http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,24069817-5001021,00.html?id=#vote-now-form ALIEN CONTACT COVERED UP, SAYS APOLLO VETERAN EDGAR MITCHELL 24 July 2008 (Edited by DCB) – Seventy- seven year old Dr Edgar Mitchell is a former NASA astronaut, a moonwalker and veteran of the 14^th Apollo mission. He is also a believer in aliens from outerspace. According to Mitchell “extra-terrestrials have visited Earth on several occasions - but the alien contact has been repeatedly covered up by governments for six decades.”  During a radio interview he said the “…real-life ET's were similar to the traditional image of a small frame, large eyes and head.”

The paper conducted an on-line poll and this is the result of that poll for

 26 July 2008

Thanks for voting, here are the results so far:

Do you think aliens exist?

Yes - And Dr Mitchell is right, alien contact has been covered up

78% (15818 votes)

Yes - But there have not been any cover-ups

10% (2155 votes)

No - We are the only ones in this universe 11% (2262 votes)

Total votes: 20235

http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/4842102/saudi-arrested-having-wives 31 July 2008 - POLICE IN SAUDI ARABIA HAVE ARRESTED A MAN WORKING FOR THE COUNTRY'S VICE SQUAD WHO IS ACCUSED OF HAVING SIX WIVES, TWO MORE THAN ALLOWED UNDER ISLAMIC LAW (Edited by DCB) –This “man is an employee with the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, or religious police commonly known as the Muttawa, which is in charge of enforcing a strict Islamic moral code in ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia.” He has denied the charges saying he divorced two of the women and therefore only has four which is allowed under “sharia, or Islamic law, which is applied in oil-rich Saudi Arabia.”

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/08/01/abrupt-climate-change.html HARSH CLIMATE CHANGE ONCE FELL SWIFTLY 1 August 2008 (Edited by DCB) – “Now scientists believe they've pinpointed the exact time the northern hemisphere was plunged back into a deep freeze. Examining sediments preserved at the bottom of a remote lake in western Germany, they found that what's known as the Younger Dryas cold period took just a year to sweep across the continent, starting in the autumn, 12,679 years ago.”  “The Younger Dryas continues to surprise us in providing a message as to how quickly climate change can occur," said Daniel Sigman of Princeton University in N.J.”

http://www.ottumwacourier.com/cnhi/ottumwadailycourier/homepage/local_story_213233023.html?keyword=leadpicturestory July 31, 2008 WEATHER ALWAYS A CONCERN FOR FARMERS

BIGGEST CONCERN IS GETTING ENOUGH HEAT UNITS TO MATURE THE CROPS (Edited by DCB) – I grew up in the land of corn and swine, Iowa. As a former Iowan I like to keep up with what is happening back home. It was interesting to recently read that Iowa needs “Drier weather…’to get the heat units up. What we really need is typical August Iowa temperatures,’ said Bob Wells, Mahaska County Iowa State University field specialist.”  “Wells said most Iowa farmers are about three weeks behind a normal growing season in the state because of the flooding and cool weather.”

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,24114914-5001021,00.html PAYMENT PROPOSED FOR SURROGATE MUMS August 02, 2008 (Edited by DCB) – “SURROGATE mums could be paid to carry and give birth to other women's babies under major changes to the law being considered by the...” New South Wales state government. Under the present laws “…commercial surrogacy is banned in NSW, but the Government has announced it will open the door to allow costs to be retrieved from commissioning parents.”  The present Australian surrogacy laws caused one Sydney woman “…to visit a Californian baby factory, where she hand-picked her egg donor and the woman who would give birth to her baby.”

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Election2008/Default.aspx?id=208106 OBAMA PROMISES "CHANGE" FOR AMERICA ONE HOMOSEXUAL ADOPTION AT A TIME 9 August 2008 (Edited by DCB) – Democrat Presidential hopeful “Barack Obama has once again reaffirmed his support for homosexual adoption s and his intentions to repeal federal regulations protecting the traditional family built on marriage.” Obama has “…sent a letter outlining his position to Jennifer Chrisler, Executive Director of the Family Equality Council, after the homosexual lobby group demanded his response to Republican presidential contender John McCain's statement to the New York Times three weeks ago: ‘I don't believe in gay adoption.’” Obama’s response gave him “…gave Obama an opportunity to curry favor with the Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender (LGBT) lobby.” This Presidential maybe said “We also have to do more to support and strengthen LGBT families…Because equality in relationship, family, and adoption rights is not some abstract principle; it's about whether millions of LGBT Americans can finally live lives marked by dignity and freedom.”

Because of Grace and Calvary,