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Engineering Joint Lubrication

CreationMoments.com, 6/13/24, “Engineering Joint Lubrication” [Excerpts]: In our rapidly modernizing world, engineers are kept busy solving problems. Take, for example, all of the various kinds of transportation. There are millions of problems in this area alone that keep engineers busy inventing better solutions.

Freight trains carry enormous loads in huge freight cars, each one capable of carrying the weight of the average home and everything in it, plus an automobile. Yet the axles must be able to swivel easily beneath the car as the train moves along tracks that swerve left and right. Consider the problem of setting 100 tons or more on a swivel without hindering the free movement of the swivel. Engineers at Shell Oil finally designed a disc that is placed beneath the body of the car to lubricate the axles for swiveling. Whenever the disc is squeezed by the weight of the load above or from too much friction in swiveling, lubrication automatically squirts out of the disc.

It is this same ingenious system that lubricates certain joints in your body. When additional lubrication is needed in a joint, tiny discs release lubricant into the joint. These discs are called bursae. And if you have ever had bursitis, you know what happens when the discs aren’t working properly.

It’s not science but faith in evolution that leads people to believe that this well-engineered system could be the result of accidental mutations.

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San Francisco Declares Itself a Transgender “Sanctuary City”

Breitbart.com, 6/13/24, “San Francisco Declares Itself a ‘Sanctuary City’ for ‘Transgender, Gender Non-Conforming, Non-Binary, and Two-Spirit People’” [Excerpts]: The Board of Supervisors for the City of San Francisco declared the city a transgender “sanctuary city” on Tuesday—or, officially, a “Sanctuary City for Transgender, Gender Non-Conforming, Non-Binary, and Two-Spirit People.”

The resolution, which applies to both the city and county of San Francisco, says it is a response to laws passed in conservative states that limit access to transgender surgery and drugs, especially for children.

There are growing warnings from medical authorities around the world about the negative effects of transgender surgery and drugs on minors.

The vote in favor of the resolution was unanimous, the UK Independent reported.

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), who opposes parents’ right to be notified about children’s gender transitions at school, could not defend that policy when confronted by Breitbart News during a press appearance at a Republican debate last year.

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You Can’t Defend Israel Unless You Talk about Islam

JihadWatch.org, 8/13/24, “You Can’t Defend Israel Unless You Talk about Islam” [Excerpts]:What do the stabbings in Israel, the assaults on Hindus in Bangladesh, the Muslim mobs roaming English cities and the massacres of Christians in Nigeria all have in common? The politically correct answer is nothing.

And that’s why the politically correct answer condones, justifies or ignores the violence.

Islamic attacks on non-Muslim majorities in India, Europe, America or Israel are justified as resistance by the oppressed, but violence by Muslim majorities against non-Muslim minorities in Indonesia, Nigeria and Bangladesh were justified by claims that the Muslim majority was economically disenfranchised. Muslim violence is always excused by false claims of victimhood. Muslims see them as Islamic wars, non-Muslims are told that they’re everything else but.

Patterns define how we react to things. The question is what is the pattern? Is the pattern that disparate groups of violent men shouting “Allahu Akbar” are killing people around the world for socioeconomic and political reasons having nothing to do with Islam? Or is this a religious war?

The big lie that Islamic violence is socioeconomic and not religious, local not global, only works when no one talks about Islam or recognizes the larger pattern of Islamic violence for a thousand years that is being perpetrated on nearly every continent and against every culture.

Are Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and Atheists all the problem? Or is Islam the issue? When we fail to ask this fundamental question, we lose the argument.

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