Charter Communications Lying to Clarksville, TN Voters on CDE Referendum.

By Bill Larson | September 7, 2006 |

What is the November CDE Referendum about?

The Clarksville Department of Electricity is planning on building a citywide fiber optical network, fiber optic connections would be extended to all homes and businesses in the city. This will allow CDE to: check meters; disconnect and reconnect services; offer custom billing packages, including picking the date for your meter to be read, “Select Billing”; monitor the power distribution grid in real time, instant outage detection, and monitor electrical quality; all from their central office. All services, which Clarksville has a need for.

CDE also proposes to offer other services to help recoup some of the expenses incurred from the building and the maintaining of this network. Services such as Telephone, Cable television, On-demand video, Video-conferencing, Community access TV channels, High speed internet, as well as other services. «Read the rest of this article»

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Disney/ABC Trying to Distort History with Partisan Docudrama, The Path to 9/11

By Bill Larson | September 6, 2006 |

Taking a tactic from Goebbels, Disney is distorting history with their version of Goebbels big lie. For those who are not well versed on history, Josef Goebbels was Adolf Hitler’s Propaganda Minister. Goebbels technique argumentum ad nauseam, was a policy of repeating a point until it becomes generally accepted as a truth.

Path to 9/11, a largely fictional account which is being portrayed as a dramatized documentary(docudrama), is nothing more than an lame attempt by one of the largest corporations in the United States to sway public opinion and voters, in favor of a one political party, to the detriment of another, all to influence the outcome of an election. It’s a more ambitious attempt, to do what the so called “Swift boat Veterans for Truth”, and Sinclair Broadcasting, did to John Kerry in 2004.

What’s this all about? «Read the rest of this article»

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The National Geographic Society Offers Many Outstanding Podcasts

By Bill Larson | September 5, 2006 |

I grew up with National Geographic Magazine. It was an escape, from the mundane reality of my childhood, a monthly trip to a world of the fantastic adventures and exotic locales.

I was browsing the itunes music store today when I stumbled across the fact that The National Geographic Society now offers podcasts. I have listened to a few and found that they meet the National Geographic Society’s very high standards.

These short audio and video programs are educational and very entertaining , for young and old. They expose you to the various cultures from around the world. The best part is, all of them are available, free of charge! «Read the rest of this article»

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Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin dead, died doing what he loved (Updated)

By Bill Larson | September 4, 2006 |

The Crocodile Hunter star of the show of the same name, Steve Irwin has died today. He leaves behind his wife Terri, and their two children. He was an educator and helped to instill a love of animals and nature in millions of people, young and old. He was named the “2004 Queensland Australian of the Year”, in part for the large number of tourists who visited Australia as a result of seeing his programs.

Steve Irwin died doing what he loved, filming a documentary about Stingrays with the intent of “Demystifying them”. «Read the rest of this article»

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Are we becoming a Theocracy, Religion and Politics part III

By Bill Larson | September 3, 2006 |

Our country was founded by people looking for freedom, the freedom to worship their God in their way. It’s one of the things which makes our nation great. Some Evangelical and Charismatic Christians aided by politicians both Republican and Democrat, want to deprive us of that. We can not, no must not, stand by and allow that to happen. Some of these politicians are true believers, while others simply want to use Christians as a source of easy votes. «Read the rest of this article»

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Can a person be gay and a Christian?

By David W. Shelton | September 3, 2006 |

It’s a question that is rarely asked out loud; a question to which most people assume they already know the answer; whether they’re Christian or not. But there are a great many people that have it in the back of their minds: “can a person be gay and a Christian?”

Naturally, the first impulse answer is a resounding, “no.” After all, we’re told such awful and horrible things about gay and lesbian people that there’s no possible way that such “abominations” could ever even be interested in worshipping the Lord Jesus Christ. What’s more, we’re told that homosexuals have hundreds of sex partners in their lives, and that’s all that runs their lives. Their sexual expression is allegedly their only expression. «Read the rest of this article»

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The inner life of a cell

By Bill Larson | September 2, 2006 |

Ever wonder what happens inside your cells, the building blogs of your body? The Inner Life of a Cell, an eight-minute animation created in NewTek LightWave 3D and Adobe After Effects by XVIVO and Harvard University, tries to answer that question in a way we can visualize. Below is a 3 minute version of it which was presented at Siggraph in August.

I don’t know about you, but I think it’s really cool! «Read the rest of this article»

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Another view on Amendment 1

By Michael Covington | September 2, 2006 |

This is in response to a Same-sex marriages open Pandora’s Box in the opinion section of The Leaf Chronicle which appearing on Saturday 8/26/06 on the subject of Amendment 1 by Beth Sabel. Here is my response to her letter.

“I was truly saddened to hear of your post on how you feel that this will “open Pandora’s Box.”

To amend the wording to state “one person and one person” would not change any stipulations on how many persons, which family members, or which species could marry. It would simply change the gender of the two persons marrying. «Read the rest of this article»

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