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Sectarian Extremists Versus Jefferson 

“The Senate was opened with a Hindu prayer placing the false god of Hinduism on a level playing field with the one true god, Jesus Christ,” it declared. “This would never have been allowed by our Founding Fathers.”

On this point, the protesters are wrong.

Thomas Jefferson, the author of the concept that the United States should maintain a “wall of separation” in order to avoid the development of a state religion of the sort that had existed in the monarchies of Europe, was a student Hinduism. His library included Hindu texts, and when he wrote the Virginia Act for Religious Freedom, which laid the groundwork for the Constitution protection of religious practice and pluralism, he specifically avoided making reference to the Christian faith — though its adherents dominated the public life of Virginia and other colonies — because he wanted it to be known that all religions, including Hinduism, were respected and welcomed in the United States.

New invention to generate household electricity

A West Australian inventor believes he has developed a way to generate electricity for homes using wind power.

Graeme Attey of Fremantle designed the concept which uses a modular wind turbine that is small enough to sit on a the roof of house.

It is not just some new kind of blade design it looks like a large ultra modern paper towel dispenser.

Positive Trends Recorded in U.S. Data on Teenagers

Fewer high school students were having sex and more were using condoms in 2005, according to the latest government report on the well-being of the nation’s children.

The teenage birthrate hit a record low.

More young people were finishing high school, and more tots were being read to.

It is good news on a number of crucial indicators of health, experts said about the report. It is scheduled to be released Friday by the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, a consortium of federal agencies that includes the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Census Bureau and the Administration for Children and Families.

“The implications for the population are quite positive in terms of their health and their well-being,” said Edward J. Sondik, director of the National Center for Health Statistics. “The lower figure on teens having sex means the risk of sexually transmitted diseases is lower.”

Fear of disease and dying is pretty strong motivator, but just from casual conversations I’ve had there might be a dash of selfishness is part of the reason too. Teens all seem to have these great grand plans for the future which most of the time includes going to college. A difficult goal to achieve for the average family with average resources, adding in the time, energy and money to care for a child magnifies the difficulty of finishing college by several factors. Probably most parents have been telling kids that for a few generations, maybe it is finally sinking in.