A Roadside Bomb Has Killed Three South Of Bagdad

A police official says two policemen were among the dead in the morning blast in Mahmadyia, a town 2 miles south of Bagdad. he say's nine people were wounded in explosions.

The casualties were confirmed by a hospital official. Both officials spoke on conditions of anonymity because they were not athorized to speak to the media.

The bombs exploded one minute apart. Officials say the second bomb exploded as police rushed to the scene.

Violence has dropped dramatically across Iraq over the last three years but deadly attacks happen nearly every day.

Then I saw a great white throne and the one who sits on it. Earth and heaven fled from his presence and were seen no more. and I saw the dead, great and small alike, standing before the throne. Books were opened, and then another book was opened, the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done, as recorded in the book. Then the sea gave up it's dead. Death and the world of the dead also gave up the dead they held. And all were Judged acording to what they had done. Then death and the world of the dead were thrown into the lake of fire. (This lake of fire is the second death.) Whoever didn't have their name written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.

Qaddafi Forces Push Rebels Back To Key Oil Town

Lybian government forces unleashed withering bombardment of the rebels outside a key oil town., pushing them back despite NATO reports that nearly a third of Mummar Al- Quaddafi's heavy weapons have been destoyed. The rebels managed to take part of the oil town of Berga the day before, aided by a international air campaign, but the rocket and artillery slavos unleashed on the rebels indecate the governments offinses capibilities remain very much intact. Rebel attempts to fire rockets and mortars against the government forces were met with aggressive counter bombardments that sent many of the rebel forces scrambling back all the way to the town of Ajdabiya, dozens of miles away. Matthew 5-21:22 Ye have heard that it had been said by them of old time, Thou shall not kill and who so ever shall kill shall be in danger of the Judgment. And who so ever shall say to his brother Racca shall be in danger of the council: but who so ever shall say thou fool shall be in danger of hell fire.

Cure for cancer: Obama may back gas plan

Cure for cancer: Obama may back gas plan: "President Barack Obama is going to effectively join Dallas investors in switching U.S. vehicles to natural gas and off oil. Now Obama will..."

Obama may back gas plan

President Barack Obama is going to effectively join Dallas investors in switching U.S. vehicles to natural gas and off oil. Now Obama will effectively endorse legislation that would provide new incentives for natural gas powered trucks and transit buses.

The president will highlight the proposal during a speech at Gorgetown University, where he will call for cutting oil imports by one-third in a decade.

DRILLING

GOP wants to put emphasis on expanding oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and other federal waters. House Republicans intruduced several bills that aim to expand drilling by accelerating the timeframe for approving drilling permits and selling more leases. Democrats have repeatedly argured that oil companies aren't maximizing the federal resourses that are currently availible to them.

The Interior Department reported the Gulf of Mexico and one-half of onshore leases are sitting idle. Oil industry groups quickly rebutted the report, saying the administration has delayed and blocked access to domestic oil since february 2009.

In the speech Obama will call for "new and better incentives" to accelerate production on existing leases. He'll call for new Refineries to produce advanced biofuels and improved vehicle fuel efficiency standards for the 2017-2025 model year.

BACKING

The plan had significant bipartisan support last year, but it did not advance in the senate because Democratic and Republican lawmakers couldn't agree on how to pay the incentives.

Someone said a new version of legislation would cost $5 billion. Past versions of the legislation have called for increased tax credits for buyers of natural gas-powered vehicles. Even with Republican support Obama embrace of natural gas isn't without risk. Liberal Democrats and many enviromental groups say drinking water supplies could be contaminated by gas drilling in states such as Pennsylvania and New York. The Environmental Protection Agency is studying the impact of drilling on water supplies.

And Republicans might not rush to work with Obama on his energy-security plan.

Higher oil and food prices. Unemployment near 9 percent. Crises in the middle east and Japan. The U.S. Economy faces threats at home and abroad that have the potential to dull growth or stoke inflation. Or both.

When they meet the chairman and his federal colleagues will debate those risks. At the top of their agenda is whether to make any changes to the Fed's $600 billion treasury bond purchase program, expiring at the end of June.

The bond purchases are entended to help the economy by keeping long-term interest rates down., encouraging spending and driving up stock prices. Economist expect the Feds to agree to maintain the pace and size of the bond purchases.

But the risk for the economy will probably complicate efforts as the Fed chief and a majority of his colleagues argue that the economy still needs support from the bond purchases. A vocal minority on the Fed has raised concerns that the bond purchases, combining with higher prices for food, fuel and other commodities, will spread inflation through the economy.

They also worry that the purchase could feed speculative buying that could inflate new bubbles in stocks or other assets. The recent spike in oil prices makes the Fed's job that much more difficult. The Fed's hope is that rising prices and inflation will accompany sustained and robust economic growth. However, rising energy prices may lead to a situation of stagflation: higher inflation and lower growth.

Head shaping is one of the most distinctive and deeply rooted practices of the ancient Maya, one they inherited from their olmec forebears. Of the 1600 skulls that have been studied by 122 Maya sites in presant day Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Handuras, an astounding 90 percent had artificially shaped cranium, with males and females equally represented.

The practice of head shaping was a regular part of pre-Hispanic life and was required for a child's integration into society which took the form of name celebrating. Artistic representation of deforming apparatuses have been found on whistles and other musical instruments used to accompany these rites and caromonies. During the preclassic period (2000 B.C-A.D. 250) Maya had tall round heads, emulating a head of the Olmec Gods depicted in Olmec art work.

The Inca Indians were an indigenous group in what is now Peru. They created a highly advanced civilization for it's day and had a complex and rich culture. Many important discoveries in medicane and science were made by the Inca, and their agricultural and techniques made the cultivation of food much easier than it had been for other civilizations in the past. The agriculture and the art of the Inca indians were equally spectacular and continue to fasinate people to this day.