what we do. You approach it in terms of "What is the pedagogically right way to present the material in a sequence of lectures, in a fixed order, with quizzes and exercises and such?" I approach it in terms of "What is the pedagogically right way to present the material in terms of separate pages, that the student can follow in whatever order they want, by clicking whatever hyperlinks interest them?" I recently sort of messed up one of your lectures by moving around the concepts of "vector functions" vs. "vector fields". Feel free to move it back. I will put explanation of these concepts in the separate pages, and defer to you on the order in the lectures. Meanwhile, I need to improve the wave equation page, explaining what sorts of mathematical functions satisfy the equation, and then showing how it arises in a large number of physical problems.

About your specific questions about lecture 3, I need to look more closely at your overall order. You seem to have a more "geometric" approach rather than a "pure math" approach. For example, I would be inclined to cover local maxima/minima in arbitrary dimensions early on, just after talking about partial derivatives, so that all that remains in "extrema" problems is the issue of checking the boundaries. What is the correct order of gradients, directional derivatives, and parametric surfaces? Hard to say. I'd have to write up a draft of these topics first. Maybe I'll do that, but not now. I'm too psyched about the wave equation at the moment.

I hope at least some of this makes sense. SamHB 22:59, 7 January 2010 (EST)

I think you're absolutely right about our styles, and I don't want you to defer to me, at all! I think we can create a blend of styles which will yield the best of both worlds. I like what you did with the vector functions/fields, no need to change it back! I'm going to peruse our articles for a bit now, and I'll get back to you in a bit. BTW, wave equation wasn't done by a long shot. I hadn't talked about boundary conditions, damping effects, etc., let alone solutions. Feel free to add; just know that my version wasn't what I considered a finished product. JacobB 00:19, 8 January 2010 (EST)

Jacob:

As usual, I've put my foot in my mouth. There is nothing wrong with your wave equation section. It just had a style different from mine, that led to the insight of why our styles are different. I didn't even read it all the way through. I just looked at the first few sentences and extrapolated the trajectory from the initial velocity vector. Of course we will check each other's work very carefully when the time is right.

I've gone through the recent email from you and Andy, and noticed that Andy unblocked me largely for the purpose of assisting with the "calc 3" class. Therefore it would be kind of unsociable for me to run off and only write whatever individual pages strike my fancy at any given instant. So here's my first serious comment, based on your outline. But it's on another page. It seems to me that discussing this stuff here, rather than on the actual course talk page seems a little cabal-like and antisocial. So, having gotten personal stuff out of the way, I'm going to continue on the other page.

SamHB 22:11, 8 January 2010 (EST)

the image you emailed me is available here. JacobB 17:59, 9 January 2010 (EST)

As promised, I'm doing a whole bunch of math material tonight, but I wanted your thoughts on something, and there's also a favor I'd like to ask.

First up, as part of the restructuring we discussed to cover more PDE material, I'm thinking of combining all the integral definitions and calculations into a single lecture, and then the integral changes under coordinate transforms + applications into another lecture. That'll free up one lecture for some more PDE stuff. What do you think of this? I may or may not have done it by the end of tonight, so you can check it out on the lecture 1 page and see what you think.

Second, I'm just going to state the conditions under which the integrals exist, and that they can be evaluated as iterations of single integrals yadda yadda yadda. Would you like to make some existence proofs and link to them from the lectures? JacobB 23:26, 12 January 2010 (EST)

I reorganized the course a little bit, freeing up lectures 7&8. I'm also thinking of deleting lecture 4 and moving a discussion of velocity and acceleration earlier in the course, and skipping completely or downsizing the intended coverage of Frenet frame and curvature. So, as of right now, that's two lectures freed up, and possibly another, which is tons of space for the extra PDE stuff you wanted to add (which I think is a great idea!). The course structure STILL needs work - any further idea you have would be welcome. JacobB 04:27, 13 January 2010 (EST)

Well, I seem to be falling farther and farther behind your ambitious pace of writing. I really don't have a lot of time to devote to this, so I need to make the most of my time. I haven't even had time to do more than a cursory reading of the CLEP website that you gave.

My particular areas of interest are integration in its various forms, and curvilinear coordinate systems. That means, for example, the various forms of Stokes' theorem, and line integrals / surface integrals, etc. All this stuff is hard to cover properly; my bookshelves are filled (exaggeration) with books that do it badly, and don't really explain what a "differential form" is, or what it means to integrate it. Doing this really right (e.g. Spivack Calculus on Manifolds) requires some mathematical machinery (exterior forms, or, if you like, alternating covariant tensor fields) that goes well beyond what is appropriate here. But I'd like to give it an intuitive but not mathematically rigorous treatment.

The starting point should be the change of variable theorem. Students already know the basics of that from Calc 1 and Calc 2, of course. But we can take it to the next step, showing how it ties together the material on parametric curves/surfaces, and integrals over same. How? You change to the coordinate system of the parameter(s), so that the integral becomes a standard (Cartesian) Riemann integral. Of course we know that, but we need to make it central to the presentation.

About theorems and "rigor": Of course I like my math rigorous, but there's one area of math (well, maybe more than one, but humor me) where the "Oh, I see how that's true" insight is very useful in advance of all the rigorous "Let S be an open subset of a smooth submanifold of ..." theorems. And that area just happens to be the area we are in. So, for example, the geometric insight of the 2-dimensional Stokes' theorem is useful, and the rigorous proof is just unnecessary tedium. (They'll see it again if they major in math.)

So I'd like to see:

Review of integration, change-of-variable theorem. Integration over 2-dimensional regions to find, for example, areas. Of course, plain 1-dimensional integration can find the area of a region bounded by a function, the x-axis, and 2 vertical lines, but we want to break out of that. Use of the change-of-variable theorem to deal with such integrals. Path integration, with the change-of-variable theorem changing to a coordinate system for which this is natural, and the connection with parametric curves and surfaces. (A parametric curve of surface is just a coordinate change that makes the curve or surface trivial.) Continue to higher dimensions. Easy proof of Stokes' theorem (well, not easy, and maybe not a rigorous proof) by choosing a coordinate system that "flattens whatever the curvy surface was. Similarly for divergence and Green's theorem; show that Green's theorem is just a trivial case of Stokes' theorem, and the change of coordinate system converts the latter into the former.

I find that the pages on this stuff (not your lectures, the article pages) are scattered all over the place, with Iterated integral, and Double integral, and Line integral and Surface integral and Vector integration. They would benefit from being consolidated into a smaller number of more comprehensive pages.

Other subjects I'm interested in are Laplace's equation, the physical significance, and simple applications of separation of variables (Fourier series over a circular membrane) to solve it. This is probably way too ambitious. Please stop me from doing it.  :-)


About your question about proofs, what do you have in mind for existence proofs? Do mean prove Fubini's theorem? And the conditions under which a multiple integral, in which the individual slices all converge, doesn't converge? That theorem, if I recall correctly, is very hairy. And those conditions are mostly of interest to upperclass topology and analysis majors. Do I misremember? If you say that I do, and you really want those proofs, I will read up on them. On the other hand, a sort of intuitive "hand-wavey" not-really rigorous presentation is something I'm all in favor of.

SamHB 20:57, 13 January 2010 (EST)

I'd like a proof of some basic conditions under which a Riemann integral is defined. We don't need to cover all cases in which it is defined, and we don't need to explore more advanced forms of integration, but right now we have nothing. While I'm all in favor of a brief discussion of Laplace's equation, using Fourier series at this level is probably too advanced. Working on the various special cases of Stokes theorem is great, and I encourage you to. We have some unassigned lectures, so feel free to explore those areas in those open lectures. JacobB 17:05, 14 January 2010 (EST) OK, that's much easier than Fubini's theorem. I believe the official statement is that is is defined if the set of discontinuities has measure zero and the integral is finite. Or we could dispense with the finiteness and say "Yeah, it's defined, but it's defined to be infinite." That's better than saying "I have no idea." In Lebesgue integration theory, I believe that it is considered to be nonintegrable if the integral is infinite; I've never liked that. But never mind. I'll look up stuff and try (for once) not to re-invent the wheel this time. Anyway, more to the point, for our purposes we can use a weaker condition: the set of discontinuities is finite. Getting the students involved in Lebesgue measure is probably not what we want to do. And, of course, we are doing the Riemann integral, not the Lebesgue integral. This stuff (showing that the limit exists) will belong on the Riemann integral page. It will be necessary to get that unlocked. SamHB 23:04, 14 January 2010 (EST)

We also need some material on coordinate transforms, which isn't accounted for at all in the current course structure. Care to help me with that? Also, Riemann Integral has been unlocked by TK. JacobB 20:52, 16 January 2010 (EST)

Gifs often don't work very well when we try to resize them, I'm not sure why. I've uploaded a jpg version of the file here. JacobB 10:46, 19 January 2010 (EST)

A few thoughts -- I don't think we should try to do exterior derivatives; that's just too advanced. That is, I can't picture having one course go all the way from talking about polar coordinates up to doing exterior derivatives. Of course, we need it for the general Stokes' theorem, so we may need to do some hand-waving. I'll look at the Stokes' article.

Should we be keeping any of the exercises/problems secret for use in a final exam? I thought of a very doable but interesting (read: diabolical if you haven't followed the lecture!) problem for integration of parametric surfaces.

I've moved the stuff earlier. Lecture 2 is now bloated, while some others are emaciated.

SamHB 22:22, 22 January 2010 (EST)

See your email - my removal of this content was not a commentary on the quality of your contributions at all, but just trying to keep Conservapedia on-mission. JacobB 21:45, 24 January 2010 (EST)

nice stuff on coordinate changes JacobB 23:36, 3 February 2010 (EST)

Wow, terrific effort!--Andy Schlafly 23:19, 7 February 2010 (EST)

I'm trying to formulate a parametrization of one side of a hyperbola \vec{r}(t) so that \vec{r} \ '' = a\vec{r}\left| \vec{r} \ \right|^{-3} for a constant a \ . I've been doing all kinds of research on hyperbolic trajectories, but can't find what I'm looking for. JacobB 03:31, 10 February 2010 (EST)


You haven't been shooting alpha particles at gold foil lately, have you?  :-)

It looks as though you want the actual trajectory, parameterized by time, of a particle in an inverse square repulsive field. That is, x(t) and y(t) in closed form. You may be out of luck on that, though I can't say for sure.

This is, of course the famous Kepler problem, which has the famous and elegant conic section solution for r in terms of theta. Let µ be the attractive/repulsive acceleration, so that

\mu = GM\, in the gravitational case, or \mu = \frac{Q_1Q_2}{4\pi\epsilon_0} in the electrostatic case. And L is the angular momentum divided by the mass. (µ is part of the problem statement; L and e are constants of the integration.)

For the attractive case,

r = \frac{L^2}{\mu(1 + e \cos \theta)} \frac{d \theta}{d t} = \frac{L}{r^2} \frac{d r}{d t} = \frac{\mu e \sin \theta}{L}

which is the neat and elegant conic that we know and love. But it doesn't track the actual passage of time.

For the repulsive case, I'm still going to have µ > 0, so the solution is

r = \frac{L^2}{\mu(-1 - e \cos \theta)} \frac{d \theta}{d t} = \frac{L}{r^2} \frac{d r}{d t} = \frac{- \mu e \sin \theta}{L}

How to get the time dependence? Warning: I haven't checked this stuff personally yet.

According to wikipedia, we can set

a = \frac{L^2}{\mu(e^2-1)} b = \frac{L^2}{\mu\sqrt{e^2-1}}

Now introduce a new parameter E (why the heck did they call it that?) in place of t, and we can get x and y in closed form:

x = a(e - \cosh E)\, y = b \sinh E\, \frac{d x}{d t} = - a \sinh E \frac{d E}{d t} \frac{d y}{d t} = b \cosh E \frac{d E}{d t} t = a \sqrt{\frac{a}{\mu}} (e \sinh E - E)

The first two of those equations get x and y in closed form as functions of E, so we need E as a function of t. The last equation gives t as a function of E. But I don't think that can be inverted in closed form!

SamHB 21:16, 10 February 2010 (EST)

can you see Calc3.10? i think i wrote this WAY too advanced, but i also feel like fourier analysis is really the only way to understand what's happening there. any thoughts? JacobB 23:15, 17 February 2010 (EST)

Yeah. I saw what you wrote a couple of days ago (how's that for a dangling participle?  :-) Too advanced. I'm not familiar with this particular technique, and will have to brush up on it. But: Delta? Is that the Dirac delta function? Or some representation of a kernel? They won't follow it. And the subscript *. Fourier transform? I'm not familiar with that notation. The way I would present it, and Laplace's equation too, is to show some simple examples of solutions. You and I know that as the first few eigenfunctions. The student can't learn how to solve PDE's until they have seen some examples of solutions. PDE's are way too hard otherwise. (It's like teaching integral calculus. We start by showing some lucky guesses -- "Hey, the sine function has the derivative that we want, let's talk about it for a bit." -- and then we get down to techniques for solving them for real. This gets into the method of separation of variables. It's simplest form is with Laplace's equation on a disk. (I know much more about Laplace than the heat equation, so maybe what I'm saying doesn't apply to the heat equation.) We work out the standard solutions by guessing. They are of the form r^k cos (2\pi\k (\theta +M)) or something like that. We show that those work. And that any linear combination works. We're almost there! If the problem is to find the equilibrium temperature everywhere, given the temperature at the periphery, we just have to figure out how to represent that as sines and cosines. I'll be darned! Fourier series will do it! Then we show how separation of variables works in general -- "We look for solutions of the form X(x) Y(y), such that they are each subject to their own differential equation. But it's probably still too complicated. SamHB 00:10, 18 February 2010 (EST)

Agreed. We may need to consider not including this material in the course at all. On a seperate note, I was hoping you might be able to add some exercises for your Jacobian stuff in Lec. 2? JacobB 22:09, 25 February 2010 (EST)

Yes. I'm working on putting together the presentation of vectors in curvilinear coordinates. In case you hadn't noticed, I'm using a somewhat nontraditional definition of basis vectors -- they aren't normalized. The formulas for dot, cross, div, and curl are more natural, and they can handle any coordinate system, not just orthogonal ones. Still needs more work. A lot more. And I can't put in as much time on this as I would like. I will work out exercises for them. By the way, I thought of a really cool problem. "You are designing a universe. You want Maxwell's equations to be true, because they are so elegant. You want the electric field around a point charge to be a radial vector, proportional to the radius raised to some power. What does that power have to be, so that the divergence will be zero?" The answer is, of course, -2. And, when things are expressed in spherical coordinates and the correct divergence formula is used, it is very easy. SamHB 23:53, 25 February 2010 (EST)

Can you take your line/surface integral stuff from lec 3.3 and merge it with the material on these topics presented in 3.5? JacobB 17:00, 27 February 2010 (EST)

OK. But not right now. I finally put together the divergence/curl stuff, so a huge delivery is about to happen. It may be that, in addition to your request, the div/curl stuff will need to move to a later section. SamHB 23:07, 27 February 2010 (EST)

Done. It's all in a pretty messed-up state, but at least it's in one place. And the right place--lecture 5. There's nothing about integration in earlier lectures. Well, a little bit--the arc length discussion requires an integral, but it's a completely vanilla integral. Lecture 5 is where the fancy-shmancy integrals on manifolds occur.

In fact, a thing to think about is the relationship between the lecture 4 material--tangents, binormals, torsion, etc. (that is, the stuff that you are interested in :-) and the generalized coordinate/manifold stuff (the stuff I'm interested in :-). They are both part of multivariable calculus, but sort of at opposite poles of the subject. Maybe we could think about switching lecture 3 and lecture 4. Not saying we should; I haven't thought about in any detail. But it's a possibility.

Forget that. I've looked again. The lectures are in the right order. SamHB 22:54, 1 March 2010 (EST)

Hope this makes at least some sense.

SamHB 22:51, 1 March 2010 (EST)

Enjoy! JDWpianist 15:02, 5 March 2010 (EST)

To JacobB or anyone else who works on the MV course. (Or anyone interested in the topic.)

The material that I wrote, mostly in lecture 3.2, used a somewhat radical approach to vector components. I used somewhat unorthodox definitions of generalized coordinate systems -- "natural" coordinates rather than "orthonormal coordinates + Lamé coefficients". The latter are more common, but natural coordinates are, in my opinion, actually simpler and, well, more natural. Here is the difference: What I call "natural" coordinates allows for arbitrary coordinate systems; not just the orthogonal ones that are in common use. All the common coordinate systems (polar or confocal in 2D, cylindrical, spherical, etc. in 3D) are orthogonal, in the sense that the coordinate lines, curved though they may be, are always orthogonal to each other at any point. I used "natural" coordinates, such as are used in tensor calculus, that don't require orthogonality. It's true that I made heavy use of the common simplification for common coordinate systems, but I used a very general treatment in the early stages.

The most important difference is that, in the "natural" formulation, basis vectors are not unit vectors. That is, I used a different formulation of what the components of a vector mean. The components of any given vector, in common orthonormalized coordinates, is bigger than the natural components of the same vector, by a factor of Hi, the ith Lamé coefficient.

In an orthonomalized system, the metric tensor is diagonal. For example, in spherical coordinates, the metric is

[g] = \begin{bmatrix} 1 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & r^2 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & r^2 \sin^2 \theta \end{bmatrix}

The Lamé coefficients are the square roots of those diagonal entries. (The metric is positive-definite, no?) So we have

h_1 = 1\ \ \ h_2 = r\ \ \ h_3 = r \sin\theta

In an orthonomalized system, those are the only things you need to know, but the formulas are very hard to explain and motivate. In my treatment of, for example, the cross product, you can see them lurking in disguise, in the form of the various square roots of gii.

Important point: The basis vectors (that is, vectors with components like (0, 1, 0)) are not unit vectors in the sense of having a real, physical length of 1. In an orthonomalized system, their physical length is 1—the formula for the length of a vector is always the square root of the sum of the squares of the components, although the meaning of those components is actually very complicated. In a "natural" system, the inner product is given by \sqrt{\sum g_{ij} V_i V_j}. Which of course simplifies somewhat when the system is in fact orthogonal and the metric is diagonal.

My guess is that you aren't really inclined to do things with "natural" coordinates in the MV lectures. (In fact, it's possible that you are banging your head against your desk right now as you read this :-) So you will probably want to rewrite some of my material. The part about thinking of a coordinate system in terms of its J matrix to any Cartesian system, and then using JtJ as the metric matrix is still probably useful. (I intended to have the proof that g is independent of which Cartesian system you use (though J itself is not) be an exercise. It involves showing that the transformation between any two Cartesian systems is an orthogonal matrix, and, when you insert such a matrix into the JtJ computation, the transpose turns into an inverse and they cancel.)

But my definitions of the dot product and cross product involve the metric, whereas, in the traditional formulation, the formulas are the same as in Cartesian coordinates. Because all the vectors are calibrated with respect to a locally orthonormal system, and that's all that matters for dot and cross products.

Curl and divergence are another matter. The formulas for these are way hairy no matter how you do it. (Though, if you use the "natural" formulation and do tensor operations, they are trivial cases of the covariant gradient. But you probably don't want to do that.) I have the polished formulas written down on paper somewhere; never got around to typing them in. Let me know if you want them. Otherwise, use the traditional formulas, from whatever textbook you like.

Good luck!


Incidentally, the page math.arizona.edu/~vpiercey/Lame.pdf, which I wasn't aware of when I started with MV Calc, has an excellent treatment of how the Lamé coefficients are used in practice. It's interesting reading, and might have useful pedagogical ideas.

SamHB 22:20, 30 June 2010 (EDT)

Great. Let's teach beginning differential geometry to engineering students. Oh, is that a sig sauer over there? Hand it to me? Great, thanks. *blows brains out*. In all seriousness, thanks for your contributions, but let's keep the most advanced material for the most advanced courses, alright? This is multivariable calculus, not rocket sci... errr, you get the idea. On another note, I have been away for a long time (a month? Has it been that long? ugh...) so our Calc I and II courses aren't built up at all. Feel free to help out there. JacobBShout out! 21:04, 21 July 2010 (EDT)

As I've always said, our purpose should be to introduce math to our core readership - not to display one's erudition or to publish the most obscure, jargon-ridden and unreadable articles possible.

I haven't seen any evidence that the undergrad and post-grad math hackers have the slightest inclination to make mathematics accessible to our readers. If this changes, I'm happy to help them, but refusal to write articles on high school algebra with variables like x isn't very convincing. --Ed Poor Talk 16:32, 26 September 2010 (EDT)

Good to see you again! More math learning is always welcome ....-- Schlafly 00:18, 13 November 2010 (EST)

It starts with the compass and straightedge article. I'm serious. Can you just restore it, please? If there's some deeper reason why you don't want to, could you email me? Please? SamHB 00:35, 13 November 2010 (EST) I didn't delete it. Aren't there other entries you could improve as the person who did delete it can reconsider?--Andy Schlafly 00:49, 13 November 2010 (EST) We should take this off line. I will send mail to you and Ed. But there is one thing that needs to be said at the outset. You may wonder why I am being so single-mindedly obsessive about "Compass and Straightedge", to the exclusion of all else. It's this: That article was contributed to by many people, in the true spirit of a wiki and of the "best of the public". Aside from the parody sentence, it was a decent article, and was about a topic that (IMHO) is important as supplemental material for math students at the high-school and junior-high level. It is something that is often not covered in regular curricula because it's off the beaten track. It's a prime example of good "enrichment" material. And it's interesting. The article was deleted because of one act of vandalism. You ask "Aren't there other entries you could improve ..."? Yes, but why should I put effort into things if they are in danger of being destroyed due to the actions of one jerk? I am one of Conservapedia's most prolific math/science/engineering/technology contributors. That deletion calls into question any contributions I might make. [Note for anyone mystified by the order in which things happened: The preceding was intended to be posted before the email, and hence before the restoration actually occurred. It got sent along with the email. The restoration then occurred. Thanks! But I still think the explanation is important.]

SamHB 15:50, 13 November 2010 (EST)

Ed's talk page isn't locked...even though it says so. New users and those not registered cannot edit it....but it will allow you to save to it, regardless of what it says. At least that is what I have been told, I've never created another user account! --?K/Admin/Talk 22:01, 28 November 2010 (EST)

Right you are. I didn't even notice the open edit box just below the sign. I guess I confused the green color of the sign with the grass itself  :-) SamHB 22:21, 28 November 2010 (EST)

In a recent note to Ed Poor, I picked out 4 articles that I thought would be useful to write (or improve), and timely, based on various earlier discussions.

Compass and straightedge—Well, I've rewritten most of that, along the lines that I had told Ed I would do. But it still needs a decision about how much to say about the connection with Mr. Galois. Elementary Algebra—This was the subject of the mail alluded to above [on Ed's talk page]. What do you [Ed] think of the changes that I made? Is the next step to talk about quadratic equations? Or perhaps polynomial factoring? Or something else? Would you like me to do it, or do you want to work on this yourself? Peano axioms—There is at present no article on this subject. I think it would be very interesting and fascinating for our readers. And it can be done in an accessible way. It's really not esoteric. Anyone old enough to appreciate what "theorems" are, and that you "prove" them (as opposed to taking your teacher's word for them), can appreciate this. People probably cross this threshold around 9th grade or so, usually in the context of elementary plane geometry. (I can't believe that you never took plane geometry! But I'm sure you developed an appreciation of proofs in whatever classes you were taking at the time.) Now most people have been doing ordinary arithmetic for a long time before learning about theorems, and they think they know that addition is commutative. So you go to these people and ask "So how do you know that addition is commutative? Can you give me a proof? Aha! That is what the Peano axioms are about. Center—This has been a disaster for a long time. I really don't know how to write the "headline" sentence for this; that is, what's the first thing you say about what the "center" of a geometrical shape is? Do you have any ideas? I'd really like to see your take on this article; I really don't know how to begin.

I would really like to hear what people think about doing the Peano axioms. They are awesome. And I believe they are neglected in "traditional" ("brick and mortar") math education.

Ed made a suggestion of doing propositional calculus. I don't agree. Plain logic (if x implies y then not y implies not x) is of course very important, and is always covered. Or should be covered. But the actual topic of propositional calculus goes beyond that in ways that will not be useful to teenagers, and will, frankly, bore them. I did not appreciate what this material really meant until I was a college upperclassman. Of course, I didn't like the game of "Wff'n proof" either. Anyone who liked that game as a child (Hi, Ed!) very well might find it invigorating to write an article on propositional calculus. But leave me out of it.

SamHB 00:23, 6 December 2010 (EST)

I don't understand your objections to making math and logic accessible to underclassmen, high school students, and the layman in general. In particular, your statement that propositional calculus goes way beyond teenagers and will bore them does not explain why you refuse to help describe the parts that they can understand and enjoy. --Ed Poor Talk 10:42, 12 April 2011 (EDT) As I believe I have emphasized to you again and again and again, I do want to make math and science articles accessible. I believe that everything I have written (well, not MVCalc; that was JacobB and me going overboard) is accessible. If you find exceptions to this, please let me know, accept my apologies, and let me fix it. Please don't take my reluctance to write on a given topic as "refuse to help describe ..." The are many articles I haven't contributed to. Click "random page" to see them. My inaction on propositional calculus is that it is not particularly interesting to me personally. I'm much more interested in the areas of math that would be considered "pre-calculus". Now I know that you are interested in logic. (Was I right about "Wff-N-Proof"? Dark blue vinyl case, pink foam rubber, wooden cubes with logic symbols on them? It's been a long time. I no longer have my set. I think it went the way of so many of my childhood things.) I admit that my statement that prop calc will "bore" teenagers may have been a bit of projection on my part. You're most welcome to disagree. So, by all means, write about it!!!!! Don't read too much into my reluctance. If you write well, you may even convert me to liking logic. Maybe I'll even buy a copy of Wff-N-Proof on Ebay. Who knows? Go for it! SamHB 23:43, 14 April 2011 (EDT) I think my dad's WFF n' Proof set had blue or bluish-gray foam rubber, but yes, that was my introduction to PC. I still use the "Polish notation" when doing proofs, as I prefer it to infix notation. C-w-Klb (where w = write well, l = like logic, b = buy a copy ;-) --Ed Poor Talk 00:02, 15 April 2011 (EDT)

Goodness gracious, has it really been 2 years? How did I ever forget you as a potential collaborator? --Ed Poor Talk 22:13, 1 June 2013 (EDT)

I'm just going to overwrite you for now, see talk. Sorry.

No problem, good faith, and all that. --Ed Poor Talk 00:40, 15 April 2011 (EDT)

User:RobSmith suggested I get approval from other committee members on featuring this on Friday. Thanks.--JamesWilson 23:40, 27 July 2011 (EDT)

I'm sorry; I didn't get to it on time. I see it's featured anyway. In any case, I stay away from politically sensitive articles. (Maybe I shouldn't be on the committee.) I have a number of issues with the article—it seems to be just a "hatchet job", as political issues tend to be. To pick just one example of many questionable statements: In fact, it is almost unheard of for a credit card company to give a credit line increase to someone who's maxed out on his credit card. This is true, but it is in the context of saying why the debt limit should not be increased. Now maybe it shouldn't be increased in this case, but that isn't a convincing argument. The debt limit has been increased many many times in our history. If the comparison were apt, that would be equivalent to a credit card company increasing the limit, many times, on a maxed-out account. Which no credit card company would do. But the fact that the debt limit has been increased many time shows that the comparison can't be a good one. The federal debt is not a credit card account. SamHB 12:47, 30 July 2011 (EDT) You may remove yourself from the committee if you wish. As for your edit to the Elvis article, I added a cite for the nervousness. Thanks.--JamesWilson 21:40, 30 July 2011 (EDT) OK, that really surprised me. I had assumed that Elvis's gyration came about "naturally", that is, he just "felt" the music. The article you cited was certainly eye-opening. It seems that his musical career had a rather difficult start, complete with ridicule from other people. I'm glad he overcame it. SamHB 12:46, 31 July 2011 (EDT)

that you are leaving?--SeanS 23:27, 18 August 2011 (EDT)


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