A swarm of earthquakes has struck in the Dallas area.
Part of the blame is being thrown toward the Dallas Cowboys.
Seismologists have been placing monitoring stations around the site of the old Texas Stadium, the longtime home of the Dallas Cowboys. The stadium was imploded April 2010.
A fault line ran directly underneath the stadium’s location. Seismologists say it’s possible the implosion caused stress energy in the fault to release causing small shifts.
“If you beat on this and shake it, it’s going to have a tendency to slide. Not the big ones [faults], but all the little ones,” Dr. Len Kubicek, a geology professor at nearby North Lake College told CBS. “It can splinter into several faults and one of these little faults, especially where that stadium was, you do an explosion on top of it and beat it up and down — it has a tendency to move.”
Environmentalists say that it’s more likely wastewater injected during fracking is the cause of the quakes. However, Dr. Kubicek and state officials say there are no fracking wells within the city.
Dr. Kubicek says it’s unlikely there will be a huge quake.
“If you get a lot of small earthquakes you’re probably not going to ever get a big one. Because if you have a big earthquake you have to have a lot of stored energy; and if you keep having little ones you can’t store it.”
A Dallas pastor is calling on the black community of Dallas to rise up against a new abortion center of Planned Parenthood that is surrounded by an 8-foot high concrete wall so people cannot see what is happening inside the complex.
Pastor Stephen Broden of Fair Park Bible Fellowship Church is calling on black megachurches to join their protest of the 17,000 square foot abortion center that he says was deliberately placed in the middle of a black neighborhood.
“Planned Parenthood has built a wall to shield their clients from the presence of God’s prayer warriors who pray to end abortion at one of Texas’ largest abortion facilities. This death trap is located in the middle of the black community, within a 1 mile radius of six of Texas’ black mega churches. And 5 miles of seven. A wall cannot hide their bloody hands from the presence of an omnipresent God,” wrote Broden in a Dec. 6 post on his Facebook page.
“That’s why it’s absolutely essential for us to communicate to these churches who are in this community that they have an obligation, a responsibility, to offer to the community in the public square a voice of God concerning His view of life and the dignity and value of life and when life begins.”
Abortion statistics show that black women have abortions five times the rate of other races.
The Supreme Court is blocking Arizona from enforcing restrictions on medical abortions while a series of court challenges works through lower courts.
The ruling by the Court upheld a lower court ruling that blocked the rules regulating where women can take abortion-inducing drugs. Abortion-inducing drugs would also be prohibited after the 7th week of pregnancy instead of the current restriction of the 9th week.
The liberal-leaning 9th Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the state of putting the restrictions in place while the legal challenges are taking place. North Dakota, Ohio and Texas have similar laws to Arizona.
Abortionist Planned Parenthood says that drug conducted abortions for more than 40 percent of abortions in their abortion centers.
The Arizona restrictions were put into place following the deaths of 8 women who had taken the drugs. The FDA claims there is no connection between the drugs and the deaths.
A Texas teenager is on trial after he beat, mutilated and killed a classmate in a satanic ritual.
Jose Reyes, 18, is facing a life sentence for the murder of Coriann Cervantes. The two attended Clear Path Alternative School in League City, TX.
Reyes invited Cervantes to an abandoned apartment in Houston for drinking and smoking marijuana along with Reyes friend Victor Alias. The two men then decided to use the 15-year-old girl for a sacrifice in a satanic ritual.
They beat the girl with the lid of a toilet tank and then stabbed her with a screwdriver before carving an upside down cross on her stomach. The two then proceeded to commit further mutilation of the body in connection with the ritual.
“They discussed the fact that Mr. Reyes had sold his soul to the devil, and if they ended up killing this teenager, that would also allow the 16-year-old to also sell his soul to the devil,” Assistant Harris County District Attorney John Jordan told reporters. “The teenager screamed, ‘Why are you doing this to me?’ During that time, they stopped her. It became a kidnapping and, ultimately, she was killed.”
“What happened in that vacant apartment was sadistic,” Jordan said. “What will eventually happen in the… courtroom will be justice.”
A series of social studies textbooks are coming under fire because they make positive references to Christianity and mention Moses and the Ten Commandments.
The Texas Board of Education is voting on the textbooks that state the Ten Commandments were an influence on the founding of the nation and the laws of the country.
The textbooks also contain factual information such as terrorism being linked to Islam and challenges to climate change claims.
“These textbooks were teaching pretty much the opposite of the truth,” Emile Lester, a reviewer from the University of Mary Washington, stated. “You would hope publishers felt their main allegiance be to the education of students, but it was quite obvious that their main goal was to appease members of the State Board of Educators.”
However, supporters of the textbook say the anti-Christian people attempting to stop the books are allowing their hatred of people of faith to influence the truth of the nation’s history.
“[L]et us not forget the religious character of our origin,” American statesman Daniel Webster declared during his famous “Plymouth Oration” in 1820. “Our fathers were brought hither for their high veneration for the Christian religion. They journeyed by its light and labored in its hope. They sought to incorporate its principles with the elements of society, and to diffuse its influence through all their institutions, civil, political or literary,” said David Bradley of the State Board of Educators.
A gunman who was slain by police shot three students shortly after midnight Thursday at Florida State University’s main library.
Police say that hundreds of students were studying for exams at Strozier Library when the gunman began his attack. The assailant was shot when he refused to drop his weapon.
The gunman has been identified as Myron May, a lawyer who graduated from FSU before attending Texas Tech University law school and being admitted to the Texas State Bar in 2010. He had been working as “in-house counsel” for a children’s home in the area.
“He’s just a boy our kids grew up with that we let stay in one of our guest houses for a while,” Abigail Taunton, who runs the home, told the Associated Press. “He’s moving back home from Texas and we were trying to help him get on his feet.”
“This person just for whatever reason produced a handgun and then began shooting students in the library,” FSU Police Chief David Perry said. Perry characterized the shooting as an “isolated incident” but did not release many details.
A group dedicated to lives of unborn children has taken over the space of the abortionist group Planned Parenthood.
40 Days For Life says that over 6,400 children died in the building they are taking over in Bryan/College Station, Texas. The building is the same location where the group first began their program of 40 days of prayer, fasting and peaceful vigil outside abortionists.
“More than 6,400 children lost their lives in this building, but God is making ‘all things new.’ What was once a place of death and despair is now going to be a place of life and hope. We are excited to start using this location to aid the rapid worldwide growth of 40 Days for Life, and to help other cities become abortion-free,” said the movement’s campaign director, Shawn Carney, in a release Thursday. “This news shows what God can accomplish when His people pray.”
Part of the renovation of the building will be a crisis pregnancy center to help women who will chose to give life to their unborn children.
Carney said that 40 Days of Life is committed to working with life-saving pregnancy resource centers.
Nina Pham, the first of the two Dallas nurses to contract Ebola from Liberian Thomas Eric Duncan, has been declared virus free and has left the hospital where she had been treated.
The 26-year-old Pham was released Friday morning from the National Institutes of Health hospital near Washington.
“I am fortunate and blessed to be standing here today,” Pham told reporters as she left the hospital. “I would first and foremost like to thank God, my family and friends. Throughout this ordeal I have put my trust in God and my medical team.”
She thanked Dr. Kent Brantly for donations of plasma to help her strengthen her body’s response to the virus.
“I believe in the power of prayer because I know so many people all over the world have been praying for me,” Pham said. “I do now know how I can thank everyone enough for their prayers and expressions of concern, hope and love.”
Pham said she’s looking forward to going home and hugging her dog Bentley.
The recent incidents in Houston where the government tried to seize the sermons of pastors critical of city government actions is now coming under fire from those on the left-wing who fear a backlash that could harm them at the ballot box.
The anti-Christian organization Americans United for the Separation of Church and State has posted a piece posted by member Rob Boston which says that incident will harm those who are trying to keep Christians from having their views in the public arena.
“The officials have handed the Religious Right an incredible public relations victory,” wrote Boston, adding that “this incident has become fodder for the Religious Right’s ‘we’re being persecuted’ campaign. At the end of the day, that’s what’s so unfortunate about the city’s misstep: These subpoenas will launch a thousand right-wing fund-raising letters.”
The demands came after many Christian groups protested and spoke out about a law that would force public locations within the city to allow various actions considered possibly dangerous, including allowing men to use women’s bathrooms.
The subpoenas have drawn condemnation from even major anti-Christian organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union.
The city is angered that over 50,000 signatures were collected on a petition over overturn their law, which city attorney David Feldman dismissed as being mostly invalid. The issue will go before a court in January.
Concerns over Ebola have shut down schools in two states.
Two public schools in Ohio are closed because staff members were on the same flight as Amber Vinson, the second nurse who contracted Ebola and flew from Ohio to Texas with a low grade fever.
An e-mail was sent to parents of children at Solon Middle School and Parkside Elementary School.
“This circumstance came to light late in the day and we have been working since then to get as much information as possible from public health authorities,” the district’s email read.
“Although we believe what the science community and public health officials are telling us about the low risk of possible transmission of the virus through indirect contact, we are nonetheless taking the unusual step of closing the dual school building for Thursday so that we can have the schools cleaned and disinfected.”
The Belton Independent School District in Texas closed all three schools because of two students who were on the flight.
“Canceling classes at the three campuses will allow us to thoroughly clean and disinfect the schools and buses that served them this week. It will also allow health officials additional time to re-assess the health risk to passengers on the plane,” said Belton Superintendent Susan Kincannon in a statement. “I’m frustrated that we didn’t learn until late tonight that the CDC was re-evaluating the health risk. The health and safety of our students is my first priority.”
