Note: This archive version of the e-newsletter is in ASCII text. To view this in Rich Text Format/HTML (with pictures & links), use the Contact page to send an e-mail to request that edition. Dear Friend, Wow. We'll be mixin it up today! >From catsup on copper to internet taxes. I think we're covering it all! Only in one place! Same IQ* E-News! Same IQ* Time! (Well, it sounds at least a little like the ol' Batman TV jingle.) ;-D CONTENTS: (1) Microsoft Word Attachment - Veto New Civics! (2) Household Hints from Mom to Mom! Catsup on Copper?! (3) Phila Inquirer Letter to Editor on Terri Schiavo & Website! (4) Glenda Stoneback LIVE & Prayer Request (5) Legislation ALERT - Oppose Federal S. 1774 (6) Partial Birth Abortion Ban - Dead on Arrival?! (7) CEANET - "New Civics" Means "Global Government!" ==================== ==================== (1) Microsoft Word Attachment - Veto New Civics! Dear Friend, I created the attached Microsoft Word document for your use. It is a pre-written letter to President Bush. Feel free to edit/forward/post/print/distribute all attachments that you receive from IQ* far and wide! The topic addressed in this letter is described in detail later in this edition of IQ* ((7) CEANET - "New Civics" Means "Global Government!") If you already received this letter in an IQ* Instant Alert e-mail, please note that a new, updated version is attached to this IQ* Edition! IQ* Instant Alert is a service of this ministry that sends out attachments as soon as they are created, before the weekly edition of IQ*, getting the material into your hands at the speed of light (or at least at the speed of your modem)! ==================== ==================== (2) Household Hints from Mom to Mom! Catsup on Copper?! My church has a ministry called Mom to Mom. Every quarter, Editor Kathy E. puts out a truly fantastic newsletter, with contributions from Committee Members Tracy, my wife, on Keeping Us Informed; Poet Glenda Stoneback, on Quiet Reflections; Theda, on Helpful Hints and A Special Recipe; and Kathy E. on Book Summary. Today, I'm sharing the Helpful Hints. If you'd be interested in getting a copy of this quarterly newsletter, I may be able to get a PDF of it to you; let me know if you're interested. Household Hints Bathroom Odors - Place a shallow dish of baking soda behind the toilet to absorb bathroom odors. [This wasn't new to me, but good info.] Chimney - To keep your chimney clean, throw a handful of salt on the fire. Chrome - To remove rust from chrome, wipe it with aluminum foil dipped in Cola. To polish chrome, use a crumbled up piece of aluminum foil and rub the chrome. Copper - To polish copper, rub an ample amount of catsup with hot water on the copper and dry to find an incredible shine. Crayon on Walls or Washable Wallpaper - Use a blow dryer. It heats the wax, and you can wipe it away instantly. If the color remains behind, like red usually does, wet a cloth with bleach and wipe the colored area. Fireplace Soot Odor - To diminish and remove the odor, after you clean out the ashes, place a shallow pan of baking soda in the fireplace for a few hours. The odor will disappear. Ink Stains - The best way to get out ink stains is to put rubbing alcohol on the stain - it disappears! This must be done before washing. Microwave Odors - Keep a cup of baking soda in the microwave between uses. Microwave Baked-on Grit - Fill a measuring cup full of water and turn the microwave on for about 1-2 minutes until you see the water boiling. The moisture makes all the old food easy to wipe off. [I've heard that cutting a lemon in half and nuking it for about four minutes, then waiting an hour, does the same thing but leaves a lemony-fresh smell ;-) ]. Paint on Carpet - Spray with Windex and wipe clean. [I've used OxyClean - but it bleached my carpet. :-( ] Photos Stuck Together - With a hair dryer on low, slowly melt them apart. Stickers, Decals, and Glue - To remove them from furniture, glass, plastic, etc., saturate with vegetable oil and rub off. Tarnished Silverware - Line a cake pan with aluminum foil, Fill with water and add one teaspoon of baking soda per 2 cups of water. Heat to 150 degrees [not in a microwave!]. Lay silverware in pan, touching the aluminum foil. Watch the stains disappear! Soiled Shirt Collars - Take a small paintbrush and brush hair shampoo into the soiled collars before laundering. The shampoo is made to dissolve body oils. Perspiration: Stains/Odors - Soak the stained shirt in equal parts of ammonia and water and add a few tablespoons of liquid dish soap. Let it soak over night. [And if the perspiration stains/odors are on you, a shower will do! Hey, I'm a poet and don't even know'it. Well, maybe not. I'll leave the poetry to Glenda!] ==================== ==================== (3) Phila Inquirer Letter to Editor on Terri Schiavo & Website! The following letter to the editor appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Re: "Force-feeding is wrong," letter, Oct. 26: Phila inq It was troubling to read hospice social worker Susan Thompson's declaration that the parents of Terri Schiavo are "force feeding" her, when it would be better to let this "someone go." Certainly, if someone has a terminal illness, there comes a time to let that "someone go," but when an individual has become an invalid through injury or illness, the compassionate and civilized thing has always been to provide him with the necessities of life which he cannot provide for himself, and that would obviously include basic sustenance. Otherwise, we might allow paraplegics to simply starve to death because they cannot feed themselves. The real issue here is the quality of life, and as many handicapped and disabled people tell us, it is not for us to judge their right to their existence, but to support that existence in any and every way humanly, and yes, often times, mechanically, possible. Deep inside Terri Schiavo is a life and a world, the quality of which we have no right to judge. What kind of person fights the parents of a loved child to end that life? Even if one believes sincerely that is what Terri would have wanted, there is no way of knowing for sure. Don Powell Philadelphia ------- Thank you to Winona, our newest IQ* Family Member, who subscribed this week, and shared this website: The Terry Schiavo Foundation Website http://www.terrisfight.org ------- For more information on Right-to-Life Issues, go to the InfoQuest* Abortion page! http://fp.users.fast.net/InfoQuest/Abortion.htm ==================== ==================== (4) Glenda Stoneback LIVE & Prayer Request Please keep Glenda in prayer. Here's her news and prayer request: "Please pray for me: Saturday, poetry night at the Montgomery Theater in Souderton - OPEN MIKE!!! Sunday, local author's spotlight at the library, 5 minutes to tell what inspires me to write. Pray for boldness, clarity, and guidance from the Holy Spirit!" ==================== ==================== (5) Legislation ALERT - Oppose Federal S. 1774 ACTION: Please urge your Senator to oppose S. 1774, and to instead support REAL efforts aimed at stopping terrorists -- such as arming the rest of the pilots who want to carry guns. Please visit the Gun Owners Legislative Action Center at http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm to send the pre-written message below to your Senators. ------ Pre-written message ----- Dear Senator: I urge you to vote against S. 1774, a bill authored by Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA). This bill is unconstitutional, and it is a useless waste of taxpayers' money and of your time. Plus, the gun it purports to ban doesn't even exist! If a totally plastic gun is ever developed, a ban will not keep bad guys from getting their hands on such a firearm any more than the other 20,000 or so gun laws keep murderers and thieves from getting their hands on guns now. You have much more important things to do. Please, instead of wasting your time banning a gun that does not exist, force the Transportation Safety Administration to arm pilots. Gun Owners of America will inform me how you vote. Please vote against S. 1774. Sincerely, *** New! "Just For Skeptics" Websection Know someone who doesn't know what to think about using guns for self protection? Or perhaps someone who "knows" all about the need for gun control -- and doesn't know they are wrong? Check out the Just For Skeptics section of the GOA website at http://www.gunowners.org/skeptic.htm to help your friends. Dozens of articles and fact sheets divided into eight categories explode common gun control myths, highlight real-life instances of self-defense, and explore the role of the gun in modern society. Even a long-time activist will find plenty of "soundbites" suitable for talk shows or casual conversation. Tell those skeptical friends of yours about it today -- before some thug gets to them first! ==================== ==================== (6) Partial Birth Abortion Ban - Dead on Arrival Randall Terry, Founder of Operation Rescue says, "Partial-Birth Abortion Ban: Dead on Arrival" Randall Terry says the Partial Birth Abortion Ban was a political mirage from the beginning. Randall Terry is presently available for television satellite up-link from Jacksonville, Florida The Public Relations Goldmine: "The major benefit of this bill is the debate that surrounds it: 1) Abortion and abortion procedures are discussed in the news media, hence the public is educated; 2) The public sees how completely barbaric and violent partial-birth abortion is; 3) Voters see who supports this crime against children and mothers. The ethics behind partial-birth abortion are the same as those that justified Nazi concentration camps and American slavery. History will show that abortion in America was a gross betrayal of human rights and a crime against humanity," states Randall Terry, Founder of Operation Rescue, and President of the Society for Truth and Justice. The Political Scam: As Mr. Terry had predicted last month: "This bill, if it becomes law, may not save one child’s life. The Federal Courts are likely to strike it down. Furthermore this bill would only insure that unborn children would be murdered in some other hideous fashion. The bill also provides political cover in an election season to cowardly ‘pro-life’ political leaders who have done little for the pro-life cause. Worse yet, this bill would provide political cover for supporters of Roe-v-Wade within both parties, especially the Republican Party whose constituents are pro-life. This enables certain pro-choice Congressmen to support this bill and play both sides of the political fence. If the President and Congress want to accomplish a small, but real step, they should outlaw all abortions after 20 weeks--the age when a baby can live outside the womb," states Randall Terry, Founder of Operation Rescue, and President of the Society for Truth and Justice. Randall Terry is also available to comment on the rescue of Terry Schindler-Schiavo, and his part in bringing her plight national attention. EDITORS: To schedule an interview with Randall Terry, please call 202.546.0054 or 904.819.9450 or email info@maranatha.tv For more information about Randall Terry visit www.RandallTerry.com and www.SocietyforTruthandJustice.com --- IQ* Solution: The InfoQuest* State Rights vs. Federalism Education Campaign! http://fp.users.fast.net/InfoQuest/Federal_Marriage_Amendment.htm ==================== ==================== (7) CEANET - "New Civics" Means "Global Government!" http://www.cnsnews.com/Commentary/Archive/200310/COM20031028a.html 'New Civics' Means 'Global Governance' By Tom DeWeese CNSNews.com Commentary October 28, 2003 The Declaration of Independence is quite clear about where government power is supposed to come from. It says, "...Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed." In other words, the people of the United States give power to the government. Government does not have the power to "grant" our rights. Where does such an idea come from? According to the Declaration, such ideas are "self-evident." Or, in the language of today's youth, "DUH!" Given that the Declaration of Independence is one of the two most important documents in the history of the United States, one would expect that such concepts would be the very foundation of the civics curriculum in our nation's public schools. Well, DUH! Not if the Center for Civics Education (CCE) succeeds in bamboozling Congress into passing H.R. 1078, "The American History and Civics Education Act of 2003" to establish the "Presidential Academies to Teach the New Civics." "New Civics." Look out! Get ready for some more "newspeak." According to CCE documents promoting the New Civics, "old civics" was a "heavy-handed, mind-numbing" indoctrination of "uncontested political loyalty to the state and society...." In other words, it suggested loyalty to our sovereign nation, the United States of America. So what is "New Civics"? Well the Center for Civics Education provides a wonderful answer for that question: "In this century, by contrast with the past, we may reasonably speculate that education for citizenship in a democracy will, with each decade, become everywhere more global, international and comparative in curricular content and processes of teaching and learning. And we ought to think now about how to improve our current curricular frameworks and standards for a world transformed by globally accepted and internationally transcendent principles and processes of democracy." Now for those you who are constantly puzzled by current events and wonder why today's school kids lack understanding and loyalty to our great nation, now is your opportunity to catch up. In case you missed the paragraph above, New Civics is a proposed public school curricula advocating global government and global citizenship in which GOVERNMENT grants our rights. New Civics is opposed to sovereign nations and limited government under the control of the people. Such ideas do not come from America's founding documents. To the contrary, our Constitution was written to try to protect us from the globalist concepts presented in the New Civics. Our Founding Fathers created a government that was controlled by the people rather than the other way around. The rule of law was to be supreme over group whims and pop fads. Such concepts were, and are, unique in a world ruled by dictators, kings and potentates. That's why it's so important that American children are taught the unique concepts of the American ideal of free markets, free minds and a free society protected by concrete laws. What else should be discussed in civics class other than the tools needed to keep such a system in place? These are the ideals that the Center for Civics Education and its New Civics seek to deride. They have no interest in keeping the American Republic in place. The New Civics teaches that the U.S. model of Republican democracy is just a "long-standing American tradition" unique to the U.S., but no more important than any other model of democracy. The New Civics teaches that American classrooms would be doing a disservice to students by suggesting that America's recognition of inalienable rights deserves any superior place in the spectrum of world politics. Instead, they pack the genius of our Founding Fathers with every run-of-the-mill democracy on the globe, including those with no recognition of individual liberties. American students are now to learn that we're nothing special. Our Bill of Rights, so vital in the establishment of the American Constitution, is now depicted as "negative rights." The American model of rugged individualism where citizens are free to pursue their own wants, needs and dreams, but without direct involvement of the government, is considered a "negative" in the New Civics. Never mind that it was that system that created the greatest economy and standard of living the world has ever known and that our government recognized that we had unquestionable rights from birth. According to the New Civics curriculum, Socialist democracies like Estonia and Lithuania have "positive constitutionalism in regard to human rights." That means that the government is required to provide a broad array of social and economic entitlements. "Human rights" is defined as an expansive social welfare state. The human rights model used in the New Civics is not the U.S. Bill of Rights, but the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which would put world government in charge of overseeing every aspect of our public, personal and family lives. The UN's document of described social, economic and solidarity "rights" are called "positive rights." Estonia, according to the new American civics standards, is a better model for the new century. The term "National Sovereignty" never appears in the textbook that accompanies the New Civics, called \ldblquote We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution ." In lesson 37 of the textbook, the question is asked: "How may citizenship change in the Nation's Third Century?" The answer is clearly revealed on page 202 of the textbook: - "The achievements of modern technology are turning the world into a global village." - "National corporations are becoming international." - "The culture we live in is becoming cosmopolitan, that is, belonging to the whole world." - "The issues confronting American citizens are increasingly international" - "Issues of economic competition, the environment, and the movement of peoples around the world require an awareness of political associations that are larger in scope than the nation-state." Now what could such an entity be? The United Nations perhaps? The section of the book ends with this question: "Do you think that world citizenship will be possible in your lifetime?" \fi720 The fact is the Declaration of Independence was specifically a declaration of national sovereignty. How can American schools' civics classes, authorized by the very federal government established by the Declaration of Independence and paid for by American taxpayers, now ignore American sovereignty? Why is such legislation now being considered before Congress? Because new reports have shown that American students are woefully ignorant of how our government works and those recent graduates already working in society show an alarming disinterest in the voting booth. So the drive is on to teach civics "better." It must be understood that, since 1994, America's public schools have been forced to use the National Education Standards adopted to accompany the federal Goals 2000 curriculum. The education received by those very students and young adults whose ignorance now alarms today's officials were the 1994 national standards. Worse, the 1994 standards for civics were written by the Center for Civic Education; the same Center for Civics Education now authorized by Congress to create the enhanced version laid out in H.R. 1078. Under federal grant, the CCE creates the standards, creates the curriculum and distributes it to schools by federal law and federal money. The CCE also receives federal tax dollars to train teachers to teach their version of civics. At one such training class a speaker diminished the meaning of the Declaration of Independence as simply a political declaration to justify a violent revolution. His comments were typical of the tone of the class. Such curricula are the reasons for the growing public panic about education in our schools as American students continue to fall behind other nations. Rather than learning about the American system of government, unique to anywhere else on earth, they are being indoctrinated into accepting the UN's version of global governance. And lest you think that President Bush has solved the problem, his "Leave No Child Behind Act," written by Ted Kennedy, re-authorized the Goals 2000 Standards, and finances nearly $100 million to pay for more curricula like the New Civics. Congress as usual is clueless about the problem. Members apparently have read only the outline of H.R. 1078, which does specify that key events, individuals and ideas of founding of the American Republic be taught in the classrooms. They have failed to review the ideas being promoted by the organization they have authorized to carry out the implementation. That can be the only explanation as to why currently 216 members of the House of Representatives have signed on as co-sponsors of H.R. 1078. However, there are signs that some members of Congress are starting to realize their mistake. Six of them recently their co-sponsorship from the bill. If enough members can be persuaded to look at the facts instead of rubberstamping anything under the name of education, then H.R. 1078 can be stopped and American civics can be saved. Otherwise the ideals of Jefferson, Madison and Franklin will eventually be obliterated from the nation they founded. (Tom DeWeese is the publisher/editor of The DeWeese Report and president of the American Policy Center, an activist think tank headquartered in Warrenton, Va.) Copyright 2003, Tom DeWeese